A small colony of nightingales could scupper plans for a major housing development in Medway. This report from Tom Savvides includes interviews with Paul Outwaite from the RSPB and councillor Jane Chitty.
After very careful consideration of all the evidence by Natural England, it became clear that the area is of special interest for grassland, woodland and nightingales, which represent 1.3 per cent of the bird’s national population. It is one of the most important sites for nightingales in the UK. Natural England’s executive board therefore has a legal duty to designate it as a SSSI.
This involves the existing SSSI at Chattenden Woods being extended to incorporate the land at Lodge Hill. Letters of notification have been sent to relevant parties. They will have four months in which to make objections and representations about notification. Any such points which remain unresolved will then be considered by the Natural England Board which has nine months to decide whether to confirm or withdraw the SSSI notification.
This decision does not determine whether or not development can go ahead at the site; this is a matter for the planning system. Natural England will continue to engage with the local planning authority to contribute, as appropriate, to the planning process. In particular, we will consider carefully any proposals for a habitat creation scheme to offset the impacts on the special wildlife of the site, should development proceed.
Medway Council has issued a statement in response to the news that eighty-four nightingales may have scuppered a biggest housing project in the area.
Natural England did not raise any objections until July 2011 despite working with others since the mid 1990s on plans for the development of Lodge Hill. However, we now seem to have the absurd situation of a government agency (Natural England) stopping a government department (the Ministry of Defence) from proceeding with their plans to relinquish their former training grounds, an area where this is believed to be unexploded ordnance. We are deeply unhappy with this decision and will be considering our options.
We find it astonishing this decision has been taken. This is a government site and is former vacant military land. In addition, it is an area earmarked for development for 18 years, and this would help provide 5,000 local jobs and 5,000 homes, which is important for a growing area like Medway.
Eighty-four nightingales may have scuppered the biggest housing project in Medway.
For 18 years a new town with 5,000 homes and 5,000 jobs has been earmarked for the former army base at Lodge Hill, near Hoo.
But in a surprise move its wildlife has been given a top protection order - so the scheme's been delayed.
Natural England, a government agency, has made Lodge Hill a site of special scientific interest (SSSI) after a survey found rare nightingales flooded in after the army left, largely protected by the site's 7ft fence.
Twitchers are flocking to an RSPB reserve in Sussex to see the return of the nightingales. Populations of the spring warblers have declined over the last 40 years but Pulborough Brooks has become a stronghold for the threatened species.
Twitchers from the RSPB Pulborough Brooks tell us why the nightingale keeps them awake this time of year.


When writer/actor B.J. Novak leaves “The Office”, it will leave the beloved sitcom with just a handful of its original cast members. Truthfully, I gave up on the show quite a few seasons ago, and strongly feel that it probably should have closed for business when Steve Carell decided to ride off into the sunset. Still, the program has somehow managed to hang on despite all of its problems. However, with writer and co-star Mindy Kaling leaving for her own sitcom, and Rainn Wilson trotting off to do his own spin-off show, there’s very little hope for the show after this season ends.
Of course, that’s not to say Novak is gone for good. The guy will still serve as a consulting producer on the show, and will more than likely return every once in a while for a guest spot for two. Jon Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, and Ed Helms, meanwhile, are still on-board for another season, though I’d say their days are probably numbered at this point.
In addition to the aforementioned departures, executive producer Paul Lieberstein, who also portrays Toby Flenderson on the show, is departing with Wilson to tackle that Dwight Schrute spin-off people have been talking about for ages. Hey, if the show can survive with Carell, a feat I honestly did not think was possibly, perhaps “The Office” will continue to kick right along for several more years. Then again, maybe not.
Of course, my issues regarding the show and its overall quality have little to no bearing on the world at-large. Here’s what really matters: Twitter users have decided to weigh in on the writer/actor’s departure. If you’re curious to know what other people are thinking — and you know that you are — take a look at the comments below.
After losing Steve Carell, “The Office” is losing BJ Novak, Rainn Wilson, Mindy Kaling, James Spader & Paul Lieberstein. Ugh..
So, BJ Novak is leaving The Office along with Mindy Kaling, Rainn Wilson & the guy that plays Toby. It’s like the Ship of Theseus.
Sooo no Steve Carrell. No Mindy Kaling. And no BJ Novak….. Why is The Office still on ?


Pueblo said he will be filing a petition for certiorari including a temporary restraining order (TRO) in behalf of Mabilog in the coming days.
Pueblo noted the case, filed by former Iloilo provincial administrator Manuel Mejorada, was based on Mabilog’s statement of assets, liabilities and net worth or SALN.
“But the ombudsman said that Mayor Mabilog’s SALN was factual, truthful,” he argued.
Pueblo said they would also question why Mechor Arthur Carandang, the overall deputy ombudsman (ODO), signed the approval of the decision, instead of Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales.


MUSKEGON, Mich.—In honor of Michigan’s Public Health Week, Public Health Muskegon County will address community trends in communicable diseases this Thursday, April 24.
The free information session is 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at Youngberg Auditorium on the Mercy Health Hackley Campus. The event is meant to raise awareness and help control the spread of infectious diseases within the county. No registration is required.
Muskegon, MI – In honor of Michigan Public Health Week, April 21-25, 2014, Public Health – Muskegon County will be presenting a one-hour free seminar on Thursday, April 24 from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. at Mercy Health Hackley Campus Youngberg Auditorium titled Working Together to Control the Emergence and Spread of Infectious Diseases in Muskegon County.
The event will consist of a review of Muskegon County trends in infectious diseases that are required to be reported to the local health department. Public Health staff will also share their experiences with infectious disease control from the public health point of view. This event is free and open to the public and an opportunity for anyone interested to learn more about the roles and responsibilities of the local public health department as they relate to infectious disease surveillance and investigation.
Muskegon, MI – The Environmental Health program at Public Health – Muskegon County is seeking public input for the update of the Muskegon County Sanitary Regulations. Originally authored in 1984 and amended in 2005, the Regulations are in need of updating to address oversights and to align them with more recent State of Michigan criteria.
Anyone interested in providing input is encouraged to attend the public review meeting on Tuesday, April 15, 2014 from 9:00 to 11:00 am at the Annis Water Resources Institute (740 W Shoreline Drive, Muskegon). Copies of the new Muskegon County Environmental Health Regulations will be available at the meeting and a presentation highlighting the significant changes will be provided. Space is limited so reservations are required by calling (231) 724-6208.
Anyone interested in providing input is encouraged to attend one of two upcoming public review meetings to be held on March 26, 2014 and April 15, 2014 from 9:00 to 11:00 am at the Annis Water Resources Institute (740 W Shoreline Drive, Muskegon). Copies of the new Muskegon County Environmental Health Regulations will be available at the meeting and a presentation highlighting the significant changes will be provided. Space is limited so reservations are required by calling (231) 724-6208.
Muskegon, MI – The youth from the Teen Health Center’s Youth Advisory Committee are teaming up with the Knowsmoke Muskegon County Tobacco Reduction Coalition to host a Knowsmoke Zombie Walk at Muskegon High School on Wednesday, March 19, 2014 from 3:45 pm until 5:00 pm.
The youth zombies will be raising awareness of the health hazards of tobacco use in Muskegon County in honor of Kick Butts Day, a national day of activism that empowers youth to stand out, speak up and seize control against Big Tobacco. The zombies will be walking through the school hallways which will be decorated as a graveyard with cryptic messages regarding the dangers of tobacco use.
Muskegon, MI – Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in both men and women. Fortunately, the incidence of colorectal cancer has been steadily declining in large part due to improved early detection and screening tests. To assure that screening is broadly available in Muskegon County, Public Health – Muskegon County participates in the Michigan Colorectal Cancer Early Detection Program.


(CNN) -- Former Enron Corp. chief Jeffrey Skilling, convicted three years ago of fraud, is scheduled to be resentenced Thursday after a federal appeals court vacated his 24-year sentence earlier this year.
Jeffrey Skilling, 55, is being held in a low-security prison in Englewood, Colorado.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans, Louisiana, affirmed Skilling's conviction in January but dumped the sentence handed down by U.S. District Court Judge Sim Lake in Houston, Texas.
Skilling was sentenced to 24 years and 4 months in jail for deceiving investors and employees about Enron's fiscal health. The appeals court found that Lake was wrong in saying Skilling had endangered a financial institution -- a finding that prompted Lake to impose a harsher sentence.
The appeals court's action lowers the guideline range to between 188 months and 235 months in prison, according to Cliff Stricklin, a former prosecutor in the Enron case and an attorney with the Denver law firm of Holme, Roberts & Owen.
"If I were a betting man, I would say Judge Lake would sentence him to the low end of the guideline range and Skilling would get 15 1/2 years," said Stricklin.
Stricklin added it's remotely possible Lake could impose the same sentence he did originally. The judge has this leeway because the U.S. Supreme Court made the guidelines voluntary in January 2005.
"If he were to do that, it certainly would be appealed again, and it could come back down again and I think no one wants that in the process, except maybe Skilling," said Stricklin.
Stricklin predicted Skilling's attorney, Daniel Petrocelli, will try and pull out all the stops to get a significantly shorter sentence for his client.
"He will try and get in as much evidence as he possibly can, anything with hopes to persuade the judge to go below the sentencing guidelines. I just don't see Judge Lake letting that happen though," said Stricklin.
Skilling, 55, is being held in a low-security prison in Englewood, Colorado. Enron's bankruptcy in 2001 eliminated more than 5,000 jobs and $1 billion in employee retirement funds.


A top-secret Pentagon report to assess the damage to national security from the leak of classified National Security Agency documents by Edward Snowden concluded that "the scope of the compromised knowledge related to US intelligence capabilities is staggering".
The Guardian has obtained a copy of the Defense Intelligence Agency's classified damage assessment in response to a Freedom of Information Act (Foia) lawsuit filed against the Defense Department earlier this year. The heavily redacted 39-page report was prepared in December and is titled "DoD Information Review Task Force-2: Initial Assessment, Impacts Resulting from the Compromise of Classified Material by a Former NSA Contractor."
But while the DIA report describes the damage to US intelligence capabilities as "grave", the government still refuses to release any specific details to support this conclusion. The entire impact assessment was redacted from the material released to the Guardian under a presidential order that protects classified information and several other Foia exemptions.
Only 12 pages of the report were declassified by DIA and released. A Justice Department attorney said DIA would continue to process other internal documents that refer to the DIA report for possible release later this year.
Steven Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists, questioned the decision to withhold specific details.
"The essence of the report is contained in the statement that 'the scope of the compromised knowledge related to US intelligence capabilities is staggering'. But all elaboration of what this striking statement means has been withheld," he said.
The assessment excluded NSA-related information and dealt exclusively with non-NSA defense materials. The report was distributed to multiple US military commands around the world and all four military branches.
"This report presents the Information Review Task Force-2's (IRTF-2s') initial assessment of impact to the Department of Defense (DoD) from the compromise of [redacted] classified files by a former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor," the report's executive summary states.
"The IRTF-2 and Defense component partners continue triaging and reviewing compromised information for Defense equities and will update this report as additional assessments are completed. Combatant Commands (CCMDs) and Services have produced separate reports that provide greater details concerning the potential impact of the compromise on their respective equities … It should be noted that SIGINT [Signals Intelligence]-specific equities are not addressed in this report; NSA is reviewing those separately."
The classified damage assessment was first cited in a news report published by Foreign Policy on January 9. The Foreign Policy report attributed details of the DIA assessment to House intelligence committee chairman Mike Rogers and its ranking Democrat Dutch Ruppersberger. The lawmakers said the White House had authorized them to discuss the document in order to undercut the narrative of Snowden being portrayed as a heroic whistleblower.
The DIA report has been cited numerous times by Rogers and Rusppersberger and other lawmakers who claimed Snowden's leaks have put US personnel at risk.
In January, Rogers asserted that the report concluded that most of the documents Snowden took "concern vital operations of the US Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force".
"This report confirms my greatest fears — Snowden's real acts of betrayal place America's military men and women at greater risk. Snowden's actions are likely to have lethal consequences for our troops in the field," Rogers said in a statement at the time.
But details to back up Rogers' claims are not included in the declassified material released to the Guardian.
Neither he nor any other lawmaker has disclosed specific details from the DIA report but they have continued to push the "damage" narrative in interviews with journalists and during appearances on Sunday talk shows.
The declassified portion of the report obtained by the Guardian says only that DIA "assesses with high confidence that the information compromise by a former NSA contractor [redacted] and will have a GRAVE impact on US national defense".
The declassified material does not state the number of documents Snowden is alleged to have taken, which Rogers and Ruppersberger have claimed, again citing the DIA's assessment, was 1.7m. Nor does the declassified portion of the report identify Snowden by name.
"[Redacted] a former NSA contractor compromised [redacted] from NSA Net and the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System (JWICS)," the report says. "On 6 June 2013, media groups published the first stories based on this material, and on 9 June 2013 they identified the source as an NSA contractor who had worked in Hawaii."
JWICS is identified as a "24 hour a day network designed to meet the requirements for secure [top-secret/sensitive compartmented information] multi-media intelligence communications worldwide. The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has directed that all Special Security Offices (SSOs) will install the JWICS."
The Washington Post, quoting anonymous sources, reported last October that Snowden "lifted the documents from a top-secret network run by the Defense Intelligence Agency and used by intelligence arms of the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines." The Post further claimed that Snowden "took 30,000 documents that involve the intelligence work of one of the services" and that he gained access to the documents through JWICS.
The report says that on 11 July 2013, about a month after the Guardian's first report on the NSA's metadata program was published, DIA chief Lieutenant General Michael Flynn "directed establishment of the Information Review Task Force 2 (IRTF-2) to acquire, triage, analyze, and assess all DIA and DoD compromised information".
"Since 11 July 2013, IRTF-2 has led a coordinated DoD effort to discover, triage, and assess the impact of non-NSA Defense material from NSA holdings of compromised data," according to the DIA report. "As of 18 December 2013, the federated IRTF-2 assessment includes: [redacted]"
Flynn was recently forced out of his position at DIA as part of a "leadership shakeup," according to a report published in the Washington Post.
A partially declassified annex of the report contains various "terms of reference" that provide some clues as to what the impact assessment contains. For example, the report defines "compromised" as "out of government control", while "disclosed" is defined as "made available to the public via the media, or to a foreign adversary".
No evidence has surfaced to support persistent claims from pundits and lawmakers that Snowden has provided any of the NSA documents he obtained to a "foreign adversary".
Ben Wizner, Snowden's attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union, said: "This report, which makes unsubstantiated claims about alleged harm to national security, is from December of 2013. Just this month, Keith Alexander admitted in an interview that he doesn't 'think anybody really knows what he [Snowden] actually took with him, because the way he did it, we don't have an accurate way of counting'. In other words, the government's so-called damage assessment is based entirely on guesses, not on facts or evidence."
According to the annex, the "level of impact" that ensues from the unauthorized disclosure of top secret material is defined as "exceptionally grave damage to national security". The disclosure of secret material would lead to "serious damage", while the impact of classified material being leaked is defined as "damage".
Steven Aftergood, of the Federation of American Scientists, pointed out that the report's finding that the Snowden leaks had a "grave" impact did not follow any of the levels defined in the annex. "That is a bit odd," he said, adding: "Within this hierarchy, it is not clear where 'grave impact' would fall."
The annex also provides a legal rationale to identifying Snowden as a "Person of Interest (POI)." It says by using that term "in briefings and correspondence" it "limits legally discoverable information".


Krishna Bose, widow of Netaji's nephew Sisir Kumar, said that there would not have been speculations if those files were brought out earlier.
KOLKATA: Expressing happiness over the de-classification of 100 files relating to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, his relative Krishna Bose on Saturday said that there would not have been speculations (regarding Netaji's disappearance) if those files were brought out earlier.
"We are happy. If the files were de-classified earlier, there would not have been speculations. Both Narendra Modi and Mamata Banerjee have done good work (by declassifying Netaji files), Krishna, widow of Netaji's nephew Sisir Kumar Bose, said.
Stating that she could not go through the files de-classified during the day, Krishna supported the report of plane crash in August 1945 saying, "There were eyewitness accounts regarding the plane crash. It is unfortunate that we had lost a great leader. We did not get any proof saying that the plane crash did not take place. If we get any such proof we'll think over", she said.
Krishna also said, "the Japanese government had informed the whole world about the death of Netaji. The Japanese Prime Minister is a friend of our Prime Minister. We urge Narendra Modi to talk to his counterpart in this regard".
She refused to comment on the content of files declassified today, saying that, "I have not seen those files. How can I comment without going through those files. Don't drag me into any controversy".


35 Replies to "WEST SEATTLE SNOW: Monday night updates, including Tuesday plans"
Thank you for all you do for WS!! You are my go to resource for everything WS and have been so helpful with information during this crazy Snowpocalypse!
Mike Ball: What a beautiful photo.
All of Avalon is buses (7:30pm) at least 10 buses stuck!
Thanks,just adding that above. Anywhere with even a slight hill is a place to avoid!
Please be aware route 21 is not running at all per Metro. They can’t get up the hill from Avalon. They’re being left where they get stuck there. Had a cold, wet walk home.
I’m assuming there’s no garbage pickup tomorrow for those of us who are scheduled for 2/12/19 pickup? It’s too much of a slushy mess to drag the cans to the curb.
Just tried to drive three blocks around Alaska Juction… nearly impossible. Slushmeggedon is now upon us!
Bus drama continues on California & Genessee near the downed utility pole. A few 128s pulled over by the Post Office and letting out passengers. Saw one earlier then make a U-turn in the middle of the intersection and double back.Cheers again to our bus drivers! They are the best. Glad I don’t have to be out in this — driving or trudging through the slush.The number of cars out and about seems to have slowed, thankfully. Hope everyone gets home safe.
AA very large limb just fell from the monkey puzzle tree in front of my house and is now blocking sidewalk. Saw the power lines bounce but remarkably still have power. Any advice on who to call about removal? I’ve already left a message with the tree service that just pruned and limbed our the tree in October.
I hope SPU will update the site soon. I need to know if I should put out my bins or not!
Thank you wsb, for all you do, definitely, a valuable local resource. Hope you get a break sometime soon.
Did they get you on another plane to FL? We are booked on the same flight later in the week.
Yes, leaving today and looking forward to warming up :) thanks for asking…have a wonderful trip!
ST 560 is not running to Westwood this evening. It is stopping at Burien transit Center per an email notice I got.Heaven help anyone at the airport expecting to get here that way.
With the snow melt comes the standing water.We are under a flood warning until tomorrow, lots of water in the snow and it has no where to go. Tomorrow’s commute is going to be a mess!
The flood warning’s not in our area, but not far. We have only a “winter weather advisory.” However, the vigorous flow in the downspout outside the nearest window sounds ALMOST flood level!
The flood warning, if you follow the link on the NWS Seattle page (lower right), doesn’t include our area. Confusingly written, though, and maybe they’ll fix that in the early morning update.
Several houses along 7300 block of Gatewood haven’t had power since about 5:30/6:00. For whatever reason SCL map isn’t shower an outage and their automated outage system still doesn’t register it. We’ve called SCL three times only to have them tell us we had not registered our house and neighborhood as losing power. This is in addition to 911 dispatching SFD because there were live wires down.
Thanks TR! You are right that this area has historically not registered with SCL; it’s very frustrating.
Hopw everyone is safe! We live on Myrtle street. Just east of California street on the top of a big hill and dead end street. My family and a lot of the elderly neighbors have pretty much been stuck here but now my husband and I have a flight to catch at 8am On Wednesday morning. Have people been making it to the airport? Any advice?
I went to the airport at 6:30 pm in a Lyft and got there fine. My flight to Lauderdale got cancelled so i tried to hop flight to JFK but that would be flying into more snow. Got a ride home from SEA-TAC to WS at 10pm and it was slush and wet all the way. I’m gonna try for my actual flight tomorrow at 7:15 am. Hope it doesn’t get cancelled the Alaska customer service line was sooooo long. As of now I’ve been on hold for 40 minutes. Pack your patience and leave early. Good luck!!
I took some relatives to the airport around 9:30 pm. Aside from deep slush on the side streets, my round-trip to the airport was uneventful. Their flight out left as scheduled.
Got an update from Metro: route 21 appears to be back in service as of around 11:30 PM Monday night.Good luck to anyone commuting tomorrow, I have rarely been so glad to be retired as this past week.
Our power just came back on YAY at 3:54 am – in Highland Park.
that thing in the 9:45 update picture looks like a road grader, which is used to level gravel or asphalt in road-grading operations. never seen one used for plowing snow,, but it does have a big blade on the bottom…SPU says “one day delay” regarding monday trash pickup; not clear if that means the whole week is shifted one day again, or if they’re going to double up today.
Community Transit (serving Lynnwood, etc.) switched to double decker buses. Larger capacity, smaller footprint and, not as likely to get stuck in snowy conditions – like these silly Metro articulated buses!


The Super Mega is getting roasted tonight!
AKA says he is at peace with himself.
As AKA prepares to be ripped to shreds at his Comedy Central Roast tonight, the rapper tells TshisaLIVE he is not afraid of anything because of the peace and stability being reunited with his family has brought him.
AKA and his baby mama DJ Zinhle broke up in 2015 but several months ago sparked rumours of getting back together when they were spotted at a number of events getting cosy.
Although AKA has not officially confirmed that the pair are a couple again, he told TshisaLIVE that being reunited as a family has given him a new lease on life.
"I think that I am just a bit more calculated. I am in a happier place, on a personal level. I believe that my family has a lot to do with that, being together with my family again. It has given me stability and support. When you get that stability, it helps you focus on business and take better care of yourself. Also money! Making more money makes you happier," he said.
The star will tonight face a firing squad, including Papa Penny Penny, Pierre "Oubaas" van Pletzen, Mark Fish and his former nemesis Pearl Thusi.
AKA said he was honoured to be part of a roast that he says will push his brand as a pop icon. He also revealed that the cheque he will be getting for the show will go to helping students.
Some of those students may end up in the industry, where the star says he was willing to help them where he can.
He said that in the debate about opening opportunities in the industry, he believed the industry was already open.
"The industry has always been open. I didn't know it was ever closed," he added with a shrug.
Rapper AKA took to Twitter to tell South Africans they need to choose their battles amid Gucci boycott.


Though the United States remains out in front of Europe in manufacturing, Europe's "labor productivity" in the business sector has grown at a faster rate in recent decades, according to the World Economic Forum's 1999 Global Competitiveness Report. The figures cited measure "output per employed person," calculated using total GDP and employment figures. Trends in labor costs come into play, says the report.


The Solid Waste Agency of Lake County wants to see as much of the debris from construction and demolition projects recycled as possible.
Yet Andrew Quigley, the agency's executive director, acknowledges that builders won't have an economic incentive to recycle until the cost of dumping in landfills increases.
Landfill dumping fees are currently about $36 per ton, said Quigley. He estimated that if the cost reached $50 per ton, it would become economical to divert construction and demolition materials for recycling.
In the meantime, SWALCO plans to prepare educational material for Lake County developers and contractors, and develop a pilot recovery project. The agency also expects to create a model of bid specifications that municipalities can use to request maximum recycling of demolition and construction materials on municipal projects.


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Melrose Jewelers Launches its Rolex Watch Store with Mens Rolex & Lady Rolex Watches in UK.
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As the number of sailing yachts continues to grow rapidly around the world, many new boat owners are finding that they lack the skills to safely sail their boats and are turning to specialised yacht delivery professionals for help.
The Rasmuson Gallery of Alaskan Artists officially opens Monday 12 May with a reception from 12pm - 3pm PST or SLT. Located on the University of Alaska Fairbanks sim Rhetorica, the project features a growing exhibit of art by artists based in Alaska.
Sharon and John had been a couple ever since college. When they married, no one was surprised. However, recently Sharon has found reason for suspicion and anxiety that could ultimately destroy their relationship.
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Every year when the NCAA tips off its men’s basketball tournament, Deadline launches its own tourney to ascertain which film from the previous calendar year made the most money. The ticked for entry into Deadline’s Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament is domestic gross. The tournament started with the same seeding as the NCAA, but unlike this year’s bracket busting upsets, the early rounds were too easy to forecast. The ranking has further evolved. We started with the top 20 grossing films, but now we’ve changed that too.
When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn’t about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses, and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that mysterious end of the equation, Deadline uses data culled by seasoned and trusted sources.
This year, we’re changing it up, counting down from No. 10 all the way to crowning a champion. (See last year’s tournament here.). We’re also adding a report on the top five bombs, and we’ll continue to spotlight five cash cows — profitable titles that far exceeded their cash outlays.
The difficulty in determining exactly what talent gets after cash break keeps this from being a perfect science, but the aim is to demystify the process and make it clear that bragging about a weekend No. 1 finish, when it’s a small portion of budget and other costs, is often a hollow victory.
Let’s start this year’s countdown with No. 10.
Former Key and Peele star and creator Jordan Peele originally set out to write a mind-bending horror movie. But along the way he changed gears, delivering a socially conscious title (think Stepford Wives crossed with the Black Lives Matter undercurrent) that addressed the pervasiveness of racism in America despite the fact that President Barack Obama was in the White House for the previous eight years. Get Out tells the story about a young black man who goes to meet his white girlfriend’s racist family at their country house. A nightmare ensues. Released during the final weekend of February right after Donald Trump was sworn in, Get Out took on greater resonance with audiences with the divisiveness that followed.
Made for $4.5 million, Universal and Blumhouse launched Get Out at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival as the event’s surprise premiere, triggering huge word of mouth and a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score before opening to a great $33.3M at the domestic B.O. Most horror movies are front-loaded — both on their Friday nights and during their opening weekends — with at least a 60% drop in their second weekends. Not this film: Get Out posted a 17% rise between its first Friday and Saturday and a phenomenal 15% dip in its second weekend, ultimately generating a 5.2x domestic multiple of $176M and a $255M global worldwide haul, an anomaly for a horror movie. Get Out‘s heat wave continued well beyond its U.S./Canada run, garnering four Oscar nominations including Best Picture and an Original Screenplay win for Peele, who became the first African American ever to win in that category. His next movie won’t carry the low profit payout that Get Out did: you can bet that Peele is getting much more guaranteed upfront income and better terms. After all, he was a big name in comedy making his feature directing debut on a genre film.
Get Out generated an enormous profit of $124.8M, a figure that’s bigger than the profitable returns of other recent low-budget horror movies like The Conjuring 2 ($98.3M) and Purge: Election Year ($44.6M) in previous touranments. Much of this has to do with the pic maintaining a low bottom line. Universal didn’t cheap out on selling the movie with $77M in global P&A, which includes an awards push over the last five months. Most of the titles in this tournament will clear well over $100M in home entertainment revenues, but genre titles such as Get Out earn significantly less on digital and physical DVD. The pic’s $34.3M gross home revenue stream is in between Purge: Election Year’s $23M and Conjuring 2‘s $51M. The pic’s cash-on-cash return is a great 2.01, meaning Get Out’s revenue of $248.9M was double its overall theatrical and ancillary costs of $124.1M.


Two members of the U.S. Supreme Court indicated on Thursday night that the court will ultimately have to decide the legality of National Security Agency surveillance activities.
The two justices, Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, made the comments during a public event at the National Press Club in Washington. They were responding to questions posed by journalist Marvin Kalb about whether the court would take up cases arising from the recent disclosures about NSA surveillance, most notably by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
The justices did not discuss specific NSA programs. There are various lawsuits pending around the country challenging the government's widespread collection of telephone records. A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled in December that the program was probably unlawful, while a judge in New York held later that month that it was not. Both cases are now on appeal.
Scalia, a leading conservative justice, said the court was not the best body to decide major national security issues because of its lack of expertise. But he indicated that the court would likely decide the issue of whether widespread gathering of telecommunications data violates the Fourth Amendment, which bars unlawful searches and seizures.
"The institution that will decide that is the institution least qualified to decide it," Scalia said. The legal question is about "balancing the emergency against the intrusion" on the individual, he said.
Nine justices serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Ginsburg, one of the court's liberal members, said the justices would have little choice but to decide the matter should it come before them.
"We can't run away and say, 'Well, we don't know much about that subject so we won't decide it,'" she said.


Salt is more than something to sprinkle on to your fish and chips, this common household ingredient helps keeps England’s roads moving.
As temperatures are forecast to remain cold across the country Highways England’s army of workers are ready 24/7 to descend on to motorways and major A roads across Sussex in a fleet of gritters, to keep traffic moving. Here’s the story of how the operation works.


Above: Kano provides DIY hardware and free software to help teach kids to love coding.
“Oh my gosh, this computer actually works!” exclaimed a nine-year-old boy when he booted up the Kano PC he’d just built himself. He’d been skeptical. This was not like the sleek, closed devices the boy has at home and at school; he had handled and assembled the actual components of this computer himself. Suddenly, motherboard, memory card, and the HDMI cable were no longer abstract objects.
For instance, a child might be curious about how often her dog drinks water. She can write code that would use a sensor and camera placed next to Fido’s water bowl to snap a digital photo every time the dog trips the sensor. Kano seems determined to help kids unleash their creativity — no matter how frivolous or serious the project — and is filling the gaps between different levels of coding.
Kano’s message has been well-received by students and educators, with more than 100,000 kits shipped to customers in 86 countries. The London-based startup began in 2013 as a Kickstarter project, raising $1.5 million from 13,000 backers. After releasing its initial kits, Kano raised a $15 million series A round in May 2015. To date, the company has received $19 million in total investments from Jim Breyer, Marc Benioff, Martin Sorrell, Index Ventures, James Higa, Troy Carter, and Shana Fisher, among others.
The Camera Kit – a five mega-pixel codeable camera with a Tripwire Sensor to design flashes and filters, and use data triggers to make images, videos and GIFs.
The Pixel Kit – a light board with 128 dazzling pixels and a Tilt Sensor to build games, visualize real world data sourced from the cloud, and create artwork in 1.7 million colors.
The Speaker Kit – a programmable smart speaker with a Gesture Sensor to record, control, and synthesize your own sounds and electronic music.
Above: Kano announces speaker, camera and pixel kits.
These new kits work with Kano’s Computer Kit , which is a single-board Raspberry Pi computer (the “Kano Brain”) and a keyboard, which can connect to Kano’s Screen Kit (or any monitor) or to other devices with built-in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and USB. Suggested retail price of the new kits will be $130 each. The Pixel Kit will be the first product to ship, beginning in January 2017. The Computer Kit and Screen Kit are available for purchase now at Kano, Amazon LaunchPad, and through Kano retail partners Toys “R” Us and Barnes and Noble for $150 each.
Another youngster inspired to code.


on one side and mountains on the other.
village, where a grass chapel is under construction.
for a Savior, before teaching the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ.
in their understanding of God and the Bible and Christ," Vinton said.
of the spirit god of the mountain.
have the true God who has sent someone to save them," said Vinton.
conference to pastors and their wives for about three or four days.
pastors and how they can be good servants of God," Vinton said.
would like to attend your seminar that you will help or teach in Tanzania.


LONDON, England - A British Airways plane with 75 passengers on board made an emergency landing at Heathrow airport today after one of its engines caught fire.
LONDON, England – Delta Air Lines will significantly grow its presence at London’s Heathrow Airport when its partnership with Virgin Atlantic comes into force later this year.
TEMPE, Ariz. - US Airways today announced that service between the airline's largest hub in Charlotte, N.C. and London's preferred business airport, Heathrow, will start March 30, 2013.
TEMPE, Ariz. - US Airways today announced it has been awarded operating slots to inaugurate daily, non-stop service between its Charlotte, N.C.
LNDON, England - Over a third (34%) of tourism chiefs believe expanding Heathrow is the best way of solving the UK's airport capacity problems, according to a poll.
SOUTH NORWALK, Conn. - Virgin Atlantic has announced the launch of a new route between Vancouver and London Heathrow.
CRAWLEY, England - British Airways is increasing its services to Brazil by doubling its weekly frequency to Rio de Janeiro from three to six flights.
Heathrow Airport now offers a British Airways (BA) service to Tokyo Haneda after the company linked up with American Airlines as part of the one world airline alliance.
The name of international terrorist and fugitive Al Qaeda boss Osama Bin Laden has surfaced in an unlikely spot, and apparently he's flying British Airways first class to Washington.


If you have been thinking about starting a diet, then you are going to want to stop what you’re doing, grab pen, paper and read this article right away…..
According to the newest data on obesity released by Statistics Canada; Adult Canadians are becoming more obese. Now I am not sure if that surprises you but it does not surprise me for two reasons.
Reason 1: Did you know that if you type the words ‘weight loss diet’ in Google about 1,090,000,000 results will show up?
Reason 2: Did you also know that people have been inventing diets for over 150 years? One of the first diets was created in 1863 when William Banting invented the first low-carb diet. Let’s think about that for a moment. We have access to over 150 years’ worth of research and science at our fingertips about diets but we still haven’t figured out weight loss?
Weight loss is obviously a very confusing industry, full of gimmick diets such as all protein, all juice, no carbs, no food, magic pills, and a countless amount of other diets. Once we stop these diets we gain the weight back and then some — which is very harmful to our health.
I think its time that we all give up dieting and just start living healthier lives! We don’t need to be perfect. All we have to do is make healthier decisions in our everyday life. It’s easy! We can start small by covering half of every plate with fresh organic green vegetables (including your breakfast plate), walk 30 minutes a day, drink the right amount of good clean water for your body. Make sure the products you use and the people you spend time with are toxic free, keep a positive mental attitude, etc.
If you want to have a real weight management breakthrough and maintain a healthy weight long-term, you need to create healthy habits.
Hopefully, you grabbed a pen and paper because when we write down our goals the odds of us reaching them increases. The odds increase again when we already talk and act as if what we want is ours already.
You can make a positive change in your life. Start by trying this fat-burning recipe.
These flavourful sunflower seed sausages are fat burning, a perfect vegan option and are delicious hot or cold!


Becky Lynch Comments On WrestleMania Main Event, Drew McIntyre, Elimination Chamber 2017 Full Match - Wrestling Inc.
- The entire WWE Championship match from the 2017 Elimination Chamber PPV is available in the video above. The final two remaining men would be A.J. Styles and Bray Wyatt, with Wyatt using the Sister Abigail to become the WWE Championship.
McIntyre was live in attendance with his developmental cohorts to watch Edge and Undertaker main event WrestleMania XXIV in 2008.
Drew discusses the unforgettable street fight between Bret Hart and Stone Cold, and the iconic image that he will never forget.
McIntyre recalls the clash of styles between Shawn Michaels and Mankind, and the phenomenal match they had at Mind Games in 1996.
Drew recalls Triple H's rise up the ranks, and the brutal street fight with Cactus Jack that solidified Hunter's place in the main event.
McIntyre remembers jumping out of bed during this shocking Hell in a Cell match, and shares an interesting tidbit about The Undertaker.
Drew discusses the incredible crowd response to Rock vs. Hogan at WrestleMania, and how the fans are what truly make the match a classic.
Drew fondly recalls SummerSlam coming to England in 1992, and the tremendous main event match between Bret Hart and The British Bulldog.
McIntyre recalls Eddie Guerrero's ultimate underdog story, and the equal opportunity Superstars deserve regardless of their size.
Drew recalls the Tag Team Ladder Match in 1999 where Edge, Christian, and The Hardyz blew everyone away with their athletic display.
McIntyre selects a match of his own, and talks about tearing the house down with Ziggler, Rollins, and Ambrose at Hell in a Cell 2018.
- Earlier today, Becky Lynch tweeted out the statement, "Hey lads, I see you all everywhere. I hear you. The signs, the posts, the pictures, the chants, the love, the excitement. We're going to main event Wrestlemania!!!" Although nothing has been made official, numerous reports, including one from Sports Illustrated, claim that WWE management has decided to have WWE RAW Women's Champion Ronda Rousey vs. Becky Lynch be the main event of WrestleMania 35. Lynch is scheduled to appear tomorrow night on RAW to accept an invitation from Stephanie McMahon.
Hey lads, I see you all everywhere. I hear you. The signs, the posts, the pictures, the chants, the love, the excitement. We're going to main event Wrestlemania!!!


There’s a supreme irony in Obama quoting Thompson, whose truly stellar career ended in charges of antisemitism from Zionists, to a crowd of journalists who quake in fear of having their careers destroyed by Israel supporters who more recently smeared Helen Thomas, Rick Sanchez, Octavia Nasr, and Jim Clancy for off-hand, ill-conceived remarks.
Thompson’s long life and career was documented in her biography, American Cassandra, by Peter Kurth. She was born in 1893, the daughter of an impoverished Methodist preacher. After graduating from Syracuse University, she became a major player in New York’s suffrage movement as an organizer and speaker. In 1920, Thompson went to Europe with a friend to pursue her journalism career. The ship was filled with Zionists heading to a conference in London and during the 12-day voyage she learned everything she could about Zionism, becoming a strong advocate for their cause.
In London, she convinced a paper to allow her to cover the Zionist conference as a free-lance journalist and later covered the Irish Rebellion. The popularity of her articles in the US led to further positions. By 1925, she was head of the Berlin bureau for the New York Post. She married author Sinclair Lewis in 1928. She exposed and criticized the Nazis early on, and, in 1930, was one of the first journalists to interview Adolph Hitler. She predicted the Germans would start a new war by the end of that decade. In 1934, her aggressive anti-Nazi reporting caused Hitler to expel her from Germany.
Thompson returned home a national hero, her story on the cover of newspapers and magazines throughout the country. Her fame increased as she became a syndicated national columnist and radio commentator for NBC. By 1936, she was writing a political column for the New York Herald Tribune and was considered the leading voice in the war against fascism. By 1939, she was on the cover of Time magazine. A movie about her life stared Katharine Hepburn and a play stared Lauren Bacall. She was named the second most popular and influential woman in America behind Eleanor Roosevelt. She spoke out about anti-Semitism and the plight of the Jews in Europe, and urged a relaxation of immigration restrictions so the US could be a safe haven for the Jews under threat in Europe.
In the summer of 1941, she went to London to report on the Blitz and met with the Queen and with Prime Minister Winston Churchill. She fought against isolationism and urged the president to declare war on Germany. In 1942, at a Zionist convention at the Biltmore hotel, she was the keynote speaker and gave a rousing pro-Zionist speech advocating unrestricted Jewish immigration to Palestine. By the end of the war, she was considered one of Zionism’s most effective spokesmen.
Despite the loss of this important column, she continued her criticism of Zionist actions in Palestine. She concluded, after the 1948 war, that Zionism was “an aggressive, chauvinist movement” and that the new State of Israel was “an expansionist power.” She was angered by Jewish terrorism in Israel and appalled by Menachem Begin and the Irgun being treated as heroes in New York City. She was the first and only American journalist to speak out in defense of the Palestinian Arabs and the Arab nations, and was also the first and most prominent American journalist to be smeared with the label of “anti-Semite”.
In a long and thoughtful 1950 article published in the Jewish magazine Commentary, Thompson warned American Jews of the dangers of dual loyalty and of “the terrorism of criticism”.
As Thompson began to increase her criticism of Zionist policies, she was shunned by the Jewish community and by many of her life-long Jewish friends who had “turned on her in a gathering tempest of resentment.” Rumors were circulated that she was an alcoholic, and that her husband had been a Nazi sympathizer or even a former member of the Nazi general staff. The Washington Star, which published her “On the Record” columns, censored and refused to publish any more of her columns on Zionism.
Thompson’s editors warned her that in the American press a hostility toward Israel was “almost a definition of professional suicide.” Nonetheless, she would not be intimidated and said, “I refuse to become an anti-Semite by appointment”, and refused “to yield to this type of blackmail.” The campaign against her strengthened and she began to be dropped from other papers. Her once-lucrative speaking career began to dry up because of the organized campaign to label her as an anti-Semite, a label that stuck for the rest of her career.
Dorothy Thompson’s is truly a remarkable story. Her apex was probably 1948 when Claire Booth Luce and others wanted her to run for president. She’d been one of Zionism’s most famous and influential spokesmen. Her defection, in 1949, created great anger in the Jewish/Zionist communities, and in few short years her career was in tatters and her influence largely gone. Today, Dorothy Thompson is virtually unknown and unremembered. This fascinating woman who deserves to be an icon of the feminist movement, is rarely, if ever, mentioned as an important female historical figure.
I suspect there were very few members of the press at the White House Press dinner Saturday night who have any inclination toward investigating and reporting the plight of the Palestinians, or the pernicious influence of right wing Jewish billionaires on American foreign policy, and now American presidential candidates. President Obama’s gratuitous praise of the American press, at least the television version, was largely undeserved. Many are little more than talking heads on “news” networks that offer mostly infotainment and shameless touting of marginal news stories accompanied by frequent and breathless claims of more “breaking news”. The entire bunch couldn’t fill Dorothy Thompson’s left shoe. To suggest that our TV press is focused on preserving our liberty is ludicrous when ratings and advertising revenue are the obvious focus.
One can only wonder why President Obama praised our press corps using a true icon of journalism as an example. Was he trying, indirectly, to make a point, to remind them of a journalistic icon of the past in the hope they would recapture their own courage and return to true investigative journalism? I’d like to think so.
Dorothy Thompson was the first to pay the price of standing up and reporting the excesses of Zionism. If America’s journalists truly want liberty to survive, they need to exercise that liberty by practicing their craft with the courage and determination of Dorothy Thompson whose incredible story will be told in the soon-to-be-released documentary, “The Silencing of Dorothy Thompson”.
Gil Maguire is a retired civil rights attorney and writer of both fiction and non-fiction. He lives in Oxnard. His blog, Irish Moses, is named in honor of his father, Robert F. Maguire, who was awarded the Medal of Valor by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in 2004 for “his heroic efforts that helped to rescue tens of thousands of Jews” during 1948-49 after the founding of the State of Israel.


As Gigabit Ethernet pricing continues to free-fall, the technology is finding its way into corporate networks where 10M bit/sec hubs once might have served small workgroups.
The LAN switch market is shrinking, but demand for products is higher than ever.
A flaw in Cisco Systems’ CatOS, which runs on Cisco Catalyst switches, could freeze TCP-based management services on the switch. A fix is available from Cisco’s Web site.
3Com can participate in a lawsuit filed by Cisco Systems against Huawei Technologies, a judge ruled this week.
Netgear next week is expected to jump into the Layer 3 Gigabit switch market with a 24-port box that can act as a hardware-based LAN router for small and mid-size nets.
Cisco Systems has announced modular and stackable switch gear aimed at bringing features such as advanced quality-of-service controls, voice over IP and security to small and mid-size businesses.
Everybody probably wishes they looked as good at 30 as Ethernet.
Users are beginning to wake up to the benefits of the latest generation of intelligent Layer 2 switches that provide greater policy networking and security across the entire network. Phil Hochmuth looks at how users are taking advantage of these new Layer 3 and Layer 4 services at the LAN edge.
Avaya will increase the scale of its IP PBX to help customers support more remote offices over WAN connections, and more IP phones over a LAN.
The router market will stay in its slump in 2003, according to analyst firm the Dell’Oro Group. On the other hand, Ethernet switch sales will be up over last year.
At a tradeshow traditionally dominated by Microsoft, Linux vendors behind the UnitedLinux effort this week released the first production version of their combined Linux server distribution for enterprises at Comdex.
Extreme Networks has launched a version of its network management software that promises more automation of repetitive management tasks, a more intuitive user interface, and support for larger networks.
This week Avaya released IP telephones that offer more application features, while adding wireless LAN capabilities to the IP telephony mix.
MiLAN Technology this week at Comdex Canada announced the MIL-S3580, a 24-port Layer 2 switch that can limit traffic rates on a per-port basis.
Cisco Systems this week announced additions to its CiscoWorks product line aimed at bringing the company's wireless LAN (WLAN) products into the fold of network management software.


Captain Sunil Chhetri stamped his class yet again as he scored the match-winner to fire India to a 1-0 win over Kyrgyzstan in a fast-pace and entertaining Asian Cup qualifier match here today.
Chhetri drilled a low shot with his right foot off a fine pass from Jeje Lalpekhlua in the 69th minute to lead India to a crucial win in the home leg tie of the Group A third round qualifiers of the 2019 Asian Cup.
Chhetri, who scored his 54th goal in his 94th match, led from the front throughout the match. Playing behind the lone striker Jeje, he was in the thick of things, at times falling back deep to help the defenders, setting up his team-mates and also taking shots on his own.
With the win, India sat atop the group with six points -- from two wins -- ahead of Kyrgyzstan and Myanmar who both have three points from two matches. Macau is yet to open an account from their two matches.
All the four teams will play home and away matches and the two top sides will qualify for the 2019 AFC Asian Cup to be held in the United Arab Emirates.
The hosts, who had beaten Myanmar 1-0 in their first match of the qualifiers, notched up their seventh official international match on the trot.
Kyrgyzstan had better ball possession and more attack but they found wanting in their finishing. The Indian back-four of Sandesh Jhingan, Anas Edathodika, Pritam Kotal and Narayan Das were also superb in defending.
The visiting side was denied by the upright in the second half while Indian goalkeeper Gurpreet Singh Sandhu made at least three brilliant saves to ensure that the hosts walked away with all three points.
Kyrgyzstan, who are ranked at 132 as against India's 100, suffered a jolt as soon as the match started with their key midfielder Anton Zemilanukhin being stretchered out after a collision with Gurpreet in the fourth minute. Edgar Bernhardt took his place.
The 15th minute was all about Kyrgyz onslaught which kept the sizable crowd at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium quiet.
During this period, the visitors had most of the ball possession with the Indians leaving a lot of space in the midfield. It was due to the brilliance of Gurpreet India did not concede a goal in the 15th minute.
Bakhtiar Duyshobekov had a low shot from a nice buildup but Gurpreet brilliantly saved diving to his right.
India slowly clawed their way back into the match and even threatened to take the lead soon.
In the 23rd minute, Jakichand Singh was in the clear at the right top edge of the box after being released by Chhetri but he was in two minds whether to shoot or pass and wasted a fine move.
Three minutes later, Kyrgyz goal was under threat as Jackichand sent a nice long pass to Chhetri whose first touch inside the box with his left foot was out of control but Holycharan Nazary was there but he shot straight to the goalie.
India had another chance in the 31st minute, off a quick throw-in from the left flank by Eugenson Lyngdoh but Jeje's left-footed shot was brilliantly saved by the goalkeeper.
India was lucky not to concede a goal in the 55th minute as Ahlidin Israilov's left-footer hit the upright. India responded immediately on the counter but Chhetri could not put his shot down in front of Kyrgyz goal off a Nazary delivery from the left.
The Kyrgyz were doing all the attacking after the resumption and the Indian defence was in tatters in the 60th minute and Jhingan had to make a last-ditched clearance in front of the goal after Gurpreet was out of line.
But it was India who took the lead in the 69th minute against the run of play. In a quick counter-attack, Chhetri got the better of at least three Kyrgyz players at the middle of the park and then sent the ball for Jeje.
The Mohun Bagan striker lobbed the ball beautifully over a Kyrgyz defender to find his darting skipper, who made no mistake in firing his shot past the goalkeeper to send the crowd into a frenzy.
India could have won the match with a better margin but for the two chances, they wasted in the additional injury time of four minutes.
Chhetri sent Robin Singh, who substituted Jeje in the 80th minute, on the clear in the first minute of the injury time but the striker shot over with the goalkeeper at his mercy.
In the final minute of the added time, Chhetri himself was on the verge of scoring his second of the night but he also shot over in haste.
India's next match is against Macau, an away game, on September 5.


Mariners starter Travis Blackley releases a pitch against in his first major league appearance.
Cool and collected on the mound, 21-year-old Travis Blackley finally cuts loose in the dugout with Justin Leone, who was also called up from Tacoma yesterday. Leone did not get in the game.
Ichiro Suzuki rounds third to score on a double by Randy Winn in the first inning.
Mariners pitcher Travis Buckley in the third inning at Safeco Field.
Mariners Bucky Jacobsen warms up during the game.
Mariners Bucky Jacobsen hits a single during the sixth inning.
Mariners Justin Leone is welcomed in the dugout after he hit a two run homer in the fourth inning.
Tacoma Rainiers outfielder Jeremy Reed hits a two-run homer in the third inning against the Portland Beavers.


For cooking, forget the giant pumpkins that are meant for life as jack o’lanterns. The flat, lesser known heirloom variety called the Long Island cheese pumpkin is the prizewinner. This sweet, beige pumpkin gets its name from its resemblance to a wheel of cheese. Making pumpkin soup is a go-to way to prepare the fruit. As with any soup, the key is the quality of stock used. It should add flavor, but not too much or it will eclipse the taste of the pumpkin. Vegetable stock is the best choice here. Roasting the pumpkin with the seeds intact (except for a handful to be used as garnish) intensifies the flavor and adds a slight nuttiness to the soup. Adding sage and some raw apple brings aroma and acidity to the recipe. Finish with pumpkin oil for added richness.
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Remove about 1 cup of seeds from the pumpkin halves. Clean off any pumpkin meat from the seeds before setting them aside.
Rub the pumpkin halves with 1 tablespoon of olive oil and place them seed side down on a sheet tray lined with aluminum foil. Cook in the oven for about 50 minutes or until a sharp knife easily pierces the skin and flesh.
Meanwhile, cut the carrots and onion into a medium dice and sauté them in the remaining tablespoon of olive oil over low heat until tender. Set aside.
Heat 1 cup of olive oil in a small saucepan over medium heat. When it begins to simmer, add 3 to 4 sage leaves at a time, frying them for about 6 to 8 seconds each. Remove the leaves with tongs or a slotted spoon and place on a plate lined with paper towels. Continue this process until all the sage is fried. Turn off the heat.
Immediately place the reserved pumpkin seeds in the leftover, sage-infused oil, for about 20 seconds or until they begin to brown. Pour the contents of the pan into a metal strainer set over a metal bowl.
Place the seeds on a plate lined with paper towels and sprinkle generously with salt. Set the oil aside to cool.
When the pumpkin is cooked, remove it from oven and let it cool for 10 minutes. Then remove and discard any seeds from the flesh.
Scoop out the pumpkin meat from one pumpkin half and place it in a blender. Add half of the cooled carrots and onions, and one chopped apple to the blender. Add vegetable stock to the ¾ mark on the blender and close the lid. Blend on low, then gradually increase the speed as the ingredients combine. Pour the contents into a large pot or bowl. Repeat with the remaining sautéed carrots and onions, chopped apple and vegetable stock.
To serve: ladle soup into bowls. Garnish with pumpkin seeds, 2 to 3 sage leaves and a drizzle of the reserved pumpkin-sage oil.


Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) have bought equities worth $1.7 billion in the three months to June, the best inflows in last five quarters, data compiled from Bloomberg showed.
The buying by foreign funds, supported by purchases of domestic funds, resulted in a smart rally in stocks with the Sensex putting on 6.5%.
However, while local funds have been buyers, the quantum of purchases of Rs 3,319 crore was the smallest in the last five quarters. In 2016 so far, Sensex has gained 4.02% or 1,049.33 points while the broader Nifty50 has added 4.90% or 389.60 points.
Thailand received the smallest foreign inflows at $494.53 million less than Brazil which pulled in $609 million.
Foreign fund flows during the same period in the corresponding year of 2015 were a much smaller $184 million, partly because investors were spooked by the prospect of GAAR (General Anti Avoidance Rules) being implemented with retrospective effect.
inflows into equity schemes, which include equity linked saving schemes (ELSS), stood at Rs 96,000 crore.
The three months ending September 2015 saw the highest quarterly outflows in 2015 with foreign investors selling Indian equities worth $2.58 billion; in the quarter ended March 2015, India pulled in close to $6 billion.


Accra - AfroWomenPoetry is a project that portraits the female universe in a changing Africa and it’s an hymn to the beauty and inner strength of the African women. With AfroWomenPoetry Antonella Sinopoli, an Italian journalist based in Ghana, founder of the project and editor in chief of Voci Globali, is giving voice to African female poets and room to their verses. “I’m black not because I’m African, black is what I feel” says Nana Nyarko Boateng, a Ghanaian female poet, when the video recorded by the Italian journalist to crowd found this project starts. “Poetry accounts for an important instrument, a free zone – Antonella Sinopoli says – that allows people to express themselves freely”. “AfroWomenPoetry” started three months ago in Ghana, a country where women hold an important role in society, politics and entrepreneurial activity. Yet cultural differences and the supremacy of sexist traditions restrict women’s emancipation and limit their chances of personal growth and free thinking. "All the artists we contacted responded with enthusiasm to the project when invited to take part in it” says Antonella, that is now traveling throughout Togo where she is meeting with togolese female authors and where she is recording them while performing their verses.“The artists’ verses blend together themes, feelings and emotions that shape the modern African woman’s identity” Antonella Sinopoli explains. The verses often tell stories of domestic violence, century-long oppressive traditions, feminism and pride in being African. One recurring thread is the beauty of the African woman, which is often neglected and has to bend to the Western beauty standards instead. AfroWomenPoetry is also a website with a multilingual option, so far it is in English, Italian and after the recording in Togo, will be also in French. Transcriptions of each poem, performed in a video by the artist, are included in the website, both in their original version and translated into Italian. It is also possible to access the videos via a YouTube channel, which features a short explanation of the texts. “AfroWomenPoetry is still in its infancy - highlights Antonella Sinopoli from the pages of her website - but, with baby steps and steady, unshakeable motivation, its ultimate and ambitious goal is to expand to several other Sub-Saharan countries". These poets, in the aim of the project's founder, wants to open minds and widen the global knowledge about Africa and its women. Along with Antonella Sinopoli, who is also in charge of the videos, images, video and text editing, there is a staff of Italian editors, translators, creative and journalists assisting and they are: Carolina Carta, videos, images, text editing, editorial office secretary; Davide Galati, technical and editorial coordination, website creation; Stefania Gliedman, translation supervisor, text editing; Anarkikka, artist, she designed the website header and the logo; and Maria Pia Arpioni, Julia Arena, Azzurra De Paola, Stefania Gliedman, Serena Piccoli, Pina Piccolo, Maria Luisa Vezzali, translators. For info https://afrowomenpoetry.net - and to support the crowdfunding https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/afrowomenpoetry-africa-women#/.


The wind is blowing out to left, which may have helped that Ben Zobrist solo home run clear the wall.
Zobrist, Price's longtime Tampa teammate who hit the ill-fated pop-up in Game 2, gives the #Royals a 1-0 lead with a solo shot in the 1st.
Two grounders hit pretty hard, plus a home run. David Price's journey continues.
0% chance anyone's hitting that Yordano Ventura curveball tonight. Impossible.
Home run. Tough call. But either way, that's five to five and a half really hard-hit balls in six batters for Price.
Nobody up in the bullpen. Yet.


PHILADELPHIA, June 5, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Econsult Solutions Inc. (ESI), a global leader in economic forecasting, is partnering with Spectrum Gaming Sports Group, a unit of international gaming consultancy Spectrum Gaming Group, to assist governments and gaming operators in projecting the comprehensive economic impacts of legal sports betting.
ESI and New Jersey-based Spectrum, which have worked together on multiple economic impact studies, will combine their gaming and modeling expertise to measure the myriad impacts of sports betting, including gaming demand, revenue generation (gaming and non-gaming), tax generation (income, sales, property and other applicable), job creation (direct, indirect and induced), visitation and other aspects.
Spectrum, whose principals pioneered the study of gaming's impacts in markets throughout the world, views sports betting and other emerging forms of gaming as the tip of an economic spear that, if structured properly, can generate benefits far beyond the amounts directly wagered.
"All stakeholders must carefully assess and understand the full impacts of sports-betting policy before those policies are enacted," said Spectrum Managing Director Michael Pollock, who began studying the economic impacts of gaming in the 1980s, when he wrote the award-winning book "Hostage to Fortune: Atlantic City and Casino Gambling," published by the Center for Analysis of Public Issues in Princeton, NJ. Pollock served on the faculties of New York University, Rutgers University and Stockton University, and led the formation of Spectrum Gaming Sports Group to address issues related to the expansion of sports betting.
ESI offers unique expertise at the intersection of economic development, public finance, entertainment and tourism, with decades of gaming experience, having studied the actual and potential economic and fiscal impacts of casino, gaming and e-gaming projects in California, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, for public and private clients.
Stephen P. Mullin, President; Dr. Peter Angelides, Senior Vice President; and Dr. Daniel Miles, Vice President, who oversee the gaming projects of the company, have worked on comprehensive analyses and delivered gaming policy recommendations, notably for the Pennsylvania Legislative Budget and Finance Committee for which they analyzed the current condition of casino gaming in Pennsylvania as well as the future gaming environment. They have applied both IMPLAN and REMI input-output modeling systems to estimate the economic and fiscal impacts of public policies and have taught graduate-level economics, public policy, public finance and planning at various universities, including the University of Pennsylvania.
About Spectrum Gaming Group: Spectrum has performed advisory and consulting work for gaming operators, regulators and legislatures in 36 US states and territories and 47 countries on six continents. Spectrum serves as Executive Director of NCLGS, an organization of lawmakers that shares the goal of promoting best practices. Spectrum's sister companies include Spectrum Gaming Capital, based in New York, and Spectrum Asia, based in Bangkok and Tokyo. For more information, contact solutions@spectrumgaming.com.
About Econsult Solutions, Inc. (ESI): Econsult Solutions, Inc. (ESI). ESI is a Philadelphia-based economic consulting firm. It provides businesses and public policy makers with economic consulting services in urban economics, real estate economics, transportation, public infrastructure, economic development, public policy and finance, community and neighborhood development, and planning, as well as expert witness services in support of litigation. For more information, visit www.econsultsolutions.com or contact Stephen Mullin at mullin@econsultsolutions.com.


Archives|TAXES McCORMICK HEIRS.; Judge Sets $1,453,306 as Illinois Share of Inheritance.
TAXES McCORMICK HEIRS.; Judge Sets $1,453,306 as Illinois Share of Inheritance.


Sore enough so that Jacoby Ellsbury is back on the disabled list with no return in sight. It is not that Ellsbury and the Red Sox think he won't be back eventually, it's just that after his first comeback try didn't work, they'll be more cautious this time.
Ellsbury was examined by a thoracic specialist this morning and the good news was that some of his cracked ribs are healing faster than they would for most people. The bad news is that most people are not major league center fielders. Ellsbury said that this time around, he will be further along in the healing process before he tries to come back.
The Red Sox replaced him on the roster with pitcher Scott Atchison, and Mike Cameron is in center field for tonight's game.


In these very early episodes, Lorelai and Rory’s relationship has a volatility that doesn’t really stick around. Sure, there’s many a mother/daughter fight in their futures, but it’s usually over big stuff. But here, as in the pilot (the Dean fight), we see Lorelai and Rory bickering over something minor (the theft and stretching out of sweaters) because Lorelai’s actually mad about Rory getting close with her grandparents. It’s not implausible, nor does it ring entirely false, but the show is obviously still working out the kinks, because the whole thing feels a little forced and on the nose.
“Kill Me Now” is written by Joanne Waters. The next episode is written by Jed Seidel. If those names are unfamiliar, well, they should be, since neither of those people ever wrote another Gilmore Girls episode. In fact, Waters has no more credits to her name, while Seidel has had a nice career on great shows like Veronica Marsand Terriers. I’m not going to read too much into this—it’s just to say the show is still finding its voice, and its tone feels a touch off at times, although it’s also establishing so much of what we know and love about the Stars Hollow universe.
This is a grandparents episode, with Rory getting to know Richard at the country club (Emily schemes to have him teach her golf) and most of Lorelai’s plot business going on at the Independence Inn, which is a real rarity, but makes sense since she doesn’t have any romantic drama to contend with yet and Stars Hollow (particularly Luke’s) is still waiting to be fleshed out.
Lorelai’s stuff is pleasant, but a bit of a snooze. She’s wrangling an expensive, creepy wedding presided over by an acidly funny but profoundly cynical matriarch (played by professional TV guest star Meagan Fay), who hates her spoiled twin children. The reveal that the twin girls are marrying twin boys is well-handled (Lorelai and Michel get to bond in disgust) and the whole thing dovetails nicely with Rory, who sees an uptight mom fussing over her 5-year-old in a fancy dress and realizes that her upbringing was a thousand times chiller than Lorelai’s. But other than that, the inn business is fairly forgettable (sure, Sookie argues with Jackson about fruit, but we’ve already seen that before).
Rory’s plot is more intriguing. It’s so quickly established that she’s the utter apple of her grandparents’ eyes that it’s weird to see Richard be actively uncomfortable at the thought of taking her to the club and teaching her to golf. She really is a foreigner in his eyes: He’s astonished to realize that she’s quite the bright young woman, interested in Mencken’s Chrestomathy and traveling to Fez and so on and so forth. Not only that, but the grumpy old men at the club are impressed with her, which they likely never were with Lorelai—it’s a whole new world for Richard, who’s seemed quite detached from the action until now.
Rory doesn’t have a lot of agency in this story—all she does is go play golf with her grandfather and find the experience pleasant. This sets Emily into peals of joy and Lorelai into a spiral of jealousy, but it’s all minor enough that the stakes for the audience don’t really exist. That’s simultaneously the joy of this show and its occasional flaw: It doesn’t invent ridiculous drama out of nowhere just to serve the five-act structure, but it also can be a little too breezy. That’s also why Lorelai and Rory’s fight feels blown out of proportion, since all Rory did was wear a hat and say she liked her grandpa.
This one, at least, has more realistic stakes. I’ve been in Rory’s position—I was never the 4.0 GPA student she is, but I was enough of a good student that getting a terrible grade became this secret shame I bottled up. For Rory, a “D” is cataclysmic, particularly since it comes in English class and from her (somewhat) cool teacher Max Medina (Scott Cohen in the first of many appearances). It’s hard to believe that Rory would get a “D” on an English paper—I don’t care how stressful her workload is or how high the school’s standards are. That’s an insane grade to give a new student with a smile, saying “learn from your mistakes!” Yeesh.
Nonetheless, Rory gets a “D” and she silently freaks out, studying madly for Max’s upcoming test and turning Lorelai into a chirpy teenager who just wants to go out and party (or at least get ice cream) with her. Then, they both oversleep and Rory misses her test, leading to a meltdown at Chilton first from Rory—who gives Paris a real earful for bullying her while she’s dragged out of the classroom—and then from Lorelai—who gives Max and Headmaster Charleston a tornado of criticism for being such meanies.
“The Deer Hunters” is light on plot: There’s a thing where Sookie can’t stand that a food critic (who gave her a positive review) thought her risotto was “fine,” because apparently it has magic healing powers. But then it turns out he drank the wrong wine, so, huzzah! There’s also a little time spent with Lane (glimpsing her closeted den of music and other sins for the first time) and a glimpse of Luke (who serves Rory some sympathetic pie), but the show’s ensemble isn’t humming yet.
So it’s all about those big moments with Max Medina, who’s stern but understanding, and Headmaster Charleston, who’s mostly just stern. He calmly tells Lorelai that he knows his school is full of jerks and unreasonable standards, and that’s how it goes and if Rory doesn’t like it she can happily go away. To her credit, Lorelai is mature enough to consider that as an option—she can be too rose-tinted about Rory’s genius—but Rory assures her she can do better.
The only problem here is that we know that—and I don’t just say that as someone who’s seen every episode of the show. Of course Rory isn’t going to leave Chilton four episodes in! So again, the stakes feel artificial, and if it’s just a plot to draw Lorelai’s attention to the hunky book-learner Max Medina, it didn’t have to be quite so over the top. But, baby steps.
We hear the first references to Emily’s habit of firing staff and to Lorelai the first, Richard’s mother, who is discussed in the past tense here (but is later revealed to be very much alive).
This, I believe, is the last we see of Drella, which is good ’cause she ain’t funny.
The thing with Rory getting hit by a deer doesn’t really tie into the story well enough, but it’s funny.


The NFL’s investigation into how 11 of 12 New England Patriot footballs were under-inflated during the first half of this year’s AFC championship game just got a little bit more elaborate.
12 footballs in the bathroom… for science!
Will Femia, web producer for The Rachel Maddow Show, assists Rachel Maddow in a science experiment to determine whether it’s possible to deflate 11 footballs by two psi in a bathroom in 90 seconds.
Patriots coach Bill Belichick has previously alluded to “atmospheric” conditions likely causing the under-inflation. Meanwhile, Fox Sports and NBC Sports have cited unnamed sources who claim that an unidentified attendant who took 24 game balls into a bathroom before the game is being eyed as a person of interest in the scandal. NBC News has not confirmed these reports. However, msnbc’s Rachel Maddow attempted to show on Tuesday whether it was possible to under-inflate 11 footballs in under two minutes – a staff member from her program was able to take air out of eight balls.
NFL rules require that footballs’ pressure stay within a certain range of pounds per square inch. It’s widely believed by football players and experts that an under-inflated ball is easier to grip and catch, especially in adverse weather conditions. The Patriots’ blowout victory over the Colts in the AFC championship took place during persistent rain.
Patriots owner Robert Kraft has stood by his team and in a blistering statement Monday said he would demand an apology from the league if their currently ongoing investigation clears them of any wrongdoing. “I want to make it clear that I believe unconditionally that the New England Patriots have done nothing inappropriate in this process or in violation of NFL rules,” Kraft said.
Still, William Zajc, a scientist from Columbia’s physics department who confirmed the NFL’s overture to the Times, is skeptical.
“I think it’s more likely than not that [the footballs] were manipulated,” he said.


More casting news for 90210!
UPDATE: Lori’s onscreen daughter, Annie, has been cast. Shenae Grimes of Degrassi: The Next Generation, has snagged the role. Yep, the new 90210 is so going there!
Lori Loughlin is getting another Full House! She’s been cast as Celia Mills, Annie and Dixon’s mother, on The CW’s new Beverly Hills, 90210 spin-off. She joins previously announced regulars Annalynne McCord (most recently seen on Nip/Tuck) and newcomer Dustin Milligan.
Lori is a perfect choice for the role; she spent a few seasons mothering a bunch of beautiful and dramatic teens on the beachy drama, Summerland. For more on the series’ casting, click here.


The Coalition’s entire infrastructure program could be subject to an independent investigation after the Labor party requested an audit into claims that the handling of Melbourne’s East West Link project reflected “systematic failures”.
Labor’s call follows a scathing report by the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO), which found the Abbott government had inflated the deficit during its first year in power by transferring $1.5bn to Victoria for the now-scrapped tollway project despite “clear advice” that the payments were premature.
The party’s infrastructure spokesman, Anthony Albanese, wrote to the ANAO on Wednesday to ask for a review of problems with other big-ticket projects including “the collapse of the Perth Freight Link in the courts and the massive blowout on WestConnex [in Sydney] from $10bn to $16.8bn”.
Albanese, who successfully requested the earlier East West Link investigation, said a wider audit was needed because of a systematic failure with the infrastructure program announced in the Coalition government’s first budget.
“It also appears to be the case that what all these projects have in common is a breakdown in proper analysis and a move away from the evidence-based policy approach that was established under Infrastructure Australia to ensure the most appropriate allocation of commonwealth resources,” he said in a letter to the auditor general, Grant Hehir.
The future of the $1.6bn Perth Freight Link was thrown into doubt last month when the Western Australian government lost a court challenge against part of the project based on flaws in the environmental assessment processes.
Western Australia’s chief justice, Wayne Martin, found the state environment minister’s decision to allow a proposal to extend the Roe Highway was “invalid” because it relied upon a report by the Environment Protection Agency that “took no account of its own published policies”.
The Abbott government pledged in the May 2014 budget to contribute $925m towards the project. A month later, the WA parliamentary secretary for transport, Jim Chown, told a parliamentary committee the federal government had “a propensity to make these announcements” but “at this stage we have not actually got design plans that are worthy of public scrutiny”.
Albanese highlighted the comments in his letter to the ANAO. He said the 33km WestConnex project in Sydney – designed to link the M4 with the M5 – also deserved scrutiny because of cost increases and advance payments similar to the ones associated with the East West Link.
A report in 2012 suggested the total capital costs for WestConnex would be about $10bn, which was revised up to $11.5bn the following year. In November 2015, the New South Wales and federal governments said “enhancements to the original WestConnex design” were responsible for the cost increasing to $16.8bn.
The federal government is providing a concessional loan of up to $2bn to accelerate delivery of the second stage, in addition to $1.5bn in federal funding already allocated to the project.
The NSW minister for roads, Duncan Gay, defended the project on Wednesday, saying the new cost reflected changes to the design. “This is a road that is going somewhere and it’s helping this city,” he told Channel Nine News.
The ANAO report on the East West Link shone a spotlight on national planning processes for major projects. In the report, published last month, Hehir said the funding was approved despite departmental warnings that neither stage of the project had proceeded through a full assessment of its merits.
Hehir is yet to respond to Albanese’s latest audit request, but he is already familiar with WestConnex. Hehir examined aspects of the project in his former capacity as the New South Wales auditor general in 2014, when he found “shortcomings” in the level of independent assurance provided to the state government.
The ANAO was also asked to examine the consequences of the Turnbull government earmarking $18m to a potential advertising campaign about transport infrastructure.
Albanese suggested the advertising was “merely to promote the government’s political interests in an election year”. But a spokesman for the deputy prime minister, Warren Truss, said market research had found people “were interested in knowing more about the Australian government’s investment in transport infrastructure”.


Abiy is the rock star, breaking all 1,000-years-old assumptions about what is possible in Ethiopia, driving through dizzying reforms.
Diplomats say Uhuru is a “likeable guy at a personal level”, and that might have helped, but in fitting the above bill, a place was made for him at the global table.
Last week’s World Bank Ease of Doing Business report gave Kigali and Nairobi a lot to smile about.
Among the East African Community (EAC) countries, Rwanda was at the top of the tree and ranked 29th globally, from last year’s 41st position. Kenya recorded the biggest jump, from last year’s 80th to 61st this year. Though the government spin made too big a fist of it, still one couldn’t scoff at the ranking.
Uganda fell five places to 127 from 122; Tanzania slumped to 144 from 137; Burundi could barely manage 168th, and in an index measuring 190 countries, South Sudan was bottom feeder at 185.
Rwanda and Kenya have improved two years in a row, and with the vast gap to the rest of the EAC states, they might as well be in another world.
However, if you look beyond business and economics to politics, something else has happened to the leaders of the two countries. Globally, Rwanda’s Paul Kagame, Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyatta, and lately joined by Ethiopia’s newish Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, increasingly enjoy very good fortunes.
The most difficult to fully comprehend is Uhuru. In the first year of his presidency, with the International Criminal Court (ICC) charges hanging over his head, he looked set to become a hidebound Omar al-Bashir up in Khartoum. Even after the ICC dropped charges against Uhuru, it was not inevitable that he would emerge on the world stage. Before long, however, world leaders, including then-US President Barack Obama, who had dealt with Nairobi with a 10-metre-long pole, were knocking on his door. Uhuru was and still is being the Africa representative to global gatherings, even though he was not the EAC chairman, African Union chairman, or anything. He was in the first group of the African leaders to meet the volatile and probably racist US President Donald Trump.
Though Kenya is a player in the AU peacekeeping force in Somalia, Amisom, it is not the definitive actor and doesn’t have the largest contingent. So it’s not Kenya that has the most Somalia aces, nor is it the kingpin in the South Sudan madness.
Which diplomatic witchdoctor did Uhuru see? In reality, several forces gifted him. First, in Uganda, President Yoweri Museveni, once the regional leader, veered in a more authoritarian direction from 2016, and then stunk up his standing further by removing the presidential age limit to allow him stand again in 2021, when he will have been in power for 35 years, much longer than any previous autocrat in the EAC region ever.


DESTIN - Alabama coach Nick Saban has a strong - and seemingly solitary - stance on the Southeastern Conference potentially moving to a nine-game league schedule.
Others, including Georgia's Mark Richt, Vanderbilt's James Franklin and Ole Miss' Hugh Freeze, want to keep things status quo. The SEC currently plays eight conference games: six games against division opponents, one against a designated rival from the other division and one rotational game against the remaining six teams.
The SEC's 14 coaches spent Tuesday discussing the pros and cons of eight- and nine-game schedules. While most want to remain at eight games, some would like to see the 6-1-1 model switched to a 6-2 version that would eliminate cross-division fixed opponents. That would mean the end of annual rivalries like Alabama-Tennessee or Auburn-Georgia.
Coaches will vote and take the result to athletic directors Wednesday. The ADs will make a final suggestion to presidents and chancellors later in the week. The league is likely to make a decision on the 2014 schedule Friday but might not reach a final resolution regarding future schedules until later.
But the league is in the midst of a major overhaul. The SEC add Texas A&M and Missouri last year and is launching the SEC Network in 2014. The network surely will want more marquee matchups in exchange for increasing revenue.


Sioux Falls voters can do more than participate in democracy in today's elections. They can also score some deals.
Oh My Cupcakes! main store — show your "I Voted" sticker for a free mini cupcake.
Bread & Circus Sandwich Kitchen — show your "I Voted" sticker and get 10 percent off your meal.
Remedy Brewing Co. — show your "I Voted" sticker and get $1 off pints.
Fernson on 8th — show your sticker and get $1 off all your beers.
CherryBerry — show your "I Voted" sticker and get 10 percent off your order.
Granite City — show your "I Voted" sticker and get $1 off your beer.
Shenanigans Sports Bar and Grill — show your "I Voted" sticker and get one free drink.
Fernson Brewing Co. — show your "I Voted" sticker at Fernson on 8th to get $1 off all beers for the whole night.
Potbelly Sandwich Shop — ask for a cookie today or Wednesday. No "I Voted" sticker required.
Taco John's — free order of chips and nacho cheese with a coupon from the Taco John's Rewards app. Download the app at www.tacojohns.com/rewards.
The Original Pancake House — show your "I Voted" sticker and get free coffee and pancakes.


On Jan. 1 around 2:40 a.m., the Rainy River District OPP conducted a traffic stop near Portage Avenue and First Street East.
After speaking with the driver, it was determined she had been drinking.
The driver, 31-year-old woman from Naicatchewenin First Nation, failed the roadside test and subsequently was arrested.
On Tuesday around 4:15 p.m., Rainy River District OPP officers responded to a call for service at the Emo Health Centre.
Upon arrival, officers located a 47-year-old female who had arrived at the hospital and was pronounced deceased.
Members of the Kenora OPP, Forensic Identification Unit, and Kenora Crime Unit are investigating a sudden death in Kenora.
On Friday, Nov. 27 shortly after 6 a.m., police received a report of a deceased male in the Norman area of Kenora.
The deceased has been identified at 84-year-old Douglas Quirk of Kenora.
The Rainy River District OPP is asking for help from the public.
Yesterday at 3:30 p.m., officers were advised that a pick-up truck had struck a car on the 600 block of Thompson Avenue and failed to remain at the scene.
The truck is described as a dark blue Ford extended cab truck with a male driver.
Police know the approaching holiday season brings an increase in the number of alcohol-impaired drivers on Ontario roadways.
This means there likely is to be more tragedy on our roads in the days ahead.
The OPP is setting up traffic stops around the province—and around the clock—as it kicks off the 2015 Festive R.I.D.E. (Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere) campaign.
The Rainy River District OPP is joining forces with the Town of Fort Frances to facilitate winter snow removal and to keep area roads safe.
The public is reminded that calendar parking is in effect all year long.
Violators may be issued a municipal bylaw parking ticket or have their vehicle towed.
The vehicle owner is responsible for towing and storage fees.
The Sioux Lookout OPP is investigating the death of a 47-year-old man from there.
Shortly after 11 a.m. on Saturday, officers were conducting foot patrol in the bush area at the north end of Fourth Avenue when they discovered the deceased male.
Yesterday around 12:30 p.m., Rainy River District OPP officers located a male, who was arrested on an outstanding warrant within the Town of Fort Frances.
The male was taken to Fort Frances detachment.
A short time after arriving there, he sustained an injury and was transported to hospital.
On Tuesday at 4:50 p.m., Rainy River District OPP officers responded to the report of a motor-vehicle collision near the intersection of Shortreed Road and King’s Highway 11 in Watten Township.
The 51-year-old Fort Frances woman subsequently was arrested.
The Repeat Offender Parole Enforcement squad is requesting the public’s assistance in locating a federal offender wanted on a Canada-wide warrant as result of her breach of parole.
Michelle Stephanie Morris is described as a 33-year-old First Nations’ female, standing 5’6” and weighing 137 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.
She also has a scar on her right wrist.