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The pockmarked road leading to Barangay (village) Pando inside Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac province is as | rough as the journey taken by farmers of the sugar estate who toiled for decades, awaiting the chance to own their land.
On Monday, that journey finally ended.
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) handed the very first certificate of land ownership award (Cloa) covering a portion of Hacienda Luisita to 82-year-old Benigna Mañalac, who was glad she was living long enough to witness history in the making.
The DAR has processed Cloas for 6,212 beneficiaries inside the estate owned by the family of President Aquino.
Mañalac was joined by Feliciano Escaño, Rosenda Tobias and Evelyn Nicdao, who were among the first of around 600 beneficiaries from this remote corner of the hacienda in Concepcion town.
Agrarian Reform Secretary Virgilio de los Reyes led the Cloa distribution on Monday, which will proceed three times a week until everyone receives |
SugarCRM's CEO proposes that there are two areas of the industry that need to change focus: you have to remember the users are individuals | and the way people buy have changed.
NEW YORK -- Social media only amplifies the effects of customer relationship management -- a reality that many enterprises need to accept and build upon, according to SugarCRM CEO Larry Augustin.
"The industry is actually growing faster than projections," said Augustin while speaking at the opening keynote session of SugarCon 2013 at the Waldorf Astoria on Tuesday. He noted that a few years ago analysts were predicting annual spend growth rates of seven to eight percent, but results are actually hitting closer to 10 percent.
As the CRM industry stands now, Augustin cited that there are approximately 18 million users of commercial CRM with $22 billion dollars in annual spend.
Augustin concluded, "You can't drop the ball once now. You have to pay attention to every one of those interactions."
"We're in a vibrant, fast growing industry. Big numbers," Augustin summed up simply.
Globally, Augustin continued that there |
The demo for Xbox One zombie game Dead Rising 3 is now available to download, according to Microsoft's Major Nelson.
Xbox Live gamertag | Major Nelson is actually Larry Hryb, the director of programming for Xbox Live at Microsoft. He announced on Twitter that the Dead Rising 3 demo is available, and he noted on his blog that it had released on Friday the 13th, of course.
Gamers can download the Dead Rising 3 demo by going to the "New Game Demos" section of the Game Store. Developer Capcom Vancouver teased through Major Nelson's blog that it even hid goodies in the demo: "Definitely check out the map for where the blueprints are around Ingleton."
"We have some cool combos to try out and even a Super Combo weapon called the Ultimate Grim Reaper. It is a multiple blueprint find, and super deadly when you get the fully stacked version. Don’t forget, after you make it or other combos, you can always pull them back out of the locker in the Safehouse and have another run at it," Capcom Vancouver added.
The Dead Rising 3 demo is a free |
No-Smoking Laws Now Cover Half the U.S.
Thanks to passage of smokefree workplace legislation in Arizona, Nevada, and Ohio | , more than half of all Americans will soon be protected by law from passive tobacco smoke.
According to a California-based group called Americans for Nonsmokers Rights (ANR), that will mark the first time more than half the country is covered.
In addition to local residents, travelers will be prime beneficiaries -- especially since Las Vegas and Phoenix are already top vacation destinations, baseball spring training is expanding westward, and the 2008 Super Bowl is already scheduled for Phoenix next February.
According to ANR executive director Cynthia Hallett, the year just passed was a historic one for nonsmoking travelers. She noted that Westin and Marriott hotels went smokefree, along with the cities of Washington and Chicago, and more than 100 new local smokefree laws were passed.
In addition, the Surgeon General of the United States issued a landmark ruling that branded as unsafe all levels of exposure to passive tobacco smoke. That statement included the caveat that ventilation systems are not viable alternatives to 100 |
FROM the examination of the slants, size, spacing, speed, and pressure of your handwriting, these professionals can give you insight into your | personality — knowledge that can serve you both professionally and in your personal life. They're called graphologists.
Related to the work of these pros is that of the forensic document examiner — the specialist with the ability to deduce the authenticity of documents.
Career & Education talks this week to Beverley East, one of the few people who practise in both fields. A graphologist and forensic document examiner for more than two decades, she is president of her own firm called Strokes and Slants.
With offices in Kingston as well as London and Washington, Strokes and Slants provides a wide range of services — from handwriting analysis for a variety of purposes, to forensic document exmination, to training.
East is, in fact, currently training members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force — one of her many clients — for the new Forensic Document Examination Division.
Her work recently blew the murder case involving the alleged leader of the Stone Crusher gang wide open as she proved that a dead eyewitness |
From the travel ban to DACA to the scaling back of refugee admissions, there were big changes in U.S. immigration policy this year and more | likely in 2018. We welcome you to scroll through the past year in immigration with our best guesses about what is to come.
President Donald’s Trump Executive Order restricting travelers bookended 2017, going into effect just after the president took office in January and again, in early December at year’s end. In between, three different versions of the order were mired in the courts (see video). The final version bars entry into the U.S. of immigrants and non-immigrants from Chad, Libya and Yemen, on business, tourist or business-tourist visas; blocks entry of Iranian citizens, as immigrants or non-immigrants, but provides an exception for Iranian students with additional screening; bars all immigrants and non-immigrants from North Korea and Syria; prevents immigration by citizens of Somalia; and bars visitors from Venezuela with government ties.
2018 Forecast: The Supreme Court ruling in early December giving Travel Ban 3 the go-ahead also tossed it back to |
Lionsgate has dated Saw: Legacy for October 27, 2017.
Saw: Legacy will be directed by Michael and Peter Spierig | . While Saw: Legacy is currently the only wide release dated for the pre-Halloween weekend, Insidious: Chapter 4 is scheduled for released the week prior, setting up a potential horror movie box office showdown.
As previously reported, Saw: Legacy is expected to begin filming in Toronto in September 2016.
Saw: Legacy will be the first new film in the Saw franchise since Saw 3D, a.k.a. Saw: The Final Chapter was released in 2010. The franchise began with Saw in 2004. The film was directed by James Wan, who is now directing Aquaman for Warner Bros. Darren Lyn Bousman stepped into the director role for Saw II, Saw III, and Saw IV. David Hackl directed Saw V and Kevin Greutert directed Saw VI and Saw: The Final Chapter.
Saw’s central character is John Kramer, a.k.a. the “Jigsaw Killer” or more simply “Jigsaw. |
The chief executive who helped put Lattice Semiconductor Corp. back on its feet despite a global recession is leaving the company for the top | job at another semiconductor firm.
Bruno Guilmart tendered this resignation and will leave the Hillsboro company Sept. 4, the company announced Friday. Christopher Fanning, a Lattice vice president, will take over as interim CEO while the company launches a formal search.
Guilmart, who was hired at Lattice after working as CEO of a semiconductor company based in Malaysia, will relocate to Singapore to lead Kulicke & Soffa, which makes equipment for manufacturing semiconductors and LEDs.
K&S is currently based in Pennsylvania, but will move its global headquarters to Singapore next year.
At Lattice, most employees found out about the resignation at an all-employee meeting Friday afternoon.
"The change is rather sudden. For most employees, we just literally found about this at 1:30," Lattice marketing Vice President Doug Hunter said. "People, you know, they're just processing right now."
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There’s a saying that ‘nothing in this world is so much like prayer as music is.’ An interesting thought, and | perhaps surprising when we consider today’s celebrity music culture.
In many music videos we see and the lyrics we hear, a sense of Faith and God seem to be missing.
And yet many of the greatest musicians of all time attributed their success to their own personal faith, including contemporary stars such as Lady Gaga, Kendrick Lamar and Keith Urban.
Andy Gallagher, a musician with the band Overhaul, says his Catholic Faith has been a constant in his songwriting since the band formed in the late 1990s.
Andy, who is from Los Angeles but now lives in the Clyde island of Millport, said: “My Faith is very important to me, inside of music and outside of music.
“I’ve always been Catholic. I’m absolutely blessed and honoured to be an Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion—it’s an honour which I never expected to be given to me, but 10 years ago it was.
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All your NBA Draft needs including my Final Mock Draft, prospect profiles, position rankings, and NBA team off-season needs are just a click away | .
1. L.A. Clippers– Blake Griffin, PF, Oklahoma, 6-10, So.
Poor Blake Griffin. This has to be the worst case scenario for him. The Clips are a destination where players just do not thrive. They already have some talented big man in Chris Kaman, Marcus Camby, and Zach Randolph. Maybe Griffin can be the spark and hard worker the Clipper franchise has been longing for for the past decade-plus.
2. Memphis– Hasheem Thabeet, C, UConn, 7-3, Jr.
Since it appears the Griz are not trading this pick to Minnesota, Thabeet is the guy. He could be the defensive presence Memphis badly needs. I maintain Ricky Rubio is the second best prospect in the draft and the Griz will regret not selecting him or trading down to gain more assets.
I get the feeling the Thunder GM Sam Presti is far too intelligent to let Rubio pass them |
We are grateful that U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s speech last fall at Teachers College, Columbia University, has spurred | a national dialogue on teacher education (“Questions for Secretary Duncan,” Letters, Jan. 6, 2010). It is our firm belief that the most critical aspect of preparing new teachers to enter the field is mentoring.
Novice “intern” teachers need to be paired with master teachers, from whom they will learn the art of teaching as they concurrently integrate theory on instruction, research on best practices, and foundations in child development. Interns in our alternative-licensure program teach full time alongside carefully selected, expert mentor teachers. These mentors gradually release responsibility to their interns, recognizing that the same learning process applies to adults as to children: modeling, guided and shared practice, with the eventual goal of independence. Interns take a greater role as their own background knowledge and skill sets are activated.
Too often, novice teachers are underprepared for the complex realities of the classroom and are expected to find their own way with little scaffolding or guidance. As a nation |
Shaley: Where were you when you found out what had happened?
Chief Kyle Bonath: It was later at night, so my scheduled | work day had concluded. I believe I was sitting with my wife watching some show on television when I got the call that we had an officer down.
Shaley: How many times have you received a phone call like that?
Chief Kyle Bonath: I have never had to deal with an officer shot in the line of duty.
Shlaey: What is your initial thought when you get the phone call?
Chief Kyle Bonath: Unfortunately, the news was already bad when I got the call, so there wasn’t a hope that this was a survival event. My first thought was for the family obviously because we knew he had a family that was in El Paso. The next thought is for the department as whole.
Shaley: When you got here, can you describe what you walked into?
Chief Kyle Bonath: On the way, I got a call from various departments offering help and assistance. We had discussed with LPD that they would help process |
ISLAMABAD/LONDON: The star witness against the daughter and the son-in-law of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif | in the Avenfield Apartments reference Robert Radley has admitted that he along with another witness, Akhtar Raja of the Quist Solicitors, had held a meeting with NAB Deputy Prosecutor General Sardar Muzaffar Abbasi, Director Investigation Amjad Nazir Olakh and another official on Wednesday and they had discussed the notes for his statement and cross-examination.
According to laws of England Wales, a forensic expert cannot meet the prosecutors for tutoring.
A forensic expert is bound by law to appear before a court to comment on his report and answer questions but holding meetings with prosecutors are illegal because it could involve tampering of evidence.
The Accountability Court recorded the evidence of the Radley and Akhtar Riaz Raja on whom the cross-examination was also completed at 10:30pm in the night. Radley had completed his statement on Feb 22 and partial cross-examination. On Friday, the cross-examination completed on Akhtar Riaz Raja as well |
Planning is quietly underway for construction of a soccer stadium in Boston, one that would bring the resurgent New England Revolution closer to their urban fan | base, according to people familiar with the Kraft family’s search for a site.
Among the sites under consideration is a strip of city-owned land off Interstate 93 on Frontage Road, where Boston has a large yard for towed cars and public works. The South Boston property offers easy access from major highways and is near the MBTA’s Red Line as well as rail lines at nearby South Station.
Numerous sources said the Kraft family has been meeting with state and city officials to discuss the stadium and possible locations over the past several months, with the team focusing on Frontage Road. It was not known Monday what additional sites the Krafts were considering.
The Krafts, owners of the New England Patriots and the New England Revolution, have tried several times to build a stadium in Boston, first for the Patriots in the mid-1990s and again more recently for the Revolution.
Video: Soccer stadium in Boston?
The Kraft family is exploring building a soccer stadium |
In booth SU10125, attendees will see new features and capabilities demonstrated across the Synamedia portfolio, offering media companies, telecom and pay- | TV operators innovative infrastructure transformation strategies, proactive rights enforcement security, and new ways to generate revenue.
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NEW YORK – On Thursday, long after midnight, Yoni Hikind’s “mobile headquarters” was parked on a central avenue | in Brooklyn’s Borough Park neighborhood in front of a Jewish restaurant. The restaurant was packed with Jewish and some non-Jewish patrons and served cholent and other traditional dishes in a kind of culinary preview to Shabbat.
The local elections usually cause a yawn in New York, given the expected reelection of Mayor Bill de Blasio. Even before the deadly terrorist attack last week in lower Manhattan, which has dominated all the headlines, it seemed as if the city was indifferent to who will get a seat in the city council. All this applies to most of New York, but definitely not to Borough Park, a mainly ultra-Orthodox neighborhood in Brooklyn, where the battle between two candidates has gone out to the streets, complete with slandering flyers and pashkevilim and kids tearing down posters and lots of traffic on social media.
The NY 44th District is made up of Bensonhurst, Borough Park, Gravesend, Kensington, Midwood and Sheepshead Bay in |
An armed opposition group holding four police officers hostage in the Armenian capital of Yerevan are continuing their standoff with authorities, the Sputnik news | agency reported. A third officer from the group of seven initial hostages was released on Monday afternoon.
One officer was killed and three more wounded when the armed gunmen seized the building.
The gunmen, who have been identified as members of the opposition group Founding Parliament, issued a statement on Facebook demanding the release of their leader Zhirayr Sefilian. The opposition politician was arrested last month on charges of weapons possession.
The group released a video on Facebook showing several men in flak jackets armed with assault rifles, as well as several hostages inside the police compound.
In the video, they urge Armenians to take to the streets and overthrow the government. Their call to action has so far received no noticeable response, Radio Liberty reported.
The Founding Parliament group, whose supporters regularly hold protests demanding the resignation of President Sarkisian, are especially critical of the government’s response to the continuing conflict in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. The break-away republic is |
It was Nick Saban’s first year as Miami’s coach, and the team got off to a horrible start, which reached a | low point at Cleveland with a humiliating 22-0 loss to the Browns. The loss left the Dolphins with a 3-7 record.
Saban gave his seventh losing postgame speech and then asked if anyone had something to add.
“Never quit!” Taylor yelled as he threw stuff around the locker room. “You never [bleeping] quit! I don’t give a damn if we’re up by 22 or down by 22, you play your [butts] off from whistle to whistle and never [bleeping] quit. If you don’t want to be here, ¦if you don’t want to be a part of this team and give all you’ve got each and every play, then we don’t want you here and we don’t need you here.
The Dolphins flew to Oakland the next week and Taylor collected three sacks, including a safety, helping the team to a |
Texas game wardens use heavy equipment to transport an 11-foot alligator away from a travel trailer in the Holiday Villages Subdivision on Lake | Livingston on Thursday, Oct. 13.
An 11-foot alligator was found lurking under the travel trailer in the Holiday Villages subdivision on Lake Livingston in the early morning hours Thursday. The unwelcome guest was discovered around 5:45 a.m. when the homeowner Curtis Davis stepped outside his travel trailer to enjoy the brisk morning air.
Davis told authorities he heard something hissing behind him and turned around to find a very large alligator resting under his home. Davis quickly went back inside and called 9-1-1.
"Due to the San Jacinto County game warden being temporarily assigned to the border, Polk County game wardens David Johnson and Brandon Thacker responded to the location," Chief Deputy Joe Schultea Jr. with the San Jacinto County Sheriff's Office said. "After assessing the situation, it was decided to bring in a 'gator wrangler' to assist."
The wrangler, Stephen Moye of Livingston, soon arrived on the scene and |
It’s been suspected, and Apple itself hasn’t missed the marketing opportunity, but it looks like the iPhone and iPod Touch are | turning into serious gaming systems. The latest confirmation of this? EA’s releasing a bunch of big-franchise games.
EA’s upcoming games are Need For Speed Shift, Spore Creatures, and The Simpsons Game–titles that are among the company’s upper-tier offerings on other gaming systems. As noted over at VentureBeat, these are titles that could be called second-generation iPhone games, coming after the initial wave of simple, casual games that were quickly written (or were classics that ported across from other platforms) in order to make the most of the App Store gold rush.
Those first iPhone games were by no means a bad thing–they quickly established how powerful the iPhone really was, and demonstrated the prodigious power of the App Store. And that then attracted the bigger names in game writing. Which is where EA enters the scene. The notion that these three new big titles are “second generation” comes from the time and investment |
Giants third baseman Matt Duffy finished second to unanimous winner Kris Bryant of the Chicago Cubs in National League Rookie of the Year voting announced Monday by the | Baseball Writers” Association of America.
Bryant finished first on all 30 ballots submitted by the Baseball Writers — two from each N.L. city. Duffy was second on 22 of the 30 ballots and third on four more.
All three top vote-getters on the N.L. ballot played third base, with Bryant and Duffy followed by the Pittsburgh Pirates” Jung Ho Kang, who is listed as an infielder because he also played quite a bit at shortstop. Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard was fourth. Dodgers center fielder Joc Pederson (Palo Alto High) and Cardinals outfielder Stephen Piscotty (Amador Valley High, Stanford) each got one third-place vote.
The American League rookie award also was announced, with Houston Astros shortstop Carlos Correa winning over Cleveland Indians shortstop Francisco Lindor and Minnesota Twins infielder Miguel Sano.
A”s outfielder Billy Burns got one second-place vote and three thirds.
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Firefighters will be able to tackle fires from outside a burning building using technology that can blast water through concrete and steel.
The Ultra High Pressure | Lances, branded Coldcut Cobra, will enable crews to tackle the fire quickly from outside by injecting water through walls and doors.
The new technology will be carried on a £7.6 million fleet of 40 bespoke fire engines and initially will be rolled out mainly in rural areas.
Firefighters demonstrated the new high pressure lance in action at the Scottish Fire and Rescue National Training Centre in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, yesterday.
They used the lance to cut through a door and blast water into a building with a fire inside, cooling the temperature hundreds of degrees centigrade in less than a minute.
Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) Chief Officer Alasdair Hay said: “We ask our firefighters to work in inherently dangerous environments, we often expose them to temperatures of 500 degrees centigrade as they get into the building, get on top of the fire and apply the water to it.
“What we saw today is |
Well, this is it. It’s been a year and Boston College lacrosse finally has a chance to erase the pain of last year | ’s title game loss, having knocked off Princeton, Stony Brook, and Maryland, en route to a second-straight National Championship appearance. The Eagles (22-1, 7-0 Atlantic Coast), with a lone loss on the season, avoid the team that dealt it to them—North Carolina—and instead face off against James Madison, a team that made an unlikely run out of the Colonial Athletic Association. The Dukes (20-1, 6-0 CAA) knocked off two top-10 teams—Florida and the Tar Heels—on their way to the championship game.
Sunday, May 27, 12 p.m.
The game will be broadcasted on ESPNU and available to stream online at WatchESPN.
1) Sam Apuzzo was held to a lone goal in the first half against Maryland, continuing her trend of low-impact games as opposing defenses locked in on her—the Tewaaraton Award finalist managed just six |
The TACPs have done this for a while and this is the first time they have actually put out press ahead of the event. Congrats | National Guard for publicizing a great event. the TACPs are really cool air controllers who travel with Army or Marine units to guide planes to drop ordinance on the bad guys. IN the past, they have run around the base in Bartonville. This year, they are running to Jacob Frazier‘s grave in Elwood, Ill. Support our TACPs. Contribute to raise money for fallen service members and remember Jake Frazier.
Team Peoria is set to participate in the 4th Annual TACP 24-Hour Challenge beginning at 1 p.m. CST on March 26. The event will continue for 24 hours concluding at 12:59 p.m. CST on March 27, 2015. For this year’s event, Team Peoria will run 129 miles from Peoria, to the gravesite of SSgt. Jacob Frazier in Elwood.
This event has a local connection as Jacob Frazier, a TACP from the 169th Air Support Operations Squadron (AS |
Billy Mays didn't invent the art of the television huckster, but he rode it further than almost anyone who came before him.
| Long before his sudden and shocking death yesterday, Mays had made himself far better known than any product he pitched.
Exactly how Mays became the dominant brand in the TV sales game is hard to explain.
He represented everything Americans say we don't like about salesmen.
At some point in most of his pitches, Mays would stop explaining why the product was good and go into hard-sell overdrive, his voice rising into a cross between a yell and a bark.
If you don't buy this, you're an idiot, he seemed to be saying.
It might not have been pleasant, but it helped sell a lot of OxiClean.
He made a smart decision, it turned out, in going the hard-sell route.
Nice guys are often considered better long-term bets in the sales game, as witnessed by the recently departed Ed McMahon, who used his comforting persona to sell insurance and mortgage products to seniors.
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All three network morning shows previewed Super Bowl LIII with on-the-ground coverage in Atlanta, Friday, Feb. 1, 2019. |
“CBS This Morning,” whose network is carrying the big game this year, had James Brown join the show’s normal anchor team, sans Gayle King, who were all back in New York.
The show also turned its graphics to red, white and blue and added a “Countdown to Super Bowl LIII” tier to its lower thirds.
NBC News‘ ‘Today‘ had a ‘split’ edition of sorts, with primary co-anchors Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb in New York and Al Roker and Craig Melvin, who are de factor co-hosts, were live in Atlanta for multiple hits throughout the show. ‘Today’ was originating from Centennial Olympic Park from a special pavilion set up to mark the occasion.
‘Good Morning America‘ also previewed the game, including a ‘Tell T.J.’ segment featuring T.J. Holmes |
Gussy, a photogenic poodle on legendary New Orleans piano player Fats Domino's latest album, slipped away last weekend while visiting an | Altamonte Springs family with her owner.
New Orleans photographer Syndey Byrd was in town on business and seeing friends.
Veterinarian Arthur Gobel spotted Gussy dodging cars on Burnell Road. The vet and his wife took the poodle home. Gobel returned to Burnell Road Monday and found the missing-dog signs a distraught Byrd had posted.
Gussy and her photographer owner are back together.
The recent opening of the Bahama Breeze restaurant in Altamonte Springs turned into a windfall for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Florida.
The restaurant on State Road 436 in front of Altamonte Mall raised $4,000 for the clubs during a recent soft opening of the Caribbean restaurant, the latest venture for Darden Restaurants.
Guests made donations instead of paying for their meals at the suggestion of restaurant employees.
Longwood Commissioner Jim Carrico wants the city to establish a newsletter to keep residents informed.
The consensus among other |
Celebrities, Artists and Influencers stop by the Stoop for fun and unfiltered chat with host, Nessa.
Some are | upset after a video surfaced showing sorority sisters at the University of New Hampshire singing "Gold Digger" by Kanye West.
A controversial video taken at an Alpha Phi sorority event and posted on social media is spreading far beyond the campus of the University of New Hampshire.
The video shows a room of rowdy Alpha Phi members singing Kanye West's "Gold Digger," with the hashtag #UNH. The All Eyez on UNH Facebook page shared the video, criticizing the sorority sisters because the song's chorus uses the n-word, which the girls can be seen singing.
"In the context of the song, it's just a good word to rhyme with 'digger,'" said Ben Factor a student at UNH.
Factor is one of the hundreds of students talking about the lyrics on Thursday.
"I'm sure they weren't going about singing that to try to be racist or hurtful," said Bridget Keaveney.
"We believe |
Though not renowned for his love of interviews, the evening we spoke by phone in early August Mark Lanegan was in a surprisingly talkative mood, | recounting stories in his creamy baritone, even peppering them with the occasional hearty laugh.
The clarity of the 53-year-old's recall may have something to do with the fact he’s spent the day in his Los Angeles garage working on his upcoming memoir, Sing Backwards And Weep, due for a 2020 release.
The former Screaming Trees frontman undertook the project at the urging of celebrity chef and longtime friend Anthony Bourdain, who prior to his death in June would read passages and give Lanegan feedback. Charting a 10-year period from the late 1980s to the late '90s - when the Washington State-born singer had a drug addiction and was living in Seattle - writing it is, he says, a “joyless affair”.
Lanegan’s has also been a life spent creating. Over the past two decades he’s released albums with Queens of the Stone Age, Isobel Campbell, Soul |
“One way or the other, it’s hard not to imagine this will not end in a price increase,” said Shay | le Kann, senior vice president at GTM Research. And because the anti-subsidy tariffs were set higher than most people in the industry expected, “it will not be a negligible price increase,” he added.
The Solar Energy Industries Association called the tariffs “damaging” for U.S. consumers, and said they will slow the adoption of solar power in the U.S.
Some stocks emerged as beneficiaries right away. SunPower Corp. /quotes/zigman/7312465/delayed /quotes/nls/spwr SPWR and First Solar Inc. /quotes/zigman/102025/delayed /quotes/nls/fslr FSLR, U.S-based manufacturers, rallied on Wednesday, with shares up 4.8% and 9.3%, respectively. Their products will be more competitive with the products made by the low-cost Chinese producers.
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Samsung will finally tell us why the Galaxy Note 7 exploded at a press conference on Sunday night (Monday morning, South Korea time). According to The | Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg, the company’s months-long investigation will lay blame on the size of the batteries used in the phone.
The Korean company will announce that Samsung SDI Co. made batteries that didn’t fit properly into the device, causing it to overheat, said the person, who declined to be identified because the results of the probe haven’t been made public.
Samsung used two battery suppliers for the Galaxy Note 7: its own Samsung SDI division and the Hong Kong-based company Amperex Technology Ltd. (ATL). Initially, Samsung said that the phone explosions—which started in late August 2016—were restricted only to Samsung SDI batteries. The ATL batteries were used in its Chinese devices, which Samsung said were safe. When Samsung started to replace Galaxy Note 7 phones (after the first recall), Samsung used batteries from ATL, again, under the assumption that they were safe. Unfortunately, the replacement batteries started to explode too. |
When you consider how many gut-wrenching decisions British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had to make during World War II � many of which involved sending | young men to their deaths � the decision he called �the most difficult I had to make� must have been a doozy. And it was, but he made it this week (July 3) in 1940 without hesitation. He considered this decision crucial to the survival of the British Navy, which was crucial to the survival of Great Britain.
At the time, Britain�s ally France had just signed a surrender agreement with Nazi Germany that put Germany, whose army had overrun France a month earlier, in control of the country. Germany had permitted France to establish an �independent� government in the French town of Vichy under Henri Petain, but should push come to shove, Churchill doubted Petain or any member of the Vichy government would defy the Germans on any significant matter, which left Churchill with a problem. What was to become of France�s still-powerful navy, which had been unaffected by Germany�s defeat of France?
Churchill tried to persuade Vichy |
Last month, thatgamecompany released Journey on the PlayStation Network to widespread critical acclaim and, happily, an equally favorable commercial reception. In fact, | Journey has become the fastest-selling title in the history of the PSN both in the US and in Europe. The number of fan letters that the developer has received also surpassed those for Flower, Journey’s predecessor, after only three days. This success is likely to hold steady as Journey’s soundtrack, by Austin Wintory, is released on April 10th and the Smithsonian continues to feature Flower in its Art of Video Games exhibit.
However, this period of good fortune for the company is also marked by the turmoil of transition as key staff depart. Kellee Santiago, a TED fellow and Indie Fund backer who founded thatgamecompany with Jenova Chen, acted as a producer for the developer’s first two games before focusing her attention upon directing the company as its president. She has left under amicable terms in order to pursue new though as-yet unannounced goals, Gamasutra reports. The producer for Journey, Robin Hunicke, also parts ways as |
The new owners of the Boston Red Sox have greatly expanded alcohol sales at Fenway Park, adding at least 16 new stands where beer is sold since | taking over in 2001, according to the city licensing board. The team has also increased by a third the size of beer cups, from 12 ounces to 16 ounces.
The volume of beer sold at Fenway last year jumped roughly 20 percent from the year before, according to information provided by the Red Sox. Two employees of Aramark, the company that manages Fenway concessions, and a beer salesman who supplies the ballpark said they believe that since the new owners took over beer sales have increased significantly more than 20 percent.
Concerns over alcohol consumption at the ballpark have triggered complaints from some fans and Fenway neighborhood activists who say home games have become marred by rowdy behavior. The recent altercation between a fan and New York Yankees right fielder Gary Sheffield has drawn attention to a problem that some say has grown worse in recent years. Boston's Licensing Board has scheduled a hearing with Red Sox officials May 10 to investigate alcohol-related complaints.
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IDEA: The Aflac duck, American advertising's finest feathered friend, is nothing without his distinctive squawk. Or is he? | The bird, who's been quacking out the supplemental insurance company's name in ads from Publicis Kaplan Thaler since 1999, has suddenly gone quiet this year thanks to a plot twist in which he's fractured his beak and ended up in hospital—putting him in the position of the company's customers, who need bills paid when they get hurt and miss work. "The duck has become so well known and well liked. We wanted to find a new way to harness that affection," said agency executive creative director Jay Williams. "The thought came to us: The duck is a working actor. This is what he does. He's in commercials, and he talks about the brand. So, we thought there could be a humorous way to make the duck a metaphor for the people Aflac helps." Added Michael Zuna, Alfac's chief marketing and sales officer: "The new commercials will make viewers laugh, but they have a very serious message. If the Aflac duck |
K-12 education is an exhausted, bloodsoaked battlefield. It’s Agincourt, the day after. So a suggestion: | Refocus some reformist passions on early childhood.
I say that for three reasons. First, there is mounting evidence that early childhood is a crucial period when the brain is most malleable, when interventions are most cost-effective for at-risk kids.
Researchers are finding that poverty can harm the brains of small children, perhaps because their brains are subjected to excessive cortisol (a stress hormone) and exposed less to conversation and reading. One study just published in Nature Neuroscience found that children in low-income families had a brain surface area on average 6 percent smaller than that of children in high-income families.
“Neuroscience tells us we’re missing a critical, time-sensitive opportunity to help the most disadvantaged kids,” notes Dr. Jack Shonkoff, an early childhood expert at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Growing evidence suggests what does work to break the poverty cycle: Start early in life, and coach parents to stimulate their children. |
Crypto inventors write white papers to communicate how their cryptocurrency is better than the last—and to attract investors.
In 2008, a mysterious | figure named Satoshi Nakamoto uploaded a PDF to the internet outlining a digital framework for spending money without centralized banks. He sent the paper to a cryptography mailing list, and thus bitcoin—and the blockchain—were born. Ten years later, an entire cryptocurrency industry valued at $300 billion has bloomed from those nine pages.
To many in the cryptography world, this was unexpected. “When we heard about bitcoin for the first time, many of us cryptographers—myself included—did not think it was going to work,” says computer scientist Alejandro Hevia of the University of Chile. Nakamoto didn’t include detailed analysis on the bitcoin architecture, as is customary in peer-reviewed computer science papers. And he hadn’t publicized his ideas via the customary channels: not at crypto conferences or on arXiv, the loosely-moderated site where computer scientists upload their newest ideas in advance of peer review.
“It set the stage for people |
The Murdochs are sidestepping many of the questions swirling around Fox News in the wake of Roger Ailes' resignation. But they're being | clear about one thing: Fox will retain Ailes' conservative view of the world.
On a quarterly earnings call Wednesday afternoon, 21st Century Fox executive chairman Lachlan Murdoch said Fox News has a "unique and important voice," and that the company is seeking to protect it by appointing his father Rupert as the channel's acting CEO.
"There is no one more dedicated or more able to transition Fox News to new leadership than its founder," Lachlan said, pointedly portraying Rupert, not Ailes, as the network's founder.
Wall Street analysts did not press the Murdochs for further information about the investigation into Ailes' removal.
Ailes, who launched the network for Rupert in 1996 and ran it ever since, resigned two weeks ago amid a flurry of sexual harassment allegations, which he has denied.
A law firm retained by the Murdochs is continuing to probe potential wrongdoing by Ailes, and is pursuing leads about other executives who may have known about the alleged |
DENVER — Summer break may stand between the end of this school year and beginning of the next, but local school districts are already prepped for | 2019-2020 enrollment.
Denver Public Schools’ award-winning unified enrollment system, SchoolChoice, is about to kick off its eighth year. Enrollment is now open and runs through Feb. 15 at 4 p.m.
This process gives every family equal access to the school they think is best for their student, regardless of their address or background, according to DPS. Families rank their student’s preferred schools on the application and DPS then matches the student to a school based on those preferences, taking into account available space and school admission priorities.
You can access the mobile-friendly online application here.
Families are encouraged to talk with leaders and staff at the schools they are interested in to learn more.
Jeffco Public Schools is launching a new enrollment system on Jan. 22 for the upcoming school year. All current and new students will need to visit www.EnrollJeffCo.org between Jan. 22 and Feb. 8 to indicate if they’ |
MARYBOROUGH Brothers coach Alex Dreger is happy to let his side's last game be confined to history.
The 54-0 | shellacking at the hands of defending Bundaberg Rugby League premiers Hervey Bay Seagulls was possibly the worst way Maryborough Brothers' first home game in 15 years could have worked out.
Hervey Bay ultimately ran in nine tries to vastly improve their points differential, but the 15 minutes of the game belonged to the newly-promoted Maryborough club.
"We killed oursevles in that first 15 minutes,” Dreger said.
Maryborough Brothers crossed the line twice only to be denied by the Seagulls' defence, and once Hervey Bay took control they never relented.
"We get some confidence out of that,” Dreger said.
The upside to such a thrashing is that today's opponents, Wallaroos, may take them lightly.
The return of experienced former Gympie Devil Kurt Fleming to the front row will give Maryborough Brothers much-needed size in the middle of the park.
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"Love means never having to say you're sorry," went the tagline to Erich Segal's 1970 tear-jerker "Love Story | ," in which an earnest gent named Oliver tries to support his wife as she — spoiler alert — dies of leukemia. Charles Bock's novel "Alice & Oliver" shares a character name and a disease with "Love Story," but Bock would consider Segal's greeting-card glop only with open contempt. Love, especially when it's tested by illness, means always having something to apologize for. The novel's power is in its two characters' messy negotiation of their fears, errors and shifting affections.
Even so, "Love Story," wouldn't be a half-bad title for the first half of the book. Alice and Oliver are a charmed, devoted couple when we first meet them. It's 1993 in New York, when it was possible to find and rehab a roomy and cheap Meatpacking District apartment, when the miraculous nascent Internet allowed you to download an entire photo "in less time than it took to microwave popcorn," and when you could step into a CD store |
'I actually think the president will sign the bill on the Keystone pipeline,' Priebus said.
A confident Reince Priebus on Election Day predicted that | a Republican controlled House and Senate will pass a bill to approve the Keystone XL pipeline — and that President Barack Obama will likely sign it.
In an appearance on MSNBC on Tuesday, the Republican National Committee chairman was asked what specific legislation a Republican Congress would pass following the elections.
The GOP leader argued that there will be greater political pressure on the president to approve the pipeline project because of legislative action.
For years, many Republicans and some Democrats have pushed for the Obama White House to sign off on the oil pipeline between Canada and the U.S., saying that it will stimulate domestic energy production and create jobs. Critics of the pipeline have said that the job creation will be negligible and that the pipeline would have significant cost to the environment and exacerbate climate change.
The State Department in April instituted another delay in making a decision on the project, which Republicans and advocates on both sides decried as politically motivated.
In the interview Tuesday, Priebus said he was expecting big gains later, but that he |
The Jurassic Press is missing much in their reporting on the $50 billion bailout of General Motors (GM). The Press is open channeling for President | Barack Obama - allowing him to frame the bailout exactly as he wishes in the 2012 Presidential election.
The President is running in large part on the bailout’s $30+ billion loss, uber-failed “success.” And the Press is acting as his stenographers. An epitome of this bailout nightmare mess is the electric absurdity that is the Chevrolet Volt. The Press is at every turn covering up - rather than covering - the serial failures of President Obama’s signature vehicle.
The Press has failed to mention at least five Volt fires, myopically focusing on the one the Obama Administration hand-selected for attention.
The Press has failed to mention that the Volt fire problem remains unsolved. Is it the battery? Is it the charging station? Is it the charging cable? All of the above?
GM and the Administration don’t know. And the Press ain’t breaking their necks trying to find out.
In more recent news, the |
I am remembering my experience of childhood, climbing my favorite tree in our front yard. It was a huge pine tree and had wonderful branches close to | each other like a perfect ladder to heaven. I would climb to the very top and swing blowing in the wind for hours.
Often I would sing the only song I knew about a tree, “I talk to the trees but they don’t listen to me….” It seems ironic now because indeed the tree was listening to me and I knew it, but this was one of the few songs in my limited repertoire. I sang it with great melancholy and the tree, like a faithful dog was just there, present, holding me and my sadness.
My last article The Healing Benefits of Walking Barefoot got me thinking about how formative these experiences of nature are to us as children, if we were fortunate enough to be around it. I realize how blessed I was to have an actual forest to explore, and a choice of many fabulous trees to climb and a tree house that I had access to.
Shortly after writing my last article I decided to practice what I preached and |
John Murray says he will "live like a monk" ahead of his WBO InterContinental title fight against Kevin Mitchell next month.
The | Manchester-based undefeated European lightweight champion made that promise following a remarkable public plea by trainer Joe Gallagher.
Gallagher wants the public to act as his eyes and ears and watch over Murray for the next six weeks, so he does not get into any bad habits.
Murray responded: "I am going to push myself to the limit because I need to be in top shape if I am going to do a real good job on Kevin, which is what I expect.
"I will go to the gym, then to my mum's house, eat, sleep and run. I will be like a machine for the next six weeks. But you have to live like a monk.
"I am hoping this is the year I make it and get a world title shot. That's what I need. I need to be world champion. That's been the dream since I turned pro."
The fight against Mitchell is scheduled for July 9 at the Excel Arena and Gallagher told the Manchester Evening News |
UNIONS are feeding fears of a return to the Howard-era Work Choices legislation, as the Abbott Government orders a wide-ranging inquiry into | the workplace relations framework.
Leaked draft terms of reference for the Productivity Commission inquiry said it would examine employee conditions, red tape, productivity and the ability of business to "respond appropriately to changing economic conditions".
At pains to avoid comparisons with the Work Choices laws that saw the Coalition lose power in 2007, Employment Minister Senator Eric Abetz said on Friday the inquiry would do "nothing more, nothing less" than that promised before the election.
He described the commission's inquiry as "a comprehensive and broad review of the laws", saying the Australian Council of Trade Unions as part of the consultation phase on the inquiry.
But he said despite reports saying penalty rates and "union militancy" would form part of the inquiry, he would not confirm nor deny any such inclusions in the review's terms of reference.
Rather, Sen Abetz warned Labor and the ACTU not to run a "deliberate scare campaign" about the review, saying any changes to workers conditions |
I am amused by the current lovefest going on with Windows XP. It’s the greatest operating system ever, in the minds of some | , especially compared to the allegedly bloated, slow Windows Vista. Ironically, some of the biggest defenders of XP were singing a very different tune a few short years ago.
I am amused by the current lovefest going on with Windows XP. It’s the greatest operating system ever, in the minds of some, especially compared to the allegedly bloated, slow Windows Vista. In fact, InfoWorld has gone so far as to kick off a “Save XP” petition drive.
However, the truth is that "Windows 6.0" [Vista] is really only the second mainstream iteration of the current Windows platform (Windows 2000 doesn't count since it was never a mainstream product). As such, there simply is no real precedent from which to draw such conclusions.
The introduction of Windows XP was a watershed moment for the PC industry, one that firmly cemented Microsoft's role as the pace-setter for the desktop.
Yes, XP was totally awesome when it was |
Hillary Clinton has sought to clarify her comments that she and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, were “dead broke” and “ | struggling” to pay two mortgages after they left the White House.
Mrs. Clinton’s book tour — which might be a practice run for a 2016 Democrat presidential campaign — for Hard Choices has developed into an apology tour after at least one major gaffe.
The dead broke comment made during the Diane Sawyer ABC News interview appeared to reveal the multimillionaire former Secretary of State as an elitist who is completely out of touch with ordinary Americans. As The Inquisitr previously reported, the Clintons have been criticized for what some believe are the exorbitant fees they charge for speaking engagements and the million dollar book deals they both secured to tell their stories.
Even former aide and current Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel challenged the dead broke claim in a public appearance with Hillary Clinton.
As the wife of an ex-president, Hillary Clinton lives in a bubble of 24-hour taxpayer-paid Secret Service protection and recently admitted that she hasn’t driven a car |
Shahid Afridi struck a superb maiden t20 century to fire Hampshire to comprehensive victory over Derbyshire and book his side a place | in the T20 Blast semi-final.
The Pakistan legend’s ton came off just 42 balls as the Ageas Bowl outfit won by 101 runs at the 3aaa County Ground.
Afridi shared a second-wicket stand of 103 with captain James Vince (55) as Hampshire posted a first-innings total of 249 for eight.
Hampshire’s bowlers then performed impressively as they bowled Derbyshire out for 148 with one ball remaining.
Afridi revealed he asked Vince if he could move up his side’s batting order before the clash as he felt he would be useful in the powerplay.
He said: ‘I asked the captain to send me up in the order because number seven or eight is not my position.
‘I took a chance because in crucial games you have to do that.
‘In the first six overs, batsmen like me and some others who play aggressive cricket |
On a recent episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney explained how he and Dan Auerbach made “T | ighten Up,” which hit number 96 on Rolling Stone‘s list of the Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far). It was their first collaboration with Danger Mouse, and changed the Black Keys’ career forever — but first, they had to decide to release it.
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“The intro was Dan’s melody,” says Auerbach, “but it was my idea to whistle it. We got the song to the point where it was like maybe two minutes and 20 seconds long – too short – and then the conversation moved into the idea that we’ve never had a song played on the radio. Brian goes, it’s pretty catchy. We couldn’t just put another chorus on it – it would be annoying. So Brian had the idea to do something where the tempo just drops and like it’s almost like |
If this had been car-on-car there would be little to report... what do we have to do to get people to take care on | the roads?
I drove by this accident on my way to work this AM. It looked pretty bad from what I saw, but I am glad to hear it wasn't life threatening.
Accidents happen, and sadly some people will accidently not see a cyclist. Sometimes it will be the drivers fault, sometimes it will be the cyclists fault. No matter how careful people are, accidents will always happen.
whatwhat wrote: I drove by this accident on my way to work this AM. It looked pretty bad from what I saw, but I am glad to hear it wasn't life threatening.
Using the word "accident" makes it sound like there's nothing we could do about it... it was a "crash" and as you said someone wasn't paying attention... we see crashes all the time in this town but do we try to drive better? do we slow down so that we can be more attentive?
What does it take to get someone to "see |
SCOTUS end of term: Closing off one avenue of civil rights relief after another.
Closing off one avenue of civil rights relief after another | .
Justice Sonia Sotomayor has voted on the free speech side of every major Roberts Court decision outside campaign finance since joining the court.
Thank you so much for including me in this year’s discussion. Dahlia, you asked about the First Amendment cases. I think it was Dante who said a great flame follows a little spark. Whoever said it, it’s true: Seemingly small cases sometimes open big windows.
That’s why I’d like to begin my stint at the Breakfast Table not with one of this week’s much-anticipated blockbusters but with a little case decided a few days ago called Lane v. Franks. In Lane, a unanimous court nipped in the bud some of the scariest implications of the 2006 Garcetti v. Ceballos decision, at least slowing down the court’s dismantling of the free speech rights of public employees.
Nobody was surprised that this court—despite decisions |
It’s not just domestically that the new Prime Minister has shaken things up in his first year.
When Abiy Ahmed became Ethiopia� | �s prime minister a year ago on 2 April, he inherited a deeply divided and fractured country. The economy was in free fall, a state of emergency had been declared, and an agitated mass was calling for revolutionary change. Since then, his administration has been praised for pulling the country back from the brink. The government has enacted a series of progressive and transformational reforms, which have made headlines internally and been widely scrutinised.
Much less, however, has been said about Abiy’s foreign policy.
These kinds of promises are not uncommon in inaugural speeches and few expected Abiy to follow through. That is until he made the unexpected move to end twenty years of intractable military stalemate with neighbouring Eritrea and began a flurry of visits to countries in the region and the Middle East. Within just three months of assuming office, Abiy had capably and courageously resolved the long-running conflict with Eritrea and begun to consolidate multiple strategic partnerships within and beyond the region |
Those who want to inspire their daugthers to careers in mathematics, or at least encourage them not to be intimidated, need look no farther | than a new site on the World Wide Web, Biographies of Women Mathematicians.
The site (http://www.scottlan.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm) features the biographies of more than 100 women mathematicians ranging from Florence Nightingale, who used statistical analysis techniques to prevent deaths during the Crimean War, to Rear Adm. Grace Murray Hopper, who invented Cobal, a computer-programming language.
Other new sites on the World Wide Web of interest to women include the following.
- The Juvenile Products Manufacturers (http://www.jpma.org), which offers information to consumers on baby safety, safe use and selection of juvenile products and safety information on car seats, cribs and more.
- The Women's Health America Group (http://www.womenshealth.com), which has a wide range of information on women's health issues and links to other resources.
- Five web sites |
A Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighter walks past destroyed vehicles in the final ISIS encampment on March 24, 2019 in Baghouz | , Syria. Getty Images.
Tens of thousands of people live in the camps, which swelled enormously during the months-long battle that culminated in the defeat of the last vestige of ISIS's "caliphate" by a Kurdish-led alliance.
"A delegation from the Iraqi cabinet visited the autonomous administration to discuss the return to Iraq of displaced Iraqis, estimated to number 31,000, and an agreement was reached," Kurdish official Mahmud Kero said.
Mr Kero said many of the displaced did not have Iraqi identity papers, including children born on Syrian soil.
Those expected to return do not include suspected ISIS fighters being held in Kurdish-run jails, after surrendering or being caught fleeing the insurgents' last stand.
"We have asked for the return of all Iraqis including those accused of belonging to ISIS," Mr Kero said.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces announced the defeat of the ISIS "caliphate" last month after tens of thousands of people |
HIGH scoring matches were the order of the day at wind-swept Deansgate Lane last Saturday morning.
In the Year Three section | Wanderers and Albion shared a ten goal thriller. Will McDermott and Oliver Hall scored two goals each and Conor Dewhurst was also on target for Wanderers. However a Dylan Wordley hat-trick and a goal apiece for Daniel Haines and Jackson Darkes-Sutcliffe in reply for Albion saw honours even at 5-5.
United (Charlie Fazakerley 3, Callum Morrisey 2, James Honour and Elliot Taylor) narrowly won 7-5 in their match with Rangers (Peter Wood 3 and Owen Highton 2).
Twenty-two goals were scored in the three Year Four division games. Red Arrows (Joe O’Brien and Jack Blundell 3 each, Eren Dundar and Anthony Griffin) defeated Altcar United (Adam Wood and Louis Fazakerley 2 goals each, Liam Henney, plus one own goal) by an 8-6 scoreline.
Formby Grasshoppers (Tom Holman 2, Owen |
From its initial use, heroin alters chemical processes in the nervous system and makes the agony of withdrawal an overwhelming deterrent to quitting.
Could you forget | how to ride a bicycle?
That feeling of forward motion, untethered to a parent steadying the seat, stays with most people into adulthood. Hence the expression: You never forget how.
But imagine for a minute that you did have to forget. Could you unlearn something like that?
That’s what addiction is like, except instead of trying to unlearn something that is fun and mostly free of consequence, you’re trying to unlearn something that has the power to take over your life.
Dr. Ruben Baler, a neuroscientist with the National Institute on Drug Abuse, said there are many metaphors to explain addiction, but he’s partial to the bike-riding analogy.
The science of addiction is complicated. It’s easier for people to see it as black-and-white. A person makes bad choices and has to live with them. Or, a person started using these drugs, so they can stop |
A special jail wing dedicated to mothers-in-law, arrested for demanding excessive dowry in India's capital New Delhi, faces overcrowding due | to the pressure of new entrants.
"The swift inflow of mothers-in-law into the ward meant exclusively for them, has stretched capacity to the maximum," a Tihar jail official said. She said the section, the only one of its kind in the country, currently housed 114 women.
Most of the mothers-in-law, aged 50 to 60, who constitute around a third of the total number of Tihar's women prisoners, say they have been "framed". They claim to have been the innocent victims of their wily daughters-in-law who successfully duped their "guileless" sons into conspiring against their mothers.
"The increasing number of inmates in the mothers-in-law ward at Tihar jail is indicative of how serious dowry demands have become in consumer hungry middle class Indian families," said barrister Miss Sushmita Dev, who specializes in women issues. Many parents, she declared, believed that "squeezing" |
Argentina’s default on its sovereign debt in 2001 set in motion a long and complicated process designed to convince those to whom it owed | money to restructure the loan. By 2010, the troubled Latin American nation, now more or less back on its feet, proposed a new arrangement, offering its bondholders about 30 cents on the dollar. An overwhelming majority signed on, but a handful—mainly investors who bought the bonds from their original holders for a reduced price, expecting to turn a profit—did not. A deal, they said, was a deal.
Unmoved, the Supreme Court decided not to review the earlier ruling. What happened as a result was nothing: Sovereign debt markets registered little movement, and Argentina’s debt, after an initial dip, bounced back once the government in Buenos Aires grudgingly hinted that it was ready to negotiate with its bondholders. Clearly undeterred by the Supreme Court’s decision, Ecuador, having itself defaulted in 2008, waited just one day before taking to Wall Street to sell $2 billion worth of 10-year bonds.
The economic predictions of |
There’s good news and bad news in China today for Qualcomm, the US giant that creates chipsets for smartphones, tablets, PCs and | other gadgets.
First off, the good: Qualcomm has announced a new $150 million fund dedicated to startups in China. The company’s Chinese portfolio includes Xiaomi, which just unveiled its new Mi 4 smartphone this week, and Dolphin Browser, which just sold a majority 51 percent share to a Chinese games company.
Qualcomm started investing in 2000, though its VC arm didn’t enter China until 10 years ago. With its newest fund, it is looking specifically for mobile-focused startups involved with the internet, e-commerce, semi-conductors, education and health. Alongside today’s announcement, Qualcomm revealed two new investments for the first time: education platform Cambridge Wow, and health startup Boohee.
“Chinese companies receiving investments from Qualcomm can benefit from Qualcomm’s insights on mobile technologies and leverage [our] relationships throughout the industry,” said the US company in a statement.
Now for that bad news. State media in China is |
A woman who was hurt in a serious car crash in Fleetwood has died from her injuries.
Lynne McDermott, 56, from Preston | , suffered serious leg injuries and multiple fractures in a collision involving a white BMW 330i, a parked Ford Ecosport and two female pedestrians on Station Road, close to the junction of Amounderness Way, at around 9.10pm on Saturday.
Ms McDermott, who was one of the pedestrians, was taken to Royal Preston Hospital for treatment but died yesterday.
The second woman, aged 57, also from Preston, suffered multiple fractures to her left shoulder, arm, hip, ankle and pelvis. She is currently being treated at Royal Preston Hospital.
Station Road was closed for around six hours while collision investigators attended.
Leon Kay, 33, of Bayside, Fleetwood, has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving and drink-driving. He has been remanded to appear at Blackpool Magistrates’ Court today.
Mrs McDermott's family said: “The world needs to know that she was an incredible person and amazing fighter.
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Starbucks is the gift that keeps on giving … year after year! The coffee giant has released its first advertisement for its annual holiday drinks! — | “Tomorrow only, November 2 get a free reusable red cup with the purchase of any holiday beverage,” Starbucks posted on its Instagram and Twitter accounts. The offer is available in Starbucks stores in the United States and Canada. If customers use the cup between Saturday and January 7 to buy a 16-ounce holiday beverage after 2 PM, they save 50 cents on their order.
The signature red cup got a makeover since this is the first time ever, Starbucks decided to make the red cup reusable. Now, while their signature red cup is only free on November 2, that day also marks the official start of Starbucks’ holiday beverages! Starting Friday, November 2, the company will begin offering six holiday beverages — Peppermint Mocha, Toasted White Chocolate Mocha, Caramel Brulee Latte, Chesnut Praline Latte, Gingerbread Latte and Egg Nog Latte. The drinks will be available hot, iced or as a blended Frappuccino |
Lancebase.com offers a powerful tool to help freelancers attract clients and foster relationships.
PORTLAND, Ore. - Oct. 23 | , 2016 - PRLog -- LanceBase is a next-generation message board, using state-of-the-art forum software that is fully responsive, easy to navigate and extremely user friendly. The Services Showcase section offers freelancers a powerful tool for attracting new clients and the site provides a lively discussion forum. Members can interact with one another, collaborate, and find invaluable tips and resources; there is a Tips and Tutorials section offering expert advice and also a Classified section where freelancers can find new opportunities.
"We wanted to create an open environment where freelancers could chat candidly about real-world issues affecting the freelance community," says PR Director Anthony Shearer. "F2F (freelancer to freelancer)."
Lancebase.com was built by freelancers for freelancers. The site embodies a strong sense of community and mutual helpfulness; its launch is the result of the efforts of a large team of people working together to promote their vision of giving freel |
The U.K. Parliament has seized internal Facebook documents in an unusual move to answer questions it feels the company has been dodging, the Guardian reports | .
Why it matters: Pressure has been mounting on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify in front of the members of Parliament and other world leaders for weeks, but Zuckerberg has repeatedly turned down such requests.
Details: The files reportedly contain "significant revelations" about Facebook decisions on data and privacy control, as well as correspondence between top executives, per the Guardian.
Damian Collins, chair of Parliament's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, invoked a rare parliamentary mechanism to force the founder of a U.S. software company to hand over the documents while on a business trip to London.
In a dramatic and unusual move, a serjeant at arms was sent to the founder of Six4Three's hotel and ordered him to hand over the documents or face fines and, potentially, imprisonment, according to the report.
The documents were obtained by Six4Three in a separate legal process, according to the Guardian, which caught the attention of U.K. officials. In its |
How a startup disrupted "one of the oldest of old-school industries."
Health.com.au is a disruptive health insurer from Melbourne that | seeks to “reinvent how people view health insurance in Australia,” according to founder and CEO Andy Sheats.
While heading up strategy at realestate.com.au, Andy Sheats saw an opportunity to disrupt the $16 billion health insurance industry in Australia.
Sheats saw room to break in because, while many people had private insurance, customer service was dated and confusing, he said.
Health.com.au takes “a more modern, online approach to this old-school industry that allows people to actually do more online,” said Sheats.
For example, the startup lets people file claims online without sending any receipts, verifying the authenticity of the claim afterward. It also has digitised much of the paperwork that has historically been involved in the industry, he said.
Health.com.au began development in June 2011 and sold its first product in April 2012. The company was named startup of the year last month at the Telstra Business |
The exposed data includes email addresses and/or user names, IP addresses and encrypted passwords.
The drag-and-drop website builder Weeb | ly yesterday began notifying most of its more than 40 million users that hackers had accessed their email addresses and/or user names, IP addresses and encrypted (bcrypt hashed) passwords.
All affected users are being advised to reset their passwords.
"At this point we do not believe that any customer website has been improperly accessed," the company said in a statement posted on its website. "We do not store any full credit card numbers, and so we're not aware that any credit card information that can be used for fraudulent charges was a part of this incident."
"Weebly's security team is taking steps to further enhance our network security and protect our customers," the company added. "We are also working with a third party team of security experts to investigate the incident."
The company doesn't yet know how the data was accessed.
The passwords for all accounts set up after June 1, 2011 were encrypted using salted bcrypt hashes. Older accounts used a less secure |
"Regardless of any executive proclamation, I do not want the flags at the North Carolina Standards Laboratory flown at half staff to honor Jesse Helms any | time this week," Eason wrote just after midnight, according to e-mail messages released in response to a public records request.
He told his staff that he did not think it was appropriate to honor Helms because of his "doctrine of negativity, hate, and prejudice" and his opposition to civil rights bills and the federal Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
Eason said in an interview Tuesday that he did not typically lower the flag himself, but that, as head of the lab, he supervised the technician who did. He also trained new employees on proper flag etiquette, including a one-person folding technique he learned in Boy Scouts.
When the lab opened Monday morning, the flags were not out at all. An employee called Eason's boss, Stephen Benjamin, who worked in another building in Raleigh. About 10:45 a.m., Benjamin told one of Eason's co-workers to put the flags at half-staff.
Another of Eason's |
*** 1:20 p.m. update: Fox Sports’ Jeff Goodman reporting that Maryland basketball coach Gary Williams is retiring. I wonder if | Terps will call Sean Miller, and if he’ll listen.
*** 10:55 a.m. update: Oregon fans: This is a list of rising seniors only, with the exception of Luck/Burfict/James. Read the criteria in the introduction … But thanks for proving my point about your righteous indignation.
*** Note: This was initially scheduled to be posted on the Hotline earlier this week, but I depayed because of the big news on the TV front. I’ll have more on the media deal in the next 24 hours.
Welcome to the Hotline’s annual NFL Draft look-ahead, a ranking of the top Pac-12 prospects for next April and exercise in semi-futility.
The conference looks to be light on elite offensive and defensive linemen but should be loaded at safety in 2011, with four early-to-mid round prospects.
Stanford QB Andrew Luck, who is on track to earn his |
A survey has revealed that retail C-level executives are still experiencing a lack of visibility into supply chain inventory, despite plans to invest in agility, | intelligence and automation.
The survey, a collaboration between JDA, Microsoft and Incisiv, called upon more than 221 global C-level executives to look at their supply chain visibility and the data surrounding it.
It revealed that 78% of C-level executives do not have a real-time view of inventory across their supply chain channels, with 50% of them believing they do not have the right platforms or technology in place to support expanded fulfilment options.
Key to this digital supply chain journey is data and the use of supply chain data. The report revealed that almost half (46%) of respondents that their own data is of poor quality and that they cannot trust the accuracy of it. Almost half (45%) are unable to understand and utilise analytics tools and 44% don’t even have an analytics strategy in place.
The report concludes that 20019 represents a key turning point for AI in the retail supply chain, as 50% believe that its greatest impact will be |
An 18-year-old black man was shot and killed by police late on Tuesday at a gas station in a St. Louis suburb near where | unarmed teen Michael Brown was killed by a white officer in August, police and local media said.
A video feed showed the gas station cordoned off by yellow tape and guarded by police, some in helmets and carrying riot shields, with bystanders shouting at them in a tense standoff.
The shooting of Brown in August, and the decision not to prosecute the officer involved, set off demonstrations across the country. The St.
Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper reported that some 60 people had gathered at the scene of Tuesday’s incident and that at least three were arrested.
Images and video footage showed a flash, a loud bang and smoke filling an area near the gas pumps, but it was not clear whether they were caused by bystanders or the police. Local broadcaster KSDK reported people hurled rocks and bricks toward police.
Police said the man who was killed had pointed a handgun at an officer who was conducting a “routine business check” and had approached two men outside the |
Add Senate Historian Richard Baker to the list of those adversely affected by the defeat of Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S. | D.).
Sen. Reid, above, maintains that Senate Democrats have no time for Richard Baker’s historical minute.
Baker, whom Daschle recruited after he was elected minority leader in 1995 to give a brief talk about the history of the Senate at the weekly meetings of the Democratic caucus, was informed last week that the caucus won’t have time for him when Harry Reid Harry Mason ReidSanders courts GOP voters with 'Medicare for All' plan Glamorization of the filibuster must end Schumer won't rule out killing filibuster MORE (D-Nev.) succeeds Daschle in January.
“I was told that Senator Reid wanted to tighten up the schedule, so I will no longer be doing the Senate historical minute for the Democratic caucus,” said Baker, whose three-minute presentations are popular with most senators and with readers of The Hill, where they appear each Wednesday under his byline.
Baker said he can no longer justify taking the time |
With her blond ponytail poking through the opening of a green company visor, Lisa L. Mathias looks like a high schooler taking a | break from her summer job to chat with a customer.
But she's more than just the help here at the Subway sandwich shop in Taneytown. She owns the joint.
"I fix the subs, I bake the bread, I do everything," said Ms. Mathias, a 25-year-old from Randallstown who has become the newest member of Taneytown's business community. "I hire and I fire, too, though I haven't had to do that."
Ms. Mathias set up her shop -- tucked in the corner of the Exxon station on East Baltimore Street -- hired five locals to help run it and has enjoyed a steady stream of customers since its opening June 10.
But she doesn't like to talk about that.
Ms. Mathias nervously took several quick puffs on her cigarette (the first of two in 20 minutes), obviously uncomfortable talking about herself and her goals.
But Arthur J. Harvey, who comes from Glen Burnie to |
LONDON, UK / ACCESSWIRE / January 3, 2019 / Large businesses often operate in a number of geographically-dispersed facilities | , which typically overlap in terms of the services provided or products produced. Moreover, these businesses regularly serve the same customers out of a number of different facilities, especially if the customers span a large geography. And despite the logistical challenges of managing multiple locations, all customers rightly have high expectations around consistency in terms of quality, customer service, and customer reporting, no matter what facilities are involved in their product or service delivery.
Unfortunately, too many companies still operate in a disjointed environment where either legacy, a false interpretation of the concept of empowerment, or the singular perspective of the individual plant manager determines the organization's processes and procedures. This approach, however, hinders corporations from achieving their full potential in terms of customer service and return-on-capital-employed.
The implementation of a rigorous and prescriptive universal operating structure is the most effective way to guarantee the highest level of standardization and scalability to deliver the greatest operational efficiencies and best performance against relevant customer KPIs.
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Skype 5.0 is the latest release of the popular VoIP, instant messaging and chat tool.
A major addition in this version is | the new Facebook tab, which provides easy access to your Facebook news stream. You can check what's going on with your friends, add comments and update your own status, all within Skype. And another click gives access to your phonebook, from where you can text or call your Facebook friends (free of charge, if they're also Skype users, potentially a real money-saver).
The program also currently includes a free trial of the group video calling feature, currently in beta. This lets you have a video chat with more than two people, intelligently moving the focus to the person who's speaking so it's easy to follow the conversation.
If you've had problems with connection quality before then you'll appreciate the new call quality manager, which monitors performance during a call and provides help on resolving problems.
And while poor quality calls might be down to line or internet issues that you can't control, Skype 5.0 now includes automatic call recovery, which quickly reconnects you when |
In a Google+ hangout, internet-savvy social activist-turned-politician Shashi Tharoor, who holds the HRD | portfolio, answered live questions from across geographies on higher education and shared government’s perspective.
While answering a question by Bangalore-based school teacher Chanda Bhide, he said that creation of new schools is imperative and expansion is one of the major focus areas of education policymakers. Tharoor also said the ministry intends to set up a research and innovation university.
With regard to a question by Shantanu Gupta of Bangalore on the Kothari Commission report and Supreme Court decisions way back in 2000 and 2005, Tharoor said profitability in education is not permitted. “We are finding many private institutions charging heavy fees and engaging in unfair practises,” he added.
“We aim to make the education sector transparent by putting information on the Web. The more transparent the process is, there would be less corruption,” the minister said. Both UGC and AICTE, Tharoor believes, are taking similar initiatives.
Assuring Nipun |
Former NFL running back Chris Johnson announced his retirement on Monday. He last played during the 2017 season.
“After a great deal of thought | and consideration, I have decided to close this chapter of my life and look forward to the new possibilities that have been afforded to me,” he wrote in a statement issued by his management company.
Tennessee selected Johnson in the first round of the 2008 NFL Draft out of East Carolina. He spent his first six seasons in the league with the Titans, highlighted by a stellar 2009 season: 2,006 rushing yards and 2,509 yards from scrimmage. He led the league in both categories and was named first-team All-Pro that season.
The Titans cut Johnson before the 2014 season and he spent that year with the New York Jets, followed by three partial seasons with the Arizona Cardinals.
For his career, Johnson appeared in 130 games and rushed for 9,651 yards (4.5 yards per carry). He had 2,255 receiving yards and 64 career touchdowns combined. He had six straight 1,000-yard seasons, all with the Titans.
Johnson, who turned |
Leading edge information on innovative call center & workforce optimization solutions.
International Data Corp. today named Artificial Solutions, CogniCor, Inb | enta, Kore.ai, and Personetics as IDC Innovators in the conversational AI platforms market.
“Conversational AI platforms are used to build applications that answer questions, provide advice and/or recommendations using natural language processing and other dialog related technologies,” IDC said.
The research firm noted that adoption of consumer tools like Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, and Google Assistant helped spark this movement. It added that conversational AI solutions can enhance or replace traditional customer service practices and resources such as human agents, IVRs, live chat, and mobile and web interfaces.
Artificial Solutions offers a solution called Teneo. It allows business users and developers to quickly create natural language applications.
wealth management advice automation use cases.
Kore.ai offers a bot building tool, AI, NLP, and ML to turn human requests and system data into conversations. The company notes it offers robust security controls and an admin console as part of its solution |
Paramount Pictures is folding it microbudget division Insurge into its main movie studio, forcing the label’s president Amy Powell to give | up all film duties.
The only film on Insurge’s slate, Bad Robot/Insurge thriller “The Cellar,” starring John Goodman, will be released under the big Paramount banner.
Of the division’s three remaining staffers, two will now report to newly appointed president of production Marc Evans. Powell will now answer to Paramount chairman and CEO Brad Grey and focus on TV and digital projects, with one other staffer moving with her. Powell is currently overseeing four pilots including “School of Rock” at Nickelodeon (which was ordered at right to series), “Minority Report” at Fox and “Shooter” at USA. New hire Dina Hillier will join Powell as an exec focused on scripted comedy.
The news comes only weeks after president of production Adam Goodman was fired and replaced by Evans, and the sense around the lot was that more dominoes could still fall. Several sources who had business |
In court papers, the actress also says she switched talent agencies upon encouragement as part of an alleged act of retaliation against CAA.
Zoo | ey Deschanel has lobbed a big cross-complaint in her dispute with her former management firm over commissions. The New Girl star alleges that Seven Summits partner Sarah Jackson purposely barged into her private dressing room with two strangers while she was changing her clothes.
According to papers filed last week in Los Angeles Superior Court, Deschanel says she was on tour performing with her musical group She & Him when "Jackson brought the two strangers in the dressing room to help further [the manager's] career and to potentially generate revenue for [the firm]," states the cross-complaint.
That's not all she's alleging.
Seven Summits originally brought the lawsuit in December 2015. The firm said it had represented the star from 1996 to 2013 and demanded 10 percent of what she received for selling the female-focused site Hello Giggles. After Deschanel refused, the actress-singer allegedly also refused to pay post-termination commissions for other work including Deschanel |
Former high school guidance counselor switches career paths to provide food to people in need.
Since he was a boy, Rick Caywood says he always | dreamed of one day driving a big rig.
About 15 years ago, Rick finally realized his dream after leaving his job as a high school guidance counselor, taking a leap of faith into the trucking world.
The OOIDA member started his organization, Rick Caywood Ministries in Crawford, TX, more than 16 years ago to support other Christian ministries and missionaries along the U.S.-Mexican border. For nearly two years, he kept his day job as a counselor and worked part time in the missionary. As the ministry grew, so did the demand on his time and his services.
“We started out our ministry with an Astro minivan and a 16-foot flatbed trailer,” Caywood said. “Then we added a Ford one-ton truck with a Powerstroke diesel engine. Then another group donated a spanking new Wells Cargo trailer,” he told Land Line.
He said the ministry soon realized they needed a “big truck |
Cathay Pacific Airways, PCCW NETVIGATOR, and Tenzing Communications today announced a new partnership to offer the NETVIGATOR | Inflight email service.
The service will initially be offered on a free trial basis, from today until June, to passengers on 42 Cathay Pacific aircraft, over half of the airlineÁ?s fleet. The entire Cathay Pacific fleet will be equipped with the service by the end of 2003.
. Meanwhile, all @netvigator.com email account holders are pre-registered for the service providing NETVIGATOR customers a simple and immediate access to inflight email using their existing user name and password.
was the first airline to commit to offering inflight email across its entire fleet. It was also the first to offer data connections to a high-speed onboard network. The service is made possible through the Tenzing network, which bridges the gap between earthbound ISP networks and the aircraft cabin. This unique system allows passengers to gain access anywhere ÁV from halfway across the Pacific to the middle of Siberia.
Dominic Leung, Executive VP of PCCW� |
It’s not every day that a brand-name stock loses a quarter of its value in a matter of minutes, as Netflix did after | reporting its financial earnings Wednesday. It’s even rarer when executives respond as if it’s no big thing.
After Wednesday’s stock market close, Netflix reported a net profit that exceeded Wall Street’s expectations. So far so good. But Netflix’s success hinges on whether it can keep signing up new subscribers, and it’s here where the company came up short: The company added 3 million net subscribers around the world after publicly predicting it would add 3.7 million.
There are a few reasons why Hastings can get away with this attitude without investors calling for his head. Wednesday’s stock market was a tumultuous one in general, seeing the Dow close down 173 points after a 458-point drop at its worst. And amid lingering concerns that tech valuations in general were too high, many investors were ready to sell any stock on bad news.
On top of that, Netflix has long been a favorite of speculators, who |
Desperation comes in many forms but you can usually guarantee the demon drink will be involved somewhere. Take John Daly, who was last seen down | the street from Augusta National selling T-shirts and who will today be seen trying to break par on the opening day of the Spanish Open, the latest comeback in a long line of comebacks for the former Open champion.
If he was a character in a horror film – and there are some people who seem to think Daly is exactly that – then you could write this off as just another unwanted sequel in the life of golf's very own Freddy Krueger, or at least you could if you were the kind of prissy hypocrite who believes the American has nothing left to offer but an irresistible opportunity to prove golf is the last bastion of decorum in professional sport.
Alas for Daly, and alas for the sport, there are plenty of prissy hypocrites around in the royal and ancient game and some of them are in positions of power, which explains, at least in part, why he now finds himself in dire straits, professionally and financially.
Not that the player |
The number of UK university applicants has dropped by 8.7% compared with last year – but school leavers have not overwhelmingly been deterred by | the tripling of tuition fees, official figures show. They also reveal a sharper drop among more affluent candidates than among those from disadvantaged backgrounds.
The decision to let universities raise undergraduate fees to a maximum of £9,000 a year provoked widespread public anger and battered the credibility of the Liberal Democrats. Nick Clegg's party had gone into the general election promising to phase out fees.
However, figures from the Universities and Colleges Admission Service (Ucas) published on Monday show that the number of 18-year-old UK applicants – the largest single group of candidates – has decreased by 3.6%, representing a drop of just under 8,500 people. The number of 18-year-olds in the population has declined by 11,000 this year, to 772,000, according to the Office for National Statistics, a fall of 1.4%.
But total applicant numbers, including overseas and mature candidates, are 7.4% lower than at the same point in 2011, |
We’re now between Mother’s Day and Father’s Day so it’s a good time to take a look | at moms and dads in Vermont.
We’re now between Mother’s Day and Father’s Day so it’s a good time to take a look at moms and dads in Vermont. We don’t know exactly how many mothers and fathers there are in the state, but we do know a lot about mothers and fathers with children under 18. And raising children is one of mothers’ and fathers’ most important jobs.
According to the Census Bureau, there are almost 66,000 families in Vermont who have among them 115,000 children under the age of 18. Seventy percent of those children, 82,000 of them, live in married couple families where there’s both a mother and father at home.
Those kids live, on average, in a pretty good economic situation. They live with two parents and in a family with a median income of about $81,000 — half of these families earn more than $81, |
Motivation can be hard to come by, especially in the face of challenges or difficult work.
When you're thinking about implementing that new idea | , or starting that new company or beginning that new regimen — this is the new year, after all — it's easy to talk yourself into procrastinating.
Or worse, avoiding your goal altogether.
Thoughts are powerful, and negative thoughts can prevent you from achieving your goals.
The flip side is that positive thoughts can be just as powerful. The next time you feel unmotivated, use any of these 50 positive thoughts to reenergize yourself. Really: They work!
1. I can do anything. It's a simple phrase, but it helps to remind yourself — you really can do anything you set your mind to.
2. This is why I can. Instead of giving yourself reasons why you can't do something, give yourself reasons why you can.
3. I deserve more. You deserve a better life — whether that means a better job, a healthier body or more money. Work for it.
4. It's never too late. |
AstraZeneca's Lynparza slowed the progression of breast cancer caused in part by mutations in the BRCA gene, an inherited condition | that causes up to 3% of all breast cancers. These cancers are particularly hard to treat, and some women who test positive for BRCA genes opt for double mastectomies in order to lower their risk.
In a study of 302 women whose breast cancer had spread, Lynparza reduced the risk of cancer growing significantly by 42% compared to chemotherapy, with fewer side effects. Tumors shrank in 60% of the patients who received Lynparza, versus 29% of those who got chemo. Women who received Lynparza went seven months before their cancer grew enough that doctors said it progressed, compared to 4.2 months for those on chemo. Serious side effects occurred in 50% of the women who received chemotherapy, versus 37% of those who received Lynparza.
Mutations in the BRCA gene, like the ones that led actress Angelina Jolie to opt for a mastectomy, raise the risk of cancer because they make the body |
A heartbreaking video (below) showing the effects of bullying on an 8-year-old girl has gone viral.
Anna Cymbaluk | , a third-grader from Minnesota, started an anti-bullying campaign with her family after a video showing her reaction to being bullied went viral.
Anna’s mother, Sarah Cymbaluk, uploaded the video to her Facebook page in May and within 24 hours, it had been shared more than 10,000 times, the NY Daily News reports. The mother told NY Daily News that she shared the video because she was fed up with her daughter’s school, Magelssen Elementary School in Fosston, Minnesota, doing nothing about the bullying problem.
“I want to feel like I’m wanted in the school, like people like me,” Anna tells her mom, sobbing.
Sarah said that her children were bullied for months before the video was filmed.
Anna tells her mother in the video that she had gone to the principal to report the bullying about five times already and that the school has done nothing to remedy the |
The snap election called by Theresa May shocked much of the nation, but to help get things back on an even keel why not have a fl | utter?
For this epic Corbyn vs. May showdown the bookies have a clear favourite.
Theresa May's Tories are odds on favourite's to win tomorrow's general election with betfair offering odds of 1/6.
In Cambridge Lib Dem Julian Huppert is favourite to just edge past rival Labour's Daniel Zeichner according to with odds of 11/10 over Zeichner's 4/6.
The conservative John Hayward is 20/1 whilst Green candidate Stuart Tuckwood and Rebooting Democracy candidate Keith Garrett are both 100/1 outsiders.
If Corbyn's Labour can turn the tide nationally then their 'money tree' could come good for you before they take power with odds of 18/1 meaning you'd at least get a decent return on your money.
Feeling really adventurous? The |
UK –This week the Freight Transport Association (FTA) offered a timely reminder to the owners and operators of vans about the problems and dangers | of overloading cargo or equipment into small commercials. The FTA has published a best practice guide for transport managers on the safe securing of loads in vans. The intention is to provide realistic and practical advice, clarifying compliance standards for operators and helping them to improve their drivers’ safety.
Worryingly, yet unsurprisingly to many industry insiders, the LGV overloading prohibition rate found by traffic enforcers increased from 55.1 per cent in 2007 to 66.9 per cent in 2009 (VOSA) making it by far the most common offence found among light goods vehicles (LGVs). Often drivers are unaware of the actual carrying capacity of their vehicles and equally many shippers fail to provide accurate weights for consignments they consider too small to warrant proper attention.
Additionally, many drivers are unaware that correctly distributed axle weights, even on small vehicles can be crucial to ensure the safety of their vehicles, and problems like this led the FTA to commission the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL |
Breakingviews editors recap the end of Argentina's U.S. legal battle to avoid paying holdout creditors and outline some of President Cristina Fernandez | 's options.
Argentina has been locked in a legal battles -- investors including some hedge funds one called Elliott management. -- an old -- of the country which from most other investors was restructured back in 20052010. Now. The legal battle is over Iran but the award doesn't seem to. Oh that's right the Supreme Court refused to take Argentina's appeal largely to a couple of years ago he was district court judge. -- -- I mean Argentina was ordered a long time ago to behave this that'll -- unedited right holdout creditors. The question was sergeant how do you enforce that and that is how do you make cars that causes is having because of contain. Chose to write that bones and a new -- Bryant an annual general issued these -- way back when the market was uncertain enough about Argentina as a credit to the -- some assurances -- -- Issaquah. What happened government buying new York law you know be in the US. What could go wrong wrong when I mean as |
Weah becomes the 25th president of the west African nation.
George Weah emerged from Liberia's slums to become a superstar footballer in | the 1990s, and has spent the last 13 years building political credibility to match his status as a sporting icon.
Weah, 51, put education, job creation and infrastructure at the centre of his policy platform to beat outgoing Vice President Joseph Boakai to the presidency, and expectations are sky-high he will deliver for the country's youthful population.
"I am a human being, I strive to be excellent, and I can be successful," Weah told journalists ahead of his inauguration, countering critics who say he is ill-prepared for office after serving in the Senate for just over three years.
The first African player to win both FIFA's World Player of the Year trophy and the Ballon d'Or, Weah was largely absent from Liberia during the 1989-2003 civil war period, playing for a string of top-flight European teams including Paris Saint-Germain and AC Milan, and later Chelsea.
Weah becomes the 25th president of the west |
A peripatetic seismologist and son of McCamey has been hired to figure out whether oil and gas drilling is causing earthquakes in Texas | . No matter what he says, some people will not believe him.
David Craig Pearson remembers the first time he felt the earth tremble beneath his feet. Mother Nature wasn’t to blame. The U.S. military was.
Pearson stood on the White Sands Missile Range, a sprawling base in south-central New Mexico, on that day some three decades ago. Federal Department of Defense workers fired off a weapons test. Pearson, then a wide-eyed doctoral student, recorded the earthquake it triggered.
“Since then, I was hooked,” he said in an interview.
Pearson went on to a ground-shaking career. His resume reflects 13 years at Los Alamos National Laboratory, which sent him many places where experts were blowing things up: Nevada (nuclear and chemical weapons tests), Wyoming and Indiana (coal mines), Kazakhstan (decommissioning a former Soviet nuclear test site), to name a few. He interpreted valuable information about how the |
In an unusual and personal announcement, Mr. Buffett said the resignation followed revelations that Mr. Sokol had purchased roughly $10 million in shares of | a chemicals company that Berkshire recently agreed to buy at the suggestion of Mr. Sokol, Lubrizol Corp.
Mr. Buffett said Mr. Sokol, 54 years old, had bought 96,060 shares in January, before Berkshire reached a $9 billion deal to acquire the company. Berkshire's purchase price of $135 per share meant that Mr. Sokol's stake rose $3 million in value.
Mr. Buffett said he and Mr. Sokol didn't feel the Lubrizol purchases were "in any way unlawful."
The SEC is reviewing the Berkshire press release and considering whether to launch an investigation, a person familiar with the matter said Wednesday.
Mr Sokol is, predictibly, going to spend more time with his family, presumably complaining about being fired.
You frequently see problems like this at family owned companies: the children get tired of waiting for Dad to die, and start freelancing. The problem is presumably worse at Berkshire Hathaway, because Warren Buffett |
Getting with the program could have unintended consequences.
When you unnecessarily demonize certain foods, or macronutrients — for instance, adopting a | very low-carb diet or severe calorie restriction — experts say it’s natural to become fixated on what you can’t have, rather than nourishing your body, and they contend that changes your relationship with food in negative ways. “With fad diets, food tends to become an enemy or something to be wrangled in, rather than being seen as nourishment for our bodies and a joyful part of life,” says Linsenmeyer, an instructor in the nutrition and dietetics department at Saint Louis University.
It doesn’t result in sustained weight loss — if that’s a goal.
Before changing how you eat to shed pounds, consider how quickly you’re going to purportedly lose that weight. “A safe rate of weight loss is about 1 to 2 pounds per week,” Linsenmeyer says. “Any time we see a diet promising faster rates of weight loss than that, it’s |
The Carter family were almost free of evil Stuart Highway when he was shot during a confrontation at the Queen Vic but it will take more than a bullet | to finish off this EastEnders villain as he turns his injuries to his advantage by placing Mick squarely in the frame.
Stuart has always resented Mick because he had to do a prison stint while covering for him and he doesn’t believe Mick has ever repaid him – and now is his chance to put Mick behind bars and cause him to feel what he did during his time inside.
When the Carters hear that doctors are going to try and bring Stuart round, they are relieved on the whole – as it means that he can finally tell the truth about what happened. But let’s face it, honesty has never been Stuart’s priority.
Shirley, meanwhile, is sure that Dylan was behind the shooting and hatches a plan to prove it – but will she get more than she bargained for?
Stuart wakes up but Halfway can’t bring himself to be in the same room as his callous brother as he tells Whitney |
Shaun Welford scored twice as Ashford United came from behind to win the Kent Reliance Senior Trophy at Maidstone on Sunday.
Danny | Lye's side were trailing to a Laurence Collins goal inside two minutes against Cray Valley but top scorer Welford fired them level before half-time and then headed the winner with 11 minutes remaining.
United's win came at the third attempt, having lost 4-0 to Beckenham in 2013/14 and on penalties to Sheppey in last year's final, also at the Gallagher Stadium.
Only six players survived from the United squad which was on duty that day - George Kamurasi, Pat Kingwell, George Savage Ryan Palmer, Welford and Ben Davisson, though he missed out on this occasion through suspension.
Player-boss Lye was forced into three changes to the side which won 2-0 in the league at Whitstable on Tuesday with Richard Avery, Joe Vines and Matt Day cup all tied.
That led to starts for Savage and Palmer while Lye himself was named on the bench.
Cray made just one change from their last |
Despite this week's ceremony, Kim Jong Un could build a new site if more testing is required or dismantle the tunnels in a reversible manner.
| WONSAN, North Korea — A group of foreign journalists arrived in North Korea on Tuesday to cover the dismantling of the country's nuclear test site later this week.
Technical experts were not invited, even though the United States has called for "a permanent and irreversible closure that can be inspected and fully accounted for." South Korean reporters were initially also scheduled to participate but weren’t granted visas by the North.
Pyongyang is allowing the limited access to the site to publicize its promise to halt underground tests and launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles. It unilaterally announced that moratorium ahead of a summit between leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump scheduled for June 12 in Singapore.
The eight South Korean journalists were excluded because Pyongyang has cut off high-level contact with Seoul to protest an exercise with the U.S. military — a protest the North's media reiterated Tuesday, saying saber-rattling and dialogue don't mix.
Such messages from the North and Trump's statements he |
Volunteers are highly valued and relied upon at the Art Museum. Volunteers contribute hundreds of hours, their energy and expertise that allow the museum to | succeed in its goal of bringing culture and art education to the people of Wyoming. If you are interested in volunteering, take a look at the opportunities below and contact the corresponding Museum staff member.
We are currently building our Adult Volunteer Program. The main opportunities are in education, office assistance, marketing, and collections. Volunteers are also needed for special events. As a volunteer you will get to meet with artists, work with exhibitions, and explore the world of art. If you are interested please fill out the application form.
We are currently strategizing a revamped Teen Apprentice Program into the Teen Volunteer Program. If you know a young person between the ages of 12 and 17 who is interested in community service hours in a creative field please have them fill out the application form.
Docents receive museum training and provide critical support for the museum's programs, including Shelton Studio programs, museum tours and special programs and projects. As a docent, you will have the chance to meet artists whose works are |
As Penguin celebrates its 80th anniversary BRIAN MORTON examines its paperback designs and the artists who created them, along with cover art from | successors such as Fontana, Picador and Paladin.
One of Penguin's greatest achievements was to make books that were collectable by ordinary people who could not afford fine bindings or esoteric limited editions. Founder Allen Lane and his brothers had a near-obsession with their design.
The publisher's most successful matrices make the books recognisable across a smoky club room or dusty hotel lounge. They were often devised by the company's brilliant chief designer Germano Facetti and developed by colleagues like Romek Marber, who created the grid for Penguin Crime.
Penguin used artists like Paul Hogarth, whose Graham Greene covers somehow define that slippery, uncertain world. Greene preferred imageless covers.
David Gentleman provided vivid images for Penguin's Shakespeare. Stephen Russ made beautiful cover patterns for the poetry series, while Alan Spain, Roger Mayne and others created a distinctive, almost solarised, look for Penguin Modern Poets.
Every series had its own collectable identity. The only |
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