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Mayer survives pole-vault jitters to win decathlon | LONDON (Reuters) - Frenchman Kevin Mayer led throughout the day to win the world decathlon title on Saturday and fill the void left by Ashton Eaton's retirement -- although he nearly threw it all away on the pole vault.
German pair Rico Freimuth and Kai Kazmirek took silver and bronze while twice former world champion Trey Hardee was one of more than a dozen of the original 35 starters who dropped out over the course of the notoriously tough contest.
Olympic silver medallist Mayer led from the shot put on Friday morning and looked to be cruising to his first world gold until he decided to skip the opening pole vault heights and enter the fray at 5.10.
The move nearly proved disastrous as he missed his first two attempts, then grazed the bar on his third.
Despite an unnerving wobble, the bar stayed in place and Mayer avoided a zero score which would have wrecked his chances, instead increasing his lead over Rico
He comfortably came through the javelin and 1,500 metres, the final of the 10 events staged over two exhausting days, to see himself safely home.
Athletics - World Athletics Championships - Men's Decathlon Pole Vault - London Stadium, London, Britain – August 12, 2017. Kevin Mayer of France. Kai Pfaffenbach
Mayer finished on 8,768 points with Freimuth, with 8,564 and Kai Kazmirek 8,488, taking the silver and bronze medals.
"I am so, so tired. I cannot even imagine I am the world champion," said Mayer. "The first day was perfect. I am so proud. This competition was so hard. I just wanted to finish it ... I was so anxious."
Hardee, fifth overnight, pulled out after a miserable morning in which he failed to pick up any points in the first two events.
He clattered into the third hurdle in the 110 metres hurdles, then produced three foul throws in the discus before calling it a day.
The event was left open by the retirement earlier this year of American Ashton Eaton, who had dominated recently, winning the last two Olympic and world titles.
Canadian Damian Warner, often seen as the man most likely to break Eaton's dominance, finished fifth. |
New Zealand girl, 14, fights off man who sexually assaulted her sister, 12 at Nelson library | A teenage girl bravely fought off a middle-aged man who assaulted her 12-year-old sister late at night outside a public library.
The girl, 14, kneed the attacker and pushed him away as they went for a walk on New Year's Day in Nelson on New Zealand's South Island.
The alleged incident occurred at 10.30pm near the library and an adjacent public toilet block in suburban Stoke, south-west of the city centre.
The girls, aged 12 and 14, were walking past Stoke Library in suburban Nelson on New Year's Day at 10.30pm when the man allegedly attacked the younger sister
'The young girl and her sister were left shaken by the incident,' New Zealand police said in a statement.
Police are searching for Caucasian man aged between 40 and 50, and about 170 centimetres tall.
He had very short brown, blond hair and was wearing a blue T-shirt with black on the shoulder, black shorts and white sneakers.
Police are hunting for a man, aged between 40 and 50, who they say assaulted a 12-year-old girl near this set of public toilets |
Cotton Bowl preview: No. 5 Ohio State vs. No. 8 USC | The sting of being left out of the College Football Playoff has subsided for Ohio State, as the Big Ten champs look for a strong finish in the Cotton Bowl vs. USC, a fellow college football blueblood. In fact, many feel the Buckeyes’ clash with Pac-12 champ Trojans is one of the best postseason matchups.
The Buckeyes will be playing in their 48th bowl game and for the first time in the Cotton Bowl since Jan. 1, 1987, a 28-12 victory over Texas A&M. The Buckeyes and Trojans have met in bowls seven times previously. USC has won four of those seven games. The last time the two teams met was in 2009, an 18-15 win for the Trojans at Ohio Stadium.
Ohio State is 22-25 all-time in bowls and has won three of its last four contests. Urban Meyer is 10-3 in bowl games, including a 3-2 mark at Ohio State. This will mark the fourth consecutive year the Buckeyes will be playing in a New Year’s 6 game, posting previous wins in the Sugar Bowl, CFP National Championship Game and Fiesta Bowl.
Ohio State is the only team nationally to rank in the top 10 in both total offense (523.6 ypg) and total defense (292.3 ypg). The Buckeyes also are the only team to average at least 250 yards passing and rushing.
USC holds a 13-9-1 series record over Ohio State. Seven of the meetings have been in the Rose Bowl.
USC, which played all of its 12 regular-season games in 2017 without a bye, was the first South Division representative to win the Pac-12 Championship game when it defeated Stanford, 31-28. This will be the second year in a row the Trojans will have played the Big Ten champ, toppling Penn State last season in the Rose Bowl.
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COTTON BOWL
Who: Ohio State (10-2) vs. USC (10-2)
When: 8:30 p.m. ET, Dec. 29
Where: Arlington, Texas – Cotton Bowl
Player on the spot: Ohio State QB J.T. Barrett. The senior gave a gutsy effort in the Big Ten title game, playing just days after undergoing knee surgery en route to leading the Buckeyes to victory over Wisconsin. Barrett has thrown for 2,939 yards with 35 TDs to rank eighth nationally in passing efficiency, and he has run for another 732 yards with 10 scores this year. He is the hub of an offense that ranks sixth nationally in total offense (523.6) and fifth in scoring offense (42.5). No doubt, SC LBs Cameron Smith and Uchenna Nwosu will be tracking Barrett.
Best individual matchup: Ohio State DE Nick Bosa vs. USC QB Sam Darnold. No doubt, Bosa will be pinning his ears back and coming after the star Trojan signal-caller. He paces the Buckeyes in sacks (six) and tackles for loss (12.5), earning Big Ten Defensive Lineman of the Year honors. Darnold is 20-3 as a starter and is on the verge of becoming the first Trojan signal-caller to throw for 4,000 yards in a season, entering this game with 3,787 yards passing and completing 63.7 percent of his attempts with 26 touchdowns. Darnold threw for 453 yards and five touchdowns with an interception against Penn State last season in the Rose Bowl.
Best unit matchup: Ohio State offensive line vs. USC defensive line. The Buckeye front is led by Rimington Award winner Billy Price. Tackle Jamarco Jones is an anchor on the edge for a unit that has gotten better as the season has progressed. OSU must deal with a Trojan front that helps USC lead the nation in sacks (43) and has 24 takeaways. Rasheem Green is the bellwether along the Trojan front, as he led the team with nine sacks.
Number: 7, times in a row USC has beaten Ohio State. The iconic programs haven’t faced each other since a win by the Trojans in Columbus in 2009. It’s the first time the schools have met in a bowl since the 1984 season, when USC downed the Buckeyes in the Rose Bowl. |
Aadhaar made mandatory for post office deposits, PPF, KVP; last date December 31 | After bank deposits, mobile and various welfare schemes, the 12-digit Aadhaar has been made mandatory for all post office deposits, PPF, the National Savings Certificate scheme and Kisan Vikas Patra. The recent move by the government is in continuation with its push for Aadhaar.The deadline to provide the 12-digit unique identification number Aadhaar is December 31, 2017. Announcement regarding Aadhaar quoting was made by Ministry of Finance in four separate Gazette notifications. "Provided that where Aadhaar number has not been assigned, the depositor shall submit proof of application of enrolment for Aadhaar," the notification dated September 29 said.
Existing depositors who have not provided Aadhaar number at the time of application for such deposit "shall submit his Aadhaar number to the post office savings bank or deposit office concerned, on or before December 31, 2017," it added.
The government is consistently being pushing for Aadhaar and has made it mandatory for bank deposits, obtaining mobile phone and several government schemes. In fact, it extended the deadline for obtaining Aadhaar for availing government schemes and subsidies from September 30 to December 31.
"As a result of the review of welfare schemes covered and to provide the benefits of such schemes to all eligible beneficiaries of the scheme, it has been decided to further extend the stipulated date in all such notifications up to December 31, 2017," an order dated September 26 said.
The extension stands the same fo rEmployees under Employees' Pension Scheme of 1995 and students wanting to avail scholarships besides enrolling for national apprenticeship and skill development schemes and crop insurance schemes and Atal Pension Yojana.
"It is hereby clarified that this extension shall only apply to those beneficiaries who are not assigned Aadhaar number or those who have not yet enrolled for Aadhaar. Such beneficiaries are required to enrol for Aadhaar by December 31, 2017and provide their Aadhaar number or enrolment ID," it had said.
It must be noted that after government made it compuslory to link 12-digit Aadhaar issued by Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), many telecom operators including Airtel, Idea and Vodafone have been sending messages to its customers for linking their Aadhaar with phone number. Even banks have been informing their customers to link their Aadhaar numbers with bank accounts to avoid making them inoperational. |
Trump Administration Kills Open.Gov, Will Not Release White House Visitor Logs | Never appeal to a man's "better nature." He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage. -- Lazarus Long |
RECIPES: 10 things you can do with a can of beans | CTV Ottawa
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11 Healthy Indian Snacks For Weight Loss | 2. Mixed Nuts
Mixed nuts, which include almonds, walnuts and pistachios, are low in carbohydrates, high in healthy fat content and rich in protein. Almonds are rich in protein and healthy fats, walnuts are rich in unsaturated fats and pistachios are full of fibre. They are perfect foods for healthy snacking.
3. Roasted Paneer With Flax Seeds
Another perfect evening snack is roasted paneer with flax seeds and cinnamon, which aids in weight loss. Paneer is high in protein content that helps to build your muscles; flax seeds are rich in omega-3 fatty acids and cinnamon is a wonder food for those who are trying to lose weight.
4. Cucumber Tomato Salad
People who are trying to lose weight go for low-fat salads because it is a delicious option when you are on a diet. Cucumber and tomato salad helps in losing weight, as cucumber is low in calories and tomatoes help in regulating your appetite.
5. Pomegranate And Apple Salad
Many people love to eat fruits when they are on a weight loss diet. The most commonly eaten weight-loss fruit are apple, pomegranate, pineapple and watermelon. Pomegranate is high in fibre and they help in lowering down the blood pressure and apples are full of fibre that fills you up.
6. Sprout Salad
Sprouts are another weight loss foods and the most common ones are moong sprouts. They are highly rich in nutrients, extremely low in calories and fat. Moong sprouts are helpful in reducing the blood pressure levels and these also help detoxify the blood. Have them with a dash of lemon, which also helps in burning fat.
7. Spicy Corn Chaat
Corn is loaded with antioxidants and fibre, which help in detoxification of the body and also keep your stomach full. Red chilli powder contains capsaicin that keeps your weight in check and aids in faster weight loss.
8. Sweet Potato Chaat
Sweet potatoes are high in fibre and water content and are also low in calories. They help in losing weight because they are nutrient-dense and are loaded with fibre that will keep your stomach full for a longer period of time.
9. Raw Peanuts
Peanuts are beneficial in reducing heart diseases. They are rich in antioxidants and monounsaturated fats. These healthy fats are good for the body and help in losing weight. Consume only a handful of peanuts in a day and not more than that.
10. Greek Yogurt With Chia Seeds
Greek yogurt and chia seeds are important for losing weight and can form for a delicious healthy snack. This snack is rich in vitamins and protein and will make you lose belly fat. You can have this as an evening snack or as an after-dinner dessert.
11. Oats Snack
Oats contain soluble fibre, which helps in filling your stomach faster and keeping it full for longer hours. It helps in boosting your metabolism, which aids in burning of the calories faster. Have oats as a healthy snack for weight loss.
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North Korea preparing long-range missile test: RIA cites Russian lawmaker | Kim Jong Un looks on during the test-launch of the intercontinental ballistic missile Hwasong-14, in this photo released July 5, 2017. KCNA/via REUTERS
Kim Jong Un looks on during the test-launch of the intercontinental ballistic missile Hwasong-14, in this photo released July 5, 2017. KCNA/via REUTERS
MOSCOW (Reuters) – North Korea is preparing to test a long-range missile which it believes can reach the west coast of the United States, a Russian lawmaker just returned from a visit to Pyongyang was quoted as saying on Friday.
Anton Morozov, a member of the Russian lower house of parliament’s international affairs committee, and two other Russian lawmakers visited Pyongyang on Oct. 2-6, Russia’s RIA news agency reported.
“They are preparing for new tests of a long-range missile. They even gave us mathematical calculations that they believe prove that their missile can hit the west coast of the United States,” RIA quoted Morozov as saying.
“As far as we understand, they intend to launch one more long-range missile in the near future. And in general, their mood is rather belligerent.”
Tensions have risen in recent weeks over North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missile programs as Pyongyang has test-fired several missiles and conducted what it said was a test explosion of a hydrogen bomb as it advances toward its goal of developing a nuclear-tipped missile capable of hitting the U.S. mainland.
Morozov’s comments drove up the price of U.S. Treasury bonds, as investors, worried about the prospect of new North Korean missile tests, moved into assets the market views as a safe haven in times of uncertainty.
Reuters was not able to independently verify Morozov’s account, and he did not specify which North Korean officials had given him the information about the planned test.
In Washington, a U.S. official said that there had been indications that North Korea could be preparing for a missile test on or around Oct. 10, the anniversary of the founding of the ruling Korean Workers Party and a day after the Columbus Day holiday in the United States.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, did not disclose the type of missile that could be tested and cautioned that North Korea in the past has not staged launches despite indications that it would.
A senior CIA analyst, speaking at a conference in Washington this week, said the North Korean government likely would stage some kind of provocation on Oct. 10 but did not elaborate on what form it might take.
“There is a clarity of purpose in what (North Korean leader) Kim Jong Un is doing. I don’t think he’s done,“ said Yong Suk Lee, the deputy assistant director of the CIA’s Korea Mission Center, which was set up this year. ”In fact, I told my own staff (that) October 10th is the Korean Workers Party founding day. That’s Tuesday in North Korea, but Monday – the Columbus Day holiday – in the United States. So stand by your phones.”
Morozov’s delegation had “high-level” meetings in Pyongyang, RIA news agency said, citing the Russian embassy in the North Korean capital.
Tensions over North Korea’s nuclear program have been running high in recent weeks since Pyongyang staged a series of missile tests, and conducted a text explosion on Sept. 3 of what it said was a hydrogen bomb.
There has also been an exchange of tough rhetoric between Pyongyang and Washington.
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea if it threatens the United States. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un responded by calling Trump deranged and saying he would pay dearly for his threat.
“BELLICOSE RHETORIC”
Morozov is a member of the LDPR, a right-wing populist party. It casts itself as an opposition party, but hews close to the Kremlin line on matters of international affairs.
Describing meetings with North Korean officials, Morozov said they “displayed serious determination and bellicose rhetoric,” RIA reported.
“The situation, of course, demands the swiftest intervention of all interested states, particularly those represented in the region, in order to prevent wide-scale military action,” the agency quoted him as saying.
Russia has closer relations with Pyongyang than many other world powers, linked in part to Kim Il Sung, the founder of North Korea and the current leader’s grand-father, having lived for a time in the Soviet Union.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has joined other world powers in condemning North Korea’s weapons program, but has taken a softer line than Western governments.
Putin has said that Pyongyang will not be cowed into giving up its weapons program. He has accused Washington of trying to effect regime change in North Korea, and predicted that would unleash chaos.
U.S. Treasury prices surged on the report of a possible new missile test, pulling yields lower, as investors cut risk out of their portfolios and sought the safety of Treasuries. Treasury prices move inversely to their yields.
Benchmark 10 year U.S. Treasury yields fell from the session high 2.40 percent mark US10YT=TWEB to 2.35 percent around midday (1600 GMT) in New York.
“It has just been risk-off buying into the long (Columbus Day) weekend … You look at the charts, it has really been a one-way trade of lower yields,” said Justin Lederer, Treasury analyst at Cantor Fitzgerald in New York.
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South African charity to stockpile water for dry Cape Town | JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Officials in Cape Town on Monday tried to allay international concerns about the water crisis in the South African city, saying tourists and investors are welcome despite fears that most taps could be turned off in April because of drought.
In a "two-way conversation," some diplomats who met officials managing Cape Town's crisis referred to water shortages in their own countries, including in Barcelona, Spain and the U.S. state of California, said Tim Harris, CEO of Wesgro, an agency that promotes tourism and trade in Western Cape province.
"I think a lot of cities are going to go through challenges like this," Harris said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press after the meeting.
Experts say key causes of Cape Town's water shortages are climate change and huge population growth since the 1990s. Rival political factions are arguing over alleged failures to prepare for the crisis.
Western Cape province includes Cape Town, where municipal authorities say they will have to close most taps on what they call "Day Zero," slated for April 12, if residents don't save enough water. Authorities hope for seasonal rains soon and are working to extract water from alternative sources, including aquifers and desalination.
A South African charity said it was organizing a nationwide collection of bottled water for stockpiling in military bases in and around the city of 4 million people.
Two trucks were making an initial delivery to Fort Ikapa base in Cape Town on Monday and water will be distributed to residents "at the appropriate time," the Gift of the Givers charity said.
Helen Zille, the Western Cape premier, and disaster management officials were among those who met the diplomats, Harris said. The goal, he said, was to deal with the "unintended consequences" of the city's blunt warnings to residents.
"When you start talking 'Day Zero' to an international audience, you get quite a different reaction," he said. Foreigners, he said, might think: "'Well then, I'd rather not come to Cape Town.'"
The city wants visitors to follow the same guidelines given to residents, including brief showers and fewer toilet flushes. Hotels have removed bath plugs and ask guests to use towels more than once, reducing laundry loads.
International tourists make up only 1 percent of Cape Town's population during peak season, but they support more than 300,000 jobs, according to the Wesgro agency.
It says many parts of Western Cape province have "adequate water," including the tourist destinations of Cape Overberg and the Garden Route.
While tourism officials say there have been cancellations, Ed Roman, Britain's consul general, tweeted earlier this month that there were thousands of British visitors in the area.
One recent visitor to Cape Town was the Queen Mary 2 cruise ship, which docked in the harbor. Delayed by high winds, the ship left the drought-stricken city early Sunday.
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Ernest Asante thanks FC Nordsjælland after leaving club for Al Jazira | Ghanaian winger Ernest Asante has thanked FC Nordsjælland after finalizing a switch to UAE side Al Jazira on Wednesday.
The pacey wideman, who joined Danish side FC Nordsjælland from Norwegian side Stabæk, established himself in the club after scoring five goals in 30 appearances.
The 29-year-old improved his goal return last term, netting an impressive 16 goals in 36 games to help the Wild Tigers finish 3rd on the standings.
He left the club to join Abu Dhabi-based outfit Al Jazira on Wednesday to begin a new adventure.
"I've had time to learn on and off the track, and people in the club have believed in myself in times when I have not done it myself. I take our eternal work in FCN and Right to Dream about the growth mindset with me and it will help me in the future.
"I have always felt welcome in the club and in the squad, although I may be much older than many of the players. The changing room has been fantastic and I would like to thank all my teammates and coaches for their support. I hope the environment in my new club will be the same, though I think it will be hard to find something so good, "says Ernest Asante.
He will join the first football team of Al Jazira as soon as the preparation for the upcoming seasons starts.
By: Reuben Obodai @ReubenObodai on Twitter |
ANC Elective Conference Game-Changers #1: David Mabuza | The road to the ANC presidency is a bumpy and uncertain one.
There are several key individuals who could still influence the outcome. These are the game-changers.
HuffPost SA is publishing a series of articles looking at who these game-changers are and what influence they could potentially yield over the presidential election. The first of these is David Mabuza.
Mabuza, the man with the clout of Mpumalanga behind him and viewed by many as the puppet-master of the ANC's national conference, will be one to watch out for at the party's elective conference at Nasrec in Johannesburg come December 16.
With only five days to go, ANC presidential candidates will be hard at work wrapping up their campaigns and negotiations. The one person they must pay heed to is the Mpumalanga premier.
Here's why.
The province will take 739 delegates to the conference -- the second highest number after KwaZulu-Natal. Its provincial general council meeting revealed a tight race between Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa and former AU boss Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, with the former receiving 117 nominations, and the latter 123.
But there were 223 abstentions, with delegates scribbling "Unity" across the ballots. It is widely believed that these votes are being held by Mabuza as a bargaining ticket to sway an already neck-and-neck presidential race and will be awarded to the camp that makes him the best offer.
READ: David Mabuza: The Master Political Entrepreneur.
There is no doubt that Mabuza, who has rapidly climbed the ANC's ranks, is holding out for high office potentially nothing less than that of deputy president of the ANC and of the country. The Dlamini-Zuma camp has already offered him that title; yet, he is still holding out.
Some speculate that Mabuza is using his clout to negotiate the remainder of Dlamini-Zuma's top six. Inserting his allies will allow him control of the ANC's power levers when he takes the number two position.
READ: David Mabuza Is The 'Enigma' That Keeps Us Guessing
Eventually, should his plan fall into place, Mabuza will easily ascend to ANC president come 2022 or 2027. He just has to play his cards correctly now -- and he has been doing just that.
Keep an eye out for Mabuza. In 10 years we could be looking back at Nasrec as the starting point to his presidency. |
'This storm isn't yet over.' Gov. Cooper to declare state of eme - | WBTV Charlotte | North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper will declare a state of emergency for the western parts of the state after heavy rain swept through the area, causing mudslides and flooding Tuesday night into Wednesday morning.
A mandatory evacuation order has been lifted for parts of McDowell County after concerns about how the weather would affect a dam in the area.
Around 12:30 a.m., Wednesday officials ordered all residents living below Lake Tahoma to evacuate at the request of the Lake Tahoma dam engineer. The evacuation was lifted around 10 a.m.
Emergency management officials say water was spilling around the sides of the Lake Tahoma dam and a landslide occurred on one side of the dam, prompting a level one emergency. The dam has not breached and crews are working to ensure the dam is safe.
A mudslide closed portions of Interstate 40 in McDowell County for some time Wednesday morning.
The governor's office said the declaration will help North Carolina coordinate storm response and prepare for any additional impacts.
Since Tuesday, four to seven inches of rain fell across parts of the North Carolina mountains, state officials said.
"Our emergency response and transportation crews have been working through the night to keep North Carolinians safe as conditions deteriorate," Governor Cooper said. "But this storm isn't yet over. I'm urging people to keep a close eye on forecasts and flood watches, and asking drivers to use caution especially when traveling in our western counties."
More rain is expected to fall over the next few days due to the remnants of the subtropical depression Alberto moving through the Carolinas, resulting in the possibility for more flooding. State officials said the "primary concerns right now are the stability of mountain slopes and several dams."
RELATED: NC rivers are surging with record-high water levels, and more rain is coming
According to the Charlotte Observer, rivers across western North Carolina surged with record-high water levels on Wednesday as flash flood warnings remained in effect through Thursday morning.
The Catawba River near Pleasant Gardens, near Marion, was at 14.4 feet, more than three feet above flood stage, U.S. Geological Survey data stated.
#breaking This is river breeze campground near Marion. Now part of the Catawba River. pic.twitter.com/r8OIjSYD9H — Steve Ohnesorge WBTV (@WBTVSteveO) May 30, 2018
Local and state officials said they are "closely monitoring" the dams at Lake Lure, Lake Tahoma, Lake Tuxedo and North Fork Lake and plan to send dam safety engineers to the areas.
Over 50 search and rescue crews were deployed to McDowell, Rutherford and Jackson counties to help with water rescues, the governor's office said.
The Charlotte Fire Department deployed two rescue teams to the western part of the state to aid in the rescues.
CFD has deployed a 16-person water rescue team to the western part of NC to assist in response to heavy rains and flooding. pic.twitter.com/e08xi7JZqk — Charlotte Fire Dept (@CharlotteFD) May 30, 2018
CFD is readying a second swift water rescue team for deployment to western NC. https://t.co/7DEySCDN0D — Charlotte Fire Dept (@CharlotteFD) May 30, 2018
Officials say over 200 people sought refuge in six shelters that were open in McDowell County overnight. Over 6,500 power outages were reported across western counties, the governor's office said.
PREVIOUS: Mandatory evacuation for some residents in McDowell County due to possible dam failure
Two workers with the North Carolina Department of Transportation had to be rescued after the tandem dump truck they were using was pushed off the road and into the Catawba River.
In McDowell County, two NCDOT workers were rescued after the tandem dump truck they were using to clear a mud slide was pushed off a road into the Catawba River. They climbed out through a passenger window and stood on the side of the truck in the water until they were rescued. — NCDOT (@NCDOT) May 30, 2018
According to the NCDOT, the pair was able to climb out through a passenger window until they were rescued.
Just to illustrate how serious the flooding is in western NC: Water swept an NCDOT tandem dump truck off the road overnight in McDowell County. Two people were rescued. Stay off the roads and avoid flooded areas. If you see standing water, turn around. https://t.co/pLCADeCNJN pic.twitter.com/EnDSZmuoVM — NCDOT (@NCDOT) May 30, 2018
Officials want to remind the public that if you see standing water, you should turn around.
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Black, coloured sheep sale pleases convener | The Black and Coloured Sheep Breeders’ Association of New Zealand national sale was held outdoors in dazzling heat last Saturday.
The usual sheep pavilion at the Waimate Showgrounds was unable to be used this year, so the association improvised. With the help of auctioneers from Peter Walsh and Associates, it created a “ring” in an enclosure in the yards outside. A team of helpers managed to run the animals through a complex series of gates before showing them individually to the gallery of bidders.
All but one of the 40 entries was shown. An unregistered 2-tooth Corriedale ewe from Jim Stewart, of Rakaia, was judged the Champion Animal of the Show, then sold for $200.
Top price of $375 was paid by Belfast breeder Janice Winter for a registered 2-tooth Romney ram from Julie Howden of Gore. Miss Howden, who has been taking stock to the sale since 1994, said she was “very pleased” with this year’s results.
She and her father, David Howden, were travelling home after the show to ensure their sheep had adequate feed and water to withstand the dry conditions causing concern in Southland.
Sale convener Reg Partridge, of Oamaru, was also pleased with the event’s success. It was followed by an afternoon at Sue and Stuart Albrey’s nearby farm for seminars and workshops. |
Donkey’s milk and snail mucus: How popular South Korean skincare products are made | Korean beauty products -- otherwise known as K-Beauty -- have taken the internet by storm, popping up on social media posts by celebrities.
These viral products and regimen are not only limited to celebrities and beauty bloggers. The latest Korean craze has lined up beauty aisles of big stores like Walmart and Target – a slice of the estimated $7.1 billion K-Beauty market in 2016.
"Nightline" traveled to the source of some of the more exotic ingredients in South Korea to understand the reason behind the popularity of these products.
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Thirty miles outside Seoul, the fortune of Farmer Lee's donkey farm turned around when the animal’s milk became an important source of a core K-Beauty ingredient – milk.
Historically, donkeys were the preferred means of transport for Korean aristocrats because of their slow pace, but today the entire farm is dedicated to producing milk that ends up in beauty products.
On this particular farm, donkeys are milked manually after which the milk is immediately frozen. Rumor has it that the milk has so many benefits that even Cleopatra bathed in it.
And, donkeys are not alone.
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Snails, which were traditionally used as food, have also made a comeback with Korean beauty companies using snail mucus as an ingredient in some of their most popular products.
Yongho Kim owns a farm with around 300,000 snails whose mucus is extracted very carefully.
“For two to three days, you don't feed the snail and you clean it - you can't have any waste,” Yongho Kim told “Nightline.” “And then you gently tickle the snail. Then the snail gets mad and it creates mucin.”
Once collected, the ingredients are taken to the laboratory to be made into products.
“Donkey's milk has much more protein than cow's milk, and it is known for its properties for immunity,” a chemist for the Korean beauty company Soo Ae explained to “Nightline.” “Snail mucin is also a very sticky mucus, so it helps create a barrier on your skin to prevent your skin from drying out.”
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Some skeptics believe that the craze isn't about the purported benefits of Korean beauty products - rather, it's a successful concerted marketing effort by the Korean government to advertise their products cool and desirable.
"The Korean cool concept started out kind of on a lark but it became a government priority and government necessity after the Asian financial crisis," Euny Hong, author of "The Birth of Korean Cool," told "Nightline."
According to Hong, the South Korean government realized after the Asian financial crisis in 1997 that by depending on just a few mega-conglomerates like Samsung for the GDP, they were leaving themselves at risk for major economic crises.
"If one big company defaults in Korea, everyone is kind of in trouble," Hong said. "And they realized we need other industries. We can't just have these heavy industries, we can't just do semiconductors."
The South Korean government's solution? Investing into pop culture as a major focus in economic diversification.
“One of the ideas floated was, why don’t we focus on popular culture because you don’t need a big infrastructure to enter this business? You don’t have to build factories, you just need time and talent,” Hong said.
That sparked a national effort by the South Korean government to export culture as an attractive selling point to an outside audience.
"They financed the translation of all the dramas at the beginning, and even now they pay for translation into all sorts of obscure languages," said Hong.
The investment has paid off in not just popularizing Korean dramas, K-Pop, a South Korean music genre and K-Beauty, but in also creating symbiotic relationships between them.
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According to Hong, K-Pop stars have frequently become brand ambassadors for K-beauty products, which in turn reap benefits for the farmers producing the raw materials in South Korea and beauty companies like Soo Ae, which ships around 10 million face masks a day around the world.
The beauty industry has been a form of high interest to South Koreans. According to the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, about one in five South Korean women undergo plastic surgery. With the streets of Seoul lined with hundreds of clinics, the country has emerged as one of the world’s foremost beauty destinations, attracting people from around the globe all flocking to get procedures done.
Whether it’s pure marketing or the lure of exotic ingredients, people are cashing in, as the K-beauty industry has more than doubled in size between 2014 and 2016 - all contributing to the legend of K-Beauty and its benefits.
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OpenPower Foundation Aims to Power Server Acceleration Beyond Moore's Law | When IBM first created the OpenPower Foundation in 2013, there were vendors that thought they would get into the silicon business and build their own chips as it turns out, that's not quite what happened.
At the OpenPower Summit 2018 event, Brad McCredie, IBM fellow and VP outlined how OpenPower has progressed over the last five years and what members are actually building.
"As technologies and processors cease to provide the cost performance improvement, you have to find something else to go fill in the gap," McCredie said during is keynote address. "What most of the industry has focused on working under Moore's Law and where technology and processors are taking us, the biggest gap filler we see is acceleration."
Acceleration is particularly useful for the Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning (AI/ML) workloads that McCredie said are now the most profitable for server systems vendors.
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Aside from just making its silicon designs open-source, IBM also opened up the baseboard management controller (BMC) technology as well. The OpenBMC project is now moving to the Linux Foundation as a way to help further expand the impact of the effort beyond just OpenPower.
"We have moved the needle in the industry to a more open firmware stack," McCredie said. "This is all about making the plumbing more ubiquitous and easy to get too."
More than Microprocessors
McCredie noted that when he first helped to the start the OpenPower Foundation, all the participating vendors said they wanted to become microprocessor designers. It turns out money is a significant limiting factor for vendors to build their own microprocessors even with the benefit of IBM Power designs available from the OpenPower Foundation.
The interesting shift that has occurred in the last few years, according to McCredie is that organization have recognized the benefit of accelerator technology that can further enable microprocessors.
An offshoot of the OpenPower Foundation is OpenCAPI which is an effort to build an Open Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface and is supported by AMD, Google, Mellanox and Micron among the group's founding members.
"This is strategic, this is where the industry is going, this is where the future of IT is," McCredie said. "It will redefine and reshape what the architecture of systems is going to be."
McCredie added that the path is still available for those that want to design and build their own silicon but that's not the big differentiator for OpenPower in 2018.
Roadmap
McCredie also revealed the roadmap for Power Processor technology commenting that advance I/O signalling and connectivity is where the performance gains in the future are set to come from.
"Cores, caches and system buses used to be the differentiator," McCredie said. "The I/O was the plumbing, now that's the differentiator and where the value is going to come from."
Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at ServerWatch and InternetNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist. |
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Hurricane force winds knocked out power Monday evening, ripped off tree limbs... | A strong push from a cold front moving through the Lander Foothills produced hurricane strength winds in the six o'clock hour Monday night. The high gusts downed tree limbs and burned out power line equipment leaving 798 Lander residents without power until 12:37 a.m. Tuesday morning.
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Soldiers bust massive click-farm that used 500k SIM cards, 100s of mobes to big up web tat | A massive click-fraud farm has been raided in Thailand by police and army troops, who seized nearly half a million SIM cards and hundreds of iPhones used to promote products online.
The raid on two rented houses in Ban Mai Nong Sai in the Aranyaprathet District led to the arrest of three Chinese suspects: Wang Dong, 33, Niu Bang, 25, and Ni Wenjin, 32. Investigators found 474 5s, 5c and 4s iPhones and 347,200 SIM cards, as well as computers and electronic devices used to manage them. This led to a second raid that netted another 100,000 SIM cards in a local house.
Benjaphol Rodsawasdi, immigration chief of Sa Kaeo, told the Bangkok Post that the trio admitted they were being paid 150,000 baht (US$4,423/£3,473) a month by a company in China to promote products in the Middle Kingdom. They would, we're told, use the mobes to ramp up sellers' online ratings by giving them positive feedback on product listings. That would push their gear up search result rankings, boosting sales. The gang refused to name the business involved.
Police say that the men set up shop in Thailand because mobile charges are so low in the country, compared to China. They were hired to spam the Chinese social media platform WeChat with bogus page views, ratings, likes and shares.
Police are now investigating how the three managed to get hold of so many SIM cards undetected, when telcos are supposed to log each purchase to a specific individual. In the main haul they found 112,200 SIM cards from Advanced Info Service, 131,000 from True Move and 104,000 from Total Access Communication (DTAC) telco companies.
The three arrested suspects were charged with working illegally in the country and illegitimately importing the devices. Police are now questioning them to see if further click farms can be found.
This kind of internet fraud is becoming increasingly common, as unscrupulous vendors seek to game reputation rankings online in order to become top of the shopping list for buyers. Similar techniques are also used to pump out fake news and discredit people, and it seems tech biz is dragging its feet on fixing the problems. ® |
Domino's Pizza robbed at gunpoint - WMC Action News 5 - Memphis, Tennessee | Memphis police officers responded to the robbery of Domino’s Pizza on Raleigh Lagrange road Saturday night.
A male suspect entered the business armed with a handgun, demanded money, and then fled the scene on foot, according to police.
On the night of the robbery the man was seen wearing a black hair bonnet, black scarf covering his mouth, green jacket, black shirt, black pants, and black shoes.
At this moment no arrest have been made.
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Chaos in Parliament …in photos | My initial thinking is that the coalition Government's handling, if not bungling, of the signing bonus with ExxonMobil resulted from inexperience, if not incompetence,... |
Quite The Deadly Weekend On Our State’s Highways | Various Locations, Ore. – Saturday afternoon April 15th, Oregon State Police responded to the report of a two vehicle head-on car crash on Hwy 18 near, just east of McMinnville in Yamhill County (pictured).
Officials determined that a Dodge Caravan operated by 59 year old William Eugene Stockinger and his passenger 65 year old Linda Louise Stockinger from Tualatin had been westbound on Hwy 18 when it crossed into the eastbound lane. A Chevy Impala was driven by 54 year old, Marc Geoffrey Sloan from Bellevue Washington had been eastbound and attempted to avoid, but was unable to avoid the nearly head-on collision. The impact caused the Impala driven by Sloan, to rotate and flip over the guardrail and down an embankment. He was pronounced deceased at the scene.
The driver of the Caravan, is being treated at a Portland area hospital. His wife, who was in the rear or the van and not wearing a seatbelt, was airlifted to Portland but died from her injuries. Still no official word on the cause of the crash. Hwy 18 was closed for approximately six hours during the investigation and reopened just after 9:00pm.
Then Saturday night, a pedestrian was reportedly hit by a semi. This happened on I-5 at the edge of the Grants Pass city limits. Authorities believe that a semi tractor towing a box trailer owned and operated by Francisco Diaz of Marysville, California, was traveling southbound on Interstate 5 in the right lane. A pedestrian, 54 year old Leta Baertschiger from Grants Pass, was walking in the right lane. Diaz was unable to avoid Baertschiger and struck her in the roadway. She was pronounced deceased on scene. Baertschiger is reportedly the wife of Grants Pass based state Senator Herman Baertschiger.
Diaz was uninjured and cooperated with investigators while a reconstruction was completed. Both southbound lanes were shut down for approximately one hour following the crash before one lane was reopened for traffic. Approximately one and a half hours after the crash the second lane was opened. A detour was set up during the investigation.
And finally, very early Sunday morning, April 16th, 22 year old Shayla Marie Coleman of Coquille died, as her car went off an embankment off Hwy 42 near Myrtle Point and hit a tree. No other occupants and officials believe she may have fallen asleep at the wheel. |
Georgia's Okefenokee fire: Warnings of possible evacuations | SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Georgia residents on the western edge of the Okefenokee Swamp have been warned to prepare for potential evacuations from an approaching wildfire that has burned more than 30 square miles (80 square kilometers) of public lands nearby.
A lightning strike has been blamed for sparking the fire April 6 inside the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge near the Georgia-Florida state line. Leland Bass, a spokesman for the Georgia Forestry Commission, said Monday dry and windy weather caused the blaze to more than double in size last weekend.
The 184 firefighters assigned to the wildfire so far have managed to keep most of the wildfire within the Okefenokee refuge and the neighboring Osceola National Forest and John M. Bethea State Forest in Florida.
But the fire’s rapid weekend expansion brought it within about 7 miles (11 kilometers) of the tiny Georgia community of Fargo, on the Okefenokee’s western boundary, Bass said.
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Emergency responders went door-to-door Saturday and Sunday to warn residents of some 23 homes nearest the swamp to pack bags in case evacuations orders become necessary, said Will Joyce, emergency management director for Clinch County.
“What we’re telling our residents here in Fargo is to be prepared, don’t let your guard down,” Joyce said, calling that a precautionary step.
Wildland firefighters with bulldozers have been clearing vegetation from fire breaks maintained around the Okefenokee refuge perimeter, which in places are 40 feet wide. Bass said flames managed to cross one highway onto private land at the refuge’s southwest corner over the weekend, but only a small area burned outside the refuge.
Naturally occurring fire is needed periodically inside the vast 635 square mile (1645 square kilometer) refugee. That keeps the Okefenokee swamp from becoming overgrown and eventually converting to uplands. Fire crews have been focused on keeping the flames from spreading to private land.
Large wildfires in the refuge burned close to Fargo and surrounding Clinch County in 2007 and 2011, but no homes or businesses burned.
“Nobody’s in a panic,” said Lisa Johnson, the Fargo city clerk. “Thankfully they’ve been here, done this. But one thing we all know about fire in swamp is each one has its own personality.” |
Missing youth impacting police resources | CTV Regina
A large number of missing youth in the Queen City is starting to have an impact on resources within the Regina Police Service.
Police say the number of youth going missing each year is growing. Whether the young person is missing for the first time, or has gone missing many times before, the Regina Police Service says it treats every case seriously.
From 2014 to 2017, the number of youth missing person occurrences has been rising. There were 1,422 missing youth cases last year.
The numbers could actually be higher than reported, because police say they do not include youth who turned 18 within the time of data collection.
Police spokesperson Elizabeth Popowich says missing youth cases are assigned to the community resources division and the file is handled by the missing persons coordinator.
“That person would be responsible for, in some cases, getting out there and looking as well,” Popowich told CTV News on Tuesday. “In some instances, just coordinating those other efforts and quarter-backing the investigation to find the child, especially if it goes on through a day or a couple of days or even a week.”
Police also work closely with parents, government and community organizations to resolve incidents where youth continue to go missing.
With files from CTV Regina's Creeson Agecoutay |
Another New England Snowstorm | Meteorologist Kevin Arnone
More snow is in the forecast for eastern New England, an area that has been hit quite frequently the past week or so. Our neighbors to the north are expecting another system to drop plowable snowfall across much of the region. Above is a look at the RPM model for the next 48 hours or so.
Much of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont is already covered by over 2 feet of snow. Some areas are over 50 inches! Check out the snow depth map below. Areas highlighted in green are over 2 feet of snow pack. But Connecticut is going to miss out on even more snow. The snow pack in Connecticut ranges from a few inches along parts of the Connecticut shoreline to near 20 inches in areas of northern CT.
Two separate systems one to our north and one one to our south will phase too late to bring CT anything more than just a dusting of snow over the next 48 hours. However, as these two systems phase offshore, together they are forecast to blanket most of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont with close to a foot of snow and even more in the mountains. Very good for ski resorts and snowmobile trails but not good for those who are already tired of shoveling their driveways.
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LIVE: Latest traffic and travel news for Cambridgeshire | Hello, the Cambridge News live blog is back this Monday afternoon to bring you the latest traffic and travel news from across the county, and beyond.
For updates on accidents and congestion on major roads, including the A14, M11, A11 and A1, check out the updates as they happen below.
Delays and cancellations on the trains, affecting commuters heading into and out of London, and across Cambridgeshire, will also be updated in the blog.
And we will be reporting on flight cancellations and delays to affect Stansted Airport.
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Great Amazon Reef System is larger than previously thought | In early 2017, the world was surprised when footage of a coral reef in the Amazon River was released. According to Fabiano Thompson, one of the researchers who announced the discovery of the reef in 2016, it's a place "where the textbooks said there shouldn't be one."
The video footage is slow moving, but it doesn't negate the unfiltered beauty of the reef. If anything, it gives the viewer more time to soak in the surprising nature of the discovery. Researchers first stumbled onto the reef in 2012 after hearing rumors about it.
Initially, researchers believed the reef ran between 164 and 328 feet deep and spanned 3,668 square miles, or about three times the area of Rhode Island.
However, a new study in April 2018 shows the reef is six times larger and deeper than previously thought. Researchers also discovered the reef system is compromised of reef platforms, reef walls, rhodolith beds and sponge bottoms. Only 5 percent of the reef has been explored though — leaving room for even more discoveries of what exactly is living there.
The area is murky and prone to strong currents — another reason the deep-diving vehicle that shot the video is moving slowly — but plenty of marine life, including a sponge that weighed as much as a baby elephant, thrives on and around the reef.
Oil companies have been eyeing the area because it's estimated there could be between 15 and 20 billion barrels of oil in the area. Greenpeace, which supplied the footage of the reef, has mounted conservation efforts to keep the reef safe from drilling and potential oil spills.
Editor's note: This article has been updated since it was originally published in February 2017. |
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SEC Issues $35 Million Fine Over Yahoo Failing To Disclose Data Breach | Altaba, the company formerly known as Yahoo, will have to pay a $35 million fine for failing to disclose a 2014 data breach in which hackers stole info on over 500 million accounts . "The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that Altaba, which contains Yahoo's remains, agreed to pay the fine to settle charges that it misled investors by not informing them of the hack until September 2016, despite known of it as early as December 2014," reports The Verge. From the report: |
Auditions for "Always, Patsy Cline' at the Racine Theatre Guild | Event time: 7:00 p.m. on Monday, May 15 and Tuesday, May 16. No appointments necessary
The Racine Theatre Guild will be holding open auditions for, “Always, Patsy Cline,” on Monday, May 15 and Tuesday, May 16.
The musical is based on the true story of Louise Seger, who meets and befriends her idol, Patsy Cline. Featuring Patsy’s classic hits: “Crazy,” “I Fall to Pieces,” “Sweet Dreams,” and “Walking After Midnight,” Louise reminisces on her friendship with the country star. Last performed at RTG in 2003, this show is a collection of great memories and music.
Roles are available for two women: Patsy Cline, a strong country singer between the ages 20 – 40, and Louise Seger, ages 40 – 60. Individuals with all levels of experience are invited to audition.
Director Douglas Instenes will hold auditions in the Racine Theatre Guild greenroom, located at 2519 Northwestern Avenue, Racine at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, May 15 and Tuesday, May 16. No appointments necessary. Auditions consist of a cold reading from the script and participants must prepare a song, bring sheet music, and perform with an accompanist. Tape recordings or unaccompanied singing are not permitted.
Scripts may be checked out in advance from the box office with a $10.00 deposit, which will be refunded when the script is returned. The show will go into rehearsal in May and will be performed weekends July 14 - 23. For further information, visit www.racinetheatre.org or contact the Box Office at (262) 633-4218. |
Hawke's Bay housing supply lowest in country | With only eight weeks of supply remaining Hawke's Bay has the lowest level of housing inventory in the country, real estate figures show.
But industry leaders say the region's property market shows no signs of slowing.
Yesterday the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ) released its latest data, which showed national median house prices had risen 6.7 per cent to $540,000 in the year to last month.
This was said to have been led by strong regional growth, with Hawke's Bay median prices
rising $52,000, or 16 per cent compared with May last year.
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Prices rose 33 per cent in Wairoa, 17 per cent in Hastings, and 13 per cent in Napier.
However, sales volumes fell by 13 per cent in the year to May, with Hawke's Bay now having the lowest level of inventory across New Zealand with just two months of supply.
REINZ chief executive Bindi Norwell said continual tight inventory across the region was restricting vendors from selling, for fear of not being able to buy replacement properties.
"The number of properties for sale across the region has fallen by more than 150 compared to May 2016 and the level of supply is the lowest in the country," she said.
"Out-of-town and cash buyers are being successful while first-home buyers and investors struggle with changes in industry criteria."
But local real estate leaders are saying that although supply is more limited than in the past, the demand is still there.
Tremains managing director Simon Tremain said he was "pretty disappointed" with the lower volume of sales.
However, he said, Hawke's Bay's market was still buoyant, with lots of properties still being listed.
"There's definitely no slow-down in demand," he said. "Buyers are out there and are getting good prices."
Ray White managing director Elanor MacDonald said interest was still high with "unprecedented numbers going through open homes and properties".
Some were being visited by more than 50 groups - something she had not seen since 2003 - and interested buyers were a mixture of out-of-towners, first-home buyers and local residents.
"There's just a lot of them, and we haven't got enough properties."
Unlike in Auckland, where sale prices "went through the roof" due to limited supply, buyers were still taking a "measured approach" when purchasing property, she said.
REINZ reported that compared with April, last month Hawke's Bay's median price fell $12,500, or 3 per cent. Prices were steady in Napier, but fell 6 per cent in Hastings and 10 per cent in Central Hawke's Bay.
On a seasonally adjusted basis the median rose 2 per cent compared with April, indicating the fall in prices was less than expected.
In the year to May 2017 sales volumes fell by 6 per cent in Napier, 16 per cent in Hastings and 30 per cent in Central Hawke's Bay.
On a seasonally adjusted basis sales for May fell 13 per cent compared with April, "indicating the lift in sales was far weaker than expected for May".
The median number of days to sell improved by two days compared with April, to 30 days in May. The number of days to sell eased by one day compared with May last year. |
Virginia expecting stronger performance by Duke quarterback | CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Virginia knows Duke quarterback Daniel Jones is a different — and more improved — player than he was a year ago.
Jones was just a freshman last season when Virginia traveled to Duke, and the Cavaliers’ plan to pressure and rattle the young quarterback worked. He threw five interceptions and fumbled the ball away once, and in a season when the Cavalier won just one other game, they rolled over the Blue Devils, 34-20.
“Last year he was young but he’s gotten a lot of experience,” defensive end Juwan Moye said this week. “He likes to run a lot. He’s really confident in his game. He’s a solid piece. Like last year we knew that if we got to him we could own the game. I think we’re going to have to have the same game plan, but he’s going to be a lot tougher.”
The Cavaliers (3-1, 0-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) look to be as well. They are off to their best start after four games in a decade, but have no expectations that it will be an easy game against Duke (4-1, 1-1) on Saturday.
Jones has 172 rushing yards, third on the Blue Devils, and has run for three touchdowns.
But Virginia is feeling better about itself than it has in quite some time. The Cavaliers are coming off a 42-23 victory at Boise State two weeks ago — the Broncos’ worst home loss in 16 years — and had last weekend off.
Their play has gotten the attention of coach David Cutcliffe and his players.
“We have reason to prepare well, because they’re a solid football team with a quarterback playing well,” Curcliffe said, speaking of Kurt Benkert. “They’ve got a running game, they’ve got skill people. … They’re very systematic, do a good job of it. Defensively, they are as consistent with their system as anybody we will play.”
As for Jones, Cutcliffe’s approach is pretty much that that was last year.
“You know he knows in his mind what happened and he wants to prove himself and play better,” he said. “What Daniel’s got to do is make sure the people around him are in position to make plays and just do what he does best.”
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MOMENTUM KILLER? Virginia coach Bronco Mendenhall would have preferred not to have an open week after the victory at Boise State. But in an effort to keep the Cavaliers focused, he had them working in pads all last week like it was the preseason rather than allowing them to bask in the victory. “I think we’re doing well. I think our coaches are doing well too, making sure that we’re grinding every day,” Benkert said.
JONES KEEPING UP: Since his six-turnover debacle last year, Jones has impressed opposing coaches with his toughness and his efficiency. In 12 games since, he’s thrown just four interceptions with 15 touchdowns passes.
HOME SUPPORT: It might be a bit early for Virginia’s players to start looking for fans to start piling on the bandwagon, but they said this week they notice the empty seats while also saying they have felt a buzz around campus. Still, They have drawn fewer than 40,000 to a 61,500-seat stadium in each of their first three games.
STOP THE BIG PLAYS: Duke’s improved defense has allowed seven touchdowns of at least 40 yards, and has given up at least one of them in four of five games. Three came against Baylor and two against North Carolina. Safety Alonzo Saxton II called it “kind of the recurring theme” and added that “it’s hard to stay focused on every play throughout the whole game and not lose your eyes one time or miss an assignment there, but that’s still what we’re trying to work towards is perfection on every play.”
JUST FOR KICKS: If the game comes down to a field goal, significant advantage Duke. Austin Parker has made nine of 11 tries, with a long of 45. Virginia A.J. Mejia is 2 for 3 with his longest coming from 28 yards.
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Finance: Americans just made a major about-face on the stock market for the first time since Trump's election | For the first time since the election in 2016, more Americans expect stocks to fall over the next 12 months than rise, according to Conference Board's Consumer Confidence survey in April.
Stocks peaked in January 2018 after a 22% surge in the prior year.
Americans have turned on the stock market — for now.
More people expect the stock market to fall over the next year than people who predict the opposite, according to the Conference Board's April survey of consumers.
The index that tracks expectations for a decrease frequently zooms past the index that tracks an increase. But this happened in April for the first time since the election in November 2016, when the stock market extended what became known as the Trump rally.
Stocks peaked in January 2018 after a 22% surge in the prior year, the second-best annual gain since the Great Recession. That month, the index of expectations for stocks to continue rising peaked, too.
The good news is that consumers' overall assessment of the economy is still good, and in fact improved in April. |
Mad Rex: here's why you should go | For the last year, music aficionados visiting The Fillmore, comedy fans at Punchline and bowlers fond of bartenders flipping bottles at Revolutions had to wonder what the empty, neighboring space in their complex had in store. And what did a graffiti-strewn helicopter and all those gas masks have to do with dining or drinking?
The answer comes tonight when Mad Rex — supposedly the world’s first post-Apocalyptic-themed restaurant and virtual-reality lounge — opens to the public. This will answer the question: “What if ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ was shot in an industrial hair salon that served raw meat on a hot rock?”
Owned and created by Florida natives Michael Johnigean and Pavel Rathousky (a one-time butcher in Prague), Mad Rex is a cinematic, experiential thrill for those finding favor in “The Walking Dead” or the “Terminator” franchise. Take away the futuristic wasteland ultra-violence and any post-mortem odor, but keep the menacing, reclaimed tchotchkes, and the feel of survivalist anticipation and you’re there.
“Our goal is for our customers to imagine themselves in a post-Apocalyptic time where everyone is on there own, and survival is a daily accomplishment,” said Johnigea.
“There are no laws, no 911 and we are all left to protect ourselves, our family and our supplies. Our theme is a positive motivator for our customers.”
Co-crafted by Philadelphia artist Alloyius McIlwaine (he did murals for CODA) and Brit theater designer Mark Cordory – with help in the lab tech costuming area from Philly’s Delicious Corsets – Mad Rex is a dark, messy, visual delight.
Once you get past the flame-shooting, machine gun-rigged truck outside the restaurant, there are happily grotesque totems to behold. An eerily-lit, smoke-puffing airplane ripping through the ceiling, the bejeweled gas masks, and the limp torsos atop booths in the seating area are but a few. There are tattered barrels, distressed oil drums and oxidized metal head gear strewn like death flotsam throughout the 230-person space.
If you grow weary of such nightmarish icons of destruction, patrons can hit up Mad Rex’s Virtual Reality (VR) Lounge, another first, according to its crowd-funding page. Once there, you can pick a private VR chair, and simulations of destruction (like crashing a plane or heading underwater) while hooked up to IV. That’s right. Mad Rex has figured out that you can’t see your booze with VR glasses on, so a “nurse” will pour your drink into the IV bag while you play.
Society Hill Films /for PhillyVoice “Mad Rex is unlike any restaurant in the world,” said General Manager Nick Stefanou.
That the cocktail list includes drinks names such as “The Debacle” (vodka with an IPA float), “The Last Sunrise” (tequila with jalapeno simple syrup) and “Scorched Earth” (rye whiskey, Campari) is one thing. The dining option and the open “Survivors Kitchen” is yet another element to gawk at, one that offers a taste of what might be on the menu, post-Apocalypse.
There are, of course, cooked items on the menu from Mad Rex executive chef Peter Rule (late of Brigantessa and Fork) with its pastas and vegetarian offerings. But the raw deal from the scratch kitchen is the meat coming from Mad Rex’s neighbor, George L. Wells Meat Co.
Here they offer New York Strip, tuna steak or salmon, sliced and raw with a variety of sauces (there is sauce in the Apocalypse?!) Throw your protein onto a black lava rock slab heated to 500 degrees and start cooking and serving yourself. Yes, there are dining utensils, but I can’t help think that it might be more appropriate to gnaw on meat with your hands – even if such primal table manners would be messy when it came to the ice cream served in bowls made of pink Himalayan salt.
If you're planning for a zombie Apocalypse anytime soon, Max Rex will be the place you'll die for. |
Teacher found guilty for sex with teen inside locked classroom | A 32-year-old Ohio teacher found guilty of having sex with a 14-year-old student inside her locked classroom has been sentenced to one year in prison, dodging calls from the victim’s father to have her put behind bars for more than a decade.
Jessica Langford, of Centerville, received five years of probation in addition to the sentence Tuesday following a 2017 incident that was said to have happened inside her Miamisburg Middle School classroom. The teen victim told jurors during her trial that they had oral sex and intercourse for around “20 to 30 minutes” on the last day of the academic year.
“I wish I could go back and undo all that happened,” Langford said in court Tuesday. “I am completely responsible for my actions and should have never have used my power as a teacher and never developed a friendship with a student.”
Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Timothy O’Connell, during sentencing for Langford’s three sexual battery convictions, noted that she has had no past criminal history, the Dayton Daily News reported. She had argued that she was the primary caregiver for her mother and daughter.
The sentence Langford received was in stark contrast to what the victim’s father was asking for — the maximum length of 15 years.
“She was entrusted with the care of the children and students and threw it away for her own sexual gratification,” the father had said in court, according to the newspaper. “He feels embarrassed and alone. He’s bullied constantly at school and feels helpless and alone.”
Langford said she and the teen “should have never exchanged any form of communication.
“I felt trapped in a teacher’s life. I was distracted, I was unable to focus only on my teaching duties,” she told the court. “Being the teacher all students wanted to have, I have learned to be a great teacher – doesn’t mean I need to be a friend to students and that there should be boundaries between teacher-student relationships.” |
From LeBeau to Pees, Titans learning new defensive scheme | NASHVILLE — All-Pro safety Kevin Byard believes it doesn't get much better for he and his Titans teammates: First learning from defensive co-ordinator Dick LeBeau and now Dean Pees.
"Just having two legends as coaches on the defence, man, I was blessed," Byard said.
Now, what the Titans' defence with look like under Pees, that remains somewhat a mystery. Neither Pees nor the Titans are sharing many, if any, details right now. Oh, there's been talk of showing different looks on the defensive line and being consistent in coverages.
But that's about as much as Pees is willing to share.
"I'd like to be more little more precise, but I really don't want to talk about scheme particularly and what we're doing," Pees said Wednesday when asked about coverage consistency.
The Titans made a change from Mike Mularkey to first-timer Mike Vrabel as head coach in January mostly to get more production from an offence led by young quarterback Marcus Mariota. Even though the Titans were the AFC's best against the run and allowed a league-fewest five touchdowns rushing and tied for fifth in sacks, they still have plenty of room for improvement on defence.
Maybe because the Titans were so good against the run, they faced more passes than any other defence in the NFL. They also gave up the most first downs through the air last season. The Titans ranked 25th defending the pass, giving up 239.3 yards per game, and 17th in points allowed. Despite Byard intercepting eight passes, Tennessee finished with 12 interceptions overall — tied for 18th in the league.
With Pees last season, Baltimore ranked 12th in yards allowed per game. The Ravens led the NFL with 22 interceptions and also tied for 10th against the pass giving up 213.8 yards per game.
Pees, 68, has spent the last 14 of his 45 years as a coach in the NFL. But he hasn't talked with LeBeau, someone he's always admired and wanted to have a relationship with as a coach. The new Titans co-ordinator has been busy learning his new players and installing his defensive schemes with a little more than third installed as of Wednesday.
Outside linebacker Derrick Morgan, now on his fifth head-coach with this franchise, said the defence remains primarily a 3-4 base. Each coach uses different language to describe plays, and Morgan said learning that is the biggest challenge. |
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Democrat Congresswoman Defends Illegal Aliens-NOT the Law | By
A New York Congresswoman, a Democrat of course, has decided that if a law if enforced—it is the problem of the law enforcement agent, not the criminal. In this case, she is forcefully defending the “right” of people that sneak into our nation to be free to steal jobs, education, welfare, and housing and be protected by government in their theft. Bernie Madoff should have declared himself an illegal alien from Brooklyn. “An acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Tuesday defended the agency’s decision last week to arrest an illegal immigrant who was on the way to his prom. ICE Acting Director Thomas D. Homan was asked at a House Appropriations Committee hearing about Diego Puma Macancela, a 19-year-old who was detained last week. Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., asked if it’s an ICE policy to target students on the way to school or church. “If you have a student who’s walking to school waiting at a bus stop, you have someone waiting to arrest him?” Lowey asked. The issue is not whether the person was going to school, was a student or just talking a hike—the person arrested was an illegal alien—and that was the crime. The Democrat has decided that criminals must be caught doing illegal things to be arrested. Oh, right, he was an illegal alien, so he was doing illegal things when arrested. Democrats love criminals—whether they are in California or New York, Democrats protect those that break the law. Sanctuary city anyone?
by Jack O’Brien, Washington Examiner, 6/13/17
An acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Tuesday defended the agency’s decision last week to arrest an illegal immigrant who was on the way to his prom.
ICE Acting Director Thomas D. Homan was asked at a House Appropriations Committee hearing about Diego Puma Macancela, a 19-year-old who was detained last week. Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., asked if it’s an ICE policy to target students on the way to school or church.
“If you have a student who’s walking to school waiting at a bus stop, you have someone waiting to arrest him?” Lowey asked.
Homan stated that ICE was unaware that it was the day of Manancela’s prom, but he defended the actions taken because Manancela had an order of removal. He stated that because Manancela had entered the country illegally and had an outstanding order of removal, he should have been “looking over his shoulder.”
“We’re talking about somebody who had his due process and lost his case,” Homan said. “There’d be no integrity in the system if we didn’t uphold the rulings of a judge. This is a country of laws, we need to stand by the laws.”
Homan did say that ICE does have policies in place dealing with apprehensions in sensitive locations as churches, schools, hospitals or public demonstrations like parades. Detainments and arrests can only occur at these locations if there are exigent circumstances, other law enforcement actions have led ICE there, or if prior approval has been given from a designated supervisor.
Homan said in response to a question from Lowey that so far this year, there have been no apprehensions at sensitive locations.
“As far I’m concerned, with the information available to me, nobody’s been arrested at a school, nobody’s been arrested at a hospital,” Homan said. “Courthouses have a different policy. Courthouses are a place we should be arresting people.”
Homan cited safety features at courthouses, like metal detectors and guards, as a preferable place for ICE to arrest undocumented aliens. But he added that ICE does not arrest witnesses or victims at trials, only “those who pose a public safety risk.”
Homan disputed the media coverage surrounding arrests near churches or schools, stating that arrests in major cities usually occur in the vicinity of sensitive locations. Homan said this is a result of communities not allowing ICE to have access to county jails, and plans by illegal aliens to leave their homes infrequently.
“If I can’t arrest them in the privacy and security of a jail, then I have to go to their homes or wait for them to leave their homes,” Homan said. “It’s a target enforcement operation. [ICE] knows who they’re going to arrest and where they’re going to arrest them. There’s no sweeps, there’s no neighborhood raids. That’s not the way we operate.” |
Man shot in neck on Capitol Street | JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) — Jackson Police are investigating a shooting that happened on Capitol Street near Prentiss Street.
JPD Sgt. Roderick Holmes said it happened around 8 a.m.
Police were called to the area and found 32-year-old man injured. He was shot in the neck.
Holmes said the victim was responsive but provided very little information regarding how the shooting occurred.
The victim is in stable condition. There is no suspect information available at this time.
This investigation is ongoing. |
Design to honor Sept. 11 rescue, recovery workers unveiled | NEW YORK — A pathway flanked by six stones meant to symbolize strength and determination will be added to the Sept. 11 memorial site in lower Manhattan to honor the rescue and recovery workers who toiled for months at ground zero, officials announced Wednesday in unveiling the design concept.
The new dedicated area will also serve as a way to honor those who became sick or died from exposure to the toxins in the environment after the twin towers fell.
"Hundreds of thousands of people are estimated to have been exposed to toxins at the World Trade Center site, both on the day of 9/11 and during the months of recovery operations that followed," Alice Greenwald, president and CEO of the National Sept. 11 Memorial & Museum, said in a statement.
She added, "By integrating this meaningful public space at the memorial, we seek to recognize all those for whom 9/11 has remained an all-too-present reality."
The announcement was on the day of the memorial and museum's annual commemoration of the rescue and recovery effort, which officially ended on May 30, 2002.
The idea for the space had been announced last year, with officials joined by former "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart, a board member of the museum who has been an outspoken advocate for the Zadroga Act, which provides health benefits to first responders who fell ill after the attacks.
He said in his statement: "These men and women sacrificed themselves for the rest of us and have spent years suffering and dying because of it. We have long owed it to them to honor their contributions. It's also important for us to recognize the folks who have died or are suffering who were exposed to World Trade Center toxins while working in lower Manhattan or called the community their home."
The new space was designed by Michael Arad and Peter Walker, the men who came up with the concept for the reflecting pools and surrounding trees that make up the Sept. 11 memorial and plaza.
The pathway on the southwest corner of the plaza will loosely be in the area of the ramp that was used to remove material from the site during the grueling nine-month effort to clear it. It will end near the Survivor Tree, a Callery pear tree that was severely damaged in the attack but nursed back to health and replanted at the site.
The six stones will be placed alongside the pathway, pointing upward. In his design statement, Arad said, "these stones are rough and worn, and their angle suggests a forceful resistance, an answer to the violence that brought them forth."
The plan for the area also includes incorporating a text inscription to go along with the stones that will include steel from the original World Trade Center that visitors will be able to touch. |
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‘I’m Going To Be Eating Very Little Food’: Tenants In Westlake Go On Rent Strike Fight Rent Increases Despite Leaking Sewage | LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Tenants in the Westlake District of Los Angeles have resorted to a tactic becoming more and more common as Southern California’s housing crunch squeezes those who can’t afford rising rents: a rent strike.
The renters at three buildings on South Burlington Avenue have teamed up with the Los Angeles Tenants Union in the hopes their landlord will not only be reasonable in their increases, but also address what they have called slum-like conditions.
Even though they haven’t paid rent since March, residents believe their rents could go up by nearly 40 percent following a 10 percent increase last year.
“If it was just by myself, I could handle it, but I’ve got a wife to take care of,” resident Robert Rodriguez told CBS2 News. “It hurts.”
More than 90 families — about 200 people, according to LATU’s Facebook page — joined the group in fighting the rent increases from the landlord identified by the group as Donald Crasnick and 1979 Ehrlich Investment Trust, making it what could be one of the largest rent strikes in L.A. history.
“This is about ‘the rent is too damn high,'” said attorney Elena Popp of the Eviction Defense Network. She is representing the Burlington tenants. “We are in an absolute housing crisis.”
The predominately Latino individuals and families are fighting the rent increases, saying the buildings are deplorable, as evidenced a busted sewage line in one of the structures.
“Really stinky. It’s just black waters,” said Antonio Lamas pointing out the pool of water in a parking structure. “Black waters” translates to the Spanish term for raw sewage.
Other say their roof leaks when it rains.
Twelve-year-old Haily Hernandez’s main concern, however, is that her family is able to keep that roof, leaking or not, over their heads.
“They were just working, like, one job, but now they’re like my dad, working day and night,” lamented Haily. “And my mom is trying to work with him day and night, too.”
The trust has taken the tenants to court in hopes of getting them evicted for their failure to pay rent.
Lisa Ehrlich, an attorney who represents the trust, told CBS2 the city has inspected the building and has found no code violations. She added the rent is being increased by about $250 per unit to meet “cost of living increases” in refuse and Department of Water and Power fees.
Ehrlich sent CBS2 a statement, which reads, in part,
“The tenants were served with a lawful rent increase. Many of the tenants had received little or no rent increase since 2008. The rent increase brings the rent up to the HUD average 2018 rental rate.”
The median rental price for a one-bedroom apartment in Los Angeles was $1,350 in March of this year, Curbed LA reported. It was $1,730 for a two-bedroom.
Whatever the cost is, Robert Rodriguez told CBS2 his proposed rent is just too much.
“If I pay the rent, I’m going to be eating very little food,” said Rodriguez.
The tenants union plans to protest at the Pacific Palisades Farmers Market on June 3.
“We can’t protest at Lisa’s $4 million home, behind a gate up in the hills, so we’re going into her community instead,” the groups Facebook event reads.
The first eviction cases go to trial on June 4.
LATU and Popp were also part of a rent strike at the former Marmion Apartments in Highland Park two years ago. All those tenants ended up either cutting a deal with the owner or getting evicted. That apartment complex is now called Moxie and Clover. |
Workers at Tata's Shotton Steel have voted in favour of a union backed plan for pensions and jobs. | Update:
Responding to news that thousands of Tata steelworkers have backed a deal on the future of their pensions, Leader of the Welsh Conservatives – Andrew RT Davies – said:
This is hugely welcome news, and is the product of many months of hard work on all sides. If you cast your mind back a year it would have been scarcely credible to imagine such a turnaround over this period, but this is evidence of what can be achieved when people work together. This is by no means the end of the road, and we will be looking to TATA and to the Welsh Government to ensure that every effort remains focused on securing a vibrant and viable long-term future for Welsh steel.
Update:
Carl Sargeant, AM for Alyn and Deeside, said:
It’s good news that workers have succeeded in agreeing a deal on pensions. I know it has been a difficult path but reaching an agreement allows workers to move on positively and gives them future security. The Welsh Government will continue to support all of Wales’s steel workers and keep up our pressure on the UK Government to ensure our steel industry is a top priority. Locally I will continue to do everything I can to ensure the profitable and successful Tata Shotton plant, its management and workers are supported.
Update:
The consultative ballots on Tata Steel’s proposal on pensions, jobs, investment and production closed at noon . All union members were asked if they accepted the proposal, and the results for each union are as follows:
Community
Yes: 72.1%
No: 27.9%
Turnout: 70.5%
Unite
Yes: 75.6%
No: 24.3%
Turnout: 69.2%
GMB
Yes: 74.0%
No: 26.0%
Turnout: 51.5%
Responding to the results, Roy Rickhuss, General Secretary of Community, said:
“This result provides a mandate from our members to move forward in our discussions with Tata and find a sustainable solution for the British Steel Pension Scheme.
“Steelworkers have taken a tough decision and have shown they are determined to safeguard jobs and secure the long-term future of steelmaking. Nobody wanted to be in this situation, but as we have always said, it is vital that we now work together to protect the benefits already accrued and prevent the BSPS from free-falling into the PPF.
“This ballot involved an extremely personal decision for everyone that voted. Whichever way our members cast their votes, we know they will not have taken that decision lightly and everyone’s opinions must be respected.
“We now expect Tata to make good on their promises and deliver the investment plan for the whole of their steel business. The UK Government still has an important role to play and we fully expect them to deliver tangible support for steelmaking in the UK.”
Tony Brady, National Officer for Unite, said:
“Steelworkers have made great sacrifices to ensure the UK’s world class steel industry has a future. Those sacrifices must be repaid by Tata Steel honouring its commitments on investment and job security. Nothing less would be a betrayal and add to the deep mistrust that steelworkers now have for the company.
“The UK government in Westminster must also repay the sacrifices and the commitment shown by steelworkers to their industry by stepping up to support steel and secure its future. The UK government must now work in lockstep with the Welsh Government and put steel at the heart of a manufacturing industrial strategy which ensures UK steel is used in all major infrastructure and defence projects.”
Dave Hulse, National Officer for GMB, said:
“Now that steelworkers have done their bit, it is time for the government step up and do theirs. Thousands of skilled jobs rely on steelmaking and the industry supports the whole UK manufacturing sector.
“Instead of insulting steelworkers by classing their industry as a ‘low priority’, the government set out as strategy for steel that recognises it as a high priority for investment and innovation.”
Workers at Tata’s Shotton steel plan have accepted a deal which was agreed between unions and the company.
Unions had recommended their members which should secure the future of 6,000 jobs in Wales.
By agreeing with the deal workers have accepted plans to change the pension terms in return for no compulsory redundancies, that despite Shotton being the profit making jewel in the UK Tata steel asset portfolio.
Tata Steel will begin a consultation on the closure of the British Steel Pension Scheme (BSPS) to future accrual, replacing it with a defined contribution scheme with maximum contributions of 10% from the company and 6% from employees.
In return Tata will guarantee a minimum five-year commitment to two blast furnace steel making, with a further commitment to reinvest in Blast Furnace 5 as part of a Capex investment plan.
The company will also seek to help employees through any further changes.
More to follow……
Tata Shotton sells 500,000 tonnes of steel a year, more than 10% of Tata Steel UK’s sales. 700 Apprentices & graduate trainees 21 apprentices and six graduate trainees Steel supplied from Port Talbot, South Wales Product manufacturing plants 2 x Galvanising line 2 x Colorcoat® lines 10 x
700 people are employed at tata Shotton.
They currently have 21 apprentices and six graduate trainees Steel supplied from Port Talbot, South Wales Product manufacturing plants 2 x Galvanising line 2 x Colorcoat® lines 10 x
Steel supplied to Shotton from Port Talbot, South Wales. |
Benicia high school teacher turns herself in for alleged sexual relations with student | BENICIA (KRON) — A Benicia High School teacher has turned herself in for allegedly having sexual relations with a student, according to police.
Police said they arrested 23-year-old Riana Lane Monday for both unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor and oral copulation with a minor.
The arrest comes after an investigation at Benicia High School last week that involved marijuana on campus and stolen property.
“Our detectives later discovered that Lane was having an inappropriate relationship with the 17-year-old student, who was involved in the earlier incident,” police said in a press release.
The investigation is still ongoing.
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Daniel O'Donnell warns fans against following his 'false' Facebook page | Country music star Daniel O'Donnell has taken to Facebook to advise his fans they may have been receiving friend requests from a a false Daniel O'Donnell profile that looks exactly like this official page.
In a post on the Daniel O'Donnell official Facebook page, it says: "Hello friends. It has come to our attention that some of our fans have been receiving friend requests from a false Daniel O'Donnell profile that looks exactly like this official page. This is a fake profile and if you receive a friend request, please report it and delete it immediately."
The post adds: "All posts that come from this official page will have the blue tick next to Daniel's name which confirms that the post is authentic and verified. If a post that appears to come from Daniel doesn't have this blue tick, it has not come from the official page and should be reported.
"Thank you for reading and we're sorry if anyone was alarmed by this scam."
Daniel O'Donnell has had twenty UKTop 40 albums as well as fifteen Top 40 singles and has sold more than 10 million records to date.
In 2015, he became the first artist to have charted at least one new album in the UK charts for 28 consecutive years (1988–2015), when his latest album The Hank Williams Songbook entered the UK Artist Albums Chart at number 5.
A Daniel O'Donnell Visitors' Centre was opened in Dungloe in May, 2012, which displays all his gold discs, awards and wedding suit.[20] |
Bryan Adams photos to be displayed at Royal Ontario Museum fundraiser | TORONTO — Bryan Adams is setting down his electric guitar for a special one-night exhibition of his photography at Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum.
The "Summer of '69" rocker is set to unveil "Canadians," a curated collection of portraits to mark Canada's sesquicentennial, at the ROM Ball black-tie fundraiser on May 6.
Organizers say the exhibit will feature portraits of 28 Canadian icons including Margaret Atwood, Michael Buble, the Weeknd, Joni Mitchell, Wayne Gretzky and Michael J. Fox.
A shot that Adams captured of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Sophie Gregoire Trudeau backstage at the Juno Awards in Ottawa will also be on display. |
CA governor's race: Gavin Newsom, John Cox lead in poll | A new poll shows San Diego Republican John Cox holds a seven-point advantage for second place among likely voters in the governor's election Tuesday, signaling that voters prefer him and Democratic Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom to face off in the November general election.
The poll by UC Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies also found Newsom expanding his lead, with 33 percent of likely voters backing the San Francisco Democrat. Support for Cox, a businessman, grew to 20 percent, while former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's backing grew to 13 percent. The percentage of undecided voters dropped from 13 percent in April to 7 percent in the current poll.
"We think it's likely to be Cox against Newsom in the general election," said Mark DiCamillo, director of the poll.
The poll, conducted after President Donald Trump's endorsement of Cox, showed Republican support coalescing for Cox over the other leading Republican in the race, Assemblyman Travis Allen of Huntington Beach. In April, they were nearly neck-and-neck, with Cox at 47 percent and Allen at 38 percent among Republicans. The latest poll had Cox at 53 percent to Allen's 32 percent.
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"It seems Trump's endorsement put Cox over the top," DiCamillo said. "He's the president, and the Republican Party is very much supportive of Donald Trump. It's his party these days, so when Trump weighs into the California gubernatorial primary, I think that has an impact on Republican voters."
After his initial endorsement, Trump tweeted again Monday saying "California has a rare opportunity to turn things around and solve its high crime, high tax problems...vote for GOP Gubernatorial Candidate JOHN COX, a really good and highly competent man. He'll Make California Great Again!"
Overall, 12 percent of likely voters preferred Allen, while state Treasurer John Chiang remained at 7 percent and former state schools chief Delaine Eastin held steady at 4 percent.
DiCamillo noted the poll is yet more good news for Newsom, who said this week on a campaign bus tour across California that Democrats should unite behind one gubernatorial candidate rather than fighting it out in an expensive and divisive Democrat-on-Democrat competition in the general.
"It did appear early on that there was some chance that Villaraigosa might make it," DiCamillo said. "That would certainly add a lot of drama to the general election, but in a traditional Democrat against a Republican race, in this state, the Democrat would be heavily favored."
Newsom led the field among Democrats, with 50 percent of likely voters saying they prefer him to the other major choices in the party. Villaraigosa was next, with 20 percent of Democratic support.
The poll was conducted from May 22 to 28, with 23 percent of likely voters sampled having already cast votes. Among the early voters, 38 percent said they cast votes for Newsom, while 23 percent had voted for Cox.
crossOrigin="anonymous" SHARE COPY LINK Gubernatorial candidates Lt. Gov. and former San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa spoke to the Sacramento Bee about the sex scandals that troubled their time as mayors ahead of the primary next month. Emily ZentnerSacramento Bee Editorial Board
crossOrigin="anonymous" SHARE COPY LINK The attorney, accountant and businessman from Chicago, a "Jack Kemp-style" Republican, has set his sights on California's governorship. Emily Zentner & Christopher CadelagoThe Sacramento Bee
crossOrigin="anonymous" SHARE COPY LINK Democratic Gavin Newsom started off his political career on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Now he's running for governor. Hawken MillerThe Sacramento Bee
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Muslim leaders make call to stop support of extremist groups | RIYADH: Muslim leaders have called on governments to stop supporting extremist groups and join Saudi-led efforts to confront terrorism.
They made the call in a statement issued during an international seminar entitled “Muslim communities in non-Muslim countries: Rights and duties,” hosted by the Muslim World League (MWL).
The seminar was held at the MWL’s main headquarters in Makkah, and was opened by its Secretary-General Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Karim Al-Issa.
Leaders praised the outcome of the Arab-Islamic-American Summit held in Riyadh last month, and the Kingdom’s international role in confronting extremism and terrorism.
Al-Issa expressed full support for the objectives of establishing a global center to fight extremist thoughts.
He said it is an extension of the Saudi initiative to spread tolerance, coexistence and moderation.
The final statement called for non-interference in Muslim communities and their relationships with their countries.
It also urged the MWL to establish a global communications center for Muslim minorities to strengthen their relationships with the Islamic world.
RIYADH: Muslim leaders have called on governments to stop supporting extremist groups and join Saudi-led efforts to confront terrorism.
They made the call in a statement issued during an international seminar entitled “Muslim communities in non-Muslim countries: Rights and duties,” hosted by the Muslim World League (MWL).
The seminar was held at the MWL’s main headquarters in Makkah, and was opened by its Secretary-General Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Karim Al-Issa.
Leaders praised the outcome of the Arab-Islamic-American Summit held in Riyadh last month, and the Kingdom’s international role in confronting extremism and terrorism.
Al-Issa expressed full support for the objectives of establishing a global center to fight extremist thoughts.
He said it is an extension of the Saudi initiative to spread tolerance, coexistence and moderation.
The final statement called for non-interference in Muslim communities and their relationships with their countries.
It also urged the MWL to establish a global communications center for Muslim minorities to strengthen their relationships with the Islamic world. |
Workshop: The Salt Print with Dan Estabrook at Columbia College Chicago | Friday, Sep 22, 2017
A full-day workshop exploring this 19th-century printing process with Dan Estabrook draws from the very beginnings of photography on paper, from the early “Photogenic Drawings” of William H. F. Talbot to the later advancements in the process. Participants will dive right in, making photograms on plain salted paper, then work their way up to gelatin-sized and toned prints, looking at the variations in salt printing formulae along the way. Dan will also discuss how to create the right negatives, using the students’ own images, to best show the beauty of this wonderful technique.
Limited to 12. Participants should bring no more than 5 images on a flash or external hard drive to work with for the day.
$350 to participate.
Located at Columbia College Chicago at 600 S. Michigan Ave. |
The Worlds Most Popular Rugby League Website | Let's give Super League a break this week and give a warm welcome to our visitors from Australia, the Brisbane Broncos, will our boys do the business
Good luck
a) Crowd (Halliwell Jones Stadium, Capacity 15,200):
b) Score and Winning team: Warrington 0 v 0 Brisbane
c) First try (Wire player):
d) Time of first try:
e) Last try (any team, player not time):
f) Kicks over the sticks (combined):
g) Huddersfield v Salford (Thursday)
Leigh v Leeds (Friday)
Wigan v Cronulla (Sunday) |
Halsey Announces Split With G-Eazy | Nooo! Our favorite couple has come to an end. Halsey announced on Instagram that she has split with G-Eazy.
“I normally keep this kind of thing private but provided our public nature I feel the need to inform my fans. G-Eazy and I are taking some time apart. I’m eager to continue the upcoming passage of time dedicating myself to my art and my career, and the duration of my tour. I wish him the best. Thanks for respecting our privacy at this time.”
Cheating rumors were flying around after fans saw G-Eazy hitting up a fan to "hang out" and it looks like Halsey ain't having it! Then last week, TMZ reports that the couple both attended the Post Malone show G-Eazy popped up at, but were NEVER seen hanging out together like their perfect clingy selves.
Excuse us while we grab some tissues. |
Ramaphosa suspends SARS commissioner Moyane | SARS commissioner Tom Moyane was suspended with immediate effect late last night.
According to the Presidency, President Cyril Ramaphosa has cited among his reasons the “deterioration in public confidence in SARS and public finances being compromised” due to the ongoing controversy at the tax agency under Moyane’s leadership.
Ramaphosa said it was in the public interest to restore the credibility of SARS without delay.
In a letter to Moyane, Ramaphosa said: “For the sake of the country and the economy, this situation cannot be allowed to continue, or to worsen.”
It had been reported earlier that Moyane had refused to quit after he was asked to do so by Ramaphosa on Sunday night.
Moyane said he would not resign, citing the upcoming revenue results announcement.
According to sources, Moyane intended using the results announcement to show his success as commissioner despite the tough economic climate.
Pressure has been building for Moyane to quit. |
Kildare apartment plan goes straight to Bord Pleanala | A property company has lodged a planning application with Bord Pleanala for one hundred and thirty eight apartments and a retail and creche development at Mill Street in Maynooth.
The application was lodged on September 18 and signed off on September 29.
It is one of the new applications whereby housing developments comprising over a 100 units can be sent straight to Bord Pleanala rather than have to go to the local authority, in this case Kildare County Council.
The proposal comes from the Ladas Property Company Unlimited, owned by the Comer brothers, Barry, Luke and Brian, registered at Leixlip.
Under the Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act, the proposers of this Strategic Housing Development, must have an initial consultation with the local authority. Then a tripartite discussion, between the Board, Council and the developer takes place. The legislation allows sixteen weeks for Bord Pleanala to make its decision. Fines can be imposed if a decision is late.
The public can make submissions or object to Bord Pleanala.
No appeal will be allowed but it will be open to anyone objecting to seek a judicial review in the High Court. |
British PM Theresa May calls for snap election in June | Prime Minister Theresa May has called for an early general election for June 8 to seek a strong mandate as she negotiates Britain’s exit from the European Union.
In a shock announcement Tuesday, May said she would ask the House of Commons on Wednesday to back her election call.
She said that since Britons voted to leave the EU in June, the country had come together, but politicians had not.
She said the divisions risk undermining Britain’s position in Brexit negotiations that lie ahead.
Under Britain’s Fixed-Term Parliaments Act, the prime minister can call an election if two-thirds of lawmakers vote for it. The leader of the main opposition Labour Party has previously said he would back such a call. |
Misty Morning with PM Spotty Showers - WFMJ.com News weather sports for Youngstown-Warren Ohio | After a foggy start with some drizzle/mist, spotty showers are likely this afternoon and into the early evening.
Clouds will win today and temperatures will warm to the lower 70s. This weekend will bring sun-filled afternoons with rain overnight both Saturday and Sunday nights. The wettest day will be Monday with remnants of Nate and that threat for showers will stick around through the mid-week.
Temperatures will closer to average by the end of next week. |
New York's Chris Collins says he will now carry a gun | A Republican congressman has said he will carry a gun whenever he's 'out and about' after a man critically wounded Majority Whip Steve Scalise in a shooting yesterday.
New York's Rep. Chris Collins, a strong backer of President Trump, said carrying a gun is not normal for him - but the attack in Alexandria, VA has forced him to change his mind.
Anti-Trump activist James T. Hodgkinson, 66, wounded Scalise and shot several others before he was killed by police who were guarding him at a baseball practice.
Speaking to WKBW, Collins said: 'You look at the vulnerability - I can assure you from this day forward, I have a carry permit, I will be carrying when I'm out and about.
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Rep. Chris Collins (pictured) said he will be carrying 'when I'm out and about' from now on
'On a rare occasion I'd have my gun in the glove box or something, but it's going to be in my pocket from this day forward'.
He added: 'It's got all the punch you need.'
Collins also said he would be requesting an armed police officer at all events, including small ones.
Meanwhile Georgia Rep. Barry Loudermilk, who was present at the shooting, said if the attack had happened in his home state, the shooter 'wouldn't have gotten too far'.
James T. Hodgkinson (pictured right campaigning against Republicans in 2012) was a hateful Trump opponent who threatened to 'destroy' the president on social media before attacking a GOP baseball practice on Wednesday
There should be 'some kind of reciprocity' in DC for members from states with more relaxed gun laws, Rep. Barry Loudermilk (pictured) said
'I had a staff member who was in his car maybe 20 yards behind the shooter, who was pinned in his car, who back in Georgia carries a 9-millimeter in his car,' Loudermilk said, according to The Washington Post.
The congressman went on to suggest that DC's gun laws discourage representatives and their staff from carrying guns, adding that Congress should work on 'some kind of reciprocity' for those who have the right to carry in their home state.
In the hours after the attack, a picture began to emerge of a shooter with a mostly minor arrest record who worked as a home inspector and despised the Republican Party.
On Facebook, Hodgkinson was a member of a group called 'Terminate the Republican Party,' a fact that seemed to take on chilling new meaning in light of an account from South Carolina Rep. Jeff Duncan.
Slept here: Hodgkinson slept in the back of his Ford E-series van, which had curtains down the side and blinds at the rear. FBI agents removed a sign suggesting the president was 'chicken in chief' on Wednesday afternoon
He said he was preparing to leave the baseball field when a man politely asked him whether it was a Democratic or Republican team before quietly walking off.
Until recently, Hodgkinson ran a home-inspection business out of his house in southern Illinois.
His Facebook page shows that he was a fan of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who last year made an unsuccessful bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Sanders acknowledged Wednesday that Hodgkinson had apparently been among many volunteers on his 2016 campaign. |
The night that Nottingham Forest were in seventh heaven at Leeds United | Get Daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email
To some, it won’t seem like five minutes, to others, it’ll feel like a lifetime.
Six years ago, Nottingham Forest registered one of their most memorable results of recent times and it came in the back yard of one of their great adversaries.
Described as an ‘unbelievable game’ by then boss Steve Cotterill, while Whites chief Neil Warnock said he felt ‘embarrassed’ after Garath McCleary netted four times at Elland Road to stun Leeds United.
The story of the game…
McCleary’s four came in Forest’s remarkable 7-3 win in west Yorkshire which also saw a fierce strike from Adlene Guedioura which thundered off the top of Andy Lonergan’s bar an into the net.
Little did we know about what was to follow when Robert Snodgrass had fired Leeds in front after just six minutes from the penalty spot after on-loan Guedioura had been penalised for a foul on Ross McCormack inside the box.
(Image: Dan Westwell)
It’s fair to say he made amends just two minutes later, rifling in from 35-yards to level it up and the game looked like it would meander through to a very different conclusion.
That was until Garath McCleary, the winger signed from Bromley took control of affairs to put his side in front, after Guedioura had played him in two minutes into added time at the end of the first period.
A crazy second half…
Cotterill’s team talk clearly did the trick because it was they who came out for the second period all guns blazing; Dexter Blackstock heading home Andy Reid’s teasing cross seven minutes in to make it 3-1.
Despite being booed off at the break, Warnock’s Leeds were back in it at 2-3 when Luciano Becchio poked in Snodgrass’ cross and as the game continued to wow the 21,000 in attendance at Elland Road, five goals hit the net in a crazy 10 minute spell.
(Image: Dan Westwell)
They were level two minutes after that when Michael Brown, so often the scourge of Forest over the years found Lee Camp’s bottom corner to make it 3-3.
Reid then found McCleary who netted his hat-trick and Forest’s fourth after 58 minutes, though there was then a goal drought for a whole 11 minutes until McCleary added a fourth with 19 minutes remaining, before Blackstock rounded off the evening on 81 to net the Reds’ seventh.
It was a night that left everyone speechless.
What they said…
"It was a stunning game, I know we've won but Leeds United played their part as well. Our chances went in, but they played their part,” said Cotterill.
"I thought it was an outstanding game by both teams. We're very pleased with the three points more than anything else, but to play in the manner we've played, we've done that a lot this season and ended up losing 1-0 so maybe it's evened out a little bit."
(Image: Dan Westwell)
While Neil Warnock was left flabbergasted after witnessing the capitulation of his side on home turf.
“I'm quite embarrassed about the result,” he admitted.
"But I don't think you learn much about your players when you're winning games, I think you learn things when things go against you, who stands up and who you want in the trenches with you.”
How was it reported?
Here's the goals courtesy of BBC East Midlands Today broadcast the following evening...
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Who played that night?
Camp, Gunter, Chambers ©, Lynch, Cunningham, McCleary, Moussi, Guedioura, Reid, Blackstock, Majewski. Subs: Smith (GK), Wooton, Miller, McGugan, Greening.
Where are the key players now?
Lee Camp is at Cardiff along with Neil Warnock, though he's now on loan with Sunderland, while Garath McCleary and teammate Chris Gunter are both at Championship strugglers Reading.
Boss Steve Cotterill has recently been sacked by Birmingham City, Andy Reid has retired and Dexter Blackstock is without a club after his release by Rotherham in July.
(Image: Dan Westwell)
Of the squad from Elland Road on that Tuesday night, only Adlene Guedioura remains at the club having returned to the City Ground in January, though Gut Moussi did play in an Under-23 game last season in a bid to help himself find a new club.
For Leeds, after a spell at Forest last term, Ross McCormack is now playing in Australia with Melbourne City, Becchio is assistant manager at Spanish outfit Atletico Baleares and Robert Snodgrass is still causing the Reds problems, this time for Aston Villa while on loan from West Ham. |
Intel CEO is third to exit Trump's manufacturing council after Charlottesville | Brian Krzanich, the CEO of Intel, is leaving President Trump’s manufacturing council, becoming the third high-profile executive to leave the council in an apparent protest over the administration’s response to the deadly Charlottesville violence.
Krzanich made the announcement Monday in an Intel blog post. He said his intention is to "call attention to the serious harm our divided political climate is causing to critical issues, including the serious need to address the decline of American manufacturing. Politics and political agendas have sidelined the important mission of rebuilding America’s manufacturing base.”
Trump has faced criticism over his early response to the violent protests last weekend in Charlottesville, Va. Trump on Monday specifically condemned “white supremacists” and “neo-Nazis” in the wake of deadly weekend clashes in Charlottesville, vowing “justice will be delivered” to the perpetrators of that "racist violence."
The forceful words used Monday were different from his comments made Saturday, when he condemned violence and hatred on “many sides.”
Krzanich’s announcement came after Merck’s CEO Kenneth Frazier and Under Armour’s Kevin Plank also announced that they were leaving the council.
“America’s leaders must honor our fundamental values by clearly rejecting expressions of hatred, bigotry and group supremacy, which run counter to the American ideal that all people are created equal,” Frazier said.
Trump fired back at Frazier shortly afterward on Twitter.
“Now that Ken Frazier of Merck Pharma has resigned from President's Manufacturing Council, he will have more time to LOWER RIPOFF DRUG PRICES!” he wrote.
Frazier did not specifically mention Trump’s statements about the deadly Charlottesville, Va., clashes but said he is taking a stand against intolerance as a “matter of personal conscience.”
Republican lawmakers joined Democrats in saying Trump should call out white supremacists directly.
“My request—my plea—to everyone involved in our political system is this: set scoring political points aside and focus on what is best for the nation as a whole. The current environment must change, or else our nation will become a shadow of what it once was and what it still can and should be,” Krzanich said. |
250 Million Children Don’t Know How to Read. Here’s What Tanyella Evans Is Doing About It | Five years ago, while working with an organization building the Academy for Peace and Justice, the first free high school in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tanyella Evans had an idea.
After noticing a lack of basic reading material in Haitian schools, she came up with a seemingly simple way to make books more accessible for the millions of children struggling to learn how to read and write across the globe. To get her idea off the ground, she created a Kickstarter campaign, raising about $110,000. The funds were used to found Library For All, a "tech-startup"-like digital platform that makes early-grade reading material much more readily available in developing countries.
“The biggest thing for me was getting emails from schools and organizations all around the world saying, ‘If you build this, we'll use it,’” Evans tells InStyle. “That's when I knew we were really on to something with this idea of creating a [literary] network that was going to be available to everyone.”
As of last Thursday, 31-year-old Evans is still expanding her nonprofit (with help from like-minded entrepreneurs Taniya Benedict and Isabel Sheinman), transforming Library for All into a publishing hub called NABU.org where books will not only be distributed, but also written and translated. “I think charity is changing,” Evans says. “Young people don't see barriers between nations and people. And NABU.org, for me, represents the power of us, working together towards a world without exploitation that includes our communities in Rwanda and Haiti just as much as our community here in New York.”
Global perspective: Evans has been involved in nonprofit work since she was 17, when she volunteered as a teacher in Uganda. “I did that for a year, and realized that we put up these barriers between people who come from different places, or look different from us, or sound different, but we're really all the same,” she says. The young change-maker turned her curiosity toward the root of poverty and made it her mission to do something about it. “I wanted to understand why poverty exists, and what the systems are that keep people poor,” she says.
Evans then applied to the University of Cambridge to study the politics and the economics of international development. "There I learned that that poverty doesn't exists because of some kind of natural state, or a natural inferiority of any person, or a superiority of any nation over another,” Evans says. “Poverty exists because there is an exploitive system that keeps people from being able to lift themselves out of poverty and that’s what I want to change."
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Model progress: The original Library For All platform operates with two different models, one for mobile use and another for schools. The mobile model is accessible to anyone who has a smart phone in Haiti, Rwanda, or the Democratic Republic of the Congo, so far. Users simply go to the GooglePlay store, download the app, and download a book for reading offline. The other “hub” model works with a server that students can connect to while at school. Administrations purchase a set of 30 low-cost tablets and share them with students. Now that NABU.org has upgraded to a publishing network, it's become a place where writers, illustrators, students, and teachers can come together to search, read, and publish materials too.
NABU.org’s origin: “We’re evolving into publishing because, as we were trying to bring together books for children at the early-grade reading level, we saw that there wasn’t enough content available, especially in local languages like Creole or Kinyarwanda,” Evans explains. Last year, Library For All hosted a writer's workshop in Haiti, where they successfully facilitated the creation of more than 200 books in Haitian Creole within a few months.
NABU.org hopes to build on that success, worldwide. For Evans, all roads lead back to her initial dream of eradicating poverty. “For me, it’s not just about providing digital books anymore,” Evans says adding that she sees NABU.org as a way to build a literate world in a broad sense, giving people the tools to fulfill their potential.
NABU.org's own name reflects its greater purpose. The word “NABU” is in reference to a god of writing or scribe symbolizing wisdom and the power of literacy for Evans and her NABU.org co-founders. “Think about our current political landscape—the apathy, alienation, isolation, ripping children from their mother's arms at the border, kicking out refugees—I don’t think that would be happen if we had a real understanding of people who don't necessarily look like us,” Evans says. “I think that understanding comes from being exposed to different cultures early on [through literacy]. And of course, I have world-domination plans: to be the largest provider of digital books in local languages across the world, providing content for communities that are often disenfranchised by traditional publishing.”
Female-focus: While interning with the Campaign for Female Education in the UK, Evans met founder Ann Cotton. “She was one of the pioneers of women and girls' education before it was even sexy,” Evans says, fondly reflecting on her time in the UK learning from Cotton. “She went against everything that was expected of her and really inspired me to think bigger about the impact that I can have on the world.”
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Overcoming obstacles: “Personally, I think that being an entrepreneur can be an isolating journey,” Evans says when asked about challenges she faced early on with Library For All. “I think that sometimes it's hard to find people who want to mentor an early-stage entrepreneur, probably because a lot of ventures fail and people give up on things like that.”
Specifically, Evans remembers dealing with the potential loss of about $90,000 in funding when the Trump administration announced cuts to the foreign aid budget. But Evans soldiers on, basing her drive on the words “finish what you begin,” which came to her in a dream shortly after she started her organization.
Up next: Travel. Evans is headed to Rwanda in a couple weeks to launch NABU.org’s first writer's workshop there in effort to bring more local-language books to the area.
Social growth: Running an organization that’s grown like wildfire since its inception poses a unique challenge, like how to brand a new org on social media. Figuring that out can be a life-altering learning curve. “I used to be really skeptical about [branding],” Evans says. “I thought, "Why do we need to invest in our brand or communications? What does it really matter?" But I've learned that a brand is just the artistic projection of your core values.”
Evans adds that NABU.org's core values are to be egalitarian and omnipresent. "At the end of the day, it’s 2018 and 250 million children don't know how to read. There’s no reason for that.” Enter: NABU.org, which promises to be a place where people can "'read to rise,’ Evans says. "Whether they want to publish content, read content, or fund more people getting access to books." |
Victorian government to launch fintech hub | The Victorian government has announced plans to establish a fintech hub in Melbourne's inner-west, aiming to attract investment and position itself as the fintech capital of the country.
In a statement, Victoria's Minister for Small Business, Innovation and Trade Philip Dalidakis said the hub will strengthen the local fintech sector by bringing startups together with investors, industry corporates, and researchers in one concentrated and "collaborative" workspace.
The state government has released a request for proposal to establish the fintech hub at the Goods Shed North in Docklands, however Dalidakis already has big plans for the hub, which includes the introduction of targeted mentoring services to help resident startups develop new business skills, connect with customers, and bring new products and services to market.
Dalidakis expects the hub will also build stronger links with international fintech companies.
The Goods Shed is also home to Data61's Cyber Security and Innovation Hub. Opened in October, the cyber hub houses PhD students, cyber arms of other organisations, and includes the presence of eight universities and private sector partners.
The hub will also house several other organisations including a collaboration with Oxford University's Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre (GCSCC) and Victoria's new Oceania Cyber Security Centre (OCSC).
It was announced in late 2015 that Melbourne would be receiving the first international office of Oxford University's GCSCC, which will carry out audits of national cybersecurity risks and capabilities to help countries to plan investments and strategies to improve their digital security.
At the time, Dalidakis said establishing an office in Victoria cemented the state's reputation as a hub for cybersecurity, with the National Broadband Network's (NBN) announcing it too was bringing its National Operations Centre to Melbourne.
The Victorian government has focused of late on ushering tech talent into Melbourne, with the state's LaunchVic program handing out AU$6.5 million to universities, startups, incubators, and projects to "drive new ideas" and create jobs in the state last August.
Silicon Valley startup accelerator and venture capital firm 500 Startups announced in March it would be setting up shop in Melbourne after securing a grant from the LaunchVic startup fund.
At the time, the government said that the new location, 500 Melbourne, will support at least 40 startups over the next two years, providing them access to its global network of businesses, mentors, and venture capitalists.
LaunchVic was established in November and will be given AU$60 million over four years to invest in core infrastructure, improve access to capital for local startups, advocate on Commonwealth legislation and regulation, as well as engage in startup events, campaigns, competitions, and mentoring programs.
The LaunchVic funding comes from the AU$508 million Premier's Jobs and Investment Fund.
"We want Victoria to be the location of choice for startups across the Asia-Pacific region and LaunchVic is making it happen. These projects will help young companies and ideas develop to create jobs and industries that will support Victoria for decades to come," Dalidakis said previously.
"Victoria is leading the country in startup and small business growth, with around 8,000 new businesses created in the last year alone, and we need to ensure the right support is in place to help them thrive."
Also on Thursday, Fintech Australia, a not-for-profit body focused on fintech development in the country, announced Melbourne would be getting its first fintech-focused festival, Intersekt, sponsored by the Victorian government.
Previously, Fintech Australia called for more co-working spaces dedicated to finance technology, with a report [PDF] sponsored by EY highlighting the economic benefit in providing a space for "collaboration".
"The environment has to foster and enhance collaboration and create opportunities for a 'collision of ideas'. Hubs, accelerators, and meetups are all part of supporting this vibrant environment," EY Global & UK Fintech Leader Imran Gulamhuseinwala said in the EY FinTech Australia Census 2016.
On Wednesday, the Australian Securities and Investment Commission signed an agreement with the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission to provide mutual support to fintech businesses from Australia and Hong Kong seeking to operate in each other's markets. |
Forest fire smoke prompts special air quality statement for Edmonton | A special air quality statement from Environment Canada is in effect Monday morning for the City of Edmonton and surrounding areas of St. Albert and Sherwood Park.
The increased smoke over central and southern Alberta from the British Columbia forest fires will result in poor air quality and reduced vision, the statement says.
Most of the smoke is expected to clear late Monday morning.
The Air Quality Health Index measured by Environment Canada is currently high risk in Edmonton sitting at seven. The index peaked at 10:00 p.m. Sunday night when the index value reached the maximum of 10+ and very high risk. It is expected to drop to a low risk of two in Edmonton by Monday night and remain at that level through Tuesday.
Environment Canada warns that wearing a mask is not the best way to protect your health during a smoke event and may even make breathing more difficult.
The increased smoke in the area may cause symptoms such as increased coughing, throat irritation, headaches or shortness of breath, the statement says. Children, seniors and people with cardiovascular or lung disease, such as asthma, are especially at risk and should take extra precaution.
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Metro Detroit Students Win $35,000 in Taco Bell Scholarships | METRO DETROIT — Taco Bell just announced that it was awarding $3 million in Live Más Scholarships to 300 students, and four of them are from the Detroit area. They collectively won $35,000, and were chosen out of the 8,000 young people who applied to this year’s scholarship.
Here’s a look at the winners:
Robin Ryce from Detroit (won $10,000)
Robin hopes to use her passion for engineering to improve society through innovation. She also hopes to inspire more women and minorities to go into the field of engineering. Robin is a freshman in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. Check out Robin’s application video here.
Jenna Battani from Macomb (won $10,000)
Being immersed in the deaf community her whole life, Jenna hopes to use her passion for sign language to provide increased access to interpreters in hospitals. She will pursue a degree in American Sign Language Interpreting at Rochester Institute of Technology. Check out Jenna’s application video here.
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More than 200 killed in Sierra Leone mudslides | At least 205 people have been killed and more than 600 reported missing following mudslides in Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown. CNN's Farai Sevenzo reports. |
Truth getting hazy in the dawn of 2017 | Welcome to 2017. Already it’s better than last year simply because it’s not 2016, even if some of you are probably still a little fragile this morning.
I certainly hope none of your mouths feel now as though they were used during the night by a small creature as a latrine, and then as its mausoleum, to quote Kingsley Amis on hangovers.
Even if you are suffering, I feel I should warn you that the coming year will see the notion of a post-truth age absorb the sporting scene in much the same way it has absorbed the political world. The post-truth age - or falsehood, to be boringly technical about it - is the result of absorption in the ghastly solipsism of social media, the associated rise of the likes of Nigel Farage and Donald Trump, and the blasé dismissal of notions of truth and honesty in the general will to plunder.
We have been here before, of course. If you can recall your Lewis Carroll, you may remember the words of one of his central characters: “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”
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Enough, I hear you cry weakly from behind your intravenous Lucozades, your glistening rasher mountains. I came here for some smart alec comments about the O’Donovan brothers on Graham Norton or something.
Why are you getting all philosophical on me at my moment of weakness?
It’s for your own good, and to put you on notice. In keeping with the modern age where being precise and accurate is for, well, losers, I intend to make up my own sports news to suit myself, to get rid of all that tiresome mainstream-media insistence on facts.
Thus it suits me to announce here that Joe Schmidt will not in fact see out his contract with the IRFU but is instead to become one third of a teen idol tribute act/wholesale meat vendors, Justin Beef Or, along with Brendan Ogle and Mattress Mick.
If you seek to disagree with me then I intend to adopt the strategy favoured by Donald Trump and advise you all to get on with your lives.
Adopting a post-truth approach is also helpful to me retrospectively, by the way. I need only contradict what appear to you to be incontrovertible facts such as the results of last year’s All-Ireland finals by simply quoting the great orange himself: “The whole age of the computer has made it where nobody knows what’s going on.”
(This has disturbing echoes for me of a time long past in Seanad Éireann, when a member of the Upper House blamed the detachment of the financial institutions from the common people on ‘smart boys from the university’ who were used to ‘the big computer’. The same man helped to make laws we all abide by in this country for many years.)
On a serious note, establishing what is true and what is not is as tricky as it ever was, but it is not trickier.
It’s necessary to be healthily sceptical about where you get your facts, but online aggregators and laddish crudity-generators don’t blur the truth. They hide it. Those are the virtual representations of the pub stool. If you are unclear about what’s at stake, go back to your Lewis Carroll.
“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master — that’s all.”
Not as sexy as retweeting a video or calling someone a legend online. True, though.
The secret of longevity at the sporting summit...
Terence Newman plays cornerback for the Minnesota Vikings in the NFL. I wasn’t aware of him until I came across a piece in the New York Times about the fact that he’s 38 but still playing in a demanding, high-speed position.
As ever, the granular detail was fascinating. Newman drinks one cup of black tea per day, his only caffeine, and over the years he’s picked up on nuances in his opponents’ body language. If a receiver keeps his hands on his knees then Newman realises the other side are going to run the ball. Certain routes don’t need to be covered if the receiver opposite him takes a position with his outside foot up rather than his inside foot.
Newman enjoys his Thursday night dinner, which is a teriyaki chicken bowl (sauce on the side), with shrimp tempura and avocado topped with yellowfin tuna and sauce. And a glass of red wine.
What caught my eye, though, was “. . . those who know Newman well credit his longevity in part to his having never been married.”
A lot of intercounty GAA players are NFL fans. Just saying.
Cork clash backs cause worthy of your support
You’re probably keen to see a game after the Christmas. Am I right?
Why don’t you go to the Mardyke this Friday night, then? Cork take on UCC for the Canon O’Brien Cup, and you’ll see plenty of quality on offer.
There’s also a chance to make a difference.
There’s no charge into the game, but you can make a donation to a charity at the gate. This year it’s the Cara Junior School for children with autism in Mayfield. Its playground was vandalised last summer, you may remember, and the school authorities are trying to raise funds to replace the facilities which were destroyed.
Throw-in this Friday is at 6pm.
Bring your wallet. You know the cause is a good one.
You got to have faith
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is — Noel Coward told us that decades ago, and it’s still true.
Among the great names we lost in music last year, David Bowie’s great albums were too early for your columnist, and Prince’s single ‘Little Red Corvette’ was a distant rumour pre-MTV, but George Michael was always a star.
I remember BP Fallon and somebody else saying on radio when ‘Careless Whisper’ was released that Michael could become the Matt Monroe of his generation. He did, and more.
Since he passed away extraordinary stories of Michael’s generosity have been told — to ordinary people, to the striking miners of the 80s, to the nurses who looked after his mother.
You can’t make your heart feel something it won’t, indeed. Rest easy. |
This Young Child Star Has People Calling Him The Next Michael Jackson | Usually, people don’t pay too much attention to time-out performances during basketball games, but JD McCrary may have changed that narrative.
The young actor, and the voice of young Simba in the Lion King movie, blew LA Clippers audience away with his rendition of the Jackson 5‘s classic, “Who’s Loving You” in a game of Finish The Lyrics.
If you thought that was dope, hit the flip to see JD master the vocals that is New Edition’s “Can You Stand The Rain”.
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BRIEF-Fitch affirms Switzerland at 'AAA' | March 31 Fitch on Switzerland
* Fitch affirms Switzerland at 'AAA'; outlook stable
* Fitch on Switzerland says "believe Switzerland will maintain a strong relationship with EU"
* Fitch says Switzerland's 'AAA' rating reflects its track record of prudent economic and fiscal policies, a diversified and wealthy economy
* Fitch on Switzerland says general government gross debt is low, forecast at 33 pct of GDP as per Maastricht definition at end-2017
* Fitch says forecasts Switzerland's economy will grow by 1.4 pct in 2017 before accelerating slightly in 2018 to 1.6 pct.
* Fitch on Switzerland - expect current account to remain in surplus at 10.7 pct of GDP on average over 2017-2018 on back of strong performance of Swiss exports Source text for Eikon: |
If Macron makes it to the final two then surely he’s the next President of France | Latest Macron-Le Pen polling
Latest Macron-Fillon polling
Latest Macron-Melenchon polling
The above tables from the excellent Wikipedia round up of French polls tell a consistent story – whoever of those closest on the first round ends up fighting Macron then the young independent looks set to be the winner.
Melenchon is the only one of the serious contenders who consistently gets into the 40s in hypothetical match-ups against Macron. Fillon fares worst with Le Pen in the middle.
The big question is whether Macron’s performance in the first round on Sunday can match his polling.
Because he does not come from one of the traditional parties he cannot rely on a well-honed party machine to get the vote out – something that could be crucial.
Last time the turnout levels were very similar in both rounds.
Macron is still the favourite but he’s no longer the 65%+ chance that he was a month ago.
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India’s drug regulator expects to finalize new clinical trial rules in two months | MUMBAI (Reuters) - India’s drug regulator plans to finalize new rules for clinical trials in a couple of months that would shorten the review time, a senior official said on Wednesday, aiming to boost clinical research in the country after interest in recent years waned.
The country’s 1.2 billion people and large burden of diseases make for an attractive patient pool for global pharmaceutical companies looking to test new drugs, but stringent rules in the last few years have caused some companies to move their research work to other countries.
New rules drafted by India’s Central Drug Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) aim to change that, reducing the approval time for review of applications to between 30 and 60 days, Ranga Chandrashekhar, a deputy drugs controller at the CDSCO said on the sidelines of a pharmaceutical conference in Mumbai.
“We have already received comment from stakeholders on our draft, and it should be finalised in about two months,” Chandrashekhar said.
The draft here%20CT%20Rules%20sent%20for%20Publication.pdf was uploaded on the agency’s website in February. If finalised, it would go to the country’s health ministry for approval before being published, he added.
The agency tightened rules for clinical research a few years ago after cases emerged of some patients being enrolled into trials without informed consent, and not being adequately compensated.
The new rules would let the ‘ethics committees’ – groups of medical experts – that oversee clinical trials decide on the level of compensation for patients who suffer adverse events, Chandrashekhar said.
Tougher compensation rules could turn the industry away from conducting trials at a time when companies have been gradually looking back to India for clinical work, warned D.G. Shah, secretary general of the Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance, which represents large Indian drugmakers.
“There has been some revival (of clinical research) based on some assurances given by the government and simplifications (of rules),” Shah said. But if compensation rules are adopted as mentioned in the draft released by the CDSCO, companies “will run away from here,” he said.
“This is not conducive to doing innovation and research in India,” Shah said.
As part of overhauling drug regulations in the country, the CDSCO is also planning to bring in new rules for the sale of over-the-counter drugs, and e-pharmacies in the coming months, Chandrashekhar said. |
Agent: Rangers did not pay defender a wage for a year | GETTY Frank de Boer was reportedly not paid a wage when he played for Rangers
Frank de Boer joined Rangers in 2004 for a brief spell, linking up with his twin brother Ronald at the club. The former defender made 15 league appearances for the Gers before moving to Qatar where he finished his career with Al-Shamal. The Dutchman is now being linked with a return to Ibrox to fill the vacant manger's position after Mark Warburton's departure last week.
And De Boer's agent Guido Albers has since revealed money will not factor in his decision to join Rangers, claiming he previously played for the club for free. "When he played for Rangers, and you can ask David Murray about this, he didn't get any salary," Albers told The Herald. "He was playing for nothing, because he was just pleased that Rangers were going to let him play. |
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Soldier who defied Nazis nominated for Congressional medal | 1:01 Rescued gulls are released at Tacoma Tideflats Pause
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Norway PM says temporary British EEA membership would be a challenge | The potential for temporary British membership of the European Economic Area after it leaves the European Union would be both challenging and costly to handle, Norway's Prime Minister Erna Solberg told Reuters on Monday.
ARENDAL, Norway: The potential for temporary British membership of the European Economic Area after it leaves the European Union would be both challenging and costly to handle, Norway's Prime Minister Erna Solberg told Reuters on Monday.
"There would be a cost they would have to share, and an authority outside their border that could impose binding decisions on them, which is not entirely in line with what they've said they want ... But we're prepared for various scenarios," Solberg said on the sidelines of a news conference.
(Reporting by Joachim Dagenborg, writing by Terje Solsvik, editing by Gwladys Fouche) |
With promise of job, 19-year-old woman lured by couple and gang-raped by 3 men in MP | Four men allegedly raped a 19-year-old woman, who was lured on the pretext of being provided a job, in a forest in Dewas, Madhta Pradesh, police said on Wednesday.
A man and a woman were arrested for allegedly calling the victim to Dewas on the promise of a job, Kotwali police station in-charge MS Parmar said.
The victim, who hails from Khargone district, reached Dewas on Monday around 9:30 pm and called the accused woman who sent Manoj alias Sunny Gurjar to pick her up, Parmar said.
However, Gurjar drove the victim, on his motorcycle, to a deserted place outside the city where three men joined him, he added.
The four accused tied the victim to a tree and allegedly raped her. On seeing flashlights of a vehicle in the area, the accused fled the spot leaving the victim there.
The victim somehow managed to untie herself, sought help from passersby and reached the police station. She then filed a complaint against the accused, Parmar said
The police filed an FIR on Tuesday against the four men and the woman under relevant IPC sections.
Gurjar and Shruti alias Rashmi were subsequently arrested while a search was on for the other three accused.
A resident of Indore, Rashmir lives with Gurjar. However, her family registered a missing person complaint in Indore after she went missing a year ago. |
'Papa Yu' Brings Poké & Desserts To Memorial | A new spot offering poke and desserts has made its debut in the neighborhood. Called Papa Yu , the newcomer is located at 1037 Blalock Rd. in Memorial.This new spot--located in the Blalock Market Shopping Center--features customizable poke bowls, sushi burritos and Hong Kong-inspired desserts.Similar to most poke spots, diners start by choosing a base of salad or white or brown rice. Next, they can select proteins, including options like ahi tuna, salmon, unagi (freshwater eel) or organic tofu.To round the dish out, customers can choose additional toppings that include avocado, sweet corn and jellyfish salad. Finally, finish it off with a signature sauce such as spicy mayo, ponzu or honey wasabi.For desserts, expect to see offerings like snow lotus soup, red bean glutinous soup or Hong Kong waffle cakes.With a five-star rating out of four reviews on Yelp so far, the new sushi bar is on its way to developing a local fan base.Debbie L., who was among the first Yelpers to review the new spot on February 23rd, said: "Clean little restaurant with friendly and quick service and fresh veggies and sashimi to put into either a bowl or a salad or a burrito!"Yelper Garrett B. added : "Friendly place that has a different take on sushi. Free miso soup also. Spicy salmon is great, and the presentation is good."And Joseph D. said : "So excited to have poke near work! So, so wonderful and yummy. Check out my three protein (tuna, unagi and shrimp tempura) bowl, now on brown rice! Love it. And try their grapefruit Yakult drink. Yummy!"Intrigued? Stop in to try it for yourself. Papa Yu is open daily from 10:30am-9pm. |
Cleveland police plan to recruit more women, minorities | CLEVELAND >> The Cleveland Police Department plans to hire more women and people of color to better reflect the city’s demographics.
Cleveland.com reports the recruitment plan draft released Tuesday calls for the department to hire 75 women and 75 minorities by the end of next year.
Women make up 15 percent of the department, while African Americans account for 22 percent of the ranks.
Just over half of Cleveland’s overall population is black, and women account for half of all residents.
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Cleveland has to make a recruitment plan under an agreement it reached with the U.S. Justice Department.
The police department’s recruitment team is using radio ads and community newspapers. New hiring strategies include ads featuring female Cleveland police officers and partnerships with organizations like the NAACP and Urban League. |
California wildfires have destroyed area larger than NYC and Boston combined | A spate of California wildfires has destroyed an area larger than New York City and Boston — combined. And there’s no end in sight.
Ferocious Santa Ana winds are literally adding fuel to the fires, one week after the colossal Thomas Fire started.
Here are the staggering numbers behind the blazes:
230,000 acres
That’s the size of the Thomas fire, the largest fire ripping across Southern California. It started in Ventura County and is now moving across Santa Barbara County.
At more than 230,000 acres, the Thomas Fire is now the fifth largest blaze in modern California history. It’s torched an area larger than all of New York City.
$34 million
That’s how much money has already been spent fighting the Thomas Fire, according to the Ventura County. And the cost is sure to grow, since the inferno was only 10% contained Sunday.
25,000 homes threatened
At least 25,000 homes are threatened by five wildfires, according to the fire protection agency CAL FIRE.
9,000 firefighters
As of Sunday, 5,773 firefighters were tackling the Thomas Fire alone.
The Nevada Department of Corrections and Nevada Division of Forestry — which run conservation camps — have sent six trained crews of minimum security inmates to help.
Thousands more firefighters– including some from Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, Utah and Washington state — were involved in fighting the other wildfires.
85,000 power outages
Santa Barbara County has suffered intermittent (but widespread) power outages due to the Thomas Fire. Southern California Edison said that outages and surges had left up to 85,000 customers without electricity.
296 index
Every day, Los Angeles firefighters receive a brush burning index report that indicates the fire danger. If it’s 162 or higher, that’s considered extreme. Late last week, it was 296 — a record.
98,000 evacuees
At least 98,000 residents have been evacuated in Southern California, according to CAL FIRE.
$10 billion
This year has been the costliest for wildfires in the United States. Damages have topped $10 billion in 2017 — and that was before the current spate of Southern California fires began. |
Throat singer, children's storyteller, among new Order of Canada recipients | As Canada enters a year marked by national birthday celebrations and the beginnings of an inquiry into the country's past, sordid treatment of its indigenous peoples, Nunavut-based throat singer Tanya Tagaq Gillis hopes her music will open minds and lead to change. So far, though, she's been confronted by some closed ones - people who send her hate mail over how her art form breaks from tradition.
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Analysts Weigh in on Office Depot Cmn (ODP) | Office Depot Cmn (NASDAQ:ODP) shares traded up 2.15% during most recent session. Wall Street analysts covering the stock are projecting that the stock will reach $4.25 within the next 52-weeks. The mean target projections are based on 6 opinions. Since analyst price targets calculations are subjective, there often can be wide range of targets from various analysts.
Having a look in a broader way analysts from brokerage firms on the street with an extensive view have high price target of Office Depot Cmn (NASDAQ:ODP) at $5 and with a conformist view have low price target of $3.1 while the stock’s latest closing price was $3.32. This is the consensus price target based on the analysts polled by Thomson Reuters’ First Call, the average is taken from the individual analysts which provided targets and are short term projections for the 12 months.
The ABR is the calculated average of the actual recommendations (strong buy, hold, sell etc.) made by the brokerage firms for the given stock. Currently shares of Office Depot Cmn (NASDAQ:ODP) have an average brokerage recommendation (ABR) of 3 number of Recs in ABR is 5 however the company’s industry rank by ABR is out of 265. Industries are ranked based on the average broker recommendation of each company belong to this industry. A low number means that brokers and analysts expect that the industry outperform the market.
Outperform is an analyst recommendation which means that a stock is expected to do slightly better than the market return. Outperform is also known as “moderate-buy” or “over-weight” or “accumulate”. Whereas Underperform can also be taken in with “moderate sell” or “under-weight” or “weak-hold”.
For Office Depot Cmn (NASDAQ:ODP) out of the analyst recommendations 1 analysts recommend stock a Buy, 0 rate the stock Outperform, 6 analysts recommend to Hold the stock, 1 rate Underperform and 1 analysts recommend the stock a Sell.
The Average True Range (ATR) is an indicator that measures volatility, it was developed by J. Welles Wilder. Typically, the Average True range (ATR) is based on 14 periods and can be calculated on an intra-day, daily, weekly or monthly basis. Because there must be a beginning, the first TR value is simply the High minus the Low, and the first 14-day ATR is the average of the daily TR values for the last 14 days. Office Depot Cmn (NASDAQ:ODP)’s ATR-14 is at 0.11, while its weekly volatility is at 3.64% and monthly volatility is at 3.33%. A stock experiencing a high level of volatility has a higher ATR, and a low volatility stock has a lower ATR. The ATR may be used by market technicians to enter and exit trades, and it is a useful tool to add to a trading system. It was created to allow traders to more accurately measure the daily volatility of an asset by using simple calculations. The indicator does not indicate the price direction, rather used primarily to measure volatility caused by gaps and limit up or down moves. The ATR is fairly simple to calculate and only needs historical price data.
RSI is an extremely popular momentum indicator, the Relative Strength Index (RSI) also developed by J. Welles Wilder, is a momentum oscillator that measures the speed and change of price movements. RSI value of Office Depot Cmn (NASDAQ:ODP) is 43.66. RSI oscillates between zero and 100. Traditionally, and according to Wilder, RSI is considered overbought when above 70 and oversold when below 30. Signals can also be generated by looking for divergences, failure swings, and centerline crossovers. RSI can also be used to identify the general trend. The default time frame for comparing up periods to down periods is 14, as in 14 trading days.
Shares of Office Depot Cmn (NASDAQ:ODP) has a market capitalization of $1.71 Billion and its number of outstanding shares are 516.12 Million. During previous trade 2.64 Million shares of Office Depot Cmn (NASDAQ:ODP) exchanged hands whereas on average almost 4.43 Million shares has been traded. |
South Africa: ANC Leadership Race - Just One Week Before the Show, Dlamini Zuma's Side Appears to Feel the Pressure | analysis
With just five days until the ANC's leadership conference kicks off, it is still impossible to predict an outcome. Not many at the beginning of the year anticipated it would be this close. That in it self is significant, but here we are. However, while making predictions in a race with this number of moving parts is somewhat foolish, signs are emerging that Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma's backers are feeling the pressure. It is also becoming clearer that with no deal currently on the table, the chances of high, fateful political drama this week, with big winners and even bigger losers, are growing by the day. By STEPHEN GROOTES.
On Sunday, once again the traditional newspaper headlines heralded bad news for the Dlamini Zuma camp. The liar and fraud Carl Niehaus was in the Sunday Times, amid claims he had said his mother had died and thus his inheritance would get him out of further financial trouble. The story contained the nugget that he even refused to comment on whether his own mother was alive or dead. There was also the claim that President Jacob Zuma had lambasted the leadership of the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal because they had not been able... |
US World Cup ratings down 42 percent without American team | A fan of Poland holds up a scarf as he watches a World Cup soccer match between Poland and Colombia at The Garden at Studio Square NYC in New York on Sunday, June 24, 2018. While the immigration debate occupies politicians and new policies have thrown thousands of families into disarray, the World Cup shows how much people from other countries help make up the fabric of New York. less |
DHS threatened with subpoena over Kaspersky documents | The chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee Chairman has threatened to subpoena the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for documents related to the federal government’s purge of products made by Kaspersky Lab, a Russian software vendor accused of aiding Moscow’s alleged cyber-espionage activities.
Rep. Lamar Smith, Texas Republican, wrote DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Thursday demanding a thorough update on the agency’s September directive banning Kaspersky products, including a congressional briefing on the government’s efforts to identify and remove Kaspersky software, as well as copies of previously requested related documents and communications.
Mr. Smith had asked DHS in December for materials related to its order banning Kaspersky products, Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 17-01, and last month the agency provided a “partial” response largely consisting of information outside the scope of his committee’s request, the congressman wrote.
DHS later told the Science committee that pending litigation prevented the agency from releasing additional documents involving its Kaspersky purge, but Mr. Smith said legal precedents suggest otherwise.
“Pending litigation is not a basis for declining to fully comply with the Dec. 5, 2017, request for documents and information. Courts have repeatedly affirmed congressional prerogatives to gain access to various types of documents — litigation sensitive and trade secrets — among others,” Mr. Smith wrote.
“If the department does not provide all of the requested material, the committee will consider use of the compulsory process to obtain the information,” the chairman added, suggesting the Science panel could subpoena DHS for its Kaspersky documents unless the agency complies with a Feb. 8 deadline.
Issued Sep. 13, the directive required federal offices to identify the presence of Kaspersky software on their systems and subsequently arrange for their complete removal within 90 days, citing national security concerns related to the company’s alleged ties Russian intelligence and other government agencies.
“As a matter of policy, we do not comment on congressional correspondence and will respond as appropriate,” DHS told The Washington Times.
Kaspersky has previously denied being in cahoots with Russia’s government or others. The company sued DHS in December over the ban, alleging it violated the company’s right to due process, and last month its attorneys asked a federal judge to grant a preliminary injunction halting the directive.
Reports published last year indicated that Russian spies exploited Kaspersky products to collect intelligence from the its users, including at least one instance in which state-sponsored hackers allegedly pilfered classified material from a National Security Agency employee’s home computer.
“The federal government must leverage all available resources to ensure that Kaspersky products have been completely removed from federal systems,” Mr. Smith said Thursday. “This includes identifying all actions needed to eliminate or mitigate the risk, even beyond the risk to federal systems.
“Given the serious nature of these concerns related to the Committee’s broader goal of uncovering all risks associated with Kaspersky, the Committee expects a full and complete response from the Department, including the requested briefing and production of the requested documents and communications, so that the committee can fulfill its oversight responsibility,” he said.
The Science panel has jurisdiction over the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which develops cybersecurity standards and guidelines for the federal government and recommendations for the private sector, Mr. Smith said. |
Bark! The Herald Angels Sing | A canine carol service is taking place today in Dublin.
Dogs of all sizes will be attending the annual event at Christ Church Cathedral this lunchtime.
The service is to celebrate the work Peata, the organisation that brings therapy dogs into care homes.
Dean of Christ Church Cathedral Dermot Dunne says the dogs are mostly well behaved, apart from when the choir sings one particular carol: |
WATCH: Pred’s Fan Drops the Cutest Positive Message | She loves her “pweds,” she knows the players names and she is nothing put positive.
Cutest NHL fan ever? |
Man seriously injured in car collision | A 60-year-old Turkish Cypriot man is in critical condition at Larnaca general hospital after the car he was driving collided with a vehicle driven by a 39-year-old on Sunday afternoon.
According to the police report the accident occurred at 4.30pm in Artemidos Avenue in Larnaca when the 60-year-old parked his car in a road side parking spot along the avenue. As he attempted to enter the road again, his vehicle collided with a car coming from behind driven by a 39-year-old man.
The 60-year-old and his wife, 56, who was also in the car, were trapped in their vehicle following the collision and had to be freed by the fire service.
Following the collision, the Turkish Cypriots’ car reportedly spiralled out of control and smashed through a road sign, traffic lights and a lamp post.
All three were transferred to the Larnaca hospital were the 60-year-old underwent surgery and was kept for further treatment due his critical condition. His wife’s and the 39-year-old’s condition is not serious.
An alcohol test given to the 39-year-old indicated he was almost three times over the limit, as the indication was 57microgrammes instead of the permitted limit of 22mg. |
‘Citrus’ Season 2 Release Date: ‘Citrus’ Anime Spoilers For Yuzu Based On The Yuri ‘Citrus’ Manga By Saburouta | The 'Citrus' manga has enough source material for 'Citrus' Season 2 and perhaps even a third season.
Will the Citrus Season 2 release date come quickly or will animation studio Passione put this anime Yuri on ice? After all, the Citrus anime adaptation left audiences wondering what will happen to step-sisters Yuzucchi Aihara and Mei Aihara. Will the relationship stay sweet or turn bitter like Yuzu’s name implies? Fortunately, while waiting for the second season, impatient fans can look to the Citrus manga for spoilers.
The Yuri Citrus manga first began serializing in Comic Yuri Hime back in 2012. Written and illustrated by mangaka Saburouta, the ongoing manga series apparently gets its name from the fact that the Yuzu fruit is a sour citric hybrid (the juice makes a vinaigrette or the Japanese ponzu dipping sauce).
The Citrus manga is currently up to Citrus Chapter 36, which Saburouta says will be released in Japan as part of Citrus Volume 9 on March 23, 2018. In recent years, a new volume has come out every four to six months, but Citrus Volume 10 has not yet been announced for 2018. The book volumes also come packaged with extra content chapters called Citrus+ and modified versions of those scenes ended up in the anime adaptation.
As of this article’s publishing, the Citrus English translation by Seven Seas Entertainment is up to Volume 7, which means that English-only readers can read ahead of the anime’s story. Citrus Volume 8 is scheduled to come out on September 11, 2018. The release date for the English translation of Citrus Volume 9 has not yet been announced.
The Japanese anime will be ending with Citrus Episode 12 on March 24, 2018. The Citrus English dub by Funimation is already streaming on their website. A Citrus OVA episode has not yet been announced.
Citrus Manga Compared To The Citrus Anime
Manga readers always love it when anime studios create a straight-forward anime adaptation of their favorite series. According to Manga Tokyo, Studio Passione was so committed to getting details right that they hired a “Gal Supervisor” named Rie Hiraoka. She’s described as an active gal who does not watch much anime herself. In Japan, a gyaru or gal is the name for a subculture focused on fashion-conscious teenagers, and Takayuki Nagatani of production company Infinite wanted to make sure they were portrayed correctly.
“For gals, I only ever had a stereotypical image in mind, so to give life to a real gal and to feed my interest in them I thought it would be necessary to have someone who knows things about gals. However, there is also the generation gap between previous gals and their current image,” Nagatani explained. “There were mostly men at the scenario meetings and we thought it would be a plus for the anime if we could show the right kind of gal, since there are so many differences between the generations and the types of gal, because even though we call them all ‘gal’, one gal is nothing like the other.”
The anime story matches the manga fairly closely. That’s not to say the anime matched the manga panel-by-panel. Nagatani said that “ideas and insights” from the Gal Supervisor allowed them “to put in scenes that are not in the manga.” So far, most of the changes have been relatively minor. The anime showed Yuzu gal-ing it up in Episode 1 while the manga opened at the school gates. The locations for some of the conversations were changed, and some extra character-building scenes were added.
Some events were shifted around. For example, the scene where Yuzu tried and failed to hide her smartphone in her cleavage came from the very first Citrus+ extra chapter, which was actually more humorous. In the anime, Mei confiscated the phone from Yuzu, but in the manga, professor Mineko announced to Class 1-A that she would confiscate forbidden items. Yuzu saw Harumi hide her own cellphone in her bosom, but when Yuzu tried to do the same, the phone clattered to the floor and was immediately confiscated.
In the anime, Mei’s teddy bear keychain, Anthoniko, was a gift from Mei’s father, Sho Aihara. Anthoniko originally belonged to Yuzu in the manga, and she accidentally tore the bear after dropping it. Mei finds the bear, tells Yuzu to wait, and poor Yuzu is distracted and hits a wall. Mei tries to repair the bear but is not good at sewing, so Yuzu fixes him instead. Yuzu feels touched by Mei’s attempt at helping and later decides to give her the bear as a gift.
Fortunately, the pacing of the anime adaptation did not rush through the available source material. The anime’s ending in Citrus Episode 12 lines up with the ending of Volume 4 of the manga. The title of Chapter 16 is “My Love Goes On And On,” which also happens to the be the anime episode’s title. That leaves 20 chapters for creating Citrus Season 2, not including side stories that could mainly into episodes. In fact, at the rate that author Saburouta creates new chapters, it’s possible there will be enough chapters for Citrus Season 3 by 2019, so it’s conceivable that a second season could be two hours or 24 episodes long.
A still from the ‘Citrus’ anime ED. Studio Passione / 'Citrus' Anime TV Still
Citrus Season 2 Release Date – Demand For Second Season Close To Yuri On Ice Popularity
As of this publishing, anime production company Passione has not announced anything official about the Citrus Season 2 release date on Netflix, although this article will be updated as soon as the anime sequel’s premiere is confirmed. However, there can be reasonable speculation about when, or if, the Citrus Season 2 premiere date may occur.
The anime is certainly popular enough to justify a second season. Besides trending on the Crunchyroll popular anime list, Google’s data indicates that searches for Citrus Season 2 are catching up with Yuri On Ice Season 2. Interest in the second season will spike around the time Citrus Episode 12 airs in Japan.
Assuming that this popularity leads to financial success, even then anime projects take years to develop. Most anime studios are booked out for projects years in advance, and studio Passione is no different. Besides the 2018 Citrus anime, Passione will be releasing High School DxD Season 4 and the slice-of-life comedy Hinako Note in the spring. Their next project that’s been announced publicly is Z/X Code Reunion, which is slated for an October 2019 release date. As such, the second season of the Citrus anime probably should not be expected until 2020 at the very earliest.
Citrus Season 2 Spoilers
The ending of Volume 4 of the Citrus manga has Yuzu finally jumping out and giving her confession to Mei. The story for the anime Citrus Season 2 will pick up in Chapter 17 when the two girls finally own up to their feelings and try to start dating.
Yuzu immediately runs into a hitch in this plan with her friend Harumi’s older sister, Mitsuko Taniguchi. The older woman is a graduate of Aihara Academy and also the first Student Council president. She’s very strict about maintaining rules and so when she hears that Yuzu is dying her hair blonde she takes an immediate disliking to the gyaru.
At the beginning of the next school year, Mitsuko decides to visit the Student Council, and Harumi warns Yuzu to change her hair quickly. But Yuzu has become well-known for her gyaru fashion and resists, especially when she starts having an adoring freshman fan named Nene Namora. Regardless, Yuzu ends up wearing a black wig that changes her appearance so much that her mom laughs and Mei doesn’t recognize her at first. At the same time, Yuzu’s fan Nene shows up for the first day of school with her own hair dyed blonde.
The resulting confrontation causes Misuko to challenge Yuzu to become the new Student Council president, which means that Yuzu will have to challenge Mei for the position. If Yuzu loses, then she and the new student will both be expelled. Mei surprises Yuzu by agreeing to the terms and Harumi wants Yuzu to give up and be a gyaru in disguise. Without spoiling the ending of this story arc, the remainder of Volume 5 is focused on resolving this conflict with a surprise twist.
Citrus Season 2 will then have Yuzu trying to figure out a plan for dating Mei. By researching love stories from magazines, TV shows, and manga, she creates a secret notebook called “Fall in Love With Mei and Live Happily Ever After Plan.” But after Yuzu asks Mei to go out on their first date, it’s revealed that Mei found and read the secret notebook. While Yuzu is mortified, the real problem is that Mei wants to follow the notebook’s plan to the letter like it’s a boring to-do list.
“This notebook is absolute,” Mei says at the beginning of their first date.
Yuzu messes up big-time in Volume 6. Saburouta / 'Citurs' Manga Chapter 21
This awkward date causes both to analyze their feelings. Yuzu also gets a job because she wants to save money to buy Mei a special gift for their one-year anniversary of knowing each other, but in doing so, she has to lie to Mei. Yuzu also has a run-in with older friends from her former town that painfully makes her realize that she has wanted love all this time, but now she’s found a love she can’t openly acknowledge in public.
“I did say that our relationship has nothing to do with anyone else,” Mei tells Yuzu. “However, that doesn’t mean I want to announce it to the world.”
Worse, Yuzu has not been studying for exams like she should because of the part-time job, so in Volume 7 she ends up in summer school instead of having a normal summer vacation. On her first day, she meets a third-year student named Suzuran Shiraho. This girl enjoys observing and analyzing people very closely — too closely. She became infatuated with Mei mainly because the Student Council president was the only person Shiraho could not get a read on. So much so that Shiraho was distracted and ended up in summer school.
Suzuran Shiraho has a keen sense of observation. Saburouta / 'Citurs' Manga Chapter 26
Shiraho begins to suspect something is amiss when she smells Mei’s scent on Yuzu. While Yuzu wants to hide their secret relationship, she also desires to be friends with Shiraho, so she invites her Senpai to a festival. When Shiraho starts honing in on the truth, it turns out that the overly observant girl is also carrying a secret of her own.
A summer sleepover trip to a boarding house with a hot springs bath becomes complicated when Mei is seemingly wanting to be more open about their relationship, even going so far as to give hickeys in public and desiring to have at least one kiss a day. Yuzu is afraid of being exposed, but Mei insists that she just act naturally. Yuzu is also anxious because she has told Mei how she feels, but has never heard Mei confess her love verbally.
Now, it’s possible that Citrus Season 2 will end somewhere in Volume 9 since the ending pages of Chapter 32 of Volume 8 is not a good stopping point for an anime. A better option would be to end the anime on a high note from earlier in Chapter 32 when both Yuzu and Mei put aside their issues and begin… well, let’s just leave that a surprise. If studio Passione goes any further in the manga’s story, then the anime either runs into pacing problems, or it’ll be forced to end on a cliffhanger note. As such, it’ll probably be best for the anime to adapt the remaining manga chapters with Citrus Season 3.
The story arc for Volume 9 begins with the revelation that many of the girls attending Aihara Academy have arranged marriages. Mei has never told Yuzu the truth that someday they will have to break up. Chapter 36 surprised and upset some manga fans because it has Mei writing a letter to Yuzu. She expresses her fond feelings for Yuzu, but Mei has decided to marry her fiancee so she can inherit the Aihara family as part of the arranged marriage. It’s a goodbye letter since Mei says she won’t associate with Yuzu and she knew that her resolve would crumble if she tried telling Yuzu in person.
Yuzu is devastated when she reads Mei’s letter. Saburouta / 'Citrus' Manga Chapter 36
Unfortunately, even manga readers don’t know what will happen next after this cliffhanger ending to Chapter 36. Anime fans will have to wait until Citrus Season 2 releases to watch the drama between Yuzu and Mei. Stay tuned! |
Pitavastatin Bests Pravastatin In HIV+ Adults with Dyslipidemia | Action Points Note that this randomized trial of individuals with HIV and dyslipidemia found that pitavastatin was superior to pravastatin in terms of LDL lowering.
Both pitavastatin and pravastatin are considered "weak" statins, though they do not require dose-adjustment with most HIV medications.
Pitavastatin (Livalo) was superior to pravastatin (Pravachol) in lowering fasting serum LDL cholesterol concentrations among adults with HIV and dyslipidemia, according to a study funded by pitavastatin's manufacturer.
After 12 weeks, patients on pitavastatin had a significant reduction in LDL cholesterol levels compared to patients in the pravastatin group (-31.1% versus -20.9%, respectively, least mean squares difference -9.8%, 95% CI -13.8 to -5.9, P<0.0001), reported Judith A. Aberg, MD, of Mount Sinai in New York City, and colleagues.
The pitavastatin group exhibited significantly greater reductions in other atherogenic variables, such as non-HDL cholesterol and apolipoprotein B, compared to the pravastatin group, the authors wrote in The Lancet HIV.
They noted that dyslipidemia may occur in up to 80% of individuals infected with HIV. Due to their excess cardiovascular risk, people living with HIV require "tailored cardiovascular disease prevention strategies," the authors said.
"The use of statins in the setting of ART has been challenging because of drug interactions, which are sometimes unpredictable, leading to intolerance or reduced efficacy," the authors wrote.
They said that unlike other statins -- such as simvastatin, lovastatin, and atorvastatin, which are contraindicated or require a dose reduction with protease inhibitors -- pitavastatin and pravastatin have no such restrictions. They characterized pravastatin as a "commonly used drug" for dyslipidemia in people living with HIV, but noted that a prior non-inferiority study found pitavastatin produced significantly greater LDL reductions compared with pravastatin among elderly adults without HIV.
An accompanying editorial by Philip E. Tarr, MD, of the University of Basel, and Helen Kovari, MD, of the University of Zurich -- both in Switzerland -- wrote that pitavastatin is considered "a weaker LDL-lowering drug" compared to atorvastatin and rosuvastatin and that pravastatin is considered a similar "relatively weak statin."
The editorialists added that they were "reassured by the efficacy of pitavastatin" in this trial, and while noting the study was "fully funded, implemented and [analyzed] by the manufacturers of pitavastatin," they called it "well conducted."
The INTREPID (HIV-infected Patients and TReatment with PItavastatin versus pravastatin for Dyslipidemia) study recruited adults ages 18-70 years from multiple sites in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. They had "controlled HIV" (defined as CD4 counts >200 cells per µL and HIV-1 RNA <200 copies per µL), antiretroviral therapy for at least 6 months and dyslipidemia.
Patients were randomized to either receive 4 mg of pitavastatin or 40 mg of pravastatin and matching placebos once daily over the course of 12 weeks, with a 40 week safety extension. Patients were a mean age of 50 years, and 86% were men. The mean duration of HIV infection was 12.6 years, and 10% of patients had hepatitis B or C co-infection.
Overall, 224 patients completed 12 weeks of the study and 190 completed all 52 weeks. Twenty-seven patients in the pitavastatin group and 35 in the pravastatin group who discontinued due to adverse events.
The authors characterized the trial as "the only randomized, double-blind statin trial versus an active comparator" in patients with both HIV infection and dyslipidemia.
Overall, the pitavastatin group had a significant reduction in LDL cholesterol compared to baseline during the first 12 weeks of the study versus the pravastatin group. Those benefits continued throughout the entire 52 week study period, the authors said (least mean squares treatment difference -8.4%, 95% CI -13.1 to -3.6, P=0.0007). These differences remained significant even after adjusting for study site, hepatitis B and C coinfection, and certain types of ART (efavirenz and ritonavir).
The authors found significant reductions in non-HDL cholesterol (-26.9% pitavastatin versus -18.7% pravastatin) and apolipoprotein B, an important component of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease (-23.3% versus -16.5%, respectively) after 12 weeks, and those reductions remained significant after 52 weeks.
There were no significant between-group differences in changes in apolipoprotein A, triglycerides, HDL cholesterol or high-sensitivity C-reactive protein levels. There was also no significant difference in CD4 cell counts or HIV-1 RNA levels between groups.
Adverse events occurred in 85 of 126 patients in the pitavastatin group and 88 of 126 patients in the pravastatin group. Overall, 60% of adverse events were mild and 29% were moderate. Diarrhea was the most common with pitavastatin (12 patients) and upper respiratory tract infection was the most common with pravastatin (14 patients).
There were eleven treatment-emergent adverse events in seven patients in the pitavastatin group, including atrial septal defects, COPD, chest pain and transient ischemic events and gastrointestinal-related events, such as diverticulitis, gastroenteritis, and enterovescical fistula. There were four events in three patients in the pravastatin group, including cerebrovascular accident, arteriosclerosis coronary artery and myocardial infarction.
Limitations to the data included that women and African Americans living with HIV were underrepresented in the study population and that patients on darunavir were excluded due to its potential interaction with pravastatin.
Editorialists Tarr and Kovari also argued that "we do not know yet whether statin treatment translates into meaningful clinical benefits in people with HIV," because conclusive data that statins reduce cardiovascular event rates are not yet available.
They pointed to an ongoing study that hopes to answer these questions. The REPRIEVE trial, which will randomize 6,500 adults with HIV and without known cardiovascular disease risk to receive pitavastatin or placebo during 6 years of follow-up.
This study was funded by Kowa Pharmaceuticals America and Eli Lilly. Kowa Research Institute paid the AIDS Research Consortium of Atlanta for the conduct of the trial described in this manuscript. Aberg disclosed support from Kowa, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, Janssen, Merck, and ViiV Healthcare. Other co-authors disclosed employment with Kowa Pharmaceuticals, Eli Lilly and Kowa Research Institute and support from ViiV Healthcare, Gilead Sciences, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Janssen, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Pfizer Inc, Roche Molecular Systems, Taimed Inc, Tobira Therapeutics and GlaxoSmithKline.
Reviewed by F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE Assistant Professor, Section of Nephrology, Yale School of Medicine and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, Nurse Planner
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Visiting NY lifeguard: 'That ocean will take you in seconds' | New York lifeguard Chris Russo surveys the water on his last shift at Rainbow Beach yesterday.
New York lifeguard Chris Russo surveys the water on his last shift at Rainbow Beach yesterday. Renee Albrecht
INTERNATIONAL lifeguard Chris Russo has made water safety his business, and after being posted to Rainbow Beach he thinks it's time to have an open conversation about teaching it in Queensland primary schools.
In his two months on the Cooloola Coast, the New York lifeguard has rescued many adults and children and had to give first aid to several swimmers.
These statistics form part of the alarming number of rescues made in the summer holidays in Queensland, which add weight to warnings that school-aged children face a growing risk of drowning due to a decline in water skills.
From December 1, 2017 to January 15, this year, Surf Life Saving Queensland volunteers and paid lifeguards performed 954 rescues at Queensland beaches, new data reveals.
Mr Russo, who is a junior lifeguard instructor and swim trainer in the United States, said while lessons are not compulsory for school-aged children in his region, the culture in Australia lent itself to it much more.
Visiting New York lifeguard said working at Rainbow Beach "has been a two-month dream”. Renee Albrecht
"I think it's something that needs to be talked about - (swimming) is such a large part of the culture here.
"Australia is surrounded by coastline; that ocean will take people in seconds,” he said.
"I've heard all the horror stories over the years.
"It breaks your heart every time, it's usually pretty preventable.”
He said while he backed water safety, school lessons should be implemented in a way that respected the rights of individuals who might choose not to swim.
The push for swimming lessons should also include a push for beach safety lessons at schools, he said.
New York lifeguard Christopher Russo, who was finishing his posting at Rainbow Beach yesterday, checks out the stunning Cooloola Coastline at Double Island Point. Contributed
Teaching children how to read the water and identify tidal currents and rips would be a great preventative, he said, particularly if taught right before school holidays.
With four lifeguards responsible for patrolling a 60km stretch of beach across the Cooloola Coast in peak season, Mr Russo said the job had been vastly different to the large team he was used to working with on Long Island.
He said he had the utmost respect for the job that permanent lifeguards like Rainbow Beach's Liam Toohey performed daily. |
Button to make return to racing next year but not in F1 | By Abhishek Takle
SUZUKA, Japan (Reuters) - Jenson Button will return to racing next season but not in Formula One after spending one year too many in the sport, the Briton said on Friday.
The 2009 world champion raced in the 'Suzuka 1000km' endurance race earlier this year as a one off, on the same circuit as this weekend's Japanese Grand Prix.
Despite his desire to resume racing since giving up his seat at McLaren-Honda at the end of the 2016 season, the 37-year-old said that he had no qualms about leaving his Formula One career in the past.
"Do I miss F1? No, I don't," Button told reporters on Friday.
"I miss racing. I'd sort of fallen out of love a little bit with motorsport. I think that maybe I left it a year too long, racing in Formula One."
Button, who won his only world title with Brawn, raced in Formula One for 17 seasons.
He remains the last driver to have won a race for McLaren, nearly five years ago at the 2012 season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix, and has stayed on as the team's ambassador and reserve driver.
The 15-times grand prix winner made a cameo at this year's Monaco event, standing in for former team mate Fernando Alonso, who chose to skip the sport's blue riband race to compete in the Indy 500 instead.
But Button has otherwise spent a majority of his time in the United States training for triathlons.
"It's nice to have some free time and sort of look back on the last 17 years because while you're racing in F1 you don't do that," he said.
"It's been very emotional actually. It's been lovely and it's been necessary as well."
However, Button added that his Suzuka appearance earlier in the year had rekindled his love for racing, just not enough to consider competing against the likes of Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel again.
"It's been a while since I've had that feeling so I've been itching to drive anything to be fair," said Button, who also ruled out racing in the American IndyCar single-seater series and Formula E.
"So next year I'll be racing something. I don't know what yet, whether it'll be in America or in Europe or in Japan. But there are few options and I want to do a full season and take it properly seriously."
(Reporting by Abhishek Takle; Editing by Christian Radnedge) |
Brindleyplace properties sold in £260m deal | Six buildings on Brindleyplace have been sold
Six buildings on Birmingham's Brindleyplace estate have been bought by part of HSBC for in excess of £260 million.
US property group Hines has sold the group to HSBC Alternative Investments after placing them on the market in autumn 2015.
The buildings comprise 500,000 sq ft of mixed use space and the sale follows the collapse of a deal to Middle East investors a year ago.
Hines UK, which acquired part of the estate off Broad Street for £190 million with Moorfield in 2010, will be retained as asset manager.
Raj Rajput, managing director of Hines UK, said: "We are proud to have managed Brindleyplace over the last seven years.
"It continues to be one of the most desirable office locations in Birmingham."
The overall estate covers 17 acres and comprises a mix of office and leisure buildings including several bars and restaurants, totalling more than one million square feet.
Property consultancies CBRE and Colliers advised Hines. |
Arkansas still planning executions despite last-minute stay | Protesters gather outside the state Capitol building on Friday, April 14, 2017, in Little Rock, Ark., to voice their opposition to Arkansas' seven upcoming executions. (Kelly P. Kissel/AP)
VARNER, Ark.— Arkansas officials vowed to carry out a double execution later this week after the U.S. Supreme Court scuttled the state’s plan to resume capital punishment for the first time in nearly 12 years with a ruling issued minutes before a condemned man was scheduled to die.
The court’s decision was the second time Don Davis had been granted a reprieve shortly before execution — he was within hours of death in 2010. It capped a chaotic day of legal wrangling in state and federal courts to clear the primary obstacles Arkansas faced to carrying out its first executions since 2005.
Davis had already been served a last meal of fried chicken, rolls, beans, mashed potatoes and strawberry cake hours earlier, and witnesses were being moved toward the execution chamber when the Supreme Court ruled just minutes before Davis’ death warrant expired at midnight.
Davis was sentenced to death for the 1990 death of Jane Daniel in Rogers, Arkansas. The woman was killed in her home after Davis broke in and shot her with a .44-caliber revolver he found there.
Gov. Asa Hutchinson had set an aggressive schedule of as many as eight executions by the end of April, when the state’s supply of a key lethal injection drug expires. Davis and Bruce Ward were supposed to be the first two of those Monday but Ward received a stay of execution and the state did not appeal the decision. The state did challenge a stay granted to Davis but the U.S. Supreme Court declined to reverse it.
Despite the setbacks, Attorney General Leslie Rutledge said Arkansas would press ahead with the other planned executions, including two set for Thursday night — Ledell Lee and Stacey Johnson.
“There are five scheduled executions remaining with nothing preventing them from occurring, but I will continue to respond to any and all legal challenges brought by the prisoners,” Rutledge said.
Lawyers for the inmates were not immediately available after the U.S. Supreme court ruling.
Earlier in the day, the state had cleared two of the main obstacles to resuming executions. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a federal judge’s ruling blocking the executions over the use of midazolam, a sedative used in flawed executions in other states. The state Supreme Court also lifted a lower court ruling preventing the state from using another lethal injection drug that a supplier said was sold to be used for medical purposes, not executions.
The high court’s order sparing Davis offered no explanation, but none of the justices voted in favor of lifting the stay. Monday marked the first day that the U.S. Supreme Court was in session with new Justice Neil Gorsuch on the bench.
Hutchinson’s original schedule of eight lethal injections in 11 days would have marked the most inmates put to death by a state in such a short period since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. The state scheduled such a compressed schedule because of the expiration of its supply of midazolam.
Arkansas enacted a law two years ago keeping secret the source of its lethal injection drugs, a move officials said was necessary to find new supplies. Despite the secrecy measure, prison officials have said it will be very difficult to find a supplier willing to sell Arkansas midazolam after its current stock expires. |
The Moneyist: I take care of my father and pay his bills - shouldn’t he leave me his estate instead of my sister? | Here's what's behind the disputed four-page document and its potential fallout The buildup is over, and the memo is out. So what does the newly released four-page document from House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes and his committee staff mean for the Russia investigation, key figures at the Justice Department and President Donald Trump?
Did the Nunes memo undermine its own core argument? Beyond the controversy over the timing, wisdom and true purpose of its Friday release, the Republican memo alleging anti-Trump corruption at the FBI and Justice Department contains one remarkable detail that undermines its core assertion.
Watergate reporter: Darkest days since McCarthy Carl Bernstein, one of the journalists who uncovered the Watergate scandal, reacts to the release of a disputed GOP intelligence memo that alleges FBI abuses of its surveillance authority.
Opinion: The real shock of the Nunes memo When I was a homicide prosecutor in the Brooklyn District Attorney's office, my most challenging assignment was "riding" homicide cases. I'd get paged (often in the middle of the night) and a patrol car would pick me up and take me to the grisly scene of a recent murder.
Analysis: The memo's most interesting part is Trump's reaction On Friday, we finally got the much-promised memo crafted by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) that allegedly blows the top off of the "deep state" conspiracy within the Justice Department aimed at discrediting Donald Trump's presidency.
James Comey responds: That's it? Former FBI Director James Comey, who was fired by President Trump, responds to the release of the disputed GOP intelligence memo that alleges FBI abuses of its surveillance authority.
Nunes hints that there's more to come House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes hinted Friday that there would be additional memos released regarding the committee's investigation into alleged abuse of FISA warrants -- and the next one may look at the State Department.
Read the disputed memo here House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, R-California, put together this highly controversial memo, released Friday, alleging the FBI abused its surveillance tools. |
Kaisi Yeh Yaariyan 3: MaNan To Get Closer At Mukti’s Spinster Party; Zubin’s Past To Be Revealed! | Mukti’s Spinster Party
After a rather confusing episode and mind blowing twist of Smaran getting lovey-dovey with Inaya, and Jeff inviting stripper for Mukti's spinster, Kaisi Yeh Yaariyan thrilled the fans to a new level altogether.
Nandini Gets To Know The Real Reason For Manik Denying Her Proposal
We all could see Nandini pulling her sleeves up to fix thing between her and Manik when she comes to know about the real reason behind Manik's denial on the proposal.
Mukti’s Unique Spinster Party
A bachelorette without gate crashers is never a bachelorette, boys of Kaisi Yeh Yaariyan gate crashing Mukti's spinster party is the best thing that one can find on the internet today. Generally, spinster parties are supposed to be crazy and exciting, but Mukti's spinster was a different story to tell.
Manik & Nandini Get Closer
We all know Manik and Nandini love each other and fans got a jist of their bond during the bachelorette. On the other hand, Zubin seems a little devious during bachelorette and he giving a cold shoulder to the stripper seemed like he somehow knew the stripper.
Zubin’s Blast from the Past
We know everything about Mukti as well as the others, but there is not much known about Zubin. This reminds of Jeff's advice to Mukti about giving the marriage a second thought, although we know that Jeff loves Mukti and has an emotional space for Mukti as Jeff is disinterested in guys.
What’s Zubin Hiding?
What is it that Zubin is hiding, does Jeff know something about Zubin that Mukti doesn't or she just wants to break the marriage so that she could pursue Mukti.
Kaisi Yeh Yaariyan 3
The chemistry between the two Charlie and Barkha is a result of their off screen sisterly relationship with each other. Who knows what we might come across in the show in near future? Well, it's Kaisi Yeh Yaariyan always with a twist. |
What Can We Learn from the Radical Campuses of 1968? | Universities were the most obviously politicized sites of generational identity in the long year of 1968. Some campuses—Berkeley in California, Nanterre in Paris, Essex in Britain or the Free University in Berlin—became bywords for political radicalism. The occupation of university buildings was common and became associated with wider protests that were not directly linked to university matters. “Teach-ins” on matters of political significance, the Vietnam War in particular, were common. Some proposed the end of examinations or the abolition of the distinction between academics and students. In the United States, students demanded, and sometimes established for themselves, new courses on topics such as black studies. At Birmingham in England a “Free University” offered courses on, among other things, “workers’ control, psychedelia and the theory and practice of counter-institutions.” In London, an “anti-university” offered for a time courses by thinkers such as the psychologist R.D. Laing.
The growth of graduate studies fostered radicalism in universities. It created a cadre of students who remained in place for long enough to establish political movements. The Teaching Assistants Association was formed at the University of Wisconsin in 1966 to represent graduate students who earned money teaching, and soon linked the material dissatisfactions of its members to wider questions relating to race and Vietnam. The lives of graduate students were not interrupted by the inconvenient obligation to sit exams. The leisurely pace of life was captured by the jibe in John Irving’s novel The World According to Garp (published in 1978 and set mainly in the 1960s) that “gradual school was where students gradually realize that they do not want to go to school anymore.”
Graduate study expanded sharply in the 1960s. This was particularly notable in the United States—partly because of the institutionalization of research and partly because attending graduate school became a means to avoid being sent to Vietnam. The idea of graduate education, like most American educational innovations, spread to Britain and Europe. A lawyer at the trial of student activists—largely Americans undertaking postgraduate courses—who had stormed the administrative building at London University remarked briskly that “doctorates are two a penny in the United States.”
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Who were students against? Sometimes there was a mood of bitter hostility to teachers who were seen as authoritarian or complicit in some wider power structure. Equally professors were sometimes hostile to student activists whom they saw as a threat to the qualities—order, tranquility, reasoned debate—that they regarded as essential to university life. Though students often denounced their enemies as “fascists,” their bitterest critics were often Jewish professors—Alexander Gerschenkron, Raymond Aron, Theodor Adorno—who were old enough to have personal memories of Nazism.
However, the struggle in the universities was never a simple conflict of generations and never completely divided teachers from students. Some academics maintained good relations with their students in 68, or even presented themselves as neutral figures in a struggle between students and “the university”—the rise of the professional academic administrator sometimes gave students and teachers a common enemy.
During the occupation of Columbia University in 1968, students marked their political affiliations with various colored armbands, but members of the faculty wore white bands. Very few professors were either completely for or completely against the student protests, and some took unexpected stands. The historians Rodney Hilton and John Saville, both ex-Communists in their fifties, acted as intermediaries between protesting students and the university authorities at Birmingham and Hull. René Rémond, a senior historian of relatively conservative views at Nanterre, later remarked that he was a soixante-huitard himself in a way because he welcomed the chance to reform his university.
Sometimes there was sympathy between student radicals and professors. The sinologist and historian of science Joseph Needham was master of one of the most conservative colleges in Cambridge but also belonged to Socialists in Higher Education, whose members sought “a critical destabilization of the system.” Antonio Negri—born in 1933 and a professor of sociology at Bologna—was a leader of the radical Marxist Lotta Continua. He was later prosecuted for having inspired terrorist acts by the Red Brigades, and the Italian authorities denounced him as the most prominent of the “bad masters”—a term that implies that some Italian students listened to their professors too assiduously.
Many academics led double lives that straddled the frontier between academic authority and student rebellion. Jonah Raskin spent some of his nights in 1968 participating in the student occupation of Columbia University but by day he commuted to Stony Brook University to teach his own classes. He was Dr. Raskin to his students, Jonah to his colleagues and “Jomo” to readers of his articles in the underground press.
In any case, the expansion of higher education in the post-war period had blurred the boundaries between teachers and students. This was in part because university expansion brought an increase in the proportion of young university teachers. Even among academics of roughly the same age there were some sharp divisions, rooted partly in how fast they had risen up the academic ladder. Barry Supple (born in 1929) was pro-vice chancellor of Sussex University in 1968 and responsible for containing much of the student revolt. Stuart Hall, three years younger than Supple, was in a more junior position and widely regarded as the most important academic to support the British student protests.
“Very few professors were either completely for or completely against the student protests, and some took unexpected stands.”
In the United States, the profession was divided into those who did and those who did not enjoy permanent tenure. In France, Germany and Italy, junior academics—often on temporary contracts—were expected to display ostentatious deference to the professors who controlled their careers. The number of these junior academics increased as universities expanded in the 1960s, and the increase was, of course, sharpest in those subjects, such as sociology, that grew fastest. 68 was sometimes as much a rebellion of assistants against professors as it was of students against their teachers.
Those who opposed student protest often presented it as a movement of savage philistinism—one that threatened scholarship itself as well as academic authority. The desacralization of the book was an important part of 68. Guido Viale, a charismatic figure among leftist students in Turin, remarked that books were “as bad as professors.” The belief that university libraries might be threatened by disorder obsessed some academics—David Landes at Harvard said that he would fire on students if they attacked the library.
However, radical students often had a touching attachment to the written word. Members in a Danish commune admitted that books were the one form of private property that they found it hard to renounce. During his years as university dropout, political activist and leader of a London squat, Phil Cohen often found solace in the reading room of the British Museum and he subtitled his memoirs The Radical Bibliophile. Seeking potential recruits to Students for a Democratic Society, George Brosi at Carleton College in Minnesota checked library records because he knew that readers of certain books were likely to have left-wing sympathies. Access to libraries was itself sometimes a demand in 68. Students at Trento called for an “American-style library . . . maximum development of the man/book relation—no intermediary—all the books on the wall and within hand reach.”
Academics sometimes felt an odd sense of renewal in 68. Didier Anzieu at Nanterre wrote: “My students sensed that I was preoccupied not so much with them as with the machine. They were bored of my boredom and I was bored of theirs. For the first time that year [during the uprising of May 1968] the University interested me again.” Even Barry Supple, who defended order at Sussex University, admitted that he derived a frisson of excitement from the drama that he had lived through.
For all the lurid rhetoric, much of what students wanted in 68 could be accommodated by universities. Indeed student protests were often followed by an unexpected burst of consensus. At Nanterre student radicals joined commissions to discuss how teaching might be changed. Even the most dramatic innovations of 68 yielded quite conventional results. Edgar Faure, the wily centrist politician who became minister of education after the May events in France, helped create a new campus at Vincennes—housed in prefabricated buildings and opened in 1969. The new campus provided an intellectual home for radical thinkers—notably Michel Foucault—and took students who lacked conventional qualifications. As Faure probably anticipated, in the long term even Vincennes calmed down—partly because its relatively old, working-class students sometimes turned out to have rather conventional expectations of education.
Some left universities during or after the protests of 68—to take jobs in factories, become full-time militants or even go underground as urban guerrillas—but a surprisingly large number stayed in, or returned to, education. In 2006 Tom Hayden finally published the masters’ dissertation which he had begun in the early 1960s. Guido Viale, who had called for the destruction of books in 1968, also became a sociologist. A study of American radical activists from the 1960s found that 30 years later 17 per cent of the sample had become professors.
Dick Flacks—who had himself been a member of Students for a Democratic Society before becoming an academic sociologist who both sympathized with and studied the radicals of the late 1960s—summed things up: “The Academy was one of the few institutional settings where former student activists could expect a degree of career and economic stability and yet feel relatively uncompromised.”
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From 1968: Radical Protest and its Enemies. Used with permission of Harper. Copyright © 2018 by Richard Vinen. |
Koreas begin basketball friendlies in latest peace gesture - NBC12 - WWBT - Richmond, VA News On Your Side | (Korea Pool via AP). South Korean basketball players have their identification checked by North Korean officials upon their arrival at Pyongyang Airport in Pyongyang, North Korea, Tuesday, July 3, 2018. South Korean basketball teams and officials arriv...
(Korea Pool via AP). South Korean basketball players arrive at a hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea, Tuesday, July 3, 2018. South Korean basketball teams and officials arrived on Tuesday to take part in the inter-Korean basketball match in Pyongyang.
(Korea Pool via AP). South Korean women's basketball team player Shim Sung-young, center left, has her identification checked by a North Korean official upon her arrival at the Pyongyang Airport in Pyongyang, North Korea, Tuesday, July 3, 2018. South K...
(Korea Pool via AP). South Korean Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon, third from right, has his identification checked by a North Korean official upon his arrival at the Pyongyang Airport in Pyongyang, North Korea, Tuesday, July 3, 2018. South Korean...
(Korea Pool via AP). South Korean basketball players arrive at a hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea, Tuesday, July 3, 2018. South Korean basketball teams and officials arrived on Tuesday to take part in the inter-Korean basketball match in Pyongyang.
By KIM TONG-HYUNG
Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - The rival Koreas on Wednesday began two days of friendly basketball games in Pyongyang in their latest goodwill gesture amid a diplomatic push to resolve the nuclear standoff with North Korea.
Female players from North and South Korea were mixed into two teams that competed against each other at Pyongyang's Ryugyong Jong Ju Yong Gymnasium. The men's mixed teams play later in the day.
The South Koreans will play against the North Korean men's and women's teams on Thursday before returning home on Friday.
The games will precede a planned three-day visit to North Korea by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for meetings over the future of the North's nuclear program.
It wasn't immediately clear whether North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, a noted basketball fan, would attend any of the games.
The South Korean delegation, including 50 players and government officials, arrived in Pyongyang on Tuesday on two military aircraft.
The exchanges are the latest result of a diplomatic outreach to the South that Kim announced during his annual New Year's speech. That led to the North's participation in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in February and two summits between Kim and South Korean President Moon Jae-in. Kim has also met with China's President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump.
The inter-Korean summits have facilitated a slew of goodwill gestures between the Koreas, which have also agreed to field combined teams at the Jakarta Asian Games in August.
Basketball diplomacy has something of a history in North Korea.
Former NBA player Dennis Rodman arranged a game in Pyongyang in 2014 for Kim's birthday.
South Korea's Hyundai business group built a basketball stadium in Pyongyang during a previous era of rapprochement between South and North, and a joint game was played there in 2003. Two rounds of inter-Korean basketball games were held before that, in 1999.
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Motion to impeach RESS vp finance not passed | By Sarah Krichel
A motion to impeach Ryerson Engineering Student Society (RESS) vice-president finance Ali Yousaf did not pass at their board of directors meeting on Feb. 14.
The motion was put forward by RESS president Farhan Riaz.
Yousaf declined to comment on the motion. He is also the incoming Ryerson Students’ Union vice-president operations.
The board went into an in-camera discussion about the upcoming RESS elections. At around 7:50 p.m., the board began discussion about the motion to impeach Yousaf, meaning non-board members could not be present. The vote also took place in-camera.
The motion required two thirds in favour to pass. It came to seven board members in favour, seven against, and one abstained, according to Noor Gangi, vice-president corporate relations.
Riaz said that reasons for the motion will be released later tonight. |
Profiling Police: Cpl. William Burdt supervises deputies at work and a host of animals at home | Cpl. William Gunnar Burdt has been with the Carroll County Sheriff's Office since 2003.
Born and raised in Carroll, the deputy said he chose to work at the Sheriff's Office in part because he didn't want to have a long commute.
"I enjoy working, serving and giving back to the community I grew up in," Burdt said.
Burdt became a corporal in 2007 through a noncompetitive program. His rank was reconfirmed in 2012 after the Sheriff's Office revamped its ranking structure, he said.
Burdt is a first line patrol supervisor, which means he is often overseeing deputies. His area of patrol is the southern area of the county, which includes Winfield, Eldersburg, Sykesville, Woodbine, Mount Airy and parts of Westminster.
Cpl. Gunnar Burdt DYLAN SLAGLE/STAFF PHOTO / Carroll County Times Carroll County Sheriff's Office Cpl. Gunnar Burdt photographed in Westminster Friday, Nov. 18, 2016 Carroll County Sheriff's Office Cpl. Gunnar Burdt photographed in Westminster Friday, Nov. 18, 2016 (DYLAN SLAGLE/STAFF PHOTO / Carroll County Times) (DYLAN SLAGLE/STAFF PHOTO / Carroll County Times)
Outside of the uniform, Burdt and his wife are the parents of three children, two of whom are their biological children and one whom they adopted from Latvia. He is also an owner to two cats and three dogs. The dogs were all adopted, some from deployed soldiers who no longer wanted their pets.
The Carroll County Times spoke with Burdt about working in the Sheriff's Office and what he likes to do when he is off the clock.
Q: Why did you decide to go into law enforcement?
A: I initially set out to become a physical education teacher with a BA from Western Maryland College (McDaniel). My senior year in college, I was teaching classes and doing my practicums in the local schools. I quickly realized that this was not the job I would be happy with to make a career out of it. So I went back to my childhood fascination of police cars and started applying to many different agencies.
Q: What has been some of the best parts of the job? The most challenging?
A: To grow and learn many different aspects of this job. I have experience working at an administrative level, child abuse and sex crime detective, Crisis Response Team (SWAT), police instructor, supervisor and handling basic patrol functions. The most challenging aspect of the job has been evolving as police work has changed over my 15 years as a police officer. The future of politics, society and case law will always have an impact on all law enforcement.
Q: What is one thing you want people to know about being a deputy?
A: There are good days and bad days. Not everyone wants to be helped or likes the police. You are a public servant and your expected to handle yourself as a professional at all times despite your personal opinions or beliefs.
Q: What is your favorite part about being a deputy?
A: Interacting with people I come in contact with and being able to assist the community with any problem that may arise.
Q: What is a typical work day like for you?
A: I am a first line patrol supervisor, so most of my day is spent managing the deputies I work with by assisting them with calls for service, checking reports, conducting traffic enforcement in hotspot area, and patrolling the community.
Q: What is one moment on the job you'll never forget?
A: There are several cases that will always stick with me and incidents I will never forget. Too many to just pinpoint one. A few I will always remember my first dead body, watching an autopsy of an infant, saving the life of a young girl in a fiery car crash, the smell of decomposition, and I was involved in a fatal shooting March 11, 2005, the day before my daughter's first birthday and I sat there and cried afterward because I didn't want my family to grow up without me.
Q: What is an embarrassing story or a fact you are willing to share about yourself?
A: I have thick skin from years on the job so things don't embarrass me too much. I am outgoing and usually embarrass my family from acting goofy. But my rookie year as a summer cop in Ocean City, I started CPR on a man who had obviously been deceased a few hours.
Q: When you are out of uniform, what do you like to do?
A: Coaching my kids, skiing, camping, bike riding, hiking, the beach, jet skiing, ice hockey, gardening, cooking and watching TV/ movies. I am also the Scout Master for my two sons' Boy Scout troop. Watching the Ravens play and the Washington Capitals.
Q: What television shows do you have on your DVR right now? What was the last movie you watched?
A: Too many as my wife and daughter would say. Blood Bloods, Hawaii 5-0, Grim, the Walking Dead, Blind Spot, Designated Survivor, Agents of Shield, Modern Family, Big Bang Theory, Notorious, Quantico, Scandal, Chicago PD, The Black List, Shades of Blue, Timeless, MacGyver, Code Black, Elementary, Madam Secretary, Scorpion, The Flash, and Supergirl. Last movie was Jason Bourne.
Q: What is something you like to talk about outside of work?
A: [My family and I] have three dogs and two cats ... three kids going in three different directions every day after school from church activities, soccer, ice skating, ice hockey, flute/ band practice and Scouts.
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NYE celebrations, gunshots or fireworks | Each year we're reminded, New Mexico has a wild-western love for firing guns to ring in the new year. The Albuquerque sky lit up with gunfire last night, and one metro-area family tells KOB an errant bullet almost hit their infant daughter.
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Massachusetts lawmakers eye ban on "bump stock" gun devices | BOSTON (AP) - Massachusetts could be moving quickly to outlaw so-called “bump stock” devices apparently used by the Las Vegas shooter.
Democratic and Republican lawmakers have both filed bills to ban the devices. Republican Gov. Charlie Baker said he supports a ban.
The devices fit over the stock and grip of a semi-automatic rifle and allow the weapon to fire continuously, some 400 to 800 rounds in a single minute.
State Rep. David Linsky, a Natick Democrat, has filed legislation that would outlaw any devices that increase the rate of discharge of a weapon and ban the sale of large capacity feeding devices.
Republican Senate Leader Bruce Tarr of Gloucester has sponsored a bill that would prohibit devices that effectively turn rifles and shotguns into weapons with firing capabilities similar to machine guns. |