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LAHORE: The provincial capital, Lahore is among the most polluted cities in the world and urgent action needs to be taken to tackle this
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issue. Air pollution caused by traffic, industries, crop burning and burning of solid waste are the major contributors of smog and the layer of smog will thicken in the coming days.
These facts were revealed by WWF’s Living Planet Report 2018 on Tuesday. The report, which was presented in the presence of environmental journalists and researchers, presented a sobering picture of the impact of human activities on the world’s wildlife, forests, oceans, rivers and climate. It also underlined the urgent need for the global community to collectively rethink and redefine how we value, protect and restore nature.
Sharing his thoughts at the launch of the report, WWF-Pakistan Director General Hammad Naqi Khan said the Living Planet Index (LPI), which tracks trends in global wildlife abundance, indicates that global populations of fish, birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles declined, on average, by 60% between 1970 and 2014. These declining populations are especially pronounced in South America (
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Mulayam`s son Prateek Yadav attracts eye balls during ride in Rs.
[India], Jan. 14(ANI
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): The ruling Samajwadi Party projects itself as 'champions of democratic socialism' and left-wing populism, a contradiction surfaced recently when party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav's second son Prateek Yadav, drove his Rs. five crore Lamborghini on the roads of Lucknow on Friday.
Prateek is also a gym freak and has his own gym, which was inaugurated by his father.
Although Prateek lacks a flair for politics, but his passion for high end luxury is hogging the limelight.
Prateek is Mulayam's younger son from his second marriage to Sadhana Gupta.
In his childhood, Prateek contracted pneumonia while studying in Dehradun. A steroid injection made his weight shoot up to 103 kgs.
Prateek is married to his long-time sweetheart Aparna Bisht and they have a three-year-old daughter.
Prateek is a University
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Longtime sportswriter Rick Reilly has written a new book about how President Donald Trump cheats at golf. The author will be in Tempe
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, Arizona.
Rick Reilly is ticked off, and who can blame him?
If you want proof, look no further than “Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump,” Reilly’s relentless takedown of how President Donald Trump cheats at golf, and what that reveals.
The book is not a left-wing political attack on Trump — Reilly, long one of the most-famous and most-decorated sports columnists in the country, wasn’t interested in writing that kind of book, not explicitly.
Thus, it’s a golfer’s attack on Trump, or at least on the way Trump plays the game, a game Reilly reveres as revealing of character. And he doesn’t like what he sees in Trump. He chronicles incident after incident, like Trump throwing sportscaster Mike Tirico’s ball from the fairway into a bunker.
To hear him tell it
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Paris Saint-Germain fans were no doubt brimming with confidence about facing Manchester United when the Champions League draw was made nearly two months ago
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Neymar, Edinson Cavani and Kylian Mbappe were scoring with ease, Marco Verratti was pulling the strings in midfield, and the club had secured impressive back-to-back wins against Liverpool and Red Star Belgrade to qualify for the last 16 at Napoli’s expense.
United was struggling under then-coach Jose Mourinho, and creative players like Paul Pogba were not suited to his gritty and tactically stifling approach.
Now the tables have been turned, and injury-hit PSG’s trip to Old Trafford has taken on a daunting dimension. United is unbeaten since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer took charge and Pogba, so unhappy under Mourinho, can’t stop smiling.
Pogba got one of France’s goals in the World Cup final win against Croatia last year, and always had an eye for goal when playing for Juventus.
He netted twice in Saturday’s 3-
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It’s already been a busy year for the Female Founders Alliance.
The Seattle-based organization continues to march toward its mission of helping
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women entrepreneurs land funding and it’s getting support from key partners to do so.
FFA investors Dennis Joyce and Sarah Imbach.
FFA today announced a new partnership with WeWork Labs, the startup incubator concept from WeWork that opened in Seattle last month. FFA will house the second cohort of its accelerator, Ready Set Raise, at the incubator this summer. It will also host events at WeWork Labs locations across the country; provide its members one free month of coworking at any WeWork office; and offer benefits to WeWork members.
FFA also just raised investment from a group of backers that includes Seattle-area angel investors such as Sarah Imbach and Dennis Joyce.
“They are investing in FFA’s potential for system-wide impact, out of a belief that FFA needs to exist and that when female founders thrive, the whole economy will benefit,” Leslie Feinzaig, founder and CEO of FFA,
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To commemorate the 25th Annual Midland Community Center's Dow RunWalk, organizers are looking for 25 teams to take the 2010 RunWalk Challenge.
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The RunWalk Challenge is an opportunity for co-workers, friends, civic organizations, families, youth groups, churches, and more to get a team together and participate or volunteer in the 25th Annual Midland Community Center's Dow RunWalk.
Teams must have a minimum of six participants and will compete in the following categories; under 20 participants, 20-49 participants, or 50+ participants. The 2010 RunWalk Challenge Champions will be announced on Tuesday, June 8. This is the fourth year that the Midland Community Center has hosted the RunWalk Challenge.
Start organizing your group and start training today. Develop a team name and take a team photo (creativity counts). Register for the RunWalk (all challenge participants must submit their registrations together as a team by May 21) in either the 10K, 5K Run, 5K Walk, 1 Mile Run or as a volunteer.
Participate! Ways to do this include, running or walking, volunteering race day,
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Cinderella’s home eventually fell into disrepair; the property was sold years later and redeveloped.
“I just thought
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it was so ironic that there was this forum at a place where we had [built] a [dog] fence and that house was torn down,” Arrington said.
But more on Cinderella in a moment.
On Sunday, hundreds of dog lovers gathered in Durham Central Park for Barktoberfest. The event, held by Durham Parks and Recreation and Beyond Fences, raised about $10,000 for Beyond Fences, which helps low-income pet owners in Durham.
The group has built over 1,000 fences for dogs in the past decade and has since expanded its focus. It keeps in touch after building a fence or paying for a spay/neuter surgery, sometimes coming back with fresh straw for an outdoor dog house or taking a pet in for shots because the family doesn’t have a car.
Lately, it’s been getting more calls from clients losing their homes – and afraid of losing their pets.
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Pope Francis has received a lot of attention since becoming the head of the Catholic Church earlier this year. Many know him as possibly the most progressive Pope
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the Church has ever had, and he tries to live his life modestly. So many people love him for a number of reasons, including many non-Catholics, but he does have some critics.
Pat Buchanan, well-known conservative political commentator and author, is one of those critics. In a recent syndicated column, Buchanan had a lot to say about the Pope’s more progressive views on the church and the issues it faces.
Buchanan essentially says that by not speaking out against homosexuality, abortion, and other hot button social issues, Pope Francis isn’t doing his job as leader of the Catholic Church.
Buchanan also blasts the Pope for his stance against actively trying to convert new Christians. Pope Francis recently said that proselytizing is “solemn nonsense” and that Christians need to listen more to others rather than lecture them. Buchanan doesn’t like this perspective and claims that proselytizing must happen in order to
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The Baron Son was written as the ethical road map to wealth, power, and success. It is the story of a young boy who loses everything
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and through struggle finds the secret to become the richest, most powerful person the world has ever known. The reader learns alongside three scholars as the Baron recounts his story of detriment and triumph while conveying “Supreme Principles� that will guide one and all in their journey to success.
BSN: Mr. William R. Patterson, I just had the opportunity to read your book The Baron Son, and I really enjoyed it. How did you choose the title of the book and what does it mean?
William: Thank you. Well, the story is about a son who feels compelled to live out his slain father’s vision to empower the people of the world with the keys to financial success. In doing so, he becomes the wealthiest of men. When heard, the title imparts a play on words, as the young man happens upon seemingly desolate, barren conditions, and rises to become a trade baron of unmatched influence. The subtitle,
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Amnesty International today issued a series of recommendations to newly elected Honduran President Porfirio Lobo to repair the damage done to human rights
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since the June 2009 coup d’état, which left hundreds seeking justice.
The 13 recommendations include issues relating to investigations into the human rights abuses committed by security forces, rejecting amnesty laws for those responsible for the crimes, training judges on international human rights legislation and setting up an effective witness protection programme.
“Honduras’ devastating coup d’état has left the country in urgent need of a programme of human rights reconstruction with clear objectives and a timeline for completion.
Amnesty International’s report also summarises 20 cases which include police killings, arbitrary detentions, beatings and ill-treatment in detention, sexual abuse of Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and girls, harassment of journalists, judges and activists.
No-one has been held to account for these abuses and few investigations have been opened.
On 1 August, 38-year-old teacher Roger Abraham Vallejo died in hospital as a result
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Some, but not all, technology employees at the Agriculture Department's Forest Service have dodged a bullet. They received final notice that management had chosen their
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reorganization plan over a commercial outsourcing proposal submitted under an Office of Management and the Budget Circular A-76 competition.
Spokeswoman Heidi Valetkevich said the employee group would implement a $295 million project over five years and that their plan would generate about $100 million in savings over the period.
The project will cover about 2,500 employees, many of whom have other duties in addition to IT services, Valetkevich said. The work involved now is equal to the tasks of about 830 employees, but efficiencies generated by the employee-designed reorganization plan will reduce the number of full-time equivalent employees to 650.
As a result, about 180 Forest Service employees will be displaced by the reorganization. Valetkevich said those employees would receive career counseling and possibly get other jobs in the agency or qualify for early buyouts.
Employees covered by the competition maintain the infrastructure of IT operations and operate radio communication systems. They are located in 43
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Broadband and telecoms provider Digiweb has expanded its offering with a new managed services portfolio for Irish businesses that aims to position Digiweb
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as a ‘one-stop-shop’ for all IT and business communications.
The new ‘in the cloud’ service includes targets SMEs and start-ups, and offers managed connectivity and security as well as managed voice, data and IT services.
A team of 20 service engineers with a wide range of business communications and hosting expertise will be on hand 24/7 to deliver these services within both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland (from Digiweb’s NOC in Dublin).
Digiweb said that it expects to sign up to 1,000 new business customers in first 12 months of the launch as this package is a realistic offering that can effectively give a start-up or small business a ‘ready-to-go’ virtualised office but the service itself is aimed at all sizes of companies including the larger enterprise customer.
Prior to launch Digiweb’s managed services portfolio had a series of pilots with enterprise customers as
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President Trump’s executive order rolling back President Barack Obama’s signature anti-global-warming measure stopped short of withdrawing from the historic
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Paris climate accord — but raised international concerns Tuesday about whether the United States will do its share to fight the global threat.
Europe’s top climate official, European commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete, expressed “regret” about Trump’s executive order rolling back what he called the “main pillar” of U.S. climate policy, the Clean Power Plan, in a statement to The Washington Post.
“Now, it remains to be seen by which other means the United States intends to meet its commitments under the Paris Agreement,” said Cañete.
The words of Cañete, one of the most prominent global diplomatic figures yet to comment on Trump’s move, signal how the president’s executive order eviscerating Obama’s climate plan is raising international concerns, and they further suggest that the country could be left isolated as other nations push forward to curb emissions.
Trump’s executive order
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Salesforce has unveiled Einstein, a platform upgrade that adds artificial intelligence and machine-learning capabilities to its core products — just two hours before Oracle's
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big annual OpenWorld event is set to kick off.
As Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff previously hinted, Einstein is an AI wrapper around Salesforce's existing products that collects and analyzes all the data stored in Salesforce to push out recommendations, so the user can close deals faster or build a larger group of leads.
For example, sales representatives using Sales Cloud will get a list of leads on the side based on "Lead Score," a number representing who's more likely to buy your product. It also gives suggestions on when to make a follow-up call or alerts when a contact has been unresponsive for a long time.
"The great thing about machine learning is you can actually measure it," Salesforce's general manager of Einstein, John Ball, said at a press briefing held last week. "This is about democratizing AI. It's all about making the user smarter."
To build Einstein, Salesforce spent about $650 million acquiring dozens of startups in the artificial
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Russell Westbrook was long gone before the final horn sounded on Tuesday night.
So was one of the longest running basketball debates in this city.
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Both were chased off by Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum.
The Thunder’s All-Star guard fled the bench with 10 seconds left on the game clock, ducked out through the tunnel, and took a hard left turn, seemingly toward Oklahoma City.
Portland whipped the Thunder, 114-94.
The Blazers lead the best-of-seven series 2-0. By the time Moda Center public-address announcer Mark Mason cried out with his customary, “BLAZERS WIN! BLAAAAZZERS WIN!” Westbrook was already more than 50 yards from the wreckage.
Have Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum out-played Westbrook and Paul George in this series?
The Blazer guards provided indisputable evidence in a 72-hour stretch of basketball that feels as important as anything that’s happened around here in some time.
Count me among those who has long believed the best chance Portland had to improve its roster was break up
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▪ Overall strength of the Main Street program and documented success in creating an exciting place to live, work, play and visit.
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Demonstrated impact aligning with the Main Street Approach.
▪ Commitment to historic preservation.
▪ Active involvement of the public and private sector.
▪ Model partnerships, including inclusive engagement of community members and local stakeholders in the downtown revitalization process.
“They are looking at what you have done to revitalize your downtown,” Bishop said.
In the last two years, major changes are taking place. Columbus State University is in the final stages of construction of the College of Education and Health Science complex at Broadway and 12th Street. This has spurred retail, commercial and residential growth and plans in the 1000 block of Broadway. The Chattahoochee whitewater course is in full operation, and a zip line across the river has been added.
The most recent winners of the Great American Main Street Award were Audubon Park, Orlando, Fla.; Dahlonega, Ga.; and Shaw District, Washington, D.C.
The winners should
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In addition to Crum, the Lions signed quarterback Cecil Lester for the playoff run. Lester is a familiar face to longtime Lions fans as he was
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under center for the Albany Panthers during their championship runs in 2011 and 2012.
“We’ve added a two-time indoor champion quarterback to the roster who will give us a little bit of a security blanket,” Gibson said of Lester. “He’s been doing it for a long time. He gets it, and he can still play at a high level. That gives us two championship level quarterbacks on our roster.
With Crum and Lester joining the roster, the Lions are set to play for back to back championships, albeit in two different leagues.
Their opponent is the enigmatic New Mexico Stars, a team that will have traveled 20 hours by bus to play in Columbus and were part of a tumultuous Western Division in the AIF.
Four division rivals – Texas (Richland Hills), Abilene (Tex.), Louisiana (Baton Rouge), and Northshore (Slidell, La.) – made the league schedule but folded before even playing a
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A simple injection has helped a music lover get back to playing the piano again.
David Edmunds had been forced to give up playing and was
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also starting to have problems with driving after developing a problem that left his hand bent out of shape.
The 80-year-old from Brighton had been told he would need an operation to correct the problem which would mean weeks of recovery.
However medics in East Grinstead used an innovative injection instead and the results have been almost immediate.
Mr Edmunds was suffering from Dupuytren’s Contracture, a common condition in which the cord in the fingers and palm of the hand tighten.
This makes the fingers bend inwards with the patient unable to straighten them.
His left hand became stiff and inflexible but Mr Edmunds was told he would have to wait until the problem got worse before he would be eligible for an NHS operation.
Normally the only option is surgery but the McIndoe Centre in East Grinstead has become one of the first in the country to try the injection instead.
Mr Edmunds had the treatment last month and noticed improvements
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SugarCRM, the world's leading provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, today announced three new dates and
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destinations for its 2009 CRM Acceleration Road Show. MySQL/Sun and Talend will serve as global sponsors.
September 17 – Denver, Colo.
CRM Accelerations are one-day, intensive sessions that help business leaders develop and implement a CRM strategy. These sessions provide attendees with a basic overview of customer relationship management, and progress quickly into real-life demo scenarios, as well as interactive panels with members of the SugarCRM team of experts. CRM Accelerations are geared towards company leaders, both business and technical.
“Getting Started With Sugar” will uncover the basics of customer relationship management, and reveal some key aspects of the Sugar solution.
“Creating Leads and Managing Opportunities” will discuss how to better organize and manage the demand generation cycle and better connect your marketing and sales teams.
“Pipeline Management and Reporting” will provide some examples of common metrics used to measure sales effectiveness and how to create, share and
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LUSAKA (Reuters) - Kansai Plascon, owned by Tokyo-listed Kansai Paint Co Ltd, has launched
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the world’s first mosquito repellant paint in Zambia to help it reach a target to eliminate malaria by 2021, the company and a Japanese government official said.
Malaria, spread by mosquitoes, is a treatable disease if caught early, but current anti-malarial drugs are failing in many areas as people develop resistance to them.
Zambia aims to eradicate malaria, the southern African country’s biggest killer, within three years after deaths from the disease halved last year from 2014, the government said in June.
Hanai Junichi, Japan International Cooperation Agency’s (JICA) Zambia resident representative said his agency was carrying out the initiative in partnership with Kansai.
“A study done in the last two years in 400 households with Zambia’s ministry of health proved that the paint is very effective and is not harmful to human beings,” Junichi told Reuters.
While mosquito nets, prophyl
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The poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge is characterized by the supernatural. The word comes from the Latin super meaning above and naturo meaning nature.
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The etymology of the word, however, helps us in no way to understand the connotation of the word in literature. Contrasted with the natural, the supernatural is apprehended as opposed to comprehended. In fact a thing is apprehended when we can know its existence without understanding it. The natural, we can know and understand because it is material, physical- but the supernatural is beyond the grasp of the physical senses- it is imaterial, spiritual. The natural acts in accordance with physical laws, and departures from these laws are physically impossible, but they are not absolutely impossible for the natural, being created, depends upon the power and the will of its creator. The Creator of the physical universe is above nature and is spiritual and imaterial. We know he exists; but, being beyond the grasp of our senses we can only apprehend him and not comprehend him. Our notion of his being, then since we are so deeply rooted in the physical can only be measured with material images, which we provided
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The New York Times assigned to the story a campaign-trail reporter, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, whose political perceptions are bland and whose
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knowledge of Israeli-American relations is an antiseptic zero. At the newspaper of record, a thing like that does not happen by accident. They took the most anxiously awaited meeting with a foreign leader of President Obama’s term thus far, and buried it on page 12. The coverage of a major event, which the same newspaper had greeted only the day before by running an oversize attack-Iran op-ed by Jeffrey Goldberg, has officially now shrunk to the scale of a smaller op-ed.
In fact, as any reader of the transcript may judge, President Obama sounded a more urgent note about the progress Israel ought to make in yielding what it long has promised to the Palestinian people. Palestine was the proper name that dominated Obama’s side of the news conference. In the Times story, by contrast, the word Iran occurs three times before the first mention of “Palestinians.” Iran is mentioned twice more before the words West Bank are uttered once
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Adm. Dennis Blair (Ret.) intends to offer his resignation as the nation's intelligence chief, four sources said today. A U.S
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. official said that a search is underway for his replacement. Two days ago, a Senate committee released a scathing report on the efficacy of Blair's Office of the Director of National Intelligence, particularly the National Counterterrorism Center, which apparently did not view the integration of tactical threat intelligence as its top priority.
Blair has worn out his welcome at the White House. The National Security Staff lost confidence in his ability to prioritize and to solve the intelligence community's mammoth bureaucratic hassles. The U.S. official said that the White House has interviewed "several strong candidates." Former Sen. Chuck Hagel, the chairman of the president's intelligence advisory board, and Gen. James Clapper (Ret.), the undersecretary of defense for intelligence, are seen by other intelligence officials as top candidates. Clapper will face a tough confirmation, and his career profile is similar to Blair's. Hagel would be feared by the military intelligence establishment, but he gets along with CIA director Leon Panetta, who
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Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard in "Hit and Run"
Spirited and saucy, “Hit and Run”
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is a small movie with big spirit, a Tarantino-ish sensibility, and a scattergun ethos that results in more hits than misses. It’s continually funny and surprisingly tenderhearted, so much so that even when it runs into dead ends and confusions you stay with it.
Dax Shepard, who wrote and co-directs, stars as Charlie Bronson, a mystery man living in the witness protection program in rural California with his girlfriend, Annie (Shepard’s real-life sweetie, Kristen Bell.) When Annie gets a job opportunity in Los Angeles, Charlie determines to help her get there, even though it’s the most dangerous place in the world for him. And the danger has been heightened by Annie’s jealous ex, who forces Charlie to reveal his true identity and deal with his past.
Along the way, there are outlandish visual and verbal jokes, fistfights and car chases, and some unexpected cameos (including a
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Joe McKendrick is an author and independent analyst who tracks the impact of information technology on management and markets. Joe is co-author, along
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with 16 leading industry leaders and thinkers, of the SOA Manifesto, which outlines the values and guiding principles of service orientation. He speaks frequently on cloud, data, and enterprise computing topics at industry events and Webcasts. As an independent analyst, he has authored numerous research reports in partnership with Forbes Insights and Unisphere Research, a division of Information Today, Inc. In a previous life, Joe served as director of the Administrative Management Society (AMS), an international professional association dedicated to advancing knowledge within the IT and business management fields. He is a graduate of Temple University.
Software may be growing increasingly ubiquitous. But that just means the problems associated with poor design are growing as well.
If things don't go right at the federal bankruptcy court in San Francisco this December 6th, Web services could potentially have its very own SCO Group drama at some time in the not-so-distant future. There's an effort underway in what could be the industry's most important test to
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Madison - A Dane County judge's ruling striking down many limits on collective bargaining for public workers will likely be appealed quickly and could go straight to a
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showdown on a divided, but often conservative-leaning state Supreme Court.
What is less clear is whether the state's highest court will repeat last year's decision when the justices restored the collective bargaining law after it had been struck down following a very different challenge.
Last year's case required the justices to decide whether lawmakers violated the open meetings law when they passed the collective bargaining measure, but the current case "is much more fundamental," said Janine Geske, a former state Supreme Court justice, now a distinguished professor of law at Marquette University.
Geske said the prior case looked at the process followed, while Friday's ruling by Judge Juan Colas focuses on whether the law violated the constitutional rights of people who belong to unions - a question likely to have broad repercussions.
"Can you treat non-represented employees differently than employees represented by a union?" Geske said, citing one of the issues raised in Colas' ruling. "That impacts school boards all over the state
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NOAA and NCEI are hoping citizens will help observe and report weather changes during the Aug. 21 eclipse.
The National Oceanic and
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Atmospheric Administration and National Centers for Environmental Information are looking for help from citizens in a massive effort to observe and record weather changes during the total solar eclipse Monday.
Greenville, Anderson and much of the Upstate are in the path of totality. That means this area is set for one of the best views of the so-called "great American total solar eclipse."
About 2:38 p.m. Monday, the sky will go dark as the moon aligns with the sun, blocking all but a lighted ring, called the corona.
The natural phenomenon occurs about every 18 months, but this one is particularly rare for the U.S., because it crosses the mainland from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic, touching no other country. It's the first time in nearly a century this has occurred.
More: Interactive – How much of the eclipse will you see?
Scientists with NOAA hope to continue a 117-year-old tradition of observing and recording weather changes during an
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Los Angeles, CA (November 16, 2010) — Tributes have been pouring in from the elite of the entertainment and media arenas for Ronni
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Chasen, one of the industry’s preeminent press agents, who was tragically killed in the early morning hours of November 16, 2010. A funeral service for Ronni Chasen will be held on Sunday, November 21, at 11:00 a.m. at Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary, located at 6001 West Centinela Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90045.
Over the course of her remarkable, decades-long career, Ronni Chasen earned the respect and admiration of her colleagues and the loyalty of her clients, to whom she was passionately devoted. Her work was an integral part of her life, and her love for her profession showed in her zeal for everything she did. Bringing more than 35 years of experience to bear, she approached her job with an extraordinary blend of old-school public relations and cutting-edge marketing. Her singular enthusiasm and indefatigable spirit endeared her to everyone with whom she worked, and it
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The Texas Department of Transportation’s land purchases for the expansion of Interstate 35E in North Texas are part of a federal grand jury’
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s probe into potential criminal activity, according to state records obtained by The Dallas Morning News.
The agency confirmed the federal investigation in a letter sent last month to the state attorney general’s office. TxDOT officials declined last week to discuss the inquiry, its scope or what prompted it.
“I really can’t comment on any aspect of it just because of the fact that it’s an active investigation by the feds,” agency spokesman Bob Kauffman said.
TxDOT notified the attorney general because the transportation agency wants to withhold copies of subpoenas regarding I-35E land acquisition. The News requested the subpoenas in February under the state’s Public Information Act.
The newspaper reported in December that two Dallas real estate men raked in millions of taxpayer dollars by buying right of way and then selling it to the state months later at a profit. The TxDOT letter did not say whether those purchases are part of
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The Sarasota Orchestra�s skillful performance of great moments from Oscar-worthy film scores effectively turned the usual structure of those films upside down.
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The wisdom of such a step is debatable, but the pleasure it provided on Saturday evening was undeniable.
n a production created by John Goberman's New York-based PGM Productions, excerpts from such iconic movies as �Gone With the Wind,� �Ben-Hur,� �An American in Paris,� �Citizen Kane� and �The Wizard of Oz� were screened while the orchestra, under Andrew Lane�s decisive direction, played the scores in synchronization with the images projected above them.
�The Adventures of Robin Hood� boasts a dynamic score by one of the European composers who effectively took over Hollywood movie music from 1930 to 1980, Erich Korngold. Unfortunately, the 1938 film�s sound track made separation of music and dialogue problematical, rendering the witty spoken words nearly unintelligible amid the resonance of the orchestra.
The same technical hurdle had a negative effect on Max Steiner�s score for the 1939 hit, �Gone with
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Consultant recommends candidates from Miami, Colorado and New Jersey from among 28 applicants.
A consultant is recommending that Brevard County commissioners interview three
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candidates for consideration as the next county manager.
Daniel Alfonso, the city manager of Miami.
Todd Leopold, the former county manager of Adams County, Colorado.
John Pulomena, the county administrator in Middlesex County, New Jersey.
Higginbotham also named Dale Walker, the former county manager of Macon-Bibb County in Georgia, as a semifinalist.
The recommendation came from a pool of 28 people who applied for the position, a figure that was less than what Higginbotham initially had expected.
County commissioners can decide to hire one of the recommended candidates, hire someone else who applied or recruit someone else for the position.
Brevard's former county manager, Stockton Whitten, left on April 30 to take a position as associate vice president in charge of facilities and special projects at Eastern Florida State College.
Assistant County Manager Frank Abbate currently is serving as interim county manager, but did not apply
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The Lowcountry was spared of Hurricane Irene’s wrath last week, but Sun City took the storm seriously and was prepared to batten
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down the hatches if the threat of a hurricane hitting the area became a reality.
Community Association staff monitored the storm and began preparations for Hurricane Irene early last week with several formal meetings to implement the Community Associations’ Hurricane Preparedness Plan, which covers preseason planning, all the way up to evacuation, said Damon Williams, the assistant executive director.
Planning for Hurricane Irene reached the notification stage locally early last week. All Sun City directors reviewed departmental standard operating procedures as a group to ensure there were no holes in the plan and all responsibilities were clear. The Community Association was lucky that Hurricane Irene swayed eastward and Sun City never reached the hurricane watch/standby mode, Williams added.
In preparation for a possible hit of Hurricane Irene, the Facilities Services Department stocked its emergency preparedness trailer, fueled vehicles, secured barricades and other heavy equipment, readied storm panels and arranged for delivery of the emergency generator for Sun City’s recovery headquarters.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - The global price of cashew nuts has jumped nearly 10 percent over the past week, after Tanzania’s
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government started buying the entire country’s stock at a higher price, a trader said.
Growers of cashews, the most valuable export crop for the East African nation, had been holding back from selling after prices fell below what they said it cost them to produce.
President John Magufuli last week ordered a 94 percent increase in the domestic price to help the farmers and told the government to buy the estimated 220,000 tonne crop after private buyers balked at the higher price.
Army personnel have been ferrying truck loads of the crop purchased by the government to selected storage areas.
The price of the commodity has risen to $3.80 per pound from $3.50 in the last seven to ten days, said Michael Stevens, a commodities trader at Scotland-based Freeworld Trading.
Global kernel prices hit a high of $4.8 per pound at the beginning of the year, but as demand from the United States and Europe fell, they
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Verizon has agreed to buy AOL for $4.4 billion.
The move is positioned as a way to fuel the growth of the tel
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co giant’s mobile and over-the-top video businesses. AOL’s assets and expertise in mobile content and advertising will support Verizon’s goal of creating a “global multiscreen network platform” that delivers content for consumers wherever they are, and helps advertisers reach them while they’re there, according to Lowell McAddam, chairman and CEO of Verizon.
“At Verizon, we’ve been strategically investing in emerging technology, including Verizon Digital Media Services and OTT, that taps into the market shift to digital content and advertising. AOL’s advertising model aligns with this approach, and the advertising platform provides a key tool for us to develop future revenue streams,” he added in a statement.
AOL’s chairman and CEO Tim Armstrong will remain at the helm following the completion of the deal, which will turn AOL into a wholly owned subsidiary of Verizon.
The deal is expected to close this summer.
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Arsenal boss Unai Emery has spoken out on his plans at left-back after Ainsley Maitland-Niles suffered a leg
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fracture which rules the youngster out for up to eight weeks.
Maitland-Niles started against Manchester City at the weekend but the 20-year-old was forced off after only 35 minutes of Arsenal’s opening Premier League match of the 2018/19 campaign.
Summer signing Stephan Lichtsteiner came on to replace Maitland-Niles at left-back and Emery is considering starting the experienced Swiss against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.
Another option for Emery is Nacho Monreal who missed the Gunners’ 2-0 defeat to City but rejoined his team-mates in training this week after returning from a knee problem.
Sead Kolasinac is also unavailable with a knee injury and the Bosnian is expected back in October.
‘It’s clear that we don’t want to have injuries in the team. When you want to play and be competitive, they can arrive,’ Emery said when
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Students are encouraged to write with new reward program.
SAINT THOMAS - Danielle Parson had an interesting story to tell, but she
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wasn't sure how listeners would react to it.
"I didn't really think anybody would like it," Parson said.
For a writing assignment, Parson was to write a personal narrative. She chose to recall the time she attended a Rockets football game and ended the night in the emergency room. For her writing efforts on her story, Parson was one of 13 Saint Thomas Elementary students whose writing ability and perseverance were recognized at a special party Thursday morning hosted by Principal Andrew Kyle and Kelly Nair, literacy coach at Saint Thomas.
Parson knew her story was being submitted to Kyle, but she didn't know her piece had been selected as one of the winners until her teacher told her right before the party.
"I was like, me?" Parson said, describing her reaction to having her story picked.
Parson said when she was given the assignment, that particular story was the first one to come to her mind. But it was one that she never really
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Baby on board! Kate Middleton made her first public appearance since announcing her second pregnancy during a meet and greet with The President of the Republic of
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Singapore and his wife, Mrs. Tony Tan Keng Yam, on Oct. 21.
Kate debuted her tiny baby bump in an gray Alexander McQueen coat with a matching Jane Taylor hat. We approve!
Kensington Palace confirmed yesterday that the Duchess of Cambridge is due in April.
“I’ve been looking forward to getting out of the house," Kate quipped with the President. “It’s a bit colder than when we last met,” she continued, speaking of their meeting in 2012.
Her husband, Prince William, who looked smart in a navy blue suit and burgundy tie, accompanied the Duchess.
The Princess is expected to attend the Wildlife Photographer of The Year 2014 Awards Ceremony at the Natural History Museum later today. We can’t wait to see what she’s going to wear next!
The royals are already parents to their one-year-old son, George.
Do you think George
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PwC must pay a $25 million penalty for misconduct in connection with a report submitted to regulators on behalf of a banking client.
An
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accounting firm that's supposed to help keep banks from breaking the rules ended up breaking the rules itself, improperly altering a document sent to regulators after it was pressured by a banking client.
As a result, PwC, also known as PricewaterhouseCoopers, is being suspended and must pay a $25 million penalty.
The New York Department of Financial Services is prohibiting PwC from doing certain consulting work for banks it regulates for 2 years. In addition to paying the fine, PwC has also agreed to change procedures to make sure the misconduct doesn't happen again.
Regulators say PwC changed the warning language in a report it submitted for its client, Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi. The language originally pointed out that the Japanese bank had done wire transfers on behalf of countries that face U.S. sanctions, such as Iran and Sudan.
But, after pressure from the bank, the language was whitewashed so it was less likely to trigger red flags
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Can you assist police with their investigations?
Victims of anti-social behaviour in Ripon have told the Gazette this week that they won�
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�t allow offenders to rule by intimidation.
City residents are standing together to help Ripon Police with their crackdown, after a number of cars have been targeted with stone throwing and other criminal behaviour over recent months.
Police have identified a number of young people suspected of being involved.
Ripon taxi driver Richard Fieldman has urged residents to be vigilant, after his taxi was pelted with stones in the early hours of Saturday morning while driving customers over Bondgate Green bridge to Nidd village.
Mr Fieldman said: “It was very frightening for them and they didn’t know what was going on. We just heard a loud bang. People must report all of the incidents, this could cause a serious accident.
“Bondgate is becoming a no-go area, the same thing happened to my colleague in the area. We can’t let these people intimidate us and dictate our lives, something must be done about it. When I go over
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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, infamous for killing his own citizens, once said he would stop swearing because God threatened him.
Now, in response
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to reports that House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez had several extramarital affairs, the oddly pious Duterte dismissed the allegations, saying Alvarez didn’t know any better because he wasn’t Christian.
“Even if Bebot (Alvarez’s nickname) says he has five or four (women), we can’t do anything. He never converted to Christianity so he is not bound by the number of women you can have,” Duterte said during the launch of the Metro Manila Development Authority crisis monitoring and management center in Makati.
Monogamy is by no means a concept exclusive to Christianity.
Duterte also asked the crowd, in bizarre Trumpian rhetorical fashion, Who among us doesn’t have mistresses? No word on how many hands went up. But he added that there was a simple way to get away with having affairs: Just tell everyone you don’t believe in God.
Duterte then teased Quezon
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Despite the decline of the camcorder market, Sony's latest HDR-GW77V Handycam looks to make a splash in the Hand
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ycam range.
Not only is the 10x optical zoom HDR-GW77V tough enough to survive a drop from 5 feet, it's also waterproof down to 16 feet.
The 29.8mm equivalent wide-angle lens can extend through to 298mm to capture far-away subjects on the move. Optical image stabilisation is also built into the lens to help steady capture.
The Handycam offers a 28Mbit/sec data rate when capturing 1080p60 movie files, while the back-illuminated Exmor R sensor can capture JPEG stills at a whopping 20.4-megapixels. There's even Sony's Intelligent Sweep Panorama mode - as featured in most Sony Alpha and Cyber-shot stills cameras - to capture a panoramic image by moving the Handycam through a scene in real time.
There's also a 3-inch, 921k-dot touchscreen LCD that's said to work while submerged, which is mounted
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Examining the Recent Silver Rally, Will It Last?
Silver had a big day on February 28 th as it sharply rose by 4.
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5% - the sharpest gain for silver since January 3 rd when it added 5.94% to its value. But, unlike yesterday's gain, the rise in silver back then was prompted by the sharp increase in gold when it rose by 2.15%. Yesterday gold price increase by only 0.76%. Since the big bump in silver it managed to tumble down by 6.89% on Wednesday and then bounced back by nearly 3% on March 1 st. So what is going on with silver? And what could stop silver from reaching the $50 mark within the next few months?
Up to the sharp fall on Wednesday, silver added 8.4% to its value within five days. This rally seems to be more than just driven by the increase in the price of gold. After all, in the last five business days the price of gold rose by only 1%. It doesn't seem to be a matter of "silver is catching up with gold" movement because as seen in
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JACK BUTLAND feared his career could have been finished by his ankle injury.
The 24-year-old Stoke keeper revealed repeated setbacks sent
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him to some dark places as he wondered if he’d ever get back.
Butland spoke candidly about his injury horror as he celebrated his recall to the England squad.
It was playing for England in Germany in March last year that he fractured his ankle and ended up being out for over a year.
Butland required surgery after the freak accident but then broke down again on the eve of the season.
He then required further surgery to repair scar tissue just before Christmas and didn’t return to the Stoke side until the final five games of the season.
He said: “Being out for so long makes you stronger but sometimes you reach your lowest point.
“There are times when you don’t know if you are going to play again, when the next injection or operation might be.
“So there are times when you are at rock bottom but that’s when you need the people around you to give you that bit of
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While you were sleeping, innovation was sticking itself in what looks like a Blue Man Group’s torture chamber, phoning a friend from his
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smartphone, and noticing that there are similarities between Apple’s antenna testing facility and a vaccination patch.
1. Thad Allen, the man in charge of the BP leak, is worried that oil may be seeping out from the seabed, and has ordered BP to start thinking about reopening the cap to funnel oil to the surface. Not surprisingly, the firm’s shares have tanked on the news. It has also emerged that the blowout preventer was serviced in China rather than the U.S. in order to save money.
2. Steve Jobs has topped Media Guardian’s 100 list, leapfrogging over Sergey and Larry, due to the way he is changing the way we consume stuff. Most interesting fact from the top 10 is that Evan Williams is seen as more powerful than Mark Zuckerberg. The two social media bods are separated by Simon Cowell. Jobs’ firm Apple opened up its antenna test lab for all to see
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Taxi operator Ola has retained market leadership in the city after registering a 40 per cent month-on-month growth, the company said.
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CHENNAI: Taxi operator Ola has retained market leadership in the city after registering a 40 per cent month-on-month growth, the company said today.
Chennai is the second largest market for Ola after Bengaluru in which over 25,000 vehicles are registered on the platform, OLA said in a statement.
"Chennai accounts for the second largest share in Ola's one million daily requests, nationally," it said.
"We have constantly been building and innovating for the local market by bringing on board multiple categories for customers across Mini, Sedan, Prime and autorickshaws," Ola, Business Head-Tamil Nadu, Ravi Teja said.
"Our understanding of the local market has helped us scale rapidly in city with customers preferring us for a wide range of mobility options," he said.
"In the coming year, we will continue to innovate on newer categories and bring in more options for users.
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Result of July Poetry Competition and so much more!
A Joyful and Very Funny Poem - read it here!
It’
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s been a busy time for me as your Community Poet.
I hosted an Open Mic Evening at Gayton Library earlier this week. It was such a hot evening that I didn’t expect too many poets to turn up, but we’re a resilient bunch and there were about twenty of us. Simon is a vivacious story teller and we were entranced with his tales. Also good to see Angela, Joy, Samuel, Heather, Vicki, John, Sharon, Marilyn and many others.
Kenton Library launched their Summer Reading Challenge with The Big Friendly Read and I was invited to run a workshop with some of the children. They wrote poetry and some beautiful pictures were drawn and coloured in. In particular I’d mention Krishay, Joshita, Tiana, Manish, Dhruvi, Tahani, Hasnaa, Abdun, Baasit and Neha.
Manish also entered this month’s Poetry
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When Walmart moves, people move with it.Suppliers found that out the hard way when retailer went big for RFID adoption a few years
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back.
When Walmart moves, people move with it.
Suppliers found that out the hard way when retailer went big for RFID adoption a few years back. "What do you mean we need to provide a better way to automate the tracking of products across the supply chain?" That one hurt lots of companies, especially smaller ones that hadn’t invested in the technology. Still, Walmart says it must be so. Then let it be so.
But given the domestic interest in environmental activism, Walmart's latest move could be even more profound. If you can't guilt companies into action, then hit them in the wallet!
The Walmart announcement isn’t really a surprise, but the clock is now ticking for the big consumer products companies. Ha, and they thought they could get away with ignoring the CDP’s annual questionnaire urging companies to disclose greenhouse emissions information voluntarily!
The mega-retailer will look first at the impact of products in seven categories
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The Marine Corps’ footprint in Afghanistan is changing dramatically as a drawdown in forces continues throughout the summer.
The latest changes include a shift
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in central Helmand province in which one infantry battalion — 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines, out of Camp Lejeune, N.C. — is distributed across Marjah, Nawa, and several other districts, with Afghan forces taking a leading role. Second Battalion, 9th Marines, and 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines, both out of Lejeune, left the battlefield recently and were not replaced.
The Corps also has realigned all remaining infantry units to fall under Regimental Combat Team 6, out of Camp Lejeune, N.C., as Afghan National Security Forces increasingly lead security operations in Helmand. The change took effect July 5 when RCT-5, out of Camp Pendleton, Calif., transferred its powers to RCT-6. RCT-5’s headquarters element was not replaced.
RCT-6, commanded by Col. John Shafer, now includes both the remaining units in northern Helmand and 3/8.
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Newt Gingrich, the former Republican Speaker of the House, issued a warning to fellow members of his party for not supporting Donald Trump because it could
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lead to Hillary Clinton winning the election.
He said Clinton would be a “nightmare” as president and would head the “most corrupt and dishonest administration in American history.” Clinton will be even “harder to work with” than President Obama, and “she will simply smother you,” he warned.
“I think to sit on your hands, to find some pretense because Donald Trump is not pure enough, so you’re willing to have Hillary Clinton get elected, is an enormous disservice to the future of the country and to the future of our children and grandchildren,” Gingrich, who ran for president in 2012, added in the video.
He appeared to be responding to Speaker Paul Ryan’s conference call in which he advised fellow GOP lawmakers do to what’s best for their districts. Ryan said he’s not going to defend Trump in the wake of 11-year-old taped
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A new Washoe County Sheriff will be sworn in soon. Tuesday night, Darin Balaam defeated Heidi Howe by about 14,000 votes
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to win the position.
A new Washoe County Sheriff will be sworn in soon.
Tuesday night, Darin Balaam defeated Heidi Howe by about 14,000 votes to win the position.
Balaam has 21 years of experience with the Sheriff's Office, but he'll have some new challenges to face as the new sheriff.
Balaam won't officially be sworn in until next year, but current sheriff Chuck Allen says he'll start taking Balaam through what he needs to know next week.
"It's all about getting him up to speed on where we are with the budget and what's important," Allen said. "He said he was concerned about it as I was and continue to be. Personnel matters, and just the status of where the Sheriff's Office is."
Balaam celebrated his campaign at Pin
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WASHINGTON - As the threat of internal corruption dogs the ranks of border security forces, the Obama administration is considering regularly rotating agents to other locations to distance
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them from the persuasive power and money of Mexico's drug cartels.
Such a decision would subject locally recruited U.S. Border Patrol agents and Customs and Border Protection officers to the periodic relocations already required for agents within the FBI, U.S. Secret Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration and other premier federal law enforcement agencies.
"It is something we are looking at very carefully," James Tomsheck, chief of internal affairs for Customs and Border Protection, told the Houston Chronicle in an interview. "It is too early to make a (final) assessment, but we certainly believe it does have an impact."
Four CBP employees have been arrested on corruption-related charges in the last four months. Another 132 CBP employees have been arrested since 2005 as a result of investigations by Tomsheck's 214 internal affairs investigators across the country.
The Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General's 213 criminal investigators have arrested 178 CBP employees across the country as well since 2003 for
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As classes let out in Searcy, Ark., on Tuesday, and students scattered across neighborhoods, a seventh-grader in the Riverview School
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District noticed something that stopped him in his tracks. He was taking a shortcut across campus, on the way to meet his mother at work, the district’s superintendent said in an interview.
The route took him near an overgrown patch of woods on the school grounds, a little-used area that doesn’t get a lot of foot traffic. And there, just visible through the brambles and underbrush, the young man saw it.
They hadn’t been buried, like a grave, Dewitt said. They were just out there, visible to a passerby, mere feet from the school’s administrative offices.
The middle-schooler, whom the district and the authorities did not identify, then told a trustworthy high school student about his disturbing discovery, Riverview Superintendent David Rutledge said. The older student informed the school resource officer — a law enforcement official stationed on campus — and local police were called.
It’s a puzzling
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Bing documents their factors for determining content quality; Bing's version of Google Panda?
Michael Basilyan, Senior Program Manager from the Bing
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Content Quality Team, shared a nice set of details on the Bing blog about how Bing’s algorithms determine what makes for content quality.
Michael Basilyan explained that content quality is a primary factor in their ranking algorithm, along with topical relevance and context. Michael then went on to explain that content quality is made up of three primary factors, authority, utility and presentation.
Bing defines authority as if they can trust the content. How do they know if they can trust the content? It is not just about the links pointing to the page but also about how established the web site and web page is. In addition, Bing looks at signals from social networks to see if the author is well cited, recognized and an authority in the space. They also explain that how they determine authority changes by query segment, where health authorities need professional documents written about the authority.
This is about determining if the page written is useful and detailed enough to the searcher for them to accomplish their task.
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Santiago De Cuba - Cuba, long a source of inspiration for leftist Latin American governments, celebrated the 60th anniversary of its revolution on
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Tuesday facing increasing isolation in a region dominated by a resurgent right.
Havana - Cuba will celebrate 60 years of revolution on Tuesday amidst economic crises and political reforms, the first time it will mark such an anniversary without a revolutionary fighter in power.
Caracas - The Venezuelan government took control Tuesday of installations owned by Goodyear, a day after the US tire-maker closed its operations in the crisis-torn South American country.
Panama - China's President Xi Jinping and his Panamanian counterpart Juan Carlos Varela signed a string of cooperation agreements Monday as Beijing aims to extend its political and economic influence in Latin America.
Caracas - President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday increased Venezuela's minimum wage by 150 percent, the sixth readjustment this year, as part of an economic reform plan that has failed to curb rampant inflation.
Havana - Cuba President Miguel Diaz-Canel personally welcomed back doctors at Havana airport, a local newspaper reported,
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St. Louis police have reportedly made two arrests in the vicious beating of a commuter on the St. Louis MetroLink light rail system.
As
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the Inquisitr previously reported, a passenger on a St. Louis MetroLink light rail train was brutally attacked on Monday night after allegedly being asked what he thought about the Michael Brown “situation.” A cellphone video of the incident was subsequently uploaded to social media.
“Police said the victim, who is white, was punched and kicked by three black men, one of whom had made the reference to the teen killed in Ferguson by a police officer Aug. 9,” the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
The primary alleged assailant (see footage below) appears to be a man wearing a red shirt and a red ball cap.
From what the victim, 43, told police, the blows starting raining down on him after he allegedly told the men that “he hadn’t put much thought into it,” i.e., the Michael Brown case in which the teen was fatally shot by officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, a St
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The senior will graduate in May, but over the past five years he has recovered from breaking his left arm twice and his right leg.
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BRIER — Jake Downard’s career as a basketball player at Greenbrier was nearly over before it ever began.
But his injuries haven’t stopped him from playing the sport he loves.
As an eighth-grader, Downard broke his left arm after driving into the basket and landing on it awkwardly.
The injury forced him to miss the rest of the season and his rehab delayed him from entering high school ready to compete for playing time.
After playing on Greenbrier’s freshman team for a year, Downard was nearly ready to make the transition to varsity, when injury struck again.
Downard’s sophomore basketball season was cut short when he broke his right leg.
His season was over, but Downard was not; he wasn’t ready to give up fighting for basketball, not yet.
Now used to the rehab process, Downard watched from the sidelines as the Bobcats put together a 3
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An octagon has eight equal sides.
An octagon has eight sides. You don't need complicated math to draw one, especially if you
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have established parameters such as a square or rectangular surface. To cut an octagon on a tabletop, or even a blank piece of wood, all you need do is make sure all eight sides are the same length by cutting off the corners. Using basic mechanical skills and a circular saw, you can cut almost any table or panel into an octagonal shape with little effort.
Clamp a straightedge diagonally across one corner of the tabletop or panel. Trace the line on the tabletop. Move the straightedge to the next three corners and repeat.
Measure the eight sides created by the lines. If they're not equal, move the straightedge forward or back and trace new lines. Repeat until all eight sides are equal.
Cut along the lines using a circular saw, keeping the blade just to the outside of the line.
Sand the sides of the octagon flush to the line with a hand block equipped with 100-grit sandpaper if you plan on adding molding to
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Serious allegations have been made about the deaths of civilians at the hands of Turkish security forces in the overwhelmingly Kurdish town of Cizre in south
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-eastern Turkey earlier this year.
Local people say Turkish security forces killed up to 160 civilians in the town, according to statements made to the BBC and human rights groups.
The worst single incident ended with the deaths of around 100 people who had been sheltering in three cellars.
The UN human rights chief has expressed his concern in unusually strong terms and wants to send in investigators.
The Turkish foreign ministry dismissed the allegations. It said that the Turkish military took all necessary precautions to protect civilians during military operations.
The killings happened during a 78-day curfew imposed on Cizre between 14 December 2015 and 2 March this year. During the curfew, the town of about 100,000 people was sealed off.
The curfew was part of a military campaign in south-eastern Turkey, which is still going on, targeting the PKK, the armed Kurdish group. Turkey, the European Union and the United States classify it as a terrorist organisation.
Since the long-running
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If you’re a fan of Goldberg’s Famous Bagels living in the eastern portion of Riverhead Town, your morning breakfast run
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just got a bit more convenient.
The bagel and deli chain moved into its fourth North Fork location this week, taking over the former Lenny’s North Fork Bagelry & Cafe.
Goldberg’s now has 11 locations across the East End, including one in downtown Riverhead.
The pair decided to keep news of the new location quiet until they opened on Monday. Lenny Lubrano is still operating Lenny’s Pizza next door.
The new location is full of familiar faces, with staff brought over from the Mattituck store and former Lenny’s employees. Ms. Goldberg said both Goldberg’s and Lenny’s staff have their own group of followers that now can merge into one and keep that “hometown feel” when customers come in.
Like the other locations, the Jamesport store will offer healthier options like acai bowls and healthy lunch sandwiches. They will also offer a variety of
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Our characters are actually not as present in the book as they are in the show. And one of the things that is different from the book is
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that. That's because Laeta wanted to know more about our characters as women. I think she did an incredible job. And her and Richard (Morgan) collaborated on the scripts too. But just the strength in the women, and the intention, the clarity of what they want and what they're driving and fighting for is so clear. It's just incredible.
Well, she definitely makes a great point. Considering that the novel almost completely focuses on the journey of protagonist Takeshi Kovacs (Joel Kinnaman in the show), the supporting and tertiary characters got less of a focus. But Altered Carbon is an ensemble piece, and therefore characters like Dichen Lachman's Reileen are able to become more significant roles in the new TV series.
Dichen Lachman's comments come from my conversation with her at Netflix's junket in New York City, and will no doubt excite the literary fans out there. Because the Altered Carbon novel is told through the
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Matt Willig Cast As Lash in Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Marvel Entertainment has revealed that actor Matt
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Willig will play the Inhuman character Lash in Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. third season.
And now, we know whose face will go under all that Inhuman makeup. Willig is a former NFL football player, who’s filled a number of minor action-heavy roles in film and television. His resume includes Cold Case, Chuck, NCIS, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Year One, and We’re The Millers.
Lash was created in 2014's Inhuman #1 by writer Charles Soule and artist Joe Madureira. A hulking beast of an Inhuman, Lash hails from Orollan, a hidden city of Inhumans who believe the bloodline - and those who get exposed to the Terrigen Mists - must be kept pure (somewhat similar to the city of Inhumans in season 2 of the show). Strong and agile, Lash also has the
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Trump International Hotel is the epicenter of the President’s business interests in D.C.
At the bar of the Trump International Hotel
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in Washington, you can order a crystal spoonful of Hungarian wine for $140. Cocktails run from $23 for a gin and tonic to $100 for a vodka concoction with raw oysters and caviar. There’s a seafood pyramid called “the Trump Tower” that costs $120, or you can hit BLT Prime, a restaurant where the $59 salt-aged Kansas City strip steak comes with a long-shot chance of seeing the President sitting nearby. It’s the only restaurant in town where he has dined.
If the urge to shop strikes, there’s a Brioni boutique in one corner that offers the same Italian suits the President favors, starting at a few thousand a pop. Downstairs, a 90-minute couples massage at the Spa by Ivanka Trump will set you back $460—roughly the rack rate for a recent night in a standard room, where the Trump brand adorns everything from the shampoo bottles
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Philadelphia, PA – What started as one of the worst periods of Miguel Maysonet's football career quickly led to his best
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opportunity.
When Hofstra University dropped its football program after Maysonet's freshman season in 2009, Stony Brook University wasn't far away on Long Island, N.Y., and it offered the scholarship that it first extended to the running back when he was a high school senior starring in Suffolk County at Riverhead High School.
"Hofstra dropping the program was probably the best thing that ever happened to me," Maysonet said today.
Some would say it was the worst thing to happen to defenses in the Big South Conference.
Maysonet has been a dominant force in all three of his seasons at Stony Brook. But he saved his best for last this year while the senior became a finalist for the 26th Walter Payton Award, which will be presented Monday night to the outstanding player in the Football Championship Subdivision.
Wofford fullback Eric Breitenstein and Old Dominion quarterback Taylor Heinicke are the other
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DAEGU, Korea " Col. Michael Lopez assumed command of the 403rd Army Field Support Brigade from Col. Barry Diehl July 8 during
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an indoor ceremony on Camp Walker.
Maj. Gen. Yves Fontaine, Army Sustainment Command commanding general, presided over the ceremony. The 403rd AFSB is a subordinate unit to ASC, located at Rock Island Arsenal, Ill.
In a ceremony that dates back to the 18th century, Diehl passed the unit colors to Fontaine, who then passed them to Lopez. The passing of the colors, witnessed by the members of the unit, signifies the transition of command to a new leader.
The event took on an international flair through participation by the 36th Korean Service Corps Company, assembled in formation, and the Korean 50th HRD Band, which provided the music.
“This ceremony would not be the same without you,” Diehl said of his host-nation comrades.
Diehl thanked the leaders, civilian employees, and service members he served with for two years and acknowledged the importance of the Koreans who helped the brigade succeed in
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LITTLE more than 18 months ago, Timothy Riley was a happy, active young man.
But a diagnosis of leukodystrophy
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- a rare degenerative disease that affects around one in 175,000 people worldwide - brought all that crashing down.
The disease affects the nervous system, stripping people of their ability to perform everyday functions, eventually resulting in death.
Despite being wheelchair-bound and fed by a nasal gastric tube, it was impossible to wipe the smile from Timothy's face on Saturday, as more than 200 people from the Darling Downs biking community headed to Esk to celebrate his 16th birthday.
Timothy was treated to a motorbike ride as part of his birthday celebrations - one of the many highlights on the day.
The community also organised bands on the day and donated money toward Timothy's medical expenses.
"The weekend was absolutely amazing... To see the joy on his face meant absolutely everything to me. It's a great milestone that we never thought we would actually manage to get to,” Timothy's mum Pauline Pesak said.
"I just want to say a huge thank you
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Will the GDPR affect your business?
Story From LBMC: GDPR compliance: Will the EU’s new data regulation affect your
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business?
Prepare for major changes in personal data sharing. The new regulation begins May 25.
GDPR compliance: Will the EU’s new data regulation affect your business?
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect on May 25, and it’s going to have a bigger impact on U.S. organizations than you might think.
The GDPR replaces the EU’s former directive for protecting online personal data and will regulate data protection policies for residents of EU member nations and businesses across the globe who offer services and products to EU residents.
Penalties for violations are steep, so you will want to be prepared. But many organizations don’t know if the GDPR applies to them and, even worse, are unsure how to find out. You might be wondering, “Does the GDPR apply to my company?” If so, here are four questions you should ask.
Is my
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The president had a solid showing among his key ’08 demographic constituencies.
A solid showing among his key ’08 demographic constituencies —c
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oupled with a small dose of economic optimism — and a feeling that Mitt Romney was out of touch with the middle class helped propel President Obama to reelection, according to exit polling conducted Tuesday.
Compared with the results four years ago, Obama was able to maintain his leads among women, young voters, African-American voters and Hispanics in his campaign against Mitt Romney.
After all the discussion of Obama’s play for women — and his effort to make Romney appear extreme on women’s issues — the president won among female voters by 12 points. He took 55 percent of the demographic, compared with 43 percent for Romney — not far off from 2008, when he won women by 13 points.
In particular, the president won big among unmarried women, who backed the president by a whopping 38 points, 68 percent to 30 percent.
But unlike 2008, when Obama won men by one percentage point, the president lost men to Romney this year. He took 45 percent of their vote,
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On this day — does a religious revival in Houston signal an increasing interest by Perry in the presidency; the House prepares to vote on a school finance
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proposal and teachers groups promise a large rally against the proposed cuts; the Chronicle’s Nick Anderson cartoons about John Edwards love child; Sen. Wendy Davis gets profiled in ‘The Clips;’ and in ‘EXTRA!,’ how tax cuts became GOP orthodoxy.
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The Dallas Morning News’ Wayne Slater reports that Gov. Rick Perry has invited the country’s other 49 governors and evangelical leaders for a ‘non-political’ event to pray for the nation.
“Given the trials that beset our nation and the world, from the global economic downturn to natural disasters, the lingering danger of terrorism and continued debasement of our culture, I believe it is
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Steven Spielberg teased Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall about the beginnings of their relationship, actress Cicely Tyson brought more
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than a few people to tears while proudly clutching her Oscar and publicist Marvin Levy sang a few lines from “Hamilton” to an audience that included Lin-Manuel Miranda at a lively Governors Awards Sunday night in Los Angeles.
For the 93-year-old Tyson, it was a half lifetime coming. It had been 45 years since her first and only nomination, for “Sounder” in 1972.
“This is a culmination of all those years of haves and have nots,” Tyson said, noting that she’ll be turning 94 next month.
The private, untelevised dinner gala at the Hollywood & Highland complex has also become an important stop on the campaign trail to the Academy Awards for some of the year’s awards hopefuls, making the event one of the most star-studded of the season. In a spin around the room, you can see Nicole Kidman chatting with “First
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The Navy plans to install a laser weapon prototype on a ship this summer for at-sea testing in the Persian Gulf.
The technology, called
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the Laser Weapon System, will be the first of its kind to be deployed, the Navy said.
The idea is that the laser could zap dangerous swarming small boats and flying drones while on the USS Ponce in the Persian Gulf. Its power also can be scaled down, presenting the Navy a non-lethal alternative to ward off threats such as pirates, terrorists and smugglers.
Officials say the system offers the Navy a weapon at a fraction of the cost of its traditional arsenal — cruise missiles, as well as rapid-fire Gatling guns. Since 2007, the Navy has spent $78 million on the program.
"This is a revolutionary capability," said Chief of Naval Research Rear Adm. Matthew Klunder in a statement. "It's absolutely critical that we get this out to sea with our sailors for these trials, because this very affordable technology is going to change the way we fight and save lives."
It was developed by engineers and scientists from the Navy, defense industry and
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DOBBS FERRY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — Police in Westchester County were searching Monday for the person who
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has been sending disturbing mail to several women in Dobbs Ferry.
As CBS 2’s Scott Rapoport reported, the women said the letters contained threatening and sexual comments.
“I think it’s dreadful,” said resident Janet Rosenberg.
Police said several women in the quaint, quiet village have received the creepy and sexually disturbing letters in the mail. But police would not discuss the incidents on camera.
Police sources told CBS 2 the letters have been appearing in Dobbs Ferry for five years now. The letters have been sent sporadically, with the most recent one having been received in the last few weeks, police said.
Authorities would not say how many letters there have been, or how many women have received them. But another law enforcement source told CBS 2 the letters have also been sent to women in other parts of Westchester County over the years.
Hundreds of letters may have been sent in all.
CBS 2 was told authorities have spoken
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Gas Tycoon 3 - lite version!
Gas Tycoon 3 is a fast-thinking game for fans of pipe puzzles. Your goal is to connect
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consumers to a source of energy by turning elements in order to provide a clear path. Sounds simple? Wait until you've tried it.Gas Tycoon 3 is the most anticipated sequel of the famous series of puzzle games "Gas Tycoon", "Oil Tycoon", "World Of Oil", "Plug the Wire" and others. To get maximum points you need to assemble the puzzle quickly and spend less rotation! But remember that the pipe can go behind the screen and return to the opposite side. Such puzzles is most complex. Can you collect all puzzles? Gas Tycoon 3 - lite version is the free version of Gas Tycoon 3 - pipe puzzle game. GAS TYCOON 3 PIPE PUZZLE GAME HAS THE FOLLOWING FEATURES: 175 LEVELS IN 5 PACKSUNIVERSAL APP FOR ALL IOS DEVICE NOW AVAILABLE SIX SKINS + REGULAR UPDATES You can choose a skin for the game to your liking. Gas Tycoon 3 Universal includes such popular
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Skateboarder Jean-Marc Johannes will add another accolade to his list of achievements when he receives special recognition at the Cape Town Sports Council
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Awards at UWC today.
The annual event honours athletes' achievements within all sporting codes that fall under the Western Cape Department of Cultural Affairs. As South Africa's most decorated skateboarder, Johannes joins a list of top athletes from across the sporting spectrum.
Johannes's love for the sport started at the age of 11 and since then he has begun competing around the world, becoming a regular on international podiums the past three years.
Prior to the awards, he collected gold, silver and bronze medals across Asia and in France, along with being a current Guinness World Record holder.
At the Cape Town Sports Council event, Johannes's achievements over the past two years will be highlighted with a special presentation.
This is the first time in the Cape Town Sports Council Awards' history that skateboarding has been honoured at the event and it is testament to the sport's growing impact. This is reflected in skateboarding’s recent inclusion as a code at the 2020 Tokyo
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Bright green indicates areas with few large rocks on this shaded relief map of the area in and around the targeted landing site for NASA's Mars Phoenix
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Lander.
When NASA?sPhoenix Mars Lander sets down in the Martian arctic on Sunday, it will open anew, icy frontier for scientists back on Earth.
Phoenix, astationary lander set to make a plannedMay 25 descent to the Martian surface, is going to where no probe has gonebefore - the northern plains of Vastitas Borealis on Mars.
"Ten yearsago, you wouldn't have chosen this spot at all because it looks just like everyother part of Mars,? said Phoenix principal investigator Peter Smith of theUniversity of Arizona.?A lot of the features aren't even named up there."
But it?sthe promise of whatlies beneath the frozen surface features, signs of untouched Martian waterice first spotted by orbiters in 2002, which spurred NASA engineers andresearchers to launch the $420 million Phoenix last August.
Wieldingits robotic arm like a backhoe, Phoenix is designed to dig down in to theMart
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Like a horror-film villain, “pink slime”—the cheeky nickname for scraps of slaughtered cow that have been pulver
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ized, defatted, subjected to ammonia steam to kill pathogens, and congealed into a filler for ground beef—takes a pounding but keeps coming back.
Last month, McDonald’s announced it would stop using the stuff. But just this week, pink slime got a de facto endorsement from none other than the USDA, which—the online journal The Daily reported—plans to keep buying millions of pounds of it for use in the National School Lunch Program.
These developments are just the latest installments of a long-playing drama. The product first entered my consciousness in the 2008 documentary Food, Inc., when the product’s maker, Beef Products International, was proud enough of its now-infamous burger extender to do what no other meat company would: invite filmmaker Robert Kenner into its factory to film its shop floor in action.
The scene, video below, features a Beef Products executive talking over a milieu straight out of Chaplin’s Modern
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Chelsea defender Gary Cahill has been ruled out of England's World Cup qualifier with San Marino on Friday.
Cahill hurt his knee in
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Sunday's game against West Ham and will not play in Rimini but will be reassessed ahead of next Tuesday's game against Montenegro.
Newcastle centre-half Steven Taylor has been called up following some impressive recent performances in the Barclays Premier League.
Cahill's absence adds to coach Roy Hodgson's defensive woes. Spurs' Michael Dawson pulled out on Sunday, to be replaced by Joleon Lescott, while Rio Ferdinand also pulled out of the squad on Monday as he continues to follow an intricate fitness programme.
Steven Caulker was Ferdinand's replacement with the Manchester United man and Dawson ruled out of both matches over the next week. Whilst Hodgson's defensive formation for Friday's encounter with San Marino may not be a concern, next week's clash with Montenegro in Podgorica certainly will be.
Unless Cahill's knee injury eases sufficiently for him to be made available, England face the uncomfortable scenario of selecting between players who have next to no international experience
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Linda M. LaVigne passed away at her home in Gaylord on Wednesday, March 21, 2012, at the age of 71.
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Linda was born in Plainwell on April 20, 1940. On Aug. 30, 1980, she married Allen LaVigne. The couple owned and operated A&L LaVigne Trucking.
Linda enjoyed knitting and trips to the casino and loved her cats. Her true passion in life was her family. She treasured her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
She is survived by her husband, Allen; children, Christopher Marciniak and Janna (Tim) Beckwith; nine grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; her brother, Bernard Swartz; her uncle, Owen Swartz; and her aunt, Joyce Croy.
She was preceded in death by her daughter, Cinda (Marciniak) Czykoski.
Funeral services will be held today (Saturday), March 24, at 2 p.m. from the Nelson Funeral Home.
Visitation took place on Friday, March 23, from 5 to 8 p
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MAURICIO POCHETTINO’s long wait for a goal against Real Madrid ended at the Bernabeu.
As
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boss of Espanyol, Pochettino endured seven matches against the Spanish giants.
He lost all of them, seeing 20 goals go in with zero for his team.
All that was forgotten in the Bernabeu as terrific Tottenham stunned mighty Madrid on their own patch in their Group H showdown.
Granted it was an own goal from French defender Raphael Varane in the 28th minute that ended Pochettino’s drought. But it was no less than super Spurs’ deserved as they stuck to their manager’s promise of having a right go at Zinedine Zidane’s Galaticos.
They were under the cosh for so much of this game but never went into their shell. Moussa Sissoko picked out the surging Serge Aurier on the overlap and his driven cross from the right was aimed at Harry Kane.
Kane tried a clever flick. It did not work but it surprised Verane who accidentally deflected in
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Kendrick Lamar made a special trip to High Tech High School in New Jersey recently, where he sat in with students and listened to their poetry
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while they talked about the importance of his albums and work. This meeting was all set up when the student's teacher, 29-year-old Brian Mooney, used Kendrick's recent album, To Pimp a Butterfly, in class to draw correlations between the message of the music and Toni Morrison's novel, The Bluest Eye.
Following the success in the class, Mooney decided to share the results of the curriculum online, where it then reached over 10,000 FaceBook shares and found its way to Kendrick and his team. “I was feeling incredibly grateful and humbled that my work received that much exposure and reached that wide of an audience that Kendrick himself read it,” Mooney said. Kendrick didn't charge the school to come speak, and the administration encouraged the involvement with students, which also included a full panel discussion in front of the entire school, with Kendrick speaking on his community
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Suspended Suffern Central Schools Superintendent Douglas Adams is accusing the Board of Education and its president of going behind his back to make inappropriate decisions and
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taking deliberate actions to subvert his role in running the district.
In a petition filed March 6 to the state education commissioner, Adams states that board President Amany Messieha Dgheim’s actions leading up to his suspension not only violated state education law but stifled his duties as superintendent.
A day later, he filed a second petition against the board itself, stating their authorization of Dgheim's actions implicates them as well.
Illegally restricted Adams' participation in two board meetings; one where she limited his ability to speak; and another by holding a meeting when board members knew he'd be out of town.
Hired a professional service provider without Adams participation or consideration.
Signed a cross-contract agreement with BOCES without his authorization.
Modified the board agenda, without consulting Adams.
Adams' claims against the school board mirror his allegations against Dgheim in terms of restricting his participation at a pair of meetings and entering into
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My favourite indicator of market breath, the McClennan Summation Index, is finally beginning to get to a level where it is becoming interesting
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. A move into negative territory, though some ways to go, will herald the probability that stocks will soon begin providing price action that brings solid technical support. This is good news particularly for those who have been out of the market since the early September bull move. In my books patience is a major key to achieving above average investment returns. Those investors who relaxed and held off while the herd chased the trend should now begin to sharpen their attention. At the moment the Dow Transports (DJ-20) are showing more strength than the Dow Industrials (DJ-30). However, Technology, Mid-Caps and Small Caps all remain strong despite pull-backs. This indicates that the March 2009 bull trend is still solidly in place for the moment.
American and European stock exchanges have plenty of information to digest. The Republican victory in the lower house in Washington more than likely means there will be no Quantitative Easing mark 3, not without a fight anyway. This has implications for F
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CHATHAM — Glenwood High School’s principal has given notice that he will resign June 30 after one year on the job.
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Russell Tepen, 50, whose resignation was approved Thursday night by the Ball-Chatham School District board, said he is quitting to devote more time to family responsibilities in the Jerseyville area.
Tepen, who replaced Jim Lee, Glenwood High principal for nine years, said an increase in family-related responsibilities in the past year influenced his decision.
Tepen said he first began discussing his quandary with the district’s superintendent, Douglas Wood, in January, so his resignation shouldn’t have been a surprise to the district’s leaders.
Tepen, who is single, said he needs to spend more time at his family’s farm in Jersey County, where he grew up. He said he also needs to spend more time with an 8-year-old boy in Jerseyville for whom he is legal guardian, and he needs to assist his ailing mother, also in Jerseyville.
A brother of Tep
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Law enforcement is responsible for catching the crooks behind online crime, but it's the private sector that comes to businesses' aid when police are burd
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ened by jurisdiction.
Private companies have become the first aiders of the digital world when businesses are struck down or harassed by hackers, with Trend Micro senior manager of Strategic Products Adam Biviano telling ZDNet that his company and many others like it can be faster to respond than law enforcement.
While Biviano was clear to state that only law enforcement can prosecute criminals, he views Trend Micro and similar organisations as taking on the protector role — a role that he said multinational security companies are well equipped for.
"One of the benefits of a company like Trend and other security firms is we are cross boundary. We have the ability to shut down traffic that our customers are seeing, regardless of where our customers are."
This advantage effectively lumps the private sector with the first-responder role, helping businesses that are being affected to get immediate assistance.
"From a tactical point of view, if you're talking about shutting down a piece of traffic today that's affecting a small
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November 23, 2016 Donald Trump.
Two new Cabinet nominations have been announced Tuesday, with President-elect Trump picking Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education
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and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. They are the first women picked for top-level administration jobs in Trump’s administration. Both positions require Senate confirmation.
Trump also said in a tweet he was seriously considering Dr. Ben Carson for the HUD post.
Trump arrived in Palm Beach County Tuesday evening, and settled in at Mar-a-Lago without incident. He will spend the Thanksgiving holiday here.
President-elect Trump’s meeting with the New York Times dominated much of the coverage Tuesday after he told the Times he disavowed extreme right-wing groups, would keep an open mind on climate change and would not prosecute Hillary Clinton.
The “Trump rally” on Wall Street continued with the Dow Jones industrial average breaking the 19,000-point ceiling.
Poll says Trump not honest or level headed but good for economy, security.
What did Trump tell the New York Times?
Bus crash in Tennessee
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All Master students in Teaching and Curriculum (with the only exception of those working towards their first initial teaching certification, who instead complete a Comprehensive
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Portfolio) need to complete a Master's Essay as the culminating assessment of their program (Px and Sx program codes). There are three possible formats for the Master’s Essay: 1. Library Research, 2. Field Research Project, or 3. Examining Your Own Educational Practice.
In the Description area above, please indicate the format chosen for the Masters Essay as well as the title. If there is public URL for the essay provided by the student, please include the URL as well.
Candidates will identify a significant issue or problem in contemporary U.S. education, do a review of the relevant literature, locate the research in a theoretical framework, state their position, and support it with conceptual arguments or empirical evidence in current educational theory and research. Candidates should also locate this position in the literature. The implications for education, educational theory, and future research must be clearly stated.
Candidates will address a specific educational issue or problem through reporting and
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Nature broke that pact Oct. 25, when a violent downpour unleashed unprecedented fury on the town of Vernazza and the surrounding hills along Italy
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’s northwestern coast, provoking dozens of landslides that swept a sludgy river of earth, trees, cars and debris onto the small seaside settlement. The bodies of three townspeople swept out to sea were recovered weeks later in French coastal waters.
Two months along, much of the mud and debris — which reached about 13 feet, just below the height of first-floor balconies — has been cleared from Vernazza’s main street, which was a lively succession of restaurants, bars and tourist shops.Barely a quarter of the town’s 600 residents returned by early January to their homes, but the alleys resonate with the sounds of heavy machinery, drilling and hammering. Though dressed in the neon colors of public safety workers, many of the crew members are local volunteers, men and women from Vernazza or nearby towns, come to give a hand as best they can.
Matteo Barletta, an architect mapping damage done
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BEIJING — Mao Zedong famously dismissed the atomic bomb as a “paper tiger,” able to kill and terrify, but
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not decisive in war. Even so, China built a nuclear arsenal of its own, and now concerns about the effectiveness of that arsenal as a deterrent are driving it into confrontation with the United States over an antimissile system being built in South Korea. Here’s an explanation of why.
How big is China’s nuclear arsenal?
China conducted its first nuclear test in 1964, and has developed a stable of nuclear missiles. But it is not a big stable, compared with the thousands of warheads held by the United States and Russia.
China does not reveal the size of its nuclear forces. It has about 260 nuclear warheads that could be put on missiles, and by the Pentagon’s latest estimate, China has between 75 and 100 intercontinental ballistic missiles. Some estimates are lower, and one recent assessment said 40 to 50 of China’s ballistic missiles could reach the continental United States.
The United States has deployed about 1,370 nuclear warheads and has stockpiled
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Femara belongs to the class of drugs called aromatase inhibitors. According to a study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine,
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Femara is a better treatment for early stages of breast cancer than tamoxifen. Femara does not have the side affects associated with Tamoxifen either. These side effects have included endometrial cancer, and potentially fatal blood clots.
"Five years of treatment with tamoxifen reduces the risk of breast cancer recurrence by 47 percent and the risk of death by 26 percent," according to Dr. Beat Thurlimann and colleagues. "Despite these benefits, about half the women so treated relapse.” Women past menopause now have a better option to treat early-stage breast cancer, with the approval of a Femara, a drug aimed at staving off recurrences.
The study published today found some problems with Femara. The Swiss researchers with teams in the United States and Australia found that women taking Femara were more likely to experience osteoporosis, higher levels of cholesterol and possible heart problems. The team studied 8,010 women
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There's been growing recognition in the region that entrepreneurs, innovation, advanced technology and fresh ideas will be essential to remaking Erie into a vital,
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forward-facing community.
What better time, then, to restart the Innovation Erie Design Competition as a means to solicit and nurture ideas that could lead to new businesses here? And what better venue for the competition, after a one-year hiatus, than the Idea Lab at Blasco Library?
The competition is centered on people in a variety of disciplines — science, art, manufacturing, engineering, design — entering original ideas for products that could be made in Erie and lead to the creation of new businesses. Participants will receive support from regional and national product development experts at a design lab later in February and early March.
It will be held at Blasco's Idea Lab, which opened in the fall of 2017 as a catalyst for the sort of brainstorming and innovation the contest aims to foster.
As reporter Matthew Rink detailed on Wednesday, the competition was launched in 2008 by Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Penn State Behrend, Civitas and the Erie Art Museum. Previous
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The Public Investment Corp (PIC), which manages almost R2 trillion of assets, voted against a record-breaking nine resolutions at the first ever
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AGM of Steinhoff Africa Retail (Star) in mid-March.
Star, which is the African retail arm of Steinhoff International and is in the process of being renamed Pepkor, accounted for 14% of the PIC’s "no" votes at AGMs in the three months to March 2018.
The publication of the PIC’s voting record for the first quarter — within a few months of the reporting period instead of several months to a year later — marks a welcome return to the early days of the PIC’s shareholder activism.
In 2008 the PIC was the first institutional investor to disclose how it voted at shareholder meetings. As the largest asset manager in SA, it was able to compel other institutions to follow suit. Sanlam is now the only large institution that refuses to disclose its voting.
In total, the PIC declined to support 64 of the 539 resolutions it voted on during the three months.
In what was
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SPARKLE Computer Co., Ltd., the professional VGA card manufacturer and supplier, today announced the SPARKLE GeForce GTX 460 series Graphics Cards
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, which includes the SPARKLE GeForce GTX 460 768MB Graphics Card, the SPARKLE GeForce GTX 460 1GB OC Graphics Card and the SPARKLE GeForce GTX 460 2GB Graphics Card.
As a deadly weapon of Fermi Family, SPARKLE GeForce GTX460 series graphics cards provide the best performance price ratio, being the the world's best $200 graphics card, it brings a new level of DirectX 11 performance to mainstream PC enthusiasts and gamers around the world.
For Mainstream Market The SPARKLE GeForce GTX 460 series Graphics Cards from SPARKLE deliver all the benefits of the advanced 40nm process from TSMC, a high speed GDDR5 memory interface, and full DirectX 11 support, possessing considerable power improvements compared to its predecessor. They use the GTX460 cores with 336 stream processors and 192-bit / 256-bit memory interfaces with 768MB/1024MB/2048MB GDDR5 memory.
The SPARKLE GeForce GTX 460 series Graphics Cards are designed
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Lou Kerner of Wedbush Securities, who covers the social Web space, is fond of referring to Facebook as the second Internet. He calls it
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this, of course, because so much of what one can do on the open Web one can also do on Facebook, including email, chat, search, e-commerce and dozens of other activities.
I think there are at least a couple of parallel "Internets" emerging: one, as Lou contends, controlled by Facebook, and the other by Apple. It could also be argued that the real, original Internet is increasingly controlled by Google.
The value of the original Internet is that it is largely free, fair and democratic. It's also an awful mess on many days, open to gaming, predatory behaviors and downright criminal activity. While the Facebook "Internet" has fewer of these downsides, it is by no means completely free of the plagues of the open Internet, and it certainly isn't as fair or democratic.
Apple, however, has managed to create a pretty pristine environment without the ugliness that you get with free, fair and open. That pristine state,
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Linden, Sandi (Clay) Titus of Stockton, Steven (Liz) Kamita of Stockton, Stacy (Jim)
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Lorenzen of Roseville, CA and Karen (James) Cairel of Elk Grove; 6 grandchildren, 13 great grandchildren, and many nephews and nieces.
Toshiye was raised in Japan until she returned to the U.S. at age 14. The Teranishi family moved from Stockton to San Francisco where they operated the Azumaya Tofu Company. She married her husband in 1930 and farmed in Linden where they raised their three children until they were sent to Manzanar Internment Camp during the war.
After the war, Toshiye returned to Linden with her family to continue their farming operation.
Toshiye enjoyed watching the Giants, Forty Niners and Kings on TV and taking trips to Reno and Lake Tahoe with her friends to try her luck. She was a member of the Stockton Buddhist Church, JACL, Aichi Shinboku Kai and Tomonkai.
Her friendly smile and gentle demeanor
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JERUSALEM (AFP) - A Palestinian tried to stab a private security guard at an Israeli checkpoint in the West Bank on Saturday (
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Oct 24) and was shot dead, in the latest in a string of such attacks, police said.
"A terrorist, who arrived armed with a knife, tried to stab a security guard at the site. In response, the terrorist was shot by the security force at the scene and killed," a police statement said.
Police said the alleged attacker arrived from the Palestinian side of the Al-Jalama checkpoint between the northern West Bank and Israel.
As at other such checkpoints, private security guards operate alongside troops.
The incident takes to 51 the number of Palestinians killed this month in clashes with police or while carrying out attacks on Israelis. An Israeli Arab has also died.
Eight Israelis have been killed in attacks. One Israeli Jew and one Eritrean were killed after being mistaken for attackers.
Earlier on Saturday, an Israeli told police he had fought off an attempted knife attack near the Old City in annexed east Jerusalem. The alleged assailant fled.
There has been a wave
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RUSH: Bardstown, Kentucky. It’s Chris. Welcome to the program.
CALLER: Rush, thank you so
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much. I’m a huge fan. I really look up to you. When I’m not traveling… I bought the talk radio app for a dollar on the App Store, so I can listen to you when I travel. I have two kids; I’m reading the Rush Revere book right now. They love the talking horse. I run a small business, manufacturing. We’re booming. We make the X-Deck SafeTec Work Platform. Every guy in the shop listens to your program every day. We love you, Rush, and you have tied this together. You are the voice for all of us. But I wanted to make a comment.
You had mentioned yesterday how there’s a CIA program where they’re able to make the IP addresses look like they’re from other places. It’s really funny how this whole story today that we’ve been talking about all day, how the
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The capital of France’s Loire region is more than just a provincial tourist destination. An hour’s drive from Brittany, N
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antes is a lively city that has grown from medieval roots into a buzzing place to be.
With more than 100,000 trees, hundreds of parks and almost three hectares of flower beds, Nantes is remarkably green. From the Parc de Procé — at just over 27 acres, a good space for runners — to the Jardin des Plantes, a botanical garden that includes a 200-year-old magnolia, the city is not short on natural beauty.
Nantes is also committed to sustainability: it was named European Green Capital in 2013 for a climate plan that included three eco-districts to balance affordable housing with green space. It also aims to halve CO2 emissions per capita by 2030.
The medieval Bouffay district in the centre of Nantes is largely pedestrianised, allowing for a relaxed walk. If you don’t fancy walking, public transport is never far away. In 1985, Nantes became the first French city to build
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In this Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018, photo, a North Korean military guide leads a tour of the USS Pueblo in Pyongyang,
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North Korea.
"This remains an important issue for many Pueblo residents and Coloradans, including surviving veterans."
COLORADO POLITICS — U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton is hoping President Donald Trump will request the return of the captured U.S. Navy vessel USS Pueblo during his upcoming summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
“We will never forget the horrors that its crew endured at the hands of their captors,” Tipton, a Republican, said in a Wednesday press release, referring to the spy ship that was captured off the North Korean coast on Jan. 23, 1968.
Also this week, Tipton introduced House Resolution 894, which calls for the ship’s return. Colorado state lawmakers previously have passed resolutions demanding the same.
The U.S. maintained the ship was in international waters when captured until 11 months later, when it reached an agreement that allowed the ship’
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MANILA, December 24, 2004 (STAR) By Donnabelle Gatdula - The country’s three major oil companies along with
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several small oil players are cutting pump prices by an average of 30 centavos per liter.
Pilipinas Shell and Petron Corp., two of the country’s major oil players, announced yesterday a reduction of 30 centavos per liter in gasoline prices effective this Christmas eve.
Caltex Philippines Inc. and small oil players Total Philippines Inc., Eastern Petroleum Corp., Seaoil Philippines Inc. and Uni-oil Philippines Inc. cut pump prices last night.
Flying V, owned by the Villavicencio family, implemented a higher reduction of 35 centavos per liter earlier on Dec. 23. Flying V operates 114 gasoline stations nationwide.
The reduction came following the call made by the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Consumer and Oil Price Watch (COPW) urging the oil firms to cut pump prices in line with falling world crude prices.
Energy Secretary Vince Perez called on the oil firms last Monday to reduce the prices of petroleum products
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LONDON: A mural by elusive British street artist Banksy depicting a child enjoying falling snow that is in fact pollution from a burning bin has been
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sold for more than 100,000 pounds (US$130,000) to a British art dealer.
From one side, the "Season's Greetings" mural on a concrete block garage in Wales shows a small boy with his tongue out to catch snow that, when viewed from another side, turns out to be ash from an industrial bin.
"I bought it and it cost me a six-figure sum," John Brandler of Brandler Galleries, told Reuters by telephone.
"I am lending it to Port Talbot for a minimum of two or three years. I want to use it as a center for an art hub that would bring in internationally famous artists to Port Talbot."
When asked how he could afford such luxuries, he said: "I am an art dealer. I own several Banksies, I also own (John) Constable, (Thomas) Gainsborough, (Joseph Mallord William) Turner, I've got (urban artist) Pure
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