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Unfortunately "sweeping generalisations" have been made without availing avenues for redress, he said.
A day after three Doordarshan | employees alleged that they were sexually harassed by their superiors, CEO Prasar Bharati Shashi Shekhar said on Saturday that the public broadcaster takes all such cases "extremely seriously" and action is taken strictly in accordance with disciplinary rules.
The women claimed at a press conference in Delhi that they were sexually harassed on the pretext of getting their contracts renewed. The women, all of them contractual employees, did not get into details of the harassment incidents.
"Doordarshan is led by a highly capable @DG_Doordarshan. We take all cases of this nature extremely seriously, action is taken strictly in accordance with law/applicable disciplinary rules," Mr Shekhar tweeted.
Varuna Bhandari, a lawyer, who is advising the victims, had on Friday said she has been approached by seven other women employees also from Doordarshan who have alleged sexual harassment at their work place.
"In nine out of 10 cases, the ICC (Internal |
Switzerland was the country with the largest number of permanent immigrants per capita in 2012, according to the 2014 International Migration Outlookexternal link | compiled by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
The foreigners who settled permanently in Switzerland in 2012 comprised 1.6% of Switzerland’s population in that year. Switzerland is followed by Norway with 1.2% and Australia with 1.1%. In comparison, the largest OECD immigration country, the United States, had a share of permanent immigrants of 0.3% in 2012.
Most of the immigrants to Switzerland came from European Union countries such as Germany, Portugal, Italy and France.
According to preliminary figures, the number of people who moved their residence to Switzerland increased to 136,200 in 2013.
In absolute numbers, Switzerland, with 125,600 immigrants, is below the OECD average. The list is topped by the US with one million, followed by Germany with about 400,000 and Britain with 285,000.
In another ranking of the OECD – the percentage of the population that is foreign born – Switzerland placed second, with 27. |
For the upcoming F1 season, beginning this weekend, Marriott International is revving up and expanding its marketing partnership with Mercedes-AMG Petron | as Motorsport.
The big winners will be the members of Marriott’s newly renamed travel program Marriott Bonvoy.
“Our marketing partnership with Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport team will give Marriott Bonvoy members, many of whom are fans of the team, the opportunity to pursue their passion for the sport,” said Karin Timpone, global marketing officer, Marriott International.
Marriott International and Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport expand partnership giving Marriott Bonvoy members VIP experiences throughout the F1 racing season this year.
These Marriott Bonvoy Moments will be in addition to other member experiences, including behind the scenes access with the team over Grands Prix weekends for the ultimate fan selfie, where drivers, media and celebrities hang out, visits to the team garage, and prime viewing venues and other experiences at races throughout the season.
“We are delighted to expand our marketing partnership with Marriott International”, said Toto Wolff, team principal, |
The decision to include Binny in the Test squad for India's tour of England looks like a huge leap of faith.
On new year� | �s eve, all-rounder Stuart Binny had been named in the One-day International squad for the series against the Black Caps. With the 50-over World Cup to be played in seamer-friendly conditions in Australia and New Zealand in 2015, Binny’s inclusion was seen as an internship opportunity handed out to the allrounder.
Since then, Binny has bowled one over for eight runs — his international debut — in the only ODI (Hamilton) he played on the tour of New Zealand. He was dismissed for a duck before conceding 22 in four overs against Sri Lanka at the Asia Cup, his second and last match till date for India.
Impressed with his 2013 IPL exploits, the selectors had also included him in the squad for the World T20 in Bangladesh, a tournament where he warmed the bench.
It is too early to judge Binny, the son of former India cricketer and current South Zone selector Roger Binny |
Beckie, 24, joined the English club last August on a one-year deal from New Jersey-based Sky Blue FC of the National Women | ’s Soccer League.
In February, Beckie proved to be the difference in a 4-2 penalty shootout win over Arsenal in the final of the FA Women’s Continental League Cup.
The Man City women are after the treble this year. They currently stand second in the FA Women’s Super League at 13-0-5, one point behind Arsenal (15-2-0).
Beckie’s team is also still in contention for the SSE Women’s FA Cup with a semifinal matchup against defending champion Chelsea on Sunday. West Ham, whose roster includes Canadian striker Adriana Leon, faces Reading in the other semifinal.
A star at Texas Tech, where she became the Red Raiders’ all-time leading scorer with 57 goals, Beckie was taken by the Houston Dash in the first round (eighth overall) in the 2016 NWSL college draft. Sky Blue acquired her in a trade in January 2018. |
Amazon today announced the launch of its cloud services out of datacentres in Singapore following strong demand to open a hub in the region.
Amazon | Web Services (AWS), which provides a platform where customers can pay for computing power and storage on pay per use, has been operating out of the US since 2006. This has meant heavy traffic charges for those companies based in Australia making use of its services.
The company has now decided to follow requests to house its offerings closer to home.
"One of the most frequent and resounding requests over the last year has been for AWS to launch an Asia-Pacific presence," Andy Jassy said. "That's because they have lower latency for their end users and also there are companies where it's important for them for their data to be in the Asia-Pacific."
He acknowledged that Australian companies might still not want to bring their data out of the country and said that it was "very likely that [Amazon] would have a presence in Australia in the future". The company is constantly in conversation with datacentre providers in different countries, he said, but he couldn't comment on whether |
Does it Matter if Bowe Bergdahl Was a Deserter?
For the sake of Washington, this story is about Guantanamo, the | power of the White House versus Congress, and the drawdown of the Afghanistan War.
There is no shortage of people who will speak out against Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the only American prisoner of the Afghanistan war, just released from five years of capture.
A year later, there's still no consensus on the question: is Snowden a hero or a traitor? Expect a similar path for Bergdahl.
One is Justin Gerleve, Bergdahl's former squad leader, who appeared on CNN on Wednesday. "I believe that he totally deserted — not only his fellow soldiers — but his leadership that wanted the best for him and for our country," Gerleve said. He also implied that Bergdahl's capture led to an increase in targeted attacks against their units. (There are disputed claims over whether several died as a direct result of Bergdahl's actions.) "I can't say for sure the leakage was from Bergdahl, but it's kind |
On "This Week," ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl challenged White House Press Secretary Jay Carney over the knee-jerk excuse that administration officials give when | they are asked about the bad economic numbers.
During the interview, Karl showed a clip of Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., reminding his audience that seven million more Americans are living in poverty today who were not in poverty when Bush was leaving office.
"I assume Senator Scott didn't notice that, you know, a lot of people were thrown into poverty by the worst recession since the Great Depression, which was in full bloom when President Obama was sworn into office," Carney replied, after Karl asked him to react.
"But the president has had five years, Jay," Karl replied. "Five years. And the -- the economic crisis is in the rear-view mirror. The Bush years are in the rear-view mirror. And he hasn't been able to turn this around. Doesn't the president bear some responsibility -- his policies -- for the fact that the poverty rate in America has gone up and the |
Surface rail along busy streets will be too slow for suburban commuters. This idea cannot compete with the speed of the Transitways despite downtown congestion on | Albert and Slater.
The biggest problem we face is the fact that rail infrastructure was totally removed from downtown in the 1950s and 1960s and we lost many critical rail right of ways to roadways, parks and housing. This makes it hard to deliver passengers quickly to downtown by a rail system.
I do believe that the only way that streetcars can be re-introduced on Bank, Rideau and other streets is to create exclusive streetcar lanes so that traffic does not hold back streetcars. With this, on-street parking will have to go, and turning across the streetcar lane will have to be restricted. This may be hard to sell to car drivers and retailers.
Expansion of the O-Train network can only be done with the understanding that it really cannot effectively deliver passengers downtown. Just as the current O-Train line serves mainly Carleton University and few other locations, we should understand that O-Train links to Barrhaven and across town to Kanata using existing rail |
ELON, N.C. (AP) Tyler Seibring scored 21 points, Steven Santa Ana had 16 points and nine rebounds and Elon | beat James Madison 68-65 on Sunday.
Santa Ana missed the front end of a 1-and-1 with 18 seconds left. Matt Lewis missed a long 3-pointer at the other end, but Stuckey Mosley grabbed the offensive rebound. After a timeout, James Madison was called for an over-and-back violation with four seconds left. Santa Ana again was off the mark on a free throw and JMU's half-court heave didn't hit the rim at the buzzer.
Kris Wooten made four 3-pointers and scored 14 points for Elon (5-10, 1-1 Colonial Athletics Association).
Elon led by as many as 17 points with 9:11 remaining and had its last double-digit lead at 5:22 as JMU went on a 13-3 run to pull to 64-62.
Dwight Wilson made 11 of 12 shots and had 22 points and 10 rebounds for James Madison (7-8 |
VANCOUVER -- Vancouver Canucks forward Alexandre Burrows will finish the season against the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday reunited with Daniel Sedin and Hen | rik Sedin on the Canucks' top line.
Burrows is aware it also could be his final game in a Canucks uniform.
Burrows, who averaged almost 30 goals during four seasons playing with the Sedins through 2011-12, has one more season left on his contract. But with the Canucks pushing to get younger and faster, and a 35th birthday to celebrate on Monday, Burrows realizes he might not be around to as the rebuild continues in Vancouver.
Burrows, who has nine goals and 13 assists in 78 games as a bottom-six forward this season, insisted his focus is on finishing a "frustrating, disappointing" season on a positive note.
"It's a little tougher than usual," said Burrows, who is looking forward to playing with the Sedins again. "It's fun to be back with them; they have been a big part of my career."
Canucks forward Michael Zalewski is on the second line after being called |
The advent of the iPhone has brought about touchscreen capability in mobile devices to an even broader level of appeal among the masses, and in this day and | age, we more or less expect relevant gadgets to come with a touchscreen display right from the get go. New York subway riders have touchscreen subway maps to look forward to, where the first batch has gone live over in Grand Central Station.
Over the course of the past one month, the first of 18 MTA On the Go kiosks (as they are called) were installed in the Grand Central subway station. Out of the 18, eight of them have been distributed between the uptown and downtown segments of the major 4/5/6 north-south arteries, while the remaining 10 would be placed all over the mezzanine above which will connect the subway to the commuter rail station.
These touchscreen displays happen to be large interactive navigation centers, where they will offer users real-time up information about your destination as well as any possible service disruptions that might happen. Of course, there is nothing quite like a paper map whenever there is a power cut and no backup power is available, and |
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Approval for the extension of a Co Tyrone goldmine was based on inaccurate maps, it was claimed yesterday.
Local man William Donn | elly alleged that more than 20 hectares of the site at Cavanacaw, near Omagh, were never properly assessed.
Mr Donnelly is seeking to overturn a failed legal bid to stop underground work at the operation.
Judgment was reserved following submissions at the Court of Appeal in Belfast.
Mining has been carried out at the site by Omagh Minerals, a subsidiary of Canadian firm Galantas Gold Corporation.
In 2015 the then Environment Minister Mark H Durkan gave the green light to the extended project. Planning permission was granted for underground work at the existing mine on the basis of compliance with strict environmental conditions.
At the time Mr Durkan said these would include progressive restoration of the above-ground site to ensure the protection and enhancement of habitat over time.
But Mr Donnelly claimed there was an unauthorised removal of large quantities of rock from the site.
Part of his case centred on the environmental impact and possible acidity of this waste rock. |
You don't have to look far to find someone who has suffered identity theft. New York state's attorney general said current state law does little to | protect you. He wants to change that.
Clay Gronemeyer and his wife Heather were victims of a hacker last spring. Heather was in the hospital after giving birth to a little boy. She sent her husband on an errand.
"I asked him to go get me a chicken bowl from Chipotle,” said Heather.
Days later, the couple got a phone call from their bank.
"They gave me a call and let me know that my card had been compromised," said Clay.
Clay was one of thousands of consumers across the country whose credit or debit card was compromised when thieves hacked into point of sale terminals at Chipotle during the spring of 2017.
"Chipotle was breached all over the place. It just so happens that four were in Rochester," New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman explained.
The Chipotle breach was just one of 1,583 reported to the attorney general's office last year exposing the personal records of more than |
Former U.S. arms control official Stephen Rademaker says the Iran nuclear agreement is a Faustian bargain that will end up empowering rather than weakening | Iran in the end. He joins Gwen Ifill to discuss his objections and how he would amend the deal.
Over the weekend, Oregon Democrat Jeff Merkley became the 31st senator to announce his support for the Iran nuclear agreement. His backing puts President Obama three votes away from winning a veto-proof majority in the Senate. That would derail any resolutions disapproving the agreement.
Tonight, we continue our series of conversations on the Iran nuclear deal. Last time, we heard from a former head of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency who supports the agreement.
Tonight, we hear from an opponent. Stephen Rademaker was an assistant secretary of state for the Bureaus of Arms Control and International Security and Nonproliferation under President George W. Bush. He's now a principal at the Podesta Group in Washington and an adviser to the Bipartisan Policy Center.
In a nutshell, what is your opposition to this deal as it is written now?
I believe there are |
Monday night, after picking up his son Lukas from the NHL Scouting Combine, Rich Sutter brought his family over to the Southern Alberta home of | his twin brother Ron. That night, the twins who played a combined 32 NHL seasons watched their older brother Darryl Sutter and his Los Angeles Kings take a commanding 3-0 series lead in the 2012 Stanley Cup Final.
It's the latest chapter for one of hockey's most famous families, one that has seen six brothers combine to play over 5,000 NHL games and four of them serve as NHL coaches.
"Darryl and I are pretty close. We've gone through a lot together," said Brian, the eldest of the six Sutters who played in the NHL. "[We] played against each other for years, were captains of our teams, and coached against each other for years. It's exciting for him. Darryl has pushed the right buttons to get them to do the job."
Among the brothers, there's a special regard held for Darryl, who began the season out of hockey before becoming the Kings' head coach in December.
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NEW YORK • Three diseases, leading killers of Americans, often involve long periods of decline before death. Two of them - heart disease and cancer - | usually require expensive drugs, operations and hospitalisations. The third, dementia, has no effective treatments to slow its course.
So when a group of United States researchers asked which of these diseases involved the greatest healthcare costs in the last five years of life, the answer they found might seem surprising. The most expensive, by far, was dementia.
The study looked at patients on the US' federally administered social insurance system Medicare. The average total cost of care for a person with dementia during those five years was US$287,038 (S$399,000).
For a patient who died of heart disease, it was US$175,136. For a cancer patient, it was US$173,383. Medicare paid almost the same amount for patients with each of those diseases - close to US$100,000 - but dementia patients had many more expenses that were not covered.
On average, the out-of-pocket cost for a patient with dementia was more than 80 |
The report by European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) MEP Mark Demesmaeker largely welcomed the Commission’s January strategy but called | for a ban on micro-plastics in cosmetic and cleaning products by the end of the decade.
Demesmaeker referred to recent bans on micro-beads, introduced in countries like the United Kingdom, which show it is possible to cut out “intentionally added” micro-plastics, where viable alternatives exist.
The Netherlands, Austria, Belgium and Sweden have issued a joint call to ban the microplastics used in detergents and cosmetics, saying the measure will protect marine life – and seafood – from contamination.
Like the Commission’s original roadmap, the report also says that plastic should be designed with the circular economy is mind, so that Europe can establish a profitable single market for recycled material.
“Together we can turn plastic wastelands into fields of gold,” Demesmaeker said before the plenary session of the European Parliament backed him by 597 votes in favour and just 15 against.
His report also called |
DEAR ABBY: I have been divorced for eight years. My ex and I are on civil terms and text each other a few times a | week regarding our kids, mutual friends and general chitchat.
A few months ago, during a rough patch in my relationship with my girlfriend of three years, “Lily,” I expressed my frustration in one of these texts. It was nothing horrible or unkind, just venting a bit.
A week or so later, Lily was spending the night and I awoke at 2 a.m. to find an empty bed. I discovered her in the living room with my phone, surfing through my texts. She was livid about the communications with my ex, particularly the one in which I commented about our relationship, and stormed out.
I have no password on my phone and nothing to hide from Lily and told her so. I admitted that my ex was not an appropriate person to discuss our relationship with and apologized.
This has caused a permanent shift in our relationship on two levels: She is angry and suspicious regarding my communication with my ex, and I am having |
With top-line growth acceleration, the online marketplace company just beat expectations and raised guidance.
These results were significantly above what eBay admitted last quarter | was potentially conservative guidance, which called for revenue of $2.14 billion to $2.19 billion, and adjusted earnings per share of $0.40 to $0.42.
Revenue climbed 7% on a currency-neutral basis.
Gross merchandise volume (GMV) increased 4% year over year as reported, to $20.9 billion, and would have grown 6% excluding currencies.
A 1% increase (3% at constant currency) in marketplaces GMV, to $19.8 billion, which resulted in revenue of $1.8 billion.
An accelerated 35% increase in StubHub GMV, to $1.1 billion, which resulted in revenue of $225 million, driven by broad strength across genres and continued product innovation.
Classifieds platforms grew revenue 15%, to $207 million, thanks to strength in automotive and real estate verticals, with particular strength in Germany and Canada.
eBay's active buyers increased |
On November 15, Ahrar al-Sham officially declared a start of the operation to capture the Armored Vehicle Base and the nearby area from the Syrian | Arab Army (SAA) in Eastern Ghouta near Damascus.
Ahrar al-Sham, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda) and Faylaq al-Rahman launched their advance on November 14. Since then, an intense fighting has been ongoing in the area.
However, the official Ahrar al-Sham offensive declaration means that this is not a limited effort. The ceasefire region in Eastern Ghouta collapsed.
On November 15, the SAA and its allies captured the villages of Hazm, Kikiyah, al-Arfa and Rabdah from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in northern Hama.
Meanwhile, the HTS-linked news agency Iba’a announced that HTS recaptured Sarha village and Sarha hill in the nearby area. According to Iba’a, the SAA lost at least 3 soldiers and |
A woman turned her car into the path of three motorcycles carrying family members out for a midday ride in central Minnesota, causing a collision that killed two | of the riders, authorities said.
The wreck occurred about 11:20 a.m. Saturday along Hwy. 23 in Roseville Township, roughly 20 miles northeast of Willmar, the State Patrol said.
The couple operating the first two motorcycles, both from St. Cloud, were dead at the scene. The patrol identified them as James L. Young Jr., 42, and Michelle L. Young, 44. They were married in October.
His father, James L. Young, 61, was driving the third motorcycle and was in critical but stable condition at St. Cloud Hospital. The older Young's passenger was his daughter, Melissa A. Mayo, 38, who suffered noncritical injuries. Both are from Sauk Rapids.
They were taken to a hospital in Paynesville. He was transferred to St. Cloud Hospital via air ambulance.
The father and son "were just heading home from riding together like they loved to do," said Steph Young, Mayo's sister. |
View full sizeBeth Nakamura/The OregonianKaine Horman, the father of Kyron Horman, said today during an interview | with The Oregonian that "the pieces are going to fall into place at some point" in the effort to find his missing son.
said Thursday that his marriage to the boy's stepmom began to grow rocky after she gave birth to their little girl 19 months ago.
"I thought the marriage was doing pretty well,"
said during a one-on-one interview with The Oregonian, "until we had our daughter, Kiara."
fractured within six months after she gave birth in November 2008, the result of postpartum depression.
Terri Horman was put on medication for the depression, and her doctor told Kaine to keep an eye on her to make sure she was OK, he said. But she wasn't OK.
"She's had a lot of emotional outbursts," he said. "I think it's still with her. I don't know if it's postpartum or something else."
The 36-year-old |
The Libertyville High School Wildcats will have a new artificial turf field for their home football games when the season begins in the fall.
The Wildcats | abandoned natural grass for turf in 2005, a year after winning the Class 7A state title. The playing surface being installed this month replaces that turf.
Although artificial turf is more durable than natural grass, the field was worn down after 12 years of use.
"The fibers have split over the years and started curling up," Libertyville High Athletic Director Briant Kelly said. "The surface has actually become much harder and is not as safe."
The surface had a life expectancy of about 10 years, Kelly said.
Replacing the turf will cost an estimated $518,000. Funding was included in the school district's annual budget.
That wasn't the case for the original turf field, which cost an estimated $650,000 and was funded with private donations.
The other Libertyville-Vernon Hills Area High School District 128 campus, Vernon Hills High, got an artificial turf football field in 2012. That $800,000 project was privately funded, too. |
Salsa is a popular form of social dance that originated in the Caribbean. The movements of salsa have origins in Cuban Son, Cha-cha- | cha, Mambo and Puertorican Bomba and Plena and other dance forms.
Why: While it makes for a fun night out with friends, it can also be a great way to get healthy and fit. And the best part of it is, the exercise doesn’t feel like exercise at all because you’re having so much fun doing it.
How it works: In many styles of salsa dancing, as a dancer shifts their weight by stepping, the upper body remains level and nearly unaffected by the weight changes. Weight shifts cause the hips to move. Arm and shoulder movements are also incorporated.
Benefits: Salsa dancing provides the benefits of an aerobic exercise while also allowing you to engage in a social activity.
It builds endurance and stamina and helps with weight loss, as dancing can burn more calories an hour than riding a bike or swimming.
Classed as a close and passionate dance, it can strengthen a relationship.
Salsa Northwest: |
US President Barack Obama has announced fresh sanctions against Iran, Syria and those who help them use technology to perpetrate human rights abuses.
He announced | the new sanctions against "digital guns for hire" in a speech at the US Holocaust Museum.
Mr Obama has also asked US intelligence groups to include assessments of the likelihood of mass killings in its co-ordinated reports.
He said: "National sovereignty is never a licence to slaughter your people."
The executive order creates sanctions against the government of Syria and Iran "and those who abet them, for using technologies to monitor, target and track its citizens for violence".
"These technologies should be in place to empower citizens, not to repress them," said Mr Obama.
On Monday, the US Treasury announced the specific targets of the sanctions, including Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps, Syria's General Security Directorate and its chief Ali Mamluk, as well as the state-controlled mobile phone company, Syriatel.
Six of the seven targets were already subject to US sanctions, with the addition of Datak Telecom, an Iranian internet provider.
Mr Obama signed the executive |
Taking to the stage in his first keynote since resigning from his role as chief executive after 35 years, Oracle CTO Larry Ellison used his keynote | to position Oracle’s importance in the cloud market and make fun of competitors.
The company added countless numbers of services to its cloud stack, in hopes to continue to gain market share, despite being seen as late to the game by some industry experts.
The main update was to Oracle’s cloud platform, while additional cloud services include a big data cloud, a mobile cloud, an integration cloud and an analytics cloud.
Ellison said the Oracle cloud platform had been “much updated” with a “complete set of platform services”.
He went on to list competitors – including Ariba, SuccessFactors and Concur (all recently acquired by SAP) – which run on Oracle.
“Salesforce runs on Oracle. SAP Hana powers the cloud? I’m going to try and be nice, but it’s so hard,” he said. “Whose cloud are they talking about? I have no |
Eleven Saudis who were released from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and then passed through a Saudi rehabilitation program for former jihadists are now believed to have fled | the country and joined terrorist groups abroad, Saudi officials said Tuesday.
The 11 former detainees include two who were already identified last month as members of a Yemeni terrorist group. Their names were on a list of 85 wanted terrorism suspects made public Tuesday by the Saudi Interior Ministry.
The announcement further underscored the difficulties faced by the Obama administration as it prepares to close the Guantanamo detention center. All told, 14 Saudis now appear to have rejoined terrorist groups after their return from Guantanamo, including the 11 living abroad and three who were rearrested in Saudi Arabia after their return.
Any perceived weaknesses in the Saudi program - widely viewed as a successful model - could pose problems for the return of the remaining Guantanamo detainees. Almost half of those are Yemeni, and their return depends in part on Yemen's creation of a rehabilitation program based on the Saudis'.
It is not clear whether any of the 11 former detainees being sought by Saudi Arabia have taken part in terrorist attacks. Last month, U.S. |
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a condition which can be closely linked to metabolic syndrome. Insulin resistance, high | blood pressure, high cholesterol levels and high blood levels of triglycerides can together contribute to NAFLD.
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) can occur at any age. It is most common among people in their 40s and 50s. NAFLD is an umbrella term which is used to describe a range of liver conditions that affect people who drink too much alcohol. The disease is a result of inflammation in the liver, which may progress to scarring and damage that cannot be treated. In severe cases non-alcoholic fatty liver disease can lead to liver failure and liver cirrhosis.
Heavy alcohol drinkers are at high risk of fatty liver disease. NAFLD is a condition which can be closely linked to metabolic syndrome. Insulin resistance, high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels and high blood levels of triglycerides can together contribute to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
If your child is obese or overweight, it may have a negative impact on his |
KARACHI: Power production increased 10% to hit an all-time high of 13,751 gigawatt hours (GWh) | in July with additional production coming mainly from newly-established plants on imported gas and coal.
Power production stood at 12,497 GWh in the same month last year, reported the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra).
“(This is) an all-time high power generation during July 2018,” Arif Habib Limited’s analyst Rao Aamir Ali said in a note to clients.
A major boost in production came from the recently setup plants on imported gas (Re-gasified Liquefied Natural Gas or RLNG) and coal. The new plants have added over 5,000 megawatt hours in the system. The cumulative production, however, did not exhibit the same growth due to plugs being pulled on several oil-based plants at the same time.
Production from imported gas (RLNG or Re-gasified Liquefied Natural Gas) and the one produced locally surged to 39% (5,416 GWh) |
Judges at the international criminal court have rejected a request by the court’s top prosecutor to open an investigation into war crimes and crimes against | humanity in Afghanistan, a decision described as a “devastating blow for victims”.
In a lengthy written ruling, judges said any investigation and prosecution was unlikely to be successful because the expectation is that those targeted, including the United States, Afghan authorities and the Taliban, would not cooperate.
The decision could go some way towards easing the tension between the ICC and the Trump administration, which reacted with fury to chief ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s request to investigate potential war crimes by US soldiers in Afghanistan.
Last month the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, said Washington would revoke or deny visas to ICC staff seeking to investigate alleged war crimes and other abuses committed by US forces in Afghanistan or elsewhere. Bensouda said on 5 April that her US visa had been revoked.
Bensouda’s office implied it was not disappointed with the ruling, saying it would “further analyse the [court’s] decision |
PlaySimple, which calls itself a gaming studio, has a 22 people-strong workforce developing easy-to-learn games for all age groups. |
New Delhi: Mobile gaming portal PlaySimple has raised $4 million in a series A round led by SAIF Partners and IDG Ventures India, the company said in a statement.
The Bengaluru-based company—which has two indigenously-developed games in its portfolio—will use the funds to develop new titles, expand its teams and market its brand.
It raised $500,000 in 2015 in seed funding from IDG Ventures.
PlaySimple, which calls itself a gaming studio, has a 22 people-strong workforce developing easy-to-learn games for all age groups. These games have an average session time of 15 minutes and are targeted at the global audience.
The company focuses on categories such as trivia, word and puzzle games and garners its revenue from advertising and in-application purchases.
PlaySimple has achieved break-even and aims to increase sales 10 times by the end of FY18, said co-founder Siddharth Jain. It |
Paris, February 11, 2019: Cyber Group Studios, a leading animated entertainment company, and Outright Games, a global family videogames publisher, | today announced a major partnership to create the first video game inspired by Gigantosaurus, the new animated television series airing on Disney Channel US since January 18th. The new video game will be available for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC.
Based on the bestselling book by world-renowned author Jonny Duddle, Gigantosaurus, the full-CGI comedy-action series produced by Cyber Group Studios, brings preschoolers along on the adventures of four young dinosaur friends as they explore their prehistoric world and the mystery of Gigantosaurus, the biggest, fiercest dinosaur of them all.
The new series that roared to life on Disney Channel US will be broadcast on Disney Junior worldwide (excluding India, China and Taiwan). Gigantosaurus is also set to premiere on major broadcast networks, including France Televisions, Germany's Super RTL, RAI (Italy), SRC (Canada), as well as on Netflix in the majority of territories worldwide.
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The study, published online March 30 in the Early Edition of the journal PNAS, is the first record of disturbance and recovery of seafloor | ecosystem biodiversity in response to abrupt climate change.
The work, led by Sarah Moffitt, a scientist from UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory and Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute, shows that while climate change and the deoxygenation of seawater can alter ocean ecology very quickly, recovery can be on a 1,000-year scale, not the 100-year scale previously thought.
Moffitt analyzed more than 5,400 invertebrate fossils, from sea urchins to clams, within a sediment core from offshore Santa Barbara. The core, essentially a tube of sediment that covers a period between 3,400 and 16,100 years ago, provides a before-and-after snapshot of what happened during the last major deglaciation.
The deglaciation was a time of abrupt climate warming, melting polar ice caps, and expansion of low oxygen zones in the ocean. This new study documents how long it took for recovery of ecosystems to begin, after a |
The study is being published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine and constitutes an important and long-awaited platform for continued research. This is a | major international collaboration and an entirely academic study, with no funding from drug companies. It’s important for both patients and their physicians to evaluate treatment alternatives, says Britt Skogseid, professor of tumour endocrinology at Uppsala University, who directed the study and has received many favourable reactions to the Swedish initiative from all over the world.
The chance of surviving advanced adrenal gland cancer is low, less than 15 per cent. Because the disease is uncommon, 0.7-2 cases per million, it is impossible for a single country to amass a sufficiently large patient base. In this phase-III study researchers compared the outcome of the two most widely used chemotherapy treatments, both in combination with mitotan.
With 12 countries working in collaboration, a robust study has now been carried out, covering 304 patients with metastasized adrenocortical cancer. The NIH in the US also provided patients for the study. One group was given mitotan in combination |
Late last week, North Carolina Board of Elections voted unanimously to do something with no modern American precedent: board members from both parties ordered a do- | over election in the state’s 9th congressional district. The move was deemed necessary in the face of evidence that local Republicans engaged in a systemic and illegal election-fraud scheme, intended to send Mark Harris (R) to Congress.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether Harris, tainted by scandal, would be the GOP’s candidate for the next election. Yesterday, the former far-right pastor answered the question: Harris isn’t running.
I’ve heard from some Democrats who saw the announcement as bittersweet: they were glad to see him walk away, but they also hoped he would run in the do-over race because it would likely help Dan McCready (D) win. Harris’ replacement is less likely to have played a role in the local mess.
As recently as Saturday, Rushing had decried the state board of elections’ fraud hearings…. In earlier posts, Rushing seems to suggest that fraud didn’ |
At the close: Can't stop the FTSE 100 as oil price bounce sends London into the green | City A.M.
It | was on the back foot all day, but the FTSE 100 finally landed some punches in the final rounds of the day to power through the 6,400 barrier and close up 0.08 per cent - setting a new 2016 high in the process.
After starting on the ropes following a predictably downbeat open this morning, it looked like talk of the FTSE fightback was premature. But when the sun came out, that feel-good factor returned, sellers changed tact and London's miners basked in the glow, sending the benchmark index up to 6,410 - a small improvement on yesterday's highest close of the year.
In truth, investors have their American cousins to thank for the final hour rally, as US oil stocks came in lower than expected. That sent the price of oil up after plunging this morning on news that the Kuwait oil strike was being drawn to an end.
Brent Crude stood at $44.52 a barrel, up 1.18 |
Tarkwa (W/R), Nov 04, GNA- President John Agyekum Kufuor on Wednesday called on mining | companies operating in the country to list on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE).
He said this would boost the country's capitalization and strengthen the economy further to the mutual benefit of the nation and the companies.
"It could also strengthen their partnership with the government to create an even more vibrant mining industry", he said.
President Kufuor made the call when unveiling a plaque to inaugurate an 85 million-dollar Carbon-In-Leach (CIL) processing plant for Goldfields Ghana Limited (GGL) at Tarkwa in the Western Region.
President Kufuor said another area that should engage the attention of the mining companies was human resource development and its utilization in the sector.
He said with the establishment of the Western University College at Tarkwa, the government was progressively equipping and empowering it to become a world-class Centre of Excellence for training professional and technical mining personnel.
In addition, it would also be used for the development |
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman denied Wednesday that he had any idea that his money would be used for a campaign that spread disinformation during last year� | �s special election for the Alabama Senate seat.
Hoffman was linked to the campaign, which used fake news in order to try to split Roy Moore’s support, by the New York Times last week in an extensive look at New Knowledge, a cyber security firm that created fake Facebook accounts to divide Republicans by endorsing a write-in candidate.
Hoffman said he didn’t directly fund New Knowledge, but rather an organization called American Engagement Technologies, which aimed to fight fake news and bots. American Engagement Technologies, then, funded New Knowledge.
“I categorically disavow the use of misinformation to sway an election,” Hoffman wrote on Medium.
Over the weekend, Facebook shut down five accounts linked to the project.
“We've recently removed five accounts run by multiple individuals for engaging in coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook around the Alabama special election, and our investigation is ongoing. We take a strong stand against people or organizations |
When Rob Kutner and Mike Shapiro set out to create the pilot "Family Values," they had a vision for a family sitcom that would resonate in | today's polarized political climate.
The pilot stars "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" correspondent Rob Riggle as an ultra-conservative pundit whose life is turned upside down when his wife leaves him and he is forced to raise his children on his own with the help of a left-leaning single mother who lives next door. Kutner ("Daily Show," "Dennis Miller Live") wrote the pilot, but he wasn't sure the series would emerge with his original vision intact if it went the traditional route for TV production.
Enter the New York Television Festival, the third annual celebration of the burgeoning independent TV scene, where "Values" will be screened in front of networks, producers and agents who could give it a shot. "Values" is one of 28 independently produced pilots that will compete for prizes and the chance to be picked up by networks and studios during the four-day festival, which starts Wednesday and runs through Sept. 9 at New World Stages in New York.
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The 54-year-old labourer from St. Paul’s Bay who is not being named to protect the identities of his alleged victims | appeared before magistrate Charmaine Galea this afternoon.
Inspector Josef Gauci accused the man of slightly injuring his partner, using psychological or moral violence to isolate her or limit her access to finance, carrying a knife without a police permit, insulting and threatening five police officers, attacking them, disobeying legitimate police orders, using obscene language in public, breaching the peace, taking up arms against other people and insulting or threatening his 13-year-old daughter. He was also accused of relapsing.
The inspector explained that he had threatened to kill his partner and had beaten her in the past. He then threatened the police whilst in a drunken state.
Lawyer Joseph Ellis, legal aid, entered a not guilty plea and requested bail. The accused was concerned about the welfare of his dogs, the court was told. He would live in separate accommodation to his estranged family, Ellis said.
But inspector Gauci pointed out that the man had said during interrogation that if he |
District boundaries: All of Brevard and Indian River counties, as well as part of east Orange County.
More: Posey: Democratic opponent | a "puppet of Nancy Pelosi"
Political/government/civic experience: While I’m not a career politician, I have become involved in local politics over the last few years to restore balance to our community and our country. I was elected as a delegate from our district to the Democratic National Convention in 2016 and was then elected state committeeman of the Brevard Democratic Party. In that role, I helped to lead, reform and rebuild the BrevardDems as a vibrant, active, participatory organization that is reflective of the values of local people. I have also worked on several grass-roots campaigns to elect candidates to local office, to support the Save Our Lagoon referendum, to raise funds for Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria and to protect the water at Standing Rock.
What should Congress do to help in the efforts to clean up the Indian River Lagoon?
The Indian River Lagoon is the center of our economy and way of life. Congress must protect and |
Managing the files on our computers is relatively easy, but on our phones it’s a little different due to the difference in design of | the OS and the way we interact with our devices, which is why file manager apps can come in handy. Last month Google announced Files Go, a file manager app for Android, and the good news is that the app is now available for download.
In an announcement by Google on its blog, they have announced that Files Go is now available to all users on Android. Prior to that, Google released the app in beta mode which meant that it wasn’t available to all users, plus there are probably some users out there who might not be so keen to beta test software.
Files Go, for those unfamiliar, isn’t just a files manager app. The app will help users manage their files, but it will also help them to free up space in which the app can make personalized suggestions as to what users can delete to free up space, like duplicates, unused apps, and so on.
It can also help users to backup their files to the cloud using services |
In early February, Bruce Katz touted his vision for America’s next economy, chiefly driven by an increase in exports. Fueling innovation and | building on an emerging green economy are also tenets of the plan, which can help the country maintain prosperity in a global economy.
It is great to be in California with a group of individuals who are at the cutting edge of economic transformation, our topic for the day.
The “Great Recession” has been a wake up call for the nation.
It unveiled an economy dangerously out of whack: frenzied with consumption, wasteful in its use of energy, more adept at increasing inequity than sharing prosperity, more successful at exacerbating rather than easing divisions between Wall Street and Main Street.
It is time to get back on track and lay the foundation for a radically different kind of growth in our country.
First, as Larry Summers and other respected economists have intoned, the shape of the next American economy must be export-oriented, low carbon, and innovation fueled. This is a vision where we export more and waste less, innovate in what matters, produce and deploy |
A MYSTERY buyer has become the Lord of Bowland after snapping up the title at auction.
The new Lord of the Ribble Valley | area gets a range of ancient rights.
But sadly, the Lord of Bowland does not receive the hunting forest, eight manors, five townships and four parishes that used to be include with the honour.
However the Manorial Society, which represents Britain's 1,900 lords of the manor and feudal barons, has revealed the 'lost' title has been revived.
It is not known how much the title sold for, but on average cost several thousand pounds.
Though anonymous for the time being, the new lord may reveal his identity to use his role ceremonially.
He is said to be in his forties, British and from a family connected with the area.
With the title, he has been granted the rights to appoint a Master Forester and Bowbearers. Bowbearers at one time accompanied the King on hunts but later officiated in the Lord's forest court.
However, the ancient court in Bowland is today known as the |
Washington: The fight against international terrorism cannot be successful by doing deals with terror groups for short term gains, India has said, as it asked for | a comprehensive global movement against the menace.
“You cannot have a fight against international terrorism which is compartmentalised. The snakes that bite us wherever come from the same pit," Indian ambassador to the United Nations, Hardeep Singh Puri told CNN, wherein he along with his Afghan and Pakistani counterparts to the world body had a rare combined appearance on a TV show.
“You cannot do Faustian deals with terrorist groups, so I think you need a comprehensive international movement against the terrorists, and I hope that all of us who are involved in this will carry this fight through until the end so that all of us are victors in this," Puri argued.
Pakistani Ambassador to the UN, Abdullah Hussain Haroon along with the Afghan ambassador to the world body, Zahir Tanin were present on the occasion.
Responding to a question, Puri said that there is no suggestion ever that a diversion of Pakistani military assets from one border to the other to fight |
The Massachusetts Farm Bureau Federation has offered "strong support" for a bill that will help local farmers by transferring oversight of meat and poultry slaughtering facilities | from the state Department of Public Health to the Department of Agricultural Resources.
The bill, which was filed in February by state Rep. Stephen Kulik, D-Worthington, was discussed Thursday before the Joint Committee of Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.
More than 90 years old, the bureau has 6,200 members from 3,500 farms.
As the demand for poultry and red meat grows, Brad Mitchell, director of government affairs for the Marlborough-based bureau, said it is "difficult for growers to take advantage of this market because of a shortage of slaughter and processing facilities" in the state.
In a statement to the joint committee, the bureau wrote there are just two U.S. Department of Agriculture-approved red meat slaughter facilities in the Bay State and no such facilities for slaughtering poultry.
The shortage of slaughter facilities makes transporting animals across the state or to other sites so costly it cuts into profits and makes it harder to produce certain cuts |
A police officer stands guard at a crime scene where two men were found hanging from a bridge in Atizapan de Zaragoza, near Mexico | City, March 30, 2013.
Bodies were found hanging from bridges in Baja California Sur several days before Christmas, along with banners known as "narcomantas."
Such displays were common during previous times of inter-cartel fighting, but it's the first time one has appeared in Baja California Sur.
Violence has risen precipitously through Mexico over the past three years.
During the early morning hours of December 20, the bodies of six men were found hanging from bridges in the northwestern Mexican state of Baja California Sur, a popular tourist hub where deadly violence has risen precipitously in recent years.
Around 4:30 a.m., two bodies were found hanging from a bridge near the international airport in the municipality of Los Cabos, at the southern end of the state. Around 5 a.m., two more bodies were found in Cabo San Lucas, hanging from a bridge over a highway connecting that city to San Jose del Cabo. |
Tim Costello and Brigid Beaubien opened 8 Degrees Plato Beer in Detroit after finishing the Goldman Sachs small business program.
Small | businesses interested in applying for the Goldman Sachs program can do so here.
Tim Costello lost his day job like thousands of others in 2008, and his side job as a stand-up comedian wasn’t going well. Knowing how much he and his wife loved beer, the couple hatched a plan.
Costello would complete his entrepreneurship degree program at Eastern Michigan University and then he and his wife, Brigid Beaubien, a former Detroit Public Schools teacher and professor at EMU, would open their own craft beer store.
In 2011, their dream came true. They opened 8 Degrees Plato Beer Co. in Ferndale and eventually hired two part-time employees. Business wasn’t bad; so they wanted to grow and open a store in Detroit.
That’s when Costello and Beaubien applied for the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses initiative, one many programs in the state helping second-stage entrepreneurs expand their businesses. |
Halloumi is a firm, white, brined cheese traditionally made from a mixture of goat’s and sheep’s milk. | (Though today, cow’s milk is often used.) Like other low-fat cheeses, it is perfect for grilling. It sears and colors quickly when it hits the hot grill. The interior softens, but the cheese doesn’t melt; it just warms up invitingly.
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Prepare a hot grill. Cut halloumi into 8 to 12 slabs, about 1/3- to 1/2-inch thick. Cut peppers into wide pieces, slicing from top to bottom along the natural indentations. Discard seeds. Cut pieces in half crosswise. Slice the zucchini and eggplant on the diagonal, into 1/4- to 1/3-inch-thick rounds.
Season all vegetables with salt and pepper. Brush vegetables and halloumi with olive oil.
Grill vegetables until tender and nicely charred, turning occasionally. If you |
UNITED NATIONS, April 14 -- After the Ukraine meeting of the UN Security Council on April 13, Inner City Press asked Ukraine's long- | time Ambassador Yuriy Sergeyev about the reported visit to Kyiv of US Central Intelligence Agency chief John Brennan.
Sergeyev replied, "It happened only in some comments from Moscow." Video here.
Well, not anymore. At the US State Department briefing on April 14, spokesperson Jen Psaki confirmed that CIA's Brennan was in "Kiev this weekend." She also said that Secretary of State John Kerry spoke with Ukraine's acting prime minister Yatsenyuk earlier in April 14 that there was not yet any read-out.
Also on April 14 Oleksandr Turchynov, acting president of Ukraine, in a telephone call with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, suggested a joint "counter-terrorism" operation in Eastern Ukraine with UN peacekeepers.
This and much reporting on it ignored that all UN peacekeeping operations require authorization from the Security Council, in which Russia (and China) have veto rights.
Inner City Press asked Ban's spokesman Stephane |
Canada offers almost every conceivable type of vacation tour to fit a traveler’s budget, whether it’s hiking in British Columbia, indul | ging in the nightlife of Montreal, taking historic walking tours of Toronto or savoring the grandeur of Niagara Falls. Transportation options for rental cars, train travel or coach tours are plentiful and are conceived for the cost-conscious tourist. U.S. citizens are now required to have a passport or passport card for entering or leaving Canada.
Coach tours and guided walking tours are available on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. Visitors can also drive their cars to the natural attraction and enjoy the Maid of the Mist boat ride and visit the Cave of the Winds. Before planning a trip to Niagara Falls in the winter, visitors should determine whether these tours are operating. However, a skating rink, Rink at the Brink near Horseshoe Falls, is open during the winter. Many hotels, like the Hilton and Marriott and Embassy Suites, offer special-rate packages throughout the year.
Some tour companies, such as PersonalTours, offer guided walking tours of historic sites in Toronto, |
Service oriented architecture is a principle that allows businesses to manage their IT and business transformation in order to give themselves a competitive edge. It offers benefits including | insight into the running of the entire business, seamless integration of systems and the cloud, and linking of front and back office systems.
However it’s defined, a key principle of SOA is that it should be independent of products, vendors and technologies. Each service is a discrete unit that can operate independently, but uses metadata to describe how it handles and exchanges information. The idea behind this is that a number of services can be combined together to form a larger, more complex application. SOA therefore needs to be built into the design to ensure that all of the service modules will work together.
First defined by Sun in the late 1990s to define a service (Jini) for discovering services over a network, SOA id still a relatively new concept.
In 2009 a group of industry experts published an SOA Manifesto which sets out its guiding principles and core values. In implementing SOA this specifies that enterprises should prioritise: business value over technical strategy, strategic goals over |
Cup final man of the match James Hitchcock insisted Bridlington Town’s win at the KCom Stadium was a team effort.
The | goalkeeper made a stunning save in each half to deny North Ferriby frontman Wayne Brooksby, as the underdogs won 1-0 in the East Riding Senior Cup final.
“The first one was a decent save, the second one was a free kick which bounced right in front of me and I thought I did well to keep that one out,” Hitchcock said.
“The whole team played well and Jenks and Ryan (defenders Chris Jenkinson and Ryan Nicholls) did a great job in front of me, like they have done all season.
Hitchcock was part of last year’s winning team, when Bridlington beat Hull United 4-1, but he said Wednesday night’s success was a bigger achievement.
“Last night topped last year,” he said. “The opposition were better and the game was closer. From the first minute to the last minute, we had to be on our toes and I |
The issue of fair representation will take center stage as U.S. congressional districts are reapportioned based on the 2000 Census. Using U. | S. history as a guide, the authors develop a theory of fair representation that establishes various principles for translating state populations—or vote totals of parties—into a fair allocation of congressional seats. They conclude that the current apportionment formula cheats the larger states in favor of the smaller, contrary to the intentions of the founding fathers and compromising the Supreme Court’s “one man, one vote” rulings. Balinski and Young interweave the theoretical development with a rich historical account of controversies over representation, and show how many of these principles grew out of political contests in the course of United States history. The result is a work that is at once history, politics, and popular science. The book—updated with data from the 1980 and 1990 Census counts—vividly demonstrates that apportionment deals with the very substance of political power.
Michel L. Balinski is the former director of the Laboratoire d'Econometrie of the Ecole Poly |
The place to go for super-fast broadband? Rural Oxfordshire, thanks to a company that specialises in getting rural areas online.
If | your town or village has been left out of the fibre broadband rollout, then help could be at hand. Residents of Frilford (population 212, according to the 2001 census) and Frilford Heath in Oxfordshire were snubbed, so teamed up with infrastructure specialist Gigaclear.
Gigaclear has begun installing fibre broadband in both communities, and residents should enjoy 1,000Mbps connectivity starting in April. That's right, 1,000Mbps. That's around 10 times as fast as the best offerings from other providers, and the same speed as the highly publicised Google Fiber experiment in Kansas. All in rural Oxfordshire.
Bruce Ballard, managing director of local business Paddock IT Solutions, said, "We use ADSL over copper at the moment but with so much upstream traffic it performs badly. We've also found our existing service provider's attitude to outages unacceptable. Until now, suitable alternatives have been either unavailable in the area or prohibitively expensive."
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The hiring comes at a crucial time for the Russia inquiry and the criminal investigation of Michael Cohen.
President Donald Trump’s legal team got | a significant boost of big-name talent and criminal-law expertise on Thursday with the addition of Rudy Giuliani and two other former federal prosecutors coming at a critical time for the widespread Russia inquiry and a high-stakes criminal investigation into the president’s longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen.
The hiring of the former New York mayor, along with the husband-wife law partners Jane Serene Raskin and Marty Raskin, came just hours after a federal judge raised doubts about the scope of the order used to appoint special counsel Robert Mueller to look into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, and shortly before the Justice Department delivered to Congress copies of former FBI Director James Comey’s memos documenting his interactions with the president last year.
The additions also came on the eve of a hearing on Friday in Los Angeles on a bid by the president and Cohen to delay a lawsuit filed by Stormy Daniels, the adult-film actress who claims to have had a sexual encounter with Trump about a |
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 15 2016 (IPS) - Poverty and education gaps have decreased significantly among indigenous communities in Latin America, but many continue | to be left out of social gains, according to a new World Bank study released Monday.
In much of the region, indigenous political participation has increased. In Bolivia, indigenous people’s representation in parliament is approximately 30 percent. More countries have also accepted indigenous traditions in electoral processes including Oaxaca, Mexico where 418 out of 570 municipalities are managed according to indigenous customs.
These developments are, in part, due to the creation of international treaties and declarations such as the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples adopted in 2007.
The study also found that 70 million people were lifted out of poverty, including indigenous peoples in Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru. Access to primary education was one of the greatest and clearest achievements during the golden decade, the World Bank said. In countries such as Ecuador, Mexico and Nicaragua, the education gap between indigenous and non-indigenous children closed.
Despite progress, indigenous communities continue to be excluded from development.
“Latin America has |
Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd (centre), with the Job Centre's Carla Passarello, service leader for Cumbria and | Lancashire, and Helen Saul, customer service leader for North Lancashire.
Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd visited Lancaster Job Centre this week to talk to work coaches and people receiving Universal Credit.
The MP visited Job Centres in Southport and Preston prior to coming to Lancaster, where she said her role is the “ensure what the government initiatated in being delivered on the ground”.
She said of Universal Credit: “It’s been good overall, and people now get a very personal service.
“People have been engaged and happy to talk to me.
“Universal Credit replaces six seperate benefits, and I think it’s a great system.
“I learned that it’s effective when I spoke to the work coaches, and they tell me how much better it is compared to the previous system.
“I know it faced difficulties initially, the money wasn’t being paid |
Prices of Treasury securities were narrowly mixed in a session that effectively ended shortly after 1 P.M. yesterday, after a fire in lower Manhattan | led to a widespread loss of electrical power.
The fire at the Consolidated Edison power plant just moments after the Treasury had conducted its weekly auction of three-month and six-month bills darkened trading screens and computers.
Had the fire not broken out, the auction would likely have been the highlight of an otherwise quiet summer Monday trading session.
''The market was lucky that the power outage happened on a day when not much was going on,'' said David R. Duerson, manager of government securities trading operations at the Security Pacific National Bank in Los Angeles.
At the auction, bids on the three-month bills produced an average discount rate of 7.41 percent, up from the average rate of 7.23 percent at the sale a week ago.
Six-month bills were sold at an average rate of 7.31 percent, up from an average rate of 7.19 percent a week ago.
Trading in the secondary market for Treasury securities continued on a very limited basis |
City police are investigating a shooting with injuries reported on North Fulton Avenue on Wednesday night.
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — City police are investigating | a shooting with injuries reported on North Fulton Avenue Wednesday night.
Evansville Police officers were called to the 1800 block of North Fulton about 8 p.m. Wednesday for a report of shots fired.
They found a man down on the sidewalk bleeding from a gunshot wound.
The 23-year-old man was shot in the thigh, police say, and was taken to the hospital.
A witness said he saw a man wearing all black run from the scene and through a nearby apartment complex. A K-9 unit tried to track the person but was unsuccessful.
Evansville Police have already responded to several shootings in the city this year. Bullet holes were found in a house and car on Keller Street Monday, just a few blocks away from the shooting on North Fulton.
One man was injured in a shooting at the West Side VFW this weekend, where civilians subdued a 70-year-old man accused of trying to shoot several bystanders while looking for a person he had |
Fatah reveals Hamas smuggling people from Gaza via Egypt to Europe for $2,000 to $3,500 per person; Hamas partially denies. |
Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction has exposed that Hamas is running a human trafficking network, smuggling Gaza residents to Europe for $2,000 to $3,500 per person.
The charges come following reports that dozens of Palestinian Arabs drowned last week after leaving Gaza for Egypt, where they boarded an ill-fated ship bound for Europe that never reached its goal, reports Kol Yisrael (Israel Radio).
Apparently Hamas used its hundreds of smuggling tunnels into the Sinai Peninsula to funnel the would-be immigrants out of Gaza and into Egypt; while an Egyptian siege limited the usage of those smuggling tunnels, the blockade has been recently eased during the current ceasefire.
Palestinian Arab media sources published the names of roughly 90 Arab residents of Gaza who went missing after trying to immigrate by sea from Egypt to Europe.
In response to the accusations, Hamas said the phenomenon of immigration has always existed, and claimed it arrested several members of the human trafficking network in Gaza. |
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SACRAMENTO (AP) — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday brought back furloughs for thousands of state workers until California passes | a budget.
Schwarzenegger released a new executive order requiring state workers to take three unpaid days off per month starting next month. State workers were furloughed a total of 46 days when Schwarzenegger issued a similar order in February 2009, which translated to a pay cut of about 14 percent for workers.
It's unclear how long the latest round of furloughs could last, as Schwarzenegger and lawmakers enter the fifth week of the new fiscal year without a balanced budget.
"Without a budget in place that addresses our $19 billion budget deficit, every day of delay brings California closer to a fiscal meltdown," Schwarzenegger said in a statement. "Our cash situation leaves me no choice but to once again furlough state workers until the Legislature produces a budget I can sign."
It also exempts about 37,000 workers in six unions that recently reached tentative labor agreements with the administration.
The state has about 237,000 workers.
The furlough puts pressure on |
Cindy McCain’s use of pain killers in the very early 1990s, following back surgery and two ruptured discks, is | an old story with no relevance to the question of whether John McCain should be elected president. Moreover, she has been open about her addiction. Why she should discuss the consequences of the addiction in all their “complexity” — e.g., what happened to the doctor who supplied her with the pain killers — is not clear. The relevance of her “failure” to do so is even less apparent.
Much of what’s taking place in this campaign on both sides is disheartening, and nowhere is this more true than in the news pages of the Washington Post.
The good news is that the Post has only so many spots on its front-page to devote to attacking the Republican ticket and its members’ spouses. If the best it can do is stories about Cindy McCain’s drug addiction in 1991, the Republicans have nothing to fear. The bad news is that if this is the best the MSM can do with the facts, it may |
Gennady Golovkin will look to prove that he is better than Saul “Canelo” Alvarez when they collide in a rematch | on May 5. But if Golovkin really wants to win against his biggest rival, Billy Joe Saunders thinks the hard-hitting champion needs to do it the hard way.
The first fight between Golovkin and Alvarez in September last year ended in a split draw. Most fans and analysts think Golovkin did enough to win the fight, questioning the decision of the judges who called the bout.
Judge Dave Moretti scored the bout 115-113 in favor of Golovkin, while Don Trella had it 114-114. Judge Adalaide Byrd had it 118-110 in favor of Alvarez. Byrd was heavily criticized for her decision, which led to a temporary suspension.
Based on how the first fight was called, Saunders told Fighthub that Golovkin should take his fate out of the hands of the judges. He implied Golovkin has to knockout or at least clearly dominate Alvarez to get the victory. He believes the judges will hand the win to Canelo |
Huawei is an independent company, owned by our employees and not the Chinese government, writes Joy Tan, senior vice president of Huawei USA.
| As the global leader in 5G technology, Huawei is 12 to 18 months ahead of our competitors. As of today, Huawei has won 30 5G commercial contracts with more than 40,000 base stations deployed across the world.
Huawei’s secure and affordable technology bridges the digital divide. Here in America, many smaller telecom carriers use Huawei gear to deliver connectivity to underserved communities. The advent of 5G will be critical to the development of advanced technologies, like autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence and smart cities. Blocking an industry leader like Huawei would hurt those providers, weaken competition, slow innovation and threaten job growth.
Politicizing cybersecurity is a losing proposition. Without Huawei, consumers would pay more for lower quality services and technology.
Huawei is driving innovation. Last year, we invested $15 billion in research and development. According to the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization, the company is a top global patent holder with 87,805 patents (11,152 of those in |
We've already talked about using RSS as a business intelligence tool, but how do you choose the right software to get maximum benefit out of your news | reading? With a number of options and myriad features on multiple platforms, it can be a daunting task to even get started.
In this article we'll take a look at some of what you might consider when shopping for a news reader. Do you need cutting edge, up to the second information at your fingertips? You might want to look at "ticker" style applications that scroll new headlines continuously. Or maybe you need to monitor a large number of feeds but are primarily interested in a subset of specific keywords or topics. In that case, you'd want to look for an RSS reader that supports a Smart Folders or Saved Searches feature.
If you need to keep news feeds in sync across multiple platforms, from Mac to Windows or from the web to a desktop or mobile clients, there are solutions out there for you too. Many of these readers also help you share individual articles and posts with your colleagues and collaborators as well. Let's take a look at some of the options available |
An end to festivities: Candi Staton is one of Triptych’s final guestsNext month’s Tripty | ch Festival will be the eighth and last. There’s an undeniable twinge of loss; since 2001 Triptych has specialised in bringing established pioneers and contemporary adventurers to Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow, often for unusual, one-off gigs.Past visitors have included Jimmy Cliff, Phillip Glass, Grace Jones, Aphex Twin, Terry Riley and Ute Lemper, while in 2004 – the year the festival expanded from three to five days – there was even a stop-over by late electronic music grandaddy Dr Robert Moog.By comparison, the 2008 programme is a relatively tame affair. Though the final party at Glasgow’s Arches on Apr 27 is a flurry of big names, some might find the rest of the fest (now scaled back to its original three days) a little flat.That’s not to say there aren’t highlights – there are, including screenings of Jim Jarmusch’s Ghost Dog: The Way Of The |
LOS ANGELES, March 04, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reed’s Inc. (NYSE MKT:RE | ED), the leading maker of craft sodas nationwide announced today that it intends to issue its financial results for the year ended December 31, 2015 on Wednesday, March 23, 2016.
The Company plans to release its earnings results that day at approximately 1:05 pm Pacific Time followed by a management conference call for investors at 1:30 pm Pacific Time.
A replay of the call will be available on the Reed’s website at www.reedsinc.com in the “Investors” section following the earnings call within a day.
Reed's, Inc. makes the top-selling sodas in the natural and specialty foods industry and are sold in over 15,000 natural and mainstream supermarkets nationwide. Reed's products are sold through an additional estimated 40,000 accounts that include specialty gourmet, natural food stores, retail stores, convenience stores and restaurants nationwide and in select international markets. Reed’s has sold over 500 million bottles since inception in June 1989 and |
Rick Down died at age 68 after a long illness.
He was one of those guys who never quite got over the top in the minor leagues | , an outfielder who came up through the Montreal Expos system at a time when they had an impressive stable of major league outfielders that included Hall of Famer Andre Dawson, Ellis Valentine and Warren Cromartie.
Down made it to the Triple-A level before retiring as a player and knocking around the low minors as a coach in the late 1970s. He then spent six seasons coaching at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas under UNLV coaching legend Fred Dallimore.
His big break in professional baseball came when he was hired by the California Angels as a roving hitting instructor. Four years later, the Yankees hired him and he started working his way up the minor league managerial ladder.
Though he had great success leading the Triple-A Columbus Clippers to several International League titles, he never got a chance to manage in the majors. Instead, he spent three seasons as Yankees hitting coach under manager Buck Showalter (1993-95) before moving on to the Orioles.
Down |
Richard Erwin Alary passed away peacefully on January 12, 2019, at Valley View Hospital from complications of a fall and heart failure. He was | born on January 5, 1950, in Arkansas. Richard grew up in Thousand Oaks, California, and moved to Glenwood Springs in 1979. Shortly thereafter, he met the love of his life, Evelyn Maddalone, who he has now been reunited with, and raised her daughter as his own.
After graduation Richard was drafted into the Army and was honorably discharged in 1973. He then went on to receive his refrigeration and heating certificate. Richard worked at the Garfield County Courthouse for 37 years, retiring in 2015. He loved to hunt, fish, collect antiques, and books. He was a man of little words but the strongest and most humble man his family has ever met. Richard has lovingly been described as a gentle giant. Words do not describe how much he was loved and how much he will be missed. We take solace that he is dancing with Evelyn now.
Richard is survived by his daughter, Nissa Maddalone, granddaughter, Sophia Taylor, his |
I was a career woman working for a big company in Makati. It was the most enjoyable time of my life, as I was earning a | good salary and prospects of my promotion to an executive position were almost certain. The problem began when our father had a stroke and was bed-ridden. My sister and brother called me to come home immediately as he needed vital care.
I took a leave from my work and came to Bacolod to take care of our father. He had been very lonely since our mother died, and his stroke only made things worse for him. He had to be fed and cared for like a baby. We tried to get caregivers to take care of him but they didn’t stay long as he was very difficult. I was the only one who could manage him. After a while our office asked when I could report back to work. I asked my siblings to take over the care of our father but they refused, saying they had their own families to care for. There was no other recourse but for me to resign.
I lost a lot of weight as I had to lift my father whenever he |
Foursquare has raised over $240 million. Here's what the startup's investor pitch deck looked like before it raised any money at all | .
Foursquare employees holding up badges you can earn on the app.
When Foursquare launched in 2009, it was a startup sensation. The check-in game app has grown and changed a lot over the past decade. Now Foursquare is mostly a location data company that lots of enterprises use.
The company has gone on to raise over $240 million from investors and its valuation has soared.
Cofounder Dennis Crowley shared Foursquare's first-ever pitch deck, just before investors really started showing interest in the company.
It's clear from the early presentation that Crowley had a vision and a plan to execute, complete with lots of features that could create a highly engaged audience and future revenue streams.
When Foursquare launched, it quickly became one of the biggest, buzziest startups.
The company, which started as a a location-based check-in game for users, has gone on to raise over $240 |
Ruf Automobile GmbH, a German automotive company that has been tuning Porsches for a long time, will make an electric version | of the Porsche 911 called the eRUF Model A.
Under the hood, a 150kW (201hp) brushless three phase A/C electric motor that can generate an impressive 480 lb.-ft. of torque and a lithium-ion iron-phosphate battery pack made of 96 160Ah Axeon cells and a sophisticated monitoring system to make sure it doesn't overheat. Read on for more details and photos.
It accelerates from zero to 100 kph in less than seven seconds and has a top speed of 225 kph (140 mph). Estimated range per charge is 250 kilometers to 320 kilometers (155-199 miles), depending on performance level, using a 50.72 kWh lithium-ion iron-phosphate pack from Axeon plc.
But the battery pack could be replaced as new technology comes out. In its press release, RUF says: "The generation of batteries available from Axeon represents by no means the end of the developmental curve |
FBI Director Christopher Wray said he was as angry as he’s been in “a long, long time” over the government | shutdown, now into its fifth week.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — FBI Director Christopher Wray said he was as angry as he’s been in “a long, long time” over the government shutdown, now into its fifth week.
Wray made the comments to FBI workers in a video message posted to the FBI’s website. It is unclear if the message was intentionally posted, but Wray’s comments imply it was not meant to be public.
“In this polarized environment, even seemingly straightforward statements can be hijacked by one side or the other,” Wray said.
About 35,000 agents, analysts and staff aren’t being paid during the government shutdown, as President Donald Trump and congress fight over appropriations and funding for a proposed border wall.
The video was posted to the FBI’s website on Jan. 24.
A CNN story dated Jan. 10 said Wray thanked employees for their continued |
Cuba on Wednesday selected 57-year-old First Vice President Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez as sole candidate to succeed Raul | Castro as president of Cuba, the centerpiece of an effort to ensure that the country’s single-party system outlasts the aging revolutionaries who created it.
The virtually certain unanimous approval of the National Assembly will install someone from outside the Castro family in the country’s highest government office for the first time in nearly six decades.
The 86-year-old Castro will remain head of the Communist Party, designated by the constitution as “the superior guiding force of society and the state.” As a result, Castro is almost certain to remain the most powerful person in Cuba for the time being. His departure from the presidency is nonetheless a symbolically charged moment for a country accustomed to 60 years of absolute rule first by revolutionary leader Fidel Castro and, for the last decade, his younger brother.
Nominated as new first vice president was Salvador Valdes Mesa, a 72-year-old Afro-Cuban former union official who has held a long series of high posts |
Since joining UGA as the director of the Institute of Gerontology, Toni Miles has decided to steer the institute to looking at how ger | iatric patients affect the broader society and what can be done to improve that aspect of public health.
Led by Toni P. Miles, professor of epidemiology and director of the Institute of Gerontology in the College of Public Health, the research looked at how survivors responded to spouse, parent, sibling or child loss.
A report of any loss resulted in a 20 to 30 percent increased risk of health care use, she said. The risk for baby boomers six or more years past the loss was even greater. Compared to respondents without spousal or parental death, these grievers had a 75 to 95 percent increased risk of health care use.
The research was published in the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and is part of a larger Mortality Project being conducted by the university. Through the Mortality Project, UGA researchers study how loss affects a survivor’s health. Along with research on loss and health care use, the Mortality Project has |
Many poor rice farmers across the country are giving up farming because it fetches them too little money and turning to other livelihoods.
Farmers | in the northern provinces of Thanh Hoa and Hai Duong, who were allocated paddy fields more than 30 years ago for a small annual fee, are returning or just abandoning them.
Official figures show that 42,785 families left their fields (6,882 hectares) untouched this year, leaving them covered in weeds for children to use as football pitches or people to graze their cattle, Tuoi Tre newspaper reported. Another 3,407 families have returned 433 hectares.
Most said that the income from growing rice has shrunk, with some saying that a few hundred square meters of land only provides them VND50,000-80,000 (US$2.37-3.79) a month on average, enough for two bowls of pho in a city.
Le Thi Thoi of Thanh Hoa has recently sought to return her 3,500 square meters of rice field. Her family got 5,000 square meters and gave some to her two married daughters |
Fifty three tea factories are facing the prospects of having their licences revoked in the near future, after getting caught adulterating tea during a regulatory | survey, the Sri Lanka Tea Board said yesterday.
“The survey results were very bad. We found 53 factories, as of today, adding substances to the tea and I plan to cancel the licences of those factories. They shouldn’t be allowed to be in the tea business,” Sri Lanka Tea Board Chairman Rohan Pethiyagoda told Mirror Business.
He said that 80 factories, which were suspected of adulterating tea, were surveyed but stressed that it was not a random sample and therefore, the results were not a representation of the total factory population.
Pethiyagoda said that the factories were found to have added sugar and glucose to their tea produce.
Adding sugar to tea during the manufacturing process gives out a more appealing colour to a brewed cup of tea but such adulterated tea becomes more susceptible to fungi, which may release potentially carcinogenic toxins, especially when stored at warehouses in humid conditions prevalent in areas such as Colombo, while |
''Acquiescent non-volunteer'' is a new semantic vehicle by which Britain and Hong Kong hope to transport unwanted boat people in | the Asian colony back to Vietnam and out of their consciences.
This bit of doublespeak grew out of an agreement last month in which Britain, Hong Kong and Vietnam urged the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to return Vietnamese classified as non-refugees who, though not volunteers, would not resist repatriation. About 50,000 Vietnamese are in Hong Kong camps; a large percentage are believed to be economic migrants, not political refugees.
Last December, 51 who did not want to go back-''non-voluntary acquiescers'' or, perhaps, ''unavailing voluntary demurrers''-were put on a plane for Hanoi anyway. This caused an international furor, sensitizing officials to the limits they dare not exceed.
But because the frustration and impatience with this problem persist, the impulse is to push against those limits toward the realm of weasel words.
The hard truth is that a great many boat people probably will have to be deported |
Ivanka Trump was seen catching up with her friends Hugh Jackman and Wendi Deng Murdoch while in New York City on Monday evening.
The | 36-year-old first daughter donned a $1,850 sleeveless cream dress from Proenza Schouler, and a pair of black slingback heels for her night out in the Big Apple.
Ivanka gave Hugh, 49, and his wife, Deborra-lee Furness, 62, a hug and a kiss as she walked out of their Greenwich Village apartment building with a friend.
Ivanka Trump enjoyed a glamorous evening in her hometown of New York City-- schmoozing with Hollywood celebrities and looking every bit the starlet herself.
She opted to recycle a figure flattering dress worn before which is totally understandable when it comes to this gorgeous shimmery, tweed Proenza Schouler frock. A dress so nice, she wore it twice!
This contemporary silhouette features bias cut panels of boucle fabric sewn together with frayed edges for a 2018 take on a time-honored fit and flare dress. Indeed, modern classics is a specialty |
A researcher claims he's decoded 10 possible words in the famously unreadable Voynich manuscript, which has eluded interpretation for a century. |
The book's 250 vellum pages are filled with writings in an unknown alphabet and elaborate drawings depicting a range of subjects from female nudes to medicinal herbs to Zodiac symbols. The medieval text was discovered by an antique book dealer in 1912, and it has been rather stingy in giving up its secrets ever since.
"I hit on the idea of identifying proper names in the text, following historic approaches which successfully deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs and other mystery scripts, and I then used those names to work out part of the script," Bax said in a statement.
"The manuscript has a lot of illustrations of stars and plants," Bax added. "I was able to identify some of these, with their names, by looking at mediaeval herbal manuscripts in Arabic and other languages, and I then made a start on a decoding, with some exciting results."
The Voynich manuscipt now sits in a rare books library at Yale University. Carbon |
Did You Know You Should Have Been Cutting Grapes Like This the Whole Time?
We all know we're are supposed to slice grapes before | giving them to young children to prevent possible choking. But what if your little one somehow snags a whole one without you realizing? Or what if you've been cutting them — but just the wrong way?
Sophie Jackson found out in the most frightening way possible when her 2-year-old son, Jake, put a few grapes in his mouth and immediately started choking. In her Facebook post detailing the events, she chronicles the steps she took — some incorrect, according to the American Red Cross — that thankfully led to the boy's recovery.
She said she immediately put him over her knee and hit his back several times, and when that didn't work, she put her fingers down his throat. The Red Cross, however, advises that such "back blows" be done in conjunction with abdominal thrusts. Smacking the back alone could move the food into a more dangerous position and make the child stop breathing, as can rooting around in the child's mouth.
Despite not |
Legendary former Smiths frontman Morrissey was in California this week to watch the L.A. Galaxy soccer team route Club Tijuana in a pre | -season friendly.
But the singer made the news after a visit to the the locker room afterward to have his photo taken with equally beloved Irish striker Robbie Keane.
According to Extramustard, the 53-year-old singer-songwriter, who was raised in Manchester by his Irish parents, wrote about his meeting with the Irish soccer player on the fan site True To You where he revealed that his father's cousin was Keane's grandfather, making the pair distant relatives.
Wrote Morrissey: 'It was a joyous head-storm to attend LA Galaxy -v- Club Tijuana last night and to see captain Robbie Keane score in the fourth minute. Why, exactly?
'Well, family tree aficionados will be aware that Robbie and I share the same Irish blood; his late grandfather (Thomas Nolan) being my own father’s cousin. In filial terms the Irish blood, English heart genetic between Robbie and I is evident – his chin is my |
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The owner of a defunct Nevada real estate exchange company, Southwest Exchange | , was sentened Monday to 10 years in prison and ordered to pay about $97 million to 134 victims.
Donald McGham, 75, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Philip M. Pro after he pleaded guilty to four counts of wire fraud on June 8, said Steven W. Myhre, acting U.S. Attorney for Nevada.
McGhan is a resident of Texas. He must self-report to federal prison by Nov. 4., Myhre said.
Southwest Exchange, Inc., operated to help tax-deferred exchanges of real estate. An individual seller could defer taxes from real property sales if a qualified intermediary such as Southwest Exchange held the proceeds of the sale in trust and bought real property within six months.
McGhan purchased Southwest Exchange on June 28, 2004, intending to use client money held in trust to buy businesses. At that time, Southwest held about $109 million in trust.
Within two weeks of McGhan's |
San José is seeing the most rain in 64 years and could break a century-old record, the National Meteorological Institute (IMN) reported | .
By September, some 2,100 millimeters of rain had fallen in San José, already beating the annual average of 1,860 mm, according to IMN.
The rain analysis came last week as displaced residents across Costa Rica began returning home from shelters set up during a weeklong rainstorm that caused flooding, landslides and damage to roads and other infrastructure, killing six people, according to a United Nations humanitarian affairs report Wednesday.
Throughout Central America, torrential downpours and flooding, which continued this week in Honduras, have left at least 40 people dead and forced thousands into shelters.
Early this week, when the continuous storms here had begun to subside, the Costa Rican government declared a national state of emergency that freed up funds to begin the rebuilding effort. The Public Works and Transport Ministry set preliminary damage estimates at more than $5 million.
The emergency covers cantons in the provinces of San José, Puntarenas, Cartago, Alajuela |
Paris Art Pop-Up Offers Migrants Community And Creativity Amid Time Of Uncertainty Migrants and asylum seekers in Paris are using a | theatrical showcase to create understanding between themselves and their Parisian hosts.
Migrants and asylum seekers in Paris are using a theatrical showcase to create understanding between themselves and their Parisian hosts.
Refugees and asylum-seekers from the Middle East and Africa don't know what their futures hold once they arrive in Europe. After they reach countries like France, the struggle begins of trying to get asylum or a residence permit. One outlet that allows for creativity, community and even joy during such uncertainty is a pop-up art space in Paris. Jake Cigainero takes us there.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Hello. Welcome.
JAKE CIGAINERO, BYLINE: When migrants arrive in Paris after long, dangerous journeys by sea and foot, the first stop for those seeking asylum is La Bulle, a registration center on the northern edge of the city. Just next door is a tent run by a charity called Good Chance. It's alive with art, music and theater |
They were a group of ordinary people who did an extraordinary thing — they joined forces to build their own homes brick by brick and did it in their | spare time.
It was one of Ontario’s first family housing co-operatives, located in the northeast corner of Brampton, and it has largely remained overlooked since it was first built in the early 1950s. That is, until now.
There is pressure by some current landowners to subdivide the lots, which are between one and two acres, and build larger homes to replace the original 1,200- to 1,300-square-foot houses located on a rosary-shaped street called Marysfield Dr.
There are only two original-owner families left, and they are fighting to convince Brampton city council to approve a consultant’s recommended restrictions including lot size, house size and setbacks for any new homes to be built, to preserve the historic feel and look of the Marysfield community.
She and her brother Bill Grant have fond memories of growing up in Marysfield — the neighbourly closeness, the children, the feeling of |
COSTA MESA — Healthy dining concept Greenleaf Gourmet Chopshop has set its sights on a partially vacant mixed-use office and medical | building for the Los Angeles-based eatery's third location, according to a city staff report.
The fast-dining and market business submitted an application to the city for a 1,948-square-foot restaurant, with an outdoor patio and parking lot remediation, at 234 E. 17th Street, according to the report.
"Greenleaf Gourmet Chopshop is strongly considering the possibility of opening its first Orange County location, and the partners at Burnham USA have kindly invited us to explore various property options in the Costa Mesa area," said Greenleaf Gourmet Chopshop Owner and "Commander-in-Leaf" Jonathan Rollo in a prepared statement.
He continued: "At this time, we would like to be sensitive to the Planning Commission's requests, as well as the Costa Mesa neighborhood, to first communicate our plans with those who we are directly working with. We will be more than happy to share additional information once plans have been officially finalized. |
uses his knowledge and craftsmanship of woodworking to build and repair houses for needy people in Brazoria County.
"Just like some people like | collecting stamps as a hobby, mine is working with wood," said the 50-year-old Lake Jackson resident. "I liked working with wood when I was young and would make my own kid soap box."
He began to take woodworking seriously in 1992 when he started making minor repairs around the house.
He would repair broken furniture. Later, he ventured into roof and other major home repairs.
Anderson, a chemical engineer, started working for charities and nonprofit organizations that assist the needy.
He has worked with institutions like Faith in Action, United Way and Habitat for Humanity in repairing and building homes for the elderly on fixed incomes.
"I got some friends together to work on the first Neighbor Day seven years ago and in the process met other volunteers," he said.
He said a volunteer from United Way invited him to work on the organization's committee that oversees activities for the annual Neighbor Day.
The committee also worked with other organizations doing similar work, including a youth program |
Republicans and Democrats on the “Red-Blue Mississippi Panel” at the Mississippi Economic Council’s annual Hobnob agreed on one major | point about the 2016 presidential election cycle: They’ve never seen anything like it.
“It’s a totally surreal election,” said longtime Democratic consultant Burns Strider, a Mississippi native and former senior adviser to Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign.
Former Republican Gov. Haley Barbour, also former chair of the Republican National Committee, said, “People are mad and they’re scared” as they struggle financially and watch dysfunction in Washington.
Strider wondered aloud whether this election marks a “moral phenomenon” for the country, and said he has felt like he needed a counselor present to talk with his young kids as the family has watched the presidential debates.
Barbour and Strider were joined on the panel by state Democratic Party Chairman Bobby Moak and Republican Party Chairman Joe Nosef. The politicos had a cordial forum on the contentious election before a crowd of about 1,500 at Hobnob. The annual event held |
When characters with mental illness appear in popular fiction, it is typically because the work itself focuses on the mental illness. However, there is a small | contingent of fictional projects that have characters with mental illness that do not make that illness the central plot. These books follow the typical narrative arc and literary conventions of their genre and include conflicts unrelated to mental illness; psychiatric disorder is featured but defines neither the character nor the book.
Authors writing about mental illness, however small or large a part of the plot, can raise public awareness and understanding or can strengthen harmful misconceptions. Two recent romance novels, both of which include a character with bipolar disorder, present strikingly different viewpoints in many respects.
In Promises Under the Peach Tree by Joanne Rock, a Harlequin Super Romance published in September 2014, Mack Finley and his high school sweetheart Nina Spencer are reunited in their hometown of Heartache, Tennessee, after a separation of many years. Nina is fleeing a failed business venture in New York City; Mack has returned because his brother Scott’s marriage is on the rocks. Readers learn that Mack and Nina were driven apart by tragic events |
Khun Tun Oo, 72, is an ethnic Shan politician and leader of the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD), one of the | largest parties in Shan State. He spent many years in prison for his political activities after the SNLD, known locally as the Tiger Head Party, was one of the major winners in the parliamentary elections in 1990, the results of which were ignored by the military government.
Khun Tun Oo and his party boycotted the flawed 2010 general elections, but on 8 November they will contest in Shan State, Kayah State and Mandalay Region, with the aim of securing 46 Lower House, 14 Upper House and 96 regional legislature seats. The party leader himself decided not to run in the polls.
In a recent interview with Myanmar Now reporter Htet Khaung Linn, Khun Tun Oo talked about the elections, the federalist aspirations of Myanmar’s ethnic groups and the ongoing ceasefire negotiations between ethnic armed groups and the government.
Question: Why did you decide not to run in the elections though your party is contesting many constituencies in Shan State?
Answer: Many of |
Don’t have time for fantasy football? How about playing for a chance to go to Hawaii just by picking winning NFL teams this season? |
Chart topping artist and self proclaimed fantasy football legend Darius Rucker is making football easier and more exciting than your average work league with a chance to win awesome weekly prizes all season long. He’s teamed up with Athlon Sports for the free Darius Rucker “End Zone Obsession” Football Challenge kicking off this Sunday, September 12th and is looking to challenge you.
“Anyone that knows me knows that I am fanatical about two things– music and sports. This game is the perfect way for all my friends to join me with my sports obsession,” says Rucker before quickly reminding everyone to bring their A-game!
Think that you can out play Darius? It’s easy! Just register and get started today. No drafts. No rosters. No trades. Simply pick the winners of each game and earn points. You can make the game even more fun by challenging friends to a head-to-head competition, earning trophies for your virtual |
One sight that you almost never want to see on your monitor is the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) or another error screen that warns of | a problem which causes your system to crash. From the early days of the PC, these dreaded error messages have come in all shapes and sizes on devices run by all the major operating systems...Apple, Microsoft, Linux, and othere. Plus, they have popped up in all sorts of embarrassing circumstances. You can even make money off them. This gallery take's a look at the history of the BSOD.
With Microsoft's test version of Windows 8 comes the latest version of BSOD - and even includes a frown.
According to Wikipedia, the Blue Screen of Death was named by OS/2 developers for Lattice, Inc. who were actually referring to IBM or Big Blue when encountering a stop screen.
The Blue Screen of Death is best known by its appearance in many different versions of Microsoft Windows - first as random symbols against a blue background in Windows 1 (here).
Here is the BDoD that appeared in Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows ME.
This |
Anne-Marie Trevelyan addressing the Save Druridge picnic on the bank holiday Monday at the end of May.
Berwick MP | Anne-Marie Trevelyan has added her voice to calls for the Government to intervene in the decision to approve a contentious surface mine on the Northumberland coast.
The Conservative MP has written to the Communities Secretary, Greg Clark MP, asking him to ‘call in’ the decision by Northumberland County Council’s strategic planning committee to approve Banks Mining’s application for an opencast coal mine at Highthorn, between Widdrington Station and Druridge Bay.
As previously reported, the councillors were'minded to approve' the scheme as a request had already been made for the Secretary of State to call in the application, which would lead to a public inquiry.
This is a drastic step and the Secretary of State usually only does so if the application in question conflicts with national policy. In this case, Mrs Trevelyan says that the application contravenes the Government’s commitment to phase out coal-based power sources by 2025 |
DT Research's new DT301S and DT311H tablets offer a wide range of optional equipment and come with detachable, water-resistant keyboards | .
The new DT301S features a 10.1-inch Full HD anti-reflective touch-screen display with 1,920 by 1,200 resolution and can be configured with an Intel 6th Generation Core i5 or Core i7 processor and 4GB or 8GB of memory.
The DT301S meets IP65 standards for water and dust resistance and MIL-STD-810G for vibration and shock resistance. The devices are also MIL-STD-461F certified for tolerance against electromagnetic interference and can be used in a wide range of extreme environmental temperatures, from -4 degrees F to 140 degrees F. The DT301S is 7.5 inches tall, 10.7 inches wide and 0.86 inches thick, and weighs about 2.86 pounds.
DT Research's DT311H tablet has a 11.6-inch Full HD anti-reflective touch-screen display with 1,920 by 1,080 resolution, and can be equipped with either an Intel |
Does promotional products really helps to expand a business?
- We have cash back actions in supermarkets here. I mainly use them for products I know | , and if it's was new product, I don't remember that I ever bought one again.
- My niece told me this week that she got a nice expensive present when joining a lottery. After receiving it she quit immediately.
100%. I invested in some wristbands for a startup mental health campaign I was working with back in 2016 and wanted to help boost the ticket sales of our charity event.
The wristbands were printed with the campaign name and our # and really helped expand the campaign's reach. I used them for a social media giveaway which received over 200 retweets on Twitter and around 500 likes on Facebook and as a result, we managed to sell out the tickets for the event.
I know that the company I work for use merchandise as thank you gifts for clients and as giveaways to spread awareness of our services, which has helped us retain key clients. In my experience, the more practical the product, the more it will be used and seen so people will remember |
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