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Rogue One to Be First Star Wars Movie Shot in 70MM?
Quentin Tarantino is bringing back an old school cinematic format for his upcoming | Western The Hateful Eight. He shot his latest movie on 65mm film using the classic Panavision lenses in the widest aspect ratio of 2.76:1. This marks the first anamorphic 70mm theatrical release in nearly 50 years. But it might not be the last. A new rumor claims that director Gareth Edwards is utilizing a similar technique on the upcoming LucasFilm spinoff Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
The Ultra Panavision 70 anamorphic lenses were created specifically for The Hateful Eight. And Quentin Tarantino himself is overseeing the installation of more than fifty 70mm projectors in theaters across the United States for the film's limited Christmas Day release, before it goes wider in January playing in digital theaters. It makes sense that other productions would begin to utilize this format, otherwise all of that hardware is going to go to waste.
Gareth Edwards is said to be using the exact same Ultra Panavision 70 anamorphic lenses for Rogue One: A |
Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has blamed Hollywood's famous flick 'Harry Potter' for the dwindling number of wild owls in the country | .
Ramesh said the craze for 'Harry Potter' in India had led to an increase in people buying owls from illegal bird traders.
'Following Harry Potter, there seems to be a strange fascination even among the urban middle classes for presenting their children with owls,' the Telegraph quoted Ramesh as telling BBC.
Meanwhile, releasing a TRAFFIC India's report entitled "Imperilled Custodians of the Night", a study on illegal trade, trapping and use of owls in India, in New Delhi on Wednesday, Ramesh said that owl is highly endangered species now.
He said that maximum killings of owls take place during Diwali in the name of black magic and sorcery driven by superstition, totems and taboos.
India is natural habitat for about 30 species. There is a great threat to many bird species. Large number of communities in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh are |
Johannesburg - South Africa’s steel industry is on the ropes, forcing what looks like a desperate reversal of the frosty | relationship between government and ArcelorMittal SA.
It is not alone as the world’s primary steel sector reels from a global oversupply of steelmaking capacity.
ArcelorMittal this week confirmed it was considering closing its century-old Vereeniging steel works, while Evraz Highveld Steel, which is already in business rescue, intends to retrench half its workforce.
At ArcelorMittal, 1 200 jobs are on the line, and about 1 200 more are due to get cut at Evraz while the company seeks bidders for its assets after running out of cash.
According to metal workers’ union Numsa, the bloodbath is radiating out beyond the main steel mills with trader Macsteel also proposing 600 retrenchments.
Trident Steel recently let 700 workers go.
ArcelorMittal CEO Paul O’Flaherty, gave a sombre media |
Dave Greber joined the News 4 team in March 2015 as a multimedia journalist and fill-in anchor.
Hailing from Cincinnati, Ohio, | Dave began his journalism career as the news editor of the former High Street Journal, a weekly college newspaper at his alma mater Miami University in Oxford, where he graduated with a major in Journalism and a minor in Black World Studies.
Dave believes good journalists seek the truth and are capable of reporting the who, what, when, where, why and how. The best, however, encapsulate something more, something that wins over pessimism and monotony every time. The best have passion. Since the beginning of his career, Dave has been passionate about providing journalism that goes the extra step for the people and communities he covers.
Dave continued his print career in southwest Ohio, covering several communities as a news, business and education reporter. In 2005, he was named Weekly Journalist of the Year in a nationwide competition, sponsored by Suburban Newspapers of America, an organization that would later play an important role in his career.
Having won and been nominated for several statewide awards for coverage |
Ezra Levant spins tar sands crude as “ethical oil”—with the same tricks he used in his tobacco lobbyist days.
| This summer, as environmental groups converged on Washington, DC, to protest the Keystone XL oil pipeline, a Canadian “grassroots” nonprofit by the name of Ethical Oil went on the counteroffensive. The group’s YouTube videos and TV ads all carried the same blunt message: You can buy oil from Saudi Arabia and bankroll terrorism, the oppression of women, and fanatical Islam, or you can buy oil from Canada, your friendly, democratic neighbors to the north.
This “ethical oil” argument comes from Ezra Levant, a Canadian political commentator and the group’s cofounder. A middle-aged man with an easy smile and expressive eyebrows, he comes across in his speaking engagements as a personable, straightforward guy with a commonsense argument. In his book, he doesn’t try to impress with big words or even mildly complex ideas. He interjects his policy discussions with short sentences like “Wow.” You feel like |
President Donald J. Trump slammed social media and big tech. today for their censorship of conservative voices, arguing that mainstream media sites like CNN and MSNBC | are allowed to post fake news without punishment and that "censorship is a very dangerous thing & absolutely impossible to police."
Earlier in August, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was removed from various social media platforms such as Facebook and Youtube. Many critics warned that despite Jones espousing arguably fringe views and outright lies, the censorship of non-leftist thinkers would continue and target conservative thinkers and remove conservatives from various platforms.
CRTV's Gavin McInnes was recently kicked off Twitter for reasons unknown, other than that he supposedly violated their guidelines. But, conservatives have long argued that even if these social media websites do not explicitly block an individual or organization from using their platform, that the company would in effect place a "shadow ban" on their accounts and prevent their followers from seeing their tweets. James O'Keefe's Project Veritas even recorded Twitter engineers discussing how they planned on preventing certain viewpoints from being aired on their platform.
"Yeah. That’s something we’re working on |
ISLAMABAD, Aug 31 (APP): Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has decided to launch a crackdown against illegal | Indian satellite dishes and illegal Indian content on Satellite television channels and cable networks.
Headquarters, Chairman PEMRA Absar Alam announced that the authority will ensure that the satellite channels adhere to six minutes per hour limit of Indian content in future.
cable operators to voluntarily follow the rule, adopted during Musharraf era, otherwise punitive action will be taken from October 15.
from fines and may include suspension and revocation of the license after repeated violations.
illegal Indian CD channels, otherwise strict action will be taken.
to control the import, sale, purchase and use of illegal Indian satellite dishes in the country.
Indian dishes as it was violation of the law and against the national interests.
of Pakistan Telecommunications Authority, intelligence agencies, local police has been taken to curb this illegal practice.
that the business of illegal Indian dishes is banned. He said that the PEMRA will write letters to chief ministers of the provinces, chairman Federal Bureau of Revenue in this regard.
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New Ayoma – A clergyman has called for a socio-economic renaissance, to enable the people of Buem in the Jasikan District of | the Volta Region to regain their lost status.
Most Reverend Gabriel Akwasi Ababio Mante, Bishop of Jasikan Diocese of the Catholic Church, appealed to the people to spearhead any such initiative for positive results.
He reminded them that in the past, community-led projects resulted in the building of facilities, including post offices, community centres, and school blocks, many of which were now dilapidated.
Most Rev. Mante was addressing a durbar of chiefs and people to crown the Buem 2012 Congress, organised by the Coalition for Peace and Development in Buem (COPADIB), on Saturday at New-Ayoma in the District.
The annual event brought together the people of Buem, to discuss and chart development for the area, known for its fertile land, and used to be a bustling cocoa-producing zone.
Most Rev. Mante said some four decades ago, the Buem area was a highly favoured destination for investment |
With iOS 6 out the door, Apple gives its set-top box a minor software update that adds new features, including one aimed at multi- | user households.
Apple quietly updated software for its second- and third-generation Apple TV set-top boxes today to make it work with iOS 6 features.
The new version of the software, dubbed iOS 5.1 (though not the same 5.1 iPhone, iPod, and iPad users got earlier this year), adds things like shared Photo Streams, search, and showtimes for local theaters through the trailers app, and a way to reorder the icons on the home screen (something that leaked out a few months ago in a developer build).
However chief among the items of interest is a way to switch iTunes accounts, providing a way for multiple user households to access differing content libraries on the same box. This is something Apple has not offered on its portable devices, and its addition suggests the feature could be headed there eventually.
The Apple TV has remained what Apple considers a "hobby" device when compared with the sales and popularity of products like the iPod, iPhone, and |
Two U.S. senators are pushing for answers about a long-running series of private meetings between drug company executives and federal regulators, events that | were held at expensive hotels and paid for by the drug firms.
The letter from Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and David Vitter (R-La.) cites concerns about the controversial new high-dose painkiller Zohydro, which was approved last year by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The two sent a letter to Mark Taubman, dean of the medical school at the University of Rochester, asking for financial records on two groups connected to the university — one known as IMMPACT and the other ACTTION — that facilitated meetings between the drug makers and FDA officials.
"We are deeply troubled by allegations that the FDA gave manufacturers of prescription drugs the opportunity to pay thousands of dollars to the University of Rochester Medical Center for the privilege to attend private meetings with FDA officials," the senators wrote.
They cited an investigation by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/MedPage Today that chronicled email communications between federal officials and doctors who created the groups |
You might only encounter the events sector a few times a year; maybe you regularly attend conferences, conventions, festivals, or corporate parties on special occasions | . But for the events industry itself, every day is a special occasion. The events industry, built up around celebrations, has its own reason to celebrate: it is one of the most profitable sectors in the worldwide economy, bringing billions in revenue to destinations all over the world.
Take Chicago’s McCormick Place. This 2.6 million square foot event complex is at the centre of the city’s events ecosystem, playing host to thousands of events and contributing an estimated $1.7 billion a year to the Illinois economy. Without this single venue, Chicago (and Illinois in general) would be far worse off financially.
Similar venues can be found around the world. The events industry has established itself as an important, irreplaceable sector of the economy, and it’s likely to stay that way—at least for the near future.
How much does the events industry generate?
Sticking with McCormick Place as an example, the aforementioned $1.7 |
Naples, New York, is located in Ontario County near Canandaigua Lake. It is considered part of the Finger Lakes Wine Region. | It is best known for the Grimes Glen, which offers trails and waterfalls for every level hiker. Even though only two wineries are considered directly in Naples -- Imagine Moore Winery and Hazlitt 1852 Vineyards -- the region is home to more than 100 wineries. A number of options are available if you'd like to take wine tours while in this area.
Bus, train and even trolley wine tours are available in the Finger Lakes, but not a lot of options that do tours from Naples, New York. Canandaigua Bus Tours does go through Naples and gives you a number of options. This company will put together a tour if you have a group, or you can join one of their featured wine tours. Check with the company for details as the organized tours are subject to change.
More options are available to be picked up in Naples for a wine tour of this upstate New York area if you want to hire a private car. Quality Wine Tours will |
In trading on Friday, shares of Cavium crossed above their 200 day moving average of $36.00, changing hands as high as $36 | .05 per share. Cavium Inc shares are currently trading up about 1.3% on the day.
The most recent short interest data has been released by the NASDAQ for the 11/29/2013 settlement date, which shows a 431,274 share increase in total short interest for Cavium Inc, to 4,264,530, an increase of 11.25% since 11/15/2013. Total short interest is just one way to look at short data; another metric that we here at Dividend Channel find particularly useful is the "days to cover" metric because it considers both the total shares short and the average daily volume of shares traded.
Investors in Cavium Inc saw new options become available this week, for the June 2014 expiration. One of the key data points that goes into the price an option buyer is willing to pay, is the time value, so with 241 days until expiration the newly available contracts represent a potential opportunity for sellers of puts or |
For decades Republican leaders vowed to recruit more minority candidates and tried to project a “big tent” image for the party, and in recent | years they saw some payoff with governors: Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Nikki Haley of South Carolina, both Indian-Americans who have since moved on, and Brian Sandoval of Nevada and Susana Martinez of New Mexico, both Hispanic-American.
But in the first midterm elections under Donald J. Trump, whose campaign and presidency included strong appeals to white voters, Republicans have no black or Hispanic nominees for governor in 2018, and few from other racial minorities, in the 36 states holding elections for the position. The overwhelming majority are white men.
And with Mr. Sandoval and Ms. Martinez leaving by early January, Republicans are at risk of having an all-white bench of governors in 2019.
Democrats this year, by contrast, have nominated black, Hispanic and Native American candidates for governor in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Maryland and elsewhere. This lineup comes after years when Democrats were weak on diversity in governors’ races.
The Republican falloff is striking after past election seasons |
Michael Schumacher. File photo. © Unknown.
Michael Schumacher has “moments of consciousness and awakening“, his | spokeswoman said Friday, in a sign of progress months after the Formula One legend suffered devastating brain injuries in a ski accident.
Doctors put Schumacher in a medically induced coma after the December 29 accident in which he slammed his head on a rock while skiing at the French resort of Meribel with his son and friends, and little has filtered through since about his condition.
“Michael is making progress.... He shows moments of consciousness and awakening,” Sabine Kehm said in a statement.
The 45-year-old remains in hospital in the French Alpine city of Grenoble, where he underwent two operations to remove life-threatening blood clots before being placed into a coma.
His family said at the end of January that drugs used to keep him in his deep sleep were being reduced with a view to bringing him back to consciousness.
“We are on his side during his long and difficult fight, together with the team of the hospital in Grenoble, |
It was 2004: the New England Patriots won their second Super Bowl, Facebook was launched and the US Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time | in four years—the start of a two-year cycle of rate hikes. To markets, it seems like a distant memory.
The Fed's last rate-raising streak ended in June 2006. Now, nine years later, the market's still waiting for the Fed to ratchet up rates. While the timing of its next move is still up in the air, the Fed seemed to indicate at the end of 2014 that mid to late 2015 may be a starting point—and many economists concurred with that forecast. Meanwhile, the Fed continues making major preparations for policy normalization.
It's been a long time since investors experienced the effects of a Fed rate hike. What difference does such a long lull mean for the Fed? And how should bond investors position themselves?
Whenever the Fed decides to act, the process will look very different in 2015 than it did in 2004.
For starters, the Fed will use new tools—and terminology. The federal funds market was a major tool last |
June 4, 2018, 11:29 a.m.
You probably heard a songbird this morning — maybe a bright-vested rob | in or a purple martin calling from the yard.
But the seasonal symphony isn't what it used to be. The singers are exiting the stage in droves.
"By some estimates, we may have lost almost half the songbirds that filled the skies almost 40 years ago," ornithologist Bridget Stutchbury told the CBC.
We know that noise pollution is a significant factor. A study published earlier this year suggested the constant drone from oil and gas operations and blaring city sounds are stressing songbirds — ultimately dampening their nesting instinct.
That's on top of the usual culprits: habitat encroachment, agricultural development and all the pesticides that accompany it. No wonder today's birds are singing a sad, sad song.
The purple martin alone, according to the North American Breeding Bird Survey, has lost around 78 percent of its population since 1970.
That staggering decline is a big reason why researchers are are scrambling to track songbird migration patterns. |
A woman who threw a glass in a pub’s beer garden and struck a man on the head was given a suspended prison sentence last Wednesday | at Craigavon Magistrates Court.
Sandra Rainey (50), Lurgantarry, Lurgan, admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm on July 7 last year.
The court heard that the injured party was with his wife and friends in JP’s bar, Lurgan, at 11pm and were in the beer garden at the back.
A woman threw a glass at him and he fell off his chair as it struck him on the forehead leaving him with a wound which needed stitches.
Rainey said she did not intend to hit the injured party and did not know who he was.
She added she had been having a bad night and intended to throw the glass over a wall.
The case was adjourned from a previous court to obtain a pre-sentence report.
Defence barrister Connor Lunny said his client was well aware of the sentencing options and that this case could well have been heard in a higher court.
He added that |
Officials say the federal funds for Ocean City's beach nourishment will restore the defenses that protect the city from storms.
Sen. Ben Cardin | (D-Md.) highlighted on Monday an advance in the $3 million federal investment necessary for Ocean City's beach nourishment.
Cardin hosted a press conference on the Ocean City Boardwalk along with other officials, including Mayor Richard Meehan, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project manager Justin Callahan to discuss critical infrastructure projects.
The beach is a major selling point that draws people into Ocean City, but Cardin also emphasized that the beach protects the city against storms.
With each storm eating away at that protection, Cardin said, the federal investment in this project is crucial to restoring that defense, which will prevent property damage.
Originally, the funding was expected to come in fiscal year 2018, but advancing the funding in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' fiscal year 2017 work plan will ensure the project is completed in a timely manner, he said.
"That $3 million |
The emergence of the tea party movement is arguably the most dynamic element of the 2010 midterm elections. Many 'tea party' candidates won the backing | of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin – but also earned the disdain of the Republican establishment. In the end, which candidates with tea party support won, who lost, and what's next?
Sen.-elect Marco Rubio (R) of Florida thanks supporters in Coral Gables, Fla. after winning his senate bid Tuesday, Nov. 2.
Marco Rubio, a 39-year-old Cuban-American, earned a decisive victory over Gov. Charlie Crist, and Democratic Congressman Kendrick Meek in the Florida US Senate race.
Rubio is not only a tea party favorite but also seen as young Republican rising star, who has been called the "Barack Obama" of the GOP.
Rubio is a fiscal conservative who campaigned on reinstating Bush administration tax cuts and reducing corporate taxes.
Rubio was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 2000 and won each of his re-election bids. In 2006, he was elected Speaker of the Florida State House.
Rubio replaces |
In this October 2016 photo, a scientist measures coral mortality following bleaching on the northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
Suh is president of | the Natural Resources Defense Council.
In the past two weeks, President Donald Trump has walked away from plans to cut the carbon footprint of our cars. He’s proposed defunding a plan to do the same to our power plants. He’s given a green light to the Keystone XL Pipeline and its dirty tar sands. Now he’s poised, as early as this week, to issue orders that would deepen our reliance on the very fossil fuels driving climate chaos worldwide, by opening more federal lands to coal production and further weakening the Clean Power Plan, which promotes energy efficiency and renewable power from the wind and sun.
This is not just another Trumpwellian sideshow. The President is sounding the retreat from the promise of cleaner, smarter ways to power our future. And he’s abandoning the American climate and clean-energy leadership that led the world to the historic Paris Agreement to cut the global carbon footprint.
Since the Industrial Revolution ushered in the age of coal, |
Attractive design, simple to use, easy file encryption.
This PDA is fast, powerful, and equipped with both Bluetooth and Wi- | Fi, but the biometric fingerprint reader doesn't work as well as it should.
HP's iPAQ Hx2755 packs plenty of processing power and RAM, and its simple design makes it easy to use. The unit's most notable shortcoming, though, is also its most distinctive feature: a biometric fingerprint reader.
The Hx2755, which runs Windows Mobile 2003, comes with Intel's powerful 624-MHz Intel PXA270, which handles standard applications without breaking a sweat. The 128MB of internal RAM (up to 80MB is available to the user) stows a fair amount of data, and you can use appropriate media cards in the CompactFlash and SD Card slots as well. In my informal tests the rechargeable lithium ion battery ran for nearly 6 hours of light use before shutting down.
The substantial, smooth-edged Hx2755 sits comfortably in the hand and is simple to use. With only four buttons--Calendar, |
Nintendo has confirmed the new date and time of its first Nintendo Direct since E3 2018 this past summer.
The company originally intended to stream the | show on 6 September but, due to the devastating earthquake in Hokkaido in its homeland of Japan, it delayed the transmission. We now have a new date and time. It will broadcast at 11pm BST tomorrow (Thursday, 13 September).
Find out how to watch it below.
The show will run for around 35 minutes.
It's also available on the Nintendo Direct site and Nintendo UK YouTube.
The event will likely be exactly the same as originally intended, considering it is generally pre-recorded. The dedicated landing page indicates Nintendo will talk about games for both 3DS and the Switch. We suspect it will discuss Super Mario Party, which comes to Switch on 5 October, as well as the new Luigi’s Mansion, coming soon to Nintendo 3DS. It also might provide details on Nintendo Switch Online.
Nintendo Switch Online, the console’s upcoming subscription service.
Super Mario Party, launching 5 October.
Nintendo GameCube-exclusive Luigi’s |
The 15 female PR professionals chosen to be'mentees' as part of the PRWeek/Women in PR Mentoring Project have been named. |
Each will be matched with a mentor – an experienced female PR figure – who will offer guidance through face-to-face meetings and other forms of contact. The project, in its second year, is a joint initiative between PRWeek and Women in PR that is designed to tackle the lack of female leaders in comms.
* Laura Weston, MD, Iris Worldwide.
They were chosen by a panel convened by Women in PR following an application process via PRWeek.
Women in PR president Mary Whenman said: "As a partner of PRWeek’s 2015 Mentoring Project we were very impressed with the calibre of the candidates, so judging was a difficult task. We would like to thank everyone who submitted an application. The standard was very high and we would encourage those not shortlisted this year to re-apply in the future when they have gained more experience."
Click here for a list of the 15 mentors.
To read about how the 2014 Mentoring Project helped |
Is spanking children good or evil? Every child is different. I’ve raised and helped raise many.
Some children respond to time | outs and having their toys taken away. Some children respond to lost privileges (grounding), but some only respond to a swift smack on the backside. I’m not talking about teenagers. If you’re having problems by then, you have missed the boat.
Never hit a child out of anger. I wish my parents had learned that lesson.
Spanking a child is not about anger, but about teaching them discipline. If you are spanking your child, you should not like it or want to do it. It should make you feel bad. This should be the last and final resort. This is not about your justification for taking action for a bad child’s behavior but the last option to make that child behave in a socially acceptable manner.
Once they get a little older, especially with boys, a little sting shows you are the dominant person in the household. This actually works. It is not abusive and when used in the right way makes a huge |
The TV news recently broadcast a meeting at Temple Trees chaired by the President that discussed the proposed development of a 1800 acre sports complex at Migahaj | andura. Thereafter, the Sunday Times reported cabinet approval of Rs. 15 billion for a sports complex at Hambantota. This report did not refer to Migahajandura.
I write from memories of 60 years ago, when in 1953, I was transferred to the Irrigation Department (ID) Engineer’s Office at Tissamaharama as a young Technical Assistant (TA). The development of the Malala Ara basin was my responsibility, in addition to other work.
Migahajandura was a village of about 35 families, 20 miles from Hambantota. The Migahajandura wewa was across a right bank tributary joining Malala Ara about midway in its 40-mile journey from Hambegamuwa area to the Malala Kalupuwa (Lagoon) at Udamalala and into the southern Indian Ocean. There were three abandoned wewas across the main Malala Ara viz Mahagal we |
Giants finalize contract with Melvin Upton, Jr.
Giants finalize deal with Melvin Upton Jr.
SAN FRANCISCO – | The question after Tuesday night’s 4-3 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks wasn’t whether Denard Span could have caught that three-run triple near the center field wall.
It’s whether Melvin Upton Jr. could. And maybe throw Drew Stubbs into that conversation, too.
Gorkys Hernandez is the right-handed portion of the Giants’ hazy platoon in center field, and Hernandez is the one who couldn’t catch Jake Lamb’s drive with the bases loaded in the third inning. He appeared to have the ball tracked down as he approached the wall, but he mistimed his little hop and whiffed on it as three runs scored.
On Wednesday morning, the Giants finalized their minor league contract with Upton Jr. and he has reported to extended spring training in Arizona, GM Bobby Evans said.
It’ll be a few days before Upton Jr. would join Triple-A Sacramento. He strikes out a |
France and Germany are to send ministers to Taiwan in January for last-minute campaigning ahead of a decision on a lucrative high-speed rail contract, | an official from one of the bidding firms said.
"French Transport Minister Jean-Claude Gayssot and German Economic Minister Werner Muller will travel to Taiwan in January but not on the same date," said an official from the Eurotrain consortium -- made up of French firm Alstom and Germany's Siemens.
"We have full support of both governments," the official said on condition of anonymity. "It is reasonable they would voice their concerns while here."
The European conglomerate is locked in battle with the Shinkansen group of Japan for a NT$95 billion (US$3 billion) contract to supply train carriages and locomotives.
Gayssot cancelled a visit to Taiwan this month following the outbreak of a cabinet-level scandal in Paris which involves weapon sales to Taipei years ago.
Local media said Gayssot was scheduled to meet President Lee Teng-hui, Transport Minister Lin Feng-cheng and Nita Ing, chair |
While it is not unusual for big investment banks to buy bankrupt countries' debts, the latest Goldman Sachs purchase raised more eyebrows than usual because it came | as Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's regime is facing massive street protests, which have left nearly 60 dead in recent weeks, and amid growing international pressures for the restoration of democracy in that country.
Julio Borges, the president of Venezuela's opposition-majority National Assembly, fired an angry letter to Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein on May 29, saying that the bank's "financial lifeline to the regime will serve to strengthen the brutal repression unleashed against the hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans peacefully protesting for political change."
Borges wrote that considering "the irregular nature" of the transaction and the "absurd financial terms of the deal in detriment of Venezuela and its people," the Venezuelan Congress will open an investigation into the case. He added that he will recommend "to any future democratic government of Venezuela not to recognize or pay these bonds."
Harvard University economics professor Ricardo Hausmann, a former Venezuelan planning minister and chief economist of the Inter-American Development Bank, says that what |
A Martin County business is closing up shop, temporarily, because of potentially toxic algae just feet away from their doorstep.
Florida Sportsman Magazine is | not closing because of financial impacts. This time, it is solely because of health concerns.
Staff posted a sign on their door Wednesday reading "Closed. Toxic Algae Fumes."
They say they can smell the algae inside the building, located along Kanner Highway near Monterey Road.
Like preparing for a hurricane, Wednesday, they locked up and left, only to return when they know for sure that it is safe.
“This isn’t too unlike what we’ve had to do in previous hurricanes. Shutter the windows, and figure out how we’re going to bring magazines to the press working remotely,” said publisher Blair Wickstrom.
Wickstrom expects the staff will be working remotely for a couple weeks.
But, if the blue-green algae don't wash away, they might need a new location.
Wickstrom says he could see the algae getting worse this week. Employees were reporting symptoms like scratchy |
A job seekers will be welcomed at a job fair today from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at 257 Maine Street next to The | Wok.
The Fallon Chamber of Commerce and Churchill County Economic Development Authority are hosting the event with businesses looking for qualified job seekers.
Natalie Parrish, executive director of the Fallon Chamber of Commerce said businesses expected to attend include the following: Fallon Auto Mall, The Dentist’s Office, Nevada Job Connect, Churchill County School District, Highland Village, U.S. Fish & Wildlife, Roberta Stafford, Fallon Youth Club, Louie’s Home Center, A&K Earthmovers, No Child Left Behind, Kent’s Supply, United States Navy, Churchill Community Coalition, Best Western, Choice Wireless, The Homestead, Janess Printing & Marketing, Too Cute Totes, DFA Milk Plant and many more.
According to Parrish, job seekers will have the opportunity to look at current job openings, deliver resumes, meet with local businesses, conduct possible onsite interviews and have face-to-face contact with many hiring businesses.
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FRANKLIN, Tenn., Aug. 6, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- IASIS Healthcare® LLC ("IASIS | ") today announced that it will provide an online listen-only Web simulcast of its fiscal third quarter 2015 conference call on Thursday, August 13, 2015. The Company will release its results for the fiscal third quarter ended June 30, 2015, before the opening of the market on August 13th.
The broadcast of IASIS' conference call will begin at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time on August 13th. The link to this event can be found at the Company's website: www.iasishealthcare.com.
IASIS Healthcare LLC is a healthcare services company that seeks to deliver high-quality, cost-effective healthcare through a broad and differentiated set of capabilities and assets that include acute care hospitals with related patient access points and a diversified managed care risk platform. With total annual revenue of approximately $2.6 billion, IASIS, headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee, owns and operates 16 acute care hospitals, one behavioral hospital and multiple other access points, including 144 |
It was a United Church of Christ minister who persuaded Janice Garfunkel, the new rabbi at B'nai Abraham congregation in Hagerstown | , to enter the seminary 16 years ago.
The two women were volunteering at a free clinic and counseling center in Dayton, Ohio, on a slow day when Garfunkel asked her co-worker what she was reading.
It was a book on theology and it launched a conversation about Garfunkel's indecision about whether to become a rabbi.
The minister "really convinced me that I should be a rabbi. She assuaged my concerns," Garfunkel said.
These days Garfunkel, 38, is unabashedly enthusiastic about her vocation.
"I like studying and I especially like studying about religion and Judaism. And I like teaching. I care deeply about Judaism and preserving and enriching it.
"And I like creating community. And I like counseling. So when I listed all those things, the only job I could think of was rabbi," she said.
On Aug. 4, Garfunkel took over as B'nai Abraham's |
UWE ROSLER has told Brentford fans to lay off Marcello Trotta.
Trotta rejoined The Bees for another loan spell | this week - just months after costing them automatic promotion.
The Fulham striker, 20, disobeyed orders not to take a stoppage-time penalty against Doncaster at the end of last season - and crashed his spot-kick against the bar.
Doncaster then went back up the other end and scored the goal that clinched promotion for the Yorkshire club.
Now some Brentford fans have bombarded social media sites to question his return.
Impact But Brentford boss Rosler said: "It's important everyone gives Marcello a chance.
"He knows some people have not forgotten. Of course, people still remember him for that penalty.
"I remember the impact he made for the club. We should judge him on that."
Following their play-off final defeat to Yeovil, Trotta could be excused for wanting to see the back of the west Londoners.
But Rosler reckons he has shown character in heading back to the |
Employees spend a lot of time together so work satisfaction is crucial.
3 What Are the Causes of Job Satisfaction in the Workplace? |
Workplace satisfaction helps companies extract the best performance from their employees. Happy associates represent the company in a positive light, while dissatisfied members bring down the production curve. A 2001 study sponsored by Wolters Kluwer states, "Trust has a significant impact on important organizational factors." The top five factors that contribute to satisfaction in the workplace depend on organizational trust. It's important that employees and managers know what's needed for peak production at a small business.
Inability to move up the career path leads to employee frustration and overall dissatisfaction. Companies that clearly present career path requirements will experience happy, motivated team members. Employees need to know what the requirements are for each position in the department. You, as the employer, need to understand that in-house promotions lead to better workplace loyalty and overall employee output. When advancement requirements are vague, employees feel stagnant or unimportant to the company.
The chain of command is a reliable force when it works properly. However, if employees feel their voice is lost |
We take a look at our first retail NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 660 Ti video card in the form of the Power Edition model from MSI.
| Much to the horror of NVIDIA and a number of their partners, we had the opportunity to look at the new GTX 660 Ti GPU in both stock form and overclocked form well ahead of the official launch today. Today we look at our first retail sample based on the new GPU and that comes from MSI in the form of the GTX 660 Ti 2GB Power Edition.
Being a Power Edition video card our approach would be to overclock this bad boy, but because it's the first retail GTX 660 Ti that we've received, we want to see just how this model compares out of the box compared to the reference clocked version we looked at the other week. Once we've done that we'll revisit the card in another article that will be published soon and see just what the Power Edition name brings to the table when it comes to achieving an overclock and how it differs to the overclock we got out of the reference card.
As always, though, we've got a number of things |
Although Thailand’s capital city is a great place to absorb the culture of the country, there are several destinations just beyond Bangkok | ’s periphery which will widen your horizons and give you a true taste of Thai life. From beautiful beaches and crazy nightlife, to ancient architectural ruins, thickly canopied forests housing endangered species, and wine-tasting tours on a sprawling vineyard—there’s something here for everyone for Bangkok day trips. So, take your pick among the weekend getaways from Bangkok.
At the base of Northern Thailand lies the cosmopolitan asylum known as Chiang Mai. Blessed with a slow pace of life, Chiang Mai is a picture-perfect haven for tourists, travellers, adventure enthusiasts and nature lovers. And because Chiang Mai is a historic city, it is obvious for centuries’ old temples and monasteries to co-exist alongside swanky hotels and new-age shopping hubs. The presence of misty mountains and kaleidoscopic hill tribes add to the vibrancy of this city.
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North Dakota scored three times during a five-minute major on the Gophers, paving the way to a 4-0 victory cruise before a sell | out crowd of 11,890 at Ralph Engelstad Arena.
GRAND FORKS, N.D. – North Dakota took out five-plus years of frustration against the Gophers on Saturday night, most of it during one five-minute power play.
Gophers defenseman Jack Glover took a major penalty for checking from behind, drawing Minnesota’s third game misconduct of the young season.
By the time his penalty box substitute returned to the ice, North Dakota had scored three times, paving the way to a 4-0 victory cruise before a sellout crowd of 11,890 at Ralph Engelstad Arena.
The loss ended the Gophers’ seven-game unbeaten streak (5-0-2) against their archrival that dated to 2012.
No. 4 North Dakota (4-1-1) plays the same goal song as the Chicago Blackhawks, The Fratellis’ “Chelsea Dagger,” and the jam-packed student section |
MOST OF THE country is facing sleet and snow this weekend, as Met Éireann has issued a Status Yellow warning for the entire country | .
The snow-ice warning will come into effect from 11pm tonight and last into Monday morning at 6am.
Met Éireann said there would “scattered thundery showers of hail, sleet and snow expected during the period”.
It also said that there will be “poor visibility, with slippery and icy conditions”.
This warning comes after a previous that wintry showers overnight and early today would lead to snowfall accumulations of 1 to 5cm.
This warning applied to Cavan, Monaghan, Donegal, Longford, Louth, Meath, Leitrim, Roscommon and Sligo until this morning, but the new warning applies to the whole country.
Today started off blustery and windy with heavy or prolonged thundery showers. The south of the country will enjoy the driest and brightest weather today, with top temperatures between 6 and 10 degrees.
Early tonight, rain will turn to sle |
The moon has been hiding its age, according to scientists who revealed Earth’s natural satellite is 4.51 billion years old, making it | up to 140 million years older than previously estimated.
"We are really sure that this age is very, very robust," lead author of the new research Melanie Barboni told Space.com. The findings by the team from the University of California Los Angeles were published in the journal Science Advances.
The new estimate places the moon’s formation as 60 million years after the formation of the solar system, making it considerably older than the previous estimate of 150 to 200 million years.
Using uranium-lead dating on fragments of the mineral zircon, the team were able to estimate the new age of the moon, claiming the estimate is within 10 million years of its actual age. Zircon, a remnant of the liquid-magma ocean that once covered the moon before cooling and solidifying, was extracted from samples obtained from the 1971 ‘Apollo 14’ mission.
The team were able to correct the influence of cosmic rays on the mineral which can manipulate samples |
A train firm has been accused of cashing in on VJ commemorations by suspending a cheap ticket offer for the day that veterans were travelling to | London.
South West Trains is running a summer promotion, offering passengers return tickets to London for £20 during August.
But the offer was withdrawn for one day on Saturday – the 70th anniversary of VJ Day – meaning veterans and patriots travelling to the capital to mark the end of the war with Japan had to pay full price.
The company, part of the Stagecoach Group, said it was for safety reasons, but veterans criticised the move. Hundreds of former servicemen travelled to the capital for a parade and church service on Saturday.
And thousands of supporters lined the streets to pay their respects to those killed and injured in the war against Japan.
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh were also in attendance, joining Prime Minister David Cameron and former prisoners of war for a service at St Martin-in-the-Fields church.
VJ Day marked the end of one of the most hard-fought campaigns in British military history. It is estimated there |
CEBU’S top amateur golfer Lloyd Jefferson Go shot a 69 in the fourth and final round of the 2018 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship | and closed out the four-day tournament at the Sentosa Golf Club in Singapore yesterday at fourth place among hundreds of golfers from 40 countries.
Go, a former ace junior golfer of Cebu Country Club (CCC), shot a total of 270 from rounds of 65, 67 and a pair of 69s. Go was three strokes behind eventual winner Japan’s Takumi Kanaya, who carded a 65 in the final round to steal the win.
Go was one shot shy away of tying the runners-up Rayhan Thomas of India and Keita Nakajami of Japan, who both carded 269 for a joint second place in the 10th edition of the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship, which started last Oct. 4.
Go, ranked 149th in the World’s Amateur Golf ranking, paced the field after the second round but lost it in the third.
He played superb golf in the opening round, scoring 65 built from seven birdies against |
The mouse has become a mountain lion and she is ready to roar.
Penrith is no longer just a place the hordes pass through to | visit that glamourpuss, Miss Blue Mountains and her Three Sisters.
Penrith has, for a long time now, been a destination in her own right.
During the past few decades many young families have turned off the Great Western Highway and set up house along the beautiful Nepean River. They wised up, realising that the great Australian dream was way more affordable out west. They settled down and had kids, and those kids, when they were little boys, played rugby league. Not only for Penrith, but for places such as St Marys, Windsor, Richmond and St Clare.
Now those little kids are the backbone of the mighty Penrith Panthers. They have grown up to become mountain men, and their families and friends who grew up with them, watched them, and nurtured them, are just as much a part of this grand final as the players themselves.
This grand final in particular has been a long time coming. In the |
The PlayStation Classic was announced earlier this year. The console would come pre-built with twenty selected games that Sony felt like giving some love to. | Of course, the method of which they managed to fit that many games into the console was with the help of emulation. Rather than doing what Nintendo did for their own mini-consoles and create their own emulator, Sony just used a pre-existing one instead labeled PCSX ReARMed.
The news was spread thanks to the founder of the Video Game History Foundation in a tweet.
People had different reactions to the use of the fan-made emulator in an officially licensed product. Some felt the action was hypocritical due to their lawsuit back in 1999 against the Bleem Company. The suit alleged the company’s Bleem! (Best Little Emulator Ever Made) emulator was violating their rights by attempting to sell a commercial product without their consent. The suit went on until 2002 where Sony ended up losing but, the Bleem Company allegedly sold the emulator to Sony and they subsequently shut it down. Other reports claim the business went under due to the legal fees.
A large difference |
The province has found mercury in soil and possibly buried metal in an area upstream from Grassy Narrows First Nation and Wabaseemoong ( | Whitedog) Independent Nations that was identified by a former paper mill worker as a dumping ground for mercury-filled barrels.
The Environment Ministry’s findings confirm results found by the Toronto Star one year ago.
The mercury-tainted soil and the metallic underground “anomalies” were found in a clearing identified by Kas Glowacki as the area in Dryden, Ont., where he and a small crew dumped 50 drums of salt and mercury in 1972.
The province says it will dig up the clearing for more answers.
“We are continuing our site assessment and will be excavating areas where there are larger anomalies this coming spring,” said an Environment Ministry spokesperson, Gary Wheeler, in an email to the Star.
Between 1962 and 1970, 10 tonnes of mercury from the Dryden paper mill, then owned by Reed Paper, were dumped into the Wabigoon River, which flows to the two Indigenous communities in northern Ontario.
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Wolverhampton Wanderers’ impressive adaptation to life in the Premier League continues to gather momentum as Raul Jiménez scored the | only goal of a one-sided game to secure their first top-flight home victory since December 2011. Signed on a season-long loan from Benfica, Jiménez registered his second of the season on an afternoon when Burnley were outplayed and outclassed for long periods.
The result lifts Wolves up to ninth, following their win over West Ham prior to the international break, and leaves Burnley in the bottom three, winless in 10 Premier League matches and desperately needing a result to kickstart their season. Sean Dyche’s side have now lost four consecutive league matches and the truth is that the scoreline flattered them here.
Wolves could and should have won far more comfortably. The sight of Léo Bonatini missing a simple chance deep into injury-time, when the substitute shot wide with the goal yawning invitingly in front of him, rather summed up Wolves’ finishing. Nuno Espírito Santo, the |
New Delhi, Apr 14 () India's largest IT services firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is "hungry" for acquisitions and is | scouting for assets that can bring in intellectual property and widen market reach to further accelerate growth.
Speaking to, Chief Operating Officer N Ganapathy Subramaniam said TCS had acquired two entities -- W12 and BridgePoint Group -- last year and both of them have been integrated well with the Mumbai-based firm.
"We continue to remain open and hungry for acquisitions. We have one of the best track records in terms of acquiring companies and integrating them... the approach is that clearly, we are in the market looking for the right asset which will add certain amount of IP (intellectual property), market reach or client addition," he said.
TCS, which had acquired French SAP service provider acquire Alti SA for 75 million euros (about Rs 533 crore) in 2013, has been focussing on organic growth even as its global and domestic rivals went on an acquisition spree.
Infosys acquired consumer insights agency WongDoody for USD 75 million last year. |
Enterprises have been slow to move big data processing to the cloud, but not for lack of trying.
Most companies now use the public cloud | in some form, often for SaaS applications. But enterprises have been slow to migrate big data and data warehousing to the cloud, despite cost, scalability and elasticity benefits. According to a 2014 Gartner survey, less than half of organizations with big data programs reported using the cloud in any form.
This raises the question – why aren’t more companies using the cloud for data processing, especially since concerns over security are easing and more services are available than ever before?
There’s a simple answer: It’s challenging – especially for enterprises.
Much of it depends on how your infrastructure grew up. Many digital natives, with their businesses entirely online, built cloud-based systems from the get-go.
But for established enterprises with significant investments in on-premise data centers, using the cloud requires that they learn, maintain, and integrate two environments – technically, culturally, and operationally.
At Cazena, we hear stories |
An open letter has been prepared and released by the deans and directors of the seven research libraries at public doctoral institutions in Virginia. It is part | of an ongoing conversation with our campus communities about responsible stewardship of our investments in research.
On February 28, 2019, the University of California System announced the end of its relationship with publishing giant Elsevier, when a deal between the two could not be met despite months of negotiation. The key goal for UC was to secure open access to the research that UC faculty publish with Elsevier while containing the inflation and overall cost associated with the for-profit publisher. The scholarship produced by UC researchers constitutes 10% of all U.S. publishing, and their desideratum is to see that research openly available online at no cost to the reader.
William & Mary has a big deal journal package with Elsevier and with a few other major journal publishers such as Springer Nature, Wiley, Oxford, and SAGE. In December, W&M Libraries published the prices of our most expensive packages as part of our commitment to open dialogue with faculty and students about the high cost of information and priorities for faculty |
After Brexit Vote, A Look At British Prime Minister David Cameron's Rise And Fall : Parallels The British prime minister was riding high after a | sweeping election victory by his Conservative Party last year. But that campaign included a pledge to hold a referendum on Britain's EU membership.
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, accompanied by his wife, Samantha, speaks to the media in front of 10 Downing St. on Friday as he announces his resignation following Britain's vote to leave the EU.
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron was at his political peak just last year as he led his Conservative Party to an outright majority in Parliament for the first time in more than two decades, surpassing all the forecasts.
Today, his political career is effectively over, the result of another surprise at the ballot box — the United Kingdom's vote to leave the European Union.
"This is how a political life ends: with a crash, not a whimper," Scottish journalist Alex Massie wrote in Foreign Policy. "David Cameron's place in history is now assured. He is the man who took the United Kingdom out of the European Union."
Which is |
Fans of the asymmetric horror game “Dead By Daylight” have raised over $500,000 for charity, developer Behaviour Interactive announced | in a forum post on Tuesday.
Behaviour launched the Charity Case in 2017. It’s a collection of 26 cosmetics the team made in collaboration with “Dead By Daylight” content creators. All of the revenue made from the DLC goes to the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, a global nonprofit that seeks to improve the understanding, prevention, and treatment of psychiatric and mental illnesses.
“At the end of October, members of the ‘Dead by Daylight’ team attended the Foundation’s annual Symposium and Awards ceremony. We were able to see first hand their direct impact on the lives of people living with mental illness,” it added.
The developer is now expanding the fundraising initiative by making the Charity Case available on consoles. It’s available now for all Xbox One players and for PlayStation 4 players in North America and Japan. Behaviour said it’s actively working on making it available for PlayStation 4 owners in Europe as well.
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COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka’s police used batons to disperse hundreds of supporters of losing presidential candidate Sarath Fonse | ka on Thursday, police and a Reuters witness said, in a second day of protests against his arrest.
Tensions have risen on the island since former army commander Fonseka was arrested on Monday by military police on charges of engaging in politics against his president while still in uniform.
“Police are beating the protesters with batons,” said a Reuters photographer at the scene of the protest in a Colombo suburb.
Fonseka had appealed to his supporters to remain calm, his wife told reporters, after visiting the former general in detention.
Fonseka and President Mahinda Rajapaksa worked together in ending the 25-year war against Tamil Tiger separatists last year, but fell out soon after.
The army general ran against Rajapaksa in a presidential election last month, but was roundly defeated, after which he accused his former commander-in-chief of rigging the vote.
The government said Fonseka had conspired against the president and |
It is time for The Huffington Post (in conjunction with IAC) to reap the rewards of more than one year's worth of work. Today | marked the launch of news parody site 23/6. The site attempts to go the route of The Colbert Report, pretending to be conservative, but portraying stupidity. They get the stupid part right, but the funny but falls far short of the mark.
The site is allegedly attempting to reach "young news junkies and comedy fans" through its coverage of completely made up news and what it thinks is viral video. I guess no one told Ariana and Co. that for a video to be viral, you should probably think about allowing off-site embeds.
The president of programming for IAC says that the team took over a year to settle on it's approach to how to convey news in a humorous manner, and settled on what he's dubbing an "up-to-the-minute topical comedic reaction to news and current events." Again, the only problem with this is that as best I can tell, none of the news reports feature actual news, instead centering around stories |
Feb. 26 (UPI) -- During a meeting at the White House Monday, President Donald Trump told U.S. governors that the National | Rifle Association is on their side -- a meeting at which the president said school safety is a top priority.
Trump held a "business session" with the governors for their annual winter meeting to discuss gun violence and a slew of other issues.
Governors in attendance included Florida's Rick Scott and Kentucky's Matt Bevin -- who dealt with a school shooting last month that left two students dead.
Trump said at the meet that he will "write off" bump stocks -- with or without the help of Congress -- and proposed a revitalization of mental institutions.
"We're going to have to start talking about mental institutions," Trump said. adding that "in the old days" it was easier to commit people who acted "like a boiler ready to explode."
He added that he'd discussed with NRA chief Wayne LaPierre making it easier for law enforcement to take firearms from the mentally ill.
"Don't worry about the NRA," Trump said. "They're on our side."
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Americans overwhelmingly oppose media consolidation, but the FCC is poised to further relax media ownership rules.
Since 1996 an unprecedented spate of media mega-mer | gers has made it difficult for anyone to know which conglomerate owns what outlet, even in our own cities and towns. Meanwhile, aspiring media giants that don’t appear on the map–corporations such as Clear Channel Communications (which owns around 1,200 radio stations and provides programming for 5,000 others), Tribune Company (the only corporation to own a newspaper and broadcast television station in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago) and Sinclair Broadcast Group (which owns, operates, programs or provides sales services to fifty-eight television stations in thirty-six markets)–have aggressively lobbied Congress and worked the courts to eliminate the few remaining ownership caps. If The Nation runs a twentieth-anniversary consolidation chart in 2016, they want to be on it.
Unfortunately, most Americans no longer need a map to know that consolidation has degraded the media ecosystem on which the nation’s democratic and cultural life depends. During the past decade, as chains and conglomerates took over locally owned and - |
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Storm clouds gave way to bright blue skies Tuesday, revealing ridgelines and hillsides blanketed by a fresh and rare covering of snow from one end of Sonoma County to the other.
Pat Cruz, a wine educator at the Locals Tasting Room in Geyserville, looked out the window about 3 p.m. Tuesday and saw a dusting of snow on Geyser Peak.
It was the latest dramatic shift in winter weather, beginning with near 70‑degree days in late January followed by heavy downpours and cold days with highs in the 50s as February got underway, leading to the unusual snowfall.
Sonoma County missed any serious collisions from icy roadways, the CHP said. But Lake and Mendocino counties saw numerous crashes throughout the day, according to CHP and fire reports, as drivers lost control and flipped, skidded and spun.
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Long before the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, was founded as a Spanish-Colonial outpost in the early 1700s, native peoples inhabited the | dark basalt canyons in the shadow of the volcanoes known as the Three Sisters, and considered them sacred places of worship. While the area appears to be a barren wasteland, the land is rich with medicinal and edible plants.The first inhabitants left a record of their passing in thousands of petroglyphs carved into the volcanic rock. The area encompassing the petroglyphs is now known as Petroglyph National Monument. When visiting the monument, get the most from your visit by packing a few extra items in addition to sunscreen and water.
Trails at the national monument are on natural surfaces and may be uneven, steep or narrow. The Petroglyph National Monument website suggest wearing shoes with ankle support, such as hiking boots, to prevent twisting an ankle or going down with a misstep. High-ankled footwear can also help protect you from a bite from a rattlesnake, which are common in the area. Soles should be thick |
The Henry Royce Institute is the UK’s national centre for advanced materials research, innovation and commercialisation. The Royce works collaboratively | with industry and academia to accelerate the innovation of materials systems in order to create economic and societal benefit. With its hub at the University of Manchester, the Institute has spokes at eight partner institutions: the Universities of Sheffield, Leeds, Liverpool, Cambridge, Oxford and Imperial College London, and the UK Atomic Energy Authority and National Nuclear Laboratory. The £235m institute will allow the UK to grow its world-leading research and innovation base in Advanced Materials science.
Based at Manchester, you will work closely with the academic Core Area Champions and will have direct responsibility for leading business engagement activities covering your assigned research core areas. You will work as part of an integrated team across Royce Partners to proactively identify and drive the commercial exploitation of materials research. You will play a crucial role in driving activities including establishing and coordinating national core area community networks, and identifying and delivering Royce facilities access models.
The University of Manchester is supporting the Royce in attracting the best possible talent to maintain a stable and secure business |
Today, President Obama appointed Vivek Kundra federal chief information officer, which is a new administrative position in the U.S. government. Kund | ra, currently the District of Columbia’s chief technology officer, will be in charge of policy and strategic planning of federal investments in information technology. Kundra, 34, has previous experience as an executive at the DC-area software and IT firms Evincible and Creostar.
As it turns out, Kundra also has a connection to a Seattle tech startup. Since 2007, Kundra’s group in the DC municipal government has been using a data-visualization package from Tableau Software, based in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood. Kundra’s group used Tableau’s product to create charts and graphs for its CapStat program, which has received a fair bit of attention as a way to present trends and analysis to the general public on municipal issues like crime, disaster response, school security, and city maintenance. The program is one of the ways in which Kundra has been recognized in his efforts to make the workings of the DC government more transparent |
Shira Stoll, a Multimedia Specialist for the Advance/SILive.com, is the filmmaker behind the "Where Life Leads | You" documentary and the Staten Island Holocaust Survivor series.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- When the door opened, I saw Goldie, one of Staten Island's Holocaust survivors, standing in a pink-and-black suit with an intricately designed black fashion hat.
She had the biggest smile on her face.
"How was your day today?" I asked.
"Today was wonderful. I went to the JCC," she replied. "I'm a lifetime member."
As I was setting up in preparation for our interview, Goldie waited patiently, and kept a smile on her face the whole time.
Then we started. "So where were you from?"
And for the next hour and a half, she told me her heartbreaking story.
She lost her parents and siblings in Auschwitz. She was transferred to another concentration camp, Stutthof. And then there was her shocking account of her liberation, which she was so brave to tell |
PINK'S husband has a warning for any looters hoping to ransack homes left vacant in the evacuation zones of the California wildfires - | try it and you'll be shot.
Former pro-motorcycle racer Carey Hart issued the ominous warning on Instagram, saying looters should "think twice" before coming into Malibu.
The message was paired with a photo of masked gunmen behind a sign that says: "Looters will be shot on site".
Looting in the evacuation zones is a major issue in the wake of the Woolsey Fire.
Ventura County Sheriff's Office announced Monday that it was dispatching teams of officers to handle the situation.
The department said in a release: “We have experienced some looting activity during the past two days. Southeastern Ventura County is within a declared disaster area.
Hart, meanwhile, encouraged Americans to exercise their Second Amendment right to bear arms.
He wrote: “It's unfortunate that some people take advantage of others in a crisis. While the Malibu fires have been burning, some locals have been fighting off and defending their property against the fires |
From death by micrometeorite to living without gluten, Gizmodo has explored more than 50 everyday scientific mysteries throughout this year. | Here are our ten best.
Going gluten-free is all the rage these days. It's the diet of choice for Hollywood starlets and health nuts alike; supermarket aisles are packed full of products touting their lack of the stretchy protein. But for a lot of people, the gluten-free lifestyle may do more harm than good.
Deep water and the unprotected human body don't play well together—like, at all. But what if there were a way to get around the body's chemical limitations, a means of deep diving without the bends or lengthy decompression? Actually, there is. And we've almost figured out how to do it without killing ourselves in the process.
Today I found out what happens when you stick your head into a particle accelerator. Exhibit A: Anatoli Petrovich Bugorski, a Russian scientist who has the distinction of being the only person to ever stick his head in a running particle accelerator. Shockingly, he also managed to survive |
Members of Congress had a collective net worth of more than $2 billion in 2010, a nearly 25 percent increase over the 2008 total, according to | a Roll Call analysis of Members' financial disclosure forms.
Nearly 90 percent of that increase is concentrated in the 50 richest Members of Congress.
Two years ago, Roll Call found that the minimum net worth of House Members was slightly more than $1 billion; Senators had a combined minimum worth of $651 million for a Congressional total of $1.65 billion. Roll Call calculates minimum net worth by adding the minimum values of all reported assets and subtracting the minimum values of all reported liabilities.
According to financial disclosure forms filed by Members of Congress this year, the minimum net worth in the House has jumped to $1.26 billion, and Senate net worth has climbed to at least $784 million, for a Congressional total of $2.04 billion.
These wealth totals vastly underestimate the actual net worth of Members of Congress because they are based on an accounting system that does not include homes and other non-income-generating property, which is likely to tally hundreds of |
Yesterday, Dec. 7, 2015, 81 U.S. common stocks issued filings of shares being bought or sold by insiders. The transactions ranged | in value from $47.20 to $44,583,000.00.
Rock Mitchell, who is Vice President at UFP Technologies, sold 10,000 shares at $23.12 on Dec. 7, 2015. Following this transaction, the Vice President owned 53,235 shares meaning that the stake was reduced by 15.81% with the 10,000-share transaction.
The average volume for UFP Technologies has been 12,300 shares per day over the past 30 days. UFP Technologies has a market cap of $164.1 million and is part of the consumer goods sector and consumer non-durables industry. Shares are down 6.49% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Monday.
UFP Technologies, Inc. designs and converts foams, plastics, composites, and natural fiber materials and provides solutions to medical, automotive, consumer, electronics, industrial, aerospace, and defense markets in the United States. The company |
Giving a new thrust to Novell's 14 years of commitment to India, the company opened its largest engineering facility outside the U.S. | recently in Bangalore. The new India Development Center (IDC) at Bagmane Tech Park delivers interoperable Linux platform and integrated IT management software. The company will invest about $100 million in the country in the next three years.
The new facility with a capacity to house 700 employees will support the company's global engineering initiatives with responsibilities for several products and technologies, including SUSE Linux enterprises, ZENworks, identity and access management solutions, and Novell's Open Enterprise Server. Though the company has key technical talent in the U.S., Canada, Germany, Mexico, and the Czech Republic, the IDC represents Novell's largest concentration of technical talent outside the U.S.
The Norwegian company Tandberg, a provider of tele-presence, high definition videoconferencing, and mobile video solutions is betting on Indian market. As a part of the move, Tandberg has kicked off its first R&D center in India.
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We get all sorts of products sent to us and today we would like to shout out about the ‘Kitsound BoomBar Bluetooth Speaker� | �, we will not whisper and we will not be an echo, because this is all about sound and power so please sit up and take note of our hands-on review. When we go on holiday we all want to travel light, when sitting in the garden we need something quick and easy to pull out so that we can all listen to music, please read on to see what we think of this cool looking portable speaker.
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The Kitsound BoomBar is a cool looking Bluetooth wireless stereo speaker that allows the user to connect smartphones, tablets, MP3 devices and so much more wirelessly without any hassles. You can even connect to your laptop or desktop PC |
Zimbabwe's government is accusing the western media of fabricating stories to create what it calls a climate of anxiety and alarm in the country.
| Zimbabwe's Information Ministry singled out the U.S. Cable News Network, saying the network is trying to orchestrate a campaign of falsehoods to build international hostility toward Zimbabwe.
In a statement Thursday, the ministry also mentions several Western freelance reporters by name, including Peta Thornycroft, who contributes stories to the Voice of America.
It warns the reporters to stay away from security forces and to limit their time with an unnamed opposition politician who it accuses of giving them information. It says that if they do not, the government may be forced to act against them.
The United States and the European Union have been strongly critical of the Zimbabwean government's recent crackdown on political opponents. Several African nations have also expressed concern.
Zimbabwean police arrested and assaulted dozens of opposition supporters this month following an anti-government rally in the capital, Harare.
Several countries, including the United States, Britain and Australia, have threatened to increase sanctions against Zimbabwe and to take the issue |
Google is joining Facebook in bringing greater transparency to its political advertising tools in India as the world’s largest democracy gears up for general elections in | the coming months.
The search giant today said it will introduce an India-specific Political Advertising Transparency Report and make available a searchable Political Ads Library in the country in March of this year, a month ahead of the general elections.
These moves will allow any individual to check who is purchasing election ads on Google’s platform and how much money they are spending on it, the company said. Google also said it has updated its election ads policy for India.
In line with Facebook’s efforts, Google said it is now mandatory for advertisers who wish to run election ads in India to provide a pre-certificate issued by the Election Commission of India (ECI). They can also produce a certificate by an entity that has been authorized by the ECI, Google said.
The company, whose Android operating system powers most smartphones in the country and whose search service sees little to no competition, said it will also verify the identity of advertisers before their election ads run on its platforms |
Kendrick Perkins knew there was a possibility he might be suspended from Game 5 against the Atlanta Hawks tonight.
The Boston Celtics center, who | appeared to step on the court in front of the bench area during an altercation Monday night, was going to do whatever he could to avoid a punishment.
Apparently, Perkins� prayers were answered as the NBA decided not to suspend either him or Hawks forward Marvin Williams, who put a foot on the court in front of the Atlanta bench.
The league also did not punish Celtics forward Kevin Garnett or Hawks forward Zaza Pachulia, who were involved in the on-court skirmish during the second quarter of Game 4 in Atlanta.
League rules prohibit players on the bench from going onto the court, and the possibility existed that Perkins and Williams would get suspended like members of the Phoenix Suns were for a similar incident in last season�s playoffs.
�I thought I was on the court before all the fighting started,� said Perkins. �I was cheering on my teammates before it all started when they were getting an offensive rebound. If they look at the replay, they�ll see |
Unseeded Bemidji, led by junior Silas Hess who scored his 20th goal of the season and junior Aidan Helwig | who had two goals, defeated No. 2 seed Holy Angels 3-1 on Tuesday to advance to the Class 1A boys' soccer championship game.
Hess broke a 0-0 deadlock with a goal in the 44th minute in the semifinals at U.S. Bank Stadium.
"It really lightened it up a little bit for us," Hess said. "We could relax and just realize that we were in this game and we were here to win it."
Hess also broke up a Stars' threat off a corner kick near the Lumberjacks goal in the 66th minute.
Holy Angels (19-1-1) and Bemidji (19-2-1) played a defensive battle in the first half, and both teams made their share of defensive stops near their respective goals throughout. The Lumberjacks broke through twice to get shots on goal in the first half, but Stars sophomore goalkeeper Peter Forseth stopped them both times. |
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University Bloomington Provost and Executive Vice President Lauren Robel has announced that Mohammad R. Torabi | has been appointed dean of the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington.
The appointment of Torabi, Chancellor's Professor and interim dean of the school, became effective Jan. 1, subject to the approval of the IU Board of Trustees at its February meeting.
"The entire campus is grateful to Dean Torabi for his selfless and dedicated service as interim dean, and for the vision and judgment he has demonstrated as the school has transitioned to its new mission," Robel said. "Enormous opportunities exist for the School of Public Health-Bloomington, especially as we align its new programs with the global initiatives on campus. I am looking forward to continuing to work with Dean Torabi in achieving a bright future for this new and promising school."
Torabi served as interim dean as the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation transitioned into one of Indiana University's two new schools of public health, with the formal naming ceremony for the IU School of Public Health-Bl |
Police detain at least 18 people, including a university head, over alleged coup plot.
Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the deputy chairman | of the secular CHP opposition, said "This is an operation against the intellectuals of this country."
Hayati Yazici, the country's deputy prime minister, said nobody was above the law in Turkey.
He said: "The judicial bodies are authorised to deal with those who commit crimes. Turkey is on the right track."
Among those detained was Tijen Mergen, an employee of a unit of media group Dogan Yayin, the owner of Hurriyet, Turkey's top-selling daily newspaper.
Dogan Yayin has been embroiled in a legal battle with the government since it was fined $500m this year for alleged tax violations.
The fine came after months of public mud-slinging between Dogan newspapers and the government, prompting some, including the US state department, to question the level of press freedom in the European Union candidate country.
Government critics see the investigation into Ergenekon as revenge for a failed 2008 lawsuit to |
A lost 16th century Mughal garden in the heart of New Delhi is to be transformed into one of the world's largest city centre parks | , in a multimillion pound project from the Aga Khan and India's government.
The park will be based around Emperor Humayun's Tomb, the world heritage site believed to have been the inspiration for the Taj Mahal, and will include the Purana Qila, the medieval fort of India's Mughal and Afghan rulers, a 16th century caravanserai, smart restaurants and a museum to tell their stories.
Its driving force in India, the Aga Khan's local director Ratish Nanda, believes the project will not only provide jobs for the area's poor largely Muslim community, but also act as a peaceful sanctuary from the cacophony that comes from the capital's 16 million people.
His vision is of an oasis where visitors can quietly read a book in the shade of its rare trees, appreciate the city's rich Mughal history and enjoy Qawwali concerts in its amphitheatre to celebrate its role as the birthplace 700 years |
Defenceman Vojtech Budik has a knack for game-winning goals.
One night after potting the winner off of a rebound | , Budik was the set-up man Saturday night against the Medicine Hat Tigers.
Budik found a waiting Parker Kelly on Tigers goalie Michael Bullion’s doorstep; he passed the puck across the Tigers’ slot area to Kelly, who hauled it in, skated around Bullion at the edge of the crease, and then buried the black rubber into the gaping net.
Kelly’s third-period goal, his third of the season, proved the winner as the Prince Albert Raiders beat the Tigers 4-2 at the Art Hauser Centre, improving their record to 2-2-0-0.
Budik was skating with the puck at the top of the Tigers’ circle on Bullion’s right side. The Czech defender waited just long enough to draw Bullion out to the perimeter of his crease, when he snapped the puck to his teammate.
Sporting their Don Cherry-themed, tartan-plaid jerseys |
Asko is owned by Sub-Zero, and that is who we had to deal with. They were horrible. We purchased a very expensive As | ko washer and dryer. Almost from day one we had problems with the washer. Sometimes it would just not spin all the water out of the clothes. This was random, and it didn't matter how big or small the load was or what the cycle was. This has now gone on for over 2 years. We called the store we bought it from and they sent their repairman. The man has now been out more than 10 times. Some parts on the washer were replaced although no one could seen to figure out what the issue was. NOTHING has worked and we continue to have the problem. In addition to this at times when washing suds and water would pour out of the front of the washer onto our wood floors. Of course the repair service couldn't figure out why that was happening randomly either.
During this time Asko/Sub Zero in Wisconsin was contacted several times by the repairman, and in our presence. The poor guy just didn't know |
Though it has been 50 years since a mill dumped mercury upstream from Grassy Narrows First Nation, the reserve’s children are showing | troubling signs that the neurotoxin is still poisoning the community.
Children whose mothers ate fish at least once a week while pregnant are four times more likely to have a learning disability or nervous system disorder that is slowing their efforts in school, says new research led by a leading mercury expert. Those kids were compared to Grassy Narrows children whose mothers hardly ever ate fish.
Dr. Donna Mergler and a team of scientists surveyed the families of 350 children ages 4 to 17. The research is part of an ongoing, comprehensive study that has already revealed the adults of Grassy Narrows report higher rates of suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts compared to other First Nations adults.
During the 1960s, the Dryden pulp and paper mill, operated by Reed Paper, dumped 10 tonnes of mercury into the Wabigoon River that feeds Grassy Narrows downstream. The mill was using the mercury to bleach paper. The mercury contaminated the walleye downstream and poisoned the people who ate |
Briana Libby is not a federal employee, and she is not into politics. She lives 2,500 miles from the US border with | Mexico, where Donald Trump has demanded funds for a wall in exchange for ending the partial government shutdown.
Nonetheless, the shutdown has hit Libby, 26, with devastating force. A mother of two daughters aged four and six, she was on the verge of buying her first home in southern Maine when the shutdown happened.
A $200,000 mortgage Libby had negotiated with the support of the US department of agriculture was supposed to close on Friday. But with the shutdown, the loan program has ground to a halt. Meanwhile her landlord has found a new tenant, and Libby, a payroll specialist at a healthcare organization, fears becoming homeless.
“My loan officer is pretty confident that at this point, closing in January is not an option at all, and we need to be out of our home at the end of the month,” Libby said. “So my option is packing up all of my stuff, finding a storage unit and sleeping on my mom’ |
Since peaking in February 2018, the relative affordability of new homes being sold in the United States has continued to improve through November 2018, the last | month for which the data is available, where rising mortgage rates, falling new home sale prices, and rising incomes has combined to produce that outcome in the national level data.
The following chart shows the history of interest rates for 30-year conventional fixed rate mortgages in the U.S. from April 1971 through November 2018.
In November 2018, 30-year conventional mortgage rates peaked at 4.87%, the highest they've been since February 2011, nearly a full percentage point higher than the 3.92% recorded in November 2017. Mortgage rates began falling in December 2018, pacing the decline in the yields of the 10-Year U.S. Treasury that began in mid-November as global economic growth began visibly deteriorating.
Although U.S. economic growth has been stronger than the global economy, rising mortgage rates have made it more costly to afford the monthly payments for high-priced homes in the regions of the U.S. that have been experiencing shortage conditions, particularly in the western |
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take part in an annual summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin during which the two sides will sign a host of agreements.
| Soon after landing in St. Petersburg, PM Modi met people outside his hotel.
St Petersburg, Russia: Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in St. Petersburg Wednesday night for an annual summit with President Vladimir Putin during which the two sides will sign a host of agreements, with all eyes on a deal to build with Russia's help the last two units of India's largest nuclear power plant.
On his arrival here, PM Modi tweeted, "Reached the historic city of St. Petersburg. Looking forward to a fruitful visit aimed at cementing India-Russia relations."
With hours to go before the summit, Indian officials told PTI that last-minute talks are taking place to iron out details and language of the agreement on a line of credit for building Unit 5 and 6 of the Kundankulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu. "The agreement remains work in progress," the source said.
The reactors are being built by India's Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) |
A Phnom Penh Municipal Court judge yesterday gave an Australian filmmaker a wholly suspended two-year prison term after finding him guilty of threatening a Brisbane | -based church doing work in Cambodia.
Judge Keo Mony also levied a six-million riel ($1,500) fine against 64-year-old James Ricketson after he was convicted of threatening to dishonour the Citipointe Church by broadcasting accusations that the church sold children, Mony said.
In an email to the Post, Ricketson said he went to court and spoke to a judge, who said he would set a new trial date. A Post reporter at the hearing did not see Ricketson there.
Ricketson’s case stems from a documentary about prostitution in Cambodia he began filming in 1993. At that time, he met a young girl working as a garbage collector who became a prostitute. Later in life, the woman gave birth to two children, whom she sent to live at a Citipointe shelter.
When Ricketson recently tried to update his film, Citipointe refused to let him interview the |
The Oak Ridge Rowing Association hosted the Southern Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championship Regatta at the Melton Hill Lake course on April 19 | and 20.
It was the 30th consecutive year that the regatta has been held in Oak Ridge.
This year, 58 teams and over 1,900 rowers participated in SIRA over the two-day event. Crews came from states as far away as Texas, Kansas, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Championships were earned in 20 events and Purdue University was the overall team winner.
"It was a very successful event that ran on time once we overcame some weather challenges," said ORRA Coach Allen Eubanks. "The level of competition at SIRA is good enough to bring teams from as distant as Philadelphia and Texas.
"They come here to compete, not only for the SIRA championship, but to get ready for the Dad Vail club national championships that will be held in May. The teams that do well here normally do well at the Dad Vail."
With the SIRA Regatta in the books, there's no rest for the weary at ORRA. |
The Commission’s main action plan in the field of sport a year after the introduction of sports as an EU competence has been disclosed today. |
Sports and the sports betting sector have strong links and mutually beneficial interests. As highlighted by the Communication this is especially true in the fight to preserve the integrity of sport and in the diversification of sports funding.
The Communication clarifies that the possible threats compromising sports integrity are multiple and can be related to illegal betting but also sporting objectives.
Sigrid Ligné, Secretary General of the EGBA “We reject all forms of corruption in sport. The Commission acknowledges the efforts of EU regulated private betting companies and sport stakeholders to fight the threats related to illegal betting. Regrettably the Communication fails to address the prevention and fight against sport driven corruption”.
The Communication recognizes the existing financial contribution of sports betting activities for instance through fiscal contributions or commercial agreements. It insists as well on the need to preserve the financial stability of the sport sector while ensuring that internal market and competition law is respected.
According to Sigrid Ligné “the Sport sector has a lot |
SORSOGON CITY, Jan 6 (PIA) –- Sorsogon City police chief PSupt Edgardo Ardales | said that the city police is now in the process of synchronizing the barangay patrol system among barangay tanods and the Philippine National Police (PNP) force to ensure peace, order and security in all barangays here.
“The responsibility of ensuring peace and security in the barangay lies primarily on barangay officials and barangay police (tanod), and men of PNP is at all time available to render service to the general public according to their mandate and ensure that the whole community is secured and free from all forms of harm."
Ardales bared that among his plans and priorities for 2012 is to hold dialogue with all barangay officials across the city to discuss with them some crime mitigation efforts and forge partnership with them in order to make sure that the efforts as planned and implemented will not be put to waste.
“I am planning of entering into an agreement with barangay officials and tanods in terms of a systematic |
Marketing people tell me they use demographic data only when they can’t get the good stuff—the polling that much more precisely identifies how | people will buy (or vote) based on more detailed lifestyle preferences. But when they can’t get the lifestyle data, then sometimes demographic data provides an approximation of what’s really happening.
So it is with women, who over the past generation have become more likely to vote Democratic. The numbers go up and down with the dynamics of a particular campaign, but the trend is there. To stop with gender is to stop too soon.
in 2000 based on polling they had conducted over the years. They identified a cultural shift taking place, a change in values. A growing number of people were more concerned with protecting the environment than with expanding the economy. Cultural creatives sought deep relationships and were rolling their own spiritual lives rather than turning religion over to the establishment church.
Other researchers were finding the same trends. Daniel Yankelovich in the marketing world saw the ascendance of values over class, education, or work.
wrote about a “culture shift” from |
A friend said it was “fun” so we eventually saw State of Play. Rattling along, it did turn out to be a | kind of sophisticated, adult fun – just don’t follow the plot too closely or ask why the core interest swings from military industrial complex to single villain simplex. It also makes the case for permanently keeping Russell Crowe on a movie set – so excellent when he is being someone else.
One thing did nag at me, and it is a recurrent nag I recognise from other films in the action/thriller genre. For our desk jockey hero, time is an expandable file. With the deadline before him, the Crowe character bends his alloted 8-hour space-time into a week-long pretzel – which is how long it would take a normal journalist-sized human to accomplish all his tasks – and saves the day.
The beautiful French film Summer Hours begins with a summer party in a country house, and ends there with another summer party. In between a year passes, with the death of the matriarch of the house. Part of |
So you’re invited to an exclusive, secret-location alfresco gathering where everyone dresses divinely in white, dines under | the stars, and brings and lights candles to make the evening sparkle.
Swank Specialty Produce in Loxahatchee Groves has finalized its 2014 lineup of down-on-the-farm mealtime events taking place along its lush grounds—and for the first time, they include not only lunches but a twilight-time, wear-white and light-candles dining soiree.
Cafe Boulud's Rick Mace is among chefs in Swank's lineup.
The 2014 schedule includes three noon-4 p.m. lunches—Jan. 12 is the first—and a series-concluding 4-8 p.m. “Midspring Night’s Dream” finale on April 6.
Several Palm Beach County chefs are participating in the lineup, along with others from Miami and Fort Lauderdale. A team of at least four collaborate at each event, preparing and serving dishes incorporating Swank’s acclaimed bounty, |
Greenfield World Trade of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., is recalling about 14,000 EZDRY food dehydrators.
The food dehydrator | can overheat, posing fire and burn hazards.
The firm has received 13 reports of the dehydrator overheating and the plastic unit melting, including six reports of fire and one report resulting in property damage to the counter top. No injuries have been reported.
This recall involves white, EZDRY, six-tray food dehydrators, weighing about four pounds and measuring 12 inches tall by about 8 inches deep by 10 inches wide. EZDRY is printed on the front of the dehydrators. EZDRY and the model number EPD60W are printed on a white label on the bottom of the unit.
They were sold in a white box labeled “EZDRY by Excalibur” Home Dehydrator with a picture of the product. These products are marked “Date Code: 2116, 2416, or 3316” engraved at the bottom of the label located on the bottom of the unit.
The dehydrators |
All 10 regional chairmen of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) have asked former president John Mahama to embark on a ‘Thank | you tour’ to appreciate party loyalists for their support during the December 2016 polls.
They believe the tour, although belated, will help in the party’s reconciliatory and healing process.
Following the NDC’s defeat in the December 2016, there appear to be pockets of disgruntled members divided over who was responsible for the party’s defeat.
The National leadership of the party tasked a special Committee led by Prof. Kwesi Botchwey to tour the country to listen to concerns of party members after it was evident the many of the party’s supporters were not happy with the results of the election.
The party has also undertaken 3 Unity Walks in Accra, Tamale and Cape Coast as part of the healing process.
The 10 regional chairmen of the party, under whose leadership the party suffered the electoral defeat believe the former President’s “thank you tour” will help in such efforts to ensure peace |
ITV has today announced that Shiver, ITV Studios’ factual division, is to produce Robert Peston’s new current affairs programme | , Peston on Sunday.
Peston on Sunday is a brand new political interview programme on ITV, hosted by the ITV News Political Editor, providing viewers with an intelligent and lively approach to politics. On-air time and scheduling for the series will be confirmed in due course.
ITV Controller of Current Affairs Tom Giles is the Commissioning Editor for Peston on Sunday, which will be executive produced by Alexander Gardiner, and Mike Blair.
Gardiner and Blair’s credits include The ITV Leaders’ Debate, which aired on ITV on April 2nd in the 2015 General Election campaign.
Vicky Flind, former Editor of BBC One’s This Week, will be Series Editor for Peston on Sunday.
"We're delighted to have secured such a strong and talented group of people - Robert, Vicky and Alex, as well as the Shiver team - to help bring Sunday politics back to ITV. Shiver put in a strong bid against tough |
Modernization efforts in post-Mubarak Egypt were dealt yet another blow this week, with announcement that the first ever Arabic spelling contest will not | take place.
Mustafa Al Bashir, a 35 year old computer engineer and one of the most vocal of the Tahrir Square demonstrators, sought to dispel rumors today in a news conference via Skype.
“Let us be honest? You are not here in Cairo. It is being said by some in your media that cancellation of the Arabic spelling bee is evidence that Muslim Brotherhood’s anti-modernization teaching is gaining control here. This is simply not true.
According to Al Bashir, the confusion lies in Arabic being a word specific language that doesn’t lend itself to individual letters.
“Yeah, our language? Collection of squiggly lines means a word, and that’s what it means. This whole dissecting words into a group of pronounceable letters just doesn’t work for Arabic.
Like for example? You infidels struggle to spell the name of our holy book; I’ve noticed. It’ |
WHEELING — Some of the region’s best bluegrass, Americana and roots music artists perform in Wheeling as part Og | lebay Institute’s popular Mountain Moon Coffeehouse. Crowd-pleasing performers, expert pickers, talented vocalists and captivating storytellers entertain crowds with foot-stomping tunes and expressive ballads. Shows take place in the historic 100-year-old Stifel Fine Arts Center.
Mountain Moon Coffeehouse continues Saturday, Dec. 1 with Crandall Creek a high-energy Bluegrass band from Moundsville.
The band was started by Moundsville native Jerry Andrews. Over time, the band has evolved and grown to include other incredible talent- Doug Baker and Jariel Henthorn also from Moundsville; Kathy Wigman Lesnock of West Finley, Pennsylvania; Dustin Terpenning and Bob Rush, both of Steubenville; Lilli Gadd of Wheeling and finally, hailing from Oklahoma, Marina Pendleton.
Crandall Creek started out as the opening act for several concerts at the Strand |
New numbers show the state lost more than 2,000 farms over five years, the largest drop in more than two decades.
The latest census | data for New York agriculture shows a 6 percent drop in the number of farms statewide. The U.S. Department of Agriculture just released its 2017 census released every five years.
Ontario County lost 20 farms — a drop from 853 in 2012, to 833 in 2017 — putting its loss of 2.3 percent slightly below the national average.
The losses run the gamut, including a 9-percent drop in both the smallest and largest farms in terms of value of sales. New York also saw a nearly 20-percent decline in the number of dairy farms in the state. These losses coincide with 9-percent increase in labor costs, while some other production costs, like feed, gasoline and chemicals, declined. The average net farm income of $42,875 per farm is slightly below the national average.
USDA surveys farmers every five years and then takes more than a year to compile the data. In Ontario County, the loss of 20 farms coincided with an increase in acres |
The Football Association has been asked to investigate the circumstances of Flavio Briatore’s takeover of Queens Park Rangers by Antonio Caliendo | , the club’s former majority shareholder bought out by the Formula One tycoon.
Briatore bought the club together with Bernie Ecclestone, from a consortium, including Caliendo, in Aug 2007.
Caliendo, though, is believed to be unhappy with the deal struck on his behalf and has also instructed litigation specialists Charles Fussell & Co, and noted QC Steven Gee, to institute proceedings over the sale.
His solicitors sent a 12-page document to Mishcon de Reya, the club’s lawyers at the time of the takeover, detailing the Italian’s grievances. It is believed the matter is now in the hands of Mishcon’s professional indemnity insurers, who have three months to respond under the terms of the Professional Negligence Pre-Action Protocol.
It is believed Briatore plans to sell QPR should they fail to qualify for the Premier League, though that sale may be complicated by |
- Does this mean it has NFC?
The first beta of iOS 12.3 has revealed something interesting about the Apple Card: the physical, | titanium card will be activated through your iPhone in a similar way to AirPods, Beats headphones and the Apple HomePod.
You lay the card near your iPhone and you will see a window pop-up, showing that it has been recognised and can be activated. A tap on the "activate" button and your (literally) shiney new card will be unlocked to use in stores.
Apple's process was found by 9to5Mac while searching for changes in the latest beta version of iOS. What the site doesn't say though is how it works technically.
As far as we were aware, the physical Apple Card has just your name and the Apple logo engraved on it, with no CVV or number on the front or rear. There is also a chip for use in a store's chip and PIN reader. That's it.
There are no indications that it is contactless-enabled - although there are many suggestions to the contrary.
But if there is no NFC |
WASHINGTON, May 17 (UPI) -- Two U.S. lawmakers announced legislation Thursday to punish Americans who renounce their citizenship to dodge taxes | .
Democratic Sens. Charles Schumer of New York and Bob Casey Jr. of Pennsylvania unveiled the "Ex-Patriot Act" at a press conference Thursday, a response to Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, an American citizen born in Brazil who now resides in Singapore and who renounced his citizenship in September 2011 in a move that will save him an estimated $67 million to $100 million in U.S. taxes.
Schumer said Saverin's actions were "an outrage," adding Saverin "wants to de-friend the United States of America just to avoid paying taxes. We aren't going to let him get away with it." He said Saverin "turned his back on the country that welcomed him and kept him safe, educated him and helped him become a billionaire."
Casey called it "an insult to the American people" that "cries out for some basic justice."
The proposed bill, explained in a news release Thursday, |
JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – TSX-and JSE-listed Rockwell Diamonds is moving to contract | mining at its Klipdam mine, near Kimberley, in a bid to lower operating cost and improve the operation’s overall performance.
The company concluded a three-year contract mining agreement with CML Operations and said it had entered into a sale agreement to sell Klipdam’s earthmoving fleet at book value over two years.
Rockwell would also make minor adjustments to the processing plant, but said the overall monthly capacity of the mine would remain unchanged at 100 000 m, providing sufficient resource for the contract-mining term.
CEO James Campbell said the appointment of a contract miner represented a “step change” in Rockwell’s operating model and that it would adopt a similar approach at the Saxendrift Hill mine, which was currently under construction.
The company said that the changeover would entail retrenchments, but added that the contract miner would need local skills.
Rockwell said it decided to shift to contract mining at Klipdam |
USA-SHOOTING/CALIFORNIA (UPDATE 4) UPDATE 4-Gunman shot dead by police after six die in | California shooting spree (Adds gunman dead, six victims killed) By Dana Feldman SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 7 (Reuters) - A gunman killed at least six people in Santa Monica, California, on Friday before he was shot dead by police at a library of a community college, Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks said.
Seabrooks said a second individual she described as a "person of interest" had been taken into custody in connection with the violence, which unfolded a few miles from where President Barack Obama was attending a political fundraiser.
Authorities also found two people dead at the scene of a nearby house fire, but police said it was not immediately clear whether the fire and the shooting incident were related.
Earlier, a spokeswoman for the California Highway Patrol had told Reuters that officers had received a report of a man armed with multiple weapons, including a shotgun, firing at passing cars and a bus at two locations near the college campus just west of Los Angeles.
Students |
Some company sources put the number of layoffs higher, between 14 and 20.
Uproxx Media Group, which publishes digital brands like entertainment news | site HitFlix, men's lifestyle site BroBible, sports site Dime and Uproxx.com, laid off 10 employees between last week and this week as part of a corporate strategy shift, a company spokesman confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.
One source called it a "huge round of layoffs" for the company, which was once known as the Woven Digital Group but rebranded last year to put more emphasis on the flagship Uproxx brand.
The spokesman said the company has seen "huge success" in creating linear and over-the-top programming. "To continue our advance in these high growth areas and maintain profitability, we're shifting resources from one side of our business to another," he said in a statement.
The company, which the spokesman said is profitable, is also shifting from a focus on display and programmatic advertising to one on video and branded content.
Over the last few years, the company has shifted to focus more on video production, following |
(CNN) Representatives of the Taliban will take part in talks in Moscow next month on the future of Afghanistan, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday | .
"The initial response is positive - they plan to take part in this meeting. I hope it will be productive," he told reporters in the southern Russian city of Sochi.
Moscow has taken an increasingly active role in efforts to persuade the Taliban to enter into a political settlement with the US-backed Afghan government, with which it has been in a lengthy conflict with.
Last week, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani offered a month long ceasefire with the Taliban, as officials in Kabul and Washington push for an end to the war which has stretched on since the US invasion in 2001.
"We remain ready to support, facilitate, and participate in direct negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban. There are no obstacles to talks. It is time for peace," US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said after Ghani's comments.
The Taliban has yet to respond to the ceasefire offer, nor is there any guarantee that such a ceasefire would stop attacks. On Tuesday, mortars were fired |
SHELTON — Teacher Amanda Wandishion lets her kids set the agenda.
The fourth-grade reading and literacy class at Elizabeth Shelton | School is home base for Wandishion — recently named Shelton’s innovative educator of the month — and 48 fourth graders, 24 in the morning and another 24 in the afternoon.
Helping that bus stay on the road is Newsela, an online program that lets students pick from an array of stories taken directly from current events. Beside being interesting to read, the material is designed to match each student’s reading level and interests.
Newsela also incorporates reading-comprehension exercises similar to reading boxes that were a mainstay in classrooms from the ’60s through the ’90s.
What’s different is the sheer volume of web-based reading material and the precision with which the software — and Wandishion — can ensure that what the students read is both level-appropriate and challenging.
An educational grant provided the classroom with three microphones the students use to discuss their reading and persuade their classmates to read the same |
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