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The account of popular progressive Instagram model @lilmiquela (1 million followers) was supposedly "hacked" last week by popular pro | -Trump instagram model @bermudaisbae (64k followers). While details around the hack are hazy, a photo of the models together suggests that the event was coordinated. Instagram says "there’s no indication that the account in question was compromised."
The case for anonymity online is being tested as regulators, platforms and brands try to wrap their heads around the messy consequences of non-human social media accounts.
No one knows exactly who is responsible for these accounts, although @lilMiquela has recently alluded to a robotics and AI firm, Brud, as being the origin of her creation and @bermudaisBae says she's made by an AI company called Cain Intelligence, which says on its website that it openly endorsesDonald Trump.
Why it matters: These accounts are often — by Instagram and the Federal Trade Commission's standards — considered to be commercial enterprises that are subject to the same advertising disclosure laws as real models.
These accounts sometimes |
Waiting lists for elective surgery have dropped across the country, with some figures falling by two thirds since January.
New figures have been released | in a report by the Office of the Auditor-General.
Since January, the number of people waiting more than four months for a specialist assessment fell from 552 to 160.
The number of people waiting more than four months for treatment, meanwhile, fell from 606 to just over 257.
The figures were well within the buffer zone and, as at the end of September, more than 99 percent of all patients were treated within assigned timeframes, the report said.
The lists for people waiting for more than six months were also generally dropping.
The report's author, Leanne Arker, said one of the areas looked at was whether heart surgery patients were being treated in order of priority.
"For many years in the past this has been a problem area, and the DHBs (district health boards) made progress in 2013 when we last reported, and in this report they have made even more progress.
"They are looking at shortening the maximum time for |
Samsung to unveil Galaxy S10 in San Francisco next month. January. 12, 2019 07:47. by Seok-Jun Bae e | ulius@donga.com.
Samsung Electronics has announced that it will roll out its next flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S10, in San Francisco next month.
The world’s No. 1 smartphone maker said Friday that it invited journalists and partners around the world to an Unpacked event at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco on Feb. 20 to showcase the new Galaxy S10 series.
Samsung has usually released its new smartphones at the Mobile World Congress (MWG) in Barcelona, Spain, in late February. London and New York have also been chosen as the location for Unpacked events, but this is the first time that the tech giant hosts the gathering in San Francisco, close to the headquarters of its rival, Apple, located in Cupertino. The Bill Graham Civic Auditorium is an arena at which Apple has often showcased its new products such as iPhone 7. Watchers say that Samsung’s choice of the venue points to the company’ |
BOSTON — Parents curious about the licensure status of individuals teaching their children can now look up that information online. The Department of Elementary and Secondary | Education announced the new lookup tool Wednesday.
Until now, parents interested in learning about the licensure status of their children's teachers could call the department, according to department spokeswoman Jacqueline Reis. She said that teachers in public school district schools are required to be licensed while charter school teachers need to have passed the Massachusetts Tests for Educator Licensure, but do not need a full license unless they teach English as a second language.
Reis said many charter school teachers are licensed and they are listed under the lookup tool as well.
"Massachusetts residents can check their doctor's or lawyer's licensure status online, and I am pleased that people can now do the same for their children's public school teachers and school administrators," said Elementary and Secondary Education Commissioner Mitchell Chester in a statement. "I am happy to make this information easier for the public to access."
According to the department, teachers' unions and professional associations were consulted in developing the tool and the department recommends that while |
You must know what you’re doing when you make the deal or Satan will cheat you blind. That’s the word from Dr | . Rex Touth, expert on satanic rituals and author of How to Negotiate Unholy Contracts.
Dr. Touth cites cases dating all the way back to the 16th century in which humans have agreed to spend eternity in Hell when they die in exchange for earthly pleasures while they’re alive.
“Human history and world literature are teeming with stories like that of Germany’s Dr. Faustus who sold his soul,” says Dr. Touth. “Our own American statesman Daniel Webster once debated Satan in a landmark soul-selling case in which he renegotiated the contract and had it overturned.
SET THE DEAL UP PROPERLY. There’s a right and wrong way to make contact with the Devil. The right way is to be alone in your room, close your eyes and say, “Satan, I summon you. I have a quality soul to sell if the price is right.” It |
The official chatter is that the OPEC meeting in Algeria from September 26 to 28 could conclude with an agreement to freeze production by the member nations, with | even Russia joining forces in a freeze that may prevent further oil price erosion.
But everyone's a bit gun-shy after the false hopes of the last round in Doha—even if a freeze at levels that existed then wouldn't have meant much either—and it's hard to blame them. The question is, how many times can the Saudis cry wolf without forever losing the ability to leverage this chatter to affect a rise in oil prices?
However, let’s rewind a bit to the nature of the recent chatter. The Saudi Energy Minister has indicated that Saudi Arabia, OPEC's largest producer, is willing to proceed with a production freeze.
"We are, in Saudi Arabia, watching the market closely, and if there is a need to take any action to help the market rebalance, then we would, of course in cooperation with OPEC and major non-OPEC exporters," said Saudi Energy Minister Khalid Al-Falih, reports Reuters.
"We |
The United States pays Cuba $4,085 a month in rent for the controversial Guantanamo naval base, but Cuba has only once cashed a | check in almost half a century and then only by mistake, Fidel Castro wrote in an essay.
The ailing Cuban leader, who has not appeared in public for more than a year, said he had refused to cash the checks to protest the "illegal" U.S. occupation of the land which he said was now used for "dirty work".
"The base is needed to humiliate and to do the dirty work that occurs there," he said of the detention camp where some 355 terrorism suspects are still being held with no legal rights despite international criticism.
Castro, who turned 81 on Monday out of public sight, said the U.S. checks are made out to the "Treasurer General of the Republic," a position that ceased to exist after Cuba's 1959 revolution.
He said only one U.S. check was ever cashed -- in 1959 due to "confusion" in the heady early days of the leftist revolution.
Castro's refusal to |
Few have left their mark on the Los Angeles like David Hockney. Known for his passion for experimentation in all its forms and use of vibrant | , colorful California landscapes, Hockney brought visibility to gay life the early in 1960's by painting members of the community living openly in LA. As a prolific painter and multimedia artist, the 80-year-old Hockney has yet to slow down.
His latest body of work, 82 Portraits and 1 Still-life, is on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art right now. Presented together as one work of art, the 83 paintings were created in his Hollywood hills studio. Over the course of three years, Hockney seated model after model, in the same spot -- all in a striking yellow chair with a blue-green background.
The exhibit has been touring museums in Europe and has come home to be seen in Los Angeles for the first time.
"I never set out to paint 82 portraits. They just grew and that's the number I finished, eventually," Hockney said. "It was a mad thing to do really, paint 82 |
China says it has completed assembling the first module forits space station, and the country's space agency hopes to launch it next year.
The | unmanned Tiangong-1 module, weighing almost 19,000pounds (8,500 kg), will lift off on a Chinese Long March 2F carrier rocketsometime in the first half of 2011, China's Xinhua news agency reportedTuesday. An unmanned spacecraft, the Shenzhou 8 vehicle, is expected to launchlater and rendezvous with the module in the first demonstration of the Chinesespace station's docking capability.
Testing is currently under way on the Tiangong-1, includinganalysis of the module's electronic, mechanical and thermal properties, amilitary source told Xinhua. Tiangong means "Heavenly Palace" inEnglish.
The space station plans are part of China'sburgeoning space program, which kicked off with the nation's first mannedspaceflight, the 2003 mission of Shenzhou5. China is the third country in the world, behind Russia and the UnitedStates, to independently have launched humans to space.
Eventually, China plans for manned spaces |
Cameroonian opposition leader Joshua Osih wants to wrench the country’s politics out of the 20th century. His running for the | presidency in October of this year turns a page on the leadership of John Fru Ndi of the Social Democratic Front (SDF), whose glory days were the failed insurrection of the 1990s. The tougher challenge will be President Paul Biya, who has been in power since 1982, and the ruling Rassemblement Démocratique du Peuple Camerounais (RDPC).
Osih, 49, is older than the average Cameroonian but younger than the current crop of ministers and senior official. This digital native wants to rock the boat, but there is inevitably pushback. Osih took flak from the old guard in the SDF for gaining attention with his popular social media presence. He managed to dethrone Fru Ndi, 76, from the SDF flag bearer position in a hotly fought congress at the opposition stronghold of Bamenda in February.
With a Swiss mother, a career in the aviation sector – where he still owns a company – Osih is |
Thirty percent would go to transit, much of that to Sacramento Regional Transit, which operates buses and light-rail trains. The STA board made a | point of requiring RT to spend 75 percent of its tax allocation in the first five years on shoring up basic operations, such as replacing old buses, doing maintenance and improving security, rather than expanding routes.
Leaders from Sacramento cities and the county say they are pushing the tax measure because state and federal transportation funds have not kept up. State and federal transportation gas pump tax levels have not increased since the early 1990s. The emergence of more fuel-efficient cars and trucks has eaten into gas pump tax revenue, as well.
Each city submitted lists of projects it hopes to fund with the money, including interchanges, road widenings, and bike, pedestrian and transit improvements. The tax would provide funds to extend light rail to Sacramento International Airport, and will allow Elk Grove to create a high-tech corridor to allow express buses to avoid car congestion. The measure will fund widening of the Capital City Freeway, including on the bridge over the American River.
STA officials and their consultants |
In the same week that long-time Vertigo executive editor Karen Berger left DC Entertainment, DC fired its most prominent female creator from her most popular | book, Batgirl.
The firing was not over sales. Batgirl was last ranked #36 on the list of top 100 comics, ahead of books featuring two previous Robins, Nightwing and Red Hood & the Outlaws, but over creative differences. Simone said in a later post that DC “nixed” everything she had planned for the next arc and the company has pulled the next two issues that were solicited in her name.
It appears that she will not be writing any other books for DC Comics in the immediate future, as she posted on the Brian Bendis forums that “I am indeed now without a paycheck from DC.” She does have a Kickstarter comic, Leaving Megalopolis coming next year with artist Jim Calafiore and will be doing a webcomic for Thrillbent, a sited co-founded by creator Mark Waid.
I’ve written numerous posts about DC’s gender issues, with over-sexual |
New London — A city native and New London High School graduate, Felix Reyes told graduating seniors that he credits his upbringing in the city and its rich | diversity with giving him an edge as he climbed to positions of responsibility in the corporate world.
“It was kickball at State Pier, marbles on Federal, delivering newspapers on Colman Street, cookouts on Laurel Drive and playing basketball at the Martin Center,” Reyes said.
“In the home that I grew up in and where my parents still reside today... across the street was an Asian family, to our left an African-American family, at 2 o’clock a Jewish family and, to the right," a Caucasian family, he said. “The diversity is very special in this city. I tell you there is an advantage there."
Reyes, recently hired as the city’s director of the Office of Development and Planning, addressed the more than 220 graduating seniors at Tuesday’s commencement for the New London High School and Science and Technology Magnet High School of Southeastern Connecticut. Both schools are located on the same campus.
The |
The Ecuadorian president takes the oath under the new constitution which saw his re-elected with a comfortable majority.
Ecuadorean President Rafael | Correa was sworn in for a second term on Monday vowing to deepen his socialist revolution. Announcing his vision for a new term, Correa said he sought to fight inequality and invest in projects to help the poor, improve education and improve the lives of long-neglected Andean indigenous groups.
It's a gigantic struggle... but we have already started and no one is going to stop us, said Correa in a speech before a group of Latinamerican leaders, including presidents Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, Evo Morales from Bolivia, Argentina’s Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and Raul Castro of Cuba.
During the next four years we're going to continue our campaign... it's not just about helping the poor, it's about stamping out the structural causes of poverty, he added.
Heavy social spending and his frequent outbursts against Ecuador's business elites have raised Correa's popularity but |
- The Canton Symphony Orchestra will present its SymphonyLand trio performances to children ages 3 to 6. The SymphonyLand trios introduce children to the | instruments of the orchestra in an interactive format created specifically to engage young listeners. The series begins with the string trio at 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. in Foundation Hall of the Zimmermann Symphony Center, 2331 17th Street NW, Canton. The program is free and open to the public and will incorporate an age-appropriate story book along with educational components in music and reading. Reservations are recommended for the public and are required for school groups. They can be made online at www.cantonsymphony.org or by calling the Canton Symphony box office at 330-452-2094. Reservations for smaller groups are recommended in order to ensure adequate seating.
- Between the hours of 2 and 4 p.m., join the Massillon Public Library, 208 Lincoln Way E., for Hot Chocolate Mixology. Warm up your Saturday by designing your own one-of-a-kind hot cocoa creation. All supplies provided. Children under 12 must be |
He is your boy next door and he is an actor, a musician. Basically, that’s who I am. Life outside the camera | is basic for me and I do nothing serious outside my work. I take enough time to go out, have some rest and relax with family. I sleep as much as I can and, just like everyone else, I live normal.
I would say I had wonderful experiences as a young child which I believe added up to who I am today. I realised very early enough that I was attracted to the arts so I was into mimicking, music, drumming but I had a very interesting childhood experience as I’m from a family that allowed you to express yourself as much as you could. It was like a regular family where you grow up in church, as I actually started acting from church. I remember those days I would sneak out of the house to go and watch performances and live shows which all registered in my head and I knew one day I was going to do this and here we are today.
I was born in Kano and had primary education in this city. Then |
Confusion about turns from the new Grand Avenue Bridge has prompted project officials to look at a few fixes to help clarify things. The right turn onto | Sixth Street and into the new Sixth-and-Laurel roundabout has raised questions.
A single northbound right-turn lane provides access to the Sixth Street business district and residential neighborhoods in the area, as well as points farther west along U.S. 6 and 24.
Coming off the bridge, a wide lane entering the area allows motorists to make a quick decision whether to continue right onto East Sixth toward the Hotel Colorado or veer left into the roundabout.
However, motorists sometimes incorrectly turn from the right traffic lane on the north end of the bridge, causing a collision hazard.
That lane is intended for through traffic to westbound Interstate 70 only, while the left lane can be used for either eastbound or westbound I-70 access, project officials have clarified.
New striping and signage are in the works to help clarify traffic flow at the often-busy interchange, they said.
Meanwhile, night work is to begin Monday to remove the old |
Originally Published: October 9, 2017 6:02 a.m.
PHILADELPHIA — Carson Wentz looked like the vintage | Carson Palmer.
Wentz threw a career-best four touchdown passes to help the Philadelphia Eagles beat the Arizona Cardinals 34-7 on Sunday.
The quarterbacks and teams seem headed in opposite directions. Wentz has the Eagles off to an impressive 4-1 start in his second season. Meanwhile, the window could be closing for the 37-year-old Palmer and the Cardinals (2-3).
While Philadelphia quickly prepares for a trip to Carolina (4-1) on Thursday night, the Cardinals return home to face Tampa Bay (2-2) looking to avoid a downward spiral.
Wentz tossed three scoring passes on three consecutive attempts in the first quarter, including 59 yards to Torrey Smith, 11 yards to Zach Ertz and 15 yards to Trey Burton. He connected with Nelson Agholor for a 72-yard TD on third-and-19 in the third quarter. Wentz is the first Eagles player to throw for three touchdowns in the first quarter of |
GAINESVILLE, Fla. and SAN FRANCISCO, April 20, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Applied Genetic | Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq:AGTC) and 4D Molecular Therapeutics (4DMT), leaders in next-generation adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapy vector discovery and product development, today announced a collaboration and license agreement to discover and develop optimized AAV vectors to treat specific ophthalmic disease indications with high unmet medical need. As part of the agreement, 4DMT will deploy its proprietary AAV vector discovery platform, Directed Vector Evolution, to identify and optimize novel vectors. Financial details were not disclosed.
Sue Washer, President and CEO of AGTC, noted, "We are excited to partner with 4DMT to accelerate development of novel AAV-based gene therapies to treat rare eye diseases. We expect that our combined expertise and our complementary proprietary technology and discovery platforms, will enable us to advance new treatments to market for patients with serious inherited ocular conditions who have few currently available therapeutic options."
"We are thrilled that AG |
I walk into a closed LA restaurant mid-morning, to find it a thrumming hive of activity. Dozens of people of all ages and | backgrounds are working as teams in a methodical way, starting with assembling sandwiches, writing inspirational notes and decorating bags, and then filling them with food, snacks, and essentials like socks. A DJ on stage keeps the mood upbeat with hits that keep the crowd rocking, while people introduce themselves to each other with a smile and a handshake. It's like a cross between a party and church, with a warm inclusive vibe and a fun atmosphere. In a few minutes, everyone will get into their cars and drive down to Skid Row to hand out sandwiches and positivity to the local homeless. This is Hashtag Lunchbag, an idea born between a group of friends that has now blown up around the world as a simple, lightweight way for someone to get involved in helping their local community–and at the same time help problem of social isolation that is all too common in big cities like LA.
Ajay Relan was one of the original co-founders: an LA-raised entrepreneur |
The country’s own drug use rates remain among the highest in the world, according to a new quarterly report by the congressionally mandated | Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction, or SIGAR.
A 2014 World Drug Report by the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime confirmed Afghanistan again leads the world in opium production and for the third consecutive year saw more land being used for poppy farming — a record 520,000 acres — despite U.S. efforts.
But it looks like the U.S. military has had about enough. With 9,800 American troops focused on training Afghan forces and running counterterrorism missions before withdrawing in December 2016, SIGAR reported that the Defense Department will use $2.8 billion earmarked for counternarcotics activities this year to pay for other needs.
For years, American military and policy leaders favored an aggressive approach to poppy eradication. That fostered resentment among local farmers and put money in the pockets of warlords, who then were contracted to do the work. But as part of the war’s more recent counterinsurgency missions, more of an effort was made |
An Iron Dome battery. Photo: IDF.
JNS.org – The Israeli and US militaries are in the midst of a large- | scale missile-defense exercise, designed to simulate responses to a Middle East war on multiple fronts.
The scenario at the center of the planned, biannual drill involves Israel coming under heavy enemy fire from several directions simultaneously.
The Juniper Cobra 18 exercise, which has been held since 2001, practices the rapid deployment of American air-defense units and equipment to Israel from Europe in the event of armed conflict. It also rehearses the integration of US capabilities into Israel’s air-defense layers.
Brig.-Gen. Zvika Haimovich, who heads the Israeli Air Defense Command of the IDF, said that this was the largest US–IDF exercise to date, adding that it is expected to play out in the course of more than four weeks.
Some 2,500 American personnel are taking part in the endeavor. Most were mobilized to Israel, while some stayed in Europe and the United States. Around 2,000 IDF personnel are taking part as well. The |
SHE remembers almost nothing after shutting her laptop at her work desk that day: the impact, the nurses, the operations.
For three weeks | , nature and medicine shielded her from the shock that she was skittled by a car hurtling at up to 80kmh.
Her husband, who was by her side at the time, is not blessed with such amnesia and so their story is mostly his to tell.
Mohan Kumar and Nethra Krishnamurthy sit in their Bayswater living room, where balloons huddle after son Hari's first birthday party.
Hari giggles in a final show before bed, a toy truck, complete with siren, in his sights.
Kumar is describing a routine catch-up on January 20.
He and his wife, both 33, work for different IT companies on neighbouring floors at 385 Bourke St. Both had a spare moment, he explains. He would grab a coffee.
Three days back from maternity leave, Krishnamurthy would breastfeed Hari at a daycare centre down the street.
Kumar does not recall |
Pro-Russia, anti-migration candidate Rumen Radev won 25.8 percent of the vote in first round of the election. |
Socialist-backed opposition candidate Rumen Radev, who has called for an end to European Union sanctions against Russia, won the first round of Bulgaria's presidential election.
Radev's close-fought victory over ruling party candidate Tsetska Tsacheva on Monday makes the former air force commander favourite to win a run-off on Sunday, a result that could bring the Black Sea state politically closer to Russia.
Radev, a jet fighter pilot and novice to politics, has tapped into public anger with political elites and fears about immigration, and vowed not to make the Balkan country a "migrant ghetto".
"The hope for a change is already tangible. People want to see more security and well functioning institutions," he said after his win.
The country of 7.2 million people already has warmer ties with Russia than most of its EU peers. Radev has made it clear he believes NATO member Bulgaria should focus more on its economic and political |
WME has signed Oscar-winning director, writer and producer James L. Brooks, who created iconic TV shows such as “The Mary Tyler | Moore Show,” “Rhoda,” “Taxi” and “The Simpsons,” TheWrap has learned.
Brooks joins WME as the agency’s TV department recently signed writer-producers Ian Goldberg (“Once Upon a Time”) and Patrick Harbinson (“Homeland”), as well as Kathy Griffin.
Brooks will continue to be represented by Sam Fischer at Ziffren Brittenham.
In other TV signings, WME recently signed writer and producer Ian Goldberg, who most recently staffed on “Once Upon a Time” and is currently developing “Mars” at the CW. Additionally, Goldberg has a blind deal at NBCUniversal where he will be developing with David Goyer. Goldberg is managed by Matt Ochacher at New Wave Entertainment.
WME also signed writer and producer Patrick Harbinson, currently a Co-Executive Producer on “ |
TOKYO – Japan restarted extracting methane, an experimental energy source that the Asian country aims to develop commercially over the next decade, from methane | hydrate deposits offshore the country’s central coast.
It is the first production test of its kind since 2013, when Japan became the first country in the world to extract natural gas from offshore deposits.
Japanese researchers had began the test production in early May but were forced to stop as large quantities of sand flowed into the well, according to the Japanese Ministry of Energy, Commerce and Industry.
Similar production tests, conducted in the 1.3 kilometer (0.8 miles) deep well on the coasts of Aichi and Mie prefectures in central Japan, were also suspended due to the influx of sand.
Since June 5, however, Japanese scientists were able to fix the issue and extract gas from offshore deposits once again.
Currently, their biggest challenge is refining the technology to allow for stable extraction of the gas, according to the ministry.
Drilling a well on the seabed for the extraction is hugely expensive and Japan has budgeted around 20 billion yen |
We assume that the fan is not covered in dust?
Pull the card out and examine it. If the bearings are shot then a visit to | a computer store might provide a replacement.
You really answered your own question. If the fan is operating as in trying to cool your gpu, then its doing its job. You already noticed the reduction of fan speed doesn't help matters, thus I suspect the fan is again doing exactly its job. Overall, you're whole PC needs to be cooled as the "airflow" isn't getting the heat out fast enough. Either improve the case airflow setup or mount at least a slot card fan to directly exhaust near the gpu. Replacing the gpu fan won't necessarily help as it still needs to exhaust the heat. If your PC case doesn't have a "side fan" maybe you should think of mounting or making one. Your gaming is sooner or later will defeat your current cooling efforts. If once you case cooling is controlled, then the gpu fan may throttle down as it doesn't need to be high RPM all the time. If you case also has an empty fan mounting |
While owning a car makes sense in the suburbs, that is not necessarily the case for city residents.
If you plan on moving to the city | , then you are in for a treat if you prepare right. Relocating from the suburbs will afford you greater access to a wide range of cultural and entertainment opportunities. In addition to the city itself, the greater metropolitan area of most cities extends your choices even further.
While moving to the city can be exciting, the change is likely going to cause disruption in your daily routine and general comfort levels. Although you might want to run back to the 'burbs to get away from the new sensory stimuli, don't hit the road just yet. Becoming accustomed to a new home city will take at least a year. Until then, cut yourself some slack.
Make a list of the reasons that you want to move to the city. Post it on the refrigerator in your new home and review it when you are feeling down or frustrated. If possible, take advantage of something on the list to boost your spirits. For instance, you might decide to visit the city zoo on your day off.
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Another Confucian scholar who was a model of filial piety was Min Sun.
Min, who is listed in the Analects | of Confucius as one of the foremost disciples, hailed from Lu, the home state of the master himself, which is in Shandong province.
The story of Min's renowned respect for all things family began when his mother passed away due to illness, and his father remarried.
They then had two sons.
His new mother, preferring her biological offsprings, made new wadded jackets for her two sons but only a thin coat padded with cattails, instead of cotton, for her stepson.
One day in winter, his father ordered Min to ride the cart.
Due to the bitterly cold weather, Min was shivering so badly that he dropped a rope.
That caused his father to look more closely at the causes of his behavior.
When his father found out the reason why his son was shivering so badly, he wanted to divorce and throw his wife and Min's stepbrothers out of the house.
Min pleaded with his |
Americans are expected to spend a record amount on Valentine’s Day this year, despite a years-long decrease in the percentage of people celebrating | the holiday, according to the annual survey by the National Retail Federation and Prosper Insights & Analytics.
“Those who are participating are spending more than ever and that could be the result of the strong economy,” NRF President and CEO Matthew Shay said in a statement.
Those surveyed said they would spend an average of $161.96. That’s up 13 percent from last year’s $143.56 and easily tops the previous record of $146.84, which was set in 2016. Total spending is expected to be $20.7 billion, an increase of 6 percent over last year’s $19.6 billion that breaks the previous record of $19.7 billion, also set in 2016.
The spending increases come even though only 51 percent of Americans plan to celebrate the holiday, down from 55 percent last year and a high of 63 percent in 2007.
According to the survey, 52 percent of participants will be buying candy. |
Now, the chamber has a "Shop Local" campaign under way to bring business to local merchants over this year's holiday season.
Chamber | director Penny Hoffman and chamber member Suzanne Brennan of Shoe La La pleaded their case to the town's selectmen last week, asking the selectmen to support their goal of hanging "Shop Local" banners in locations around town. They also want the temporary business sign fee charged for putting up the banners waived.
"There is a temporary commercial sign fee of $20, plus $5 for every square foot of the sign's size," said Zoning Enforcement Officer Richard Baldelli. "Along with that is a $30 fee for any zoning permit issued in Connecticut that goes to the state."
While the banners could be put up for a two-week period provided they are taken down and a new sign fee is paid for the following two weeks -- and they could be repeatedly put up for two-week periods up to four times in a calendar year -- Hoffman and Brennan want to see the banners go up and stay up for three months during the holiday season.
"It's cumbersome to constantly take |
Indian film star to promote the carrier in key markets such as the US and UK.
Abu Dhabi based carrier Etihad Airways has signed Indian | film actress Katrina Kaif, as its new brand ambassador, the airline announced earlier this week.
Etihad Airways and Katrina Kaif will work on a series of initiatives to promote the airline across India and around the world, including addressing Indian communities in Etihad Airways’ key markets such as the UAE, the US and the UK, the carrier said in a statement on Wednesday.
Katrina Kaif is one of India's most successful actresses in recent times, having delivered hits like 'Namastey London', 'Partner', 'Singh is King' and 'Rajneeti'.
Peter Baumgartner, Etihad Airways’ Chief Commercial Officer, said: “Our partnership with Katrina Kaif will help build Etihad’s brand name globally and further introduce our world-class products and services across India and to Indian communities around the world.
The carrier recently filmed an internet video with Katrina Kaif dancing in the airline’s |
After yet another day and another article describing someone in this wonder country being branded as being "politically incorrect," I cannot remain completely silent while Satan | continues to make a complete mockery of Almighty God's creation.
"Politically incorrect" is nothing more than a Satanic term born in hell and sired by the Devil himself. There is no such thing as being "politically incorrect" or "correct." It simply does not exist.
Since the beginning of time, Lucifer, the fallen archangel, the once greatest "created" heavenly creature has been at war, bound and determined to destroy mankind. Beginning in the Garden of Eden and down through centuries of time, since Satan and his demonic angels were cast out of the Third Heaven, his main purpose is to destroy God's creation.
Wars and famines and the slaughter of millions have been Lucifer's reward. He is a powerful creature and he laughs when he is able to disrupt the lives of God's creation by simple putting an evil devilish thought in the minds of man and then standing back and watching that thought completely run amuck among human creatures.
Understand this: When |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration is exploring whether it can use an obscure ethics rule to undermine the special counsel investigation into ties between President Donald | Trump’s campaign team and Russia, two people familiar with White House thinking said on Friday.
Within hours of Mueller’s appointment on Wednesday, the White House began reviewing the Code of Federal Regulations, which restricts newly hired government lawyers from investigating their prior law firm’s clients for one year after their hiring, the sources said.
An executive order signed by Trump in January extended that period to two years.
Mueller’s former law firm, WilmerHale, represents Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who met with a Russian bank executive in December, and the president’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort, who is a subject of a federal investigation.
Legal experts said the ethics rule can be waived by the Justice Department, which appointed Mueller. He did not represent Kushner or Manafort directly at his former law firm.
If the department did not grant a waiver, Mueller would be barred from investigating Kushner or Manafort, and this |
Sunday’s magnitude-6.0 earthquake caused an estimated $300 million in damages to homes and private buildings, according to Napa city | leaders’ most recent assessment released Wednesday.
The dollar figure includes only private structures, and not the damage to public buildings or general economic loss, according to the city report.
City leaders also said 113 buildings have been added to the red-tag list of buildings deemed uninhabitable, and 83 water lines still need to be fixed.
In addition, 500 buildings were still on the yellow tag list of buildings that people could go inside, but at their own risk.
The numbers keep moving, and the city created a map to try to reflect the most current figures, showing where all the problems are, and when they're being fixed. As of Wednesday, PG&E reported all customers had their power back on, down from a peak of 70,000 customers who had no electricity.
And most all Napa students headed back to public school for the first time since the earthquake.
In terms of the human toll from the quake that struck at 3:20 a.m |
Survey finds blacks are about 50% more likely to get hired but get paid about $10,000 less.
Corrections & Clarifications | : An earlier version of this report misstated the salary difference between older candidates and younger ones.
SAN FRANCISCO — Being African American in the technology industry can cost you $10,000 a year.
That's one of the findings from a salary survey out Thursday from Hired, an online job marketplace.
The average African-American candidate is nearly 50% more likely to get hired in tech but gets paid about $10,000 less in San Francisco and New York, putting black tech workers at a significant disadvantage, even compared to other minority groups.
The survey found that the average Latino candidate is 26% less likely to get hired than the average white candidate and the average Asian candidate is 45% less likely. But the salaries for both are more in line with white candidates, with Latinos receiving $5,000 less, and Asians receiving $2,000 less on average.
Age is also a major factor. Candidates 45 and over begin to see average salaries decline |
The great wave of Chinese people quitting the Communist Party indicates that this foreign ideology that has killed tens of millions of people in China is certain to meet | its demise, says a global centre dedicated to helping people recognize the destructive character of communism and to withdraw from the Party.
“Since coming to China from the West, the Communist Party has not only caused the death of 80 million people under its tyranny, but has also used violence to destroy the traditional cultural and spiritual foundation that humankind has relied on for its existence since ancient times,” said Shin Qihua in a statement read at an event in Ottawa on May 6 organized by the Tuidang Centre, a U.S.-based non-profit whose English name is the Global Service Centre for Quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
“The three withdrawals indicate that the Chinese Communist Party is collapsing and a new era for the Chinese nation is certain to arrive,” the statement noted.
Shin, a coordinator of the local Ottawa Tuidang Centre, was speaking at a rally on Parliament Hill, one of numerous events across Canada and worldwide marking the milestone of |
There are many fundamental problems with evolutionary theory. Origin-of-life studies have dramatically failed. Incredibly complex biological designs, both morphological and | molecular, arose abruptly with far too little time to have evolved. The concept of punctuated equilibrium is descriptive, not explanatory. The Cambrian explosion is not explained by evolution and, in general, evolutionary mechanisms are inadequate to explain the emergence of new traits, body plans, and new physiologies. Even a single gene is beyond the reach of evolutionary mechanisms.
In fact, the complexity and sophistication of life cannot originate from non-biological matter under any scenario, over any expanse of space and time, however vast. On the other hand, the archenemy of evolutionary theory, Lamarckian inheritance, in its variety of forms, is well established.
As noted here already (“With New Theory of the Cambrian Explosion, Scientists Reach (Literally) for the Stars”), these scientific observations are laid out in a new peer-reviewed, scientific paper arguing for panspermia.
The requirement now, on the basis of orthodox abiogenic thinking, is that |
An early solution to the insurgency problem in Manipur is difficult given its complexity due to the multiplicity of militant groups and their different sets of demands | , a senior Army officer has said.
There are around 30 insurgent outfits, many of them splinter groups with different secessionist demands, while Naga groups, including the NSCN(I-M) and proscribed NSCN(K) are seeking 'Nagalim' or greater Nagaland, said Major General V K Mishra, GOC of 57 Mountain Division, involved in anti-insurgency operations in the state.
These apart, 16 Kuki organisations are seeking a separate state for themselves and eight groups of the United People's Front, which is demanding a separate hill state within the territory of Manipur.
"The presence of so many groups adds to the complexity. You may reach out, but to whom?" the Army official said, talking to visiting journalists recently.
"Given the complexity of the problem, it may take longer to achieve a solution," he said.
"There are four major constituents in the problems affecting the state-- |
Fuel prices have been declining since Thursday. In the last five days petrol prices are down by Rs 1.38 paise while diesel is lower | by Rs 81 paise.
However, consumers in Delhi won't be able to avail the benefit of lower fuel prices as petrol pumps and CNG stations are on strike in the capital today.
Petrol, diesel prices dropped for the fifth straight day on Monday on softening global crude oil prices, bringing relief to the consumer who have been reeling under high fuel prices since last two months.
Petrol prices were slashed by 30 paise to Rs 81.34 per litre in Delhi, while diesel prices were cut 27 paise to Rs 74.92 per litre. In Mumbai, petrol got a price cut of 30 paise to retail at Rs 86.91 per litre, while diesel is being sold at Rs 78.54 per litre after a 28 paise cut.
Fuel prices have been declining since Thursday. In the last five days petrol prices are down by Rs 1.38 paise while diesel is lower by Rs 81 paise.
However, consumers in |
DETROIT (AP) — Scientists hired by the auto industry have determined that multiple factors — including moisture and high humidity — can cause some | Takata air bags to inflate with too much force and hurl shrapnel at drivers and passengers.
The Independent Testing Coalition, which has been investigating the cause for the past year, announced its findings Tuesday afternoon.
Air bags made by Japan's Takata Corp. have caused at least 10 deaths and 139 injuries worldwide. Takata uses the chemical ammonium nitrate to create a small explosion and inflate the air bags in a crash.
The Virginia rocket science company Orbital ATK, which was hired by the coalition, determined that three factors, working together, can cause the air bags to explode with too much force. Using "phase-stabilized" ammonium nitrate without a moisture-absorbing substance — as Takata does — increases the risk of an explosion after long-term exposure to high temperatures and moisture. Orbital ATK also found that Takata's inflator assembly doesn't adequately prevent moisture from intruding in very humid conditions.
The coalition said its findings apply to |
As I noted in my Mail on Sunday column on 30th April 2017, I recently sent a series of questions to the Foreign office about their apparent | confidence that Syria's government are responsible for the recent alleged poison gas attacks in that country.
The responses I received were, in my view, unresponsive and unsatisfactory. But I cannot publish them because of rules on such matters,which in general I support and to which I had willingly agreed in advance, and because the FO declined to waive those rules when I asked them to do so.
Where and when did they do this?
What assurances did they have of the provenance of the samples?
Who controlled the custody chain, and vouched for it?
How did they know that the samples were at no stage handled by persons with a propaganda interest in a certain outcome?
Were they at any stage under the control of Tahrir al-Sham, formerly Jabhat Fateh Al Sham (previously the Jabhat Al-Nusra), or any other part of that faction?
If not, how did they leave Syria?
Under whose custody were they between Khan Sheikhoun |
EASTENDERS star Rita Simons is set to Walford for the West End after landing a role in hit stage show Legally Bl | onde.
The actress has filmed her last scenes as Roxy Mitchell and is now preparing to join the cast of the musical based on Reese Witherspoon's 2001 film.
The Sun recently revealed EastEnders bosses plan to kill off both Roxy and her sister Ronnie, played by Samantha Womack, during a New Year's Eve special.
The pair are both believed to have filmed their final scenes for the soap, and Rita, 39, has now landed her first post-EastEnders role.
She is set to star in a touring production of popular stage show Legally Blonde, playing nail technician Paulette.
The role was made famous by Jennifer Coolidge in the 2001 movie, which starred Reese as a promising young law student.
Rita's show will kick off in Bromley in late 2017 and will tour the UK taking in cities such as High Wycombe, Bristol and Woking.
The tour is set to end in April, 2018. |
I haven't posted anything since the "Santo statue game" on August 10th. I've been busy, distracted, bored, uninspired | . Not even the surreal (or possibly just not real) departure of Carlos Zambrano wasn't enough. When it seemed long past the time to post something, I always found something else to do and couldn't figure out why.
But then on Friday came the news that, at long last, Jim Hendry would be leaving his job at Cubs GM. Finally, I had an excuse for more than a week of haiku silence. Obviously, the continued presence of Jim Hendry made it impossible for me to compose anything in haiku about the Cubs.
I suspect Hendry's going to be a scapegoat for the Ricketts moving into the offseason - Tim McGinnis of Obstructed View predicted it on his old Aisle 424 blog near the end of the 2010 season, and others agree - so why shouldn't he be my scapegoat, too?
He was reportedly fired almost a month ago, but Ricketts had Hendry stick around until the trade deadline passed and minor |
PR Newswire now claims copyright on press releases distributed through the Cision and PR Newswire system.
Their pitch: “Share | your brand’s story around the world,” but that’s where it ends. When eTN, as a media outlet for travel and tourism news, tried to publish a release distributed to journalists by PR Newswire, they were told the release must be removed immediately. In addition, PR Newswire threatened eTurboNews with their legal counsel claiming copyright of releases from PR Newswire or Cision circulates on behalf of clients.
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Talks for peaceful surrender of Bani Walid fail as reports say Gaddafi is heading further south.
Libya's National Transitional Council fighters | are preparing for an imminent attack on Bani Walid, a stronghold of the deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, as efforts for a peaceful resolution to the standoff seem to have failed.
During prolonged negotiations on Tuesday, the NTC tried to convince representatives from Bani Walid, about 150km southeast of the capital Tripoli, that there would be no retributions if the the town surrendered peacefully.
But the representatives, upon returning to the town to deliver the message, were fired at and forced to retreat to NTC territory.
Meanwhile, Gaddafi has probably left Bani Walid and is heading further south with the help of loyalist tribes towards Chad or Niger, a senior NTC military official told Reuters news agency late on Tuesday.
Hisham Buhagiar, who is coordinating efforts to find the former Libyan leader, said reports indicate he may have been in the region of the southern Libyan village of Ghwat, some 950km south of Tripoli and 300km |
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Politics Live: Bill Shorten delivers his budget reply speech Apr 5, 2019 Opposition Leader Bill Shorten will soon deliver his budget reply speech, which is expected to outline bigger tax cuts to low-income earners and serve as Labor's unofficial campaign launch.
The Matildas v US Women's National Soccer Team live blog Apr 5, 2019 The Matildas take on the US Women's National Soccer Team in Denver, Colorado.
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India's demand for dropping of all charges against its former Deputy Consular General in New York Devyani Khobragade will come for discussion | during the proposed Indo-US dialogue to resolve the issues arising out of her arrest in the US, the government said today.
"India and the US have agreed to initiate a dialogue to resolve the issues arising out of the arrest of an Indian diplomat in New York in December 2013, including India's demand for the dropping of all charges against the diplomat, and to address all aspects related to diplomatic privileges and immunities in each other's countries in a mutually acceptable manner," Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahamed said in the Rajya Sabha.
A 1999-batch IFS officer, Khobragde was arrested on charges of visa fraud and subsequently stripped-searched. She was later released on a bail of USD 250,000.Replying to a written question, Ahamed also said while India has serious concerns about the arrest and treatment of its diplomat, it also recognises that India and the US have a multi-faceted strategic partnership.
The two countries do |
In his book Slowly Down the Ganges, Eric Newby reveals that the sacred river is known as “the pure, the eternal, the | creator of happiness”. And never more so than when it flows past Varanasi, I thought, as our river ship, Rajmahal slipped under the vast ironwork bridge, the Malviya, which spans the Ganges at the self-proclaimed oldest living city in the world.
Twenty years ago I had rumbled over the bridge on a second-class sleeper train hauled by two hulking diesel engines. This time I was arriving in finer style and in time to see the setting sun turn the Ganges into a sheen of burnished copper.
On the bathing ghats that rise in steep steps from the river’s edge, dewy-eyed gap-year travellers mingled with naked sadhus, their bodies caked in grey ash, and hordes of Hindu faithful as all waited for darkness to fall and the nightly Ganga Aarti ceremony to begin.
Before boarding Rajmahal at Patna for its inaugural sailing, I had |
CHESTER – Volunteers from the Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in Chester real estate office took part in a Habitat for Humanity build | as part of the Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage Cares Day event.
“We helped build a house for Habitat for Humanity and had a great time giving back to the community,” said John Varriano, branch vice president of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in Chester.
When the Coldwell Banker volunteers arrived in the morning, the home was lacking sheathing on all sides, including the roof. When they finished, the sides, rear and the roof were all covered in sheathing. They even started to shingle, said Varriano.
“I am grateful to the Chester office for giving back to the local community. Affiliated Coldwell Banker agents show such generosity all year, and the Coldwell Banker Cares Day event is a chance to make a large, positive impact on a statewide level,” said Hal Maxwell, president of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in New Jersey and Rockland County |
A future version of Google Chrome may make it a cinch to clean up messy settings cast into chaos by malware (or your own misguided hands). |
Digging deep into the latest build of Chromium—the open source browser that serves as the wellspring of new Chrome additions—evangelist François Beaufort discovered the Chrome team added the ability to return aspects of the browser to their default states.
After you enable the chrome://flags/#enable-reset-profile-settings flag in Chromium, you'll find a bevy of new reset options in the browser's Settings menu, as you can see in the screenshot above. Expect to see the feature pop up in Chrome proper somewhere down the line.
When it does land in Chrome, it'll be lagging behind the times a bit, as Internet Explorer and Firefox both already offer default restoration options of some kind. That said, Chromium's new options already outshine the competition, largely thanks to their granularity.
Chromium's new features prevent the need to raze everything to the ground if Bad Things Happen to a single aspect of your browser. For example |
The Taliban have control over 10 percent of Afghanistan's population and the insurgent group is battling with the Afghan government for control of at least another 20 percent | , the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Friday. He described a tough fight that is coming at the cost of many Afghan casualties.
Army Gen. John Nicholson said many of the Afghan deaths are in battles over checkpoints, where there are often a small number of forces who are poorly led, ill-equipped and not well trained. He said over the next year the U.S.-led coalition will work to help the Afghans expand their control in the country and beef up their ability to sustain the fight.
At the same time, he said, there are up to 1,300 Islamic State militants in Afghanistan, mainly in the east, and they receive money, command-and-control guidance and communications support from Islamic State leaders in Syria.
U.S. and Afghan military operations have targeted the group, killing many leaders and members, so he said they are in fewer Afghan districts now than they were months ago. Nicholson said the fighting has pushed them down into the mountains of |
THREE people, including a village chairman have been taken to court for allegedly conspiring to forge citizenship certificates to non-nationals, the Kager | a Regional Immigration Officer (RIO), Mr Pendo Buteng'e has disclosed.
He named the accused before Bukoba Resident Magistrate, Samuel Maweda, as Tumaini Francis (24), a University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) student as the first accused, second Peace Francis (22) who is a Mwenge University (Moshi) student, and the Rwagati Village Chairman, Joseph Kinyonyi (51) all booked in Criminal Case No 63/2019.
The Prosecutor from Immigration, Hamza Sanga alleged that in the first offence, both Tumaini Francis and Peace Francis, unlawfully and jointly lived in the United Republic of Tanzania without processing residential permits.
In the second count, third accused Kinyoyi was charged separately for false declaration on citizenship of the duo.
According to Mr Sanga, the accused (Kinyonyi), who is the village Chairman, facilitated in endorsing an affidavit pur |
Ashlee Simpson and Evan Ross discuss their musical collaboration, their new reality show and what Evan's mom Diana is really like.
Simpson is | now in a very different place. It’s been 10 years since she released new music, and nearly eight years since her most recent television series, Melrose Place, ended. Since then, she has effectively disappeared from the public eye to focus on her family. It would be completely understandable if she was hesitant to open up again. But now she’s returning to reality TV — this time with her husband, and new musical collaborator, Evan Ross by her side on their new series Ashlee and Evan.
At 33, Simpson is nearly unrecognizable from her early days on The Ashlee Simpson Show. The brunette with spiked bangs, choppy layers and green Converse has evolved into a bohemian blonde with an affinity for large hats — something she shares with Ross. When they meet with Rolling Stone at New York’s Bowery Hotel, they’re sporting almost identical headwear, despite the lobby’s dim lighting.
Starring in |
ST. JAMES - For more than two dozen players who will play in this weekend's St. James Invitational Tournament, the dream of continuing | their career at a Division I college is not really a dream at all. It's reality.
These are the players who will likely create the most excitement and stir the most emotion in the crowd. These are the players that draw the huge crowds to this tournament every year.
But it's the other players on the eight participating teams who could change the complexion of the tournament. These "unknown" players are being called upon to play against some of the best high school players in the country. And most, like Pete Webb of St. James, are ready to accept the challenge.
Webb, a senior forward for the Saints, says that he no longer thinks of the opposing player as anything other than the opponent.
"When I was younger, it really affected me, the fact that we were playing against those guys," said Webb, a three-year varsity player. "Now that I've been here a couple of years and we see it all the time, I've gotten |
LG is live streaming the launch of its latest flagship smartphone, the LG G2 and you can watch it right here on Pocket-lint in | the comfort of your office or home without lifting a finger or having to wade through a live blog of someone trying to type faster than men can speak.
The event kicks off at 4pm UK time and should shed lots more light on the new device, not that we haven't seen much of it already through leaks official and unofficial.
So far what we know is that the new device will feature a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, come with a volume rocker on the back along with a 13-megapixel camera. Other specs are expected to include a 5.2-inch 1080p display with a relatively thin bezel and no hardware buttons on the front.
LG have themselves confirmed there will be a quick view case for the device, letting you see only key information and that the Vienna Boy's Choir has recorded a load of ringtones for the phone.
The event kicks off at 4pm UK time, 11am New York time, and 8am in San Francisco. Pocket |
Fifteen years have passed, and while the iPod had an amazing run, the jacket didn’t. There have been other attempts at making | “smart clothing,” but the concept never took off with consumers. Was the idea just way too ahead of its time?
There have been other attempts at making “smart clothing,” but the concept never took off with consumers.
Google thinks now is the right moment to revisit the concept, apparently, with the Levi’s Commuter Trucker Jacket with Jacquard by Google, a collaboration between the iconic denim maker and tech giant. The name is a mouthful, but it refers to a research project, Jacquard (named after a fabric made on a loom), that was born out of of Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects division. Unlike what we can now consider a glorified iPod remote that Burton and Apple made, the Levi’s jacket connects wirelessly with an iOS or Android phone and uses gesture-based controls and haptic feedback to perform a variety of smartphone functions, from navigation to, yes, controlling your music.
Is |
He was hailed as Walmart Inc.’s online guru, the guy who would drag the lumbering giant into the digital-commerce era and | put Amazon in its place.
But 18 months after selling his startup to the world’s largest retailer, Marc Lore is finding those expectations awfully hard to meet. It’s not that investors and analysts are giving up on him as much as it’s a realization that the task at hand is daunting and growing harder by the day — and that Lore has little margin for error.
Walmart’s online sales over the critical holiday period grew at less than half the rate of previous quarters, while investments Lore is making to enhance the e-commerce business dented profitability. The results sent shares tumbling and prompted a report, which Lore denied, that he was considering stepping down.
They also renewed concerns that Walmart — saddled with thousands of stores, more than 2 million employees and legions of lower-income shoppers — can keep pace as more retail spending shifts to the web.
Walmart said earlier this week that an inventory snafu played a small factor in |
Like a veteran door-to-door salesman, Ronald Reagan is a huckster, only instead of vacuum cleaners, he peddles fear-- | so successfully that he is now president of the United States.
Like a veteran door-to-door salesman, Ronald Reagan is a huckster, only instead of vacuum cleaners, he peddles fear–so successfully that he is now president of the United States.
Reagan’s campaign sounded political tocsins from the past beyond F.D.R.’s budget-balancing pledge. There were echoes of John Kennedy’s promise to “get America mov-ing again” in Reagan’s vow to put the nation back to work (paradoxically, the laissez-faire conservative was perceived as the activist), as well as hints of the twinkling uncle-hood of Ike. No matter that Reagan’s chief and only public economic prescription for achieving recovery was the Kemp-Roth plan–which he had gradually abandoned. Etched in our memory will be the victorious Alfonse D’Amato |
Ms Caruana Galizia’s work often implicated leading political and business figures.
There was a “notable lack of credible | indications” that Maltese authorities were diligently investigating who could have planned and commissioned the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia, a Council of Europe report on the media said.
The first annual report assessing media freedom threats to Council of Europe member states is being published on Tuesday. It was compiled by partner organisations of the Council of Europe’s Platform for the Protection of Journalism and Safety of Journalists. The partner organisations include Reporters Without Borders and the International Federation of Journalists.
The report warned that, despite three suspects being detained in December 2017, there were no “credible indications” that those who commissioned Ms Caruana Galizia’s killing were being investigated.
That task, the report argued, called for a thorough and impartial examination of leads arising from the journalist’s reporting on high-level financial crimes and other forms of wrongdoing.
Ms Caruana Galizia’s work often implicated leading political and business figures, the report |
Peterborough Panthers have completed their 2019 team for a second time - with the capture of a new number one.
The city club controversially ax | ed British star Chris Harris from their line-up earlier this month due to ‘cost measures’ following the sale of the club from Ged Rathbone to British Speedway Promoters’ Association (BSPA) supremo Keith Chapman.
But they are now back to a full compliment again after clinching a deal for Asutralian ace Rohan Tungate who has been one of the most progressive riders of recent times in the SGB Premiership.
And the 29 year-old will arrive at Alwalton after an excellent winter Down Under where he finished second to former Belle Vue team-mate Max Fricke in the Australian Championship.
Tungate said: “I’ve always like racing at Peterborough. It’s a good track that suits me a lot and I’m really looking forward to being a Panthers rider.
“I think the team looks really good and I’m just going to go out and do |
Phyllis Thorne Good, formerly of Elmira, Bath, Penn Yan, Naples, Fla., Palatka, Fla., and Ow | ings Mills, Md. passed away Wednesday, December 19, 2018, in Pikesville, MD.
No service is planned at this time. Interment will be held in the spring at Woodlawn National Cemetery, Elmira.
BIA). She was past president of the Naples charter chapter of the American Business Women’s Association and was a lifetime member of the United Methodist Church and United Methodist Women.
A beloved wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, community volunteer and friend, Phyllis was preceded in death by her parents; two sisters, Adele Reese and Ernestine Thorne; a brother, W. Arthur Thorne; her husband of 43 years, Donald E. Good; and a son, Jeffrey Earl Good.
Brayden Good of Bozeman; and numerous nieces, nephews and friends. The family would like to express thanks for the help and care provided by Sunrise of Pikesville assisted living community and Gil |
Col. Tony P. Angello, 446th Airlift Wing vice commander, discusses the importance of mentoring and establishing a mentoring program | at the Rainier Wing.
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. -- Every Airman at the Rainier Wing will have the opportunity to enhance their career through mentorship.
During our offsite Strategic Alignment and Deployment event held in August 2018, your leadership decided it was important for our wing to develop a robust mentorship program.
I invite anyone who is interested in becoming a mentor to let your supervisor know you’d like to raise your hand to participate.
Mentorship is an established program within the Air Force as its importance is directly linked to mission success. Having a strong mentorship program is important to achieving our mission because it cultivates people to be equipped with skills for excellence.
The introduction of Air Force Manual 36-2643, Air Force Mentoring Program provides guidelines and expectations both personal and professional development.
Mentoring is about helping Reserve Citizen Airmen here grow and providing guidance on the professional direction they want |
STAMFORD -- Police seized a loaded revolver Friday morning from two men driving in a West Side neighborhood plagued by recent shootings.
Officers patrolling | Richmond Hill Avenue saw a BMW with windows so darkly tinted they could not see the occupants and stopped the vehicle, Sgt. Robert Shawinsky said.
When the officer came to the vehicle to check the license and registration, a strong marijuana smell poured out the window, Shawinsky said.
Police then pulled the driver Heriberto Irizarry, 21, and passenger John Spencer, 19, out of the vehicle.
Spencer, of 50 Prospect St., admitted to having four small bags of marijuana on him; when officers asked Irizarry, of 1 Southfield Ave., if there was anything illegal in the car, he said no, Shawinsky said.
But when officers looked inside the BMW, they saw a revolver handle sticking out from the passenger seat that Spencer had just been sitting in, police said.
Police determined the five-shot,.38-caliber revolver was fully loaded. There were scratch marks on its the serial number, which remained legible. |
OLE GUNNAR SOLSKJAER’s first order of business as Manchester United manager should be bolstering the team’s | defense, according to club legend Gary Neville.
Manchester United finally appointed Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as Jose Mourinho’s permanent successor on Tuesday morning.
The 46-year-old, who has guided the Red Devils to the Champions League quarter-finals during his brief reign, has penned a three-year contract at Old Trafford.
Attention has now turned to who the Norwegian will sign in the rapidly-approaching transfer window.
But according to former Red Devil Gary Neville, Solskjaer’s priority should be bringing in defensive reinforcements.
"Defence is the main priority in terms of getting the centre-back pairings right because there have been so many changes,” Neville told Sky Sports.
“I think the defence is actually doing very well, it looks makeshift on paper but it outpunches its weight when you think about it.
"Antonio Valencia and Ashley Young have been doing brilliantly well at right and left- |
Mallinckrodt - The Irish pharmaceuticals company fell after saying the Food and Drug Administration would no longer recognize its generic attention-def | icit drug as equivalent to the original.
Amazon.com - The online retailer rose after reaching a deal for eBook and print book sales with Hachette Book Group.
United Continental Holdings - The carrier and others including Delta Air Lines, Alaska Air Group and Southwest Airlines gained as domestic oil prices fell.
Exxon Mobil - The oil producer and competitors including Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Hess dropped with the price of crude.
Macy's - The department-store operator fell after Wells Fargo downgraded its shares to market perform from outperform.
SunPower - The maker of solar panels declined after forecasting a lower-than-expected 2015 profit.
King Digital Entertainment - The mobile-game maker rose after Cowen offered upbeat comments about fourth-quarter ad revenue.
Alibaba Group Holding - China's electronic-commerce giant fell after saying it was readying its first bond sale.
Alamo Group - The seller of agricultural and construction equipment declined after pricing a public offering |
AV: "We have a good skating, good skilled team that can play at a high tempo."
Over is 38-15-3 in | Maple Leafs last 56 games playing on 1 days rest.
Maple Leafs are 12-3 in their last 15 games as a road favorite of -110 to -150.
Over is 4-1 in Maple Leafs last 5 after allowing 5 goals or more in their previous game.
Over is 11-5 in Maple Leafs last 16 overall.
Under is 4-1 in Maple Leafs last 5 road games vs. a team with a losing home record.
Over is 4-0 in Flyers last 4 games playing on 2 days rest.
Flyers are 7-3 in their last 10 games as a home favorite.
Under is 4-1 in Flyers last 5 overall.
Flyers are 2-5 in their last 7 games as a favorite of -110 to -150.
Over is 15-7 in Flyers last 22 games as a home favorite of -151 to -200.
Under is 3-1-2 in the last 6 meetings in Philadelphia.
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Can The Online Economy Become A Labor Leader?
Chances are that when you think of the online economy you’re not likely to think | about progressive labor practices. In fact, online economy giants Amazon and Uber have recently come under fire for their labor standards and policies, the latter now dealing with a class-action lawsuit over its classification of Uber drivers as independent contractors.
But according to Ashoka Fellow Ai-jen Poo, founder and Executive Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, we’re missing a big part of the story. In her view, online companies have an opportunity to lead the way in ensuring this economy is good for workers too – and many have already begun to do so.
Last week marked an important step forward as the NDWA unveiled the Good Work Code, a new initiative to promote good work in the online economy and change the conversation about labor in the 21st Century.
I sat down with Ai-jen and Palak Shah, Social Innovations Director at NDWA, to discuss what they hope to achieve with the initiative and how they see the tech sector becoming the new center of gravity for conversations |
The controversial Adani Carmichael coalmine was granted an unlimited 60-year water licence by the Queensland government on March 29. Environmentalists fear the | mine will drain huge amounts of water from the Great Artesian Basin and say it is yet another example of governments giving the mine special treatment.
The federal environment minister Josh Frydenberg has again approved the use of a marine supply base at Port Melville in the Tiwi Islands without an environmental impact assessment and with none of the environmental conditions that were previously imposed.
A spokesperson for Frydenberg said on December 15: “The department has decided the operation of a marine supply base at Port Melville is not likely to have a significant impact on the environment and can proceed without further assessment under national environment law.
The Federal Court has overturned the federal government’s decision to allow a $180 million deep sea port on Melville Island near Darwin without an environmental assessment.
Approval of the Port Melville oil and gas marine supply base on the banks of the near pristine Apsley Strait was reversed on October 21 after legal action by the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO |
2019 is here and the City of Stockbridge has you covered for Family Fun and great community entertainment! Our Food Truck Tasty Tuesdays will return | Tuesday, May 7th to Clark Park from 5:30pm - 9pm. Also, be on the lookout for our “Lunch Time Take Overs” returning this year! To honor the nation’s Service Personnel, the City of Stockbridge will host our Memorial Day March (Mon. May 27th), the 9/11 Ceremony (Wed. Sept. 11th) and the Veterans Day Parade & Luncheon (Mon. Nov. 11th)! In the Fall get your passports ready as we take you on a cultural exploration during BridgeFest (Sept. 28th). Breast Cancer Awareness Month is highlighted with the “Pretty in Pink Luncheon and Love Walk”. The Pretty in Pink Luncheon is an invitation-only event for survivors, but the “Love Walk” in Clark Park is open to all and we encourage GROUPS to enter and wear their custom t-shirts for special recognition. We will close out the year with our annual Holiday |
In the movies, asking the mayor of a city to leave office isn’t a far-fetched storyline.
In this story, the | mayor gladly obliged, saying he did it to improve the city’s future economic development prospects and to allow the moviemakers to showcase Dover.
More than 30 actors, crew members and volunteers were in Dover through the weekend and on Monday to shoot scenes for director Terrance Tykeem’s movie about the aftermath of white police officers involved in the shooting a young black man.
While it went unnoticed during the weekend, the winter storm that affected much of the state on Saturday forced film crews to take over the mayor’s office and City Hall on Monday as well, causing some to wonder what was taking place.
Tykeem agreed, saying he was told by a friend that Dover had the perfect city hall for the movie he was thinking about shooting. Once he scouted the city, he knew he would be back.
The shooting schedule was fast-paced, according to Christiansen, with scenes being shot at the Dover Public Library on Friday and City Hall for |
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Mindtree slips nearly 9% post Q1; Should you buy?
Mindtree took a knock of more than 7 per cent on Thursday morning on dull earnings.
The company has 18,990 technical professionals with 12 per cent attrition rate.
Mindtree took a knock of nearly 9 per cent on Thursday morning on dull earnings.
The IT firm posted 13.17 per cent drop in net profit sequentially at Rs 158.20 crore for the quarter to June. The figure stood at Rs 182.20 crore in the March quarter.
Bottom line surged 30 per cent on a year-on-year basis. The company had reported a net profit of Rs 121.70 crore in the same quarter last year.
Revenue from operations increased 12 per cent on a QoQ basis and 27 per cent YoY in Q1 FY19.
In dollar terms, net income grew 24 per cent annually, but declined 17 per cent QoQ to $23.3 million |
ARSENAL have unveiled a statue to immortalise legend Dennis Bergkamp outside the Emirates Stadium.
The statue is positioned outside the Clock End and | was unveiled in front of a crowd of Gooners and indeed the former Netherlands forward himself.
Bergkamp follows in the footsteps of other Arsenal legends such as former manager Herbert Chapman, captain Tony Adams and club-record goalscorer Thierry Henry.
The statue captures the moment Bergkamp pulled-off an amazing piece of skill against Newcastle in 2003.
Bergkamp said: “I am just so honoured and today makes me very proud. It is great to come back and see everyone at Arsenal again.
“Everyone knows I love Arsenal and I had such a great time at the Club. The fans, the staff and my team-mates were fantastic. The team was also amazing and we had a lot of success over the years. For me and my family it was such an important and enjoyable period in our lives.
Club director Ken Friar, who unveiled the statue, said: “Arsenal Football Club is proud that this statue of Dennis Bergkamp |
WASHINGTON — In his first appearance before Congress as NASA Administrator, Jim Bridenstine last week was pointedly asked whether his views on climate change | had evolved and whether he now believed humans were the primary cause of global warming.
Yes on both counts, the Trump-appointed chief of the nation's space program conceded during a sparsely attended hearing on the NASA budget before the Senate Appropriations Committee.
"It is extremely likely that human activity is the dominant cause of global warming and I have no reason to doubt the science that comes from that," he told senators, affirming the long-held consensus of government scientists.
It was a remarkable moment not only for Bridenstine, a former Oklahoma Republican congressman who had proclaimed his deep skepticism of climate change on the House floor a few years ago, but also for Senate Democrats who fiercely opposed President Trump's choice to lead the science-based agency in the acrimonious run-up to his narrow confirmation last month.
Sen. Brian Schatz, the Hawaii Democrat who questioned Bridenstine at the hearing, applauded the man he had once opposed for the job because, he |
A farm wife despondent over her family's mounting financial woes committed suicide Wednesday by climbing atop a barrel of burning garbage and asphyxiating | herself.
The suicide of Katherine Copeland, whose family had plowed the fields of southwestern Oklahoma since 1910, came the day after the wheat crop was harvested.
She hated the idea of losing the farm, said her eldest son, Robert. ''She felt that she had failed her parents and failed her children,'' he said.
Mrs. Copeland, who would have been 55 years old today, was overcome by smoke from the trash barrel at the family home, said Undersheriff Steve Overstreet. Her body was found by her husband, Eugene.
The 1,280-acre farm had not been formally presented with a foreclosure notice from the Farmers Home Administration, but Mr. Copeland said the agency had told him that foreclosure action might be taken.
Mr. Copeland said the family's production costs had risen sharply but they were selling crops at the same prices of a generation ago. He also said they owed some bills a year old, and his wife had recently talked |
Since it made its debut in the teatime schedule seven years ago, titan quiz show The Chase – one of ITV’s biggest daytime | successes ever – has had to lounge in the shadow of regular National Television Award winner This Morning.
This year, everything was a lot different. With This Morning being moved to a new category, The Chase faced competition from the likes of Pointless and Jeremy Kyle for the Best Daytime Show award and finally got the recognition its team and fans have been hoping for.
As the show, which regularly pulls in between 3 and 5 million viewers per episode, picked up the gong, no-one could be happier than its stars.
Metro.co.uk caught up with ‘The Beast’ Mark Labbett and ‘The Governess’ Anne Hegerty as they recovered from their celebrations.
Here they discuss what makes the show so special, their thrill at finally being rewarded at the NTAs and how much rivalry there really is with Pointless.
With This Morning out of the running, did you expect that you had more of a chance this year?
Mark |
We have closed lines in our U.S. stores. We understand some of our Guests are disappointed and we will reach out directly as soon as | possible."
Customers already in line will helped as long as supplies last.
Today, customers can pay their age for any furry friend in workshops throughout the U.S. According to store officials, it's the biggest in-store promotion ever.
In response to the turnout, Build-A-Bear posted on Facebook a message to those who might have ended up in line, but weren't able to get a bear.
Our first-ever Pay Your Age Day event generated an overwhelming response resulting in long lines, extensive waits, and disappointed Guests. We understand that many Guests were turned away due to safety concerns created by the crowds when authorities in certain locations closed Build-A-Bear stores or we were forced to limit the line. Given these circumstances we were unable to serve all of our Guests for the event.
In response, we distributed vouchers to Guests who were present in line to be redeemed for a future purchase and have now made vouchers available to all U.S. & |
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Lehman Bros. Holdings Inc.’s (LEH) will announce | “key strategic initiatives” early today (Wednesday), just one day after its stock nosedived to its lowest level in almost a decade.
Lehman also will announce its expected third-quarter earnings – a week earlier than expected.
Once the fourth largest Wall Street investment bank, Lehman has seen its market capitalization shrink from over $47 billion at its stock’s 52-week high of $67.73 down to just $5.4 billion at today’s new 52-week trading low of $7.64 per share.
By the New York close, Lehman shares had recovered slightly to trade at $7.79, down nearly 45% for the day on reports that negotiations for a capital infusion from state-controlled Korea Development Bank (KDB) had ended without plans for investment.
Korea’s Financial Services Commission refused to confirm that talks with Lehman had ended, but the report was enough to send Lehman shares |
Seattle Works volunteers helping with tree planting, (Seattle Works Photo).
Reuler is Executive Director of Seattle Works, a nonprofit that brings corporations and | people together to volunteer and do good work in the community. He spoke at the Downtown Seattle Association’s Focus Forward Breakfast Roundtable, a panel discussion on galvanizing the droves of young people moving to Seattle for tech jobs and other opportunities.
Racquel Russell, Zillow Group’s Director of Government Relations and Public Affairs and Art Thiel, a veteran sports reporter and editor of SportsPress Northwest, joined Reuler to discuss ways to engage newcomers in the Seattle community.
Reuler believes the best way to reach this new class of young people is to give them the opportunity to use their skills, not just for the company, but to benefit the broader community as well.
Related: Can volunteerism mend the growing rift between Seattle’s thriving tech community and those in need?
Employees of all ages benefit from giving back but millennials, in particular, thrive when they have a sense of agency and purpose. Russell believes Zillow’s commitment to |
Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Steven Spielberg and other Hollywood A-listers tout Apple’s new entertainment content | .
Steve Jobs was a master of the product announcement, sporting his signature black turtleneck while unveiling Apple products like the iPhone. That best-selling device has lost some of its commercial sheen, but Apple still has some salespeople with stage presence: Namely, Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg and other Hollywood celebrities who pitched Apple’s much anticipated video streaming service Monday in the theater named after the late Apple co-founder.
Monday’s event on Apple’s Cupertino, Calif., campus was something altogether different. The company unveiled paid subscriptions for news, video games and an entertainment service that looks a lot like a competitor to Netflix and HBO, though Apple didn’t say how much it would cost. The only product Apple announced Monday that consumers could actually touch and feel was a new titanium credit card, so minimalist in its design that it doesn’t even include a number.
As more celebrities like J.J. Abrams, Reese W |
Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Melania Trump arrived in Ghana Tuesday as part of what will be a tour of four African countries, beginning her | first solo trip abroad as first lady.
Trump's plane touched down in Ghana's capital of Accra early Tuesday. She will tour the country before leaving for Malawa, Kenya and Egypt. During the trip, the first lady will promote her "Be Best" campaign that aims to improve the well-being of children.
"So looking forward to visiting Ghana, Malawi, Kenya & Egypt as I take BeBest international," Trump posted to Facebook Tuesday.
The first lady's awareness campaign aims to encourage parents to teach children kindness, fight cyber-bullying and oppose drug use. She announced the Africa visit last week at the United Nations General Assembly.
Trump will work with USAID on the trip to promote healthcare and education programs. Trump spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham told CNN the trip will focus on diplomacy and humanitarian causes.
"I think she feels it is important that people around the world understand the United States cares about the prosperity and future generations of other countries," Grisham |
The slow pace of land reforms will continue to result in project delays and rising costs, posing a downside risk for the road and rail sectors, F | itch Solutions said Wednesday.
"The government's land reform agenda has evolved in to a highly contentious issue in the country, as reform attempts were countered with fierce resistance from land owners and political opponents. Hence, with the 2019 elections in the horizon, we expect land reform to take a back seat as the BJP moves to address other pertinent issues such as raising agricultural wages...," Fitch Solutions, an affiliate of Fitch Ratings, said.
India's poor track record in delivering projects on time, it said, can be seen from official government data, with almost 50 per cent of road and rail projects in the five most populous states in the country being delayed by more than four years.
"A majority of the delayed projects are running above the budgeted costs -- without land reforms at the federal level that would standardise land acquisition procedures across the country and expedite the acquisition process, the status quo is likely to persist," it said.
In particular, large-scale, inter-state |
MARENGO — On Tuesday evening, the Northmor Lady Golden Knights volleyball team headed to Marengo for a Knox-Morrow Athletic Conference | against possibly their biggest rivals, the Highland Lady Fighting Scots.
Both teams entered the contest undefeated in league action but it would be the hosting Scots remaining that way as they handed the Knights their first loss of the season in three sets; 19-25, 19-25, 15-25. The victory moves Highland to 10-1 overall and 7-0 within the KMAC while Northmor falls to 11-1 overall and 6-1 in league play.
Lily Tate, Anna Donner and Aly Blunk all served up flawless performances from the service line on Tuesday evening. Tate finished at an 11/11 clip while Donner and Blunk turned in 8/8 efforts each.
As usual, Donner was busy in other spots on the court as well, going 30/34 on the attack en route to 10 kills. Donner also chipped in four assists on offense while posting 13 digs and two blocks on defense. Tate and Blunk were also active on both sides |
Ports in Costa Rica, Peru, Jamaica, the Bahamas and Cuba, among others, are either expanding or have plans to expand.
Some | , like Buenaventura, hope to receive the “post-Panamax” ships and become a transshipment hub that will supply smaller ports with feeder vessels. Others are simply bracing for increased feeder traffic.
The race for deep water is fierce. Buenaventura currently feeds much of the traffic to the shallower port in Guayaquil, Ecuador. But Buenaventura is facing competition from Balboa, in Panama, which is emerging as the Latin American leader of transshipment and expects to see its business double after the expansion.
The Bahamas is working with Hutchison Port Holdings to stake its claim as the most modern container facility in the English-speaking Caribbean. With a depth of 52 feet, the Freeport Container Port can already accommodate post-Panamax ships.
But both the port of Jacksonville and Miami are hoping to take a bite out of Bahamian business.
PortMiami is also hoping to |
A note found in the hotel room of Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock contained detailed calculations for firing down on a country music festival.
On "60 | Minutes," the police officers who were the first to reach the 32nd floor detailed what they saw when they entered the room after Stephen Paddock committed suicide.
"I noticed a note on the nightstand near his shooting platform," said Las Vegas police officer Dave Newton.
"He had written the distance, the elevation and the drop of what his bullet would be for the crowd. He had that figured out so he would know where to shoot to hit his targets from there."
In the crime-scene photos of Paddock's Mandalay Bay suite, a piece of paper was visible on a table. In the days after the shooting, many had speculated it was a suicide note, as authorities continue to search for a clear motive.
On "America's Newsroom," David Shepherd, former security director at the Venetian resort, said Paddock's planning was far more extensive than what he's seen in other mass shootings.
He noted that Paddock was a multi-millionaire and unlike other mass |
Lavan S. White, of Somerset, has been awarded the Amelia Earhart Award by the United States Air Force Auxiliary, Civil Air Patrol | .
Sen. Richard Kasunic, Rep. Bob Bastian and Colonel Mark Lee, PA Wing Commander, CAP, presented him the award at a ceremony at the state capitol on June 3.
During his six years in the cadet program, White has served on a number of emergency services search and rescue missions. Additionally he has served in a number of positions here at the Somerset County unit and at the Pennsylvania Wing summer schools. Presently he is serving as the training officer for the Somerset County Composite Squadron 1502, where he is responsible for assisting members in completing the program goals and compliance with U.S. Air Force guidelines for the cadet unit. While White was attending the college preparatory courses at Somerset Area Schools, he lettered twice in varsity swimming.
This Award is earned after completing the first eleven achievements of the cadet program and receipt of the General Billy Mitchell Award. In addition, the cadet must pass an arduous 100 question examination testing aerospace topics, |
The Indian auto industry registered a growth of 6.05% in April-January 2017 over the same period last year.
Indian auto | shares rose on robust February sales growth of some automakers, which are returning to normalcy from the red since Prime Minister Narendra Modi demonetised high currency notes on November 8.
Tata Motors was up 3.4% while Bajaj Auto gained 2%, Hero MotoCorp 1.8% and Eicher Motors 0.4% in the Mumbai market whose benchmark Sensex rose as much as 0.55% to 29,145.62 in intra-day trade.
Tata Motors sales grew 2% with passenger vehicle rising 12% on overwhelming response to its new crossover Hexa as well as the sustained demand for the Tiago.
Bajaj Auto sales were up marginally on tepid domestic demand but exports were up 15.6%.
Hero MotoCorp sales were down 4.8% but it is picking up as remonetisation gains momentum and consumers recover from the cash crunch.
In January, Indian automobile sales were down 4.7% even though passenger |
LONDON, Sept 26 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank’s interest rate hikes of 2008 and 2011 were perhaps the biggest policy errors | in recent central banking history. With $100 oil coming into view again, the last thing the ECB wants is a repeat.
The price of Brent crude oil this week hit $82.55 a barrel, the highest in almost four years. It’s up 40 percent over the past year, an inflationary red flag the ECB would normally find difficult to ignore.
Also this week, ECB President Mario Draghi told the European Parliament that an acceleration in underlying inflation in the euro zone was “relatively vigorous” and expressed confidence that a pick-up in wage growth would continue.
Add all that together, you might think the ECB would quite readily backtrack on its pledge to keep interest rates at historically rock-bottom levels “through the summer” of next year, and deliver an inflation-cooling rate hike or two earlier.
If anything, an oil price shock of crude breaking above $100 a barrel could tempt the current incumbents in Frankfurt’ |
Writer Andreas Hale thinks there's space for all political viewpoints in TV land.
Fall’s TV lineup was just announced during the annual upfront | presentation to advertisers and it looks like Black folks will have to wait yet another season to see new shows that truly represent us.
Not one new pilot (and several were pitched, including projects from Gabrielle Union, Regina King, and Tisha Campbell Martin) was greenlit by either NBC or ABC. Sure, it’s nice to have shows like How To Get Away With Murder, Black-ish, and Empire renewed, but with very few Black shows in development on the horizon, our choices seem more limited than ever.
In walks Roseanne Barr and Tim Allen.
A collective groan swept over Twitter yesterday when it was announced that Allen’s conservative comedy, Last Man Standing was brought back from the dead by (surprise, surprise) Fox after ABC cancelled it last year. It felt like a slap in the face considering that Fox just decided to can Brooklyn Nine-Nine, which thankfully was scooped up by NBC.
With Roseanne and her pro-Trump |
Rana Daggubati. 'nuff said, isn't it? South actor Rana Daggubati's popularity shot to the | sky with SS Rajamouli's box office redefining Baahubali films. Though he is best remembered as Bhallaladeva from the period piece, Nene Raju Nene Mantri, Rudramadevi and The Ghazi Attack are some of his most popular films. As the actor blows out 34 candles on his birthday today, let's celebrate his special day with 10 best photos from his social media accounts.
Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif, who are busy promoting their upcoming film Jagga Jasoos, were photographed on the second day of South Indian International Movie Awards in Abu Dhabi.
Karan Johar hosted yet another party at his residence on Monday. The bash was attended by the Baahubali actors Prabhas and Rana Daggubati, Alia Bhatt, Ranbir Kapoor, Sidharth Malhotra, Varun Dhawan, Arjun Kapoor and Aditya Roy Kapur. |
What happens to recyclable rubbish put in the wrong bin?
An average of 1,250 tonnes of Welsh rubbish - about the weight of | 155 double-decker buses - is sent to landfill every day.
The total amount has dropped from 641,000 tonnes in 2012/13 to 453,000 tonnes in 2014/15 - a 30% fall in three years - with the amount spent on landfill having fallen by at least 23% in the last four years.
However, £130,000 is still being spent on Welsh landfill every day, according to figures obtained by BBC Wales.
So, what happens to a piece of recyclable rubbish after it is dropped into a bin bag headed for the dump?
Take, for instance, an empty aluminium drink can.
It gets binned at a home in Ruthin, Denbighshire, before being put out for refuse collectors on a Tuesday.
From there, it is driven to a transfer station half a mile (0.8km) away, where it is moved to a lorry with about 20 tonnes of other waste.
The articulated |
WASHINGTON – The Republican-led House yesterday passed the largest tax cut in nearly 20 years, but President Clinton’s veto threat means it� | �s still a long way from showing up on IRS forms.
The 10-year, $792 billion package won on a 223-208 vote. Only four Republicans, including upstate Rep. Jack Quinn, opposed it – and six Democrats supported it.
Clinton, who has called any tax cut above $300 billion “too risky” to the booming economy, yesterday left no doubt about what he’ll do if it gets through the Senate and reaches his desk.
“I will veto it,” he said at a community college in Lansing, Mich.
The Senate plans to vote next week on a very different tax-cut plan – although it’s the same size, at $792 billion.
The confusion makes it almost impossible to say exactly what, if any, tax cuts will show up on IRS forms next year.
Clinton and the Republicans will either compromise and approve a smaller tax cut, or they’ll fight over the issue |
Photo credit: hit thatswitch via flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).
New York City, N.Y., | May 16, 2016 / 04:39 pm ().- The drug company Pfizer has announced it will no longer sell drugs for use in lethal injections because it objects to their use in executions.
“Pfizer makes its products to enhance and save the lives of the patients we serve. Consistent with these values, Pfizer strongly objects to the use of its products as lethal injections for capital punishment,” the company said in an April 2016 policy position paper.
The company is enforcing a distribution restriction for seven drugs that have been a part of lethal injection protocols or have considered for such protocols.
The new policy means there is no remaining open-market source of lethal injection drugs in the U.S., the New York Times reports. Over 20 American and European companies have adopted restrictions on lethal injection drug provision, sometimes as a result of advocacy from death penalty opponents. The European Union has banned the export of the drugs used in lethal injections.
The drugs affected by the Pfizer |
Esty decided against running for re-election last year following criticism from Connecticut Democrats about how she handled an abusive staffer. Esty did not terminate | the staffer for months after she learned of his abuse and gave him severance and a favorable job recommendation.
Elected in 2012 to represent the sprawling northwestern 5th congressional district, Esty was sworn into Congress shortly after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, which is in the district.
Esty became a co-chair of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force. On Monday, the retiring lawmaker’s successor, Representative-elect Jahana Hayes, said she planned to join the task force in the next Congress.
Esty did not mention the circumstances that prompted her to leave office. Instead, she spoke of her work promoting STEM education for women, seeking to improve her district’s infrastructure and working with others to pass legislation that would help veterans.
“If you look for and build on common ground, you can get things done even with people with whom you disagree with on many issues,” Esty said.
Esty has said she planned to take |
The Presidency has on Tuesday asked the National Peace Committee, NPC, to caution the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from lying against the family of | President Muhammadu Buhari, noting that such action violates the peace accord signed by the presidential candidates in December.
In a statement on Tuesday, presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu, accused the PDP presidential campaign organisation of bad faith, character assassination and inflammatory utterances.
Shehu noted that the open and unsubstantiated allegations against the President’s family by the Atiku Abubakar media campaign contravenes the spirit of the peace accord that was signed at the instance of former Head of State, Abdulsalami Abubakar, Bishop Mathew Kukah and other eminent public figures who constitute the committee.
“Dragging the President’s family into the campaign and accusing them of wrongdoing without producing unassailable evidence, amounts to an act of bad faith and malice,” he said.
He added that, more than one week after accusing President Buhari’s family of corruption and wrong doing, the PDP |
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Philadelphia Flyers forward Scott Hartnell has been added to the NHL all-star roster for this weekend's game | in Ottawa.
He replaces Chicago Blackhawks forward Jonathan Toews, who is nursing an upper-body injury.
Hartnell leads the Flyers with 25 goals this season. The 29-year-old Regina native also leads the Flyers with a plus-18 rating and is second on the club with 44 points.
It will be Hartnell's first appearance at the all-star game. He participated in the NHL YoungStars Game during the 2002 all-star weekend in Los Angeles.
Tuesday's announcement came a day after Edmonton Oilers forward Jordan Eberle and Pittsburgh Penguins defenceman Kris Letang were added to the roster. They are replacing Minnesota Wild captain Mikko Koivu and Winnipeg Jets defenceman Dustin Byfuglien, who are both out with injuries.
There could be another injury replacement coming before the all-star weekend kicks off Thursday with the fantasy draft. Dallas Stars forward Jamie Benn remains questionable after undergoing an appendectomy.
The skills competition will be held Saturday at |
The social media platform is connecting criminals to credit card information and identity-theft tools.
Facebook is connecting not only old friends, but also | new criminals.
Researchers uncovered more than 70 Facebook groups openly selling black-market cyberfraud services, some of which they say had been running for up to eight years.
The now-removed groups had more than 385,000 members in total and offered a variety of illegal services, from credit card information and identity theft to website hacking and email phishing, according to cybersecurity researchers at Talos, the threat intelligence division for the technology company Cisco.
By searching for a few well-known fraud terms, the researchers exposed a sizable online black market hiding in plain sight on the world’s most popular social media site.
“Selling CVV fresh $5” read one post for stolen credit card numbers. “100k mail list fresh” touted another from the “Professional Spammer’s and Hacker’s [sic]” page. Both posts included purported screenshots of their wares.
Facebook's recommendation system appeared to |
Long before the tryptophan takes effect and seconds are served, San Angelo residents will have access to some of the best holiday shopping deals. |
Long before the tryptophan takes effect and seconds are being served, San Angelo residents will have access to some of the best deals in town.
The San Angelo Standard-Times is excited to announce our biggest edition of the year — the Thanksgiving Day newspaper — will be available at select retailers Wednesday evening.
The edition will be stuffed with the biggest Black Friday specials, and scores of inserts full of savings and great holiday gift ideas for even the pickiest on your shopping list. Everyone in the family will find something to flip through, including the do-it-yourselfers, fashionistas, home decorators, and kids looking for the season’s hottest toy.
This paper is so stuffed it will put some Thanksgiving turkeys to shame.
If shopping isn’t your thing, look for some of the other special holiday features, including the massive crossword puzzle that spans two pages and a holiday coloring page.
The news team is looking at gifts with exclusive |
The word coming out of the Toronto Fan Expo yesterday is that DC Comics is to launch two new comic book series, The Spectre written by Pete Tom | asi and Hawk & Dove written by Steve Orlando. Artists are still a mystery.
The Spectre is one of DC’s oldest comic book characters, created in 1940 by Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel and Bernard Baily, Jim Corrigan, a policeman who is visited by the word of God and transformed into a supernatural being of justice – and vengeance.
The character has been reinvented over the decades and powered up and down. He was last seen in the DC Universe as working as a detective for Gotham’s Detailed Case Task Force, a small precinct responsible for investigating supernatural events off the books. Including his own.
Hawk & Dove were created by Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko and Steve Skeates in 1969 as a superhero duo who had diametrically opposed political viewpoints. The characters have been recreated over the years, most recently in the New 52 by Sterling Gates and Rob Liefeld, and were most recently seen in the near |
Scott Atran runs with a rough, international crowd– jihadis, mujahideen, and lashkars– otherwise known as Islamic fundamental | ists, otherwise known as terrorists, who have invited Atran into their worlds. As we know all too well, their worlds can be dangerous, even for a westerner with an invite.
Atran visited Kashmir after the earthquake in 2005 to look at relief efforts, as well as to investigate jihadi groups, who were riding around on military trucks and using loudspeakers to announce that people had turned away from God, and that the way back to God was to join the jihadi movement. Shortly after arriving there, Atran, hosted by Kashmiri Nationals (neither pro-Indian, nor pro-Pakistani), was told that Lashkar-e-Taiba (an Al Quaeda-affiliated group operating mainly out of Pakistan) was looking for him, a search, he says, that equated to a death threat. He had to hide under the floor-boards of a mosque.
In Sulawesi, Indonesia, he was interviewing a jihadi commander by conducting an |
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