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Michiganders could be in for a treat this weekend. Thanks to a solar flare on the surface of the sun this week, a geom | agnetic storm could be visible in the skies over parts of Michigan this weekend.
A stabbing at a Mt. Clemens YMCA led to a police chase through Macomb County. Read more.
Elon Musk paid a surprise visit to a Flint school and gave every student a laptop. Learn more.
A Michigan Department of Natural Resources officer rescued a man after a kayak capsized on Lake Erie. Read more.
Faith-based adoption agencies that are paid by the state of Michigan will no longer be able to turn away LGBT couples or individuals because of religious objection. Learn more.
Eight Spanish hunting dogs have a new chance at life 4,000 miles away after a Metro Detroit veterinarian rescued them.
The family of a legally blind Detroit woman who went to Peru in December and never returned is turning to the U.S. government for help.
On Friday, the FBI confirmed $206,493 was seized by the agency Feb. 19 from Taylor mayor, Richard Soll |
Minneapolis City Council to vote on transfer in response to court ruling.
With its control of the Commons park in doubt, the Minneapolis City Council | is scheduled to vote next week on handing over operations of the downtown green space to the Park and Recreation Board.
The new agreement was drafted after a Hennepin County judge ruled in a lawsuit earlier this year that the city’s charter did not allow it to operate the park, giving it three months to come up with a solution. The city has appealed the ruling.
Council Member Steve Fletcher, vice chair of the council’s ways and means committee, said regular operations of the park are not expected to change if the new arrangement is approved.
The Commons opened in tandem with U.S. Bank Stadium in 2016 under an unusual arrangement. After the Park Board said it didn’t want to operate the Commons, the city sold the land to the Park Board, which leased it back to the city.
A nonprofit, Green Minneapolis, has a contract to run the park through the end of the year.
Under the new agreement, the city would sublease |
The body of missing Irish American grandmother Pat O’Hagan have been found in Vermont it was announced yesterday. The 78 year-old grandmother | had disappeared from her home in Sheffield on September 10th according to Vermont State police. A friend raised the alarm after O’Hagan failed to show up for a rug hooking class she never missed.
Upon hearing about the elderly woman’s disappearance, the quiet town of Sheffield with a population of 700 people immediately sprung into action as volunteers helped police and FBI agents comb a 25-square-mile area. Scuba divers even checked the nearby quarry but despite an extensive search there was still no sign of the missing woman.
Earlier this week police announced that bird hunters had discovered a body in a wooded area. On Tuesday local police announced that the body that was discovered had been formally identified as Pat O’Hagan who was abducted from her home at the beginning of September.
Vermont State Police told reporters last Monday that bird hunters guided them to a remote area of woods in Wheellock where they had made the grim discovery. The forested area was ten |
The speculation about the leadership succession of the International Monetary Fund was already in full swing before the shock announcement on Sunday, May 15, that the IMF | ’s current managing director and presumptive French presidential candidate, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, had been arrested in New York City. After the embarrassing spectacle of the premature departure of Paul Wolfowitz from the helm of the World Bank in 2007, this event once again shines the spotlight on the selection process for what must count among the most important and prestigious international posts.
After falling into near oblivion before the recent global economic crisis, the IMF reemerged as a critical player in international financial affairs during and after the crisis. Few would doubt today that the world needs a strong, legitimate international financial institution to help manage the relations among major global economic players, to offer support to countries in crisis — such as is now the case in Europe — and to provide an impartial voice in assessing the need for corrective action when countries fall into financial, fiscal or foreign exchange misalignment. The IMF has many strengths, but some glaring weaknesses in its governance. The most obvious weakness is that the selection of its |
Summary: Although China has a vital interest in developing Africa’s natural resources, it is not just on a resource hunt in the region. | Moreover, the adverse impacts of its rising exports are also limited.
China’s emergence as a major player in Africa’s trade, investment, and aid has led many to question the nature of its involvement. Critics say that China is only interested in resources, its exports to Africa threaten local industries, and it is displacing Africa’s traditional partners, like the United States.
True, China is a large user of commodities and has a vital interest in developing Africa’s natural resources, but it is not just on a resource hunt. Moreover, the adverse impacts on Africa of China’s increased exports, both in internal and external markets, appear to be limited to specific industries such as garments. And despite their differences in priorities and approaches, China and the United States can complement each other in some areas. Africa has much to gain if it uses its leverage wisely.
While the United States and European Union (EU) still remain Africa’s leading trade |
A Crosby County grand jury has issued an indictment against Matilda Marquez Almaraz on multiple charges in the January death of toddler Leah M. | Aguirre.
The charges, made public Wednesday, March 27, include capital murder, injury to a child and injury to a child by omission, meaning Almaraz is accused of failing to obtain medical care for Leah.
The indictment didn't reveal exact details about the manner of Leah's death, but it says Almaraz used bodily force to end the girl's life.
Almaraz originally reported the child missing, spawning a multi-agency investigation and a nationwide Amber Alert.
The search involved local authorities, Texas Rangers and the FBI.
Members of the FBI evidence response team found Leah's body concealed in Almaraz's basement inside a box. Authorities made the discovery while serving a search warrant on Almaraz's home in the 500 block of Ayrshire Street in Crosbyton.
Almaraz was arrested Jan. 10 and held on $1 million bond.
Crosbyton police Chief Greg Parrott said in a January news conference that Al |
Nexus Estate, a new development has been unveiled in Abuja, to open up both residential and investment opportunities for home seekers and yield- | seeking investors.
The development is a 35-unit estate being marketed by Ubosi Eleh and Co., Knight Frank and Bode Adediji Partnership was built on approximately 20,540 square metres of land in Life Camp area of the Federal Capital Territory.
The Principal Partner, Ubosi Eleh and Co., Mr. Chudi Ubosi, said the first block of houses comprised seven five-bedroom terrace houses with two-bedroom basement flat and a self-contained servant room, while the second block consists of 14 units of five-bedroom semi-detached houses with a self-contained servant room and the third block comprises 14 units of five-bedroom terrace houses plus a self-contained servant room.
“The estate is fully serviced and fenced round with sandcrete block-wall to an average height of about three metres. Entrance into the estate is through double-leaf vehicular metal and a pedestrian gate. Abuja developments generally have the challenge of quality |
Come aboard, they're expecting you! More than three decades after the Love Boat first set sail on ABC — and more than | two decades after it made its final voyage — cast members Gavin MacLeod, Bernie Kopell, Ted Lange, Fred Grandy, Lauren Tewes, and Jill Whelan reunited for a very special episode of The Talk.
"I didn't think we'd even get through the pilot," Grandy, who played Burl "Gopher" Smith, confessed of the Love Boat's humble beginnings. "The first pilot that we did, we did over Christmas. So there was this tremendous feeling of, 'Oh, the business is rewarding us with a Christmas cruise.' But nobody thought it would go beyond that. I mean, as Gavin pointed out, the critics hated it. They said it would sink like the Titanic."
"They put us on at 10 o'clock on Saturday night, which is normally a graveyard shift," he continued. "And then we started beating |
Kathleen Carroll was a Marine Corps platoon commander in Kuwait and Iraq. Now, Carroll, who grew up in Lincolnshire, heads Amazon� | �s recruitment efforts, which keeps her about as busy.
Amazon plans to hire 2,000 Illinois workers over the next 14 months, pushing the online retail giant’s employment statewide to 7,000, according to Caroll.
The hiring for full-time jobs is to be spread across nine Amazon fulfillment centers, the company’s downtown corporate office at 227 W. Monroe, its Lake View bookstore, an AmazonFresh site and a University of Illinois-Chicago campus pickup service. The fulfillment centers in the Chicago area are on Goose Island and in Joliet and Romeoville, with two more in Aurora and one each in Monee and Waukegan under construction.
Carroll says building the company in Chicago has special meaning for her. Beside growing up in the suburbs, she lived at times as a young adult in Lincoln Park and downtown.
John William “Bill” Carroll was an Illinois legislator and founder of the Pickwick suburban newspaper chain that |
The defendants allegedly targeted companies including 7-Eleven, JCP, Heartland, JetBlue, Dow Jones, and others.
Five men | were recently charged in New Jersey with the theft of more than 160 million credit card numbers in a conspiracy that resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, and is the largest such scheme ever prosecuted in the U.S.
The defendants allegedly stole credit card numbers and personal identifiying information from corporate targets including NASDAQ, 7-Eleven, Carrefour, JCP, Hannaford, Heartland, Wet Seal, Commidea, Dexia, JetBlue, Dow Jones, Euronet, Visa Jordan, Global Payment, Diners Singapore and Ingenicard.
They then sold the stolen data both directly and through online forums, for approximately $10 per U.S. credit number and associated data, $50 per European credit card number and associated data, and $15 per Canadian credit card number and associated data.
According to the indictment, each defendant had a specific role in the scheme. Vladimir Drinkman, 32, of Syktyykar and Moscow |
A recap of NYU sports over the week of Nov. 5th.
Men’s soccer was rewarded with an NCAA Tournament bid after finishing | 12-4-1 over the regular season.
The underdog Violets held their own against the Centennial Conference champion Haverford College in a hard fought matchup that went down to the wire, as they narrowly won the game by a single penalty kick 5-4 after 110 minutes of deadlocked gameplay at one apiece. Haverford drew first blood as it scored early in the second half to gain a one-goal lead. The Violets fought to tie up the score, which came when SPS junior Sergio Monton scored with less than three minutes in regulation. The following three overtime periods were characterized by strong defense by Haverford’s goalkeeper and NYU’s CAS senior and goalkeeper Grant Engel. With penalty kicks knotted up at 4-4, Stern first-year Isaiah Boyd scored a penalty kick in the seventh round while Engel denied the potential tying Haverford goal.
NYU will look to continue its postseason push when they host Montclair State on |
Honor 9i (2018) smartphone was launched in June 2018. The phone comes with a 5.84-inch touchscreen display with a resolution | of 1080x2280 pixels at a pixel density of 432 pixels per inch (ppi) and an aspect ratio of 19:9.
Honor 9i (2018) is powered by a 2.36GHz octa-core HiSilicon Kirin 659 processor. It comes with 4GB of RAM.
The Honor 9i (2018) runs Android 8.0 and is powered by a 3,000mAh battery.
As far as the cameras are concerned, the Honor 9i (2018) on the rear packs 13-megapixel camera. The rear camera setup has phase detection autofocus. It sports a 16-megapixel camera on the front for selfies.
The Honor 9i (2018) runs EMUI 8.0 based on Android 8.0 and packs 64GB of inbuilt storage that can be expanded via microSD card (up to 256GB). The Honor 9i (2018) is a dual-SIM (GSM and GSM) |
British Prime Minister Theresa May holds a news conference following an extraordinary European Union leaders summit to discuss Brexit, in Brussels, Belgium April 11, 2019. |
"EU27/UK have agreed a flexible extension until 31 October," European Council President Donald Tusk tweeted after eight hours of talks that went into the early hours of Thursday.
"This means (an) additional six months for the UK to find the best possible solution," Tusk added on the eve of what would otherwise have been the day Britain crashed out of the bloc with no deal to smooth the departure for businesses and citizens.
Britain, he stressed, could still leave earlier if May secures parliamentary backing for her Brexit treaty, or it could amend what it wants from a future trade pact. "Until the end of this period, the UK will also have the possibility to... cancel Brexit altogether," Tusk added.
The agreement gives May more than the three months, to June 30, that she asked for to build a parliamentary majority behind the withdrawal treaty she negotiated with the EU last year.
But she insisted Britain could still secure a deal and leave before Britons would have to |
It is important to educate the media about the complex work the Metropolitan Police does if you want it to report fairly, its comms team told PR | Week.
Anna de Vries, deputy head of media at the Metropolitan Police, said: "We deal with quite complex areas and you can’t expect someone to report fairly unless you have taken the trouble to explain it to them."
De Vries said an example of this was the Grenfell fire in the summer, during which the comms team had helped the media to understand the identification process and how police were searching the tower.
She added: "Putting the time and effort into helping the media understand how we do things and why we do them helps them report fairly or ask us challenging questions from a position of strength."
De Vries, along with Ed Stearns, head of media at the Met, and Yvonne O’Hara, head of internal comms, spoke to PRWeek as part of a wide-ranging interview on the force's media, digital and comms operation.
Putting the time and effort into helping the media understand how |
The National Rifle Association (NRA) said in a statement Thursday that the device the Las Vegas shooter used to convert his semi-automatic weapons to | fire automatic should be subject to additional regulations.
"In the aftermath of the evil and senseless attack in Las Vegas, the American people are looking for answers as to how future tragedies can be prevented," said Wayne LaPierre, the NRA's CEO, and Chris Cox, executive director of the NRA Institute for Legislative Action in a joint statement.
While the two deemed it unfortunate that the first response from some politicians has been to call for gun control, they stated, "The NRA believes that devices designed to allow semi-automatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations."
A growing number of congressional Republicans have expressed that they're open to investigating the legality or even banning bump stocks.
Since the mid-1980s, machine guns that fire multiple shots with one pull of the trigger have been illegal but the bump stock, a gun accessory, is currently legal and enabled the gunman last Sunday to shoot more than 500 people at a country music festival. Stephen Paddock killed 58 |
Mr. Bobby Godsell is Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Polymetal International PLC. Previous experience: Chairman of Business Leadership South Africa | , President of the South African Chamber of Mines, Chairman of Eskom, Chief Executive of AngloGold Ashanti, Director of African Barrick Gold and Solar Capital, Chair of the Board of Optimum Coal Holdings, acquired by Glencore plc. Director of Platmin Limited, Member of the South African National Planning Commission. Qualifications: BA from the University of Natal and MA from the University of Cape Town. Other roles: Co-Chairman of the South African Millennium Labour Council. Non-executive Director of the South African Industrial Development Corporation.
Mr. Vitaly Natanovich Nesis is Group Chief Executive Officer, Executive Director of Polymetal International PLC. Previous experience: JSC Polymetal’s Chief Executive from 2003, Member of its Board, 2004-2012. CEO of Vostsibugol, 2002-2003. Strategic Development Director at the Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant in 2000. Qualifications: BA in Economics from Yale University; |
Montero, 22, has less than two full seasons of pro ball under his belt since he was signed out of remote Higuerito, | Dominican Republic — a town that never has produced a big leaguer — in January 2011 at the advanced age of 20.
The 6-foot, 170-pounder (a Pedro Martinez-like frame that doesn’t fill the typical power righty mold) made four stops that year culminating in a two-game cameo with the Brooklyn Cyclones. He was named the organization’s minor league pitcher of the year for 2012 — over the likes of Zack Wheeler — after blowing through the low-A South Atlantic League and high-A Florida State League en route to his innings limit (combined 2.36 ERA and 110 strikeouts in 122 innings).
Cameo appearances in major league spring training put him squarely on the radar, and he stoked the enthusiasm in fan circles with his first two starts as Double-A Binghamton’s ace: 11 2/3 innings pitched, eight hits, two earned runs, 15 strikeouts and — best of all — zero walks |
The presidential oil spill panel is gearing up to release its final report on the BP disaster, and it isn't pulling any punches. Chief among the | findings is that one of the primary causes of the spill were "bad management" practices from all the companies involved, and a lack of good government oversight on drilling procedures. Few of the panel's findings will surprise anyone who has even cursorily followed the spill, but they serve as a final confirmation (and condemnation) that companies sought to cut costs and save time by skirting safety requirements, and ended up causing a devastating oil spill. And the report finds that they will likely do so again.The BBC reports that "In a chapter of its final report, to be published next week, the presidential commission said the failures were "systemic" and likely to recur. BP did not have adequate controls in place to ensure safety, it found."
Again, hardly revelatory stuff for BP spill watchers. But the report leaves no doubt that a distinct culture of putting profits before safety had gripped not just BP, but each of the companies involved -- and very probably many companies engaged in deepwater |
The Marina Tree and Garden Club will hold its monthly meeting and potluck tonight at the Marina Public Library. The featured speaker is Joe Truskot | , features editor of The Salinas Californian, Master Rosarian and author of “The Central Coast Rose Manual.” Using a PowerPoint presentation, Truskot will discuss ways of keeping your roses doing well in times of drought with particular emphasis on contending with sandy soil. The Club topic is gophers. The meeting is open to non-members and free of charge.
Guests are asked to bring their own re-usable service ware and to contribute to the potluck by bringing something others will enjoy.
Also on the agenda is the 9th biennial garden tour which is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., May 17, 2015. This is a self-guided tour of unique private and public gardens in Marina. Participants will discover what grows in sand, wind and salty air. The tour begins at the Marina Coast Water Native Garden on the corner of Reservation Avenue and Salinas Street across from the orange Public U-store fence. Tickets can |
Businesses would be given tax breaks to buy electric cars under a Labor Party plan to curb pollution and massively increase the number of battery-powered vehicles | on Australian roads.
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten will today unveil Labor's climate change policy — the plan it will use to reach its target of cutting emissions by 45 per cent by 2030, and ensure half of Australia's energy comes from renewable sources by 2050.
As expected, Labor is planning to expand the Turnbull Government's safeguard mechanism, forcing around 250 of Australia's biggest polluters to cap their emissions — while exempting the farming sector.
After months of speculation, Mr Shorten will also confirm Labor will not use carry-over carbon credits to help meet (and effectively reduce) its ambitious emissions reduction target.
Mr Shorten strengthened his language against the use of carry-over credits on Sunday, describing it as "a particular accounting technique that only the Australian Liberal party and the Ukraine use".
Australia is on track to exceed its 2020 Kyoto target and the Morrison Government last month confirmed plans to count the excess credits towards the 2030 Paris commitment.
Mr Shorten will use today's |
FiveThirtyEight | Which Economic Indicators Best Predict Presidential Elections?
Which Economic Indicators Best Predict Presidential Elections?
I’ve written | quite a bit in the past about the use and abuse of economic indicators in forecasting presidential elections.
In general, my view has been that there’s a lot of “physics envy” in thinking that something as complex as a presidential election can be boiled down to just one or two “fundamental” variables. Many models that attempt to do so suffer from a variety of technical and theoretical problems and their predictions have been mediocre when applied in the real world.
But this obscures a question that is interesting on its own merits: which economic variables have done the best job in explaining the results of past presidential elections?
One complication in evaluating these models is that they usually include other data in addition to the economic variables themselves: variables to denote wartime or peacetime, or various ways to measure incumbency, or polling data, and so forth. There is not necessarily any problem in including these things — I’m certainly a believer in making forecasts based on polls |
After coming under attack from the doctors' lobby, the newly approved course of BSc (community health) that aims to bridge the gap for health | professionals in rural areas, is now being contested by pharmacists too.
The Indian Pharmacists Association (IPA) has written to the Pharmacy Council of India (PCI) to intervene in the matter of approval of the course. It feels that with an upgradation course, pharmacists can take over the task of offering over the counter (OTC) drugs in rural area. In its letter to the PCI, the association said, "Launch of BSc (Community Health) is equally against the pharmacists, doctors and nurses. At the same time, with no experience, these BSc (community health) pass outs woll serve only as quacks."
Earlier this month, the Union Cabinet has given a go ahead to the Health Ministry to start a new three and a half year BSc community health programme that would create a new cadre of health professionals to improve the rural healthcare infrastructure in the country. The proposal was pending since a few years, as the Parliamentary Standing |
Q: When is it permitted to use the liturgies from the Collection of Masses of the Blessed Virgin Mary during Lent and | Advent?
A: According to No. 21 of the Introduction to the Collection of Masses of the Blessed Virgin Mary and in accordance with canon 1234, the collection can be used at Marian shrines permitted to celebrate votive masses in honor of Our Lady during Advent and Lent. Exceptions are those days indicated in Nos. 1-6 of the table of liturgical days found in most editions of the Roman Missal. In view of that, Marian votive masses for Advent, Christmas, Lent and Easter are usually not permitted in parishes.
There are exceptions which allow two of the Marian Masses to be used outside of the assigned season during ordinary time. No. 28 of the Introduction says that the Christmas formula "Holy Mary of Nazareth (no 8)" may be used if a group of faithful desires to commemorate Mary's exemplary conduct at Nazareth. Likewise, the Lenten formula "Mary Virgin, Mother of Reconciliation (no 14)" may be used when Mass is |
Records: Riverdale is 1-1 overall, 0-0 in Region 2-6A. Blackman is 1-1 overall, | 0-0 in Region 2-6A.
AP ranking: Riverdale is ranked eighth in Class 6A. Blackman is ranked sixth in Class 6A.
Players to watch: Riverdale: RB Austin Bryant (89.5 rushing ypg), QB Brandon Bea (154 passing ypg, 2 TDs, 2 INTs), WR Jarek Campbell (90 receiving ypg), LB Canaan Owens. Blackman: RB Taeler Dowdy (108 rushing ypg, 3 TDs), QB Miller Armstrong (125 passing ypg, 2 TDs, 0 INTs), WR Darius Simple (61 receiving ypg), LB Tony Ochoa.
Keys to the game: Riverdale's offense has yet to get in sync this season. If it can get its passing game going, it can have a big game against the Blaze secondary. Blackman must pressure Bea, or whoever the Warriors have at QB and make him uncomfortable.
Record: Siegel is 0- |
More than a year ago, German economist Hans-Werner Sinn discovered a gigantic risk on the balance sheets of Germany's central bank. Were | the euro zone to collapse, Bundesbank losses could be half a trillion euros -- more than one-and-a-half times the size of the country's annual budget.
The crucial clue came from the same man whose signature once adorned the deutsche mark: Helmut Schlesinger, former president of Germany's central bank, the Bundesbank. He was the one who pointed Hans-Werner Sinn, an economist in Munich, in the direction of a strange entry in the Bundesbank's statistics: In late 2010, records showed claims on other euro-zone central banks totaling over 300 billion ($400 billion). Curious, Sinn began to dig deeper. What he found exceeded his worst expectations.
"In the beginning, all I had was this number, and I didn't really know what it meant," says Sinn, who is president of the Munich-based Ifo Institute for Economic Research. "The Bundesbank told me those were irrelevant balances. But that didn't reassure |
Trump’s government was a very bleak workplace for many. Then it shut down.
Lately it’s cold and gray in | Washington. The days are short, the nights are long and the president has vowed to keep the government shut down for months, even years if he does not get what he wants. A southern border lined with “artistically designed steel slats,” apparently.
For so many languishing federal workers — public servants alternately characterized as deep state antagonists or bloated bureaucrats — it’s all too much.
Over two years, the Trump administration has dealt blow after blow to government employees — budget cuts, hiring freezes, inept Cabinet secretaries and, for some, open hostility to their fundamental mission. President Trump promised to shake up Washington, and he has. But the country’s 2 million federal workers have mostly soldiered on, believing in the value of their work even if they question decisions coming out of the White House.
In what some see as the ultimate insult, almost half of them were told to stay home. Do not pass “Go.” Do |
The designer meant "to neither glorify nor condone the culture of drugs," he wrote in the show notes, but instead "to consider the persistent | , almost ubiquitous presence of narcotics within our society."
Fashion has been having a bit of an existential crisis as of late, fueled by the struggles at traditional print glossy magazines, flagging department store sales in the face of online shopping, and the rise of fast-fashion retailers offering cheaper trendy alternatives to expensive runway styles.
Recent headlines for stories on the subject have included, "The Death of Clothing" (Bloomberg), "What's the Meaning of Fashion?" (ManRepeller) and "Fashion Is Dead and There's No Coming Back" (New York Post).
Even the seasonal runway shows are feeling the burn, with some New York designers fleeing to the Paris catwalks, and other ditching the runway altogether to show in less-expensive formats, such as short films (Monse) and celebrity-studded look book shoots (Rodarte).
But on Wednesday night at New York Fashion Week Men's, Raf Simons proved that fashion still has something to say |
While Terrence Howard's portrayal of Lucious Lyon on the hit Fox drama Empire has been met with fanfare – and massive ratings – not everyone | is happy with the Oscar-nominated actor's presence on the program.
Daytime talk show host Wendy Williams called Howard out during her show on Thursday, Oct. 1, arguing that Fox should fire the 46-year-old star due to his real life legal problems and "nutty" behavior overshadowing the show.
NEWS: Is Terrence Howard's Role in 'Empire' Being Cut Back Due to Personal Drama?
"Terrence Howard, your personal life has taken over to where if by chance they took you off the show I would be happier than mad," Williams shared. "Between him allegedly being abusive to women in his personal life, him giving an 18-page nutty interview to Rolling Stone magazine where he talked about all kinds of nuttiness…again going back to how he allegedly treats women in his life. It’s usurped his entire situation at Empire and the show could do without Terrence Howard."
Howard has been at the center of |
On İstiklal Street, around French Consolate, 200 meters far from police, holding the stones of the beach in one hand | and the flag of the revolt in the other you are clshing with the police. A piece of cloth wet with talcid is your gas mask, police is spraying pressured water, throwing gas bombs one and after, you are left in the middle of gas retreating throwing stones you are out of breath smothered, breatheless at that moment somebody run near you, spray water with antiacid on your face, asking “how are you, are you okay?” You are not okay but immediately you get well.
You take a stone of the beach in one hand, taking the flag of the revolt in the other. You lean against the barricade with your half breath. Your breath is refreshing with the freedom of rebellion. Because everywhere there is solidarity, this revolt is adorned with solidarity, you fall but you are picked up, they are asking when you are hitching, you boo at the same time when the sound bomb exploded, you hold your breath together when gas bomb |
Project Car Hell: IROC Volvo Bertone or Mazda 808?
Stop the presses! Italy has just won the First Ever Jalopnik Project | Car Hell Superpower Showdown, with the 1JZ-powered Portuguese Barn Find '59 Maserati beating the Subaru-powered 4CV in a 55-45 split. Today we're going to look at two cars that don't fit neatly into a common category, yet give off about the same number of counts per minute on the Jalopnik Coolness Geiger Counter™.
PCH, Superpower Swap Showdown: Subaru'd Renault or Toyota'd Maserati?
I've been scouring Alameda for a Down On The Street Volvo Bertone for months now, and it's maddening that the only one I can find is in a driveway (dead for years, with a blue tarp over the windows) and thus off-limits to DOTS. Sure, they came with the not-so-great PRV V6, but just look at that reet chopped top! Obviously, an engine transplant is the way to |
Congregants said that they had not been consulted regarding the compromise to save Ayelet Hashachar synagogue.
The government announced Sunday that | it had worked out a compromise, whereby a new synagogue would be built next to the Ayelet Hashachar synagogue in Givat Ze'ev that is slated to be demolished. Based on a compromise recommended last week by Periphery, Negev and Galilee Affairs Minister Aryeh Deri, major elements of the existing synagogue will be removed and integrated with a new structure that will be built on a lot adjacent to the current building.
The Ayelet HaShachar synagogue is slated to be demolished this week after a far-left group filed a petition with the Court, claiming that the structure had been build on privately-owned Palestinian Arab land.
The petition had been working its way through the courts for at least three years. Members of the congregation have offered the land's alleged owners a high price for the purchase or rental of the land, but they, and their lawyers, have insisted that the synagogue be torn down. Public officials have rallied behind the synagogue and |
Garth Brooks has been named the Country Music Association's entertainer of the year. Brooks accepted the award Wednesday at the Bridgestone Arena in | Nashville, Tennessee.
He thanked his band, his crew and country music fans, saying, "The most important thing, other than God himself, are you: the people that allow us to be in the greatest music ever, country music."
Eric Church, Keith Urban, Darius Rucker and Lady Antebellum opened the 2017 Country Music Association Awards with a touching performance honoring the 58 people killed at a country music festival last month.
The Wednesday night awards show kicked off with Church singing an emotional version of "Amazing Grace," later joined by the other performers for "Hold My Hand."
At the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas on Oct. 1, a gunman fired on the crowd from a hotel room while Jason Aldean was onstage. Nearly 500 people were injured.
Reba McEntire, Luke Bryan, Thomas Rhett, Tim McGraw and others joined in to sing along at the Bridgestone Arena, earning a large applause from the crowd.
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The first trailer for Spectre, the next James Bond film has finally landed, providing a tense but thrilling first look at the 24th official outing for | 007.
Skyfall. MI6 headquarters is still in ruins following the attacks in the previous film, while Bond finds himself confronted with damning personal items from his own secretive past.
The teaser also nicely builds the threat of the eponymous evil organisation, without ever mentioning them by name -- only showing a ring emblazoned with an icon that will send chills down the spines of long-time fans. It also suggests Spectre will be another lonely journey for Bond, with plenty of shots of desolate locations as the secret agent is drawn into another globetrotting hunt.
Spectre offers that "a cryptic message from Bond's past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE."
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‘I think continually of those who were truly great,’ wrote Stephen Spender, which must have been awkward when he was trying to | read a map, cook the lunch, or write that bloody awful poem about pylons. But I, too, have been thinking, if not continually, then at least often, about two great men, both dead, both much missed. They couldn’t have been more different, but they both played a major part in forming my attitudes, my taste and perhaps even my character.
Philip Balkwill was my English teacher at Charterhouse, and I was reminded of him early in January when I went to re-review Alan Bennett’s The History Boys at Wyndham’s Theatre. The leading character, Hector, superbly played by Desmond Barrit, is one of those teachers his pupils never forget, offering lessons in life that go far beyond whatever subject he happens to be teaching; and PGB, as he was known at Charterhouse, was in the same mould.
He was undoubtedly an inspirational English teacher, who introduced me to Shakespeare, Hardy, |
NEW YORK — Chris Christie has a book coming out next year and he doesn't plan on holding back.
According to a statement from Hac | hette, Christie plans to "set the record straight" on his time as a key Trump campaign supporter in 2016 and being "unceremoniously booted" from the transition team after Mr. Trump's upset victory. He will offer "revealing candid and surprising insights into the public and private Trump, drawn from fifteen years of close friendship," the statement continued. He will provide "frank appraisals" of such fellow Trump insiders as Steve Bannon, Corey Lewandowski and Jared Kushner, whose father, Charles Kushner, was sent to prison when Christie was a federal prosecutor.
Christie was first elected New Jersey governor in 2009, and his brash style and ability to win in a Democratic state quickly made him a national star for the Republican Party. He was among a crowded field of GOP contenders for president in 2016 and helped Mr. Trump in two crucial ways — humiliating Marco Rubio in a February 2016 debate that halted the Florida senator's momentum, then dropping out and endorsing Mr. Trump |
The spectacular flight of bats may be aided by long, thin muscles in the skin of their wings.
Bats are an extraordinary evolutionary success, | the only mammals to conquer the air. Their flying ability has long attracted the attention of engineers and biologists, and it comes through soft, flexible wings unlike those of birds or insects.
Their wings have long muscles embedded in the skin, running front to back, and not attached to any bones. Scientists had suspected that these muscles probably helped shape the wings in flight, but evidence was lacking.
That evidence was not easy to come by. As they report in the June issue of Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, the team inserted thin electrodes into the muscles to record their activity while the bats were flying in a wind tunnel.
At the same time, they shot high-speed video and coordinated the data.
But they still need to show that the action of the muscles actually improves bat flight. And for that, says Dr. Swartz, they need that staple of the cosmetic surgery industry, Botox.
“By applying a very small amount of Botox in the wing |
New mammogram advice from the American Cancer Society says most women should start annual screenings at age 45 instead of 40, a change that moves the group | closer to guidelines from an influential advisory taskforce.
The cancer group also now advises switching to screening every other year at 55. The taskforce recommends starting routine screening for breast cancer at age 50, then every other year.
It’s not a one-size-fits-all recommendation; both groups say women’s preferences for when to be scanned should be considered.
The advice is for women at average risk for breast cancer. Doctors generally recommend more intensive screening for higher-risk women.
“The most important message of all is that a mammogram is the most effective thing that a woman can do to reduce her chance of dying from breast cancer,” said Dr Richard Wender, the cancer society’s cancer control chief.
“It’s not that mammograms are ineffective in younger women,” he said, but at age 40, breast cancer is uncommon and false alarms are more likely.
Concern about false alarms contributed |
ST. LOUIS — Patrik Laine scored five goals Saturday in the Winnipeg Jets’ 8-4 victory at St. Louis, | two short of 97-year-old NHL record.
It was the 61st five-goal game in league history. Darryl Sittler of the Toronto Maple Leafs was the last player to score six goals in a game, on April 22, 1976, against Boston.
Brandon Tanev, Blake Wheeler, and Jack Roslovic also scored for the Jets, who snapped their first two-game losing streak of the season.
Laine’s five goal outburst gives him a league-leading 16 goals in 10 November games.
Vladimir Tarasenko, David Perron, Ryan O’Reilly, and Pat Maroon scored for the Blues.
NEW YORK (AP) — Brett Connolly scored the tiebreaking goal with 6:24 left in the third period, and Washington won its season-high fifth straight game.
Alex Ovechkin, Nic Dowd, Jakub Vrana and Tom Wilson also scored for defending Stanley Cup |
As people across the globe wait to see if the world will end Saturday, one evangelical minister says don't panic because it won't happen.
| "Nobody knows the exact day when these things are going to happen," Steve Wohlberg, who has written more than two dozen books about the End of Days, told the Daily News Thursday.
Wohlberg believes the theory that the world will end on May 21, a date set by 89-year-old Family Radio founder Harold Egbert Camping, is "flat-out wrong."
"He is misinterpreting the Bible," he said. "He's a false teacher."
Wohlberg argues that Camping is taking advantage of the present climate of fear. From earthquakes in Japan to storms in the southern United States to violence around the globe, people are growing concerned.
"They're looking at all of these disasters and everything that's going on in the planet, and this is creating a climate of deep interest in Biblical prophecy," he said. "I think that Camping is tapping into that interest, but he's wrong."
Wohlberg said the |
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf on Tuesday approved the portfolios for 15 federal and state ministers belonging to the | Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q).
As per a notification of the Cabinet Division, Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi would be the deputy prime minister as well as senior federal minister for industries.
Other PML-Q ministers include: Sardar Bahadur Khan Sehar (federal minister for defence production), Ch Wajahat Hussain (federal minister for man power), Ghaus Bux Mehar (federal minister for privatisation), Anwar Ali Cheema (federal minister for production), Sardar Talib Hussain Nakai (federal minister for housing), Liaquat Abbas Bhatti (federal minister for works), Sheikh Waqas Akram (federal minister for professional & technical training), Saeed Khan Mandokhel (minister of state for privatisation), Khawaja Sheraz Mehmood (state minister for production), Rana Asif Tauseef (state minister for works), Sardar Shah |
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A FIVE-way race to secure a seat on Bradford Council for Queensbury ward has been retaken by the Conservative Party with candidate Andrew Senior | attracting more than half the overall votes cast.
Residents went to the polls yesterday for the by-election triggered by the resignation of Conservative councillor Lisa Carmody earlier in the year.
It means the Council's composition remains unchanged, with the controlling Labour group on 49 seats and the opposition onservatives on 21.
Councillor Senior gained 2,175 votes, a majority of 1,443 over nearest rival Jason Smith, who ran for the Independents and took 732 of the votes.
In third position was Labour candidate Mobeen Hussain with 697 votes, fourth was Eithne Dodwell, of the Green Party and fifth was Mary Whitrick of the Liberal Democrats.
Speaking after his win Cllr Senior said: "I'm tremendously proud of the people of Queensbury for voting for me. The journey has been amazing but I suppose the hard work starts now.
"I was nervous at the start but I am always quite optimistic and felt I would do |
Top Dawg Entertainment's latest signee SiR unleashes the music video for "All in My Head." Throughout the three-and-a | -half minute, D.K. the Punisher and Andre Harris-produced clip, SiR pours out his thoughts in an empty parking garage.
The video takes the less-is-more approach. There aren't any flashy visual effects, nor extras, nor lavish set locations. For the entire video, SiR dances around the garage in slow motion and mouthes the words. The subtle, minimalist video allows the music to do the talking.
In other SiR-related news, the 29-year-old artist is fresh off releasing his terrific Her Too EP, which contains six tracks with features from Masego, King Mez and Anderson.Paak.
XXL recently spoke with SiR about his recent signing with TDE and how it all came together. "Man, it started with me working with Jay Rock on his 90059 album and just getting a chance to get in the studio with them, vibe out and really see where I’d |
Car insurance is a necessary evil for all drivers. Of course, if you don’t happen to be accident prone, paying expensive monthly or | annual bills is a headache and seems equivalent to setting your wallet on fire. Of course, insurance companies are great at reminding us that the world is a wild and dangerous place and that more coverage equals better protection from the vagaries of the road and those costly surprises. Plus, there’s the fact that auto insurance is required by law.
So, as with airline tickets, hotels and many other necessary purchasing decisions, drivers want to be able to comparison shop for the best rates, deals and packages to limit costs and make an informed buy. In spite of the millions the big insurance companies spend on marketing, the industry remains inefficient, search and discovery is still messy and there really hasn’t been much innovation in recent memory. That’s why CoverHound launched its comparative insurance platform last summer — to introduce transparency and simplicity to insurance shopping.
Founded by veterans of insurance companies like InsWeb, Unitrin Direct and State Farm, the San Francisco-based startup is building |
Thad Seymour, who was a key player the development of Lake Nona’s Medical City and has overseen the new UCF campus expected | to open in downtown Orlando this August, is poised to lead the university for at least a year until trustees pick a new president.
Thad Seymour, who has been guiding UCF for the past month after overseeing the planned downtown Orlando campus is poised to lead the university for at least a year until trustees pick a new president.
Trustees will decide Thursday whether Seymour should be the University of Central Florida’s interim president on a long-term basis while they search for a successor to Dale Whittaker, who resigned Feb. 21 amid controversy over construction spending. Also Thursday, trustees are scheduled to vote on a $600,000 settlement with Whittaker.
Seymour has been in charge of UCF since Whittaker’s departure, but trustees initially said they intended for him to provide short-term leadership — maybe a few months — while they searched for someone else to fill the interim role for a longer period. But Seymour has “provided much- |
STEVE McCLAREN is back in the spotlight tomorrow, and the weather forecast for Derby is wet and windy. But he is unlikely | to use a brolly.
“I’ve been through crazy years, mad years, real lows. I’m at a stage now where I should be using the experience gained,” said McClaren.
It is six years since he stood on the touchline at Wembley, rain pelting down, England-branded umbrella up, as if he was on the fifth tee wondering whether to give up and head back to the clubhouse.
His England team lost 3-2 to Croatia, failed to qualify for the European Championship, and McClaren was sacked the next day after 18 games and 16 months.
Yesterday, in his new job at Championship Derby County, McClaren was relaxed, cheerful, confident in himself, as he prepared for the return to football’s big stage and a televised potential giant-killing of Chelsea.
Just like another former England boss, Graham Taylor, who had ‘Turnip’ added to his name following failure, McCl |
The Culver City Planning Commission will consider a revised environmental impact report for the massive Marina Place office project next week, more than a year after members | rejected the first version as incomplete.
The commission spurned the first report in January, 1985, after members said it did not adequately address traffic density, air pollution and other effects of the 1.3-million-square-foot project, planned at the end of a narrow strip of Culver City that reaches into Venice.
The revised report, released for public comment last December, suggests that the developer, Prudential Insurance Co., reduce the height of the project to lessen its impact on the neighborhood.
It also said that Culver City should widen some streets to increase traffic flow in the area and require Prudential to conduct a traffic management program to further reduce congestion and pollution.
The commission will consider the report at a public hearing at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Veterans Memorial Auditorium, 4117 Overland Ave.
Prudential wants to build one 12-story and two 17-story and two 15-story office towers, two restaurants and |
All of this is the result of the greatest governmental philosophy ever committed to paper: God-given individual rights protected by limited government. We haven't | always lived up to that philosophy — in some areas, we've progressed mightily, and in others, we've regressed. But the overall success of the United States should be ringing proof that at the very least, we should be grateful and proud to live here.
In 1789, as America struggled to find her footing after a revolution against the most powerful military and economic engine in the world, then-President George Washington issued a proclamation. He thanked God for "his kind care and protection of the People of this Country," for "the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed — for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness."
If Washington could urge gratefulness in 1789, we'd be fools not to do so now, when our lives are so much better in every material way. This Thanksgiving, let's remember what we have — and let's remember |
During the planning process for my recent trip to Washington, DC, I learned the House Judiciary Committee would be having a hearing entitled, "The Obama | Administration's Abuse of Power". As this fits right in with this series of stories, I contacted the committee and Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX) to make arrangements to attend the hearing.
The hearing was quite informative as to a wide variety of abuses of power ranging from refusal to answer questions related to Operation Fast and Furious, to recess appointments when the Senate was not in recess, to its refusal to enforce the laws of the land.
Following is my video of Chairman Smith's opening remarks from the hearing and a transcript of these remarks.
Chairman Smith's staff was extremely hospitable in welcoming us to the hearing and showing us the ropes of what we were allowed to do during the hearing.
Smith opened the hearing with a list of allegations of abuse of power by the Obama Administration. Some of these might fall into a category of political policy disagreements, many are borderline, if not in fact violations of the law by those working for Obama. In regards to several laws not being enforced by |
Law enforcement officers are listening. More than ever.
State and local authorities received more than 3,100 wiretap approvals from judges last year, | an increase of 34% above the number of authorizations the previous year, according to a report released today.
Federal judges, the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts report said, approved 1,207 wiretaps, and 1,987 were authorized by state judges. Historical data reveal applications are rarely turned down. Only one application was denied in 2010.
Wiretap applications in California, New York and New Jersey accounted for 68% of all state approvals. The report is here and click here for last year's data.
Drug investigations accounted for the majority of wiretap applications, last year. The report said 84% of all wiretaps (2,675) stemmed from drug cases, with homicide and racketeering investigations following. The largest number of state wiretap requests were made in California and in New York.
Authorities reported they encountered encryption during six state wiretaps. But investigators, the report said, still managed to obtain the plain text of the communication.
Wiretaps |
A robot which talks, climbs stairs and serves drinks has been shown to the public at the Moscow Motor Show. Experts say machines are ready to start | working with people. The trouble is – they have an image problem.
Asimo recognizes faces and understands questions. Its computer backpack can be programmed to fetch coffee. Makers, Honda, claim Asimo's the only humanoid robot in the world who climbs stairs.
The developers see old and sick people as first users according to Jean-Luc de Krahe, Events Coordinator at Asimo Studio.
Robots have worked in industry since 1961 but were thought too expensive and dangerous to put among humans. Now IRobot's already sold millions of these $200 home cleaners. Sergey Apresov, Editor in Chief at Popular Mechanics says the next step is direct work with humans, and the only barrier is psychological.
Asimo's already used to carry paper round Japanese offices. Developers are now teaching it human-style learning-by-experience. Show it a spoon and cup, through trial and error it learns to put one in the other. Robots are on the verge of critical mass |
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Through intense bombardment, seeing friends killed before her eyes and living without power, Layana Darwish stuck it | out in Syria’s Aleppo through four years of civil war, even completing her degree despite the devastation.
What finally drove her to leave wasn’t the snipers or the bombs. It was the constant struggle to find safe water.
Civilians have borne the brunt of fighting between Syrian government forces and an array of insurgent groups in Syria’s divided commercial capital, a city of two million people where upended buses and cars stacked on top of each other shield residents from sniper fire.
With the city divided between a government-controlled west and rebel-held east, both sides have been able to deprive the other of water, which the United Nations and Red Cross say amounts to using it as a “weapon of war” against civilians.
“The water crisis is the catastrophe,” said 28-year-old Darwish, who left government-held Aleppo for Turkey just weeks ago.
“Can you imagine life without electricity? Well, |
Uganda stands to benefit from Trinidad and Tobago's vast experience in | the development and management of the oil and gas industry. So said Irene Muloni, that country's Minister of Energy and Mineral Development, as she wrapped up a study tour to T&T over the weekend.Muloni, who called for the deepening and broadening of the bilateral relations between the two countries, added: "I am extremely happy about Trinidad and Tobago's success in in oil and gas sector which has improved the country's economy as well as people's standard and quality of liv |
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Maybe it's the jet lag. Maybe it's the culture shock of being back in DC for the first time in a year. Maybe it's | my inborn crabbiness. Whatever the source, I find myself more more incredulous with each passing hour that Chinese media authorities could have thought it as necessary or smart to censor live coverage of an event being watched intently in every other corner of the world: the inaugural address of America's first black president and current champion orator.
I have been trying to think: in what other country might this occur? Burma, perhaps. North Korea, no doubt. Perhaps other tinhorn states. But a real, important, powerful, rich country that in many ways (eg, finance) is America's most important partner? It is almost literally incredible.
It's all the more surprising because of something that might not be obvious to the average US viewer. I have met a lot of Chinese people in the last few years, in lots of stations of life. Big shots, farmers, dissidents, factory workers, party bosses. And I cannot think of a single one of them who would have |
Haiti, the only country to emerge from a successful slave revolt, wasn't always a nation in shambles. Western powers refused to | allow it to succeed.
About 50,000 Haitians might be forced to return to their homeland by mid-2019 if the Trump administration is successful in ending the special immigration status granted following the catastrophic 2010 Port-au-Prince earthquake.
Haitians living and working legally in the United States since the earthquake that killed 200,000 could have to go back to a country that is the most impoverished and environmentally degraded in the Western Hemisphere.
Though the number of Haitians living temporarily in Greater Cincinnati and is believed to be small, strong ties exist in the area with the Caribbean nation. Two local relief organizations maintain a regular presence in Haiti.
Matthew 25: Ministries, based in Blue Ash, operates a mission hotel north of Port-au-Prince, in Bon Repos, as a base for its and other organization's humanitarian and medical trips to Haiti. A Child's Hope International, based in Sharonville, has sent hundreds of thousands of nutritious, pre-packaged and rice |
A House committee is receiving significant attention for approving an amendment requiring women to register for the draft, but the same Republican-controlled panel incorporated early Thursday | morning into a major defense spending bill a measure that would undermine President Obama’s executive order prohibiting anti-LGBT workplace discrimination among federal contractors.
The amendment, introduced by freshman Rep. Steve Russell (R-Okla.), would require the federal government when contracting with religious organizations to afford them exemptions consistent with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the American with Disabilities Act. Since neither of those laws prohibit anti-LGBT bias, the amendment would enable religious organizations doing business with the U.S. government to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
The amendment provides an exemption for “any religious corporation, religious association, religious educational institution or religious society” contracting with the U.S. government. All of those terms are undefined in the amendment, but the lack of definition for “religious corporation” could allow courts to construe the term broadly to any federal contractor — not just religious organizations — in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court� |
Why Did Rouhani Say 'No' to Obama?
There’s nothing surprising about Iran’s actions this week because Khamenei still | calls the shots.
It may not have been a flat-out rejection, but Iranian President Hassan Rouhani certainly surprised a lot of people by declining to meet with President Obama yesterday. We don't know anything approaching the whole story. Letters between the two, back-channel messages, and in all likelihood, secret conversations between representatives of the two countries have been going on for quite a while. The secret diplomacy has been conducted for decades, even though Rouhani was only recently elected.
So far, the plot of “hopes and expectations raised, then a slap in the face” follows the usual script. Just ask Bill Clinton or George W. Bush, both of whom believed they had reached agreement with the Iranian regime, a “grand bargain” that would put the two countries on the path to better relations, lift some American sanctions, and, in Bush's case, end Iranian uranium enrichment. At the last minute, Iran said “forget it.” Secretary of |
Police in Scotland have said they have received reports of historical child abuse within football.
They are the latest force in the UK to confirm they are | looking into allegations following claims of sexual abuse in England by former players.
A UK hotline set up for sexual abuse victims in the wake of the claims has received more than 250 reports since launching less than a week ago.
A Police Scotland spokesman said: "We can confirm we have received reports in connection with non-recent child abuse within football.
Detective Chief Superintendent Lesley Boal, Police Scotland public protection, said: "We will continue to work with partners, including the National Police Chiefs Council through Operation Hydrant, the Scottish Football Association and the NSPCC to ensure a co-ordinated police response is in place and that we maintain an accurate picture of child abuse investigations.
"Speaking out about any form of child abuse is incredibly difficult and disclosures are often made many years after an incident took place.
"Police Scotland will listen to any such disclosure, regardless of the passage of time, and will investigate as well as work with partner organisations who have access to advocacy and |
Loading up Apex Legends for the first time, I saw two black women as playable characters. It was a strange and arresting feeling to see them. | I’m still trying to understand my feelings about it.
I’m usually quite wary of falling into what my coworker Riley MacLeod calls “the diversity trap,” which is to say, giving a game a lot of credit simply for doing the bare minimum. I know that most companies are in the business of making money. While having diverse casts may meet some altruistic goals, it also could open up the appeal of that media product to more people who will spend money on it. Apex Legends, the new battle royale game from development studio Respawn, is a free-to-play game, but it does have loot boxes and, if you want, you can use real money to buy more loot boxes. Because of that, I can understand why someone might be cynical about the game’s visibly diverse cast.
Still, the game has a diverse cast, and you can tell from the first glance. There’s a character who is |
Provo • There was no need to dig deep into a dictionary at LaVell Edwards Stadium during the BYU-Northern Illinois game on Saturday to | check on the official meaning of a word not usually associated with college football, but most relevant on this particular occasion: monotonous.
That adjective was defined, all spelled out in dying color, on the field.
As everybody on hand — about a third of the venue was empty — waited for some football to happen, a soccer game broke out.
It was victory and defeat by the slowest of drips.
If scoring is your thing, this was not a game for you.
If afternoon napping is your thing, this was your baby.
Final count: NIU 7, BYU 6.
As the warm autumn sun blazed down on their shoulders, these two attacks, if that’s the word to use for them, set offensive football back 50 years. It was all good, except for the fact that neither team could actually gain yardage or score points. George Halas may have approved, but somewhere, if you believe in such things, |
There were more than a few eyebrows raised when Christian Eriksen’s face flashed up on the big screen inside Parken Stadion | to announce him as man-of-the-match during the closing stages of Saturday’s first leg.
Afterwards, manager Age Hareide was asked why his star player had failed to show. The same question was put to him on the eve of this game. It was Eriksen, however, who had the answers.
Two years ago he was outshone by Sweden’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic as the Scandinavian rivals went head-to-head for a place at Euro 2016. Ibrahimovic scored three times over two legs. Eriksen, meanwhile, had no impact.
Not this time. Small things make the difference in big games. Denmark were trailing to Shane Duffy’s early opener when they won a corner. Seeing a posse of strapping comrades charge forward in anticipation of a cross, most takers would have duly delivered. Not Eriksen.
Noticing that Ireland had switched off, the Spurs playmaker beckoned Pione |
Irish nationalists to vote on decision to recognise Northern Irish police force.
A rejection of police support would see Northern Ireland's assembly dissolved on Tuesday and | the province run indefinitely from London.
Protestant politicians want Sinn Fein to agree to support the police before they consider working with them again in the Belfast-based assembly, which was set up under a 1998 peace deal.
The party is the political wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) which killed nearly 300 police officers during a 30-year armed campaign against British rule.
Sinn Fein's policy on the police service has been to restore the assembly, which has been suspended since 2002 amid claims that a republican spy ring was operating there.
Republicans who largely favour union with the Republic of Ireland believe Northern Ireland's police force is biased in favour of Protestants.
Earlier this week, a police ombudsman's report revealed that police colluded with, and protected,Protestant paramilitaries in the early 1990's.
Adams faced protesters and a media scrum as he arrived for the meeting at the Royal Dublin Society conference centre.
The demonstrators included members of Republican Sinn |
Through Innovate for Life’s five-month accelerator programme, specifically designed for the African health context, the six entrepreneurs will be embedded in | the Amref Health Africa organisation.
By KENNEDY KANGETHE, NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 27 – Two Kenya Start-ups are among six African Start-ups selected to benefit from the 2018 Amref Africa’s Innovate for Life Fund Accelerator programme.
Baobab Circle Limited and Ujuzi Fursa Africa joins Nigeria’s Baby Grubz and Tiny Hearts Technology as well as JOELEX from Uganda and Wastinnova from Zimbabwe.
The start-ups have been selected out of 300 applications from across sub-Saharan Africa. The program was in search of firms developing innovative solutions to improve healthcare in Africa and their leadership is African-driven.
Baobab Circle Limited is empowering those with diabetes and hypertension by providing tools and information its users need to manage their conditions anywhere, and at any time through AFYA PAP application while Ujuzi Fursa Africa is a social enterprise that provides essential home |
Draper residents react as Mayor Troy Walker rescinds his offer of land for a homeless center as he and Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams attend | a meeting at Draper Park Middle School on Wednesday, March 29, 2017.
SALT LAKE CITY — A bill backed by political heavyweights that would require Utah cities and counties not hosting homeless shelters and lacking affordable housing to contribute to other shelters has cleared its next hurdle.
After an hourlong debate and a failed attempt by a GOP legislator to cut out the requirement to bill cities and counties a collective total of $3.3 million a year, the full House voted 49-15 Wednesday to pass the bill. It now goes to the Senate.
"This is the last component of the significant homelessness reform effort that this body has undertaken," the bill's sponsor, Rep. Steve Eliason, R-Sandy, told legislators before the vote, reminding them of the tens of millions of dollars already spent to break up the troubled downtown homeless shelter and build smaller homeless resource centers at scattered sites.
Eliason told lawmakers to respond to cities who might protest the bill by asking: " |
YORK City boss Colin Walker has not ruled out making one further signing before the start of the new Blue Square Premier season.
Former Bradford City | striker and Leeds United trainee David Brown bagged a brace as the Minstermen kicked off their pre-season with a 6-0 win in front of 450 fans at Tadcaster Albion last night.
Fellow trialists Anton Foster and Nathan Fisher, who was released by Gretna last season after previously being on Middlesbrough’s books, also played at Ings Lane while experienced winger Lee Elam, released by last season’s play-off winners Exeter City in the summer, arrived at KitKat Crescent for training this morning.
York-born Brown, 19, joined Craig Farrell (2), Richard Brodie and Martyn Woolford on the scoresheet last night.
Elam, 31, is looking for a new club close to his Bradford roots, having plied his trade at Exeter, Weymouth, Crawley, Morecambe, Burton, Hornchurch, Chester, Yeovil, Halifax and Southport in the past.
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Gary O’Neil has vowed to fight to keep West Ham in the Barclays Premier League after completing his £2million switch from Middlesbrough | .
The midfielder has signed a two-and-a-half year deal at Upton Park as they battle to retain their top-flight status.
The former Hammers academy player, who has worked with coaches Avram Grant, Paul Groves and David Coles at Portsmouth, said: ‘I am really pleased to sign.
'It all happened very quickly. I played for Middlesbrough at the weekend and didn’t know anything was going to happen. It has all gathered pace since then. There was also a big rush to do it quickly when they realised I wasn’t cup-tied.
‘I enjoyed my time at Middlesbrough, the fans and staff were really good but it has been difficult time on the pitch. It is nice to be back in the Premier League and play at the top level, which everyone wants to do. I am London born so it is good to come home.
‘It is great that the |
Roswell Youth Theatre Holds Auditions For Mary Poppins Jr.
RYT will hold auditions at the Bill Johnson Community Activity Building | , Roswell Area Park, on January 14 & 15 5:30-7:30 p.m. This audition is open to all student actors, singers and dancers ages 9-17.
1 minute memorized Broadway song. Bring sheet music or accompaniment track in your correct key.
Dress comfortably for dance audition. No dance experience required.
Audition fee: $25 cash, card, or check made out to RYT.
Your favorite practically perfect nanny takes center stage in this Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious adventure based on the award-winning Broadway musical and classic Walt Disney film.
Based on one of the most popular Disney movies of all time and the Broadway musical that played for over 2,500 performances and received multiple Olivier and Tony Awards nominations, Disney and Cameron Mackintosh's Mary Poppins is capturing hearts in a whole new way: as a practically perfect Broadway Junior musical!
The jack-of-all trades, |
Amy Wilson and Margaret Ables are two super accomplished women and mothers who are challenging their fellow moms to find both joy and humor in parenting, through | their witty and insightful podcast What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood. The podcast, which runs every Wednesday at 8:30 a.m., is quickly approaching its 100th episode with almost one million downloads.
Wilson and Ables are no strangers to entertaining. Wilson wrote parenting blog-turned bestselling-book When Did I Get Like This, toured the country with her solo show, Mother Load, and was a series regular on several television sitcoms. Ables began her career in standup comedy, wrote for PBS Kids and MTV, and was a senior writer for Nickelodeon’s Nick Mom. She also wrote the blog, Short, Fat Dictator.
Both moms are married and have three children each that range in age from 7-16. They own very different personalities and parenting styles. Ables is the laid back, “sure it will all work out” mom and Wilson the uber-organized, self-professed “over |
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Iran's state TV on Saturday showed government supporters rallying a day after the foreign minister said a U.S. move to call an emergency UN Security | Council meeting to discuss anti-government protests was another Trump administration "blunder."
The state broadcaster showed pro-government rallies in several cities, starting with Amol, in the northern province of Mazandaram, with hundreds of people waving the Iranian flag and chanting slogans against the U.S. and Israel.
State TV described the rally as a "response to rioters and supporters of the riots."
Other pro-government demonstrations were held in Shahin Dezh, in West Azarbaijan province bordering Turkey; the city of Semnan, in the northern Semnan Province; and Shadegan, in the southern Khouzestan Province near Iraq.
The rallies are meant to be a show of force against anti-government protests that broke out in Mashhad, Iran's second largest city, on December 28 and have since spread to several other cities and towns. The protests were sparked by a hike in food prices amid soaring unemployment. Some demonstrators have called for the government |
Home ownership has long been a goal for many Americans, but now more people are worried that the troubled housing market means it's not a good time | to buy a home, and they're kissing their plan goodbye.
Since the housing market collapsed in 2008, forcing millions of underwater homeowners out of their houses, real estate has become a scary and unreliable investment option.
"The emotional scars left by the collapse are changing the American psyche," Pete Flint, chief executive of real estate Website Trulia.com, told The New York Times. "There was a time when owning a home was a symbol you had made it. Now it's OK not to own."
The rate of U.S. homeownership is down to 66.4%, the lowest since 1998, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Some experts say it could fall to the level of the 1980s or earlier.
U.S. home prices keep sliding as many Americans decide owning a home is not for them. Prices last week fell to their lowest level since 2002, according to the Standard & Poor's Case-Shiller Home Price Index, erasing |
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Patrick Michalish | yn volunteers while most people are asleep.
The 30-year-old volunteers his time as a DJ at CKUW 95.9 FM, the on-campus radio station at the University of Winnipeg. His show, The Wonderful & Frightening World of Patrick Michalishyn, airs Friday mornings from midnight to 6 a.m.
Tune in and you’ll hear everything from rock to punk to hip hop to industrial, much of it pulled from Michalishyn’s own 4,000-plus CD collection.
Patrick Michalishyn, 30, is a longtime volunteer with CKUW 95.9 FM, the University of Winnipeg’s on-campus and community radio station.
"I try to go for mood over genre," Michalishyn says when asked how he describes the theme of his show. "I like playing some weird, (messed) up stuff."
You’re also likely to hear weird |
Take a look at these incredible style transformations.
Jonah Hill's fitness transformation has been the chatter of the internet this week. But it's | more than just the actor's physique that's changed. The dude has come into his own when it comes to getting dressed. And Hill isn't the only famous guy whose style evolution played out right before our eyes—Hollywood has a long list of 'em. Here's a look back at some of the most iconic changes.
Beckham is an icon, period. This spiky hair, brown leather jacket, and ombre shades aren't exactly good, but they're just the beginning.
Behold, the personification of aging like a fine wine.
Pratt got crazy ripped and invested heavily in a great wardrobe (and, likely, a stylist). As you can see, it worked for him.
If we're being honest, Harry Styles wasn't ever really not stylish—even as a kid in 2012. His looks were just tame and boy-ish.
Fast forward to 2017, and Styles is one of the men changing the face of modern mens |
A Dave Boundy hat-trick catapulted Orange City into the box seat of their Orange District Cricket Association second grade clash with Centrals on | the weekend, the former Western Zone swing king decimating the red and blacks’ top order. The Warriors had declared earlier in the day at 7-232 and in reply Centrals worked their way to 1-23, the red and blacks were looking to steady the ship after Dylan Caughlan snared Sean Kelly (0) straight away. The Boundy went to work. Hooping the ball around from a semi-long run-up, first Boundy trapped Brenton Anthony (6) in front with the fifth ball of his first over. MORE IN CRICKET: TEAM OF THE WEEK | Gurney goes ballistic as bowlers take big hauls Then, across the last two balls of his next over and the first of his third, he lured Tristan Moon (0) into a false shot before uprooting Mitch Stanley (0) and Roshan Eiseman’s (0) castles to snare a rare hat-trick, and leave Cent |
CHAMPIONS Prestatyn Town Reserves are within two points of Mackenzie Jones Clwyd League Premier Division leaders Mochdre Sports | with four games in hand following Easter Monday's 3-0 victory at bottom side Halkyn.
CHAMPIONS Prestatyn Town Reserves are within two points of Mackenzie Jones Clwyd League Premier Division leaders Mochdre Sports with four games in hand following Easter Monday's 3-0 victory at bottom side Halkyn.
Second half goals from Tom Lloyd, Mark Hughes and a Ben Rowley penalty secured the spoils for Mark Boulton's side who are unbeaten all season in the league – a run of 20 matches.
Fellow title chasers Abergele Rovers were resounding 9-3 winners at Aston Park Rangers..
David Clayton fired four as Llandyrnog United Reserves ran out 7-0 winners over Brynford United on Monday, which followed a 7-1 win against Halkyn United Reserves in the second round of the Premier Cup thanks to a hat-trick |
MARNIE Simpson has quit Geordie Shore after five years.
The reality star joined the MTV reality show in 2013 but now she has | decided to step away from the show and take her career to the next level.
A source exclusively told The Sun Online: "Marnie has loved her time on Geordie Shore but it's time for her to move on.
"She will still be around for this series but that's it - she won't return for the next."
Marnie has had her ups and downs in the show, famously her romances with the likes of Aaron Chalmers and Scotty T.
She also made history as the first LGBT member of the cast after coming out as bisexual in 2016.
The insider added: "Marnie's got loads of exciting opportunities coming up including new TV shows so she won't be off screens for long.
"Her contact lens business is massively popular too.
"She's loved her time on Geordie Shore and it's given her an incredible platform, but now she wants to move on and start new chapter in her life." |
People chase money and fame so they can live like Jimmy Buffett. Beaches, margaritas, cheeseburgers, sea captain hats. | The thing is, as a new profile in the New York Times outlines, Buffett hasn’t been a card-carrying resident of Margaritaville in years. He has an apartment in New York City’s bustling Columbus Circle, finds refuge in shopping malls, quit smoking pot in favor of occasional vaping, and only consumes sugar on Sundays. He calls Warren Buffet “Uncle Warren”; not because they’re related, but because they’re friends and are very, very rich.
That’s not to call him a “sell-out” or any such thing. In Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s thorough profile, she paints Buffett as a workhorse devoted to maintaining the quality of a brand that, while built on a fantasy, has nearly spiraled out of control. Only Krusty The Clown surpasses Buffett in the sheer volume of their branded products.
And, god |
Britain's David Florence stormed to his third Canoe Slalom World Championships gold as he won the individual C1 on home water at Lee Valley | .
The Scot, 33, who won the C1/C2 double at the 2013 Worlds, pipped Slovenia's Benjamin Savsek by just 0.04 seconds.
Fellow Briton Ryan Westley, the first man to go in the final, held on to take a superb bronze medal.
Kimberley Woods (fourth), Eilidh Gibson (fifth) and Mallory Franklin (seventh) narrowly missed out in the women's C1.
One mistake by Woods between the last two gates cost her after Czech Katerina Hoskova set the pace, Spaniard Nuria Vilarrubla pushing the Briton into third before Australia's defending champion Jessica Fox came down last to take gold, almost five seconds clear.
British trio Richard Hounslow, Bradley Forbes-Cryans and Joe Clarke all failed to reach the men's K1 final.
Double-Olympic silver medallist Florence won a team bronze on Saturday, but |
The woman many expect to be the next president of the National Farmers Union spoke to farmers at the AGM of the Berkshire Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire | branch of the NFU at The Oxfordshire Golf Club near Thame.
Minette Batters, currently NFU deputy president, has put her name forward for the presidency after the current incumbent Meurig Raymond announced his intention not to seek re-election at the AGM in February next year.
And so it was no surprise to find more than 100 farmers at the Thame meeting, keen to see the person who may take farming through the period of Brexit negotiations.
Ms Batters, a tenant farmer in Wiltshire, runs a beef enterprise and co-founded the campaigning initiative Ladies in Beef. She runs a diversified mixed farming business and as well as the beef and some arable land she does horse liveries and operates a wedding and corporate events venue, and a catering business.
So she is clearly a woman with a passion for farming, but also a successful businesswoman - essential ingredients for the role of NFU president. She has been a member of the N |
Turnout has plummeted 37 percent since 2012, the state School Boards Association said Tuesday.
ALBANY - If you’re seeing fewer | residents at the polls to vote on school budgets each May, you’re not alone.
Turnout has plummeted 37 percent since 2012, the state School Boards Association said Tuesday, as voters appear complacent if their districts stay under the property-tax cap.
Turnout for last week’s school budget votes was the lowest since the tax cap was put in place in 2012 — with 50,000 fewer voters than a year ago, the group found in an analysis of state Education Department data.
The total number of votes cast statewide last Tuesday was 505,075 — a 9.5 percent drop from 2017.
Over the six-year period, the number of votes cast fell a whopping 300,000.
"Some of the drop may be blamed on the weather" this year because of heavy storms in the Hudson Valley, said Timothy Kremer, the group's executive director.
"But it still represents a disturbing trend, since the outcomes of school budgets — and school |
Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could likely be indicted on charges of fraud and misuse of state funds, Israel’ | s Justice Ministry said on Friday.
The Attorney General is considering prosecuting Mrs. Netanyahu for using state funds amounting to around US$100,000 for personal luxury dining and other purchases, such as catering for private events, and paying for furniture and home improvements.
“Hundreds of meals from restaurants and chefs worth 359,000 shekels (US$102,399) were received from the state fraudulently,” the ministry statement said.
An indictment would lead to a future hearing, the date of which is still unknown.
Significantly, the case may also be a precedent for moving forward with charges against the Prime Minister himself.
Benjamin Netanyahu is currently under investigation for several cases related to bribery, fraud, breach of trust, and misuse of funds. He is accused of receiving “lavish” gifts from wealthy supporters, such as luxury goods, and of purchasing positive coverage from newspaper owners.
His personal lawyer, David Shimron, is facing |
Question. Can I freeze the blue cheese crumbles I use to toss with salads?
Answer. Soft cheese should not be frozen, but you | can freeze hard and semi-soft cheese. Just keep in mind that freezing changes cheese's texture. And while most experts agree that freezing is acceptable, though not the ideal method for preserving cheese, most are not as stringent as Steven Jenkins in Cheese Primer: "Cheese suffers enormously from being frozen, so simply get the notion out of your head," he writes.
Katie Neuser, manager of the information center at the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board, explained that cheese's texture changes after being frozen because protein and milk-fat portions in the cheese freeze and thaw at different rates, with a tendency to make semi-soft and hard cheese "a little bit crumbly."
But since you're interested in freezing crumbles, go right ahead.
Freeze (up to 6 months) only pieces 1 pound or less.
Thaw cheese in the refrigerator, and use within a few days of thawing.
Q: I have a recipe calling for 1/2 |
Palisade Asset Management LLC lessened its holdings in General Dynamics Co. (NYSE:GD) by 31.1% during the first quarter | , HoldingsChannel reports. The firm owned 38,565 shares of the aerospace company’s stock after selling 17,395 shares during the period. Palisade Asset Management LLC’s holdings in General Dynamics were worth $6,528,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.
Several other hedge funds have also made changes to their positions in GD. Bank of New York Mellon Corp grew its holdings in shares of General Dynamics by 1.6% during the third quarter. Bank of New York Mellon Corp now owns 1,914,278 shares of the aerospace company’s stock worth $391,891,000 after buying an additional 29,753 shares during the last quarter. LPL Financial LLC grew its holdings in shares of General Dynamics by 5.0% during the third quarter. LPL Financial LLC now owns 61,144 shares of the aerospace company’s stock worth $12,517,000 after buying an additional 2,936 shares during the |
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Now that Halliburton is buyingBaker Hughes in order to make a run at Schlumberger, many investors are probably wondering which one of | these two oil-field services companies is the better buy today. So we asked two of our energy contributors to lay out why one should be higher on your buy list than the other. Here's what they had to say.
HAL P/E Ratio (TTM) data by YCharts.
Because of Schlumberger'slarger size and scale, investors have traditionally paid a premium to own its stock. This irks Halliburton's senior management because their company's operational returns have been better than its larger peer, particularly over the past few years, as we see in this next slide.
Halliburton, thus, believes it deserves the premium valuation from investors. But it realizes that won't happen until it can rival Schlumberger in size. This is aprimary driverbehind the company's desire to merge with Baker Hughes: It feels the combination |
BANGKOK (AP) — The head of Thailand’s immigration police said Monday that a young Saudi woman who was stopped in Bangkok | as she was trying to travel to Australia for asylum to escape alleged abuse by her family will not be sent anywhere against her wishes.
Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun remained barricaded in an airport hotel room while sending out desperate pleas for help over social media. The 18-year-old began posting on Twitter late Saturday after her passport was taken away when she arrived in the Thai capital on a flight from Kuwait. She has been appealing for aid from the United Nations refugee agency and anyone else who can help.
Earlier in the day, Thailand’s immigration police chief, Maj. Gen. Surachate Hakparn, said Alqunun’s father would arrive Monday night, and that officials would see if the young woman was willing to depart with him.
“As of now, she does not wish to go back and we will not force her. She won’t be sent anywhere tonight,” Surachate said at a news conference at |
LITTLE ROCK � Pushing for the implementation of a federal law that he didn't support and adjusting to a General Assembly controlled by his rival | party, Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe may not drive the agenda in his last regular legislative session. The term-limited Democrat seems determined to at least drive the debate.
LITTLE ROCK � Pushing for the implementation of a federal law that he didn�t support and adjusting to a General Assembly controlled by his rival party, Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe may not drive the agenda in his last regular legislative session. The term-limited Democrat seems determined to at least drive the debate.
Beebe used his last State of the State address to urge lawmakers to support expanding the state�s Medicaid eligibility under the federal health-care law � a measure he once said he would have voted against had he been in Congress.
He did it before a House and Senate now controlled by Republicans who campaigned against the expansion and other parts of the federal overhaul that some derisively call �Obamacare.� At the same time, Beebe insisted the Legislature where he served 20 years hadn�t changed even |
Jessica Molaskey (born January 9, 1962, Wolcott, Connecticut) is an American professional actor and singer of torch songs and show tunes | . She has appeared in a dozen Broadway shows, including Sunday in the Park with George, Tommy, Crazy for You, Chess, Oklahoma!, Cats, City of Angels, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
She has premiered theater pieces Off-Broadway, including the Jason Robert Brown 1995 musical Songs for a New World, A Man of No Importance, and Parade at Lincoln Center, Dream True at the Vineyard Theatre, Stephen Sondheim's Wise Guys (New York Theater Workshop), The Most Happy Fella as part of the Encores! series at City Center and many world premieres in regional theaters across the U.S. Molaskey performed the role of Sister Bertha in NBC's The Sound of Music Live! starring Carrie Underwood.
She has performed in concert all over the world from Carnegie Hall to Disney Hall and in jazz festivals from Montreal to Monterey. Her songwriting skills can be heard on dozens of recordings, including Cradle and All |
Tuesday, at an event for Eva Scrivo’s new book (more on that in the paper next week) the gracious host gave | out goodie bags that included macarons from Cours La Reine. I saved my little, yellow sandwich-cookie for when I deserved it. And today, after two huge mail bins and a gazillion e-mails, I bit into the petite confection. In between the crispy, light shell was a burst of sweet, tangy passionfruit ganache and ooh la la, heaven!
I had to track down the creator of this deliciousness immediately. (Confession: Having taken one macaron making class, I fancy myself something of a connoisseur and had never heard of Cours La Reine.) Turns out the owner, Taryn Garcia, spent the last year in France studying the art of Parisian macarons. Then in September, she launched her business selling macs in divine flavors such as Caramel Fleur de Sel and Pomegranate + Pur Caraibe Dark. And she informed me that this Sunday is Mac |
ARDMORE, Pa. -- The stinger in Tiger's elbow might be a bit of bother for Woods as we swing onto the weekend at the | U.S. Open -- although he's not telling -- but the rest of the field needs to be concerned about his putter. When Woods was the full Tiger, he made more 12-foot par saves than any great golfer that every played this game. The putter was the ultimate eraser for Woods, the mistake eliminator that allowed him to attack pins. In Friday's bear of a second round, when Merion GC slapped down the field, Woods made a bunch of those saves that enabled him to shoot an even-par 70, several strokes under the course average, and put him at three over par, very much in contention going to the weekend. "Yeah, I played well," Woods said in an interview that fell well short of being expansive or insightful, especially when it regarded his physical condition. "I just made a couple of mistakes out there today, but I really played well. Maybe I could have gotten one or two more out of it, but it was a |
Government conspiracy, or water vapour in the sky?
I’ve spent a lot of time debunking silly conspiracy claims in my time | . NASA faked the Moon landings, the Mayan calendar predicted the end of the world in 2012, a mysterious planet named Nibiru would wipe out life on Earth in 2003, the government created fake snow in Atlanta that wouldn’t melt and scorched when burned… I’ve even debunked government officials who claim that other government officials are covering up conspiracies.
Still, a handful of people are extremely devoted to the idea that the government is spraying us with chemicals from planes, and what you think are simple contrails are actually high doses of mind-altering (or climate altering) chemical compounds meant to keep us under control, I mean, come on, wake up sheeple!
In fact, when you see clouds coming from planes they really are just the product of condensation of water vapour. But why let facts get in the way of a good conspiracy?
Still, it’s worth trying. That’s why scientists from the University of California |
Jim Moginie is the measured one. On stage at least, the guitarist/ keyboard player tends to be the anchor the rest of Midnight Oil | spins madly around. So this time last year, the irony was not lost when he slipped and ripped a hamstring during King of the Mountain at Sidney Myer Music Bowl. “I fell off the mountain,” he jokes. “It was just a bit of moisture on the stage, maybe from the smoke machine or … I just don’t know. I passed out but I found out I kept playing through it, which was interesting.” It was about three months on his back, as it happened, an unforeseen fog that reveals something of a silver lining in Bark Overtures, a new album by one of his other musical projects, The Family Dog. “We’d been making this record for about 12 years,” he says a little sheepishly. The downtime turned into “a fire underneath me to finish it, so me and Kent [Steedman] started going through it and we found there was some really good stuff” |
Serial steroids user Alex Rodriguez is one home run away from matching Willie Mays' career total of 660. If he does, he's eligible for | a $6 million payout.
To put the size of that bonus in context, it's about three times what Mays earned over the course of his 22-year playing career. Even after adjusting Mays' pay for inflation, the bonus is more than four times his top annual salary, which was $1.3 million in 1959.
But the fact that A-Rod has admitted to using performance enhancing drugs almost surely means there will be a fight over whether he'll ever get to cash that check.
The Yankees won't comment on the bonus on the record. But numerous reports say the team doesn't think it has to pay given A-Rod's steroid use.
Related: A-Rod - Best paid pariah in the history of sports?
A-Rod might not fight that decision -- it probably wouldn't look very good if he did given his disciplinary record.
But it's not really up to A-Rod. The final word on the $6 million bonus |
New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez Wins Big. Is She the GOP’s Top Pick for Veep?
Her decisive victory will keep | her at the top of vice presidential short lists.
Heading into her 2014 reelection bid, New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez was already a fixture on 2016 shortlists for vice president. No less a figure than Mitt Romney name-dropped her as presidential material. And after her easy victory over Democratic Attorney General Gary King on Tuesday, expect to hear a whole lot more about Martinez’s national potential.
The Associated Press called the race at 10:27 p.m. Eastern time, a little more than an hour after polls closed. There was never any doubt about the outcome of New Mexico’s gubernatorial race: Martinez, who is 55, never once trailed King in the polls, and she opened up a 15-point lead in the final days of the race. Central to her success was a huge money advantage. Her campaign outspent King’s almost 7-to-1 in the final stretch, $2.4 million to $363,000. |
Independent Bank Corp. (nasdaq global select market:INDB), parent of Rockland Trust Company, today announced 2018 fourth quarter net income of | $29.9 million, or $1.07 per diluted share, compared to net income of $33.0 million, or $1.20 per diluted share, reported in the prior quarter of 2018. Excluding merger and acquisition expenses incurred in the fourth and third quarters of 2018 related to the MNB Bancorp ("MNB") merger which closed in November 2018 and the Blue Hills Bancorp ("BHB") merger announced on September 20, 2018, operating net income was $35.9 million, or $1.29 per diluted share during the fourth quarter of 2018 compared to $34.9 million, or $1.27 per diluted share during the third quarter of 2018. Full year net income was $121.6 million, or $4.40 on a diluted earnings per share basis, an increase of $34.4 million, or 39.5%, as compared to the prior year. In addition, full year operating net income was $129.8 |
Antarctic Whales Harpooned For Profit Or Science?
Auckland/Southern Oceans – 17th December 2001: Greenpeace activists today | repeatedly drove inflatable boats between an Antarctic whaling boat and its factory ship Nisshin Maru to slow the transfer of a freshly harpooned minke whale.
The whalers responded with super-powered water cannons – targeting the boat drivers and in danger of knocking them out of the inflatables and into the ice laden waters.
Shortly after, the Greenpeace helicopter located another catcher boat in the act of chasing a whale, and for the first time captured unique footage of a whale being hit with the harpoon – the first time such a hit has been witnessed in more than a decade.
“We watched the whalers chase the whale for more than 40 minutes – repeatedly firing its harpoon and missing up to 5 times. Finally they hit it with the sixth harpoon,” said Phil Robinson, New Zealand helicopter pilot.
Speaking from the Arctic Sunrise, after returning from the inflatable, Japanese Campaigner Yuko Hirono said, “ |
Feb. 8, 2018, 9:45 a.m.
With recreational marijuana sales now legal in California, one lawmaker wants to find out | whether drugged driving is going to be a significant problem.
Assemblyman Ed Chau (D-Arcadia) has introduced a bill that would require all local law enforcement agencies to file annual reports with the state Department of Motor Vehicles detailing the number of arrests made for driving under the influence and the number of those arrests in which pot was suspected to be the substance causing impairment.
“Currently, the state has no uniform mechanism in place to evaluate cannabis drugged driving arrests as a result of legalization,” Chau said.
Feb. 8, 2018, 8:12 a.m.
When you get a busy congressman like Adam Schiff on the line, you don’t want to waste time with small talk. You want to get right to the point.
Feb. 8, 2018, 8:04 a.m.
Following last week’s campaign finance reports, the nonpartisan Cook Political Report is saying Democrats have a better chance of winning two Republican-held seats |
One year ago this week, the World Socialist Web Site published an open letter to search monopoly Google demanding that it end its censorship of the internet. |
One year later, it is clear that the allegations against Google were both correct and extremely prescient. The measures taken by Google initiated a sweeping system of corporate-state censorship adopted by all the US technology monopolies, including Facebook and Twitter. A campaign that began under the pretext of combatting “Russian meddling” and “fake news” is ever more openly targeting left-wing views.
The latest and most extreme attack on democratic rights came Tuesday, when Facebook announced that it has removed hundreds of user accounts and pages, many opposing the crimes of the American, Saudi, and Israeli governments in the Middle East, claiming they were the result of “influence campaigns” by Iran and Russia.
Some of the accounts purported to be “American liberals supportive of US Senator Bernie Sanders,” who expressed “support for Palestinians and opposition to Israel,” according to FireEye, the cybersecurity firm, heavily staffed by former intelligence operatives, with whom Facebook coordinated |
Growing up in city led to many good memories.
I read with interest the recent column about Willem Dafoe’s comments comparing | Appleton to a favela — a Brazilian slum — in a recent Vanity Fair article.
I believe Willem Dafoe is hands-down the best actor of my generation and it saddened me to read his comments.
I grew up in Appleton with many good memories and some memories so awful, I entertain demons to this day. One of my good memories was living in a small neighborhood on Prospect Avenue. As a young girl, I would visit a friend down the street and be greeted at the door by his mother and a candy dish full of jellybeans.
My other favorite memories were of being in theater and plays at Appleton West High School in the 1970s. I had the pleasure of acting with many talented wanna-be actors — one in particular, Sara Dafoe, Willem’s younger sister.
After high school, I too wanted to leave the small town of Appleton and did so for more than 30 years, living abroad, in |
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