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Poplar Road fifth grade teacher Melissa Ladd has been selected as one of five national finalists for the National Education Association’s (NEA | ) Horace Mann award.
The award honors dedication to the teaching profession, community engagement, professional development, attention to diversity, and advocacy for fellow educators. She was nominated for the national honor by the Georgia Association of Educators, said Coweta County School System spokesman Dean Jackson.
Ladd is in her 13th year of teaching, and has worked as a kindergarten and first grade teacher at Poplar Road. She has served as the school’s Teacher of the Year, Jackson said.
Ladd was one of 43 public educators, and the only teacher from Georgia, who will receive the California Casualty Award for Teaching Excellence at the NEA Foundation’s Salute to Excellence in Education Gala next February, in Washington, D.C. As Georgia’s honoree, she travelled to Washington, D.C., last summer to interview with and teach a sample lesson to a panel of judges for the Horace Mann Award. She will be visited in |
Our habit of feeding human foods, such as grain and soya, to farm animals will cost us $1.32tn (£1tn) | a year by 2050 globally, according to environmental campaigners.
“Cheap food is something we pay for three times, once at the checkout, again in tax subsidies and again in the enormous clean up cost to our health and environment,” his colleague Philip Lymbery pointed out.
We are paying for soil erosion, water pollution, biodiversity loss, climate change, and a multitude of other impacts which are passed on to the public by farmers and the sector, the conference heard. For example, our current rate of soil loss costs £400bn a year globally, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has estimated that water pollution in six EU states alone costs €2bn-5bn a year; and according to the European Environment Agency the current rate of biodiversity loss is reducing global GDP by 3% every year.
Feeding grain to farm animals is a particularly egregious practice, argued Stevenson. |
Edward Johnson gets on his bike after working out at the running track in Jackson Park in 2016.
In an abrupt turn, the Chicago Park District | and city of Chicago have decided to halt construction on a project that would relocate a track and field in Jackson Park, officials announced Monday.
The action means that instead of moving the track and field farther south in the park to make room for construction of the Obama Presidential Center, the project will be placed on hold, a city spokeswoman said in a statement.
The decision came “out of an abundance of caution,” said Shannon Breymaier, a spokeswoman for the city. The decision came after federal government officials expressed concern about the work, which was paid for with a $3.5 million grant from the Obama Foundation. The move was announced hours before federal officials were to hold a public meeting on the review process.
“The federal agencies have been informed that the Chicago Park District will stop construction until dialogue with the federal agencies confirms that resumption of work is appropriate,” Breymaier said in the statement.
“We do not anticipate that this |
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley used part of his State of the State Address on Tuesday to offer a full-throated defense of his decision to reject | Medicaid expansion, one of the key components of President Barack Obama’s health care law.
Under the Affordable Care Act, the federal government will pay 100 percent of the cost of expansion for the first three years and then 90 percent after that.
Speaking to a joint session of the Legislature in Montgomery, Bentley drew one of his loudest applause lines by recounting some of the famous promises of Obamacare. Supporters claimed people would be able to keep their doctors and health policies, and that premiums would not go up.
Bentley has come under fierce criticism from state pension fund chief David Bronner and others who contend that his refusal to accept increased federal funding for Medicaid will cost the state jobs.
Alabama Senate Minority Leader Craig Ford, D-Gadsden, argued in his official response that the state has one of the most efficient Medicaid systems in the country.
“But it is struggling to get by after significant cuts over the past three years,” he said.
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Baltimore is a dangerous place, with a homicide rate just slightly below that of St. Louis, the American city where you face the highest odds of | becoming a murder victim. Something to consider if you are thinking about moving to Baltimore because you have been offered a job there. At, for instance, Johns Hopkins.
Or, perhaps, you are a bright high school senior applying for admission to elite universities. Will Hopkins be on your list? Or will you pass, not because the school doesn’t measure up but because you fear you might be shot down crossing the street there, on your way to class?
It is a question worth thinking about, according to an exceedingly successful and generous Hopkins alum.
Michael Bloomberg believes that security at his alma mater is insufficient. There is a university police force but its members are not armed. Bloomberg, according to this report in the Baltimore Sun, wants to change that and says so plainly.
Bloomberg is, of course, famously anti-gun and has backed up his words with his money. Of which there is plenty. He has given lavishly in the cause of gun control and is |
Tyler, The Creator has shared a new track called ‘Rose Tinted Cheeks’, which contains a reference to the movie 20 | th Century Women.
The Odd Future rapper recently shared a new song called ‘Okra’, as well as a remix of Drake and Trouble’s ‘Bring It Back’.
Now he has uploaded ‘Rose Tinted Cheeks’ to YouTube. Listen below.
It includes the lines: “They Black Flag we AF / we BF as AF / but they won’t get that / that’s that 20 Century Women reference / you so hard to get like intricate metaphors”, which refer to a scene in 20th Century Women where Annette Bening and Billy Crudup’s characters dance to songs by Black Flag and so-called “art f*gs” Talking Heads.
Taking to Twitter, Tyler described ‘Rose Tinted Cheeks’ as “a song I never finished or went back to” while working on recent album Flower Boy.
Tyler also noted |
Jeremy Quaglia (left) and Shane Uriot at Mayflower Brewing Co. “We wanted to do something different that focuses on the | real people and the craft that goes into brewing,” Quaglia said.
PLYMOUTH — Atop a metal staircase in a back corner of Mayflower Brewing Co., two men stand at the mouth of a massive silver cylinder of boiling water. One hoists a large canvas sack full of hops into both hands while the other positions himself, and his video camera, to document the pour.
While the small grains descend into the tank, videographer Shane Uriot shouts questions at the brewer, asking how the hops’ flavor factors into the taste of the brewery’s pale ale. Uriot holds his camera steady at the kettle’s opening until the brewer fastens the lid shut. No one yells “cut,” but Uriot looks at the footage and smiles ear to ear.
The film will be part of the documentary-style Web series “American Brewed,” which will air online in seven episodes and feature a different |
Two Irish hotels, both in County Laois, have been rated among the top one percent of hotels in the world by TripAdvisor.
| Roundwood House and Ballyfin Demesne, both which have been voted into the top 10 of TripAdvisor’s Traveler’s Choice ‘Top 25 Small Hotels in Ireland,’ have also been given spots among the top one percent of hotels in the world by the travel website.
Located in Mountrath, Co. Laois, near to the Slieve Bloom Mountains, Roundwood Country House B&B was built by Anthony Sharp, scion of a prosperous family of cloth makers, around 1741. It is one of Ireland’s finest mid-size houses of the Georgian period.
The five-star Ballyfin, voted the number one hotel in the 2016 Conde Nast Reader’s Choice Awards, was where Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West chose to stay for their honeymoon in May 2014.
The TripAdvisor awards are based on the millions of reviews shared this year from travelers around the globe, Breaking |
As a collectible, the fish decoy has surfaced. It had been a popular item for several years, especially since the publication in 1986 of | ''The Fish Decoy'' by Art, Brad and Scott Kimball (Aardvark). Then, on July 9 at the Oliver auction house in Kennebunk, Me., a rare New York piece by an anonymous carver set a world auction record for a fish decoy of $6,600.
The status of the fish decoy will be elevated further by an exhibition, ''Beneath the Ice: The Art of the Fish Decoy,'' scheduled to open at the Museum of American Folk Art next February. At the same time, Dutton will publish a book written in conjunction with the show by Ben Apfelbaum, the guest curator.
The fish decoy is distinct from the fish lure in that it is not attached to a hook but is weighted and dropped into an ice hole to attract fish within range. It has been used for spearing fish in the frozen freshwaters of the far north since prehistoric times. Subsequently, its use spread from Alaska |
Idaho's move to allow consumer choice in health insurance is being viewed as an important first step, but one observer says more should be done to | help people in The Gem State and beyond.
Following an executive order from the governor and lieutenant governor, Idaho's Department of Insurance has revealed a plan that will allow insurance companies to sell policies that do not comply with Affordable Care Act (aka, ObamaCare) regulations.
"If you go back before ObamaCare, people had the choice to buy the policies that fit them," responds Fred Birnbaum, vice president of Idaho Freedom Foundation. "The whole notion that we can straightjacket 330 million people into this 'ten essential benefits' bucket... just doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
"So I think that one of the first notions that would follow is the fact that people shouldn't be compelled to buy insurance, which has now been put forth in the tax bill. The second notion should be they ought to be able to buy the policy that worked for them and their families."
According to Birnbaum, the Affordable Care Act has done more harm than good.
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Two bomb blasts ripped through a British army barracks early today, tearing off part of the roof and injuring nine soldiers. The Irish Republican Army said it | set off the blasts.
Police said the bombs were placed side by side near an outside wall of the soldiers' living quarters and tore a 3-by-6-foot hole in it.
At about the time of the explosions, shots were fired from a passing auto at a police car in the same area, but no one was injured, police said. The passing car had Dutch license plates, they said.
In Dublin, the IRA said in a statement circulated to the media that it carried out "the bomb attack in West Germany against Crown forces." The IRA recently has stepped up attacks on British targets on the European Continent.
A police statement said the bombs went off at about 3 a.m. at the Glamorgan Barracks in Duisburg, about 30 miles north of Cologne. The building houses about 100 soldiers.
"Innocent sleeping soldiers were the targets. This avoids the risk of confronting people who are awake," said a spokesman for the British army in |
I owe the single best bite of food I’ve had this year to Nancy Reagan.
Let’s backtrack a bit. | In the ’80s, when she was throwing dinners at the White House, Mrs. Reagan thought there was no better way to start a meal than with consommé. Never had consommé? I wouldn’t be surprised. The rich broth, which requires meticulous clarifying and straining, is an art that many chefs these days just aren’t bothering with. Except for Frank Ruta. He made countless consommés for Mrs. Reagan when he was a chef at the White House. Nearly 40 years later, he’s still making them at his new restaurant, Mirabelle, which sits just a few blocks away from the Resolute desk.
Ruta’s oxtail-and-capon broth, fragrant with star anise and coriander, is pretty perfect on its own. Slivers of radish and blossoms of chrysanthemum add a subtle crunch. But he doesn’t stop there |
Latest research says the rich tend to rationalise their advantage, and believe that they deserved it.
We were out shopping when the store assistant began | to shower disproportionate attention on a fellow shopper, who was simply dressed and quiet in demeanor. She decided quickly, bought a few very high value items and left the store. Piqued, we asked the assistant how he figured among so many shoppers which one was rich. His answer was simple: She did not care to look at or be interested in anyone else in the shop, but focused only on the goods.
A growing body of research says the rich tend to display distinct behaviour that can be mostly characterised as mean. Since much of this behaviour is implicit and subconscious, calling them out or nudging them to correct it can actually make it better. In a world where income inequalities are only rising, and where amassing money is an avowed objective pursued without a tinge of regret, it might make sense to pause and ask if we are turning out to be rich and somewhat soulless.
Paul Piff at the University of California, Berkeley, ran a series of experiments |
NEW YORK (AP) — When John Travolta shocked theater fans by mangling the pronunciation of Idina Menzel's name at the | Oscars, one person saw a gift in the slip — Damian Bazadona.
Bazadona, the president and founder of the advertising and marketing firm Situation Interactive, had been hired by Menzel's new show "If/Then" to create some buzz and here it came, one horrible syllable after another.
Bazadona and his team, already assembled in a conference room on Oscar night, instantly won the Internet by creating a graphic — "We Know Her Name — it's Idina Menzel" — and posting it on Facebook and Twitter, along with videos and content. People went nuts. "If/Then" got invaluable exposure.
It was a master stroke from Bazadona, whose business stands at the intersection of technology and live events. Situation Interactive has represented some 100 Broadway shows, as well as The Metropolitan Opera, the Guggenheim and Major League Soccer, among others.
Bazadona and his team use technology to do everything from |
Member of group calls team of five workers "enemies of Islam" but says they are alive and in good health.
An al-Qaeda | -linked group in Mali has kidnapped a team of Red Cross workers who had been reported missing, an official from the group known as the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) said.
The members of the team "are alive and in good health" in the hands of MUJAO, the official told the AFP news agency on Tuesday.
"Thanks to God we seized a 4X4 [vehicle] of the enemies of Islam with their accomplices," Yoro Abdoulsalam said, confirming it was the Red Cross team reported missing in recent days.
MUJAO is one of the al-Qaeda-affiliated groups which occupied the north of Mali in 2012 before it was partly driven from the region by a French-led military intervention in January last year.
Alexis Heeb, a spokesman for the the Red Cross, told AFP on Monday that four of the organisation's employees and a veterinarian from another aid group went missing on Saturday on |
EDMONTON — Finance Minister Joe Ceci dismissed criticism from his federal counterpart and provincial opposition parties over corporate tax hikes Wednesday and said the NDP government | plans to forge ahead in short order.
The NDP government will introduce Bill 2, which lays out its tax plan, on Thursday, but Premier Rachel Notley confirmed this week the promised two percentage-point increase to the tax on corporate profits will come into effect on July 1.
Speaking to reporters at the legislature, Ceci said he wasn’t concerned about the comments from Oliver about corporate taxes.
“He did say he knows ideologically we are on different teams, so I take that to mean he’s driving them down and I think that fair taxes are something that’s important to Alberta,” said the Calgary-Fort MLA.
In the truncated sitting of the legislature, the newly elected NDP government is putting forward legislation to meet its campaign commitments on corporate tax and to fund the operations of the government ahead of the release of its actual provincial budget, which Notley confirmed Wednesday would be in October.
Oliver, whose office did not respond to |
Little did I know when I volunteered for the McGovern for President campaign in 1972 as a college freshman and participated in anti-war demonstrations, that | I would continue to be involved in such political action decades later.
I didn’t work on political campaigns back then because I thought of running for office. When I joined the reform Democratic club on Kingsbridge Road — the FDR Independent Democratic Club — it was because I wanted to continue to work to elect good people to office who would fight for peace, and who would stand up not only to Republicans, but to the Bronx Democratic machine as well.
I not only volunteered my time for many liberal, reform Democratic candidates, but also for neighborhood issues. I was on the board of the Bronx Council for Environmental Quality in the 1970s, and also worked on housing and rent issues in the neighborhood. Even after I was elected Democratic district leader in 1986, I continued to be outspoken against the party machine, and for reforms of the Bronx Democratic Party.
That year, at the height of the corruption scandals in the city, I was the first Democratic district leader to demand the resignation of the Bronx |
WASHINGTON – Lawyers for a Guantanamo detainee asked the Supreme Court on Monday to consider blocking military tribunals for terror suspects, and overturn what they called | an extreme ruling by high-court nominee John Roberts (search).
Roberts was on a three-judge federal appeals court panel that last month ruled against Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni who once was Al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden's (search) driver.
The Pentagon maintains it has the authority to hold military commissions, or tribunals, for terror suspects like Hamdan who were captured overseas and are now being held at Guantanamo Bay (search), Cuba.
A lower-court judge ruled against the government, but Roberts and two other judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit disagreed. That opinion was written by Judge A. Raymond Randolph, who was named to the court by the first President Bush.
The ruling was handed down shortly before Roberts was named to the Supreme Court, to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor (search).
The appeals court said last month that the 1949 Geneva Con |
South Dakota has announced a new policy that will guarantee students automatic admission to state colleges and universities based on their scores on the Smarter Balanced assessment. |
Yesterday's announcement marks the first time a state higher-education system has decided to use Smarter Balanced scores to grant students automatic acceptance if they reach a qualifying score.
In South Dakota, 11th grade students who score at Level 3 or 4 in English and math on the four-level test, or earn an ACT composite score of 18, are guaranteed "general acceptance" to the state's six public universities and four technical institutes. The first round of those "proactive admissions" letters will go out this month, to high school seniors who took the Smarter Balanced exam last year, according to an announcement by the South Dakota Department of Education.
"General acceptance" means that students might have to meet additional requirements to pursue specific majors.
The Smarter Balanced exam, and PARCC, the other common-core test designed with federal funds for the common core, were designed as measures of college readiness, and as course-placement tools. The idea was to set score cut |
The clean-fuels program would favor lower-carbon fuels like ethanol. Above, corn is delivered in January to the Green Plains ethanol plant in | Shenandoah, Iowa.
What is the climate impact of the clean-fuels bill that sits on Gov. Kate Brown's desk?
Not much. And that reveals the vast scale and difficulty of the climate change problem.
For transportation, Oregonians emitted 22.6 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (and its equivalent) in 2010, the year of record for S.B. 324. That was down slightly from 2007, and it averages out to 36 pounds of carbon dioxide daily for each resident.
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality estimates that the clean fuels program will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 7.3 million metric tons over 10 years - just over a pound daily per person.
In recent years, scientists have realized that the amount of global warming from carbon emissions is proportional to the total amount of carbon we emit, regardless of when, where, or how it's emitted. The best estimate for this "carbon-climate response" is 1.5 degrees Celsius per |
Huddersfield's England international Eorl Crabtree has provided an insight into the Giants' sparkling start to the Stobart Super League | season, revealing it is all in the mind.
The big front-row forward is among a host of Huddersfield players who have been receiving tips from sports psychologist Karl Morris and he believes it could help them make the big breakthrough in 2012.
The Giants have been challenging strongly for honours in each of the last three seasons before fading towards the end and, after starting the new campaign with two resounding victories, go into Saturday's big clash with Warrington top of the embryonic table.
If they stay there with a win over last year's free-scoring league leaders, much of the credit will go to Morris, a lifelong Wigan fan who has been working with Huddersfield since pre-season and played a significant part in their shock opening win over the Warriors.
"He's definitely got a say on how to better prepare yourself and it's worked with me," said Crabtree, who will be making his 300th career appearance at the Galpharm Stadium |
The Aga Khan could face an investigation into allegations he violated Canada’s lobbying act by giving Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family free vacations | on his private island in the Bahamas at the same time as he was discussing funding for projects.
The Aga Khan could face an investigation into allegations he violated Canada's Lobbying Act by giving Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family free vacations on his private island in the Bahamas at the same time as he was discussing funding for projects.
Democracy Watch sent a letter to the Commissioner of Lobbying late Wednesday, urging her to investigate whether Prince Shah Karim Al Hussaini Aga Khan IV "violated the Lobbyists Code by giving Prime Minister Trudeau and Liberal MP Seamus O'Regan the gifts of trips to his island home."
In the letter, Democracy Watch co-founder Duff Conacher says the Aga Khan's actions have put Trudeau and O'Regan in a conflict of interest. It is also against the law to give a public office holder a gift that could create a sense of obligation.
"Your position must be that anyone working for or associated with |
When the free-agent doors swung open in July, the team all over Minnesota Wild centre Kyle Brodziak was the opponent he had just | played six angry playoff games against — the St. Louis Blues. As the one-time Edmonton Oilers forward said, probably my “most hated team” after playing the Blues 30 times during the last six years with the Wild.
When the free-agent doors swung open in July, the team all over Minnesota Wild centre Kyle Brodziak was the opponent he had just played six angry playoff games against — the St. Louis Blues.
As the one-time Edmonton Oilers forward said, probably my “most hated team” after playing the Blues 30 times during the last six years with the Wild.
But the Blues wanted a new fourth-line centre after Marcel Goc and Olli Jokinen didn’t get the job done and Brodziak was a 10-year NHL veteran squeezed out of a job by salary-cap problems and Erik Haula in Minnesota.
Brodziak, whose previous deal was for three years and $8 |
PORT ANGELES — Callis Insurance recently acquired the Pacific Place office complex at 802 E. First St.
Andy and Amy Callis, who | also own Callis at 806 South Vine, purchased the property in April to create room for their growing agency, according to a news release.
The agency plans to move operations from the corner of Eighth Street and Vine Street to the complex by 2019, after renovating the space once occupied by Olympic Bagel Co.
Renovations are expected to begin in June and finish by end of 2018, according to the release.
The current tenants of the complex include Edward Jones, Advantage Escrow, and Craft3 — all of whom will remain during the transition, the agency said in the release.
Callis is a local independent insurance agency that recently celebrated 70 years of business.
The agency offers auto, home, business, life and employee benefits to individuals, families, businesses and non-profits on the North Olympic Peninsula and throughout the state.
• Monday: Kevin Hoult, Certified Business Adviser with North Peninsula Small Business Development Center, discusses “Startup Wipeout, |
Dec. 6, 2018, 6:02 a.m.
At the Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, OnePlus CEO Pete Lau announced that his | company would launch the first phone based on the new Snapdragon 855 processor slated for early 2019. This phone could be the OnePlus 7. At the conference, Lau announced a partnership with UK based telco EE for 5G. Previously, Lau had proclaimed that OnePlus was developing a 5G smartphone which it would launch in 2019. Considering that the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 is the first widely available system on chip (SoC) with an integrated 5G modem, this could be the very same device. That being said, Samsung’s senior VP for mobile, Justin Denison yesterday announced that Samsung was working with Qualcomm and Verizon to launch the first 5G smartphone in the US. Since the Snapdragon 855 is being made available in two stacks — one with the X50 modem for 5G and X24 modem with 4G — chances are that OnePlus could launch a 4G-based Snapdragon 855 phone for markets like India and for developed markets it could deploy the X50 modem-based model. |
Nisheeth Tak of Rasam restaurant tells Lucinda O'Sullivan of his time in The Taj and shares some family Christmas recipes.
| The thing about great hotels and hoteliers is that they must treat every guest as if they are VIPs - remaining urbane and impervious to the sometimes strange demands of the people they host.
A recent fly-on-the-wall TV series provided great entertainment and insight into what goes on behind the scenes of hotel life at the legendary Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai. The opulent hotel - known far and wide simply as 'The Taj' - is high on the list of the international rich and famous, who expect immaculate service at every instance.
Over the years The Taj has hosted Jackie Kennedy, the Prince of Wales, Mick Jagger, Barack Obama and hundreds of other big names.
In the recent TV series it was fascinating to watch an elderly American billionaire who made it her home for much of the year, and the very modern Maharajah, who liked to lead a simpler life than his ancestors. Likewise, the lives of the staff - who worked in |
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Hollywood’s counteroffensive against dollar DVD rentals has escalated.
Fox effectively has enlisted in Universal | ’s campaign against Redbox and other discount-rental chains by ordering wholesalers to stop supplying discs to Redbox kiosks during the first 30 days after Fox film and television titles hit the market. The move, which News Corp. president Chase Carey hinted at Wednesday during an earnings conference call, follows the collapse of negotiations between Fox and Redbox over terms of a direct product agreement.
Sony recently struck such a deal with the kiosks king, becoming the first studio to agree to supply Redbox with product directly. In exchange, Sony secured a Redbox pledge to keep the studio’s used DVDs off the resale market.
Redbox disc resales have been a second major aggravation for Hollywood studios along with the chain’s dollar rentals, which studios say are diminishing rental revenue and undermining DVD sales.
Redbox sued Universal in October after that studio ordered wholesalers Ingram and VPD to stop supplying its titles to Redbox within 45 days of release |
Did dinosaurs have really small brains?
Dinosaurs, like Winnie the Pooh, have traditionally been depicted as having very small brains, | and therefore not being very intelligent creatures.
It is true that, in general, dinosaurs' brains were much smaller than the brains of mammals possessing heads of comparable size. Whereas in a human skull, most of what is under the immediate bone surface is brain matter, a dinosaur skull's key facet is its jaw structure; much of the available space was occupied by powerful biting muscles, with the brain being buried under a thick casing to keep it well protected.
A rough system of estimating dinosaurs' (and other creatures') intelligence is known as the Encephalisation Quotient, or EQ. Developed by the American palaeoneurologist Harry Jerison in the 1970s, a dinosaur's EQ is the ratio of its brain weight relative to the brain weight of a "typical" animal of similar body weight. Typically, warm-blooded mammals and birds have much higher EQ ratings than cold-blooded reptiles of the same size, and there is a wide variation in the estimated EQ |
Soprano Hila Plitmann and pianist Hagai Yodan perform in Tel Aviv.
A special concert will take place on July | 20 at the Einav Center in Tel Aviv. Three friends, artistic personalities, will join forces to perform a program with joie de vivre written all over it: soprano Hila Plitmann, an Israeli vocalist who has made it big abroad (she won a Grammy in 2009 for Best Classical Vocal Performance, for starters); successful composer Sharon Farber; and pianist Hagai Yodan who, in addition to his professional dexterity, knows how to turn every concert into something more than just a performance because he and his guests (mostly singers) are there to share. The concert will include a chamber ensemble.
The Jerusalem-born Juilliard School graduate Plitmann, who lives in Los Angeles with her composer husband Eric Whitacre and their son, is known mainly for performing contemporary music.
Plitmann’s first success came when she was still a student at Juilliard.
In February 2009, Plitmann won a Grammy for Best |
Hello, good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to today's Ruth's Hospitality Group First Quarter 2011 Earn | ings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Mr. Bob Vincent, Chief Financial Officer. Please go ahead, sir.
Thank you, and good morning. We need to remind everyone that part of our discussion today may include forward-looking statements. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and therefore, undue reliance should not be placed upon them. We refer all of you to our recent filings with the SEC for a more detailed discussions of the risk that could impact future operating results and financial conditions. Finally, I would like to remind you that today's call may not be reproduced in any form without the express written consent of Ruth's Hospitality Group Inc.
I would now like to turn the call over to Mike O'Donnell, Chief Executive Officer of Ruth's Hospitality Group.
Thanks, Bob, and good morning, and thank you all for joining us today as opposed to watching |
File Art -- Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed legislation Friday that would have required Calif. middle and high schools to start no earlier than 8:30 a | .m.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- A new California law signed Friday by Gov. Jerry Brown ensures access to counseling, hormone treatment and surgery for transgender foster youth.
The bill "will empower transgender foster youth to live authentically and simply be themselves," said Democratic Assemblyman Todd Gloria of San Diego, the law's sponsor.
Such treatment would be covered by Medi-Cal, the state's health insurance program for low-income Californians and those in foster care.
All Medi-Cal recipients already have access to hormone and surgical treatments if they are deemed medically necessary. But the law more clearly states "gender affirming" health and mental health care as a right for foster youth and allows them involvement in developing their case plans.
The socially conservative California Family Foundation said such treatment is dangerous. Michael Laidlaw, an endocrinologist for Sutter Health, testified against the bill earlier this year.
"Doctors and psychologists have absolutely |
A Marana police officer shot and killed a man at a home on Sunday morning, after a confrontation between the two escalated, police say.
| A Marana police officer shot and killed a man at a home on Sunday morning after a confrontation between the two escalated, police say.
Sgt. Chriswell Scott, a spokesman for the Marana Police Department, said police received a 911 call regarding "unknown trouble" at a home near 7400 West Crimson Ridge Drive around 8 a.m.
Scott said the officer got into a "confrontation" with a man in the home before fatally shooting the man. Another man and a woman, not harmed by Marana police, were taken to a nearby hospital in critical condition.
Police did not identify the people in the home or whether the man involved in the confrontation was armed.
Scott said the officer, who was also not identified, was placed on paid administrative leave, as is standard practice following a police shooting. He expected the department would have more information about the incident by noon on Monday.
The incident marks the 19th officer-involved shooting in Arizona for 2019. |
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment has come under fire for spending $200,000 on an app that has been downloaded just 1,000 | times, forcing staff members to post positive reviews in a bid to boost downloads.
In Parliamentary records revealed this week, the Steven Joyce led department forked out $198,067.30 to external provider Alphero to create and develop a New Zealand Regions mobile app.
Designed to promote Regional Economic Activity Report, poor initial downloads have prompted opposition from across the political landscape, chiefly the Labour Party who’ve criticised Joyce’s culture of extravagance.
“It was likely never intended to be used much, just to look good at Steven Joyce’s launch party,” claims David Clark, Spokesperson, Economic Development.
“This is classic Joyce. No one in the real world would download an app to look at information they can find more easily on the internet.
As Clark points out, it appears the makers and MBIE got so worried about lack of interest they rated the app themselves.
“The first three ratings |
Chiawana opens district play against crosstown rival Pasco at 7 p.m. Saturday, while Richland travels to Southridge. | Hodgins came out more aggressive from the get-go, hitting a free-throw jumper just 46 seconds into the game. She finished 5-of-12 from the field.
The Bombers had two objectives coming into Tuesday’s game. The first was to get the division’s No. 2 seed, but Walla Walla’s win over West Valley combined with the loss denied them that prize.
The second was to acquit themselves better than they did in the teams’ first matchup — a 53-36 Riverhawks rout.
On that count, the Bombers fared much better. They shored up their interior defense, holding Chiawana’s three posts to 17 points (half their total from the first game), and went toe-to-toe with the Riverhawks on the boards (only a 31-30 Chiawana advantage).
“The biggest thing we were playing for tonight was pride,” said Bom |
Early attention to security issues might have given us a better internet today - or the project might never have taken off at all, says Robert Kahn. |
The net's co-inventor tells BBC Click Online how it all began, when, as an assistant professor of electrical engineering at MIT, he took a leave of absence to brush up on his networking theory.
The work that we did was principally on designing what a network would look like.
It was me working alone writing memos on the subject.
I thought, at that time, that this was about as much practical experience as one would really need, to be a good theoretician back in the university.
But it turned out that an agency of the US government, the Defence Advance Research Projects Agency, known as Darpa (it was known as Arpa back then) actually had plans to build a computer network in the country.
At the time, many people didn't think this was a very practical thing to do because it clearly didn't look like a business opportunity and there weren't that many computers around.
But I thought it was an interesting technical challenge |
Kena Brown, 43, of Peoria, enjoys taking her teenage son to the local library, where both of them have homework to do. |
Brown is studying to become a teacher in the Grow Your Own Teachers initiative that is rapidly expanding in Illinois.
"Now, I have an interest I can share with my son," Brown said. "I get a lot of encouragement. My co-workers encourage me. Sometimes, it’s hard to get the homework done. You have to focus on the light at the end of the tunnel and knowing that I am going to serve a much-needed purpose in life and it’s not just for me, but it’s also for my community."
Sixteen communities throughout the state, including Peoria, are participating in the program. Participants and organizers came together at the Capitol on Tuesday to rally for continued funding for the program. The group wants $4.5 million out of the budget for the fiscal year that starts in July, which would be an increase of $1.5 million.
According to a Grow Your Own Teachers news release, the $4 |
BOOKER'S Oakleigh Plate triumph was not only confirmation of Mathew Ellerton and Simon Zahra's outstanding skills, but a reminder of | super sire Written Tycoon's enduring excellence.
Booker became the Woodside Park Stud stallion's latest Group 1 graduate with a superb performance at Caulfield on Saturday.
And with the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale starting at Oaklands on Sunday, the win also ensured Written Tycoon's stock will again be in heavy demand.
Woodside Park general manager James Price is bullish about how the market will react to Written Tycoon's draft of almost 30 yearlings.
"We're most excited by the offerings of Victoria's No.1 stallion in Written Tycoon," Price said.
"(Woodside Park has) some lovely colts and a filly by him, which we are looking forward to presenting to the market.
"The confidence comes with him because he averaged $290,000 at the Gold Coast in January.
"The market wants to buy them, and they want to buy them because he's getting champion two-year-olds in Capitalist and |
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / February 12, 2019 / The founders of NewYorkMotorInsurance.com, a New York | auto insurance brokerage firm, are pleased to announce that they have just posted a new article to their website that answers a common question: Is New York City The Worst City for Driving in America?
To read the new article in its entirety, please check out https://www.newyorkmotorinsurance.com/blog/new-york-worst-city-to-drive/.
As the article notes, New York definitely has a bad reputation when it comes to driving. While many people might believe this to be true, the team from New York Motor Insurance, a company that helps drivers save on their New York car insurance costs, wanted to take a closer look at the data behind this claim.
From accident data and insurance information to traffic congestion, travel times and more, there are a number of factors that can accurately determine if a city is ''bad'' for driving.
With these facts in mind, the founders of New York Motor Insurance researched a number of facts about |
There aren’t enough Guy Pearce movies. You can see him right now in a small but powerful part in the Australian crime picture Animal Kingdom | , and he’ll soon show up in the remake of Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark. And now he’s been cast, along with four other actors, in a comedy called Mis-Fits.
THR says that Pearce, Seymour Cassel, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Cloris Leachman and Virginie Ledoyen are all in the film, which will be the feature directorial debut of playwright L.D. Napier.
Mis-Fits is based on a script by Napier, and ” tells the story of a “necro-detective” who goes in search of people’s lost, dead relatives.” Producer Doug Claybourne calls it “a wacky comedy in the tone of Harold and Maude,” and I invite you to spend a few contemplative moments reconciling that logline with Claybourne’s description. Got it? Good.
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In the wake of large-scale data breaches against retailers such as Target, Neiman Marcus and Michaels, the Retail Industry Leaders Association has launched the | Retail Cyber Intelligence Sharing Center in an effort to strengthen defenses against cyber-attacks and protect consumers.
Companies participating in the initiative include Target, Lowe's, Nike, Safeway and Walgreens, according to a statement from RILA.
Through the R-CISC, retailers will share cyberthreat information among themselves and with public and private stakeholders, including the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Secret Service and FBI. The R-CISC also will provide advanced training and education and research resources for retailers.
Recent data breaches have caught the attention of retailers' senior executives to the need to share cyberthreat information. "Even though a firm may be able to weather a data breach in the long run, it's now something that can affect the careers of senior management in the short run," says Allan Friedman, a research scientist at the Cybersecurity Policy Research Institute at George Washington University, where he works on cybersecurity policy issues.
Picking up Friedman's point, David Nave |
An agreement to provide Georgia with $48 million for implementation of a project on improvement of the regional power supply network was signed within the framework of a | visit by Vice-President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Xiaoyu Zhao to this country, the Ministry of Finance of Georgia informed Trend on Friday.
According to the information, the signing of the agreement took place with the participation of the Minister of Finance, Vice Chairman of ADB Management Board Nodar Khaduri, and Minister of Energy Kakhi Kaladze.
The project stipulates further improvements of the power supply infrastructure in Georgia, ensuring its reliability, durability and efficiency, as well as higher electric power transmission, promotion of export and transit. The purpose is for existing substations and construction of a new 220/110 KV substations are planned.
"Today we have signed an agreement to finance a very important project. It will be very helpful for the development of the country. I believe in the abilities of the Georgian government. I think this will be another successful project showing how efficient the government of Georgia uses financial resources provided by international financial institutions," the |
Trump's preoccupation with getting allies to spend 2% on defense often misrepresents their NATO obligations.
BRUSSELS — President Donald | Trump arrived Tuesday at the home of NATO headquarters with a seemingly singular preoccupation: allies who aren't sharing in the burden of providing for the collective defense.
His rallying cry: "2 percent." That's the amount NATO members are expected to spend on defense as a share of their economies. Only four of 29 allies meet that target.
The latest salvo came in two tweets from Air Force One, in which he misrepresented the arrangement by which allies contribute to their joint defense.
The squabbling over who pays for the protection afforded by the alliance has already set a combative tone for the two-day NATO summit in Brussels this week, as the allies discuss its response to Russia's growing military, political and cyber incursions into Europe.
"Many countries in NATO, which we are expected to defend, are not only short of their current commitment of 2% (which is low), but are also delinquent for many years in payments that have not been made. Will they reimburse |
Parents could be unable to attend free baby classes because a clutch of nearby parking spaces have been closed, it has been claimed.
Six free spaces | on Oak Street have been shut off because of the development of 40 homes on the site of a former reclamation yard.
It is round the corner from Twinkle Toes Baby Café on Sussex Street, which offers a free programme of activities and classes for babies.
Now Ingrid Henry, who runs the cafe, fears the closure of the free parking spaces will put parents off visiting.
The parking bay was closed last week to allow building to start on the homes, with the temporary parking restriction in place until November 12.
Ms Henry said the already strained parking situation had been made unbearable by the closure.
More than 100 families a week visit the café and Ms Henry said she feared the looming closure of multiple Sure Start children’s centres would send even more to their door, without the parking spaces to cater for them.
Lianne Mills, who works at Twinkle Toes, launched an online petition calling on Norwich City Council to find a temporary alternative while the Oak Street |
(CNSNews.com) -- There is not a single, public Christian church left in Afghanistan, according to the U.S. State | Department.
This reflects the state of religious freedom in that country ten years after the United States first invaded it and overthrew its Islamist Taliban regime.
In the intervening decade, U.S. taxpayers have spent $440 billion to support Afghanistan's new government and more than 1,700 U.S. military personnel have died serving in that country.
In recent times, freedom of religion has declined in Afghanistan, according to the State Department.
“The government’s level of respect for religious freedom in law and in practice declined during the reporting period, particularly for Christian groups and individuals,” reads the State Department report.
Most Christians in the country refuse to “state their beliefs or gather openly to worship,” said the State Department.
More than 1,700 U.S. military personnel have died serving in the decade-old Afghanistan war, according to CNSNews.com’s database of all U.S. casualties in Afghanistan. A |
New information from a witness and an NGO report has shed new light on the practices and facilities of the mysterious Sujiatun Concentration Camp and | its treatment of Falun Gong.
Interviews with the ex-wife of a surgeon involved in organ transplants at the hospital connected to the Sujiatun camp, which is said to be secretly harvesting organs from Falun Gong practitioners, show some of the brutal measures used by the camp in its treatment of the practitioners illegally detained there. This new information follows on the heels of an early March Epoch Times interview with a Chinese journalist, who first revealed the existence of the Sujiatun concentration camp and said that 6,000 Falun Gong adherents were imprisoned there and were killed for their organs.
The testimony of the Chinese journalist and this informant, along with ongoing investigations made by a U.S.-based human rights NGO, are the first reports detailing this type of camp since 1999, when the former leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Jiang Zemin, launched the persecution against the peaceful and popular Falun Gong meditation practice in China.
The witness said that most |
It's a question many of us have asked ourselves: are we alone in the universe?
From flying saucers to balls of light rocket | ing through the sky, South Australia has had its fair share of reported UFO encounters.
One avid ABC reader has asked us to delve into the history of the state's major cases, as part of our Curious Adelaide campaign.
So we dusted off some of South Australia's oldest X-Files to find answers.
We'll start in the outback, where a traumatised family was allegedly lifted off the ground by aliens.
It was still dark in the early hours of January 20, 1988, when the Knowles family was driving along the remote Nullarbor Plain.
The seemingly mundane trip from Perth to Melbourne quickly turned to terror when they encountered an unidentified flying object that tormented them for 90 minutes.
A large glowing object "like a big ball" chased Faye Knowles and her adult sons Patrick, Wayne and Sean down the highway, before landing on their roof and plucking them into the air.
"It apparently picked the car up off the road, shook |
Catholic priest: Trump's proposal 'prudent'; Men love Planned Parenthood?
GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump's call "for a total and | complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on" has caused quite a stir in the media.
At least one Catholic priest is not fearful of making a public and politically incorrect statement in support of Trump's proposal.
There is no natural human right to enter the United States. Thus there is no 'human rights' case to be made against Trump's proposal. The legitimate purpose of immigration law and immigration policy is to promote the well-being of the American people.
The large-scale influx of alien Muslims and other foreigners is already manifestly dangerous to the American people. We have already experienced, in addition to the thousands killed on 9/11, the murder of scores of Americans by Muslim jihadists.
Trump's proposal offends against no principle of justice, and seems entirely prudent in view of the hostile invasion of the U.S. being encouraged by our government and by the profiteering U.S. Conference of Catholic B |
One of the nine bombers that detonated explosives on Easter Sunday was a woman, State Minister of Defence Ruwan Wijewardene has said on | Wednesday.
President Maithripala Sirisena is reported to have informed Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando and IGP Pujith Jayasundara to resign from their offices, sources said.
Leader of the House Lakshman Kiriella yesterday called for the appointment of a parliamentary select committee to look into the failure of communication of the prior warnings that were made by foreign intelligence on last Sunday’s terrorist attacks.
Opposition MP Dinesh Gunawardane yesterday told the government that it should not by any circumstance allow foreign security forces to enter this country at this moment.
British Prime Minister Theresa May spoke to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Tuesday night over the telephone to express her condolences, the PM’s office said.
Opposition MP Wimal Weerawansa today said MP Mujibur Rahman, Western Province Governor Azath Salley and Minister Rishard Bathiudeen should be questioned for instigating extremism. |
A plan backed by Escambia County to place dredging spoils from Pensacola Pass near Perdido Key could fight erosion on the | key.
A plan backed by Escambia County leaders would shore up eroded sections of Perdido Key with sand obtained from routine dredging of Pensacola Pass.
The Escambia County Commission agreed to develop a new Pensacola Pass Inlet Management Program earlier this month.
Florida's Department of Environmental Quality must sign off on the local program and agree to provide matching funds before the project can move forward, said Tim Day, environmental programs director for the county.
County Commissioner Doug Underhill, whose district includes Perdido Key, said the program is a priority for the area.
"We will naturally replenish our beaches without having to spend millions of dollars," he said.
In the past, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has dumped sand from the dredging process in the deep water instead of strategically placing the sand in areas where it would be carried to beaches west of Pensacola Pass.
The Florida Legislature has encouraged the corps to |
Brian Cookson, the UCI president, has insisted the uncertainty surrounding the 2015 Track Cycling World Championships will be resolved soon.
The calendar for | the 2014-15 Track World Cup series is still to be revealed and the venue for next year's world championships is unknown. London's Olympic Velodrome will host the 2016 event.
It is understood a return to Melbourne, the world championships hosts in 2012, is possible, depending on whether the state of Victoria offers its financial support, and Aguascalientes in Mexico is another potential host. Its velodrome, which is at altitude, hosted last December's Track World Cup meeting at which a host of world records were smashed.
"We have a number of proposals now on the table and we'll be making a decision very shortly," Cookson said. "It's not ideal, but it's a real-world problem. The real-world problem was that there weren't any bidders coming forward.
"The ones that were interested originally had withdrawn, so we are now proactively looking and talking to people and I'm optimistic that we'll get a solution in time |
New and old politicians have no choice but to contend with the fact that gone are the days where people in power could make pronouncements, or even | do anything publicly at all - without the immediate reaction and blow-back from the body politic.
Welcome to an era where voices are going to be heard. Do strap in and become comfortable with a hand-held device being a more powerful tool than a day off work to join an organised physical march.
This new reality means politicians should have three-dimensional thinking and response process at any and every moment. This quality needs to kick in when - for instance - taking pictures with a downtrodden elderly person. Attention needs to be paid to what the background says about the elderly person and the government you represent.
Political parties now need entire war rooms to handle any imminent situation arising from content that emanates from digital media. And the traffic is particularly high during election time.
Some public assertions may not be correct or fair given our shared internalised trauma.
One such example of narratives that must be challenged is the recent outrage over an ANC election advert that featured an attractive young woman.
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Shared world shooter Anthem won't have loot boxes because they serve no purpose. Developed by Mass Effect and Dragon Age studio BioWare, the | game will instead have optional cosmetic micro-transactions rather than loot boxes. Replying to fan feedback on Twitter, Anthem Producer Michael Gamble stated that the cosmetics and micro-transaction plan for the game has no place for loot boxes at this juncture. In addition to this he mentioned that progression through the Anthem demo would be easier than the full game. Reason being, BioWare wants to give players the chance to "earn stuff and feel what it would be like."
"Oh, before I forget: the progression (xp curves) as well as general in-game economy balance will be a bit easier in the demo," Gamble tweeted."We want you to earn some stuff and feel what it's like. We will also give you 100 coins to blow on some fancy cosmetics."
He followed this up by explaining why Anthem won't have loot boxes.
"We aren't going to add loot boxes," he said. "It serves no purpose. The cosmetics and mtx [micro |
Actor and musician Yossi Banai, one of Israel's greatest artists, died Thursday at the age of 74 following a serious illness. He | was survived by his wife and three sons.
Banai's funeral will take place at 11 a.m. Friday at Kibbutz Givat Hashlosha.
"The State of Israel today lost one of its culture legends, an Israel Prize laureate, and a man of Jerusalem," Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said. "Yossi Banai was an example of multidisciplinary talent in stage-managing, playwriting, satire, cinema and singing."
"Yossi's unique voice was a key part in the story of the renewed Jewish state in the Land of Israel and in Jerusalem," Olmert added.
President Moshe Katsav and his wife Gila expressed their sorrow over Banai's death: "Banai was a multidisciplinary artistic personality who left his mark on the theatre, cinema and singing stage. His performances were an experience for any Israeli."
Banai was born in 1932. In the mid 1950s, he |
The death penalty, inmate sentencing and conditions of confinement are just a few of the topics that John Roberts will face now that he has been sworn in | as the new Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. And while many have questioned exactly which way Roberts will vote on inmate rights issues, it is almost impossible to guess definitely whether Roberts will stay conservative or become a moderate vote.
According to Senator John Cornyn (R, TX), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Roberts has been widely known for his wise contributions in the courtroom over his career. Cornyn described Roberts as "an exceptional judge, brilliant legal mind and a man of outstanding character" in a release.
But despite his reputation, David Fathi, of the American Civil Liberties Union National Prison Project simply sees Roberts as a one-for-one replacement for Chief Justice William Rehnquist.
Critical Of Roberts? Not yet.
Berman has a similar view of Roberts' confirmation to Rehnquist's seat, and notes that the court does shift depending on the Chief Justice.
So what does the confirmation of John Roberts mean for the Supreme Court and |
A gentlemen, allegedly, in Pennsylvania on Monday October 10.
Dear Donald — I was delighted to hear your declaration at Sunday night's debate that | you are, in fact, a gentleman. That is exactly what I advised, after the release of the tape in which you casually reported and advocated for actions that you now know, as a gentleman, constitute sexual assault.
I ended that column with a call for men to return to the values of gentlemanliness, and mean it — by treating all women with the respect they deserve at all times, even when there are no women present.
So let us for a moment do the gentlemanly thing and take you at your word, or at least believe it to be an intention to begin to behave like a gentleman. Because I think you'd agree, as a gentleman, that your conduct in the election thus far has been significantly less than gentlemanly.
The complete list of ungentlemanly conduct thus far would take up too much time, and gentlemen get to the point. So let's just use Sunday night's debate as an example.
Deeds matter more than words, as |
KIDMAN, Ernest Ian Richard (Ian). MNZM. On 30 October 2017, as result of an accident, at Wellington Hospital, | surrounded by his loving family, and supported by Cambodian monks and friends. Very dearly loved husband and companion of Fiona, for 58 years. Dear father of Joanna and Giles, and father-in-law of Vincent O'Malley, and of Vannessa Kidman. Devoted Grandpa to Amelia (Billie), Zach and Anna, Tobias, Reuben and Katie, Thomas and Raphael, and Great- Grandpa (GG) of Max and Darcie, Isabel and Hugo. Friend of Kate. Loved brother of Mabel Porter (Napier) and her family. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Wellington City Mission, P O Box 7477 Wellington 6242 or left at the service. Messages may be sent C/-The Wilson Funeral Home, P O Box 7123 Wellington 6242 or placed in Ian's tribute book at www.tributes.co.nz A celebration of Ian's wonderful life will be held at All Saint's Church, |
To accomplish that, demilitarized zones should be set up on the perimeters of every school and razor-wire fences erected. Furthermore a | military checkpoint and road block should be established at the entrance to every school property, possibly manned by rotating National Guard units that would check every car and person entering the grounds for weapons and other ordinance. It’s not a fail-proof measure, as has been seen in Baghdad and Kabul, but it would stop most of the armed subjects who try to enter. An assault rifle of this kind would be easily detectable.
As for the students themselves, I propose the following: because we’re dealing with what is essentially a combat-grade weapon, the state legislature should budget funds immediately to provide every North Carolina school child with Kevlar bullet-proof flack jackets, and helmets. Furthermore, every child should undergo a rigorous psychological work-up at the start and end of each school year in order to detect disturbing signals and signs of possible, future dangerous behavior.
If we really love our children and want to protect them there should be no limit to the amount of money we’ |
A solid quarter wasn't enough to keep the stock afloat.
Shares of BlackBerry (NYSE:BB) slumped on Friday after the enterprise software and | services provider reported its first-quarter results. Despite the company beating analyst estimates for both revenue and earnings, the stock was down about 10% at 10:45 a.m. EDT.
BlackBerry reported first-quarter non-GAAP revenue of $217 million, down 11% year over year but about $7.4 million above the average analyst estimate. Enterprise software and services revenue tumbled 17.8%, but that decline was offset by a 30.6% increase in technology solutions revenue and a 96.9% increase in licensing, IP, and other revenue. Total software and services revenue, which includes all three categories, grew 14% year over year.
Non-GAAP earnings per share came in at $0.03, beating analyst expectations by $0.03. On a GAAP basis, the company posted a loss of $0.11 per share, worse than a loss of $0.06 per share in the fourth quarter of last year. BlackBerry |
Dyaisha Fair, a rising senior at Edison, led the squad during the final in Johnson City.
The team from Rochester has emerged in | first place at the Basketball Coaches Association of New York Summer Hoops Festival for the second time in five years.
Rochester won all five of its games in Johnson City, Broome County, including the tournament final, 54-41 over the team from the Central region of the state. Dyaisha Fair, who will enter her senior year at Edison Career and Technology High School in the Rochester City School District this fall, scored a team-high 19 points in the final.
The festival just outside Binghamton is a replacement for the high school girls basketball competition of the defunct Empire State Games.
"It's basically as good as the Empire State Games were," Rochester coach Jeff Parizek said. "Every section sends a team, except for a couple that were combined.
"It's all college-level kids, players who want to go on to Division I, II or III. It's no joke, the best of the best. Syracuse last year had five |
ASTON VILLA have been rocked with the news that captain John Terry broke his metatarsal in the 2-1 home defeat to Sheffield | Wednesday.
The Chelsea legend was forced off the field with just 21 minutes on the clock and now faces around three months on the sidelines.
The 36-year-old, who rejected a host of offers to sign a one-year deal with the Championship side, fell to the ground in pain following a Wednesday attack.
He was replaced by Chris Samba as he head down the tunnel with the medical staff to determine the seriousness of his injury.
Terry posted on Instagram: "Devastated is an understatement to how I'm feeling tonight, after my CT scan I have just had news that I have broken my 5th metatarsal.
"I will be doing everything I can to get back fit as soon as possible."
And after the game a dejected Steve Bruce confirmed their worst fears.
He said: "John went to hospital and it looks as if he has got a broken metatarsal which is bad news for all of us.
"How badly he |
He is the man literary Ireland fears most. Stephen Joyce, the highly litigious grandson of Ireland's greatest writer, James Joyce, has devoted his | life to fiercely protecting his grandfather's copyright, setting his lawyers on those foolhardy enough to take the Joyce name in vain or to reproduce Joyce's words without consent.
Few are spared. He has targeted publishing houses, internet readings and even an Irish composer who requested permission to quote 18 words of Finnegans Wake and received a letter saying: "To put it politely, my wife and I don't like your music."
But now, fearful for this month's mammoth celebrations of Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, Irish MPs yesterday rushed through emergency legislation which will prevent Mr Joyce from suing the government and the National Library over an exhibition which displays 500 pages of Joyce manuscripts bought for €12.6m in 2002.
"James Joyce and Ulysses" is the centrepiece of the Rejoyce festival commemorating the centenary of Bloomsday, the day on which Ulysses was set.
Stephen Joyce had warned the government and the library he would take any copyright |
Rich Meeusen, CEO of Badger Meter. Credit: Badger Meter Inc.
Rich Meeusen, the president, | chief executive officer and chairman of Badger Meter Inc., would receive about $8.4 million if the company were to change hands and he departed, according to filings with federal securities regulators.
Badger Meter is "exploring on a preliminary basis various options to enhance shareholder value," the company said Wednesday in a news release.
Meeusen's so-called change-in-control package is laid out in his employment and severance agreement. It says that Meeusen, 61, would receive three years' worth of salary and annual incentive compensation, along with the estimated retirement and other benefits he would have earned if he had been employed for those three years. Among the benefits included in the estimate are outplacement and financial planning services.
If he had departed on Dec. 31, 2015, following a sale, the benefit would have been worth $8.4 million, the company said in a March 8 SEC filing.
Badger Meter did not respond Thursday afternoon |
The Alan Kurdi has been stuck at sea with 80 people on board for nine days.
Another woman was evacuated from a stranded humanitarian vessel after | requiring medical attention, the government said.
NGO Sea-Eye said in a statement the woman, 23-year-old Nigerian, one of the two pregnant women on board the Alan Kurdi, had suffered an epileptic seizure. Her "worried" husband remains on board.
The vessel has been stuck at sea for nine days with 80 people aboard - 64 of whom were rescued off war-torn Libya. On Tuesday, another 24-year-old woman was evacuated to Malta for medical attention by the AFM following loss of consciousness.
The ship has been denied access to Malta and Italy, with both governments repeatedly saying it was Libya's responsibility to take in the boat, Sea-Eye chairman Gorden Isler had told Times of Malta.
"We can only hope that the young woman will soon feel better again. Here on board we could not help her anymore," Capt. Werner Czerwinski said.
He expressed his concern about the coming days saying the |
Nissan Motor Company, Japan’s third-largest auto maker, has decided to cut its small car sourcing target from India’s | biggest car company Maruti Suzuki by 80% in view of the severe downturn in Europe’s automobile market.
Nissan will now source just 10,000 units of Maruti Suzuki India’s recently launched A-Star for Europe against the earlier agreed target of 50,000 units. Nissan will rebrand the car Pixo for Europe after some exterior and interior engineering changes.
The deal, negotiations for which began in 2006, is for a single order and not an annual export commitment.
The two are, however, yet to draft the finer details of the deal. Nissan’s decision to downsize its sourcing comes at a time when October sales in Europe dropped almost 19% to 40,629 units.
Maruti Suzuki, however, has announced that A-Star exports, also to Europe, will stick to the January schedule. Maruti Suzuki plans to export 100,000 units, including to Europe, double its target for India.
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According to AirFair Watchdog, 33 out of 52 major airports nationally offer free wi-fi, with no strings attached, including California airports in | Ontario, Orange County, San Diego, San Jose, Sacramento and San Francisco. Another 19 smaller airports in California have free wi-fi, according to Wi-Fi Free Spot.
But when Los Angeles International Airport debuted its $1.9 billion upgrade of the Tom Bradley International Terminal last week, Hugo Martin at the Los Angeles Times asked why it was still using the same slow, wi-fi system used throughout LAX, which is free for just the first 45 minutes. A high-speed connection is also available, but that costs $4.95 an hour or $7.95 all day.
Even more in demand than fast, free wi-fi are charging stations for devices, including computers and phones. Around 87% of people surveyed wanted that. 47% of business travelers requested writing tables and 17% thought printing stations would be nice. Half the seats in the terminal have electrical outlets, but not much else was added to the terminal beyond the meager offerings already in place.
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Much has, will and perhaps must be written about the irony of South Carolina Democrats delivering to Hillary Clinton in 2016 her first resounding early-state | primary victory. It was, after all, just eight years ago that these same South Carolina voters answered the 2008 Clinton campaign's argument that she was the pragmatic and therefore best option with a similarly resounding defeat.
Indeed, in 2016, South Carolina has reversed course, and this time it turned toward what most observers will describe as the path of political pragmatism, giving Clinton a nearly 50-point victory over Bernie Sanders.
But there is another story, one that hides in plain sight but may well be ignored. Look closely at the exit poll data, and the indicators of a massive win for Clinton. There is evidence of substantial but far from record-setting overall primary turnout there, too. But, there is also this: Black voters turned out and voted in large numbers relative to other Democrats, giving their numerical majority within the party added meaning.
Black voters in South Carolina cast 6 in every 10 Democratic primary votes, according to CNN's exit poll data. That ratio is huge — |
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday she would back lowering European Union tariffs on U.S. car imports, responding to an offer from Washington to | abandon threatened levies on European cars in return for concessions.
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened last month to impose a 20-percent import tariff on all EU-assembled vehicles, part of a tough line on trade that has raised tensions across the world and which could upend the EU industry’s current business model for selling cars in the United States.
The U.S. ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, has repeatedly met with executives of German car makers Volkswagen (VW), BMW and Daimler and automotive suppliers including Continental, most recently on Wednesday, to discuss the issue.
An industry source told Reuters earlier that Grenell had mentioned to the executives that Trump could abandon his threats if the EU scrapped duties on U.S. cars imported into the bloc.
A spokesman for the embassy said no formal offer on tariffs had been made, and that Grenell’s goal was rather to explore the options for a wider transatlantic trade agreement.
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It will cost about $300,000 to give every officer the nasal spray antidote for opioid overdoses.
Catholic Charities wants to build seven tiny | homes for veterans near 79th Street and Emerald Avenue.
Chicago firefighters already carry naloxone, a nasal spray that can reverse opioid overdoses.
An ordinance approved Thursday would require phone dealers to prove they're not peddling stolen goods.
No-show at Midway meeting by Aviation boss Ginger Evans draws heat from aldermen.
Fourteenth Ward Ald. Ed Burke showed colleagues video of Doc Brown and his DeLorean time machine.
But the mayor left the door open to removing the Balbo monument near Soldier Field.
An effort in 2014 to ban horse-drawn carriages in Chicago fizzled.
Burke made the joke during a debate over a $38.75 million settlement involving red-light camera tickets.
Sentencing would include community service and mandatory participation in social service programs.
Zoning change for warehouse clears way for 100 units of mixed-income housing next door.
There are 5,889 men, women and children who are homeless in Chicago |
"We Hadn't Any Machine Guns Or Anything Like That"
"It Was Better For Him To Die"
Richard Humphreys was a | member of the Headquarters Battalion and served under Desmond Fitzgerald in the Commissariat in the General Post Office. He remembers Pearse inspecting the different positions within the building and updating the men with news from around the country.
Richard Humphreys was the nephew of Michael Joseph O’Rahilly (known as The O’Rahilly). He saw his uncle for the last time on Friday evening just before The O’Rahilly left the GPO with his small party who were tasked with trying to get to Moore Street.
Richard Humphreys was arrested after the surrender and taken to Kilmainham Gaol. It was two days before he learned of the death of his uncle who was killed while leading the charge from the GPO.
Tommy mentioned about one of the leaders, The O’Rahilly being killed, and it was a frightful shock.
Richard Humphreys was a member of the Irish Volunteers and was attached to the Headquarters Battalion in the GPO. During |
Home Featured Catholic News How do we see ourselves in Church?
When we think about mission, we first need to think about Church and how it | relates to us and how we see ourselves in it, according to a Boston University professor.
Fr Richard Lennan makes a point during his talk about being people of faith.
May 26 that people often do not see themselves as being part of the Church, but rather see Church as an “other thing”.
hardly anyone really thinks of herself or himself as part of the Church.
“Everyone, except me. When I think of the Church, I think about them, I don’t think about me. So the first task when we think about mission is how do we think of the Word,” he said.
He said everyone has something to be unhappy about when it comes to Church. He said some think there is too much emphasis on doctrine, while others think there is too little. Some are unhappy that the Church is too much about God and not enough about people, and vice-versa.
He said people often think that the |
Awards Season went into full swing yesterday when the nominations for the 91st Academy Awards were announced. One of the most exciting things about this year | is the love for Black Panther, which earned a total of seven nominations. Fans and Marvel stars alike have been celebrating the news, including Black Panther himself, Chadwick Boseman.
The actor also included the recent Entertainment Weekly video promoting their upcoming Oscars 2019 issue, which features Black Panther as the cover.
Considering the widespread love for the Marvel Studios film and the fact that it was the highest grossing movie in the United States last year, it’s no surprise EW has deemed it cover-worthy. Their article praises the film, and credits the “remarkable social momentum” for its success.
“Black Panther isn’t a traditional Black Oscar movie. Because it isn’t about the thing that almost every black film that’s been nominated for Oscars is: pain,” EW writes. They go on to list some films that have gotten serious Oscar recognition, for example, Best Picture winners 12 Years a Slave and Moonlight. While those |
Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel said he doesn’t know whether to believe Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore’s accusers.
| MADISON - Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel said he "starts by believing" the women accusing Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore and President Donald Trump but doesn't know enough about the allegations to say in the end whether they're true.
In an interview, Schimel broke with other top Republicans from Wisconsin when it comes to Moore. Gov. Scott Walker and House Speaker Paul Ryan last month said they believe Moore’s accusers and want him to drop out of the Senate race.
Schimel said he had not studied the specifics of accusations against Moore and Trump regarding their alleged mistreatment of women and didn’t know if they were true. He spoke on Monday, the same day Trump endorsed Moore and the Republican National Committee resumed spending on his behalf.
Schimel said rather than Moore and Trump, he is focused on cracking down and preventing sexual harassment at his Department of Justice. He did not provide specifics, but an aide said one DOJ employee had been |
Outgoing CIA director John Brennan slammed this language, saying, “I think he has to be mindful that he does not have a full appreciation | and understanding of what the implications are of going down that road.” The comment appears to have increased the antagonism between Trump and agencies, and has probably led to some of the information being released — but so has his unusually close relationship to a foreign entity with a vested interest in his election.
But that is more in line with traditional disgruntled government agency behavior. Where is Trump getting this paranoid “deep state” stuff?
The term, with its surrounding air of paranoia and speculation, has all the hallmarks of his longtime ally Roger Stone and his associate, right-wing conspiracy radio/internet host Alex Jones.
Stone has been Trump’s political whisperer for decades, at one point holding a leadership role in his 2016 presidential campaign, and continues to be a trusted adviser to this day. Stone has written several conspiracy minded books, including one blaming President Lyndon Johnson for orchestrating the murder of President John F. Kennedy. Stone also backed Trump’s bizarre |
Chivo will be holding its 28th reunion and potluck from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday at Oak Park on | Alpine Avenue in Stockton.
The group is made up of past residents of El Barrio del Chivo (The Goat Neighborhood), a Latino community. Homes from the neighborhood were torn down about 40 years ago, but past residents meet every year.
Music at the Vineyards, a fundraiser to purchase instruments for Mariachi Juvenil de Jose Salcedo, will be at 6 p.m. Saturday, hosted by Ramon Rios Winery at 8458 W. Linne Road, Tracy. The mariachi group�s instruments were recently stolen.
Bring a picnic basket and blanket and listen to a salsa and merengue concert by Orquesta Sensual.
Alcohol will be served, but outside alcoholic beverages will not be allowed.
Tickets are $25 and are limited. The fundraiser is sponsored by Ramos Rios Winery and Tracy Hispanic Business Group.
The Native Daughters of the Golden West Ruby Parlor No. 46 will hold their annual yard sale |
Tullahoma is among several Tennessee cities that offer broadband access to residents and businesses, often at cheaper rates and faster speeds than the private sector providers | , and unlike satellite, they don't include data caps. Those in neighboring communities want the option of fiber access or, in many cases, just any kind of broadband access to fill in the gaps left by the private sector.
NORMANDY, Tenn. – It's usually between the 10th and the 15th day of the month when Clifton and Joanna Miller's satellite Internet account hits its data cap. Clifton, a lawyer, and Joanna, a sixth-grade math teacher, are unable to work from home. Their 16-year-old daughter, who depends on access for homework, takes a laptop to her grandmother's house nearby to complete her assignments until a new month begins.
The Millers' house is less than a mile from Tullahoma's city limit, but under state law, the Tullahoma Utilities Board cannot extend its high-speed fiber Internet network outside its electric service footprint. They would settle for basic broadband from other providers, |
Kyle Lotay: PIC: Norfolk Police.
Three Norwich police officers who battled to bring a 37-year-old man back from the | brink of death have received top life-saving honours.
PC Kyle Lotay, together with colleagues PC Liam Nicklin and PC Rob Wells, were called to a property in Magdalen Street, Norwich, after a man collapsed and stopped breathing.
They found the man, who had collapsed following a disturbance at the house, unconscious and not breathing on a small landing at the top of a hall stairway.
Despite problems caused by a drunk and hostile person in the property, the officers started performing cardiac pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and continued their life-saving efforts until ambulance staff arrived.
The perseverance of the police officers, in extremely difficult conditions, helped ensure that the man survived his ordeal.
All three officers are to receive Royal Humane Society Resuscitation Certificates following their life-saving efforts in the early hours of September 29 last year.
PC Lotay, who is now an acting sergeant at Earlham Police Station, said his colleagues were first on |
In the age of the experience economy, customer loyalty is driven by convenience and instant access to information.
The way we perceive and interact with technology | to manage and protect the lifeblood of every organisation has, historically, been a critical factor in business viability and digital transformation.
Today's ultra-competitive business environment means companies cannot afford to be offline. Having a quality product or solution sure to sell and boost the bottom line is simply not enough in the age of the experience economy, where customer loyalty is driven by convenience.
We are living and operating businesses in an age where product quality is not only a given, it's expected. But it's not enough to keep them coming back. Today, organisations must deliver what the customer wants, when they want it.
And let's face it: everyone, regardless of industry, expects instant access to information and the ability to buy products or services anytime, from anywhere. So, what in a business is the pivotal hub for the delivery of that positive experience? The answer is unquestionably: IT.
Let's unpack the experience economy. What is it?
In a world where over |
More than one observer has said that Pixar seems to be working the kind of revolutionary magic Disney once did. And while most of us are familiar with | Pixar blockbusters like "The Incredibles" and "Toy Story," many innovations first appeared in the studio's shorter works. Here's a glimpse at some of them.
In the first Pixar short, 1986's "Luxo Jr.," a baby lamp finds a ball to play with, and it's all fun and games until the ball bursts. When Pixarite John Lasseter, formerly of Disney, was learning how to make digital models, he chose the nearest, easiest subject: an architect's lamp on his desk. "Luxo Jr." was nominated for an Oscar.
Nighttime scenes used to be unusual in digitally animated films until Pixar set off to explore the territory in the 1987 short "Red's Dream." In it, a unicycle named Red faces life as the lone sale item in the clearance corner of Eben's Bikes.
The 1988 short "Tin Toy" marked the first time a character with lifelike bendable arms and knees, |
Four people were arrested in The Netherlands last week after a police raid on a premises that had been using 3D printers to create fake Nintendo cartridges, | inside which were hidden a variety of drugs like LSD, cocaine and MDMA.
As De Telegraaf report, Dutch police raided a dark web drug dealing setup last year (it’s a fascinating story, which you can read about here), and rather than shut it down, kept it running for a few weeks so they could gather the names and addresses of buyers. The four arrested, three men and a woman, were part of that list.
The three men were picked up in a home in Amsterdam, while the woman was found in a large shed in the town of Werkendam, which had banks of 3D printers creating not just fake Nintendo cartridges (news reports did not specify which system they were supposed to be imitating, but the image above from De Telegraaf might be a crude Famicom cart replica), but replica ink cartridges as well.
Once packed, the drugs were being shipped as far afield as Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. |
Afghan Insurgents Use Drones in Fight Against U.S.
Something that’s already happening on the battlefields in Iraq | and Syria.
NATO no longer has a monopoly on drones on the battlefields of Afghanistan. Because now insurgents are using them.
The drones are small, commercial-use and cheap. But they’re effective. With eyes in the sky, insurgents can conduct spy on coalition forces and target them in mortar attacks with real-time live feeds of the battlefield. In October, the Taliban even used a drone to record a suicide bombing attack for propaganda purposes.
But what’s more worrying is the possibility of insurgents arming drones with bombs — and it’s already happening in Iraq and Syria. Numerous videos of militant group purportedly dropping explosives from jerry-rigged drones have already populated YouTube (see here and here). And in October, the Islamic State attacked French and Kurdish forces in Northern Iraq with an exploding drone that killed two Kurdish soldiers.
The Pentagon is scrambling to deploy counter-drone technology to troops to respond to the threat. In October last year, Lt |
Well-known hacking group DerpTrolling has released a list of usernames and passwords that it claims belong to thousands of Windows Live, | 2K Games and Playstation Network (PSN) accounts.
The collective has made the information available via a Pastebin document that contains the log-in details of 2,131 PSN accounts, 1,472 Windows Live accounts and 2,000 2K Games accounts.
According to IBTimes, the validity of the leak has not yet been verified, but the group is also claiming credit for the recent DDoS attack on Blizzard’s World of Warcraft servers.
DerpTrolling also claims to be in the possession of millions of additional usernames and passwords, acquired from other websites and social media outlets.
"We have around 2 million Comcast accounts, 620,000 Twitter accounts, 1.2 million credentials belonging to the CIA domain, 200,000 Windows Live accounts, 3 million Facebook, 1.7 million EA origins accounts, etc," said an anonymous member during an interview with CNET.
The group claims that there is no malicious intent behind the leaked account information |
Rockstar recently issued a new title update for PC gamers playing Grand Theft Auto V. The update addresses issues in GTA V and the GTA Online portion | of the game after players reported frame-rate issues occurring after the original update went live.
Over on the Rockstar Games support forum the company acknowledged that they've looked into the frame-rate issue that occurred during the last update patch and have addressed it. Once you log into the game, update 1.28 should automatically download to get your version up to par.
However, in providing this title update Rockstar did something that players aren't very appreciative of: some of the mods appear to be breaking in result of the title update.
We also received some reports linking decreased performance when using Story Mode mods to TU 1.28. As mentioned previously, we are not actively targeting players using mods in Story Mode, nor are we explicitly implementing protections against them in-game. Our primary focus is on protecting GTA Online against modifications that could give players an unfair advantage, disrupt gameplay, or cause griefing.
Modding GTA V has become a massive sub-culture all its |
Colliers International will hold its 16th Annual Links for Life Charity Golf Tournament on Thursday, May 5 at Las Vegas Country Club.
All proceeds | raised through sponsorship, foursomes and donations, result in a direct contribution to Links for Life Foundation beneficiaries – Southern Nevada’s children in need.
The Links for Life Foundation is a 501(c) (3) non-profit charitable organization, and over the past 15 years, the Foundation has donated $2,100,000 to local children’s charities. Quite often donations from Links for Life serve as the bridge between what a charity has already raised and the realization of a specific goal here in southern Nevada.
To help, Colliers International requests you become a sponsor or participant in the Links for Life Golf Tournament. They are also accepting donated auction items and packages for live and silent auctions, as well items for a raffle.
With questions, please contact Gina Jones at 735-5700.
Anyone who earned less than $49,000 in 2010 can receive free tax preparation at two upcoming events sponsored by United Way of Southern Nevada.
With the April |
Mini biographies of late Hollywood actor Heath Ledger and “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin have been included in the latest edition | of the Collins Concise English Dictionary.
They are joined by entries describing top sportsmen Lewis Hamilton and Joe Calzaghe, and comedian Russell Brand, among others.
Brand finds his entry in the word list sandwiched between that of Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi and the definition of Branade a provincial dish of salt cod pureed with olive oil and milk.
This latest edition is the only dictionary in concise format to include encyclopaedic entries, and is available for the first time online.
A spokesman said: “We are the only dictionary publisher to include biographical entries, but we cannot put in every celebrity or sportsman or politician; they have to be very well known.
New definitions in the word list include carbon-neutral and green tax, e-card, norovirus, non-dom and Skype.
Collins lexicographers used the Bank of English, a vast database of real-life examples of English in use which grows by 35 |
Theresa May has become the master of the fudge.
She has put off time and again the decisions that will truly shape Brexit. Some | people have called this “madness” but there is some method to it.
The fudge cannot go on though – this is crunch time.
It has been a wild week in Westminster. By Monday evening the government was quietly confident it had the numbers required to get the Brexit Bill through and dump it back in the House of Lords.
There were still nerves of course but the whips believed they had done enough – just.
Then a little-known junior minister quit spectacularly and said he would be voting against the government on key aspects of the Bill and suddenly all hell broke loose.
Phillip Lee’s bombshell came out of the clear blue sky and for a time appeared to tip the balance in the favour of the Tory rebels led by former attorney general Dominic Grieve.
• If there is no agreement by February 15, 2019, the government have to bring the matter to the Commons within five days.
These three clauses would have taken the ultimate power |
"Thanks to all the Canadian crew who are partying right now at the Palais Royale in Toronto. This is for you."
Canada didn't | have a huge presence at this year's Academy Awards, but Toronto got an Oscar-sized shoutout as millions around the globe watched Hollywood's biggest night.
Canadians Paul Austerberry, Jeffrey A. Melvin and Shane Vieau won an Oscar for best production design for The Shape of Water, and when they took the stage to accept the award, they gave a nod to their team in Toronto and Hamilton, where much of the film was shot.
"First of all, thank you to all the Canadian crew who are partying right now at the Palais Royale in Toronto. This is for you," said Austerberry.
"Thank you to the academy. Guillermo, may you keep dreaming up your monsters and their wonderful stories so people like us can help shape their worlds," said Austerberry, referring to the film's director, Guillermo del Toro.
Austerberry then gave thanks to the production department, and others involved in the film.
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FOR many in Yorkshire, even including those politically active or interested, the election of a metro mayor for the Sheffield City Region on May 3 may seem | to be a complete irrelevance.
They would be wrong. For although there has been great controversy both within South Yorkshire and across the historic county as a whole, the resource and powers devolved over the next year or two to this particular city region will have greater importance for Yorkshire than many might think.
Part of the controversy has been the wish for Barnsley and Doncaster’s leadership to instead back a Yorkshire-wide mayor. That long-term dream is shared by the leaders of the bulk of the city and district authorities across the county. But the Government has been very clear over the last two years that the original “city deal”, with the four metropolitan districts in South Yorkshire (and at one time local authorities in the North Midlands), should stand.
For me, the issue has never been one of the Sheffield City Region or a Yorkshire-wide election. The two seem to me to be perfectly compatible if, and for some it has been a big |
Cataracts are cloudy areas that form in the lens, which is normally transparent. They are the main cause of vision loss in people aged over | 40 years.
Cataracts cause more vision problems globally than any other eye condition or disease, and the number of cataracts is increasing with the aging population.
In the United States in 2010, there were 20.48 million cases, rising to 24.41 million in 2015. By 2050, nearly 50 million Americans are expected to have cataracts.
A cataract causes a part of the lens to becomes opaque, or cloudy. Light does not pass through easily, and vision becomes blurry, like looking through a fogged-up window. The cloudier the lens, the worse the vision will be.
Congenital cataracts may be present at birth or appear shortly after, or at some time during infancy or childhood.
Age-related cataracts appear later in life and are the most common type. This article will focus on age-related cataracts.
Cataract surgery is a routine operation nowadays and the most common kind of eye |
A police officer said that "There are 100 such buildings in Mumbai, where anything can happen in the monsoon."
At least 20 people were | killed and more than a dozen injured when an old residential building collapsed in India's financial capital of Mumbai on Wednesday as heavy monsoon rains continued to drench the western city.
Police said the five-storey building in a narrow lane was declared "unsafe" and that calls for residents to vacate it had been ignored. About 100 people lived in the building but most were either not there or had been rescued, they said.
"There are 100 such buildings in Mumbai, where anything can happen in the monsoon," police officer K.L. Prasad told Reuters from Mumbai.
"Today's accident is an example and was waiting to happen." Hundreds of people gathered around the area as rescue workers lifted concrete slabs and combed through debris looking for survivors, witnesses said.
Police cordoned off the area and emergency workers were seen removing people on stretchers to hospitals, television pictures showed. "The number of injured could go up further," Prasad said |
Is it enough to arrest slide in government market?
Research In Motion has won much-coveted US government security clearance for its BlackBerry 10 | devices which are due to hit store shelves in the first quarter of 2013.
The company said the new enterprise management platform has received certification that would allow government agencies to deploy the new smartphones as soon as they are launched.
But RIM must still convince the agencies to stick with its security-focused smartphones and deploy the new BB10 devices, which will come in keyboard and touchscreen models.
Some agencies are already looking at alternative providers, eroding a market that RIM has dominated for years.
RIM pioneered mobile devices for email, but its fortunes faded as rivals like Apple and Samsung came up with faster, fancier devices.
RIM's stock and market share have slumped, and its fate is tied to the success of the new BB10 (BlackBerry 10) devices.
RIM, based in Waterloo, Ontario, said it was the first time a BlackBerry product had won Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 certification ahead of launch.
Last month, |
Public housing applicants will have to get a job if they want a taxpayer-funded home under a tough new test to be introduced in NSW.
| The state government is overhauling the public housing system to punish those locked out of the workforce by the slow economy.
Currently, less than a quarter of social housing tenants are in the workforce.
There are about 55,000 people on the public housing waitlist in NSW, and under the new program they will be able to skip the queue if they agree to get a job.
But if they get into the home then fail to get a job or maintain work they will be booted from the property.
Once they are secure in a job they will then move into the private rental market and out of the welfare system.
Social Housing Minister Pru Goward said the program will "help break the cycle of disadvantage".
"This is about equipping tenants with the skills they need to not only obtain a job, but keep it over the longer term and achieve their full potential," she said.
"We also want to set to a clear expectation that social housing is not for life and |
EMBATTLED “mob cop” Lou Eppolito says the prosecution’s star witness might just have put his foot | in his mouth.
During lunch yesterday, Eppolito, clearly in an upbeat mood, told me, “Now, Burt [Kaplan] said on the witness stand that he would meet me and Steve [Caracappa] at least three times a month over... three years.” That would mean they’d all met, give or take a few days, about 140 times.
Now ask anyone about the feds and their surveillance, when it comes to both hidden audio and video surveillance – second to none. “Kaplan said that he operated during his criminal career as if he was always under surveillance,” Eppolito said.
I don’t believe the feds were asleep at the wheel.
Now while this is no slam dunk for the defense, it has to raise a question mark in the jury’s mind.
Kaplan conceded that he thought they may have put a tracking device on his car but |
Bill Scott has always had the goal of reaching the NHL.
That dream came to fruition on Monday morning as the Edmonton Oilers announced that Scott would | become the team’s new Assistant General Manager, replacing Ricky Olczyk.
"I would like to welcome Bill and his family to Edmonton,” Oilers General Manager Craig MacTavish said in a press release following the announcement. “Bill has done an exceptional job managing all facets of the Barons day-to-day operations and has played a large part in their success over the past four years."
Scott started as a student manager with the Spartans hockey team at Michigan State University, where he graduated with a degree in Business Management. He interned under Predators Executive Vice President and General Manager David Poile in Nashville and then moved on to work in the ECHL, then served as Director of Hockey Operations for the American Hockey League. He has since spent the past four seasons as the general manager of the Oilers’ farm team in the AHL, the Oklahoma City Barons.
It has been a long and yet quick journey to the Oilers front office for Scott |
Just like so many other attributes of the Christian life, the key to rest is in our attitude.
Jesus said it best, of course. | For example, in the Sermon on the Mount, he told us it was not enough to refrain from murdering; one has to purge hatred from the heart. Also, it is not enough to refrain from committing adultery; one has to abandon lust as well.
We must refrain from what I have formerly called the “headless chicken syndrome.” This is when we run around like a chicken with its head cut off, going from activity to activity, desperately trying to fill our time for one reason or another, caught up in the “hamster wheel” of 21st-century life.
Of course, some days or weeks are headless chicken days or weeks. Oftentimes, we cannot help being busy and sometimes circumstances are beyond our control. However, like I said, it is our attitude that counts.
The next time you find yourself running around the proverbial barnyard in an aimless fashion, ask yourself, “Why am I doing what I am |
SPIELBERG, Austria (AP) Mercedes duo Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas were fastest in practice on Friday for the | Austrian Formula One Grand Prix after an upgrade to the aerodynamics of their cars paid off.
With a new side pod design and an adapted rear wing, Hamilton led his team mate by 0.127 in the morning session and 0.176 in the afternoon.
Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel, who trails championship leader Hamilton by 14 points going into Sunday’s ninth of 21 races, had a fastest lap that was 0.236 behind Hamilton’s.
Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen had the fourth and fifth best times, respectively.
The changes to the aerodynamics of the chassis came a week after Mercedes finally introduced its improved engine, which helped Hamilton to a convincing win at the French GP.
Mercedes has won all four races since the Austrian GP returned to the calendar in 2014. Nico Rosberg took the first two editions, Hamilton triumphed in 2016, and Bottas last year. The Finnish driver |
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Former Vice President Joe Biden will headline his first public event in about three weeks on Saturday | — in Munich, Germany, nearly 5,000 miles from Iowa, site of the 2020 presidential campaign’s first contest.
In a wide-open race, Biden’s take-it-slow approach has given other candidates a head-start in fundraising, scooping up top-tier staff and perfecting their pitch to voters. It’s also given them a chance to chip away at what would be a central argument of a Biden campaign: that he is the only candidate who can defeat President Donald Trump in 2020.
Biden has said he’ll only run if he doesn’t believe Democrats have other viable options, and he’s privately raised doubts about the electability of some of his potential rivals, according to a person with knowledge of those conversations who spoke on condition of anonymity to talk about private discussions.
“While these others are here, I’m wondering if he would be committed to it,” Maybanks, |
1958 – Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tour St. Petersburg Open; first-place money – $1,248.
1975 – | J.C. Snead wins PGA Tour Andy Williams-San Diego Open Invitational; first-place money – $34,000.
1986 – Corey Pavin wins PGA Tour Hawaiian Open; first-place money – $90,000.
1986 – Gary Player wins Senior PGA Tour General Foods PGA Seniors’ Championship; first-place money – $45,000.
1992 – Lee Janzen wins PGA Tour Northern Telecom Open; first-place money – $198,000.
1992 – Jim Colbert wins Senior PGA Tour GTE Suncoast Classic; first-place money – $67,500.
1997 – Terry-Jo Myers wins LPGA Tour Los Angeles Women’s Championship; first-place money – $97,500.
1997 – Paul Stankowski wins PGA Tour United Airlines Hawaiian Open; first-place money – $216,000.
1997 – David Graham wins Senior PGA Tour GT |
Photo from the Long Beach Lifeguard Association.
Each candidate must bring picture identification such as a valid driver’s license, California identification card | , or birth certificate with a school photo ID card, swimsuit and towel to the tryouts. Applicants aren’t required to have had training or experience prior to trying out. They must be 17 years or older by July 1, 2018 and anyone under 18 years old must possess a valid work permit.
Sign-ups begin at 8:00AM and tryouts will start at 9:00AM. The 1,000-yard swim and run-swim-run will determine which candidates will move forward to the pre-employment scored oral interviews that will take place at 12:30PM. The pre-employment oral interview will determine who qualifies for the Training Program. Candidates will be entered in the program once they complete all pre-employment forms and medical exam, according to the release.
The Training Program is scheduled for May 12, 20, 26-27, and June 2-3, 9-10 for a total of 80 hours and begins at 8:00 |
Cartoon depicting Irish nurses dancing alongside a leprechaun cases outcry online.
A cartoon published in The West Australian newspaper, depicting Irish nurses | dancing alongside a leprechaun, has caused outcry online.
The satirical cartoon is related to the news that that St. John of Healthcare, a Western Australian hospital, plans to recruit 150 nurses, due to a predicted shortage of graduates. The hospital is seeking to hire Irish nurses. This move has been criticized in some quarters as an attempt to hire immigrants instead of hiring locals.
Visitors to the 'Irish People Living in Australia' Facebook page have vented their anger at the comic by cartoonist Dean Alston.
The 30,000-strong Facebook group requested an apology and threatened to contact the Australian Press Council.
In an email to the Irish Times Brett McCarthy, editor of The West Australian, said the cartoon was an “irreverent and a bit of fun”.
He wrote “As someone of Irish ancestry I’m totally baffled by the claim the cartoon was racist” said Mr McCarthy. “It is a light hearted portrayal |
Occupation: Shift manager at Quiznos at North Village Shopping Center on Longmeadow Road.
Hometown: Hammond, La. Now | lives in Washington County.
Where would you see Murray? When she's not hiking the Appalachian Trail, Murray either is at work, or enjoying one of her creative pursuits - making music, painting or writing. In fact, it was the trail that brought Murray to Washington County in October 2005.
Murray's connection to the trail began in 1988, about a year before her almost 30-year marriage ended in divorce. She was living in Knoxville, Tenn., at the time, and decided to drive the 50 miles to Great Smoky Mountains National Park on a beautiful fall day.
Even though Murray never had done any hiking before, she said she fell in love with the trail.
"It just sort of drew me," said Murray, who also goes by the nickname "Louisiana Lou."
Murray is a section hiker - which means she hikes a portion of it at a time - as opposed to a through hiker, who hikes it from end to end at one time. |
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