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See which area bowlers, golfers, volleyball players and swimmers had the top individual performances Tuesday.
Next match: South Fork plays at
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7 p.m. Wednesday at Jensen Beach.
Next match: Martin County plays Friday against Merritt Island and Spruce Creek.
Next match: Vero Beach hosts Holy Trinity at 6 p.m. Oct. 9 on senior night.
Next match: St. Edward's plays at 3:30 p.m. Friday at Master's Academy.
Sebastian River 197, Lincoln Park Academy 212, Fort Pierce Westwood inc.
Next match: Sebastian River meets Martin County at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at Willoughby. Lincoln Park Academy meets Fort Pierce Central at 3:30 p.m. Thursday.
Next match: Lincoln Park meets Martin County at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at Stuart Bowl. Centennial plays South Fork at 3:30 p.m. Thursday at Stuart Bowl.
Next week: Lincoln Park meets Martin County at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at Stuart Bowl. Centennial plays South Fork
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Javelle Allen played in five games this year and had 79 rushing yards and one touchdown.
Just this week, Arizona coach Rich Rodriguez said
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he isn’t against collecting quarterbacks for the future. But his collection will have one fewer entering Tuesday’s meeting with Boston College in the AdvoCare V100 Bowl.
Rodriguez announced late Saturday that backup quarterback Javelle Allen has been dismissed from the team. According to Rodriguez, Allen violated team rules and is no longer on the team. He did not tell reporters in Louisiana what the violations were.
Rodriguez said third-string quarterback Jesse Scroggins, a junior college transfer who started his career at USC, and Nick Isham, a transfer from Louisiana Tech, will be the backups to starter B.J. Denker in the bowl game.
"It will be an either-or deal with those two," Rodriguez told the Arizona Daily Star.
Allen, a redshirt freshman, played in five games and rushed for 79 yards and one touchdown. He scored on a 61-yard touchdown run in the season opener against Northern Arizona.
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To watch the company that bears your name warp into a shadow of its' former haute couture glory would be, for many men, unbearable
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. For Christian Lacroix, however, it provided the impetus to launch into a career costuming ballets and operas across Europe, to act as an artistic advisor to the French mint and to jump into…furniture design. This may not seem like a natural extension for someone as visionary and exuberant as Lacroix, but to Maurizio Leo Placuzzi, president of mosaic manufacturer Sici, he was the obvious choice.
Drawing from Gallo-Roman ruins that were discovered underneath his great-grandparents' house, Byzantine Empress Theodora and the bold, lavish trappings he imagined she would surround herself with, Lacroix's furniture collaboration is a study in bright colors and sumptuous textures with a whimsical hints of lace, studs, braiding and embroidery. The pieces, ranging from capricious wing-back chairs and tables to poufs and fringed ottomans, seem to be meant to
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The all-boys Loyola High School in northwest Detroit, operated by the Jesuit order of Catholic priests, have made a video inviting Pope Francis
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to visit the Motor City in 2015. It's part of a campaign, endorsed by Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, to invite the pope.
Detroit all-boys Loyola High was started in 1993 by the Jesuits, and Pope Francis is the first member of the Jesuit order of priests to become pope.
The Catholic school in northwest Detroit enrolls about 150 boys, many of whom are of other religious faiths.
The Loyola video is also part of the "Let's Bring Pope Francis to Detroit in 2015" page on Facebook.
Detroit's all-boy Loyola High School is sending out a YouTube video invitation to Pope Francis to stop in Detroit in 2015.
The students, many of whom are not Catholic, look into the camera and ask the leader of the worldwide Roman Catholic faith to visit their 150-student school in northwest Detroit.
"Everybody in our school goes to church every morning," said one student, "and (looks) up to you
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It seems?T-Mobile USA isn’t backing away from Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA)?. I questioned company’s
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commitment to this technology, which gives them a unique leg-up over their rivals in terms of network coverage. In mid-September, a spokesman categorically told me that the company didn’t have any plans for UMA on Android (s goog).
It’s not very clear which Android devices will support the calling, apart from the new T-Mobile myTouch and Motorola DEFY (s mot). (I’m waiting to hear back from T-Mobile PR.) From what I understand, the Smart WiFi App from Kineto cannot be downloaded from the marketplace, mostly because it only works on specific versions of Android.
The Android app-based UMA offering is very different from the UMA offering on BlackBerry (s rimm) devices or the Nokia E73 (s nok). The BlackBerry devices have system-level integration, where the device automatically switches to and off the Wi-Fi network in the background. That seamless switching is one of the main
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LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - Slovenia’s special prosecutor’s office indicted 15 people, including eight physicians, and
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a company over graft in hospitals on Monday in a case that threatens to further shake the troubled health sector in the tiny Alpine country.
An indictment was filed against 10 hospital employees for receiving gifts related to the purchase of medical equipment and medicine.
Two of the 10 were charged with money laundering and one with forging or destroying business documents to conceal evidence, the state news agency STA reported.
Three more people were accused of giving bribes and a further two others for money laundering, the STA said.
The prosecutors said their investigation since 2013 in five cities in Slovenia, including the capital Ljubljana, has revealed that suppliers of medical equipment had offered bribes to doctors and other hospital officials to favour them.
The prosecutor’s office said that these criminal acts had caused 1.18 million euros ($1.36 million) losses to public funds, STA reported.
The state of the national health system was a big campaign issue ahead of an election in June because of long waiting-
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The survey, conducted in partnership with the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, finds that tech and auto leaders and regulators believe a comprehensive,
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coherent regulatory regime is needed for consumers to feel secure buying and using driverless cars.
January 14, 2019 – The most critical driver for consumers’ adoption of autonomous vehicles, above technological advancement and adequate investment, is coherent national regulation amid consumer safety concerns. That’s according to a new survey of automotive and technology leaders and state and federal regulators by global law firm Perkins Coie LLP and the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), the world’s largest nonprofit organization devoted to advancing the unmanned systems and robotics community.
Those surveyed clearly see the potential to increase convenience and reduce traffic incidents that stem from further development of autonomous vehicle technology. And while survey respondents are focused firmly on consumers’ perceptions regarding safety, no clear majority of respondents agree on which regulatory authority should be responsible for overseeing liability issues amid the current patchwork of federal, state and local rules.
Liability concerns ranked first among the challenges that industry leaders and regulators believe could impede the driver
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WAIMEA, Hawaiʻi - Gary Fujihara of Big Kahuna Meteorites represented the "Asteroid Belt" at the 2018
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Waimea Solar System Walk.
Image of a Big Kahuna Meteorite, from video courtesy Maunakea Observatories.
(BIVN) – The Asteroid Belt was well represented at this year’s Waimea Solar System Walk, as participants got a hands-on experience with actual space rocks at the booth set up by meteorite hunter Gary Fujihara.
Under the banner of Big Kahuna Meteorites, Fujihara “provides the highest quality, authentic meteorites to collection and science communities for the lowest prices on earth,” his Facebook page states.
The Solar System Walk turns Waimea into a scale model of the solar system, inviting keiki to explore our neighboring planets through hands-on activities. The walk starts with the sun at the Keck Observatory headquarters (65-1120 Mamalahoa Hwy) and continues down the sidewalk to the Pluto and its icy friends at the CFHT headquarters (65-1238
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RAHEEM STERLING has been in fine form for England tonight - scoring a hat-trick, but who did he tribute his
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second to on his shirt?
England are taking on Czech Republic tonight in the first game of their UEFA EURO qualifiers.
And they are making light work of the central European country, putting four goals past them thanks to the brilliance of Sterling.
The Manchester City winger opened the scoring after a low cross from Jadon Sancho before winning the penalty for Harry Kane to net.
And after half-time Sterling was still in electric form, turning superbly on the ball to bamboozle two Czech defenders before placing a shot past Jiri Pavlenka.
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During his celebrations, he ran towards the gleeful Wembley crowd bearing a shirt showing a tribute to Damary Dawkins.
Sterling, a classy gentleman off the pitch, had met the youngster last summer when he was in hospital.
Dawkins was suffering from Acute Lymphoblastic Leuka
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A potential new path to dioxin and furan contamination cleanup in the Saginaw Valley is under discussion.
The Dow Chemical Co.
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expects to receive a letter today from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 office and Michigan Department of Environmental Quality that would describe the potential end points of negotiations to create an Superfund Alternative Site.
The company and the agencies hope to come to an agreement on issues such as how much more data to collect and what remedies to use for contaminated riverbanks and other sites in the Tittabawassee River, Saginaw River and Saginaw Bay.
"This is not a negotiation to establish a final remedy," said Dow spokesman John Musser. "It's an important step, but it's not the last step."
Negotiations are expected to get in-depth next month, with Dow needing to make a good faith effort by Feb. 15. After that, a 30-day extension could be granted. If terms are reached, implementation could take from one to several years, depending on what work is agreed upon.
"We'll likely see more removal
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Europe will celebrate on Thursday the 10th anniversary of the most extensive EU enlargement ever. Ten years ago, on 1 May 2004, ten countries
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joined the EU: Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Slovenia, Cyprus and Malta.
Evangelos Venizelos, the foreign minister of Greece, which holds the Council of the EU's rotating presidency, said on Tuesday that the main obstacle to Macedonia’s EU membership was the country’s lack of respect for European values.
Amid EU concerns over the state of democracy in Turkey, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan pushed for Turkey's EU membership bid on Monday in his first visit to Brussels in 5 years. Erdogan's trip comes after top EU officials expressed their worries on the independence of the Turkish judiciary system and the lack of media freedom.
Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmström signed today (16 December) in Ankara a landmark agreement opening the way for lifting visa requirements for Turks travelling to the EU within three years. Malmström also signed with the Turkish Minister of Interior Muammer Güler a
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No catch was bigger than the 15-yard gain he had on third and 12 with 2:11 remaining in the game.
It came after
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a penalty against tight end Jason Witten that erased a first down and had many wondering if the Cowboys were on the verge of repeating last year's results when they lost five games after taking leads into the fourth quarter.
The Giants were out of timeouts and Ogletree's final catch enabled the Cowboys to kneel on the ball the rest of the way and to begin a sweet celebration on the sideline.
"Our approach is to take it one play, one day at a time, and get better," Romo said. "Good or bad play, you've got to just keep doing it. Disregard it, go to the next play, keep going. Whether you are playing in a parking lot or Giants Stadium against the world champs, you've got to be able to execute the plays. I think our team has done a great job taking that approach day-in and day-out. It's been exciting to see."
It was exciting for the Cowboys to see the
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Two suspects named by UK authorities over the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter are not criminals, Russian President Vladimir Putin
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said Wednesday.
Putin said Russia had identified the pair -- named by the UK's Crown Prosecution Service as Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov -- and found no evidence of criminal activities.
"We, of course, looked at what kind of people they are, and we know who they are, we found them," Putin told an audience at the Eastern Economic Forum in the eastern Russian city of Vladivostok. "There is nothing unusual or criminal there, I assure you."
Putin appeared to suggest they should tell their story publicly. "Let them come out somewhere, to you in the media," he said, describing the men as "civilians."
Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, were found slumped on a park bench in the southern city of Salisbury on March 4.
According to British officials who have been combing CCTV footage in subsequent months, the two Russian nationals were captured arriving at London Gatwick Airport on March 2 before being spotted in
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“People put them up there so they could remember their trip and their time here and we thought the best way to honor that was to give
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it to a good cause. No better cause than to give it to the kids,” Matt Anthony said.
The Little League group came away with $1,300, while the Dolphins football team came away with $1,600. Kirwan and Marathon head football coach Lance Martin praised the Anthonys for their generosity.
Kirwan told KeysNet that the money his group collected will go toward “always expensive” new uniforms and equipment for the kids.
It’ll help our association a lot. Without people in the community like Matt and Carolyn, our organization couldn’t exist. It was really nice of them to do,” Kirwan said.
Martin said that community donations are always appreciated because the high school finances athletic programs largely through fundraisers and gate proceeds.
“It was a great gesture and it helps our program. All our costs are taken on by the Athletic Department,” he said.
The Anthonys
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The money can be used for building improvements and staff training.
MADISON - Manitowoc Lutheran High School was awarded $20,000
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, St. Francis of Assisi $27,038 and Chilton School District $25,848 on Thursday through the Wisconsin Department of Justice School Safety Grant program.
Valders, Kiel, New Holstein and Hilbert school districts were also awarded safety grants in recent weeks.
The money can be used for building improvements and staff training. Staff may receive mental health training on trauma-informed care, trauma sensitive schools, adverse childhood experiences, Peaceful Warriors, PREPaRE, and threat assessment and active shooter response.
In this round of funding, nearly $4 million was awarded to 89 schools and school districts, with more grants to be awarded in the future.
The DOJ’s Office of School Safety administers the program as part of Wisconsin’s $100 million School Safety Grant Initiative. The initiative was established earlier this year by the legislature through 2017 Wisconsin Act 143.
For more about the grant program and a full list of recipients, visit: www
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Dragon Ball Super: Broly has felt like the biggest film in the franchise thus far, and that's because Toei Animation has gone to great
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lengths to make it feel that way in both Japan and the United States.
The film is near its full premiere in Japan, and to celebrate, Fuji TV will be airing a one-hour special celebrating Dragon Ball Super: Broly on December 2.
As noted by @Herms98 on Twitter, Fuji Tv will air a special program celebrating Dragon Ball Super: Broly's release on Sunday, December 2 at 9:00AM in Japan. This is notable because this is the same time slot which Dragon Ball Super used to air in. As @Herms98 also notes, details of the new special are currently unannounced, bans should keep their anticipations leveled.
It's most likely not a new episode or anything like that, as One Piece and Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro are on break for the week, but it might contain some previously unseen elements of the new film. Whether it be new footage, or even behind-the-scenes information previously unknown, the
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The FBI withheld its findings about Gen. David Petraeus' affair from the White House and congressional leaders because the agency considered them the result of a criminal
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investigation that never reached the threshold of an intelligence probe, law enforcement sources said today.
The sources said agents followed department guidelines that generally bar sharing information about developing criminal investigations. The FBI is also aware of its history under former director J. Edgar Hoover of playing politics and digging into the lives of public figures. As one official said, the rules are designed to protect people (both private and elected officials) when negative information about them arises in the course of a criminal investigation that is not a crime.
The FBI's focus was on whether laws were broken, in this case whether federal cyber-harassment statutes were violated. The sources emphasized that Petraeus himself was never the focus of the investigation, nor did it turn up evidence he broke any law.
The focus was on his biographer, Paula Broadwell, with whom he had the affair that led to his resignation as CIA director last week.
Officials said it took time to trace the harassing emails that she allegedly sent to another woman back to
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The European Commission's investigation of organic agriculture provides an opportunity for long overdue critical scientific scrutiny, so that agricultural policies can be based on knowledge and not
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on ideology, writes Professor Anthony Trewavas of the Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology at the University of Edinburgh in a May commentary.
This commentary was sent exclusively to EURACTIV by Professor Anthony Trewavas.
''EU officials say organic farming may be worth a closer look. I agree, but only if the scrutiny is performed by those who can provide a balanced assessment and not one borne by assertion. There seems at present to be a lack of factual scientific knowledge in this debate.
Research commissioned from the University of Reading by the Soil Association indicates that organic yields of major crops are nearly half those of conventional agriculture. Production costs are also higher. Organic food is on average much more expensive and thus does not represent a viable solution to world food problems. And it is the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) that has assessed the need to increase world food production by 70% to prevent the worst of all human tortures: slow starvation.
Given the strict
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AIEA, OAHU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Ken Kang burst into tears Monday as his name was called in a surprise assembly
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at Aiea High.
He'd just learned he'd received a Milken Educator Award — the Oscars of teaching — which includes a $25,000 cash prize with no strings attached.
A graduate of Aiea High, Kang is credited with starting the school's first STEM class in 2015. He teaches students to utilize tools like coding and programming as a way to drive innovation.
And Kang's come a long way.
He started out as an English language learner in the Hawaii public school system after moving from Korea with his family.
After graduating high school, Kang got an electrical engineering degree from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1997 and worked as an engineer for several years before getting his post-baccalaureate degree in secondary education and educational technology in 2005.
He was given the Milken award for his dedication to technological innovation in Aiea classrooms.
"Ken's diligent work in improving technology resources and training his fellow teachers has advanced
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Arthur Glas of Yonkers, NY, retired detective for the Pleasantville, NY Police Department and current Vice President of the Fraternal Order of Police
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, died Friday, August 27, 2010. He was 57 years old.
Born November 1, 1952 in Yonkers to the late Arthur B. and the surviving Joan Olmsted Glas, Arthur attended Yonkers schools and earned his Master's Degree from Mercy College. He went on to serve with the Westchester Cty. Corrections Dept. and Conrail Police Dept. before joining the Pleasantville P.D.
In addition to his mother and his former spouse, JoAnn, he is survived by his loving children, Ryan (NYPD) and Kristen. He is also the beloved brother of Robert (Laura), Donald, Janet (Greg) Yovane and Ellen (Brian) Drake. Many nieces and nephews also survive.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Arthur's honor may be made to American Diabetes Association-New York Office, 333 Seventh Avenue-17th Floor, New York, NY 10001.
A Funeral Mass will be celebrated 9:
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Sources said civic authorities will first serve notice to the owner of premises in which stagnant water is found, and if they failed to act, it will
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take stern action.
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) said it would take stern action against all establishments including state and central government offices if they fail to clear stagnant water, which acts as a breeding ground for mosquitoes, on their premises.
The decision was taken after a high-level meeting headed by Mayor Firhad Hakim on Tuesday to discuss measures to prevent dengue outbreaks. Sources said civic authorities will first serve notice to the owner of premises in which stagnant water is found, and if they failed to act, it will take stern action.
“With everyone’s support, it can be controlled,” said Hakim. The notice will be sent under Section 496A of the KMC Act, under which a fine is added to the establishment’s property tax. The owner, while paying the property tax, has to pay the fine as well. The amount can vary between Rs 1,000 and Rs 1 lakh.
Though the
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Clashes have broken out in Melbourne between anti-Islam protesters and anti-racism activists, as police battled to keep them apart. Verbal
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insults and punches were traded, while parts of the city were closed off.
Police did their best to try and keep the two groups from causing trouble, as their members traded insults, while there were also some minor scuffles.
UPF rally organizer Shermon Burgess told supporters that the group was protesting against radical Islam, though he denied that he was racist. “I cannot even have my point of view without being labeled a bigot or a racist,” he said.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Uniting Against Islamophobia group, Stephan Jolly, said that they will attend a rally on July 18, which is the same day that Reclaim Australia will hold a rally.
Victoria Police said they were at the demonstrations to maintain public safety.
“Victoria Police respects the right of the community to express their views peacefully and lawfully, but will not tolerate those who break the law,” a statement said, according to AAP.
A police spokeswoman later said while
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Problems paying the mortgage, filling the gas tank and feeding the family have eroded living standards for millions of Americans during the past several months. Not
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so for people who manage big piles of money; many of them made a fortune betting correctly on the housing debacle and rising commodity prices last year.
Our second annual look at the pay of folks who run hedge and private equity funds shows that the top 20 took home a collective $18.7 billion last year, 43% more than in 2006. To even make the list you needed minimum earnings of $350 million, which is $90 million higher than the year before. No chief executive of a traditional Wall Street investment bank came even close.
Our top-ranked earner, hedge fund manager John Paulson ($3.3 billion), reaped much of his bounty from shorting the ABX Index, which tracks the strength of the subprime mortgage market. Paulson earned an estimated $2.3 billion from his share of fees charged to investors and $1 billion from the appreciation of his own capital invested in Paulson & Co. funds.
Fund manager Philip Falcone, who
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The freshman Democrat is a driving force behind the Green New Deal but she didn’t make the cut.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday
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announced the Democratic members of the new Climate Change Committee, to be led by Tampa Rep. Kathy Castor.
Noticeably absent from the committee roster is Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the freshman progressive who has used her vast star power to pressure for a bolder strategy to address global warming. Ocasio-Cortez joined a sit-in protest in Pelosi’s office, demanding a climate change committee with legislative and subpoena power focused on the so-called Green New Deal, a plan to drastically curb carbon emissions by 2030.
Castor has vowed to mold the new committee in the spirit of the Green New Deal, she told the Tampa Bay Times last month.
“I’m not going to rest until we make true progress,” Castor said.
The Times asked Castor’s office if the Tampa Democrat had a say in who made the cut for her committee. We’ll update the story with her
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The world was shocked when Slovak journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancée Kušnírová were murdered in their home in
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the Slovak town of Veľká Mača on Feb. 21, 2018. Kuciak had been working on an investigation involving the Calabrian mafia and its ties to influential political and business figures within Slovakia. Thousands filled the streets in the ensuing months, protesting corruption within the government. Among them was Zuzana Čaputová, a then-44-year-old environmental lawyer and activist who in 2016 was awarded a Goldman Environmental Prize for helping shut down toxic landfills in her hometown of Pezinok in western Slovakia.
Prime Minister Robert Fico, whose two tenures were marked in part by threats on the press and waning judicial independence, resigned amid public pressure on March 14. (He remains chairman of the ruling center-left SMER-SD party.) He was replaced by former Deputy Prime Minister Peter Pelligrini; critics warned that Pelligrini, a handpicked Fico successor, would offer more of the same.
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Viewers tuning into Fox for the Michigan-Purdue college football game at 4 PM ET instead found a Cubs-Brewers baseball game still going
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on.
Cubs-Brewers began at 1:05 PM, and given that baseball games frequently go on for three+ hours (especially when involving expanded September rosters and pitching changes in playoff races), it’s hardly surprising that a baseball game would go past the 4 PM time slot.
And, while most of the people tuning in for Purdue-Michigan probably didn’t care about the baseball game, it was a very important game for the NL Central and NL Wild Card races. So, it does makes sense that Fox stuck with the baseball game for its conclusion.
What doesn’t make much sense is that there wasn’t a bigger separation in start times for the games (though this can of course be difficult to work out, and Cubs-Brewers was already a very early time to accommodate Fox).
And what makes even less sense is that the start of the Michigan-Purdue game was moved to… Fox Business Network?
Oh, and
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Espousing the endeavor as a potential springboard for future entrepreneurs and community leaders, Happy State Bank officials hosted a Lemonade Day 2019 kickoff at
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the branch's downtown location on Thursday.
Officials said Happy State Bank is joining the Amarillo Education Foundation and the Amarillo Independent School District as presenting investors. They noted the Lemonade Day Program began in Houston in 2007, with the mission of serving as an inspiration for youths to learn the necessary steps to become an entrepreneur by opening their first business in the form of an official Lemonade Day stand.
"It's teaching entrepreneurship," Happy State Bank Chairman and CEO J. Pat Hickman said. "As a young boy I was given the opportunity, through the Boy Scouts, to sell things and put on different kinds of projects that taught me a lot of the basic principles I have today. This program covers everything from getting a business license to understanding government regulations and teaches the important principles of spending, saving and giving."
Officials said more than 600 students have signed up to participate in Amarillo's Lemonade Day 2019 on May 4, via the Amarillo Extended School Day Program, adding participants will
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Panka Peruvian restaurant will open in January on Ingersoll Avenue in Des Moines.
Des Moines is getting another infusion of international cuisine.
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Panka, a Peruvian restaurant, will open in mid-January on Ingersoll Avenue in the space that Pita Pit formerly occupied.
Fabiola Carlin and Mariela Maya, both originally from Peru, will own the eatery at 2708 Ingersoll Ave.
The restaurant will serve traditional Peruvian dishes like ceviche, lomo saltabo (beef stir fry), and chupe (shrimp bisque with rice and queso fresco), said Carlin.
About four blocks east on Ingersoll, BAH Brazilian steakhouse opened last week; Lola's Fine Kitchen, which serves Pakistani and Filipino dishes opened in May in Ankeny's Prairie Trail development; Puerto Rico Restaurant debuted in June in Windsor Heights; and Hidalgo Mexican Bar and Grill opened last week in Urbandale. Another Brazilian steakhouse, Brazil Terra Grill, is getting set to open in West Des Moines.
Carlin had worked in the hospitality industry
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PASSENGERS on an aborted flight from Paris to Bilbao on Wednesday April 13 were left so scared that some phoned home to ‘
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say goodbye’.
The drama unfolded at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, just before the flight was about to leave for Spain, when a man ‘of Arabic origin’ failed to board the plane despite having checked in.
He was seen to be travelling alongside a woman who did board alongside 100 or so other passengers, but panic broke out when crew members were unable to locate him and announced a ‘security breach’.
There was also concern regarding an unidentified item of baggage on the plane, operated by Air France subsidiary Hop!, which no passenger claimed ownership of.
The woman, who did not speak French or Spanish, was interviewed and was able to confirm that she was not travelling with the man, and that the unidentified bag did not belong to her.
The flight was due to take off at 9pm but was cancelled, with shaken passengers transferred to a local hotel for the night before being flown out the next morning.
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Performance will certainly be more sluggish with the all-wheel-drive system, but for resale value, it's a smart bet in the En
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core.
The 2016 Buick Encore masks its economy-car roots well, but tepid performance keeps its from earning a premium label.
As a whole, the shape of the 2016 Buick Encore tries to convey a tougher look that disguises its tall, boxy shape. The front fascia is steeply raked, it rides on huge 18-inch wheels, and some of the body sculpting can appear as if the designers were simply trying too hard. From other angles, the Encore has enough presence to justify its price tag.
The Encore has a battle on its hands. When it was first introduced all the way back in 2013, it stood essentially alone in the market as one of few small crossovers SUVs. Today, it is a far more crowded niche, packed with pricey, prestigious rivals along the lines of the the Audi Q3, BMW X1, and Mercedes-Benz GLA, not to mention affordable models like the Chevrolet
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In Playing for Pizza, John Grisham leaves the confines of the courtroom for the NFL locker room. The pairing of the master of the legal
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thriller and America's most popular professional sports league would seem to be a marriage made in bestseller heaven.
Perhaps he'd craft a potboiler about a star quarterback involved in illegal dog-fighting and gambling. Or a story about a retired Hall of Fame running back who'd beaten double-murder charges only later to becharged with armed robbery. Maybe the plot would revolve around the genius head coach who broke league rules by stealing the defensive signals of the opposition. Playing for Pizza, however, is Grisham without the legal machinations. Instead, we meet Cleveland Browns third-string quarterback Rick Dockery, who is lying in his hospital bed unconscious from a severe concussion. Rick, it seems, took the field at the end of an all-but-sewn-up game that would have propelled the long-suffering Browns into the Super Bowl.
With Cleveland about to go bonkers, Rick throws three interceptions in the final quarter - the last resulting in the traumatic hit
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This 71-year-old artist’s walls in his Canadian home are filled with paintings by the greats, including Johannes Vermeer
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’s "The Girl With the Pearl Earring," Sandro Botticelli’s "Primavera" and even Michelangelo’s "Creation of Adam" on painted on one ceiling.
Even though none of them are real, it is perhaps more impressive that Cosimo Geracitano of Coquitlam, British Columbia, painted them all himself.
In addition to being the father of three and grandfather of five, he said that over the last 10 years, he has painted 45 replica paintings from ranging from the Renaissance to Impressionism.
Geracitano’s even has a miniature replica of the Sistine Chapel featuring just the "Creation of Adam," which he painted on panels then installed on his ceiling afterward.
He explained he started painting as a boy growing up in Bivongi, Italy.
Geracitano settled in Canada in 1967 and got married shortly after.
When his wife died of a heart attack
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When the city of Aberdeen ordered Janice M. Grant to tear down her dilapidated house, it was enough to turn her into an overnight
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history buff.
Racing against the imminent wrecking ball, Grant pulled out tattered newspaper clippings and yellowing letters and interviewed relatives about the home her family has owned for nine decades.
She wrote a four-page primer on the history of her early 1900s Colonial: How Eleanor Roosevelt twice visited Grant's aunt, an aide to the first lady, and how the house was among the first in the city owned by blacks.
Grant, 72, even got the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to write a supportive letter to Aberdeen, noting the house's link to African-American history.
City public works officials condemned the building this fall and gave Grant and her husband, Woodrow B. Grant Jr., a state education administrator, two months to tear it down.
The city yielded, a little, and extended the deadline indefinitely after the Grants, who live in another home nearby, pledged to renovate the house and use it as housing for Christian missionaries
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Dinner: I like what Jay [Gust] is doing over at TAPAteria. [It's] fun. You can
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tell somebody cares.
Cheap Eats: I like El Taco Rey.
A Special Occasion: I think what Scott [Savage is] doing over at Cliff House is pretty cool. He's just been truckin' through. He's doing whatever he wants; he's not stuck in any kind of cuisine, and I'm always excited to see what he comes up with.
Breakfast: The Pantry: I'm a big biscuits-and-gravy guy.
Lunch: I'll give Yoo Mae a push. I like JJ [Kim] over there. He does a really cool one, and he only does it for us over here at the Famous — the Lamborghini Diablo roll.
Dinner: I like Mizuna, in Denver. I know if I go to Mizuna my money's gonna be well spent and I'm not gonna drop $150 for two and walk out and be like, "You know what? That sucked
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The millions of Americans living with more than one chronic disease are at high risk of poor health outcomes, and account for a disproportionate share of health care
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costs. A special March supplement to Medical Carepresents updates from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) Multiple Chronic Conditions (MCC) Research Network, formed to address knowledge gaps and research challenges in meeting the complex health care needs of this growing population.
Meeting the Needs of People with MCC—More Than Just a "Collection of Diseases"
The March special supplement, titled Advancing the Field: Results from the AHRQ Multiple Chronic Conditions Research Network, presents research and commentaries based on grants funded by AHRQ to improve understanding about how to best care for the growing number of people living with multiple chronic conditions (MCC). The AHRQ MCC Research Networksupports the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' (HHS) Multiple Chronic Conditions Strategic Framework and the HHS Initiative on Multiple Chronic Conditions, a public-private sector partnership to address the needs of people living with MCC and the health systems that serve them.
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Ann Arbor-based Merit Network Inc. is asking various organizations to submit proposals to host new public hubs of the Michigan Cyber Range, a specialized
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networking and computer infrastructure facility and test program to hone security software and train cybersecurity professionals.
Merit, a network technology nonprofit owned by 12 of Michigan's public four-year universities, has issued a request for proposals to replicate publicly accessible training center hubs of the Cyber Range, like the kind that opened at the Velocity center in Sterling Heights in March. The organization is a sub-recipient of the $6 million Advance Michigan Defense Collaborative grant managed by the Workforce Intelligence Network for Southeast Michigan.
The Cyber Range, a program first proposed by Gov. Rick Snyder in 2011, is a private cloud network built on architecture supplied and operated by Merit. Initially housed at Eastern Michigan University in late 2012, the program offers cybersecurity training and certification as well as product testing and research space on industrial control systems security. Other locations were later opened at Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Ferris State University, the 110th Airlift Wing in Battle Creek and General Dynamics Land Systems' Maneuver Collaboration
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese recruitment service provider 51job (JOBS.O) on Monday rejected claims that more than 2 million job
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ads had disappeared from its website this year due to an economic slump, saying a Chinese securities firm was smearing economic prospects.
In a statement posted on its official social media account on Wechat, 51job said Wuhan-based Tianfeng Securities (601162.SS) had made an “improper” analysis of the platform’s data using a web crawler program in a research note published in November.
Tianfeng said it found the number of job listings on 51job shrank from 2.85 million to just 830,000 in six months, from April to September.
“The content of that research is contrary to facts,” 51job said in a statement, criticizing the research approach as loose and irresponsible, stressing it owns multiple recruitment websites besides the main 51job website.
It cited the company’s robust earnings as evidence that the numbers were false. In both the second and third quarters, 51job�
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PHOTO BY JACOB GURNEY Personnel work to put out a smoldering coal fire at the Norfolk Southern Railyard on CR
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60 near Fostoria Friday afternoon.
FOSTORIA — Crews responded to a train car fire between TR 47 and CR 60 Saturday afternoon.
Assistant Chief Chris Daniel of Bascom Joint Fire District said there was no structural damage to the train cars and there was no loss estimate. He said the cars were hauling coke, which is used in manufacturing and is a byproduct of coal that burns very hot. Daniel said the coke is cooled before it is shipped.
“Sometimes it doesn’t get cooled enough, which causes it to build up heat, which is likely what caused (the fire),” he said.
Daniel said when crews arrived, the train was sitting between TR 47 and CR 60 and smoldering train cars were next to a Class 3 chemical car. He said personnel were on standby while Norfolk Southern Railroad personnel detached the cars from the chemical car. Daniel said while the cars were being moved to the Norfolk Southern railyard on
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Infocom co-founders Dave Lebling (left) and Marc Blank (right), pictured here in 1985 with former Infocom employee Pat Mar
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oni, will be honored with the AIAS Pioneer Award in February.
In the days before graphics, computer games had to entice players with nothing more than a well-turned phrase.
Whether you prefer to call them "text adventures" or "interactive fiction," games played with nothing but writing and verbal commands were a significant part of the early days of interactive entertainment. At the forefront of the medium were the designers of Infocom, which created and published text games like Zork, Starcross and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that delighted players with clever writing and had them absolutely tearing their hair out with difficult puzzles.
Today, Wired can exclusively report that Marc Blank and Dave Lebling, two of the co-founders of Infocom and co-creators of Zork, will be honored with the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' Pioneer Award at the DICE Summit in February. The award is given to the gamemakers whose groundbreaking early work laid the
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WEST HAM fans were deluded to ever think they could attract a big-name manager like Carlo Ancelotti, says Paul Ince.
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West Ham sacked Slaven Bilic last week in the aftermath of the 4-1 loss to Liverpool at the London Stadium, which saw them fall into the relegation zone.
And three-time Champions League-winning manager Ancelotti, who was dismissed by Bayern Munich last month, was immediately linked with the vacant Hammers position.
West Ham eventually appointed former David Moyes on an initial six-month deal, which did not go down too well with a large section of the Hammers supporters.
Moyes has endured unsuccessful spells at Sunderland and Manchester United since his 11-year stint at Everton - but Ince has urged the West Ham fans to remember the Goodison Park days.
“A lot of West Ham fans have been moaning about the appointment of David Moyes, saying he wasn’t what they wanted, that they wanted a bigger name,” Ince told Paddy Power.
“Why do they think West Ham would attract a big
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The Marlborough Recreational Fishers Association (MRFA) wants a closed scallop season to stem the downward spiral of the fishery
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.
MRFA chairman Peter Watson, said the association in a submission to the Ministry of Primary Industries considered an undisturbed season would enable greater breeding and recruitment and help the population on the road to recovery, as well as offering the opportunity for further investigations into the biology of the scallop.
“Accurate management can only be carried out by a full knowledge of the population dynamics. It would be of great interest to know more about scallops' feeding habits, mobility of the adults, and larval dispersion,” he said.
He said the scallop fishery about 2000 first showed marked declines with the Tasman and Golden Bay scallop beds. However little notice was taken and those beds reached a stage of initial collapse. Now with the decline in Tasman and Golden Bays, additional pressure had come on the Marlborough Sounds stocks.
“Basically, the overall scallop population in the Sounds is in free fall,” said Peter
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So far this fall, the closer has no clothes.
Jonathan Papelbon has lots of time to refine his Riverdance after giving it
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up to the Angels in Game 3.
Huston Street had two outs in the ninth and couldn’t finish the Phillies.
Joe Nathan, who usually dismisses school, got his own bell rung by Alex Rodriguez.
Ryan Franklin thought he had notched a save for the Cardinals, but a swarm of white towels in Dodger Stadium buzzed Matt Holliday and forced him to muff a fly ball. That did not absolve Franklin, who couldn’t stop the Dodgers from scoring the winning run.
Combined, those four closers had saved 158 games in 173 chances in 2009. There were six blown saves in 13 Division Series games.
None of that occurred to Brian Fuentes as he lounged in the visiting bullpen at Fenway Park on Sunday.
But as soon as the Angels cut the lead to one run, Fuentes began loosening. Suddenly he was on the Fenway Park mound, which comes complete with a trap door
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Social media influencer Huda Kattan is "not interested" in an initial public offering (IPO) for her $1 billion cosmetics
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firm Huda Beauty for fear that the move would make the firm’s stocks too reliant on fast-changing public opinions.
Speaking to Arabian Business, the founder and chairwoman of the Dubai-based company referenced the recent unsuccessful attempt by Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk to privatise the publicly-traded electric car maker.
“We understand how public opinion can change, and I don’t think it fairly depicts the nature of our business,” said Kattan, who has 27 million followers on Instagram and 2.4m on YouTube.
"Elon Musk is realising he can’t go private, but when he wanted to go private, he tweeted something and all of a sudden people started selling their shares. I get that there are other things going on with Tesla right now, but he’s still brilliant."
Musk suggested in a tweet in August he had secured funding from several investors, including Saudi Arabia’
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A group of international statesmen being called "The Elders", including former U.S. president Jimmy Carter have arrived on the divided island of
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Cyprus to support U.N.-backed peace talks. For VOA, Nathan Morley reports from Nicosia.
President Carter, South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and former Algerian Foreign Minister Lakhdar Brahimi are here to urge greater international recognition of recent progress towards a lasting settlement in Cyprus.
On arrival, they lauded Cyprus President Dimitris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat for their expressed commitment to end to the decades-old dispute.
Ambassador of Slovakia Anna Tourenikova, whose embassy is sponsoring the visit, told VOA News Slovakia has played an important role in keeping an open communication channel between the two communities during the past two decades.
"The process of bi-communal dialogue has lasted already almost 20 years," said Ambassador Tourenikova. "They are coming together, they are discussing issues of common interest, they are listening to each other, and thus they are trying to contribute to the negotiation
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Christians in Britain and the US who claim that they are persecuted should "grow up" and not exaggerate what amounts to feeling "mild
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ly uncomfortable", according to Rowan Williams, who last year stepped down as archbishop of Canterbury after an often turbulent decade.
"When you've had any contact with real persecuted minorities you learn to use the word very chastely," he said. "Persecution is not being made to feel mildly uncomfortable. 'For goodness sake, grow up,' I want to say."
True persecution was "systematic brutality and often murderous hostility that means that every morning you wonder if you and your children are going to live through the day". He cited the experience of a woman he met in India "who had seen her husband butchered by a mob".
Lord Williams's years as archbishop of Canterbury were marked by turbulence over the church's stance on the role of gay priests and bishops; gay marriage; and homophobia in the wider Anglican communion – with many members of the church expressing disappointment at a perceived hardening in its position on homosexuality.
Asked if he had let down gay and
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A Turkish ultra-nationalist group has attacked a synagogue in Istanbul’s Beyoğlu district with stones during a protest against the new
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Israeli restrictions on Palestinians’ entry to the al-Aqsa mosque.
The Alperen Hearths, an ultranationalist youth organization linked to the right-wing nationalist Great Union Party (BBP), gathered in front of the Neve Shalom synagogue late on July 20 and kicked and threw rocks at the building.
The setting up of metal detectors at the entrances of the al-Aqsa compound has led to a wave of anger among Palestinians, who called for the immediate removal of the devices.
The group’s district head, Kürşat Mican, called Israel a “terrorist state” and said Israeli authorities have been oppressing people at the mosque for a long time.
“Israel has banned Friday prayers at al-Aqsa mosque for many years. It has not stopped at that and now it is harassing our Palestinian brothers by putting x-ray devices at the entrances to our sanctuary. Our brothers are not able to
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A college football player was suspended from his final game with the Arkansas Razorbacks on Thursday after he was accused of shoplifting from a Belk department
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store earlier this week.
According to WSOC-TV, senior tight end Jeremy Sprinkle was accused of stealing from the department store despite receiving a $450 gift card for participating in the Belk Bowl. The department store is the sponsor for the annual college football game. Police told WSOC that he stole approximately $260 worth of merchandise.
He was charged on Tuesday for shoplifting by Charlotte Mecklenburg Police.
"Throughout his career and this season as a graduate student-athlete, Jeremy has displayed numerous times the qualities we want to represent our program," coach Bret Bielema said in a statement. "We have standards within our family that must be upheld on a daily basis and unfortunately he failed to do that in the last week. Jeremy's suspension isn't drug, alcohol or violence related but one that will cause him to miss his final game as a Razorback."
According to CBS Sports, Sprinkle is projected to be a late-round NFL draft pick in
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The writer offered an expansive vision of Europe and “the Russian soul” that appeals to leaders seeking rapprochement.
LONDON
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—Is Europe having a Dostoyevsky moment? Or is it a Pushkin moment? French President Emmanuel Macron cited Dostoyevsky’s speech about Pushkin—in which the writer makes a dramatic appeal for Russian universalism—in a press conference with Vladimir Putin in Saint Petersburg on May 24. Then, on Tuesday, the prime minister of Italy’s new populist government, Giuseppe Conte, paraphrased—or perhaps mis-paraphrased—the same Dostoyevsky speech in his first address before the Italian Senate.
Dostoyevsky delivered his rousing speech in 1880 at the dedication of a statue of Pushkin, the poet who was the godfather of Russian literature. In it, he re-interpreted Pushkin’s epic poem Eugene Onegin to fit his own vision of the world, finding its heroine, Tatiana, the apotheosis of Russian womanhood and offering an ecstatic vision of
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who participate in recreational exercise and sports over their lifetime may be lowering their risk of death from breast cancer and
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breast cancer recurrence.
Among 1,231 women with breast cancer who were followed for a minimum of 8.3 years, those who obtained about 4 hours or more of weekly moderate-intensity recreational activity over their lifetime had a 44 percent lower risk of death from breast cancer, report Dr. Christine Friedenreich and colleagues.
Risk for recurrence, progression, or new primary breast cancer was likewise reduced by 34 percent among women reporting similar levels of recreational physical activity, note Friendenreich, of Alberta Health Services-Alberta Cancer Board in Calgary, Canada, and colleagues.
These findings suggest “being physically active before a breast cancer diagnosis can improve survival after breast cancer,” Friendenreich told Reuters Health.
However, occupational activity and physical household work such as gardening, housework, and do-it-yourself home repair did not confer benefits similar to those from lifetime exercise and sports activities, the investigators report in the International Journal of Cancer.
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O'Shea, acknowledging the uncertain economics facing newspapers across the nation, said: "With turmoil comes change, and with change we get dark
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rumors of dread and doom. I understand that one of those rumors is now abuzz in the book industry, namely that the Los Angeles Times is about to diminish its coverage of books. So let me set the record straight. That rumor is untrue. The paper and its editor remain deeply committed to vigorous literary coverage and our unique and signature event, the L.A. Times Festival of Books, to be held in Los Angeles late next month."
Ulin, speaking next, said: "I won't speak too specifically about what's upcoming with the L.A. Times Book Review, mostly because we're still in the midst of working it all out. But I do want to say that as we revamp the design of the section, we will be redistributing book coverage, expanding it in the daily paper and also taking steps � toward enhanced coverage on the Web."
� Don Winslow for "The Winter of Frankie Machine" (Knopf).
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It was four and a half years ago the Kundrat family - Patrick, Cynthia and their 15-year-old son, Jeff - moved from
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downstate to the tiny community of Johannesburg. The couple, married just over 16 years, came to know many of their neighbors during the short time they have lived in Johannesburg; taking all the small-town connections into account, the situation the family now finds itself in is all the more difficult.
Patrick, a volunteer firefighter with Charlton Township and on the EMS, also is employed by the township for custodial work at the hall. He knew the Koronkas particularly well from his service on the fire department, where Chet Koronka, Peggy's father-in-law, is fire chief. The Kundrat family attends the Johannesburg Christian Church.
Searching for a possible clue to what led to Sunday morning's tragic turn of events, Patrick said, "I thought she was home. I asked her how she was feeling, hugged her, kissed her, told her that I loved her and then went off to work."
Patrick declined comment on whether his wife
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A Honduran Restaurant Hands Out Hot Comfort Food For The Migrant Caravan In Tijuana When José Aguilar, a Honduran living in the
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Mexican border city who runs the restaurant Honduras 504, heard a caravan of mostly Honduran migrants was coming, he knew he had to do something to help.
José Aguilar heads to the store on a supply run in Tijuana, Mexico. His restaurant Honduras 504 has become a community center for Honduran legal residents and unauthorized migrants alike.
When José Aguilar, a Honduran-born resident of Tijuana, Mexico, heard that a caravan of mostly Honduran migrants was headed to the border city, he knew he had to do something.
Seven years ago, Aguilar moved to Tijuana after bouncing between the United States, Mexico and Honduras for two decades. Once settled, he opened a restaurant called Honduras 504. People often call it just 504 or Catracho 504, using the informal demonym Hondurans call each other and their country code.
When thousands of Hondurans and other Central Americans poured into Tijuana, Aguilar knew he had to do something
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There are two things to know before starting to get into this article. First: some artists out there are just besties for life, so if
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you ask one about the other, they'll automatically get warm and cuddly, no matter the context. Second: if you're a movie executive, you're probably not going to get Guillermo del Toro to make your movie, since the guy is busy from now until Ragnarok. It's just how it is. All that said, it's not a huge surprise that when a juicy Peter Jackson-related vacancy in the directing game opens up, he's totally going to talk up his buddy Guillermo as a candidate.
The vacancy in question today is Skull Island, the new Legendary Pictures-backed King Kong revival that was recently announced at San Diego Comic-Con... much to the surprise of King Kong director Peter Jackson. And since it only made sense that frequent Legendary Pictures collaborator Guillermo del Toro would be involved, Collider decided to ask Jackson what he thought about Del Toro possibly taking the reins of the project.
"I would look forward to it. If Guillermo
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Linebackers do a little bit of everything for a football defense. They’re typically aligned just behind the defensive line, but outside linebackers
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are occasionally positioned at the line of scrimmage, particularly in 3-4 defenses. Linebackers are key run defenders, but also drop back into pass coverage regularly, and must be prepared to rush the passer as part of a blitz. Linebackers must combine strength with quickness and should be adept at reading offensive keys to position themselves properly against both runs and passes.
Take a balanced stance for most plays, with your feet shoulder-width apart and your knees flexed. Bend forward from the hips and keep your weight forward, on the balls of your feet. Place your hands on top of your knees.
Know your responsibilities before the ball is snapped so you can move quickly to the proper area of the field after you’ve read the play. On a pass play, for example, you should have observed the offensive formation and known which player or which area of the field to cover, prior to the snap.
Read the play as quickly as possible after the snap and move immediately
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SOME doctors have decided to charge patients who are insured with the Všeobecná zdravotná pois�
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�ovňa (VšZP) insurance house.
VšZP is Slovakia's largest health insurer, and around 70 percent of Slovaks are insured there. Under Slovak law, health care treatments are free, with minor exceptions.
Doctors from the Slovak Chamber of Physicians (SLK) have refused to sign new contracts with the VšZP, arguing that the payments the insurers are offering for the procedures the doctors carry out are too low. Slovakia's Health Minister, Rudolf Zajac, has threatened to strip the doctors of their licenses.
Doctors themselves are not completely united over the issue. While SLK members refuse to sign the new contracts, the Slovak Union of Medical Specialists as well as the Union of Private Doctors signed the deals and accused the SLK of politicizing the issue.
"The contracts are good, and whoever says the opposite is lying," said Andrej Janco, head of the Union of Medical Specialists.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. oil fell nearly 2 percent on Thursday, despite a larger-than-expected decline in U.
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S. crude inventories, while global benchmark Brent was little changed, pushing the spread between the two to its widest in more than three years.
Brent crude losses were more limited, as the prospect that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries will bring its supply-cut deal to a close by the end of the year has had a greater effect on the U.S. benchmark due to ongoing worries about U.S. infrastructure constraints.
“The market is concerned that in the longer term increases in oil production combined with refining problems and limited outbound pipeline capacity,” said Andrew Lipow, president of Lipow Oil Associates in Houston.
U.S. crude production has been rising to record high levels since late last year. In March, it jumped 215,000 bpd to 10.47 million bpd, a new monthly record, the EIA said on Thursday.
Brent crude futures for August ended down 14 cents to $77.56 a barrel
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This is just too much. Even as our federal government drowns in debt, military spending continues to balloon like crazy. And as if the trillions
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we owe weren’t enough already, the Pentagon just set aside another $500 million dollars to fund 5,000 more shotgun guys.
Seriously. Where does it end?
While the Department of Defense probably has some rationale for this exorbitant spending, the fact is that the $500 million price tag for these shotgun guys’ training, equipment, and shotgun bullets will fall on American taxpayers who had no say in this. Add onto that the cost of the dynamite and flamethrower guys the Pentagon hopes to have in the field by 2019, and it’s clear that America just might spend itself to death without our enemies abroad lifting a finger.
Already, hawkish politicians are leaping to defend the spending. John McCain’s office released a statement insisting that “21st-century threats demand 21st-century responses, and the biggest mistake we can make as a nation is to fail to adapt. Today, that means shotgun guys. Tomorrow, it
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Theresa May's recent tough talk as home secretary about "getting the immigration system back under control" has bolstered the Conservative party's support from anti
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-immigration groups such as Migration Watch, but also forced business groups such as Universities UK to object that the "government's tough rhetoric threatens to undermine the multibillion-pound market in foreign students".
This government will probably bend to business interests over nationalist ideals – but they must look reluctant, in order to retain sufficient support among white British working people. Anti-immigration rhetoric is a foil for the party's elitist image, and plays off internal factions while deflecting criticisms onto opponents.
So the Conservatives have a good problem: their net migration target might fail, but if so they will get more support than if it succeeded. They might look clumsy, but they could not have planned a better outcome. Did they?
The Conservatives' immigration stance arose from the scramble for the anti-immigration vote during the late 2000s. Rising immigration under New Labour had generated a backlash that breathed life into the far right of UK politics, turning the British National party (BNP) into an electoral
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Today National has launched yet more legislation aimed at further criminalising and pauperising beneficiaries - and their partners, says Auckland Action Against Poverty spokesperson
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Sarah Thompson.
“People who are not in the welfare system rarely understand how intrusive Work and Income is in judging when and if people are in relationships in the nature of marriage.
“It's no surprise that so much 'fraud' occurs in this area, as one person's'marriage' can mean something quite different in reality.
“The effect of these changes will be that even more low income people are criminalised because of the State's interference in this sensitive area, and will lose what income and assets they may have.
“An increase in intimate partner violence is another likely result leading from the threat of partner prosecution.
“A new category of beneficiaries will be created called 'low trust beneficiaries' - who will be treated as an inferior class of beneficiary, subject to even more intimidation and harassment than already applies.
“This legislation will further entrench the dangerous place beneficiaries already occupy in the New Zealand psyche as the group of people most discriminated
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PHILADELPHIA (Reuters Life!) - Researchers have found the first published illustration by John James Audubon, America’s
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most famous bird artist, ending decades of searching for the prized but elusive work.
Audubon had made two references to the illustration in his diaries, but it had never been seen until it was found on a sheet of sample images produced in 1824 by a New Jersey engraver who specialized in illustrations for banknotes.
Eric Newman, a numismatic, or currency, historian working with Robert Peck, a senior fellow with Philadelphia’s Academy of Natural Sciences who had spent the last decade looking for the long-lost illustration, discovered it.
Some researchers doubted its existence and even suggested that Audubon lied when he wrote about it to enhance his reputation before the publication of his masterwork “Birds of America,” starting in 1827.
Although it is unsigned, the image is clearly Audubon’s work because its detail - the bird is shown running through its grassy habitat - is characteristic of the artist’s ornith
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Located in New York City on the Hudson River, the Intrepid Museum was founded in 1982 with the acquisition of the USS Intrepid,
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a National Historic Landmark. The Intrepid Museum engages the public in learning about American history, and the science and technology of aviation, seagoing vessels and space exploration. Susan Marenoff-Zausner, President and staff from the Museum will visit the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square to ring the Closing Bell.
As an educational and cultural nonprofit institution, the mission of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum is to promote the awareness and understanding of history, science and service through its collections, exhibitions and programming in order to honor our heroes, educate the public and inspire our youth.
Located in New York City on the Hudson River, the Intrepid Museum was founded in 1982 with the acquisition of the USS Intrepid, a National Historic Landmark. The Intrepid Museum engages the public in learning about American history, and the science and technology of aviation, seagoing vessels and space exploration.
Welcoming one million visitors annually, the
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Nearly nine of 10 survey respondents believe that cloud computing is the future of IT, and 67% describe themselves as "cloud believers."
81%
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of respondents have deployed at least one cloud service, with an average of 2.7 cloud services among all respondents.
Three-quarters plan to add new or additional cloud services within the next three years, with servers and data centers (34%), co-location and backup (22%), and phone systems (22%) leading the way.
58% say their staff is capable of implementing a cloud strategy independently, and 44% have done so internally.
53% say security remains a top concern about cloud deployment, and 36% say privacy is.
Less than three of 10 say budgeting is a top concern about the cloud, as 54% expect their budgets to increase in 2015.
Momentum for cloud deployment is reaching full-throttle levels, according to a new survey report from Evolve IP. The accompanying report, titled "Cloud of Dreams: The Adoption of Cloud Services—2014," reveals that an immense majority of tech employees and leaders feel the cloud represents the very future
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Nicely Updated NorthEnd New Englander on Landscaped Double Lot w/Detached Two-Car Garage, Brand New SS Appliances,
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Updated Counters & Flooring, Freshly Painted, Updated Full Baths on Both Floors, Eat-In Kitchen has Custom Built-In-Storage/Seating, Bright Dining Room Open to Living Room, French Door to SunLit Three-Season Porch w/Wood Flooring, Hardwood Flooring Throughout Three Second-Floor Bedrooms, Overhead Lighting w/Fans, Updated Full Bath on Second Floor has Ceramic Tile Flooring & Overhead Light w/Blue Tooth Speaker, Perrenial Landscaping Allows for Private Yard with Concrete Patio & Radial Stone Patio, Some Newer Windows, Generator-Ready Hook-Up, Corner Lot in Manchester NorthEnd Neighborhood!
Trained in a larger, franchised real estate environment, Irene saw the need for more personal service for buyers and sellers involving direct availability and compassion through community involvement. Her vision resulted in the opening of Hearthside Realty in 1992. With 31 years of service
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Grassroots protest rallies are a dime a dozen in San Francisco, but it’s rare they have corporate sponsorship.
That’
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s one thing that suggests The Coalition for an Affordable City may not be what it seems.
The Coalition for an Affordable City is not dedicated to fighting San Francisco’s soaring rent costs or rampant gentrification, or any of the countless other economic traumas resulting from the city by the Bay’s reinvention as the capital of the new digital economy.
Nope, the Coalition for Affordable City has other priorities. The group has spent more than $9 million to defeat a single item on Tuesday’s local ballot in San Francisco. Proposition E would impose a tax on sugary drinks -- $0.02 per ounce -- and earmark the proceeds for programs to educate children about healthier lifestyle choices as part of a city effort to reduce childhood obesity.
“The Coalition for an Affordable City is a fake AstroTurf front group of the American Beverage Association, which is funded largely by Coca-Cola and Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, Red Bull and Sunny D,
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gurnet Point Capital, an investment firm focused on the healthcare and life
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sciences sectors that was founded by Ernesto Bertarelli and is led by Christopher A. Viehbacher, today announced the creation of Boston Pharmaceuticals, a fully-integrated drug development company that will offer an innovative alternative model for drug development and commercialization.
By leveraging the executive team’s network of external partners and service providers, the company will develop and launch products from drug development companies and labs worldwide. Through careful selection of disease areas and mechanisms of action, Boston Pharmaceuticals intends to build a valuable portfolio of clinical stage products focused on delivering medicines that greatly improve current treatment options to provide patients with breakthrough solutions for complex diseases.
The company will be led by two executives with deep experience in the development and commercialization of novel medicines – Christopher Viehbacher, the Managing Partner of Gurnet Point Capital and the former CEO of Sanofi, as its Chairman, and Dr. Robert Armstrong, the former head of external R&D at Chorus (Eli Lilly
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Update: May 18, 3:46 PM ET According to reports from TMZ, Kanye West's performance at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards was censored by
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ABC for foul language, rather then silenced due to technical difficulties. In a statement to Mashable, a source from ABC said: "Kanye West is an incredible performer and one of today's most influential artists, however he did not make his performance available for review prior to air resulting in an edited appearance in tonight's live broadcast."
We'd say Kanye West gave an incredible performance, but we barely caught a word.
For those watching at home, West's closing performance of "All Day" at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards suffered from what was reportedly serious censorship as the sound repeatedly cut out.
This, coupled with Kanye's decision to perform in front of a blinding wall of fire, made for a television viewing experience akin to watching the Yule Log.
West wasn't the only one to experience technical difficulties— Co-host Ludacris' closing remarks were also cut out at the end of the show.
Of course, viewers weren't thrilled.
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Under the reported plan, the Union Jack will fly from government buildings only on Remembrance Sunday. It will not be hoisted on other royal ann
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iversaries and birthdays. The procedure is in line with other public buildings, a practice already adopted in recent years at the government’s St. Andrew’s House headquarters in Edinburgh.
Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Sturgeon hit back at critics, insisting that this is not a new practice and was not ordered by her. She said the updated administrative step was “sensible,” and had actually been in place since 2010.
Former First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond jumped to Sturgeon's defence, stepping forward to reveal he was the one behind the decision back in 2010 to use the the Royal Banner of Scotland - also known as the Lion Rampant - instead.
What a load of complete piffle from The Mail, The Telegrapgh et al. The hoisting of Lion Rampant had nothing whatsoever to do with @NicolaSturgeon.
On Wednesday Tory MPs were infuriated by the news - but Sturgeon was quick to
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Master Data Management (MDM), a data management solutions provider was recently presented with a partner award at the Syncsort Partner Conference 2018 in Spain
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. This comes after Syncsort Incorporated, the global leader in Big Iron to Big Data software, acquired data quality software leader Trillium Software in late 2016. MDM is a long-standing partner for the Trillium data quality products, and has transitioned as a key Syncsort partner in Africa for data quality and data integration.
The event brought partners together from across EMEA to understand the extended Syncsort vision and be brought up to date on industry trends, particularly around data management. In addition, the event provided a perfect platform for partners to network and obtain updated on the latest Syncsort developments with a showcase of their market-leading data integration and data quality solutions. This effectively provided partners with new insights into how they can meet organisations developing needs around Big Data.
With the addition of the Trillium products into the Syncsort Integrate portfolio, Syncsort delivers quality data at scale – from the mainframe to Hadoop and anywhere in
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The following items were taken from the Nov. 21 through 27, 1959, Examiner.
Nearly 400 persons attended the annual dinner of the Wagon
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Wheel District at which Boy Scout leaders were honored for their work. The Order of the Silver Beaver was awarded to Lester L. Fike, Ben V. Alton and W. Morris Turner. A new award, Order of Merit, was presented to Ed Mader, Dr. W.J. Lee, James Pimblott, H. Tupper Smith and Paul D. Arend.
The new John W. Luff elementary school was officially dedicated Nov. 22. The Board of Education voted to name the new building for Mr. Luff, who served on the board from 1931 to 1949, when he retired. From 1936 until his retirement, he was president of the Board. He died Sept. 25, 1958.
A native Jackson Countian, Walker Cooper, of Buckner, has been hired for the coaching staff of the Kansas City Athletics (A’s). Cooper, the catcher in the famous Cooper brothers team, managed the Indianapolis Indians during the 1958-
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After a prolonged battle, Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s $30 million period epic “Padmaavat” opened
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across most of India on Thursday. The film’s release was accompanied by vandalism of malls and burning vehicles.
The violence erupted amid claims by Hindu hard-liners that the film distorts history. On Wednesday, a mobile phone video that went viral showed a bus full of schoolchildren being pelted with stones by “Padmaavat” protesters on the outskirts of Delhi. Many schools in the Indian capital decided not to open Thursday.
India’s Supreme Court overturned a ban on the film’s release by the state governments of Rajasthan, Haryana, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh. Appeals against the high court’s decision were dismissed. The states contended that the film’s release would cause law and order issues, but the Supreme Court said it was the states’ duty to maintain peace.
Despite this, the Multiplex Association of India, a trade organization representing 75% of multiplex operators, advised its members in Rajas
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JENNIFER Lawrence "freaked out" when Lorde visited the set of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1.
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The 24-year-old actress got star-struck when the Royals singer came to meet the cast and watch a shoot of the new fantasy film because she is such a big fan.
Speaking about the pop star's trip to the set, Lawrence said: "It was so cool, oh my god! The whole set freaked out, everyone stopped and it was like, 'Be normal! Be normal! Be cool!'"
The 18-year-old performer has curated the soundtrack to the franchise's third film, as well as writing and recording the track Yellow Flicker Beat especially for the film, and Lawrence loves the track.
She said: "Honestly, the first time I ever heard that Lorde song, Yellow Flicker Beat, it just gave me goosebumps.
"I mean, you read the book and internalise the character and go on set and have conversations with the director and your co-stars but it was so bizarre to hear a musical version of
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Eurozone GDP hopes boosted by trade data | City A.M.
WEAK demand across the Eurozone saw the currency bloc’s
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trade surplus grow towards the end of last year, figures from Brussels have revealed.
Exports of goods from the 17 countries that made up the euro area in November totalled €160.8bn (£133bn), Eurostat said yesterday, down two per cent compared to the same month a year earlier.
Yet imports of goods fell more sharply, down five per cent from €152bn in November 2012 to €143.7bn a year later, resulting in the overall surplus growing to €17.1bn.
Latvia joined the single currency at the start of this year, yet its trade balance – a deficit of €2bn from January to October last year – will be too small, relatively, to have a significant effect on the data.
Despite weaker demand across the bloc, a growing surplus bodes well for Eurozone GDP. “November’s increased surplus lifts hopes that net trade made a renewed overall positive contribution to Eurozone GDP in the fourth quarter of
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Cars with only three wheels are goofy, but we'll make an exception for the "alé" if it can really manage 92 miles
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per gallon. While you won't be able to take all of your friends on a cruise around the country (without filling up!) in the alé's dual tandem seating, whoever is inside is in for what sounds like an awesome ride. Zero to 60 in five seconds, tight turns that can build 1.7g of force, and a top speed of 140g are impressive for something so eco-friendly.
The car uses a Honda engine and suspension, and Porsche steering mechanisms. It'll only hold 10 gallons of regular gas, but it'll put all 10 of those to good use. The "alé" boasts an air and gas mixing ratio of 20:1—your average car only mixes at 14.7:1. And it cuts down on CO2 emissions by 30%.
I drove it hard for 4 solid hours, throwing it into corners, accelerating and braking hard. The car's performance is spectacular. After all that hard driving, we only went through
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The want ads posted by the anonymous buyer on Armslist.com, a sprawling free classified ads Web site for guns, telegraphed urgency
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The intentions and background of the prospective buyer were hidden, as is customary on such sites. The person posting these ads, however, left a phone number, enabling The New York Times to trace them to their source: Omar Roman-Martinez, 29, of Colorado Springs, who has a pair of felony convictions for burglary and another for motor vehicle theft, as well as a misdemeanor domestic violence conviction — all of which bar him from having guns. Yet he was so determined he even offered to trade a tablet computer or a vintage Pepsi machine for firearms.
When questioned in a telephone interview, Mr. Roman-Martinez said he ultimately decided not to buy a weapon. He also insisted that a 9-millimeter handgun he posted for sale on the Web site last month belonged to someone else.
The mere fact that Mr. Roman-Martinez was seeking to buy and sell guns on Armslist underscores why extending background checks to the growing world of online sales has become a centerpiece of new
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The GIGABYTE P25W is a fairly slim laptop that packs a fair amount of performance. As such, it's very possible
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that the temperatures we are about to see could be a bit on the high side.
As you can see, on the front of the system, we logged a maximum temperature of 117 degrees Fahrenheit. This high temperature was located right underneath the KOL keys, which is away from the all-important WSAD keys. Those keys, however, reached a maximum temperature of 97. The palm rests, meanwhile, stayed relatively cool.
Moving around to the backside, temperatures were slightly better. The maximum observed temperature was 112 degrees Fahrenheit. Using the loaded system on your laptop would likely be uncomfortable.
The maximum observed GPU temperature was 80 degrees Celsius. The CPU reached a maximum of 98 degrees Celsius. The GPU was kept plenty cool by the laptop's cooling system. The CPU, however, was much warmer than I'd like, running at a temperature that could damage the chip over time.
The P25W produced a sound level of 51 decibels. This noise was likely increased due
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PEDESTRIAN.TV has teamed up with Ural to keep you fresh.
If you’re not used to going to
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the gym, merely opening the doors to the hot, sweat-heavy air can be felt as tangibly as a punch to the nostrils and soul of all the poor, defenceless, unprepared beings who dare to step through.
The clanging of beefy dudes dropping their weights and whatever EDM tunes are setting airwaves a-frenzy melds to become an almighty overwhelming racket of intimidation and noise.
But wait, curious stranger, because the gym is not such a daunting place. All ye who seek to enter, be not afraid. There’s definitely a bunch of strategies you can employ to turn your gym experience from that of a hazy electronic sweat-fest into a productive and healthy (even welcoming) environment.
Going to the gym in the middle of peak hour is a recipe for feeling like a slimy sardine packed among a bunch of louder, sweat-dripping fish. It’s packed and can be super intimidating if
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After 61 years, the Blue Angel was removed from her pedestal by the City of Las Vegas and YESCO for restoration early in the morning in
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Downtown Las Vegas, Nev. on March 29, 2017. Once restored, the plan is to return her to the City and display her on a triangle shaped traffic median at the corner of Charleston and Fremont.
The Betty Willis-designed icon of the Blue Angel Motel was taken down in March 2017 for restoration. That’s still the plan, but on May 24, the Angel will visit the Neon Museum’s new Ne10 Studio space at 1001 W. Bonanza Road. And by the reckoning of Joshua Abbey, one of the organizers of the Blue Angel: Between Heaven and Earth art show, the Angel can’t come back quickly enough.
The show, which runs through July 6, features not only the Angel but also works by a host of local artists—Robert Beckman, Nancy Good, Jerry Misko, James Stanford and Mikayla Whitmore, among many—inspired by what she represents.
“Though Willis’ ‘
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Senator Ademola Adeleke, the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate in the September 22 gubernatorial election in Osun State and four others have
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been advised to surrender themselves to the police for arraignment over charges of criminal conspiracy and examination malpractice, amongst others.
The advice which was contained in a statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, DCP Jimoh Moshood, said they were to report to the Special Investigation Panel, Force Headquarters, Abuja with immediate effect.
Adeleke, the senator representing Osun West Senatorial District, has been accused alongside, Sikiru Adeleke, Alhaji Aregbesola Mufutau, Gbadamosi Thomas Ojo and Dare Olutope of examination malpractice, criminal conspiracy, impersonation, breach of duty, aiding and abetting.
Examination Malpractice, Criminal Conspiracy, Personation, Breach of Duty, Aiding and Abetting against Senator Ademola Adeleke (PDP Governorship Aspirant in the 22nd September, 2018 Gubernatorial Election in Osun State) and four (4) others namely; MR Sikiru
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Lady Gaga has revealed she has fibromyalgia, a long-term condition which can cause pain all over the body.
The singer made the
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announcement on Twitter where she also said the illness features in her latest documentary.
"I wish to help raise awareness and connect people who have it. We can all share what helps/hurts," she tweeted.
Lady Gaga first spoke about living with chronic pain in 2013 but this is the first time she's revealed the cause.
The 31-year-old musician appeared at Toronto Film Festival showcasing the documentary, Gaga: Five Foot Two.
The film, already out in the US, is due for release in the UK on Netflix on 22 September and will also give fans a behind-the-scenes look at her music career.
Gaga's tweet has led to others sharing their stories.
According to the NHS, those with fibromyalgia may also experience muscle stiffness and difficulty sleeping.
They may also have problems with their memory and concentration.
Although there's currently no cure, there are treatments to help relieve some of the symptoms.
In the past, Lady Gaga
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A public awareness campaign about safe sleeping environments for infants and a push for more visits from public health nurses to help families with substance use disorders are among
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the steps announced by the DHHS.
AUGUSTA — Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services announced Monday it is taking immediate action to improve child safety following the report of 26 child deaths since 2017.
The department said in a statement it would launch a public awareness campaign about unsafe sleep environments for children, especially infants, noting that 48 of 107 child deaths from 2014 to 2019 were related to unsafe sleeping situations.
The department will also increase the number of home visits by public health nurses to families with new babies in an effort to help families who are struggling with substance use disorder.
According to the release, 33 percent of child abuse victims in Maine have parents with active drug use disorder as a risk factor and 18 percent have a parent with alcohol use disorders.
“We want parents who are struggling with a substance use disorder to know that help is available and that, through initiatives like this, we can fight addiction and support people on the path to recovery as well as
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Nokia Siemens Networks, the world’s second-largest supplier of communications infrastructure, reportedly has offered to buy large pieces of Nortel
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Networks Corp., including much of its profitable carrier networks unit.
A purchase would give Nokia Siemens (News - Alert) immediate entry into the U.S. market, something Nokia Siemens preently is pursuing. Though a global competitor in the top ranks, Nokia Siemens has had less share in the U.S. market.
The dismantling of Nortel (News - Alert), once Canada’s largest company in terms of stock market value, represents an inglorious end for a firm that once played Avis to Lucent’s Hertz in the U.S. telecom market, and will rearrange not only market share rankings but the competitive landscape. Other firms once in Nortel’s shadow, such as MetaSwitch (News - Alert), now have a chance to assert new levels of leadership. In recent years, MetaSwitch sales people have faced Nortel as a primary competitor for new softswitch contracts.
At the very least, there will be
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Norwich held off a late fight-back from 10-man Wimbledon to claim victory in a thrilling match at Carrow Road.
Dam
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ien Francis opened the scoring against his old club, and a brace from Mark Rivers put Norwich 3-0 up, before Dean Holdsworth and Mikele Liegertwood hit late consolation goals for the visitors.
The Canaries dominated the early exchanges and after Iwan Roberts had missed the target with a close range header, City took the lead on 10 minutes.
Rivers delivered a cross from the right and the ball fell to ex-Wimbledon midfielder Francis, who turned swiftly to blast the ball home with a left-footed shot from six yards.
With 27 minutes gone, the Canaries doubled their lead.
Gary Holt surged into the penalty area only to be pulled back by Leigertwood and Rivers coolly dispatched the resulting spot-kick for his third goal of the new campaign.
Ten minutes after the restart, Rivers scored his second goal of the evening to seemingly put the result beyond doubt.
McVeigh cleverly released Adam Drury on the left and
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This September 11 is National Grandparents Day. While some grandparents across our nation might get a telephone call or a note from a loved one, it
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is more important to focus on more crucial issues facing older Americans.
Retirement and how to afford it, is one critical issue that concerns seniors. Our healthcare costs have soared. A new study by Fidelity says couples need $260,000 in retirement just to pay our end of Medicare premiums and out-of-pocket medical costs.
These high medical costs are why it's necessary that retirees have a loud voice in Congress, in Washington, D.C. and in our own state capitals, to fight to preserve the healthcare and earned retirement benefits we earned.
Members of Congress are paying more attention this year because election season is the perfect time for seniors to stand up and be heard. They want our votes. Suddenly, we're visible.
I'm a member of the non-profit group ProtectSeniors.Org, which advocates for retiree protections. It is critical for all retirees to get behind this retiree protection group to save their hard-earned benefits. This year and
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A team leader as a junior, Hurst was a top hitter and a defensive star for an Athens squad that went 13-11 as the shortstop
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earned all-league and all-district honors for the Indians.
Hurst led the team with a.418 batting average and a fielding percentage of.946 as she was a member of an Athens team that was named Academic All-State.
Costello was a leader on a young Bellevue team that had only one senior as the junior was a team captain and earned all-conference honors in the Southwestern Central Athletic Association, playing catcher and shortstop.
Costello hit.543 with a slugging percentage of.696 with 18 runs scored. She had an on-base percentage of.611 with 27 stolen bases and a fielding percentage of.977.
Robinson was a senior leader on a Bronson team that went 16-16 as she earned all-league honors in the Big Eight and all-district recognition from her catcher spot.
Robinson was among the leaders for Bronson with a.389 batting aferage and a slugging percentage
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You might know peppy Nintendo game designer Eiji Aonuma as the man in charge of all things Zelda. You might also know that he
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came up underneath the tutelage of Shigeru Miyamoto, the man who created Mario. But did you know that Aonuma isn’t that good at games featuring the company’s most iconic character?
Aonuma’s been working on the Legend of Zelda franchise for 17 years. It’s not unreasonable to think he might want to do something else one day. When I asked him what Nintendo franchise he could see himself working on next, he let me know it probably wouldn’t be the one with the “It’s-a Me!” guy.
Kotaku: What Nintendo franchise would you want to tackle next?
Aonuma: It wouldn’t be Mario because I’m not any good at that type of jumping game.
Kotaku: There are different reflexes involved there. What about Pikmin? There’s some similarities there. There’s a
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Conglomerate Keppel Corporation's latest quarterly results continued to take a beating owing to poor performance from its offshore and marine business.
Demand
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for drilling rigs has fallen though conversions and specialised shipbuilding have helped to bolster performance for the unit.
Net profit for the three months to Sept 30 dipped 12.4 per cent to $363 million, compared with the same period a year earlier, it said yesterday.
Revenue slid 23.4 per cent to $2.44 billion owing to lower contributions across all business units except its property business.
"They demonstrate our resilience as a multi-business conglomerate, not just a single-business company," he said at a briefing yesterday.
He maintained that this business approach is evident in KepCorp's results this year, which "may not be fully appreciated by the market".
The turnover of Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M) slumped 36 per cent to $1.41 billion, owing to lower work volume and some project deferments.
KepCorp's infrastructure business also suffered a 30 per cent decrease in revenue as a result of lower
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Fashion’s Night Out, an event curated in 2009 by Anna Wintour, Editor in Chief of Vogue magazine, and international
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editors of the publication to stimulate the stagnant industry, infected multiple shopping centers across Houston Thursday.
The evening event originally started in New York City and is an annual site of a chaotic circus of celebrities, media representatives and fashionistas.
The fashion celebration is seen as the event that ignites the start of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York, which started Thursday and will last a week.
Houston experienced a milder version of the event at several locations throughout the city, including the Galleria, Rice Village and West Avenue.
Sydney Dao, Director of Public Relations at local boutique Dao Chloe Dao, took the initiative to organize a Rice Village shop crawl to highlight Houston’s independent stores.
FNO was held in more than 500 cities nationwide this year, according to its official website.
Although the fashion scene down south is not as grand as in New York, Dao thought the fourth largest city was aware of the cause and deserved a shopping event like
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Insurance comparison marketplace QuoteWizard is having a good start to the year.
The company announced Thursday that it has acquired California-based B
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antam Connect, a call transfer company specializing in insurance leads. Privately held QuoteWizard also disclosed a record profit of $12 million in 2017. The Seattle-based company said its total revenue for the year was $80 million, also a record high since it was founded in 2006.
QuoteWizard has absorbed Bantam’s management team and all 30 of its employees and said it will allow the company to continue operations as normal under the QuoteWizard brand. The companies did not release financial details of the deal, but said it included both cash and equity.
The news is notable given that QuoteWizard was forced to lay off 30 percent of its workforce in late 2016 as the insurance markets shifted. Peyree told GeekWire at the time that the company couldn’t maintain its growth in the insurance environment and that it would look to diversify its offerings.
It seems that plan is working out — Bantam’s addition and the acquisition of insurance shopping
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FILE - Governor Greg Abbott speaks at the National Rifle Association-Institute for Legislative Action Leadership Forum in Dallas, May 4, 2018.
Texas
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Governor Greg Abbott on Monday was set to hold a series of meetings on how to combat school violence, three days after a 17-year-old killed 10 people in the fourth-deadliest mass shooting at a public school in modern U.S. history.
The attack at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, came a little more than three months after a 19-year-old shot dead 17 students and educators at a Florida high school. That incident intensified a long-running national debate about gun rights and sparked a student-led movement under the slogan #NeverAgain.
Abbott, a Republican and staunch supporter of gun rights, called for a statewide moment of silence at 10 a.m. CDT (1500 GMT) on Monday.
Abbott said he would talk with educators, parents and elected officials about ways to improve school security without infringing on the right to bear arms, protected by the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
"We need to
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Time Out, the listings magazine company, plans to use the £90million it raised from listing on AIM to accelerate growth for its food markets
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.
The firm manages a market in Lisbon, Portugal, but wants to open more. Yesterday it reported revenues up 106 per cent year-on-year in the six months to June.
The firm said it was trading in line with expectations and overall revenue was up 16 per cent, with digital growth offsetting a 2 per cent decline in revenue from print operations.
Shares moved forward 4.6 per cent, or 6p, to 135.5p but they are still 14.5p short of their 150p flotation price.
Packaging and paper company Mondi said its half-year profit is likely to be ahead of the previous six months’ £410million. It expects earnings per share to be up to 14 per cent higher at between 61 and 65p. Mondi is finalising its results, which will be released on August 4. The confident update sent shares up 4.3 per cent, or 63p, to 1,531p.
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A US effort to build pressure against Iran’s influence in the Middle East is facing a setback after ministers from several European Union members opted out
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of the summit organised by Washington in Poland.
The meeting – due to take place in Warsaw on February 13-14 – will focus on stability and security in the Middle East and on countering Iran’s “destabilising influence” in the region.
But since US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announcement during his tour of the Middle East, a number of EU representatives have said they will skip the summit, co-hosted by Poland and the US.
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said she will not take part in what her officials privately describe as an anti-Iran conference, according to Iranian and US media reports.
France is also unlikely to send its foreign minister, according to European diplomats. Luxembourg’s foreign minister said he would miss the event because of a prior arrangement. The UK and Germany have not yet taken any official positions.
The European Union is at loggerheads with the US over the 2015 Iran nuclear deal as it seeks to
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AFTER hosting four lots of tenants over six years of retirement, Bob and Lynn Hay are back in business and can't wait to get the Barg
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ara Berries cafe back up and running.
Mr and Mrs Hay had spent the past 18 months travelling through north Queensland enjoying their boating and fishing retirement, but when the final tenants didn't renew the lease, the couple decided to give restaurant life another go.
"We thought we might come back and try to revitalise the cafe and get it back to what it was," Mr Hay said.
"This is a big challenge we're taking on, we're not young anymore, but we've got some great support around us."
At 68 and 70 years-of-age, Lynn and Bob are bringing back all the old favourites the strawberry farmers were known for.
"The main one people used to love were the strawberry pancakes," Mr Hay said.
"We used our own strawberries and that was a very successful dish.
"The food will be similar to our old menu, house made with fresh local food, fruit and vegetables."
The couple are busy trying to
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Sony's fully online TV service -- the first of its kind -- is coming, but it's no cable killer yet. It seals a big deal
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for Viacom channels like Comedy Central, Nickelodeon and MTV.
Sony's coming cloud-based TV service will carry 22 Viacom networks at launch, the companies said in a release Wednesday.
The deal is a milestone in the technology and entertainment industry's ambitions for a fully online pay-TV service, one that gives you the most popular networks of your cable provider but delivers them over the Internet. It has been a goal for a plethora of companies but has largely remained out of reach. Apple and Google have been said to be in pursuit, and for nearly a year, Intel was the only company to outright broadcast its plans to launch one. Sony went public with its goal at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, saying it plans to pilot a cloud-based TV service this year that combines live television content with on-demand and DVR.
The deal Wednesday signifies Sony has cleared the major hurdle that has tripped up its rivals -- securing the programming.
Though the service
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Less than two months after giving birth to her second child, Ciara has stepped on the scale to share her postpartum weight loss with fans
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. The 31-year-old took to social media on Tuesday to document losing eight pounds this past week.
Ciara said her weight loss goal for the week was 10 pounds, but is satisfied with going from 183 lbs. to 175 lbs. In addition to the latest weigh-in, Ciara also stated she lost 20 pounds during the first four weeks after giving birth to her daughter. The singer welcomed Sienna Princess on April 28 with husband Russell Wilson, but has yet to share any photos of the newborn.
In her new Instagram post, Ciara said she about ‘died’ this past week trying to lose more weight. However, Ciara then added she was about to go eat a cheeseburger and brownie after sharing her latest weight loss with fans.
Her followers complimented her honesty in how much work it takes to lose weight as they left comments on the post. Others stated Ciara should enjoy her cheeseburger as it was well-des
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"We will not go (attend cabinet meetings) until a clear stand is announced on Telangana issue," Civil Supplies Minister J Krishna
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Rao told reporters here.
"We have told everything to our high command. We are hopeful that the Centre would come out with a positive response," IT Minister K Venkata Reddy said.
Asked how long the ministers would stay away from their official responsibilities, major Irrigation Minister P Laxmaiah said the ministers would resume duties whenever the Centre announced steps for the formation of separate Telangana.
"We wanted the Centre to give clarity on its statement by specifying a time frame for the formation of Telangana. We will act accordingly," he said.
The ministers had yesterday ruled out withdrawal of their resignations until the Congress high command comes out with a "categorical time frame" for the issue.
The ministers, who have sent a common resignation letter to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, met Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Urban Development Minister S Jaipal Reddy, Law Minister Veerapa Moily and party leader Ahmed Patel in New Delhi
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DELUDED Arsene Wenger lost the Euro plot last night as he declared: “This club is in great shape,” after
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a 10-2 aggregate humiliation by Bayern Munich.
The fuming Arsenal boss oversaw the heaviest defeat by any British team in Champions League history.
Yet he refused to even discuss his Emirates future and insisted last night’s 5-1 hammering was all the fault of Greek ref Tasos Sidiropoulos.
“I think we can compete with Bayern Munich and we have shown that tonight in the first-half,” Wenger amazingly declared.
“We produced a performance with the spirit and the pride that we wanted.
“This club is in great shape that at this moment is going through a difficult situation.
“We really put Bayern under pressure but the referee killed the game tonight and that was absolutely scandalous.
“Bayern are a good side but tonight they can say ‘thankyou’ to the referee for the irresponsible decisions in the second-half.
The Emirates was half empty at the final whistle after five Bayern
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So what's really down there? Down as in way down below the ocean, as Donovon sang in 1968. According to the latest Census
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of Marine Life, we're starting to get a clear idea.
On Monday, scientists released a preliminary inventory of ocean species distribution and diversity in 25 biologically representative regions from the Antarctic to the Arctic. Their final report will get released early next month.
Before the decade-long census gets revealed, the researchers dropped a few morsels for us to chew on. For instance, the waters off the coasts off Australia, Japan, China, the Mediterranean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico are the world's most diverse in terms of known species.
When the census gets released in London, it's expected to report there are more than 230,000 marine species in the world's oceans. Even more intriguing, the preliminary inventory released on Monday noted that "for every marine species of all kinds known to science, census scientists estimate that at least four have yet to be discovered." That makes for a lot of fish. And probably a lot of fish in shapes, sizes and colors that will blow our minds.
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Harris, who is an honors student at East LA College, plays defense as a free safety.
Toni Harris became the first female football player
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at a skilled position to sign a letter of intent for a football scholarship on Tuesday.
Harris had already broken barriers as the first female football player in East Los Angeles College's history and also the first female football player to appear in a Super Bowl advertisement earlier in February.
On Tuesday, the East LA College Siberian Husky held a news conference to mark the historic moment and sign the letter of intent to play football at Central Methodist University in Missouri. The school has offered Harris a full scholarship to play college football.
The Detroit native has a history of overcoming long odds, having grown up in foster care and survived cancer at age 18. She's the first person in her family to graduate high school and go to college, intending to study criminal justice.
"Toni Harris has shown great resolve in her journey and quest to be a college football player," Bobby Godinez, who coached Harris at East LA College, said in a statement released by the school. "She has shown herself to be
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'The Hunger' is inspired by the Donner Party, in which American pioneers resorted to cannibalism to avoid starvation. A 3.5-
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star book review.
You’ve heard of the Donner Party. You know they were pioneers who set out for California, that things went poorly and did not end well. If nothing else, you probably know that they ate one another to survive.
The Hunger, Alma Katsu’s new novel (Putnam, 373 pp., ★★★½ out of four), assumes some familiarity with this California Trail horror show. Instead of sapping the story of suspense, this familiarity infuses every page with dread. And that’s before Katsu adds in a supernatural twist.
All this may have been enough to damn the historical Donner party, but Katsu’s poor souls are dogged by an additional evil: a voracious presence that stalks them across the land, preying on and infecting the pioneers. As the days go by, the party dwindles, winnowed by forces known and unknown.
Everything goes wrong, with repeatedly fatal
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Grand Final winners St Helens will start the 2015 Super League season with a home game against Catalan Dragons.
The two sides will meet on Friday
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, 6 February, 24 hours after runners-up Wigan Warriors travel to Widnes in their opening fixture of the campaign.
The opening weekend sees two Yorkshire derbies with Castleford v Wakefield and Huddersfield Giants at home to Hull FC.
Warrington play host Salford Red Devils, with Hull KR meeting Leeds Rhinos at the KC Lightstream Stadium.
Wigan forward Ben Flower will miss his side's first re-match with St Helens on Good Friday as he serves a six-month ban, the longest in Super League history, for punching Lance Hohaia during the Grand Final.
The earliest Flower could return to action would be Wigan's home game against Warrington on 23 April.
Hohaia, however, will be free for Saints' game against Catalan as he will serve his one-game ban in pre-season for striking Flower with his forearm in the Grand Final.
Only 12 sides will be involved in the first phase of
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