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The Federal Tyres, Flex stores in Japan, and several Thai officials and drivers were at the Bira circuit for one of the special stages of | the rally which went from Pattaya to Ubon Ratchathani then into Laos finishing at Pakse (10th-16th August).
Holder of the number 1 plate is last year’s winner, Thai national Nuttapon Angritthanon (Isuzu D-Max), closely followed by another Thai, Chamnan On-Sri (Mitsubishi Triton).
One well known competitor, but on two wheels rather than four, is the ex Moto GP rider Takuma Aoki, who these days has to use hand controls, having fractured his spine in a racing accident.
One interesting vehicle is the Japanese entry of the PHEV Mitsubishi Outlander of Takatsugu, with co-driver Kenji Ishida stating before the rally that they were a little concerned with water crossings and the plug-in electrics.
In the motorcycle division, again Thailand is tops with Manoch Abdullkalee with the number 1 |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mortgage and investment schemes targeting troubled U.S. homeowners jumped in 2010 and may increase further if the economy does not improve | , the FBI said on Friday.
The FBI said in an annual report that pending investigations increased 12 percent in the fiscal year ended September 30, 2010, to 3,129 cases. That in turn was a 90 percent jump from the previous fiscal year.
An FBI official said the trend will continue as more borrowers struggle to pay their mortgages.
"If we have continuing high unemployment and increased numbers of foreclosures, what we see is a greater percentage of the population of existing homeowners being vulnerable to these schemes," said David Cardona, FBI deputy assistant director.
The collapse of the housing boom and the resulting financial crisis has led to a wave of foreclosures. In 2010, 2.5 million foreclosures were initiated, with a similar number expected this year.
The FBI said mortgage origination schemes have declined due to the depressed market for home purchases.
Fraud targeting troubled borrowers, however, has increased and includes loan modification scams and foreclosure rescue schemes in which perpetrators convince |
THERE IS something symbolic about the fact that one of the southern Iraqi towns from which the American-led occupation was forced last week was Kut. | It was here that in 1916 a British invasion force was besieged by the Turkish army and eventually forced to surrender. Of course, the present occupation of Iraq doesn't yet face a disaster on this scale.
But the sense that the US and its allies-chief among them Britain-are becoming bogged down in a situation of which they are losing control is growing. It was crass stupidity to open two fronts simultaneously-ordering the Marines to crush the resistance in Fallujah and seeking to break the power of the radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr.
But the roots of the present crisis lie in contradictions inherent in the very project of Bush and his neo-con advisers. The military campaign was an advert for the model of "transformational warfare" that US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld has been seeking to impose on the Pentagon. A relatively small, highly mechanised and heavily armed force overwhelmed the Iraqi army and seized the main population centres within a few weeks.
A long term military occupation |
England will not discover when key all-rounder Andrew Flintoff will return to action until the eve of the first Test against Pakistan.
Flint | off, 28, is currently resting his injured left ankle, which is due to be assessed once again in the build-up to the Lord's opener on July 13.
The problem flared during the third Test defeat to Sri Lanka at Trent Bridge and forced Flintoff to sit out the current NatWest Series.
A bone spur was removed from the joint last January but further surgery was ruled out this time.
"We will have another look in two weeks and see where we are," Flintoff, who has seen two specialists in the past fortnight, told Sky Sports.
"There is scar tissue in there and whether the bone fragments were the result of the operation or were already in there we don't know.
"We are going down the route of physio and exercises to strengthen the ligaments around the ankle.
"I'm not running at the moment, I'm doing a lot of cycling. I'm doing things that don't cause pain and trying to tick over.
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It will be the second straight trip to the state finals for Henke and Boyles.
Belleville East also advanced four players. Soph | omore Christian Cowulich placed fourth in singles while the Lancers doubles team of Austin Klug and Josh Thomas, placed third.
The top four placewinners in both singles and doubles from all sectionals earn bids to the state tournament.
Junior Erik Weiler continued to show one of the top power games in southern Illinois as he defeated Edwardsville teammate Luke Motley 6-2, 6-4 in the singles final. In doubles, it was the Tigers tandem of Zach Trimpe and Alex Gray with a 6-0, 6-0 win over Alex Goldacker and Alex Roth of Jerseyville in the final.
Edwardsville, which finished with 27 points, also got a third place finish from freshman Seth Lipe and senior Carson Ware.
O’Fallon sophomore Dominic Macaluso rolled to an easy 6-2, 6-1 win over Triad’s Brendan Grigg in the singles final to lead the way as the Panthers early |
More than 60 publicly reported incidents of mishandled guns occurred in schools in the past five years, finds a new analysis.
Current and former principals | whose schools were the scenes of shootings have formed a network to support other school leaders in the aftermath of violence.
Hundreds of teachers across the Sacramento Unified school district walked out of their classrooms and onto picket lines last week for the first time in 30 years, staging a one-day strike alleging unfair labor practices by the California district.
A program meant to diversify New York City's infamously segregated specialized high schools failed to admit representative numbers of black and Hispanic students this school year, figures released last week by district officials show.
Arizona faces a loss of $340 million in federal funding because the state hasn't followed the Every Student Succeeds Act's rules for testing its students, say U.S. Department of Education officials.
Back is Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. Back is Roe v. Wade. Back is climate change. and the word "democratic." A new proposal incorporating those revisions was presented to the Michigan board of education last |
This overstuffed new musical, co-written by Pulitzer winner Quiara Alegria Hudes, at least has lovely melodies by Erin | McKeown.
Daphne Rubin-Vega, Gizel Jiménez, Danny Bolero, David Patrick Kelly, Michael Mulheren, Latoya Edwards, Marinda Anderson, Andrew Cristi, Shawna M. Hamic, Marcus Paul James.
Immigration, parental absence and cyber-relationships all figure in to the road trip musical “Miss You Like Hell,” an earnest — and now very Trump-topical — show that too often gets stuck in a traffic jam of multiple themes, characters and storylines. The book by Quiara Alegria Hudes, writer of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “Water by the Spoonful” and the Tony-winning musical “In the Heights,” has the same longing spirit of both of those tenderhearted shows. Now playing at Off Broadway’s Public Theater after a premiere in late 2016 at San Diego’s La Jolla Playhouse, “ |
Monday’s meeting between President-elect Donald Trump and two dozen media executives and on-air personalities fully deserves the adjectives unprecedented, extraordinary | and disgusting.
Two weeks after the election—in which he won a majority in the Electoral College despite losing the popular vote by a wide margin—Trump berated the assembled media officials for alleged sins during the election campaign, condemning specific reporters, including some who were in the room.
Each of the five networks sent at least one top executive, and in some cases three or four. None of the executives or journalists had the courage to walk out, denounce Trump as a bully, or warn that the First Amendment would be under attack under a Trump administration as never before in the history of the United States.
The very fact that the media heads agreed to such an “off the record” meeting is an abomination. The president of the United States is not “commander-in-chief” of the media. But Trump summoned highly paid television anchormen and women, and their even more highly paid corporate bosses, who cravenly submitted to a tongue-l |
It turns out you don't need to be a savant like Dustin Hoffman's character in Rain Man, or an MIT mathematics prodigy in order | to count cards. There's a relatively simple approach that can give you a slight advantage over the dealer when playing Blackjack, and this site can help you master it.
You've probably assumed that since you can barely remember your telephone number, memorising every card that's been dealt from a deck is an all but impossible task. But that's not how this approach to card counting works. Based on the face value of each card you see in play, you simply keep a +1 or -1 tally in your head. As a game progresses, that number, whether it ends up positive or negative, gives you a good idea if the remaining cards will work in your favour, or the dealer's.
If it still sounds complicated, you should really just head on over to this site and try it out. It explains in more detail how and why this technique works, and lets you test your card counting skills against a computer dealer.
At set intervals the site will quiz you on the |
IT’S not just you — Australia continues to deliver slow internet connections, ranking far behind New Zealand, Thailand, and Kenya.
A | USTRALIA still lags behind the rest of the world in internet speeds, with a new report revealing the nation is languishing in 50th place behind the likes of New Zealand, Thailand, and Kenya.
But Akamai’s latest State of the Internet Report showed Australia had made modest gains in internet speeds, just nowhere near enough to match our Asia Pacific rivals despite the accelerating rollout of the $46 billion National Broadband Network.
The quarterly report on the world’s internet speeds showed Australia climbed from 51st place to 50th spot during the first three months of the year, overthrowing the United Arab Emirates from the top 50.
Average download speeds in Australia reached 11.1 megabits per second, and grew by 26 per cent since last year.
But nearest neighbour New Zealand put the country to shame, with an average speed of 14.7mbps and a speed boost of 40 per cent since the same time last year.
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An American flag gently drapes over a coffin sitting in finely groomed sand, as a helmet and boots sit by its side.?T | aps? plays in the background, and the about 1,000 white crosses staked in the ground symbolize America?s newest fallen soldiers.
Since Feb. 15, the Veterans for Peace in Los Angeles have been showing their support for U.S. soldiers who have died in Iraq by maintaining the display and going out to show their support each Sunday. Just on the north side of the Santa Monica Pier, the white crosses sit in military rows to honor soldiers killed.
?These are all of my brothers and sisters (who) are here,? said Peter Dudar of Veterans for Peace.?Veterans for Peace began the honor of our fallen soldiers, not the government.?
Boards depicting photos of killed mothers, fathers, daughters, sons, friends and loved ones who served in the military line the sidewalk. Those strolling to the water read lists of names, ages, ranks, cities lived in and causes of death.?This is about life,? said Larry Alpert of |
Balancing act: Are online games a waste of time or relief for the mind?
After a day of negotiating legal contracts, Gail Ser | ota sinks into her couch with her iPad and immerses herself in playing "Candy Crush."
The Miami real estate attorney finds playing the mobile game relaxes her.
"It's a good stress relief," she said.
Whether for relaxation or diversion, full-time workers are squeezing time into their schedules for mobile games. They are launching flying birds, flicking onscreen candies, and building words on virtual boards using their smartphones or tablets.
Spil Games reports about 700 million people play online games, or about 44 percent of the world's online population. And those numbers are expected to rise.
The habit can be addictive and not just for actor Alex Baldwin, who was kicked off a plane for refusing to turn off his phone in the middle of a "Words with Friends" match. Other players admit to being so immersed they have left their children stranded at sports practices, gone late to work and even injured themselves as they tried to reach new levels of play.
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LOUIS VAN GAAL has warned his Manchester United stars to keep a lid on their emotions as they bid to end their derby misery at | Old Trafford tomorrow.
Van Gaal fears United's desperation to halt City's run of four consecutive wins could result in another red card.
Chris Smalling was sent off in the first derby at the Etihad Staidum in November - one of five dismissals United have suffered this season, while they also had Jonny Evans banned retrospectively for spitting.
United skipper Wayne Rooney this week issued a "game of pride" rallying call to his team-mates while Maraoune Fellaini says United must be "committed and aggressive". But Van Gaal has demanded cool heads.
"It takes a lot of talents to be a professional player, and one of them is the ability to control your emotions," he said.
"When you have already got a yellow card you must make sure you don't get another one and get sent off.
"The number of red cards we have had this season is a record for me as a manger. We have had five and |
After the OSCE summit in Astana, the Nagorno Karabakh conflict is one of the most debated topics among experts and political analysts. | They speak of possibility of Azerbaijan’s aggression, on the one hand, and of the deadlock the talks reached, on the other. Executive director of UK-based LINKS NGO Dennis Sammut commented to PanARMENIAN.Net on his vision for the future of the conflict settlement process.
During the recent midterm elections in the U.S. Congress, the Armenian community of California strongly supported Congressman Adam Schiff. Schiff, the author of the Resolution 252 calling for proper recognition of the Armenian Genocide by Washington, the politician seeking increase in aid to Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh and maintenance of military aid parity between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Rep. Adam Schiff at U.S. House of Representatives comments to PanARMENIAN.Net on the election campaign and his position of the issues vital for the Armenian community.
Currently, public attention, not excluding that of the American Armenian community has been focused on mid-term elections in the U.S. Berdj Karapetian |
Group of credit cards on computer keyboard with VISA and MasterCard brand logos.
Allowing someone to move money through your bank account seems a | harmless thing to do. It may even be mutually beneficial if the person you're helping gives you a small fee in return for the favour. But acting as a "money mule" makes you an accessory to a crime and if found out, will have serious implications for you in your future dealings with financial institutions.
A money mule is like a drug mule, but instead of being the courier of drugs from one destination to another, a money mule is used to electronically transfer money that was acquired illegally - usually stolen in online banking fraud - to criminals. Typically, mules are paid for their services.
Criminals are resorting more and more to this kind of fraud ever since the banks began using biometrics to verify account holders, and it has grown to such an extent that it has been defined as a new category of fraud by the South African Fraud Prevention Service (SAFPS).
More than 90% of money mule transactions are linked to cyber-related |
Articles > Market Commentary > Sprint Withdraws Bid to Acquire T-Mobile; Walgreens to Keep HQ in the U.S | .
Sprint Withdraws Bid to Acquire T-Mobile; Walgreens to Keep HQ in the U.S.
Stocks ended the day higher, seemingly shaking of the recent global turmoil. Sprint (S) announced today that they are withdrawing their bid to acquire T-Mobile (TMUS). This announcement comes on the same day that the wireless company named their new CEO, Marcelo Claure. Walgreens (WAG) has decided to keep its headquarters in the United States. The company recently acquired all of Alliance Boots, which is located in Europe, and many investors thought that they would relocate their headquarters to Europe to lower taxes.
Wall Street overall disliked this decision, pulling Walgreen's shares down 11%.
Sprint (S) drops plans to acquire T-Mobile (TMUS).
Groupon's (GRPN) fails to impress, shares fall 15%.
Bank of America (BAC) raises quarterly dividend.
21st Century Fox |
One of the best aspects of living in Norris is being so close to Norris Dam State Park -- it takes less than ten minutes to drive to the | dam from the New Norris House. And although I haven’t tried it, you can walk from the community path on our property to the community center and get on the Norris Watershed Trail System which links to the state park’s trails.
I’ve spent many evenings exploring the meadows along the Song Bird Trail below the dam and hiking around the historic mill on Clear Creek. The Andrews Ridge trail system has views of the lake and is ideal for trail running, but my favorite place to explore is the River Bluff Trail on the west side of the Clinch River just below the dam. In just 3.1 miles, the trail passes through several plant communities as it climbs and descends the ridge across north, east, and south facing slopes. The many microclimates found along the trail are home to an impressive variety of spring wildflowers. The park even hosts wildflower walks every year around this time.
Not sure the species of this fern as |
HOPE FOR A NEW LR: Dr. Preston Clegg, senior pastor of Second Baptist Church of Little Rock, delivered the New Year's blessing | at the inauguration of Frank Scott.
One glaring omission in my coverage (and that of others) of the Jan. 1 inauguration of Frank Scott as Little Rock mayor was the stirring "New Year's blessing" Preston Clegg, senior pastor of Second Baptist Church in downtown Little Rock, delivered to close the ceremony. Much of the inaugural ceremony evoked the black church. Scott himself is a preacher and he often sounds like one in political speeches (he closed his inaugural remarks with a story about Esther from the Bible). Folks in the audience clapped and said "yes!" and "amen!" throughout, but when Clegg delivered his long, lyrical prayer for Little Rock the crowd turned up considerably.
It was a superlative sermon of sorts that lays bare Little Rock's critical failings in the course of calling for a better tomorrow. I'm including it in full, courtesy of Clegg, below. Let me know if anyone has video. Clegg's pastorly delivery definitely added an |
Weightlifting might not be one of the most popular Olympic sports, but it’s arguably one of the hardest.
It’s | men and women vs. mass in these competitions — a true test of athletic excellence.
Here’s when and how you can watch the events.
Women’s 48kg Group A, 6 p.m.
Men’s 56kg Group B, 9 a.m.
Women’s 53kg Group B, 9 a.m.
Medal Event: Women’s 53kg Group A, 2:30 p.m.
Medal Event: Men’s 56kg Group A, 6 p.m.
Men’s 62kg Group B, 9 a.m.
Women’s 58kg Group B, 9 a.m.
Medal Event: Women’s 58kg Group A, 2:30 p.m.
Medal Event: Men’s 62kg Group A, 6 p.m.
Men’s 69kg Group B, 9:30 a |
Josh McGuire believes Tevita Pangai Jr and Joe Ofahengaue are ready for Origin.
AUSTRALIA lock | Josh McGuire believes Tonga pair Tevita Pangai Junior and Joe Ofahengaue are ready for State of Origin football - if they want to play it.
McGuire is bracing to face his fellow Brisbane forwards when they clash in Saturday's historic Test between the Kangaroos and the Mate Ma'a in Auckland.
It will be the first encounter between the two nations and the first time McGuire attempts to bring down the powerhouse Tongan young guns.
"I'm excited for Tevita Pangai and Joe, two guys I have got to experience every week at training," McGuire said.
"They are very passionate Tongans. The occasion is going to great."
Tonga's rapid rise as an international powerhouse has been largely credited to the defection of Andrew Fifita (Australia) and Jason Taumalolo (New Zealand).
However, the island nation has also been boosted by the decisions of Pangai Junior and |
Esteban Restaurant, located at Casa Munras Garden Hotel, invites you to savor the bounty of spring this Easter, Sunday, April | 21, 9am-1pm, with a delicious brunch served in our gorgeous Marbella Room. Price is $55 per adult and $25 per child ages 4-12. Children age 3 years and younger are free. For reservations, please call 831-324-6773.
Executive Chef Gus Trejo’s swoon-worthy brunch menu includes: fresh house-made scones, croissants, and pastries; abundant seafood featuring Pacific Northwest smoked salmon, prawns, and oysters with accompaniments; and classic breakfast dishes like waffles and made to order eggs and omelets. Vegetarian fare includes fresh salads, grilled veggie harvest (blanched and oven-roasted), and a curated California Artisanal cheese board.
For those with a hearty appetite, honey roasted ham and herb crusted rack of lamb are carved to order with Chef’s accompaniments. All About the Kids’ Corner is especially for the younger |
There are a few whiskies that will bring a wistful twinkle, and maybe even a tear, to the eyes of a whisky geek | . The GlenDronach Revival Aged 15 Years is one of them.
When it was discontinued in 2015, it sparked a mad dash to the nearest whisky store or website as any aficionado who knew his or her whisky stockpiled as many bottles as possible. Predictably, once it was gone, the price quickly tripled, fetching £150-£160 instead of the previous £50-£60.
And now, GlenDronach has brought it back - fulfilling a three-year-old promise - and made it available worldwide. The whisky community, and this includes me, is delirious with joy.
The Revival is so celebrated especially for its maturation: It's known as one of the "sherry bombs" that sets the standard for sherry-matured whisky. Usually, such whiskies feature aromas of cherries, raisins, plums, toffee, dark chocolate, cloves, ginger, and other aromatic and rich attractions |
LAWRENCEBURG, Ky. (WKYT) - A mother who lost two teenage sons to overdoses on the same day shared | her message for students at Anderson County High School.
"We live every second of every day missing Nick and Jack," Becky Savage said. "It's so hard to even comprehend sometimes."
A family photo of six is now a photo of four after Savage lost two of her sons.
"They came in. They checked in with me about 12, 12:30 and then I went to bed."
The next morning [June 14, 2015], she went to Jack's room for some laundry. He was unresponsive. She yelled for Nick, who was downstairs with friends, but he didn't run up to help. That's when she called 911.
"Little did I know there was another 911 call that came out of our basement," she said. "Nick's friends had heard me calling for help and went to wake up Nick and Nick was unresponsive as well."
They both overdosed. Savage said her boys drank at a graduation party and took pills offered to them |
Netflix's Gilmore Girls revival has barely been out in the world for a day, but fans are already in the throes of visceral reactions.
| Whether you've binged it all and are only awake now because of all the coffee — or you're waiting, for some inexplicable reason, you will feel all these reactions on a deep, spiritual level. Below are some spoiler-free Gilmore teasers to lure you back to Stars Hollow.
Hard day for anyone watching the Gilmore Girls revival and having their first realization that time passes.
Popular themes include bingeing all four 90-minute episodes in one sitting and then having to cope with the emotional upheaval.
6 hours later and just finished binge watching @GilmoreGirls!!! It was sooooo good, got emotional. Please tell me there will be more!
Of course, the emotions can start sooner. If you haven't watched, stock up on tissues.
Oh, and those last four words? No spoilers here, but... GET READY.
Gets to the end of Gilmore Girls.
If you have the emotional fortitude to plan a theme for your feels |
Does an opinionated question and the desire to change a tradition make someone a rebel?
At times, when people stand up for what they believe | in or for something that they believe needs to be implemented in the world but goes against the opinions of majority of the population, they are labeled as rebellious.
They are looked down upon and thought of as troublemakers for the simple reason of having a differing perspective towards certain situations. More so, for questioning the moral values behind cultural practices that have been followed over centuries.
The real question is whether these well-informed individuals are correctly labeled so or are they, unlike people have been for many decades, thinking beyond just the traditional value of some practices.
For example, there is a young girl living in a small village, where the sole purpose of women is to give birth to and raise children, whilst cooking food for the entire family. After spending over ten years in this village witnessing this ‘tradition’, she disagrees with this practice and questions why the women, along with performing these duties, can’t earn a living as well. Especially if they wish to and |
When it comes to promoting swachhta or encouraging youngsters to prepare for Olympics 2020, the Delhi Police Welfare Society seems to be setting new milestones | .
Everyone is hoping Indian athletes to win big in Olympics 2020. But, one organisation that is working to make the dream come true is Police Families Welfare Society (PFWS). It is training the children of Delhi Police for Olympics 2020.
Suchana Patnaik, president, PFWS, is happy that two children, Nishta and Dhruvay — trained under the society — have qualified for nationals, in shooting. “The previous president Shefali Verma took many initiatives. There are about 155 police colonies in Delhi, and we had only one welfare centre. But in the last one year, we have opened 10 centres, and planning to come up with more,” says Suchana, who has been heading PFWS since February; after her husband, Amulya Patnaik took charge as Commissioner of Police, Delhi.
The society, which was established in 1972 for the welfare of police personnels, wasn’t prominently active until a few years |
MSN handing out lumps of coal for the holidays?
MSN finally reinstated the advanced link queries, but now they seem to have disappeared, leaving | search marketers and site owners with no link information.
MSN, please say it isn't so.
As earlier reported, the MSN Live Search team had reinstated the link queries, though with a twist... now requiring a "+" in front of either the link: or linkdomain: query operators. But now it appears that the query is no longer working again.
Live Search link query results.
Live Search linkdomain query results.
Hopefully, this is just a glitch, but if not, then hopefully the Live Search team will make up their minds once and for all and either reinstate the special queries or kill them altogether.
The problem is that search marketers and Web site owners alike use these queries to measure and benchmark their visibility on the Web, as well as the success of their link building. These queries were originally decommissioned due to extreme load from automated queries.
Now that MSN has launched its new Webmaster Center, there is a thought that it will build |
Merrill Lynch & Co Inc. may get up to $5 billion in a capital infusion from Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings, the | Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
Temasek is in advanced talks with the largest US brokerage and its board has given preliminary approval for the investment, the Journal reported, citing a person familiar with the matter.
However, pricing, timing and regulatory issues would still need to be negotiated between the two companies, the Journal said.
A Merrill spokeswoman could not be immediately reached for comment. In Singapore, Temasek spokesman Mark Lee said: "Like we told the Wall Street Journal, we decline comment."
Merrill Lynch faces huge potential write-downs on assets underpinned by risky subprime mortgages. The company's $8.4 billion write-down in the third quarter cost Chairman and Chief Executive Stan O'Neal his job, leaving new Merrill leader John Thain with the task of cleaning up.
Analysts estimate Merrill could further slash the value of these subprime-related assets by an additional several billion dollars. Last month, the |
When I look at what is going wrong for Liverpool at the moment, a lot of it stems from the engine room of the team - the midfield | .
The biggest problem I have there is with Jordan Henderson and Emre Can playing together in the Reds' 4-3-3 formation.
They both play too many sideways balls, which are pretty looking and keep possession - but do not hurt the opposition.
Don't get me wrong, I think Henderson has had a good season, while Can is not in particularly poor form - he has just had an average season. It happens.
But, together, they do not fit in with the way Liverpool have to play to open teams up, which is one of the reasons the goals have dried up for Jurgen Klopp's side recently.
I have heard it suggested recently that Liverpool need a midfield general - a new Steven Gerrard, if you like.
That would be fantastic, obviously, but it's unlikely to happen in the summer. There are not many players around who can do everything in defence and attack, like Gerrard could, and if you find one then he is going |
William E. Heiple, 72, Rockwood, passed on Nov. 25, 2004, at home. Born March 31, 1932, in | Berlin, he is the son of the late Milton and Elizabeth (Berkheimer) Heiple. He is preceded in death by his parents; brother, James and nephews, Michael Heinbaugh and Scott Putman. He is survived by his wife, Judy (Dunbar) Heiple; sons, William II, married to Stacey (Friedline), Rockwood, and Timothy, married to Jill (Pletcher), Markleton; grandchildren, Michael, Brittany and Mary Heiple; sister, Sue, married to Harry Gumbert, Oakdale; brother, Charles Heiple, Berlin; sisters-in-law, Nancy, married to Gene Heinbaugh, York and Jeanie, married to Jake Gary, Markleton; and numerous nieces and nephews. He is a retired employee of Bethlehem Steel in Johnstown and is a veteran of the U.S. Army in the Korean War. He was a lifetime member of the Rockwood Fire Department. He was a member |
Donate new shoes, a weekly MetroCard or even a goat to people in need at the vending machine.
A festive vending machine near Lincoln | Center is "giving" New Yorkers a chance to purchase something for a stranger in need.
The one of five worldwide "Giving Machines" — operated by and sitting outside of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Columbus Avenue and 65th Street — appears no different from a standard vending machine. The unique twist, however, is that customers purchase small cardboard boxes emblazoned with the gifts they represent (Disclaimer: The boxes stay in the machine, so don't expect to walk with anything other than a sense of satisfaction).
"It's been steady, every time I come out here there are people out here talking and looking at it," said Ryan Koch, director of public and international affairs for the church's New York office. "It's been really great."
Gifts include, for $30, a pair of shoes can be purchased for school children who can't afford required shoes. For $25 you can purchase a basketball for kids in Catholic Charities youth programs |
Jarrod Turner's body was found by a road north of Hobart.
A young father found dead on the side of a Tasmanian road | had been shot, police say.
The body of Jarrod Turner, aged in his 20s, was found yesterday morning at Colebrook Road near Richmond, about 25 kilometres north of Hobart.
Tasmania Police are treating his death as suspicious and confirmed today he suffered a gunshot wound.
Mr Turner's Facebook page said he was a single father to two young boys.
Tributes from loved ones have been posted online today.
"Rest in peace Jarrod, you'll be gone but never forgotten," one person wrote.
"You've made so many memories with so many people."
Another wrote: "Heaven has gained another angel!! Someone who had a beautiful soul and a kind heart. A man who'd always put a smile on anyone's face. May you rest in peace now Jarrod and party hard up there!!"
A post mortem will be undertaken |
It’s Halloween season, meaning candy corn, Mallomars, pumpkin spice everything, and … cookies with human remains? That’ | s the snack that at least one California student reportedly brought to Da Vinci Charter Academy High School in Davis, per the San Francisco Chronicle, containing the not-appetizing ingredient of a grandparent’s ashes.
The Chronicle says it was her grandmother’s remains, FOX40 says it was her grandfather’s, but either way, Lt. Paul Doroshov of the Davis Police Department says nine students were reportedly given the cookies on Oct. 4 (it’s not clear how many, if any, ate the cookies), and students are speaking to the media about their experience, per KCRA.
“I was kind of horrified,” Andy Knox says after a girl offered him a cookie with “her grandpa’s ashes.” Knox says the girl had whipped out an urn, supposedly with those same ashes, in class.
Doroshov says one student is believed to have baked the cookies, and a |
Venezuelan authorities have arrested four people suspected of robbing former Major League Baseball players Luis Valbuena and Jose Castillo after the pair were killed | in a car crash Thursday.
Police are investigating whether the accident was staged by a gang of thieves trying to rob the players, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Authorities suspect the players may have been targeted by criminal groups known for throwing rocks on the roadways to disable cars and then rob the occupants, the Fort-Worth Star-Telegram reported. The four suspects were found with Valbuena’s and Castillo’s belongings, Julio Leon Heredia, the governor of Yaracuy in Venezuela, said on Twitter.
Valbuena, who turned 33 last week, and Castillo, 37, were playing in the country’s winter league and were teammates on the Cardinales de Lara ball club.
In the vehicle with them were winter league teammate Carlos Rivero and a driver, both of whom survived the crash. Photos from the Caracas-based news outlet El Cooperante showed the white vehicle on its side with its grill and hood smashed. |
There were 69 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Friday. At that time, | there were 1,263 people held at the jail, which has an official capacity of 1,411.
Animal control call: A blind bull escaped from the Stockton Livestock Exchange on East French Camp Road and ran loose for about two hours Friday afternoon, the Sheriff's Office reported. The animal was finally corralled by animal control officers and workers from the Escalon Livestock Market. The animal escaped about 1 p.m.
Assault: Deputies are looking for three men suspected of beating a man in a trailer park before fleeing in a white sedan Friday afternoon. The attack took place in the 3900 block of East Fremont Street about 3:20 p.m. as the victim and his girlfriend were arguing. One assailant, described as a 5-foot-10-inch, 30-year-old man weighing 220 pounds, approached the victim and attacked the man after being told to mind his own business. He pulled a silver handgun from his waistband and |
While “Underground” has been criticized by some — including Snoop Dogg — for its depiction of slavery in America, series star | Aldis Hodge says that the WGN America show is about much more than that.
“It’s an amazing show that is really about the foundation of America; the foundation of American superheroes, the foundation of what it takes to persevere and really find your strength and your potential,” Hodge told TheWrap.
“A lot of people are afraid of the idea of enslavement and that’s because it’s tied to so much shame and guilt. … That is the big elephant in the room but a part of why we’re afraid to attack that subject matter is because of the way we’ve been taught about it,” he continued.
In “Underground,” Hodge plays Noah, the leader of a group of slaves who risk their lives on the perilous journey to freedom in the North along the Underground Railroad.
Yet despite the show’s serious subject matter, life on the |
Nancy Pelosi rallies to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's defense, demands Matt Whitaker's recusal from Russia probe.
With Democrats set to reclaim | control of the House in January and President Trump already infuriating them with the forced resignation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, speculation is rampant over whether they will use that power to pursue impeachment against the president -- or even Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who wants to be speaker, has pushed back on pressure from the base to pursue impeachment, saying earlier this week "that's not what our caucus is about" even as Democratic lawmakers make clear they will pursue other investigations of the administration.
But that pressure from the left to wield the House majority to go after Trump has not gone away.
Billionaire Tom Steyer, who has floated the possibility of a 2020 presidential run and pumped millions into supporting Democratic congressional candidates, told CNN on Wednesday that House Democrats must confront what he called a “lawless” president.
He renewed his call for impeachment proceedings. Steyer months ago launched the “NeedtoImpeach.com� |
Seattle – Digital media company RealNetworks Inc. announced a legal settlement today with longtime adversary Microsoft Corp., ending the last major antitrust case against the | world’s largest software maker.
RealNetworks said it had reached three deals with Microsoft worth up to $761 million. That includes a $460 million upfront cash payment to settle the antitrust dispute. Another part of the agreement gives RealNetworks an additional $301 million in cash and services designed to help the company’s products reach a wider audience.
In exchange, RealNetworks agreed to drop all its antitrust claims against Microsoft worldwide.
“Today we’re closing one chapter and opening a new one in our relationship with Microsoft,” Rob Glaser, RealNetworks’ founder and CEO, said in a statement released before a joint news conference.
Seattle-based RealNetworks sued in December 2003, accusing Redmond-based Microsoft of illegally forcing Windows users to accept Microsoft’s digital media player. RealNetworks said its player suffered as a result.
RealNetworks has for years been one of Microsoft’s direct competitors |
Jose Mourinho begins his next challenge of trying to guide Chelsea to their second successive Premiership title away to Wigan today, but if any of his rivals | hoped he was feeling the pressure, they are in for a nasty surprise.
The prospect of having to emulate a remarkable debut season in English football for the Portuguese might unnerve some managers, but Mourinho looks stronger than ever. The 42-year-old surpassed even his wildest boasts last season when Chelsea cruised not only to their first championship for 50 years, but did it by breaking a number of records along the way.
Chelsea were not taken too seriously as challengers by Arsenal and Manchester United before the start of the campaign, but the west London club ended it with a new best points tally in the top flight (95), fewest goals conceded (15), as well as most wins (29) and most clean sheets (24).
The worry for Arsene Wenger and Sir Alex Ferguson is that Mourinho is feeling more relaxed going into his second season in charge. While some managers never find the time to switch off from the rigours of football, the self-proclaimed 'Special One |
AURORA, Colo. -- The new Veterans Affairs hospital in Aurora will end up costing nearly $2 billion.
The FOX31 Problem | Solvers spent time over the summer documenting entry and exit points, wondering if the VA would create Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant doorways.
At least two outside access doors are without electronic push buttons that automatically open the entryway.
Inside, additional doors had automatic mechanisms installed, but the devices didn’t work.
The most problematic, persistence barrier leads to the VA’s Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Recovery Center of “Life Skills” program.
That program has been open to veterans during construction for nearly three years, according to vet Tim Tuttle.
“I’m disabled and have a hard time opening the door and me and my veteran friends have to open the door all the time for people in wheelchairs,” Tuttle said.
Tuttle is part of a leadership team for Life Skills Center. He loves what the program can do for vets and their families. However, the lack of an easy access door |
Several hospitals in Essex have joined forces and formed the Anglia Ruskin Health Partnership, in order to deliver a more integrated social care within that region | .
Among the six projects that aim to reach their target, is the implementation of Apple's new iPads into the hospital daily routine. Basildon Hospital is the first facility to pilot the efficiency of the new high-tech tools.
The nurses here are going to rely on electronic charts to supervise their patients. The medical personnel will log on to iPad and record the patients' status, blood pressure, temperature, symptoms, and the evolution of medical conditions.
The integration of iPads in the hospital life is meant to assure a better consistency of medical observation and to enhance health care.
Mike Salmon, interim chairman of the partnership explains that the iPad pilot scheme is one of the many ideas that is simple but with significant benefits to patients. "Nurses go round regularly and take a patient's blood pressure and their temperature.
But what about the other things? "Has the patient got their food, but moreover have they eaten it? When did they last have a drink? When were they |
A decade ago I was so excited about the possibilities of what we called "downloadable design". This was before affordable 3D printers were even on | the market, but about the ability to make what you want where you want when you want it, taking the choice from the retailer and giving it to the consumer.
It is like the music for our iPod; dematerialized bits and bytes put together again where we need it, without the waste of a physical intermediary. In a world where we watch our carbon as closely as our waistline we don't want to be driving to the big box stores; in a world where almost everything can be digitized, why move material when we are interested in ideas, creativity and talent?
The desire for 3-D printing to take over from traditional manufacturing needs to be recognized for what it is: an ideology. Getting all of our goods from a box in the corner of our home has attractive implications, from mass customization to "the end of consumerism." With stakes like those, who wouldn't want to be a true believer.
Advocates of 3-D printing also neglect entirely the |
Venezuela is to give the American actor Danny Glover almost $18m (£9m) to make a film about a slave uprising in Haiti | , with President Hugo Chávez hoping the historical epic will sprinkle Hollywood stardust on his effort to mobilise world public opinion against imperialism and western oppression.
The Venezuelan congress said it would use the proceeds from a recent bond sale with Argentina to finance Glover's biopic of Toussaint Louverture, an iconic figure in the Caribbean who led an 18th-century revolt in Haiti.
It will also give seed money for a film version of The General in His Labyrinth, Gabriel García Márquez's novel about the last days of Simón Bolívar, who liberated much of South America from Spanish colonialism.
Glover, 60, who starred with Mel Gibson in the Lethal Weapon series, and more recently with Eddie Murphy in the film DreamGirls, is a civil rights activist and supporter of Mr Chávez's radical leftwing policies.
A document from the congress's finance commission said the culture ministry would be a partner with Glover and give $17. |
380,000 furloughed workers. Nine unfunded agencies. One angry president.
After an eleventh-hour government-funding | agreement collapsed amid President Donald Trump’s demands for a border wall, the government partially shut down at midnight.
Earlier this week, the Senate overwhelmingly approved a bipartisan bill to keep the government funded into February. That legislation did not include border wall funding. But on Thursday, Trump threatened to veto the measure, and House Republicans voted it down. The House then added $5 billion in border wall funding to the bill, and passed it Thursday night. But as expected, the measure died in the Senate on Friday, and lawmakers were unable to cobble together another last-minute deal.
Congress has already approved funding for the Defense, Health and Human Services, Energy, Education, Veterans Affairs, and Labor departments. Mandatory spending programs like Social Security and Medicare will also be unaffected. But more than 420,000 government workers will continue to work without pay during the shutdown. Another 380,000 workers will be furloughed, meaning they will not work or get paid during the shutdown.
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Silence continues from both the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) and the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) Board, three months | after their respective investigations began into the over-$605M emergency purchase of drugs fast-tracked by Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence.
The purchase violated the procurement law of the country and is seen as posing a challenge in particular to the recently established PPC which is supposed to oversee the procurement process and to address breaches. The transaction was drawn to the public’s notice on March 8 this year.
Stabroek News has tried to contact both GPHC Board Chairman Kesaundra Alves and Chairman of the PPC, Carol Corbin over the past week to no avail. Calls to Alves’ mobile phone revealed that it has been turned off while those to Corbin have not been returned.
The PPC’s investigation is expected to provide details on the four emergency contracts and is to outline how ANSA McAL was awarded the bulk of the over $605m purchases without the knowledge of the National Procurement and Tender Administration |
Major players in the industry are holding off on $3 billion to $5 billion in spending on land-based projects, waiting to see if Main | ers elect a candidate who will be more open to wind power than Gov. Paul LePage.
Three wind turbines are seen atop a ridge just south of Webb Lake in this aerial photograph taken in 2015. Staff file photo by Gabe Souza Three wind turbines are seen atop a ridge just south of Webb Lake in this aerial photograph taken in 2015.
Wind power developers say they are holding off on billions of dollars in investments in new Maine wind farms until they see whether the next governor will be a friend or foe of renewable energy.
With one Democrat and two liberal independents among the four candidates in the race, the question may come down to whether Republican Shawn Moody wins the election and maintains the anti-wind stance of Gov. Paul LePage.
Now in the final months of his second term, the Republican governor has erected barriers in the path of wind development that have deterred new investments and created a climate of uncertainty.
He said the association’s members are considering projects that represent $ |
Something is new in the BU dining halls, have you noticed? Vegan and Vegetarian-friendly Tofu Scramble is now being tested | during breakfast hours (7-11AM) in all of the dining halls!
For those of you not familiar with the dish, a tofu scramble is basically the same as regular scrambled eggs, just with tofu instead. It’s a classic vegan recipe that provides a hearty, filling meal with plenty of protein. Although it’s a staple for most vegans and some vegetarians, many of us have never tried (or even heard of) the dish. So what brought about the change?
According to Sabrina Pashtan, BU Sustainability was approached by the Vegetarian Society to create more vegan options at breakfast. And, as we all know, BU takes its vegetarian/vegan population very seriously. In fact, our current residence cycle menu boasts 80% vegetarian friendly recipes and twice a month, BU holds Make a Difference Mondays, which promote even more vegetarian and vegan options.
“This is a great way for lacto-vegetarians and ve |
MANILA, AUGUST 30, 2012 (CANADIAN BUSINESS.COM) By AP — Flag-carrier Philippine Airlines signed a | $7 billion deal on Tuesday to buy 54 Airbus jets as part of an ambitious plan to overhaul its fleet to meet higher demands of transporting passengers and cargo in Asia, the Middle East and Australia, airline officials said.
PAL President Ramon Ang said the first batch of about a dozen wide-body A330-300s and A321s would be delivered in January while the rest of the aircraft would be put in service in the next three years.
The acquisition, the largest single aircraft order ever made by a Philippine carrier, would more than double the airline's passenger and cargo handling capacity and signals an expansion phase after Philippine food and beer conglomerate San Miguel Corp. acquired major stakes in PAL and its affiliate budget carrier Air Philippines Corp. earlier this year.
PAL also plans to buy another 46 aircraft from Airbus and other manufacturers, including Boeing, Ang told a news conference.
"The orders we are placing with Airbus will play a key role in revitalizing PAL and growing trade and |
Plans. They are essential for educators. The more organized we are, the better we are able to cover what needs to be covered to ensure | student learning.
First we look at what needs to be achieved at the end, and then we plan backward to ensure that all of the necessary pieces are taught for success of the goal.
If we do this planning over the summer before the student rosters become available or we have taught the class in the past and are modifying based on prior student feedback or reflection, we often set plans that will likely need adjusting once we meet our new students.
This year my AP class has 34 students. It's right at the cap of acceptable size. It is likely all or most of them belong in an AP class, but the dynamic of this group is extremely different than last year's. Although I had the whole year planned out, (at least an outline of it), I'm realizing after a couple of weeks, it needs a major revision.
These students are very anxious and chatty. Last year's group was not as big and more laid back. The pace I had originally planned to keep |
Dave Leitao got a second chance.
When DePaul men’s basketball began their search process for a new coach in March after | Oliver Purnell resigned after five seasons, Leitao even admitted that he didn’t expect a call gauging his interest in returning to Chicago. Leitao previously served as the Blue Demons head coach from 2002 to 2005 before leaving for Virginia. He was, perhaps, DePaul’s last successful head coach with two National Invitational Tournament appearances and an NCAA tournament bid.
But to say the circumstances have drastically changed since Leitao last sat on the bench at the Allstate Arena would be an understatement.
College basketball has evolved, and year after year, the seats at Allstate Arena remain mostly empty and DePaul has been left in the dust. As Leitao becomes the third head coaching hire of Athletic Director Jean Lenti Ponsetto, it’s up to him to turn the program around with a rare second chance.
“We’re here to win this season and turn things around as quickly as possible,” Le |
January is a cruel month. To try to avoid noticing it, most of us choose to stay inside and watch a lot of television until the skies | lighten. Yet, knowing our habits and fully aware that this month officially contains the most depressing day of the year, BBC1 scheduled Surviving Disaster – The Munich Air Crash on January 10, while Five drizzles John Barnes’ Football Night at us every time we make it through to Friday.
Surviving Disaster intercut dramatised scenes with contemporary footage to tell the story of the air crash that destroyed Matt Busby’s first great side. Going very heavy on Dramatic Irony, various players tell wives they’ll be back in three days, or ask girlfriends to meet them off the plane on Friday, and Matt Busby is asked to “bring them back in one piece”. Bearing in mind these were the pioneering days of European competition – and further bearing in mind United’s plane to Bilbao had been forced to land in a field the previous year – we can be sure these kind of exchanges took place before Munich.
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Pilgrim Festival Chorus (PFC), one of the region’s principal non-profit community choruses, invites singers to | open auditions at two Welcome Nights on Monday, January 14 and Monday, January 21, at 6:30 pm. Music Directors William B. Richter and Elizabeth Chapman Reilly greet interested singers at Faith Community Church (formerly United Methodist Church), 29 Carver Road, Plymouth, to answer questions about PFC and audition attendees for vocal placement. Rehearsals for the spring season begin at 7 pm immediately following auditions.
In 2019, PFC launches its 20th season with two concerts with orchestra, one in its hometown of Plymouth, and a second performance at the new Scituate Center for Performing Arts. Spring repertoire includes Mozart’s masterwork Requiem, one of the best-known choral pieces ever composed, and a setting of John Dryden’s poem, Ode to Saint Cecilia, by Massachusetts composer Clifton J. Noble. The Ode was commissioned by the Assabet Valley Mastersingers in 1998 as a companion piece to Mozart |
Cybersecurity threats against the U.S. are growing, President Barack Obama said in advance of a Wednesday meeting with corporate leaders about the issue | , as concerns rise about hacking attacks originating in China.
Speaking in a television interview, Obama stopped short of echoing concerns expressed by some lawmakers that the country is engaged in an electronic war with China.
"You always have to be careful with war analogies... there's a big difference between them engaging in cyberespionage or cyberattacks and, obviously, a hot war," Obama told ABC News in the interview, which was taped on Tuesday but aired on Wednesday.
"What is absolutely true is that we have seen a steady ramping up of cybersecurity threats."
Some of the threats are "absolutely" sponsored by governments, the president said. "Some are state sponsored. Some are just sponsored by criminals."
"We've made it very clear to China and some other state actors that we expect them to follow international norms and abide by international rules," Obama said, adding that Washington has already had "some pretty tough talk" with other countries.
Cyberattacks can cost billions |
'To Kill A Mockingbird' by Harper Lee.
A school district in Mississippi decided to remove To Kill A Mockingbird from its | curriculum because the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, which deals with issues of race and civil rights, made people uncomfortable.
The Biloxi, Miss. district’s decision to stop assigning the acclaimed book by Harper Lee last week has revived a debate of censorship across the country. School administrators and faculty have not specified with prompted them to remove To Kill a Mockingbird from the eighth grade reading list, the Sun Herald reports.
To Kill A Mockingbird has been one of the most consistently challenged or banned books since its release in 1960, according to the American Library Association’s list of censorship attempts. A number of those instances were over Lee’s use of a racial slur about black people.
Holloway added the book would remain in the school library, but the eighth graders would study another book in place of the 45-day Mockingbird lesson plan. Biloxi superintendent Arthur McMillan said the school teaching materials “may change periodically, |
Cabinet minister David Parker said he acted with Cabinet's authority in seeking an exemption for the Te Arai property development at Mangawhai involving | two iwi from the impacts of the Overseas Investment Amendment Bill.
Parker told Parliament he had presented a Cabinet paper dated March 22 recommending that a "transitional period" be provided for the development, and the transitional exemption was approved by Cabinet on April 3.
Parker said a submission to the select committee about the impact of the proposed law on the development involved two iwi was the first time that he or his office had become aware of it.
He was answering questions from the National Party which opposed the exemption.
The submission was made to the Finance and Expenditure select committee by the three parties behind the development, Georgina Connelly of Te Uri o Hau, Mook Hohneck of Ngati Manuhiri, and John Darby of Darby Partners.
The high-end development involves two former Crown forests acquired by Te Uri o Hau and Ngati Manuhiri as commercial redress for their Treaty of Waitangi settlements, the 616ha Mangaw |
Join Ann Curry for dramatic reunions between people whose lives intersected on 9/11. Patrick searches for the stranger who comforted him after the | disaster, while Timothy hopes to thank the fellow chaplain who gave him the strength to carry on.
It’s very rare that the course of a nation – and the world – changes in a single day. But that’s what happened on September 11, 2001. For two men, in very different walks of life, it was the kindness of strangers that helped them survive the trauma of the day and of the intervening years.
On September 11, 2001, Patrick Anderson was in New York for a conference at the Marriott World Trade Center, the 22-storey hotel that sat between the famous Twin Towers. At 8:46 am, he was dressing for the day when the North Tower was hit by a hijacked airliner, American Airlines flight 11. Patrick was among the tens of thousands of people fleeing the complex when, at 9.03am, the South Tower was hit by a second hijacked plane, United Airlines flight 175.
Several blocks away, an exhausted Patrick sought sanctuary |
Some of the US' best secrets are out since former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden released thousands of classified documents about government surveillance in | one of the most significant leaks in US history. He has been charged with espionage and has been living in Russia under temporary asylum.
What does it mean to live in a surveillance state? Fault Lines investigates the fallout over the NSA's mass data collection programmes by speaking to the people at the centre of the story, including journalist Glenn Greenwald and NSA director Keith Alexander.
The NSA's goal really is the elimination of privacy globally; it is literally a system to monitor all forms of human behaviour in the United States - which is the ultimate surveillance state.
Greenwald tells Fault Lines how he got the Snowden documents, what the main revelations are, and why people should care. He lives in Brazil and has not returned to the US since he broke the story about the NSA surveillance programmes.
We also speak with William Binney, an NSA whistleblower who tells us the main turning point was 9/11, when the NSA vastly expanded its programmes and began collecting the data of Americans, not just foreigners as |
The National Space Council has approved four recommendations that seek to introduce changes to commercial space regulations, SpaceNews reported Wednesday.
Vice President Mike Pence, | chair of the council, and other NSC members cleared the recommendations during their second public session Wednesday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The council’s first recommendation calls on the Transportation Department to streamline the space launch and re-entry licensing process by March 2019.
The council also suggested the consolidation of the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration’s commercial remote sensing regulatory affairs office and the space commerce office into a single body under the office of the Commerce Department’s secretary.
The council also asked the Commerce Department and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to collaborate with the Federal Communications Commission to facilitate commercial space operations by developing measures designed to protect the radiofrequency spectrum.
The fourth recommendation also calls for Scott Pace, the council’s executive secretary, to work with other NSC members to come up with export control reform recommendations by the end of 2018.
The recommendations came two months after NASA formed a new advisory group to advise and inform the council on |
Kings Of Leon have revealed new track ‘Wait For Me’. Scroll up to hear the song in full now.
‘Wait | For Me’ is the latest song to be taken from the US band’s forthcoming sixth studio album ‘Mechanical Bull’, due for release on September 24. Fans pre-ordering the album from iTunes will receive ‘Wait For Me’ instantly, ahead of the rest of the album. The band will perform a special show at London’s O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire this Friday (August 9) ahead of a headline slot at V Festival 2013.
Bassist Jared Followill told NME in March of this year: “I thought we were going to make a really mature album but I’m amazed how youthful it sounds.” Since then, Jared has revealed that the album is “more musically complicated” than the band’s previous efforts. In a Q&A with fans on Twitter in May 27, he also said the “vibe” of the record could be compared to their |
Being a mother entails countless personal sacrifices. Theodore Roosevelt acknowledged as much in 1905 when he told the National Congress of Mothers, “Your duty is | hard, your responsibility great; but greatest of all is your reward.” While his statement rings true on many fronts, there may yet be one more to explore.
Motherhood has long been considered the embodiment of self-sacrifice, and for good reason. From the first manifestations of “morning” sickness, sacrificial acts consume mothers, body and soul. Of course, it doesn’t stop with pregnancy. Every stage of a child’s life requires a different set of sacrifices, most of which are made willingly but pass unnoticed by their primary objects. The running joke is that the sacrifices of motherhood run so deep, they even affect the brain: “Insanity is hereditary,” goes one adage; “you inherit it from your children.” More than one mother has, at one time or another, ruefully (perhaps even proudly) pointed to her children as being responsible for what she considers a decline in her mental |
CHESHIRE >> Middletown American Legion baseball coach Tim D’Aquila got it right.
That’s what | happened Thursday as Zone 3 champion Cheshire hammered Middletown pitching to the tune of 16 hits, collected seven walks and a hit batter in romping to a 15-8 state tournament win at Burt Leventhal Field at Cheshire High School.
The loss ended Middletown’s season and propelled Cheshire into the state Super Regional opening at Middletown’s Palmer Field Saturday.
After spotting Cheshire a 2-0 first-inning lead, Middletown grabbed the lead scoring three times in the second inning. But Cheshire scored three in the third to take a 5-3 lead, and didn’t give it back. The 75ers got a run in the third -- they should have had more -- to make it a 5-4 game going to the fifth.
That’s where Cheshire -- the visiting team in this game -- broke it open.
The zone champs scored seven runs to take |
THE SPECIALISED Criminal Court in Pezinok has upheld the conditional punishments for Martin Novotný, a former advisor to ex- | prime minister Iveta Radičová, and Igor Líška, a former Slovak ambassador to Kenya. The court found them guilty of indirect corruption and issued for them a one-year conditional sentence with a two-year probation period. It also ordered them to pay a fine of €10,000, the SITA newswire reported on August 12.
The verdict is still not valid, as both of the accused have appealed.
“Today’s verdict of the Specialised Criminal Court judge shows that corruption in our society has penetrated the highest levels,” the prosecutor of the Special Prosecutor’s Office said, as quoted by SITA, adding that this was obvious during the whole proceeding and everybody who was present could see that proving corruption at these high levels is very hard.
Novotný and Líška were charged in the Osrblie corruption case. They were suspected of having accepted a bribe of € |
SERGIO RAMOS sent his well wishes to Mohamed Salah after the Liverpool attacker was forced off with an injury during the Champions League final last | night.
Salah left the field in tears after just 30 minutes following a shoulder injury sustained during a coming together with Ramos.
The Real Madrid defender seemingly locked Salah’s arm close to his chest as they both tumbled to the ground, leaving the Egypt international rolling around in agony.
Ramos was hammered on social media after replays were shown as he was lambasted for “intentionally” holding on to Salah’s arm.
It proved to a be a huge turning point in the tie with Liverpool having the better chances before the forced substitution.
Real went on to dominate the game and two calamitous errors from Loris Karius either side of an out-of-this-world strike from Gareth Bale helped the La Liga giants win 3-1 to clinch their 13th European title.
Salah meanwhile faces an anxious wait to see if the injury will now rule him out of the World Cup.
And, after the tie, |
Is the Internet broken? According to some, it may be. A newly discovered bug dubbed Heartbleed is capturing attention. As each hour passes | , more information is revealed. With the desire to provide useful insights, the tech world - and even the mainstream media - is awash with stories.
Sometimes it’s hard to cut through the flood of technical information to get a solid sense of what needs to be done. The challenge is distilling down to the actions we need to take for our organizations, ourselves, and how to guide those we serve.
Transport Layer Security (TLS) is broadly used to encrypt and protect information in transit. The Heartbleed bug allows an attacker to gain access to the memory, siphoning off whatever happens to be stored: usernames, passwords, credit card information, and even the private keys of the server.
The popular comic xkcd explained the bug brilliantly today (see it here).
The way we respond and communicate with people has a direct impact on trust. It's imperative we get this right.
Note: Canada shut down the tax system in response to |
If you stay at school for spring break and get sick of Cambridge, there's a great place you can go far away from Boston without using a | car--the elbow-shaped island of Nantucket.
Take the Red Line to South Station and from there catch a Plymouth and Brockton bus to Hyannis, summer retreat of the Kennedy family. From Hyannis, ride on the Steamship Authority's ferry to Nantucket. All this costs just $50, and it only takes four hours to get there.
If you want to skip the ferry, you can fly from Hyannis for around $50 on one of a handful of small airlines which service Nantucket. Round-trip flights from Boston are also available at a significantly higher price.
And while you can't go swimming at the white-sand beaches yet, many of the island's museums and historical attractions are open for business.
Just walking the historic town area is a treat in itself. Grab a turkey sandwich at Henry's (right near the ferry dock) and wander the cobblestone streets which wind narrow ways dotted with wooden houses with widows' |
As malware has become increasingly sophisticated, conventional protection solutions have proven insufficient for companies’ IT security needs.
While “sandboxing” | is still a popular, and frequently deployed solution, over the last several years new technologies and approaches have been introduced to the market. Let’s take a look at one of those approaches, called “containers”, and see how it measures up vs. the current industry standard set by sandboxes.
Containment is a fairly new concept, deviating from the widely known and popular “sandboxing” method. Sandboxing is a detection method which scans potentially malicious files in a confined area/an isolated environment, otherwise known as the “sandbox”, to determine if it is indeed malware. Sandboxing arose as a response to the realization that signature-based technology had grown increasingly ineffective in protecting endpoints from stealth attacks.
Sandboxing, however, once the “go-to” solution for thwarting unknown threats, is also gradually proving insufficient in today’s increasingly sophisticated malware climate, echoing the challenge IT security execs faced with |
Special counsel Robert Mueller is expected to present key findings of his investigation into Russian election interference to top Justice Department officials following the November midterms, according | to a report Wednesday.
Mueller is close to concluding two major aspects of the probe that have cast a dark shadow over President Trump’s presidency, Bloomberg News reported.
Specifically, the special counsel will offer conclusions on whether there was clear records of collusion between Russia and Trump’s 2016 campaign and whether the President took any actions that constitute obstruction of justice after taking office.
Mueller’s work will be presented to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who will determine what gets relayed to Congress and what will be released to the public, if anything.
Trump has denied any wrongdoing and frequently rails against Mueller’s team, calling the investigation a “witch hunt.” His lawyers have repeatedly attempted to impose artificial deadlines on the special counsel’s work.
Trump’s attorney’s have spent months negotiating with Mueller’s team as the special counsel seeks to get the President to answer questions about the campaign and the possibility of collusion. |
A recently resurfaced old interview with Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) showed how she previously described acts of terrorism as a reaction | to “our involvement in other people’s affairs,” when talking about the 2013 al-Shabab’s attack on a Kenyan shopping mall.
Omar’s remarks were made during a local television appearance on the show “Belahdan” on Twin Cities PBS, weeks after four terrorists attacked at the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya resulting in almost 70 deaths and wounding about 200 people. The terrorist group al-Shabab, that is based in Somalia, claimed responsibility for the attack. A faction of this group had previously pledged allegiance to the ISIS terrorist group.
“Nobody wants to take accountability of how these are byproducts of the actions of our involvement in other people’s affairs,” she said later in the interview.
Omar, who is a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, has come under fire for a number of remarks and actions she had previously made. Moreover, her connections with several radical groups, |
The zoo leadership for the past two months has pushed for more tax money to pay for increased maintenance and animal care costs.
Hamilton County property owners | will find out today what they'll be asked to contribute to the Cincinnati Zoo.
The three county commissioners at their 11 a.m. meeting today will decide whether to place a zoo levy on the May ballot - and whether to increase the levy amount.
the amount for the zoo levy – if anything – they'll put on the May primary ballot.
If the zoo supporters get what they want, the owner of a $100,000 house would pay $3.50 more. It would be the first tax increase for the zoo in 10 years.
The zoo leadership for the past two months has pushed for more tax money to pay for what they say are increased maintenance and animal care costs.
This included a board of commissioners hearing Feb. 1 with a capacity crowd of more than 60 people in the Board of Elections office in Norwood - with all but one in support of the levy increase.
Parents gave emotional accounts of what the zoo has meant for their children.
Without the |
The ratings for Monday Night Football are in and some may find them surprising.
Ratings declined on Sunday after a day of protests by more than | 200 football players who knelt during the National Anthem.
On Monday, the entire Dallas Cowboys team, including owner Jerry Jones, took a knee before the National Anthem.
But the entire team then stood up in respect when the national anthem began.
The Cowboys’ show of respect for the National Anthem may have boosted the viewership ratings. According to NBC, the Monday’s game drew season-high viewership.
The Monday Night Football game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Arizona Cardinals snagged a 9.3 rating on Sept. 25, the highest so far this season. The game also drew 7 percent more viewers than last week’s Monday Night Football game between the New York Giants and the Detroit Lions.
Monday Night Football also had a higher average viewership year-to-date compared to 2016.
The number of football players kneeling during “Star Spangled Banner” shot up after President Donald Trump said that players who disrespect the anthem should be fired.
On |
BEVERLY HILLS—Kali Woods, 31, of Ojai was arrested on robbery, burglary and identity theft charges on Monday | , May 9. The victim of the robberies was burglarized once and then again at her apartment.
Around 8 a.m. on May 9, the BHPD responded to a call of an armed robbery that occurred in a parking structure on the 300 block of North Crescent Drive. A female suspect approached the victim with a handgun covered by a sweatshirt and covering her face with a bandana. The suspect demanded the victim’s purse and out of fear for her life the victim complied with the suspect’s demands.
The suspect fled eastbound on Dayton Way in a green KIA SUV that was later located abandoned in the 300 block of Crescent/Rexford alley. Around 1 p.m., the victim’s roommate was confronted by the suspect inside their Hollywood area apartment.
The suspect had used information found inside the victim’s purse to find the apartment and had used the victim’s keys to enter and burglarize the victim and her |
By some measures, young adults in Liberia are more faithful than older generations.
Despite concerns about secularization, the world’s population may | not be losing its religion quite so fast.
Like in the US, young adults around the globe are generally less devout than their elders, especially in Western Europe and Latin America; however, in other regions, many countries have resisted that trend, welcoming new generations of just-as-eager Christians and Muslim believers, according to a Pew Research Center report released today.
Of the 106 countries in the report, more than half (58 nations) show little or no age gap in religious commitment. In the rest (46 nations), adults under 40 were significantly less likely than their elders to consider religion very important.
Particularly religious countries with higher population growth tend to maintain religious belief and commitment between young and old generations. Pew found that over the past decade these highly religious countries outpaced their less religious counterparts due to high fertility rates and disproportionately young populations, factors often tied to their level of development.
Worldwide, 90 percent of adults over the age of 40 affiliate with a religious tradition, |
OPEC Monthly Oil Market Report (MOMR) forecasted that Russia will not fully comply with the cuts agreement during the first half of 2019 | .
Due to its old oil infrastructure and mature oil fields, Russia cannot promptly decrease oil production.
Russia has many major oil companies. These include the largest oil producer Rosneft - which produces over 4 million b/d.
Market participants are confused by some of the statements from Russia with regard to energy policy and compliance with OPEC+ output cuts.
In 2018 OPEC managed various challenges successfully and was, as a whole, able to alter its output strategy based on the market needs.
The Brent crude oil price fell slightly to $61.64 per barrel at the end of last week, amid perceptions that Russia might not be able to promptly comply with OPEC+ output cuts agreed in December. As part of the deal, Russia agreed to cut its production by 230,000 million barrels per day (bpd) from the 11.41 bpd touched in October.
But the latest OPEC Monthly Oil Market Report (MOMR) forecast that Russia will not fully comply with the cuts |
Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber thinks that the Affordable Care Act’s fines on those who decline to purchase health insurance represent a tax. When | the bill was being considered, the Congressional Budget Office scored it as a tax. The Supreme Court ruled that it must be interpreted as a tax in order to be considered constitutional. The only institution that did not consider this a tax, in fact, is the American Congress which passed only a “penalty” on those who declined to purchase insurance.
In one of his moments of candor, Gruber lamented how dishonestly the Affordable Care Act was written so as to avoid the politically inconvenient fact that Congress was, in fact, imposing a new tax on those least likely to be able to absorb it – namely, those either too young or too impoverished to afford health insurance. “If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies,” he said.
In an appearance on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Gruber was probed by Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) over his lamentation that the administration’s lack of honesty about the imposition of taxes both |
In a new report we released this week, Seth Klein and I show there's a clear need of tax reform in B.C., both to | raise new revenues and to make our tax system more fair (Vancouver Sun op-ed here, CTV News story here).
As the report's title suggest, this is all about options. Instead of making specific recommendations for tax reform, we chose to highlight the broad range of possibilities for raising new revenues and reducing inequality. We see this as the start of a broad, thoughtful and realistic conversation about how we all, as citizens of this province, can work together to meet our pressing challenges and strengthen our communities.
I think we can all agree that without more revenues, we can't sustain key services we all rely on, let alone begin to meaningfully tackle the pressing challenges of climate change, income inequality and poverty.
The good news, as our research shows, is that B.C. has a lot of room to raise new revenues. For example, if B.C. collected the same amount of personal income tax (incl. MSP) as the average for other |
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Two days after taking down this season's top team in the West, the Los Angeles Lakers will take aim at | even bigger game Friday night when they face the defending champion Golden State Warriors.
It'll be the third matchup of the season between the California rivals, with the Warriors having prevailed in overtime in both previous duels, each of which was hosted by the Lakers.
The game will feature the Bay Area debut of high-profile Lakers rookie Lonzo Ball, whose driving layup was blocked by Golden State's David West in the final seconds of the Warriors' 116-114 win at Los Angeles on Monday.
Ball finished the game with 16 points, six rebounds and six assists.
The 20-year-old had a 15-point, 10-assist double-double when he went head-to-head with Warriors star Stephen Curry in the teams' first matchup of the season, a 127-123 Golden State win in November.
Ball won't have to deal with the former two-time Most Valuable Player on Friday, as Curry will miss his seventh consecutive game with a spr |
Girl sextet GFriend is set to return with the upcoming album “L.O.L” on July 11, according to | the girl group’s agency Source Music on Wednesday.
The announcement came five months after GFriend released their latest mini album “Snowflake.” “L.O.L” will mark the first full-length album since their debut in January 2015.
“L.O.L” will come in two varieties: “Laughing Out Loud” and “Lots of Love,” Source Music added.
On the date of release, GFriend will hold a showcase for the album at Yes24 Livehall in Seoul.
GFriend has released three mini albums -- “Season of Glass,” “Flower Bud” and “Snowflake” -- in their career of just 18 months so far. Each lead track off the three mini albums, “Glass Bead,” “Me Gustas Tu” and “Rough,” were all nationwide megahits |
Naga insurgent outfit Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang, with which the Centre abrogated ceasefire in March, | has claimed responsibility for the ambush in Manipur in which 18 army personnel were killed and 11 others injured.
The militant outfit in a release dated June 4, which was circulated in the media, claimed that the attack on Thursday was a joint operation by it, Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup and Kangleipak Communist Party.
The release claimed that 20 army personnel, including a junior commissioned officer, were killed and 12 others injured in the incident.
It claimed that during the attack a five-vehicle convoy of 6th Dogra Regiment was “assaulted” at Tengnoupal-New Somtal Road in Chandel district of Manipur.
“The assault started around 6 am and lasted till 9 to 10 am,” the release said, adding the offensive was launched in ‘sync’ by the outfits.
After the ceasefire abrogation in March this year, NSCN-K had on May 3 attacked and |
look at them, place them in a basket. The headsets capture eye-tracking while they’re doing this: where they are looking, | how they are behaving. There is a green screen set up, and we see on our monitor what they’re doing and precisely what they’re looking at.
Eye-tracking is one of the most powerful tools you can use in terms of understanding [buyer behavior]. Unseen is unsold. It gives us a sense, is your product being noticed on shelves? Eye movement … is a sign of engagement. We can analyze shelf setup. Is your product being seen as much as you would expect given how much shelf space the product is taking up. Are they noticing you, but then not converting that into a sale?
Are you performing as well as you would expect to? That has implications in terms of how you set up a shelf.
X: What are your retail customers looking for help for?
AS: With all the change taking place in retail, a lot of retailers are trying to optimize the experience in their stores. They’re looking to test |
“The ballooning cost of health care acts as a hungry tapeworm on the American economy.” That’s how Warren | Buffett framed the context as he, Jeff Bezos and Jamie Dimon announced the alliance of their firms, Berkshire Hathaway, Amazon and JPMorgan Chase, to address health care.
The problem is serious. Health care costs in the U.S. have been growing faster than inflation for more than three decades. There is little relief in sight. A Willis Towers Watson study found that U.S. employers expect their health care costs to increase by 5.5% in 2018, up from a 4.6% increase in 2017. The study projects an average national cost per employee of $12,850. The three companies have a combined workforce of 1.2 million. Based on the Willis Towers Watson estimate, they could spend more than $15 billion on employee health care this year.
But, what can the alliance do about it? On that, Buffett was less clear: “Our group does not come to this problem with answers. But, we also do not accept it is inevitable, |
Langold Dyscarr Community School new playground.'Gail Wood and Kath Walker from the LCC Big Local, are joined by local youngsters | at the opening on Wednesday.
A Worksop primary school is ‘super excited’ after its new playground has been reopened thanks to £150,000 of funding.
Langold Dyscarr Community School in School Road, Langold, received £150,000 from the Langold, Carlton and Costhorpe (LCC) Big Local to improve play facilities as well as improving access to music and increase ICT provision for its pupils.
“Funded by the Big Local and supported by Mandy Merrils, Kath Walker and Gail Wood, the playground cost more than £100,000 and was designed by our pupils.
“It includes a quiet zone, outdoor gym, climbing wall, race track for go-carts, MUGA, huge four tower play fort, musical area and an enormous sandpit.
Community consultation for the play facilities was opened in January and pupils and parents made suggestions on what they might like to see at the school |
LOS ANGELES, Calif. /California Newswire/ — Traffk(TM), the Los Angeles art district-based insurance technology company, | is excited to announce the acquisition of Portland, Ore.-based Capsci Health. Capsci Health’s HIPAA compliant, mobile technology platform personalizes health plan members’ benefits, allowing them direct access to their plan’s benefits, ID cards, preferred providers and telemedicine.
Traffk(TM) modernizes the insurance underwriting process with more accurate data insights and risk profiling that allows risk-bearing companies or health plans to manage profitability, risk, market growth, cross-lines sales, marketing and compliance. Its SaaS platform enables an organization to deploy data mining, analytics and rules automation to manage risk, pricing and utilization.
* Data aggregation and management. It collects, integrates, analyzes and transacts data on its SaaS platform. It’s HIPAA-compliant and has successfully passed numerous technology assessments and security platform reviews.
* Traffk Risk Index. It transforms cloud data into actionable, dynamic, multi- |
Our increasingly mechanical life brings with it many health problems. But by changing our eating habits, life style, and taking precautions beforehand, we may be | able to avoid these and live a longer, healthier life.
This guide does all the work--more than 1,200 food listings at your fingertips!
Each entry lists its carbohydrate, sugar, and fat grams, plus all the foods are ranked "Good", "Limited", "Very Limited", or "Avoid" according to the nutritional principles Dr. Agatston explains in his introduction. Packed with essential information, food lists, shopping tips, meal makeovers, this book is a "dining-out guide" to stay on track at your favourite restaurants and more. The South Beach Diet is your key to lifelong health and weight loss.
Demystify this critical meal-planning technique. Learn how to identify patterns throwing off a patient's blood sugar, as well as calculate insulin to CHO ratios and adapt to combination therapy and insulin pump delivery. Indeed a very handy and informative book for health professionals in a clinical setting as well as a supplement for students in health professions courses |
BOSTON-—It’s easy to say that the No. 10 Harvard men’s hockey team is impressive this year, that | it has felled a slew of formidable opponents, and that, all in all, this is a season of which the Crimson can be proud. Nevertheless, it remains impossible to say anything that will lessen the sting of last night’s double-overtime Beanpot defeat.
“It’s a heartbreaking loss,” admitted Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91 of the more-than 82 minute contest, one determined by a high-slot slapshot by Northeastern’s Tim Judy early into the second, 20-minute extra period.
Especially if that somebody loses every year, which has been the case for each current member of the Crimson. In fact, Harvard has not made it past the first round of the Beanpot since 1998, when most of this year’s Crimson seniors were mere freshmen in high school.
“I don’t think it’s really hit me yet,” said captain Noah Welch, who |
MONZA, Italy (Reuters) - Sebastian Vettel can tighten the screw on Formula One leader Lewis Hamilton at Ferrari’s home Italian Grand | Prix this weekend and write a new entry in the record books.
If he can deliver Ferrari’s first Monza victory since 2010, Vettel will also equal British great Stirling Moss’s unique achievement of winning at the ‘Pista Magica’ with three different F1 teams in the 1950s.
Vettel, 17 points behind Hamilton after a commanding win in Belgium last Sunday, has previously triumphed at Monza with Toro Rosso and Red Bull and will fancy his chances of the hat-trick at the super-fast track outside Milan.
Spa showed Ferrari have the speed, even if Monza’s low-drag characteristics make comparisons less clear-cut and could again favour Hamilton’s Mercedes.
But Vettel is sounding confident.
“We have a good car that seems to work everywhere,” the four-times world champion said jubilantly at Spa.
Mercedes have won in |
Oregon has more than 360 miles of Pacific Ocean coastline. There also are many miles of rivers, lakes and other waterways that provide locations from which ships | can set sail. Hour-long cruises can combine a meal with a show or sightseeing near the port, while week-long cruises can focus on a theme such as wine or follow the path of early American explorers to give passengers a look at natural wonders and historic sights.
American Safari Cruises offers two sailings from Portland. Cruising aboard a luxury yacht, both trips are eight days and seven nights and end in Lewiston, Idaho. The "Rivers of the West" cruise follows the path of explorers Lewis and Clark and travels the Columbia, Snake and Palouse rivers. Day four of the cruise goes into Walla Walla, Washington, where passengers go ashore for wine tours and tastings. On day six of the cruise, the boat drops anchors and passengers can take a kayaking excursion into a Palouse River canyon formed during the ice age. The cruise also passes Hells Canyon and Multnomah Falls. The "Rivers of the West Wine and Cul |
BDZ can become a modern and competitive enterprise, but at the cost of huge investments - between BGN 800 million and BGN 1.3 | billion. This was announced by the director of Bulgarian State Railways Vladimir Vladimirov, who yesterday presented a project for the procurement of new modular trains. They will have a speed of 160 km/h, they will have WiFi, will offer comfortable first class and will save 15% of the current expenses of BDZ, or BGN 35 million annually", Vladimirov said.
The trouble is that the state-owned holding is mired in debt and the treasury has to constantly help it financially. The next state support scheme provides for BDZ to receive hundreds of millions of concessions at Sofia Airport.
The forecast for the necessary investments is part of a BDZ technological update report, developed by 3 universities - UNWE, the Technical Uni and Higher Transport School, together with experts from the Ministry of Transport, BDZ and NRIC. "This document has looked at all possible aspects of what the BDZ train fleet should look like in the next few years, what should |
Health|Assessment and Thanks as Flu Wave Ebbs in U.S.
Assessment and Thanks as Flu Wave Ebbs in U. | S.
With that, Ms. Sebelius, the health and human services secretary, bent her elbow across her face and sent a delicate imitation of a virus-loaded “kerchoo!” into the sleeve of her quilted Christmas-red jacket.
The nine federal officials leading the fight against the H1N1 flu gathered for a news conference here on Thursday to review the progress made since the virus was spotted in late April and to thank the hundreds of thousands of Americans — including doctors, vaccine plant workers and schoolteachers — who had labored in the effort.
Ms. Sebelius said it was time to “focus on the next phase of H1N1,” and she pressed everyone to get vaccinated.
About 100 million doses of swine flu vaccine are now available, which is close to the amount of seasonal flu vaccine used in a typical year. Some cities are reporting surpluses and releasing them to doctors’ offices |
SM Supermalls, Shopping Center Management Corp. was given the gold award in the 2012 Asia Pacific Shopping Centre Awards competition of the International Council of | Shopping Centers (ICSC) at ICSC’s RECon Asia Convention held recently in Shanghai, China.
The award recognizes the outstanding achievement in marketing and design and development of retail properties throughout Asia.
SM Supermalls, Shopping Center Management Corp. was cited for its work in digital media marketing, a category which promotes strategic programs and plans through websites, online branding campaigns, social media (blogs, social media sites) and/or mobile marketing (text messaging, mobile websites, mobile directories, etc.) to achieve brand and marketing communication goals for a shopping center or company.
The center won for its SM Supermalls iButterfly Hunt which took advantage of the fast growing smartphone market in the Philippines. Eight SM Supermalls filled the virtual reality sky with the SM iButterfly, a mobile application using three technologies: Augmented Reality, GPS and Motion Sensors.
The app engaged and rewarded SM Supermalls customers in a fun and interactive way through their |
Sean Mark Wijesinghe head coach of Kandy Sports Club will be missed when he migrates to Canada on Friday. His departure is | not only a great loss to Kandy Sports Club, but also for Sri Lankan rugby. Former Trinitian Wijesinghe represented Trinity College rugby in 2000 and 2001 under David Luchow and Thisal Jayawardena.
Wijesinghe has wide experience, having captained Kandy SC twice, the national team and been an understudy to former coach Johan Taylor. He has undergone rugby coaching and training overseas in Levels 1, 2 and 3 and holds a coach educator certificate. He is also a level II strength and conditioning coach. He gave off his best for the school at basketball and rugger and won colors in both sports.
Wijesinghe was one of the leading third row forwards and learnt the rudiments of rugby at Trinity College under Quentin Israel and while at school he represented Kandy Sports Club. Under his leadership the Nittawela club won the triple in 2008, where they were unbeaten. He captained again in 2014/ |
Each year, September comes, and each year, the iPhone gets faster. But a report and analysis by 9to5Mac points to a significantly | speedier and more power-efficient chip for this year's new iPhones.
The piece cites an "unsubstantiated tipster" making specific claims about the next iPhone's processor, so this should all be taken with a grain of salt. But if true, the next iPhone could be gaining some real ground on the speeds normally associated with desktops and laptops.
A view of what could be the next iPhone's motherboard.
The A9 chip, likely to debut inside the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus, is said to have a Geekbench score of 1,921 for single-core and 4,873 for multi-core. Last year's A8 chip, which lived inside the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, achieved a 1,610 for single-core and 2,890 for multi-core scores.
What's the cause for the big jump in multi-core? According to the source, the A9 could use two cores clocked at 1 |
Muscat: The US travel ban has hit many expatriate residents in Oman following the executive order banning entry to citizens of seven Muslim-majority | countries.
Mohammad Ahmad, a Sudanese resident of Oman was supposed to meet his family in the US next month but his plans were quickly dashed after the US embassy stopped issuing visit visas following the executive order.
Ahmad has been working in Oman for the past 10 years and used to visit his Ohio-based family, who are permanent residents, every year without any obstacles.
“I hope the ban will be lifted, I would like to spend the holidays with them,” he said.
Murtada Hussain, an Iraqi national, said that he was shocked with the executive order, describing it as “racist”.
Now he is unable to attend his son’s university graduation next week.
“My wife and I have been waiting for this moment, but now everything has fallen apart,” he told Gulf News.
The US embassy in Muscat has issued a standard advisory that any citizen of the seven banned countries will not be |
The Good Attractive overall design; feels well built; comfortable keyboard and touch pad; three-year warranty.
The Bad Doesn't live up | to performance expectations; integrated graphics leach resources from main system memory.
The Bottom Line Despite its excellent design and shiny, new Core 2 Duo processor, the Gateway M255-E fails to make strides with performance or battery life.
When we reviewed the Gateway M250E a year ago, we liked everything about the laptop, save its lackluster application performance. We feel roughly the same about the Gateway M255-E, which features a handful of minor design improvements, a Core 2 Duo processor, and less-than-stellar benchmark results. It will ably handle the rigors of business-class computing, but it failed to set the world on fire on CNET Labs' new benchmarks. With integrated graphics and no option for upgrading to a dedicated graphics card, the Gateway M255-E's performance potential is limited; your best bet for improving performance is adding more memory. Alternatively, if you are comfortable choosing an off-brand, the $1,499 PC Club Enpower EN |
OneBeacon Insurance Group Ltd., a property casualty unit of Bermuda-based reinsurer White Mountains Insurance Group Ltd, has raised an estimated $600 | million in its initial public offering.
OneBeacon’s 24 million class A common share offering sold for $25 per share.
The shares will be listed on the New York Stock Exchange and will trade under the symbol “OB” beginning Nov. 9, 2006. The subsidiary of White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd. will receive all of the proceeds of the offering.
The underwriters have the option to purchase up to an additional 3.6 million shares from the selling shareholder at the initial public offering price less the underwriting discount. White Mountains will remain the company’s majority owner.
Lehman Brothers Inc. has acted as the sole book-running manager of this offering and Banc of America Securities LLC has acted as joint lead manager.
You also forgot to mention the agencies that went out of business or sold because they ran their business into the ground, excluding this honorable group of course.
You question a guy\'s intergrity in an |
North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un inspecting tires at a factory.
It’s time to swallow hard and find a way to talk to | Kim Jong Un.
Sure, North Korea recently fired a missile that appears powerful enough to put the entire United States in range. Sure, the U.S. will probably have to make some concessions if it’s serious about wanting to freeze Kim’s nuclear and missile programs. Sure, Kim would see it as a propaganda victory, and perhaps as a tactical victory.
And sure, the U.S. would be signing up for more years of threats and bluster aimed at extracting even more concessions. It would have to be practical, clear and consistent — probably through several presidential administrations — about what is unacceptable behavior. That’s very hard to do. And it’s by no means risk free.
But as long as you keep talking, you’re not shooting.
If recent experience shows anything, it’s that declaring it unacceptable for a country like North Korea to have nuclear weapons is mostly bluff, based on the bet that outside pressure |
President Barack Obama commuted the sentences of 209 people on Jan. 17.
Obama commuted an additional 209 sentences Tuesday just three days before the | end of his presidency — and more are still expected. Doing so brought his total commutations to 1,385, the most of any president in history, edging out Woodrow Wilson's 1,366.
But the big headline — record-breaking clemency — misses the nuance. Obama's record on clemency is different than his immediate predecessors, and it's also very much the same.
The president has the power to commute a federal prisoner's sentence or offer a full pardon. A commutation shortens sentences but does not restore civil liberties such as the right to own a gun or vote. A full pardon can restore voting rights but does not wipe away a criminal record. Obama only took the record on commutations — in other areas, he's still very much behind.
P.S. Ruckman, a political scientist and editor of the blog PardonPower, has spent years tracking the use of presidential clemency and says presidents should use the power regularly |
In the 1950s, Jerome Robbins’ desire for a modern day version of “Romeo and Juliet” ultimately became “ | West Side Story,” a powerhouse Broadway production that continues to be far-reaching and multi-layered.
Two years ago, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute launched The Somewhere Project to honor the venue’s 125th anniversary and explore aspects of “West Side Story” with a year of events and songwriting workshops across New York City. In the workshops, high school students, single mothers and people from the criminal justice system wrote lyrics inspired from the musical’s song “Somewhere,” under the guidance of professional performers.
This year marks the 100th birthday of Robbins and Leonard Bernstein, who were the choreographer and music composer, respectively, of the iconic 1957 Broadway show.
Celebrations of the two American treasures are taking place across the country. In Atlanta, the Atlanta Opera will perform “West Side Story” starring Vanessa Beccera in November at Cobb Energy Centre.
Atlanta is the final city of |
Ahh, summer. A time to cook out, hit the beach, and stay inside and watch movies because it's so dang hot out | !
Sure, there's always a slew of great blockbusters in the theaters each summer, but why not save the trip (and the cash) with these five great family summer movies? BYOP(opcorn). Or ice pops. Hey, it's your house!
The Great Outdoors. All Chet (John Candy) wanted was a relaxing summer vacation at a lakeside resort for him and his family. Everything seems to be going as planned until Chet's obnoxious, know-it-all brother-in-law, Roman (Dan Aykroyd), and his family crash the trip. The result? Anything but the vacation Chet had planned.
Grease. A young John Travolta. Olivia Newton-John. Singing. Dancing. Rydell High! Really, this movie needs no description, just know you'll be singing "You're the One That I Want" for days to come.
The Parent Trap. You can watch the |
Linus Soderstrom won the Swedish Hockey League championship over the weekend and Mathew Barzal is set to play for the Western Hockey League | crown. Read more in the Islanders Prospect Report.
Linus Soderstrom, the Islanders' 2014 fourth-round pick (95th overall), backstopped HV71 to Swedish Hockey League title on Saturday night. The SHL is the premier professional hockey league in Sweden and this is the fifth title for HV71.
HV71 beat Brynas in seven games to take the SHL crown, winning Game 7 2-1 in overtime. Soderstrom turned aside 29 of 30 shots he faced in the championship game including all four shots in overtime. The 20-year-old goaltender was named the third star of the game.
Soderstrom started all 16 playoff games for HV71 on their title run, posting a 12-4 record with a 2.11 goals-against average and a.922 save percentage. The Stockholm native posted a 2.46 GAA with a.914 SV% in the championship series.
Mathew Barzal |
Working in the games industry can be a very good career choice due to the pay on offer for more senior roles. Deciding which developer or publisher | to work for is obviously going to come down to how much they are willing to pay you and whether you are a good fit for the types of games they create. If your main concern is pay, and you want to work in Japan, then Square Enix is clearly the place to seek employment.
Nensyu Labo is a company that tracks salaries across a range of industries in Japan. One of those industries is video games and they have just published the latest compensation chart for Japanese game developers and publishers.
The top 10 includes the companies you’d expect to see such as Sony, Konami, Namco Bandai, Tecmo, and Capcom, but it’s Square Enix that pays the most, and by a huge margin if these figures are to be believed.
The average salary for an employee working at the Final Fantasy studio is 21,680,000 yen. That’s roughly $273,000 a year. To put that in context, the company coming |
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