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Uniformed police officers routinely crowd the hallways of the Criminal Justice Center, sitting on benches reading or looking at their phones as they wait to | testify. Others are in small anterooms outside courtrooms, chatting with colleagues or preparing with prosecutors.
The pay meter is running all the while.
In the first seven months of fiscal year 2018, which ends June 30, police officers racked up $12 million in overtime related to testifying — or just waiting to testify — in court. That's one of the biggest reasons, with five months remaining in the fiscal year, the Police Department had already burned through its entire $57 million overtime budget.
The department is not alone. The Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority (PICA), the city's fiscal watchdog board, estimates that the city is on pace to spend $30 million more than its $135 million overtime budget for fiscal year 2018. The Sheriff's Office and Fire and Streets Departments are among those expected to go over budget.
But Police Department overtime has garnered the most attention during early City Council hearings on the next fiscal year's budget. PICA is also considering a study |
Niko Kovac left Eintracht Frankfurt the perfect parting gift with victory against his future employers Bayern Munich in the DFB-Pok | al final. Kovac delivered the cup, and with it European football next season, in his final game in charge before replacing Jupp Heynckes as Bayern manager this summer as Frankfurt won 3-1 in Berlin.
Ante Rebic scored either side of Robert Lewandowski’s equaliser, with his second goal after 82 minutes surviving a VAR check by the referee after Bayern appealed for a handball in the build-up. That was not the end of the replay drama, however, as Frankfurt survived another review in injury time when the referee decided that Kevin-Prince Boateng’s kick on Javi Martínez was not worthy of a penalty.
With Bayern still seething and their goalkeeper Sven Ulreich up for a corner, Frankfurt broke and the substitute Mijat Gacinovic raced clear of two opponents to roll the ball into the empty net and spark wild celebrations with his team-mates and supporters.
While it was the |
Mumbai: Benchmark indices BSE Sensex and NSE’s Nifty 50 surged nearly 1% on Tuesday as trends indicated that | the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is set to form government in Karnataka. Polling for the 222 of Karnataka’s 224 assembly constituencies was held on 12 May. However, analysts believe that post Karnataka elections, all focus will return to existing risks.
Early indications suggest a strong lead for BJP, just short of absolute majority, in Karnataka Assembly elections. This will go extremely well with the stock market, as it will anticipate the BJP forming the government on its own, possibly with the help of Independent candidates. Importantly, BJP’s huge tally will mean, it will hold all key ministries, which would have been shared, in case a strong partner was to ally with them. This ensures tighter control on the state. The verdict will be seen as a big sentimental positive for the indices, which were factoring in a severely fractured mandate. Market will take cues from this victory and expect similar result in the General Elections of 2019. Stability in government |
An opportunity has arisen due to growing numbers to incorporate a Secondary Science (Biology) post starting September 2018. The role would consist of teaching science | and Chemistry throughout secondary at this stage.
The school was founded in 1992 in the centre of Valencia as a coeducational British School with a small class of seven children. These children have now gone to university and the number on roll has increased to 750 children in 31 classes.
The school remains in the same location as the beginning but has expanded to occupy the ground floor of the block where it is situated, and continues to expand to occupy more space. It is the only British School in the centre of Valencia. Therefore it is easily accessible to teachers, who normally take apartments near the school and the centre.
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The ability to teach Science to Key Stage 3, 4 and Biology up to Key Stage 5.
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Your experience at this Preferred Lifestyle resort will be just as indulgent as you might think. Here, you'll have 360 guest rooms and suites | to choose from, all of which feature flat-screen TVs, pillow-top mattresses, desks, wet bars and private balconies. Travelers praise everything from the customer service to the lovely pool area (perfect for lounging). While here, you can also take advantage of the in-house spa and salon, which offers a variety of treatments ranging from massages to nail care. Meanwhile, this expansive property also boasts several on-site dining options; guests highly recommend the contemporary American cuisine served at Neomi's. However, according to some visitors, be prepared to drop a lot of dough; a stay here isn't cheap. You'll find the Trump International Beach Resort Miami in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, about 13 miles north of Miami Beach's busy South Beach area.
Limited nightlife options, plus two pools and a free kids' club, make it a better fit for families and business travelers than scene-hunting sophisticates.
This resort's circular structure towers above |
Chris Gayle has responded to the criticism he received from fellow cricketers following his sexist comments during a live interview in last season’s | Big Bash League with Andrew Flintoff, Chris Rogers and Ian Chappell all coming under fire in an extract from his new autobiography.
Despite the controversy that ensued, Gayle remains unrepentant five months down the line.
“Now T20 is different,” he writes, in a serialised extract of his book Six Machine, published in the Times.
As Gayle noted, Network Ten’s commentary team could be heard laughing on air after the incident.
“But someone up above them clearly decided to step in, and a throwaway comment in a fun format escalates and blows up and within hours it has turned into a major international incident,” he wrote.
Among the most scathing critics of his actions was Rogers, the former Australia opening batsman who is also a team-mate of Gayle’s at Somerset. Speaking on an ABC radio show shortly after the incident, Rogers accused Gayle of setting a bad example for |
Lytham In Bloom officials have issued a rallying call for a united effort...to tackle weeds.
It comes amid fears that an unprecedented proliferation | of the unwanted greenery could hamper their chances of a prestigious prize.
Changes to the way Fylde Council tackles weed clearance have led to a host of complaints from residents about unsightly streets.
The council this week stepped up its bid to solve the problem, including deploying teams of manual weedpickers, and Lytham In Bloom chiefs have been quick to stress they have no criticism of how the council has tackled the issue.
But just three weeks ahead of North West In Bloom judges coming to town, the volunteer group is gravely concerned that the weeds might spoil the chances of emulating last year’s regional gold honour.
“We have never seen it looking as bad at this time of the year.” said Lytham In Bloom chairman Carol Wildon.
“The council has had to make changes and we appreciate that. It is also doing everything it can to tackle the issue.
“But we are calling on residents and |
Assistant Undersecretary for Marine Borders Security Affairs at Ministry of Interior Major General Zuhair Abdullah Al-Nasser honored the police officers and officials | from General Coast Guard Department who stopped an operation to smuggle rare birds into the country through the Kuwaiti territorial waters, reports Al-Seyassah daily.
KUWAIT CITY, Jan 21: Kuwait Municipality has called on owners of cafés and restaurants to quickly remove all types of cabins and enclosed quarters, as it is keen on ensuring that rules and regulations concerning commercial outlets, such as restaurants, are strictly followed.
The Municipality stressed that the Control and Inspection Department will continue to monitor and record violations across the country, in accordance with the directive of Communications Minister and State Minister for Municipal Affairs Esa Ahmad Al- Kandari who stressed the need to stop wrong usage of commercial licenses. In the same context, acting Deputy Director General of Municipality Sector in Hawally and Ahmadi governorates Eng Fahad Al-Shutaili affirmed the emergency response teams have intensified monitoring of the abovementioned establishments.
He revealed this led to the issuance of citations for several |
Jim Tressel, who guided Ohio State to its first national title in 34 years, resigned yesterday amid NCAA violations from a tattoo-parlor | scandal that sullied the image of one of the country’s top football programs. “After meeting with university officials, we agreed that it is in the best interest of Ohio State that I resign as head football coach,” Tressel wrote in the resignation letter he submitted yesterday morning.
Jim Tressel, who guided Ohio State to its first national title in 34 years, resigned yesterday amid NCAA violations from a tattoo-parlor scandal that sullied the image of one of the country’s top football programs.
Luke Fickell will be the coach for the 2011 season. He already had been selected to be the interim coach while Tressel served a five-game suspension.
Under terms of Tressel’s contract, which was worth around $3.5 million a year through the 2014 season, Ohio State is not required to pay him any money or provide any benefits upon his resignation.
In a university video posted on YouTube |
The Bachelorette 2016 Spoilers: Jojo Fletcher Gold-Digger, Eliminated Guys That Weren’t Rich? |
Is Bachelorette 2016 star Jojo Fletcher a gold-digger? Season 12 spoilers tease that love might not be the only thing that Ben Higgins’ ex is searching for, apparently she is on the hunt for a big payout as well and is hoping to land herself a husband with a hefty savings account.
Jojo Fletcher is only into the third week of The Bachelorette on ABC, but according to a new report, she may be pulling the wool over the producers and the guys vying for her attention’s eyes. An inside source dished to In Touch Magazine that Jojo Fletcher could care less about finding love, she’s looking for a man that can support her.
Apparently, Jojo eliminated several guys from the show once she realized they weren’t sitting on nest egg or from a wealthy family. In Touch’s snitch explained that Jojo would blame it on a “lack of chemistry,” but |
Effective marketing of cosmetics requires focusing on a specific audience.
Breaking into the cosmetics industry is not easy. Bringing a new cosmetic item to market requires | not just developing and manufacturing a great product, it also requires marketing the product. And according to some, this last step is actually the most difficult part of the process. Marketing nonessential luxury items like cosmetics not only requires you to make the public aware of your new product, but also to convince them that your product is superior to other similar cosmetic items.
Determine your target market. This step really should've been considered even before you developed the product, all the way back in the initial business plan. It's essential for a small cosmetics company with a limited marketing budget to focus on a specific market segment. Specifically defining your market is the only way a smaller cosmetics company can effectively compete against larger companies with multi-million dollar advertising budgets. For example, if your product is an all-natural, organic wrinkle-reducing cream, then your target market might be socially progressive women over 40.
Design your product packaging around your target market. Product packaging is a huge part of marketing |
New York cooperative grocery store votes to require stronger consensus in reaction to boycott attempts surrounding Israel's SodaStream.
A cooperative grocery store in New York | voted to require a supermajority of 75 percent to approve future boycotts in reaction to a BDS attempt to boycott the Israeli firm SodaStream.
The vote at the general meeting last month of the Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn was 294-192 to require the supermajority rather than the current 50 percent plus one, the local Indypendent reported.
Since the co-op first started discussing a possible boycott of some or all Israeli products, Congregation Beth Elohim in the Park Slope section stopped allowing the co-op’s general meetings in its building, according to the Indypendent. Last month’s meeting was held at a local Catholic school, which had its auditorium filled to capacity.
Last April, a proposal was made at a general meeting to boycott SodaStream, which produces soda-making machines for the home. The company closed its controversial West Bank facility in September and moved to a plant in the Negev Desert.
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While offensive coordinator Rhett Lashlee isn’t afraid to dial up a run play for Sean White, he’s eliminated the forced | gimmicks and substitution patterns Auburn used early in the season to generate rushing yards at the quarterback position.
Lashlee has concentrated on putting the ball into the hands of Kamryn Pettway and Kerryon Johnson since taking over as the team’s play-caller.
Their success combined with the emergence of explosive options out of the backfield like Stanton Truitt, Kam Martin and even freshman receiver Eli Stove has given defenses plenty to think about without the presence of a true dual threat quarterback in the mold of Marshall or backup John Franklin III.
Franklin’s success in blowouts shows Malzahn and Lashlee still appreciate the junior college transfer’s skill set, but the more well-rounded White allows Auburn to play the mistake-free football needed to let the backfield thrive.
Malzahn defended the offense’s early season growing pains this week saying it was the result of an inexperience offense — filled with “green” underclassmen |
The Cornell women’s lacrosse team (1-1, 0-0 Ivy League) defeated rival Colgate (2-2) | on Wednesday in a close game, 15-14. It was the second game of the season and the first win for this year’s squad, which is now looking forward to its next game tomorrow against Harvard.“[Colgate] turned it into a very exciting game,” said senior tri-captain Libby Johnson.Much of the first half consisted of the two teams swapping points back and forth, with Libby Johnson, junior captain Jessi Steinberg and junior Katie Kirk all scoring goals for the Red. The sixth Cornell goal was an impressive take by Steinberg, but Colgate was able to counter with two goals. After Johnson scored the seventh point for the team, Colgate answered with a strong offensive attack, but a great save by junior goalie Kyla Dambach kept Cornell in the lead. “Kyla had a great game,” said junior tri-captain Caroline Helmer. “She had some unbelievable saves that really helped |
By AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, LONDON, September 8 – British Foreign Secretary William Hague called Sunday for a strong response to the use of | chemical weapons in Syria, saying the issue went wider than the conflict in the Middle Eastern country.
Hague said that although the British parliament had rejected joining military action against Syria, he backed anticipated US led air strikes to stop President Bashar al-Assad’s regime using poison gas again.
US Secretary of State John Kerry is due to arrive in London on Sunday for talks with Hague as part of a swing through European capitals to drum up support for action on Syria.
“I do believe very strongly that the world must stand up against the use of chemical weapons. The risks of not doing so in my view are greater than the risks of doing so,” Hague told BBC television.
He added: “This issue is about chemical weapons, which is a bigger issue than Syria.
“What the United States have been talking about, what we were talking about before the vote in parliament, is a limited and proportionate response to the use of chemical weapons to deter |
The Chinese stock market is in trouble. The Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index fell 24.59 percent in 2018—the biggest annual drop since 2008. | This makes the Shanghai exchange the world’s worst performing stock market.
The Shenzhen exchange did not fare well either, dropping 34.42 percent. Meanwhile, the Growth Enterprise Market (GEM) Index in Hong Kong fell 28.65 percent.
All told, more than 90 percent of A-shares traded in the Shenzhen and Shanghai exchanges fell in stock prices. In total, A-shares shrank by 13.26 trillion yuan (about $1.97 trillion) in value last year, according to Chinese media.
To comply with rules by China’s securities regulator, all listed companies had to publish their performance forecasts for the past year by the end of January.
According to Japanese publication Nikkei, over 400 companies reported a net loss. 320 companies lost in excess of 100 million yuan (about $14.8 million) in 2018, while 129 companies expected losses of over 800 million yuan (about $118.6 million).
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Lauren Bilbo, 17, daughter of Matt and Lisa Bilbo of West Lake Hills, recently earned the Gold Award, the highest Girl Scout | honor. She created video tutorials to introduce the electronic resources available to patrons of the Westbank Community Library. Members can find tutorials on the library's website for language learning software, online reference books, audio books and e-books. Bilbo is a senior at Westlake High School and a member of Troop 447.
Henry Benschoter, 16, son of Maureen and Brian Benschoter of Austin, led more than 30 volunteers in rebuilding baseball dugouts and refurbishing the infield at the Burke Center for Youth's Pathfinder Ranch in Driftwood. Benschoter is a sophomore at the Liberal Arts and Science Academy and a member of Troop 555, chartered by Abiding Love Lutheran Church.
Walker M. Payne, 15, son of Rosemary and Martin Payne of Austin, built and installed seven benches in the outdoor amphitheater at Westlake United Methodist Church. Payne is a sophomore at Westlake High School and a member of Troop 4, chart |
JAKARTA — Media misframing of the martial law debate and its hyping of Justice Marvic Leonen’s dissent clearly | won martial law’s extension. The letters on the sides of news reports on Congress’ joint session last July 22, read vertically, spell out “Hail Hydra!” a la Pete Lacaba.
It is unprecedented to give more prominence to what lightning protesters chanted than what Sen. Franklin Drilon asked, the opposition’s senior statesman and one of his generation’s most brilliant lawyers.
It is unprecedented for media to betray unfamiliarity — after 60 days! — with the issues that underpin our post-Edsa democracy’s defining debate.
Drilon faced off against Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea, the administration’s second best lawyer, after Leonen. He raised the Constitution’s longstanding requirement for “actual” rebellion to declare martial law. “Imminent” danger of rebellion was intentionally deleted.
He asked whether there is an “actual” rebellion Mindanao-wide when |
Two of the latest developments suggest that Russia and “Israel” are backing away from the “crisis” that some in Alt | -Media eagerly hoped would transpire between them as a result of the downing of a Russian Jet.
The main points were that a pro-American “deep state” faction in “Israel” might be responsible for yesterday’s tragic occurrence, and that the US and Iran both have an interest (albeit for very separate reasons) in exacerbating the distrust between Moscow and Tel Aviv to the point of generating a full-fledged crisis.
That being the case, Russia and “Israel” appear to be signaling to one another that neither wants an escalation of tensions with the other, which also suggests that their leaderships are in constant communication over what transpired.
This noticeably omits any reference to the Russian Defense Minister’s earlier statement holding “Israel” fully responsible for what happened.
The second part of that tweet predictably lays the blame on Syria, while subsequent messages expand the reach of culpability to include Iran and Hezbollah, too.
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The board has sent an edict that the corporation will be responsible for washing only the inaccessible windows. We owners don’t own the outside | of our units and we all pay condo fees for maintenance. How can the board refuse responsibility for washing windows that are accessible from our balconies?
The windows in highrise condos are invariably designated as common elements and the Condo Act states that common element maintenance is the obligation of the corporation. However, maintenance and repair obligations, as set out in the Act as between the corporation and the unit owners, may be amended in the declaration — although the owners cannot be made responsible for repairing the common elements. Your declaration may provide that the owners will maintain the windows that are accessible from each owner’s balcony, which would include window washing.
If the declaration does not say that, the obligation to wash the outside of the windows remains with the corporation. But since the boundary of each unit likely is the interior surface of the windows, the obligation to clean the interior surfaces of the windows rests with the unit owners.
I replaced the lock on the entrance door to my unit which broke and I |
Scam artists claiming to work for "U.S. Immigration" are calling victims across the country seeking to steal their personal information and commit identity | theft, the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general warned.
The thieves are using a technique called spoofing, where they alter the caller ID so it looks like the call is coming from the Department of Homeland's hotline number (1-800-323-8603).
"The scammers demand to obtain or verify personally identifiable information from their victims through various tactics, including by telling individuals that they are the victims of identity theft," the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General said in its fraud alert Wednesday. It also noted that many of the scammers "reportedly have pronounced accents."
The inspector general said DHS never uses its hotline to make outgoing calls. It only uses the number to receive information from the public. It said individuals shouldn't answer calls from 1-800-323-8603, and if they do, they shouldn't divulge personal information.
Arlen Morales, a spokesman for the agency told CNNMoney that this is the first |
Android creator Andy Rubin’s latest hardware startup, Essential, is now shipping its first smartphone, the Essential Phone. Now, customers have to | decide whether the Essential Phone, which comes with features similar to those of the Galaxy S8, is better than Samsung's handset. In today's highly competitive smartphone market, the Essential Phone and the Galaxy S8 seem to deliver the best slate of features on the Android side. From next-generation designs to high-end performance, both devices are outstanding options for consumers and enterprise users alike. In this slide show, eWEEK compares the Essential Phone with the Galaxy S8 to help folks decide which smartphone works better for them. Read on to see the comparison.
The Galaxy S8 and Essential Phone have strikingly similar designs that many industry watchers say deliver a next-generation feel. Both devices have screens that nearly entirely cover the faces, and neither device has a physical home button, so their fingerprint sensors are on the rear panels. The design concept also is expected to be on Apple's next big iPhone, the iPhone 8.
The Essential Phone and Samsung's Galaxy S8 both run on |
The Vanity Fair columnist and author of God is not great on the banality of Tony Blair’s new faith foundation.
I stipulate | that for purely secular reasons I still admire Tony Blair for standing by the peoples of Afghanistan and Iraq and Sierra Leone against the various combinations of tyranny and aggression with which they were confronted. (The refusal to “do God”, as we are apparently stuck with this irritating phrase, neither enhanced nor inhibited the execution of those admirable policies.) But far more irritating is Blair’s new banality, which rises almost to Queen’s Christmas broadcast level – “science has given us great power for good or ill” – combined with his addiction to junk statistics, and his unexamined assumption that there must be some natural connection between faith and rectitude.
Of his supposed two billion Christians, for example, how many belong to congregations that are at each other’s throats, or that rant about the imminence of the “end times”? The leader of Blair’s own Christian sect cannot decide which is worse – Aids or condoms – |
It is evident that Duplantis' recent "All-USA Track and Field Athlete of the Year" honor was well-deserved, | and based on sheer merit. This outdoor season, Duplantis improved his personal best to 5.93 meters, which is also the world junior record in the men's pole vault. Duplantis' clearance of 5.93 meters is the third best performance this year in the men's pole vault, right behind Renaud Lavillenie's 5.95 meters, and reigning world champion Sam Kendricks' world leading mark of 5.96 meters.
In mid-June, as Digital Journal reported, Duplantis won first place in the men's pole vault competition in Montreuil, France, where he defeated world record holder and two-time Olympic medalist Renaud Lavillenie. On June 30, Duplantis finished second at the IAAF Diamond League event in Paris with 5.90 meters.
Duplantis also won first place in the IAAF Diamond League event in Stockholm with 5.86 meters, where he bested Sam Kendricks for the |
Unemployment should decline by more than 0.1 percent per month over the next six months and to fall below 6.5 percent—the Fed | ’s unemployment threshold—by February 2014.
In September, the unemployment rate dropped to 7.2 percent—as the model correctly predicted (again!) last month—pushed down by the steady-state convergence dynamics. The decline in unemployment will continue, with a 7.1 percent jobless rate expected for October, and the outlook for the next 6 months is good: following positive readings on the job openings and layoffs fronts, the steady-state unemployment rate currently stands at 6.7percent and is expected to decline strongly over the next couple months and reach 5.9percent by March 2014, which will translate into an unemployment declining by more than 0.1 percentage points per month over the next six months. At this rate, the unemployment rate would fall below 6.5percent—the threshold unemployment rate above which the Fed has vowed to hold interest rates near zero—by February 2014.
This forecast is easily understood by looking at the projected behavior of the “steady- |
Despite pouring rain, over 5,000 demonstrators assembled in San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza for a two-and-a-half- | mile march to Mission Dolores Park. The crowd was far smaller than the hundreds of thousands who assembled before the war, and the demonstrators appeared much more somber as well.
While the weather played a role, the change appeared more the result of the recognition that the massive protests had not stopped the US military from massacring tens of thousands of Iraqis. At the same time, the willingness of protesters to stand in the freezing rain for hours on end to make themselves heard showed that the antiwar sentiment is far from dissipated.
By about 11:15 a.m. the crowd began to grow. There was a group called Progressive Junta with a small statue of George W. Bush that they were preparing to pull down with ropes in a bit of street theatre mocking the staged felling of the statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad. The wind picked up and threatened to blow over many of the kiosks set up by the various protest groups, and people pitched in to hold the tent poles while |
Have You Heard About the Caravan?
Have you heard about the caravan? It is marching north like an army. There are 7,000 | people in it and counting. It is a national “emergy.” It is from Honduras, but unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in. President Donald Trump has very good information about it — just ask Vice-President Mike Pence, who had a phone call on Tuesday with President Juan Orlando Hernández of Honduras. Pence has learned that leftist groups are organizing the caravan. Venezuela is funding it. So are the Democrats and George Soros, who is dictating where the caravan defecates.
Trump’s relentless fearmongering toward the men, women, and children laboriously making their way north on foot from Central America reached a new apex Thursday when news broke that Defense Secretary James Mattis planned to send “800 or more” additional troops to the U.S.-Mexico border. The prospect of armed guards lining up from San Diego to the Gulf Coast to rebuff the enemy at the gate is galvanizing imagery — as is intended. It is also not |
LOS ANGELES Comcast has acquired online movie ticket destination Fandango.
Fandango will be an integral piece of a new site Comcast is | launching in the summer, Fancast, which is designed to provide one-stop shopping for viewers looking to track programming options across a range of platforms, including online and mobile.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it is expected to close in the second quarter. One analyst, Jeff Wlodarczak of Wachovia Securities, pegged the purchase price at $200 million.
Fandango represents the continued Internet expansion of Comcast under its Comcast Interactive Media division run by Amy Banse. Fancast will join a growing stable of online properties including video destination Ziddio and the gaming-centric Game Invasion.
In Fandango, Comcast gets a growing site with about 5 million unique visitors each month. Fandango, formed in 2000 by seven of the top 10 largest U.S. theater chains, services movie ticketing for 15,000 screens.
Fandango has received strong competition for online tickets sales with MovieTickets.com, |
Young Wales survived a major scare as they held out for victory in the first Test of their summer tour to Japan.
Harry Robinson scored a second | -half try but Wales were out-scored two tries to one as Japan responded through Michael Broadhurst and Yoshikazu Fujita.
However Japan were made to pay for missing three kicks as 14 points from the boot of Dan Biggar and a Rhys Patchell penalty saw Wales hold on at Kintetsu Hanazono Stadium.
Wales had looked to set the early pace but it was Japan who took the lead in the 14th minute.
Owen Williams tackled Craig Wing but was unfortunate to inadvertently block Harumichi Tatekawa’s kick as he retreated to hand Ayumu Goroumaru his first attempt at goal, which he swept over between the posts.
The full-back doubled the lead on 20 minutes when Wales paid the price for a series of penalties and number eight Rob McCusker was sent to the sin bin.
Following discussions between the two teams, South African referee Lourens van der Merwe agreed to a water |
The 61G lava flow extending southeast of Puʻu ʻŌʻō entered the ocean, as of as of 1 | :12 a.m., Tuesday morning, July 26, 2016.
Hawaiʻi Island police are renewing their request for information about a 48-year-old man who was reported missing. Michael Kalla was last seen in Puna in October 2015. His last known address was in Honokaʻa, but he is known to have frequented the Pāhoa and Kalapana areas around the time he was reported missing.
Average retail gasoline prices in Hawaii have fallen 3.7 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.77/g yesterday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 355 gas outlets in Hawaii. This compares with the national average that has fallen 4.5 cents per gallon in the last week to $2.15/g, according to gasoline price website GasBuddy.com.
Hawai‘i Electric Light has restored electric service to the remaining 100 customers in Hawaiian Paradise Park, Le |
They are the leader of George Speight's gunmen, Ilisoni Ligairi, Speight's brother and Australian national, Jim Spe | ight, and the former police commissioner's brother, Major Josefa Savua.
The Fiji Times reports that speaking on behalf of the three, Mr Ligairi said they knew they had broken the laws of the country, but they did so for the sake of the nation and their duty to it.
Mr Ligairi said they have come out fully focussed on their mission in life and it was up to God to judge them.
But the Labour Party leader, Mahendra Chaudhry, who, along with his government, was held hostage by the group for 56 days, says the actions of the men had set Fiji back 20 years and brought enormous pain and suffering to the people.
Mr Chaudhry says of the 19 people killed during the coup and afterwards, 18 were indigenous Fijians.
He says thousands of people lost their jobs and many parents still cannot afford to send their children to school because of the actions of George Speight and |
Manila (9 November) -- At an event today at Sagad Elementary School in Pasig City, Philippine Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala | , Education Secretary Armin Luistro, U.S. Agricultural Attaché David Wolf, and local officials launched the USDA Food for Progress School Nutrition Program that provides nutritional assistance to an estimated 85,000 public elementary school children in the form of long shelf-life milk packs and fortified biscuits.
Also present at the launching activity were Republic Flour Mills (RFM) Corporation President Jose Ma. Concepcion III, Congressman Roman Romulo, and Pasig City Mayor Robert Eusebio.
Distribution of the milk and biscuits will start on November 15 and run until January 2011. Last year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture donated 680 metric tons of milk powder to the Philippines under its Food For Progress program to help the victims of Typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng. The donated U.S. milk powder was processed and converted into long shelf-life milk packs and fortified biscuits by RFM Corporation and will be distributed to 85,000 students in 271 public |
A 19-year-old woman has died after taking ecstasy on a night out.
West Yorkshire Police has issued a warning following the death of | the woman, who has not been named, in Leeds.
A spokesman said she was taken ill in the Pryzm club in the city centre early on Tuesday morning.
The woman was helped outside by a friend before door staff became aware and called the club's medical staff to assist, he said.
The woman, who is from Leeds, underwent emergency treatment in hospital but was pronounced dead later.
He said the initial findings of a post mortem examination have shown that she died as a result of hyperthermia and "complications due to MDMA (ecstasy) toxicity.
The spokesman said officers were called at 3am on Tuesday by staff at St James's Hospital, in the city, after the woman was brought in by ambulance in a critical condition.
A 19-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the supply of a Class A drug and has since been released on police bail pending further inquiries.
Detective Inspector Phil Jackson, of Leeds |
JONES — Coach Tara Satterfield had nothing but praise for her Bethel squad after a heartbreaking 50-48 setback to Perkins-Tryon | Friday in semifinal action of the Jones Tournament.
Down 50-46 in the final seconds, Bethel got a 2-point field goal and was fouled ou the play. Bethel intentionally missed the free throw, hoping to get a rebound and tying field goal, but Perkins-Tryon came up with the ball.
Perkins-Tryon outscored Bethel 18-4 in the second quarter on the way to a 26-18 halftime advantage.
Kelsie Wood hit two 3-point field goals en route to a team-high 14 points. Kirsten Winters, who tallied 10 points, hit two 3-pointers. Laney O’Rorke and Keagan Engle had one trey apiece.
Had Bethel fared a little better at the charity stripe (12 of 19), it could have easily been in Saturday’s championship game. Still, the Lady Wildcats, 8-10, will play for third place at 12 |
A charity that helps emigrants return to Ireland has urged an overhaul in training for Fair Deal staff to make it more accessible for elderly people who wish | to come home for nursing home care.
Safe Home, which helps emigrants of all ages in returning to Ireland, has highlighted a number of barriers facing those who wish to move back to Ireland including housing and social welfare delays.
But it has also made a plea for a change to the way in which the Fair Deal or the Nursing Home Support Scheme is administered to ensure that there is adequate training for staff and information for people who wish to have their elderly relative placed in a nursing home here.
Safe Home has recently been involved with three people who contacted them to assist with the application process, but "due to bureaucratic and lengthy process all three applicants died before their lifetime dream of returning home could be realised", Karen McHugh, from the organisation said.
The charity said there is varying levels of awareness among staff in Nursing Home Support Offices (NHSS) about non-resident applications and it is calling for extensive training and updated information to be made available on the HSE website.
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The US President and the Director, US Network Operations manage the US Network Group of 40+ individuals. The US President interacts with the 1,300 | + United Way organizations around the globe. Under minimal supervision, the Lead Associate provides direct and high-level executive administrative support, and performs complex and diverse duties in support of the US President and the Director, US Network Operations. This position requires an experienced professional comfortable with receiving direction from both the US President and the Director, Network Operations.
The Lead Associate proactively anticipates and initiates timely actions regarding emails, engagement/meeting requests, and office operations which require in-depth knowledge of United Way Worldwide and other Groups. The position requires a Type A work ethic and a mastery of interpretation, logic, prioritization, time management, and the ability to resolve highly varied situations and challenges with an open and can-do attitude. The Lead Associate also functions as a project information coordinator and provides advanced executive administrative support for multiple programs and projects.
The Lead Associate, along with the Director, US Network Operations, guides the US President to the best, most respectful, and efficient way to work together |
Ann McKee, MD, is the recipient of the Henry Wisniewski Lifetime Achievement Award in Alzheimer’s Research from the Alzheimer� | �s Association for her significant scientific contributions and demonstrated lifelong commitment to progress against Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. She was one of three individuals recognized July 24 at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) in Chicago.
Director of Neuropathology for VA Boston Healthcare System and Professor of Neurology and Pathology at BUSM, Dr. McKee is Director of the BU CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy) Center and Associate Director of the BU Alzheimer’s Disease Center. She was the first scientist to report a link between motor neuron disease and CTE. Dr. McKee created the “McKee criteria” by defining the criteria on the changes in the brain for the diagnosis of CTE and establishing the novel staging system for the condition.
The Lifetime Achievement Award is named in honor of Henry Wisniewski, MD, PhD, one of the three co-founders of the conference. The award recognizes significant fundamental |
The gathering space of the House of Linguistic Diversity, located at one of the new small living units at Ohio Wesleyan University campus on Row | land Avenue. The university has plans to build four duplex-style SLUs funded by donors.
Audrey Castaneda-Walker found a greater appreciation for functional plumbing, electric and heat when she lived at a couple of Ohio Wesleyan University’s older residential buildings.
She lived in one of OWU’s has seven small living units, or SLUs, with some originally located on Rowland and Oak Hill avenues and West William Street. SLUs not only provide a roof over student’s heads but allows them to live as a family, bonded by a particular interest.
But working utilities was a challenge, said Castaneda-Walker, until she moved to one of the new duplex-style SLUs on Rowland Avenue.
“It’s definitely been a blessing,” she said.
The city approved plans in August 2015 for the construction of four new duplex-style homes to accommodate all seven of the university� |
Early one morning, almost a century ago, a young woman trespassed on the grounds of a house called Menabilly. The Cornish sea | was pink with sunrise, and blackbirds were singing in the hedge; a five-kilometre path unwound between banks of scarlet rhododendrons, and the lawn was wet with dew. Here she stood, gazing at white windows shuttered fast and grey walls concealed behind tapestries of ivy. It was, she said, “like the sleeping beauty of the fairy tale, until someone should come to wake her”. And indeed the house was woken, and has never slept since: the trespasser was Daphne Du Maurier, and the house slumbered on until she began to write Rebecca, with Menabilly rechristened Manderley.
Rebecca begins, “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” Every novelist since has ground their teeth in envy: here is all the enchantment of a child’s story, with an irresistible melancholy hung about it. The narrator is on a |
Next: Anatomy of an Attack comes to London and Sydney – book your place now!
Last night, US TV station CNBC broadcast a documentary | entitled “CodeWars: America’s Cyber Threat”, looking at the threat of cyberwarfare, hacker attacks on critical infrastructure and the risk of technology made in China containing spyware.
Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn was amongst those interviewed, who confirmed that US government networks receive thousands of attempted hacker attacks every day, and confirms that on occasion weapons systems plans and critical information has been lost in the assaults.
The US government isn’t alone in being targeted by attackers of course, we have heard a similar message from British politicians this year, for instance.
But, as Wired magazine points out, Lynn was also asked directly whether the US was involved in the development of the infamous Stuxnet worm.
"The challenges of Stuxnet, as I said, what it shows you is the difficulty of any, any attribution and it's something that we’re still looking at, it's hard to get into any kind of comment on that until we |
We all want to stay sharp-witted as we age, which explains the recent proliferation of brain games and puzzles. But newly published research suggests | a low-tech way of retaining our mental agility: Learn to play a musical instrument.
According to this research, people who spend many hours in the practice room not only process information unusually efficiently, but they also do a superior job of not letting occasional errors derail them.
In the journal Neuropsychologica, the researchers describe an experiment featuring 36 young adults. They were divided into four groups: Musicians who had accumulated at least 5,000 hours of practice; those who had clocked 2,000 to 5,000 hours; the lightweights (or newcomers to music) who had practiced for 200 to 2,000 hours; and non-musicians.
After answering a series of questions, all the participants took part in two standard cognitive tests: a Stroop task, in which they were asked to respond to words written in the color blue (even if the letters spelled out “red”); and a Simon task, in which they were instructed to respond with their |
A looming meeting with the Food and Drug Administration regarding retailer tobacco sales to young people is the latest pressure on Walgreens Boots Alliance to stop sales | of cigarettes and other tobacco products altogether.
“Notably, Walgreens is currently the top violator among pharmacies that sell tobacco products, with 22 percent of the stores inspected having illegally sold tobacco products to minors,” the FDA said.
FDA head Scott Gottlieb wants to meet with Walgreens to address "their record of violative tobacco sales to youth.” In a statement Thursday, Gottlieb said said he will be "writing the corporate management of Walgreens and requesting a meeting with them to discuss whether there is a corporate-wide issue related to their stores’ non-compliance."
The FDA’s warning to Walgreens comes as the giant retailer pushes further into the business of healthcare, partnering with health insurers, doctors, urgent care centers and adding lab-testing inside its stores.
“We all share the important responsibility of keeping harmful and addictive tobacco products out of the hands of kids,” Gottlieb |
Several African-American leaders say tributes to the Civil War are outdated, but Gov. Abbott says the state's past must not be sanitized | or forgotten.
AUSTIN – Rodney Ellis was a 36-year-old state senator in 1991 representing many of the same Houston neighborhoods as Barbara Jordan had served a generation earlier when he first called for the removal of statues and artwork at the Texas Capitol glorifying the Civil War.
The offense Ellis had taken to the monuments to the slaveholders, largely dismissed at the time as an effort to sanitize Texas history, has taken on new life in the wake of the violence last weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, that culminated in the death of a young woman when a man associated with white supremacy drove his car into a crowd of demonstrators.
Several African-American members the Texas Legislature this week have called on state authorities to reopen the discussion about whether several pieces of Civil War-related artwork and iconography that have been part of the Capitol’s fabric and landscape for generations are appropriate in a diverse modern Texas.
“I cannot think of a better time than the present to discuss |
You'll still be able to sweet-talk your valentine this year with "Be Mine" and "Be Good" printed candy hearts. | But you also will be able to tease your lover with new sayings like "You Rock" and "Let's Do Lunch."
The Conversation Hearts, made by the New England Confectionery Co. since 1902, have added 10 messages, including "Love Me Tender," "I Got U Babe" and "Walk On By" as tributes to popular songs of the past and "1-800 Cupid" and "As If" for the '90s crowd. Other messages: "My Way," "Let It Be," "I Wonder."
And the fat-free treats won't wreck anyone's diet. The small hearts have about 3 calories each and the larger hearts have about 6 calories.
Before saying "I do," the dot-com generation can get plenty of wedding do's and don'ts on the Internet. Modern Bride magazine's site, ModernBride.com, has hooked up with Cooking.com to help couples choose cookware and recipes for entertaining |
As stated in other CAMERA reports, the Presbyterian Church will be voting on a number of issues related to the Arab-Israeli conflict at its upcoming | General Assembly scheduled to take place in early July. In addition to an overture accusing Israel of the crime of apartheid, and another calling on the PC(USA) to rebuke Caterpillar for selling products to Israel, delegates at the assembly will also decide whether or not to endorse a report about the Arab-Israeli conflict written by a partisan Middle East Study Committee established by the denomination’s 2008 General Assembly.
The report, issued in early March, has been criticized by a number of groups, including J Street, which stated, among other things, that the report downplays Israel’s legitimate security concerns. This is remarkable in that many Jews in the U.S. regard J Street as being guilty of the same sin.
When J Street says there’s a problem, there’s a problem.
One of the ugliest parts of the document is a “historical analysis” authored by Frederic Bush and Nahida H. Gordon, two |
The mining company behind an environmental disaster near Newcastle says plans to clean-up a creek that has been smothered in cement are well advanced. |
Work to fix major subsidence from Glencore Xstrata's West Wallsend underground mine went horribly wrong, leaving a 250-metre long cement creek in the Sugarloaf State Conservation Area.
The company says it is finalising remediation plans and will be ready to submit them in the next week or two.
A legal notice to find a solution to the debacle has been extended from later this month to October 1.
Glencore Xstrata's Allyn Hamonet says the clean up will be very labour intensive.
"It won't be a quick job," he said.
"There is a large amount of material, it is difficult terrain and it may be that we have to pick at it and remove it by hand.
"But if that's the way it's got to be done then that's exactly what we'll do.
Mr Hamonet says the plans involve small teams working in sections of the creek at a time, with each section |
Better check twice before firing off that email today: You could be sending it to the wrong person, thanks to a Gmail bug that is suggesting email | addresses you rarely communicate with, instead of the people you correspond with most often.
This Gmail email address autocomplete bug is killing me. Is Google’s new social strategy to have me email people I don’t remember?
The incipient malevolent human-murdering AI inside GMail just autocompleted an address I've emailed once over one I've emailed 10,000 times.
The problem seems to be widespread — just this morning, Gigaom’s tips email address (news@gigaom.com, send us stories) was inexplicably CC’d on a email thread on which editors of another site were discussing the most embarrassing moments from last night’s Oscars.
Until it gets fixed, you might want to consider turning on the undo send feature in Gmail labs.
This is way too funny. Though, it can’t happen if you double check before sending. I know it’s time consuming |
Michael Myers makes his return to movie theaters this weekend, and with the fictional serial killer comes one of the most enduring genres of all time.
| “Halloween,” the eleventh film in the horror franchise, opened with $7.7 million Thursday night and is expected to bring in roughly $60 million domestically this weekend for Universal. That would make it one of the biggest openings in October’s history and the highest grossing debut for the franchise. Last year’s big screen version of Stephen King’s “It” opened at $123 million, for comparison.
So why does Hollywood keep coming back to “Halloween?” It’s because horror is a unique genre with broad appeal, films that are affordable to make and that are best enjoyed at brick and mortar theaters where other viewers are screaming with you in the dark. Studios benefit from the high return on investment, and theaters get more foot traffic at the box office and at concession stands where they make the highest profit margins. In an age of on-demand streaming from the comfort of a living room, horror films |
Congress overwhelmingly passed the $143 billion measure on Friday. The bill extends both a 2 percentage point reduction in the tax that funds Social Security and extends | jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed. The measure also averts a big cut in the reimbursements doctors get for treating Medicare patients.
But Tuesday's event was not a bill-signing because the bill is not yet in Obama's hands. Not knowing when the legislation will come down from Capitol Hill, the White House decided to go ahead and hold its event now, while the victory is still fresh in people's minds. No major event is planned for the actual bill-signing.
The payroll tax cut was a centerpiece of the jobs plan Obama unveiled last year — and of a re-election strategy that seeks to cast his GOP foes as protectors of the rich out of touch with the worries of working families.
Obama never mentioned that a real driver of the deal Congress approved Friday was the political fallout on Republicans if they didn't give ground. Having endured a debacle in December, when they were seen as holding up the tax cut before caving, Republicans this time went |
Thomas Piketty, professor at the Paris School of Economics, isn’t a household name, although that may change with the English- | language publication of his magnificent, sweeping meditation on inequality, Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Yet his influence runs deep. It has become a commonplace to say that we are living in a second Gilded Age—or, as Piketty likes to put it, a second Belle Époque—defined by the incredible rise of the “one percent.” But it has only become a commonplace thanks to Piketty’s work. In particular, he and a few colleagues (notably Anthony Atkinson at Oxford and Emmanuel Saez at Berkeley) have pioneered statistical techniques that make it possible to track the concentration of income and wealth deep into the past—back to the early twentieth century for America and Britain, and all the way to the late eighteenth century for France.
The result has been a revolution in our understanding of long-term trends in inequality. Before this revolution, most discussions of economic disparity more or less ignored the very rich. Some economists (not to mention politicians |
KALAMAZOO, Mich.—For many students, mathematics isn't an easy subject to master. Teaching mathematics in a country like South Africa | , which has 11 official languages, can also be daunting.
Although English is the common mode of instruction in that country, Dr. Jon Davis thinks doing a little more talking about math could lead to better learning outcomes for students. So he is using his six-month-long Fulbright Program Scholarship to delve deeper into how conceptual discourse and code-switching techniques can be tools in promoting student understanding.
An associate professor of mathematics, Davis is one of the six Fulbright Scholars from WMU who are working around the globe this academic year. At WMU, he has been teaching content classes up to the calculus level as well as mathematics education courses for master's and doctoral students and prospective middle school and high school teachers.
What's talk got to do with it?
Davis traveled to South Africa in January to explore ethnomathematics—the study of the relationship between culture and math—and to observe mathematics instruction within South Africa's centralized education system. He is conducting his work |
In a rare Saturday matinee, the Predators came out sluggish and the Panthers made them pay in a 7-4 loss that puts them right | back on the playoff bubble.
The ageless Jaromir Jagr had no problems getting ready for the afternoon start. The 45-year-old future Hall of Famer put Florida up 1-0 just over 4:00 into the game. Florida then scored four goals in a 4:01 stretch during the second period to take control of the game.
"It was gross," a visibly angry Predators head coach Peter Laviolette said after the game. "We didn't play with any purpose. There was no passion, no effort. The actions that we gave deserved the result we got."
The disastrous stretch started when Pontus Aberg was booked for slashing, one of seven penalties called on Nashville in the period, and Jussi Jokinen cashed in on the Power Play less than 90 seconds later. The Preds briefly responded when Viktor Arvidsson, who recorded his first career hat trick, redirected a Ryan Ellis shot into the net to tie the game 2 |
When this campaign is over, let's not forget Donald Trump's steady use of anti-Semitic stereotypes and images throughout the campaign—ideas we | can expect he'll continue to use when the election is over and he tries to re-invent himself as the leader of a white supremacist nationalist movement and the public face of a new media empire (Trump TV?) with his supporters Roger Ailes (former head of Fox News who has a history of making anti-Semitic comments and was responsible for Fox News' anti-Semitic crusade against the phony "war on Christmas"), Stephen Bannon (head of Breitbart News known for his own anti-Semitic remarks), and hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer (the money behind Breitbart News).
Trump's anti-Semitism comes in different shapes and sizes. He verbalizes it, encourages it, enables it, tolerates it, and makes excuses for it. What he doesn't do is condemn it.
Trump's most recent anti-Semitic remarks were in a speech, and a tweet, last week that included this line: "Hillary Clinton meets in secret with international banks to plot the destruction of U.S. sovereignty |
Former prime minister Pierre Trudeau used to give bodyguards fits because they worried his flamboyant manner and pro-Cuban policies made him a | target for "crazies," says his former press secretary.
"When we were in crowds, the Mounties went nuts, wondering whether some crazy would lunge at him or take a shot at him," Patrick Gossage said yesterday.
His comments came after a Star story in which Mike Craft, a self-confessed former "degenerate gambler" and former organized criminal from upstate New York, said he planned to kill Trudeau in the summer of 1974.
Craft said he was attempting to shoot Trudeau at a public appearance in Montreal because of his close association with Cuban President Fidel Castro. Craft said he was working for U.S. mobsters who were upset at Cuba and hoped Castro would come to Trudeau's funeral so they could get a shot at him.
He testified during recent New York state hearings into organized crime and gambling.
Toronto-area author Antonio Nicaso, who has lectured to police intelligence groups on organized crime, said American mobsters |
Houses near the Xayaburi dam construction site in a photo taken on April 12, 2011.
Villagers relocated to make way for | the Xayaburi megadam on the Mekong River in northern Laos have been hit by landslides for the second time in two months after bad weather prevented the authorities from building a retaining wall to protect their homes.
Residents of Houay Hip, a village in Luang Prabang’s Nan district newly built for those displaced by the hydropower dam, said heavy rains last week triggered landslides on a hill on the edge of the village, destroying part of the road and crushing several houses.
The village is home to some 650 residents and hundreds more being moved from near the dam are on their way there this week.
The most recent damage came after landslides in June knocked out utility poles and severed electricity supply to the village, prompting residents to ask local authorities responsible for their resettlement to build a retaining wall against the hill.
Residents said officials told them the wall could not be built until the dry season, but that they were concerned about further damage by future |
John Banks took the frail hand of his old foe Penny Bright at her bedside in Auckland Hospital today and held it for a good 15 minutes. |
"I haven't met anyone with more fight than you," said Banks, who knew he was in her good books when she telephoned and referred to him simply as "John".
"Whenever you referred to me as John Banks I knew I was in trouble," said the former mayor of Auckland City Council.
On a Wednesday night in 2002, Banks stared down a group of protesters at the Auckland Town Hall and said he was not going to tolerate "boorish and childish behaviour by a small minority of Aucklanders hell-bent on disrupting the council".
He ruled the protesters could not bring placards into the council meeting. That was followed by chaotic scenes with 20 security guards and several police officers dragging protesters outside and making 17 arrests. Bright was in the thick of the action.
Banks accepted Bright's invitation to visit her in hospital today, turning up in a Ralph Lauren puffer jacket carrying a large bunch of red lilies and a friendly smile.
He had barely |
JOHANNESBURG – When Nelson Mandela's great-granddaughter was killed in a June 2010 car crash, her | tragic death cast a shadow over the start of the FIFA World Cup, and kept the former president and Nobel Prize winner away from the opening events.
More than two years later, 13-year-old Zenani Mandela's family is still fighting for justice in a prolonged court case over the fatal accident. But her grandmother Zindzi — Nelson Mandela's daughter — is fronting a new United Nations campaign to highlight the problems of road safety.
"We lose 1,000 children a day in road deaths, and the highest killer of children above the age of 10, worldwide, is road accidents," said Zindzi, sitting in a shaded courtyard at the exclusive private school her granddaughter attended. A plaque on the wall outside what was the young girl's classroom commemorates the teen, who had celebrated her 13th birthday just days before her death.
"What the campaign's all about to say these are |
The process of selecting top city officials deserves wide public scrutiny (“Glendale city manager to retire,” July 13).
I fully | support the idea put forth by the Armenian National Committee of Glendale (“City manager's selection should be open,” July 29) for the process of finding city leadership that deserves the most comprehensive public evaluation.
A Glendale city manager must have a proven record of significant problem-solving capacity in highly trying circumstances. Though the interests of the Armenian National Committee possibly rests on their concern for the diversity problems that Glendale faces, it is also likely that the demographic problems exemplified by the U.S. Census statistics require a city manager attuned to the needs of all residents.
Glendale is a fragmented city, ethnically and economically. The election results, when evaluated by percentage of immigrants by precinct, show an indubitable divide that is often reflected in its policies and distribution of the city's resources. That is a reality that can't be painted over with weak diversity initiatives like the Unity Fest.
In my opinion, no one has yet to provide, in public |
Who would invite for dinnertime?
AUSTRALIAN families feel more connected while sharing dinner than any other activity but only a small | minority are actually having the dinnertimes they want, new research reveals.
Researchers found 78% of Australians believed dinnertime was greatest family connector of any activity and more than three quarters wanted to make a change.
Time-poor and stressed families are sacrificing the evening sit-down, with only half of Australians eating their weekday dinners at any kind of table.
More than half sat in front of the TV to eat dinner at least once a week.
What's more, almost a third of 18 to 24-year-olds surveyed admitted to eating dinner in bed at least once a week.
WATERCOOLER: How often do you think families should sit down together?
Is it still an important thing to do. Tell us the secrets of your family connections in comments below.
The research gave psychologist Sabina Read hope Australians were willing and wanting to make a change for the better.
"I was immediately struck by the finding that three quarters of A |
Jack O’Connell (“Unbroken”) and Lily Collins (“Okja”) will star in “ | The Cradle” with shooting starting this summer.
Based on Patrick Somerville’s 2009 novel, the movie will follow a young couple, Matt (O’Connell) and Marissa (Collins), as they prepare for their first child. As the last-minute nerves set in, Matt is sent on a mission to find the cradle that Marrissa had as a baby. The journey he subsequently embarks upon changes their family forever.
Somerville, creator of the upcoming Amazon series ‘Maniac,’ co-wrote the screenplay with Hope Dickson Leach (“The Levelling”) who directs. Protagonist Pictures has boarded the project and will launch the script to buyers in Cannes. UTA and CAA will handle North American rights. Gail Mutrux and Tore Schmidt are producing the film for Pretty Pictures (“The Danish Girl”).
“When we read Patrick Somerville’s |
Working for two years, a Chinese woman used bits of fabric and palace embroidery techniques to reproduce the picture Along the River During the Qingming | Festival, or Qingming Shanghe Tu, in which went on display in Beijing on Sept. 7.
She required 40 meters of fabric to make the vendors extending all along the great bridge, called the Rainbow Bridge.
The craftswoman Jia Dashuang is a third-generation inheritor of Beijing palace embroidery, a traditional handicraft that originated in the palace and served royal families in the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368-1911).
After the fall of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), this handicraft was introduced to common people and developed into the present technique, where fabric is mainly stacked, patched and supplemented by embroidery.
In order to capture the original colors of the picture, she had to repeatedly dye the fabric, and at last, she had to color it once again like painting to achieve the desired effect.
In the process of creating the picture, she developed new techniques, such as making pleats that stand |
Says party is handicapped, going in elections with only their past record to show.
PESHAWAR: The | Awami National Party (ANP) candidate for PK-3, Haroon Bilour, said the turnout on May 11 will be low due to the poor state of security.
Bilour denied Pakistan Peoples Party leader Zulfiqar Afghani’s allegations that the ANP has purchased votes of Christians and other non-Muslims, adding his party believes in democracy and would never use unfair means to win.
Afghani had also alleged the ANP is using government funds and carrying out developmental projects in their constituencies to gain supporters.
“Our past performances are good enough for us to go in the elections”.
He further said the Election Commission of Pakistan should ensure that security is provided for voters so they can cast their ballot without fear.
He also asked the people to use their vote to select loyal and true leaders who would work for the progress and development of the country.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 7th, 2013.
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High levels of radiation found in creek near drilling wastewater site in western Pa.
A worker breaks apart a brick of solid material left over from treating | frack water. The solid material, which may contain radioactive elements, gets disposed of in landfills.
A new study published in the journal of Environmental Science and Technology has found high levels of radiation and salinity in a creek near a drilling wastewater treatment facility in western Pennsylvania.
The Duke University study took numerous samples of water discharged downstream of the Josephine Brine Treatment Facility into Blacklick Creek in the Allegheny River watershed from the summer of 2010 to the fall of 2012. Sediment in the creek contained levels of radium that were 200 times greater than normal or background levels, along with high levels of salts like chloride and bromide in the surface water.
These elements come from a naturally occurring brine that is released along with natural gas during the hydraulic fracturing or fracking process. That radioactive brine, known as “flowback,”is either injected back underground or sent to facilities like Josephine where the wastewater is treated and then deposited into rivers and streams |
Francesco Molinari was one many players who enjoyed the conditions at Augusta National during a birdie barrage in the third round of the Masters | .
The Italian shot a bogey-free, 6-under 66 and has a two-shot lead going into Sunday’s final round. He’s at 13-under for the tournament.
Tiger Woods (67) and Tony Finau (64) are tied for second at 11-under and will join Molinari in the final group. Brooks Koepka shot a 69 and is three shots back. Webb Simpson (64) and Ian Poulter (68) are four back.
Woods thrilled the crowds in Augusta with another vintage performance. He’s certainly in the hunt, but has never won a major when trailing going into the final round.
The third-round conditions were nearly perfect with plenty of sunshine, very little wind and forgiving greens thanks to recent rain.
Tee times Sunday were pushed to the morning because of possible severe weather, and players will tee off in threesomes from the No. 1 and No. |
International Relations and Global Studies senior Gerado Amaya tweets during his World Literature class on January 13, 2013.
Hutchison and graduate student | Jenn Shapland confirmed their relationship, which lasted from November 2011 to February 2012, shortly after Shapland wrote about it in October 2017 in a literary journal, the Arkansas International.
Within a month of the article’s publication, UT received two anonymous reports about Shapland’s relationship through the Compliance Services Reporting Hotline bringing it to UT’s attention, prompting an eight-month investigation by the Office for Inclusion and Equity and the Office for Legal Affairs, the University’s investigation summary obtained through an open records request states.
The University completed the investigation this June and found Hutchison was in violation of three University policies: failing to immediately alert his supervisor of a consensual relationship, engaging in an unreported consensual relationship with a student and making comments of a sexual nature to graduate students. However, the investigation did not find Hutchison’s behavior as sexual harassment, according to the investigation summary.
In addition to canceling Hutchison’s |
How Does One Measure Steadfastness?
This past weekend Central Baptist Church celebrated its 115th Anniversary. It was a great weekend as we celebrated | God's grace upon us and the faithfulness of His people. We had guests who have moved to other churches and the main speaker was our former Pastor, Rev. Bob Zoba who pastored this church from 1986-1990.
We have also honored those among the members who have been here for a long time - 20, 30, 40, 50, and even 60 years. In a time when mobility is the code word for people and for church members, it is highly impressive to see that some people have deep roots in communities and churches.
I have watched new members come and try to find their niche. In a small church, membership means becoming involved, doing something that has to be done, sometimes because there is no one else to do it. It takes a while, sometimes up to five years for the new members to be able to say: "This is my church". Now, as theologians and pastors we know that the church belongs to the Lord Jesus Christ, but in |
‘Good fences make good neighbors,’ wrote American poet Robert Frost. But not according to President Donald Trump whose proposed Great Wall is supposed | to protect the nation from hordes of rabid, murderous, drug crazed rapists and unwhites from south of the border.
I’m a life-long student of military architecture, with a particular passion for modern fortification, chief among which is France’s own Great Wall, the magnificent and unfairly reviled Maginot Line.
Given the heated debate in America over Trump’s proposed barrier along the Mexican border, it’s worth looking back to the Maginot Line. It was supposed to have been France’s savior after the bloodbath of World War I.
The first large Maginot fort was built in the 1920’s north of Nice to protect the Cote d’Azur from possible Italian attacks. Mussolini was demanding France return the Riviera coast to its former Italian rulers. Work on the principal Line along the German and Luxemburg borders began soon after. Phase one covered 260 miles from near the Rhine |
A gorilla family is usually comprised of three to thirty individuals, though in late 2006, Karisoke researchers in the Virungas were monitoring one | group that had reached sixty-five individuals. Like Titus’s family, a typical group is led by one silverback — a mature male, so-named for the graying hair on his back — who serves as the family’s protector and main decision-maker. He is usually joined by one subordinate silverback that will help defend the group, several adult females, and a combination of younger males (“blackbacks”), juveniles and infants. Gorillas communicate in a variety of ways, including facial expressions, sounds, postures and gestures. They have been known to make at least 22 distinct sounds to communicate different feelings, from playful chuckling to frightened screams — even belches of contentment. Gorillas are affectionate creatures. In February of 2008, Karisoke researchers discovered that an adult female had been injured in an encounter with a silverback. After the injury, a younger female stayed close by the gorilla’s side, behavior that Veronica Vecell |
WIGGINS – At the Wiggins Tournament, the Highland boys basketball team destroyed Hyland Christian 86-39 on Friday and advances to the tournament | ’s final round at 5:30 p.m. today against Pawnee.
Seniors Tyler Clawson (13 points, eight rebounds and four assists), Lee Groves (12 points and eight rebounds) and Michael Keever (15 points, 70 percent shooting from the field) led the Huskies (0-0, 4-1).
HHS –Michael Keever 6 1-1 15, Tyler Clawson 6 2-2 13, Brooks Carlson 1 0-0 2, Colton Gardner 1 2-2 4, Lee Groves 5 2-4 12, Michael Romero 1 0-0 3, Brandon Guerrero 1 1-2 3, Devon Venn 4 2-3 11, Johnny Rehuerk 4 0-0 9, Kyle Stuehm 4 0-0 8, Jacob Hasbrouck 3 0-0 6. Totals 35 10-14 86.
3-point field goals –HHS 6 (Keever 2, |
EXCLUSIVE: It Comes at Night breakout Kelvin Harrison Jr. has been tapped to star in Waves, a dramatic musical in which he’ | ll reteam with director Trey Edward Shults and A24. Lucas Hedges, Sterling K. Brown and Taylor Russell also have signed on to the film, which will mark the third collaboration between A24 and Shults following 2015’s Krisha and last year’s It Comes at Night.
Described as an energetic, affecting anthem of contemporary teenage life, the plot follows two young couples as they navigate the emotional minefield of growing up and falling in love.
Kevin Turen and Jim Wilson are producing the project, and filming is slated to begin next month in Florida.
Harrison recently appeared in the Sundance pics Monster, Assassination Nation and Monsters and Men, as well as the SXSW prize-winning film Jinn. His upcoming slate includes JT Leroy, starring Kristen Stewart and Diane Kruger; Luce with Naomi Watts and Octavia Spencer; and The Wolf Hour, which also stars Watts.
Harrison is repped by WME, Stage |
Twelve leading IT employers this week pledged urgent action to tackle the growing shortage of IT professionals.
Microsoft, Logica, IBM and Nortel | were among those who signed the E-Skills Employers Charter, which has backing from the Government and employers. The charter is the latest in a series of initiatives designed to encourage more people to join the IT profession. The industry will need an estimated one million extra trained professionals within the next five years, according to research released this week.
The charter forms part of the E-Skills National Training Organisation's three-year strategic skills plan, which aims to galvanise employers, suppliers and the Government into finding solutions for the UK's shortage of e-business skills.
The charter commits employers to review their recruitment practices in an attempt to encourage more women, older workers, young people and ethnic minorities into the profession. It calls for companies to rethink the wording they use in job advertisements, which is often off-putting to women and reinforces the professions "nerdy" image.
The charter also encourages firms to work with schools to find ways of inspiring young people to go into the IT |
Two Sears board directors have hired an investment bank to look into deals made by the company's former CEO Eddie Lampert before the company filed for bankruptcy | .
The directors are questioning the ways the company separated its real-estate and Sears' businesses under Lampert's watch.
The directors say that doing so caused Sears to lose several valuable assets. They are consulting with the investment bank on whether Lampert's actions constituted legal actions against him.
Lampert is currently owed $2.6 billion by Sears due to his hedge fund, ESL Investments, infusing the company with billions of dollars when its profits were being affected by retail giants Walmart and Amazon.
Lampert is now looking to buy Sears in a bankruptcy auction under the terms that it will be in a stabler financial condition.
(Reuters) - Two Sears board directors have hired investment bank Evercore to scrutinize deals that were led by former Sears Chief Executive Eddie Lampert with the US retailer before it filed for bankruptcy protection, people familiar with the matter said on Friday.
In addition to the directors, Lampert will also likely face probing from Sears' unsec |
OpenStack, the massive open-source project that aims to bring the power and ease of use of public clouds like AWS and Azure to private data | centers, today launched Pike, the sixteenth major version of its software. As usual, there’s a massive number of updates here, but the core theme is that the various development teams have focused on making OpenStack more composable, so that companies can more easily pick and choose the features they want. In addition, the community has renewed its focus on helping OpenStack operators manage the lifecycle of the various OpenStack tools with services like Kubernetes and Ansible.
Mark Collier, the OpenStack Foundation’s COO, and Lauren Sell, the organization’s VP of Marketing and Community Services, told me earlier this week that they are now seeing a number of emerging use cases for OpenStack. One of these is edge computing — a trend that Microsoft, Amazon and other public cloud providers are also now addressing. “There is a huge demand for cloud computing in many different forms,” Collier said. “That’s impacting |
Provided by BU Athletics Freshman Justin Lane was the golf team’s top scorer for the third consecutive invitational as Binghamton placed | eighth at Villanova.
The Binghamton golf team had its best finish of the spring season earlier this week when the team competed at the two-round Villanova Intercollegiate. The Bearcats were in 15th place at one point during the final round of the invitational, but climbed up the leaderboard and finished in eighth place out of 19 teams.
The Bearcats finished the invitational with a total combined score of 25 over par on 593 shots. Once again, the team’s final round score was an improvement on its day-one performance, taking 294 shots in the final round on Tuesday, as opposed to the 299 they took the day before.
For the third consecutive invitational, it was freshman Justin Lane leading the way for Binghamton. Lane finished tied for 23rd on the individual leaderboard with a score of five above par for the tournament. His plus-two performance in the final round included a stretch of nine consecutive holes where he |
What makes a great burger? Taste and juiciness certainly play a big role, and in many renditions, downright sloppiness. O | ozy elements combined with crisp ingredients, cheesy and creamy balanced with noisy and crunchy.
Every year, thousands of home cooks across the U.S. compete in Sutter Home Winery’s Build a Better Burger Recipe and Cook-Off, with $100,000 going to the winner (see information below the story why the contest isn’t open to California residents). James McNair, the author of more than 40 cookbooks, is the contest’s head judge. He and the winery’s culinary director, Jeffrey Starr, highlight many of the contest’s award-winning burger recipes in “Burger Parties” (Ten Speed Press, $19.99). The book showcases some of the best contest burgers, teamed with party menus that include appetizers, side dishes and desserts.
My favorite is the Greek-themed party that focuses on Opa! Burgers. These behemoth beauties were the brainchild of contestant Elizabeth Bennett |
New Zealand has banned all military-style semi-automatic guns and assault rifles, effective immediately, following last week’s mass shooting. Prime | Minister Jacinda Ardern noted that the accused gunman in the attacks on two Christchurch mosques used weapons that had been purchased legally and made them more lethal by using 30-round magazines “done easily through a simple online purchase.” Fifty people were killed in the attacks. “What we’ve done here is taken out the guns out of circulation that are most critical to be addressed urgently and that’s what we’ve announced, with essentially almost immediate effect,” Ardern said, noting that her administration is already preparing for the next steps and a “second tranche” of measures. The cabinet will receive a paper on these issues on Monday, she said. When asked how many assault rifles there are in the country, Ardern said they don’t have an exact number, just as they don’t have a number for how many military-style semi-automatic weapons (MSSAs) are in circulation. |
New London — In the seven weeks since it began, nearly 70 Connecticut residents have taken advantage of the state program that offers rebates of up to | $3,000 for the purchase or lease of an electric car.
In the showroom for the event were five electric-powered vehicles: a 2014 B-Class Mercedes; a 2015 Volkswagen e-Golf; a 2015 Ford Fusion Energi; a 2015 Nissan Leaf; and a 2014 BMW 13.
Stickers on each of the vehicles listed estimated fuel cost savings over five years, ranging from $5,750 for the Fusion to $8,250 for the Leaf and BMW 13, compared to costs of fuel for similar gasoline-powered vehicles.
Sticker prices on the five vehicles ranged from $32,000 to $53,725.
“Everything you see is for sale,” Jeff Aiosa, owner of the dealership, told the small group gathered for the event.
His 25-year-old dealership, which moved into the Colman Street building four years ago, is an appropriate setting for an event promoting initiatives that reduce fossil fuel emissions, |
Last week, I attended a conference on China’s Reforms held at the University of Costa Rica (UCR), located in the capital | of the country – San José, Costa Rica. I benefitted from information in books on Costa Rica prior to the trip. Other than my previous short trips to Mexico, this would be my first trip to an LAC (Latin America and the Caribbean) country – I was eager to see it with my own eyes. In the process of preparation, I so regretted having quit Spanish language training a decade ago.
The drivers from our designated hotel were waiting at the exit when I landed at the Juan Santamaria International Airport – once we got on the shuttle van, we were able to witness the outskirts of the capital. The roads were a lot more cleaner than I expected of a middle-income developing country. MNC presence was also highly visible – Japanese and South Korean companies were all over the place. China recently embarked on a new era of bilateral relations with Costa Rica, with Xi Jinping visiting the country and meeting with the president of Costa Rica. The meeting involved promises of economic partnerships and a |
Listen To Snippets Of Beyonce's Supposed Next Single "Till The End Of Time"
Good news for Kevin and Makael | — Team Beyonce is already gearing up for her follow-up single to the underperforming “Run The World (Girls),” and from what little we can hear, it sounds like longtime fans of the starlet who were disappointed with her latest offering should be appeased with “Till The End Of Time.” But is it up-tempo enough for kids to shed some pounds to? Check out snippets of the goofy Euro-tripper’s new song below.
Taking a spelling cue from the equally-snippet-happy Britney Spears’ second Femme Fatale single “Till The World Ends” (which also followed a lead single that garnered mixed reactions from fans), this new song is rumored to be the label’s preferred single and may, in fact, soon replace “Run The World” as the track used to push Bey’s upcoming album.
As usual, we’ll |
RTÉ says it asked senator to remove Repeal the Eighth badge to stop "unchallenged campaigning"
After the break in the show, | Ó Ríordáin could be seen without the badge.
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin is not impressed with the Soldiers of Destiny.
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin has been speaking about his forthcoming drugs strategy this morning.
The minister cited Portugal’s approach to drugs as a possible model for Ireland.
Sure would you look who it is?
A new report has called for the Direct Provision system to be overhauled.
What do you make of the government’s plans?
Aodhán Ó Riordáin has tweeted a picture of a brown substance smeared across his constituency office door this morning.
The Minister of State talked about the working group that’s tasked with suggesting how to reform the current system.
The call comes after it emerged that a woman was refused an abortion under the new Act.
Ciara Conway has declared her candidacy for the deputy leadership of |
Meet privately and inform the accused of the allegations.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission enforces the primary law -- Title VII of | the Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- that prohibits workplace discrimination and harassment. The agency strongly recommends that employers take swift action to investigate and resolve workplace issues such as harassment. Key to an investigation of a workplace complaint is informing the accused of the allegations; the response you get determines the subsequent steps in the investigation.
Conduct your conversation with the accused in private; informing someone that he's been accused of harassment can elicit an emotional response. Be prepared to deal with anything from anger or shock to humiliation or shame. In your initial conversation with the person named in the employee's complaint, be prepared for the accused to admit to or deny the allegations. Begin the conversation by giving the accused harasser a copy of the company's policy on harassment and a description of behaviors and actions that violate the policy.
Refrain from making statements such as, "You harassed your employee on several different occasions when the two of you were working past normal business hours." Relay the accuser's statements as allegations instead of accusations |
A redesign of the parliamentary website has been halted because of infighting among parliament's officials, it has emerged.
Management consultancy firm mySociety | was brought in last year after what it called a "planning deadlock" developed within the walls of the Palace of Westminster.
Parliament's website is critical to democratic accountability, but some aspects of its design are now "increasingly dated", the firm said in its report.
It noted problems with the search feature, the 'find your MP' tool and a lack of'responsive web design' which makes the site usable on a mobile or tablet.
"Expectations of what is normal on the internet change very fast," officials were told.
"What would have counted as an elegant, usable, interesting webpage just five years ago will now come across as clunky, unhelpful and perhaps hard or impossible to read on a smartphone or tablet (devices that did not exist until recently).
"Parliament's site needs updating, and bringing the site up to speed would require addressing a range of the following issues."
Two internal conflicts have prevented any progress, however. |
The internet is collectively rejoicing now that Scott Pruitt has resigned as EPA head.
Trump announced Pruitt's resignation, effective Monday, through Twitter. | The now former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator not only did the complete opposite of protecting the environment with Reagan-like policies, but also led an administration ridden with ridiculous scandals.
Despite what Trump called "an outstanding job," Pruitt's legacy will forever be known as the grifter who spent a ridiculous amount of taxpayer money not doing his job.
Twitter users were quick to post their reactions to Pruitt's resignation.
A man simultaneously claiming to understand God’s divine providence while conveniently ignoring all the parts of the Good Book that deal with lying, cheating and stealing is a lotta stuff.
Pruitt resigning to spend more time stealing from his family.
Scott Pruitt is out at the EPA. Americans will now celebrate Earth Day on July 5th.
Darth added to their ever-growing list of former Trump staffers.
Some couldn't help pointing out Pruitt's grifter habits. From the $2,749.62 he spent on "tactical pants" |
Lambert held a free football clinic in late July that brought more than150 kids from 5 to 14 years old to participate in drills.
| Lambert has begun interacting with the community and thanking board members, students and future ticket holders for their support of the program and for bringing football back to the university.
That is the important first step, generating excitement for a school that needs its fans to be ravenous over football.
The program does not kick off until 2013, but seeing Lambert in his 49er gear interacting with the campers is what many UNC Charlotte fans have been waiting for.
Lambert had not coached since leaving Wake Forest in December, and will not be on the field for another two years, but there is plenty for him to do.
The 49ers need players, and his first class will go a long way in setting the tone for 49er seasons to come.
They have started targeting players from all over the country. Some area players the 49ers are said to be interested in include Porter Ridge quarterback Lee McNeil, Ardrey Kell offensive lineman Matt Carrick, Mallard Creek linebacker Wes |
Andy Murray recently underwent successful hip surgery and says he's feeling better than he has in years, but he doesn't sound confident that it will allow | him to compete at Wimbledon this year.
Murray, 31, had hip resurfacing surgery in January after battling lingering issues for nearly two years. In an interview with BBC Sport this week, the three-time Grand Slam champ said that he's no longer dealing with the pain that plagued him, but his chances of competing at Wimbledon this year are "less than 50 percent."
"The operation went well," said Murray. "I'm feeling good and walking around pain free - which hasn't been the case for pretty much 18 months, two years."
Going into the surgery, Murray knew there was a significant possibility that the procedure could end his competitive playing career. He elected to have the treatment anyway in an effort to mitigate the day-to-day pain caused by his right hip.
"The reason for having the surgery was to improve all the day-to-day things and my quality of life. I wasn't enjoying tennis, I wasn't enjoying going out for walks |
SOMERSET COUNTY — Fresh off a portrayal in the HBO miniseries, "The Pacific," World War II hero John Basilone might | be featured next in the New Jersey Hall of Fame.
The U.S. Marine, a Medal of Honor recipient, is a nominee for the hall’s 2011 class.
Gunnery Sgt. Basilone fought at Guadalcanal and was killed in action at Iwo Jima. He was the only enlisted Marine during World War II to receive the Medal of Honor, Navy Cross and the Purple Heart.
“This is a wonderful opportunity to say thank you to a great American whose sacrifices should never be forgotten,” Somerset County Freeholder Director Jack Ciattarelli said of the hero who grew up in Raritan.
Other nominees for the hall of fame include former U.S. President Grover Cleveland, of Caldwell; actor John Travolta, of Englewood; and housewares icon Martha Stewart, a Nutley native.
The Somerset County freeholders are encouraging county residents to cast votes for Basilone on the Hall of Fame |
Chain restrictions have lifted on Interstate 80 between the California state line to just before USA Parkway.
Chain controls are beginning to lift on area highways, | according to the Nevada Department of Transportation website.
There are no restrictions on Interstate 80 from the California state line to just before the USA Parkway exit in Lyon County.
Most other area highways require either a four wheel drive vehicle with snow tires or chains.
For a constantly updated list of road conditions, visit NVROADS.com.
The Mt. Rose Highway will be closed near the summit at approximately 8:30 a.m. for avalanche control, according to a tweet from the Nevada Department of Transportation.
The closure is expected to last about 30 minutes.
More: What's a school 'digital day?' What happened to WCSD snow days?
Snow and bad road conditions have triggered a "digital day" for multiple Washoe County School District campuses today.
Assignments will be provided digitally to students by the teacher and completed at home.
Classes are canceled at Bishop Manogue Catholic High School due to the weather and safety concerns.
The National Weather |
"I can tell you one thing -- it's all (expletive), and it's getting ready to come to roost," Filling | ame said in an interview after the council's decision.
At the council's Aug. 18 meeting, council members noticed nearly $300,000 missing from the DOJ forfeitures fund and called for authorities to investigate. The mayor told the council the DOJ money was being deposited into the city's general operating account and "was definitely being spent on the police department." However, the general operating account had a balance of only about $80,000 at the time.
Becky Hammond, an auditor hired to investigate the forfeitures account as part of a DOJ mandate on the city, delivered her findings Tuesday night after months of speculation by council members that the mayor was borrowing from the DOJ fund to cover the city's cash-flow problems. Hammond said if the council does not place the total amount into a restricted checking account, the DOJ will demand a reimbursement. About $21,000 is in a newly opened account restricted to DOJ funding, bringing the balance the city owes to about $300,000. |
Is North Korea Right About U.S. Human-Rights Abuses?
"The U.S. is a living hell as elementary | rights to existence are ruthlessly violated," the state news agency claims.
Some countries are accustomed to U.S. reports deploring their human-rights abuses. But on Wednesday, North Korea's state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) retaliated with a human-rights report of its own titled "News Analysis on Poor Human Rights Records in US." In it, KCNA claim that the U.S. is the "world's worst human rights abuser" and a "living hell." Do the agency's claims hold up to scrutiny? Here's a fact-check of the report.
Shortly ago, the United States had a ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary of the institution of citizenship act in the presence of President Obama.
As the world's worst human rights abuser, it pretended to be a "model" in human rights performance. More ridiculous are Obama's remarks at the ceremony that as the president, he came to realize that it is hard to make progress in |
The combined co-ed girls and boys middle school cross country team recently completed another successful season.
The team is made up of students in sixth | -eighth grade. The program started in 2008.
"I started the middle school cross country team at SCPS mainly so my son, Ty, a seventh-grader, could participate," said head coach DeeDee Colter, who also coaches the high school team. "He had run the annual Enmark Savannah River Bridge Run with me back in 2006 and thus demonstrated he could hold his own at the 5K distance, so I knew he could compete well at the two-mile distance run by middle-schoolers. SCPS long-time middle school athletic director Sonny Lady approved my plan to have the middle school runners train with my varsity team once or twice a week and compete in a few local area meets."
The first year, Colter said, it was mainly just Savannah Country Day, Calvary and SCPS. The dominating runners for the girls and boys squads were Megan Norris and Ty Colter, who both went undefeated.
"These two no doubt |
Trump remains as enthusiastic about his Hurricane Maria response now as he did in October 2017 when he visited Puerto Rico after the storm, pictured above.
| With a monster hurricane spinning towards the east coast, President Donald Trump took a moment during a briefing on Tuesday to herald the awful, delayed response to 2017's Hurricane Maria as an "unsung success," sparking outrage online.
Calling it "one of the best jobs that's ever been done with respect to what this is all about," Trump is ignoring what was, in fact, a dreadful response that cost more lives than what the storm death toll originally claimed.
SEE ALSO: Hurricane Florence is on its way to the East Coast. Here's what to expect.
At the time, the administration committed to a more aggressive response to storms that struck Texas, even as that situation there became more manageable and Puerto Rico desperately needed more assistance.
But perhaps worst of all is the fact that Trump is using words like "tremendous" and "success" to describe a response to a storm that ultimately killed almost 3,000 people, more than the roughly 1,800 killed by Hurricane Katrina |
Actress Rachel Weisz was born on March 7, 1970 into a Jewish family with an Austrian mother and Hungarian father who both escaped to England | from the Nazi regime.
Although Weisz was expelled from two schools in her teens, she studied English at Cambridge University. It was there that she and a friend started their own performance group called Talking Tongues. The group was invited to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival three times, won the Guardian Student Drama Award, and was invited to perform at the National Theater.
Weisz started out in British TV, but quickly made her way to the big screen in the film Stealing Beauty. She became a well-known star with her reccuring role in The Mummy movie franchise. In 2006, a very pregnant Weisz (she and boyfriend Darren Aronofsky were expecting their first child) won an the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. She also won a Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award, BAFTA and Critic’s Choice Circle Award for her performance.
In November 2010, Weisz split with Aronofsky after nine years together. |
ISLAMABAD, Dec 7 (APP): Minister of Interior Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan Wednesday directed Federal Investigation Agency ( | FIA) and National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) to dispatch their teams to Abbottabad where PIA plane has been crashed.
The FIA team would assist in initial investigation while NADRA would help in identification of unfortunate passengers.
Meanwhile, Secretary Interior has contacted Chairman National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and as per minister’s directions Air Wing helicopters would be sent to assist the NDMA in rescue activities.
As per details, passenger plane of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), flying from Chitral to Islamabad, crashed near Havelian, a hilly area near Abbottabad.
The flight PK-661 with 40 passengers on board went missing before pilots lost control over aircraft, a spokesman of the PIA said.
He said all resources were being mobilized to locate the aircraft.
PIA’s emergency response centre has been activated and it could be accessed at the following phone numbers: (021) 99044890, (021) 9 |
New Zealand's prime minister Jacinda Ardern wants the gunman forgotten. She refuses to say his name and has clamped down on the distribution | of his video. She has urged the public to avoid giving the shooter the fame he seeks from his horrific act.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks to representatives of the Muslim community on March 16, 2019 at the Canterbury Refugee Centre in Christchurch, New Zealand, a day after the mass shootings at two mosques in the city. Ms. Ardern has stressed that she would not say the shooter's name to prevent giving him notoriety.
New Zealand's prime minister declared Tuesday she would do everything in her power to deny the accused mosque gunman a platform for elevating his white supremacist views, after the man dismissed his lawyer and opted to represent himself at his trial in the killings of 50 people.
"I agree that it is absolutely something that we need to acknowledge, and do what we can to prevent the notoriety that this individual seeks," Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told reporters. "He obviously had a range of reasons for committing this atrocious terrorist attack. L |
Amy Winehouse‘s incarcerated husband Blake Fielder-Civil has accepted an offer of early release from prison. The conditions of his release stip | ulate that he will have live at his mum’s house in Lincolnshire, wear an electronic tag and stick to a 7pm (BST) curfew. Nevertheless, Fielder-Civil is still planning to get a taxi to see Winehouse at her Camden, north London house every day – despite it being a round trip of 280 miles (The Sun).
Metallica‘s Lars Ulrich has praised UK fans for being noisy. He thinks it’s because of their love of football (Daily Star).
Former Spice Girl Mel B is having a house clearance – by selling her unwanted belongings on eBay. All proceeds will be given to the cancer charity CLIC Sargent (Daily Record).
Guillemots played an acoustic gig at the launch party of Simon Pegg‘s new film ‘How To Lose Friends And Alienate People’ (Daily Star).
Snow Patrol singer Gary Lightbody has become obsessed with science and space (The Sun |
As souls shuffle to the front of the church, we celebrate another successful harvest. But not for long.
Three months later, nobody has seen | our new “converts.” The fol- low-up committee calls them and encourages them to attend a Bible study, but to no avail. They have no interest in the things of God. We label them backsliders and get ready for the next service.
1. Not biblical. Altar calls are neither prescribed nor described in the Bible. While this is an argument from silence, it is noteworthy that we don’t see Peter at Pentecost or Paul in Athens telling listeners to “bow their heads and close their eyes” while people slip up their hands.
2. Emotional manipulation. No matter how you slice it, heartstrings get tugged during altar calls. Between the music, the dim lights, and the pastor’s tears, the altar call is an excellent way to emote people down an aisle.
3. Neglected intellects. Modern-day altar calls almost entirely neglect the intellect. If pastors were addressing the |
The song was sang in the style of "Jingle Bells."
Racists don’t even take a break for the holidays. |
See the disturbing video below.
According to SeaCoastOnline.com, Superintendent William Harbron called the video “an incident of extreme racial insensitivity. While the incident was part of a classroom assignment dealing with the reconstruction period in American history, the impact was harmful.” He continued, “They were given an assignment to select some event during reconstruction and to make a jingle out of it.” Allegedly, the two students chose the Ku Klux Klan and wrote the hateful lyrics in the style of the “Jingle Bells.” The students did not know they were being recorded.
The principal, Peter Driscoll, is defending the students by saying they had no “malicious intent and were addressing the assignment as given to them.” How disturbing that students willingly writing lyrics that included “kill all Blacks” would not be considered malicious to an educator. No assignment should inspire them to “sing” hate |
China is developing its first full-fledged space station, called Tiangong (Heavenly Palace). Early tests of China’s skills | at rendezvous and docking, shown in this artist's illustration, are set to begin in 2011.
U.S. power brokers aren't sure how to handle China's rapidly expanding space capabilities, according to testimony at a congressional hearing yesterday (May 11).
China recently demonstrated the ability to destroy satellites on orbit, and it's ramping up plans for a space station and a possible manned lunar landing in the next decade or so. At a hearing on "The Implications of China's Military and Civil Space Programs," a range of experts discussed what these developments might mean for the United States.
"There's still a lack of clear understanding of what Beijing's goals are, and how we interact with those," Ben Baseley-Walker of the Secure World Foundation, a non-profit organization committed to space sustainability, told SPACE.com. Baseley-Walker attended the hearing, which took place at the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
NASA, Russia and their space station partners |
The victorious U.S. women’s soccer team may soon score again with a ticker-tape parade down Broadway.
City | officials said Monday that they’re considering tossing the celebration for the championship squad — which would be a first for a female sports team.
“The Mayor’s Office congratulates the US Women’s World Cup Championship team on its tremendous achievement, and is currently exploring logistics and talking with the team and other partners about a possible ticker-tape parade,” said City Hall spokeswoman Karen Hinton.
City officials said the idea of holding a parade was lobbed shortly after the soccer team’s decisive 5-2 victory over Japan in Sunday’s World Cup finals.
But the notion got an additional boost from other officials throughout the day Monday, including from Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer.
“New York City has a strong history of honoring sports achievements in the Canyon of Heroes, but has never held a parade to honor a women’s team,” she wrote to Mayor de Blasio.
The Alliance for Downtown New York has |
Mother's Day is this upcoming Sunday, a day where we reflect on the wonderful blessings that our mamas have bestowed on each | of our lives. This year, Time Magazine decided to put an interesting twist on the holiday. Instead of having influential people talk about their mothers, the publication gave their moms the chance to show their appreciation for their children. In that vein, Tina Knowles was asked to write a letter to her daughters: Beyonce and Solange. She delivered one of the most heart wrenching and beautiful notes celebrating her children's lives—including Kelly Rowland and Angie Beyince.
Mrs. Knowles praised Beyonce's kindness, generosity, and compassion, stating: "Beyoncé, I wish people could see how you are when you’re not in front of the camera or on the stage." She went on to describe Solange as her "rebel warrior" and applauded her strength. Mrs. Knowles admired Kelly's incredible loyalty and generosity, but also her motivational tendencies. She noted that Angie&apos |
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