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The government of this oil-rich twin-island republic yesterday said it had applied for membership in the Brussels-based Egmont group of Financial | Intelligent Units (FIUs).
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Monday that this year's wheat harvest will be off more than a third, down to 60 million tonnes. Last year, the world's third largest grain exporter harvested 97 million tons of wheat and exported 21.4 million tonnes.
The Jamaica Dairy Development Board (JDDB) says the one per cent levy recently imposed on the farm-gate price of milk will have minimal impact on consumer prices even as it generates an estimated J$64 million in its first year to finance projects to help resuscitate the island's struggling dairy industry.
University and college application and enrolment timetables locally have been altered by economic conditions, as prospective students, faced with growing inability to pay, wait until the last minute to apply, and institutions, confronted by dwindling student numbers, continue eleventh-hour registration appeals.
Travellers used to getting a free wireless Internet connection on land are not willing to pay for one at 30,000 feet |
TEHRAN –- President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has called for full cooperation between the Majlis and the administration in implementation of the economic reform | plan.
“Cooperation between the administration and the Majlis is a necessity for the implementation of this plan,” Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday in a meeting with the members of parliament’s special committee on the economic reform plan.
He pointed out that his administration believes the parliament’s expert opinions are essential for the implementation of the economic reform plan.
The plan states that all subsidies for various products should be directly paid to the people.
The president also called energy a “national asset” and cited “saving the energy” as one of the aims of the plan.
The committee members were given an initial briefing by Ahmadinejad and Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance Shamsodin Hosseini.
The plan was devised to tackle the country’s main economic problems, such as rising inflation (currently at 26.1 percent), and to ensure that low-income families pay less taxes and receive more government benefits.
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We've got the world's first Vaio Blu-ray computer here, in our hands. It's blinking heavy, but who cares when it | can burn four hours of HD video to one disc?
Mad props to the people at Sony for sending us the UK's first Blu-ray-ready PC (which we've reviewed here). It's called the Vaio RC204 and it's an imposing-looking thing. After spending several minutes just staring at it, we ripped it open and peered inside to find out what makes it special.
On the surface, it's very similar to the other desktops in the Sony Vaio RC range. It uses the same mammoth chassis that has a gaping hole all the way through the side, which serves as part of an elaborate cooling system. It's not our favourite case in the world, but we can't help but drool when we see the Vaio logo gradually light up when you hit the power button.
Inside, Sony has opted for a dual-core Intel Pentium D 940 processor clocked at 3.2GHz, 1GB of RAM and an Nvidia GeForce |
SANDY HOOK, CT (WFSB) – A Connecticut judge ruled that Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist, Alex Jones, must submit a | sworn deposition.
This comes after a defamation case was brought against him by family members of Sandy Hook victims.
Judge Barbara Bellis also ruled that the families of the victims can depose other defendants in the case.
In April 2018, the Sandy Hook families filed a lawsuit after Jones claimed the shooting never took place.
The defamation lawsuits were filed in Texas, which was the home of Jones’ media company, Infowars.
The plaintiffs in the case are the parents of the children killed at Sandy Hook: Jacqueline and Mark Barden, parents of Daniel; Nicole and Ian Hockley, parents of Dylan; Francine and David Wheeler, parents of Ben; Jennifer Hensel and Jeremey Richman, parents of Avielle; and Robert Parker, father of Emilie.
Alex Jones is fake news.
Alex Jones is not fake news. Alex Jones is a money-grubbing, low-life, scumbag. CNN is fake news |
Around the turn of the 21st century, television in the United States began to take two distinct, divergent courses. As network television started to | hone and package dramas designed for global syndication (such as the CSI franchise), made up of self-contained episodes that could be watched in almost any order, something unexpected was starting to happen in cable television. Daring long-form dramas with conflicted, unheroic central characters were being given the green light, leading to an unbroken succession of classic television series, from HBO’s The Sopranos and The Wire, to AMC’s Mad Men and Breaking Bad.
This creative revolution is documented in two new books, Viewing America by Christopher Bigsby and Difficult Men by Brett Martin. It would elevate television from a medium that in Martin’s words had “a reputation somewhere beneath comic strips and just above religious pamphlets” into the dominant narrative art form of its time. And as both books explore, it was brought about by a set of writers who saw themselves as playwrights, film-makers, even journalists (in the case of |
Hundreds of new immigrants from Ethiopia are hosted for a sample Passover seder, their first ever.
Hundreds of new Olim [immigrants | ] from Ethiopia were hosted for a sample Passover seder in a Jewish Agency absorption center in Mevaseret Tzion, near Jerusalem. The event provided a first look at traditional Passover celebrations to many of the new Olim, who are members of the Falashmura community. The Falashmura converted to Christianity generations ago, but many have expressed interest in immigration to Israel and in return to the Jewish faith.
The sample seder is intended to introduce them to the holiday tradition, ahead of the real seder Monday evening.
"I'm sure that for you, like for me, the night of Passover will be characterized by a sense that we are heading toward freedom, just like the people of Israel during the Exodus from Egypt,” he said.
The government recently agreed to continue bringing members of the Falashmura community to Israel, after a temporary halt in their immigration. Flights brought a total of 165 new immigrants from Addis Ab |
The party in power in Pierre has ignored South Dakota’s rock-bottom Medicaid reimbursement rates for years.
To refer to the cascading | closures of South Dakota nursing homes as a “crisis” gives crises a bad name. Let’s call it what it is: a disaster unfolding in real time.
The pace is accelerating. The South Dakota Health Care Association reports that a Huron facility’s end marks the sixth such closure in three years, half of which occurred in 2019.
Two of the most recent facility closures, in Mobridge and Madison, were managed by Black Hills Receiver, LLC. The state-approved receivership still manages 16 of the South Dakota nursing homes orphaned when New Jersey-based Skyline Healthcare declared bankruptcy. The outlook for those facilities appears bleak.
The culprit is the financial loss long-term care facilities incur with residents who rely on Medicaid. The state’s funding formula falls far short of what it costs to provide them care.
We’ve seen this coming. The party in power in Pierre has ignored South Dakota’s rock-bottom Medicaid |
Disregarding the fact that it has been warmer these past three days than it was throughout the entire month of November, it is, indeed, | December. As we approach the end of the world, we want to take the time to celebrate the little things that make this month so great. So even though we only have 18 days left in this month, here are some things you can enjoy in that time, hand picked by the editors of The Fourth Edition.
Corp Drink of the Month?
KP – Medium mocha with a hazelnut flavor shot. There’s just something about the idea of chocolate and hazelnut that reminds me of happiness and Christmas cheer. Maybe it’s a latent craving for Nutella. Maybe it’s the endorphins that the chocolate gives me. Maybe it’s just a gift from Santa’s elves (read as: Corpies). Either way, it defines my holiday season and it should define yours too.
Kate – Seltzer from Vittles. It’s a dollar and nine cents for a liter. Bang for your |
Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie demonstrates an alternative to voter photo ID called photo poll books or electronic poll books.
The advantages over voter photo | ID: It would bring “visual verification” into the polling place without the risk of disenfranchising voters. It would cost about $7 million to $9 million to implement. Last year the estimate to implement a voter photo ID system was about $40 million.
Representative Keith Downey (R- Edina) questions why the Secretary of State is considering such an system before the state has a voter photo ID requirement.
Full video of the electronic poll books demonstration in the Minnesota House State Government Finance Committee.
REPLAY: A Minnesota House committee heard testimony Tuesday from environmental activists, mining advocates and other stakeholders on the controversial copper-nickel mining proposal for northern Minnesota that is being advanced by PolyMet Mining Corporation.
Minnesota Marriage Equality: Is It Worth $678K? House Ways & Means Says Yes.
Something was different when Hennepin County voters cast their primary ballots Tuesday. Things were faster. Not just because it was a primary with light turnout, but because |
Using non-opioid drugs, or non-drug treatments, is more likely to help control chronic lower back pain, the causes of which | are often difficult to determine.
SYDNEY, May 26 (UPI) -- Although the drugs can have some short-term effects, opioid-based painkillers such as oxycodone and Percocet have largely minimal effects on chronic lower back pain unrelated to other injuries, according to researchers in Australia.
Opioid painkillers are often prescribed for chronic back pain but researchers at The George Institute found in a review of studies that the drugs do not always work for patients, and many participants in studies drop out because any benefits are outweighed by side effects.
The causes for lower back pain not linked to an injury or other condition can be difficult to determine, according to doctors, and the evidence that opioid drugs, or any others, alleviate symptoms of the condition is weak at best.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control changed its recommendations for opioid drugs earlier this year, suggesting chronic pain patients are at higher risk to develop a dependence on the drugs while their conditions |
Opposition politicians in Chad have claimed fraud during Sunday's presidential election, but African Union (AU) observers say the poll, while flawed, was | fair.
Former Malian president and head of the AU observer mission to Chad, Diouncounda Traore, said issues included the late opening of polling stations in hard-to-access areas and poorly trained polling officers.
He said he doesn’t know what will happen after the proclamation of the results, but the AU is urging all candidates and their followers to accept the verdict. He said those who are not satisfied with the results should contest them in the courts.
Kamalloh Salifou Tourabi, leader of the Pan African Institute for Election Assistance observer mission, said that despite irregularities, voter participation was estimated at 85 percent.
The opposition said there was fraud, including ballot stuffing.
Chadian president Idris Deby is widely expected to win a fifth term in office.
The country faces continued threats from the Nigerian terror group Boko Haram. Social issues like the high cost of living sparked unprecedented protests in the run up to the poll. Five rights |
there was even more electricity than usual because some genuine rock royalty was in attendance. U2’s Bono and The Edge were on hand | to accept the Sonny Bono Visionary Award, which acknowledged their major humanitarian work as well as their iconic musical contributions to the world. The award was well-timed as, like the rest of the honorees, they also have a song that is making waves this awards season. And it’s a very personal one. The band, and particularly Bono, had a long friendship with Nelson Mandela — who died December 5 — and their work in the anti-apartheid movement goes back to their beginnings as a band in the 1970s. And now they have written a song, “Ordinary Love” for the film of his life story, Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom. The Weinstein Company is hoping it will get the Oscar recognition that has eluded U2 before. They currently have a Golden Globe nomination for it, their sixth, with one win for 2002’s “The Hands That Built America” from Gangs Of New York.
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An Oxford County woman and her dog had a close call Friday afternoon when they were pulled out of a frozen pond by firefighters and police.
Shortly | before 1 p.m, a 52-year-old woman was walking with her Labrador Retriever near Pine Pond in Blandford-Blenheim Township when the dog fell through the ice, Oxford OPP said.
The woman, helped out by a teenaged nephew who was in the area, got into a canoe and went out on to the ice to rescue the dog.
But after the dog was put in the canoe, the craft broke through the ice and tipped over.
The woman was able to get the dog back into the canoe while she clung to the side.
The teenage boy called for help and the Oxford OPP and East Zorra-Tavistock Fire Department responded.
A volunteer firefighter, who was tied and anchored by the two OPP officers on shore, was able to grab a rope attached to the canoe and pulled the craft to safety.
The woman was treated at the scene by paramedics and was taken by ambulance to Woodstock |
Telecoms equipment group Marconi, which employs more than 1,500 people in Coventry, has reported wider losses after first quarter sales slipped | and the company embarked on more restructuring.
Marconi said losses from continuing operations stood at #36 million in the three months to June 30, higher than the #11 million seen a year earlier.
Revenues of #285 million were down by #4 million, but chief executive Mike Parton said the performance had been "solid" in a competitive market, and that he stuck by previous guidance given for full-year results.
Marconi announced earlier this year that 450 jobs would go from its 1,600-strong workforce in Coventry. Further cuts were planned for its sites in Liverpool and north-west England.
The losses were among thousands of cuts over recent years. The company required a #4.7bn debt restructuring to stay afloat in 2003.
In the latest figures, as well as lower sales, the former GEC industrial giant started to book the cost of a restructuring launched after it failed to win a major contract from BT.
Marconi said consultation with |
Vineland Public Library employees will join IBEW Local 210 based on election results on Feb. 28.
VINELAND – The Vin | eland Public Library is as little as a week away from becoming a “union shop” based on the results of a mail-in election that wrapped up Thursday afternoon in Trenton.
The New Jersey Public Employment Relations Commission handled the election. Barring objections, PERC election officer Bryan Markward said the commission could certify results in as soon as six days.
Markward said the employees approved starting a “mixed bargaining unit,” meaning it will serve both professional staff such as librarians with degrees as well as security guards and others.
The organizing effort was done through International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 210. Local 210 attorney David Watkins attended the ballot count in Trenton. There was no library observer.
Markward said Watkins was given a copy of the results. The attorney has not returned telephone calls.
The library board of trustees was notified of the outcome at its meeting Thursday evening by its legal counsel, Jeff Medio.
On another labor matter, |
As inkjet printers have become more capable in recent years, the differences between them and lasers have narrowed. But laser printers still generally offer better text | quality, the ability to print in greater volume, greater paper capacity, lower running costs, and higher speeds than inkjets. Relatively high prices and mediocre photo quality have traditionally relegated laser printers to office settings, but that picture is changing. Prices have come down—though, by and large, they remain more expensive than inkjets—and photo output has improved.
A monochrome laser printer can provide the speed, durability, and paper handling to deal with the high printing volume of a busy office. And inexpensive monochrome lasers with modest paper handling can serve as personal desktop printers in any size office. Many current color lasers print photos are fine for many business uses, such as client newsletters. In higher-quality lasers, overall output quality for text, graphics, and photos is typically good enough for brochures and other marketing materials, allowing many companies to take such printing in-house.
While the vast majority of new inkjets (except photo printers) are multifunction |
There are two options: Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia worked together to help elect our current president of the United States, or we are | witnessing the greatest coincidence since the Big Bang.
Call it collusion. Call it a collaboration. Or, even better, call it a “conspiracy against the United States” — since that’s probably what the indictments will keep calling it.
Just don’t call it a coincidence, especially if the FBI is interviewing you.
Though the Trump/Putin meeting in Moscow never happened, the courtship continued.
In 2014, Trump opportunistically attacked Russia’s policies when it was convenient to criticize Barack Obama, but he refused to say a negative word in public about Vladimir Putin — a policy he pretty much only extends to his businesses, his relatives and his anatomy.
In April 2014, after the U.S. had levied sanctions on Russia for “violating the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine,” the Internet Research Agency allegedly began its U.S.-focused “translator project“ with a goal of spreading “dist |
The assassination of Martin Luther King, 40 years ago today, was an event of singular importance, silencing one of the century's most profound and | influential advocates for nonviolent change. But all too often what gets lost in the commemoration of King's death is the violence it unleashed around the country. It takes nothing away from King's greatness to suggest that when we look to that April day for historical import, we do a disservice by not going further to examine the broader consequences of James Earl Ray's gunshot.
In only the strictest sense was King's death the cause of the riots. In Baltimore, Washington, Kansas City and elsewhere, frustrations had been building for years. De facto segregation, workplace discrimination, police brutality and immense poverty were the inescapable realities of ghetto life, and they chafed against the postwar national rhetoric of consensus and progress. By the mid-1960s, ghettos around the country were tinderboxes, going off at the slightest provocation. And King's assassination was the greatest provocation possible.
Over the course of the following week, riots broke out in 125 cities nationwide. In many instances the |
The shrinking of the once-powerful MSG name has got to be bringing beads of sweat to the brow of owner James Dolan.
James D | olan’s MSG Networks is sounding out suitors, several sources told The Post.
The regional sports network, which has the TV rights for the Knicks, Rangers, Devils, Islanders and other sports teams, collects roughly $5 per subscriber per month — among the highest in the country, SNL Kagan said.
ESPN, a national network, charges $7.86.
The sales process is believed to be rather young and there is no guarantee a deal will be made.
“Dolan’s gone to his friends” to gauge interest, a source said, referring in part to Guggenheim Partners Executive Chairman Alan Schwartz, who is on the board of Madison Square Garden, a company that shares ownership with MSGN.
Investment bank Guggenheim has experience selling media assets.
MSG Networks reaches roughly 7 million homes in New York and adjoining states. Its enterprise value is $3 billion, including a market cap of $1. |
CLEVELAND -- Celebrity businessman Donald Trump will conclude an improbable run to the Republican presidential nomination Thursday by pledging in his acceptance speech to reduce violence and | cut taxes and regulations to rev up an American economy still recovering from the Great Recession.
According to excerpts provided in advance of the speech, Trump, making his first try for public office, is expected to argue that only someone new in the White House could reverse America's decline.
"The problems we face now -- poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad -- will last only as long as we continue relying on the same politicians who created them," Trump's speech to the Republican National Convention reads. "My message is that things have to change -- and they have to change right now."
Donald Trump on Tuesday night greeted the Republican National Convention via video from New York City.
Trump broke no new ground in the speech excerpts that largely were free of the personal attacks on his opponents that characterized his campaign for the nomination.
As he has in recent weeks, Trump pledged to bring back law and order to the U.S., echoing a theme that Richard Nixon used to win the White |
Update, 3:20 p.m.: Revised to include a statement from Texas Democratic Party Deputy Executive Director Manny Garcia.
AUSTIN — | Gubernatorial candidate Andrew White is calling for a debate between him and former Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez.
In a news release Tuesday, the son of late Democratic Gov. Mark White urged the Texas Democratic Party and media outlets to host debates between him and Valdez. The two candidates are in a runoff for the Democratic nomination after Valdez received 43 percent of the vote on Election Day and White 27 percent. A majority — 50 percent plus one vote — is required to win outright.
"The party's nominee for governor — whether it's me or Lupe — should begin spring training now for the fall campaign against Greg Abbott," White said in a prepared statement. "A few debates between the two of us before the runoff would make the eventual nominee all the stronger. And who doesn't love a good debate?"
Valdez came out on top of a nine-candidate field in the March primary and did well in Dallas and San Antonio, where she grew up. She also |
Good radio shows feel familiar. They feel conversational and allow you to jump in at any point and quickly understand the gist of what’s | going on. For twenty-five years, brothers Tom and Ray Magliozzi, better known as Click & Clack, did just that as they dispensed car advice, dispensed life advice and had a few laughs with their more than three million weekly listeners every Saturday morning.
Earlier today, the guys announced they’re going to cease production of “Car Talk” at the end of September. Fans have flooded the Internet with sadness today, but if there’s one group who overshadows their disappointment, it seems to be the radio stations themselves. “Car Talk” has long been NPR’s most popular show, and radio stations across the country have asked if they can continue airing repeats. The short answer is yes. According to The New York Daily News, the show’s executive producer will go back through the tapes and repackage and reformat the old calls. He’s saved more than twelve thousand of them and meticulously |
Dimitar Berbatov has revealed he makes notes about Sir Alex Ferguson's management techniques just in case he decides to be a boss one day. |
The Bulgarian is rewarding Ferguson for the immense faith he has shown in him by finally finding the form that persuaded the Manchester United boss to spend a club record £30.75million to sign him from Tottenham two years ago.
"He (Ferguson) is one of the most successful managers in the history of the game," said Berbatov, in an exclusive interview with MUTV. "I write things down about the way we train and how he treats people. It is like a school. You work with the best manager and play with the best players."
He added: "I try to learn. I am at the biggest club in the world. If I can learn anywhere it is here."
Berbatov admitted he was in awe of Ferguson when he first moved north from Tottenham.
But it soon became apparent the most decorated British manager of all time was a multi-dimensional character, who even when he is unleashing the infamous hair-dryer, |
There's a lot to consider when deciding on a college, from the school's academic stature to the cafeteria food. And now, more than ever | , parents and students are putting greater weight on finding a school they feel is worth the steep tuition.
Given the high cost of college and debt burden for many after graduation, schools that pay back on that investment with hefty student aid, a strong alumni network and promising post-grad career placement are worth their weight in gold.
"It is especially important for parents and students to plan realistically and choose wisely, especially if student loans are paying for the majority of these costs," said Mike Salmon, a financial advisor at Moisand Fitzgerald Tamayo in Orlando, Florida. "Students need to understand what they are signing up for and how difficult it might be to support the loan payment if the degree doesn't lead to an above-average-paying career."
To that end, the Princeton Review compiled a list of the top colleges with the greatest return on investment. To calculate each school's ROI, the Princeton Review factored in academics, cost, financial aid and graduation rates among other considerations |
The bar, dining, and entertainment space called Eden is three levels and offers sea views and innovative design.
BAHAMAS -- A waitress on | the new Celebrity Edge cruise ship stood at my side in the Eden lounge and asked if I could explain the entertainment to her.
I looked down from my vantage point and saw a man playing a didgeridoo while a woman dressed like a celestial goddess from a 1930s Busby Berkeley movie sang in an apocryphal language. A bald man was spinning on a steel crescent suspended from the ceiling while a group of “Mad Max”-esque dancers writhed in what appeared to be a dystopian mating ritual.
The waitress smiled expectantly, waiting for an answer.
Whatever it was — I’m certain both of my guesses were completely off the mark — I liked it because it was so weirdly different from anything I had ever seen on a cruise. Why was there a sitar? Who was the woman running around and falling on a pillow?
This was not your standard issue cringe-inducing cruise ship entertainment, and for that I was grateful.
There |
Penguins goalie Brent Johnson lands one-punch knockout of Rick DiPietro Wednesday night.
The hits keep coming for the Islanders | .
After a fight with Penguins goalie Brent Johnson on Wednesday night, Isles goalie Rick DiPietro is out four to six weeks, the team said Friday. The made-for-You Tube fight happened when Johnson skated the length of the ice and landed a left hook to drop DePietro with a single blow in the fight with merely seconds left in the game.
The fight wasn't the only thing that DiPietro lost. The Penguins skated off the ice with a 3-0 win.
Initial x-rays failed to show any damager, but a follow-up CT scan showed that DiPietro had facial fractures and knee swelling, the team said.
"It's frustrating, it's unfortunate and every other emotion you can throw in there," DiPietro told reporters Friday. "I'm sick of losing, our team's sick of losing. You never go into a fight expecting you're going to get smashed in the face that |
Homeowners who are paying into endowment policies that are no longer on track to pay off their mortgage are being urged to take immediate action or they | could face losing their homes.
A survey by the Financial Services Authority (FSA), the City watchdog, reveals a high degree of inaction among endowment holders - even though many face shortfalls worth thousands of pounds.
In the past year, almost all households with an endowment mortgage have received letters telling them whether their policy is on track to pay off their mortgage.
But figures from the FSA reveal that seven out of ten households have failed to respond.
Endowment-linked mortgages were the most popular type of home loan during the 1980s and early 1990s, but growth projections were based on healthy market conditions at the time.
Since then, poor stock market returns combined with low inflation now means that these original projections are no longer valid - and millions now face a shortfall on their loan.
Half of the endowment holders who have not taken action said the reason was that they now had other means to pay off their mortgage. The other policy holders - equivalent to 3.65 |
Senate Democrats, emboldened by the GOP's failure to unilaterally pass a health-care bill, are launching an effort to win bipartisan support for the | investment of $500 billion in taxpayer dollars in infrastructure improvements.
With health-care changes at a standstill and tax reform — another objective on which Republicans campaigned last year — a complex project that is expected to take months, Democrats hope infrastructure spending will emerge as a desirable legislative win for Congress and the White House.
The Democratic push came in a week when President Trump appeared to acknowledge that his campaign promise to raise $1 trillion for infrastructure largely through private-sector investment was not feasible.
Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee sent a letter Thursday asking to meet with Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao, reminding her of her confirmation-hearing promise to work in bipartisan fashion in delivering on Trump's campaign promise.
That appeal is buttressed by an internal committee document in which the Democrats outline their infrastructure priorities for Chairman Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.). Barrasso expressed worries at committee hearing in February that rural states like his wouldn't attract much of the private investment Trump |
Our perspective is how we perceive people, situations, ideas, etc. It’s informed by our personal experience, which makes it as unique | as anything could be. Perspective shapes our life by affecting our choices. But the minute our minds become steeped in worry, perspective goes out of the window. We forget about our triumphs. We stop being optimistic as fear takes the wheel.
Fear gives rise to negative feelings: insecure, critical, defensive, abandoned, desperate, lonely, resentful, overwhelmed, aggressive, and so on. These cloud our minds and consume our thoughts.
When we lose perspective, our operational wisdom is gone. We might as well be little children. Everything we know about coping, adapting, and resilience are lost. Small things appear to be much larger and more dire. Stress mounts.
Everything we’ve accomplished in life, the lessons we’ve learned, the hard times we’ve overcome and the ways in which we’ve grown are discounted when perspective is lost. We see it happen around us every day, but we rarely label it properly.
The driver, consumed |
Published on Nov. 2, 2015 | Updated 7:39 a. m.
Frank D. Segur, general supervisor, writes results on | the chalkboard during the PR count at the Civic Auditorium for the election held Nov. 4, 1947.
AEP ReCreation Land in SE Ohio -- reclaimed strip mine land that is used for hunting, fishing, camping, hiking, etc.
Solar power canopy in the parking lot of Owens Corning Headquarters in Toledo.
Toledo mayoral candidates Sandy Drabik Collins and Mike Bell admiring Taquito, a three-year-old male Chihuahua, before the pair served as two of the five judges for a taco eating contest Saturday, October 24, 2015, at El Tipico Restaurant in South Toledo. Drabik Collins was joined by other mayoral candidates Mike Bell, Sandy Spang and current Mayor Paula Hicks-Hudson in judging the contest as they each continue to campaign in advance of the November 3, 2015, election.
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Alameda institution Golden Pin Donuts is closing after a whopping 26-year run, according to Rin Kelly at the Merc. Owner Rahim Se | yedein is apparently shuttering the business in order to spend more time with his family.
Berkeleyside and the Daily Clog report that the area around Cal campus has a new pizza place, Pepe's, which offers — wait for it — a $6.99 all-you-can-eat buffet. Yes, you read that right! All the pizza (plus salad, soup, and so much more) you can possibly stuff down your gullet for less than the price of like, a latte. We'll leave the munchies jokes up to you on this one.
After this morning's earth-shattering Alice Waters news, we've got yet another tidbit about the Chez Panisse proprietress — or rather, her daughter, Fanny Singer, who was the subject of a Wall Street Journal lifestyle piece this past Sunday. Revelations: one of Singer's first words was "lobster"; she's got very strong feelings on white pepper (" |
At intermission, D.C.-area theatergoers usually dash for one of two places: the restroom or the concession line. If you� | �ve been up since 6 a.m. running the country, it may take a jolt to get through three more acts of Henry IV. The Folger Shakespeare Library understands that a need for caffeine is no disrespect for the Bard and offers the best theatrical coffee experience around. Two lines form in Folger’s Great Hall at intermission: one for general concessions, and one just for coffee and tea. The volunteer servers may lack the chutzpah and cleavage of Mistress Quickly, but they smile and take your $2 and hand you a cup. In comparison to the Folger’s fresh-brewed Peet’s Mr. Dickason’s Blend, other theaters’ offerings taste like burnt overpriced Starbucks (ahem, Kennedy Center) or, well, Folger’s from a can (ahem, Atlas Performing Arts Center). Drink up! And, thanks to the short coffee line, you may have time to |
The Australian and New Zealand dollars hit fresh multi-month lows on Wednesday as the relative outperformance of the US economy sent its currency higher across the | board.
[SYDNEY] The Australian and New Zealand dollars hit fresh multi-month lows on Wednesday as the relative outperformance of the US economy sent its currency higher across the board.
The Aussie dollar was huddled at US$0.7435, having touched its lowest since last June at US$0.7424. It has now shed almost four US cents in less than three weeks.
The kiwi dollar was near its lowest since December at US$0.6967, having again lost four cents since mid-April.
The US dollar has been on a tear as economic indicators there outpaced much of the rest of the advanced world, forcing a mass shake-out of short dollar positions - particularly against the euro and sterling.
That has also shaken confidence in a synchronous global recovery, sending funds toward US assets at the cost of emerging markets from Argentina to Turkey.
This trend has been doubly negative for the Aussie since many investors |
The stuntman who parachuted into the London 2012 opening ceremony as James Bond has been killed in an accident, BBC reports.
Briton Mark | Sutton, 42, from Surrey, died during a wing-diving event near Martigny, Switzerland, on Wednesday.
Police said they did not yet know the cause but it is thought Mr. Sutton died after crashing into a ridge of rock.
Mr. Sutton doubled for Daniel Craig’s James Bond as he and another stuntman playing the Queen memorably entered the Olympic Stadium from a helicopter.
Wing-divers wear special suits that are designed to allow them to glide through the air at high speeds, before a parachute is opened for landing.
Mr. Sutton, a former army officer, is thought to have dived from a helicopter flying at 3,300m (10,826ft) intending to land at a village just across the border in France.
But reports say the stuntman hit a ridge of rock, suffering fatal injuries. Rescuers believe Mr. Sutton died on impact.
The stuntman had been invited to take part in the three |
The process, which Brichter described to Federico Viticci, includes a turn-by-turn history of the game in a JSON | file that’s then replayed via the shareable website. The progress of the game can be viewed by sliding through the turns in succession, or by tapping on the board.
You can see one of the replays in action here, or view our incredigif below.
When I spoke to Brichter about the creation of Letterpress on its launch earlier this year, he described it as one of the ways that he was experimenting with apps that allowed him to play with core technologies he had been thinking about since pre-Tweetie days. The interface of the game, if you’re unfamiliar, is packed full of fantastic details and clever twists on user interface that typify Brichter’s creations.
The replay function should be cool for bragging rights, but it’s also indicative of the room left to grow for apps and the App Store. The update also brings ‘lots of little tweaks’, an improved dictionary and better iPad |
The decentralized application (dapp) in the blockchain ecosystem, especially based on the decentralized application of Ethereum and EOS, has become a hot spot | for blockchain developers this year. Dapp.com's recently launched Q3 market report observed changes in the market in the third quarter of 2018. Ethereum still dominates, and EOS, the operating system for decentralized applications (the main network launched in June this year), and high-speed blockchains including NEO, Steem and Tron are also actively expanding their layout.
In the first nine months of 2018, there were more than 900 decentralized applications on Ethereum, and in 2017, this number was seven.
A significant feature of decentralized applications is the promotion of the use of tokens in their blockchains – based on the decentralized application of Ethereum, which promotes the use and liquidity of ETH, resulting in a large number of transactions and transactions.. Since June 2017, there have been more than 10 million ETH transactions in the use of decentralized applications, with transaction amounts exceeding $2 billion (see ETH prices on November 14, 2018).
Currently, 60% of dapps on the market are games |
• AT&T to acquire Leap Wireless in $1.2 billion deal – Leap Wireless is better known as Cricket. AT&T’ | s in it for the spectrum and getting further into the budget phone market. But AT&T agrees to buy Leap Wireless: Will regulators let this one through?
• How the U.S. is forcing Internet firms’ hands on surveillance – CNet writes that if companies don’t cooperate, the feds get a warrant and install their own data-collection devices on the networks.
• Rumor: Apple buys into chip fab, plans to build its own silicon – It’s reportedly part of Apple’s attempt to end its reliance on rival Samsung for its chips.
• More Claims of No Retina iPad Mini Until Early 2014 – Retina screen supply constraints are the issue, according to an Asian publication.
• Microsoft Sues U.S. Customs for Failed Google Phone Ban – The International Trade Commission ordered the ban, but U.S. Customs didn’t enforce it, Microsoft says.
• Meet Terry Myerson, the most important man |
Few of us aim to starve in our 30s only to splurge in our golden years; or conversely, to overspend while | young, only to dine on dog food in retirement.
Economic theory, says Boston University economist Laurence Kotlikoff, assumes that “people save in order to smooth their consumption over time, creating a relatively level living standard.” It’s akin to Joseph advising the Pharaoh to store the excess during seven years of bumper crops against seven years of famine.
Now, Prof. Kotlikoff has teamed up with University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy to offer free software that aims to give people some certainty around that process. Called ESPlannerBASIC Canada, the software is available free at canada.esplanner.com. Originally developed for the U.S., the School of Public Policy Canadianized it because “we see it as a valuable educational tool,” says director Jack Mintz.
Prof. Mintz contends people need to be engaged in their retirement decision making and “this encourages them to think about what they |
YouTube announced major changes to the way it organizes breaking news.
YouTube is doing more to combat the spread of misinformation during major breaking news events | .
The online video behemoth announced Monday it's taking dramatic steps to improve the quality of videos that appear in search results for breaking and historical news events.
In addition to changing the way search results are organized, the company says it will begin providing information from third parties such as Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britannica for videos about a small number of historical events that have been subject to misinformation campaigns, such as the Apollo moon landings and Oklahoma City bombing.
These sweeping changes will broadly effect how videos are ranked on YouTube, and they are just the latest extension of the Google News Initiative that kicked off in March in an effort to support journalism and combat fake news.
“YouTube has a responsibility to make authoritative sources readily available, provide context to help people make their own decisions, and support journalism with technology that allows news to thrive," said YouTube's chief product officer Neal Mohan in a statement.
The most obvious change being made to YouTube is the addition of a both a "Top News |
One of the odder debates going on in our Pagan community has to do with animism. I suppose it is similar to the theist debate | . Recently the keynote speaker at Many Gods West 2016 was replaced because she was an animist not a polytheist. I’d like to know how each of those ideas were framed, because (poly)theism is a variety, a subset, of animism. Where is the conflict, or is this some new orthodoxy? Others, like Peter Gray, call for a renewed animism, learning to perceive and work with the spirits in all, along with the almost obligatory call to ‘return to the wild’. We would do well to learn to perceive the spirit-filled world, but that last notion has its issues. I’m a city boy, and the requirement on me is to find spirit on the train (where I’m writing this), in the concrete and steel of the city, in the geomantic currents that only large constructs can produce. I did my wilderness work before I was 20. Now my task is to sacralize the |
There is speculation that New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady might not play against the Jacksonville Jaguars during Sunday’s AFC Championship game.
Brady | , during a press conference on Friday, Jan. 19, refused to talk about his reportedly injured hand. He showed up to the conference wearing red gloves.
According to the NFL Network, Brady has a cut on his right thumb (on his throwing hand). He suffered the injury during practice.
The cut was reportedly gushing blood and needed stitches.
A source later told the NFL Network that Brady was “zinging it pretty good” as he was throwing during practice.
Hey Devin McCourty, how’d Tom Brady look today?
When he was asked during the press conference about why he was wearing gloves, Brady replied, “I’ve worn them before,” according to an NFL Network transcript of the exchange.
Question: Is QB Tom Brady going to be a game-time decision?#Patriots coach Bill Belichick: "It's Friday."
Tom Brady's hand injury is WORSE than the mainstream thinks.
ESPN reported |
The Lookout Mountain, Ga., City Council, after hearing from the owner of the Chanticleer Lodge, has put the brakes on the | idea of raising the hotel/motel tax within the city.
Mayor David Bennett had been considering increasing the hotel/motel tax by three to eight percent. It was estimated it could bring the town an additional $60,000 to $70,000 a year. The money from the tax would have to be used for “tourism product development,” and that could include building trails, which the town is now planning to do.
Michael Turner, owner of Chanticleer Lodge, said an increase would be disastrous for both Chanticleer and Garden Walk. He said most of his business is from visitors to Chattanooga and that the two hotels in Lookout Mountain, Ga. have to spend a lot of money to get people to stay on the mountain. He said a 10-year history shows the Chanticleer’s year-round occupancy rate is 53 percent. Now, the combined Walker County and Lookout Mountain city tax is 11 percent versus |
HAYS — To celebrate International Migratory Bird Day, Fort Hays State University’s Kansas Wetlands Education Center will host | “The Great Migration Rally” from 2 to 6 p.m. April 29 at the center.
The KWEC, 592 NE K-156 Highway, is at the southeast side of Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area, northeast of Great Bend.
The many activities planned will include a demonstration and display of Ukrainian eggs will be provided by Christine Slechta, of Wilson. In the FHSU MakerSpace van, children can make sled kites. Participants can also create edible bird houses, solve an egg match and get a bird tattoo.
After receiving a map, participants will drive through Cheyenne Bottoms. Participants will collect bird migration cards to earn points for prizes.
Supper will be served, followed by a “Birds of Prey Show” presentation by Pat Silovsky, Milford Nature Center director, with several of her live program birds.
Cost is $5 for adults and $3 for children ages 5 through 12. |
The Duke of Cambridge thinks his daughter will be "trouble" when she grows up, although Prince George currently "rules the roost". |
The 35-year-old royal has admitted his oldest child Prince George, four, - who he has with his wife the Duchess of Cambridge - currently "rules the roost", but he has revealed his youngest offspring, Princess Charlotte, two, is not far behind and he has no doubts she will cause mayhem as she grows up.
Speaking about his brood to a patient named Pagan Tordengrav during his visit to Aintree University Hospital, in Liverpool, on Thursday, which has also been reported on PEOPLE, Prince William said: "George rules the roost but Charlotte isn't far behind. I think she's going to be trouble when she's older."
William has revealed he has even been warned by fellow fathers how to handle his daughter.
He said: "All fathers say that to me - watch out for the little girls."
And it won't be long until William and Duchess Catherine - who was formerly known as Kate Middleton prior to marrying the royal - |
To take full advantage of their intangible assets, companies are increasingly seeking out knowledge collaboration solutions that combine customer knowledge and widespread innovation in products and markets with | sustained improvement of core capabilities and associated business processes, leading to the ultimate competitive advantage.
Whether you do it yourself or decide to outsource, the value of your knowledge base management solution will be based on three fundamental elements: the quality of the knowledge, the systems you use to manage that knowledge and the processes used to deliver knowledge to customers.
By Chris Derossi, ePeople, Inc.
Amidst the sizeable investments companies are making in CRM systems and other technologies in the quest to deliver superior customer service and support, theres some irony that shouting over the wall of the cubicle, calling around the organization or e-mailing others for assistance is a key component of the customer support process.
Since 2000, Datamonitor research indicates the market for outsourced customer care services has grown by one-fourth as cultural resistance to the practice eases and economic competition intensifies.
An increasing number of North American companies are choosing foreign suppliers to handle at least a portion of |
The scheme will be on the A1(M) southbound between Junction 17 (Peterborough) and Junction 16 (Stilton), incorporating a | mandatory 50mph speed restriction, lane closures, narrow running lanes, slip road closures and full road closures.
* We will be resurfacing the motorway, installing new road markings and repairing drainage.
* Works will involve a mix of road closures and lane closures with narrow lanes.
+ Southbound Junction 17, the entry slip road will be closed from 21:00hrs on Friday 16th June to 05:00hrs on Friday 30th June, 24hrs/7 days a week.
+ 1 lane closed Thursdays to Fridays during Daytimes. Remaining 2 lanes open will be reduced width.
+ To help manage the additional traffic on Fridays, we will keep all 3 lanes open between 05:00hrs and 21:00hrs for our customers. Slip road closure may remain as indicated above.
A1(M) Junction 17 entry slip closure.
Drivers take A1139 Eastbound and exit at Junction 3, onto A1260 |
These debates persist because there are often no easy or final answers. They are conducted on a slippery slope. Some forms of speech are rightly stigmatized | . But tolerance is the virtue of permitting room for speech we think is wrong. Some public expressions of religion are inconsistent with pluralism. But true pluralism is a welcoming attitude toward all faiths, not the imposition of a rigid secularization � itself the victory of one, dogmatic faith.
Ultimately all of these disputes resolve into an argument about power: Who has the ability to define and enforce the boundaries of the acceptable? In America, thank God, this is generally a legal and social disagreement. In other places, advocates evangelize with the gun or gallows.
Particularly in this season, what is most conspicuous about these disputes is their disconnection from the actual content of Christmas, which involves an alternative definition of power.
It is easy to downplay or domesticate the Christmas story. The whole thing smacks of squalor and desperation rather than romance � the teen mother, the last-choice accommodations, the company of livestock. Whether or not the birth was accompanied by angel |
Caption: Thanks to a photo taken by a professional, Sutton Trout said he's meeting higher quality people through online dating.
Sutton Trout | has experimented with Internet dating for years. But he was never thrilled with his photos.
Many were old or poorly shot.
So last summer, Trout, 38, hired a pro. Now, the San Francisco resident said he couldn't be happier. He's meeting higher-quality people, and he has a great collection of photos to use at work or to send family or friends.
"I get a lot of compliments on the pictures," said Trout, an executive at IGN Entertainment, a Brisbane Internet company.
As online dating has gone mainstream, interest is exploding in an assortment of services to help people gain an edge. Singles are scooping up books and hiring professionals to shoot their photos, rewrite their profiles or even investigate their blind dates.
Take headshots, for example. Professional photographers are increasingly offering to take photos for online dating, along with the more traditional wedding fare and family portraits.
Lookbetteronline.com, the site Sutton used, has built a network of |
The Chicago Bears have made it a habit of drafting some unexpected players in the first round of the draft during Phil Emery’s tenure as | general manager of the team. In 2012, the Bears drafted Shea McClellin, a linebacker from a 3-4 system at Boise State, and tried to convert him to defensive end (the experiment didn’t work). In 2013, it was Kyle Long who was taken in the first round, while he was projected to be an early-to-mid second round pick.
This time around, the Bears ended up going cornerback, but they didn’t go with the one that was expected. Rather than take Darqueze Dennard, who was arguably the top cornerback in the draft according to some draft experts, the Bears ended up going for Kyle Fuller, a corner of similar size and ability to Dennard that many had graded as a lower-tier first round pick (we had him in the 24th position in our mock draft).
Initially, the pick evoked some skepticism, but upon further inspection (including from us), it seems as though the Bears |
DAEGU -- Software technologies applied to vehicles by tech companies have been unnerving traditional carmakers in recent years, stoking fears that they might | lose their exclusivity in the auto industry. But such a scenario is not likely to happen, according to a British expert on connected and autonomous driving.
“I think there’s a lot of uncertainties at the moment. We are not sure whether these tech companies are going to be competitors or possible collaborators,” said professor Paul Jennings, head of intelligent vehicle development at Warwick Manufacturing Group, in an interview with The Korea Herald in Daegu on Thursday.
WMG is an academia-industry partnership on future car development in the UK, where the professor has worked more than 25 years. Jennings is a physicist who has led the development of intelligent vehicles and energy storage in collaboration with WMG’s industrial and academic partners.
Asked what carmakers should do in order to maintain their growth, Jennings advised they need to think beyond the conventional frame of selling cars and instead focus more on services.
“What they need to recognize is that the industry, as well as |
The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) on last Thursday 'clarified' it has not imposed any ban on Oscar-nominated | director Ashvin Kumar's 'No Father in Kashmir.' Earlier in the day, Alia Bhatt, whose mother Soni Razdan stars in the film, had taken to social media to urge the CBFC to 'lift the ban'. She tweeted, "Was soo looking forward to mom's @nofathers_movie #nofathersinkashmir!! @Soni_Razdan @ashvinkumar & team worked super hard for this honest teens love story in Kashmir. Really hope the CBFC would #lifttheban. It's a film about empathy & compassion.. let's give love a chance!" However, according to Tushar Karmarkar, Regional Officer, CBFC, Mumbai, the news of the ban is "completely false." The film, a love story of two 16-year-olds who are individually searching for their missing father, stars Razdan, Anshuman Jha and Kulbulshan Kharbanda |
The new Euro Honda Accord is unveiled in Geneva, and it looks a lot like the Acura TSX.
The new Honda Accord just made | its world debut here on the first morning of the 2008 Geneva auto show, but we could have sworn we'd seen it somewhere before--with an Acura badge on it. From a distance, the Euro-only Accord is essentially a rebranded version of the new Acura TSX, which is set to debut in the United States later this month. However, beneath the surface, there are few differences.
The first is that the Euro Accord comes in both sedan and station-wagon models.
Second, the Accord has some safety tech features that have not been announced for the TSX, including a Lane Keeping Assist System (LKAS), Adaptive Cruise Control, and the Collision Mitigation Braking System (CMBS), which is currently only on Acura's flagship RL sedan in the United States. Finally, the Euro Accord is offered with a choice of gasoline and diesel engines, and one of the models on show was sporting Honda's new 2.2-liter i- |
DENVER, Nov. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Lamb Board is asking all lamb-loving cooks to celebrate the | spirit of the season, and the launch of a new Fans of Lamb website with the 2011 "Best American Lamb Family Recipe" and "Best Festive Family Photo" contests. Starting today, fans of lamb are invited to share lambtastic family recipes for the chance to win two racks of lamb to serve a family of ten and a limited edition Flared Roaster Pan from All-Clad, perfect for holiday happenings. Photogenic families that submit their most memorable photos will take home stellar lamb swag and be entered to win enough lamb to feed the whole family this season.
Whether preparing a rack of lamb for a festive gathering with friends, or a stunning roast to impress loved ones, American lamb is a fresh and flavorful way to enjoy the holidays. For a list of local American Lamb retailers, visit www.americanlamb.com/lamb101/wheretofindlamb.aspx.
From now until Dec. 8, 2011, amateur cooks can submit festive |
Shares of El Pollo Loco Holdings Inc rose as much as 33 percent in their market debut as investors tucked in, betting on the growing popularity | of the restaurant chain's fire-grilled chicken.
Shares of El Pollo Loco, Spanish for "the crazy chicken", touched a high of $20 on the Nasdaq, valuing the company at more than $700 million.
Restaurant chains that have gone public in the past 12 months have had mixed fortunes on the stock market.
Shares of Zoe's Kitchen Inc, a Mediterranean-style chain, have nearly doubled since their debut in April on the back of strong demand for healthier food, a trend that has also boosted Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc's stock.
But pizza chain Papa Murphy's Holdings Inc and sandwich maker Potbelly Corp, which are striving to improve their market share in a highly competitive sandwich and pizza market, are both trading below their IPO price.
"We're not planning to be the next Chipotle. We will be a great El Poll |
From the makers of a Good Game uberfavourite, Advanced Wars, comes Fire Emblem : Shadow Dragon. This is a second remake of the | very first Game...if that makes sense?
The Fire Emblem series has always been big in Japan but it took till the turn of the century to make it to the West, and that was largely thanks to Emblem's characters Marth and Roy being powerful to play in Super Smash Bros Melee.
You play as the son of the King, that's Marth who's on a mission to do a whole bunch of stuff.
Yeah, it's pretty convoluted but the gist is you're on a quest to win back your kingdom, and you need a bunch of followers to do it.
Battles are similar to Advance Wars with a lot more classes, levelling and gear collection. Fire Emblem's big difference is that when of your party die that's it...they have ceased to be!
He's shuffled off his mortal coil.
- so you get sad when you lose a team-mate that you've given heaps of gear to, or levelled up nice |
CALIFORNIA, USA: A new market research report on Home Automation, shows that the United States represents the largest market worldwide, | followed by Europe. Asia-Pacific ranks as the fastest growing market with a CAGR of 29.5 per cent over the analysis period.
Growing employment opportunities, steady economic development, easy availability of housing finance, strong residential construction activity, increasing urbanization, rising standards of living, and increase in consumer spending for lifestyle products, represent key factors driving growth in the region. The research report titled “Home Automation: A Global Strategic Business Report” announced by Global Industry Analysts Inc shares that global market for Home Automation is projected to exceed US$13 billion by 2020, driven by the growing trend towards energy efficient, safe, luxurious and convenient homes.
Home automation is defined as the process of automating the entire home environment by means of a combined in-built monitoring system. Capable of controlling electronic, electrical and security appliances from a single interface, home automation solutions are increasingly growing in prominence among homeowners across the world. Connectivity, over the years, has emerged as |
MANCHESTER — For Will Stinson, the transition isn’t as great as it might be for others in the same boat. |
But he’s still aware he's giving away size on the field this week.
Stinson, a 6-foot, 210-pound center, is one of three players representing St. Thomas Aquinas at the sixth annual CHaD East-West Football All-Star Game, a showcase for the state’s top outgoing seniors that will be played Friday (7 p.m.) at Saint Anselm College.
About 60 percent of the players originally picked for the East team come from Division I, the largest of the state’s three classifications. The numbers are similar on the West side.
Stinson, who is expected to rotate at center on Friday with Ryan Michaud of Salem, grew up playing with Gillis and others in the Exeter Seahawks program so there’s familiarity with some of the D-I guys. But he also comes from one of the strongest programs in D-II, with the Saints capturing the state title his |
Containment: The U.S. War Aim?
"The objectives are clear," President Bush declared on Oct. 7, announcing the U | .S. strikes in Afghanistan.
Sorry, they are anything but clear. On the one hand, Bush defined the objectives as "the disruption and... defeat of the global terror network." On the other, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld countered that "the idea of eliminating [terrorism] from the face of the earth" is unrealistic. Then Rumsfeld himself offered an alternative goal - preventing "people from adversely affecting our way of life."
Americans being a freedom-loving people, he said, victory means establishing "an environment where we can in fact fulfill and live those freedoms." Well, as the newsletter Inside the Pentagon wryly noted, this is not exactly a specific military objective on the order of staking an American flag in Kabul's city center.
Why the lack of specificity? For one, this new conflict is shadowy, making the usual war goals (capture a territory, destroy an army) irrelevant. For another, the desire to include skittish Muslim states in |
Optimization tools boost efficiency and reduce strain on bandwidth.
Determine the makeup of traffic by protocol.
Review network topology and | utilization.
change in the next 18 to 24 months.
points on the network using at least three?
before-and-after measures along the way.
mass. They also work on improving technique.
Similarly, adding powerful? and expensive?
deliver major gains is WAN optimization.
capabilities, and reduce bandwidth costs.
return on investment with such benefits.
primary drivers toward WAN optimization.
using [a combination of ] caching and compression,"
requires fewer trips across the WAN.
Microsoft's Common Internet File System.
There is no single approach to WAN optimization.
time since implementing WAN optimization.
is playing a key role in driving WAN optimization.
reduce the number of servers required.
as part of their managed services offerings.
$25,000, depending on the scope of features.
Networks, Packeteer and Silver Peak.
and ongoing maintenance reasonably painless."
thanks from our |
Sue Bird sat in a folding chair to watch the University of Connecticut women's basketball team practice on Wednesday, with crutches by her side | and a disappointed look on her face. Bird tore the anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee during a drill on Monday, and the freshman will miss the rest of the season.
It was an aggravating development for Bird, who was the starting point guard for the top-ranked Huskies following a phenomenal career at Christ the King High School in Queens. It was just as aggravating for UConn, which lost a critical player to injury for the fourth time in the last three years.
Shea Ralph had the same injury to her right knee during the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament on March 15, 1997, and in a summer workout less than six months later. Nykesha Sales tore her Achilles' tendon on Feb. 21, 1998, and, aside from a controversial staged appearance to score 2 points and eclipse the school's career scoring record, did not play again.
Because the school is taking final exams, Bird remained on campus and will most likely undergo surgery after |
Chinese New Year at Lahaina Cannery will be celebrated on Feb. 9, 2019. PC: Lahaina Cannery.
Lahaina | Cannery kicks off the Chinese New Year with a display of martial arts, firecrackers and a traditional “feeding of the lions” on Saturday, Feb. 9 from 2 to 4 p.m.
This free cultural experience, led by the enigmatic Au’s Shaolin Arts Society, will usher in “The Year of the Boar” for West Maui residents and visitors. This family-friendly event is preceded by a hula performance at 1 p.m.
Lahaina Cannery will also host the Lahaina Arts Society for three weekends in February. Many of Maui’s most talented artists will be showcased at the LAS Art Festival to be held on the lawn fronting Starbucks from Feb. 9 to 10; Feb. 16 to 17; and again on Feb. 23 to 24 between 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Hula hālau continue to perform weekly at Lahaina Cannery in |
With deft strokes a local woman cuts open a dead seal on the ground, her knife flashing as she expertly slices the flesh.
As a | curious crowd looks on, another Inuit crouches down, mixing something into the gory mound of raw meat with her hand before popping it into her mouth.
"There is nothing more delicious than seal brain and berries!" she declares, looking up with a Joker-like grin through lips bright red with fresh blood.
For Aaju Peter, born into an Inuit family in Greenland, a meal of raw seal is as normal as fish and chips. Now living in Canada, she is back in Greenland visiting the remote coastal community of Kangaamiut as a cultural expert with cruise specialists, Adventure Canada.
Several of the ship's passengers who are gathered around also try the seal but it is only when the youngest, Tim - a giant of a 12-year-old from Ontario - plucks up the courage that the gaggle of village boys watching by the fence brave a taste as well.
They quickly spit the flesh out, laughing. This is a first for them |
VENTURA, Calif., Nov. 9, 2018 /Christian Newswire/ -- Pastor Rob McCoy, who is also a member of the | city council and acting mayor in Thousand Oaks, California, has been ministering to hurting people in that community after this week's tragic shooting. McCoy is the pastor of Godspeak Calvary Chapel Church and also the chaplain of the local rescue unit. Ironically, despite the good work of the church, a lawsuit filed against the city of Thousand Oaks seeks to prevent the church from operating in a location formerly occupied by a YMCA.
This week, Liberty Counsel filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit brought by the Dos Vientos Community Preservation Association (Association) and Donald Armstrong. The frivolous suit attempts to force the city of Thousand Oaks to undertake environmental review and other procedures which are not required. The Association does not represent the neighborhood and is comprised of a handful of people which are mad that a church is replacing the YMCA, which went out of business.
Liberty Counsel already had the suit dismissed one time and is now seeking to get the amended suit dismissed. In Dos |
Clearspring’s AddThis widget provides anonymous statistics about user behavior from across the social web. AddThis has been installed on 7. | 2M domains, collectively reaching over 1 billion users a month worldwide and giving them insight into the evolution of what’s being shared on the social web.
AddThis, which we covered back in August, currently supports over 300 services but none seem to be coming close to Facebook when it comes to social sharing. In 2009 Facebook controlled 33% of sharing volume, a number that increased to 44% in 2010. That’s a 1/3 increase year over year. Facebook is also the second most popular video destination, after YouTube and ahead of Yahoo.
All isn’t smooth for Facebook, however, as other services are fiercely competing for users’ attention. From magazines and email to twitter and other social networks and bookmarking sites, people are spending less time on Facebook. Yet Facebook has more pageviews than Google and has reached over 500M registered users – a spectacular reach for an organization that’s a fraction of Google’s size.
AddThis |
Silvercar, a startup rethinking the auto rental experience in airports, already seems pretty tied to Audi — after all, every vehicle that Silvercar | rents out is a silver Audi. Now the companies are deepening that relationship with a $28 million Series C investment.
Audi led the round, with the company’s North American president Scott Keogh joining Silvercar’s board of directors. Silvercar and Audi are also looking beyond airports with a new initiative called the Audi Shared Fleet, where businesses will be able to offer cars to employees on their corporate campuses.
Silvercar has raised a total of $60 million in funding. Previous investors Austin Ventures and Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin also participated in the new round.
The service doesn’t just offer every customer access to the same high-end vehicle. It also streamlines the reservation and payment process, allowing you to make bookings through a mobile app and unlock the car by just scanning a QR code.
The company says its business tripled in 2015, and it’s now launching in its twelfth market, Las Vegas, just in |
Between January and November 2015, Argentine fish exports fell by 7% in volume and 6.8% in value, with 436,897 tons | sent abroad equivalent to US$ 1.39bn.
Illex squid exports to November reached 94,709 tons equivalent to US$104.25 million, with declines of 20.5% in volume and 36.3% in value, compared to 2014.
Hake (hubbsi) exports totaled 89,211 tons and US$ 220.97 million, down 17.4% in volume and 17.5% in value, comparing with the same period of 2014.
A bright spot was shrimp (Pleoticus muelleri) which maintained its upward trend with landings of 140,600.1 tons, 10.5% more than in 2014.
Hake (Merluccius hubbsi) discharges experienced a slight decrease of only 1.5% to 263,015.8 tons. However, shrimp (Pleoticus muelleri) maintained its upward trend: landings totaled 140,600.1 tons, 10.5 |
Orientation for ninth-graders entering Allentown high schools next year will be much more extensive, as part of an attempt by the | school district to ease the transition from middle schools.
A group of ninth-graders this year expressed concern to the Allentown School Board about problems in adjusting in the larger schools, asking for a return to a junior high school system. The board pondered a return to junior highs from a middle school setup but opted instead to initiate a program to help ninth-graders adjust.
The administration gave its recommendations for a more intensive orientation to school directors last night during the board's Education Committee meeting.
In addition to attending the regular orientation day before the first day of school, ninth-graders and their parents will meet with teachers and administrators in Allen and Dieruff High schools during July and August. The students will be familiarized with the schools' operations and rules, said Robert Klova, director of the middle and high schools.
High school handbooks will also be mailed earlier in the summer to new students, Klova said.
Several eighth-graders have already |
A BOOK charting the seemingly terminal decline of the country’s record shops has just been released.
The author of Last Shop Standing: | Whatever Happened to the Record Shops?, Graham Jones, will be in Caernarfon tonight (Thursday) for a reading and book signing.
He will be appearing at Palas Print bookshop, on Palace Street, from 6.30pm and this is a “must see” event for anyone who is a music fan, a record shop customer, a concertgoer or a vinyl collector and would like to hear more about his hilarious and sometimes harrowing accounts of the record shop tales.
Not so long ago, there was a record shop on every high street but over the last four years, 540 of these have closed down.
Last Shop Standing is the heartbreaking but true tale of the decline of these much loved record shops and their beloved vinyl. The record retailing is an industry in crisis because of the growing popularity of music downloading and a host of other rapidly emerging market trends.
Mr Jones has collected a wealth of entertaining stories. He has witnessed the dealings of the |
Regular search engines such as Google and Yahoo use statistics to make sense of the Web. They count links, keywords, and other items on a page | to determine its rank in search results. Semantic search engines try to actually understand the meaning of the words found on the Web and other documents to bring back the most relevant results to a query. Microsoft bought Powerset for $100 million to gain semantic search expertise, but so far all it can search is Wikipedia.. Hakia, Textwise, and other startups are also working on semantic search. Now comes NetBase, which brings a slightly different approach that its says can scale to the entire Web.
NetBase has been around for a while. Originally called Accelovation, it has raised $9 million in two rounds of venture funding over the past four years, has 30 employees, and counts among its current customers P&G, Caterpillar, 3M, BP, Kraft, BASF, and Goodyear. It is now changing its name and offering its core semantic indexing technology as a platform for other companies to build their own products. Already, scientific publisher Elsevier uses NetBase |
A new report on performance-based funding reveals potential downfalls that could disrupt community colleges in the long run.
Performance-based funding (P | BF) has become progressively utilized in order to reward higher education institutions for their success in enhancing student advancement and completion, but may have some critical drawbacks.
Data has increasingly shown that performance-based funding may cause some undesirable side-effects, such as more prestigious schools only admitting students who are likely to graduate, while institutions that serve a greater number of disadvantaged students fall even further behind without the additional funding.
Still, 35 states have already taken steps to adopt PBF initiatives. Texas adopted PBF for the state’s 50 community colleges in 2013, and their Student Success Points Model gives funding based on student achievement of intermediate performance metrics, such as completing developmental coursework or passing college-level gatekeeper courses; as well as key milestones such as earning a certificate or associate degree, or having students transfer to four-year universities.
For each of those “success points,” the state awards $185 to each college. While this money currently only accounts for 10 percent of state |
KUWAIT CITY, Nov 6: Police have arrested an Indian black magician and referred him to the concerned authorities, reports Al-Sha | hed daily. According to security sources, police in Mahboula suspected a motorist and ordered him to pull over. While checking his documents, the Indian began to mumble strange words which aroused police suspicion. The police then checked his car and found witchcraft tools and narcotics pills from the car.
Wrong info by police: A Kuwaiti man has filed a complaint with the concerned authorities accusing policemen at the Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh Police Station of negligence, reports Al-Anba daily. In his complaint the man said, he received a call from the said Police Station informing him that his half lorry which was reported stolen had been found and that it was in the custody of the police. He added he was told that he should wait until completion of legal procedures, but to his surprise he did not find the vehicle in the parking lot of the police station.
Two Kuwaitis injured: Two Kuwaiti citizens sustained serious injuries when two vehicles collided and toppled in Sab |
Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones in the Stephen Hawking biopic "The Theory of Everything," which was nominated for five Academy Awards | .
Oscar night will hold a fair bit of drama for space fans this year.
Wormhole travel across the universe and supergiant black holes are just some of the wonders seen in the film "Interstellar." See how the science of "Interstellar" works in this infographic.
Two space-themed movies — Christopher Nolan's sci-fi epic "Interstellar" and the Stephen Hawking biopic "The Theory of Everything" — are up for a total of 10 Academy Awards, which will be announced Sunday night (Feb. 22).
"Interstellar," which follows the quest of a small band of explorers to find a new planet for humanity to call home, garnered nods for best original score, production design, sound editing, sound mixing and visual effects.
"The Theory of Everything," meanwhile, was nominated for best picture, best actor (Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking), best actress (Felicity Jones as Hawking's first wife, Jane), best |
A drama about a schoolgirl whose life changes after she witnesses a violent attack has been named best film at this year's British Independent Film Awards. |
Broken, the debut feature by theatre director Rufus Norris, also picked up a best supporting actor prize for Rory Kinnear.
Psychological thriller Berberian Sound Studio won the most awards.
It received four trophies - including best director for Peter Strickland and best actor for Toby Jones.
The 15th annual awards, which honour films made mainly outside major studios, took place at Old Billingsgate in London.
Sunday's ceremony was hosted by James Nesbitt, who plays the dwarf Bofur in The Hobbit film out this week.
Broken, which stars Tim Roth, Cillian Murphy and newcomer Eloise Laurence, went into the awards as the frontrunner with nine nominations.
The story focuses on three families who live in the same cul-de-sac and are linked by a violent incident that has far-reaching consequences for them all.
Describing the win as "fantastic", first-time film director Norris told BBC |
If a person wants to quit smoking, he needs to lower his daily intake of alcohol, states a new study. Heavy drinkers' nicotine metabolite | ratio - a biomarker that indicates how quickly a person's body metabolizes nicotine has been found to be the key to this problem.
New research has found that heavy drinkers who are trying to stop smoking may find that reducing their alcohol use can also help them quit their daily smoking habit.
Heavy drinkers' nicotine metabolite ratio - a biomarker that indicates how quickly a person's body metabolizes nicotine - reduced as they cut back on their drinking.
Past research has suggested that people with higher nicotine metabolism ratios are likely to smoke more and that people with higher rates have a harder time quitting. Slowing a person's nicotine metabolism rate through reduced drinking could provide an edge when trying to stop smoking, which is known to be a difficult task, said Sarah Dermody, an assistant professor at Oregon State University and the study's lead author.
"It takes a lot of determination to quit smoking, often several attempts," Dermody said. "This research suggests that drinking is changing the |
Is Notre Dame primed to land another four-star recruit?
Already with a verbal commitment from four-star Florida defensive end Clay Burton late last | week, is Notre Dame ready to land another big fish in Florida’s sea of defensive high school talent?
Head coach Brian Kelly hopes he hits the jackpot in his pursuit of another four-star defensive end from Florida, Aaron Lynch. The Cape Coral native just happens to be good friends with Burton, the Venice High product who is projected to play outside linebacker in coordinator Bob Diaco’s 3-4 scheme.
Lynch, however, is also being pursued by Miami, Florida State, LSU and Alabama, among others.
The 6-5, 235-pounder — and growing — is quite the athlete with a good motor and nice first step. While he relies more on his athleticism, he can be a dangerous pass rusher if he adds some moves to his repertoire. He also could play tight end in college, as he possesses very good hands.
Meanwhile, Burton — the brother of current Florida Gator Trey — plans to graduate early and enroll in school in |
CNBC's Jim Cramer is getting deja vu from the fall in the commodities complex this year.
"I've been noodling | over this; going back and forth a lot about … what the analogy is here. I'm beginning to feel like this portion of industrial America, that is, oil, natural gas, steel, iron, anything we make, it's almost like they're folding like the dot-coms" after the bubble burst in 2001, Cramer said Tuesday on "Squawk on the Street."
Oil and natural gas have hit multiyear lows this year amid global growth concerns.
In the early 2000s, many technology companies saw their stocks surging, sending the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite higher. However, many of these companies were unable to sustain their valuations.
"There's a downgrade of Encana today. This is one of the great oil companies of our time," Cramer said. "They've done everything right to be able to make this thing so they are going to survive."
"I think they are [going to survive], but they have a huge amount of debt |
Despite assurances that undocumented immigrants would not be detained at shelters or while evacuating, some did not want to take the risk.
Juan Car | avaña of Episcopal Farmworkers Ministry readies boxes to be delivered to immigrant families and farmworkers affected by Hurricane Florence.
DUNN, North Carolina — Juan Caravaña looked like he was doing some complicated math in his head.
He held one bag of white rice in one hand, a bag of black beans in the other, and stood quietly over five cardboard boxes of donated food that were to be given out that day.
"If we give one of these per family, we'll be out quickly," he said.
When Hurricane Florence slammed into North Carolina last month, it devastated the state's agriculture industry, leaving thousands of migrant farmworkers with little or no work. For many of them, groups like the Episcopal Farmworker Ministry became one of the few lifelines in the days and weeks after the storm, providing food and basic necessities the workers could not get through official channels.
All the donations, however, would have to be delivered.
Documented and undocumented workers |
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BENGALURU: SK Shivakumar, a former director of the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (Isro) UR Rao | Satellite Centre (URSC), died early on Saturday, after complications from obstructive jaundice, said his family members. He was 66 years old.
A senior scientist, Shivakumar was part of the team that developed the telemetry system for Chandrayaan-I, India’s first moon mission. He was also responsible for designing the deep space communications equipment and was involved in the development of the 32m dish antenna that can communicate with satellites millions of miles away.
Born in Mysuru, Shivakumar pursued his bachelors degree in science from Mysuru University followed by BE in electrical communications engineering. Later he obtained MTech in physical engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.
During this period, he contributed significantly to the mission planning, analysis and operations of several Indian satellite missions including Bhaskara, APPLE, IRS and INSAT. He served as mission director for IRS-1B and IRS-1C satellites that successfully completed |
Showers early, then partly cloudy overnight. Thunder possible. Low 42F. Winds N at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 50% | ..
Showers early, then partly cloudy overnight. Thunder possible. Low 42F. Winds N at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 50%.
Although there are arguably more pressing matters in our city, lately it seems the residents of Colorado Springs are heavily focused on the increase of bike infrastructure in or near our downtown.
Being a huge bicycle advocate, I am very pleased to see the active dialogue on this topic, knowing that the input and conversations can only make the city’s efforts to implement safe bike infrastructure even better for our residents.
Under Mayor John Suthers’ leadership, Colorado Springs has finally begun to create a safe and connected network of bike lanes for cyclists.
This doesn’t mean that every street will someday include a bike lane. It means a few of our streets will add bike lanes, creating safe and connected routes for those commuting to work or school by bike.
These routes were envisioned, planned, and now being executed from a yearlong |
The sheen of an airline's professed gratitude faded quickly.
I used to laugh at the announcement made, just after you board a flight | , in which a special "warm welcome" is extended to customers who are part of the airline loyalty program. The idea that big corporations feel any warmth towards their customers, aside from the fuzzy feeling they get when emptying their wallets, had always struck me as particularly ridiculous.
Then one day I received a letter from Virgin Airlines, and my attitude changed. This letter congratulated me on my loyalty, and explained that, thanks to the many trips I'd been making to Sydney, I was now a Silver member, promoted from lowly Red. It also contained special tags that I could put on my luggage, alerting the world to my newly acquired status.
The tags were nice, of course, but this promotion also came with practical benefits. I could now check in extra luggage, and book seats closer to the front of the plane. Most importantly, the word "SILVER" would appear on my boarding passes, so that anyone peering over my shoulder as I queued up to board |
What's better than breakfast for students? Riding a bike to school.
Teen girls who walked or biked to school in a Spanish study performed | better at school in verbal and math skills that their peers who rode the bus or got to school in a car, according to a 2011 research study funded by the Spanish National Research Council.
More recently, the results of a large Danish study from 2012 show that driving kids to school in a car is doing them a disservice. This large study by researchers from the University of Copenhagen and Aarhus University followed 20,000 school kids aged 5-19 in some of their daily activities. The researchers were interested to see whether a good breakfast made a difference in concentration levels - an idea that is fairly well accepted in the U.S.
The group of kids walking or biking to school concentrated better than those driven to school or taking public transport, and the effect lasted throughout the morning hours. On average, active students scored 8.2 - 8.4 on a concentration test (of a possible 10) while non-active students scored an average of 7.6 - 7.8. This |
Properties are hot. Real estate is booming. But there is little regulation. The United States, home to a big chunk of Costa Rica� | �s real estate investors, is entering an economic downturn and perhaps a recession. Is this a recipe for disaster? Mauricio Castro, head of the Costa Rican Chamber of Real Estate Agents, recently sat down with The Tico Times to share his thoughts on these and other issues.
Castro, 54, has been a real estate broker for decades and has headed various construction and development companies. Now he teaches seminars at the chamber and at private firms. He lives in the western San José neighborhood of Rohrmoser with his wife, Alexandra Céspedes, and four children.
TT: What happened to the real estate market last year?
MC: In 2007 the real estate market surprised us with continued growth.We expected it to slow because in 2006 it also grew at a clip. But in 2007 the market saw spectacular growth, especially in the coastal areas where there is an enormous demand for property by foreign investors. Some semi-rural areas became urban, with restaurants, hospitals, |
The iPad is coming soon. The rumor that pre-orders would begin this past Thursday failed to materialize, and there are still a number of | question marks--most notably "when will the FCC approve the iPad for sale in the United States?" But, one way or another, the iPad will arrive sooner or later.
If you believe Apple's hype about the "magic" of the device, soon millions of Americans will rely on the Apple iPad for all manner of media consumption--movies, books, TV shows, newspapers, etc. That means millions of Americans will spend even more time with their faces basked in the pale glow of a backlit screen, possibly doing damage to their vision.
According to Dr. Jeffrey Anshel, a noted optometrist and author of the upcoming book Smart Medicine for Your Eyes, is concerned that in today's world we spend more and more time staring at electronic screens. The problem is not unique to the iPad, but includes other devices like the iPhone, BlackBerry, and Kindle, or the armies of Xbox gamers spending hours (days?) in front of a screen playing Call of Duty: Modern |
Citigroup Inc reported a massive jump in quarterly profit as a sharp drop in legal costs and gains from the disposal of unwanted assets more than made | up for weak revenue from its core business.
Chief Executive Michael Corbat has been looking to shrink Citi to a more profitable core, focus on more promising markets and return capital to shareholders.
The bank's legal and repositioning costs plunged to $724 million in the fourth quarter from $3.55 billion, a year earlier.
Adjusted revenue from its main Citicorp business declined 2 percent, but profit rose as expenses fell 24 percent in the unit.
"We have undoubtedly become a simpler, smaller, safer and stronger institution," Corbat said in a statement. "We have sharpened our focus on target clients, shedding over 20 consumer and institutional businesses in the process," he said.
Investors, however, have been skeptical of Corbat's story and are worried that the bank's results will be undermined by slowing growth in emerging markets, where Citi has more assets than other U.S |
Computers and their associated equipment are NOT WHITE GOODS. People need a willingness to accept that a degree of competence and learning is required at least | equivalent to that for driving and routinely maintaining a car.
Almost NONE of my friends have ever changed the password or updated the firmware on their routers because "they didn't know you were supposed to". And most of them have degrees.
and how exactly does user with ISP supplied router update their firmware?
How often do you check the seal on the filler cap?
Check all the warning lights come on when you turn the ignition key?
It's very patronising of IT people to go they should do this or that, when lets face it, they should these days be as easy to use as white goods....which reminds me, did you also check the lint filter in the tumble drier (major fire risk), the drain filter in the washing machine and the drip tray on the fridge recently?
Yes to all the above. My wife claimed her car was on the way out because it was making odd noises. I drove her to the airport and noted I could hear the |
Lina Alvarez has received harsh criticism for lying about her age and for becoming a mother in her 60s.
A mum who gave birth aged | 62 has admitted telling doctors she was 12 years younger so they would not deny her fertility treatment.
Lina Alvarez told doctors she was 50 and says they only found out after reading about her in the press.
Lina, from the city of Lugo in north-western Spain, said: "The gynaecologists found out through the press but they could not deny us the right to become parents.
"I was searching for ten years for someone who would make it possible for me to have more children and I didn't find anyone until I lied about my age."
The mum already has a 29-year-old son named Exiquito who has cerebral palsy, and a 10-year-old named Samuel who was also born after artificial insemination.
Now she also has a two-year-old daughter, Linita, who she declares has given her "the best two years of my life".
Lina sees herself as a |
Why is President Barack Obama in such a hurry to get his socialized medicine bill passed?
The American people in their unimaginable kindness and trust voted | for a pig in a poke in 2008. They wanted so much to believe Barack Obama was somehow better and different from other ultra-leftists that they simply took him on faith.
They ignored his anti-white writings in his books. They ignored his quiet acceptance of hysterical anti-American diatribes by his minister, Jeremiah Wright.
They ignored his refusal to explain years at a time of his life as a student. They ignored his ultra-left record as a “community organizer,” Illinois state legislator, and Senator.
The American people ignored his total zero of an academic record as a student and teacher, his complete lack of scholarship when he was being touted as a scholar.
Now, the American people are starting to wake up to the truth. Barack Obama is a super likeable super leftist, not a fan of this country, way, way too cozy with the terrorist leaders in the Middle East, way beyond naïveté, all the way into active destruction |
From left: Susan Oliver as Vina, Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Christopher Pike and Meg Wyllie as The Keeper in "The Cage."
| Though Star Trek celebrates its 50th anniversary on Thursday—the first episode to air on TV ran on Sept. 8, 1966—the show's actual first episode is a bit older than that. The original pilot episode of Star Trek, titled "The Cage," was completed in early 1965. As these stills from the episode show, it exhibits both striking similarities with and a number of differences from the series that ended up on television.
Most noticeably, the Captain of the USS Enterprise was Christopher Pike, portrayed by Jeffrey Hunter, instead of James Kirk. Hunter backed out of the show to pursue acting in films and passed away in 1969. And, though Mr. Spock was still portrayed by Leonard Nimoy in the pilot, he was not the First Officer—that title went to a character known as Number One, portrayed by Majel Barrett. Concerning props, weapons in the pilot were referred to as "lasers," and not "phasers."
"The Cage" was finally released on |
For the fourth time in the preseason, the Flyers went to overtime. The team dropped to 1-1-3 on the exhibition slate with a | 3-2 OT loss to the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden on Monday night. The teams will rematch at the Wells Fargo Center on Tuesday night.
After a few ups and downs in the Rookie Game and the opening game of the preseason, Flyers 2014 first-round pick settled down after a strong practice (his lone session with the "Group 2" squad) last Tuesday. He has played better and better on both sides of the puck in each of the last three preseason games.
On Monday night in New York, he was downright dominant. In the first period, the second-year pro took a nice saucer pass from Nolan Patrick and rocketed a perfect shot from the left circle past Henrik Lundqvist under the long-side crossbar with the teams playing four-on-four. In the waning seconds of the second period, Sanheim pinched in deep, corralled a loose puck near the crease and slid the puck into the net for a 2- |
Frank Wenzel, a sixth-grade math teacher at Tamaqua Area Middle School and head of the teacher's union, opposes arming teachers and | school employees. Tamaqua Area School District in Schuylkill County has become the first in the state to pass a policy providing for teachers and other school employees to carry firearms.
Throughout our region, Jewish communities spent Monday honoring those lost in this weekend's mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue. Today, President Trump is set to visit the city and, for many, the grieving process is just beginning, so there is much more to come as Squirrel Hill looks for ways to move forward. Meanwhile, this morning we have an all-too-timely report on a Pennsylvania school district that's reacting to mass shootings by allowing teachers to carry guns. The school board may have passed the landmark policy, but the debate is far from over in Schuylkill County.
By the way, if you're a smart speaker fan and want to listen to your morning news, I'm happy to report that you can now hear the Philadelphia Inquirer on Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and your |
Bedford Lodge Hotel & Spa’s luxurious new afternoon tea experience is only available from April 19 to 22, with the kitchen team pulling out | all the stops to put a smile on customers’ faces. To begin, there are delicate finger sandwiches of local smoked salmon on horseradish and wholewheat bread, cucumber and cream cheese on white bread, poached Norfolk chicken and grain mustard mayonnaise on tarragon bread, and egg mayonnaise and sakura cress on tomato bread. That’s followed by freshly made warm fruit and plain scones with clotted cream, jam and homemade lemon curd.
But the pieces de resistance is set to be the feast of chocolate creations from Bedford Lodge’s pastry chef Jenny Beamish-Young, who has combined decadence with playfulness to craft cakes and sweet treats she hopes will stir up a bit of nostalgia in diners. Her selection includes shortbread chicks, chocolate nests with mini eggs, chocolate ganache delice layered with salted caramel cream, banana and chocolate macaron, spiced Newmarket Cake with mascarpone cream, triple |
Bad news for Tapjoy, Flurry, and numerous other mobile advertising platforms that cater to iOS developers: Apple is clamping down on incentivized | downloads. In other words, it’s now much harder to buy yourself popularity on the App Store. Developers who submit applications with these offer walls are having their applications rejected, on the grounds that they are violating section 3.10 of the developer guidelines (printed below).
If you’ve used many iPhone apps, there’s a good chance you’ve come across an incentivized download offer. These usually say something like “Install one of these apps, and you’ll get ten free gold coins!”, giving you a chance to acquire whatever virtual goods or currency you’re after without having to shell over real cash. And the process is as easy as they come: tap on one of the promoted applications, download and install it, then open it once, and you’re ten gold coins richer.
It’s a win-win situation for developers. The application that’s being promoted pays a fee to Tap |
The band’s sparkling songs range from peppy dance grooves to fuzzy faux psychedelia.
For more than two decades, Scotland� | �s Belle and Sebastian has championed the virtues of old-fashioned pop music, crafting gorgeous, compassionate tunes that balance heartbreak and hope without descending to sentimental mush. Echoing a trio of their releases from the ’90s, How to Solve Our Human Problems is a series of three five-song EPs the group began issuing on a monthly basis starting in December, with all 15 tracks to be compiled for a proper album this February. As always, leader Stuart Murdoch and company incorporate a deceptively wide range of sounds into their sparkling songs, from peppy dance grooves to fuzzy faux psychedelia to embellishments like brass and pedal steel. Every track features memorable touches: “Poor Boy,” for example, deftly draws on the interplay between the vocals of Murdoch and Sarah Martin in an intriguing vignette about the clash between romantic fantasy and cold reality. A balm for the daily blahs, How to Solve Our Human Problems feels both timeless and |
New Delhi: Financial services firm Religare Enterprises today said Saurabh Nanavati will head its asset management business, following its acquisition of | Lotus India AMC last month.
“The appointment shall formally come into effect within the next few days," Religare said in a statement.
Besides, Ajay Bagga would resign as the CEO of Lotus India Asset Management Company. “Bagga, the incumbent CEO of Lotus India AMC, has decided to step down and will pursue other career opportunities," the statement added.
“Saurabh is familiar with the Religare culture and ethos and has been involved with our AMC plans for over a year now. We have global ambitions for our asset management business and we are committed to take this business to a leadership position," Religare Enterprises CEO and managing director Sunil Godhwani said.
Prior to this assignment, Nanavati was the chief investment officer for HDFC Standard Life in India.
Last month, market regulator SEBI had approved the acquisition of Lotus India AMC, by Religare Securities, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Relig |
North Tahoe’s Maddie Roberts won a pair of races this season. Roberts and the Lady Lakers will look to defend last year� | �s sweep of the state slalom and giant slalom events.
Skiers from North Tahoe and Truckee have put on a dominant display during the 2018-19 season, landing dozens of racers on the podium during the year’s seven events en route to qualifying athletes and teams to next week’s Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association Tahoe Basin League Alpine State Championships.
The North Tahoe boys were unbeatable this year as a team with first-place finishes in each race on the season; while on the girls’ side, the Lady Lakers won five races and Truckee won the other two.
Since the league uses the top five results during the season to determine a league champion, the Lakers boys and girls finished the year with the maximum number of team points possible. The Tahoe Basin Ski League also combines boys and girls’ scores during each event for an overall winner, and Lakers combined to go unbeaten on the year |
• Nuns: Broken top of a tree crashed into power lines.
• Norrbom: Tree fell onto power lines.
• Adobe | : Tree fell into PG&E power line.
• Partrick: Oak tree fell into PG&E power lines.
• Pythian: The fire started with a downed power line caused after PG&E tried to re-energize the line.
Atlas fire (Napa County): 783 structures burned, 51,624 acres burned, 6 deaths; referred to the District Attorney. The fire started Oct. 8 in two locations when a large limb broke from a tree and came into contact with PG&E power lines and a tree fell onto the same line.
Blue fire (Humboldt County): 20 acres burned; referred to the District Attorney. A PG&E power line conductor separated from a connector, causing the conductor to fall to the ground and start a fire.
Cherokee fire (Butte County): 6 structures destroyed, 8,417 acres burned. Fire started when tree limbs made contact with PG&E power lines.
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Andrew Guthrie Ferguson is Professor of Law at the UDC David A. Clarke School of Law and author of the book The Rise of Big Data | Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement (NYU Press 2017). This article is excerpted with permission of NYU Press from the book.
A towering wall of computer screens blinks alive with crisis. A digital map of Los Angeles alerts to 911 calls. Television screens track breaking news stories.
Surveillance cameras monitor the streets. Rows of networked computers link analysts and police officers to a wealth of law enforcement intelligence.
Real-time crime data comes in. Real-time police deployments go out. This high-tech command center in downtown Los Angeles forecasts the future of policing in America.
Welcome to the Los Angeles Police Department’s Real-Time Analysis Critical Response (RACR) Division. The RACR Division, in partnership with Palantir—a private technology company that began developing social network software to track terrorists—has jumped head first into the big data age of policing.
Just as in the hunt for international terror networks |
The future of Canada is at stake, invaders have crossed the border and the boss is passed out in a hotel room surrounded by empty bottles.
| That story about the time John A. Macdonald went on a bender, when he was supposed to be dealing with an invasion, is one of the surprising tidbits spectators will hear during The Road to Confederation.
From storyteller and historian Doug Robinson, it’s a “tongue-in-cheek” look at the lesser-known and “deeply personal” tales of the main players involved in making Canada a country.
The Essex Municipal Heritage Committee and the Harrow Early Immigrant Research Society are presenting the night of storytelling. It’s part of celebrations for Canada’s 150th anniversary and Colchester’s 225th.
Robinson promises scandals, romance and drunks in the legislature.
“This is definitely not a lecture,” he said.
One story he’ll tell concerns the Fenian Raids, when Irish-born veterans of the U.S. Civil War started |
These boxes are giant tuning forks meant to vibrate the west coast Tsunami and drop the Cascadian Shelf. They are embedded deep | into the ground and can only be dug out with a back hoe. If someone can, please place Orgonite Generators (Muffins) in the and around these boxes to disable them.
My number is 541-547-4073 please show me this box.
Perhaps this is a bug hunt.
I think everyone should use absolute careful foresight in approaching such a box. Use common sense & feel out the vibes you get from it. I have read about the reverse engineering of the Rosswell crash materials & it blew me away how strange & super high tech those items unfolded, more than spooky, quite a few highly qualified specialists died in fact. There are only 2 ways to look at it, either good or bad, about the boxes.
It's a metal box, someone needs to go open the thing and end all this speculation. It's not a meteorite or a brick, it's a box! What's the deal, open |
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