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A new report claims Iowa’s health care industry adds $6.2 billion dollars to the state’s economy. Scott McIntyre | is spokesman for the Iowa Hospital Association (IHA), which conducted the study. “Our hospitals alone provide more than 71,000 jobs and about $4 billion dollars in economic impact,” McIntyre says.
Overall, Iowa’s health care sector provides nearly 294,000 jobs. McIntyre says the data is compiled annually and shared with legislators and other key decision makers to spread awareness of the impact hospitals and other health care operations have on Iowa’s economy. “Not everybody is aware of that, not everybody looks at health care and hospitals as an economic engine, but the reality is they are a large economic engine,” McIntyre says.
As an income source, the report notes Iowa’s 118 community hospitals provide $4.2 billion in salaries and benefits and generate another $1.8 billion through other jobs that depend on hospitals. The entire health care sector is responsible for about one-fifth of the state’s total non- |
Mondelez International is stepping up its investments and innovation in marketing and product development. The Kraft global-snacks spinoff may have stumbled | a bit since its Oct. 1st debut as a new company on the world stage. But give it time.
Today it’s hosting a Mobile Futures conference (follow on Twitter at #MobileFutures), taking pitches from “SoLoMo, mobile at retail, and social TV” startups as part of its commitment, under digital strategist Bonin Bough, to invest in mobile startups.
For example, one idea already submitted in the contest that began last month, for prizes totaling $11,000, is for a Chocolate Piano concept — a chocolate bar that looks like the keys of a piano. “Every key has its own flavor so the bar itself writes a melody of flavors” such as white chocolate, white chocolate with strawberries, milk chocolate, and dark chocolate with almonds, wrote the contestant named Elena.
Mondelez also is betting heavily on a proven creative genius as it builds its brands and marketing presence: David Droga, |
Carwyn Jones calls for Wales to be the safest place in Europe for women, after 'vile' treatment of women who complain of sexual harassment | .
Welsh Government says it needn't release a leak investigation report into events leading up to Carl Sargeant's death, despite losing a vote.
It's been revealed that Carwyn Jones doesn't possess a personal mobile phone "for security reasons".
The Welsh Government says the European market is vital for exports and demands a UK-EU customs union, with full access to the single market.
Leighton Andrews has wrritten to Carwyn Jones saying he has misled the National Assembly'several times' since the death of Carl Sargeant.
Conservative AM Darren Millar has revealed that Carl Sargeant asked him to question First Minister about bullying in the Welsh Government.
Carwyn Jones was told in the Senedd that the timing of his agreement to an independent investigation of his conduct was "suspect".
27% of Welsh voters think the First Minister should resign after claims of bullying in his government and the death of Carl Sargeant.
UKIP |
Yahoo is bidding to strengthen its presence in the increasingly important mobile space with the acquisition of Alike, a location discovery app.
The move | comes as Yahoo faces rising pressure to stay relevant and offer mobile products for consumers as it struggles to compete against Google, Facebook and other social networks.
Alike is designed to let users enter a specific location or business into their device, and it then provides recommendations on places to go that share qualities with the original place.
For instance, a person can enter the name of a boutique, single-origin, small-batch roasted coffee shop in San Francisco, and the app can return a list of similar cafés in Portland, according to a video posted on the service’s website.
“We believe that distilled information, deeply personalized and made accessible anytime and anywhere, is what makes mobile experiences a part of our customers’ daily lives,” the Alike team posted Tuesday morning on its website.
Alike posted this message on its website Tuesday, announcing its purchase by Yahoo.
“In Yahoo we’ve found a team as excited about this vision as |
A Japanese chiropractor thinks he knows why Freiza lost to Gokku in Dragon Ball Z. And what is said reason? Bad posture. |
In an interview with Netarika, chiropractor Yuji Ogawa discussed exactly this, pointing out Frieza's poor positioning in his hover pod.
Ogawa notes that it's hard to tell how first-form Frieza sits in the pod from the manga, so he used a collectible to explain what he meant.
Frieza sits slightly forward in his hover pod, making a strong impression when viewed head on. But from the side, he's hunched over.
Which makes it easier to see said posture in these images from the anime.
"In the pod, he's relaxing in a stooped over position. He also has his arms in the worst position." Because of that, Ogawa says that he will get stiff shoulders, which aren't good if you are planning on kicking Goku arse.
Ogawa images that Frieza is in this position for long stretches of time, saying this not only puts a burden on his nervous system, but also his |
Here’s an update to a chart I have shown regularly. Housing PRICES showed a bottom a while ago. Due to crowding out | from the fiscal stimulus, it was expected that a housing recovery would be more visible in housing prices than in housing CONSTRUCTION. Nevertheless, it would not be a housing recovery unless construction increased to more normal levels, which is why I have watched the construction activity closely.
I have expected non-residential construction to be high, and it is compared to most of 2007 and all of the years before that. But it appears that construction spending now is just a bit lower than it was when the recession began.
Note that this graph is construction SPENDING, which differ from the VOLUME of construction according to construction prices. 2009’s construction prices must be especially low, so a time series for the volume of construction activity should show 2009 to be less below prior years’ than shown by the spending series.
During the boom, I see an obvious crowding out (as opposed to the “crowding in” claimed by Professor Krugman): more housing construction was |
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison have one of the most fascinating bromance relationships in Silicon Valley.
Ben | ioff started his career at Oracle and was Ellison's top lieutenant, becoming the company's youngest VP at age 26. Ellison was also one of the first investors in Salesforce, long serving as Benioff's closest business partner and mentor.
But the relationship took a sharp turn when Benioff discovered Ellison was secretly building a Salesforce competitor, all the while sitting on Salesforce's board. The rivalry reached its peak in 2011 when Ellison booted Benioff from speaking at Oracle's OpenWorld show at the last minute.
The two still continue to take swipes at each other openly in the public. Benioff recently told us that Oracle's "scrambling" for growth with its $9.3 billion NetSuite acquisition. Ellison, in return, has made a comment implying Oracle could beat Salesforce to the $10 billion revenue mark.
But despite all this, Benioff says he still loves Ellison, according to an interview with Bloomberg. In fact, |
Brian Williams returned to the airwaves of MSNBC to anchor coverage of the visit of Pope Francis to the United States on Tuesday.
NEW YORK ( | AP) — Brian Williams returned to the airwaves of MSNBC to anchor coverage of the visit of Pope Francis to the United States on Tuesday, his first day back at work following his suspension from NBC News and demotion for misleading viewers about his role in news stories.
Dressed in a suit and blue striped tie, Williams made no mention of his absence. He anchored the network's coverage from 3 to 5 p.m. EDT, stationed in a Manhattan studio.
All business at first, Williams seemed to loosen up as his two-hour shift moved along. At one point, he was talking with NBC correspondent Anne Thompson, who was on the plane with the pope, after it had landed.
"Thank you, Anne. Grab your personal belongings," Williams said.
Williams had opened his broadcast by introducing White House correspondent Chris Jansing, at the airport where the pope arrived, for a report, followed by short interviews with Maria Shriver and Jose Diaz-Balart. " |
Schools participating in the city's premier rugby competition have agreed on a new set of conditions ahead of the 2019 season.
In an independent review | panel decision released yesterday, Saint Kentigern College said it would stand down some of its new-to-school first-fifteen rugby stars for at least six games in the secondary schools first XV 1A tournament, after being chided for recruiting out-of-town players.
In a statement, College Sport Auckland (CSA) said the 10 schools, along with St Kentigern, met "amicably" this morning to sign a new set of conditions restricting player movements between first XV rugby teams nationwide.
Myles Hogarty is the principal of De La Salle in South Auckland and the spokesperson for 10 other schools in the 1A competition that were threatening to boycott games against St Kentigern in the upcoming season.
Mr Hogarty said schools would now not refuse to play against St Kentigern College's first XV.
Schools in the Auckland 1A competition are no longer able to offer partial or full academic scholarships to players in other first XV sides nationwide and |
Robert Morris guard Mezie Nwigwe�s most impressive point total of the season wasn�t his 18 against Albany, or even his team | -leading 15 in a Northeast Conference win over Monmouth, a victory that pushed the Colonials (12-8, 7-1) into a first-place tie in the league.
His best performance came when Morgan State guard Reggie Holmes scored 11 points against him.
You see, Holmes averages nearly 22.9 points per game to rank fifth in the country. Nwigwe held him to 3-of-15 shooting.
�Yeah, I felt pretty good about that one,� he said.
�A defensive stopper must revel in the disappointment of others, and Nwigwe has certainly defined that twisted logic all season. But when Robert Morris coach Mike Rice asked him to fill that role two years ago, he hesitated. He had averaged more than 22 points per game as a senior in high school and was former coach Mark Schmidt�s first option off the Colonials� bench as a freshman. He could penetrate, shoot and create, a potentially dynamic combination.
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Actors James Franco and Seth Rogen arrive for the premiere of the film “The Interview” at The Theatre at Ace Hotel in Los | Angeles, California on December 11, 2014.
A little controversy added up to $1 million for “The Interview” at the box office on Christmas Day, Sony Pictures reported Friday.
That’s an impressive haul when you consider the $44 million film was shown in only 300 independent theaters on Thursday, after also being released online Wednesday — and especially considering it wasn’t going to be shown at all, as of late last week.
Most of the 300 theaters reported sold-out screenings, indicating “The Interview” could finish the holiday weekend with several million at the box office. Those theaters accounted for only 10 percent of the planned release for the film, said Rory Bruer, Sony’s president of worldwide distribution.
“Considering the incredibly challenging circumstances, we are extremely grateful to the people all over the country who came out to experience ‘The Interview’ on the first day of its unconventional release,” Bruer said in |
Google Inc. was upgraded to overweight from neutral at Atlantic Equities on Wednesday on recent improvements in mobile search and the potential for YouTube to serve as | a "material growth driver" as advertising dollars continue to shift from traditional TV. Analyst James Cordwell also raised his 12-month price target on the stock, to $825 from $560, making him one of the most bullish analysts among a poll of 40 analysts on FactSet. The average target on Google's stock is $763.30, according to FactSet. Cordwell's previous bearishness was related to questions surrounding the company's ability to successfully transition its desktop search product to mobile. However, resilient revenue growth from Google websites suggests the company is "navigating this transition better than anticipated," he said. The analyst is modeling for a more than 50% annual increase in YouTube revenue from 2015 to 2017. Shares of Google were up 0.4% to around $691.44 in premarket trade Wednesday. Its shares have surged more than 25% over the last three months, outperforming the broader S&P 500 |
The holiday scene is captured on November 30, 2010, at Fisherman's Wharf in Monterey, Calif.
Thankfully, there are destinations | where the holidays are more than 10-foot candy canes, a tsunami of twinkle lights and an animatronic statue of Santa bringing a gift to the Baby Jesus.
Monterey has long been one of those places, where the holiday traditions are a rich blend of community, culture and local history - with a refreshingly subdued dollop of seasonal commercialism thrown in.
In California's first capital, visitors can augment annual traditions with events that aren't easy to find back home. Mix art and history with a seaside weekend, sprinkle with sea otter sightings, and you've created a new holiday custom for the entire family.
The best-known traditions of the area revolve around the adobes in Old Monterey that date from the time the town was the regional capital under Spanish, Mexican and, eventually, U.S. rule.
The original adobes and colorful gardens from the Spanish and Mexican eras are scattered amid more modern buildings in Monterey's historic |
Fresh off her Oscar nomination for “The Favourite,” Rachel Weisz has set her sights on the Marvel Cinematic Universe | , as she is in early talks join Scarlett Johansson in Marvel’s “Black Widow” standalone movie.
Though a deal has not yet been completed, sources tell Variety that talks are headed in that direction, with strong interest from both sides of negotiations.
“Stranger Things” star David Harbour is also in talks to join the film, with “Outlaw King’s” Florence Pugh on board and Cate Shortland signed on to direct. Jac Schaeffer is penning the script. The film has been in development for some time, but picked up momentum last year after Schaeffer’s hire. Kevin Feige is producing the pic.
Marvel had no comment on the talks, and reps for Weisz’s team could not be reached for comment.
It’s unclear whether “Black Widow” will be an origin tale or set after “Avengers: Endgame. |
Tries from Tommy Seymour and Tim Visser kept Scottish hopes of a first Triple Crown in 27 years alive as they claimed an impressive 29- | 13 win over Wales.
Rob Howley’s Dragons dominated a brutal first-half battle and led 13-9 at half-time through Liam Williams’ touchdown and Leigh Halfpenny’s boot.
It was a different story after the break though, with wings Seymour and Visser crossing over as the rampant Scots racked up 20 unanswered points, also via Finn Russell’s kicking, to hand them a shot at the clean sweep of Home Nations at Twickenham in two weeks’ time.
“Brilliant performance by @Scotlandteam v @WelshRugbyUnion A great 1st win for @johnbarc86 as captain!” - Former Scotland skipper David Sole (@davidsole678) hails Scotland’s triumph.
Tim Visser - The Harlequins wing has often been regarded as the weak link in the Scottish line-up but he more than deserved his place this time as he |
Research Description: Over the past 22 years Dr. Liu has been directing a research program that seeks new therapeutic options to treat hyperlipidemia through | molecular and cellular studies conducted in liver cells and various animal models. Hyperlipidemia is one underlying causal factors for developing diabetes. Among numerous accomplishments, Dr. Liu’s team has characterized a new cellular pathway that upregulates the liver low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) transcription through a cholesterol-independent mechanism and demonstrated the effective cholesterol reduction in hyperlipidemic animals by activating this pathway. Furthermore, Dr. Liu’s laboratory has identified a novel post-transcriptional mechanism of LDLR gene that mediates the cholesterol-lowering effects of herbal medicine berberine as well as the medicinal plant goldenseal. In the last several years, PCSK9 has emerged as a new therapeutic target for treating hypercholesterolemia. PCSK9 is a key regulator of serum LDL-C metabolism by promoting the degradation of hepatic LDLR. Dr. Liu’s research in characterizing the transcriptional mechanism of PCSK9 has brought new |
Of course Portland has a hurling team.
It’s difficult to gage the success of the strange and intentionally unfinished beast that is | a staged reading.
But if there is a metric, it’s how much you want to see a fully staged version afterwards.
By that standard, Hurl, written by Charlie O’Neill and presented by Corrib Theatre, is a rousing success.
The title refers to the traditional Irish sport of hurling, which seems to involve a ball and sticks, field hockey-like movements and some jargon that was recited quickly in slightly flawed Irish accents. The rules never become particularly clear, but as with so many sport dramas, what’s happening on the field isn’t as important as what’s happening off of it.
In this case, it’s Musa (Victor Mack), a refugee from Sierra Leone, and Lofty (Allen Nause), an alcoholic ex-priest, and their efforts to carry their hurling team made up of foreigners and refugees to the provincial hurling finals in spite of disapproving traditional |
For the past year, faculty, staff, students, and alumni of the Boston University School of Public Health have been celebrating the school’s | 40th anniversary. A symposia series and dozens of receptions and dinners in 15 states and 13 countries were attended by more than 2,000 people. The yearlong celebration culminated with last Thursday’s 40th Anniversary Gala, a gathering of more than 300 community members, public health leaders, and friends of SPH at the State Room in downtown Boston.
Beyond Health Awards, one of the highest honors given by SPH, were presented to Janice L. Cooper, project lead for the Carter Center’s Mental Health Program in Liberia, and Larry Kessler, founding director of the Massachusetts AIDS Action Committee. Both received standing ovations.
Jeannine Rivet (SPH’81), a Dean’s Advisory Board member and executive vice president of UnitedHealth Group, echoed that sentiment as she and her husband, Warren Herreid II, were inducted into the William Fairfield Warren Society for their decades of support for SPH and BU. The |
Iranian film-maker Asghar Farhadi’s choice of replacement speakers at the Oscars has won praise from Iranians and has been | seen as adding an extra layer of subtlety to his message in absentia.
Farhadi won his second Oscar last night for The Salesman, about a couple whose relationship is thrown into disarray after an intruder surprises the wife in the shower. The story is influenced by Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. The win has put him on a shortlist of elite directors who have won an Oscar in the foreign film category more than once, including Federico Fellini and Ingmar Bergman.
Farhadi boycotted the ceremony in Los Angeles “out of respect for the people of my country and those of other six nations” affected by Donald Trump’s travel ban on seven predominantly Muslim countries, which he said “have been disrespected by the inhumane law that bans entry of immigrants to the US”.
Instead he sent two Iranian-Americans to pick up the award and read his message. They were Firouz Nader |
In a meeting with news anchors, President Trump said it’s time for compromise on an immigration bill, a major departure from the way he | has framed the issue in the past. But Democrats aren't buying it.
WASHINGTON — In a private meeting between President Donald Trump and national news anchors, a relaxed and open Trump said the time has come for compromise from both parties on an immigration bill, a major departure from the way he has framed the issue in the past.
"The time is right for an immigration bill as long as there is compromise on both sides," Trump said, according to six attendees who recounted the meeting to BuzzFeed News.
But Democrats believe the Trump administration, which has broadened the definition of who qualifies as a criminal and ramped up enforcement and deportations, stoking fear in immigrant communities, is far from an equitable negotiator on immigration.
"The only thing Donald Trump is interested in compromising is the United States Constitution," said newly elected DNC chair Tom Perez, adding that Trump has painted immigrant families as criminals and floated mobilizing 100,000 troops to act as a deportation force.
“At this |
A YOUNG pilot claims to have been left high and dry by the demise of Oxford airline Varsity Express after he invested £15,000 to | be trained by the collapsed carrier.
Twenty-three-year-old Peter Chilvers borrowed cash from his parents, grandmother and other family members so he could fulfil his childhood dream of becoming an airline pilot.
Mr Chilvers is one of four recently-qualified pilots who handed over a total of £52,500 to be ‘type-trained’ – to learn to fly the company’s 18-seat Jetstream 31 plane.
Varsity Express, which offered daily flights between Oxford and Edinburgh, was grounded after just a week, leaving passengers – and Mr Chilvers – stranded in the Scottish capital last week.
Thames Valley Police has launched an investigation into allegations of “fraudulent activity” at the airline.
However, the entrepreneur behind Varsity Express, Martin Halstead, has denied any wrongdoing and has pledged that all the pilots will be repaid in full.
Mr Chilvers was offered a £24,000-a |
STOUGHTON, MASS. (WHDH) - A 23-year-old Stoughton woman is facing criminal charges | after authorities say she fled the scene of a hit-and-run crash on Wednesday night that left a man with serious injuries before trying to mislead investigators who found her banged up sedan in a nearby driveway.
Officers responding to a reported pedestrian accident at the intersection of Washington and School streets about 7:30 p.m. found a 40-year-old Stoughton man on the ground and a passenger side mirror believed to be from the vehicle that struck him in the crosswalk, according to police.
The victim, whose name has not been released, was taken to a Boston hospital with serious injuries. There was no immediate word on his condition.
After clearing the crash, police said officers determined the vehicle was most likely a white Nissan Sentra based on the parts number on the mirror. They then ran a search for white Sentras in the area and traced one to a home on Morton Street, which is a short distance from the crash scene.
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SPARTA, Mich.--Are you looking for a way to get a great workout in without being trapped inside this summer?
Always wondered how | to work out without having tons of gym equipment to worry about? Have you been interested in working with a personal trainer, but not sure where or how to start? It's time to get outdoors and have some fun all while burning calories, and strengthening your body and soul!
First Classes are being offered at no cost!
SPARTA, Mich.—If you’re craving fresh local produce, the wait is almost over!
The Downtown Sparta Farmers Market opens for the season June 13.
The market will be open on Wednesdays from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. through September 26. It will take place in the ChoiceOne Bank parking lot, located at 72 N. Union.
Rockford Relay For Life raised $318,000 for the American Cancer Society, making it one of the most successful fundraisers in the state.
Other West Michigan communities are doing their part. During the Wyoming-Grandville Relay For Life on May |
At one point in all our lives we all imagine ourselves as parents. We do not only imagine that but we actually even play mommies and | daddies, perhaps a nature�s way of preparing us for that role later on in life. I don�t know how today�s children do it but for most folks, myself included, there were days when we played moms and dads from sunrise until sunset!
We all dreamt of becoming parents, we looked forward to that day! Coming from a family where there were more females than males, I too wanted children, four maximum just like my own parents. Today, most ‘dreamers’ including ours truly are now parents and that’s fantastic. The only problem is that for most, things didn’t exactly go according to the script. What we overlooked was all the work that goes with parenthood. Truth be told, and I am not trying to scare anyone here, until your children are all grown up with meaningful lives of their own, parenting is like a life sentence at Guatemala Bay.
While your envision a perfect life, with a caring |
Two days after Gov. Jon Corzine hinted to reporters how he plans to address the state’s budget shortfall that has tripled to $ | 1.2 billion, he still won’t provide detail.
On Wednesday Corzine said without specificity he will plug the budget hole with cuts, purchasing delays and renegotiated contracts with private vendors.
On Friday he again declined to describe his plans, but promised to before January.
Corzine, who has met with state employees’ unions wouldn’t confirm nor deny whether he will ask them to forgo a raise this year.
“We had a broad-based conversation,” Corzine said.
Citing the flak California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger got recently for a tax hike proposal, Corzine said he wasn’t looking to increase income taxes.
He did clarify that the $5 billion gap he projected for next year’s budget (the fiscal year beginning in July 2009) included the projection for inflation and growth. The $31.7 billion spending plan for the current fiscal year (the nearly $33 billion |
A Utah State Prison inmate serving time on a cocaine conviction was given two additional sentences of one to 15 years in 2nd District Court Tuesday for arranging | a drug sale while he was being held in the Davis County Jail.
Dana S. Parker, 29, was charged with eight counts of selling or possessing drugs and drug paraphernalia in April and May of this year. Because of his prior cocaine conviction and because some of the transactions occurred within 1,000 feet of a school (at the jail), four of the counts were bumped up a degree to first-degree felonies.In a plea bargain, Parker pleaded guilty Tuesday to two second-degree felony counts of distribution of cocaine. The rest of the charges were dismissed.
Judge Douglas L. Cornaby sentenced him to two additional one- to 15-year prison terms, to run concurrently with his present term.
According to court records, Parker was convicted of selling cocaine in 1986. He was charged by the county's drug strike force with four first-degree felony counts of distribution of cocaine in April and May; one second-degree felony charge of cocaine possession; a second- |
Sledge-Lit 2016, a day of panel discussions, workshops, readings and networking for readers and writers of science-fiction, fantasy and | horror returns for a second year, adding a festive addition to the annual Edge-Lit event at QUAD in Derby.
It takes place on Saturday, November 26.
The full line-up of authors and speakers for the day have been confirmed, offering a range of local and national writing talent.
Guests of honour Justina Robson and Stephen Volk will be joined by British Fantasy Award winning horror author Mark Morris; New York Times Bestseller Gav Thorpe; British Fantasy Award nominee KT Davies; dark fantasy author Freda Warrington and Paul Kane, author of the Sherlock Holmes/Hellraiser crossover Sherlock Holmes and The Servants of Hell.
Sledge-Lit workshops will feature subjects such as Social Media for Writers, Writing Non-Fiction and Performing Your Work; with panel discussions exploring the value of literary awards, the resurgence of short fiction and whether horror has become too narrow a genre.
Sledge-Lit takes place from 10.30 |
I spent a scorching day last week at Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania.
The thermometer hovered near 100 degrees. The climate | was so humid that it seemed like a large shaggy dog had pinned me to the ground and was breathing directly into my face.
When the Union and Confederate armies crashed into one another just outside Gettysburg on July 1, 1863, precipitating the bloodiest battle in American history, the weather wasn't so uncompromising.
Heat or no heat, our visit was awe-inspiring. I made the trip with my grandson, who celebrated his 12th birthday at the park, and my son-in-law.
The battlefield is observing the Civil War's sesquicentennial — 150th anniversary. Gettysburg will celebrate its own sesquicentennial in July 2013.
The battle is frequently described as the war's turning point. It recorded the greatest number of casualties of any battle in the war: about 51,000 men from both armies.
Gettysburg is America's largest battlefield shrine, featuring 1,300 monuments, 41 miles of scenic lanes and boulev |
Red blood cells, platelets, or other blood components may be transfused to increase the number of red blood cells and platelets in patients who | are short of breath, fatigued, or in danger of serious bleeding. During a blood transfusion, blood and blood products are infused into a vein.
Donated blood must be matched to your blood type. Prior to a transfusion, your blood will be drawn to check your blood type. You may receive blood that has been irradiated to prevent the risk of graft vs. host disease. A nurse will monitor you for any signs of an adverse reaction.
Bone marrow transplantation involves the injection of healthy stem cells from a donor's bone marrow into your vein. The new stem cells travel through the bloodstream to your bone cavities. Stem cells are cells that can produce red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets.
Bone marrow transplantation allows you to receive high doses of chemotherapy or radiation because it replaces those cells destroyed by the various treatments. Bone marrow transplantation may be performed using bone marrow either from a donor (allogeneic transplant) or from you (aut |
In its Mobility Report, the company said one of the first 5G use cases would be fixed wireless access. As 5G smartphones became available during | 2019, it said it expected several service providers to launch commercial 5G services.
Significant 5G subscription volumes were forecast to be seen early in North America and North-East Asia.
The report also forecast that the build-out of population coverage for 5G would be faster than that for LTE.
"Initial LTE build-out was led by Western Europe, North America, Japan and South Korea. With the exception of Western Europe, these areas, along with China, are expected to also lead the 5G population coverage build-out," the report said.
With nearly half the world's households yet to have a fixed broadband connection, Ericsson said opportunities existed for operators to deliver broadband services to homes and small- and medium-sized business using fixed-wireless access.
It pointed out that in order for FWA to be a viable alternative to fixed broadband - including xDSL, cable and fibre-optic access technologies - it must be able to be dimensioned |
EVERETT — Voters won’t see a proposed regional fire authority in south Snohomish County on the ballot this year after | all.
Getting about a half-dozen cities and two fire districts in south county all to agree on one plan just didn’t shake out.
All of the participating agencies except for Fire District 1, Mountlake Terrace and Brier have dropped out of the talks.
Those still involved put a six-month hold on the plan pending new financial figures.
“Right now it does not appear to work where everybody can save money and either have the same or improved service,” Fire District 1 commissioner Jim Kenny said Friday.
The remaining agencies plan to meet again in September, after the county releases updated property tax revenue projections. Fire departments rely on property taxes for the bulk of their budgets. The initial fire authority plan, including financial figures, was drawn up when most of south county was expected to participate.
Leaders from almost every city and fire district between Everett and the King-Snohomish county line started talking about forming the fire authority in spring 2011 |
Over 60,000 children with different disabilities are registered in Azerbaijan.
The children’s entertainment center of Park Bulvar, Happy land hosted | an integrative and entertaining event “From isolation to integration’ for inmates of orphanages and special children’s rehabilitation facilities.
This action was organized within the framework of the Unlimited Opportunities campaign held by Heydar Aliyev Foundation and UNICEF with the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Azerbaijan, aimed at ensuring discrimination of children with disabilities.
During the event, over 50 children from orphanages, children with limited abilities and children with disabilities had a good time at Happyland. The action was organized for inmates of Surakhany district children’s home No 2, rehabilitation center for disabled children Mushvig (Nizami district), boarding school for blind and partially blind children near Ganjlik underground station, boarding school No 3 for mute and deaf children and children with hearing impairments.
The aim of the campaign is to draw attention of the broad community to problems of children with disabilities, implementation of projects aimed at provision of their social integration countrywide |
SoftBank's latest robotics acquisition could allow it to open up a whole new market for service industries and home help.
Its customer service and companion | robot, Pepper, is somewhat limited by the fact that it can't do much more than wave its arms and talk.
Now, though, SoftBank has its eyes on the fetching and carrying capabilities of BigDog and Spot, the dog-sized pack robots developed by Boston Robotics.
SoftBank, originally an ISP and mobile network operator, moved into robotics in 2014 when it bought Aldebaran, the French company behind the diminutive humanoid robots Pepper and Nao.
Aldebaran was known for its work on recognizing and responding to human emotions, and its robots have found a niche for themselves welcoming guests in high-end hotels and retail stores. They also play a role as listening companions, with applications in health care, education and care for the elderly.
What Pepper and Nao can't do, though, is carry luggage or shopping, or help around the home. That's where Boston Dynamics comes in.
The company started life as a developer of military pack robots |
CLARKSTON, Mich., Feb. 10, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Clarkston Financial Corporation ("Corporation") | (OTCBB:CKFC), the holding company for Clarkston State Bank ("Bank"), today reported net income of $926,000 or $0.29 per share for the three months ended December 31, 2014, compared to net income of $5,016,000 or $1.55 per share for the three months ended December 31, 2013. For the twelve months ended December 31, 2014, the corporation reported net income of $1,736,000 or $0.59 per share compared to a net income of $5,502,000 or $1.70 per share for the same period in 2013. The decrease in earnings year over year is directly attributable to the tax effects of reversing the valuation allowance against the deferred tax asset made in 2013 and 2014. Pretax net income for the twelve months ended December 31, 2014 was $1,078,000 compared to $945,000 for December 31, 2013. This represents a year over year |
One Take on the Etymology of the Term "Assault Weapon"
I like this video for two reasons: one, it contains some great | perspective on something that causes frequent bouts of confusion and deliberately obtuse misidentification (what one might call lying or bull$hit). Two, the narrator sounds like one of my friends on the Michigan State Police EST, which entertains me to no end, especially after a couple of adult beverages.
On a more serious note, this is a great video to show people that genuinely understand what an "assault weapon" really is. Play it for people that still think an AR15 is a machine-gun.
From the narrator: "While I firmly believe that Assault is a behavior and NOT a description of an inanimate item, there is a proper use for it in military nomenclature and it isn't what the gun grabbers want people to believe. I was there, even debating Josh Suggarmann on it a LONG time ago, and this video can help clear up the lies and misconceptions before our guns and rights are used as pawns again for some perverted agenda |
Sony focuses on 4K high-definition video recording in its new smartphone as the industry faces uphill challenges.
Japan's Sony Corporation is turning its | focus to 4K high-definition video recording in its new Xperia XZ2 smartphone, to differentiate itself from rivals that have caught up in camera technology.
Unwrapped at Barcelona's Mobile World Congress on Monday, the XZ2 features Corning Gorilla Glass 5 on both the front and back and a longer, 18:9 ratio display, which reduces the size of the bezels on the front of the handset.
The device includes super slow-motion in 1080p high definition resolution, he said. Sony introduced super slo-mo in its XZ Premium last year, a first that was copied by market leader Samsung in its Galaxy 9, unveiled on Sunday.
Sony's device can also upscale SDR video to near-HDR quality video, using technology developed with engineers working on the company's Bravia televisions, he said.
While Sony has won plaudits for technical innovations, its sales have declined and it is adrift of the top 10 vendors |
Sebastian Vettel led for much of the race, but Hamilton won the incident-packed race in Azerbaijan to take over the championship lead | .
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Lewis Hamilton won an incident-packed Azerbaijan Grand Prix Sunday to take over the championship lead.
Sebastian Vettel led for much of the race, but was stuck in second behind Hamilton's Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas when a crash between the two Red Bulls brought out the safety car.
On the restart, Vettel lunged for the lead but could not keep his car on the racing line at the exit of the next corner and instead lost places. Soon afterward, Bottas' right-rear tire picked up a puncture, ending his race and elevating Hamilton to first.
"Really quite an emotional race to be honest," Hamilton said. "Valtteri did such an exceptional job today and really deserved to have the win."
Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen claimed second place after having dropped to 14th following an early collision. Sergio Perez held off Vettel for third to |
The twice-postponed CBS shareholders meeting has wrapped up in less than 30 minutes. There was no mention of the scandal enveloping former CEO | Les Moonves, who was ousted in September after multiple allegations of sexual misconduct.
Moonves was ousted after The New Yorker published allegations from 12 women who said he subjected them to mistreatment. The network launched an investigation with two outside law firms.
CBS shareholders have approved new board members, as an investigation into sexual-misconduct claims against former CBS CEO Les Moonves looms.
The 11 board members include six new ones who came aboard during a shakeup following Moonves’ ouster.
The board isn’t expected to decide the fate of Moonves’ $120 million severance package right away. It has until the end of January, when an investigation is to wrap up.
Two women’s organizations, UltraViolet and NOW NY, are staging a protest outside of the CBS shareholders meeting to protest Moonves’ possible severance package. Moonves won’t be paid the severance if the investigation finds he was terminated with cause. |
- Original invite says it will be "addition to the Nokia smartphone family"
Nokia is holding a launch party in London today, Thursday | 4 October, for an as yet unannounced phone. And you can watch the presentation live right here.
It is for the Nokia 7.1 - a much-rumoured handset that has been doing the rounds a lot recently.
Sadly though, it is unlikely to feature the Nokia 9, even though that was previously suggested.
Pocket-lint is in attendance itself.
We'll therefore be bringing you all the news and our first impressions of the new device as soon as possible.
The livestream started at 5pm BST, so 12pm EDT and 9am PDT.
Specs and images of the Nokia 7.1 leaked earlier today and you can read all about it here: Nokia 7.1 key specs appear in Android Enterprise listing.
There is also a Nokia 7.1 Plus floating around, so we might hear more details on that during the launch event too.
While it hasn't yet made an appearance, you can also read about the Nokia 9 and its |
Amazon launched an on-demand music streaming service called "Amazon Music Unlimited," charging $7.99 per month for Prime members and $9. | 99 per month for non-Prime members.
It's clear that Amazon wants to differentiate its service on price, as the Prime-member tier is cheaper than competitors like Apple Music and Spotify, which charge $9.99. Amazon also offers a plan for $3.99 per month that limits listening to one Echo device or an Amazon Tap.
The launch represents a continuation of Amazon's strategy to extract more value from existing Prime members, improve the value proposition of Prime to entice nonmembers, and drive sales of Echo devices.
Existing prime members will expand their music library exponentially if they subscribe. The new service will expand the content library to "tens of millions" of songs, up from roughly 2 million songs, and will now be comparable in size to Apple Music and Spotify, according to Time. This could signify that Amazon is planning to offer more premium tiers that Prime members could upgrade to for access to more content and services.
Amazon has added three new free perks for |
And he said California has saved $86 billion and more than a million lives since launching its anti-tobacco efforts in 1989.
" | I always tell people they do not need to be in Washington to impact health reform," the governor said. "It starts at home with healthier eating habits and regular exercise."
As the full House and Senate prepare to debate competing health care bills, Schwarzenegger weighed in on the so-called "individual mandate," a controversial plan that would require everyone -- including healthy young adults -- to purchase insurance. He said the individual mandate should be combined with public subsidies to help lower-income people afford insurance.
"Without an enforceable individual mandate, people will continue to voluntarily forgo coverage, shifting uncompensated costs to insured individuals," Schwarzenegger said.
Unless Congress pays for all of its costs, Schwarzenegger said, a mandatory expansion of Medicaid "will only be an empty promise of health insurance coverage" and will force California and other states to make cuts in education, public safety and elsewhere.
If Congress does not provide full funding for new federal mandates, Schwarzenegger said, the federal government should give states more power |
If the man in your life has been prescribed androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) as part of the treatment for prostate cancer, you’ | re both best off if you’re warned ahead of time about possible side-effects and offered advice about coping strategies. Although research done at the University of California-San Francisco and published in the Journal of Urology in 2014 showed that there was “no meaningful decline in emotional quality of life two years after treatment,” the study also underscored the fact that patients are “likely to experience more adverse side-effects and complications from the treatment than from the cancer itself”. These unwelcome symptoms can include hot flashes, decreased libido, fatigue, decreased bone and muscle mass, increased total body fat content, and even possible harmful cardiovascular effects.
A release from the publisher notes that previous studies have reported cognitive and affective symptoms following ADT, particularly in the elderly, including emotional upset (tearfulness, irritability, and anger), decreased motivation, hopelessness, and cognitive interruptions in attention, memory, and visual processing. Some studies have linked ADT use to |
A logical experiment that went right on nearly every count, Belle & Sebastian -- the Glasgow pop outfit that has been dubbed the bastion of twee | -- fleshed out its sonic spectrum orchestrally at the Hollywood Bowl, emphasizing homages in places and creating unique swirling music elsewhere.
Bands: (B&S) Stuart Murdoch, Stevie Jackson, Sarah Martin, Chris Geddes, Richard Colburn, Mick Cooke, Bob Kildea, Sarah Willson, with the L.A. Philharmonic, conductor, Alexander Mickelthwate; (Shins) James Mercer, Dave Hernandez, Marty Crandall, Jesse Sandoval.
A correction was made to this review on July 10, 2006.
A logical experiment that went right on nearly every count, Belle & Sebastian — the Glasgow pop outfit that has been dubbed the bastion of twee — fleshed out its sonic spectrum orchestrally at the Hollywood Bowl, emphasizing homages in places and creating unique swirling music elsewhere. Buoyed by the effervescent persona of lead singer Stuart Murdoch, B&S shed its oh-so- |
The Burman Bush Nature Reserve, in Morningside, could be closed temporarily following the murder of local musician, Simon Miliken.
It | 's understood the 60-year-old and a friend were accosted while out walking on Friday afternoon.
His friend managed to escape but Miliken was found stabbed to death, the following morning.
Ward councillor, Martin Meyer says for the last month, he's been working with the community to try and improve security at Burman Bush.
"We've started setting up a conservancy to help improve the situation in the park - to get people to use the park in a safe environment. We've also managed to find some fencing to fix the fence. Many people come into the park using the holes in fence. Unfortunately, all these measures are too late for Simon who tragically lost his life," Meyer said.
Meyer says it's a wonderful place for the community and they don't want it permanently closed.
"I will be asking that the Parks Department temporarily closes Burman Bush until we can improve the situation - to secure the fence, and improve security. We as |
More than five years of updates for Windows 7 in a single package. It's about time.
Microsoft is finally making it easier to reinstall | Windows 7 from scratch with a new Service Pack (SP) that the company refuses to call a service pack.
Windows 7 may not be available to most of us anymore, but there are many reasons to reinstall the operating system on existing Windows 7 PCs, and Microsoft never released a Service Pack after Windows 7 Service Pack 1's release in early 2011. Because of that, updating a Windows 7 PC in recent times required countless “download update-install-reboot-repeat” cycles to fully patch the system, installing five full years of updates piece by piece.
That problem is now history, however. Microsoft recently announced the availability of the Windows 7 SP1 convenience roll-up. That sounds more like something you’d buy from a confectioner than put on your PC, but it’s essentially SP2 for Windows 7. The rollup includes all the “security and non-security fixes” since the release of Windows Service Pack 1.
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Update: An arrest has been made in this case. Read the story here.
A 35-year-old woman jogging in the Logan | Circle neighborhood of Northwest D.C. was killed in a brutal stabbing Tuesday evening, and police are still searching for the man who attacked her.
Wendy Martinez of Northwest Washington was jogging in the 1400 block of 11th Street NW when she was attacked just before 8 p.m., police say. According to her family, she had just gotten engaged a week earlier.
News4 obtained surveillance video that shows Martinez stagger into the Asian American Carryout restaurant and apparently plead for help. She collapsed a short time later.
The manager of the restaurant said he heard someone scream and saw Martinez covered in blood.
"I scared. I don’t know what happened, and I just try to call police," said the manager, who asked not to be identified.
Strangers rushed to the woman's side to help her, and the manager called 911. Martinez died of her injuries a short time later.
Police released surveillance video Wednesday afternoon showing the suspect walking along 11 |
The Andhra Pradesh government employees in Telangana region on Thursday undertook a relay hunger strike here in support of the statehood demand.
The | fast held at the Indira Park here was attended by members of Telangana Non-Gazetted Officers Association, Telangana Gazetted Officers Association and other employees unions.
Speaking on the occasion, leaders of Telangana staff unions hit out at the state government for invoking the Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) for prohibiting strikes in the various finance-related services.
The Telangana Employees Joint Action Committee has already served a notice to the government that it would launch an indefinite general strike from August 17 primarily in support of the demand for creation of a separate state.
It has also submitted a charter of demands that include appointing a judicial commission to look into irregularities in appointments and deputations in violation of zonal regulations.
The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet sub-committee on employees yesterday decided to invite the Telangana Employees Joint Action Committee (JAC) for talks on August five to resolve their pending grievances and avert a strike.
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The ringleader of a terrorist group was sentenced to death on Monday by the Intermediate People's Court of Kashgar prefecture in the Xinjiang U | ygur autonomous region.
Abdukerim Mamut was found guilty of running a terrorist organization, leading terrorist attacks and murder, according to Tianshannet, a news website run by the regional government's information office.
Under Chinese law, he has the right to appeal the conviction and sentence.
According to trial information posted on the website, Mamut preached religious extremism to a circle of followers and founded a nine-member terrorist organization with himself as ringleader.
They selected targets and planned attacks, including checking the locations.
On the morning of Feb 28, according to the website, Mamut called the members together at his house, handed out knives and axes and instructed the group in the details of an attack to be carried out that day.
At 6 pm, they went to a crowded pedestrian street - Xingfu Road in Yecheng county near Kashgar in the southern Xinjiang - and attacked people with the knives and axes. Thirteen people died and |
A program to help school administrators and state and local law-enforcement officials better prepare for bomb threats in schools was presented yesterday in the District by the | Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
The U.S. Education Department helped develop the program, which features the interactive CD-ROM “Bomb Threat Response: An Interactive Planning Tool For Schools” and includes staff-training presentations and implementation resources. It was showcased yesterday at the Francis Junior High School in Northwest.
The ATF will distribute the CD-ROM to state and local law enforcement agencies and other first responders. The Education Department’s Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools will handle distribution to public school systems throughout the country.
“This CD is a user-friendly tool that will help school administrators and law-enforcement and public-safety officials protect our most valuable resource: our children,” Mr. Buckles said.
ATF spokesman Andrew L. Lluberes said the program delivers content via the CD-ROM, a supporting Web site and quick-reference cards that allow administrators to develop a plan for their schools. He also said it |
Sweden's Helena Jonsson has secured the overall biathlon World Cup 2008/09 title after finishing second in the last race of the season | – the 12.5 km Mass Start – in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.
ati Wilhelm, who lead the overall standings before the event, came in 6th place. The German missed two targets during the final standing shoot, while Jonsson kept cool and had four clean shoots during the race.
The result allowed the Swede to catch up with Wilhelm in the table. Both athletes had 925 points, but Helena Jonsson claimed the Crystal Globe because she had one victory more to her credit.
"I already said it before the race: Helena will shoot clean today. She was the lucky one today. Both have the same amount of points, that's crazy. This must be the first time, so close together,” Wolfgang Pichler, Jonsson's coach, said to to International Biathlon Union website.
German Simone Hauswald, who finished the season 9th, was the winner of the race, and her compat |
In the wake of last week’s collapse of a planned June 12 summit between President Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un (which | now may be back on), commentators rushed to point the finger at National Security Adviser John Bolton. Bolton “seems to have played a key role in the cancellation” wrote New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. “John Bolton must be stoked,” tweeted Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii). “John Bolton’s Wrecking Ball Takes Down North Korea Summit” reads the headline of Ankit Panda’s Daily Beast op-ed. F.H. Buckley calls for him to be fired.
In fact, Bolton was barely involved. It was a pair of jaw-dropping televised gaffes by the president and vice-president that sent the Trump-Kim lovefest into a downward spiral.
The saga began on April 29, when Bolton was asked on CBS’s Face the Nation about the administration’s expectation that Kim Jong-Un demonstrate upfront his willingness to give up nuclear weapons. “I think we |
November’s blue wave washed away every Republican member of Congress who represented the one-time GOP stronghold of Orange County, leaving Democrats eagerly eyeing | other important elected positions in the region.
After Todd Spitzer was elected district attorney, their attention turned to the recent special election to fill his Third District seat on the county Board of Supervisors. But the GOP proved that it still has signs of life.
This week, Irvine Mayor Don Wagner declared victory in the seven-candidate race. He held a more than 3,500-vote lead over former Democratic Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, the only Democrat running in a district that represents Yorba Linda, most of Irvine, Tustin and other inland areas.
The district holds a nearly 4 percentage point Republican advantage, but multiple candidates threatened to split the party’s vote.
Wagner, who ran a tried-and-true Republican campaign focused on quality-of-life issues, will serve out the 21-month term and leave Republicans with four of five seats on the board.
Last November, Democrat Doug Chaffee eked out a victory in the Fourth |
The friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is getting ready for a worldwide web-slinging adventure next year, and now we have our first look at | a poster for Marvel Studios' new movie.
Now, if you were expecting something revealing, we're sorry because it looks like this poster was quickly put together for the purposes of this expo using leftover assets from Spider-Man: Homecoming. That pose Spidey is in looks very similar to how he looks in multiple marketing and promotional assets for the previous film.
But still, it does show us that Sony is starting to get serious about their next installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, not to mention their upcoming relaunch of Men In Black. That franchise is getting some Marvel star power, with the Thor: Ragnarok duo of Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth.
It's rumored that Spider-Man: Far From Home is set to wrap up principal photography soon, with the final scenes being filmed in New York City over the coming weeks. That could mean Sony will start whipping up some final promo images, especially with the film set to release in the summer of 2019.
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Much of the news in the UK this week has been driven by allegations by a former Czechoslovak spy that the opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was | a paid informer for the country's communist era secret police, the StB.
Mr Corbyn emphatically denies the claims. Indeed all the evidence suggests he was never anything more than a person of interest to the StB. But as Rob Cameron reports from Prague, while the Cold War is over, a few sheaves of yellowing paper still have the power to throw lives into turmoil.
As I sat at my computer, poring over secret police files, I felt a sudden tug of nostalgia. The files were digital copies of reports written by StB officer Jan Sarkocy, sent to Britain in 1986 under diplomatic cover. When he met first Jeremy Corbyn, in November of that year, his business card read "Jan Dymic, Third Secretary to the Czechoslovak Embassy in London".
They were fascinating documents, cryptic and - for me - strangely evocative. Especially the references to North London landmarks I knew well, such as Seven Sisters Road, where the Labour MP for Islington |
The Clitheroe Advertiser Christmas Toy Appeal with children from Ribblesdale Children's Centre and the Salvation Army.
The Clit | heroe Advertiser and Times and the Ribble Valley branch of the Salvation Army have once again teamed up to launch their annual appeal to help families and children who might otherwise go without this Christmas.
For the 14th year running, the generosity of Valley residents will once again be called upon to help families less fortunate than themselves.
Elizabeth Smith (left) and Brenda Wise (right) from The Salvation Army launch the Clitheroe Advertiser's Christmas Toy Appeal.
We are once again appealing for the donation of new toys and gifts for different age groups from babies to teenagers.
The premise of the appeal is that presents for any age of child or teenager can be donated, as long as they are new.
The items will be distributed to families across the Ribble Valley, with the aim that each child receives a main gift, a craft item or game, a soft toy and a book.
Appeal co-ordinator Captain Elizabeth Smith, of the Salvation Army |
"If climate change is a total downer … it's going to be really hard to take action," said one of the scientists behind the UN | climate panel's recent report on climate-driven threats to food, health and infrastructure.
One reaction is to talk up the business opportunities of doing things. Without doubt, there are many, and there is enormous scope for climate entrepreneurs. But there is a trap in hyping markets as the answer.
Many governments would like nothing more than to believe they can leave global warming to the unchallenged market. That means they wouldn't have to do anything themselves except murmur something green occasionally.
But if the market was going to solve the problem it would already be doing so, because the problem is decades old. Its price signal would already have reallocated resources to keep us living within planetary boundaries. Information would have flowed and risks been calculated in such a way that money retreated from activities damaging to a stable climate, and went into better alternatives.
Some bizarre anomalies suggest a deep-rooted inability to question the economic structures that are pushing us over the edge.
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STEPHEN Elliott now has Rangers in his sights after gunning down Kilmarnock on Tuesday night.
The Hearts striker may have to | be content with a seat on the substitutes’ bench once more when the Ibrox side go calling on the capital but that doesn’t dent his belief that the Jambos are in the mood to do some damage.
Wit Kevin Kyle and Rudi Skacel set to come back after missing Rugby Park the Republic of Ireland star acknowledged everyone is buzzing at Tynecastle.
“The match against Rangers on Saturday is a massive one for us but we’re going into it full of confidence,” he confirmed.
“We all know the Old Firm have been stronger than the rest over the years but there is no reason why we can’t stay in touch with them this time.
The Jambos follow the clash with Gers with a midweek trip to meet Celtic at Parkhead in what manager Jim Jefferies has already declared is a vital spell.
“We did have a hiccup in the Scottish Cup when |
Anyone who watched Sergio García's thrilling sudden death victory in last weekend's Masters knows that golf can be dramatic. That tradition goes back 150 years | to the time of Old Tom Morris, who won the Open Championship (what Americans call the British Open) in 1861, 1862, 1864 and 1867, before passing the mantle to his son, Young Tom or Tommy Morris, also a four-time winner.
The Morrises and their flinty, but ultimately tender relationship are the subject of the handsomely produced drama "Tommy's Honour," directed by Jason Connery and based on a book by Kevin Cook, who also wrote the screenplay with his wife, Pamela Marin.
Though ostensibly set on various links throughout Britain, this faithful and often moving film addresses much more than golf heroics, commenting on issues of tradition, class and family, especially the bonds between father and son.
Golf has changed a lot since the Morrises first teed their shots from small, handcrafted hills of dirt, and they contributed mightily to that modernization. Old Tom, the longtime greenskeeper at Scotland's Royal and Ancient Golf Club of |
The FINANCIAL -- A new report from Accenture has found that while U.S. federal agencies are accelerating the modernization of their information technology | (IT) systems and infrastructures, there are significant gaps in aligning their technology priorities with mission objectives.
In addition, despite many agencies reporting success implementing new technologies, only a small minority have fully adopted new approaches like cloud computing, digital platforms and agile software development, underscoring the gaps that many are facing in supporting more-agile operations.
The State of Federal IT 2018 report — based on the Accenture Federal Services (AFS) survey of 200 federal IT executives — sought to answer two primary questions: Is federal IT serving mission needs, and are agencies pivoting quickly enough to new technologies?
The results found that while IT organizations are making real progress in modernizing technology systems and infrastructures, more than two-thirds (70 percent) of IT decisionmakers report that they’re still playing an enabling role within their agency. At the same time, collaboration between the IT organization and mission, business and operations stakeholders are inconsistent. Only 47 percent of |
If you want to live a long life, you might want to take up residence in The Heights.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center said | they have calculated life expectancy for the first time down to both ZIP code and county levels in Texas.
A new interactive mapping tool allows users to see average life expectancy for their area by gender and race/ethnicity.
The Westfield area (ZIP code 77073) tops the Houston's average life expectancy list with 90.9 years for women and 88.7 years for men.
The Heights area (ZIP code 77007) also saw a high life expectancy, based on the research data, with 90.6 years for women and 88.1 years for men.
Outside of Houston, towns like Sugar Land and Pecan Grove in Fort Bend County, Arcola in Brazoria County, and Beach City in Chambers County all had higher than average life expectancy.
Within Harris County, county-level life expectancy was 78.9 years.
According to the research, Hispanic life expectancy was found to be three years longer than white life expectancy and almost six years longer |
DETROIT — Most major automakers reported double-digit U.S. sales gains for October, rolling along toward what could be a record | year for the industry.
General Motors said that sales rose almost 16 percent in its most lucrative market, while Ford reported a 13 percent gain. Nissan sales rose 12.5 percent over a year ago, and Fiat Chrysler’s were up nearly 15 percent. Honda sales rose 8.6 percent, while Volkswagen, mired in an emissions-cheating scandal, posted just a small gain.
The car-buying site TrueCar.com predicted that October sales would rise 11.4 percent to 1.4 million. That would be the best October since 2001, when zero-percent financing offers after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks pushed sales to 1.6 million, according to the LMC Automotive forecasting firm. Toyota reports sales later Tuesday.
GM said sales have run at an annual rate of 17.8 million for the past six months, putting the year on track to break the annual record of 17.35 million set in 2000.
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ClearArc Capital announced today it has been recognized with Top Guns status by Informa Investment Solutions' PSN manager database. Three of the firm's | strategies were among the top 10 performers within one or more peer groups reporting to the PSN database. Utilizing a proprietary blend of Informa Investment Solutions' top priority performance screens, PSN Top Guns ranks products in six proprietary star categories in over 50 universes.
Mitch Stapley, CFA, Chief Investment Officer for ClearArc Capital states, "It is an honor to be recognized by Informa, especially across three of our strategies which we feel is indicative of the experience, depth, and chemistry of our investment team. Our Strategic Income Plus and Core Plus Fixed Income strategies continue to garner attention with our focus on providing high income, lessening correlation to traditional fixed income, and our risk management capabilities. In addition, our liquidity strategies are very customized based on client investment flexibility and cash flow needs. We are proud that our risk management approach helped lead us to the top ranking in the PSN Short Maturity universe for the period. We continue to maintain an eye on risk given the |
When I was young and less wise I frequently lost vacation time because I thought I was too busy to go. No more, SpongeBob. The | last two weeks were just the ticket for recharging my batteries.
Monday night’s Chamber of Commerce installation dinner at The Nugget was actually fun (I’ve attended four thousand of these). Patriots were everywhere and several local businesses accepted deserving awards.
Congressman Jim Gibbons’ excellent speech could only be given by someone with his military service. Young Cethe Autumn sang the national anthem and “God Bless America,” stealing the whole show.
My personal survival strategy vis a vis Washington, D.C., these days is to simply ignore them. I can hardly stand the hypocritical corporate bashing from politicians.
Those same corporate leaders now described as the devil were once held up as national heroes. Just two short years ago these same people graced the covers of national magazines as geniuses.
I can’t argue that some are jail-bound crooks guilty of stealing from investors. However, our country relies on courageous corporate executives to innovate, invest |
Egyptian police killed one Christian and wounded dozens of others in a new escalation of violence with Coptics trying to build a church.
Egyptian | police shot and killed one Christian and wounded dozens of others Wednesday morning in a new escalation of violence with Coptics trying to build a church near the pyramids. A senior police officer and 12 soldiers also were wounded.
Police fired tear gas and arrested more than two dozen protesters after they hurled stones and firebombs in a demonstration of 200 Christians against the government’s ban on the Coptics’ attempt to complete the building of a church.
Egyptian authorities have maintained that the church is being built without a permit, but the Coptics, a minority of 10 percent in the country, have complained of discrimination in favor of Muslims.
The building now serves as a community center, and Egyptian police Wednesday morning arrested construction workers on their way to the site, where work has began.
Non-Muslims need special presidential approval to build religious edifices, while getting a permit for Muslims is relatively easy.
Tensions between Muslims and Christians are likely to rise next month, when |
PHILADELPHIA -- Brian Westbrook was knocked out with a concussion. He was on the ground, motionless, with only his brother | and Eagles coach Andy Reid allowed near him.
Westbrook walked off the field, but he would not return.
He may not be back as the Eagles enter the grueling part of their schedule.
The Eagles played only one team (New Orleans) with a winning record in the first six games and blew a major shot at sharing the NFC East lead with an embarrassing loss to struggling Oakland (2-5). Now the schedule gets tougher.
Up next, Sunday's game against the New York Giants only hours before the Phillies play the Yankees across the street in Game 4 of the World Series. Then another home game against Dallas. The outcomes could shake up the NFC playoff picture.
ASHBURN, Va. -- There's a chance Chris Cooley will be back this season after all.
A doctor's second opinion on the Washington Redskins tight end's broken right ankle Tuesday gave Cooley hope that he can return to the field in a month.
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The rumors are true, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fans. A new game featuring your | favorite crime-fighting Heroes in a Half-Shell is coming your way later this year.
Developed by Japanese Studio PlatinumGames and published by Activision, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan will challenge players to protect New York City from "aliens, mutants, and the Foot Clan," the companies announced Tuesday. The game is slated to arrive this summer on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and Windows PC via Steam.
The game will feature a single-player campaign as well as a four-player online co-op. Each turtle has their own combat style, and can be customized with a set of Ninjutsu moves, combat items, and special bonuses.
Leonardo is the most well-founded of the bunch, with a "medium-ranged reach and moderate attack speed," Platinum's Robert Cooper wrote in a Tuesday post on the PlayStation blog. Raphael, meanwhile, is "a little bit slower, but … a powerhouse," while Mike |
After an inspired and instructive victory against Argentina, Dejan Lovren believes Croatia’s current crop showed they are superior to the country's | much-celebrated 1998 side.
Zlatko Dalic’s men sealed a place in the World Cup last 16 on Thursday by recording a resounding 3-0 win in Nizhny Novgorod in their second Group D assignment. Ante Rebic, Luka Modric and Ivan Rakitic got the goals as the two-time winners were put to the sword.
Although the result, helped somewhat by an error-strewn Argentina, came as a surprise to many, Lovren said he always believed such a performance was possible. He lauded the talent in the side, headlined by captain Modric and ably supported by the likes of Rakitic, Ivan Perisic and Mario Mandzukic.
So much so, in fact, that the Liverpool centre-back feels the class of 2018 shades the 1998 team boasting Davor Suker, Zvonimir Boban and Robert Prosinecki.
Then, Croatia reached the semi-finals and |
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It is good to have just in case the unexpected happens. God forbid my family will be taken care of and won't be left with the burden of trying to find or borrow money to try to pay bills or party down with and I won't have to be buried in a cardboard box. Instead I'll be in a fancy pine box with no lid and a bunch of |
Policymakers from Congress to the state and local levels are sharpening their focus on the educational needs of children in foster care, a population | that can exceed 700,000 nationally in the course of a year and which has doubled in the past two decades.
In many cases, their strategies coincide with recommendations outlined in a recent report on California’s massive foster-care system: access to preschool for foster children, specialized training for teachers, and making sure child-welfare agencies have educational liaisons.
“A focus on school readiness and school success may not heal all the damage already inflicted early in the lives of foster children, but it can give these children—and many of their peers—the fighting chance they need and deserve to thrive as adults,” says the report, released last month by the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning in Santa Cruz, Calif., and Mental Health Advocacy Services Inc., a Los Angeles-based public-interest law firm.
• The reauthorization of the federal Head Start preschool program last fall lists children in foster care as one of the groups designated to receive priority for |
The dams on the Snake River are operated under a plan called the Federal Columbia River Biological Opinion, or BiOp. It was created by collaboration of | federal agencies, states and tribes during the administration of President Obama to protect salmon while operating hydropower dams.
But U.S. District Judge Michael Simon in Portland has twice issued rulings that override the BiOp, finding it does not do enough to protect salmon.
Without Snake and Columbia river dams and the many benefits they provide, life in Central Washington as we know it would be unrecognizable.
He has ordered a new environmental study to look at options, including the pros and cons of breaching or tearing down the Snake River dams from Ice Harbor Dam near Burbank upriver to Lower Granite Dam.
He also ordered that more water be spilled over the Snake River dams than the amount established by the BiOp to see if it would help young salmon migrating to the ocean.
Water that is spilled cannot be used to produce electricity. Northwest residents can expect to pay $40 million more for electricity because of the increased spill on Snake and Columbia River dams this month through mid-June, |
Dedication and commitments of Imran Khan to root out corruption, transparency and accountability and other social evils from the country has been widely acclaimed by the | masses during his election campaign. He has reprimanded corrupt bigwigs, who amassed huge national wealth by using unfair means and abusing their powers, would be dealt with iron hands and exemplary punishment should be awarded to this mafia.
Supreme Court of Pakistan, played a quintessential role, solidifying rhetoric of Khan. Infinitesimal corrupt bigwigs are in jail whilst prodigious are in the queue. Khan's dedicated and committed vigor proved true for curbing all forms of social evils during election campaign due to dedicated and committed work of apex court and National Accountability Bureau (NAB). Confronting the corrupt mafia was an outcry of joy. But solely entombing and immuring Nawaz and Zardari and their entourage for their wrongdoings won’t help curb the prevailing corruption and social evils. Great populace of poor and literate youth praised Khan, for his vehemence of transparency and accountability.
By looking into the political history of Pakistan, the |
Make the most of the sunshine and D.C. views with these picnic recipes.
Add olives, cucumber, tomatoes and red onion | to the cooled quinoa, and squeeze 1/2 lemon over mixture. Add salt and freshly-ground pepper to taste. Drizzle the olive oil over the quinoa, add feta and toss well.
Preheat the oven to 350 F. Spray a muffin pan with non-stick cooking spray. In a medium bowl, whisk together the Nutella and eggs. Add the flour and whisk until blended. Spoon the batter evenly into the muffin pan (about 1/2 full for regular pan and 3/4 full for mini pan) and sprinkle with chopped walnuts. Bake for 8 to 12 minutes, just until the tops have set and cracked around the edges. A toothpick in the center should come out wet and fudgy. Let cool completely.
Place ice cubes in a small thermos or water bottle. Top with pineapple-orange juice, rum, grenadine and cherries. Garnish with pineapple or orange slices if desired.
Add the frozen concentrate |
CUYAHOGA FALLS — A city snowplow driver who was forced to abandon his stuck vehicle on railroad tracks as a speeding | train approached Sunday night was back clearing streets Monday afternoon.
Mayor Don Walters said the driver was on his way Sunday evening to one of the city’s two salt barns, located just on the other side of the train tracks at Bailey Road. The truck had two blades: a standard front plow and a side-mounted wing plow. The side-mounted plow got stuck on the rail, stopping the truck on the tracks.
Because a train was approaching the crossing, the driver was told to get out of the truck instead of trying to move it, Walters said. A short time later, the train struck the plow.
The driver wasn’t injured and was back out on the road Monday afternoon, the mayor said.
“He wasn’t injured, wasn’t shaken up," Walters said of the driver, whom he declined to name.
The truck was towed. Walters said he expects the city will purchase a replacement truck because |
They wear capes but they understand the true cost of power.
Their job is to help Garran Primary do its part for the planet ( | and hang on to its title as the ACT's sustainable school of the year), checking lights haven't been left on, computers are put to sleep and recycling bins are filled up properly.
In a rapidly warming climate, sustainability has become a familiar term around the schoolyard. All public schools in Canberra now have solar panels, some even generate income. By next year, the territory's newest school in Taylor, the Margaret Hendry School, is expected to become its first carbon neutral campus, as the ACT moves to 100 per cent renewable energy by 2020.
But experts say schools need to get smarter about heat management too, warning soaring temperatures are already taking a toll on student learning.
Recent research from Western Sydney University found cool environments are even more important for kids' concentration than adults, off the back of a 2018 Harvard University study that revealed heat exposure led to poorer learning outcomes.
Because of their higher metabolic rate, children prefer room temperatures to be two to three degrees cooler than adults |
Powerful Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar is reportedly due to travel to Moscow on August 12.
Lev Dengov, who heads Russia | 's Libya contact group, was quoted as saying on August 11 that Haftar will discuss "the issue of his eventual meeting with the prime minister" of Libya's UN-recognized government, Fayez al-Sarraj.
Dengov told the Interfax news agency that "relevant questions on reconciling the parties and the conflict will be raised" during the talks, which come after Sarraj and Haftar agreed last month on a 10-point joint declaration on a new peace initiative.
Oil-rich Libya has been in turmoil since the ouster of longtime dictator Muammar Qaddafi in 2011, with regional powers siding with opposing camps that have vied for power.
Sarraj's government of national accord sits in the capital, Tripoli, and a rival government aligned with Haftar is based in the eastern city of Bayda.
Haftar, the leader of the self-proclaimed Libyan National Army, visited Moscow twice last year |
PARLIAMENT on Wednesday passed the Fisheries Management Bill in its second reading.
Members of Parliament who participated in the debate spoke highly of the | bill and its intention.
This is a bill that has taken officials in the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources several years to put together.
So it was a well-thought out piece of legislation put together after several years of consultations and inputs from various fisheries experts and officials.
In a nutshell, this is a bill devised with the aim to well manage and protect our marine resources for the benefit of our people.
Yes, we have a huge sea area that is challenging to manage.
In fact our sea area is 1.3 million square kilometres in size compared to our land mass, which is only 28,000 square kilometres.
Everything that lies within this vast pace of waters belongs to our people. Our tuna, other fish species, and all other marine lives are our resources.
We need to protect them so that we get the maximum benefits from them.
Let’s not repeat what we’ve done with our land.
We’ve allowed too |
Thousands of Lebanese protesters blocked main roads in Beirut and around the country with rubble and burning tyres on Tuesday at the start of a general strike called by | the opposition to try to topple the government.
The opposition, which includes Hezbollah, is demanding a unity government and early elections.
Protesters in Beirut, north, south and east Lebanon went to the streets almost all at once at around 6am (4am GMT) and began blocking off roads.
Most main roads inside Beirut and into the city were blocked. Highways linking the capital to north and south Lebanon as well as to the Syrian capital Damascus were also cut off at several locations.
The road to Beirut’s international airport, Lebanon’s only such civilian facility, was blocked off.
Plumes of smoke from burning tyres rose above Beirut formed a black cloud which hung over the city.
Lebanese security forces struggled to open blocked roads obstructed by the sheer number of protesters.
Soldiers made little effort to intervene in a southern suburb which is a stronghold of Hezbollah.
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Monday called on |
So, no time to see if we might first refurbish our infrastructure, improve education, or find a compromise to repair the Affordable Care Act. | No need to act on immigration reform.
And, no, we won’t start a Clinton term by doing more to lift up Americans who have been hammered by economic upheaval. It’s an endeavor that could usefully draw Americans closer to each other across some of our deepest chasms, since both inner-city African-Americans and Donald Trump’s white working-class supporters have been hit hard by de-industrialization.
But a Republican House seems to feel no obligation to bring us together. The plan, apparently, is to attack, attack and attack again, as if the election never happened.
And when you think about it, hating the Clintons is one thing that can bring a badly divided Republican Party together. The term “civil war” may have been overused about the GOP, but this time, there is no denying that the battle for the party’s future and its soul is on.
If the Republicans hold one or both houses |
The son of a millionaire former Tory MP died after eating opium during a gap year trip to India, an inquest heard.
Adam Coombs, | 19, was with school friend Ross Taylor in the Himalayan town of Manali - on the so-called hippy trail - when the pair decided to buy the drug.
Having failed to smoke the opiate, the teenager ate some instead and fell into a deep sleep from which he never woke, the coroner at the inquest was told.
After Mr Taylor couldn't wake him the next day he asked the landlady of the guesthouse they were staying at to summon an ambulance.
Ross, also 19, ended up carrying Adam outside where he was rushed to hospital in a motorised rickshaw. But Coombs was pronounced dead on May 28 last year.
Adam was the son of Derek Coombs, MP for Birmingham Yardley between 1970 and 1974 and founder investor of Prospect magazine.
He went to the £27,000-a-year Bryanston school in Dorset, near to the family's enormous 17th century manor house in Iwerne Steep |
Facebook has sent notes of apology and is changing automated systems that blocked environmental activists and other people from posting on like-minded Facebook pages.
The | activists weren't victims of censorship, but of an anti-spam computer algorithm that impersonally was doing what it was designed to do.
"Facebook is not -- and has never been -- in the business of disabling accounts or removing content simply because people are discussing controversial topics," Andrew Noyes, Facebook spokesman, said in a statement to the Associated Press. "On the contrary, we want Facebook to be a place where people can openly express their views and opinions, even if others don't agree with them."
The activists were flagged by an anti-spam program and told they couldn't post for 15 days. Other users, including an animal rescue activist, also reported the problem. Some even have created new Facebook pages where people who have been blocked can commiserate.
"Our systems classify over10 billion actions (suspicious logins, friend requests, etc.) and pieces of content (messages, Wall posts, etc.) every day," Noyes said. " |
All it took to thwart Donald Trump from killing the North American free-trade agreement, according to a new book by Bob Woodward, was to take | a piece of paper off his desk.
Fear: Trump In The White House is a detailed behind-the-scenes book of the Trump presidency. Advance reports have revealed, for instance, that economic adviser Gary Cohn stopped Mr. Trump from withdrawing the U.S. from NAFTA by taking the paper that required a signature off his desk. Without the paper in front of him, apparently, Mr. Trump forgot about it.
As it happens, NAFTA talks resume today. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is firm in wanting to preserve Chapter 19, a dispute-resolution mechanism, and protections on culture. Mr. Trudeau raised the spectre of a U.S. news outlet buying up a Canadian one. "It is inconceivable to any Canadian that an American network might buy Canadian media affiliates, whether it is a newspaper or television stations or TV networks," he told reporters.
This is the daily Politics Briefing newsletter, written by Chris Hannay in Ottawa and James Keller in Vancouver. If |
Shorn of its absurd legalese, there can be little denying that the recent environment ministry order making it illegal for animal traders to sell cattle | , including cows, bulls, buffaloes and even camels for slaughter in animal markets, is aimed at achieving political outcomes, like consolidating the majority vote in the name of cow-protection. The latest Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Regulation of Livestock Markets) Rules state, “No person shall bring a cattle to the animal market unless upon arrival he has furnished a written declaration signed by the owner of the cattle or his duly authorised agent…stating that the cattle has not been brought to market for sale for slaughter.” For what other purpose would a farmer sell redundant/unproductive cattle? Prior to this May 23 order, the newly-elected BJP government in Uttar Pradesh had launched a drive against “illegal” slaughter-houses in the State. Emboldened cow vigilantes have taken to routinely attacking transporters ferrying cattle. Incidents such as the lynching of a dairy farmer named Pehlu Khan in Alwar on April 1 and |
Greene County employees are playing a game and saving money in the process. KSMU’s Michele Skalicky tells us about a | business model the county has adopted.
Each Tuesday, Greene County employees gather for what they call a huddle session. There’s a presentation and usually information about finances during the 30 minute meeting. This particular week, Becky Borthwick, associate circuit judge, talked about a typical day in her courtroom.
It’s part of The Great Game of Government, adapted from the Great Game of Business model, created by local businessman Jack Stack, which emphasizes open book management techniques.
Greene County Auditor Cindy Stein came up with the idea of adapting it for government when the county was struggling financially and looking for solutions.
"We had tried cuts and more cuts and more cuts, and that really wasn't digging us out of the hole that we were in. We had demands that exceeded the revenue that was currently coming in, and so we thought, 'why not try what was the Great Game of Business?'" she said.
That was in 2012 after the recession, she said |
Wearing yellow badges and traveling in groups of 10 or more, agency review teams for President-elect Barack Obama have swarmed into dozens of government | offices, from the Pentagon to the National Council on Disability.
With pointed questions and clear ground rules, they are dissecting agency initiatives, poring over budgets and unearthing documents that may prove crucial as a new Democratic president assumes control. Their job is to minimize the natural tension between incoming and outgoing administrations, but their work also is creating anxiety among some Bush administration officials as the teams rigorously examine programs and policies.
Lisa Brown, who served as counsel to Vice President Al Gore and is helping manage the reviews, said typical questions include: "Which is the division that has really run amok? Or that has run out of money? If someone is confirmed, what's going to be on their desk from Day One? What are the main things that need to happen, vis-a-vis Obama's priorities?"
Every presidential changeover includes some type of review of the federal landscape, but some have succeeded more than others, experts say. Obama's teams -- 135 people divided into |
I’ve been hearing all this talk about the “American Dream” a lot since I’ve been here. When I | was younger, I had no idea about its existence, and, for a good amount of time here, I haven’t really cared. To begin with, my national pride refuses to use the word “American” (“America” is not a country after all). However, this “American Dream” thing started taking a lot of force in everyone’s discussions on Saturday and I thought I’d say a couple of things on the matter.
Saturday was one of the most impressively bizarre days I have had in Ithaca so far. After spending four hours doing my Portuguese homework, suffering over how terrible my Neurophysiology lab report is going to end up, and taking an unexpected trip to Wegman’s that set me back for an hour or so, I met the people protesting against SB 1070 on the Commons around 3:30. About 200 people atteneded, if you count the people that go in and out |
With the Oscars bringing the season of stunning gowns and gushing acceptance speeches to a close, we look back at the celeb-approved trends that | rocked the red carpet.
Thanks to that little mix-up with a couple of envelopes at the Oscars, awards season 2017 is destined to be remembered for all the wrong reasons (well, one very awkward reason).
Which is a shame, because we all know what these gong-giving ceremonies are really about: the FASHION, of course.
We lost count of how many stars opted for floral frocks at the Baftas, from Naomie Harris’s embellished tulle to the Duchess of Cambridge’s gorgeous black, off-the-shoulder Alexander McQueen gown.
Starlets often shy away from black on the red carpet, lest they’re accused of being boring – more shameful than landing on the ‘worst dressed’ list, according to some stylists – but we saw some exceptional ebony looks this year.
There were some questionable outfit choices at the Brits, but Katy Perry and Rita Ora scored |
Hyundai Motor Group's R&D boss, Albert Biermann, says electrification is definitely in the cards for the N brand.
| Electric N models? Hyundai says they're in the works.
Hyundai's N performance arm is slowly but surely ramping up. The division recently launched the Veloster N here in the US, as well as the sporty, N-Line version of the Elantra GT.
Looking ahead, Hyundai Motor Group's head of research and development, Albert Biermann, expects a whole range of sporty N-badged models to arrive in the coming years. But he also knows that electrification has to be part of the plans in order to succeed in the future.
"We are already working on electrified prototype cars," Biermann told Roadshow at Hyundai's R&D headquarters in Namyang, South Korea, on Friday. The hard part, he says, is "how to transfer the craziness of N into electrification."
Biermann says the N division is "working already on some ideas and concept cars," the latter of which will preview |
— Bill Nelson on Wednesday, October 17th, 2012 in in a debate in Davie, Fla.
By Amy Sherman on Wednesday, October | 17th, 2012 at 9:47 p.m.
Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson said that his Republican rival U.S. Rep. Connie Mack IV has missed 178 votes this year, giving him one of the worst attendance records in Congress.
"Speaking of votes, why don’t you explain how you don’t show up to work. Why don’t you explain how this year you have one of the worst voting records. I have missed one vote this year, you have missed 178," Nelson said.
Nelson made the claim during a debate at Nova Southeastern University in Davie on Oct. 17. Mack countered back that they had similar records of missed votes if looking at their entire careers, rather than just this year.
Here we will examine recent figures for missed votes by both Mack and Nelson through September 2012.
GovTrack.us tracks missed votes for members of Congress using voting information from the official websites of the U |
You have dated Henry for three weeks. What’s amazing is that you like him! Hooray!! These days, in the dating | world, wanting to see someone for a second date is almost a miracle. Three dates and you’re hopeful that something substantial might develop.
You reach out to Mr. Wonderful Monday morning at 9. Nothing important… “Hi. Wanted to say hello and see what’s up. Give a call when you have a chance.” Monday comes and goes. Tuesday morning, afternoon and early evening come and go. Finally you get a message at 10 p.m. on Wednesday of “Hey, got your message. Good to hear from you. Call me when you have a chance”.
How you understand these events is why minimum standards are so important. I’m speaking of minimum, not maximum standards. This is not about Henry having to be six feet tall with a full head of hair and broad shoulders, is smart, curious and sensitive. This is not about needing/wanting Henry to having a great family and quality friends and makes a |
A Jacksonville basketball team that struggled at times to get the ball past midcourt all of the sudden found itself with a double-digit lead over West | Carteret.
Credit that to senior David Pickett, who scored 13 of his 18 points in the fourth quarter to help the Cardinals pull away for a 77-68 Coastal 3-A Conference win over the Patriots on Friday night.
Pickett scored all of Jacksonville’s points in a deciding 11-2 run that extended the Cardinals’ lead to 65-55 with 4:52 left. He sparked the run with a 3-pointer that gave JHS a 57-53 lead with 6:28 left and then answered two free throws from Shakur Frazier with another three before scoring off a reverse layup off a long assist from Nijear Singleton, who had 23 points.
Then Pickett struck again with his third three of the quarter to make it 65-55.
The win moved the Cardinals (10-7, 3-2) into a tie for second place in the conference with White Oak (14-4, 3-2) entering Monday� |
Will Smith has shared a brand new, behind the scenes look at Bad Boys for Life that is as entertaining as it is frustrating. After years of | false starts, this long-in-the-works project finally got going recently and, barring some sort of unforeseen disaster that will be worthy of a compelling tell-all book down the line, the movie is finally coming our way next year. Now, Smith has shared a video from the table read of the script which is very serious about not giving us any spoilers. Seriously. Not a thing.
The video was shared to Will Smith's official Instagram and features members of the cast and crew, including Martin Lawrence, gathered together to read the script for Bad Boys 3. Literally everyone's face is blurred out and any time anyone opens their mouth, the majority of what is said is censored. This isn't because everyone is dropping F-bombs left and right. Well, they could be, we suppose, but it's actually part of the gag, which is all about keeping this movie's secrets intact. Smith captioned the video with the following message.
"Exclusive first look at |
Chevrolet announced a low-emission version of the Chevrolet Volt on Thursday, designed to allow California drivers to drive solo in the state's | carpool lanes.
Fortunately for California drivers, the Low Emissions Package won't cost more than the standard Volt pricing, with the standard MSRP of $39,900, a Chevrolet spokesman said. The Volt also qualifies for the $7,500 federal tax credit for ultra-low emissions vehicles as well as a $1,500 California state tax rebate.
Since the Volt is already qualified as a ULEV, one might wonder why it didn't already qualify to run solo in California's HOV lanes. The Chevy spokesman said that the Volt had to be slightly retooled to meet California's AT PZEV regulations, however, before the state allowed it to traverse the more than 1,400 miles of HOV lanes.
As evidenced by the movie L.A. Story and others, California has a love affair with the car, and driving in the carpool lanes a treasured perk. Chevrolet said that in some parts of Southern California, drivers can shave 36 minutes |
Are Eric Beaumont and the team still in top form during the second season of the Ransom TV show on CBS? As we all know | , the Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like Ransom is cancelled or renewed for season three. Unfortunately, most of us do not live in Nielsen households. Because many viewers feel frustration when their viewing habits and opinions aren’t considered, we’d like to offer you the chance to rate all of the Ransom season two episodes here.
A CBS crime drama from creators Frank Spotnitz and David Vainola, Ransom stars Luke Roberts, Sarah Greene, Brandon Jay McLaren, and Nazneen Contractor. The mystery thriller centers on crisis and hostage negotiator Eric Beaumont (Roberts). He and his team save lives which often seem beyond saving, in part, because Eric understands criminals better than they understand themselves. Exploiting his powers of manipulation, Eric eschews using violence, even in the most dangerous kidnappings and ransom cases. Psych-profiler Oliver Yates (McLaren), former police officer Zara Hallam (Cont |
South Sudan’s opposition on Friday condemned the deportation from Kenya of the spokesman for embattled rebel leader, Riek Machar.
The | Sudan People's Liberation Movement-In Opposition (SPLM-IO) hit out at Kenya’s removal of Machar’s confidante James Gatdet Dak and warned his life may now be in danger.
The press secretary for South Sudan’s former first vice president was deported on Thursday and is now reported to be in custody in Juba, the South Sudanese capital.
In a statement, the SPLM-IO said Gatdet had been removed from his residence by Kenyan security forces.
The group said Machar -- who is currently in South Africa -- held a telephone conversation with Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto and appealed unsuccessfully for Kenya not to deport Gatdet.
There was a “profound fear” he would be killed once handed over to the government in Juba, the SPLM-IO release added.
It claims Gatdet was an urban refugee under the protection of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Kenya. |
Kieran Tierney has confirmed himself as a major doubt for Scotland's Euro 2020 qualifying double-header in June.
He travelled to Kazakhstan | with Alex McLeish's squad last month before admitting defeat in his efforts to overcome a calf issue.
Now Tierney fears his body will not be in the peak condition required to give Scotland his best for the home tie against Cyprus then a big test in Belgium.
That is because the Celtic star requires an extended period of rest to clear up the pelvic problem that has disrupted his season since mid-December.
When quizzed on the timescale for a full recovery, Tierney said: 'It will be until I get a proper rest. It will take a few weeks of doing nothing to recover the body fully.
'It is my pubis bone - and it is just through overuse; the intensity of our games and training, the number of games. It has been non-stop for me since I was 17 - it has just caught up.
'But it is nothing too serious. I'm playing, I'm training and I'm getting through it fine.
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"There is India, a free society (of) over a billion people, successfully lifting countless millions out of poverty and into the middle class," | Trump said while addressing world leaders at the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly.
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday heaped praise on India’s efforts to lift millions of its citizens from the clutches of poverty. “There is India, a free society (of) over a billion people, successfully lifting countless millions out of poverty and into the middle class,” Trump said while addressing world leaders at the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly.
His remarks come nearly a week after the 2018 global Multidimensional Poverty Index has revealed that India has made giant strides in reducing multidimensional poverty, bringing down its poverty rate from 55 per cent to 28 per cent in ten years. According to estimates released by the UN Development Programme and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, more than 271 million people have come out of poverty in India between 2005-06 and 2015-16.
This was Trump’s second address to the General Debate of the UN General Assembly |
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Stephen Curry's pregame tunnel heaves have become such a spectacle at Oracle Arena that hundreds of | cameras rise in the air to capture the moment.
He won't have that anymore when the Warriors move across the bay to San Francisco to Chase Center next season.
Everybody figures Curry will come up with a snazzy move to replace it.
"Shoot, I don't know, probably like a backflip or something like that," quipped Splash Brother Klay Thompson.
A new signature shot? For sure.
Curry vows to do something new and fun, but will just let it come to him when the time arrives. He's not pre-planning, and especially not now with the playoffs his top priority. The Warriors opened their first-round series with a 121-104 blowout of the Los Angeles Clippers.
"I've got to let it happen organically, just like this happened," Curry said. "I've got to let it happen organically. I don't really know. It'll come to me, though."
Curry |
Can Cummins Avoid an Engine Failure in 2016?
The engine maker is still feeling the hurt from a tough market.
The fortunes of engine | maker Cummins (NYSE:CMI) are closely tied to the health of the industrial economy, and right now, many investors are extremely worried that the cyclical downturn we've seen lately will last a lot longer than originally thought. For Cummins, which will release its fourth-quarter financial report on Thursday, the resulting pressure has weighed on its sales and earnings, and most shareholders expect that trend to continue not only in the fourth quarter, but throughout 2016. Just as equipment maker Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) has projected weak end markets for its products, so too does Cummins face the prospect of a tough future.
Let's take a closer look at Cummins to see whether it can break out of its downturn and give shareholders the growth they want to see.
What's next for Cummins earnings?
In recent months, investors have dramatically reduced their views on Cummins earnings. The cut to fourth-quarter projections has been limited to less than a dime per share, |
For the second week in a row, TNT led the night in the Thursday cable ratings. This time it was the network’s live broadcast | of the 76ers vs Cavaliers NBA game that scored the top spot with a 0.7 rating in adults 18-49 and 2 million viewers. TNT landed in the top 3 of the night again with its broadcast of the later game between the Timberwolves and the Trailblazers as well, which scored a 0.5.
Last night also featured the highly-anticipated season 2 premiere of FX’s “Atlanta,” which saw the series return with its first episode since November 2016. The premiere raked in a 0.4 rating on the network with 851,000 viewers, and while this was down from the 0.5 that the show’s series premiere had scored, it was steady with its first season’s finale episode.
VH1’s “RuPaul’s All Stars” managed to continue its recent ratings uptick and rose one-tenth from its previous 0.4 to a 0.5 this week. |
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