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Charities hailed the £100 million drive as a significant step forward but warned that more social housing is needed to end homelessness.
Theresa May | has declared her aim to help homeless people “turn their lives around” as the Government launched a £100 million plan to end rough sleeping on England’s streets.
The strategy was welcomed by homelessness charities, who said it was a significant step towards meeting the Conservative manifesto commitment to halve rough sleeping by the end of this Parliament and eliminate it by 2027.
However, they warned it will not provide a “total fix” for homelessness, which would require a significant increase in social housing, more security for renters and the reversal of policies which leave migrants homeless.
The new strategy, revealed by Communities Secretary James Brokenshire on Saturday ahead of its official launch on Monday, will offer support with mental health and addictions as well as help with accommodation.
Based on a three-pronged approach of prevention, intervention and recovery, it focuses on efforts to stop people becoming homeless in the first place, with swift, targeted support to get those in crisis off |
Relations between the European Union and Malaysia and Indonesia hit an obstacle when Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and Indonesia’ | s Coordinating Maritime Affairs Minister Luhut Pandjaitan recently threatened to boycott EU’s products if the bloc issues a ban on palm oil as a biofuel.
As the largest buyer of certified sustainable palm oil, the European Commission recently concluded that palm oil cultivation has led to excessive deforestation. Consequently, palm oil will no longer qualify to be considered toward the EU renewable transportation targets for national governments. This presents a major setback for the industry as nearly half (48 percent) of all EU’s palm oil imports in 2016 were channeled to biofuels.
In a December commentary on the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive (RED II), the Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA) cautioned against outright bans and singling out key exports such as palm oil from developing countries. While protecting national interests is important, any attempt to engage in trade retaliation in reality would do little to offer a long-term, win-win solution. A more constructive and lasting |
On a sensational, star-studded night, Jackie Chan, Ahmed Kathrada, Irrfan Khan, Norah Jones, G | ok Wan, Sir David Tang and billionaire Lui Che Woo were among those honoured at The Asian Awards in Partnership with UBS, at The Grosvenor House Hotel.
April 9, 2014 - PRLog -- The second annual Top 100 Most Influential Asians* list was also launched, unveiling President of China, Xi Jinqping in top spot, followed by Indian leader, Sonia Gandhi, Vice Premier of China, Le Keqiang, and Indian election front runner Narendra Modi taking fourth place.
Chivas deluxe blended Scotch whisky was delighted to be the partner of The Asian Awards 2014. Chivas was also proud to present the new Public Servant of the Year award for the first time, won this year by Shalil Shetty (Amnesty International Secretary of Human Rights).
The Awards started with spectacular entertainment from singer and actress Preeya Kalidas, who performed for a room full of A-list guests, including Idris Elba, Zayn Malik, N |
A VPN bypass flaw discovered last week in Android Jelly Bean 4.3 also exists in the latest version of Google's mobile operating system, KitKat | 4.4, Israeli researchers say.
Ben Gurion University researchers found the initial bug and then did further testing to determine its existence in KitKat. The researchers published their latest findings on the university's Cyber Security Labs blog.
Google did not respond to a request for comment, but security experts said Wednesday the bugs in both versions of Android should be fixed quickly.
"I believe this is a serious issue," Paul Henry, a senior security instructor at the SANS Institute, said.
Because of differences in the OS versions, the same exploit code cannot be used, the researchers said. However, what can be accomplished by malware is the same.
The flaws make it possible for a malicious app to bypass a VPN (virtual private network) configuration and redirect the secure data communications to a different network address. The data is rerouted before it is encrypted.
The KitKat flaw is somewhat similar to what the same researchers found last December in Samsung's Knox security platform. That vulnerability |
A Thornton couple who were flooded out of their home are unable to return eight months on.
Stephen and Paula Simpson spent weeks sleeping on their son | ’s sofa after they were flooded out of their New Lane home in November.
Now they say they are unable to move back into their beloved home, where they have lived for 22 years, and are living in a rented bungalow in Out Rawcliffe.
The damage caused to their home in the floods was estimated to be around £54-£56,000 by a surveyor. They say they were only offered £24,900 by their insurance company, Direct Line, to cover the house and its contents.
Paula, 61, said: “We haven’t got any carpets or tiling on the floor.
“Even the internal doors and skirting boards have to be replaced, because we had seven inches of water throughout the whole house.
“We lost absolutely everything on the ground floor – TVs, settees, coffee tables, tables and chairs, laptops and printers, and everything in the shed. I feel absolutely awful |
Music has captured Minnesota Orchestra conductor laureate Stanislaw Skrowaczewski for most of his 88 years.
Go ahead, ask him anything | . Stanislaw Skrowaczewski will give you a straight answer.
The decision to rename his orchestra more than 40 years ago still bugs him ("very wrong, really stupid"). The Twin Cities' cultural state displeases him ("too populist for me"). If he were in charge, he would not remodel Orchestra Hall for $50 million ("I'd put the money into great art").
At 88 years old, this eminent conductor and composer has earned the right to speak his mind freely. Yet, he does so without a hint of crankiness -- almost apologetic about his opinions and supremely gracious. He has accomplished too much in his life to carry real anger in his spirit.
His eyes are dim, his heart is "only half working," and he mentions several times during an interview how sad life has become since his wife of 55 years, Krystyna, died last fall. He himself never thought he would live beyond the year 2000, which had mystical value for him |
Cheer Pack North America celebrated its newly operational West Bridgewater packaging plant in September, giving tours of the retrofitted facility that will allow the company to | more than double its production.
WEST BRIDGEWATER — Cheer Pack North America celebrated its newly operational West Bridgewater packaging plant in September, giving tours of the retrofitted facility that will allow the company to more than double its production.
Formerly located in Plymouth, Cheer Pack renovated an approximately 180,000-square-foot space, installing new equipment and infrastructure to create a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week operation, according to Steve Gosling, Cheer Pack president, who spoke at the ribbon-cutting event.
The $24 million renovation at One United Drive is nearly finished with some remaining work to be completed in office spaces, Gosling said on Sept. 25. Operation at the facility has already begun.
Incorporated in 2010, with only a handful of employees, Cheer Pack has seen tremendous growth as its products have taken off in North America. The company got started with just two employees, one of them Gosling, |
STARKVILLE, MS (WLBT) - A dominating fourth quarter helped the No. 6 Mississippi State women’s basketball team cruise | to a 91-63 win over Tennessee Sunday afternoon at Humphrey Coliseum.
A sellout crowd of 10,021, State’s fourth of 10,000 or more this season, cheered the Maroon and White to a fifth win in the last six series meetings with the tradition-rich Lady Vols (15-8, 4-6 SEC). The 28-point victory was the Lady Vols largest defeat ever in conference play and was tied for their second-largest margin of defeat overall.
MSU (22-1, 10-1 SEC) extended its SEC winning streak to 26 games, tying Auburn for the sixth longest streak in the league’s history.
The Bulldogs broke open a tight contest with 30 points in the fourth quarter. MSU has scored 80 or more points eight time in conference play.
Tearia McCowan (24 points, 15 rebounds) and Anriel Howard (16 points, 11 rebounds) each had double-doubles |
A near life-long friendship will go out of the window for at least 80 minutes tomorrow night (Thursday) when two old Australian pals fight for | the right to reach the pinnacle of the Rugby League season - the Old Trafford Grand Final.
Saints’ coach Justin Holbrook and his Warrington counterpart Steve Price, who played together as juniors Down Under and were near neighbours, will be pitting their wits against each other in a play-off semi-final which could turn into a classic encounter.
This is born out by the fact that the last time the two met at the Totally Wicked Stadium in July a last-gasp long range penalty from hot-shot scrum half Danny Richardson earned St Helens a nail-biting 14-12 victory.
Holbrook - seeking to reach his first final as a first team coach - said: “The last few weeks have been a little awkward but now we can dust ourselves down and move on.
“However, home advantage doesn’t guarantee us victory but we love playing at the Totally Wicked Stadium and earned the right to stage a semi-final |
The competition within the game is between two, talented, young players.
In the end, there can only be one.
The battle for | the final roster spot is being played out between two second-year players, guards Erick Green and Nick Johnson. The Nuggets will carry a third point guard on the team, and these two are vying for that spot.
While the situation may be stressful to the players involved, the Nuggets can’t choose wrong either way.
Timofey Mozgov has picked up right where he left off from his breakout campaign last season. His camp has been good, and during games he continues to separate himself in the question as to who starts at center for the Nuggets this season. As it stands now, there isn’t a question; Mozzy’s the guy until the job is taken from him.
His 20 points and eight rebounds in the Nuggets’ win over Oklahoma City on Wednesday night were built on smart basketball combined with aggressiveness. In an 8-for-8 shooting performance, he was routinely in the right spots offensively, always aware and ready to receive a |
The robotics specialist shows improvement in every key metric to blow past Wall Street's expectations for its third quarter.
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Shares of iRobot (NASDAQ:IRBT) shot up more than 16% in early trading Wednesday following a blowout earnings report by the home-helper robotics specialist after the end of trading on Tuesday.
Wall Street's analysts had expected revenue of $134.8 million and earnings of $0.33 per share for the third quarter, but iRobot came in well above both estimates with $143.5 million in third-quarter revenue and $0.48 in EPS. Home robots led the way, as the segment's 19% year-over-year growth more than compensated for a modest 5% year-over-year improvement in defense sales. The average sale price per home robot also improved from $225 a year ago to $244 in the current quarter, helping to offset a unit price decline in defense robotics. Both segments improved their gross margins significantly |
First-term Assemblyman Richard Bloom (D-Westside L.A.) found a fine way to greet incoming Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins ( | D-San Diego). He proposed legislation that would effectively ban SeaWorld’s most popular attraction, performing orcas—in her district.
Bloom said he was inspired by “Blackfish,” a documentary built around the Orlando SeaWorld orca Tilikum that killed three people (two trainers and a trespasser) and the conditions of captivity that may have contributed to its behavior. Bloom announced his bill with the film’s director, Gabriela Cowperthwaite, at his side.
SeaWorld disagrees and spokesman David Koontz explained why. It’s unAmerican not to like performing orcas. “We engage in business practices that are responsible, sustainable and reflective of the balanced values all Americans share.” That would be all Americans except the “extreme animal rights activists” Bloom has chosen to associate himself with.
Clearly, that claim in a lawsuit had publicity value. A lot more people are now aware of research |
Venables Bell & Partners took home the coveted Best of Show award at The One Show in New York on Friday night for REI's #Opt | Outside, a cross-platform campaign in which the outdoor retailer closed on Black Friday and urged employees and customers alike to get outside and enjoy nature on a day best known for rampant consumerism.
"This is an amazing honor," said Will McGinness, executive creative director at the San Francisco agency. "This wouldn't have been possible without our incredibly brave clients who were willing to take their beliefs as a company and act on them in such a bold way. #OptOutside was an idea that came from the core of who they are as a company and ended up transcending marketing into an actual movement. Which is something you rarely see."
Mediavest | Spark, Tool of North America, North Kingdom and Edelman also worked on the REI campaign.
Ellie Kemper, star of the Netflix comedy Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, hosted the 43rd Annual One Show Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on Friday night, which honored the year's best film, interactive, cross |
Established more than 30 years ago, the Port of Lancaster Smokehouse has retained and maintained the traditional methods of preparing and curing fish and meats of | all kinds.
Its commitment to quality and high customer service has won such overall acclaim for its smoked foods.
It sources many of its products locally and visitors can watch the fishermen land their daily catch at its factory shop at Glasson Dock.
Always keen to reach as many customers and bring its local produce across the region, the Port also attends farmers markets.
Customers are keen to shout out about how good Green’s, in Poulton Street, is. Staff individually prepare and make hot and cold sandwiches, salad boxes, and soups, all fresh to order. The menu varies, with daily specials, ensuring no two days are the same.
The deli also serves meats, pies, cheese and cakes, which are all brought fresh in, daily.
With three deli restaurants, in Penwortham, Preston and Garstang, this eatery is growing in popularity.
Using local farmhouse ingredients for its home-made deli products, it |
Federal immigration officials Thursday announced the creation of a telephone hotline to ensure that detainees held by local police are informed of their rights.
The toll- | free number, (855) 448-6903, will field queries from detainees held by state or local law enforcement agencies if the detainees "believe they may be U.S. citizens or victims of a crime," the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency said in a statement.
An ICE official in Washington said agency representatives had not been authorized to comment about the hotline but that more information soon would be posted online.
The hotline will be staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week by ICE personnel, according to the statement, with interpreters available in several languages.
"ICE personnel will collect information from the individual and refer it to the relevant ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations field office for immediate action," the statement said.
As part of the new initiative, ICE officials plan to issue a form to all detainees informing them that ICE will assume their custody within 48 hours, according to the statement. The form will be available in English as well as Spanish, French, Portuguese |
A month-long conference to toughen global controls on nuclear arms has ended without any agreements amongst the parties involved after four weeks.
From Japan | 's "extreme regret" to Norway's "profound disappointment," delegates expressed frustration that the failure to agree on an action plan for growing nuclear threats might weaken the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, the pact that has helped keep a lid on nuclear weapons for 35 years.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said through a spokesman on Friday that the inability to strengthen collective efforts through the talks was bound to weaken the treaty.
Annan said world leaders would look at the issues again at a global summit scheduled for September.
The failure comes at a time of heightening nuclear tensions in the world. North Korea has pulled out of the treaty and says it is building atom bombs. Iran's uranium-enrichment programme raises questions about possible weapons plans.
Arab states view Israel's nuclear arsenal as increasingly provocative.
The conference had debated proposals to address all these issues.
"If we allow agreements at one conference to be rolled back at the next, we will undermine the very premise |
With a couple of months still left to go in the year, Chicago has already managed to tie the 2011 mark for homicides.
The 435th | killing was recorded Sunday night when a man was shot in the chest on the South Side. A total of six people were killed over the weekend and another 14 injured by gunfire.
Chicago police Supt. Garry McCarthy appeared live on NBC 5 News Today to discuss violence in the city. McCarthy called the numbers disappointing.
"You can't manage murder. One murder is too many, and if we ended the year with 400, that's 400 too many," McCarthy said. "Unfortunately we knew this time was coming. We got way behind at the beginning of the year, and unfortunately this is going to overshadow the progress that we're making."
NBC 5s Stefan Holt get's an exclusive look at how the Chicago Police Department operates when he rides along with Superintendent Garry McCarthy.
McCarthy says those signs of progress include 5,500 individual recognizance bonds being denied to gang members in order to keep them in jail, 5,000 more gang members arrested this year than last year and |
FARNBOROUGH: Britain’s Defence Minister Gavin Williamson will unveil a model of the country’s proposed new fighter jet at | the Farnborough Airshow and earmark 2 billion pounds (US$2.7 billion) in funding for the project, a source close to the matter said on Monday.
The aircraft, which will eventually replace the Typhoon fighter jet, will be developed and built by partners BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce and Leonardo, the source said.
Britain is in talks with other countries to find more companies to help develop the jet, the source added, with Sweden seen as the most likely partner, although countries such as South Korea, Japan and Turkey, or Gulf arms-buying countries like Saudi Arabia, are also possibilities.
Under the plans, the new jet will be operational by 2035, ready to replace the Typhoon fleet, which is due to be retired in 2040.
The UK-led project comes as Britain is due to leave the European Union in less than nine months.
It will face competition from a rival European project after France announced in June that it would take |
One burglar is even recorded on camera petting the guard dog.
Police in an Arizona city are looking for a man and woman who were | caught on camera breaking into a home through a dog door.
The incident occurred around 12:30 p.m. on Dec. 8 in Peoria, a suburb of Phoenix.
Home surveillance video captured the entire ordeal on camera from several angles, including interactions with the family pet. In the video, the suspects are seen backing into the driveway in a black, four-door Chevy Impala with temporary license plates.
The homeowner, who asked not to be identified, said the burglars made off with thousands of dollars worth of electronics and other valuables.
"They knew exactly what to look for, where to go and what to take," he said.
The man and woman exit the car and knock on the front door before the man jumps the wall to get through the back dog door. The man lets the woman inside by unlocking the front door, and they proceed to remove items from the house.
"Me leaving the house was planned," the homeowner said. " |
Had Navarasa Thilagam released somewhere round 80's, the film would have been a sure hit. Now our audiences are exposed to | world cinema so clichéd comedy sequences with a village bumpkin as a protagonist doesn't work anymore in Kollywood.
Ma Ka Pa Anand is a carefree youngster and tries his luck in several business that he loses all the wealth of his dad (Ilavarasu). The only thing remains for Ilavarasu is a wine shop and most of the time, Anand prefers to roam with his friend and business partner (Karunakaran).
As said earlier the director has made Navarasa Thilagam with truckloads of clichés—right from falling in love with the heroine (Srushti Dange) at first sight to stopping her sister’s marriage for the so called twist in the intermission, the entire film is a plodding ride.
With Siddharth Vipin’s character, the director has literally introduced a new genre called fart comedy but the sad thing is only he has to laugh for the so called jokes. |
With all the Metro expansion, housing development and seemingly endless road maintenance going on in Copenhagen over the past few years, residents are no doubt wondering when | it will all end.
Well, don’t hold your breath, as it may be a while yet.
The Danish capital’s infrastructure maintenance place was initially expected to be completed in five years, but a new report suggests it will continue to 2027.
“Not enough money has been set aside to keep up with the speed required. If we are to be finished by 2022, there will too many roads that need to be closed simultaneously, and traffic will simply grind to a halt,” Ninna Hedeager Olsen, the deputy mayor for technical and environmental issues, told DR Nyheder.
An extension to the city’s roadworks period will not only make the municipality’s planning ability more flexible, but it will also allow for more co-ordinated work to avoid more roads being dug up at the same time.
Olsen admits that an extension isn’t ideal for drivers, cyclists or pedestrians, and she real |
A group of 27 Danish Muslim organisations has filed a defamation lawsuit against the newspaper that first published the contentious Prophet Muhammad cartoons, their lawyer said.
| The case was filed on Wednesday, two weeks after Denmark's top prosecutor declined to press criminal charges, saying the drawings that sparked a firestorm in the Muslim world did not violate laws against racism or blasphemy.
Michael Christiani Havemann, a lawyer representing the Muslim groups, told The Associated Press the lawsuit sought 100,000 kroner ($16,100) in damages from Carsten Juste, Jyllands-Posten editor-in-chief, and Flemming Rose, culture editor, who supervised the cartoon project.
"We are seeking judgment for both the text and the drawings which were gratuitously defamatory and injurious," Havemann said.
He said the lawsuit was filed in the western city of Aarhus, where Jyllands-Posten is based. The court confirmed it had received the lawsuit but said a date for a hearing had not been set.
The newspaper published the 12 cartoons on September 30 with an accompanying text saying it was |
An internship is an outstanding way to augment your classroom experiences.
4 What Do You Put for Reason for Leaving if Last Job Was Volunteer Work? |
As an engineering student, you face no better way to gain experience in your chosen field than to secure an internship. Just as if you were a job seeker, you will have to write a cover letter that describes your academic record, why you would be a good fit for the organization and the skills and attributes you bring to the table. In other words, you will have to sell yourself in an honest and forthright manner. Whether the internship is paid or non-paid, be mindful that you'll probably be competing against other students. But don’t be daunted; try to look at writing a cover letter as great experience for the professional working world. After all, landing the internship of your dreams may one day help you land the job of your dreams, too.
Read the internship posting carefully and highlight the key qualifications and personal traits the organization is seeking. Your goal is to show that you fit the description without misrepresenting yourself or your talents. If the posting does not include |
AFTER the end of World War II, our "occupation" experts in West Germany were extremely careful that none of the onetime Nazi newspaper | editors was able to pick up where he left off. There hadn't been, of course, anything but onetime Nazi editors, and some of them were unhappy to be included in a generalization about something over which they had no choice. Our experts came to realize our hasty postwar decisions might have faults, and it was my happy lot to be asked to "survey" the West German press and r ender some advice. I shook hands with over 400 "oldtime" hometown editors and enjoyed every minute - although I think my "advice" had little to do with much of anything. My mission was not so much to change anything as it was to assure the journalists of West Germany that Uncle Sam wasn't altogether a rascal and wanted to be friends.
One consequence of this three-month visit is my ability to meet a German somewhere and tell him the name of his hometown paper and (as of 1953) who publishes it. This happened lately with Maria Louisa Mineau |
Home. SMB group home page.
Robosync. A mailing list dealing with automated sample mounting systems.
Staff area. Secure site | for SMB staff.
Facilities. Experimental facilities for users.
Resource policies. Beamline use policies and rules for using heavy metals, cryogenics and compressed gases.
Hardware. Beamline equipment available to users.
SAM. Stanford Automated Sample Mounting System.
Gas pressurization. Preparation of Xe and Kr derivatives.
Other hardware. Information on crystal offset, beamstops, heating shield, ice removal tool, microscopes and tool board items.
Software. Beamline control and data analysis software.
MAD scripts. Shell scripts to solve the structure by MAD or SAD.
Other software: A complete list of software installed on SMB computers.
Computing. Computing environment at the beamlines.
Remote Unix desktop. Remote access to the beamline software.
User's guide to remote access.
Sample spreadsheet database. Web interface to spreadsheet uploads.
Web-Ice. Web interface to experiments.
Links. Travel |
The image swept the internet: A lone woman on a busy Tehran street, black hair flowing, waving a white hijab on a stick — a symbol | of the White Wednesday women’s rights movement in Iran. Iran’s rulers have noticed, too, arresting 29 White Wednesday protesters last week. Their names have not been released.
The new wave of arrests recalled for me the words of the Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari, when he was released from Iran’s notorious Evin prison: “The prisoner’s worst nightmare is the thought of being forgotten.” We must not forget those arrested by tyrannies around the world who remain imprisoned based on their fidelity to conscience.
We may not know all of their names, but we must speak for these heroes in the war for freedom and the rule of law — to let them know we stand in solidarity with them, and that we will not relent until their freedom is secured.
For that to be realized, there are concrete steps we must take.
To begin, democratic governments should take action to punish those responsible for the culture of corruption and |
�Friday night and the lights are low � looking out for a place to go�� Are you? The Dancing Queens have just the answer: the | second annual Dance for Peace dance-a-thon from 6 p.m. to midnight Sept. 30 at the Leominster Elks, 134 North Main St.
The dance floor will be hopping with Crystal Entertainment of Townsend providing the tunes for the YWCA Central Massachusetts� Battered Women�s Resources fundraiser.
Besides Lunenburg�s Dancing Queens, the Mount Wachusett Community College Dance Crew, the Clinton Savings Bank Sashayers, the Dancing Divas and Twinkle Toe and Happy Feet teams from Fitchburg and Leominster will be bopping to the music.
Teams from Fitchburg State University, Clark University, Holden, Princeton, Sterling and Westminster also plan on attending.
Salsa Passion of Fitchburg will perform the merengue and teach anyone and everyone how to step and slide to the Caribbean dance style. Leominster�s Dance2Swing will also demonstrate basic dance steps. Rock �n� roll your thing |
A bitter BBC technical operations engineer used the corporation’s account to order nearly £8,000 worth of electronics, which he placed in various | offices to 'implicate' the manager who sacked him, a court heard.
Former BBC News team leader Dominic Di Chiera, 50, of Battersea, south London admitted ordering a 3D Blu-ray player, LED televisions, a mobile phone, a camera drive and other electrical items as his contract neared its end.
'When ordering these items the defendant had the electrical goods delivered to his home address,' prosecutor Miss Amanda McCabe told Hammersmith Magistrates’ Court.
'He said he committed the offences on being told that his contract would not be renewed and wanted to implicate a BBC colleague responsible for budgeting, who was responsible for not renewing his contract.
Australian-born Di Chiera pleaded guilty to seven counts of fraud by false representation, namely fraudulently using a BBC account to make purchase orders totalling £7,773.63p between June 4 and 26.
He was employed at a variety of BBC sites and has also |
Think of a figure, double it, add your age and subtract the number of eels in Oakley Creek: that, it seems, is | as good a guess as any for the price of completing the Waterview Connection.
I'm not surprised Transport Minister Steven Joyce and the NZ Transport Agency waited until the eve of the Christmas exodus to sneak out the highly embarrassing news that a tunnel was, after all, the most cost-effective and environmentally sensitive way to join State Highway 20 up to the Northwestern Motorway at Waterview.
Mr Joyce called this backflip, a "fine-tuning of the alignment", while Transport Agency chairman Brian Roche's press release was even more buttoned-up, referring to "design improvements". The only reference to cost was by Mr Roche, who said the new tunnel "can be completed within the original project budget and is the most cost-effective option for constructing this section while also responding well to community concerns".
In other words, at Christmas 2009, a three-by-three-lane tunnel could be built for around $1.15 billion. Yet just 10 months before, |
"Old Europe" is blocking U.S. efforts to find an exit strategy for Iraq. Further evidence emerged on Thursday that Old Europe holds the | only key to the door from Iraq marked "Exit," but don’t expect to see it used any time soon.
After the reconquest of Fallujah (Fallujah II), the field for American military options has dramatically contracted. Politically and diplomatically, "Old Europe" France and Germany are the ironic gainers from a pyrrhic U.S. military victory, and unless the Bush administration undertakes to forgo permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq, the exit door will stay shut.
The Pentagon’s Fallujah-based exit strategy hinged on the success of the campaign initiated on Nov. 8 to subdue the Sunni city. Military planners had hoped that the reconquest of Fallujah would severely cripple the insurgency and thereby herald a period of relative calm before the January Iraqi elections. It was also believed that the success of Fallujah II would preclude the necessity of calling up further U.S. |
I generally do one or two episodes a year. I just shot one!
It looks like 2018 will be when fans of The Big Bang Theory | will see Laurie Metcalf next reprise her role as Mary Cooper. Specifically, it has been noted that Metcalf will return in the episode "The Solo Oscillation," which is due to air Thursday, January 11 at 8:00 p.m. ET. Metcalf last appeared in the Season 11 premiere, which makes her statement to EW about doing one to two episodes a year accurate.
What Laurie Metcalf will be up to in theBig Bang Theory episode remains to be seen. The synopsis doesn't appear to feature her character heavily, so its possible this appearance could be a phone call or something of that sort. Given Metcalf's statement about her involvement, it's possible she could've been on set to film the episode featuring Sheldon and Amy's wedding, and this upcoming performance could've been something filmed quickly the same day.
But that's just taking Laurie Metcalf at her word, and its possible she wasn't speaking literally when referring to |
Google’s chief executive Larry Page has admitted that the company has outgrown its mission statement to “organise the world’s | information and make it universally accessible and useful” from the launch of the company in 1998, but has said he doesn’t yet know how to redefine it.
Page insists that the company is still focused on the altruistic principles that it was founded on in 1998 with the original mission statement, when he and co-founder Sergey Brin were aiming big with “societal goals” to “organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”.
Google has unprecedented resources brought about by its search and web advertising dominance, which has seen countries become uneasy in the face of a company that wields so much influence over a universal resource such as the internet.
It has faced anti-monopoly probes by the European commission and most recently pressure from Europe over the “right to be forgotten” forced to remove search listings to information deemed to be outdated and not in the public interest which saw Britons request over 60,000 links |
The founder of PayPal is living large but continues to work.
SAN FRANCISCO - Max Levchin is not easily distracted from his work | .
A few years ago, Levchin, one of the young princes of Silicon Valley, bought his first home, a 12-room Edwardian high atop a hill here, for $3.4 million.
But Levchin, who made a fortune at age 27 selling PayPal, the online payment service he helped start in 1998, never moved in. He sold it two years later without having slept there for even one night.
Since then, Levchin has moved into his second home, a more expensive one found for him by Nellie Minkova, his girlfriend of eight years who has become his fiancee. But so consumed is he by work on his second company, an Internet startup focused on sharing photos and videos, that the cartons that contain what Levchin described as "85 percent of my worldly possessions'' are still stacked in his living room, five months after moving day.
Levchin, who is now 32, is typical of a new generation of junior tit |
Julian Assange and The Fifth Estate: Wiki Wacky Who?
With Julian Assange a refugee in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since June 2012 | , what’s his whistle-blowing website been up to? Well, last year WikiLeaks published the Syria files — more than 2 million emails and papers from Bashar Assad‘s government — and a hundred or so classified files from the U.S. Defense Department revealing its policy on detainees at Guantanamo and elsewhere. This year WikiLeaks released CIA and State Department documents from the 1970s, including secret cables from Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Just last Wednesday it posted a new installment of its Spy Files 3 project, detailing the internal workings of European companies specializing in surveillance technology. That’s corporate spying to you, or maybe on you.
All very noteworthy, and newsworthy. But WikiLeaks hasn’t received the attention that a few years ago made it arguably the top source for exposés of government and industrial corruption. The Iraq and Syria War Logs, which the site obtained from U.S. Army analyst Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning, made news around the world |
Chennai: Raghav Verma, co-founder, Chaayos, introduced free Wi-Fi in his outlet for customers to | sign in and possibly share updates on social media. Little did he realise that Wi-Fi became a channel to increase customer engagement.
Wi-Fi analytics — which uses data from customers signing in to free Wi-Fi provided at cafes and large retail stores to push in offers and increase conversions – is used by brick and mortar establishments.
"When a customer signs in through free Wi-Fi, we get some of his details, including phone number, email and possibly his occupation. We also get to know the kind of phone he has used and understand when he last signed in and what he purchased. We roll out offers through the details he gives when he signs in the next time and that ends up increasing customer engagement and retention," said Verma. Chaayos provides real time SMS alerts in the periphery of selected cafes as promotion to customers in vicinity tracking the location if they have Wi-Fi in search mode.
Satyam Darmora, founder, I2E1, a |
CINCINNATI – After seven hours of meetings, dozens of political speeches, and plenty of complaints about last-minute cuts and adds to | city spending, Cincinnati City Council finally passed a new $1.4 billion budget on Wednesday.
There were few surprises during the marathon session at City Hall, which included three meetings and a veto by Mayor John Cranley. That veto was later overturned – the first time this has happened to Cranley during his tenure as mayor.
Cranley vetoed an amendment to the budget which cut police overtime and delayed a police recruit class, but gave a $550,000 earmark to the Center for Closing the Health Gap.
“I think that supporting the police and crime-fighting initiatives is far more important than supporting an organization that a number of audits and independent coverage by the media has raised significant concerns about their effectiveness and their results, or lack of results,” Cranley said.
Cranley had proposed wiping out the Health Gap’s direct funding next year after it faced a 2017 city audit and was the target of several media investigations into how it spends taxpayer money. |
There’s a scenario that is becoming all too common on the battlefield. A soldier, sweating in the unrelenting desert sun, is buried | under mounds of gear, both protective and connective.
Although body armor claims the lion’s share of the bulk, the ballistic exoskeleton is far from the only necessity added on to the soldier’s growing gear list. In addition to a Kevlar helmet, water and scopes, personal Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System (SINCGARS) devices can easily help tip the scale to more than 70 pounds in weight. And troops are finding that all that gear is making for a tight squeeze in military vehicles, which contain more communications gear that clutters dashboards and spaces needed for personnel.
However, that is all about to change.
In the years immediately following the Korean War, the advent of long-range radio transmission of three teletype channels and one voice channel was made possible by a B-52 turbine engine mounted to a truck bed. Despite generations of technological advances, troops are still feeling tethered and weighed down by tactical communications systems. |
When both of my favorite "foodie" type people e-mailed me in less than a week to rave about Lime Leaf, I could | barely wait to get over there. They are never wrong - at least about food - so on a recent evening, hubby and I headed to the Tinseltown area for dinner.
Now, "charm" is not the word that comes to mind when I describe this part of Southside Boulevard, but the new Tapestry Park development has it in spades, with brick streets and tasteful shops just waiting for tenants.
Another winner is Lime Leaf itself. While a debate went on over dinner about the acoustics in the tiled space - it was very loud - everyone had good things to say about both the service and the food.
The kitchen got a head start, with experienced owners and chefs from a popular Thai restaurant on Baymeadows making this their new home. They are clearly on solid ground here, and it shows.
We started with the Chicken Satay ($7.95). While the large chicken strips were tasty, the crisp cucumber salad and |
Who: The Hemsley sisters – Jasmine, 35, and Melissa, 29, with the fringe – are the only ones of our healthy | cooks who eat meat and they don’t do it by halves. Their first cookbook, The Art of Eating Well, features roasted bone marrow, osso buco and a hunking great steak, fried in ghee or duck fat and served with a mustard leek sauce. In fact, you have to read many of their recipes very closely to realise they have any connection with eating virtuously. Hemsley & Hemsley do fried chicken, just with almonds in place of breadcrumbs and oven-baked; their shepherd’s pie is topped with cauliflower mash.
Since 2012, the sisters have blogged for the Vogue website; The Art of Eating Well, published last summer, has scarcely left the top 10 lists. “We’re really meat and two veg,” explains Jasmine, a former model, with a smile – it’s just the veg is likely to be rainbow coleslaw or carrots |
John Mathrursse traveled to Hawaii for the event from Mountain View, Calif. He was an 18-year-old seaman second class | walking out of the chow hall on Ford Island to see a friend on the battleship West Virginia when the bombing began.
He carried injured people to the mess hall and set them on mattresses grabbed from the barracks above.
The youngest of the survivors are now in their mid-90s. Still, most stood to salute for the national anthem.
This year, no survivor from the battleship Arizona attended the ceremony as none of the men were able to make the trip to Hawaii.
In 2015, 388 sets of remains were exhumed from the battleship Oklahoma and buried in a national cemetery in Honolulu. The Oklahoma had the second-highest number of dead after the Arizona at 429, though only 35 were identified in the immediate years after the attack.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has identified 168 sailors and Marines from the Oklahoma since the exhumations three years ago. It has said it expects to identify about 80% of the 388 by 2020.
Several |
Pope John Pau I, who died barely a month after his election in 1978, predicted his own death, according to his former secretary.
B | ishop John Magee, the Irish prelate who served as personal secretary to Pope John Paul I and later to Pope John Paul II, told the Italian weekly Gente that the newly elected Pontiff considered himself too fragile to last in office. He was to die in bed, apparently of a heart attack, in less than 5 weeks.
Shortly after his election, Bishop Magee reported, the new Pope told him: "I'll never leave Rome. I'll be going soon."
Cardinal Albino Luciani was surprised by his election in the first conclave of 1978, and during his 34 days as Roman Pontiff he never ceased to wonder at the cardinals' choice, his former secretary reported. He once told Bishop Magee that there were better candidates, including "that cardinal who was sitting facing me" at the August 1978 conclave.
Bishop Magee learned that the prelate sitting opposite Cardinal Luciani at that time was Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, the |
Stephen Paddock opened fire on hundreds of innocent people in Las Vegas on Oct. 1, killing 59 people and wounding 527. It was an absolute | travesty. It is difficult to put into words the enormous sense of loss people have felt across the nation. Tragedies like the Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting should not happen—ever.
Following the shooting, calls have once again gone out for new gun control measures as a solution to mass shootings, especially among those leaning left. Late night TV host Jimmy Kimmel was prominent in this outcry.
“It’s too much to even process — all these devastated families who now have to live with this pain forever because one person with a violent and insane voice in his head managed to stockpile a collection of high-powered rifles and use them to shoot people,” Kimmel said.
Whether it be universal background checks, banning “assault” rifles or creating a national gun registry, anti-gun advocates are looking for anything to limit the Second Amendment.
However, reality is quite clear. The NRA has near 5 million paying members, but has donated just $4 million |
Gilbert graduates and big question: What to do with lives?
Congratulations, Class of 2014! Here's a look at the Gilbert and Hig | ley districts' high-school graduation ceremonies. Information provided by the districts.
Graduation ceremony: 7 p.m. Thursday, May 22.
High-school students face myriad choices, but perhaps none more important than the one facing hundreds of seniors throughout Gilbert: what to do after graduation.
At Williams Field High School in Higley Unified School District, about 91 percent of graduates expect to head to college in the fall, according to district officials. An additional 7 percent will join the military and a far-smaller percentage, less than 2 percent, plan to immediately enter an apprenticeship or the workforce.
The percentage of college-bound students at the Gilbert school is substantially higher than the national average. Nearly 66 percent of 2013 high-school graduates nationwide were in a college or university the fall after graduation, according the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
For some, such as senior Luke Petruzzi, college was the natural choice. Paul Stumbaugh is |
Culture critic Peter Biskind argues extremes have now become mainstream in movies and TV — and they've helped lay the ground for extremes in politics | , too.
With its rogue agents, use of torture and constant threats of terrorist violence or nuclear annihilation, the TV series 24 and its hero Jack Bauer (played by Kiefer Sutherland) packed a lot of shock into each episode when it first hit the screens in 2001.
But cultural critic Peter Biskind argues since then, television and movies have headed further to the extremes — and the move away from the centre that we've seen on screen has helped pave the way for extreme politics in real life.
"If you watch enough shows that heroize vigilantes and vigilante violence and breaking the law, when a [Donald] Trump comes along, it's not a surprise and it's not that unusual," Biskind told The Current's Anna Maria Tremonti.
He explores how the proliferation of apocalyptic scenarios — whether the threat is from zombies, vampires, supervillains or other humans — allows heroes to behave in ways that blur the lines between good and evil in his book |
Who Does One Direction Want To Meet At Tonight's VMAs?
'We're excited to see Green Day 'cause growing up [they] | were one of the big bands of our generation,' Niall Horan tells MTV News.
One Direction are set to have a big night at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards Thursday. Not only will they take the stage for the first time ever at the VMAs, but they are also up for a handful of Moonmen, including Best New Artist, Best Pop Video and Most Share-Worthy Video.
And when MTV News caught up with One Direction while they were chilling in L.A., they revealed just who they want to meet at the show when it goes live at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
"We're excited to see Green Day 'cause growing up Green Day were like one of the big bands around of our generation," Niall Horan said. "So it'd be exciting to meet them. Obviously Pink. Yeah, Frank Ocean. Pink, Taylor Swift, Rihanna."
Horan then explained why he wants to meet Pink so badly. " |
Highland Park girls basketball coach Mike Calhoun obviously is chomping at the bit to get his Lady Scots back at full strength.
But | the fact that Highland Park is off to a 3-0 start without standouts Dariauna Carter and Jae'Mya Lyons could bode well for the Scots later in the season.
With Carter and Lyons, both second-team All-City picks a year ago, on the sidelines while recovering from ACL injuries, several Scot newcomers have been thrust into varsity playing time while other returners have stepped up to take on more prominent roles as team leaders.
Calhoun believes both of those things will make Highland Park stronger when Lyons and Carter are ready to return.
Despite being short-handed, the Scots have dominated their first three games, including a 61-42 win over city rival Shawnee Heights on Wednesday night.
Junior Cierra Sherman scored a game-high 23 points with five 3-pointers against the T-Birds while junior Ariyana Grassity added 11 points.
The Scots could face their biggest test thus far on Friday when Topeka West visits Highland |
Promotions for 'Catching Fire' have included a fake website which features glamorous shots of the movie's main characters.
The 'Hunger | Games' films star Jennifer Lawrence.
The fake publication is in line with the high priority placed on fashion in the superficial Capitol in Collins’s world and the way that the tributes who are chosen for the Games instantly become celebrities.
Cover Girl is also promoting products in tandem with “Catching Fire,” allowing consumers to “choose their district” and creating makeup looks based on the main products of each district. (A customer choosing district four, for example, would be offered blue and green products based on the fact that the district is responsible for much of the fishing done by the country).
Fans can also buy Capitol-inspired looks designed by the movies’ costume designer Trish Summerville through retailer Net-A-Porter.
According to Variety, Lionsgate marketing chief Tim Palen has spearheaded this effort.
Collins told Variety she is impressed by the marketing campaign.
Lionsgate marketing chief Tim Palen told Variety that he thinks placing |
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The NSO is structured into three key areas where personnel with different backgrounds and experiences work together towards a common effort.
The Commandant, his Deputy and the Command Senior Enlisted Leader are surrounded by a group of special staff such as a Protocol, Legal and Public Affairs.
This is the heart of NSO. More than 80 course directors and course assistants ensure that 10,000 students receive relevant and stimulating training in a conducive and enriching learning environment. Browse the Academic pages to learn more about the NSO courses and the breadth of the curriculum.
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A total of 34 needy kids will get new bicycles and helmets courtesy of the annual Bikes for Kids drive organized by the Capitol Police.
C | pl. Randal Smith said seven of the bikes will go to the Eagle Valley Children’s Home, primarily to siblings of the patients there. He said the remaining bikes were turned over to the Salvation Army, which will distribute them.
Smith said he wanted to thank Wal-Mart for giving them a discount on the bikes. He said special thanks go to “Rich the bike builder” at the Douglas County Wal-Mart, who put them all together, and his supervisor Angie.
In addition, Trooper Cindy Campbell of the Nevada State Law Enforcement Officers Association presented Donna Clark of the children’s home and Salvation Army Captain Erica Helton each with $500 checks from the association’s members, which include the Nevada Highway Patrol.
Smith said those weren’t the only gifts they handed out Wednesday. He said also donated by groups of state workers were numerous teddy bears and other stuffed animals, blankets, hand crocheted hats, scarves and gloves |
Throughout the first season of Hulu’s “Castle Rock,” Ruth Deaver has struggled to deal with her life as an | Alzheimer’s patient — but the show has teased that something more might be going on with her.
The finale episode seems to finally come down on the truth, one way or the other. And it seems that the condition Ruth (Sissy Spacek) has been grappling with all season is more than Alzheimer’s disease.
The suggestion that more was going on started back in Episode 7, “The Queen,” when we spent a whole episode seeing everything Ruth was experiencing from her perspective. Her life with her condition means she experiences time out of order and out of sync — sometimes she’s in the present with other people, and other times, she’s reliving events from her past.
Ruth places chess pieces around her house in the present, which she explains help her maintain her grip on where and when she is; if she finds a chess piece, she knows it’s “now,” essentially, and finding a |
SOUTHAMPTON’s Jack Stephens was the hero in front of his home supporters with a last-gasp strike to seal a | 3-2 win for England Under-21s against Italy.
Having took the lead early doors, the Young Lions then fell behind before the defender grabbed the winner deep into injury time.
The result made it nine consecutive victories for England as they continued building momentum ahead of next summer's European Championship.
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Demarai Gray gave Aidy Boothroyd’s side a deserved lead after they shot out of the blocks at St Mary’s.
After a neat build-up, John Swift’s cross-box pass caused all sorts of problems for the defence, and it fell nicely for the Leicester winger to fire home from ten yards.
Any hopes of an England onslaught were quickly ended as the Azzurri awoke from their slumber to turn the game on its head.
The equal |
SINGAPORE, Oct 25 (Reuters) - The Japanese yen rose against the dollar on Thursday as a rout on Wall Street and weak European | and U.S. economic data dented global risk sentiment, sending investors scurrying to safe-haven assets including government bonds.
The yen, seen as a safety-bet during times of market turmoil and economic stress, advanced 0.35 percent at 111.87 on the dollar.
Over the past week, nervousness around U.S. corporate earnings and geopolitical uncertainty added to heightened worries about global growth, Italy’s free spending budget and Sino-U.S. trade tensions.
On Wall Street, the S&P 500 declined for a sixth day in a row as weak forecasts from chipmakers added to concerns about the impact on earnings from tariffs and a slowdown in China’s economy.
The grim U.S. session rippled through to Asia with stock markets from Japan to Australia sinking deep into the red.
“I won’t be surprised to see the dollar/yen fall below 112 as U.S. yields |
Forest Park hires Human Resources Director Tye Smith to replace City Manager Ray Hodges, who will retire at year's end.
Forest Park has | chosen a new city manager.
Tye Smith, who has served as Forest Park’s human resources director since 1996, was selected to replace City Manager Ray Hodges, who will retire at the end of the year. Smith also fills in for Hodges as acting city manager, as needed.
Smith’s career in human resources dates to 1993. He was public relations director, human resources director and assistant to the city manager of Trotwood, Ohio, from 1993 to 1995. Smith served as human resources director for the Montgomery County, Ohio, Park District from 1995 to 1996. Before working in human resources, Smith was a career adviser and college program recruiter for Wright State University.
Smith’s appointment was supported by a 5-1 vote of City Council, with Councilwoman Regina Collins voting against the resolution on June 5. Councilman Charles Southall was absent.
Collins opposed the vote because the hiring committee had interviewed only three of the four candidates.
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Bluesfest, probably the most prominent of Ottawa’s music festivals, has found itself at the centre of the discussion around race and racism | – and not for the first time.
Last year, Bluesfest welcomed a diverse line of artists, with Kanye West as its headliner. Yet, some attendees complained of feeling uneasy on Bluesfest grounds, as a man was seen in the crowd wearing the Confederate flag on his shorts, a mere month after nine people were shot dead in a Charleston church, during a prayer service. Dylann Roof, who’s accused of the killings, reportedly wanted to start “a race war.” Pictures were found of him hailing the Confederate flag – the same banner used by a well known hate group, the KKK.
At the time, Bluesfest was criticized for allowing the man on their grounds, creating an unsafe space for their attendees, and not releasing a proper public apology.
Fast forward to this past weekend, Bluesfest has returned and at it, perceived anti-black sentiments. On July 9, the British rock band, Official Cult, said to a large crowd |
August 12, 2011 (San Diego) – U.S. Southern District Judge Roger Benitez has cancelled today’s hearing on local | plaintiffs who seek an injunction to stop Sunrise Powerlink construction on federal lands. He will issue a ruling without hearing arguments, based solely on the written record.
Benitez had previously ruled in favor of SDG&E on a procedural technicality, finding plaintiffs lacked standing, but did not rule on the merits of the injunction itself. Three local groups that had filed the suit (Protect Our Communities Foundation, Backcountry Against Dumps, and East County Community Action Coalition) appealed to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The 9th Circuit instructed plaintiffs to ask Judge Benitez to rule directly on the injunction.
Plaintiffs have indicated that if Judge Benitez fails to grant the injunction, they will appeal to the 9th Circuit, a court with a reputation for being less corporate-friendly than some lower courts. It is unclear how long Judge Benitez will take to issue his decision.
News of the hearing cancellation sparked comments voicing frustration and outrage on a Facebook page that |
AMMAN, March 14 (Reuters) - Heavily armed forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad battled rebels in the southern city of Der | aa on Wednesday, while U.N. envoy Kofi Annan considered Syria’s response to plans aimed at ending the violence.
Around 20 tanks and armoured vehicles surrounded the al-Balad district of Deraa, on the border with Jordan, and fired anti-aircraft guns into buildings, activist Rami Abdelhaq said from Deraa, where the revolt against Assad began a year ago.
Annan visited Damascus at the weekend and gave the Syrian president what he termed “concrete proposals” aimed at restoring peace. Assad’s response had been received and Annan was studying it, his spokesman Ahmad Fawzi said.
“The envoy has received a reply from President Assad. He will have more to say later today,” Fawzi said from Geneva.
Since the former U.N. chief’s visit, the violence has continued unabated, with Syrian forces pounding built-up areas around the northern city of Idlib, in |
I play Aubrey, who is a very famous radio actor - one of the great stars of radio. Famously, in our story, Aub | rey introduces ghost stories and our drama starts on one of such occasions - but then it all turns rather ghostly itself.
The script is excellent. It’s a really clever, witty, dark and quite a political story. Mark is also a very old and very dear friend - we’ve wanted to work together on something like this for a long time. The reason we know each other is from Doctor Who - he wrote an episode of Doctor Who in which I played Charles Dickens. That was a brilliant piece of writing and a lot of people liked that very much - it helped to humanise Dickens in some people’s minds. Not everybody knows about the man… most people know about the books, whether they have read them or not, but Mark’s episode was a rare example of showing the man in a human and vulnerable, yet crazy Doctor Who way.
Have you worked with any other cast members before?
I’ve met Susan many times at |
In 'Black Mirror: Bandersnatch,' Should You Pick Tangerine Dream Or Tomita?
Barely a day has passed | since the arrival of Bandersnatch, the latest iteration of the popular Black Mirror series. From the moment it arrived simultaneously worldwide on Netflix, subscribers and fans of Charlie Brooker's oft-dystopian sci-fi series dove into the choose-your-own-adventure style movie, directing its various options and exploring its twisty plot.
At first recalling series favorite San Junipero for its apparent throwback 1980s setting, the UK-set story follows an aspiring young programmer named Stefan in his attempt to create a video game based on a complex book written by a mysterious novelist. But what makes Bandersnatch different essentially from the start is its interactivity, presenting the viewer with options that direct where the narrative leads. Some of the choices appear benign, such as the selection of the protagonist's sugary breakfast cereal, while others prove anxiety-inducing and grave. Warning: some spoilers follow below.
One such decision--and, indeed, where one of the most |
Days after three separate suicides in Parkland, Fla., and Newtown, Conn. left those communities reeling, the Senate is doing something rare for a | GOP-led chamber: holding a hearing on gun control. In the previously scheduled hearing, the full Senate Judiciary Committee will bring experts to Capitol Hill Tuesday on extreme risk protection orders, commonly referred to as red flag laws.
These laws allow law enforcement, and in some states, relatives and other concerned parties, to petition judges in order to temporarily restrict access to firearms from people who may present a harm to themselves or others.
Supporters of the laws say they can save lives by removing guns from individuals who should not have them. Some states have used the laws to successfully protect individuals from suicide, at least one study shows.
Opponents of such laws say they violate the second amendment and say they do nothing to thwart the underlying issues causing the threat.
The Senate hearing Tuesday will focus on guidelines that a handful of states have used to implement red flag laws, something that Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., has signaled he would support on the federal level.
Graham told CNN earlier |
The Dodgers, though, needed a throwing error on Kinsler with two outs in the 13th to forge a 2-2 tie. That | came three innings after Kinsler was thrown out at home plate trying to score on an Eduardo Nunez flyball to center field.
The out at home shouldn’t be held against Kinsler, though Red Sox fans were perturbed by his entire trip around the bases. He was nearly picked off at first base as a pinch runner, and he slid past third base after a single by Brock Holt of Stephenville.
Kinsler, though, would have been better off holding onto the ball after stumbling while fielding a Yasiel Puig grounder rather than attempting to a throw.
It was well wide of first baseman Christian Vazquez, who had replaced former Ranger Mitch Moreland, allowing the tying run to score and turning one of the longest games in World Series history into the longest at 7 hours, 20 minutes.
“I’m just trying to do whatever I can to help this team win,” Kinsler told reporters. |
What ever happened to all that money Trump raised for the veterans?
In January, Donald Trump skipped a televised Republican debate in Iowa and held his | own event instead — a rally to raise money for veterans. Trump said it was a huge success.
More than a month later, about half of the money, roughly $3 million, has been donated to veterans’ charities, according to a summary released Thursday by the Trump campaign in response to inquiries from The Washington Post.
In recent days, after the campaign initially did not provide details of where the money had gone, The Post had undertaken its own accounting. After contacting each of the 24 charities that Trump had previously listed as his beneficiaries, The Post had accounted for less than half of the $6 million.
Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman for Trump’s campaign, said Trump still intended to give the rest of the money away to veterans groups. She also criticized the news media for repeated inquiries into what became of the funds.
“If the media spent half as much time highlighting the work of these groups and how our veterans have been so mistreated, rather than trying to |
TORONTO — A decline in U.S. crude stockpiles helped push oil prices and energy stocks higher as North American markets rallied at the | close on Wednesday.
Energy stocks were among the biggest gainers as the May contract for North American benchmark crude rose US$1.86 to US$37.75 a barrel.
The S&P/TSX composite index ran up 42.80 points to 13,347.46 to end four straight days of losses, while the loonie gained 0.36 of a cent to 76.37 cents US.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration said oil inventories fell by 4.9 million barrels last week. Analysts had been expecting a rise in inventory.
In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average jumped 112.73 points at 17,716.05, while the broader S&P 500 climbed 21.49 points to 2,066.66. The Nasdaq gained 76.79 points at 4,920.72.
Elsewhere in commodities, the June gold contract lost $5.80 to US$1,223.80 a |
The paper’s weekly magazine was accused of being reminiscent of the Nazi leader.
French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb will face questions from parliament | next week.
He is suspected of unlawfully receiving police surveillance footage in a bid to clear his name.
The French president has been in power for a year, but not everyone is happy with his sweeping social reforms.
World leaders are dealing with the fallout of airstrikes ordered following an alleged chemical attack.
Hundreds attended the ceremony for Arnaud Beltrame today.
Irish uilleann piping was granted the same status last year.
The wife of the French president has historically always played a public role at official functions.
They didn’t even stop when Trump embraced the French First Lady.
Not a fan at all, so he wasn’t.
Turnout has been low across France as the country deals with its fourth national vote in less than two months.
Macron’s aides accused the Kremlin of mounting a “smear campaign” against Macron.
After defeating the far-right, the fight is just beginning for France’s |
At Israel’s 16th annual Herzliya Conference, Khairat’s speech stressed that a two-state solution represented the | only hope for ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while also addressing a series of issues which he identified as roadblocks to peace, Ma’an reported.
Khairat insisted that despite the “tremendous challenges and crises” engulfing the region, the Palestinian issue should not be ignored.
Ma’an reported Khairat saying, “The current state of affairs represents only an example of tragic developments taking place in the last few years: The tension in Jerusalem, the deteriorating situation in the West Bank, including the settlements that are expanding in Area C, eroding the land of the future of the State of Palestine as well as the incursion in Area A and B”.
European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Federica Mogherini, echoed Khairat’s sentiments. “The possibility of a secure state of Israel and a viable state of Palestine living side by side is fading away,” Mogherini said |
RUTHERFORDTON � Shelby�s 48-12 win Friday night at Hilltopper Stadium should do a few things in the confidence | department for the Golden Lions.
Beside collecting their fourth straight win and moving to 5-4 on the season (3-1 South Mountain Athletic Conference), Shelby displayed a consistent effort in several phases of the game against R-S Central (1-8).
The Golden Lions mixed the run and pass effectively, piling up more than 500 yards of total offense on the night.
In addition, Shelby was able to slow down the Hilltopper running game. Only a big play � an 81-yard scoring pass late in the third quarter � plus a fumble R-S recovered in the end zone in the final period allowed the opposition to score.
Shelby was able to build a 21-0 lead by halftime with Spencer Clark running for a score, Raekwon Washington broke free on a 73-yard touchdown romp, then Clark hooked up with Cedric Cannon for a 21-yard scoring pass in the final 30 seconds of the half.
Shelby continued |
TACLOBAN CITY – Producing wing blister oyster pearls is a promising undertaking for Leyte fishermen.
Gov | . Leopoldo Dominico L. Petilla said the provincial government had made initial field trials and research on wing oyster pearl production in coordination with the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources’ (BFAR ) Eastern Visayas, and has determined it to be highly feasible and profitable.
Petilla said fishermen who will go into oyster pearl production will receive training and support from the provincial government.
The venture is already being tried out Petilla said. Initial harvests were conducted in Barangay Pinarigusan, San Miguel, and the towns of Capoocan, Carigara, Barugo, and Babatngon.
Experts from BFAR interviewed by Manila Bulletin agreed that pearl oyster farming is highly feasible and profitable not only in Leyte but in the other provinces in Eastern Visayas.
The experts said among the advantages of pearl oyster |
Online language learning is a multi million dollar industry that has it’s well established players from the US to China, but have gotten one more | addition from the Middle East to give those interested in learning Arabic a tutor from the region at the luxury of their homes.
ArabicCoach won as the second runner up in 2009’s MIT Arab Business Plan Competition which landed its team a $5000 cash prize and immediate regional recognition from a very rich panel of judges which consisted of successful regional entrepreneurs.
Developed by SamaPlus, the same guys who brought you Aqarmap.com and Ras2Ras.com. Unveiled during the launch of this years MIT Arab Business Plan Competition it appears ArabicCoach founder Amad Almsaodi still has some tricks up his sleeves.
The website acts as a tutoring facilitator tutors present their Arabic tutoring services through at any hourly price they choose to learners willing to dish out some money to learn from Arabs as if they had traveled to whatever country the tutor resides in.
The website which is still in testing gets you up and learning in 3 simple steps: |
Avoid taking antacids at the same time as meals.
Antacids are drugs that neutralize stomach acidity, usually sold over the | counter for short-term relief of pain caused by heartburn and indigestion. Antacids may also be used to relieve symptoms of stomach ulcers, gastritis, duodenal ulcers, esophagitis and gastroesophageal reflux disease. B-complex vitamins include thiamin, folate, niacin, pantothenic acid, pyridoxine, riboflavin and vitamin B-12. Prolonged use of antacids can cause folate and B-12 to be depleted from the body.
Folate, also known as vitamin B-9 is a water-soluble vitamin that helps your body produce energy and healthy red blood cells. Antacids may bind to folate and reduce its absorption, according to New York University's Langone Medical Center. You are more likely to suffer from folate deficiency if you take antacids on a regular basis and have an existing medical condition that affects |
Apply for a business license to operate a tree cutting business in your area.
3 " Become Licensed, Bonded and Insured"
Tree | cutting businesses provide a variety of services, including tree branch trimming, cutting and stump removal. Developing professional knowledge of tree care is a crucial first step in beginning a successful business. This knowledge, plus excellent customer service, will help you to develop a strong, profitable business. This is particularly true if you live in an area where there is a year-round need for tree-cutting services.
Look into the proper training and certification. While in many cases, training tends to come in the form of on-the-job training, it is possible to be certified through the International Society of Arboriculture's (ISA) training programs.
Apply for a business license to legally operate a tree cutting business. Contact the county clerk's office or small administration office in your area to learn more about business licensing procedures. Apply for an Employer Identification Number through the Internal Revenue Service. Use this number on business documents such as tax forms, business registration applications or to open a business bank account.
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LONDON (Reuters) - BP (BP.L) will cut around 275 staff and contractor jobs in its Alaska operations in early 2015 following the | sale of its interests in four oil fields in the North Slope area, it said on Tuesday.
BP, one of the largest oil producers in Alaska, last April announced the sale of the fields to privately held Hilcorp, though it remains committed to developing Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay, the largest oil field in North America.
BP has a total of 8,300 employees and contractors in Alaska, according to its website.
Its plans for expansion in Alaska include an additional investment of $1 billion over five years, including two additional drilling rigs, one in 2015 and a second in 2016. “The Alaska business is still very important to BP. It’s just a smaller business than it was before,” a BP spokesman said.
BP is also considering production of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from reserves in Alaska, the company has said.
The latest cuts are evidence of BP making divestments to simplify its business globally, analysts |
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. -- Madigan Army Medical Center earned high marks for surgical and post-surgical | care in a recent report from the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program.
The semi-annual NSQIP report, from the American College of Surgeons, highlighted Madigan's consistently high quality in reducing overall surgical complications and surgical site infections along with other indicators of excellent care. Madigan's Department of Surgery began participating in the voluntary program in 2010.
"It is a way for hospitals to get high-quality, validated data that helps them identify strengths and weaknesses and identify where they could be taking better care of patients," said Lt. Col. Peter Kreishman, Madigan's deputy chief of surgery and a NSQIP surgeon champion for both Madigan and for the Army at large. "The reason this is beneficial is because it allows hospitals to have a real measure of how they stack up against other institutions, both locally and nationally, and it helps identify specific areas where improvement can be done."
Madigan earned 23 exemplary ratings for surgical services by being in the top 10 |
You wouldn't expect Luis Perez to be an amateur photographer.
Perez, a higher education learning consultant in Florida, has retinitis | pigmentosa, a condition that essentially gives him tunnel vision. He only has about seven degrees of total vision, and his condition could progress to the point where he's completely blind. Even with his limited vision, Perez is already considered legally blind.
Perez makes this happen with a setting called VoiceOver, a setting built into all Apple devices that makes Perez's iPhone almost as functional for him as it is for a sighted person.
Apple first introduced VoiceOver in the Mac operating system OS X Tiger about 10 years ago. Back then, it would have cost a visually impaired user hundreds of dollars to bring similar accessibility settings to a PC. But it's been a standard, free feature in Macs ever since, even if the majority of Mac users never use it or know it exists.
In 2009, VoiceOver came to the iPhone for the first time in the iPhone 3GS and has been included in all Apple products — even the Apple Watch — ever since.
The concept |
The government has unveiled plans to implement new digital infrastructure that aims to bring down the administration costs associated with running a business.
The strategy includes a | single support system for the three online platforms Digital Post, NemLog-in and NemID, which is estimated to save Danish companies somewhere in the neighbourhood of 200-400 million kroner annually.
“We’ve been tasked with updating the digital infrastructure and we’ve listened to the companies. The new solutions must cater to the needs of the companies and make their work as easy as possible,” said the innovation minister, Sophie Løhde.
In future, administration costs will be drastically reduced as it will be possible for companies to link to multiple digital solutions simultaneously and administer their users in one place. The new solutions will also make it easier to send digital mail to the companies’ own internal mail systems.
The confederation for industry, Dansk Industri (DI) praised the effort, and several leading companies, including the airline SAS, have also voiced their approval.
“It’s essential for us as a company to have |
It was everywhere, rustling through conversations the way a breeze moves through trees, in the smirks and jokes of some, in the extended, | slightly nervous ovation the President and Mrs. Clinton received as they walked into the East Room of the White House on Friday night for a Millennium lecture on jazz. It was the President's Problem, and it colored the event. The musicians onstage spent much of their time, as did the audience, analyzing the way the President and his wife interacted, how they played their public roles, how, in the middle of a Greek tragedy, they were doing.
The concert and lecture, the fourth this year in a series planned by the White House to bring together experts on a particular subject, had the trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and the pianist Marian McPartland as hosts. The audience of about 100 included the Czech President, Vaclav Havel; Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright; Representative John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, and William J. Ivey, the chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, along with some of jazz's more important figures. The |
COTTAGE GROVE � Jill Bryant of Cottage Grove died Sept. 17 of unknown causes, pending medical review. She was 43. | No service is planned.
She was born March 31, 1967, in Roseburg to Jerry Claypool and Janice Henbest. She married Robert Bryant on April 15, 1995, in Lake Tahoe, Nev.
She attended Roseburg High School.
Survivors include her husband; a daughter, Robin Claypool of Eugene; two sons, Christopher Claypool of Eugene and Jordan Bryant of Cottage Grove; grandmother Leatha Miller of Portland; a brother, Mark Claypool of Portland; a sister, Lori Claypool of Roseburg; and one grandchild.
A celebration of life will be held at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 28, at First Congregational Church in Eugene for Dr. Virginia Mary �Ginny� Buck of Eugene, who died Sept. 23 of complications from cancer. She was 65.
She was born July 27, 1945, in Englewood, Nev., to Theodore and Mary Newby Boswell. She married Richard |
LAGOS—Nigeria lost out on tens of billions of dollars in oil and gas revenues over the last decade from cut price deals struck | between some multinational oil companies and government officials, a confidential report says.
A team headed by the former head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Nuhu Ribadu, produced the 146-page study on an oil ministry request. It covers the year 2002 to 2011.
Nigeria is Africa’s largest crude oil exporter, shipping more than two million barrels per day (bpd), and is also home to the world’s ninth biggest gas reserves and one of the largest Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) export terminals.
The report provides new details on Nigeria’s long history of corruption in the oil sector, which has enriched its elite and provided the oil majors with hefty profits while two-thirds of people live in poverty.
The report concluded that oil majors- Shell, Total and Eni made bumper profits from cut-price gas, while Nigerian oil ministers handed out licences at their own discretion. This, while not |
This is important because a difference in either, or both, comprehension and retention, would mean that a wide range of significant endeavours, from stock | market and related financial decision making to public education, have been more affected by the transition from paper to screen than we previously understood.
I've just moved from Ontario back to my home province of Alberta - where the Sun shines, the air is clean, and the economy is booming. During the move we ran a series of eight chapter summaries, or notes to myself, for a possible book on how and why to use Sun's Sun Ray thin clients and smart displays along with a guest blog written by frequent contributor Roger Ramjet.
The answer to a skills deficit is education and practice, the answer to prejudice is community.
here are many different ways to provide access to Windows applications on Sun Ray smart displays.This Sun pageoffers "white papers" and real how-to information on a wide range of choices.
Are Wi-Fi security myths good for deterrence?
"SSID suppression", "DHCP restrictions", and "MAC filtering" are a huge waste of time. |
MINNEAPOLIS (KARE) It is Infant Safe Sleep Week in Minnesota.
During this week, the Minnesota Department of Health | is promoting safe sleep practices for infants.
According to MDH, state data shows that unsafe sleep environments account for nearly all unexpected infant deaths in Minnesota. About 50 infants die each year.
In order to try and prevent more of these tragedies, MDH is asking people to use social media to promote their safe sleep practices by using the hashtag #SafeNapSnap.
The agency is also asking advertisers and retailers to use images that promote safe sleep, including showing babies lieing on their backs in an empty crib with no pillows, blankets or toys.
A study done by the Children's National Medical Center shows magazines targeting women of childbearing age, more than one-third of images showed babies in unsafe sleep positions and more than two-thirds showed babies in unsafe sleep environments.
for ALONE: Infants should always sleep or nap alone.
B for BACK: Always put a baby on their back to sleep or nap.
C for CRIB: Babies should always |
You can learn a lot about nurses when you visit your local Emergency Room.
Long story short: I took a flop, hit my face | and head on my way down to the floor, and landed in the Emergency Room with a bleeding, bruised noggin, and a shiner. I haven't had this much purple and blue on my eyelids since the 70s!
As I waited (for nearly two hours) to be seen by a doctor, and observed other patients and the attending nurses, one thing became perfectly clear: it takes a very special, self-less person to be a nurse. Some RNs have what it takes. Some don't.
Nurses need a tremendous amount of patience to deal with people who can't, or won't, follow simple directions. For example, a sign warning incoming patients to refrain from eating or drinking before being seen by the doctor was clearly posted beside the ER triage window, but nearly every patient that came into the ER after me headed directly to the vending machine after filling out their paperwork. Were the instructions too difficult to understand? Or were those patients just too lazy |
Another year Beyoncé and Prince opened the show with a once-in-a-lifetime scene. Foo Fighters have shared the stage with jazz | pianist Chick Corea. Elton John and Eminem. Usher and James Brown. Once every few years, Sting jumps in.
The 2019 ceremony, which will be broadcast on CBS from the Staples Center on Feb. 10, offers ample opportunity for producers to mix it up. Below are a few combinations that could make for meme-worthy moments.
Country singer Kacey Musgraves, who has an album of the year nomination, joins Drake for a simmering take on her “Slow Burn” coupled with his multiple nominee “God’s Plan” — with a surprise appearance by reggae album nominees Sting and Shaggy.
Loretta Lynn (nominated for country solo performance) and former President Jimmy Carter (spoken word performance) collaborate on a sung-spoken reworking of Lynn’s “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” with a mid-performance surprise cameo from the other Carters — a.k.a |
Sutton is set to get its very own Women’s Institute with the launch of a new group that aims to attract like-minded women | of all ages.
The Sutton-in-Ashfield WI is holding its first meeting today at 7pm at St John’s Methodist Church on Titchfield Avenue.
It is one of a new wave of WIs which have been started up by younger women across the country in recent years, offering members the chance to share interests, learn new skills and make friends.
The women starting the Sutton group hope that theirs will see the same success as other new WIs.
“There’s a lot of interest in crafts and baking but there’s been a lot of change over the past 100 years since the WI started,” said mum-of-two Rebecca Low, 33, from Sutton.
Though there are already WIs in Teversal, Kirkby and several in the Mansfield area, the town of Sutton has not had its own group until now.
Rebecca said that the response to the Facebook page she has set up has |
New Jersey's Topaz Jones shares his latest project Arcade today (Oct. 28). The 22-year-old rapper/singer employed all | of his influences from the jazz and funk world for this new 10-track effort. The mixtape was executive produced by New York collective Late Night Episode and boasts a guest feature from Pell. Prior to today's release, Topaz dropped the single "Tropicana" six months ago as a taster to his matured future funk sound.
Arcade features silky melodies, live instrumentation and some pretty dope storytelling on the part of Topaz. Aside from "Tropicana," early standouts are "Powerball," "Sports Car," and "Winona" featuring Pell.
When XXL spoke with Montclair, N.J.'s "Black Bon Jovi" for The Break, Topaz shared that he draws his musical influences from many different factors—and family members—in his life.
"I grew up in a musical household. My father, uncles and aunts were all musicians," explained Topaz. "My father was in some funk bands in |
Give the NDP government a pat on the back for one thing — dealing with the often grotesque overcompensation among some public-sector executives in Alberta | .
This week it was school superintendents. Back in April it was presidents, vice-chancellors and chief executive officers of 20 publicly funded university and colleges. And last year it was the presidents and vice-presidents of ABCs — agencies, boards and commissions.
Under the former Tory government, executive compensation was permitted to go all over the map, especially during the time of former Premier Alison Redford.
Average compensation for Alberta public-sector executives was above the national average — sometimes well above. And the overcompensation contributed to a culture of entitlement in which senior management felt entirely justified receiving outsized salaries and monstrous perks.
Moreover, there were no independent reviews that sought to compare public sector compensation to similar jobs and levels of responsibility in the private sector.
The New Democrats have tried to change that. Their recent moves have brought Alberta public-sector pay more in keeping with at least public-sector standards in other large provinces, such as Ontario, B.C |
Arrange bamboo cuttings in a vase for an easy, stylish houseplant.
Add a bit of nature to your home's dé | cor with an arrangement of bamboo cuttings in a vase. The straight lines of the bamboo's stalks provide a fresh, sleek accessory to any room. By taking cuttings from existing bamboo plants, you can create your own arrangement to suit your tastes. Bamboo requires little care and can survive in low light conditions, making it an excellent choice for the homeowner who may not have time to maintain a finicky houseplant.
Prepare a vase to receive the bamboo cutting. Fill the bottom third of the vase with clean decorative stones to act as a support to the cutting.
Pour distilled water into the vase. Fill the vase until the water level is one to two inches above the surface of the stones. Set the vase aside.
Select a healthy bamboo stalk from which to take your cutting. Examine the stalk closely; it should be free of blemish, disease or damage. Choose a bamboo stalk that is not more than 3 years |
A top adviser to President-elect Donald Trump says his boss doesn't think Israeli settlements should be condemned and they don't pose an "obst | acle to peace."
Jason Greenblatt's comments to Israel's Army Radio Thursday would mark a stark departure from the long-time American stance that Israeli construction in areas captured in the 1967 Six Day War makes it more difficult to reach a peace agreement with the Palestinians.
Greenblatt is the chief legal officer and executive vice president at the Trump Organization. He has been tapped by Trump as his top adviser on Israel.
Israel and the US are close allies but relations were often tense between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, mainly over Israel's policies toward the Palestinians. Netanyahu and Trump have been friends for many years and ties between the two are expected to improve.
After Trump was proclaimed the victor of the presidential elections, Netanyahu posted a Facebook video congratulating the president-elect, describing him as a "true friend" and expressed his optimism about elevating the US-Israeli relationship to "new heights." Later on Netanyahu called Trump, reiterated his belief that he was a " |
The bizarrely dedicated fans of the McDonald’s McRib sandwich are overjoyed that the barbecue-sauce-soaked | boneless pork patty treat is returning for a limited time to all U.S. Golden Arches locations. But are McRib devotees simply being McManipulated?
Few fast food menu items can say they have their own Facebook page. Then again, few fast food items have experienced the rollercoaster-like ups and downs of the McRib.
This fall, the McRib made news as McDonald’s re-introduced it once again—this time, making it available in all U.S. locations through November 14. The obvious question is: If the McRib is so popular, why doesn’t McDonald’s sell it year-in, year-out, at all locations?
Retailers understand that the words “for a limited time only!” are known to make shoppers spend in irrational ways, with the latest example being the rise of Groupon and other flash deal sites. Instead of the |
Edward Snowden Reddit AMA: Citizenfour documentary subject has just one regret.
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden says he doesn’t care if people call | him a traitor.
A day after Citizenfour won the Oscar for best documentary feature, its subject, Edward Snowden, appeared on Reddit for an “Ask Me Anything” question-and-answer session.
To be honest, I laughed at NPH. I don’t think it was meant as a political statement, but even if it was, that’s not so bad. My perspective is if you’re not willing to be called a few names to help out your country, you don’t care enough.
For what it’s worth, Greenwald—who joined Snowden and Citizenfour director Laura Poitras on the Reddit AMA—insisted on Reddit that he had laughed it off too, despite earlier calling it “stupid and irresponsible” to a BuzzFeed reporter.
I would have come forward sooner. I talked to Daniel Ellsberg about this at length, who has explained why more eloquently than I can.
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Does “Mein Kampf” Remain a Dangerous Book?
Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” | is being published and sold in Germany for the first time since the Second World War.
There was a lot said last week about the reëmergence, in Germany, of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” (“My Struggle”)—which just became legal to publish and sell there, for the first time since the end of the Second World War, albeit in a heavily hedged “scholarly” edition. Did providing a public place for the autobiographical testament of the Nazi dictator, written when he was briefly imprisoned in Bavaria, in the nineteen-twenties, in some way legitimize it, people asked, even if the text was surrounded by a trench work of scholarly addenda designed to italicize its lies and manias?
I read “Mein Kampf” right through for the first time last year, while working on a piece about Timothy Snyder’s history of the Holocaust as it |
You weren't born into wealth and privilege. School never came easily to you. Your parents pushed you to pursue a career you had zero interest in | . Too much time was wasted playing video games and smoking weed with kids you thought were your friends. College was a blast, but it didn’t last. Your degree doesn't help make the big bucks and the bank still wants to get paid back on the school loans. Since you didn't hang with the right crew, there is no one to hook you up with an opportunity. Your family can't help since they are going nowhere themselves.
When you finally land somewhere, you look around and find yourself in a modern-day, white-collar factory. You, along with hundreds of others in a cubicle farm, labor over boring tasks that you couldn't care less about. Everyday is more monotonous and tedious than the last one. It starts to scare you that this could potentially be your life forever. Others seem to pass you by—lapping you in success—and you seem to be going nowhere fast.
Also, let’s also be honest. You |
A new development is built along Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal, a Superfund site polluted with decades' worth of industrial waste and sewage.
The | Trump administration has been taking steps, some quietly, some very publicly, to dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). One such quiet step was the administration’s proposal earlier this year to speed up agency efforts to remediate and redevelop former industrial and other hazardous sites known as Superfund sites and brownfields.
On its face, the proposal might seem like a bright spot. But EPA officials actually envision using public funds to clean up private lands owned by developers like President Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner to prepare these sites for massive redevelopment projects.
It’s an old but deceptive approach, cleaning up a handful of highly visible, hazardous sites and creating the appearance that the EPA is keeping the public safe, while leaving the vast majority of potentially toxic sites untouched, their risk to the public unaddressed.
Indeed, America’s cities are built on top of former industrial sites that have largely gone without regulation and remediation, and the continual “churn |
What is the driving age? And what kind of vehicles are women permitted to drive?
The Supreme Decree stipulates that the application of the | Traffic Regulations and its Executive Regulations shall apply to both women and men. The driving age is 18 for the private driving license, which applies to all types of vehicles including motorbikes. There are exceptions for those reaching 17. They will be granted a temporary permit for no more than one year. Women will be allowed to drive trucks once the necessary conditions have been met for that purpose. The driving age is 20 for public driving licenses and public works vehicles.
What happens if you already have an international license?
Article 37 of the Traffic Regulations Act excludes those who have international and foreign driving licenses from the driving test as long as it is effective. It is also possible for women visiting Saudi Arabia to drive with their international and foreign-recognized driving license for one year from the date of entry or until the expiry of their permit, whichever is earlier based on Article 42.
Can women from abroad rent a car and drive?
Women with international/GCC visas should be able to easily |
"The Infinite Landscape: Master Photographers from the UMMA Collection"
There’s no way of knowing when early morning mist may | settle over Mount Baker in Washington in just the right way or when the Pacific waves will crash against the shore so the light reflects just so. The visibility of these natural occurrences may sometimes depend on the season and weather, but it always depends on the timing and the position of the viewer. For the photographer, visual memory is recorded within seconds. And sometimes, the immediacy of this form of art can yield an image even more breathtaking than the actual view itself. These images are on display at the University’s Museum of Art Off/Site location in the exhibit “The Infinite Landscape: Master Photographers from the UMMA Collection.” This will be the last exhibit at the Off/Site before the renovated museum on State Street reopens in the new year.
Fifty-five photos — by artists who are all recognized as masters at their craft — create a comprehensive presentation of 19th and 20th century landscapes on the gallery walls. Some of the photographs date back to the |
The Beth Yeshurun Day School's "A Night Under the Stars" gala was a hot ticket, thanks to J.J. Watt | . The annual event, chaired by Courtney Zubowski Haas and Dr. Eric Haas, along with Amy and Segev Zadok and BYDS development chair Amy Grinstein, sold a record 600 tickets in support of education and the volunteer efforts of the Houston Texans star.
Watt was the recipient of the Robin and Josh Berry Volunteer Award, which holds special meaning for him. It's named for the late parents of Willa, Aaron and Peter Berry, who attend BYDS. Watt has formed a close bond with the children, who were orphaned in 2011 when a head-on collision took the lives of Robin and Josh Berry, and left Aaron and Peter paralyzed from the waist down.
"He has sort of nurtured us in the same way that I've been nurtured before," Peter Berry told the audience as he and his siblings talked about their friendship with Watt. "He was looking to make an impact in our lives — and he succeeded."
“J.J |
Truly the teenage girls of Britain are enjoying a golden period of pop festivity. As Justin Bieber is still precipitating a squally front amongst | his tweenie fans across UK arenas, their older sisters are getting their share of caffeinated screaming in to salute the arrival of Katy Perry. Yet, while the Canadian heart-throb is filling arenas with his mere pint-size presence, kooky American Perry is giving infinitely more bang for her fans’ bucks.
Her California Dreams tour is less of a pop concert and more of a megawatt jukebox musical. Aesthetically borrowing from Alice in Wonderland and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Perry performs on a stage littered with giant fairy cakes and lollipops and threads her songs together with a film story that involves ogreish butchers, lost cats, dodgy brownies and the quest for a handsome baker boy. Along the way Perry changes costumes more often than Mr Benn, often on stage, and sometimes several times during the course of one song. The effect is dazzling but strangely exhausting – I haven’t felt this tired since watching the musical version of Pr |
Mahikeng - As Heritage month draws to a close, celebrations continue with the honouring of legends of traditional music and African culture at the South | African Traditional Music Achievement (Satma) Awards.
On Friday, all roads led to the awards, to be held at the Mmabatho Convention Centre in the North West Province.
Although underfunded, the Satmas have injected R13 million into the North West economy, according to organizers.
Running in it’s 13th year, the Satmas use a different theme to ensure youth engagement and involvement.
Held under the theme: “Embracing your Heritage”, hundreds of South African traditional music lovers will be entertained by award-winning Musicians Sjava and Afro-pop group Mafikizolo.
In embracing heritage, his Majesty King Hinsta (of the Xhosa Kingdom), Ukhozi FM DJ Khathide Ngobe, Rex Rabanye, Sol Plaatje alongside three other legends from the North West province will also be honoured at the main event taking place on Saturday.
The Star will |
The other night, I had a strange dream. I was back in college, toting books from classroom to classroom. But in this particular dream | , my baby girl was also with me, and I was desperately looking — to no avail — for a private space to nurse her between classes.
The dream reminded me that motherhood often closes certain doors, and is extremely difficult in certain spaces. Its time constraints and responsibilities can make it difficult to pursue certain careers, or to procure certain degrees. But many women want to break down these barriers, and find the means to pursue higher education while still embracing motherhood.
If only it were easier for them to do so. But we've made it nearly impossible for mothers to pursue higher education in the U.S. while their kids are still at home.
At a recent United Nations event, French President Emmanuel Macron suggested that more educated women would not choose to have large families: "Present me the woman who decided, being perfectly educated, to have seven, eight, or nine children," he said.
In response he should have seen coming, highly educated women from around the world posted |
Tim Baggett, Arlington Parks and Recreation’s athletic sports manager, started the kickball league in 2012, thinking the city’ | s residents might get a kick out of playing a sport that’s a mainstay of elementary schools. He was right. These days, there’s 20 teams in the summer league. Arlington also offers adult kickball in the fall and spring.
On a hot Tuesday evening in mid-June, a team called The Blue Crew took on a team called Rojo Caliente. Both were from Gospel City. The Blue Crew comprised members of the church’s youth group, while Rojo Caliente was made up of adults. And on this night, the grown-ups got the better of the teens, winning 5-1.
Arlington’s Caleb Carter was honored as District 4-6A’s Defensive MVP, while Bowie’s Josh Llamas took Freshman of the Year and Arlington’s Michael Baumann was Newcomer of the Year.
Pitchers Eric Walker (Martin), Tanner McCaskey ( |
My apologies to Kenny Rogers, anyone who isn’t familiar with the song, "The Gambler," and anyone who doesn’t | believe that 1970s country music isn’t made of pure melodic and lyrical gold. We’ll just have to agree to disagree on that one.
The other day, "The Gambler" popped into my head about the same time I was feeling the stresses of parenthood. And while there are stresses of parenthood at every age (let’s not even talk about napping or learning to eat broccoli), now that my kids are older there is a constant struggle in my life of wanting to make sure they are well taken care of and also letting them explore so they can make their own mistakes … and learn how to fix them. It’s the helicopter parent vs. the bad mom. And it’s brutal.
You've got to know when to hold 'em / Know when to fold 'em / Know when to walk away / And know when to run / You never count your money / When you're sittin' at the |
Gainsborough & District Primary Schools’ Sports Association held their annual seven-a-side girls football competition in partnership with the English Schools� | � Football Association.
With four teams all containing some girls who play competitive weekend football in the local area; Lea, Benjamin Adlard, Charles Baines and winners for the last six years in a row, Parish, the expectations were set for a great evening of football.
The games of seven minutes each way, under the TGA floodlights, gave the girls plenty of time to show off their impressive skills.
The four teams played each other in a round robin competition to see which team would lift the much sort after trophy! The football was of a really high quality and shows how girls football in the area has come on leaps and bounds.
Finally the results were announced, Benjamin Adlard and Lea were commended on their performances before Charles Baines were presented with medals for coming second. The trophy and winners medals went to Parish who had won all three of their games, conceding one goal all evening.
Thanks were given by organiser, referee and |
STARSPORT reveals the latest transfer news and gossip from across the globe.
Chelsea have appointed Guus Hiddink as their temporary manager. |
"Chelsea Football Club can confirm Guus Hiddink has been appointed first-team manager until the end of the season," a statement on their official website read.
"The owner and the Board welcome back a coach with a wealth of top-level experience and success, including his previous spell with the club in 2009 when we lifted the FA Cup.
"Mr Abramovich and the Board believe that Guus has what it takes to get the best out of our talented squad."
Meanwhile, Manchester United managerial target Pep Guardiola has revealed he will announce his future plans after Bayern Munich's Bundesliga clash against Hannover.
talkSPORT quote the former Barcelona boss as saying: "Kalle knows absolutely everything.
And finally, Porto midfielder Ruben Neves has dealt Arsenal a blow by revealing that he could spend the duration of his career at the Estadio Dragao.
"Yes, it's possible that I will end my career at FC Porto," the 18- |
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