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Combine dry ingredients in a bowl. Stir to mix. Set aside.
In a stand mixer, combine sugar, warm coconut oil, warm | applesauce and vanilla. Mix on low until sugar is dissolved. 2-3 minutes.
Slowly add in the dry ingredients and mix on low until the dough comes together and all of the ingredients are combined. Wrap dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 15-30 minutes.
Pre heat oven to 350.
Clear work area and create space to roll out dough.
Roll dough to ¼” thickness and cut out 2” circles. Place circles on parchment lined cookie sheets. Cookies will not spread much so 1” apart is fine.
Bake at 350 for 7-9 minutes.
Cool Completely on a wire rack and make Cream Filling.
Using a whip attachment on your mixer, beat the palm shortening at high speed, until light and fluffy and doubled in size. About 3-5 minutes. Slowly add in the powdered sugar and rice milk, mix until incorporated. Add vanilla.
On cooled cookies, spoon out 1 TBL |
St. Paul, Minn.--President Bush was a man on a mission when he toured the Saturn School of Tomorrow here last week.
In | scheduling the trip the day before his Administration's education package was sent to Capitol Hill, the President hoped to ensure that the nation's attention would be focused on education.
But he also used the trip--the first of what is expected to be many in the name of education reform--to highlight an example of a "new American school."
"You may not believe this," Mr. Bush told students in each of the three classrooms he visited, "but I learn from talking with you."
But he also acknowledged the political and public-relations purposes of his visit.
"Good examples will inspire others," Mr. Bush said. "I would like people across the country to see this and learn from it."
"You're on the cutting edge," he continued. "You're revolutionizing4education, and we have to do this across the country."
The President, accompanied on his trip by Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander, even made a direct reference to his desire to send a |
Wayne Shorter will be recognized at the 2018 Kennedy Center Honors in December. The Newark jazz great also announced a new album.
Way | ne Shorter, the jazz saxophonist and composer from Newark, has been named a 2018 Kennedy Center honoree.
Shorter, 84, who has won 10 Grammys in his career, will be recognized at the 41st Kennedy Center Honors on Dec. 2 at the Kennedy Center Opera House in Washington, D.C.
The other honorees this year are Cher, the composer and pianist Philip Glass and country music star Reba McEntire.
In a first for the honors, "Hamilton" co-creators Lin-Manuel Miranda, choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler and music director Alex Lacamoire will also be recognized "as trailblazing creators of a transformative work that defies category." The gala will be broadcast on CBS at 8 p.m. on Dec. 26.
In 2013, Shorter performed at the Kennedy Center Honors to celebrate Herbie Hancock.
"I had no idea that they would reach |
For those of you who haven't taken Steep for a ride down the mountain just yet, Ubisoft has decided to open the slopes to all com | ers this weekend, offering free play across all platform for four straight days.
If you're looking to give Steep a try, the free weekend of play will run from March 10 through March 13 across the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. For those of you in the U.S., the PlayStation 4 and UPlay crowd can jump on board starting 1 p.m. EST tomorrow, March 10. The free play weekend will end Monday at the same time. On Xbox One, your start and stop time will be 4 a.m. EST.
As Ubisoft recently did with Watch Dogs 2, this isn't just a demo of Steep featuring a limit on the game's features. You won't, for instance, be able to only pick the snowboard and slide down one section of the mountain. As Gamespot is reporting, this is another full-blown offering, letting players download the entire game and play it to their heart's content for the next four days. You |
December 18, 2016 Our current dilemmas require overcoming existential risk through new forms of cooperation and innovation as Earth potentially enters a new e | on, the "Sapiezoic," says guest blogger David Grinspoon.
October 1, 2016 Looking at the Anthropocene through the lens of astrobiology could help us move on with the planet — so it doesn't move on without us, says physicist Adam Frank.
Peter Ward: Are We Headed Into Another Mass Extinction?
September 30, 2016 At various times, life on earth has come close to being erased. Paleontologist Peter Ward explains what we can learn from previous mass extinctions.
Are We Headed Into Another Mass Extinction?
Cary Fowler: Can We Preserve Seed Diversity For The Future?
September 30, 2016 Biodiversity archivist Cary Fowler explains how the Svalbard Global Seed Vault will prepare humans for the climate change and its effect on our environment and our food supply.
Can We Preserve Seed Diversity For The Future?
Kenneth Lacovara: What's The Anthrop |
CARACAS, Venezuela – As Gov. Henrique Capriles campaigned for president of Venezuela last April, he couldn't | venture more than a few steps without being hounded by dozens of sharp-elbowed cameramen and photographers. Nearly eight months later, the visibly thinner and exhausted opposition leader is accompanied by just a handful of journalists at what was supposed to be one of the final, electrifying opposition rallies ahead of this weekend's mayoral elections.
Critics say the shrinking media coverage has been deliberate. Even while Venezuelans endure their toughest economic crisis in 15 years of socialist rule, the opposition has been largely knocked from public view by what they claim is a government-led campaign to intimidate media outlets that give airtime to the opposition and the nation's mounting woes.
Between January and September, the number of attacks on journalists, cases of harassment and reports of censorship has risen 56 percent compared with the first nine months of 2012, according to a complaint filed by press freedom groups in October to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Even more damaging has been the sale |
Immigrants Are Scrambling To Submit Petitions For Family Members To Come To U.S. Facing a new law that slashes family | -based immigration, immigrants who are legally in the U.S. are scrambling to legal offices to petition for visas for loved ones abroad to come here.
Immigrants Are Scrambling To Submit Petitions For Family Members To Come To U.S.
Facing a new law that slashes family-based immigration, immigrants who are legally in the U.S. are scrambling to legal offices to petition for visas for loved ones abroad to come here.
The Senate did not pass an immigration bill this week, and a major sticking point was legal immigration. President Trump wants Congress to limit the number of family members who immigrants here legally can sponsor to join them in the United States. As NPR's John Burnett reports, the proposal has caused panic in some communities.
JOHN BURNETT, BYLINE: After Donald Trump won the presidency, frightened immigrants rushed to legal offices to get green cards, become naturalized citizens and apply for protection under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or |
LESS than a dozen of 150 parliamentary deputies listened to Ombudswoman Jana Dubovcová present her annual report on June 10 | . As she discussed the state of human rights in Slovakia for nearly one hour, Dubovcová spoke to a near empty discussion hall that only began to fill, according to reports by the Sme daily, when a scheduled vote on the report approached. It was approved.
“This is the working method of the Slovak parliament,” Dubovcová said, as quoted by Sme.
The experience, however, is nothing new for the ombudswoman, who has tried in vain to get the government to discuss her report, which points to serious violations of human rights by state bodies in its policy toward Roma, including the controversial and violent police raid in a Roma settlement near Moldava nad Bodvou.
Meanwhile, a global organisation of human rights guarantors is expressing concerns that Dubovcová’s work is being undermined.
“I urge you to address the situation as quickly as possible and thus confirm that the |
Budget writers at the state Capitol caught a bit of luck last week: They learned they would have about $860 million in extra revenue to work | with as they craft the state’s next two-year budget.
Yet Democratic leaders in Washington’s House say that’s still not enough money to cover all of the state’s priorities, which include investing more in mental health services, higher education, early learning programs and K-12 schools.
On Monday, House Democrats released a new two-year budget plan that would include about $1.4 billion in additional taxes to help pay for some of their desired programs.
The House’s $52.6-billion proposal represents about an $8 billion increase over what the Legislature is spending in its current two-year budget. Leaders in the Senate, which is also controlled by Democrats, are expected to release a different spending plan in the coming days.
The House proposal would rely on a mixture of new taxes, including a tax on “extraordinary profits,” to pay for about $2.3 billion in new policy investments. |
Searching for jobs is rarely easy, so it's important to use the best strategies possible. Since it's usually a lengthy process, good job | searching habits are key to staying in the game and landing the position you want. If you just spam resumes without a game plan in mind, you'll be giving yourself a huge handicap. The SFGate came up with the top five job search habits which we've collected for you below. While the points are broad, sticking to them will help you stay focused and on-track.
1. Persistence – Whether you've adopted a fire and forget attitude or have given up entirely, forgetting to be persistent can shut more doors than you might realize. Never assume that your applications and emails have been received, read, or processed. Companies and hiring managers tend to be overwhelmed with emails, and it's very easy to let one slip through the cracks – you might be that one. Rather than spamming companies, wait roughly one to two weeks before reaching out to a company or individual to confirm that they received your information. If you don't hear back after the second or third email, then you |
Bihar Board 12th Intermediate Result Out now: Bihar Board 12th Result Declared Today : The Bihar Board 12th Result 2019 was declared on | Saturday at the official website of Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB).
The Bihar Board 12th Result 2019 was declared on Saturday at the official website of Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB). Candidates can check their results after it is uploaded on the BSEB websites.
The percentage of students who have passed in the exam is 79.76%. In arts 4 lakh, 25 thousand, 550 candidates have passed in the exam, while in commerce 59,135 have passed and in science 5,35,110 students have passed. The pass percentage is 76.53 in arts, 93.02 in commerce and 81.20 in science.
More than 13 lakh students had appeared for the BSEB intermediate exams 2019 held across 1,339 centres in 38 districts of the state.
Students who had appeared in the examination, can check their Bihar board intermediate exam results on the official websites of Bihar Board at biharboard.ac.in or biharboardonline.bihar. |
Charter gives Melrose time | City A.M.
TAKEOVER target Charter International extended the timetable for potential buyer Melrose to | make a formal offer yesterday, giving it two and half weeks more for its due diligence.
Charter asked the Takeover Panel to approve the extension to the put up or shut up deadline for Melrose to table an offer just a day after it admitted it was also in talks with US pump and valve maker Colfax.
Melrose asked for access to Charter’s books before it formalises its latest 850p cash and shares offer for the engineering group and can now do so until 21 September.
But the arrival of a second interested party makes a bidding war for Charter increasingly likely. Its shares outperformed the FTSE yesterday, falling just 0.4 per cent.
Sources close to Melrose said it believed Charter investors would still back its offer because they would gain shares in the enlarged group.
Alex White, corporate finance partner at BDO said this was a valuable element of the offer. “It is hard to see why an all cash bid from Colfax would |
Parents and educators at a struggling, racially isolated San Francisco school hope their changing community means better times ahead.
SAN FRANCISCO — In | recent years, students at Malcolm X Academy in the city's Bayview section have been coming up with design ideas for a paved pathway that will eventually link their public elementary school to a housing complex that's under construction nearby. The complex is slated to replace a once-crumbling public-housing development that was torn down in 2010.
Some students have asked for benches in the shape of fruits and vegetables; others have requested raised planting beds. All voted for a mural paying homage to national heroes such as Rosa Parks and Sonia Sotomayor. Developers who are building the pathway have promised to include some of their ideas in the structure.
But having that promise fulfilled isn't the main objective for child advocates at the nearby Center for Cities and Schools, an urban-planning think tank that has spearheaded the conversation about the pathway in collaboration with a local chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects. "The pathway is a symbol of a larger goal," said Shirl Buss, the center's creative |
It didn’t take long for IS (Islamic State) to find a new cartoon-style villain to fill the shoes of Mohammed “ | Jihadi John” Emwazi. The masked villain often appeared in high-value productions, narrating them with a perfect British accent, as the enemies of IS were slain in increasingly elaborate and equally gruesome manners.
Just as Jihadi John’s villainy reached a crescendo, the US claimed it targeted and killed him in a drone strike. Nothing resembling actual confirmation was produced afterward, and many questioned the value or impact of eliminating what was for all intents and purposes merely a figurehead.
However, Western audiences have a shrinking attention span coupled with a growing awareness that everything they see on the news is likely at the very least, ‘spun.’ Despite this skepticism, US and European news services insist on serving up intelligence-insulting narratives seemingly designed for the minds of children, not educated, informed adults.
So just as Jihadi John’s memory began to fade from the collective narrative the US and European media pummels |
The entire concept of the “surge” of forces in Afghanistan was that the force levels were too low to meet specific targeted goals for | establishing security in conjunction with Afghan government forces. The situation hasn’t changed–US Forces are still propping up the puppet regime in Kabul.
What I guess I don’t understand is what 10,000 troop in-country will get us if the US does not pull out entirely. From all indication, this would leave a group of “advisors” with barely adequate “force protection” and certainly not enough manpower to keep open massive military bases in Kandahar and Baghram. Even Karzai is drifting return reproachment with the Taliban, which is fast becoming the real power to be reckoned with.
So, Obama threatens Afghanistan that without a security agreement in place its time to plan a full withdrawal. Great. The problem with Obama’s ultimatum is that it fails to explain why the US shouldn’t be pulling out. Its not clear what the mission is, what the alternative is, or what the national sentiment is to those |
Finally, at 9:30 p.m., tournament officials announced that no matches would be played. Guests with individual Session 8 tickets from Friday night | may exchange them at the front gate box office for: Session 9 March 28 Day Session Grounds Passes, Session 12 March 29 Evening Session tickets or March 30 Evening Session tickets.
Nadal, the No. 2 seed, was relieved to get through his first match, but it wasn’t as easy as the score might look because of the weather conditions, he said.
Nadal is particularly motivated to win here because he has played here 11 times, reached four finals but never won the title. It is the tournament in which he has played the most times and never won.
He tweaked his ankle at practice Monday but said it did not affect his performance Friday.
Joining Nadal in the third round will be third seed Andy Murray, who also battled heat and wind to defeat Donald Young 6-4, 6-2. It was the fifth time in six meetings that Murray beat Young. The Scot owns a condo in the Brickell Avenue area, trains here in the |
Click to viewThree MacBook Air reviews are in from USA Today, Newsweek and the WSJ. The first two reviews are both fairly positive, with | caveats, but the WSJ's reads slightly less so. Lets begin.
USA Today: USA Today's Ed Baig summarizes with this verdict: "Given the compromises, I don't expect anyone to use Air as their only computer. But it is a yummy machine for people who spend a lot of time traveling." Going more in depth, he lauds the Air's thinness, and revels at the little things like the magnetic latch and the backlit LED display. The worst part? He got more than an hour less than Apple's rated battery life.
Newsweek: Steven Levy at Newsweek compares the Macbook Air's thinness to ritualistic circumcision, noting that they sliced off just enough to make it meaty, yet super thin. Thin enough for him to spend a good third of his review saying how thin it is, and how it's so great on a lap, on a Starbucks' table, on a conference table, and on an airplane seatback tray. |
Is there a word that promises fun more than "festival?" We know. "Chocolate" is right up there, but stop being a | distraction. Summer music festivals are a Chicago sonic mainstay, in a city that seems to have gone fest crazy of late. It used to be that it was just Lollapalooza, Blues Fest and Ravinia. But recently, everyone has raised their game, from Grant Park's classical music fest to Riot Fest, and all points in between. We asked our critics, Greg Kot, Howard Reich and John von Rhein, to lay out their summer of festival goodness.
Local classical music buffs get to hear world-class performances week after week at the area's "Big Two" summer fests, the Grant Park Music Festival in downtown Chicago, and the Ravinia Festival in north suburban Highland Park. That's not something you should take for granted.
To help you navigate the hot-weather bounty, we have singled out five events at each festival that look unusually promising from this distance. Go and enjoy!
Berlioz's "Romeo et Juliette |
From 6,000 feet, the Mississippi sunset looked like a postcard in a souvenir shop. Billy Powell was enjoying the view. Ronnie Van | Zant was asleep on the floor. Some of the guys were playing poker. And the hardest-working rock 'n' roll band in America was about to run out of gas.
It was the last flight of Lynyrd Skynyrd: Oct. 20, 1977, the night they drove Ol' Dixie down.
The band had risen out of Jacksonville on the wings of such anthems as "Free Bird" and "Sweet Home Alabama." But just as they were beginning to reach their zenith, the Skynyrd boys would go down with the sun, plunging into the southern Mississippi countryside in a plane crash that would kill Van Zant; guitarist Steve Gaines; his sister, backup vocalist Cassie Gaines; and road manager Dean Kilpatrick.
"We were cut off right in the middle of our stride," drummer Artimus Pyle says.
If you believe in omens, there were plenty: flames shooting from an engine |
Recovery is possible. Isn’t that the message that we’ve been listening to for the past few years? Our community is | in crisis over the deaths and overdoses that are a direct result of substance use.
I am probably one of the very few who have never personally been affected by opioid use. I have not lost a family member, a friend or a loved one due to drugs. Some would argue that years ago, I would have thought I was too good to know someone who was addicted. If you’re one of those people who think that you’re too good to be associated with someone who suffers from addiction, I’m sorry for you.
Addiction doesn’t discriminate like we do. It’s natural to develop a jaded sense of reality over time. Lived experience tells us to become hardened to a problem, yet, contradicts human nature of lived experience bringing us to our knees.
I consider myself a privileged woman who grew up in Harford County, attended private schools, attained a college degree and never really had to work too hard to excel. I |
The season finale of Fox's House earned high marks, giving the network a tight win over CBS. The network&apos | ;s both registered 3.9 ratings overall but Fox won in audience share, 11 to 10.
House took first place at 8 p.m. with a 4.6/13, tying the second hour of Dancing With the Stars for highest-rated show on the night. The first hour of Dancing earned a 3.7/11 and was first with 17 million viewers. CBS was third at 3.6/11 for Big Bang Theory (3.6/11) and How I Met Your Mother (3.6/10). Gossip Girl. Which featured something of a backdoor pilot on a potential spinoff was fourth at 1.2/3. that was a slight improvement in the demo from last week. NBC game show Deal Or No Deal was fifth at 1.0/3.
Dancing With the Stars was the most-watched show of the night with 19.6 million viewers and a 4.6/12. CBS came in at 4.0 |
The All-New Kia Stonic is finally available in Malta and you can see it up close this weekend at the Kia Showroom in | Mdina Road, Qormi. Kia is proud to introduce the innovative compact SUV to Malta which can be viewed on Friday 27th from 09:00 to 20:00, and Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th April between 09:00 and 14:00.
The Kia Stonic combines innovative design with clever capability. The model's cutting-edge build, with sculpted lines and contours, is not only striking to the eye but is designed to maximise technological enhancements such as engine-cooling systems and airflow direction.
With its bold, two-tone body colour options, the Stonic certainly makes a statement on the road. Owners can mix and match colours for the lower exterior and roof from a broad palette for a distinctive visual impact.
The Stonic comes in a range of engines to cater for the specific driving needs and preferences of owners. The model is available different versions, each version engineered to deliver outstanding handling with a touch of sportiness. The St |
This morning during a news conference at the statehouse, Governor Chet Culver dismissed a handful of reporters’ questions about a weekend poll which | indicated Culver faces an uphill battle for reelection. The Des Moines Register’s Iowa Poll found just 36% of those surveyed approve of Culver’s performance in office.
“I’ve never really paid much attention to polls. It’s about getting the job done every day,” Culver said. “And there’s a long time between now and November. Twenty-four hours is a long time in government and in politics.” Culver said he “feels good” about the steps he’s taken as governor, specifically mentioning his I-JOBS program which saw the state borrow millions to bankroll infrastructure projects.
“I want all Iowans to feel good about finding a good-paying job, so this is going take some time for the local folks and individuals to find that job that they’re looking for whether it’s through the I-JOBS program or |
The Ethiopian scrambled eggs at Royal Coffee in Rogers Park are made with tomato paste, green pepper and onion and come with mi mita (chili | powder) and injera (flatbread) on the side.
Way back in 2014, I wrote that I loved biscuits and sandwiches on biscuits. I’m still enamored of them, so I went for a second helping at two places that serve fine examples of this flaky treat. But first, let’s visit an unlikely spot known for its coffee, the sliver of Lake Michigan you can see from the outdoor patio, and one dish that is particularly haunting.
Sometimes it’s the entire menu that entices me, and sometimes it’s one dish that is so good, so unusual and so memorable, I have to write about it. The latter is the case here.
The word “Royal” in the restaurant’s name describes the pure Ethiopian Highland coffee it imports, never blending it with any other bean. The latte I had was full-bodied and smooth.
The counter here has trays of sweets and |
Find out how a health savings account can help you save money.
A health savings account might enable you to offset costly medical expenses at tax time | . If you qualify, an HSA provides you with a triple tax break: Your contributions are tax-free, they grow tax-deferred and you can use them at any time to pay for medical expenses tax-free.
Businesses and individuals use HSAs to help pay for the steep costs of healthcare. Many employers contribute to employees’ HSA accounts — and because this type of spending account doesn’t expire, you can keep it through retirement and use it as an extra savings fund. Learn what an HSA is and if it benefits your financial situation.
Learn what an HSA is and how it can benefit your financial situation so that you can find ways to survive rising healthcare costs.
An HSA is a tax-free savings account designed to help qualified individuals offset healthcare costs. HSA enrollees must be covered by insurance plans with high deductibles. As a cost-saving measure, many businesses are encouraging employees to enroll in high-deductible plans |
Every Christian deserves an observance of Christmas. But some people have life circumstances that make a 50-member choir belting out “Joy to | the World” a poor fit.
Memorial Presbyterian Church recognized that more than 15 years ago, and offers a quieter option with its Service of Comfort and Hope, at 7 p.m. Sunday.
“I know the paths of darkness well. … I’ve followed them into the bottomless abyss where even the smallest step took all I had,” she wrote.
Mayton said the service originated for those who are struggling as they face challenges such as death or divorce. Job losses in the community have taken their toll as well, but he said this isn’t just for people who have suffered losses. People who have just moved to the area might be away from family and not know anyone yet, for example.
They even thought of moving the nondenominational service from the soaring church sanctuary, but decided instead to stay with the traditional setting. It is fully handicap accessible, he pointed out, and an organist and cellist will help |
I didn’t want to watch it. It was everything that I feared it would be…boring, excruciating, and mind-n | umbing. But nevertheless, I sat through almost the entire 90 minutes of the Presidential debate last Thursday evening and endured it all…the lies, the deceit, and the evasions. The viewers were exposed to so much toxic BS that I found myself scanning my living room for a HazMat suit.
While it may have been painful for me, the experience must have been positively agonizing for President Bush. He stood on the podium, dumb-founded, while John Kerry ripped his Iraq adventure to shreds. It didn’t appear that Bush had ever been aggressively exposed to a real dissection of his war up until this contest. He seemed to be angered that anyone could have the impudence to question his policies, much less excoriate them.
Again and again, Bush retaliated by accusing Kerry of vacillation of his opinions. As he did so, I kept being reminded of that famous quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of a |
When Windows Store launched, it featured apps and games that had a clear mobile focus. Games made available via Windows Store were casual for the most part | , and it seemed unlikely that the situation would change in the future.
It changed however with the launch of the Universal Windows Platform which improved what developers could do with the framework that Microsoft provided them with, and the release of Windows 10.
Rise of the Tomb Raider was the first major AAA title offered through Windows Store but it won't be the last. Microsoft announced plans recently to bring the Xbox One exclusive game Quantum Break, developed by Remedy Software, to Windows Store on launch day. Other games such as Gears of Wars Ultimate Edition and Fable Legends are also lined up to be Store exclusives.
The games will only be available for Microsoft's game console and through Windows Store, and Microsoft will use the same strategy to push Windows Store by making other games it has control over as Store exclusives.
This is beneficial to PC gamers on first glance as they gain access to games that they would not be able to play at all on the platform or only after years of delay. |
Salesboom.com, the provider of on demand customer relationship management software who aspires to play in the salesforce.com, NetSu | ite and RightNow league for SMB hosted CRM, has announced an enhanced administrative upgrade feature for Salesboom users.
Dubbed the Salesboom “SmartUpgrade,” the new feature will allow Salesboom administrators to select which updates they wish to use and when to introduce them to their users.
Salesboom has been releasing new updates to their hosted CRM, with an update at least every 4 weeks. The new “SmartUpgrade” feature will allow system administrators more control and flexibility over which updates they would like to see launched. The new “SmartUpgrade” system will be available to all Salesboom users with the upcoming release of Salesboom v7.0.
Fargo, North Dakota-based Vtrenz, Inc. has announced product enhancements for its marketing automation platform. Vtrenz iMarketing Automation is engineered to give marketers tools to plan, build, manage, execute and measure both online and |
You definitely know Stephen Lang as Colonel Miles Quaritch in Avatar. You've probably seen him as a guest star in reruns of Law & | Order or as Ike Clanton in Tombstone. He gives an awesome performance as a blind veteran defending his home from thieves in the current horror flick Don't Breathe. He's "that guy," one of those constantly working actors who makes any movie or show better.
You may not know that he's had an equally celebrated career in the theater and that he's created Beyond Glory, a one-man play that pays tribute to eight Medal of Honor recipients. He's performed the piece over 400 times for theater and military audiences around the world. In 2014, he invited a film crew to join him as he brought the production to the military bases and theaters in America's heartland.
The result is Beyond Glory, a documentary/performance hybrid film that follows Lang on tour and manages to include almost a complete performance of the play pieced together from many different shows. The play features Lang's performance as eight men who received the Medal of Honor: Vice Adm. James B. Stockdale |
Scott Shaw, The Plain Dealer With Shaquille O'Neal likely out for the rest of the regular season and Zydrunas Ilga | uskas gone from the roster for at least three more weeks, the Cavaliers will be relying on their frontcourt depth to maintain a chase for the NBA's best record.
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cavaliers center Shaquille O'Neal will have surgery on his sprained right thumb on Monday morning in Baltimore, which likely will mean he will be out for the remainder of the regular season.
Though the Cavs did not place any timetable on O'Neal's return, injuries of this nature that require surgery typically take six to nine weeks to heal. In 1995, O'Neal suffered a torn ligament in the thumb that caused him to miss 22 games for the Orlando Magic. There are seven weeks remaining in the regular season.
The Cavs obtained O'Neal in a trade with the Phoenix Suns last June in order to counter the height problems posed by the Boston Celtics, Orlando Magic and Los Angeles Lakers in the playoffs. Provided the Cavs can continue to hold onto the No. 1 seed |
The James L. Sorenson Molecular Biotechnology Building, an engineering building at the University of Utah | Chronicle archives.
If you’ | re a student with plans to live and work in Utah’s growing tech industry, your student loan debt could be forgiven.
The Utah System of Higher Education is rolling out a forgiveness program for students who promise to stay and work in Utah’s technology sector. For the U, this means an opportunity to aid financial relief for students interested in working Utah’s tech industry upon graduation.
The program, passed last year during the state’s General Session, is called the Talent Development Incentive Loan Program. The forgiveness initiative aims for those who completed at least a semester of post-secondary schooling and will work in approved jobs.
Concerns of failing to attract promising workers intending to pursue a job in Utah’s rapidly growing ‘Silicon Slopes,’ prompted the passage of this piece of legislature. The state will allocate $2.5 million dollars to support the program’s goal to build its increasingly popular industry.
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has confirmed that Michael Jackson will remain in the prestigious institution, despite facing extensive allegations of child abuse.
Le | aving Neverland, which split opinion when part one aired in the UK earlier this month, focuses on testimony by Wade Robson, 36, and James Safechuck, 41, who both claim that Jackson sexually abused them when they were children.
The music icon was inducted into the prestigious hall twice during his lifetime, once with the Jackson 5 in 1997, and again as a solo artist in 2001.
While the documentary sees extensive allegations of abuse being levelled against Jackson by Wade Robson and James Safechuck, it seems his position in the hall isn’t up for question.
Now, official confirmation comes via a statement issued to Pitchfork.
“Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Jackson 5 in 1997 and as a solo artist in 2001,” they confirmed in a statement.
This comes after Madame Tussauds have said that all waxwork statues of Michael Jackson are set to remain on |
Data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica, which has ties to both former Trump chief counselor Steve Bannon and Trump 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale, harvested | private information from more than 50 million Facebook users in developing techniques to support President Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign, the New York Times and London's Observer reported on Saturday.
"Massachusetts residents deserve answers immediately from Facebook and Cambridge Analytica," Maura Healey said on Twitter in a post that linked to a Times report.
The United Kingdom's Information Commission also announced on Saturday they are conducting an investigation of Cambridge Analytica, which also had clients in the country.
"Any criminal and civil enforcement actions arising from the investigation will be pursued vigorously," said Elizabeth Denham, Information Commissioner.
"We exploited Facebook to harvest millions of people’s profiles. And built models to exploit what we knew about them and target their inner demons. That was the basis that the entire company was built on,” Wylie told the Observer.
Through Kogan's company Global Science Research (GSR), in collaboration with Cambridge Analytica, hundreds of thousands of users |
Steve Fallon admits it was an emotional occasion watching Histon being crowned Eastern Counties League champions again.
The former Stutes boss watched on from | the stands on Saturday as Lance Key’s men were finally presented with the trophy they secured a fortnight ago.
It came exactly two decades after Fallon led the club to their first ever Eastern Counties League title, starting a remarkable journey which saw them rise to the brink of the Football League within nine years.
When he left the club in January 2010, Histon were still a Conference National side, and Fallon could only watch helplessly as they suffered a fall even more rapid them their rise, all the way back down to the Eastern Counties League in six years.
Re-appointed Stutes boss in October 2015, he was unable to replicate the success of his first spell and was replaced by Key a year later, taking up a brief director of football role instead.
Fallon’s only involvement now is as a supporter, in which capacity he says he rarely misses a home game at Bridge Road.
“It was definitely a bit emotional,” he said |
According to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, tube feeders are best for smallish birds, chickadees, finches, sparrow | s and such, but too small for most bigger birds. Tube feeders can be hung in places that are difficult for squirrels to reach, which is a big plus in my book.
Tray feeders. Platform or tray feeders are just that – a flat surface that holds birdseed on top. Unless situated carefully, they are easily raided by squirrels. They also need to be cleaned quite regularly to avoid serving birds seed that has been spoiled by rain or the droppings of previous diners. If you are interested in attracting doves, jays and other ground-feeding birds, be sure to set your tray feeders at a low elevation.
House feeders. House feeders are what springs to my mind when I think “bird feeder.” These are covered platforms, often with partial side walls, that do indeed resemble tiny houses. House feeders, also known as hopper feeders, can be mounted on poles or hung from branches. They |
When it comes to technology’s influence on America’s young adults, reading is not dead – at least not the news. When | asked whether one prefers to read, watch or listen to their news, younger adults are far more likely than older ones to opt for text, and most of that reading takes place on the web.
Overall, more Americans prefer to watch their news (46%) than to read it (35%) or listen to it (17%), a Pew Research Center survey found earlier this year. But that varies dramatically by age. Those ages 50 and older are far more likely to prefer watching news over any other method: About half (52%) of 50- to 64-year-olds and 58% of those 65 and older would rather watch the news, while roughly three-in-ten (29% and 27%, respectively) prefer to read it. Among those under 50, on the other hand, roughly equal portions – about four-in-ten of those ages 18-29 and ages 30-49 – opt to read their news as opt to watch it.
Most of that reading among younger adults |
Patricia A. (Mullin) Thomas, 66, of Worcester passed away peacefully Wednesday, November 26th surrounded by her family.
| Patricia is survived by her devoted husband of 46 years, Walter G. Thomas; her four beloved children, Sandra Ellis and her husband Arthur, Brian Thomas, Sharon Thomas and her fianc� Mohammad Djamshidi, and Denise Thomas; her two cherished granddaughters, Abigail and Emily Ellis; two brothers, Michael and John Mullin; a sister, Elizabeth Schiavone all of Worcester; many nieces, nephews and friends.
Patricia was born in Worcester; her parents were the late Michael G. and Ann E. (Tinsley) Mullin. She has lived in Worcester all of her life. Patricia was a member and volunteer of Our Lady of Mercy Church. She also volunteered her time at Abby's House for many years. She was a gentle, warm woman who took great pride in being a wife, mother and grandmother. Her greatest pride was in the time she shared with her granddaughters and family. They were her inspiration. |
Ms. Julie Godin is Vice-Chair of the Board, Chief Planning and Administration Officer of CGI Group Inc. Ms. Godin is Vice | -Chair of the Board, Executive Vice-President, and Chief Planning and Administration Officer of CGI. In this role, she oversees the development of enterprise-wide policies, programs and processes related to the management of the Company and their consistent and high-quality application across all CGI business units. Ms. Godin is responsible for ensuring the continuous development of CGI’s 74,000 professionals and for upholding CGI’s industry-leading track record of delivery excellence for its end-to-end services to commercial and government clients around the world. She also directs the development and execution of the Company’s global strategy, oversees the full spectrum of CGI’s security activities, drives forward the Company’s global communications strategies and activities, and leads mergers and acquisitions activity worldwide. Before joining CGI, Ms. Godin founded Oxygen Corporate Health, a company that manages comprehensive health and wellbeing programs in the workplace, and which merged with CGI. Ms. Godin currently serves as |
The company's stock, while on a tear lately, had sunk nearly 80 percent in a year.
Troubled game-maker Zyng | a is on the mend and it's stock has been on a mini tear lately. Nevertheless, company CEO Mark Pincus figures his compensation should amount to a single buck this year.
Zynga, the company behind FarmVille and Words With Friends, said in a regulatory filing that Pincus has chosen a $1 salary and he will not participate in the company's bonus programs this year. He'll retain his health benefits, though.
Pincus, who founded the company five years ago, earned $1.7 million in 2011 and his 2012 compensation has not yet been disclosed.
Zynga stock has sunk nearly 80 percent in the past year, but in the past four months the shares have surged 46 percent, partially on enthusiasm over the company's entry into online gambling in the UK. On Thursday, the stock closed 8 cents lower to $3.45.
Steven Chiang, Zynga's president of games, will receive a base salary |
"Ms. Reed gave a detailed account of her activities throughout the night prior to and after the vehicle struck Mr. Beech," an officer wrote | in her arrest affidavit.
She is being held at the Turner Guilford Knight correctional center and was denied bond.
Police say they were called to Liberty Avenue and 20th Street just after 4 a.m. Saturday. Detectives said they narrowed their search to the blue Hyundai after speaking with witnesses and viewing surveillance video. The car was then linked to an address in Doral.
When they spotted Reed getting into the vehicle at 11175 NW 78th Ln., in Doral, they detained her — but for a different violation that occurred on Miami Beach. Once at the police station, police say, Reed began to talk.
Police said she told them she met Beech at the Free Spirits Bar on Miami Beach and that they agreed to get in her car and drive to a bank on Washington Avenue and 17th Street, where Reed used Beech's ATM card to withdraw $300. Then, she told police, they set off to buy drugs.
Once at the Riv |
So, not on the bike yet; and I’ve had a chance to read the new OECD Economic Outlook. It’s a | terrifying document.
Why? Not because it offers a grim prospect, although it does — although the OECD has marked up its growth projections, it’s still forecasting extremely high unemployment for years to come.
No, what’s scary is the utter folly that now passes for respectable opinion.
In the United States, where some long-term measures of inflation expectations have increased and the labour market has stabilised earlier than expected, the start of normalisation [by which they mean raising interest rates] should not be delayed beyond the last quarter of 2010. Policy interest rates should be well above half-way to neutral by end-2011, but the path of convergence to full normalisation would have to accelerate if long-term inflation expectations were to drift up further.
So the OECD wants the Fed to start raising interest rates soon — in the next six months or less — because … well, we can look at the OECD’s own forecast. According to this forecast, in |
The Ottawa Redblacks pulled off one of the biggest upsets in Grey Cup history, holding off a late Calgary rally to defeat the heavily St | ampeders 39-33 in overtime Sunday night in Toronto.
Henry Burris's 18-yard TD strike to Ernest Jackson earned the Ottawa Redblack an epic 39-33 overtime Grey Cup win over the Calgary Stampeders on Sunday night.
Burris, the game MVP, found Jackson — who bobbled the pass — on the first overtime possession. But the veteran quarterback couldn't hit a wide-open Khalil Paden for the two-point convert.
"I think little plays like that just showed you that this was our moment."
Calgary needed to match Ottawa's six points but went three-and-out on its possession. Bo Levi Mitchell's third-down pass went off Bakari Grant's hands to give Ottawa one of the biggest upset victories in Grey Cup history.
Burris was stellar, throwing three TD passes and running for two more on a night he wasn't even sure he was going to start. He left the field during warmups with an apparent |
It's the peak of summer-job season. And while in the past savings from teens' summer jobs used to often go towards buying a first | used car, today it's more likely to go be used for a smartphone, and young drivers are more likely to share the family car—a safer option, anyway—or stay out of the driver's seat altogether.
Either in an indication about how few paying entry-level jobs we have today, or in an indication that teens simply aren't placing their priorities on cars anymore, the used-car market for teenagers has dramatically shrunk over the past several years. According to CNW Research it's fallen from 7.5 million to 4.2 million in just five years; and overall, just 10.9 percent of all used cars go to teens today, versus 17.4 five years ago.
Employment is attributed as one of the major reasons for the difference. Teen unemployment, in terms of those who have worked part- or full-time in the past year, is more than double that of 2005.
And while driving used to be the single most important symbol of independence for |
WESTOVER AIR RESERVE BASE, Mass. – The U.S. Air Force is holding public, drop-in meetings at four | bases on a list of possible sites for the KC-46A, a new aerial refueling aircraft. The meeting in Massachusetts will be held from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on April 12, at the Castle of Knights, 1599 Memorial Drive, Chicopee, Mass.
The scoping meetings will be in the format of an open house information session, and the public can drop in at any time. The open house session is an opportunity for community members to learn more about the mission and environmental impact of KC‑46A. The public is also invited to speak with Air Force personnel one-on-one, and to provide comments that will be factored into the public portion of the study. Public input supports the Air Force in making more informed decisions about the impact and placement of the new aircraft.
Westover is one of four possible sites for the KC-46A, including Grissom Air Reserve Base in Indiana, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in |
The deal creates an organic food powerhouse with strong reach in both Europe and the United States.
Oikos Greek yogurt is a Danone brand | . Image source: Danone.
Danone (NASDAQOTH:DANOY) has just grabbed control of an even bigger chunk of the dairy aisle.
The company, which owns Dannon, Activia, Actimel, and Oikos Greek yogurt, among other brands, has agreed to purchase WhiteWave (NYSE:WWAV), a fast-growing United States-based company that sells a number of organic brands, with a heavy concentration in dairy as well. The $10.4 billion cash deal values the company at $56.25 a share, a more than 18% premium over the $47.43 price that WhiteWave shares closed at on July 6, the day before the transaction was announced.
Overall, the deal has a total enterprise value of approximately $12.5 billion, including debt and other WhiteWave liabilities, according to a Danone press release.
That's a hefty premium for a company that had a net profit of only $168 |
Students majoring in another business discipline may add a concentration in Marketing by completing an additional six credits of coursework in the area beyond Principles of Marketing | (BUAD 311). Students may choose any two of the marketing courses to fulfill the concentration.
The consumer-firm relationship is analyzed through the application of concepts drawn from contemporary behavioral science to concrete business cases and practices. Relevant concepts from the fields of cultural anthropology, sociology and psychology are applied to problems encountered in marketing to various consumer groups.
To be competitive in today's marketplace, service organizations must provide a quality experience for their customers. Customer experience management (CEM) is the process of strategically managing a customer's entire experience with a company. Specifically, this course identifies the key dimensions on which customer perceptions of service excellence are based, and describes strategies for offering superior customer service. Students will gain a better understanding of how customers evaluate service firms; they will also have a "tool kit" of ideas, measures and techniques to help improve service excellence.
3 credits | Fall or Spring | Prerequisite(s): BUAD 311 - Principles of Marketing or consent of the instructor.
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Retweeting someone else’s pain doesn’t make it your own.
One thing I complain to my therapist about a lot | — and I’m very sorry to my very kind and wise therapist for existing as his patient, but as he would say, it’s not my fault I was born! — is feeling alienated in social settings because everyone is always on their phone. This is not really fair to the “everyone” I am mentioning here, because I am also guilty. My left hand might as well be a phone, it would make things easier. I wish I could not be on my phone as much, but in social settings when people pull out their phones to broadcast the sunset or see what new ridiculous horror has rained down in Washington, I pull out my phone too. The phone has become our new defense mechanism in the face of too much reality: we go to it both to remove us from seeming trauma and to bring us closer to it — but only the former can actually happen. If there is aggression implicit in every use of a camera, as Sontag wrote, there |
The United States is a world power, there is no doubt about that.
As the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia approach, many leaders | , game supporters and even athletes are talking about boycotting the event.
They claim the boycott would be purposed against Russia’s stance in anti-gay laws and in their own protection from terrorists’ attempts.
While Putin and the Russian legislation’s actions against the LGBT community are not what one would consider humane, they don’t merit the U.S. backing out of the Olympics.
Instead, this call for boycotting could be a reflection of the past, a tactic to cripple Russia’s stance as a world power and its influence on the world.
The last time the U.S. boycotted the games was in the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics during the Cold War. President Jimmy Carter claimed to retract from the games because of Soviet Russia’s unjustified infiltration of Afghanistan, causing 65 other nations to boycott. And yet shortly thereafter, the U.S. also invaded Afghanistan, keeping military presence there long after Russia left. |
Collingwood is set to regain prodigal recruit Dayne Beams for the Thursday night clash with the Brisbane Lions team that he captained | last year.
Beams was a late withdrawal from the Collingwood 22 that overcame the Western Bulldogs with what was described as a migraine, but was back at the club on Sunday and is expected to train on Tuesday and travel up to the Gabba for a rematch with his former team, which reluctantly agreed to trade him from for personal reasons back in October.
Beams will replace the versatile Chris Mayne, who will miss with a small fracture in his back that the Magpies are optimistic will not be a long-term injury, although Mayne has suffered considerable pain since he left the field early in the Bulldogs game.
Beams will speak to the media alongside coach Nathan Buckley today.
The appearance of Beams will add some theatre to a match that is expected to draw more than 30,000 on Good Friday eve, in what shapes as the biggest occasion at the Gabba for several years, if not since the Lions last played finals in 2009.
The Lions received |
(CNN) — When it snows, the flakes come at you like shards of ice. There's a biting wind that freezes your ears off | . Daylight lasts only a few hours.
And no one talks much.
Helsinki in the middle of winter sounds like a place to avoid at all costs. A dark, brooding city that shivers under piles of snow.
Maybe it was once, but not any more. Somehow, against the icy odds, Finland has established itself as one of the happiest nations on Earth and, appropriately given the chilling grip of its winters, Helsinki is now unequivocally one of the planet's coolest cities.
So how do the Finns do it? How do they survive such punishing conditions and still emerge smiling?
Peace and quiet -- the Nuuksio National Park.
First travel stop to find the answer to this is the Nuuksio National Park, a beautiful stretch of snowbound pine forest about 30 miles northwest of Helsinki that's home to reindeer, a Frisbee golf course and acres and acres of something Finnish people treasure.
"Finnish people are |
Over at CNSNews, Discovery Institute philosopher of biology Paul Nelson and I explain how the recent Royal Society meeting in London vindicated a major and provocative | claim in Stephen Meyer’s book Darwin’s Doubt.
Darwinian theory is broken and may not be fixable. That was the takeaway from a meeting last month organized by the world’s most distinguished and historic scientific organization, which went mostly unreported by the media.
The three-day conference at the Royal Society in London was remarkable in confirming something that advocates of intelligent design (ID), a controversial scientific alternative to evolution, have said for years. ID proponents point to a chasm that divides how evolution and its evidence are presented to the public, and how scientists themselves discuss it behind closed doors and in technical publications. This chasm has been well hidden from laypeople, yet it was clear to anyone who attended the Royal Society conference, as did a number of ID-friendly scientists.
Maybe that secrecy helps explain why the meeting was so muffled in mainstream coverage.
For one thing, the Royal Society, dating back to 1660, is a |
THE David Tennant era may be over, but one Dr Who fan is determined to carry on the tenth Doctor’s legacy.
Rob | Baines, a teenage filmmaker with a passion for adventures in time and space, writes, directs, films and appears in his own “alternative reality” versions of the time lord’s adventures.
And as the tenth Doctor regenerated into the 11th last night, Darlington student Rob was already planning his own series of webisodes for a growing audience on YouTube.
He already has some of the Doctor’s best known props, including a sonic screwdriver, and does an excellent impersonation of David Tennant’s mannerisms for his own films.
And for Christmas his parents gave him a life-sized Tardis.
The Tardis was lovingly crafted by Rob’s father, Ian, and took more than 30 hours to make.
Mrs Baines said 16-year-old Rob was delighted with the Tardis.
Rob, a student at Hummersknott School, Darlington, also has a suit |
Wall Street's fall season has arrived. So which media- and entertainment-sector stocks will be winners during the year's final months, especially given | recent signs that the extended rally in the overall market and the sector perhaps has come to an end?
Ask analysts about their top picks, and one gets little agreement and very different selections.
The Hollywood Reporter recently canvassed analysts, and the resulting list of best stock ideas compiled ranges from sector biggies Disney and Time Warner to Lionsgate, Netflix, Electronic Arts and small cable operators.
Barclays Capital analyst Anthony DiClemente tells me he's still betting on Disney as the best in the sector. He has an "overweight" rating and a $32 price target on the company's shares.
He mentions three reasons: First, "stock weakness on the heels of the Marvel deal that creates a buying opportunity." Second, he says an economic recovery in the U.S. can help many of Disney's divisions. Finally, he is "optimistic about Disney's upcoming movie slate" after the release of "Up" brought the company back to its winning ways after |
Canada’s oil producers can’t catch a break.
Even as local production cuts help alleviate pipeline bottlenecks, heavy | crude plunged below US$18 a barrel for the first time since 2016 — dragged down by global oil prices.
Oilsands producers including Canadian Natural Resource Ltd., Devon Energy Corp., Cenovus Energy Inc. and Athabasca Oil Corp. have announced curtailments that may total 140,000 barrels a day or more, after a localized glut sent heavy Western Canadian Select crude plunging to a US$50 discount to West Texas Intermediate futures, the widest in Bloomberg data going back a decade.
Since then, WCS’s discount has narrowed to about US$42 a barrel, but the absolute price has plunged along with world crude benchmarks amid concerns of oversupply. The U.S. has granted eight nations waivers to continue buying Iranian oil, while OPEC and Russia have boosted production. WTI futures dropped for a tenth straight day on Friday, falling briefly below US$60 a barrel.
Adding to the Canadian oil woes, two pipeline projects that would eventually help producers get |
Chicken tenderloins are low in fat and carbohydrate-free.
Chicken tenderloins are a tasty, carb-free meal that can become | boring quickly when prepared the same way repeatedly. With a bit of experimentation and a few added ingredients, you can create an interesting variety of meals with chicken tenderloins. When you follow low-carb prep for chicken tenderloins, you can avoid adding any carbohydrates to your meal.
Low-carb diets aid in weight loss by replacing carbohydrates with proteins and fats. The allowed intake of carbohydrates on a low-carb diet varies from 20 to 60 grams per day, in contrast to a recommended intake of 225 grams per day for an average diet. The reduction in carbohydrates is theorized to force your body to burn fat in place of the energy it typically burns from carbohydrates.
One 4-ounce serving of plain chicken tenderloins contains just 90 calories. The calorie content is 4.5 percent of an average intake of 2,000 calories per day. Each serving also contains 22 grams of protein, which is 44 percent of a 50-gram daily recommended intake. The true bonus for low- |
In his reaction to Brett Favre revealing his addiction to pain killers and alcohol, Cris Carter reflects on his own trials and tribulations within that same | arena, noting the importance of not only being able to address one's own problems, but being able to feel secure enough to approach friends and family for help.
- I-- I was very relieved that-- that the public-- 'cause from a society standpoint, we're fighting the same thing. The opiate epidemic, it's-- it's running-- it's killing-- it's killing young people at an unbelieve-- an alarming rate. Being involved with people that that's what they do for a liv-- living, as far as chemical dependency, I was glad the story was able to come out.
NICK WRIGHT: 'Cause you-- you knew the story.
- I did-- I did know the story. Very familiar with it. And the reason why I was very familiar with it, because I had one of my best friends in my life, a guy who had an impact on my life like-- like no other person, in a way like no other person |
Katie Holmes and Jamie Foxx are going to ‘just do them.’ We’ve learned if that means they’ | ll be carrying on with their private lives together or apart.
Jamie and Katie did throw fans a bone with a public outing to New York City’s Central Park and The Metropolitan Museum of Art on March 25, which was their first time being photographed together since the split rumors emerged. It wasn’t a big reunion, as our source continues, “They have been consistently in love for years and that is not going to change anytime soon. They are in a great place, in love and very happy together.” But don’t expect the couple to give many more glimpses into their notoriously private romance.
“They understand that people want to know about their relationship but moving forward they are going to continue the same path that they have been doing and just do them,” our source tells us. “It’s what has made things work, they are in a great place and [are] very much in love.” Jamie and |
The weekend marked two festive occasions for the Osbourne clan.
While Halloween celebrations were taking place across the world on Saturday, it was also Kelly | Osbourne's birthday - leading her to throw a double-event in Los Angeles.
The reality star celebrated her 34th in style at Mr Chow's restaurant, making a grand arrival in costume as Myrtle Snow from American Horror Story's third season Coven, and current eighth season, Apocalypse.
She copied the iconic character's look by, naturally, donning an over-sized frizzy orange wig.
She added red-rimmed glasses over her ayes and wore a satin mauve wrap-around gown, in the style of notably-eccentric witch Myrtle.
She wore black lace gloves and a black heels to complete the ensemble and painted her complexion with a pale white foundation and a pop of bright red lipstick.
The entire Osbourne clan were present for the evening out, with mum and dad Sharon and Ozzy holding hands as they stepped out.
The couple kept things typically gothic, in-keeping with the theme of the night, |
The final score of the William & Mary women’s basketball game was 62-53. It was Feb. 26, 2017, and the | first time in 18 years that the team clinched victory while playing on James Madison University’s home court. William & Mary Athletics Director Terry Driscoll was elated by the win, but wanted the team’s coaches to answer one question.
“What was the bus ride home like?” he asked.
He was curious about the sound of victory.
As he suspected, there was plenty of laughter, screaming and singing on the bus that night between the 180 miles that separated the team from home. Driscoll is familiar with that sound as an All-American athlete who went on to play basketball in the NBA and Italy. In a way, the sounds of victory have driven Driscoll for the past 21 years.
Driscoll, the longest-tenured athletics director in the history of the Colonial Athletic Association, will retire in June to spend more time with his family.
All-American athlete Driscoll, born in Winthrop, |
Nayagarh: On Tuesday, under the canopy of the forest that they have managed, conserved and regenerated for the past 7 years | , the women of Kaptapally village in nuagaon block, of Nayagarh district launched/inagurated the second Forest Rights Information Centre. The Centre serves as an important resource hub for the long struggle of this forest dwelling community to gain recognition of rights over their customary forests under the Forest Rights Act. It will be run by the same women who have spearheaded innovative community forest management practices in the area, conserving and protecting a large area of ‘very dense forest’.
The community forest management group in Ranpur block has a long history of democratic forest protection and management. In the 1980s, witnessing grave degradation of their forests under Joint Forest Management, several villages in the area wrestled back control from the Forest Department to set up Community Forest Management. They harnessed their intimate traditional knowledge of the forest and plant species to increase the forest cover, bring streams back to life, and rebuild the natural habitat of elephants. The women particularly, stand guard over the forests at |
The Independent National Electoral Commission( INEC )has commenced the bye election into the Kankiya/Kusada/Ingawa federal constituency. |
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the election kicked off at exactly 8:00am under tight security across the three local government areas.
Malam Musa Abdulmajid an agent of the Peoples Democratic Party at the Dembo Abdu polling unit 003 in Ingawa local government area commended the peaceful ambience of the election.
He said he was confident that the election would be free and fair and hoped the loser would take it as an Act of God.
Both sensitive and the non sensitive election materials arrived polling units before 8am, under the supervision of securitymen,politicians and other relevant stakeholders.
Hajiya Mairo Mohammed,a voter at the Kankiya polling unit 001, lauded the arrangement made by INEC preparatory to the comencement of the election,stressing voters were fully sensitized through media jingles and stakeholders’ meetings.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the bye election into the Kankiya/ |
TRANSPORT Minister Tony McNulty has said he recognises the importance of a new Mersey crossing to the region's economy.
TR | ANSPORT Minister Tony McNulty has said he recognises the importance of a new Mersey crossing to the region's economy.
Mr McNulty was responding to a series of questions from the Daily Post, which has called on the Government to give the vital project the green light in a bid to eliminate the congestion problems on the Silver Jubilee bridge at Runcorn.
However, Mr McNulty added that "there were a number of issues which require further detailed examination" before a decision could be made.
It is hoped a new bridge, running from the Central Expressway in Runcorn to the Eastern Bypass in Widnes, could be in place by the end of the decade.
You visited Runcorn last year - what was your impression of the congestion problems on the current Silver Jubilee Bridge?
I recognise that, like many other sections of the road network, the Silver Jubilee Bridge caters for heavy volumes of traffic and experiences congestion problems particularly in peak |
NEW HAVEN – Before Glastonbury girls track coach Brian Collins sent his distance runners to the start of the 3,200 meters at the | Class LL championship, he repeated a familiar message.
He told them to forget about pre-race favorite Hannah DeBalsi of Staples. If DeBalsi lapped the four Glastonbury runners at some point in the race, it didn't matter. The Tomahawks didn't need to win the race. They wanted to win the team championship.
"It was simple," Collins said. "There were going to be two races going on. [DeBalsi] and everyone else. We're with everyone else and we needed to pick up big points and hope for the best."
DeBalsi won the 3,200. The Tomahawks won the Class LL championship.
Led by senior Kaitlyn Hebert and a talented junior class, Glastonbury defeated Staples by seven points to claim its seventh indoor track championship and its first since 2012.
The Tomahawks scored 77 points for the victory.
"We talked to the girls a |
Bow down before the might of the tablet. If you were unsure who is the master now, look no further than numbers from the UK wing of | GfK, a market watcher which tracks over-the-counter sales.
According to its data, more tablets were sold in December 2012 - no doubt as Christmas prezzies - than notebooks purchased in October, November and December combined.
Tablets were the stars of the Christmas month. They outsold laptops by approximately four to one, GfK said, and TVs by around two to one.
That, it added, caps a year in which the volume of sales was 267 per cent higher than it was in 2011.
In part, that growth came about because tablets came down in price - they were about 23 per cent cheaper, on average, during 2012 than they were in 2011. That was due to the flurry of releases of smaller devices, typically seven inches in size.
And there are more companies hopping on the bandwagon too. “We are also seeing 52 per cent more brands competing in the tablet market, and 126 per cent per cent more models available |
A 1955 Chevy, owned by Chad and Tara Mahnken, of North Platte, Neb., was among the vehicles on display at Colorado Flat | landers 25th Annual Rod Run in the Park Saturday, July 9, 2016, at Pioneer Park.
A 1966 Jaguar XKE, owned by Larry Jackson, of Sterling, was among the vehicles on display at Colorado Flatlanders 25th Annual Rod Run in the Park Saturday, July 9, 2016, at Pioneer Park.
A 1932 Ford Roadster, owned by Ron and Carol Mahnken, of North Platte, Neb., was among the vehicles on display at Colorado Flatlanders 25th Annual Rod Run in the Park Saturday, July 9, 2016, at Pioneer Park.
A 1955 Chevy 2 Door, owned by John McBride, of Hudson, was among the vehicles on display at Colorado Flatlanders 25th Annual Rod Run in the Park Saturday, July 9, 2016, at Pioneer Park.
Visitors look over vehicles on display at Colorado Flatlanders 25th Annual Rod Run in the Park Saturday, July 9, 2016, at Pioneer Park.
An Allante Convertible was among |
Labour’s campaign is “going pretty well”, according to his Ed Miliband’s brother David.
Ed Miliband, | who won the Labour leadership contest from his brother in 2010, revealed he had been in touch with David during the campaign.
“Yeah. He’s been sending me encouraging words and we’ve been in contact and I think he thinks it’s going pretty well,” he told BBC Radio 5live’s John Pienaar.
Ed Miliband's strong performance in the general election has surprised his critics who thought that the campaign would unravel under sustained scrutiny.
Asked what advice David had for him, Ed replied: “To be myself, because that’s the best advice and that’s the advice he’s always given me and that’s what I’ve learnt most as Labour leader, that you put yourself before people.
“This is what I stand for, I’m never going to win a photo opportunity competition, notwithstanding ‘Milifandom’.
"I'm |
Last year suicide bombings quintupled, attacks on international forces tripled, and support for the Taliban grew. According to CNN terror analyst and Taliban expert | Peter Bergen, here are the top 10 entirely avoidable mistakes made by the Bush administration.
Letting Osama Escape Tora Bora: Because Donald Rumsfeld wanted a “light” footprint in Afghanistan, only 60 U.S. Special Forces were sent to smoke out bin Laden. During the 2004 reelection campaign, Bush implied that bin Laden wasn’t at Tora Bora at all—a claim publicly slapped down by the cia‘s on-scene commander, Gary Berntsen, a longtime Republican, who pleaded for additional forces, to no avail.
Too Few Grunts: The initial U.S. deployment was the smallest peacekeeping force, per capita, that America has sent anywhere since World War II.
Hiring Warlords: By outsourcing security to militias in the first years of the occupation, the U.S. undercut attempts to form a desperately needed Afghan national army.
Iraq: Almost immediately, time, money, and key |
Waterloo, Ia. – An Iowa campaign swing focusing on the economy and the needs of small businesses gave U.S. Rep. Michele | Bachmann ample opportunity Monday to critique new proposals from President Barack Obama.
The president’s plan calls for $1.5 trillion in additional tax revenues — including a new “millionaire’s tax” — alongside cost-cutting changes to the Medicare and Medicaid health care programs and numerous other measures to reduce the federal debt.
Bachmann joined many in her party in castigating the proposal.
Bachmann’s economic-recovery prescription, by contrast, calls for lowering taxes, a step she said would stimulate new hiring and economic growth.
During her visit to Sukup Manufacturing Co., a grain bin and agriculture equipment maker in Sheffield, Bachmann called for lower taxes on businesses and corporations and railed against the burdens of federal regulations, which she said cost businesses $1.1 trillion a year.
Bachmann also called for the repeal of the estate tax, which she said can be challenging for family-owned companies that pass along |
#OAKvsGB Conner Cook looked crisp last preseason let's see him tonight behind and 70000 cheese heads screaming????????
Plus a | second KingJCrock_23 #LambeauLeap!
I was about to watch #TheBigBangTheory but then the #OAKvsGB game is on????????????
RT packers "The #Packers are challenging the ruling on the field of a 4-yard sack #OAKvsGB "
Remember Aaron Rodgers' little buddy Kellan Meinke? He Was at the game with @childhealthwi.
One quarter to go at @LambeauField!
A 10-yard touchdown run by the Packers makes it a two-score game.
The second half is underway in Green Bay.
The Packers tack on a field goal and it’s 17-3 Green Bay with 1:56 to play in the third.
Remember Aaron Rodgers' little buddy Kellan Meinke? He was at the game with @uwhealthkids.
More unsure hands for Johnny Holton. Nice job to recover to |
Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric | light the most efficient policeman.
But there’s no longer much sunlight to disinfect the corruption of the government or the powers-that-be.
As just one example, government is “laundering” information gained through mass surveillance through other agencies, with an agreement that the agencies will “recreate” the evidence in a “parallel construction” … so the original source of the evidence is kept secret from the defendant, defense attorneys and the judge. A former top NSA official says that this is the opposite of following the Fourth Amendment, but is a “totalitarian process” which shows that we’re in a “police state”.
Secret witnesses are being used in some cases. And sometimes lawyers are being prevented from reading their own briefs.
American citizens are also being detained in Guantanamo-like conditions in Chicago … including being held in secret, with the government refusing to tell a suspect’s lawyer whether his client |
Trouble is brewing in the Little Rock School District over the Hutchinson administration's apparent unwillingness to deal with the Little Rock Education Association and fears that | the governor's education commissioner, Johnny Key, is also bent on enabling more charter school development in the city, including a high school in Northwest Little Rock.
Multiple sources tell me a meeting of teachers will be called this afternoon to discuss developments. Shortly, this could grow into a major issue in races for Little Rock mayor and Arkansas governor.
Check UPDATES below for developments today. Meeting still set at 4:30 p.m. The teachers will vote on a response, but I don't think the situation is at a point where any job action is immediately likely.
The Little Rock Education Association, an affiliate of the Arkansas Education Association, has been a bargaining agent for Little Rock teachers for more than a half-century. It has nobly stood for kids against many dark forces, ranging from the segregationists of the 1950s and 60s to incompetent and dishonest superintendents in recent years.
It is one of a very few union agreements with teachers in Arkansas. Evidence mounts |
American Idol finalist Trent Harmon will perform Justin Timberlake's lone country single "Drink You Away" during Thursday night's episode (Fox, | 8PM ET). It's a first in many ways for the show, mentor Scott Borchetta says.
“It’s the first time Justin ever cleared a song for the show, so pretty proud that he stepped up and did a solid, and Trent crushes that,” Borchetta — president of Big Machine Label Group — tells Taste of Country.
Timberlake released "Drink You Away" as a single shortly after he performed the song with Chris Stapleton at the 2015 CMA Awards. It did not receive significant airplay, barely cracking the Billboard Country Airplay chart. Timberlake put the song on his 2013 album The 20/20 Experience.
Borchetta chose "Drink You Away" for Harmon, a frontrunner to win Season 15 of American Idol. This week, contestants will perform one song he picked, one the judges pick and one inspired by his or her hometown. The field of four will be narrowed to three by |
Yeti Holdings stock jumped 17% Thursday after the company beat estimates for fourth-quarter earnings. The name might not be familiar. That’ | s part of the appeal.
Yeti (ticker: YETI) makes outdoor gear, like big, rugged coolers that stretch across the beds of pickup trucks whose owners hunt and fish. The coolers are pricey and popular. There are also jugs, wine tumblers, and more. A recent survey by Morgan Stanley found that purchase rates for Yeti gear were close to those for the Coleman and Igloo brands. But Yeti’s brand-recognition rates were far lower. That’s a good sign. It suggests that as more people learn about it, sales could surge.
That seems to be happening. During the fourth quarter, sales rose 19% from a year earlier to $241.2 million, the Austin, Texas–based company said Thursday morning. Gross margin improved by a lot, 6.9 percentage points, to 53%. Profits tripled, helped by a tax benefit. Even without the benefit, they would have risen |
Amazon workers listen to recordings from Alexa.
Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Thursday.
Amazon workers get to | hear some of what users tell Alexa, and they have a chat room to talk about "amusing" recordings. Amazon told Bloomberg that it only tasks humans with reviewing "an extremely small sample of Alexa voice recordings."
Oracle and IBM are officially out of the race for a key $10 billion defense cloud contract as Amazon and Microsoft move ahead. The JEDI contract is expected to be awarded by mid-July at the earliest, the Department says.
Disney is preparing to reveal most of the details for its Netflix competitor, Disney+, in a presentation to investors on Thursday, according to the Wall Street Journal. The service will stream new and old shows pegged to its most popular franchises.
Pilots who fly for Amazon Air are protesting poor working conditions and pushing for a better contract. The union which represents the group said pilots will protest Thursday at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport.
A government proposal for a 10-mile wall around Burning Man could kill the desert festival favored by Silicon Valley |
Smartdriverclub is preparing for a future of autonomous vehicles by developing tracking technology. But will everyone be happy to hand over this personal data?
| It was this lesson Searles had in mind when she started the Portsmouth-based business three years ago. Her aim is to build a company accustomed to insuring vehicles with sophisticated reporting functions and inbuilt tracking, which would put it in a strong position when driverless cars become widely available.
Currently it offers telematics insurance, a form of insurance where a policy is based on a driver’s behaviour. Such driver behaviour – how fast they go, the routes they take, what time they drive – is measured by an internet-connected device, usually plugged in underneath their glove compartment. No matter their age or profession, drivers stand to get discounts based on this data.
Several motor insurers now offer this service including large firms such as the AA and Tesco Bank, and newer, smaller brands like Marmalade, and Coverbox. The policies are often aimed at young people who are put off driving by the hefty insurance premiums they would normally have to pay. And there’ |
Inflation, End of Year (Indexed to Year 2000) for Morocco in year 2015 is 116.478 (Index, Base Year 2000 = | 100). Data for inflation are end of the period, not annual average data. The index is based on 2000=100.
This makes Morocco No. 126 in world rankings according to Inflation, End of Year (Indexed to Year 2000) in year 2015. The world's average Inflation, End of Year (Indexed to Year 2000) value is 155327206.19 (Index, Base Year 2000 = 100); Morocco is 155,327,089.71 less than the average.
In the previous year, 2014, Inflation, End of Year (Indexed to Year 2000) for Morocco was 114.64 (Index, Base Year 2000 = 100) Inflation, End of Year (Indexed to Year 2000) for Morocco in 2015 was or will be 1.60% more than it was or will be in 2014.
In the following or forecasted year, 2016, Inflation, End of Year (Indexed to Year 2000) for Morocco was |
The Oregonian headline shouted “Beware of Small Business Tax Hike” over State Representative David Gomberg’s bill ( | HB 4067) that hits Oregon small businesses with a huge tax increase. HB 4067 bill would cancel the 2013 small business tax cuts package (he voted for) before a single person gets tax relief. His plan gives tax relief to only the smallest of Oregon’s businesses.
David Gomberg has since issued an amendment. He wishes to add more business to benefit but take it out of the flesh of existing larger businesses. It represents the traditional twisted view of how liberal tax hungry politicians see tax relief which is not actual tax relief in the macro-sense but rather moving benefits from one business and giving it to another (as if they were economic gods). It fits the perfect axiom that politicians like to pick winners and losers in our economy. Liberals like to take tax relief from business as opposed to touching state government’s $60 billion biennial budget. Since Oregon is in the top 20 biggest spending states in the nation there is ample room to offer tax relief to small businesses |
A new report highlights the "substantial impact" caused by family violence in New Zealand and calls for action to address it.
The report on | preventing family violence and reducing incarceration rates was released today by the Chief Science Adviser to the Justice Sector, Dr Ian Lambie.
Family violence thwarts a parent's ability to "nurture their children in the way they desire," the report says.
"Managing feelings (especially aggression), information-processing, reading social cues, and problem-solving skills can all be hampered by the extremely high levels of stress that children experience."
The report also points to the likelihood of intergenerational transmission of violence, neglect and maltreatment, with violence "normalised".
It states that intimate partner violence is the "leading cause of female homicide death and the most common type of violence that women experience".
One third of New Zealand women experience physical or sexual intimate partner violence, rising to over half when emotional abuse is included.
Fourteen per cent of men have experienced physical violence and 47.3 per cent have had psychological violence in their relationships.
The report recommends enhancing parent support |
Over the weekend, Southern-inspired barbecue joint Cedar Hill opened. Here’s an early look from The Chronicle, which visited yesterday to take | the menu for a test drive for Sunday’s “What’s New” print feature.
Please note that this first look isn’t anything remotely resembling a review, but simply descriptive snapshots of a restaurant during its first week to give potential diners an idea of what to expect, at least in the earlygoing. So, here’s the skinny on dinner for two.
Food ordered: Per the waitress, the food is meant for sharing, and the menu is divided into several sections: 3 starters (fried okra, fried oysters with country ham, salad), several sandwiches ($9.50-$14), Southern specialties (fried chicken, shrimp and grits), sides, and barbecue (pulled pork, brisket, ribs).
We opted for the following: the sweet tea fried chicken ($11, half order), which is made by brining in a strong brew of sweet tea for a day, then soaked in buttermilk for |
Chea Mony speaks at a protest near the M&V garment factory in Kampong Chhnang province yesterday afternoon.
Workers at | M&V International Manufacturing’s garment factory in Kampong Chhnang province went on strike yesterday afternoon after talks between management and the Free Trade Union workers broke down.
FTU secretary-general Man Seng Hak said yesterday “the strike would continue until all demands are met and workers will set tyres aflame [today]”. The demands include the reinstatement of 20 employees allegedly fired last month for attempting to establish a branch of the union at the factory.
The FTU has said that workers at the factory began joining its union after two mass fainting incidents at the factory in August. The incidents prompted investigations by the labour ministry, the International Labour Organisation and global brand H&M, which buys apparel from the factory.
A spokesman for H&M told the Post yesterday that the company was “in contact with the FTU and M&V management”. He also said it was “finalising the results from [its] investigation� |
A competency-based curriculum discussion has reminded Kenyans of the value of the use of local languages.
Language is the mode of learning | , growing and loving. It is therefore in a group of items that are referred to as priceless cultural and intellectual heritage.
The United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has emphasised time and again that the mother tongue is key to effective learning, peace building and sustainable development.
Mother tongue is therefore superior to other languages and its use in writing is an art that few artists are able to navigate. It is not for sale, even when it is sold.
In one of the events organised to promote his new book Kenda Muiyuru, he pointed out that colonisers, slave masters and conquerors systematically annihilated a people’s way of life and thought systems by attacking their language and naming systems.
It turns out that English is Kenya’s official language alongside Kiswahili, the national language, and in the new curriculum Mandarin, the Chinese national dialect, Arabic, German and French will now be taught to Standard Four pupils.
Teaching |
But the news could also be dire: hemmed in by increasing development, panthers are running out of space.
It’s a | grim outlook for our state animal.
The stretch where the female died Tuesday is a heavily forested road through the Okaloacoochee Slough State Forest considered among the most treacherous spots for panthers, said Elizabeth Fleming, Florida program director for Defenders of Wildlife. Since 2010, a half-dozen cats have died in the area.
The death is doubly troubling because the female cat was so far north. For years, wildlife managers have hoped to have a female cross the river to establish another breeding population.
With so many deaths caused by vehicles, state officials and environmentalists are working to come up with ways to make roads safer and identify hotspots, particularly along rural roads where traffic might be light but cars tend to speed. More wildlife crossings have been added in recent years and last month, the state announced plans to close a 9-mile gap in fencing along Interstate 75 east of the Naples toll plaza.
Figuring out exactly where panthers live might be a better fix, he |
Immediately after Donald Trump was elected, U.S. diplomats urged Lithuania to rush through an agreement to keep American troops on its soil, reflecting | alarm that the new, Russia-friendly U.S. president might try to stop more deployments in Europe.
Immediately after Donald Trump was elected, US diplomats urged Lithuania to rush through an agreement to keep American troops on its soil, reflecting alarm that the new, Russia-friendly U.S. president might try to stop more deployments in Europe. The agreement was signed just a few days before Trump’s inauguration, according to a document from the Lithuanian defence ministry, and became the first step locking the new U.S. president into a NATO strategy to deter Russia in Poland and the Baltics, following Moscow’s 2014 annexation of Crimea.
“When you put soldiers on the ground, tanks like this, that signifies a long-term commitment,” Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, the U.S. army’s top commander in Europe, said at the snow-covered base in Zagan, Poland where thousands of U.S. troops are |
ROMELU LUKAKU is well due a rest, judging by the amount of minutes the Belgian has played for Manchester United so far this | season.
Which Premier League stars have played the most minutes this season?
Which Premier League stars have played the most club football this season?
The Premier League fixtures are coming thick and fast over the hectic Christmas period, but some players are obviously considered indispensable by their managers.
Lukaku has played every minute of every Manchester United game in the top flight so far this season, with Jose Mourinho labelling the striker “untouchable”.
However, with European and domestic cup commitments also placing a strain on the Red Devils squad, Lukaku finds himself in dire need of a rest over the festive holidays.
Liverpool ace Mohamed Salah has also been used extensively by Jurgen Klopp as the Egyptian enjoys a stellar start to his career at Anfield, but who else has played the most club football so far this season?
Take a look through the gallery above to see an XI of overworked Premier League stars who have played the most football for their clubs so far |
WASHINGTON - Joseph E. Mohbat, a former Associated Press reporter who covered the 1968 presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy and later served as press | secretary of the Democratic National Committee before becoming a lawyer in New York, died Aug. 10 of cancer at a hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was 73.
Mr. Mohbat came to Washington in the early 1960s and for several years was at the center of the country’s political life as a reporter and later as a Democratic Party official. From 1970 to 1972, Mr. Mohbat was press secretary to the DNC and its chairman, Lawrence F. O’Brien.
Early in the morning of June 17, 1972, Mr. Mohbat was one of the first people to learn of a break-in at DNC headquarters at the Watergate office complex when he was awakened by a call from his secretary. He was interviewed by FBI agents, who also inspected his telephone for potential wiretaps.
He participated in the 1972 presidential campaign from the inside, serving as a spokesman for Democratic candidate George S. McGovern. Mr. Mohbat later filed a claim against the |
In a recent press preview event in New York, they unveiled the device, which will launch Friday in AT&T and Verizon stores. The stakeholders | see the Hydrogen One as a creative leap beyond the best phones Apple and Samsung have on the market. It will be priced accordingly, at $1,295. From its early days in the market, the Hydrogen One will also represent a synergistic opportunity for WarnerMedia and AT&T, one of the first since the companies’ $81 billion merger closed in June.
The phone’s holographic “4 View” screen is billed as the first of its kind, delivering 3D experiences without glasses and 360-degree sound with or without headphones. With a rugged aluminum body with Kevlar panels and battery life said to be superior to that of the latest iPhone, the RED Hydrogen One is the vision of Jim Jannard. The inventor and entrepreneur founded eyewear giant Oakley and then went on to create RED mainly because, as he explained to the crowd in New York, he wanted better gear.
Movies available at launch will include Warner Bros |
WARRN RUDA / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Dr. Greg Burke chats with Geisinger President and CEO Dr. David Feinberg | at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville on Tuesday.
DANVILLE — Geisinger President and CEO Dr. David Feinberg rolled up his sleeve Tuesday and offered the first blood sample for the first-of-its-kind clinical DNA sequencing program in the country.
Feinberg first announced the program in May at the HLTH: The Future of Healthcare conference in Las Vegas and he said Geisinger is the nation’s first health care system to include DNA screening as part of a patient’s routine health exam.
Under the program, patients are screened to see if they have any variations of genes linked to certain cancers or cardiovascular disease. The information will help doctors better treat or prevent diseases in patients, he said.
“It feels like the future is here,” Feinberg said after becoming the first patient in the program at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville.
Feinberg said the screening was a gift to his family. |
E-collars are the wireless modern way to train police K-9s.
Consisting of a special collar equipped with batteries, electric | contact points and a radio receiver tuned to the handler’s handheld transmitter, e-collars allow police K-9s to be trained off-leash and at a distance. The handler uses varying ranges of alternating current to shape the dog’s behavior in response to verbal/hand commands on an ongoing basis; from staying by the handler’s side to subduing a perp using a bite hold and then dropping that hold upon command.
Sergeant (ret.) Doug Roller knows all about e-collars and K-9 training. Now owner and lead instructor at Tactical K9 LLC, Roller was the Chief Trainer Metropolitan Division with the Los Angeles Police Department’s K9 Platoon. He spent 25 years with the K-9 Platoon and has helped with over 6,500 K-9 training deployments in his career.
Roller offers these three tips to explain the best ways to use e-collars in K-9 training.
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As I watched David Cameron's speech on Britain's future in the EU on Wednesday, I was reminded of a scene from the 80s British sitcom | , Only Fools and Horses.
Our cockney hero Derek Trotter, or Del Boy, is on holiday in France. He spots a bikini-clad beauty at the poolside bar and tries to pick her up. Sadly, Del Boy cannot speak French but rather than admit he's clueless, he gives it a go anyway. You can see he's convinced himself of his fluency. Responding to the blonde's 'Vouz restez à l'hotel?, Del replies with a smirk, 'Defense de fumer', following up with a drinks order 'Dos Dubonet, per favore. Danke Schön'. Cue much canned laughter and an incident with an inflatable chair.
So, why did David Cameron's speech remind me of this? Because I felt the same cringe-worthy embarrassment watching Del Boy as I did watching Dave Boy. The sense of, here's a Brit, making a wally of himself abroad. To paraphrase Del Boy |
Dozens have died during a sweltering heat wave in Karachi, a southern port city in Pakistan, according to the Edhi Foundation, an | organization that runs the city’s morgue. The foundation reports that 114 bodies were brought to their morgue from Saturday through Monday, and attributed 65 of the deaths to heat stroke. The province’s health minister, Fazlullah Pechuho, disputes that report.
Sustained temperatures of over 104 degrees Fahrenheit, including upwards of 111 degrees on Monday, caused local authorities to urge people to stay inside and drink water. However, in a majority-Muslim city of 15 million, the heat wave has coincided with Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, in which followers fast from sunrise to sunset. This fasting includes the intake of water.
Additionally, scheduled load-shedding – planned power outages in specific areas designed to reduce the strain on the power grid – has left parts of the city in the dark and without air conditioning for prolonged periods of time, particularly in factory districts. Certain areas have experienced up to seven hours of power loss a day.
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Teen Mom star Amber Portwood's life has not gone to plan in recent weeks, with the young mother even spending a night in jail after being | charge with domestic violence.
Now it seems she is planning on cleaning up her image, with the help of some cosmetic therapy.
The reality star stopped by a beauty salon yesterday in Indianapolis, Indiana for a quick makeover.
and had eyelash extensions carefully applied.
Amber, 20-years-old, then pulled out her credit card and spent some of the reported $280,000 a year salary she earns on the MTV reality series.
Afterwards, she showed off her new look during a trip to a local store, where she bought a potty seat for her two-year-old daughter, Leah.
Just last week, the troubled young mother spent 24 hours in jail after she was arrested on charges stemming from her alleged attack on ex-boyfriend Gary Shirley.
During an episode of the series, Amber was shown allegedly physically abusing the father of her child.
Months after the footage aired, the Madison County Prosecutor's office in Indiana charged Amber with |
The office of Certificate of Irish Heritage and Ireland of Welcomes are inviting readers to share their ancestors’ stories and receive a complimentary Certificate to celebrate | their Irish heritage.
This issue we hear from Maureen McCarthy from Florida. Claim Your Irish Heritage Would you like your own Certificate of Irish Heritage? Simply send your story (maximum 200 words) of how your ancestors arrived in your current country along with a photo to help@heritagecertificate.ie or by post to: Certificate of Irish Heritage, FEXCO Centre, Langford St., Killorglin, Co. Kerry, Ireland. Those picked will be presented with their certificate and their story will appear in a forthcoming issue of Ireland of Welcomes. “My father Timothy McCarthy was born in Dromtrasna North (O’Brien), Co. Limerick on February 15, 1907.
He sailed from Cobh and arrived in NYC on March 19, 1929, as great Depression was unfolding. He lived with an older brother John and soon was employed to work on NY subways as a motorman. My mother, Bridget Hester was born February 12, |
Dr. Helen H. Hobbs, a UT Southwestern Medical Center geneticist from Dallas, has been awarded the 2016 Breakthrough Prize for her | work identifying genetic variants in the genome and creating potential for more effective drug treatments.
The international prize comes with $3 million.
Hobbs was unavailable Monday for further comment.
The Breakthrough Prize was founded by Silicon Valley philanthropists Sergey Brin, Anne Wojcicki, Jack Ma, Cathy Zhang, Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan and Yuri and Julia Milner. A total of $21.9 million and seven prizes were awarded Sunday to people who have challenged conventional thinking and pioneered research in science and math.
Prize officials lauded Hobbs’ approach to studying the genome. Instead of looking at common genome differences, Hobbs, along with UT Southwestern colleague Dr. Jonathan Cohen, studied the effects of genetic mutations on LDL cholesterol in lipid metabolism and fatty liver disease.
Hobbs and Cohen discovered that people with a genetic mutation that blocked the formation of the PCSK9 gene had low LDL cholesterol levels and had a very low risk of heart disease |
Sasol will need as many as 18 months to decide on the best option for the Natref refinery ahead of SA’s anticipated cleaner | -fuel standards.
“The technical solution doesn’t currently make the adequate returns we need, so more work is required as to what are the solutions,” Sasol co-CEO Bongani Nqwababa said in an interview on Friday at the opening of the company’s Impumelelo coal mine.
A sale of Natref would be considered if that is the most economic option, the company said in August.
Sasol last year began a review of the 108,000-barrel-a-day Natref refinery and the 150,000-barrel-a-day Secunda plant, which together account for more than a third of SA’s fuel production capacity.
SA announced the Clean Fuels II policy in 2012 to cut sulphur levels in gasoline and diesel, but the rules have not yet been implemented.
Sasol holds a 64% stake in Natref, and the options would need to |
• Collins: "It seemed like [Libby] was the fall guy"
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Jurors in I. Lewis " | Scooter" Libby's perjury trial were certain of the former vice presidential aide's guilt, but they also harbored sympathy for him as a "fall guy," one of them said Tuesday after the verdict.
Denis Collins, a Washington resident and self-described registered Democrat, said he and fellow jurors found that passing judgment on Libby was "unpleasant."
Collins said the jury believed Libby was "tasked by the vice president to go and talk to reporters."
Collins said none of the jurors appeared to hold any animosity toward Libby, and some expressed a distaste for passing judgment on him at all.
"I had conversations with a couple of jurors who said, 'Wow this part is not fun,' " said Collins. "It's just a question of not wanting to pass judgment on anyone. And I felt the same way."
But he said the jury's sympathy didn't interfere with the verdict, "it was just the unpleasantness of doing it." |
Tenor Mark Padmore and pianist Paul Lewis brought the sentiments of Beethoven's An die ferne Geliebte and Schu | bert’s Schwanengesang to life, writes Ivan Hewett.
This recital began with romantic song’s springtime, and then gave us a grand utterance from the genre’s full maturity. The first half had songs by Beethoven, including his song-cycle An die ferne Geliebte. The second gave us Schubert’s last song-cycle, Schwanengesang. Only 12 years separate them, but what a distance there is in emotional tone. Schubert ventures into strange, almost deranged areas of feeling that can make Beethoven’s evocations of May flowers and babbling brooks seem conventional in comparison.
And yet they never seemed conventional in these performances from Mark Padmore and pianist Paul Lewis. With the lightest touch — a pause here, a splash of unusual colour there — they brought the sentiments to life.
There’s a moment in the song Abend |
A dad accused of involvement in dealing class A drugs in Blackpool has told jurors a consignment of cocaine was delivered to him "by mistake". |
Philip Bennett claims he was expecting a delivery of cannabis - a class B drug.
The 38-year-old, of Branstree Road, Blackpool, has pleaded not guilty to conspiring to supply a class A drug and is on trial at Preston Crown Court along with several co-accused.
The court heard his home was among several addresses raided across the Blackpool and Fleetwood areas last June as part of Operation Jennet.
He says he was involved with cannabis but not cocaine - but the court heard this was a different account to what he had told police in his interview.
Prosecuting, Martin Reid asked him why he had not told police during his interview that he had been involved with cannabis.
Bennett replied: " I didn't think I was getting out of that cell, I thought I would get the blame for everything.
"I thought I was never going to see my son again, or my home.
"I thought I was going |
Political interference in the valuing of high-country pastoral lease land to force lessees into tenure review, was alleged at the Land Valuation | Tribunal sitting in Dunedin yesterday.
Nick Davidson QC made the claim when opening the case for Minaret Station in its dispute with the Commissioner of Crown Lands over the level of rent for the Wanaka pastoral lease, saying the Crown admitted that in its evidence last week.
"The Crown is increasing rent to get tenure review going by forcing lessees to the table. This was expressly recognised [during the Crown's evidence] and at that time it also recognised legislation will have to change. But legislation hasn't changed, yet the Crown has directed a change in approach," he said.
Minaret Station, on the western shores of Lake Wanaka, is appealing changes to the way the land is valued and rent calculated, which includes amenity or non-pastoral values.
The case is being seen by the Crown as a test for the way it values land and sets rents, but lessees say the lease agreement forfeits the Crown's right to rent for those amenity values |
TWO firms hoping to get exclusive rights to develop the Glyn Rhonwy quarry site at Llanberis will present their details to G | wynedd Council.
Earlier this year, the council undertook a marketing campaign to invite statements of interests from potential developers ready to invest in the area and offer a quality, exciting and sustainable developments on the site.
Snowdonia Gateway and Beicio Llanberis both made their intentions known to the public last February.
The two organisations both held public meetings in March in the Electric Mountain and in the Royal Victoria Hotel respectively, where public reaction to their proposals was described as "very encouraging" after some local business people had expressed concern about the impact this would have on them.
The council's vision is to attract the right form of investment by taking advantage of Glyn Rhonwy's unique characteristics to create quality employment opportunities for the benefit of Gwynedd's communities, by contributing to the area's cultural and linguistic wealth and natural beauty.
Both firms believe they can fully develop the site and adhere to |
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