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A year after announcing his retirement as the foremost kingpin of the city's illegal numbers rackets, Raymond Marquez was in jail yesterday facing a | familiar charge: running a multimillion-dollar gambling operation.
Along with 24 people accused of being his aides, Mr. Marquez was arrested over the weekend and accused of reviving a gambling empire that handled more than $6 million a year in illicit bets. In raids begun on Thursday, Police Department officials said that they had closed 22 gambling parlors on the Upper West Side and in Harlem linked to Mr. Marquez's numbers network.
For almost 50 years, Mr. Marquez, 68, known as Spanish Raymond, has been a well-known figure in Harlem and East Harlem, acquiring a reputation among numbers gamblers for paying the highest odds and paying promptly. Mr. Marquez, who lives in a $1 million home in Great Neck, N.Y., and who once owned a 62-foot yacht, was denied bail yesterday and was being held in the Manhattan House of Detention.
In July 1997, while locked in a legal battle to prevent the city from confisc |
Gwyneth Paltrow and Goop have endorsed some strange beauty ideas.
Want glowing, youthful skin like Gwyneth Paltrow | 's? All you need is a whole lot of money — and a willingness to get stung by bees.
Her beauty tips often veer into the same territory. Goop sells and recommends plenty of cosmetics with steep price tags (no surprise considering Paltrow spends a rumored $18,000 a month on her beauty routine). The site is rife with beauty tips based on skimpy — sometimes nonexistent — scientific evidence. And Paltrow herself has used her platform to promote some eyebrow-raising procedures, including the aforementioned bee stings.
Here's a look at some of the absolute worst beauty tips that Paltrow and her brand have tried to push.
BAD TIP #1: Take supplements for beauty.
Supplements aren't as trustworthy as you might think.
Goop sells its own line of supplements for $90 a month. The site also quotes experts who recommend all manner of vitamins, minerals, and herbs. This post alone extols the supposed beautifying |
(Reuters) - Olympic hopeful Satoko Miyahara clinched an emphatic victory in the ladies' competition at Skate America on Sunday ahead | of Japanese compatriot Kaori Sakamoto.
Miyahara, who missed part of last season due to a hip injury, built on her lead from Saturday's short program with a near flawless performance in the free skate in Lake Placid, New York.
She secured a season-best 143.31 points to finish with 214.03, ahead of Sakamoto on 210.59. American Bradie Tennell was third on 204.10 in her senior Grand Prix debut.
Miyahara's victory, however, was not enough to clinch a place in the Grand Prix final in her home country in two weeks' time. She will be first substitute for the Nagoya competition.
"I am very happy and satisfied with today’s performance and to get my best scores," said the 19-year-old, who completed seven clean triples skating to 'Madame Butterfly'.
The 2015 world silver medalist missed the world championships earlier this year due to a stress fracture |
show became one of the most popular programs in Japanese television history.
there is a full array of Oshin dolls, Oshin posters, Osh | in songs and even Oshin sake in Japan. Even foreign leaders, who have visited Japan, have not forgotten to mention Oshin as a symbol of Japan’s postwar emergence from devastation.
by Japanese Script writer Sugako Hashida.
Oshin has been aired in more than 70 foreign countries, with subtitles and dubbing. Rupavahini is the first Sri Lankan channel to telecast foreign tele dramas. The most popular of them was Oshin, dubbed in Sinhala. Oshin was first brought to Sri Lanka by the veteran artiste Henry Jayasena from Japan in 1989.
The task of dubbing the program in Sinhala was assigned to Titus Thotawatte, a man in abundance of innate skills, a veteran of Sinhala cinema.
Titus and his colleague Athula Ransirilal with a team of 250 dubbing artists did the job to a level which was eventually admired by all Sri Lankan television |
KADENA AIR BASE, Japan -- For those of us fortunate enough to fly Air Force aircraft as a primary or secondary duty, there is a | familiar and common feeling that we tend to get just prior to takeoff. It's characterized by equal measures of excitement, focus, and heightened awareness, with just a bit of paranoia thrown in. That paranoia can be a pilot's best friend and it's saved many aviators from potentially deadly mistakes in the air.
So what do I mean by paranoia? I'm obviously not describing an abnormal psychological condition. Instead, this paranoia is a healthy compulsion to double and triple check everything in the cockpit. Am I ready to fly? Did I accomplish my checklists properly? Did I get the proper clearances? Am I on time? It's an acknowledgement of the huge trust the Air Force places in us to fly multi-million dollar aircraft safely and get the mission accomplished. Before we advance throttles for takeoff, we'd better be ready for anything the aircraft or the mission might throw at us.
You should cultivate that same mentality whenever you operate machinery as part of your normal duties or get behind |
LAHORE: Almost all schools, shopping centres, markets and restaurants in all sectors of the Defence Housing Authority were closed as the frightened parents rushed | to schools to pick their children and those present in the Z-block area for any reason left the spot in panic soon after the bomb blast.
Terror-stricken parents started gathering outside schools while owners, employees and security staff at all plazas, particularly in Z-block, instantly started closing their businesses.
“I was standing outside the shop when I heard a powerful blast. The impact was so huge that it shattered several glasses of our shop,” said Dilshad, a security guard of a coffee shop situated nearby an under-construction building where the blast occurred.
“Everyone was crying and running in panic to leave the area at once. The customers sitting in our café also rushed out in horror and the shop in-charge and other staff shut the business immediately,” he added.
Amjad, another security guard at a store nearby the blast site, said the situation forced closure of all sorts of businesses in the market. “We |
Lufthansa, Europe’s biggest airline, will have to compensate the relatives of the 144 passengers who died aboard Germanwings flight | 9525. It may also face lawsuits for negligence after the pilot allegedly deliberately flew the plane into the French Alps.
According to the French prosecutor in the case co-pilot Andreas Lubitz intentionally crashed the plane into the mountains after locking the other pilot out of the cockpit. This ‘accident’ doesn’t fall under the general insurance, which covers inclement weather and mechanical failures but under a separate war risk policy.
A $6.5 million claim for the loss of the plane itself was paid on Wednesday, Reuters reported, citing industry sources. Under the Montreal Convention of 1999, the airline will be liable for an additional $175,000 for each passenger or a total of $25.2 million for the 144 passengers on board the Airbus flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf. In addition to the passengers, there were 6 crew members onboard.
AirAsia, which lost a plane and 162 passengers en route from Indonesia to Singapore, has already racked up |
Cannon discovered just before the 2011 draft that he had non-Hodgkin lymphoma. He said he is now in remission and no | longer fearful of hearing the “C” word.
Cannon, 26, bought a house in Benbrook. He will return home after the Super Bowl and conduct his off-season training at TCU alongside Patriots teammate Josh Boyce and others.
He hopes to bring a title home with him.
Everyone wanted to know about the white cowboy hat that Michael Bennett has been wearing all week. The native Texan was honored to share the story.
The hat belonged to a family friend, Mark Alexander, who served as a mentor to Bennett, his brother Martellus and others in Alief. Alexander’s son was a high school teammate of Bennett’s.
Alexander died of cancer earlier this month. He was 59.
At the funeral two weeks ago, Alexander’s widow, Jan, gave the hat to Bennett.
“He meant everything to me,” the Seahawks defensive lineman said. “Just a good friend. It� |
It’s as if sailing is reserved for coastal states and is an oddity in inland states. Yet, with Idaho’s large | lakes and reservoirs, there’s plenty of variety and the typical sailing season is from March through October.
Idaho’s whispering winds lure sailboaters like Denise Murschel to waters such as Lake Cascade and Lucky Peak Lake. She has been sailing for more than 40 years and is a member of the Southern Idaho Sailing Association (SISA), an active group of local sailors.
One of her favorite places is leading a pack of sailboats down the canyon between Spring Shores Marina and the dam at Lucky Peak.
Wannabe sailors can find out about that freedom and adventure during SISA’s Discover Sailing Day on May 7 at Lake Lowell. The organization puts on the event each spring. For a lot of people sitting on a dock and watching sailboats go silently by, sailing is an adventure they would like to take up but don’t know much about. Discover Sailing Day is a good start.
Even though sailboaters are |
President Donald Trump returned to a familiar cast of targets in a tweet Wednesday morning, musing about whether there was "collusion" among Facebook, | television networks, and two of the country's leading print newspapers.
"Facebook was always anti-Trump. The Networks were always anti-Trump hence, Fake News, @nytimes (apologized) & @wapo were anti-Trump. Collusion?" Trump tweeted.
Russian-purchased Facebook advertising, which Trump has dismissed as part of a larger "hoax," has recently come under scrutiny in probes examining Russia's role in election meddling.
Trump has also repeatedly accused TV networks, The New York Times, and The Washington Post of being biased in their coverage toward him, both during the 2016 campaign and throughout his presidency.
Trump, however, put a positive spin on his time in office so far in a follow-up tweet.
"But the people were Pro-Trump! Virtually no President has accomplished what we have accomplished in the first 9 months-and economy roaring," Trump tweeted.
Earlier Wednesday morning, Trump tweeted about newly minted Republican Senate nominee |
Wakefield: It is disappointing that lawmakers did not have the foresight to plan for changes in the economy.
HOWARD - An Oklahoma | school superintendent says, “It just hurts my heart” when discussing the situation of the teachers in that state. According to The Washington Post, the teachers have not had a pay raise in 10 years, and Oklahoma is rated No. 49 out of 50 states for the low pay and large class sizes. These teachers have been forced to take second jobs, rely on food pantries and do anything to pay their bills. Some have even had students bring them groceries because the students' parents realized that the teachers could not feed their families.
I was born and raised in Oklahoma, graduated from college there and had my first teaching job there. We had great schools when I was growing up. I had wonderful teachers. And, I am pretty sure that they were paid a living wage — nothing grand, but enough to buy a home and raise a family. So what has happened since I was a student?
Oklahoma bases much of its income on gas and oil. When the times were good |
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development has produced a report assessing the relationship between Africa’s capacity to finance the 15-year SDGs | and maintaining debt sustainability. The report ignores critical deficiencies in the approach to the continent’s development agenda.
The approach is far from ideal in that the continent’s debt position – external and domestic – is bordering on unsustainable. Stemming illicit financial flows, which are sometimes overstated, requires institutional capacity-building to enforce. Private-public partnerships are one approach that could bring sustainable development in the area of infrastructure development. However, it requires a different model to contribute to other sectors.
The continent’s sovereign external debt position has been rising faster than gross domestic product (GDP) in the past four years. With the dawn of the cyclical boom-bust of the commodity market, a key trigger factor for the 1980s African debt crisis, it is evident the continent is facing a renewed debt crisis.
Ghana is currently under International Monetary Fund (IMF) intensive care supervision, while Mozambique’s IMF support programme is under suspension. |
There”s a newly painted bright blue and yellow mailbox at the bus shelter that”s adjacent to the Town Plaza in downtown Los Gat | os–but don”t put any mail in it, because it”s really a collection box for old eyeglasses.
The box was placed there by the Los Gatos Lions Club to collect eyeglasses that are refurbished and donated to needy people around the world.
The project was spearheaded by the father and son team of John and Jeff Lochner.
“It took two years to get the box, have it sandblasted and refinished with the Lions logo,” John Lochner said.
But when Lochner asked the town for permission to put the box in the plaza, he ran into problems. The town was concerned about setting a precedent that would open the floodgates to other, similar requests.
“I happened to remember that the bus shelter has a plaque on it that says the Lions built the shelter, so I asked to put it there,” Lochner said.
Indeed, the plaque notes that the Lions |
It's hard to stay mad at Kanye West.
Sure, he's done a lot of foolish things lately and gone on a lot of hurt | ful rants. But he has been like a wayward son who strayed and couldn't find his way back home.
West has finally indicated that he's ready to get off that contentious road he's been traveling and head back to a more familiar path.
He tweeted: "My eyes are now wide open and now realize I've been used to spread messages I don't believe in. I am distancing myself from politics and completely focusing on being creative!!!"
What is interesting about West's latest revelation is that it took another African-American who believes in President Donald Trump to make him realize that Republicans have been making a fool of him.
It isn't clear whether West's latest lightbulb moment also applies to Trump. We can only hope so.
What we do know is that he's pretty upset with Candace Owens, the black conservative activist who used West's name on the logo for her Blexit campaign encouraging African-Americans to leave the Democratic Party. |
Cricket Ireland chief executive Warren Deutrom said the deal will "help us mould our nation's cricketing future for at least the next | 10 years"
Irish cricket has been handed a seven-figure cash boost by signing a 10-year sponsorship deal with a group of companies owned by Ireland's richest man, Indian-born Pallonji Mistry.
Mistry, born in 1929, has been ranked as the world's 62nd richest man.
The deal, believed to be in the region of £2m, will see the country's cricket academy being renamed the Shapoorji Pallonji Cricket Ireland Academy.
Shapoorji Pallonji is the name of the billionaire's group of companies.
The Indian-born businessman is described by Forbes Magazine as having a personal fortune of £9.55bn with his group's business interests including construction, motors, textiles, communications, energy and hotels.
With his wife Patsy Perin Dubash having been born in Dublin, Mistry took out Irish citizenship in 2003 and their two sons, Shapoor and Cyrus, both hold Irish passports.
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Deadly storm bore down on an interstate highway as commuters tried to beat it home during evening rush hour.
Multiple tornadoes hit Oklahoma City and | the metro area Friday night, killing at least 5 people and injuring more than 50.
The storm also brought heavy rain and hail. Floodwaters topped 4 feet in Oklahoma City early Saturday and are expected to rise as flash flooding continued in parts of the state. Across east and central Oklahoma, repeated rounds of thunderstorms have produced between 4 to 7 inches of rain since midnight Saturday.
The area along the state's I-40 corridor, packed with motorists when the storm occurred, was particularly hard-hit.
A mother and a child were killed when their car rolled over, KFOR-TV reported.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol confirms several motorists are missing.
Another person died at El Reno, the first city struck by the storm, said Amy Elliott, a spokeswoman for the state medical examiner. Details on the two other deaths were not available, Elliott said.
Saturday, Elliott told the Associated Press that she had no word of additional fatalities beyond the five reported.
A tornado was reported |
Former Corinthian Colleges students had their privacy rights violated in struggle over student loan debt cancellations, federal judge rules. However, the interim ruling raised | the possibility that the Department of Education could ultimately prevail in financial fight.
Thousands of former Corinthian Colleges students have won a preliminary victory in their court battle to cancel millions of dollars in federal loan debt for their studies at the scandal-scarred, for-profit schools.
A judge late Friday temporarily barred the U.S. Department of Education from continuing to collect loan debts from the students based on allegations the agency violated the federal Privacy Act.
"Given their financial situations, any additional dollar they are required to repay takes away from basic need for food and shelter," wrote Kim.
Her ruling cited the plight of several former students, including Jennifer Craig, who borrowed $9,010 in 2014 to enroll in a medical insurance and billing program. Craig completed the program but discovered that Corinthian had not provided the practical experience required to land a job in her field.
"Craig and her husband have a very limited income or no income," the judge wrote. "They appear to live, |
In its first year, 10 at-risk African-American boys were identified who struggled emotionally and academically and were not as successful as their white | counterparts. Another qualifying feature was not having an active father in the home.
Busch and Bowers then recruited 10 adult male mentors through the school’s newsletter and by reaching out to community partners and local men’s groups.
They had both the boys and the mentors fill out profile forms and then matched them according to shared interests.
“Sports is a huge connection,” said Bowers.
The boys meet with their mentors once each week during their lunch hour, although many also do things with them outside of school hours, such as attending sporting events or going out for a meal together.
The mentors not only expose them to events and experiences in the community, but they are there to support the mentees when they participate in things such as school performances and athletic events.
And when certain needs are identified, such as winter coats or school supplies, “the mentors step in and help,” Bowers said.
Many also provide additional tut |
Sunday Politics The president's declaration of a national emergency is headed to the courts, where its future is uncertain. In the mean time, is he | able to declare a political victory?
The president is in West Palm Beach at his golf club this morning while lawmakers and landowners react to his controversial declaration of a national emergency. NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson joins us now.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: This was a real will he or won't he kind of thing on the part of the president. Do you think he was going to do this all along?
LIASSON: I do. As it was described to me, unless he got the full amount of funding for the wall that he was demanding, he would do this because this is a way for him to keep faith with his base, to say that he did everything possible to build the wall, even if it's stopped in the courts. His advisers really believe - he really believes that the wall is absolutely key to his re-election. Now, of course, now he has to convince the courts that a national emergency is whatever a president says |
THOSE who dismiss the legacy potential of the 2014 Commonwealth Games will have to digest significant food for thought.
The charity focus of the opening ceremony | - £4m and rising for UNICEF's Putting Children First - should have gone some way to silence cynical critics. Scotland's record-shredding medal haul will encourage tens of thousands to consider exercise. Thirteen judo medals will have kids queuing at every dojo in the country. It will be the same at hundreds of other clubs in a range of sports.
I hope those who said this could not happen have not discouraged coaches and volunteers, and that there are enough to cope with the influx. This will surely drive up the current 70% of kids who meet the recommended one hour of daily activity, and the paltry 21% of adults who exercise vigorously for 15 minutes weekly. These are just a fraction of the statistics being monitored to gauge legacy impact.
Yesterday we saw the length of its reach: from the heart of Glasgow's Games to Kenya, where one of sport's most inspiring humanitarians has changed hundreds of lives. Kipchoge Keino |
With the iPad sure to appear in at least a few of our readers’ gadgets arsenal, one wonders if it is time to upgrade the old | USB hub in order to accommodate. If your gadgets collection is indeed nearing something resembling an “arsenal,” you may be in the market for something above the norm. Why a setup would have close to a hundred items requiring a USB charge is anyone’s guess, but if you do, consider Thanko’s 80-port USB charger a perfect enabler.
Carrying 80 ports and the truly audacious promise, “When viewed from the side of the port in line, you feel powerful and somewhat like a soldier in the army,” one can actually see the attraction to something so excessive. But before you leap up on your desk chair and demand the gods of geekdom send one down tout suite, take a moment to consider a few things.
1. You’re paying $165 for a device that can only charge items, not carry USB data.
2. Did you see the bit about an 80-port |
Drivers of hundreds of big rigs, pickups and motorcycles took part in a fundraising convoy Sunday for the family of Jeffrey Bourgeois, the 6- | year-old Salem boy who died in a wood chipper accident earlier this month.
The benefit, organized by Truck Toyz, of Colchester, attracted participants from across the state and Rhode Island.
For $30, any vehicle could take part in the ride, which left from Lebanon Avenue in Colchester and traveled to Harkness Memorial State Park in Waterford.
North Stonington resident David Forbes and his daughter, Mykenzie, arrived at the convoy staging area at about 10 a.m. Forbes works for DW Transport, of Franklin, and he heard about the convoy from co-workers.
Mykenzie said she wanted to help a family that needs support. Sunday was Mykenzie’s first truck convoy.
“Plus, she gets to spend the day with her dad,” Forbes said.
Organizers exceeded their goal of 150 participants, although they were not sure Sunday morning exactly how many trucks, cars and motorcycles participated. Vehicles |
U.S. Air Force veteran David R. Riley Sr. of Rome is expected to become the 2021-22 state commander of The American Legion | , his campaign committee announced Saturday, April 13.
Members of the Legion, Legion Auxiliary and Sons of the American Legion from around Oneida County joined Riley for an announcement celebration at Henry P. Smith Post 24 in Rome.
Riley served four years in the Air Force from 1978 to 1982. He completed basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas and security police training at both Lackland and Camp Bullis, Texas. He then was assigned to K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base in upper Michigan as part of the security police force.
A life member of The American Legion, Riley joined Utica Post 229 in 1995 and transferred in 2000 to Rome’s Henry P. Smith Post 24, where he served as commander from 2004 to 2006. In addition to many other positions at the post level, Riley was 2012-2013 Oneida County commander. He served on several committees on the county level, and also was appointed vice commander at the district level. On the Department |
ForexNewsNow – Leading online forex broker ACM Gold has just announced that it had launched a new mirror trading platform. ACM Gold | explained that the new platform comes as an extension to the multitude of services and tools offered by the broker. The new Mirror Trader platform that has been adopted by the broker has been developed by Tradency.
The latest addition to the service portfolio of ACM Gold is its new Mirror Trader platform that has been developed by the company Tradency. The new platform has been integrated into the popular MetaTrader trading platform, meaning that in order to use this service, traders will not have to use two separate platforms.
The new platform allows traders to browse a list of well-known and successful traders, also called signal providers. After this, traders will be able to follow the signal providers they believe have the best trading strategies. The Mirror Trader will follow the actions performed by these signal providers and “mirror” the decisions taken by them.
Basically what this means is that traders are given the opportunity to automatically and effortlessly copy the actions performed by very experienced professionals who are known to generate extremely |
MONT ALTO, Pa. - Sgt. Edward W. "Eddie" Shaffer, a Mont Alto soldier wounded in Iraq almost | one month ago, will face a major skin graft Thursday, his father said.
Edward C. Shaffer said doctors will attempt to repair his son's burn wounds by grafting skin cells to his son's body. Eddie Shaffer sustained burns over 80 percent of his body in November when a roadside bomb exploded next to his Bradley Fighting Vehicle in Ramadi, a Sunni stronghold about 70 miles west of Baghdad.
The soldier remains in critical condition at Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam in San Antonio, where he has undergone more than 20 hours of surgery and lost both hands and one of his feet, his father said.
On Monday, Edward Shaffer said his son has shown some signs of improvement.
"Yesterday, he talked to the staff and asked for his mom," he said.
Eddie Shaffer will soon see his mom, Brenda, who is home in Mont Alto, thanks to donated frequent flier miles. Edward Shaffer said the Army will fly him and his |
Eight years ago, I did my graduate work, focusing on the question, "How can I use critique to improve the quality of student feedback and | student work, and create a culture of collaboration?" I usually re-read my research before each school year to remind myself of what I figured out once. But this year I didn't! I also didn't do my tone-setting lessons that I've done every year since my graduate work.
It's now week four of school, and I planned the first peer critique tomorrow. When I told the students, I was met by a chorus of student panic: I'm not comfortable: what if people see my mistakes, what if they know I'm not smart, what if people are mean, what if what if what if.
So this evening I re-read my work on collaboration and critique. In the spirit of my research, I'm remembering mistakes are a great opportunity to try again. I'm holding off on our first peer critique; instead we will do tone set lessons and a self-critique tomorrow. And when the girl who already stands out as the most scared and self |
LONDON (Reuters) - Green labelling of food to show the impact of its production on the environment could lead to major changes in consumption, | Lucy Neville-Rolfe of Tesco (TSCO.L) said on Tuesday.
“It is a trend that might be bigger than all the rest,” she said at a conference organised by news and information service Agra Europe, adding that labelling for nutritional benefits had already had a major impact on consumer purchases.
“Consumers say they want us to help them behave in a more sustainable way. It seems to be quite a substantial change in customer attitudes,” Neville-Rolfe, Tesco’s Executive Director of Corporate and Legal Affairs, said.
Tesco labels food for nutritional benefits with a scheme that uses guideline daily amounts (GDAs) rather than the UK government-backed traffic light programme. It does not currently label food for its impact on the environment.
British supermarkets have been divided on labelling schemes with some backing traffic lights which show red lights for high levels of saturated fat, salt or other potentially harmful ingredients. |
Bruce A. "Skip" Purdy died January 9, 2019 in San Francisco. A gay man, he moved to the city in 1978, | where he worked at D.C. Typography before retiring.
Bruce was born and raised in the small Ohio town of Hollansburg. He attended Wright State University, majoring in music, from 1972 through 1975.
Not surprisingly, considering his college major, Bruce as an avid music lover, singing in several gay choruses. He was also one of the early members of the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band, playing the French horn.
Later in his life, he attended the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He was a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers and did music arrangements.
He was affiliated with Metropolitan Community Church-San Francisco and sang in the choir.
In the Castro, he was well known at both Starbucks and the Cove on Castro.
Bruce was a dear, smart, and caring man who will be missed by his friends and family.
A memorial will be held Saturday, January 26, at 2 p. |
Newcastle has become the tree-felling capital of the UK after the council chopped down almost twice as many trees as any other local authority. |
More than 110,000 trees have been cut down by councils across the UK in the last three years, according to figures gathered under the Freedom of Information (FOI) act by the Sunday Times. Some 8,414 were in Newcastle, more than in any other rural or urban local authority. Wiltshire was next, having felled 4,778 in the same period, followed by Edinburgh with 4,435.
There are an estimated 800,000 trees in Newcastle, both in urban and rural areas, according to the city council, which says 0.35% of its tree stock has therefore been felled in each of the past three years.
Trees in Newcastle have been removed from a diverse range of locations such as plantations, woodlands, open green spaces, cemeteries and parks as well as residential areas including residential properties.
In contrast, there are approximately 4.5m trees in Sheffield – 36,000 of which are classed as “street |
Matt McCrane (3) warms up during his first day of practice after signing to be the Raiders’ place kicker.
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Another day, another place kicker. This time it’s Matt McCrane, an undrafted rookie out of Kansas State who spent the preseason with the Arizona Cardinals.
McCrane joins punter/holder Johnny Townsend, a rookie fifth-round draft pick, and long-snapper Trent Sieg, signed when Andrew DePaola was lost to a torn ACL early in the season opener.
When the Raiders couldn’t count on much of anything from 2007 through 2012, they had long-snapper Jon Condo, punter/holder Shane Lechler and place kicker Sebastian Janikowski for 96 consecutive games.
Marquette King replaced Lechler in 2013 (and struggled at the holding aspect), with Giorgio Tavecchio handling the kicking in 2017 when Janikowski’s back gave out.
King was released, Eddy Pineiro signed to be the place kicker and |
Europe exchange traded funds have been in focus throughout much of this year as the regions rebounding economy and actions by the European Central Bank have propped | up equities there.
The First Trust Europe AlphaDEX Fund (NYSEArca: FEP) has been an impressive performer and asset gatherer in its own right.
FEP “uses both growth and value fundamentals to score and weight its portfolio. FEP took in $450 million, about doubling its size to just under $1 billion,” writes Eric Balchunas for Bloomberg.
That was the work put in by FEP in the first half of 2014. Up 7.3% year-to-date, FEP has been buoyed by the improving U.K. economy and investors’ affinity for British equities. The U.K. is 23.2% of FEP’s weight, nearly 900 basis points more than is allocated to Italy, the ETF’s second-largest country weight.
The exposure to the U.K. is important because it is widely expected the Bank of England will raise interest |
Game of Thrones just suffered a major upset. It was not the most pirated TV show in 2018. That's right; following a six- | year streak as the most pirated series, Game of Thrones did not just lose the top spot. It dropped out of the top ten entirely.
The news comes as TorrentFreak reports its year-end results. It is important to note that BitTorrent's measurements are not necessarily indicative of all internet piracy. That said, the drop in Game of Thrones being pirated was to be expected.
Game of Thrones did not air a single new episode in 2018. So, there was no demand for new content. It took exactly that to knock the hit show out of the top ten. Ever since Season 2, Game of Thrones has earned the top spot as television's most pirated show.
The Walking Dead was very much alive when it came to interest in pirating episodes of the TV show. The veteran zombie drama surged to the top spot following a second-place finish in 2017. Its 2018 run witnessed the much-buzzed-about exit of Rick Grimes, so its first |
Oscar gave up benchwarming at Chelsea to quadruple his wages and become one of the biggest stars in a continent of four billion people. Is | that so bad?
The world started to pay serious attention to the Chinese Super League during last January’s transfer window. Chinese clubs spent huge amounts of money as they tried to lure world-class footballers to the country, with the most notable spending coming from Guangzhou Evergrande, who signed Jackson Martínez from Atlético Madrid for £32m, and Jiangsu Suning, who paid Chelsea £20m for Ramires. The deals hit the headlines across the globe, and Shanghai SIPG’s £52m acquisition of Oscar from Chelsea and Carlos Tevez’s £71m move to Shanghai Shenhua, suggest the big spending will continue this year.
Although many people, including Chelsea boss Antonio Conte, claim that Chinese wealth is a danger to clubs around the world, the large figures are partially caused by market imperfections that have arisen due to the rule that Chinese clubs must limit the number of international players in their squads. This |
City-based realty players Omkar Realtors and Anand Piramal led Piramal Realty are close to extend their existing | partnerships to a new project in Mahim.
The companies are inadvanced stages of discussions to jointly develop a 5-acre prime sea-facing property in Mahim, sources said, adding if it goes through, this willbe the second joint venture agreement between the two afterthe iconic Dhobi Ghat redevelopment project at Mahalaxmi spread across 12 acre.
Earlier Omkar had also entered into a joint development agreement with L&T Realty for a17-acre, redevelopment project in the Parel area, called Crescent Bay, andwith Godrej Properties to develop a4.25 acre property in the tony Bandra Westarea.
"The project is being undertaken under the slum rehabilitation scheme and Omkar and Piramal will jointly develop the property," one of the sources told PTI.
While Omkar could not be reached for comments, Piramal Realty spokesperson said, "We are looking at multiple opportunities within the western corridor."
However |
The 100th anniversary of World War I has had a powerful effect on all ages, and this deceptively simple rhyming story is a perfect | way to introduce children to the history of the trenches.
The poem begins with two little boys, Ben and Ray, playing innocently in poppy-strewn fields and follows them as they join up together as soldiers and are sent to the Front.
Ben is injured and left for dead until Ray risks his life to save him. Using repetition to build the tension and growing horror, the words and pictures convey the youthful sacrifices without being too distressing. Both Robinson and Impey had great-uncles killed on the Somme, one aged 22, one just 19, and the book is dedicated to their memories.
This non-fiction account of The Great War has been produced in association with The Imperial War Museums and is packed with information presented in an accessible and striking format.
Beginning with the political and expansionist ambitions that led to the conflict, the book looks at the first use of tanks and chemical warfare, and how the famous battles were fought on land, sea and in |
Eddie Johnson speaks after being sworn in as the new Chicago police superintendent by Mayor Rahm Emanuel in April.
CHICAGO ( | AP) — After a month in which nearly 15 people were shot every day, Chicago Police announced a July 4 weekend show of force that will include thousands more officers on the streets, officers toting high-powered weapons at airports and teams of officers patrolling the city's most dangerous neighborhoods, tourist attractions, train stations and parks.
"I'm sick and tired and I know that the people living in those communities are tired of it (the gun violence)," said Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson on Friday. "If it takes 5,000 officers over the weekend, then it takes that."
Johnson made a similar announcement before the Memorial Day weekend that ended with shootings that left six people dead and 56 others wounded. But on Friday, Johnson said the city had added a number of crime fighting initiatives, including a new policy starting Friday that allows more officers to work overtime. And he pointed to efforts to target the 1,400 people who have been identified as most likely to |
With Neerja's biopic set to hit the screens on Friday, TOI spoke to two citizens of Bengaluru - Dr Murthy, | then 31, who was in the flight and his wife Dr Veena Bharathi, who has worked closely without Neerja's family to document her life.
File photo of Neerja Bhanot.
"I saw her getting shot. She was shot in the head, point blank. Sitting in the sixth row from the front, I saw her during her last moments," said Dr Kishore Murthy, recalling the fearless Neerja Bhanot. A survivor of 1986 Pan Am hijack, Murthy shuddered as the dreadful moment flashed before his eyes. Though Neerja couldn't make it herself, the flight attendant's bravery saved most of the passengers.
The Pan Am Flight 73 on its way from Mumbai to New York via Karachi and Frankfurt was hijacked on September 5, 1986. Four terrorists in the guise of airport security staff entered the aircraft in Karachi. Twenty of the 380 flyers were killed. Of the 13 passengers from Karnataka, two died |
Microsoft could have just set the stage for a confrontation with some of its most loyal followers. Just two months after releasing the Surface Pro 2, the | updated version of the original Surface tablet that includes support for desktop apps, Microsoft has quietly bumped up the device’s performance.
Strictly speaking, all device makers do this. In fact, smartphone and tablet makers like Samsung, routinely modify internal components based on the factors Microsoft mentions in its statement. The trouble here is that the low-key way in which Microsoft made the change makes it look like it was trying to keep the hardware upgrade under wraps so that users who just purchased the Surface Pro 2 wouldn’t rally in outrage.
To be clear, Microsoft upgraded the Surface Pro 2 from a processor clocked at 1.6GHz to 1.9GHz, which is a big enough speed bump to make a difference in some resource intensive apps. The Verge’s report indicates that the Intel Core i5 4300U processor now included in the Surface Pro 2 also ships with Intel’s new Trusted Execution software security technology.
Though Microsoft doesn’t |
The Parliament in Vilnius is now debating a momentous issue: whether to suspend its March 11 declaration of independence. By refusing to do so | , Lithuanians might well spoil the upcoming summit meeting between Presidents Bush and Gorbachev. But that would not help achieve Lithuania's independence. It would only force Soviet leaders to get tougher and weaken Washington's positive influence.
The Parliament can vote a moratorium on its declaration of independence - with qualifications. Such an act would meet Moscow's demand, without invalidating Lithuania's right to statehood. Vilnius also would have to carry out its pledge to suspend laws implementing independence, including those forbidding its citizens from serving in ''foreign'' armies. But in each matter, the operative word would be ''suspend,'' permitting principle to be maintained on both sides.
Moscow will continue to insist that the talks be governed by the Soviet Constitution. But that is a difficult and lengthy process. With suspension voted, the Parliament would have strong grounds for urging the amending of this procedure in the case of a nation forcibly incorporated into the Soviet Union. Meantime, Moscow would have to suspend economic sanctions |
In China, hundreds of millions of people use WeChat not only as a communication tool but also as a major source of news and knowledge. Naturally | , the messaging app, called Weixin in China, is also a hotbed for suspicious rumors.
Internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd., the developer of WeChat, says it is trying to help the app's users verify whether certain rumors they see online are true or false.
This week, an official WeChat account called Rumor Filter, operated by Tencent, added a new feature that it says could make it easier for people to check the veracity of social-media information. When a user sends a chat message -- a phrase or sentence stating what the rumor is -- to the RumorFilter account, it aims to give an auto reply that clarifies whether that rumor is true.
Rumor Filter's short instruction manual for the new feature contains a sample question: "Is a crayfish an insect?" -- which gets a lengthy reply explaining why a crayfish isn’t an insect. But because the feature is a simple auto-reply function, most messages |
The 'Baby Driver' star has nabbed the male lead in the upcoming musical.
Baby Driver star Ansel Elgort has nabbed | the male lead in Steven Spielberg's upcoming take on West Side Story.
The actor will play Tony, a role first portrayed by Larry Kert in the original 1957 Broadway musical. Richard Beymer played the part in the classic 1961 movie.
Oscar-nominated screenwriter and Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Kushner has written the adaptation of the musical originally penned by Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim with music by Leonard Bernstein.
Spielberg has spent the better part of the year looking for stars for his movie, with actors needing to be able to sing, dance and, of course, act their hearts out for the story that transposes Romeo and Juliet into a 1950s New York setting featuring white and Puerto Rican gangs.
Elgort's casting now puts West Side Story firmly on track for a summer 2019 production start. Spielberg, Kevin McCollum and Kristie Macosko Krieger are producing the film.
Elgort, who showcased some of the needed |
Another BCCI official said the COA, comprising Vinod Rai and Diana Edulji, might just "tie the albatross of RT | I" around the Board's neck before announcing elections.
The BCCI is likely to challenge the Central Information Commission's ruling that the cricket board be brought under the RTI act with a top official accusing the Committee of Administrators (COA) of "wilful negligence" in dealing with the matter.
The CIC verdict would effectively mean that the BCCI become a National Sports Federation (NSF). The BCCI, which has resented coming under the Right to Information (RTI) act claiming to be an autonomous entity, feels the COA is to be blamed for the setback which hit the Board on Monday evening.
"I believe there has been wilful negligence on part of the COA in botching up BCCI's right to legal representation," a senior BCCI official, while talking about the legal ramifications of the CIC order, told Tuesday.
"There was a CIC hearing on July 10 when it was asked as to why BCCI shouldn't |
Jared Kushner will face grilling by Senate investigators over possible ties between Trump's associates and Russian officials in advance of last November's election.
| A Russian bank under Western economic sanctions over Russia's incursion into Ukraine disclosed on Monday that its executives had met Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and a top White House adviser, in December.
A U.S. Senate committee investigating suspected Russian interference in the election wants to interview Trump associates, including Kushner, 36, who is married to Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump and has agreed to testify.
It said roadshow meetings took place "with a number of representatives of the largest banks and business establishments of the United States, including Jared Kushner, the head of Kushner Companies." VEB declined to say where the meetings took place or the dates.
Allegations by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russian actors were behind hacking of senior Democratic Party operatives and spreading disinformation linger over Trump's young presidency. Democrats charge the Russians wanted to tilt the election toward the Republican, a claim dismissed by Trump. Russia denies the allegations.
But there has been no doubt that the |
Q. Back in the 1990s, before 529 education plans were created, I opened Uniform Transfer to Minors Act (UTMA) accounts for | both my children as a way to save for college.
I'd now like to shift that money into 529 plans. Is it possible to do so without paying taxes or fees?
-- Curious dadA. There are consequences to making the change from a UTMA to a 529 plan.
The first: taxes. You can't transfer the investments in a UTMA to a 529 plan. You need to sell, then transfer the cash to the 529. Depending on how your UTMA investments have fared in the market, you may be selling at a gain or a loss. If the investment has gained value, you may have a tax liability on the gains.
"Under the 'kiddie tax,' children with incomes in excess of $1,900 get taxed at the parent's tax rates," said Jerry Lynch, a certified financial planner with JFL Consulting in Fairfield.
529 plans can offer better tax benefits than UTMAs, Lynch said. Money invested in a 529 grows |
Rumors are swirling the upcoming games in the eternally-warring Call of Duty and Battlefield franchises will both contain a battle royale mode — | and I have no doubt they’ll both find some way to ruin it.
Polygon yesterday broke the news that Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 might not have a single-player mode, and sources later corroborated that with Kotaku, adding the news about a potential battle royale mode.
This, in and of itself, would just be news of a game developer jumping on a trend. Then, today, VentureBeat reported Battlefield 5’s developers were also testing a battle royale mode, and suddenly both companies are starting to look a little desperate.
Two of the most popular games on Earth right now are PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and Fortnite, both battle royale games. In case you’ve missed either the games or the millions of hours of Twitch streams, battle royale games involve players scavenging for weapons and armor inside a shrinking safe zone, hunting each other down in order to be declared the last man standing. Think |
Santa Claus, sleigh bells, reindeer. Snow falling, icicles forming, Christmas music playing. Christmas lights, Christmas trees, Christmas | presents. Shopping, planning, cooking, eating, visiting with friends and family. This is what Christmas is all about... isn't it? Somewhere in the midst of the hustle and bustle of all the festivities, the real meaning of Christmas is lost.
What's it all about? We all know the Christmas story — the birth of Jesus. But is that it? Is the real meaning of Christmas reduced to a sweet story about a baby that we faintly hear through the noise of the lights, the packages and the ribbons? What is the true meaning of Christmas? In Luke 4:16-21 Jesus answers our question. He quotes Isaiah 61 and defines his ministry. Surely this is what Christmas is all about. Not just a birth story, but the celebration of one whose ministry sets people free!
The ministry of Isaiah 61, which Jesus applies to himself is a ministry of liberation, offering a joy-filled existence to its recipients. The joy of salvation is echoed again in 61 |
OAKLAND — Collin McHugh has had a few close calls on the mound — nothing like this line drive he somehow dodged with an ac | robatic maneuver that allowed the Astros to turn a nifty double play behind him.
Estrada fell behind from the start on a night Nick Hundley earned a rare start catching the right-hander despite starter Josh Phegley's hot bat. Phegley, with his nine-game hitting streak, will be back in the lineup today.
A BREAK AT LAST: The A's whirlwind opening stretch has finally gotten a little easier. After opening the season in Japan last month and returning home, they just had their first true off day Monday following what was supposed to be 18 straight games before Saturday's rainout at Texas. Oakland gets another day off Thursday.
TRAINER'S ROOM: Oakland 1B Matt Olson, injured in the Japan series and nearing the one-month mark since undergoing right hand surgery, took his first swings with a fungo bat. The next progression in his rehab will be using a regular bat, followed by hitting off a |
MUMBAI: Vivek Dhande, 26, who comes from the droughtprone Ghansawangi taluka of Jalna | district in Marathwada, is a double graduate - a BSc degree and a diploma in education degree. Yet, he is among the 1.7 lakh applicants vying for 959 posts of audit clerks in the finance department.
"I am desperate for a job now. I am banking on this opportunity," said Dhande, who completed his last degree in 2012 and is yet to find a job. He lives in a joint family with his farmer father, stay-at-home mother, younger brother and a grandmother and they are barely able to meet their basic needs.
Reported on Friday that for the 4,410 jobs that the government had advertised, it received 7.9 lakh applications. All these jobs are entry level, and of Class III and Class IV rank, and many over-qualified youths are pinning their hopes on this opportunity.
When TOI spoke to a few of these applicants, they said that in the absence of a stable private sector market, |
Rodriguez made his major-league debut in 1991 at age 19 and in 1992 started a streak of 10 consecutive Gold Gloves and All-Star | appearances. He spent the first 12 seasons of his career with the Rangers before joining the Florida Marlins in 2003 and helping them win the World Series.
Rodriguez, affectionately known as “Pudge,” also played for the Detroit Tigers, New York Yankees and Astros before returning briefly to the Rangers in 2009. He finished his career with the Washington Nationals in two seasons.
Ivan Rodriguez became the 19th catcher elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and the second in two years after Mike Piazza was in the 2016 Hall class.
Rodriguez will become the 18th catcher in the Hall of Fame and only the second first-ballot catcher after he collected 2,844 hits in a 21-year career and finished with a.296 batting average, 311 home runs and 1,332 RBIs. He also threw out 42 percent of attempted base stealers.
He notched 1,747 hits, 352 doubles, 217 homers and 842 RBI |
Marty Mornhinweg sat down for his weekly news conference and was all set to open with a review of the Jets' last game | .
Without saying a word about the 49-9 loss to Cincinnati on Sunday, the offensive coordinator kept a straight face.
"All right," Mornhinweg deadpanned Thursday, "let's get to New Orleans."
When you have a loss that ugly, not much needs to be said. It was brutal, and Mornhinweg knows it. Coach Rex Ryan even opted out of the usual team film session Monday so the Jets could move on quickly.
"Look, we took some steps backward," Mornhinweg said. "Now, we've got to take some steps forward. It's just that simple. I've got to do a better job, period, putting the guys in a little bit better spots."
The Jets put up 240 total yards of offense against the Bengals, and rookie Geno Smith was 20 of 30 for 159 yards and two interceptions, both of which were returned for touchdowns.
Smith and the offense have been a |
The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA), completed a three-day training course on digital security in Ramallah, as part | of the Center’s constant efforts to protect digital rights, privacy and digital security.
The training was aimed towards a group of media professionals specialized in digital media and information technology working in Palestinian NGOs, the training focused on the digital characteristics, social media, privacy, digital safety for institutions and also it focused on the tools that could be used to help us avoid hacking, information theft, comprehensive safety and auditing information systems for media and human rights organizations, and security in the transmission of information via the Internet.
The training was provided by two specialized trainers in digital security and the preservation of information via the Internet and social media, and was funded by Deutsche Welle and in collaboration with PYALARA Foundation.
At the end of the training course the participants expressed the importance of implementing such training and the extent to which, the three days of intensive training in the protection of information and digital security have benefited them and the need to apply the training topics to the work of journalists and technicians within |
(WBIR) Fake Luke Bryan tickets for Friday's concert at Maple Lane Farms are making the rounds across East Tennessee, leaving some victims out | hundreds of dollars and no ticket to the sold-out event.
(WBIR-MARYVILLE) A man who was shot after confronting a police officer with a BB gun now faces charges.
Fuller walked out to the street in an attempt to calm the man, later identified as Jason Halfacre, 40, who was in a relationship with the woman and lived at the home.
(WBIR-MARYVILLE) A Maryville man is accused of assaulting his roommates because they wouldn't turn out the lights.
Deputies were called to the residence on Meade Street in Maryville on Saturday just after 10 am.
The two victims told investigators that Greg Houghes walked into his roommate's room and started hitting and strangling him. When the other roommate tried to intervene, the incident reports says that Houghes shoved and hit him.
(WBIR-Townsend) A popular Townsend landmark opened its doors Friday for the first time since |
Artist’s rendering of the recently discovered planetary system Trappist-1. Via Wikipedia.
Yesterday, following the incredible news that astronomers | had discovered seven Earth-sized, and possibly Earth-like (i.e. life-supporting), planets orbiting a star just thirty-nine light years away from Earth, we here at MobyLives decided, given humanity’s long history of responding to such discoveries by imagineering, westward-hoing, and all-around boldly-going-where, that it’s about time we turned our attention to the serious question of space libraries: namely, what to stock them with (space books, natch, but which ones?), how those space books might be delivered (by space rocket), and who will frequent these space spaces of free and independent thought (judging by the available data, this will likely be current entrepreneur and noted non-Peter Thiel, and future space patron, Elon Musk).
Getting the books to the aspiring Mars colonizer’s new vacation home in TRAPPIST-1, which is what the newly discovered planetary system is called |
In an oddly “presidential” speech today, House Speaker Paul Ryan denounced Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and the “ugliness | ” of the Republican primary race. Paul Ryan has denied that he would accept a presidential nomination at a contested convention, and he’s stated that he would support Donald Trump if — and only if — he won the Republican nomination. But after remarks today, some commentators are speculating if Paul Ryan’s attempt to bring an end to the infighting could be a sign of his own plans for the future.
“If someone has a bad idea, we tell them why our idea is better. We don’t insult them into agreeing with us, we try to persuade them. We test their assumptions. And while we’re at it, we test our own assumptions too,” said House Speaker Paul Ryan today, speaking to an assembly of about a hundred Capitol Hill interns.
Paul Ryan’s “State of American Politics” speech was hastily cobbled together, announced, planned and executed with only about one day’s notice, |
Why have suicide deaths increased so dramatically?
The Centers for Disease Control reported last week that suicide rates have increased -- dramatically -- across the country from | 1999 to 2016. The CDC said suicide rates went up in 49 states. Nevada had a 1% decrease during that time period and was the only state without more suicides.
The suicide rate increased more than 34% in Pennsylvania during those 17 years. That's a substanial number of people taking their own lives. About 2,000 Pennsylvanians die from suicide each year.
It's a topic that should be discussed more, but often doesn't get attention until a well-known person takes their own life. Last week, designer Kate Spade and chef Anthony Boudain died by suicide and that has prompted a national conversation.
On Tuesday's Smart Talk, we'll ask why suicide rates have increased, the signs that someone may be thinking of ending their life and how and where to get help.
Appearing on the program are Govan Martin, Chair of the Board of Directors of the organization Prevent Suicide PA, Kelly Gollick, Executive Director of CONTACT Hel |
This month, people from all over Michigan will be coming to Charlevoix to compete in the sport of bass fishing at the 2007 Johnson Out | doors Northern Championship Bass Tournament.
Sponsored by the Competitive Anglers Tournament Trail, based in Kalamazoo, the event will take place from Wednesday, Sept. 12 to Saturday, Sept. 15. The tournament will be based at the city boat launch at Ferry Beach on Lake Charlevoix.
"We're an amateur, semi-professional trail," said Jerry Bastian, president of the tournament. "Bass fishing is the second-largest growing sport next to NASCAR."
Practice days for the tournament are Sept. 12 and 13. Registered anglers fishing from now until the official practice day will be automatically disqualified from the event.
The actual competition spans over two days, Sept. 14 and 15. Bastian said approximately 150 participants in 75 boats will be fishing Lake Charlevoix's waters for the highest weighing bass. Lake Michigan will be closed to the competition in order to ensure fairness. Those with the highest total weight for two days receive the grand prize of a |
We've discussed greener credit cards in the past at TreeHugger. Major credit card companies offer cards that provide donations to nonprofit organizations whose logo | or image is featured on the card. But that's not what we're talking about here at all. Discover is boasting a new "biodegradable" credit card made from biodegradable PVC. But can PVC really degrade and what is it anyway?Discover has introduced its first biodegradable credit card, which will supposedly break down when exposed to landfill conditions. According to Discover, the green credit card is made of biodegradable PVC, 99 percent of which can be absorbed back into the environment given the right conditions. Discover contends that, with exposure to soil, water, compost, and other microorganisms, the card will degrade completely within nine months to 5 years. Discover also claims that the card leaves no toxic residue when it degrades. The company is not clear, however, on what conditions must exist to have the card totally degrade or how often these conditions exist.
PVC in Biodegradable Credit Cards?
But how can PVC be biodegrad |
CINCINNATI - Mat Latos fanned a personal-best 13 batters in his second career complete game and the Cincinnati Reds beat the | Milwaukee Brewers 3-1 on Monday night.
The NL Central leaders won for only the second time in seven games. The Brewers, who won the division last year, have dropped eight of 13, falling 7½ games back - one shy of their season high.
Latos (6-2) gave up four hits, including a drive by Norichika Aoki that made it 63 straight games at Great American Ball Park with at least one homer. Latos also singled twice, matching a career high.
He finished it off by fanning Rickie Weeks with his 109th pitch. Eighty of his pitches were strikes.
PHILADELPHIA - Joe Blanton threw seven effective innings and Jimmy Rollins homered for the fourth time in five games for Philadelphia.
Blanton (7-6) allowed three runs - two earned - and seven hits, striking out eight.
The Phillies are 15-2 against the Pirates in their last 17 meetings at Citizens Bank Park |
A Clarksville man was killed in a drive by shooting Tuesday night on Treeland Drive.
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — A Clarks | ville man was killed in a drive-by shooting Tuesday night on Treeland Drive.
Dalenzo Russell, 22, died after he was flown to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, said Officer Natalie Hall, spokeswoman for Clarksville Police Department.
At 6:27 p.m., officers were dispatched to a call in the 300 block of Treeland Drive.
Hall said the victim suffered a single gunshot wound.
One witness said a car pulled up to the house before the shooting.
"I was walking through here and heard one gunshot," said Corey Batson of Clarksville, who lives near Treeland Drive. "A car pulled up, a male hopped out and shot Dalenzo."
He said the victim is a man he knows.
"There was a bunch of people around him holding him, telling him, ‘Stay with me, stay with me, it’s going to be all right,’ ” Batson said.
Hall said |
1 person dead, 2 others taken to hospital in Roslindale.
One person is dead after Boston EMS responded to an attached five- | unit condo building in Roslindale, Massachusetts for elevated carbon monoxide levels.
Authorities were called to 741 Hyde Park Avenue at 9:47 a.m. Saturday.
One man and two women were treated and transported to area hospitals. One person was taken to Faulkner and two people were taken to Brigham and Women's.
The man was pronounced dead at the hospital. His cause of death has not yet been determined, and an autopsy will be be conducted.
The two women have very high levels of carbon monoxide in their systems, and their condition is not known at this time.
Investigators say that carbon monoxide was found in every condo in the building and that there were also no working CO detectors in the units. Fire officials say they also found several smoke detectors that were disabled.
It's unclear how many people in the condo building may have been displaced by this incident. One resident says she was woken up by a doorbell and told to get |
Troy Wolverton’s Tech Files column incorrectly reported that Facebook might target ads to users based on their visits to adult-themed sites. | Facebook says that it separates out data from such sites and does not use it for ad-targeting purposes.
Facebook users beware: The company has — yet again — unilaterally changed its mind about its data collection practices. As users should know, that’s not a good thing for their privacy.
Earlier this month, the dominant social network announced that it’s altering the way it determines which ads to show users of its site. In the past, the company based its ad choices on what users were doing on Facebook — what pages they liked, what links they clicked on.
Now, in addition to using that data, the company will also be taking into account the things users do online or on their smartphones outside of Facebook’s website and apps. So if Facebook sees you shopping for laxatives at an online drugstore, visiting an adult-themed site or using an exercise app to track your workouts, it might use that information to serve up ads while you’ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — An internal watchdog at the Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday it will review whether federal and state officials kept the public appropriately informed last | year about potential air quality threats after Hurricane Harvey ravaged southeastern Texas.
The office of EPA Inspector General Arthur Elkins issued notice of the audit, which will scrutinize the agency’s response following several high-profile accidents and spills following the August 2017 storm and the resulting flooding in the Houston metro area.
But The Associated Press and The Houston Chronicle reported in March that government records revealed far more widespread toxic impact than authorities publicly reported in the days and weeks after the storm. Massive amounts of benzene, vinyl chloride, butadiene and other known human carcinogens were among the toxic substances released into surrounding neighborhoods and waterways following Harvey’s torrential rains.
Kaplan said the review will encompass the response to the explosions and fire at a Arkema Inc. chemical plant in Crosby, a big benzene spill at Royal Dutch Shell PLC ‘s Deer Park complex, spills of sodium hydroxide and benzene from a Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. plant in Baytown, |
CAMP LEJEUNE � Reaction to the attacks on Pearl Harbor led to the rapid construction of the Marine Corps� largest base on the east | coast.
The attacks on Dec. 7, 1941, consisted of Japanese forces attacking the United States Naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, about 7:48 a.m. The base was attacked by 353 Japanese fighters, bombers and torpedo planes which came in two waves off of six Japanese aircraft carriers. More than 3,600 Americans were wounded or killed and 188 U.S. aircraft were destroyed while four ships were sunk. Because of the attacks on Pearl Harbor, the United States entered World War II in both the European and Pacific campaigns.
Because of the United States� entrance into World War II, increased construction efforts aboard Camp Lejeune, which was formerly known as the Marine Barracks, New River, began. The Marine Barracks had been identified months prior to the attacks as the most advantageous location for a Marine base on the eastern seaboard.
Published in the News and Views of Jacksonville on Dec. 16, 1941, officials announced that �enlargement of the Marine |
The intense cases of self immolation amongst Tibetan monks and nuns have been successful in drawing international attention. 21 Tibetan supporters have set themselves alight to | protest against the draconian Chinese regime. Why are the Tibetans desperately ending their lives by setting themselves in fire? What is the motive behind that act? Palden Choetso was only 18 when she set her ablaze. Another nun named Tenzin Choedron from the Sichuan province was 19 years old. Why are these youths so desperate to end their lives? China will have to answer the cause of this repression that has crossed humanitarian limit. The fanatical wave of self immolation has questioned the legitimacy of China’s human rights policies.
Tibet is known as the country of immense plateau. It had a peaceful history until the Chinese invasion changed everything. The Tibetan monks were no match for the overwhelming Chinese army thus in 1951, Tibet was forcefully taken. Twenty thousand soldiers had poured into Tibet for its 50,000 population. Thousands of monks lost their lives during the crusade. Despite being a peaceful community, unable to retaliate against the Chinese regime, the Tibetan Monks |
Sauté garlic, onion, carrot, bell pepper, chili, corned beef, and liver spread in oil.
Pour tomato sauce | and water and simmer until thick.
Season with MAGGI MAGIC SARAP®, pepper, and sugar. Stir in 2 tablespoons of cheese, coconut cream, and green peas.
Boil spaghetti according to package direction. Toss in the sauce. Transfer on a serving plate; grate 2 tablespoons of cheese on top and serve.
Sauté pork in oil until golden brown.
Add garlic, onion, and Korean red pepper paste. Pour water, simmer, and season with MAGGI MAGIC SARAP®. Add sugar, sesame oil, and 2 tablespoons of cheese.
Boil pasta according to package direction. Toss in the sauce with cabbage.
Transfer on a serving plate. Top with sesame seeds, spring onion, nori, cheese, and egg.
Sauté bacon in oil until golden brown. Strain and set aside as topping.
Sauté garlic and onion in the same pan. Add shrimps and season with MAGGI |
With local transit authorities preparing to go forward with the Gold Line Foothill Extension to the Azusa/Glendora border, local cities still | have plans to place residential and commercial developments along the line.
The intent of those developments is to prepare for future population growth while limiting increases in local traffic. The first phase of the extension is slated to be completed by 2014, adding new stops in Arcadia, Monrovia, Duarte, Irwindale and Azusa.
But with a down economy, flat real estate market, and cities suffering from last month’s state raid of local redevelopment funds, some plans for transit-oriented developments could end up being scaled back.
A survey of several local cities shows that while some are on schedule, other projects have stalled or have been scaled back.
In Azusa, the largest planned residential development already stalled long before the city lost redevelopment funds to the state. The Rosedale housing development was planned to have 1,250 units but was put on hold in the fall of 2008 because of the national economic crisis. Only 130 units were finished.
But other developments in the |
What a vile word it is, isn’t it? “FEMINISM”; F, E, M, I | , N, I, S, M—eight letters of pure, unrivaled hatred and contempt. The word used by those defenders of pride to describe the veritable beast who, if you get too close, will emerge from its sepulcher and ravage you with savage claws. “Beware,” they warn the man who might travel down that path, “lest ye be taken by the monster!” You are warned to remain here, with the great warriors who would save you from that path of destruction, from which no one returns. And so many a would-be traveler are discouraged from the path and turn away. Of course, many of these warriors of the west have never seen the beast incarnate, only telling the tale like a Homeric fable; “but how?” you might ask, “if they’ve never seen it do they know it exists?” Ah, because of the beast’s worsh |
Rolling back Obamacare will require full Republican support in the Senate. Rand Paul—and others—could defect using a familiar political play.
Watch | Rand Paul to understand why Obamacare repeal is in so much trouble.
Paul faces a more agonizing dilemma than almost any other Republican senator. A libertarian ideologue and Tea Party stalwart, Paul has spoken vociferously about the imperative of repeal for years.
Yet Paul also represents a state that has done well out of the Affordable Care Act. Four hundred and forty thousand Kentuckians have gained coverage under the ACA; Kentucky’s uninsured rate tumbled from 20 percent in 2013 to 7.5 percent in 2015.
Very understandably, the version of Obamacare repeal that Senator Paul introduced in January 2017 leaves Medicaid untouched. But, of course, Paul has no such assurance about the version of reform being incubated by the House Republicans under Speaker Paul Ryan. Which may explain why Paul has emerged as the most outspoken Republican critic of Ryan’s health-care approach.
According to Paul himself, his resistance to the Ryan approach is driven by his own superior ideological purity. “I |
The Society of Broadcast Engineers' Chapter 15 (SBE 15), which serves the New York City metro area, has announced that Conrad | Trautmann, the CTO of Dial Global, will be its first recipient of the "Chapter Engineer of the Year" award.
"We are thrilled to honor Conrad with our first 'Chapter Engineer of the Year' award," said Jeff Smith, SBE 15's chapter chairman. "Within Conrad's 30 plus years of service to SBE 15, he was instrumental in reestablishing the chapter in the 1980's after declining membership and financial troubles caused the chapter to cease operations. Conrad is recognized for implementing a model that has made SBE 15 the largest and most financially stable SBE local chapter in the country."
Trautmann oversees Dial Global's broadcast engineering, program distribution, back-office IT and software development. Dial Global delivers audio content to over 8,500 radio stations and digital media companies.
Besides his work for Dial Global, Trautmann has managed and |
RUSTENBURG, South Africa (AFP) – Around 2,000 mineworkers converged at an Anglo American Platinum mine in South | Africa's restive platinum belt on Tuesday over plans by the world's top producer to cut 6,900 jobs amid unrest in the sector.
Miners gathered at the Khomanani shaft in the northern city of Rustenburg to protest the Amplats plan, announced just days after South Africa marked the first anniversary of police shooting dead 34 miners at the nearby Lonmin mine in Marikana, which sparked strikes that have roiled the sector.
Workers and unions earlier threatened to strike over the restructuring project which includes closing down three operations, cutting thousands of jobs and integrating some workers elsewhere.
"People don't want to transfer. But if you don't want to transfer, your job is finished," said Themba, a 45-year-old worker who did not give his surname.
"I've got a family. I feel very bad. People here, they&ap |
LONDON, (Reuters) – Sebastian Vettel’s temperament is under the spotlight again after the Ferrari driver’s hopes of seizing | back the Formula One lead disappeared in a few seconds of mayhem at the Singapore Grand Prix on Sunday.
The German, his fast-starting team mate Kimi Raikkonen and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen crashed out as they raced to the first corner.
Stewards summoned all three drivers after the race but decided none was wholly or predominantly to blame.
The view was not shared by others who either pointed the finger at Verstappen, in his last race as a teenager, or accused Vettel of needless aggression at a key point in the championship.
“What we tweeted was a factual description of events. No need to speculate on this,” it added later as reaction on social media flared.
Television footage and in-car cameras showed Raikkonen making a storming getaway from fourth on the grid and around Verstappen on the outside.
Vettel, on pole, was slower off the line and steered left to |
If your two-lever faucet is dripping, you can stop the drip by replacing a rubber washer or some gaskets, | depending on the type of valves the faucet has. If you can't turn the levers more than 90 degrees, the valve has disk valves. If you can turn them through 360 degrees, it has compression valves. Either way, you shouldn't have any trouble making the repair, but with a disk valve, there's a slight chance that one of the valves is damaged. If so, you'll have to replace it.
Turn off the shutoff valves under the sink and open both faucet handles to relieve water pressure.
Remove the handles. You should be able to see a screw on the top of each one that you can unscrew with a Phillips screwdriver. If you don't see screws, they may be hidden under decorative caps. Pry the caps off with a flat-head screwdriver and remove the screws.
Unscrew the packing nut from each handle with adjustable pliers. It's a good idea to wrap a rag around the nut before using the pl |
Pope Francis landed in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday for the first ever visit by a pontiff to the Arabian Peninsula -- the birthplace of Islam, | AFP reports.
The pope touched down in Abu Dhabi for the 48-hour trip during which he will meet leading Muslim clerics and hold an open-air mass for some 135,000 Catholics.
He was greeted by Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed and was warmly embraced by Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, the imam of Cairo's Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam's prestigious seat of learning.
The pontiff will take part in an interreligious conference on Monday with Sheikh Ahmed.
Hours before he flies back to Rome on Tuesday, he will lead mass in a stadium in Abu Dhabi -- set to be the largest gathering ever in the UAE, according to local media.
His visit comes with the UAE engaged in a long-running military campaign in Yemen and embroiled in a diplomatic spat with nearby Qatar.
Before heading to the Gulf, the pontiff urged warring parties in Yemen, where the UAE backs the government against Huthi rebels, to respect |
'Game of Thrones' actor Aisling Franciosi and Sam Claflin star in the period survival drama.
IFC Films has | set an Aug. 2 release for Jennifer Kent's The Nightingale.
The period feature follows Clare, played by Game of Thrones actor Aisling Franciosi, a 21-year-old Irish convict in 1820s Tasmania, who, having served her seven-year sentence, is desperate to be free of her abusive master, Lieutenant Hawkins (Sam Claflin), who refuses to release her from his charge. Clare’s husband, Aidan, retaliates and she becomes the victim of a harrowing crime at the hands of the lieutenant and his cronies.
Unable to secure justice from the British authorities, Clare decides to pursue Hawkins, who leaves his post suddenly to secure a captaincy up north. She is forced to enlist the help of a young Aboriginal tracker, Billy (newcomer Baykali Ganambarr), who grudgingly guides her through the rugged wilderness to track down Hawkins.
The Nightingale premiered at the Venice Film Festival and had |
Food fraud: How do we fight a problem we don't yet understand?
Amanda M. Naaum, Postdoctoral Fellow University of | Guelph Biodiversity Institute of Ontario and Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, demonstrates the process for subsampling tissue commercially bought fish for DNA testing on July 11 2016.
A few years ago, federal food inspectors were walking around the warehouses of the Ontario Food Terminal in Toronto – the nerve centre where much of the province's fresh produce is bought, re-packaged and sold – when they noticed something unusual.
In the "farmer's market" area, where only Ontario-grown produce is meant to be sold, the inspectors saw large cartons of greenhouse peppers with conflicting labels. The outside of the boxes had "Product of Canada" stickers, next to visible signs of damage on the cardboard – bits of paper and glue, as if another sticker had been peeled off. And stickers on the inside of the box read "Product of Mexico."
That discovery in January, 2012, led the Canadian Food Inspection Agency into a three-year investigation of the company behind the peppers |
Since the enactment of Title IX in 1972 by the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights, academic institutions have increasingly set forth efforts | and policies to promote gender equality for all students, staff and faculty who participate in academic programs and activities.
In recent years, increased attention and scrutiny has been placed on Title IX in respect to collegiate athletics on the grounds of gender equality, specifically the lack of resources and opportunities for female athletes as compared to those available to their male counterparts.
NYU is an affirmative action and equal opportunity institution that heavily enforces Title IX. The university’s Office of Equal Opportunity provides members of the NYU community with resources to understand the policy and assists in the filing and resolution of sexual misconduct and discrimination complaints.
The OEO serves to “promote and support the university’s commitment to creating and fostering an inclusive and diverse community of faculty, administrators, staff and students” through a “consistent and uniform procedure for responding to and resolving internal discrimination complaints,” according to the office’s mission statement.
Beyond the legislation of Title IX, progress made in the |
A new fight in Connecticut shows that passing legislation to require employers to set worker schedules two weeks in advance and end the practice of “on- | call” will be an uphill battle–but one that will hugely benefit workers.
In the summer of 2015, Marilyn Moore took a seasonal job at a local Target in Bridgeport, Connecticut. She told her new employer that she wanted to work at least 20 hours per week. Though she tried to use her previous experience in retail sales to negotiate for higher than $9.50 per hour, she was rebuked. Her first week on the job, she worked just eight hours. Talking with fellow new employees, she learned that none of them were offered even the minimum number of shifts they requested. At that rate, Moore realized, she would need at least two more jobs to pay her bills.
This is a common story among part-time shift workers. In Connecticut, for instance, 88% of service-sector workers are offered fewer than 40 hours a week at their job. Fifty-eight percent of those workers would like to work more hours. Around 66% of service-sector |
All eyes of economists looking at the meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday of the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate setting committee will be on the dot | plot, the chart that shows the committee’s projections of the path of interest rates through 2016.
But the dot plot is an odd duck (it doesn’t distinguish between voters and non-voters) and won’t answer all the questions Fed watchers want answers about from the central bank. Here are five of the questions that might be answered by the statement, the forecasts or Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen’s press conference. The statement and forecasts come Wednesday at 2 p.m. Eastern, followed by the Yellen press conference at 2:30 p.m.
Any new worries about inflation?
Inflation has been stirring. Just before the start of the Fed meeting on Tuesday morning, the Labor Department reported U.S. consumer prices rose sharply in May for the second straight month and the rate of inflation over the past year reached 2.1%, its highest level since late 2012. After worrying about low inflation last year, has there been |
Red Hat has a choice to make: focus on its profitable but dull Linux business or disrupt the industry through JBoss and applications.
Red Hat | has announced its 2009 Innovation Awards, with some impressive finalists making the list. From Whole Foods to Harvard Business School Publishing, major organizations are doing impressive things with Red Hat technology. Interestingly, however, the real "innovation" revealed by these awards is just how much more money Red Hat makes in its JBoss deals than in its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) deals.
I reported earlier this year that Red Hat's JBoss business is growing at twice the rate of its RHEL business. This isn't surprising: JBoss is still relatively small change compared to RHEL, growing from a smaller base.
But that's not the whole story. JBoss drives $10 in services revenue for every $1 in subscription revenue, which makes JBoss much more interesting to Red Hat's channel partners than RHEL. JBoss and the solutions that run on it are also much more interesting to CIOs, who tactically choose RHEL to save money but strategically choose JBoss to |
Aging populations on Japan's northeast coast are struggling to recover from last month's devastating earthquake and tsunami, | and health officials fear they could be hit by a potentially deadly new wave of disease, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
Hospitals serving the region said they are seeing a surge in elderly patients with pneumonia, which doctors attribute largely to living conditions in crowded emergency shelters that now house tens of thousands of displaced people.
Public health officials also said they are worried about flu outbreaks, respiratory illnesses caused by dust-borne pathogens and a high incidence of blood clots in the legs of now less-active older residents.
About 20 percent of Japan's population is over 65 years old; that proportion is even higher in parts of the disaster-stricken northeast, a fact that stands to complicate recovery efforts and pose unexpected challenges for public health authorities.
In Ishinomaki, a fishing port city about 210 miles north of Tokyo, the Red Cross Hospital has been treating pneumonia patients at roughly five times the normal rate since the March 11 disaster, said Dr. Masaru Yan |
BBC Blogs - TV blog - What happened when this claustrophobic presenter went caving for Secret Britain?
What happened when this cla | ustrophobic presenter went caving for Secret Britain?
I found out I was being sent caving for Secret Britain after a Q&A session in the Countryfile tent at our summer special. Someone asked what I would hate to do. I said anything in tight spaces. My executive producer then came up to me chuckling about story ideas for Secret Britain.
So the proposal was that I squeeze my way into Britain’s deepest cave – Ogof Ffynnon Ddu in the Brecon Beacons – to witness a remarkable secret, the beautiful stalactites deep below ground. When these kinds of challenges come up, I’m usually asked weeks beforehand when the reality of it seems a long time away. I’m then in a rational state of mind so I reason with myself that it is the BBC, with risk assessments and insurances. And I also take the view that I’m being paid to do the work so I should bloody well do |
Royal sisters-in-law Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton were spotted together at the Wimbledon tennis match Saturday.
Catherine, | Duchess of Cambridge (born Catherine Elizabeth Middleton on 9 January 1982; popularly known as "Kate") is the wife of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge. William is second in line to the thrones of the sixteen Commonwealth realms, and if he becomes king, she would become queen consort. Catherine grew up in Chapel Row at Bucklebury, a village near Newbury, Berkshire, England. She studied in Scotland at the University of St Andrews, where she met William in 2001. They started a romantic relationship that continued until a break-up lasting for several months in 2007. However, they continued to be friends and rekindled their relationship later that year.
Prior to the wedding, Catherine attended many high-profile royal events. Once their relationship became public, Catherine received widespread media attention and there was much speculation that she and William would eventually marry. Their engagement was announced on 16 November 2010, and they married on 29 April 2011 at Westminster Abbey.
It uses material from the |
Serb defiance likely to exacerbate tensions with Kosovo Albanian majority.
Marko Jaksic, a Serb leader, said: "The | assembly is the foundation of the Serb protection of Kosovo. We will not allow the formation of another Albanian state in this part of Europe."
Fatmir Sejdiu, Kosovo's president, said that the Kosovo Serb leaders are trying to destabilise the new country by creating a separate assembly, adding that a proposed self-proclaimed parliament is part of their "illegal structures".
Creation of the new assembly is likely to further raise tensions between the Kosovo Albanians, 90 per cent of Kosovo's two million people, and the Serb minority. Their rivalry has brought the fledgling state to the verge of partition.
The Serb representatives met as they marked Vidovdan, or St Vitus Daym, the anniversary of the 1389 battle in which a Christian army led by Lazar, a Serbian prince, was defeated in Kosovo by invading Ottoman forces.
The battle came to symbolise Serbs' historic resolve not to give up Kosovo, the heartland of their state |
When game designer Nicky Case built a Choose Your Own Adventure tale for the Nar8 hackathon last month, he chose a real-world, | if no less difficult, journey as his subject. The Coming Out Simulator is the story of Case’s announcement to his parents and its complicated aftermath. As a player, you’ll meet Case (portrayed as a blank-faced, hipster-haired cartoon) in a present-day coffee shop. He’ll invite you to enter a fictionalized version of his life–the night of his coming out–but with the caveat that you can help direct the story. At each turn, you are offered three options for what Case, his boyfriend, and his parents say or do. One is true to Case’s actual biography. One is completely fictional. And one is a semi-true version of what really happened.
He decided to deliver the dialogue via text message as a narrative metaphor. “Texting is full of miscommunication. It’s impersonal and hard to connect–just like the coming out conversation that I had with my parents |
This year’s Fishtoft Cup final will be between Spilsby Town and Swineshead Institute.
Spilsby beat Railway | Athletic 2-1 thanks to goals from Liam Papworth and Jordon Turner.
In the other semi-final, Swineshead beat Pointon 3-2.
Fulbeck United were held at home by the Workforce Unlimited Premier League’s bottom club Benington as the played out a 2-2 draw.
Fulbeck had to come from behind to get their point, their goals coming from Paul Crampton and Steve Marshall.
Skegness Town Reserves, who themselves are just finding their form, beat Coningsby 5-2.
Coningsby’s goals were both scored by Shaun Boothby.
Division One leaders Fishtoft were well beaten 3-0 by Old Doningtonians while Horncastle Town Reserves kept up their title chase by beating Freiston 5-0.
Friskney had a good win away at Pointon Reserves, winning the game 6-2, while Boston College beat F |
While the news in the American publishing industry concerns its lofty goals of responding with flags flying to the terrorism war, it's nice to know there's | still time for a good old-fashioned catfight.
The Missing Years of the Kennedy Years"
The fur has settled a bit between novelist Jonathan Franzen and TV's Oprah Winfrey who had a falling-out over his reservations about appearing as her author of the month in October.
Unless you've been in germ-free isolation recently, you know that Winfrey canceled Franzen's appearance after he announced that he felt "uncomfortable" with the prospect that his best seller, "The Corrections," would have an Oprah Book Club sticker slapped on it.
"I see this as my book, my creation, and I didn't want that logo of corporate ownership on it," he said last month. Franzen added that most of Winfrey's other selections were not in the same "high-art literary tradition" as his books.
Anyone who had read Franzen's searching and revealing 1996 essay, "Perchance to Dream," in Harper's would not be surprised by his |
Fancy up your apartment for cheap.
These are done with this foil, which is just $10.65 for 10 feet. Get the | tutorial here.
See how she did this to an Ikea Billy bookcase here.
Learn how to get the look in just an afternoon here.
If you're wanting to go even cheaper, you could skip the metallic seats on the chairs and paint them to match the rest of the wood (and use less expensive wrapping paper). Get the tutorial here.
Get the instructions here. The blogger sells buttons that match the Ikea sofa she owns, but you can also pick out fabric covered buttons that work for your own furniture (or grab an inexpensive kit and fabric to make your own).
You can use whatever combination of spray paint and contact paper your heart desires. See how to do it here.
They made this for only $32! Get the how-to here.
This tutorial calls for chalk paint, but you can use any outdoor safe paint that you'd like. Get the tutorial here.
You can do black for a ~classy~ redo, or |
By the time the decade of the 1960s had begun, sportswriters around the nation had developed a keen interest and curiosity in the Iron | Bowl staged each year in Birmingham's Legion Field. When the decade began, Auburn held the unique distinction of being the only Southeastern Conference team that held a lead over Alabama in its series of games. The Tigers' 13-10-1 advantage was to become a 18-15-1 Tide advantage by the time the 1969 Iron Bowl was history.
Television also began developing an interest in the Alabama-Auburn rivalry and first beamed the classic rivalry to the rest of the nation on Nov. 26, 1964. Coach Jordan's Tigers came into the game with a 6-3 record and with consecutive wins over Mississippi State and Georgia. Bryant's Crimson Tide, led by Joe Willie Namath, was undefeated (9-0) and, in fact, had not lost since Auburn upset the Tide 10-8 in the Iron Bowl the year before.
Auburn football coach Ralph "Shug" Jordan in 1964.
Legion Field was absolutely electric with excitement. Thousands ro |
A senior county councillor has accused Mott MacDonald of ‘ineptitude’ over its handling of the A27 plans for Chichester | .
Cllr Jeremy Hunt, West Sussex county councillor for Chichester North, also said the consultants, along with Highways England ‘had not been that bright’.
His comments came at a packed meeting where campaigners voiced their anger over the continued secrecy of the six options proposed, two of which include a new northern bypass through Lavant.
Highways England is still refusing to release any official details of the options, despite repeated requests from the Observer and Spirit FM as part of a joint campaign for transparency.
And it emerged last night that a number of councillors, and members of the public, had seen route maps for the proposed northern bypass.
Responding to claims from Chichester Deserves Better campaigners that West Sussex County Council (WSCC) was withholding information, cllr Hunt told the South Chichester CLC meeting: “Unfortunately this has all been brought about by Mott MacDonald’s inept handling of this as consultants.
He |
The New York Police Department (NYPD) recently unveiled a new digital tool that it says can sift through police reports to help officers spot patterns | of crimes potentially committed by the same criminals.
The NYPD says the program, dubbed Patternizr, can save time and help its investigators detect patterns in burglaries, robberies, and grand larcenies they might not have noticed by manually combing through the tens of thousands of reports the department receives every year. While the NYPD employs civilian crime analysts who focus on such tasks, it’s still a laborious task, and it can be hard for analysts to familiarize themselves with reports produced in different precincts from the ones where they work.
The NYPD emphasizes that the tool doesn’t look at suspects’ race or gender in matching crimes, and that its tests have found the program no more likely to suggest links to crimes committed by people of certain races than random sampling from police reports. But civil liberties advocates still cautioned that Patternizr and other tools like it could exacerbate existing biases depending on how they’re used.
Patternizr is currently being used by |
New Delhi: Asserting that several foreign countries want to get Indian missiles in their inventory, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday | said there was an export potential of sale of homegrown defence products.
The statement assumes significance as traditionally India has been a major arms importer and still depends on foreign vendors for around 50 per cent of its military hardware requirements.
"You did talk about integrated missiles programme, which has yielded a lot of results. Today, missiles are so sought after by many countries... I want to highlight that there exists a market outside other than the Indian armed forces," the Defence Minister said while addressing an event organised by the Vivekananda International Foundation.
The Defence Minister said that a lot of countries are keen to have some kind of engagement with India and "want to purchase from you. India has immense potential to be an exporter of different equipment. I can also say, even a shipbuilding warship building capability is very well recognised outside. There are several countries which are saying, help us to give that capacity to us."
The Defence Minister cited the example of aerospace PSU -- HAL to suggest that |
The Town of Falmouth is calling upon the community to help put an end to water theft from town hydrants. Recently, rusty water has | surfaced in several areas around town. Rusty water, according to a release from the town, is a result of opening a fire hydrant too quickly and surging the water main.
Although rusty water is not a health issue, it can be a household inconvenience when washing clothing and doing other chores.
The town's Water Department has determined that the recent surge in rusty water is a result of the illegal filling of contractor and landscaping tanker trucks.
Not only does this practice create issues for homeowners, it is also illegal, according to the release. Unauthorized filling of a tank for a hydrant can result in back-siphoning which could contaminate the town's water supply.
Fire hydrants should only be opened by authorized personnel such as firefighters and Falmouth Water Department workers.
Residents who observe a tanker being filled at a hydrant, other than a street sweeper, are asked to contact either the Falmouth Water Department at 508-457-2543 or Fal |
MICKY Adams has said he is bitterly disappointed' to leave his post as Colchester United's assistant manager.
Adams has departed his role | as Geraint Williams' number two, after joining the U's last July.
The Coca-Cola Championship strugglers announced that Adams had left the U's by mutual consent'.
Reports have linked former U's favourite Mark Kinsella, who is Charlton Athletic's reserve-team manager at the moment, with the vacancy and Colchester's own current reserve-team boss Joe Dunne is also in the frame.
Adams said he wants to concentrate on a return to full management. He leaves Colchester second from bottom in the Championship table, with his partnership with Williams having brought only five victories.
And although he was full of praise for the club's players, Adams admitted that it has not been an easy time for the U's.
He told the Gazette: "I'm bitterly disappointed to have left Colchester.
"It's been a frustrating time - but I don't think people can question the effort I've put in during my time at the club.
" |
SPRINGFIELD -- Representatives of state and federal agencies, scientific groups and others with a stake in the ongoing drought meet every couple of weeks in | the Mississippi River conference room of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency’s offices on North Grand Avenue.
An agenda is printed up. Officials from outside the city call in on a speakerphone. Each department submits a report to the state’s Drought Response Task Force, and the reports are posted online.
But there is very little other action the state can take.
As a result, the task force’s main purposes are to arrange for financial assistance when possible and gather and distribute drought information -- such as water levels and crop conditions. The group has a one-stop web site for drought information.
One area where the state could be helpful to the city of Springfield is if the city needs an emergency extra water supply. After nearly 50 years of discussion, city fathers continue to debate the best way to supplement Lake Springfield in times of drought -- whether to build a second lake or instead to tap into gravel pits east of the city that contain millions of gallons of water. |
The defibrillator has a monitoring feature designed to detect and record life-threatening changes in the heart's rhythm and to alert the patient or | doctor. A special transmitter connects to patients' home phone lines and sends information from the defibrillator to the study doctor's office.
Just four months after doctors implanted the new defibrillator, the cardiac research team at Baptist Health Lexington received an alert from Parks' transmitter. A heart catheterization shortly afterward revealed blockages that required quadruple bypass surgery. Because the blockages were caught before they caused a heart attack, Parks' heart was not damaged.
"I hadn't felt bad at all, so I was surprised when they said the transmitter had told them something was wrong," said Parks, now 75.
Community hospitals can offer a diverse population of patients for their trials, and patients can continue to see physicians and staff they are familiar with while taking advantage of new drugs, devices and other therapies being studied on a national level.
If you would like to learn more about cardiac research going on in your own community, please call (859) 260-4489 |
The incidents of hate that have occurred in our community, both during finals period and during Orientation Week, are very troubling. First, an individual | not affiliated with Cornell threw bottles at black students during finals week, yelling racial slurs. Second, this weekend, an individual allegedly verbally and physically assaulted a group of students, yelling slurs against members of the gay and minority community. It is little consolation to know that Cornell students were not the ones who were accused of these heartless actions. This can, and must, stop.
According to police, the harassment allegedly continued as the victims were pursued down the street. In May, the student throwing bottles on the roof was told to stop by the victims, but initially continued the harassment without interference, according to witnesses. Those who witness this sort of behavior and allow it to proceed without intervening are complicit in the act.
The actions that the University has taken in response to the incident at Sigma Pi are promising. One complaint voiced in the wake of the events at Sigma Pi was that every time events like this happen, University officials make statements condemning the attack and then do little else to resolve the issue in |
This is a crucial time in Bangladesh to find out the ways to reduce the default loan in the banking system, in a scenario where the amount of | default loan is above 99 thousand crore taka only in 2018. All the stakeholders including the new Government of Bangladesh are searching ways to reduce this default loan. In this writing, I am trying to find out the way of reducing default loans through shifting the paradigm of liability of the defaulter from civil to criminal liability.
Media reports sometimes claim that the law for recovery of non-performing loans (NPL) as crafted in the principal law in force in this regard, the Money Loan Court Act, 2003 (MLCA) is too soft towards the borrowers.
On 4 October 2018, a bench comprising Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi and Justices S.K. Kaul and K.M. Joseph dismissed an application to restrain the Government from taking steps to deport to Myanmar seven Rohingya refugees jailed in Assam.
The recent decision of the International Criminal Court's Pre-Trial Chamber recognising the Court's jurisdiction over Myanmar's alleged crimes against humanity has been hailed |
ROUGH CUT. NO REPORTER NARRATION. U.S. Secetary of State Rex Tillerson told Chinese President Xi Jinping in | Beijing on Sunday (March 19) that President Donald Trump looked forward to enhancing bilateral relations and also to the opportunity for a visit in the future. Xi said he was glad to see good progress from Tillerson's meetings in China so far, which included meetings with Foreign Minister Wang Yi and State Counsellor Yang Jiechi on Saturday (March 18). Xi said that both he and Trump expect a new stage of constructive development in bilateral relations. There was no mention of contentious issues like North Korea's missile and nuclear programmes or self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims as its own in the meeting which was held at the Great Hall of the People. North Korea conducted a test of a new high-thrust engine at its Tongchang-ri rocket launch station and leader Kim Jong Un said the successful test was "a new birth" of its rocket industry, Pyongyang's official media said on Sunday. Washington wants China, the North's neighbour and main trading partner, to use its influence to rein |
The article "Approach to Fractions Seen as Key Shift in Standards" makes many good points.
I have long been interested in math education | in the United States and am currently serving on the U.S. National Commission for Mathematics Instruction. I also have been involved through an initiative at Yale University to strengthen teaching in public schools through the kind of high-quality teacher professional development that will be necessary if our country is to meet the Common Core State Standards' goals for mathematics.
A substantial portion of the national seminar I led this year on "Place Value, Fractions, and Algebra: Improving Content Learning Through the Practice Standards" was devoted to fractions, and especially to the unit fraction approach.
In this seminar, we used two main representations: the number line and area models. Each has its advantages. The number line is especially good for conveying the magnitude of numbers, and the fact that fractions with a fixed denominator fit into a system that is quite analogous to whole numbers. It also provides a uniform model for addition. The area model can be quite useful for studying renaming fractions, and related issues, including adding |
One woman featured on his website has been hired as an executive assistant Douglas, a $40,000-a-year position Bradley describes as " | low-level."
Michael Bradley, who runs the day-to-day operations of the Department of Education for Diane Douglas, runs a website featuring items of general interest, including pictures of dogs and quirky news items, as well as thousands of photos of scantily clad women in costumes, and sexually suggestive images and humor.
The online activity of Superintendent Diane Douglas' chief of staff is raising questions among officials and influential figures in the education community, who view it as inappropriate given his position at an agency responsible for educating more than a million Arizona K-12 students.
Michael Bradley, who is in charge of day-to-day operations at the Arizona Department of Education, runs a website featuring items of general interest, including pictures of dogs and quirky news items, as well as thousands of photos of scantily clad women in costumes, and sexually suggestive images and humor.
It's the racy imagery, including an image of one woman touching another woman's breasts and women eating phallically |
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