Datasets:

nixiesearch

/

bfhnd-small

like 0

Follow

Nixiesearch 4

[ "The World Wide Fund for Nature" ]

[ "The Who's Tommy", "who is singing", "Who You Are", "Who Is Fancy", "Who's That Girl", "Doctor Who", "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire", "student who completes two sets of degree requirements", "Who's Sorry Now", "one who is accomplished", "The Man Who Was Thursday", "a person who was not a slave", "she who scrivens", "The Girl Who Died", "Who You Selling For", "Who I Am", "a player who is not a starter", "individuals who are in transit", "Who the Hell Are You", "The Man Who Laughs", "Who Needs Pictures", "She who weeps", "The Two Ronnies", "The Ladies Who Lunch", "Who's Your Daddy?", "Men Who Swim", "The Who Sell Out", "The WHO Drug Dictionary" ]

[ "A firefighter ID is a temporary user ID that grants the user exception-based, yet regulated, access. The firefighter ID is created by a system administrator and assigned to users who need to perform tasks in emergency or extraordinary situations." ]

[ "Noun. crude sap (usually uncountable, plural crude saps) (botany) The sap of a plant that rises from the roots to the leaves.", "What is the difference between the heartwood and sapwood of a tree? Heartwood no longer transports water and minerals, while sapwood still conducts xylem sap.", "Artificial Trees: Although fake trees are oil- and sap-free, their needles can create gastrointestinal or other issues, depending on what material makes up the tree.", "European settlers introduced iron and copper pots into the process, which allowed the sap to be heated longer, removing more of the water and producing what we know as maple syrup today.", "What's The Difference Between Coconut Sugar and Coconut Palm Sugar. Honestly, there's no difference. It's just a different name! Sometimes, it's also called coconut crystals or coconut sap or nectar.", "The sap present in a plant stem is alkaline in nature. Phloem sap involves pumping out of protons which is a cotransport method for the intake of Sucrose in the dive tubes. Hence it makes the phloem sap slightly alkali.", "What is beech woolly aphid? Aphids, also known as greenfly and blackfly, are sap-sucking insects. Woolly beech aphid can make the foliage of beech trees and hedges sticky with the honeydew it excretes.", "The upward movement of water and minerals in a plant through xylem is called ascent of sap. During transpiration, pressure in the internal roots develop known as root pressure. This root pressure helps in ascent of sap. Thus, transpiration helps in ascent of sap.", "Oak Tree Dripping Sap: Oak trees are one of the species that are susceptible to the plant-sucking insects that create honeydew. They do not naturally drip sap. If you have an oak tree dripping sap get help from an Arborist.", "Xylem sap consists of mainly water and some solutes or mineral nutrients. Phloem sap mainly consists of the sucrose, a kind of transport sugar which is adiasaccharide, hormones and amino acids are also found in phloem sap of the plants.", "Deciduous trees do not produce resin, they produce sap. Sap is more watery than resin, which is thick and slightly amber color. Coniferous or evergreen trees like pine, cedar and Douglas fir produce both sap and tree resin.", "thinking about sap gloves? a slapjack is legal to carry concealed with ccw. but can't conceal and wear sap gloves at same time.", "Aphids are common insects that damage zinnias when they puncture the leaves and stem to feed on the sap, or juice of the plant. Other pests, such as mites and scales, also damage zinnias by feeding on the sap. Sap-sucking pests are tiny and are usually found in dense groupings on the stems or the undersides of leaves." ]

[ "becuase, spandex is marketed specifically toward fatasses and wrestlers, and if there was a weight limit it would destroy half their business" ]

[ "As you gain weight your eye sight deteriorates and the part of your brain where you make judgment calls dies. After a while you have a hard time to see how awful you look in Spandex and you don't really give a damn, anyway.", "You should come watch me play volleyball in my tight spandex!!!! LOL", "I think there are more than three.\\n\\nNylon, Polyester, Spandex. Those three are the first to come to my head.", "It varies between weights. Anywhere from 25-32, most likely.", "Depends on the type of shorts. Some of the shorts have built in spandex. Most Professional Players have spandex they use. I would say there asking for trouble going commando.", "well...i know the wrestlers want to be as light as possible for weigh-in - a pair of underpants probably adds 1/4 or a pound at most... though some poeple do have strange likes and rituals...", "well that is ur university , u know well, just kiding , isn;t it???", "Because he isn;t trust worthy. Say this to him \"_______ you told me if i couldn't trust you then we need to break up. Well i can;t trust you because of the way you're acting and if you're not willing to help me to trust you by not acting that way then guess what, goodbye\" dump him before he cheats and really breaks ur heart.", "The Seattle Seahawk in question is WR #82 Darrell Jackson from the University of Florida.", "to bag or to ball\\nbag limits the strength \\nball u decide how strong..", "um sorry sweetie but if he still likes you than why would he get a new girlfriend? i guess what you should do is let him go, it isn`t easy but still, if he comes back to you that`s how you know, besides if nothing happens then it wasn`t meant to be in the first place.", "being single isn`t all that bad.When in doubt, hold up your right hand and renew your vows; TO MY WIFE FOR LIFE! My hand never bitches,bleeds,has a headache,gets knocked up, or cheats on me. THIS IS GOOD", "I'm sure there was at one time, but I don't really know if there is a reason for it these days.\\nMaybe in the caveman era it protected the soft tissue from the weather (environment)", "Because it is against the LAW. The load could fall damaging property, hurting OR killing someone.", "People did when I was a child. I think we've stopped because everyone weighs more now and it would be too difficult to get back up.", "When I was in high school, we had to wrestle in gym class. They made us all weigh in in just a jockstrap to classify us by weight. It was a little uncomfortable, but we all survived.", "You need therapy baby,seriously they could help you understand why you think this and maybe help you help yourself.Good Luck! I`m not trying to get ya! If you go to a shelter or battered woman you will be a victim forever,there is no marriage they can`t find where a woman isn`t a victim.Go to professional therapists.", "well if you were born in england and were 15 or over you`d be in a trench knee high in mud fighting the germans or sent to prison if you refused to go\\nmorbid isn`t it\\nwar is sh#t", "From the fact the weights could neither read nor write! sorry about that but serously i don't really know", "you forgot to mention that he is ignoring Isreal who has nuclear power too!!!\\n\\nby the way there isn`t any Arab country who has nuclear power\\nIran isn`t arab & Bush claimed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction just to invade it for the oil\\n\\nhe is just showing off with his power to hide his weakness which was uncovered when 9/11 happened", "not knowing what a crazy sumo made of spandex is, that's my translation:\\n\\n'Verrückter Latex-Sumo'\\n\\nmaybe you can explain what it is, so that i can modify my translation.\\n\\ntc, marifa5970 from austria/europe", "upload it on www.rapidshare.de its free and secure once file is uploaded send your frend a link to it its so easy isn`t it", "ewww check guinness world records , 800 lbs. ?", "depends upon the PATH travelled... ISN\"T IT????\\nor\\nWhy will the bus go there????? since the cat is already there....\\nor Depends upon the size of SUGARCANE..........", "because every day more water vapors and more rain comes so the weight may vary!!", "picturesque landscape, interesting towns, really nice people, good soccer, royal family,\\nbut: weather and food isn´t that great", "Because people want to look like Twiggy and because of what society dictates.", "in outlook express go help, if ur problem isn´t in ur offline help ccontent , microsoft can look for information online, if ur connected.", "And I answered Florida and the person after me who was from Pennsyvania agreed Florida. \\n\\nPennsyvania has a great football tradition as well. \\n\\nBut don't ask questions you think you have the answer to, but which are open to debate unless you're prepared to have people disagree with you.", "A hat? A bottle top? A limit?", "82X5.6X100/Body weight in gm.\\nThanks.", "You can weigh nude, or in your underwear, or singlet. My son weighs nude pefore a match, but in underwear or singlet at time of weigh in" ]

[ "London, England (CNN) -- Irish football officials have lodged an official complaint with world ruling body FIFA after Thierry Henry confessed that he handled the ball in the build-up to the goal which sent France to next summer's World Cup. Television cameras showed Henry guiding the ball with his hand twice, before William Gallas scored from his resulting cross to give \"Les Bleus\" a narrow win in the two-legged World Cup play-off against the Republic of Ireland. \"I will be honest. It was a handball but I am not the referee,\" the Barcelona striker told reporters after the match in Paris. The Irish Justice Ministry confirmed to CNN that Dermot Ahern had asked the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) to demand a replay in the interests of fair play. \"Thierry Henry has admitted handling the ball, claims he told the ref he handled it. Millions of people worldwide saw it was a blatant double handball -- not to mention a double offside -- and we should put the powers that be in the cozy world of FIFA on the spot and demand a replay,\" Ahern said in a statement sent to CNN. \"They probably won't grant it as we are minnows in world football but let's put them on the spot. It's the least we owe the thousands of devastated young fans around the country. Otherwise if that result remains it reinforces the view that if you cheat you will win.\" The FAI later confirmed that it had taken the matter to FIFA. \"I really believe the integrity of the game has been questioned last night,\" chief executive John Delaney told reporters. \"The governing body of world football have to step up to the plate and accede to our call for a replay.\" Delaney said the FAI had also written to the French football federation. \"They need to look at themselves in this situation. Henry is their captain and a wonderful footballer, but does he want to be like Diego Maradona and his legacy to be this handball, this goal that got them to the World Cup in an unjust manner? If we had qualified in this manner, I wouldn't be happy,\" he said. \"It is up to the people who govern the game now. Every time I go to a FIFA congress I hear about fair play and integrity. This was a defining game with the whole world watching, and if FIFA believe in fair play and integrity, this is their opportunity to step forward.\" The FAI has argued that there is a precedent for the result to be struck out, following FIFA's ruling that Uzbekistan had to replay a play-off against Bahrain for the 2006 World Cup in Germany after the referee made a mistake in awarding a penalty. \"The Football Association of Ireland is hoping that FIFA and its disciplinary committee will, on behalf of football fans worldwide, act in a similar fashion so that the standards of fair play and integrity can be protected,\" the FAI said. FIFA confirmed it had received the Irish request for a replay, but gave no timescale on a decision. However, it said that under its regulations the referee's decision cannot be changed. \"Law 5 states that the decisions of the referee regarding facts connected with play, including whether or not a goal is scored and the result of the match, are final,\" it said. \"The referee may only change a decision on realising that it is incorrect or, at his discretion, on the advice of an assistant referee or the fourth official, provided that he has not restarted play or terminated the match.\" Irish captain Richard Dunne, who spoke to Henry on the final whistle, said he felt cheated by the goal. \"He admitted he handled it, but it doesn't make me feel any better because we are not going to the World Cup finals,\" the defender said. \"FIFA will probably be happy. Yet again the big decisions have gone for the bigger team.\" Football's international governing body had faced criticism from several Irish players that the seeding system for the play-off draw favored more powerful nations such as France. Blog: When will FIFA see what's staring them in the face? Dunne's teammate Robbie Keane admitted it was \"hard to speak,\" as he struggled to come to terms with the result. \"With the way we played, we certainly deserved to win the game and it killed us near the end with that handball,\" he was quoted by the FAI Web site as saying. \"I've seen the replay but we knew anyway (it was handball). You could see by the reaction of the players, especially Shay (Given) who was two yards away from it. You don't get a reaction like that. It was a clear handball. \"He (Henry) almost caught the ball and actually ran into the net with it. We're devastated.\" Ireland team manager Giovanni Trapattoni told reporters that the referee had time to ask the linesman and then Henry. \"It would not have been the first time a player would have asked and it would not have been out of turn. \"We are angry,\" the Italian continued. \"It is a bitter evening for me. I would prefer to have gone out on penalties.\" Fanzone: Five of football's most famous injustices . But former France international David Ginola was emphatic that Henry should not have \"owned up.\" \"You don't do that,\" he told CNN. \"Henry was doing his job. You can't blame him for doing everything he could for his team and country to get them to South Africa. \"But it was a shame to finish the game like that as Ireland had played very well. \"Referees need more help on the pitch, so as not to allow things like that. Obviously the referee was not well-positioned and couldn't see.\" English Referees Union chief Alan Leighton told CNN that Swedish official Martin Hansson had clearly missed a huge decision. \"I think the incident was more of instinct than deliberately attempting to cheat but it does seem that the ball hit his hand twice and therefore there is an issue.\" But on the wider issue of cheating, Leighton said: \"It is all very well to blame the referees for not spotting it but fundamentally it starts with the players. \"I think the players have to think about the game, think about the reputation of the game and their own reputations and say look actually there is a line that we will not cross.\"" ]

[ "FIFA have left themselves open to further accusations of corruption after insisting their £6million report into the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups would not be published. Football Association officials will await an official explanation from the world governing body before issuing a response. But Hans Joachim-Eckert, who chairs the adjudicatory chamber of Fifa’s ethics committee, has reportedly said he would not be allowing the findings of a 350-page report - compiled from 200,000 pages of evidence by New York attorney Michael Garcia – to ever be available to the public. Michael Garcia (left) is said to be furious that Hans Joachim-Eckert (right) will not release the report . Eckert says not even the FIFA executive committee will be able to read the full report when it is finished . Joachim-Eckert, a judge in Munich, has told the Sunday Times that he and his deputy would be the only people to read the report and said that Fifa’s rules prohibited him from even showing it to Fifa president Sepp Blatter and the world governing body’s 27-man executive. It means the accusations of bribery in the bidding process for the World Cup will remain unanswered; at least publicly. It is something that is understood to have infuriated Garcia and John Whittingdale, chairman of the Commons culture, media and sport committee, told the Sunday Times: ‘I’m absolutely horrified. Sepp Blatter is at the centre of the curruption scandal which saw the 2022 World Cup awarded to Qatar . 'The one thing we’ve always been told by Fifa is that there would be a proper investigation and we should wait for the Garcia report. 'But if the Garcia report is going to be buried so that we have no idea what the conclusions are, it will leave the reputation of Fifa in pieces. 'It confirms what we have long suspected, that all Fifa is interested in is burying this whole matter and sweeping the evidence under the carpet.’ Lord Triesman poses with Blatter while he was FA chairman. He said the announcement was 'not surprising' Lord Triesman, the former FA chairman who initially led the England bid to host the 2018 World Cup until his resignation seven months before the vote, said: ‘Fifa has a very long-standing culture of misbehaviour and complete secrecy — omerta is the word that comes to my mind — so in a way it’s not surprising that they won’t reveal the contents of the Garcia report. 'But the most clear test of whether Fifa ever attempts to reform is whether it conducts investigations in a transparent way, publishes the details of the findings and deals with the problems in an equally transparent way. 'Other than that, the culture will simply go on as it has done now for decades.’ Lord Triesman suggested that 'the culture will simply go on as it has done now for decades'", "Republic of Ireland international James McClean has written a passionate open letter to Wigan fans to explain his decision to not wear a poppy during last night's game against Bolton Wanderers. Derry born McClean said if the poppy only represented those who fought in the two world wars, he would have no problem wearing one. However, he said, as the poppy also represents those who have fought since 1945 - including during the Northern Ireland conflict, he could not wear one. McClean said he would be showing 'disrespect' to the victims of the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry if he wore one. His stance, opened him up to significant abuse on social media. Scroll down for video . Republic of Ireland International James McClean, centre, wrote a letter to Wigan Club chairman Dave Whelan explaining the reasons why he was unable to wear a poppy-embroidered shirt during last night's match . McClean defended his decision claiming that wearing a poppy would be a sign of disrespect for the innocent victims of the troubles such as those killed by British Troops on Bloody Sunday in January 1972, pictured . McClean played for Wigan last night during the team's 3-1 defeat to Bolton Wanderers. Bolton fans regularly booed the Republic of Ireland international each time he touched the ball during last night's encounter. The player met with Wigan chairman Dave Whelan, whose grandfather from County Tipperary, fought in the First World War, to explain the situation. Last night, the club’s official website published a letter from McClean to Whelan in which the winger, who was named among the substitutes, explained his stance and denied being anti-British. In that letter, McClean said he had great respect for those that fought and died in both World Wars, however, he had a great problem with the poppy representing those killed in conflicts since 1945. In particular, McClean said that as someone born in Derry, he could not support the poppy appeal. James McClean, left, faced abuse in November 2012 when as a Sunderland player he again refused to wear a poppy, although fellow Republic of Ireland international Seamus Coleman, right wore one playing for Everton . He cited the January 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre where 13 civil rights demonstrators were shot dead by British troops. He said: ' For people from the North of Ireland such as myself, and specifically those in Derry, scene of the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre, the poppy has come to mean something very different.' He said that after those events it would be 'an act of disrespect' to those people. McClean had previously refused to wear poppy earlier in his career while playing for Sunderland. Police in Sunderland investigated death threats made against the winger after he appeared as a substitute against Everton in November 2012 without wearing a poppy. Some of the more extreme elements on Twitter wanted McClean to 'drop dead' or to suffer a major injury . Twitter users were divided on their opinions on whether James McClean had made the correct decision . The statement was welcomed by many people on social media, some of whom praised McClean for having ‘the courage of his convictions’ but said it was ‘sad that it’s come to the stage he’s had to even explain himself’. Others were more scathing of the footballer’s decision and Jon Jenner wrote on Twitter: ‘James McClean shouldn’t be allowed to play in England nothing but scum [sic]’ while another wrote: ‘Statement regarding James McClean…Utterly Disgraceful Behaviour. Disgusting Individual. Early in his career, McClean played international football at youth level for Northern Ireland until he reached the Under 21s. In February 2012, McClean received clearance from FIFA to switch over to the Republic of Ireland international squad, which led to him also receiving abuse. After McClean was called up for the Republic of Ireland squad for Euro 2012 and was abused by some Northern Ireland fans. He was forced to 'retire' from Twitter after he responded to some of the abuse by telling Northern Ireland fans to watch their own team during the competition - knowing that they had not qualified. Two years ago, former British soldier Cody Lachey posted pictures of bullets on McClean's Twitter timeline. One of the tweets said: ''he deserves to be shot dead + body dragged past the cenotaph!!' Other users on Twitter expressed support for McClean's decision or his right not to wear a wear a poppy . Dear Mr Whelan . I wanted to write to you before talking about this face to face and explain my reasons for not wearing a poppy on my shirt for the game at Bolton. I have complete respect for those who fought and died in both World Wars - many I know were Irish-born. I have been told that your own Grandfather Paddy Whelan, from Tipperary, was one of those. I mourn their deaths like every other decent person and if the Poppy was a symbol only for the lost souls of World War I and II I would wear one. I want to make that 100% clear .You must understand this. But the Poppy is used to remember victims of other conflicts since 1945 and this is where the problem starts for me. For people from the North of Ireland such as myself, and specifically those in Derry, scene of the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre, the poppy has come to mean something very different. Please understand, Mr Whelan, that when you come from Creggan like myself or the Bogside, Brandywell or the majority of places in Derry, every person still lives in the shadow of one of the darkest days in Ireland’s history – even if like me you were born nearly 20 years after the event. It is just a part of who we are, ingrained into us from birth. Mr Whelan, for me to wear a poppy would be as much a gesture of disrespect for the innocent people who lost their lives in the Troubles – and Bloody Sunday especially - as I have in the past been accused of disrespecting the victims of WWI and WWII. It would be seen as an act of disrespect to those people; to my people. I am not a war monger, or anti-British, or a terrorist or any of the accusations levelled at me in the past. I am a peaceful guy, I believe everyone should live side by side, whatever their religious or political beliefs which I respect and ask for people to respect mine in return. Since last year, I am a father and I want my daughter to grow up in a peaceful world, like any parent. I am very proud of where I come from and I just cannot do something that I believe is wrong. In life, if you’re a man you should stand up for what you believe in. I know you may not agree with my feelings but I hope very much that you understand my reasons. As the owner of the club I am proud to play for, I believe I owe both you and the club’s supporters this explanation. Yours sincerely, . James McClean . At the outbreak of the First World War, Ireland had been promised Home Rule by the British Government. Constitutional Irish Nationalists such as John Redmond urged Irish men to volunteer for the British Army, in the belief that after the conflict, they would be rewarded with self-government. More than 200,000 Irish men volunteered to serve. On April 21, 1916 Irish republicans attempted to land more than 20,000 rifles and one million rounds of ammunition from a German boat on the west coast of Ireland. With the loss of the rifles, rebels from across the country were ordered to stand down, although in Dublin, the planned Easter Rising took place. Rebels seized several strategic points across Dublin City on Easter Monday, April 24. Over the next week, more than 20,000 British solders were sent to face approximately 1,600 rebels. Dublin City Centre was destroyed under heavy bombardment, killing more than 200 civilians. Civilians in Derry take cover from British Army soldiers as Fr Edward Daly, left, waves a white handkerchief while trying to escort a wounded civilian to an ambulance for emergency treatment . At the time of the rising, public sentiment, especially in Dublin was against the rebels. However, when the British government decided to execute 16 of the leaders of the rebellion, this turned public opinion - increasing popular support for what would become the Irish War of Independence. During the War of Independence 1919-1921, the British government deployed the paramilitary Black and Tans to quell the uprising using brutal methods - regularly burning the homes of suspected rebels and murdering innocent civilians. As a result of this, Irish men who served in the British Army during the First World War were reluctant to reveal this publicly. During the Second World War, again thousands of Irish volunteered to serve with British forces. Although with 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland, British troops - especially the Parachute Regiment - were accused of civil rights abuses, such as the Bloody Sunday massacre of January 1972. In recent years, the Irish Government has officially recognised the sacrifice of Irish men who volunteered to serve with British forces during the two world wars - culminating in the visit of Queen Elizabeth II in Dublin in May 2011. Symbolically, Queen Elizabeth laid wreaths at both the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin to commemorate those who fought for Irish freedom, and a second at the war memorial in Islandbridge in which remembers Irish men who fought for Britain.", "England have dropped two places to No 15 in the latest FIFA world rankings while recent continental cup winners Ivory Coast and Australia were the biggest movers. After a disastrous World Cup, Roy Hodgson's side have fallen despite winning all four of their Euro 2016 qualifiers against Switzerland, San Marino, Estonia and Slovenia as well as international friendlies against Scotland and Norway. With rankings based on results over the last four years, England have been usurped by World Cup surprise package Costa Rica who held the Three Lions to a goalless draw at the the tournament before winning Group D. Although they have only played out a 3-3 friendly with Uruguay since the World Cup, Costa Rica have climbed three places and now lead the CONCACAF nations. Danny Welbeck reacts during Scotland friendly as England drop two places in FIFA's world rankings . Manchester City star Yaya Toure celebrates AFCON win with Ivory Coast president Alassane Ouattara . A team’s total number of points over a four-year period is determined by adding: . The average number of points gained from matches during the past 12 months . And, the average number of points gained from matches older than 12 months (depreciates yearly). Elsewhere, Republic of Ireland have fallen for a third consecutive month to 67th, Scotland drop to 38th with Northern Ireland in 51st and Wales maintaining their spot at 34th in the world. Meanwhile, African Cup of Nations winner Ivory Coast rose eight places to No. 20 in the monthly FIFA rankings, with World Cup winners Germany remaining No. 1. Australia soared 37 places to No. 63 following its Asian Cup title as host nation last month. Still, neither continental champion is ranked highest in its confederation. Algeria at No. 18 leads African nations and Iran is Asia's best, rising 10 places to No. 41. Australia rose 37 places to No. 63 after winning the 2015 Asian Cup on home soil . World Cup winners Germany remain at the top of this month's FIFA world rankings . Germany leads an unchanged top seven, followed by Argentina, Colombia, Belgium, the Netherlands, Brazil and Portugal. France fell out of a tie with Portugal to No. 8, and Uruguay and Spain traded places as Nos. 9 and 10, respectively. 1. Germany (1)                                                                11. Switzerland (12) 2. Argentina (2)                                                               12. Italy (11) 3. Colombia (3)                                                                13. Costa Rica (16) 4. Belgium (4)                                                                  14. Chile (14) 5. Netherlands (5)                                                            15. England (13) 6. Brazil (6)                                                                      16. Romania (15) 7. Portugal (7)                                                                  17. Czech Republic (17) 8. France (7)                                                                    18. Algeria (18) 9. Uruguay (10)                                                                19. Croatia (19) 10. Spain (9)                                                                    20. Ivory Coast (28) Others: Wales (34), Republic of Ireland (67), Scotland (38), Northern Ireland (51)", "Wales have reached their highest ever position in the FIFA world rankings by rising 15 places to 22. Inspired by Real Madrid's Gareth Bale, they were the biggest movers at the top end of the list with 153 points ahead of the April rankings after beating Israel 3-0 in their Euro 2016 qualifier in Haifa. Chris Coleman's side have surpassed the 27th spot achieved by Terry Yorath's men back in 1993. Gareth Bale celebrates a goal in his double against Israel in a win that's seen Wales climb to world No 22 . Wales climb 15 positions in the April FIFA World Rankings which were released on Thursday . Meanwhile, England have climbed three places to 14 after beating Lithuania in Euro 2016 qualifying and drawing a friendly in Italy last month, while Scotland are up 10 spots to 29. Northern Ireland are up one to 42 and the Republic of Ireland have climbed four places to 62. Belgium rose to its highest-ever spot at No 3 in the rankings, which are still led by World Cup winner Germany followed by Argentina. Vincent Kompany's side overtook Radamel Falcao's Colombia, who are now world No 4. Belgium, who also beat Israel, rise to third for the first time ranked only behind Germany and Argentina . Brazil, who beat France in a friendly last month as their resurgence under new boss Dunga continues following their embarrassing exit from the World Cup, rose to No 5 and swapped places with the Netherlands at No 6. Switzerland and Spain return to the top 10, at nine and 10, respectively. Costa Rica fell two spots to No 15 but still lead CONCACAF nations. Mexico rose three positions though to No 18 while the United States climbed five places to be  27th. Algeria is Africa's best at No 21, and No 40 Iran is the best-ranked Asian team. Brazil have risen to No 5 in the world, switching places with Holland, while Alex Sanchez's Chile are 16th . They'll be joined by Japan, South Korea, Australia, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, China and Iraq among the top seeds for the Asian qualifying draw for the World Cup in Russia in 2018, in which 40 teams are split into eight groups of five ahead of Tuesday's draw. Bhutan has jumped 46 places from the foot of the rankings to 163rd after recording their first ever World Cup qualifying victories. The Himalayan nation beat Sri Lanka 1-0 in Colombo and 2-1 in Thimphu last month to advance to the second round of Asian qualifying. Anguilla are now the lowest-ranked international side at No 209 after losing 8-0 on aggregate to Nicaragua in the first round of CONCACAF World Cup qualifying last month. Seeding for the European qualifying groups will be decided by the July rankings ahead of the July 25 draw in St. Petersburg, Russia. 1. Germany (1) 2. Argentina (2) 3. Belgium (4) 4. Colombia (3) 5. Brazil (6) 6. Netherlands (5) 7. Portugal (7) 8. Uruguay (9) 9. Switzerland (12) 10. Spain (11) 11. France (8) 12. Romania (14) 13. Italy (10) 14. England (17) 15. Costa Rica (13) 16. Chile (15) 17. Croatia (19) 18. Mexico (21) 19. Czech Republic (16) 20. Slovakia (22) 22. Wales (37) 27. USA (32) 29. Scotland (39) 42. Northern Ireland (43) 62. Republic of Ireland (66) 209. Anguilla (208) (March ranking in brackets)", "Football agents are threatening to injunct the FA from introducing new FIFA regulations in April, following world football’s ruling body washing their hands of controlling the game’s middlemen. The Association of Football Agents met on Friday and will take legal action against the fresh set of rules governing their conduct. That is if their complaint to the European Commission and a couple of planned meetings in Germany fail to resolve the turmoil. Mel Stein, chairman of the AFA that represents almost all the UK’s agents, said: ‘We will have no option. It’s a total disgrace that FIFA are passing the buck to national associations having recommended an unworkable code. And it will be the Wild West out there, with anyone able to act as agents.’ Radamel Falcao's (right) agent Jorge Mendes (left) could soon have to adhere to a new set of regulations . Mel Stein, chairman of the AFA, insists agents will have no option but to take legal action against the FA . The FIFA recommendations include national associations registering only intermediaries of ‘impeccable character’, all deals annually published online, agents’ fees limited to three per cent and no monies earned by them for negotiating deals for players under 18. The FA, Premier League and Football League have been discussing how best to cope with FIFA opting out. All have serious concerns about how the system will work in Britain and abroad, especially in under-developed football territories. A FIFA spokesperson said: ‘The new approach is about having better control of the activity and follows a lengthy, in-depth reform process with numerous options considered.’ Sepp Blatter's FIFA has decided to opt out of trying to control football agents . There is no chance whatsoever of Gordon Taylor, 70-year-old chief executive of the PFA, being asked to resign by his management committee — be it for running up huge bookmaking debts or making deplorable comparisons this week between the Hillsborough disaster and the Ched Evans case. Taylor surrounds himself with ultra-loyal staff at his private fiefdom. Graham Bean, the former FA compliance officer who was brought in for a period by Leeds United owner Massimo Cellino to stabilise the troubled club, is himself facing a £100,000 pension fraud charge in Manchester on January 19. Bean will vigorously defend the charge, brought by HMRC. He will claim to have been victim of a pension scam by a professional advisor who has fled the country after being struck off by the Financial Services Authority. ITV Sport, who have rights to the Africa Cup of Nations starting on January 17, will be producing all their programming from London — sending no one abroad. Cameroon players train ahead of the Africa Cup of Nations - ITV will not be sending anyone to the tournament . Yet the BBC are spending licence-fee money funding an army of over 20 personnel. They will be going to Africa to service the overblown website, Radio 5 Live and the World Service. The Republic of Equatorial Guinea’s London embassy report numerous visa applications from the BBC. There is a worry at the top of BBC Sport that the Corporation will lose one of their flagship rights properties this year. The two most vulnerable are Match of the Day highlights and the Open championship. The golf contract is most in danger of being lost to Sky after 2016 — which Sports Agenda was the first to reveal as a significant threat last July. One thing is for sure. If Sky do capture the Open, there will be no more ridiculous schedule clashing with the Lord’s Ashes Test, which happens again this summer. Rory McIlroy won The Open at Hoylake live on the BBC last year but the tournament could be on Sky in 2016 . There has been an understandably negative reaction in Scotland to flu-hit Mo Farah pulling out of Saturday's Great Edinburgh cross-country international. It is the third time in less than six months he has let down athletics fans north of the border, following his withdrawals from Glasgow’s Diamond League meeting and the Commonwealth Games. Meanwhile, Lord Coe would like to see cross country included in the Winter Olympics to encourage African interest. Joe Williams, from Coe’s first athletics club Sheffield’s Hallamshire Harriers, represented GB in cross country the last time it was included — 1924. Mo Farah's withdrawal from the Great Edinburgh cross-country international has caused a stir . If departing chairman Giles Clarke fails to win enough county support to stay on the England Cricket Board in a new president’s role, Glamorgan chairman Barry O’Brien, a London lawyer, will challenge Notts’ Peter Wright for the vice-chairmanship vacated by Colin Graves succeeding Clarke.", "FIFA are employing the international PR agency — Weber Shandwick — used by England 2018’s doomed World Cup bid to crisis manage the build-up to the next global tournament in Russia in 2018. The choice of Weber Shandwick after a beauty parade of PR companies in London comes despite England 2018’s bid campaign still being under scrutiny. It was singled out for breaching bid regulations in FIFA ethics judge Hans-Joachim Eckert’s botched summary of Michael Garcia’s World Cup bid corruption report. International PR agency Weber Shandwick were used in England's failed 2018 World Cup bid . Russia deputy Prime Minister (left) Igor Shuvalov and Alexei Sorokin (right) celebrate the moment when they were awarded the rights to the 2018 World Cup back in December 2010 . With their offices around the globe, Weber Shandwick personnel are likely to have contributed heavily to the England intelligence database. Department for Culture Media and Sport select committee chairman John Whittingdale has asked the FA to answer ‘serious’ questions about the intelligence. But FIFA have no qualms employing Weber Shandwick, who were willing to take on the difficult brief — especially with the Russia-Ukraine situation — after some rivals pulled out. FIFA fancifully first described their outside-agency recruitment as purely involving brand assistance. But it is all about damage limitation around the World Cup in Russia. World champion Lewis Hamilton, who has split with Simon Fuller’s XIX agency, is not expected to sign for another F1 management team. He will rely on himself and his lawyer to negotiate his next multi-million pound driving contract with Mercedes and on specialist consultants in other areas. Lewis Hamilton celebrated with the Union Flag after winning in Abu Dhabi to clinch the world title . The Lawn Tennis Association like to look after their own, judging by their £280,000 funding of a new, three-court indoor tennis facility at exclusive Surrey public school Reed’s in leafy Cobham — hardly an inner-city area deprived of tennis facilities. The grand opening last week featured an exhibition match between Reed’s old boy Tim Henman and Andy Murray. Current pupil Jack Draper — 12-year-old son of former LTA chief executive Roger and a highly promising British junior — had a hit with the two stars. The LTA say the investment in further improving Reed’s high-performance tennis centre was made during Draper’s regime. They add there is now a new strategy in place under Michael Downey that scrutinises every facility spend in far more detail. Sky Sports News personnel can’t seem to help making inappropriate comments on social media, despite the huge annoyance of their bosses. Presenter Tom White, who hosted SSN’s sports women of the year awards, posted a studio photograph of himself and colleague Peter Graves on Facebook with the message: ‘Discussing tactics ahead of tonight — Pete, you distract the ugly one, I’ll move in on her fit mate.’ Regular SSN freelance Emma Storey, who boasts about her serial swearing on Twitter, told her followers: ‘F******* Emirates has left my luggage in Dubai.’ Sky Sports News' Tom White is one of host of presenters who have made inappropriate comments . QATAR WINS BY A HEAD . The contrast is extraordinary in the way Qatari owners have been embraced by English horse racing — to the extent the Sheikhs take tea with the Queen at Royal Ascot while also bankrolling yesterday’s glitzy Horserace Writers and Photographers Association annual awards. At the polar opposite is English football’s widespread mistrust of the way Qatar won the bid to stage the 2202 World Cup. The best grace and favour house in British sport has to be the 10-bedroom Lodge at Ascot complete with expansive garden. However, Guy Henderson, the new CEO of Ascot, will have to make do with another house on the Ascot grounds when he arrives in January to succeed Charles Barnett. The Lodge is going to be utilised for corporate hospitality. John Whittingdale recently wrote to FA Chairman Greg Dyke for clarification from the governing body . John Whittingdale, chairman of the Department for Culture Media and Sport select committee, surprised his own government department when he demanded the FA explain the blindingly obvious — why they didn’t include hearsay, rumour and gossip but kept to proven facts in their fully co-operative response to the World Cup bid corruption investigation. Whittingdale bizarrely didn’t involve DCMS officials before writing to FA chairman Greg Dyke and publishing, under parliamentary privilege, a speculative Sunday Times dossier.", "The media were banned from entering the FIFA ExCo hotel in Marrakech after the BBC started filming in the lobby, but the German TV station which did gain access later may be a lot more troublesome. It was German station ARD — who have just revealed a serial doping culture in Russian athletics that has caused tremors within track and field’s ruling body, the IAAF — and they had two of their top officials operating inside La Mamounia hotel. ARD, who have the International Olympic Comittee, the World Anti-Doping Agency and the IAAF all mounting probes into the drugs allegations, are planning a documentary about FIFA and the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids. TV station ARD are making a documentary about Franz Beckenbauer (right), who is under investigaion . Beckenbauer originally declined to talk to Michael Garcia (above) before changing his mind . The central figure within the ARD probe is expected to be German legend Franz Beckenbauer, the former FIFA ExCo member who remains under investigation by FIFA for alleged breaches of ethics codes in the bidding process. Beckenbauer initially refused to speak to the Garcia investigation before changing his mind. He has had close links with the Russian bid team since the campaign in 2010 when Sports Agenda first mooted he would become an ambassador of Russian energy giants Gazprom. They have since become major sponsors in football. The biggest surprise in Michael Garcia’s resignation statement was his astonishing claim that the FIFA ExCo had reported him to the disciplinary committee for supposedly breaking ethics codes by speaking out that his report should be made public. .......................................................................... Clare Balding’s weekly chat show on BT Sport, which attracts paltry viewing figures despite huge promotion, could be sold to BBC. Talks are understood to be at an advanced stage for a 30-minute version of the programme featuring Balding to be aired on BBC2 on Friday evenings. .......................................................................... FIFA’s Club World Cup fails to register in the UK even when Real Madrid — with Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale part of a full strength side — are playing in today’s final. However, FIFA’s individual Ballon d’Or is regarded by the world’s best players as definitely worth winning. .......................................................................... Gill needs training up . The FIFA circus in Marrakech this week has seen British vice-president Jim Boyce inundated with media requests which the affable Northern Ireland football administrator always does his best to accommodate — even waiting for 40 minutes while Channel 4 tried to sort out an interview link from London yesterday. Certainly, England’s David Gill, almost sure to replace Boyce after the UEFA Congress election in March, will have to change his typical anti-Press attitude and needs media training to prepare him for the role. .......................................................................... Rio Ferdinand’s ever-increasing media profile has been enough to persuade Robbie Savage to join him in the management stable of Jamie Moralee, the former Watford player still unkindly described by fan groups as the club’s worst-ever signing. .......................................................................... The FA board were remarkably sanguine at their meeting this week about the commercial department’s abject failure to find a sponsor for the FA Cup by the third round. Sympathy of the sort shown by the FA directors about the difficult market conditions certainly would not have been seen at Daniel Levy–run White Hart Lane, where heads tend to roll in the Tottenham Hotspur commercial department for failure to achieve targets. Spurs chairman Daniel Levy is known to be rather more cut-throat than the Football Association seem to be . It is expected that the upcoming Premier League TV rights bonanza, that could reap an astonishing near £5billion from the domestic market with a £10million-a-game valuation, will galvanise campaigning about lowering the price of match tickets. The Premier League, despite all the billions coming into the coffers from television contracts, still need full stadiums to sell the product. There can be no reason whatsoever after the jackpot rights deals are announced in February for ticket prices at all Premier Leage clubs not to come down.", "FIFA pledged Friday to reform its governance structure after the corruption scandals which rocked football's world governing body last year. Proposed changes to its ethics committee, which will be split into two entities, one to investigate allegations and another to rule on them, were hailed as \"historic\" by FIFA president Sepp Blatter after being approved by the executive committee. They will still need to be endorsed by FIFA's 2012 Congress in Budapest, Hungary in May. FIFA was responding to a report of the Independent Governance Committee (IGC), chaired by Swiss professor Mark Pieth and made public Friday. It was commissioned after Asian football chief Mohamed bin Hammam was banned from the game for life after being found guilty of corruption for trying to buy votes in the FIFA presidential election with $40,000 cash inducements to Caribbean football officials. The bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, respectively won by Russia and Qatar, also came under scrutiny after allegations of improper conduct. Pieth and the eight-strong ICG group branded as \"unsatisfactory\" FIFA's past handling of the corruption allegations. \"Existing procedures are insufficient to meet the challenges of a major global sport governing body,\" the ICG found. It went on \"This has led to unsatisfactory reactions to persistent allegations. \"In some instances, allegations were insufficiently investigated and where sanctions were imposed, they are at times insufficient and clearly unconvincing.\" Blatter told a press conference in Zurich Friday that his organization recognized the need for change. \"The executive committee unanimously agreed to this new approach in our efforts for more transparency and integrity,\" he said. \"The new ethics committee will have the possibility to initiate investigation in the case of credible allegations.\" But Grant Wahl, a senior writer for Sports Illustrated, who unsuccessfully tried to challenge Blatter in the FIFA presidential elections last year, told CNN that while the 76-year-old Swiss remained at the helm there would be doubts about the implementation of the proposed changes. \"Sepp Blatter came to power 14 years ago through an election where he had the support of executive members who are now disgraced so he has very little credibility in preaching for reform,\" he said. Wahl was also disappointed that the ICG had stopped short of calling for further investigation into the award of the 2018 and 2022 World Cup host countries. \"My big concern is that there is no recommendation to do a forensic investigation into 2018 and 2022 bidding process because it was clearly not satisfactory in many people's eyes,\" he said. Wahl also doubted FIFA would implement the ICG recommendation to limit the terms of FIFA president and executive committee members to two terms of four years. \"Term limits are a really important change, it would keep some of these dinosaurs from sitting on the committee for years and years,\" he said. FIFA also agreed Friday to co-opt its entire executive committee onto the organizing body of the 2014 World Cup after concerns that preparations in Brazil have fallen behind schedule. 2010 World Cup chief South African Danny Jordaan has also been named as an adviser along with Alexei Sorokin, who is overseeing the 2018 tournament in Russia. A FIFA statement said: \"To underline the significance of the FIFA World Cup for world football's governing body, the complete FIFA executive committee is now, for the first time, part of this decision-making forum which is responsible for monitoring and organizing each edition of FIFA's flagship event.\"", "Burnley possessed the most English starting XI of any Premier League team in the last round of games, with seven players in Sean Dyche's team eligible to play for Roy Hodgson's men. Tom Heaton, Ben Mee, Jason Shackell, Kieran Trippier, Ashley Barnes, David Jones and Danny Ings meet the criteria for selection, with none of the XI who played against Southampton on Saturday, March 21 drawn from outside the United Kingdom. However, none of that English contingent have yet featured in one of Hodgson's senior squads. The pool of English talent has again been in the spotlight over the last fortnight with Football Association chairman Greg Dyke announcing changes to the work permit system and proposals to increase the number of homegrown players in Premier League squads, all with a view to boosting England's performance at major tournaments. David Jones (right) was among seven English players to take to the field against Southampton on March 21 . Clarets boss Sean Dyche regularly flies the flag for England by starting a majority of English players . England and Tottenham striker Harry Kane was one of six Enlgish players to feature against Leicester City . Harry Kane - held up by Dyke as the sort of talent whose development must not be stifled by foreign imports - heads a six-strong group who featured for Tottenham against Leicester, including fellow new call-up Ryan Mason, while five of the Manchester United team which won at Liverpool were England internationals. At the bottom end of the chart are the leading two teams in the Premier League, Chelsea and Manchester City. Central defensive pair Gary Cahill and John Terry were part of Jose Mourinho's defence as they won 3-2 at Hull - another team with just two England-qualified starters - while Manchester City had only Joe Hart and retired England midfielder Frank Lampard in their XI. Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has been credited for adding a greater English element to his side in recent years, but the team which won at Newcastle featured only two who would qualify - Calum Chambers and Danny Welbeck. Chelsea's duo of John Terry (centre) and Gary Cahill were the only English players to start against Hull . Overall, only 81 of the 220 Premier League starters in the last round of matches were eligible for England selection - a fairly pitiful 36.8 per cent. England face Italy on Tuesday night, and the proportion of players in Serie A starting line-ups who were born in Italy - or have otherwise represented Italy at senior level - over the same weekend was 43.2 per cent. That proportion would increase still further if you included those who may qualify under residency rules or those - typically of South American birth - who hold Italian passports due to their ancestry. In the English Championship, the most 'English' teams were Blackburn and Huddersfield with nine, with a few caveats. Jordan Henderson (centre) and Michael Carrick (right) made up nine English players to start in the derby . Huddersfield duo Sean Scannell and Joel Lynch both appear to have nailed their colours to the masts of the Republic of Ireland and Wales respectively, yet neither has made a senior competitive appearance yet so are still technically eligible for England. Adam Henley is still England-qualified for Blackburn after he was an unused substitute in Wales' Euro 2016 qualifier in Israel. Until Matt Ritchie featured for Scotland against Gibraltar on Sunday, Bournemouth also had nine, with the Cherries' Republic of Ireland call-up Harry Arter still England-qualified as he did not feature for the Irish against Poland. League Two's AFC Wimbledon fielded eleven English players in their most recent game against Tranmere . Also flying the flag of St George with an all-English XI were Hartlepool United (pictured) and Southend United . The percentage of England-qualified players starting in the Championship was 57.2 per cent, rising to 76.1 per cent in League One and 86.0 per cent in League Two. Five teams in League One - Bristol City, Chesterfield, Colchester, Crewe and Rochdale - were just one player shy of an entirely England-qualified XI. You had to go down to League Two to find a fully England-qualified XI, with AFC Wimbledon, Hartlepool and Southend flying the flag. Southend's Adam Thompson has won two caps for Northern Ireland, but both came in the 2011 Nations Cup which does not classify as an official competition under FIFA regulations, so he technically remains eligible for England. Premier League . Arsenal - 2, Aston Villa - 4, Burnley - 7, Chelsea - 2, Crystal Palace - 5, Everton - 5, Hull - 2, Leicester - 4, Liverpool - 4, Man City - 2, Man Utd - 5, Newcastle - 4, QPR - 6, Southampton - 3, Stoke - 2, Sunderland - 4, Swansea - 4, Tottenham - 6, West Brom - 4, West Ham - 6 . 81 out of 220 players eligible: 36.8 per cent . Championship . Birmingham - 5, Blackburn - 9, Blackpool - 8, Bolton - 7, Bournemouth - 8, Brentford - 7, Brighton - 6, Cardiff - 6, Charlton - 4, Derby - 7, Fulham - 6, Huddersfield - 9, Ipswich - 6, Leeds - 7, Middlesbrough - 7, Millwall - 6, Norwich - 4, Nottingham Forest - 8, Reading - 3, Rotherham - 6, Sheff Wed - 6, Watford - 3, Wigan - 6, Wolves - 7 . 151 out of 264 players eligible: 57.2 per cent . League One . Barnsley -7, Bradford - 5, Bristol City - 10, Chesterfield - 10, Colchester - 10, Coventry - 9, Crawley - 8, Crewe - 10, Doncaster - 7, Fleetwood - 8, Gillingham - 8, Leyton Orient - 8, MK Dons - 9, Notts County- 9, Oldham - 9, Peterborough - 7, Port Vale - 7, Preston - 8, Rochdale - 10, Scunthorpe - 9, Sheffield United - 7, Swindon - 9, Walsall - 9, Yeovil - 9 . 202 out of 264 players eligible: 76.5 per cent . League Two . AFC Wimbledon - 11, Accrington - 10, Burton - 7, Bury - 10, Cambridge - 10, Carlisle - 9, Cheltenham - 9, Dagenham & Redbridge - 9, Exeter - 7, Hartlepool - 11, Luton - 10, Mansfield - 10, Morecambe - 10, Newport - 9, Northampton - 10, Oxford - 10, Plymouth - 9, Portsmouth - 10, Shrewsbury - 8, Southend - 11, Stevenage - 9, Tranmere - 9, Wycombe - 10, York - 9 . 227 out of 264 players eligible: 86 per cent. Italian representation in Serie A . Atalanta - 7, Cagliari - 3, Cesena - 6, Chievo - 4, Empoli - 8, Fiorentina - 1, Genoa - 2, Hellas Verona - 3, Inter Milan - 2, Juventus - 6, Lazio - 4, Milan - 5, Napoli - 2, Palermo - 6, Parma - 6, Roma - 4, Sampdoria - 7, Sassuolo - 10, Torino - 7, Udinese - 2 . 95 out of 220 players born in Italy or otherwise senior Italy internationals: 43.2 per cent. Survey Criteria . *Players born in England or with an English parent or grandparent qualified as English for the purposes of this survey, provided they had not played a competitive senior international for another team. Matches for other countries at youth level, or in senior friendlies or games not classed as official competition do not make the player ineligible for England. *FIFA rules permit a player to gain residency after five years' continuous living in their adopted country, provided they had not played a competitive senior international for another team. However, under a Home Nations agreement, it is understood the residency rules for England eligibility are different. If not born in England, a player must have spent at least five years in education in England prior to his 18th birthday to be eligible. *For Serie A, only players born in Italy or otherwise having represented Italy at national team level were counted in our survey. Many other players may qualify under residency rules or hold Italian passports owing to their parents or grandparents.", "FIFA vice-president Jim Boyce would be in favour of re-running the vote for the 2022 World Cup if allegations that widespread corruption was involved in the Qatar bid were proven. The Sunday Times has claimed that it had received 'hundreds of millions' of documents which allegedly revealed that disgraced former FIFA executive committee member Mohamed Bin Hammam had made payments to football officials in return for votes for Qatar. Boyce, who was not on the executive committee on the world governing body at the time of the vote, said FIFA's chief investigator Michael Garcia, who is already looking into allegations of corruption, would have to widen his investigation. Support: FIFA vice-president Jim Boyce (left) says he would be in favour of a re-vote should the corruption allegations be proven . Boyce told Radio 5 Live's Sportsweek programme: 'As a member currently of the FIFA executive committee, we feel that any evidence whatsoever that people involved were bribed to do a certain vote, all that evidence should go to Michael Garcia, whom FIFA have given full authority to, and let's await the report that comes back from Garcia. 'If Garcia's report comes up and his recommendations are that wrongdoing happened for that vote for the 2022 World Cup, I certainly as a member of the executive co would have absolutely no problem whatsoever if the recommendation was for a re-vote. 'If Garcia comes up with concrete evidence and concrete evidence is given to the executive committee and to FIFA then it has to be looked at very seriously at that time, there's no doubt about that.' Vice-president: Boyce took up his current role with FIFA in 2011 . Boyce, who said he had not had the chance to read the Sunday Times report, feels Garcia's investigation should not be hurried. He said: 'The man has got to be given full control to do that investigation thoroughly and if it takes more time to do that investigation thoroughly so be it. 'I have not met Garcia, but I'm told he's a man of the very, very highest calibre and I'm told he's someone who will not shirk the responsibilities that he has been given. I certainly hope that's going to be the situation.' Boyce pointed out that 50 percent of the executive committee members at the time of the 2022 vote had since left the governing body. The Northern Irishman also insisted FIFA president Sepp Blatter's position should not be called into question by the allegations. Trust: Boyce gave his support to FIFA president Sepp Blatter (left) and said his position shouldn't be questioned . Support: Gary Lineker shows his support a re-vote and for Australia's World Cup bid . He said: 'From the day that I became a member of the executive committee and from the day that Sepp Blatter announced that he wanted to see complete and utter reforms carried out by FIFA, he has led these investigations and he has led a lot of the reforms that were badly needed at FIFA that are now being carried out. 'There is no suggestion whatsoever that he was involved in any wrongdoing. \"When Garcia's report comes back to him, as president of FIFA he has to give leadership. 'There are people in authority who are not aware of things that go on regarding other individuals and if he personally wasn't involved in this I don't think there's any reason whatsoever for him to resign. 'He is still the president of FIFA and I'm sure he, like the rest of the decent people and the people who are involved in FIFA, are awaiting with great interest Mr Garcia's report.' Former England footballer Gary Lineker tweeted this morning that he believed that FIFA should hold another vote. Claims: The Sunday Times claims to have documents that prove Mohamed bin Hammam made payments to officials to get support for Qatar's successful World Cup bid . Hosts: Qatar held off competition from Australia to win the rights to host the 2022 World Cup . Rivals: Bin Hammam (right) tried to run against Sepp Blatter (left) for FIFA president but withdrew following allegations of bribery . Under a front-page headline of 'Plot to buy the World Cup,' The Sunday Times alleges . that Mohamed Bin Hammam, a Qatari who used to be a FIFA vice president, . was lobbying on his country's behalf ahead of the vote in December . 2010. The newspaper alleges that Bin Hammam made dozens of payments to top football officials in Africa as well as Jack Warner and Reynald Temarii, former FIFA executive committee members for CONCACAF and Oceania. The allegations come less than two weeks before the start of the World Cup in Brazil and bring fresh scrutiny on the 2010 vote, which awarded football's biggest tournament to the tiny desert state and currently is under investigation by FIFA's independent ethics prosecutor. The Sunday Times said that Bin Hamman declined to respond to the allegations and that members of Qatar's bid committee denied any link to the former FIFA official, saying he played no secret role in their campaign. Bribes: Former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner (left) and Bin Hammam (right) faced allegations of bribery surrounding the 2011 FIFA presidential elections . FIFA: Bin Hammam (left) and Blatter (right) at Doha airport in 2010 . Pressure: FIFA has come under scrutiny since awarding the 2022 World Cup to Qatar . Qatari organizers did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Bin . Hammam, one of the most controversial figures in FIFA's recent history, . is no longer a committee member of world football's governing body . after being caught up in a corruption scandal surrounding his failed . campaign for its presidency in 2011. The Sunday Times is alleging, however, that he exploited his position at the heart of FIFA when he was an executive committee member to help to secure votes from key members of its 24-man ruling committee that helped Qatar win the right to host the World Cup. Qatar defeated bids from the United States, Japan, South Korea and Australia. According to the newspaper, Bin Hammam used 10 slush funds controlled by his private company and cash handouts to make dozens of payments of up to $200,000 into accounts controlled by the presidents of 30 African football associations who influenced how the continent's four executive members would vote. He also allegedly hosted lavish junkets for these African officials at which he handed out almost $400,000 in cash. Sepp Blatter at the Messe Conference Centre in Zurich where he announced Qatar would host the World Cup . World Cup? There have been suggestions that a re-vote will be required after these new allegations . The newspaper says the documents show that Bin Hammam paid out at least 305,000 euros ($415,000) in legal and private detective fees for Temarii after he was suspended for telling undercover reporters that he had been offered $12 million for his vote. Bin Hammam's help allowed him to appeal the suspension and prevent his planned replacement from voting for Australia in the vote, the Sunday Times claimed. Bin Hammam is also accused of funneling more than $1.6 million directly into bank accounts controlled by Warner, including $450,000 before the vote. Warner resigned from football duties, including his 28-year membership of FIFA's committee, in June 2011 to avoid investigation in a bribery scandal linked to Bin Hammam's campaign for FIFA president. The Sunday Times also said Bin Hammam paid $800,000 to the Ivory Coast FA, whose executive committee member Jacques Anouma agreed to \"push very hard the bid of Qatar,\" and signed off on two payments of $400,000 each to the federations of two other voters.", "South Africa and the United States are expected to pose the greatest threats to Ireland's £100million bid to host Rugby World Cup 2023. The Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) has confirmed an all-Ireland bid to stage the world contest in nine years' time. The Northern Ireland Executive and Irish Government are underpinning the joint bid to secure rugby's global showpiece. Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson (right) with deputy Martin McGuiness as the bid is announced . McGuiness (second left) at the launch with Philip Browne (left), Robinson (right) and Taoisech Enda Kenny . The executives are joined by Ireland players including Robbie Henshaw (left) and Paddy Jackson (second left) Robinson (right) and McGuiness (left) pose with Irish Prime Minister Edna Kenny to support the 2023 bid . Chief executive Philip Browne said the IRFU and two Irish governments will expect to commit £100million to underwrite the possibility of staging the tournament. 'It has been out there that South Africa has stated an interest, Italy has bid in the past and stated an interest again, while Argentina has stated interest too, and also the USA,' said Browne. 'We are under no illusions it's going to be competitive and we have to put our best foot forward. 'At this stage we haven't had to tender documents, we won't get those for another 12 months or more. 'For the Japan World Cup the guarantee tournament fee which has to be paid to Rugby World Cup is £96million. 'One assumes we are going to have to pay at least that, probably more.' Governing body World Rugby will not officially launch the bidding process for Rugby World Cup 2023 host status until next year, and have not even finalised a timeline for applications. Ireland are the first nation to launch a bid for the 2023 tournament, but must now await further instruction from World Rugby on when to make any official tender. World Rugby expects the 2023 hosts to be selected in 2017, leaving Ireland quick off the mark in acclaiming their intentions. 'This is an exciting announcement that further underscores the enormous prestige, appeal and benefits of hosting Rugby World Cup for both unions and governments alike,' said a World Rugby spokesman in response to Ireland confirming their intentions so quickly. Ireland's Ian Madigan (centre) celebrates 26-23 win over Australia in November at the Aviva Stadium . McGuiness holds out a green rugby ball signifying Ireland's bid for the 2023 World Cup . The Aviva Stadium in Dublin would be one of the venues to host the World Cup in 2023 . Ireland's bid will be for sole staging of the tournament, and will not include any help from the likes of the Welsh or Scottish Rugby Union. Dublin's Aviva Stadium, Ulster's Kingspan ground at Ravenhill and Limerick's Thomond Park will form the centrepiece venues. Ireland's bid will also draw upon a host of Gaelic football stadia, with the 82,300-capacity Croke Park in Dublin at the forefront of that collaboration. Political administrations in Ireland's north and south have given the bid the green light after a 10-month preliminary assessment exercise. Irish premier Taoiseach Enda Kenny, Stormont's First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness joined IRFU boss Browne to announce the bid in Armagh on Friday. England will host next year's World Cup before the tournament descends on Japan in 2019, with World Rugby making good on long-held promises to grow the game beyond traditional heartlands. South Africa staged one of the most memorable tournaments in 1995, the hosts holding off New Zealand to claim glory under the jubilant and politically-poignant scenes of Nelson Mandela proudly sporting a Springboks shirt. New Zealand held the inaugural 1987 tournament, repeating hosting duties in 2011, while England will become the second nation to claim the honour twice, with 2015 following 1991. World Rugby could well aim to send the 2023 tournament back to a traditional rugby hotbed, after the 2019 shift to Japan: and that would leave South Africa strong contenders. The rugby-mad nation received a huge infrastructure boost for the FIFA football World Cup staged in 2010, so would argue much of the preparation work is already in place. Rugby's rapid rise in America was cemented by New Zealand's decision to face the US Eagles at Chicago's Soldier Field en route to their November European tour.", "West Ham are not worried about any potential FIFA ramifications in their ongoing feud with Senegal over the availability of Diafra Sakho. The striker pulled out of competing in the African Cup of Nations earlier this month on medical advice after sustaining a back injury - but co-owner David Sullivan insists they have done nothing wrong despite the 25-year-old's involvement with the Hammers. But Senegal coach Alain Giresse bemoaned Sakho's absence on Monday night after he featured, and score, for West Ham against Bristol City in the FA Cup at the weekend. West Ham striker Diafra Sakho celebrates scoring for West Ham but Senegal were not expecting him to play . Sakho played and scored for West Ham against Bristol City, despite pulling out of the AFCON with an injury . West Ham co-owner David Sullivan (right, next to David Gold) has hit back at criticism this week . Senegal lodged an official complaint with FIFA - demanding that the game's governing body take action. But Sullivan has emphatically hit back. 'A top back surgeon said Sakho can’t fly and he still can’t fly, he went by car to Bristol and is going by train to Liverpool,' Sullivan told Sportsmail. 'How can we go against medical advice? ‘We are sure any FIFA hearing will vindicate us. The player missed four games as a result of injuries incurred whilst playing for Senegal. We have done nothing untoward.’ Sakho scored the winner at Ashton Gate on Sunday and is set to be included in Sam Allardyce's squad to play Liverpool on Saturday. Senegal coach Alain Giresse revealed he was very surprised to learn Sakho had played against Bristol City . The tournament in Equatorial Guinea runs until February 8, and although Senegal have already crashed out, FIFA can stop Sakho appearing for the Hammers for the duration of the competition. That means he could miss the Premier League games against Liverpool and Manchester United, while they could issue a fine or an even longer ban. Senegalese fans also want the Hammers booted out of the FA Cup. They travel to West Brom in the fifth round next month. Giresse said earlier this week: ‘I’m very surprised to learn that he played. When you cannot fly for six weeks and then suddenly you’re playing a football game. There must be miraculous medicine in England. ‘This sets a dangerous precedent because in future you are going to have players claiming they cannot catch planes to Africa but who can still play football (for their clubs). It is a debate that deserves more discussion.’ Sakho was confronted by angry Senegal supporters on social media but fought his corner . Sakho has come in for criticism on social media after pulling out of the tournament, with one fan writing: 'Congratulations on your goal, I hope you never play for Senegal again, the Senegalese people feel betrayed.' Sakho responded: 'I took the time to browse all your reactions on social networks. Very quickly my joy from scoring and rescuing my club has turned into sadness and anger. 'Sadness because some of your words touched me deep in my person and my heart and this, without you knowing what has really happened. 'And great anger, because after all my struggles day after day, season after season to finally wear the jersey of my homeland, and my family, the only nation that matters to me - you doubt my love and my patriotism. 'My absence at CAN 2015 (the African Nations Cup), my first CAN, was not painless. 'The dream of contributing to the victory of my country got away from me this year, but it is not dead! 'Never doubt the lion sleeping in me, as I never doubt the passion that burns within you.'", "As Luis Suarez celebrated the goals that vanquished England on Thursday evening, the eagle-eyed among you may have noticed that the Uruguay crest on his shirt has four gold stars above it. Surely that can’t be right? We all know that Uruguay have only won the World Cup on two occasions, so surely they’ve stitched on a couple more on without really being entitled to them? After all, in FIFA’s equipment regulations, section 18.2 states: ‘Those Member Associations that have won the FIFA World Cup may put a symbol on the playing shirt representing this accomplishment and the number of times won.’ Too many stars? The crest on Luis Suarez's shirt is adorned by four stars despite Uruguay only winning the World Cup twice . And all the other nations have the correct amount - Brazil, of course, have their five stars; Italy have four; Germany three; Argentina two and England, France and Spain one apiece. It turns out that Uruguay’s badge is a bit of an anomaly, but not an unjustified one. Yes, they did win the World Cup in 1930 and 1950, as we all know, but they were twice world champions before that competition had even got off the ground. That’s because the Olympic Games - won by Uruguay in 1924 and 1928 - were officially recognised as the FIFA world championships before the World Cup as we now know it was founded in 1930. Back in 1914, Jules Rimet, the third President of the governing body and the man after whom the first World Cup trophy was named, declared: ‘Under the condition that the Olympic Football tournament be organized in agreement with FIFA rules, this competition will be recognised as a FIFA World Championship.’ History lesson: Uruguay are allowed an extra two stars because they won they won the Olympic Games in 1924 and 1928 . Their first effort to organise this in 1920 ended in farce when Czechoslovakia walked off the field in protest in the final against Belgium, but they had greater luck four years later in Paris. With more and more amateur players starting to turn professional, FIFA exploited a loophole in the rules of the strictly-amateur Olympic Movement so the best teams in the world could compete. The players would take part and technically be considered ‘amateurs’ by the International Olympic Committee as long as their own country’s Football Association compensated them for missing work. The Official History of FIFA states that the winners of these tournaments in 1924 and 1928 were therefore considered the official world champions. Uruguay were the best on the planet at the time and racked up 17 goals in four matches on their way to the gold medal match, where Switzerland were rolled over 3-0. Big difference: Uruguay's crest (left) includes four stars, while England (right) can only boast one from 1966 . Four years later, in Amsterdam, they defeated neighbours Argentina in a replay to make it back-to-back wins and secure a second gold star. The Olympic tournaments proved that a world football championship could be successfully staged and Jules Rimet soon moved to a grander vision - the World Cup. Uruguay proved quite good at that too, beating Argentina 4-2 in the 1930 final, and then stunning Brazil in the Maracana in 1950. So when FIFA revised its constitution in 1950, they formally recognised that Uruguay were four-time world champions. The badge, they will definitely feel, has been stuck with four stars for far too long. Dozens of clubs around the world incorporate stars into their crests to represent achievements. Proud: Nottingham Forest (left) and Aston Villa (right) are among the clubs to include stars on their shirts . Egypt, for example, can wear seven stars for each of their Africa Cup of Nations victories; Cameroon and Ghana wear four, while Zambia proudly marked their maiden win in 2012 with the symbol. Japan have a commemorative shirt with four stars for their Asian Cup triumphs. In England, Nottingham Forest wear two stars above their crest to mark back-to-back European Cup wins in 1979 and 1980. Aston Villa worked in a silver star to their badge to symbolise their success in 1982. The other Football League sides with stars are Bury (two for their titles in 1900 and 1903), Huddersfield (first team to win three league titles in a row between 1924 and 1926) and Ipswich (their three major trophies - league title in 1962, FA Cup in 1978 and UEFA Cup in 1981). Other clubs take it to another level - Rangers wear five, each star representing 10 Scottish titles. Juventus, meanwhile, gained their third star with a 30th Scudetto last season.", "The extent to which the Premier League overshadows English football’s ruling body will be demonstrated when the FA publish their annual accounts. The figures for the year ending July 2014 put the FA’s turnover at £332million, with a gross profit of £261m. These are big numbers and compare favourably with the RFU, who turned over £152.2m during the same period. But they are dwarfed by the £5.1billion the Premier League gained for their domestic TV rights over three years, with more billions to come from overseas deals. The FA's £261million profit is dwarfed by the new Premier League mega deal, worth £5.1billion . The FA will have to change general secretary Alex Horne's review, after he wrote about the signing of a sponsor for the 2014-15 FA Cup, which never happened . Sky Sports paid the Premier League an average of £11.1m per game — the same amount the FA brought in from their combined annual increase in broadcasting, sponsorship and licensing. Meanwhile, the FA will have to alter former general secretary Alex Horne’s review, written last November, contained in the accounts. He wrote about the signing of a sponsor for the 2014-15 FA Cup which never happened. Horne also singled out Sian Massey as a leading match official ‘setting a global standard’. She was at the women’s Under 20 World Cup but hasn’t been an assistant referee for a PL game this season — first because of injury and now because she is pregnant. More evidence that UEFA are orchestrating the three-strong presidential challenge to Sepp Blatter came with their strategist Mike Lee’s Vero Communications helping to launch Luis Figo’s campaign in London this week. The same company also helped Jordan’s Prince Ali bin al Hussein of Jordan launch his candidature on the same ‘Anybody But Blatter’ ticket a fortnight ago. Vero Communications have helped Luis Figo (second left) and Ali bin al Hussein (second right) to launch campaigns against FIFA president Sepp Blatter . The ECB have set a dangerous precedent by allowing struggling England one-day captain Eoin Morgan to play in the whole of the Indian Premier League. His £156,000 deal with Sunrisers Hyderabad means he will miss the one-day international against Ireland on May 8 when he would have been due to lead the side — form permitting — and that means England will need to pick another skipper, devaluing the position. It’s still questionable business as usual at FIFA with the extraordinary early sale of the 2026 World Cup TV rights to Fox in the USA without a tender — to the fury of ESPN and other rival networks. The USA are favourites to host that tournament and delaying selling the rights until the location is decided could have brought in far more money. But Fox have been the biggest opponents of the switch to a winter World Cup in Qatar and this deal will ensure they don’t take legal action. FIFA have sold the rights to the 2026 World Cup in America to Fox - to the fury of ESPN and other rivals . Judo thrown into chaos . Former Manchester City chief executive Garry Cook, now chief global brand officer of mixed martial arts’ Ultimate Fighting Championship, engineered £250,000 in sponsorship for the British Judo Association’s hosting of the European Championship in Glasgow in April. However, the European Judo Union, led by Russian Sergey Soloveychik, have cancelled the event at short notice in protest at the partnership. Cook said: ‘It’s outrageous to do this with just eight weeks to go and after so much planning had gone into staging the event in Glasgow. If they didn’t want our money then cancel the sponsorship rather than the Championship.’ Former Manchester City chief executive Garry Cook engineered £250,000 in sponsorship for the British Judo Association's hosting of the European Championships, but the event has been cancelled at short notice . The patrons of Twickenham’s west car park, including long-standing debenture holders, have been further antagonised by the RFU’s commercial obsession. This has seen the Bollinger champagne facility moved a short distance to new premises, further marginalising the dwindling space left for west car park users to enjoy food and drink from their own car boots. They include Bill Beaumont, chairman of the RFU management committee, and Ian Metcalfe, chairman of the Professional Game Board. But making money comes first at Twickenham. One of Paul Lambert’s last acts as Aston Villa manager was to recommend the appointment of Scottish Herald football reporter Thomas Jordan as the new communications chief at Villa Park. Unfortunately, Jordan’s first day in the job coincided with the arrival of new manager Tim Sherwood. Paul Lambert recommended the appointment of Thomas Jordan as communications chief at Aston Villa .", "David Ginola's farcical attempt to depose FIFA president Sepp Blatter has hit a new low with the revelation he faces charges for breaching the governing body’s ethics codes for his links to gambling. That would happen if he becomes an official candidate as of Thursday’s deadline. He would also be left without funding at that stage because his publicity-hungry bookmaker backers Paddy Power, who announced when they ‘launched’ Ginola that he needed £2.3m to run, now say they ‘will not be contributing financially beyond January 27’. Any potential challenger to Blatter to become the most powerful person in the global game after May’s election has until Thursday officially to declare their candidacy, backed by support from five national associations. David Ginola's links to gambling could derail his bid to depose FIFA president Sepp Blatter . FIFA's rules state that all presidential candidates are forbidden from being associated with gambling . But FIFA’s rules governing the presidential race explicitly state that all candidates are bound by the organisation’s code of ethics, which forbids ‘being associated with betting, gambling, lotteries and similar events’. Given that Ginola’s campaign is being run by Paddy Power, who are paying him £250,000 over five months to run, he would be in clear breach of Article 25 of FIFA’s ethics code as a candidate. To make matters worse, the Irish firm are collecting donations from football fans that the campaign website says are non-refundable, for a campaign built around Ginola and run via a new company called Rebooting Football Limited, a subsidiary vehicle of PP set up for the purpose. FIFA’s ethics code also forbids active or passive stakes ‘in companies, concerns, organisations ... that promote [betting]’. It remains unlikely Ginola will get the backing of five FAs and even be able to continue his stunt beyond Thursday. He also faces problems in showing he has held an ‘active’ role in football for two years in the past five years as laid out in condition 13A of the presidential race rules. This specifies candidates should have worked as ‘a board member, committee member, referee, assistant referee, coach, trainer [or] any other person responsible for technical, medical or administrative matters in FIFA, a Confederation, Association, League or Club’. Ginola has claimed that work for England’s ill-fated 2018 World Cup bid and consultancy work for obscure third-tier French club Etoile Frejus Saint-Raphael help him meet the criteria. But his ‘active’ work for the FA covered a few weeks of trips and PR days. And the president of the French club, Alexandre Barbero, has admitted Ginola has held no formal role, has not been paid for work there and has acted as an advisor ‘mainly over the phone’. Ginola has launched a campaign to replace Sepp Blatter as FIFA president . Ginola's campaign was announced at a press conference in London on January 16th . Barbero told the Associated Press that Ginola never goes to the club as he does not want to interfere with the coaches’ work there. A spokesman for Paddy Power said: ‘We are happy to engage with FIFA as part of the electoral process and furnish them with any documentation they request in this regard.’ If Ginola did somehow garner the support of five FAs by Thursday, a FIFA election committee would then scrutinise whether he is even eligible to stand — and whether he should face a FIFA ethics charged for his association to gambling. Hundreds of members of the public have donated to his campaign, albeit only a few thousand pounds collectively, and in a contradiction to the the policy on the campaign website, Paddy Power now say: ‘In case David doesn’t make it through, we will look to fully reimburse fans who have donated to the campaign.’ Blatter will be heavy odds-on favourite to keep the presidency and may face just one rival candidate, with Prince Ali bin Al-Hussein of Jordan his likeliest contender. Two former long-term FIFA insiders, Jerome Champagne of France and Harold Mayne-Nichols of Chile, will announce in the coming days whether they have the five FAs they need to support their own bids. Jerome Champagne is expected to announce soon whether he will stand for FIFA presidency . Prince Ali bin Al-Hussein (left) could be the only challenger that Blatter could face (right) Mayne-Nichols was the head of the inspection team that assessed bid nations’ suitability for the past few World Cup hosting races. In an exclusive interview last week in Brussels as he attended a ‘New FIFA Now’ summit to discuss reform, he told The Mail on Sunday that football was betrayed by the decision to award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar. His own evaluation report warned of the dangers of the heat in the June-July 2022 period nations were bidding for. ‘The weather in Qatar makes it impossible to play in June-July, as it was in the [bidding] contract. It’s impossible,’ he said, adding Qatar should not even have been on the ballot paper for the 22 executive committee members to chose from. ‘I made it very clear that [there was a potential problem with] the health of the players if we play in Qatar,’ he said. ‘High risk. They [ExCo] either took the decision before they read the inspection report, or they read it but didn’t understand.’ After Mayne-Nichols first floated the idea he might challenge Blatter, he himself was hit with an ethics investigation that most observers believe is a trumped-up way to discredit him. Harold Mayne-Nichols (right) of Chile could potentially stand against Blatter . Asked if he thought it was a conspiracy to derail him standing against Blatter, he said: ‘I don’t have the energy to think about that. Otherwise I will lose control of my mind.’ He added that for the public’s confidence in FIFA to be renewed, it is imperative Blatter must go. ‘That’s very clear,’ he says. ‘His period is over. I think he must realise you need new people to get back the confidence of the public. You cannot say I’ve been doing things one way for 41 years [inside FIFA] and now for the next four I’m going to do it this way. Nobody will believe you.’" ]

[ "Cool Spaces: Lucchese\nJust in time for Rodeo season, the Lucchese Flagship Houston boutique has been honored by the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art with the prestigious John Staub Award for its mix of western-inspired and modern interior design." ]

[ "Find out how simple shoelaces can transform your look from boring to stunning! Learn how you can use them to change the look of your shoes, as well as your outfits.\nSooner or later, we all feel like it’s time to mix up our shoe game and usually, that means investing in a new pair of shoes. Unfortunately, quality shoes are quite expensive, however, if you watch our $100 vs. $500 pair shoes, you notice that the cost per wear is less expensive for a quality pair, which is why I always urge people to invest in quality if they can. If they don’t have enough money to invest in another pair of shoes, the easiest way to change the look and appearance of your shoe and your entire outfit is by switching out the shoelaces.\nAdvantages & Disadvantages of Shoelaces\nThe advantages are, one it’s very inexpensive, you can get round laces, or flat laces, boot laces, or colored laces, starting at $9.00 in my shop and they only get less expensive the more you buy.\nTwo, shoelaces are reversible, meaning you can put them in one pair of shoes and if you don’t like it anymore, you just put the old ones back in, or you put them in a different pair of shoes. That way, if you get a set of 15 shoelaces in all kinds of different colors, it gives you not just 50 new outfit ideas, but you can multiply it with all the shoes you have in your wardrobe.\nThe ONLY disadvantage is that it takes minutes to exchange your shoelaces, but once you get the hang of it, it’s quite easy, and you can do it in no time.\nHow Can Shoelaces Transform Your Look?\nBasically, it boils down to contrast. Contrasting shoelaces highlight the lacing systems, and since they don’t match the leather, they really stand out, and the look appears to be entirely different. Now, if a pop of color is too much for you, I suggest changing the shape. Let’s say you have a black pair of shoes with black-brown shoelaces, to change the look, simply add flat black shoelaces and you can really see the difference. The same is, of course, true for brown shoes or any other kind of shoe. Now, of course, if you just exchange a shape that’s quite easy, if you go with a different color, it’s easy to go over the top.\nHow To Select The Right Shoelace For Your Shoes?\nIdeally, you want to match the color of your shoelaces to a different color in your outfit, that way, you pick up that color, and the entire look is more harmonious, and it looks like it’s well put together. For example, you can match the shoelace color to something in your socks, if you wear colored socks. You can also combine it with a color in your pocket square, or your tie, and your bow tie, maybe your cufflinks.\nAt the end of the day, just pick a color that really works well with the shoelaces. It doesn’t have to be a hundred percent exact match, but it should be in the same realm. That can be easier said than done and not all colors of shoelaces work with all colors of shoes, so let’s look at some basics here.\nLet’s say you have a black pair of shoes. I said before, if you have the black round shoelaces, upgrade to flat black ones and it is still very office appropriate and very formal. If you want to change it up a little bit and let’s say your shirt has a blue stripe, you can add a blue pair of shoelaces which really looks entirely different, doesn’t it? A blue shoelace is very easy to combine because blue is very dominant in men’s wear.\nNow, most people wear white shirts. So you could think about getting a white or off-white pair of shoelaces on a black shoe. Now, that’s a very stark contrast, and if you go for a very black and white outfit that may work, otherwise, I think it’s a little over the top.\nOn the other hand, black with a gray pair of shoelaces looks very dapper because it’s just a slight contrast but it’s different enough to notice the shoelace and your lacing system and to provide a different look without being overly loud. If you like little louder, go with a red pair of shoelaces because black and red have historically been a good combination, for that reason, we have our wallet in black and red or a business card holder in red and black.\nWhen it comes to evening wear, black shoes are a must-have. However, I suggest not to go with different colored shoelaces, go with distinct evening shoelaces. Back in the day, men matched the shoelaces they had to their bow ties and the materials, and it’s actually quite dapper, and you can even go with a wider band because the bow tie is wider and so if the bow on your shoe is wider, it just is very harmonious and unique.\nLet’s say you have a black satin bow tie, go with satin shoelaces. If you have a velvet bow tie, go with velvet shoelaces, or grosgrain on grosgrain. You get how it works.\nNow let’s look at brown shoes. The advantage of Brown is that it comes in thousands of different shades, so no Brown is exactly alike another. For shoelaces, that means it’s even easier to combine and even gives you a greater option to create different outfits.\nFor example, I like the combination of dark brown suede with a dark green shoelace, again it’s not a stark contrast, it’s a light contrast but it’s very sophisticated and it works really well for fall/winter outfits, If you combine any form of green into your outfit.\nBrown shoes also work well with red shoelaces simply because brown has elements of red in it and so it’s already harmonious and everything looks tied together even though there’s a contrast. If you want to go bolder, you can look into maybe an orange pair of shoelaces or a yellow pair of shoelaces; brown with off-white can look quite nice and I like it a lot more than with black shoes; you can also try to have dark brown shoes with light brown shoelaces or the other way around.\nAgain very subtle contrast but different enough to make it unique. The same is true for cordovan or burgundy colors; I like to combine an off-white pair of shoelaces with a cordovan pair of Burgundy boots because it’s just different and it’s not something you usually see on the street. I could go on for hours discussing all the different shoe laces with all the different shoe colors, but I think you get the gist.\nMake sure there were some form of contrast and tied into a color that already exists in the rest of your outfit. Because of that, you should always choose the shoelaces last and not first.\nWhat Kind Of Shoelaces Should You Get?\nIf you wear any kinds of leather shoes or dress shoes, don’t go with thick nylon shoelaces you can find on Amazon and all over the place. Instead, invest in waxed cotton laces that are either round, which is classic or flat. In our shop, we offer round and flat shoelaces in a length of 80 centimeters or 31 and a half inches and it should work for all four eyelets or five eyelets shoe. If you have boots, anything other than a chukka boot with more eyelets, I suggest you go with our boot shoelaces, not only are they thicker, but they’re also longer, about forty-seven and a quarter inches and 120 centimeters to be exact.\nCONCLUSION\nNow that you know how to combine shoelaces with shoes, happy shopping and please send some pictures of your combinations to contact@gentlemansgazette.com.", "Being comfortable with your own style of fashion is part of educating yourself concerning fashion. There are many different available resources, but you need to find what works for you. Find out what fashion means for you with these helpful tips and advice.\nAlways remember to bring the shoes you plan on wearing to a special event along when you shop for the perfect dress. This allows you to see how the shoes look with the dresses you are considering. It will also give you an idea of any alterations that may need to be made.\nIf you want to buy a new cologne or perfume, try a sample from the store first. Spray the scent on, and wait around fifteen minutes. Smell to see how it interacts with your own natural scent. Just because you like the way, it smells on another person does not guarantee that it will have the same scent on you.\nCreate your own unique style. There are many people that follow their own sense of style, but those with a sense of originality are those with who create their own style. To pull this off yourself, you must be comfortable enough to do so. Once you decide to do this, you are probably going to enjoy all the compliments you receive.\nWear light colors when you go out on a sunny summer day. Light colors reflect the sunlight and will keep you cooler. Dark colors tend to retain heat and can make you hot. Clothing in white is the most ideal for a warm day in the summer because it reflects light the best.\nBlack or dark blouses are the best colors for overweight people. These colors will camouflage your shape and reduce the appearance of any bulges you may have. Consider skirts featuring elastic waistbands for the ultimate in comfort.\nDo you need new jeans? You will probably find that there are a wide range of styles, fits and colors. This can really blow your mind. Classic styles, like straight leg and boot cut, are the way to go. Classic looks are a good fit for just about everyone and because they do not go out of style you will not have to buy new jeans for the next season.\nIf you have a pet, keep that in mind when shopping for clothing. There is nothing more frustrating than putting on that cute little black dress only to end up covered in white cat hair the second you sit on the sofa. Keep pets in mind when choosing clothing colors and fabrics, and avoid the stress.\nOne great fashion tip is to be sure that you are fully prepared for shopping when you visit the dressing room. This is important because you want to have everything with you that you are going to wear when you go out so that you will know if it is a good fit for your body and your accessories.\nIf you are a mother, fashion is probably the last thing on your mind, But know that it is possible to look good and practical at the same time. Whether taking the kids to the park, sporting events or any other event, spruce up your look with a nice T-Shirt, knee-length skirt and a pair of flat sandals!\nA good fashion tip that applies to everyone is not to get lazy and wear your athletic shoes when you're not actually doing any athletic activities. Athletic shoes are obviously great for the gym, but you should hang them up afterwards and put on a pair of more casual shoes.\nWhen purchasing jeans, go for timeless looks. For example, classic straight leg or boot cut jeans never go out of style. Opt for either of these styles in either a dark denim or slightly faded to remain in style throughout the years. By opting for these styles, you will always be in style no matter the current fashion.\nIf your skin is oily, it may be due to a hormonal imbalance. Anxiety really puts hormones out of whack. If this is you, then attempt relaxation therapy. This can help control your hormone levels and decrease your skin and hair's oil production.\nYou can't go wrong with a pair of shades. If you have had a rough, sleepless night, or you just don't feel like putting on makeup, shades can be your best friend. By wearing them, you can hide your puffy eyes, and they always add some style for any event.\nStaying warm and fashionable in the wintertime is difficult, but possible. You just need to find a fine balance between the two. For instance, you could wear long, sleekly-fitted coats with a pair of high-heeled boots. If you decide to go with the look, be sure the fabric touches your calf.\nYou can tell your friend about the latest that you learned about fashion so that they know you are really trying to help out their image. It's a good thing to assist a friend with their fashion so that they are looking as good as possible when they go out with you.\nWear accessories that match your outfit. Use the right type of necklace with the correct type of shirt or dress. Purses and scarves can round out a plain outfit. Belts and hats can add some flair to a dress. The right earrings can accentuate a particular long or short hairstyle.\nTrying to find the right shoes for your outfit can be a challenge. First, make sure your shoes are right for the occasion. If you are wearing a dressy gown, avoid wearing flats. Avoid wearing shoes that exactly match your outfit. Instead, choose one color within your outfit and base your shoe color on that.\nIs dressing fashionably a little less intimidating to you after what you have learned from this article? Stop feeling intimidated. You can now see any piece of clothing and make a look that impresses you and everyone else, too. Put your new fashion knowledge into action!", "With festival season officially upon us, all the dancing and walking in the dusty, muddy campgrounds can wreak havoc on your shoes.\nInstead of ruining your designer kicks, take a cue from fashion forward stars like Kendall Jenner, 21, Jasmine Tookes, 30, and Jamie Chung, 34, who all rocked footwear that was not only cute but also inexpensive as they hit the desert over the weekend.\nFEMAIL's got your feet covered. Shop our round up stylish shoes that are all under $100 - so you won't feel too bad if they get trashed at your next festival.\nSNEAKERS\n'It' girls: Kendall Jenner, 21, (left) sported black low-tops by Nike at the Revolve Desert House during Coachella this weekend, while pal Sofia Richie, 18, (right) donned affordable Vans\nSHOP IT NOW\nPops of neon: Left: New Balance for J. Crew sneakers, $75, jcrew.com. Right: Zara sneakers, $29.90, zara.com\nPretty florals: Adidas sneakers, $80, adidas.com\nCool neutrals: Left: Tretorn sneakers, $85, ae.com. Center: Puma sneakers, $80, puma.com. Right: Reebok sneakers, $60, ae.com\nPretty in pink: Left: H&M sneakers, $19.99, hm.com. Right: Steve Madden sneakers, $69.95, stevemadden.com\nShow off your stripes: Seavees for J.Crew sneakers, $88, jcrew.com\nSANDALS\nStyle stars: Jamie Chung, 34, (left) rocked a pair of orange Via Spiga sandals at Coachella this weekend, while Jasmine Tookes, 30, (right) opted for a gold pair by Seychelles\nSHOP IT NOW\nEarth tones: Left: Warehouse sandals, $45, warehouse-london.com. Center: Pretty Little Thing sandals, $38.50, prettylittlething.com. Right: American Eagle sandals, $14.97, ae.com\nEmbellished slides: Zara sandals, $69.90, zara.com\nFestival vibes: Right: River Island sandals, $72, riverisland.com. Center: Avenue sandals, $35, avenue.com. Right: River Island sandals, $70, riverisland.com\nBack to basics: Left: Steve Madden sandals, $59.95, stevemadden.com. Right: Nordstrom sandals, $59.95, nordstrom.com\nTie it with a bow: Zara sandals, $39.90, zara.com\nBOOTS\nTrendsetters: Victoria's Secret model Josephine Skriver, 24, (left) accessorized her Coachella outfit with baby blue Timberland boots, while Hailee Steinfeld, 20, (right) paired her Zimmermann dress with Dr. Martens\nSHOP IT NOW\nToughen up: Right: Pretty Little Thing boots, $87.50, prettylittlething.com. Center: Dr. Martens boots, $135, jet.com. Right: H&M boots, $39.99, hm.com\nBrown beauties: Left: Dorothy Perkins boots, $27, dorothyperkins.com. Right: River Island boots, $60, riverisland.com\nTry a metallic: Zara boots, $34.95, zara.com\nTry a print: Left: Topshop boots, $35, topshop.com. Center: Topshop boots, $90, topshop.com. Right: Boohoo boots, $60, boohoo.com\nLace it up: Left: Boohoo boots, $50, boohoo.com. Right: H&M boots, $34.99. hm.com", "If you are looking for fashion advice, you have come to the right place. You don't have to be known as a fashion disaster. With the right techniques, you can make huge improvements in your appearance. The following article can help.\nYou should always own a black pair of pants in a smooth fabric. You can wear those for a casual occasion if you pair it with a casual top. You can wear the same pair of pants for a more formal occasion if your pair it with a more satin top with sparkly jewelry.\nAlways remember to bring the shoes you plan on wearing to a special event along when you shop for the perfect dress. This allows you to see how the shoes look with the dresses you are considering. It will also give you an idea of any alterations that may need to be made.\nSomething as simple as a new pair of blue jeans can really add to your fashion portfolio. When you go to the store, there are probably tons of different jeans to choose from. You may feel overwhelmed. You can't go wrong with classic styles like straight-legged or boot-cut jeans. These will give you the best value and look fantastic on any body style.\nRead fashion magazines at least once a month. If you want to stay up to date on what is hot and what is not you need to do your research. Fashion magazines will keep you informed through each season and as trends develop. If you feel that you ate still missing out there are television shows dedicated to fashion as well.\nDo not be ashamed of letting your friends know that you have a small fashion budget. If your best friend has a clothing piece you covet, ask her to donate it to you once she no longer wants it. You can use this idea to get free fashion finds.\nChoose your fashion shopping friends wisely. Your friends can make hunting for the newest fashions fun and exciting. But if you bring a friend with a competitive shopping streak, she may tempt you into buying clothes that either don't fit you well or are outside of your budget. Make your decisions on your own time with your needs in mind.\nFind the right balance between fashionable and comfortable. Pain doesn't have to equal beauty. Just because a pair of shoes or a lacy dress are aesthetically pleasing doesn't mean you should wear them. Don't just check to see if something fits. Before you spend any money, try to determine whether you will be able to wear what you are buying for extended periods of time.\nTo improve the look of your lips, use a pencil and then blend the perimeter with a sponge. Slick on a layer of lip gloss or Vaseline over the liner. This will give your lips a vibrant look so that they look fuller and more lively. Just try and make your lips stand out as much as possible. Just place a small dot in the middle of each lip.\nUse your accessories to add color to your outfit. This is a great tip if you happen to have a large stock of earth tones or blacks and whites. Get a bright-colored tie, purse, or shoes depending on who you are and what fits you. It is a great way to stand out without having to be very brave.\nWear age appropriate clothing. It's something some women don't want to let go of, but there comes a time when a super-short skirt is no longer flattering. Pay attention to how your clothes set you off through all stages of your life, and it will serve you well. The good news is that there are some clothes that look great on older women that younger women can't pull off, so there is always something fashionable to look forward to.\nGo shopping for clothes when you feel good about yourself. If you go when you don't feel so good, any insecurities you have about your body will haunt you during the entire trip and you'll feel worse and end up buying something that doesn't really suit you. Wait until you feel great and are ready to choose the best!\nTo stretch your wardrobe's versatility, fill your wardrobe with a variety of scarves and belts in different patterns and styles. You can use these to add a splash of interest to a solid colored top. You can use these in countless combinations to create a different look each time without needing to buy a different outfit.\nMost women consider shoes as a top priority when it comes to fashion. The wrong shoes with the right outfit is \"fit\" for a nightmare. Therefore finding the right shoes for all occasions is something that is fashionable. This doesn't mean owning fifty pairs of shoes; it simply means having enough for all occasions.\nOne great fashion tip to consider is the fact that just something as small as a button can make a huge impact on your overall look. This is important because this approach can be used to spice up an old outfit and give you a whole new look for not much money.\nMake a splash when you go out by taking the tips in this article and using them to update your wardrobe. Look fashionable and look great everywhere you go. Make people remember you by using the information in this article, and you'll be unforgettable and make a strong statement without saying a word.", "Unfortunately, it seems that the world is becoming more and more superficial. Having poor fashion sense and looking like a disaster can have a negative impact on your life. The good news is that improving your fashion style is not difficult at all. The hot fashion tips packed into this article will help you look fantastic.\nDress in a way that accurately reflects your age. If you are a young professional woman, do not go to work dressed like someone in their teens. On the other hand, if you are a teenager, do not dress in a style that an older woman would feel comfortable in.\nYou should always own a white blouse in your basic wardrobe. You can wear practically any color bottom to match. Pair it with slacks for a casual look for work. Wear a full skirt for times when you are going out for a nice dinner. Wear jeans with it for an active look.\nSomething as simple as a new pair of blue jeans can really add to your fashion portfolio. When you go to the store, there are probably tons of different jeans to choose from. You may feel overwhelmed. You can't go wrong with classic styles like straight-legged or boot-cut jeans. These will give you the best value and look fantastic on any body style.\nKeep your eye on fashion articles as the season changes. Style is constantly changing, so keep up with fashion magazines to learn about the latest trends. They generally stay abreast of the latest news.\nGo shopping with friends and help each other pick out clothes. Your friends can be your best resource when it comes to choosing the right outfits to wear. You want the people closest to you to help you because they are the ones that are going to help you look your best.\nCrocheted clothing is back in style once again. The most popular pieces this season happen to be crocheted vests. These comfy vests come in a multitude of colors, patterns, and thicknesses to add a cozy and homemade look to any outfit. Try wearing them over your plain shirts or dresses.\nYou can't go wrong with a pair of shades. If you have had a rough, sleepless night, or you just don't feel like putting on makeup, shades can be your best friend. By wearing them, you can hide your puffy eyes, and they always add some style for any event.\nSubscribe to a fashion newsletter of some sort so that you are up to date with some of the latest fashion trends. After you do this it will help you to realize that you're ready for any season and will look good in each season as well.\nIf you have a pet, keep that in mind when shopping for clothing. There is nothing more frustrating than putting on that cute little black dress only to end up covered in white cat hair the second you sit on the sofa. Keep pets in mind when choosing clothing colors and fabrics, and avoid the stress.\nInvest in the basics. Every wardrobe should have a few key pieces. The little black dress is a classic for good reason. A well-fitted white blouse is versatile and flattering. A tailored suit is perfect for serious business. These items are ones you shouldn't be afraid to spend a little extra on, as they are timeless classics that last beyond the changing fashion trends.\nWhen shopping for vintage clothing, don't make assumptions based on the size on the tag. A size 8 in the 1950s fits differently than a modern size 8, so save yourself some disappointments by always trying items on before buying them. Once you get a feel for how sizes have changed through the decades, you will have a better idea of what to look for.\nIf you have a pet, keep that in mind when shopping for clothing. There is nothing more frustrating than putting on that cute little black dress only to end up covered in white cat hair the second you sit on the sofa. Keep pets in mind when choosing clothing colors and fabrics, and avoid the stress.\nWhen selecting a swimsuit, there are many things you can do to minimize figure flaws and emphasize the right parts of your body. For instance, if you have bigger hips, emphasize your legs and accentuate your small waist by wearing a suit that is cut high on the thigh. Look into more options for swimsuit wear as well.\nStay away from fitted clothes if you are carrying a bit of extra weight around the middle. This type of clothes will make your extra weight more noticeable. Instead, wear loose fitting clothing that gives you a better line on your body.\nAs was stated earlier, people can be very superficial and, as a result, having a poor sense of fashion can negatively impact your life. By studying the fashion tips you've learned about in the previous paragraphs, you can improve your life and look fantastic. There is no reason to not look your best.", "Spring has officially sprung nationwide (I'm looking at you, New York!), which means it's officially time to pack your boots away and pull out your sandals. If you're in need of some new strappy footwear, you're in luck. Target's shoe sale is so good that you'll be able to add a few new pairs of sandals to your closet, along with colorful sneakers, warm weather heels, printed slip-ons, and the like. Because a big spring cleaning should be rewarded with a big spring shopping spree, right?\nRight now, you can get 20 percent off of any pair of shoes by entering the code \"SHOES\" upon checkout. There are absolutely no caveats here, so literally every style is fair game. Whether you're looking for some new espadrilles to wear to a garden wedding or a new pair of flip-flops to wear poolside, the bullseye retailer has got you covered.\nBecause there are literally hundreds of styles to choose from, I picked out 10 of my favorite seasonal pairs in order to help expedite your shopping process. I should note that it's unclear when the discount offer will end, so I'd suggest heading to Target's website ASAP to make your purchases.\nEarn Your Stripes\nThe red striped slip-ons do not look like they'd be on sale at Target, but rather at some high-end expensive retailer. They are amazing! Their beautiful woven fabric adds a luxe look, while the frayed edges add some nice texture. Pair this with jeans or a white tee for a more casual look, or with a sundress for the perfect date night outfit.\nJust For Kicks\nNothing's better than a pair of classic trainers. White sneakers are widely known as the most versatile shoe of them all, so why not snag yourself a new pair for a mere $28 after the discount? I love the high-top silhouette of this pair and the easy zip-up back.\nColonel Mustard\nI love this shade of yellow for a shoe! I'd pair these heeled mules with a vintage white dress and woven straw bag. Slightly boho, slightly trendy, super fresh.\nOn the Flip Side\nThese flip-flops regularly retail for $4 so a discount is hardly needed. They're rubbery, boast a cute striped pattern, and feature bright colors. What more could you ask for in a simple poolside shoe?\nX Marks the Spot\nI love these sandals for so many reasons. For one, I almost exclusively wear black shoes, so they'd fit right in to my aesthetic. Their slip-on style makes them easy to throw on, while the silver studding details add a touch of edge. Wear these with dresses, skirts, shorts, anything, and your outfit will get an automatic upgrade.\nSticky Situation\nI, too, am shocked that a pair of Velcro shoes made it onto my list, but here we are. For some reason, I find these incredibly cute. I love their dusty blue shade and suede-like texture, and think they'd look amazing with a pair of white wide-leg culottes and a graphic T-shirt. They're playful, easy, and a bit quirky. Why not!\nNeutral Territory\nIf you need a simple pair of brown sandals, look no further. These look super comfy and are effortlessly chic. If modern boho is your style, add them to your cart.\nStatement Shoes\nIf you're headed on a beach vacation this year, you need these. The bright, kelly green against the palm print gives off all kinds of tropical vibes and the design overall has a lighthearted appeal.\nThe Simple Life\nI'm a big supporter of the classic black mule. They're another shoe that goes with anything and they're typically super comfy to wear. Done and done.\nTread Lightly\nOK, OK, I know I told you to put your boots away, but white booties are different! Their crisp shade allows them to be spring and summer appropriate and they look killer with colorful floral dresses. This pair in particular is great for its kitten heel and pointed toe.", "Understanding fashion can help you to look and feel your best. If you have a bad fashion sense and are unhappy with your look, this article will be of great benefit to you. Read on to learn a number of fashion tips that will help you to improve your style and look.\nIf you are overweight, you have to be very careful about wearing clothes that have stripes. Make sure you wear vertical stripes if you are going to wear any at all. Wearing stripes that run horizontally will only do the trick of making you look larger than you really are.\nBuy a variety of jewelry pieces. If you have a good number of colors and styles, you will always have something that matches your outfit. You then will not have to worry about purchasing jewelry to match every outfit that you buy. Think variety and you will have more than one option for an outfit.\nEven your handbag must fit into your outfit, including your other baggage. This means you should have a matched set of a briefcase and purse if you carry them both at the same time. Remember also to never use more than two types of bags at the same time.\nUse a leave-in conditioner if you have trouble with frizz. You want to apply this product following a shower, before the hair dries. Don't be afraid to put a large amount all over your head, and make sure to target both the roots and the very tips of the hair.\nBlack or dark blouses are the best colors for overweight people. These colors disguise your body shape and make bulges less noticeable. Make sure your skirt has elastic in the waistband for added comfort.\nIf you like form fitting clothing, it is very important to know what materials and colors blend together, and will hold their form the best. This is significant because if you get the wrong blend, not only the outfit will possibly go out of shape, but it might be uncomfortable as well.\nMost people do not know how far beautiful skin can take you in the world of fashion. Your skin condition will have an enormous effect on your overall fashion look. Therefore, it is vital that you maintain your beautiful skin. Then, your skin will complement the beautiful clothes that you wear.\nDon't be afraid to experiment. Instead of going with the norm, play with your wardrobe. Try pairing a stiff skirt with a soft and flowing top. Combine dress shoes with your favorite casual pair of jeans. Often the most unusual pairings can turn out to be the most stylish choice.\nAre you out of jeans? In today's market there are many styles and fits in the jean aisle at any given store. Don't let the huge assortment overwhelm you. Pick styles that are more classic such as straight leg jeans or a boot cut. These basics will fit most wardrobes and work well for almost everyone.\nWhen you dry your hair, you should just pat or blot it dry with a towel instead of rubbing your hair with a towel. Rubbing tangles and breaks your hair and can even lead to loss of hair. When you are blow-drying your hair, use a low setting and move the blow dryer constantly so that you don't fry one section of hair. Don't hold the blow dryer too close as this can cause harm to your hair and even burn you.\nKeep a few pairs of classic shoes in traditional colors on hand. Having fun with the varying styles that shoes come in is recommended, but is always nice to have a pair of shoes that can go with almost any dress or pantsuit. Do not avoid changing trends, yet keep classic accessories in your wardrobe as well.\nBraiding long hair is very popular right now. This not only keeps long hair under control, but there are many fun ways this can boost your appearance. You can experiment with different types of braids like French braids and Dutch braids or dress up some simple braids with stylish hairpins, bows, and flowers.\nOwn a nice large set of black sunglasses. If you have red eyes from a rough night or under eye bags from a poor night's sleep, you can hide them with a stylish pair of sunglasses. They are a classic, glamorous style and evoke Audrey Hepburn or Jackie Kennedy. A nice pair can be had at a good price.\nIf you are small and petite, then you should avoid wearing strong prints and loose, chunky clothing. This will not look good on you. Instead, you should aim for fitted clothing and soft fabrics, and ensure that you streamline everything so that your body is not being cut in half.\nYou might have always dreamed about looking like a celebrity, but you weren't sure if you could. Now that you have read this article, you should have some ideas about how to transform your wardrobe into something that any celebrity would be jealous of. Keep the tips in mind when you go shopping and you'll look just like a movie star.", "Try to understand and apply what you just read. The following article will teach you everything you need to develop your style. Fashion advice can help you improve on your looks.\nEven though something is all the rage in fashion at the moment, do not wear it if it does not compliment your body type and/or personal style. For example, people that are on the heavier side should not wear skinny jeans. They are not very flattering so you will not look trendy if you wear them.\nAlways remember to bring the shoes you plan on wearing to a special event along when you shop for the perfect dress. This allows you to see how the shoes look with the dresses you are considering. It will also give you an idea of any alterations that may need to be made.\nA simple black blazer is a fantastic addition to any wardrobe. You can use it to dress up almost any outfit. Then, you can remove it if you change to a more casual venue. The color will also match virtually anything in your closet, from jeans to business casual blouses and slacks.\nRead fashion magazines at least once a month. If you want to stay up to date on what is hot and what is not you need to do your research. Fashion magazines will keep you informed through each season and as trends develop. If you feel that you ate still missing out there are television shows dedicated to fashion as well.\nDo not wear your hair too dark if you have lighter skin and/or lighter eyes. While darker hair looks nice on people that have darker eyes and skin tones, it will only make you look washed out. If you must darken your hair, put some streaks in it in order to brighten them up.\nIt is not very easy to wear plaid, particularly when you are looking to adopt a look that is softer than you normally have. If you must wear plaid, make sure that you pair it with something that is feminine like skinny jeans or a bag that has ruffles on it.\nFashion is about more than the clothing. What they do not know is that your hair can ruin your outfit if you do not keep it looking fabulous. Set aside some money for effective hair products and devote some time to getting your hair to complement the overall look you want to achieve.\nWhen it comes to shopping, be sure that you compose a list before leaving to help you make the most of your time. This is important so that you can focus on what you need to purchase and help you stay away from items that may be a waste of money and closet space.\nColoring your hair at summertime is a good way to add some fashion to your ensemble. But you should be extra careful in maintaining your colored hair. Dyes are harsh and can damage hair, so use a quality conditioner on a regular basis to counteract this.\nStaying warm and fashionable in the wintertime is difficult, but possible. You just need to find a fine balance between the two. For instance, you could wear long, sleekly-fitted coats with a pair of high-heeled boots. If you decide to go with the look, be sure the fabric touches your calf.\nKeep a few pairs of classic shoes in traditional colors on hand. Having fun with the varying styles that shoes come in is recommended, but is always nice to have a pair of shoes that can go with almost any dress or pantsuit. Do not avoid changing trends, yet keep classic accessories in your wardrobe as well.\nThere are several key factors that you should consider in order to get the right suit. Some important factors include the price, your budget, the quality, the brand, size, color and style. If you take your time and consider each and everyone of these factors, then you are sure to find the suit that fits you just right.\nDipped hem dresses are in the style right now. These dresses dip down in both the front of the dress and back, though they do not dip too dramatically. Dipped hem dresses are a great way to show off your shoulders and when worn with a pair of heels, is the perfect look!\nAlways break in a new pair of shoes before a special occasion or a long awaited vacation trip. There is nothing worse than finding that a new pair of shoes pinches or rubs when you are in the middle of a wedding reception or walking on a guided tour of a fabulous new city.\nUse the tips in this article to streamline your wardrobe and where what looks best on you. Even if you haven't paid attention before, you'll find out that when you look good, you feel great. Fine tune your fashion sense and you will look fabulous anywhere you happen to go.", "Fenerbahce are reportedly pondering a double swoop for Leicester City pair Jamie Vardy and Ahmed Musa.\nFenerbahce are reportedly considering a move for Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy, as well as his teammate Ahmed Musa.\nThe England international, who was linked to Arsenal this time last year, took time to find his shooting boots but eventually scored 18 goals in 50 appearances last season.\nMusa, who only joined the Foxes from CSKA Moscow in 2016, managed just four goals, but he was limited to 32 appearances.\nAccording to Turkish media outlet DHA, Fenerbahce are pondering moves for the Leicester pair due to the possible departures of Emmanuel Emenike and Moussa Sow.\nIt is believed that the Turkish outfit are hopeful that the opportunity to play European football will convince the duo to make the move.", "Fashion is more important than many people think. What people wear has a big impact on what others think of you. That's why you have to make sure what you wear is attractive and flattering to you. Here are some ways to make sure you leave a positive impression on everyone with your style.\nDress in a way that accurately reflects your age. If you are a young professional woman, do not go to work dressed like someone in their teens. On the other hand, if you are a teenager, do not dress in a style that an older woman would feel comfortable in.\nIf you are used to dressing down but you would like to spruce up your style, try buying some sparkly accessories. These will make your outfit look brighter and you will not have to change your entire style. You can make a plain outfit fit for any occasion by changing the style of accessories.\nSomething as simple as a new pair of blue jeans can really add to your fashion portfolio. When you go to the store, there are probably tons of different jeans to choose from. You may feel overwhelmed. You can't go wrong with classic styles like straight-legged or boot-cut jeans. These will give you the best value and look fantastic on any body style.\nIf you use tubes of mascara, try to refrain from pulling the wand out and in of its tube. It doesn't get more of the mascara on the brush, it actually pushes air into the bottle. Once air is trapped inside a container, bacteria will start to breed at an increased rate. Move the brush sideways a little if you need to get more mascara on the brush.\nGo shopping with friends and help each other pick out clothes. Your friends can be your best resource when it comes to choosing the right outfits to wear. You want the people closest to you to help you because they are the ones that are going to help you look your best.\nExcellent fashion always begins with a strong foundation. A well-fitting bra will define your figure and look very appealing. Your undergarments should also provide proper support and give your body a well put together look. There are even items which slim you out and cover up bumps and rolls which would otherwise be unsightly.\nDo not be afraid to be unique. Although high school beats into our heads that everyone should be the same, the truth is that being unique is vital for success in any area. Lady Gaga is a prime example. Uniqueness is a good thing. You should never try to hide it.\nA little quirkiness does not hurt when it comes to fashion. Wear your shirt not totally buttoned or mismatch your shoes. You can't be perfect; controlled chaos helps you stand apart from the pack and shows off your uniqueness.\nComplement your style with a wonderful smile. If you walk around looking sad, then it will not matter what you are wearing. A truly fashionable person knows the importance of sporting a beautiful set of pearly whites. You should smile whenever you can. It will make you feel better and keep you looking fashionable.\nVisit consignment stores for great value on formal wear. Women usually only wear formal gowns once or twice for those special occasions before they do not want to wear it anymore. You can find gowns that are almost brand new at a fraction of the price of a new gown.\nKeep a few pairs of classic shoes in traditional colors on hand. Having fun with the varying styles that shoes come in is recommended, but is always nice to have a pair of shoes that can go with almost any dress or pantsuit. Do not avoid changing trends, yet keep classic accessories in your wardrobe as well.\nWear colors that are appropriate for the season. Light and pastel colors are characteristic of the softness of spring. Bright colors of the rainbow tell us that summer is here. Wear browns, golds and reds for the richness of autumn. Wear greens, reds and white to welcome in the holiday winter season.\nDon't be afraid to accessorize. The right accessory can turn the average outfit into a fashion statement. Pick a fun accessory and let it shine. Try adding a colorful scarf, a fun chunky necklace or a blinged-out belt. Be careful though, while one eye-catching accessory can enhance an outfit, don't go crazy. You want your piece to serve as an eye-catcher.\nStay away from fitted clothes if you are carrying a bit of extra weight around the middle. This type of clothes will make your extra weight more noticeable. Instead, wear loose fitting clothing that gives you a better line on your body.\nWIth everything that you learned about fashion today you should feel a lot better about how you look every day. There is a lot you can do to improve your image and to make people look at you a few times as they pass by. Best of luck impressing people with your fashion sense.", "She's kept a low profile since the season finale of The Real Housewives of Cheshire last May, which saw her and co-star Dawn Ward erupt into a vicious argument.\nBut it seems Leanne Brown is shaping up for the next season of the ITVBe show, and is undertaking a fitness regimen that allows her to offload her residual stress.\nThe 40-year-old former wife of footballer Wes Brown looked ready for battle as she donned a pair of boxing gloves and pounded some pads with a personal trainer at the fitness retreat in Norfolk.\nScroll down for video\nReady for battle! Leanne Brown shows off her physique and smacks pads in boxing gloves at fitness retreat... as her feud with Real Housewives co-star Dawn Ward continues\nA stretch: Leanne has kept a low profile since the season finale of The Real Housewives of Cheshire last May, which saw her and co-star Dawn Ward erupt into a vicious argument\nShe wore her dark blonde locks swept up above her head in a sporty ponytail and wore a clean layer of make-up, despite the sweaty and grueling work out.\nThe reality personality wore an American-football-type jersey in white and a pair of maroon leggings, which she teamed with white tennis shoes.\nShe looked 100 per cent in the zone as she worked out in the fresh air, seen smacking the pads with gusto.\nShe was joined by a bevvy of other women, all of whom were throwing themselves into the regime, giving it their all.\nAction girl: She wore her dark blonde locks swept up above her head in a sporty ponytail\nLoving it: Leanne wore a clean layer of make-up, despite the sweaty and grueling work out\nGrrrrrrr: It seems Leanne is shaping up for the next season of the ITVBe show, and is undertaking a fitness regimen that allows her to offload her residual stress\nShe was seen laughing with some of the other women and at one point dove forward onto a crash mat, which appeared to be lubricated with water.\nThere were also a couple of men in attendance, taking on the challenges of the day set by the trainers at the detox, wellness and weight loss retreat, in Norfolk.\nShe was seen performing stretches, yoga poses and core exercises as well, before taking the pads herself and being the human punch bag for one of the other women.\nAt one point, she seemed to be play-fighting with another lady at the boot camp, losing the pads and gloves altogether and going at it unarmed.\nSporty: She was seen laughing with some of the other women and at one point dove forward onto a crash mat, which appeared to be lubricated with water\nActive: The 40-year-old former wife of footballer Wes Brown looked ready for battle as she donned a pair of boxing gloves and pounded some pads with a personal trainer at the fitness retreat in Norfolk\nHer turn: Leanne took the pads herself and acted as the human punch bag for one of the other women\nBendy: There were also a couple of men in attendance, taking on the challenges of the day set by the trainers at the detox, wellness and weight loss retreat, in Norfolk\nFlexing: She was seen performing stretches, yoga poses and core exercises as well\nShe was also seen in another outfit, wearing all black, in a strapped vest top, leggings and a striped top underneath.\nShe injected a burst of colour into the ensemble with a pair of bright pink trainers.\nThis time, she took on a hunky trainer for her boxing session, as she hit the pads as he held them in place for her.\nIt's thought that Leanne and Dawn (who was allegedly due to enter this season's Celebrity Big Brother but is said to have pulled out at the last minute, replaced by recenlty evicted Karthik Nagesan) have 'gone legal' with their feud, which is over money.\nFighting fit: At one point, she seemed to be play-fighting with another lady at the boot camp, losing the pads and gloves altogether and going at it unarmed\nRock, paper, scissors? The boot camp seemed to champion some rather unconventional work out styles\nApplause: The reality personality wore an American-football-type jersey in white and a pair of maroon leggings, which she teamed with white tennis shoes\nLeanne said on the show in May: 'Dawn and I have fallen out and I’ve had no choice but to bring the lawyers in, she kept saying she was going to sort it out and nothing has been resolved, I’m just sick of it, enough is enough.'\nIn the season finale of The Real Housewives Of Cheshire last May, Leanne confronted Dawn and said: 'You’ve sat in my house and said the same thing over and over again. All you do is deflect from the real situation, you took that money.'\nDawn replied: 'You disgusting human being. You’ve had the conversation with everybody but me and that’s your problem. Grow up, and have respect for yourself.'\nThis was met with a response from Leanne: 'You’ve took the p*** out of us since the moment you’ve met us. How dare you come to me and say I’m disgusting, you’re disgusting.'\nIt's alleged that Dawn borrowed £500,000 from Leanne and has never paid it back.\nOutfit change: She was also seen in another outfit, wearing all black, in a strapped vest top, leggings and a striped top underneath\nGetting physical: This time, she took on a hunky trainer for her boxing session, as she hit the pads as he held them in place for her\nA burst of colour: She livened up the ensemble with a pair of bright pink trainers", "Sometimes, fashion just means wearing clothes with matching colors. Other times, it means hours in the bathroom preparing yourself for a special occasion. There is no day in your life where you could not save a few minutes with the right fashion tips and ideas. Read on into this article for paragraphs full of them.\nAccessories are your best friend. You can take any old outfit that would be quite boring or plain on its own and dress it up with amazing accessories. Add the perfect necklace or brooch to a little black dress, and you've taken that LBD from average to awesome in two seconds flat.\nBuy clothes that do not lose their flair. It is nearly impossible to keep up with current trends unless you have an unlimited amount of money to work with. To ensure that you look great no matter what the trends are you should just focus on buying clothes that can weather any fashion storm.\nCopy the look for less. If you see a look you love in a high-end fashion magazine or spot your favorite celebrity sporting a look to die for, don't automatically assume that it is out of your budget. You can often create a very similar look for a whole lot less if you are willing to shop around.\nThe best time to apply body moisturizer is directly after you shower. Use it before you dry off, or after a gently towel drying. This will help to lock the moisture from the shower into your skin, doubling the benefits of the moisturizer. It will also require that you use less of the product.\nAdd some fun to your wardrobe by wearing pieces with some interesting prints and patterns. You could wear geometric patterned shirts or striped patterned skirts. You could even wear animal print heels or polka-dotted dresses. Whether you desire a classy or an edgy look, you can find a print or pattern to fit your style.\nYou can have a dressy look by wearing black jeans and a nice blouse, with heels. You want to avoid colored jeans if you are trying to dress up.\nDon't fall for a fashion trend if it doesn't fit your frame well. Everyone may be wearing the newest fashion fad, and you'll be tempted to follow suit. But if the newest style is not complementary to your physical frame, you will only be doing yourself a fashion disservice.\nTo add a touch a bit of \"spring\" to your wardrobe, go with mint green this season. This soft green looks great on its own or when paired with other colors like neutrals and other subdued hues. You can find it in various shades and in everything from dresses to shoes.\nDon't be afraid to experiment. Instead of going with the norm, play with your wardrobe. Try pairing a stiff skirt with a soft and flowing top. Combine dress shoes with your favorite casual pair of jeans. Often the most unusual pairings can turn out to be the most stylish choice.\nYou can get fuller lips by lining them first with a lip pencil and then blending the edges using a sponge applicator. Then you should apply petroleum jelly or gloss over this area. Add just a tiny bit of gloss to the center of your upper lip to finish the look. You could also bring out your lips by applying eyeshadow that brings out your lip color. Just put a little bit at the center of your lips.\nWedge heels are popular for boots and sandals. These are great for women who wish to not only look slimmer, but also want to seem taller as well. When you're getting a pair of heels that are wedged, you have to remember that if they're too think, they could be impossible to walk in.\nTry keeping your outfits simple. Using a minimalist approach when it comes to your ensembles can actually have a big impact on your appearance. Try keeping your clothing choices subdued and your accessories to a minimum. When you're not focusing on busy prints and patterns, bold colors, or tons of accessories, it makes for a clean and attractive look.\nFashion may have been something that you have always never figured out. Hopefully, though, you realize that it is less about what others are doing and more about what you personally like. Keep these great fashion tips in mind everyday.", "In today's world, different fashions are ushered in at the drop of a hat as others leave. You do not have to follow the latest trends: creating your own style is a great way to boost your confidence and look nice. Read this article to discover helpful fashion tips.\nYou should always own a black pair of pants in a smooth fabric. You can wear those for a casual occasion if you pair it with a casual top. You can wear the same pair of pants for a more formal occasion if your pair it with a more satin top with sparkly jewelry.\nTight levis can look attractive on someone who is fit with a slender figure, but if you are a bit on the heavy side, look for jeans that fit well without being tight. Your extra pounds will be even more noticeable if you look as if your pants are painted on you.\nKeep a pair of lightweight, inexpensive ballet flats in the bottom of your handbag or briefcase. In the event that you break a heel, develop a blister, or simply need to give your feet a break, you will be prepared without compromising your style. Choose a neutral color that matches the majority of your wardrobe to prevent clashing.\nA good fashion tip is to start experimenting with your style if you've become very bored with your wardrobe. You can do this by simply trying out a new type of clothing that you've never worn before such as a scarf or certain kind of dress. This will definitely freshen up your wardrobe.\nBuild your wardrobe around basic staples that you can mix and match easily. Some key pieces include a little black dress, a fitted jacket and matching skirt, a tailored pair of slacks in a neutral color and a pair of dark, fitted trouser jeans. These items can take your almost anywhere paired with the right top and/or accessories.\nThe basic black dress is essential for any woman's wardrobe. You can wear this dress for casual occasions by accessorizing it with a pair of comfortable pumps. You can wear the same dress for a more formal occasion if you put up your hair and accessorize with a pearl necklace and earrings.\nDuring the summer, you should avoid wearing excess makeup. In the summer, it can get very hot. Therefore, it is not good to wear heavy makeups. A lighter makeup style for the summer will ideally complement your fun summer style, keeping your skin healthy, and you will looking perfectly fashionable.\nThere is nothing wrong with using hair accessories, but do not use too many at once because it will make you look tacky. Limit them to no more than two at a time. Furthermore, avoid using hair accessories that are so large that they overpower your hairstyle or make your head look too small.\nNeutrals are big every season. This season, the creamier neutrals are especially popular. Try looking for pieces in hues like cream, caramel, chocolate, etc. These colors work well on their own, and they also work as accents to bold or subdued outfits. Whichever way you decide to flaunt them, you can find some neutrals that go with your outfits.\nWhen shopping for vintage clothing, don't make assumptions based on the size on the tag. A size 8 in the 1950s fits differently than a modern size 8, so save yourself some disappointments by always trying items on before buying them. Once you get a feel for how sizes have changed through the decades, you will have a better idea of what to look for.\nWhen shopping for vintage clothing, don't make assumptions based on the size on the tag. A size 8 in the 1950s fits differently than a modern size 8, so save yourself some disappointments by always trying items on before buying them. Once you get a feel for how sizes have changed through the decades, you will have a better idea of what to look for.\nAlthough denim has taken on many forms over the years, it is something that will never go out of style, regardless of its variations. A well-fitting pair of denim jeans looks good on anyone. This doesn't mean putting on a pair that is too tight. Your denim jeans should fit comfortably around your body.\nA perfect fashion tip that has been proven throughout time is striped tops. This is a great way to add variety to your wardrobe and give you a fresh look. It is also a great way to explore different color options that you may not normally wear in a solid outfit.\nRemember that clothes aren't all you have to worry about when trying to look fashionable. Your hair also matters a lot. This is why you should have a hairstyle that suits you well. For instance, if you are a hard-working businesswoman, choose something classic and flattering, like a bob. If you are a mom leading a hectic life, you can choose a style that is wash and go.\nGive your friends-free reign to tell you what they think of what you're wearing. Let's be honest. Women are often not truthful with each other when it comes to fashion. However, if you want the cold, hard, truth about how you look, you are going to have to develop a thick skin. Just make sure that the friends you are getting opinions from are people you can trust.\nTry keeping your outfits simple. Using a minimalist approach when it comes to your ensembles can actually have a big impact on your appearance. Try keeping your clothing choices subdued and your accessories to a minimum. When you're not focusing on busy prints and patterns, bold colors, or tons of accessories, it makes for a clean and attractive look.\nYou are not the only one who sees your fashion sense. Everyone who sees you knows what you dress like. You need to choose clothes that wow others, but you also need to wow yourself. The right wardrobe can do that, and the tips in this article can make that happen for you.", "Try to understand and apply what you just read. The following article will teach you everything you need to develop your style. Fashion advice can help you improve on your looks.\nIf you are going directly from work to an evening out on the town, take a few makeup basics with you to change your look. Consider darker lipstick and some smoky eye shadow to transform your look. You may also darken your blush a bit, providing some contour for darker time. These three products will ease the transition.\nBuy a variety of jewelry pieces. If you have a good number of colors and styles, you will always have something that matches your outfit. You then will not have to worry about purchasing jewelry to match every outfit that you buy. Think variety and you will have more than one option for an outfit.\nA simple black blazer is a fantastic addition to any wardrobe. You can use it to dress up almost any outfit. Then, you can remove it if you change to a more casual venue. The color will also match virtually anything in your closet, from jeans to business casual blouses and slacks.\nIf you are going to a formal event and aren't quite sure what to wear, you can't fail with a simple black dress. No matter what the decade, a simple, little black dress has always been in style and will never go out. Consider this next time you aren't sure what to wear.\nDo not be ashamed of letting your friends know that you have a small fashion budget. If your best friend has a clothing piece you covet, ask her to donate it to you once she no longer wants it. You can use this idea to get free fashion finds.\nExcellent fashion always begins with a strong foundation. A well-fitting bra will define your figure and look very appealing. Your undergarments should also provide proper support and give your body a well put together look. There are even items which slim you out and cover up bumps and rolls which would otherwise be unsightly.\nYou can't go wrong with a pair of shades. If you have had a rough, sleepless night, or you just don't feel like putting on makeup, shades can be your best friend. By wearing them, you can hide your puffy eyes, and they always add some style for any event.\nIs it time to invest in a new pair of jeans? When you go into any store, you are confronted with all kinds of different jean fits and cuts. It may seem completely daunting. Look for the more classic cuts, such as straight or boot cut. These kinds of styles always look great on most people and give you a lot of wear for your money.\nIf you have \"problem\" hair, you may be washing it too much. It's not always a good idea to wash your hair daily. When you do this, you strip natural oils and end up with a chemical buildup on your hair. If you must wash your hair daily, use gentle, natural shampoo and conditioner and don't scrub your hair. Just stroke the product through it and let it rinse out gently under warm, running water. Allow your hair to air dry rather than blow-drying.\nUse every ounce of your beauty products. For products in tubes, consider using the squeezers made for toothpaste. Turn the bottle upside down or on its side to get the most out that you can. Slicing the packaging open will let you scoop out the last bit of product. You'll be surprised at how much money you save.\nOne way to make sure that you look great is to find a specific cut or brand that fits you well and buy multiples of it. This is important because you will not always find that perfect outfit, especially if you are shopping at the last minute. Buy more than one of the same color even, just in case it gets damaged somehow.\nA good fashion tip for wearing white clothing is to make sure that it is not see through in the sun. Many times, clothing might appear to be safe, but certain lighting conditions can cause them to become almost see through, leading to cause for possible embarrassment. Check yourself out in multiple lighting conditions, especially outdoors.\nDon't buy clothes that don't fit you, vowing to yourself that you'll \"get into them.\" While it's an admirable goal, it rarely works out that way. The vast majority of women never do \"get into them,\" and just end up wasting money on sometimes expensive clothing. Lose weight first; then go shopping.\nMost women consider shoes as a top priority when it comes to fashion. The wrong shoes with the right outfit is \"fit\" for a nightmare. Therefore finding the right shoes for all occasions is something that is fashionable. This doesn't mean owning fifty pairs of shoes; it simply means having enough for all occasions.\nUse the tips in this article to streamline your wardrobe and where what looks best on you. Even if you haven't paid attention before, you'll find out that when you look good, you feel great. Fine tune your fashion sense and you will look fabulous anywhere you happen to go.", "Jennifer Hudson looked cool in a black leather jacket and black tee as she arrived at LAX on Tuesday.\nThe 35-year-old songstress added a pair of denim high-waisted jeans, over-the-knee boots and a chic leather jacket to her outfit.\nThe talented singer added a baseball cap and large headphones to complete her casual chic look.\nTravelling in style: Jennifer Hudson looked cool in a black leather jacket and black tee as she arrived at LAX on Tuesday\nHudson also went for a pair of high knee black boots with fur detailing at the top\nShe went for a natural make-up look opting to wear a little eye liner and mascara.\nHudson added some highlighter and pink lippy to complete her travel chic style.\nChilled: The talented singer added a baseball cap and large headphones to complete her casual chic look\nThe brunette beauty recently stole the show at Clive Davis' Pre-Grammys party several nights ago.\nHer work in The Color Purple was Grammy nominated for Best Musical Theater Album.\nShe rocked two separate looks for the big event.\nChic: The 35-year-old songstress added a pair of denim high-waisted jeans, over-the-knee boots and a chic leather jacket to her outfit\nFirst a black sheer lace pant suit before changing into a plunging white mermaid gown for her performance during the star-studded bash.\nHudson earned applause when honoring Leonard Cohen, who died last year, with his Hallelujah.\nThe Color Purple Cast Album won the 2017 Grammy Award.\nPrincipal soloists Cynthia Erivo, Hudson (as Shug), and Danielle Brooks (as Sofia) take home the prize along with producers Stephen Bray, Van Dean, Frank Filipetti, Roy Furman, Scott Sanders, and Jhett Tolentino,", "The ladies of Victoria's Secret are often photographed on the beach in Florida.\nBut this month the beauties went Western for a cowgirl-themed photo shoot in the mountains of Aspen, Colorado.\nTaylor Hill, Stella Maxwell, Lais Ribeiro, Elsa Hosk, Candice Swanepoel and Jasmine Tookes all stepped into chaps, Daisy Dukes shorts and cowboy hats to model the brand's latest lingerie designs.\nScroll down for video...\nYee-haw! The ladies of Victoria's Secret are often photographed on the beach in Florida. But this month the beauties went Western for a cowgirl-themed photo shoot in the mountains of Aspen, Colorado\nThe internationally famous stars of the shoot took to Instagram to share their favorite looks.\nMany of the women were longtime VS vets who also walked in the runway shows.\nAll involved took incredible selfies and portraits that looked perfect for the annual VS lingerie catalog.\nGirls will be girls: Stella Maxwell put her legs around Hosk as they posed on a wall\nA new look: Rimee Strijd wore a pair of lace chaps and a very small pair of undies in her images shared to Instagram\nMoody: The star also pouted when wearing these leather jackets\nHill looked stunning in her ripped jeans paired with a silk bra and a cowboy hat with a bolero necktie for jewelry.\nThe 21-year-old Illinois native also posed with Strijd, a 22-year-old looker from the Netherlands.\nStridj wore a pair of lace chaps and a very small pair of undies in her images shared to Instagram.\nHosk looked sensational in a white leather jacket, white boots and a matching white cowboy hat.\nChilly? Hosk looked sensational in a white leather jacket, white boots and a matching white cowboy hat\nWatch out for splinters! The 28-year-old Swedish delight writhed around on the floor and posed with her legs out\nShe knows how to look leggy: Here the cover girl put her white boots up as she touched her hair\nThe 28-year-old Swedish delight writhed around on the floor and posed with her legs out.\nTookes stood out in a black outfit that consisted of a bra and skirt with boots and hat to match.\nRibeiro was more adventurous with leather chaps and worn-in cowboy boots as she helped sell a satin mauve bra.\nChaps: Fellow angel Taylor Hill shared her own photos from the shoot, including this woodsy shot\nArty: Hill, 21, posted a few previews from the upcoming shoot on Instagram with different filters\nRound her up! Tookes stood out in a black outfit that consisted of a bra and skirt with boots and hat to match\nMatching: Here she posed with another model who seemed to have on three belts\nSwanepoel showed off her virtually bare behind in fringed leather chaps.\nThe mother-of-one also had on skimpy panties and a bra as she channeled her inner cowgirl.\nThe beautiful 28-year-old blonde completed her look with boots, of course, and a cream cowboy hat.\nA tip of the hat: Candice swapped her chaps for teeny black lace panties, a black leather jacket and matching black hat for the shoot\nStunner on the loose: Here Candice wore a mauve bra and matching undies with leather chaps\nBare butt rider: Candice Swanepoel showed off her beautiful booty in cowboy chaps and skimpy undies during the Victoria's Secret holiday shoot in Aspen, Colorado on Saturday\nRightly proud of her toned behind she posted an Instagram clip of herself jiggling her cheeks that she captioned, '#giddyup, #bumbumtamtam' with three horse emojis.\nIn a second video clip, she posed from left to right, looking over her shoulder.\nCandice captioned it: 'Wild Wild West out here.'\nEasy on the eyes: Swanepoel stood against a log cabin as she tried on this outfit\nA black and white video showed her strolling across a meadow in her revealing outfit as Josephine Skiver, also scantily clad, rode a horse behind her.\nEdward Razek, senior creative at Victoria's Secret, described the shoot in a picture he posted saying: '13 Angels, 2 photographers, a crew of 100+, one big time director, and an $80 million ranch - no one does Holiday like Victoria's Secret does Holiday!'\nThe 'big-time director' is Transformers' Michael Bay, seen with seven Angels in Ed's snap.\nSitting pretty: Here Lais sat in a chair; she added the caption: 'Ainda da tempo de entrar no #regimefechado? @simoneesimaria'\nA tummy to die for: Ribeiro looked like she was gym toned in this image with a breathtaking background\nLike a Western Charlie's Angels: These three models looked like they got into their roles\nBevy of beauty: Director Michael Bay is surrounded by Angels in this snap posted by Edward Razek, senior creative at Victoria's Secret. Michael is capturing the action in Aspen\nAside from Candice and Josephine, the Angels include Sara Sampaio, Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio, Taylor Hill, Elsa Hosk, Niki Baratta, Jen King, Lily Aldridge, Lais Ribeiro, Jas Tookes, Romee Strijd and Behati Prinsloo.\nCandice appears to be in Aspen with fiance and long-time love Hermann Nicoli, a Brazilian model.\nThe South African native posted an adorable Snapchat photo of the 35-year-old holding their excited 10-month-old son Anacã on his lap as he tried to eat his lunch in a cafe. She captioned it: ' Feliz dai papai!'\nRide it: The Angel straddled a horse in her skivvies, covered by a large brown blanket", "Rochelle Humes looked incredible on Friday morning as she made a special appearance on ITV's Lorraine. The mother-of-two wore a dazzling body-conscious lilac ribbed jumper dress, by online e-store WEEKDAY. The gorgeous design hugged the former Saturdays singer's lean frame, and featured a funnel neckline and 3/4 length sleeves. Rochelle paired her dress with co-ordinating lilac ankle boots, made in a suede fabric with darker purple perspex heels. The boots were from high street mecca Topshop and are priced at £45. Both items are currently online in all sizes, which is great news for fans of the fashion-forward presenter's look. Her curly locks were full and glossy and natural makeup completed her directional look.\nLilac lady! Rochelle stunned in the pretty outfit\nRochelle, 28 was once again styled by Angie Smith, the stylist also responsible for Holly Willoughby's incredible outfits. Angie has a long-standing working relationship with the singer, often helping Rochelle put together her outfits for TV appearances and red carpet events. The star is a big fan of the British high street, and this week sent her fans wild when she stepped out in a pretty floral dress from H&M which cost just £24.99.\nRochelle's dress is by WEEKDAY and priced at £45\nThe black dress featured a striking yellow and white print, and had a glamorous necktie and defined cuffs. One of our favourite looks Rochelle has worm so far this year is a fabulous statement sweater emblazoned with the words 'President Oprah' on the front. She teamed her top with a PVC black mini skirt which showed off her enviable toned legs.\nRochelle's boots are £85 by Topshop", "Everything is going up in price these days, including clothes. It is unimaginable that some designer clothes can cost ten times more than your basic brands. You can achieve designer looks with spending all that money. You just need to know how to put you outfits together. Read this article for some advice.\nFashions are constantly changing, so look for some basic items of clothing that you can add to and create a new look. A great fitting pair of black pants are the basic look you can dress up or dress down, as well as wear in summer or during the winter months.\nWhen you wear two items of the same color, make sure that the shades are a perfect or near-perfect match. For example, do not wear a navy blue shirt with a midnight blue pair of pants. Even though they are both blue, it does not look as well put together as it would have if both pieces were the same color.\nIf you tend to be a bit on the heavy side, do not try to hide your shape by dressing in baggy clothing. The added volume only accentuates your size and makes you look frumpy. Look for clothing that is more fitted around your waistline, but then flows away from your lower body to create more shape.\nGo shopping with friends and help each other pick out clothes. Your friends can be your best resource when it comes to choosing the right outfits to wear. You want the people closest to you to help you because they are the ones that are going to help you look your best.\nChoose your fashion shopping friends wisely. Your friends can make hunting for the newest fashions fun and exciting. But if you bring a friend with a competitive shopping streak, she may tempt you into buying clothes that either don't fit you well or are outside of your budget. Make your decisions on your own time with your needs in mind.\nIf you find a classic skirt, linen shirt or pair of jeans that fits you perfectly and makes you look and feel fabulous, buy two of them. Designers make their money by making changes every year so that customers will buy new items each season. You may not ever be able to replace that beloved item that gives you so much pleasure and confidence.\nUse many colors when creating an outfit. You do not want every piece to match perfectly, that is not the point of fashion. Instead find ways to create creative color schemes. For example, a purple dress can be matched with yellow, silver, black or green accessories. Just have fun with it.\nDon't be afraid to experiment. Instead of going with the norm, play with your wardrobe. Try pairing a stiff skirt with a soft and flowing top. Combine dress shoes with your favorite casual pair of jeans. Often the most unusual pairings can turn out to be the most stylish choice.\nWhen you are at the beach or pool, store your sunscreen in a cool place. Otherwise, the heat can change the chemical composition of the product, making it less effective. You can put it in a plastic baggie before placing it in your beverage cooler, or put it in a bag with ice.\nEvery woman needs a few fashion basics in her wardrobe. Black tailored pants, one pair of designer jeans and a pair of black heels are some items which one must include. A final feature of your wardrobe should be a simple black dress that is just right for special occasions.\nJust because fashion rules exist, does not mean you can not be inventive. Some items may surprise you when you put them on. Mix and match to try different styles, materials and colors. You can change your look in unique ways with different pieces that look great.\nTo maximize your clothing, sell the items that you are not using. You can also use an online auction to bring in some money for clothing, or take some items to a nearby consignment shop. Some shops deal only in trade and some will pay you cash for your old fashions.\nOne great fashion tip is to pay attention to what specific designer or brand fit you best. This is a very good idea because many times, a designer will mold their outfits around a specific body type or individual so you will find success with much of their clothing options.\nFor a fun and simple daytime look, wear your hair in a casual up-do. Use an accessory that coordinates with your outfit to hold most of your hair in place. Allow some gentle pieces to fall out and frame your face. You will feel cooler, and look casually appealing to everyone!\nYou see? It really doesn't cost a lot of money to build your fashion sense. All it takes is proper planning and motivation, and you can figure out how to build your fashion sense on a budget for all of the days ahead of you. Best of luck with your future with fashion.", "You don't have to be lost when it comes to fashion. Maybe you need a guiding hand, and there are plenty of resources available. Once you start to gain some solid information regarding fashion, you will be well on your way to expressing your individual interests when it comes to fashion in today's society.\nDon't be afraid to top off your look with an awesome hat. In days gone by, it was commonplace for women and men to wear hats on a daily basis. What was once the height of fashion has, unfortunately, fallen to the wayside in modern times. Be adventurous, and finish off your look with an ultra-cool fedora or a pretty sun hat.\nIf you have thick or very curly hair, using a gel product will help you to create the style you desire. Work the product into towel-dried hair and then style it as you want. You can allow it to dry naturally, or use a hair drier. This is especially helpful in humid weather.\nChoose your fashion shopping friends wisely. Your friends can make hunting for the newest fashions fun and exciting. But if you bring a friend with a competitive shopping streak, she may tempt you into buying clothes that either don't fit you well or are outside of your budget. Make your decisions on your own time with your needs in mind.\nOne of the key things that you need to be more fashionable is to get fit. Being fit will help you feel confident and look great. If you are carrying an extra bit of weight then you should start an easy diet and begin doing a bit of exercise on a daily basis.\nDon't fall for a fashion trend if it doesn't fit your frame well. Everyone may be wearing the newest fashion fad, and you'll be tempted to follow suit. But if the newest style is not complementary to your physical frame, you will only be doing yourself a fashion disservice.\nPick top or bottom to accentuate sexily, but never both. The line between looking sexy and looking trashy can be very thin; however, this rule of thumb should suffice. When you accentuate your upper or lower body, keep the other half stylish, yet conservative. Bear in mind, this rule applies to men or women.\nOne easy fashion tip is to just be more confident. No matter how good your clothes look, you will not truly look fashionable unless you wear your clothes with confidence. You need to carry yourself with the utmost confidence. This is one simple way that you can take your fashion to the next level.\nWhen purchasing jeans, go for timeless looks. For example, classic straight leg or boot cut jeans never go out of style. Opt for either of these styles in either a dark denim or slightly faded to remain in style throughout the years. By opting for these styles, you will always be in style no matter the current fashion.\nDon't be afraid to experiment. Instead of going with the norm, play with your wardrobe. Try pairing a stiff skirt with a soft and flowing top. Combine dress shoes with your favorite casual pair of jeans. Often the most unusual pairings can turn out to be the most stylish choice.\nWhen you purchase sunglasses, look for frames that will coordinate with your summer clothing. You should really need only one or two pairs to get you through the entire season. You can use other accessories to draw attention to yourself, or a particular area. Multiple pairs of shades are unnecessary, and expensive.\nShop at your local resale shops and garage sales. Being fashionable does not mean spending a thousand dollars on an outfit. You can use pieces that are no longer in style and create a new style by putting them together. With all the big-box stores out there you can do this to be original.\nSelect clothing that is appropriate for your age and the event you are attending. If you are outfitted in clothing that is for people younger or older than you, you will lose the effect you want. Also, if you do not consider the venue, you may stand out in an unpleasant way. You want to look fabulous, but not stick out.\nIf you have \"problem\" hair, you may be washing it too much. It's not always a good idea to wash your hair daily. When you do this, you strip natural oils and end up with a chemical buildup on your hair. If you must wash your hair daily, use gentle, natural shampoo and conditioner and don't scrub your hair. Just stroke the product through it and let it rinse out gently under warm, running water. Allow your hair to air dry rather than blow-drying.\nAccessorize to draw attention to the things you want attention on. This works to take focus away from trouble areas, like a large bottom or shoulders. It also can be used to draw attention to certain things like your eyes or legs. Use accessories to make the most of your outfit.\nWear modern glasses. Many people overlook their glasses when trying to look chic. When it is necessary to wear glasses, you have another opportunity to showcase your fashion knowledge. Try different shapes and sizes to see which ones accentuate your face best.\nWhen purchasing a jacket or coat, you should take note of the number of buttons. The buttons on a coat jacket should never exceed three. Furthermore, a jacket with three buttons should only have the top-most button buttoned. This is an easy step to take that will keep you looking fashionable all day long.\nFashion can be affordable. You just need to know how to work with your budget. This article will allow you to find the clothes to improve your wardrobe.", "The Mint Hill Historical Society is hosting its first rodeo in the town, with high hopes for more to come.\nThe South Carolina High School Rodeo Association will hold a rodeo Friday and Saturday evenings, April 21 and 22, just off Exit 44 I-485 in Mint Hill. It will be one of the last competitions before the state finals at Clemson University next month.\nThirty acres of land off Bartlett Road, just down from Mint Hill Veteran’s Park on N.C. 218, will be turned into a western paradise with a competition size ring, horses, bulls, calves, clowns, cowboy boots and hats, music, and food and merchandise vendors.\nThe South Carolina High School Rodeo Association, a nonprofit organization, will retain the entry fees to provide scholarships for its members.\nThe Mint Hill Historical Society, also a nonprofit, will keep the gate fees as well as the sponsorships collected beforehand. They will use that money to help raise a large barn, a welcome addition to the Carl J. McEwen Historic Village.\nMint Hill Historical Society executive director Becky Griffin says the new structure will be used for larger tour groups as well as rented out for weddings and other events.\nJust as with barn raisings of old, Griffin says the entire town is pitching in to make it happen.\n“I would say 90 percent of the people that our board members approached about sponsorships responded positively. And when they sent in their ads we got pictures of bucking broncos, wanted signs, all sorts of fun things. They are just so supportive and so excited,” said Griffin.\nBoard member Judy McWhirter and her husband, James, stepped forward months ago, volunteering use of their land. Griffin said that was the first big hurdle to cross because they needed a large tract in order to hold the event.\nThe Town of Mint Hill installed a rolling gate at the property to enable cars to enter and exit more efficiently. Sunbelt Rental is providing the lighting free of charge. RCS is setting up portable toilets.\nGriffin Masonry is hauling in potable water for the animals and has lent equipment and manpower to help prepare the site and set up the ring.\nElders and sisters from local congregations of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints also helped with site prep, marked off parking and eradicated fire ants.\nDuring the two days of the event, members of Altrusa International will be present to do whatever is needed and the Future Farmers of America from Independence High School will help direct parking.\nIt’s a large undertaking for the Mint Hill Historical Society and has been more than a year in the making, but board member Bob Roland says the group is ready.\n“It’s new to us but we’ve done our homework and it seems to be all coming together,” said Roland.\nLori Peyton, national director of the South Carolina High School Rodeo Association, grew up and still lives in Marshville, She competed in the South Carolina rodeos when she was younger and has served on its board for the last 21 years.\nShe now she leads the group and her son, Cooper, competes in the Youth division for grades K-5.\nPeyton met Griffin at a Christmas party a few years ago and the idea of a rodeo fundraiser for the Mint Hill Historical Society was hatched. Now, she says, her group, which boasts almost 100 athletes from both Carolinas, is excited to compete in a more metropolitan area than they normally do.\nShe promises the “city” crowd that they will not be disappointed.\n“I think spectators will be very surprised at the quality of the rodeo and shocked at the level of athleticism,” said Peyton.\nAs for Griffin, she can’t wait.\n“We had some horse shows in Mint Hill back in the 1960s, but nothing like this,” said Griffin.\n“I think this rodeo has generated more excitement in Mint Hill than anything I’ve ever seen. And I’ve lived here for 50 years.”", "Staying on top of trends isn't always easy, but it isn't hard to create a wardrobe that is stylish all year round.\nPeople have been talking about capsule wardrobes for some time now, but not everyone knows how to create one.\nThat's where the stylish cousin duo behind States of Style, Nikki Pash, 31, who resides in Melbourne, and Michelle Rimmer, 32, who lives in Perth, step in.\n'We believe in buying quality over quantity. People often think that when you buy a ‘brand name’ you’re paying for the label, but the truth is that the quality of these products means that they often last a lifetime,' they told FEMAIL.\nStylish cousin duo behind States of Style , Nikki Pash, 31, (right) who resides in Melbourne, and Michelle Rimmer, 32, (left) who lives in Perth have revealed how you can be stylish all year round\n'The fact that they cost more means that you tend to treat them with more respect and therefore the cost per wear is actually more efficient, compared to the cheaper item that you throw away after one wear,' they added.\nThe fashion conscious pair explained that creating a capsule wardrobe, which is a collection of essential items of clothing that don't go out of fashion, is easier than people may think.\n'Regardless of the season, there’s a decent number of essential items that go together to form a capsule wardrobe and we would invest in good quality, which doesn’t necessarily mean expensive, pieces,' they said.\n'These include things like a graphic t-shirt, an oversized denim jacket, a black or navy silk cami, which is perfect for layering under the jackets or over the graphic t-shirt, simple black strap heels and chain necklaces for layering.'\n'We believe in buying quality over quantity. People often think that when you buy a ‘brand name’ you’re paying for the label, but the truth is that the quality of these products means that they often last a lifetime,' they told FEMAIL\nThey said that when you're creating a capsule wardrobe you should aim to focus on one colour and at the moment they're loving pink\n'Regardless of the season, there’s a decent number of essential items that go together to form a capsule wardrobe,' the cousins said\nCAPSULE WARDROBE NECESSITIES - A stylish dress - Graphic t-shirt - Oversized denim jacket - A well-fitted black leather/vegan leather jacket - A black or navy silk cami - Simple black strap heels - A detailed coat - White ankle boots - Black thigh-high boots - Well-fitted yet comfortable boyfriend jeans - Gold or silver hoop earrings - Chain necklaces for layering - A statement bag - A cosy jumper\nThe wardrobe necessities don't stop there because if you're creating a capsule wardrobe you need to ensure it will work all year round.\n'Everyone needs a staple bag which fits everyday essentials - here’s a good place to park some money,' they explained.\n'Nothing is more of an investment than a classic designer bag, which will look good regardless of how much Mexican you’ve just consumed or what season we’re in.'\nThis being said, you want to avoid purchasing anything that is 'too trendy' as you don’t want to spend a heap of money on a piece that you’re not still in love with when the brand has had their moment.\n'Our additional essentials include an effortlessly stylish dress, a great detailed coat and a cosy jumper. Plus denim. We can never get enough denim,' they added.\n'Mix these items together and you’ve got yourself one hell of a timeless, not too trendy, capsule wardrobe.'\nOne of the main things that stops people from creating a capsule wardrobe is they're worried that they will be stuck wearing the some outfits, which isn't true.\nIf you're creating a capsule wardrobe you need to ensure it will work all year round\n'Our additional essentials include an effortlessly stylish dress, a great detailed coat and a cosy jumper,' Nikki and Michelle said\nAlso thanks to social media, particularly Instagram, many people feel like they can't outfit repeat.\nThe cousin's solution to this? Shop vintage and focus on how your photographing your fashion looks.\n'Vintage shopping is great, especially in cities like Melbourne. Areas like Fitzroy have curated collections of vintage pieces and you never know what you’ll find,' Nikki said.\nIf you're worried about uploading repeated looks to your Instagram account, they have tips for that too.\nThanks to social media many people feel like they can't outfit repeat but the cousins solution to this is to shop vintage and focus on how your photographing your fashion looks\nAlthough the recommended capsule item amount is usually 30, the fashion bloggers believe that there is no 'one-size-fits-all' approach\n'It’s essential to shoot all looks from various angles to ensure details are captured,' they said.\n'Multiple shots of one outfit should go live on your social media accounts as long as you’re highlighting and considering the key details of each look.'\nOther important elements of creating the perfect capsule wardrobe that can work all year is focusing on a colour and choosing classic shapes and patterns.\n'It’s essential to shoot all looks from various angles to ensure details are captured,' they said\n'Multiple shots of one outfit should go live on your social media accounts as long as you’re highlighting and considering the key details of each look,' the cousins explained\nWith these prerequisites in place the cousins believe it is much easier to create a bold, yet chic, outfit.\n'Whether it's incredible heels, an amazing bag or a statement skirt, pick one feature of your look and start there,' Nikki and Michelle said.\n'Sometimes we’re living for a colour and will put together an outfit based on this. The tonal trend is currently huge, we’re currently loving pink, on pink, on pink!\n'On the flip side, you can’t beat black, on black, on black.'\n'Whether it's incredible heels, an amazing bag or a statement skirt, pick one feature of your look and start there,' Nikki and Michelle said\nAlthough the recommended capsule item amount is usually 30, the fashion bloggers believe that there is no 'one-size-fits-all' approach.\n'Having space is essential - you don’t want items shoved away and out of view, slim-line coat hangers allow more items in the available space minus the clutter,' they told FEMAIL.\n'One would hope that the majority of items would be worn on a semi-regular basis but the reality is that most people wear the same items on a constant cycle due to factors such as comfort and practicality.\n'Keep these items in mind when purchasing. It’s absolutely acceptable to invest in more denim pieces or band t-shirts if these are what you tend to live in!'\nAs for when you should get rid of an item you own? Only chuck it out when they're beyond repair, otherwise donate them.\n'Only purchase something new when it takes over your world, you start dreaming about it, and when you know it’s not a one-time-wear situation,' Nikki and Michelle said.", "Try to keep all of this in mind as you continue reading. The following article will teach you about fashion as well as how you can improve your image by using fashion. There is nothing wrong with getting advice about fashion if it helps you improve how you look.\nLooking great does not have to cost a fortune. If you want to build your wardrobe but don't have the funds to get the look you're after, check out your local thrift and consignment stores. These stores offer a plethora of fashion options at a fraction of their retail price.\nSpend most of your money on basic fashion pieces. Classic pieces that are always in fashion are a good investment. Buy quality pants, skirts, blouses and jackets in solid colors like black, creme and beige that can be mixed and matched with more trendy things easily.\nA great fashion tip is to always dress appropriately depending on where you're going. This is especially important for parties because so many different parties require their own special attire that guests are expected to wear. You don't want to show up to a cocktail party under dressed or do the exact opposite.\nPumping the brush repeatedly inside and outside of your mascara container is a bad idea. It doesn't get more of the mascara on the brush, it actually pushes air into the bottle. Bacteria loves an environment like this. You can coat your brush by turning it gently into the container.\nDon't shy away from thrift stores. You may be reluctant to wear used clothing, but keep an open mind. If you don't have much money to spend on a new outfit, your local thrift store could prove perfect. Check out thrift stores regularly. You could end up finding some unique, fashionable additions to your wardrobe.\nIf you are going out of town, focus your wardrobe on neutral colors that can mixed and matched at will. With just a few items, you can create many different looks and not worry about anything clashing. Also pack a few coordinating accessories to finish off your outfits.\nNeutrals are big every season. This season, the creamier neutrals are especially popular. Try looking for pieces in hues like cream, caramel, chocolate, etc. These colors work well on their own, and they also work as accents to bold or subdued outfits. Whichever way you decide to flaunt them, you can find some neutrals that go with your outfits.\nUse many colors when creating an outfit. You do not want every piece to match perfectly, that is not the point of fashion. Instead find ways to create creative color schemes. For example, a purple dress can be matched with yellow, silver, black or green accessories. Just have fun with it.\nAlthough denim has taken on many forms over the years, it is something that will never go out of style, regardless of its variations. A well-fitting pair of denim jeans looks good on anyone. This doesn't mean putting on a pair that is too tight. Your denim jeans should fit comfortably around your body.\nHair which is teased has a tendency to break easily. Also, don't use a style that will give your hair two distinct textures. You will look messy as opposed to looking edgy and quirky.\nNever be afraid of reinventing yourself. There is no rule that says you must always dress one certain way. In fact, if you did, it would be quite boring. Take a look at Madonna. She has changed her look numerous times over the years, which is part of her appeal. If you are thinking of going blonde, do it. If you have had long hair all your life, try out short hair. Life is about taking changes, and that definitely applies to fashion.\nBraiding long hair is very popular right now. This not only keeps long hair under control, but there are many fun ways this can boost your appearance. You can experiment with different types of braids like French braids and Dutch braids or dress up some simple braids with stylish hairpins, bows, and flowers.\nClean your clothes regularly. That goes without saying, but that goes for clothes that you have to have dry cleaned. Clean clothes last longer and look fresher. Cleaning your clothes helps them to maintain their new appearance. Just be sure to follow the care instructions on the label, so they continue to look great.\nA perfect fashion tip that has been proven throughout time is striped tops. This is a great way to add variety to your wardrobe and give you a fresh look. It is also a great way to explore different color options that you may not normally wear in a solid outfit.\nNow that you have an idea about how to improve your image you should start to feel confident about yourself again. A lot of people don't realize the importance of establishing a good image for themselves, and they go through life never following fashion trends. Yet you can show people you know good fashion after today.", "Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email\nIf there’s ever a time to really let your hair down, it’s during the Christmas party, and this year, Middlesbrough’s iconic clothes store Psyche has selected 10 of its best festive outfits that’ll ensure you take centre stage for all the right reasons.\nThink plunging necklines, frilled frocks and velvet numbers for this season’s hot trends, and don’t be afraid to step out in to the unknown with statement numbers such as ruby red clutch bags or heavily patterned brogues.\nFirst up on the top 10 list is Psyche’s fabulous Forever Unique sequin long-sleeved dress, which make sure you stand out from the crowd. For added wow factor, pair with black crushed velvet, block-heeled ankle boots and a matching clutch.\n- Forever Unique sequin long-sleeved dress, £299.99\n(Image: Psyche)\nIf you’re looking for an outfit that’s both functional and edgy, then look no further than the French Connection Desiree disco studded playsuit. Made for party girls, its gunmetal studded design looks fabulous with a slick of pillar box red lippy and patent leather stilettos.\n- French Connection Desiree disco studded playsuit, £189.99\n- Moda in Pelle two tone stilettos, £109.99\n(Image: Psyche)\n(Image: Psyche)\nIf you aren’t keen on showing too much leg but you still want to make a grand entrance, then this Ted Baker Teara loose-fitting strapless jumpsuit will be sure to knock everyone’s socks off. Its high-waisted fit will ensure you have curves in all the right places and the cascading frill trim adds a touch of elegance.\n- Ted Baker Teara loose-fitting strapless jumpsuit, was £189.99 now £95\n(Image: Psyche)\nMichael Kors made every girl’s dream a reality when it created the Becky platform studded heel shoe. Its block-heeled design means you won’t be dancing with your shoes in hand by the end of the night and its classic black suede look with embellished heel and gold buckle means they’ll go with everything in your party wardrobe.\n- Michael Kors Becky platform studded heel shoes, was £169.99 now £135.99\n(Image: Psyche)\nFor the perfect little black dress, Forever Unique has created this wonderful wrap-around with bronze detailing. The weighty fabric combined with its long sleeves make this the perfect outfit for a chilly winter’s evening and subtle shoulder pads give some real drama to the shape. Style with black heels, or be bold and choose metallic accessories, for an outfit that will grab everyone’s attention.\n- Forever Unique Lurex long-sleeved short dress, £164.99\n(Image: Psyche)\nThe importance of quality accessories can not be underestimated when selecting the perfect outfit, and at Psyche, staff work hard to ensure their customers have access to all the latest brands and must-have items. This season, bold motifs and heavy embellished pieces are where it’s at.\n- Lulu Guiness Luna glitter clutch bag, £124.99\n- Lulu Guiness perspex lips clutch Bag, £244.99\n(Image: Psyche)\n(Image: Psyche)\nFor men, Psyche have some handsome pieces in stock, from the Hugo Boss velvet jacket, which is simple yet gorgeous in its well-executed design, to the slightly more adventurous Barker brogues, which have been revamped with a lazer-etched paisley pattern.\n- Barker Paisley Lazer Wingtip Shoes, £299.99\n- Hugo by Bugo Boss, £399.99\n(Image: Psyche)\n(Image: Psyche)\nFor more inspiration, or to order any of the items mentioned, visit: psyche.co.uk", "Jhett Johnson states simply that his objective as the new head rodeo coach at Casper College is \"to have the number one rodeo program in the Central Rocky Mountain Region.\" Professionally, beyond becoming the head coach at Casper College, Johnson also wants to \"provide opportunities for young people to enhance their ability to rodeo while getting an education.\"\nJohnson, who had been the assistant rodeo coach under Tom Parker since August of 2012, took over as interim head coach in February of this year as Parker's health began to decline, (Parker eventually lost his battle with liver cancer on March 15, 2017).\nBorn on April 7, 1971, Johnson grew up on the family homestead in the Bates Creek area of Natrona County in Wyoming, approximately 30 miles outside of Casper. Johnson's family has a long history in the area, as his great-great-grandfather homesteaded the ranch in 1882, making Johnson and his older brother Justin sixth-generation ranchers on the family's 7,000-acre spread. \"I grew up ranching and roping at brandings, and then started team roping in the arena at the age of 14,\" says Johnson.\nJohnson graduated from Natrona County High School and then headed to Oklahoma Panhandle State University where he earned a bachelor's degree in psychology in 1994 because \"people fascinate me.\" Johnson, who followed in his brother's footsteps, began competing in professional rodeo in 1992 and in 1993 he was team roping reserve champion at the College National Finals Rodeo.\nIn 1995 Johnson was diagnosed with testicular cancer and underwent surgeries that year and again in 1996. In 2006 he was declared cancer free. In June of 1996, Johnson married his wife Jenny, who teaches third grade in Casper. The couple has three sons, Kellan, Carson, and Kress. Just last year Kellan and Carson, following in their father's footsteps, finished second in team roping at the National High School Finals Rodeo in July.\nJohnson, who is a million-dollar career earner in the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association and a five-time National Finals Rodeo Qualifier, was the 2011 World Champion Team Roper along with Turtle Powell. When the team arrived in Las Vegas for the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, they were at 12th place in the standings. According to the WNFR wrap-up report, \"The pair placed in eight of the 10 rounds leap-frogging all the way to the top of the standings.\" Johnson ended 2011 with the championship and season winnings of $197,111.\nThe 6'4\" 240 pound Johnson is an imposing figure in the arena, but the Casper College Rodeo team members have embraced him since he became Parker's assistant. For his 2016-2017 team biography, Johnson spoke of his mental toughness in the arena: \"I'm very strong-minded, and I try to get the guys strong-minded. You have to be mentally strong.\"\nJohnson continues to use that mental strength as a competitor as well, competing in about 10 to 12 rodeos a year. In 2015 Johnson was invited to join the new Elite Rodeo Athletes. According to the group, the ERA \"is the greatest collection of rodeo world champions to compete in one arena in the history of rodeo.\" \"It's kind of the next generation of rodeo, so I didn't want to pass up on the opportunity to do it. The ERA is going to be a spot where there's more money and less traveling,\" he says. The first season, the eight-rodeo event culminated in the 2016 World Championship in Dallas. On the final night of the championship, Johnson and his old partner Powell took the night's only under four second time with a 3.6, earning them gold ERA belt buckles and depriving the overall team roping champions of their potential three-night sweep.\nIn addition to his duties as head rodeo coach, Johnson will continue to work at his ranch, train horses, and coach Kellan and Carson.\nThe hiring of Johnson came just 10 days before the start of this year's College National Finals Rodeo. In 2014, Johnson told Casper Star-Tribune sports reporter Jack Nowlin, \"I can't say this (coaching rodeo) is what I saw myself doing, but this has been a really good fit. I love rodeo, and if I can pass that love along to these kids and help them succeed, then I'm all for it.\"\n\"Jhett is passionate about the athletes and the Casper College Rodeo program,\" says Angel Sharman, Casper College athletic director, adding, \"He knows what it takes to run a great program and wants to continue to represent at the CNFR in June.\"\n–Casper College", "by Sarah Stoss\nThe fashion world is getting ready to transition from summer to fall and the Hamptons are at the forefront of that transition. As we sweat through August, Hamptons boutiques are trading in their swimwear for outerwear and, once again, it’s time to stock up on the perfect outfits for apple picking, cider and beer sipping and cool evening fire pitting. This fall will feature lots of frills, popping colors and soft lines and fabrics. Get ready to give your closet a full-on makeover and embrace the trends of the fall fashion season of 2017.\nColors Galore: The colors of fall fashion will be rivaling the changing colors of the leaves this year. One color sure to make an appearance in your wardrobe is red. A statement color that will be present in accessories, coats and pant suits, you cannot go wrong with a pop of red. If you’re bold enough, take it to the next level and make it the main color in your closet this fall. A variation of red making a comeback, that isn’t quite so bold, is wine. Don’t be afraid to match your merlot and make the red trend a bit cozier to match the landscape of the Hamptons. Take a look at the new arrivals at Intermix, in East Hampton, and you’ll see this trend.\nHello Moto: In terms of outerwear, the moto jacket is the way to go. This style is sleek and casual, and comes in a variety of textures and colors. Perfect for the Hamptons climate, it’s not too heavy or light for fall. Fur collars often accompany these jackets, as well as suede and velvet fabrics, and this gives it a more expensive look. The often asymmetric lines are super flattering, and also make it a really cool style to pair with just a plain white T-shirt and jeans. Blue One Boutique in Bridgehampton features these jackets on their website, and you’ll be sure to see everyone wearing these on their fall outings this season.\nPlaid Pattern: In a nod to ’70s style, plaid is totally in this fall. With items like dresses, tops and even pants and skirts, boutiques Intermix and Club Monaco are all about this trend, as is the rest of the fashion world. This pattern looks great against the backdrop of the crisp colors of fall, and it’s a way to spice up your wardrobe a bit and get a break from plain old solid colors. Channel your inner Farrah Fawcett and give the style of the “Me” decade a try.\nFeminine Frills: Fringe, ruffles and bell sleeves are making a comeback this fall. These soft lines look great with a pair of skinny jeans and thigh-high boots. Ruffles can be found on sleeves, collars and more this fall, and often with floral prints and peplum-style tops. You’ll also see fringe across the Hamptons—Club Monaco, in Southampton, is selling a pair of fringed jeans. Mostly, this look will be seen on cardigans and tops. Bell sleeves give some volume to your look, and are another nod to the ’70s, and ’60s eras. You’ll definitely feel your inner disco diva in this look. Pair it with a headband and you’re set! Calypso St. Barth boutiques are the first place to look if you’re into this trend.\nWhether you’re wine tasting at Channing Daughters in Bridgehampton or pumpkin picking at Hank’s Pumpkintown in Water Mill, these are the styles you’ll be seeing across the Hamptons this fall. Grab a pumpkin spice latte, or a glass (maybe a bottle) of red, and get ready for all that fall brings: the crisp scent of apples, crunching leaves under our feet, and a whole new set of fashion trends to follow.", "Many people are interested in looking their best but do not currently consider themselves to be very \"fashionable\" people. As a result, it can be hard for them to know where to begin when they are trying to enhance their appearance. If this sounds like you, read on for fashion tips and advice that you can apply to your life.\nIf you wear stockings, keep a small bottle of clear nail polish with you. If you get a snag or run, a small drop of the polish will help stop it before it gets bad. Remember that it only takes a small amount to work so, do not overdo it, or you will have a sticky mess.\nLook inside fashion magazines to get an idea of what you should be wearing for this season. You don't have to get clothes that directly match what the latest fashion is. However, you can form a style that is very similar so people may know you are up to date with the latest fashion.\nIf you tend to be a bit on the heavy side, do not try to hide your shape by dressing in baggy clothing. The added volume only accentuates your size and makes you look frumpy. Look for clothing that is more fitted around your waistline, but then flows away from your lower body to create more shape.\nChoose items to add to your wardrobe that make sense for your lifestyle. If you spend most of your time in jeans, then buy the best looking and best-fitting jeans that you can afford. The money you spend on an item for your wardrobe that you wear regularly is always a good investment.\nTake advantage of the summer fashion season. The summer is the most open season when it comes to fashion. There are very few colors that are frowned upon, and the style options are usually endless. Wear the craziest colors and funkiest styles that you can think of while you can. When it comes to smear fashion, anything is possible.\nDo you need new jeans? You will probably find that there are a wide range of styles, fits and colors. This can really blow your mind. Classic styles, like straight leg and boot cut, are the way to go. Classic looks are a good fit for just about everyone and because they do not go out of style you will not have to buy new jeans for the next season.\nIn order to make sure that you can fit into the latest fashion trends you are going to want to make sure that you are as slim as possible. Diet and exercise so you don't feel embarrassed because you can't fit into some of the latest trends that this season's fashion has to offer you.\nA perfect fashion tip is to try to keep your hands as free as possible when it comes to your bag. Get a trendy looking strap to wear across your body to keep your hands free and also to add a bit of style to your outfit. It could make the difference between being clumsy and being in control.\nNever be afraid of reinventing yourself. There is no rule that says you must always dress one certain way. In fact, if you did, it would be quite boring. Take a look at Madonna. She has changed her look numerous times over the years, which is part of her appeal. If you are thinking of going blonde, do it. If you have had long hair all your life, try out short hair. Life is about taking changes, and that definitely applies to fashion.\nFor a fun and simple daytime look, wear your hair in a casual up-do. Use an accessory that coordinates with your outfit to hold most of your hair in place. Allow some gentle pieces to fall out and frame your face. You will feel cooler, and look casually appealing to everyone!\nIt looks like this season will bring fabric which is quilted into style. You can get the quilted look in skirts, blouses, blazers and jackets--or in all your clothing. While it should be a bit loose, wearing it too baggy will make you look larger.\nWhen shopping for clothes, look to see what material the clothing is made of. Reading the tag for the fabric construction is important. Just because a piece fits off the rack doesn't mean that it will still fit after being washed a few times. There is no reason to invest in inferior clothing!\nWhen purchasing a jacket or coat, you should take note of the number of buttons. The buttons on a coat jacket should never exceed three. Furthermore, a jacket with three buttons should only have the top-most button buttoned. This is an easy step to take that will keep you looking fashionable all day long.\nWhite clothes take some special care to keep them looking their best. A bit of bleach in the wash can help keep them bright. You want your white clothes to be bright white, not white with a yellowish tinge, which will make them look old and dated.\nUse the majority of your clothing budget on classic, versatile pieces. Splurging on the occasional trendy top or accessory is okay, but only if your wardrobe has a solid foundation. Spend a little more on higher-quality staples that will last for many years, rather than disposable pieces that will be outdated or falling apart within a season.\nIt is important to know that you should not go overboard with fashion accessories. Focus on showing off one accessory rather than multiple ones. This leads people to focus their attention on that one item and gives you the appearance of being well-organized.\nTrying to find the right shoes for your outfit can be a challenge. First, make sure your shoes are right for the occasion. If you are wearing a dressy gown, avoid wearing flats. Avoid wearing shoes that exactly match your outfit. Instead, choose one color within your outfit and base your shoe color on that.\nYou are not the only one who sees your fashion sense. Everyone who sees you knows what you dress like. You need to choose clothes that wow others, but you also need to wow yourself. The right wardrobe can do that, and the tips in this article can make that happen for you.", "A 17-year-old high school junior from a tiny town in the Texas Panhandle hit the jackpot Friday at the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo when his steer named Mufasa was named grand champion. (Published 3 hours ago)\nA 17-year-old high school junior from a tiny town in the Texas Panhandle hit the jackpot Friday at the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo when his steer named Mufasa was named grand champion.\n\"King of the jungle, yes sir,\" Ben Bezner said.\nThe animal will likely sell for more than $200,000 at an auction Saturday morning.\nThe steer, a European crossbreed, was chosen out of about 1,500 competing for the honor.\nFamilies Make Memories as FWSSR Wraps Up\nIt's the last week of the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo and family memories are today's Tell Me Something Good. (Published Monday, Jan. 29, 2018)\n\"I'm just speechless, I just can't even — it's awesome,\" Bezner said. \"It's something I always dreamed of doing and it came true. It's awesome.\"\nBezner, who lives on a ranch in Texline, said he named his animal \"Mufasa\" because of his demeanor and curiosity.\nHe says winning is more than just an honor. It means the high school junior just hit the jackpot.\n\"I think that is a very nice rack of beef,\" said Doug Cassidy, a Fort Worth banker and member of the syndicate that represents bidders. \"That steer is going to sell for over $200,000 tomorrow, and we're excited. It could be a record.\"\nLast year's winning steer, Rocco, tied the record, selling for $240,000.\n\"It was an easy decision,\" said Doug Husfeld, who judged the contest and crowned Mufasa the winner. \"He's very sound in his structure, he's very long and he's very attractive to look at. He's got a lot of muscularity, but he's just a phenomenal steer.\"\nMustang Wrangler of Fort Worth Credits FWSSR For His Passion\nEveryone who visits the legendary Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo leaves with something -- whether it's a new pair of boots, a steer they won at auction, or simply a lasting memory. 35 years ago, one Fort Worth boy came home with inspiration that would put him on a unique path few would dare embark on. (Published Sunday, Jan. 21, 2018)\nThrough this auction, the Stock Show syndicate has raised a total of $52 million for young exhibitors.\nSo now, what will this teenage cowboy do with all the money?\n\"College is expensive, so hopefully it'll get me through college,\" Bezner said. \"And after that just kind of save it, keep it in the bank.\"\nAfter college, Bezner said he plans to return to his family's ranch and raise cows.", "Dressing nicely doesn't have to be hard. The more you know about fashion, the easier it is to do so. Continue reading to see what hints others give to help you dress the best. To bone up on your fashion IQ, read the tips contained below.\nIf you have to wear stockings, make sure that you wear some that fit you very well and are not too large or too small. Wearing the wrong size can make you very uncomfortable and it does not look good for you if you have to adjust them in public areas.\nDon't be afraid to go up a size if it means achieving the perfect fit. It can be quite distressing when you try on your usual size only to find it doesn't fit. Don't fret! Sizes vary from designer to designer and brand to brand, so it is perfectly okay to go up a size from your usual size.\nWhen selecting a dress, choose one that has a vertical (rather than horizontal) pattern. This makes you appear longer rather than wider, giving the illusion that you are slimmer than you really are. Also, seek out a piece that has an empire waist, as it makes it seem like you have a smaller waistline.\nAccentuate the positive. Look for items of clothing that show off your attributes. If you have a great waistline, look for clothing that features an embellished mid-line or add an attractive belt. If have a great neckline, draw the eye in that direction with a fancy collar or fun necklace.\nBuild your wardrobe around basic staples that you can mix and match easily. Some key pieces include a little black dress, a fitted jacket and matching skirt, a tailored pair of slacks in a neutral color and a pair of dark, fitted trouser jeans. These items can take your almost anywhere paired with the right top and/or accessories.\nAre you in need of a new pair of jeans? There are lots of fits as well as sizes when it comes to jeans. All of this can overwhelm you. Go with classic styles like straight leg or boot cut jeans. These will give you the best value and look fantastic on any body style.\nHave yourself professionally fitted for a bra. An ill-fitting brassiere is not only unflattering, but it affects how your clothing fits. Once you know your true size, buy a few bras in different styles and cuts. A plunge or demi-cup bra, a strapless bra, and a convertible bra give you versatile options.\nIf your skin is oily, it may be due to a hormonal imbalance. Stress can cause your hormones to become imbalanced. Try relaxing therapy to control your hormone levels and therefore control the oil production of your skin and hair.\nIf you want to add some pizzazz during those warm-weather months, try dying your hair a brighter, bolder color. Although, make sure that you keep your hair healthy as the summer can have a negative impact on its quality. Avoid excessive drying out and breakage by investing in a high-quality conditioner that will keep your hair protected when you color.\nDon't be distracted by name brands. You can get stylish frocks from off brands and outlet stores. The most important aspect is quality. You want to know your outfits will last longer than a fortnight. However, don't buy an outfit just because it is low in price either. Get something that fits you.\nSave your old clothes. Trends and fashions go in cycles, so whatever you are wearing now is likely to have a comeback in ten years or more. Even if you do not think you would ever wear it again then, you might can swap clothes with someone looking for something vintage.\nWhen purchasing sneakers, shop for ones that are comfortable and fit like a glove. You should also ensure that the arch in the shoe fully supports the arch in your foot. Another consideration to take into account when purchasing sneakers is to know the pronation of your foot; most salespeople can assess your foot and guide you to the proper shoe for your pronation.\nKnowing what the purpose of certain footwear is a good way to avoid any fashion mix ups. For example, sandals were designed to be worn by people going to the beach or for people at the pool. Therefore, you should not wear your sandals all the time as it is unfashionable.\nMany people are under the impression that bright colors should only be worn in the spring and summer; this is not true. It is perfectly fine to wear brighter colors in the winter; it is just a matter of how you wear them. While bright sweaters are fine, bright pants are not!\nOne great idea for hiding your waste line (if needed) is to wear a thick waistband. This is a great way to accentuate what looks good and to hide those areas that still need some work. This small trick can go a long way in your overall proportions and body line.\nA bulging tummy can make your fashion experience a horrible nightmare. If you fall into this category, you need to make sure that you do something to fix your problem, as wearing the right clothes will not fix the problem in the long run. Try a combination of a healthy diet and a good exercise routine.\nOne important thing to remember in fashion is to avoid overdoing the accessories. Try to showcase a special piece of jewelry, instead of loading up on dozens of pieces. This will help to draw attention to specific items instead of having many focal points.\nWear accessories that match your outfit. Use the right type of necklace with the correct type of shirt or dress. Purses and scarves can round out a plain outfit. Belts and hats can add some flair to a dress. The right earrings can accentuate a particular long or short hairstyle.\nWhen you have a good sense of fashion, your self-esteem soars. When you wear something bold, it can give an impression of confidence. This is much easier to say than to do. Apply the lessons and advice of this article to look your best in terms of clothes.", "Get celebs updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email\nIt's that festival madness time of year, where the denim shorts, crop tops, wellies and those floral headbands (unfortunately) all make a guest appearance.\nNow this is no steaming hot Coachella , the trick to dressing for a British festival, where we can go through all seasons in one day, is to pile on the layers.\nCome rain or shine these ten wardrobe essentials will help you to survive in style.\nWhat to wear to V Festival 2017 this weekend...\n1. Coat\nFor the downpours that always happen when you're at the front of the stage, a parka or a mac will save you.\n2. Dress\nInvest in a floral dress for a festival. It will look great under a coat and with big boots, or if you're lucky enough to have sunshine you won't be boiling hot and you'll be channeling some feminine glamour. Win - win.\n3. Ankle Boots\nWhen wading through mud or skipping through the grass, you'll need a stable boot. Opt for a little height to make yourself feel more rock chick and think Kate Moss meets Sienna Miller with embroidery and studs. Plus they're way easier to walk around in than heavy wellies.\n4. Cross Body Bag\nBag yourself a metallic cross body for festival season. Not only is it a great option but zips are essential, so when you're dancing or stumbling back to your tent, all your worldly possessions won't fall out.\n5. Sunglasses\nStick to classic sunglasses shapes for festivals. Wayfarer or aviator shapes will instantly make you look and feel rock and roll. Plus, at £5.99 its no real hardship if you lose them in the mud.\n6. Jewellery\nWhen clothes have been covered in mud or alcohol, a pair of earrings will lift your overall look. We advise bigger the better.\n7. Denim shorts\nDenim shorts are an essential for a festival, whether you're going for a day or the full weekend - sometimes more! Be aware of those pairs that show off a little too much, so be tactful with your fringing. Remember, less is more.\n8. Gypsy blouse\nChannel some real boho style with a gypsy blouse paired with your denim cut-offs and ankle boots. A quick and easy way to look like you've made loads of effort, without actually having to.\n9. Hat\nWhen you've run out of dry shampoo, put your fedora style hat on for a chic and clever cover-up.\n10. ANYTHING sequined\nAlways remember that when you've packed or got ready that you need some sequins. As important as clothes themselves, don't restrict yourself to just wearing sequins at the Christmas party. The ultimate party embellishment is your must-have.", "Sienna Miller was photographed while close to her ex Robert Pattinson on Tuesday night but what made things more interesting was her nipple show.\nMiller and Pattinson were photographed together earlier this week at the premiere of The Lost City Of Oz in which they were co-stars together with Charlie Hunman. Sienna, however, attracted all the attention thanks to her see-through Dior number which showed off quite a lot. The actress was braless underneath thus giving the audience a nipple show. The three were photographed together on the red carpet at the Berlin International film festival.\nSienna’s tantalizing style\nMiller’s dress put on quite a display of style aside from the nipple show. There is no doubt that the star looked amazing in her sheer black dress. The outfit was a long flowing number with flowery ensembles of different colors all over the dress. The outfit had shoulder straps to hold it in place. It was also apparently clear that she did not have a bra underneath, thus leaving her chest exposed through the see-through outfit. She, however, had a pair of boxer-style underpants underneath to protect her dignity and the underwear strap clearly had the Dior brand name on it.\n“The Dior creation was made of polka dotted tulle, and topped with heavy, embroidered blue, yellow, and green flowers” Hollywood Lifepointed out.\nMiller out-styled her male counterparts\nHunman and Pattinson also looked dapper in their choice of attires for the evening. Hunman opted to go with a clean cut dark blue suit while Robert opted for a dark blue polo-neck shirt, a black blazer and a black overcoat with a bit of ensemble. He also tucked his trousers into the pair of black military-style boots he wore. Unfortunately, Miller stole all the attention away from the gentlemen despite the fact that they looked awesome and stylish.\n“Sienna – who has four-year-old daughter Marlowe with Tom – looked fashion forward in her rust colored coords for the cinematic event,” Daily Mailwrote.\nMeanwhile, there was no awkwardness between Sienna and Pattinson considering that they used to date each other. Unfortunately, they broke up and Pattinson is now engaged to FKA Twigs. Miller was clearly showing him what he has been missing thanks to the sheer dress. But it seems they have been getting along quite well and were even seen laughing together earlier that day. They even had dinner together the previous evening though they were joined by Charlie. However, it does not necessarily mean that the two are rekindling their romance since Robert is already engaged.\nThe mother of one seemed to be having lots of fun at the movie premiere. She even got to pose for the camera alone for some more photos for a closer look at her head-turning dress. She even got to flaunt her toned legs thanks to the see-through nature of the dress. The 36-year-old was also photographed together with Charlie on the red carpet and the two made quite an attractive looking duo. This was a good one considering that their characters in the film are husband and wife. Their roles have given them an opportunity to get close and become friends. Charlie’s wife Morgana McNelis was also present at the launch event.\nSienna is the latest celebrity to appear at a public event while clad in a sheer dress without a bra underneath. This highlights the ongoing trend where women are embracing the idea of showing off their bodies in see-through outfits. Miller also bravely jumped onto the bandwagon with her outfit which gave a nipple show at the movie premiere.\n[Featured Image by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images]", "Everybody say yeah! The Tony Award-winning musical Kinky Boots recently welcomed new cast members to the Al Hirschfeld stage. Scissor Sisters front-man Jake Shears now stars as Charlie Price and J. Harrison Ghee as Lola. Pentatonix star Kirstin Maldonado officially joins the cast as Lauren beginning tonight, February 2, 2018. Check out a first look at the new cast in action below!\nThe winner of six 2013 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Kinky Boots features a Tony Award-winning score by Cyndi Lauper, a book by Tony Award-winner Harvey Fiersteinand direction and choreography by Tony Award-winner Jerry Mitchell. Kinky Boots tells the uplifting and heartwarming tale of Charlie Price, a young man reluctantly taking over his family's struggling shoe factory and looking for a fresh idea. Charlie meets and finds inspiration in Lola and together, they discover that it takes a good friend to make a great pair.\nKinky Boots has won every major Best Musical Award and is represented around the world with the Tony Award-winning Broadway company now in its fifth year, a London production in its third year (where it won the 2016 Olivier Award for Best Musical) with a recently announced UK & Ireland Tour commencing next summer, a North American First National Tour in its fourth year, an upcoming production in Germany beginning performances later this month, a Korean production returning to Seoul for a third season this coming Spring and a Japanese production returning for a second season to Tokyo and Osaka in 2019. Other previous productions include an extended run in Toronto (winner of the Dora Award for Musical) and an award-winning Australian production which concluded in October 2017. The Grammy Award-winning Original Broadway Cast Recording of Kinky Boots is available on Sony Masterworks Broadway.\nPhoto Credit: Matthew Murphy\nRelated Articles", "MASBATE CITY: The Philippines will showcase the unique Rodeo Festival before the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) Summit in December to promote the country’s livestock industry and tourism in the island province, Tourism Secretary Wanda Corazon Teo told The Manila Times recently.\nTeo, who attended the opening of 34th Rodeo Festival in Masbate, expressed admiration for the action-packed festival that showcases the way of life of the local cowhands here.\n“The Rodeo Festival is fantastic and a unique event in the country compared to other festivals. This is something different that could only be seen in the United States but not in Asia. So we will work to showcase the Rodeo Festival to the Asean leaders,” she said.\nTeo added that she will ask airline companies, specifically Philippine Airlines, to add more flights to Masbate and lower their airfare to attract more tourists to come to the island province.\nThe Philippines is hosting the 50th Anniversary of Asean this year wherein all heads of state, foreign ministers and senior officials from the 10 member-states of Asean will be visiting the country.\nMaria Nini-Ravanilla, Bicol tourism regional director, said Rodeo Masbateño Festival is the only rodeo event in the entire Asia.\n“Rodeo Masbateño is the most unique festival in the country as locals portray the way of life of the local cowboys and compete in Western activities like bull riding and steed wrestling where men and women dress up in cowboy outfits to perform. It honors the way of life of the cowhands or farm workers here while highlighting the best of Masbateño culture,” she noted.\nRodeo Masbateño and Peñafrancia Festival are the only national festivals of Bicol.\n“From 2010 to date, the number of tourists isincreasing tremendously as the Rodeo Festival effectively boosts the tourism and livestock industry here and promotes economic growth,” Ravanilla said.\nGov. Antonio Kho also told The Manila Times that Masbate is the country’s number one cattle producer and the Rodeo Festival opens the window for economic growth and tourism in the Bicol Region.\n“As a matter of fact, a roll-on-roll-off [Roro] port opened in the municipality of Mandaon that will connect Roxas City [Capiz] to Caticlan in Boraray and vice versa,” he said.\nMasbate Mayor Rowena Tuazon said for the last 24 years, Rodeo Masbateño has been the showcase of the province’s identity.\nShe added that Masbate is blessed with vast pasture land and a robust cattle industry.\n“In fact, we have enshrined Masbate as the home of Philippine Rodeo. Since the staging of this festival, it has been our locality’s show window not only for its cattle industry but for the tourism industry as well, which is now gaining the upper hand with Masbate as one of the premier tourism destinations in the country,” Tuazon said.\nThe Rodeo Festival was organized in 1993 by local ranchers and businessmen, in a bid to put the province of Masbate on the map of Philippine tourism, said Judge Manuel Sese, Rodeo Masbateño Inc. (RMI) president and Rodeo Masbateño overall chairman for five consecutive years.\nOn September 2, 2002, then-President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declared the island province as the Rodeo Capital of the Philippines." ]

[ "I think the comments so far are missing what you are asking. HUDs are unique in that the imagery appears to be floating further out in front of you than a reflection like what you'd see in a car window. Mitary HUDs (and those red dot sights you see on some weapons) use something called a collimator to focus the image at a distance. By focusing the image further out, a pilot (or shooter) can align symbology or a reticle on distant objects. If you Google \"collimator\" you can read more about how they work. Simply reflecting something, like those cheap GPS \"HUDs\" doesn't focus the image further out, forcing you to shift your focus near and far." ]

[ "They are called screensavers because they save your screen. Or at least that was what they originally did. You see back in the old days, TVs and computer monitors were actually made with cathode ray tubes. These sort of displays were vulnerable to something called burn-in. If they showed the same image for a really long time, it would leave an afterimage or ghost image. So if you left you computer on overnight without a screensaver, after long enough a version of the picture it was showing would get burned into the display and thus ruining it. Screen-savers were created to save the screens from that, by displaying a non-static image. With newer displays burn-in is no longer a problem, but screen-savers have become established and are used for some other functions such as security and thus remain.", "I'm not sure which method YouTube uses. But one common method of measuring ad displays is looking at how often an ad image is displayed. When you see an ad on a website, it means the image for that ad has been downloaded to your computer to display it in your browser. This download can be tracked on the server where the ad has been hosted. When you block ads, you prevent the displaying and thus downloading of the ad image. Which means it never gets counted as a displayed ad.", "A CRT display is based on firing a beam of electrons at a coated surface that lights up when hit by electrons. The display is controlled using an electromagnet to deflect the beam, so that the right bits light up to make the desired image. Moving another magnet close to the display messes up this control system. Newer display technologies like LCDs shouldn't be affected this way though, as they don't rely on controlling the magnetic field.", "Tangential questions: How can CRT monitors which run at a maximum of 60-ish Hz able with image fade better able to control the time an image is displayed than the 120+ Hz LCD/LED displays that we have these days?", "Most TV refresh 60 times a second. Therefore if you give it a 60 fps feed it will display each image once. Nice smooth picture. If you give it a 30 fps feed it will display each image twice. Steady but not as smooth. If you give it a 45 fps then it displays the first image once, the second image twice, the third image once and the forth twice... This leads to an unsteady image that feels worse than the 30fps. Many monitors have displays that refresh more than 60 times a second or can adapt their display frequency. Therefore 45 fps on a monitor might look better than 30fps but this is not true of most TVs.", "1080p native means that the system is actually rendering the image that will be displayed on the screen at 1080p resolution and sending that to the display. Upscaled means the system is rendering an image that's at a lower resolution than 1080p, and the image is upscaled, aka stretched, when it's displayed on a 1080p screen. The stretching process can create jagged edges and other artifacts, and while more sophisticated upscaling algorithms exist to try to eliminate these issues, it still doesn't quite match up to the quality of natively rendered 1080p.", "When an self-luminescent display needs to show yellow light it emits red and green light together which add together to create the sensation of yellow. When a reflective display needs to show yellow it has to absorb all light except yellow from the white light falling on it, and that's what a yellow pigment does. When the self-luminescent display needs to display red, it emits only red. The reflective display needs to absorb everything except red from white light falling on it, which is what a combination of strongly blue-absorbing yellow dye and strongly green-absorbing magenta dye do. The resulting red will be dark, because the yellow dye also absorbs some of the red component in the incident white light.", "A plasma display uses small cells filled with various gasses to create the colored light of the display, sort of like a bunch of tiny fluorescent lamps. A LCD display uses tiny crystals which can be rotated to control the opacity of a screen allowing a pure white backlight (usually a florescent bulb) to shine through tiny red, green, and blue tinted cells. The backlight is steadily on and the crystals make the image through blocking the light as needed. An LED display in the context of monitors and televisions is an LCD display where the backlight is created by a bank of LEDs rather than a fluorescent bulb. This allows the display to be thinner, lighter, use less energy, and even have more dynamic control over light level to improve display quality of scenes at varying light levels. Because LCD displays depend on blocking light, it bleeds through to some extent and makes displaying very dark scenes difficult.", "Televisions use back lights to send light through colored pixels to make images. When the TV is on the back light is on, even when no picture is being displayed.", "Your computer doesn't know the size of your monitor, but they do negotiate how many pixels it can show horizontally and vertically, and in what configuration. Your display communicates with your display card, and sends it a piece of information called EDID, that gives all of the available modes in that display, plus some more information. So, the computer knows it has a canvas of, say, 1024 horizontal pixels by 768 vertical pixels, then it creates such an image, and sends it to the display (how varies depending on whether you use VGA, HDMI, DVI, etc.).", "A follow-up or tag-along question. How do reptiles display affection or bonding? Do we know how to determine or measure a reptile's bond? We know and recognize a dog or cat's bond based on the similarity in their affection style to ours, eg., touching, cuddling, vocalizing, etc. What does a display of affection look like for a reptile?", "Showing your teeth is normally aggressive, because it demonstrates a weapon. Dogs/primates will smile so to speak, but how much is anthropomorphized I don't know. Typically showing teeth is aggressive, sort of like if you took a knife or gun out from your belt and displayed it to someone that wasn't expecting it. But there are types of display of teeth. Clenched with lips wide is non-aggressive. Teeth far apart and sneering is obviously indicating an intent to bite. _URL_0_", "The laser scanner relies on reflected light. Black ink reflects very little, white paper reflects a lot. The scanner is tuned to look for the laser light that it emitted to scan the item. The screen on your phone transmits light. Some pixels are 'off', black, and some are on, emitting white lights (red + green + blue to be exact, but we perceive the result as white). None of that makes a significant difference to the amount of laser light being reflected back to the scanner. If shops used cameras instead of lasers to read barcodes, they might well work with smart phones. It would be interesting to see if barcodes displayed on an e-ink display (such as on some Amazon Kindles and other book readers) would work with the laser scanners, as those displays reflect light like paper (though not quite as well_.", "Back in the day of CRT displays if you left an image in place long enough it would burn into the phosphors on the front of the display. So instead of turning it on/off (which also causes problems) when you walk away for 5 mins they would blank the screen. Then someone got the idea of displaying something (probably to let people know it was still on) and then people used it as a venue for funny shit (e.g. After Dark). LCD/LED displays don't really need screen savers other than to shut off the inverter (via DPMS).", "To view digital displays, there needs to be contrast. In bright environments, the ambient light reflects off the screen, reducing the contrast of what you see on the screen. By raising the brightness, you increase the contrast of the display against the reflected ambient light.", "The software probably sends a packet back to the server saying \"got it!\" every single time it successfully displays a message. \"Seen\" seems to mean received and displayed, not actually looked at by a live human. Facebook is also all-seeing and knows all of your sins and where you live. I would not make it angry by questioning how it does things.", "Screensavers are mostly artifacts from earlier times. It used to be, back in the day when we were using the old-style tube screens, the longer an image was displayed on screen, the greater the chance of that image being burned into the display. Someone having a spreadsheet up for eight hours a day for months on end could expect to see a ghosted image of that spreadsheet on the screen, even when the screen was off. The ray-tracers in the back of the cathode-ray tube, tracing that image on the glass day after day, week after week, month after month would burn those lines right into the phosphor coating on the glass. Screensavers were introduced to display something different on screen when idle, and be constantly in motion so that there was never a static image on the screen long enough for burn-in damage to occur. Literally saving the screen from that damage. Today, of course, they're really no longer necessary, and have mostly been replaced with low-power mode that just turns the screen off when idle.", "> do my friends see me the same way I see through a mirror? No. You see your reflection as apparently flipped from left to right (the reality is that it's flipped front to back, but for all practical purposes, you can treat it as being flipped left to right). People looking at you directly don't see a flipped image. > If not is there a way I can see myself the way my friends see me without taking numerous photos of myself? A cheap webcam or a front-facing camera on a smartphone should do the trick. This assumes that you're using software that allows you to display a non-mirrored image, since most of these types of cameras display a flipped image to you by default, as that's what you're used to.", "Simplest explanation is because of the way old monitors/TVs display their image at a slow frame rate and how the camera is recording at a different frame rate. During playback they’re out of sync so you start to see partial scans on the display. Kinda like how a fast spinning wheel can look like it’s spinning backwards.", "anything other than the naitive display resolution is a trick called interpolation. the display has a little computer in it that sort of guesses what pixels go where and comes up with an approximation. to do this is 'makes up' pixels to go in between the real ones. this is why the nonnative resolutions are fuzzy. with the exception that if you go with a higher resolution than native. in which case the monitors lil cpu then throws out pixels, or doesnt work right at all, or the video source is made aware of the monitors limitations and does scrolling for you, in which case the monitor is just displaying the correct resolution anyway.", "They acted as a screen saver. Old CRT televisions would have an image burned into the screen if it displayed the same thing for a long time ([like this](_URL_0_)). The video just stopped the same image for displaying for too long. These days, image burning isn't really a problem with LED and plasma screens.", "3d vision works because each eye sees a slightly different image (from two different angles). Our brain merges the two images to create a 3d picture. Two displays, one for each eye, allows the VR device to display a different image for each eye.", "An animated gif stores each and every image in the series, and displays them back-to-back-to-back. Videos operate by having full images (called keyframes) every so often (usually when the image changes drastically), with the in-between frames stored as *only* the parts that changed between frames. So videos are smaller than gifs for the same level of quality.", "Yes, in theory. However, a liquid crystal display only uses the crystals to filter rays that pass through them using polarization (an LCD screen won't display anything without a backlight) so you'd still need some sort of emitter behind the liquid crystal matrix. (x-ray guns are rather large compared to light panels as far as I know).", "Well apple does not remove iPad screens. So any signs of a new display is a dead giveaway the device is not serviceable. Third party displays are noticeably different, in quality, the colors, the reflective quality. All those are easy ways to identify an iPad with a services screen. The iPad itself was never designed to be serviceable. iPhone displays are very much the same. The quality of third party displays are quite noticeably different than Apple displays. Once the device is open, usually third party displays have a stamp that says okay on them which is something Apple doesn’t do. Also, many repair shops do not have the right replacement cowlings and screws for iPhones. If you see a phone missing those components it usually is a sign to look for more clues to the device being serviced.", "Simply put, yes. Refresh rate, measured in hertz (Hz) tells you how many times the screen can completely re-write all of the pixels to create a new image, or \"frame\". For 48Hz, that means the screen can display a new frame 48 times every second. Of course, that also means it is displaying 48 frames per second. The device providing the image can be faster (say, 60hz from a PC) or slower (29.94Hz from your cable box, the NTSC standard), and some software within the display will ensure it all gets displayed correctly using various processes. It's still refreshing 45 times per second either way.", "It's not the the original recording that's messed up, it's the result of the tracking not being correct when the VCR recording is being played back. Tracking is what syncs the speed of playback with the speed of the recording. When the tracking isn't correct, you get distortion in the image displayed on the screen.", "Beer distributors do this, too. Its mainly to get displays up properly and make sure stock is set out. They don't come back every day, though, so maintaining stock or a display neatly is largely the shop's responsibility.", "Screen resolution is the maximum number of pixels a screen can display, whereas video/image resolution is the number of pixels that particular piece of media has. It's of course possible to display any image on any screen, but there are some drawbacks if the two resolutions don't match. If your image resolution is larger than your screen, it has to be scaled down in order to fit on the screen. By reducing the resolution you lose some of the detail in the image, so a high-resolution video scaled down to fit on a low-resolution screen looks pretty much the same as a low-resolution video that matches the screen. If your video is smaller than your screen, displaying it 1:1 would cause it to only take up a portion of the screen. In order to make it fit it has to be scaled up, increasing the resolution to match that of the screen. However, because it's not possible to generate new detail in an image by just scaling it up, doing this causes the resulting image to be blurry and/or blocky.", "I searched, and apparently it's [to display fitness and to claim territory](_URL_0_). Since it takes more energy to bob its head up and down than most other things it does (apart from maybe running), the action acts as proof that it is fit and its offspring is also likely to be.", "* LED: Standard display using LED backlights to light up the display screen * OLED: Does not use backlights, the physical screen produces the light * AMOLED: Each pixel can be turned on/off individually, thus saving power * SuperAMOLED: The screen has a touchscreen built in, rather than being a separate layer on top of the display screen", "There is no standardized method to send font styles via SMS. Apple, could for example, enable it on all their devices, but then what would happen if the user sends a bold message to an Android phone? Android wont know what to do with the extra information and it will just display it as plain text. Emoji's on the other hand are standardized Unicode characters, the only variation between devices is in the image it displays, but the image it displays will convey the emotion that the Unicode character represents." ]

[ "Two men are drinking." ]

[ "Two men are fighting.", "Two men are sitting at a bar, drinking.", "Mens are drinking in bar", "Two men have drinks with a woman in a bar.", "The two men are drinking water at the bar.", "Three men are at the bar having drinks.", "The two men are friends that are having a drink.", "Two men are drinking beer at a stand up bar.", "The two men are drinking beers at their local bar.", "Two women are having a drink at the bar.", "Men are talking and drinking in a bar.", "Men drinking beer in a bar.", "The men are drinking beer at a bar.", "They are drinking at the bar", "The men are drinking at the bar at the stadium.", "two men sitting at a bar", "The man is at the bar having a drink", "two men are at a sports bar", "Two men are drinking and having a talk.", "Two females at a bar drinking.", "The girls are having drinks at a bar.", "Two marines are having drinks at the bar while on leave.", "A man having a drink at the bar.", "Six men drink beer at a bar.", "Two men work at the bar.", "Two black men are having drinks.", "The men were drinking beer at the bar", "Three musicians are having drinks at the bar", "Two men are chatting in a bar.", "Two women drinking beer in a bar.", "A group of men were drinking at a bar.", "The team members are in a bar having a drink." ]

[ "PARIS (AP) — The Latest on trade tensions between the United States and the European Union (all times local):\n10:40 a.m.\nFrance's finance minister says the U.S. shouldn't see global trade like the Wild West or the \"gunfight at the OK Corral.\"\nBruno Le Maire called looming U.S. tariffs on European steel and aluminum \"unjustified, unjustifiable and dangerous.\" He reiterated European promises to respond with retaliatory tariffs.\nAdvertisement\nAhead of a meeting Thursday in Paris with U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Le Maire said: \"Global trade is not a 'gunfight at the OK Corral.' It's not about who attacks whom, and then wait and see who is still standing at the end.\"\nHe said a trade war would hurt growth everywhere, and argued for abiding by international rules instead.\nU.S. President Donald Trump says the tariffs are needed for U.S. national security.\n___\n9:45 a.m.\nU.S. and European trade chiefs are meeting hours before the U.S. is expected to impose tariffs on European steel and aluminum that could unleash a trade war.\nU.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told Le Figaro newspaper that a decision on tariffs would likely come after markets close Thursday. The U.S. decision is likely to be to impose tariffs, though there is slim hope that the two sides could reach a last-minute agreement.\nRoss met Thursday morning in Paris with French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, whose government has vigorously objected to tariffs.\nAnd U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer is meeting in Paris on Thursday with EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom among other international trade chiefs.\nIn his Le Figaro interview, Ross said the Americans are still open to discussion, and the EU would be to blame for any trade war if it imposes retaliatory tariffs as expected.\n___\n6:30 a.m.\nPresident Donald Trump's administration is planning to impose tariffs on European steel and aluminum imports after failing to win concessions from the European Union, a move that could provoke retaliatory tariffs and inflame trans-Atlantic trade tensions.\nThe tariffs are likely to go into effect on the EU with an announcement by Friday's deadline, according to two people familiar with the discussions. The administration's plans could change if the two sides are able to reach a last-minute agreement, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.\nTrump announced in March the United States would slap a 25 percent tariff on imported steel, and a 10 percent tariff on imported aluminum, citing national security interests. But he granted an exemption to the EU and other U.S. allies; that reprieve expires Friday." ]

[ "1. Good for Alan Trammell - By any measure, conventional statistics, advanced metrics, awards, postseason success, Trammell belongs in the Baseball Hall of Fame. It was stunning my colleagues in the Baseball Writer’s Association of America overlooked Tram his 15 years on the ballot. His career, conventionally and metrically, was literally identical to fellow shortstop Barry Larkin’s statistically. While Trammell didn’t come close, Larkin, justifiably, got in the second year he was eligible. It couldn’t have been market bias, either. Cincinnati is a smaller market than Detroit.\n2. Good for Jack Morris - Simply put, Morris was a victim of a Sabermetrics witch hunt. It’s not that the metrics community didn’t have a valid point to make about how advanced math should factor into the Hall of Fame process, but how they did it and why, campaigning vehemently to keep Morris out, and trolling and intimidating writers eligible to vote, was reprehensible. A lot of it was self-serving from those simply resentful they didn’t have a vote.\nI agree that Wins Above Replacement is the first statistical measure that should be considered when evaluating Hall of Fame worthy candidates, but it isn’t the only one. I also agree wins have traditionally been vastly overrated. But it shouldn’t totally be dismissed Morris won more games than any pitcher during the 1980s. Anybody ever check out the most-winning pitchers of other decades? It does mean something.\nWAR, for its many strengths, is a flawed measure in some ways, too, particularly in regard to era-to-era measurement of pitchers, and even in regard to present day evaluation because it doesn’t include technology. The steroids era began much earlier than, it seems, many suspect. I heard one explanation from a voter, when Morris barely didn’t get in at the end of his BWAAA eligibility, that, “It’s not the Hall of very good.” That is pompous and disrespectful to those, who play the game. Morris is the one who went out there and did it. He won two complete games in the ’84 World Series. He had a Game 7, 1-0, 10-inning shutout to clinch a World Series title 1991. Few pitchers were as successful ever. Who, when he is that close, should deny him? If somebody is close to getting inducted, I vote for them.\nAdvertisement\nThe game is about players. It’s not a writer’s game or a broadcaster’s game or a number cruncher’s game or a front office game. It’s about athletes performing in time and space, and then evaluating them, statistically, and otherwise.\nThe sad part is the blow back on the metrics community. The so-called advanced math has very much improved knowledge and understanding of baseball. It’s overdue for Bill James to go in the Hall of Fame. But many fans are close-minded to it because they can’t stand being talked down to, making it a hard sell for those of us who believe advanced metrics should be much more a part of the every day conversation about the sport. That’s especially true now that franchises put so much emphasis on analytics.\n3. Not good for Lou Whitaker - There are three factors which make Trammell’s Hall credentials better than Whitaker’s: Trammell won the World Series MVP in ’84, he had an MVP-caliber season in ’87 and in retrospect should have won it, and shortstop is a more premium position than second base. But metrically, Whitaker was a better player than Trammell and all but 77 players to ever to play MLB, according to the baseball-reference.com version of WAR. He won multiple Gold Gloves, he was a Rookie of the Year and a brilliant leadoff hitter. To me, it’s sacrilegious Tram and Lou didn’t go in together. I think there should be another statue at Comerica Park, and it should be of Tram and Lou turning a double play.\nWhitaker was clearly hurt by WAR not being a widely-circulated number when he became Hall eligible in 2001. If it had been, he undoubtedly would have stayed on the ballot. I voted for him at the time, but most of the writers in Detroit didn’t.\nThing is, the “Sweet” Lou persona is a misnomer. Whitaker is a difficult person, frankly, to like. It shouldn’t matter, though, because it’s not a good guy award. Whitaker belongs in every bit as much as Tram, and it would be incredibly wrong if Tram got in because he’s popular with media and former players, and Lou is not.\n4. Good for Ted Simmons - One of the greatest athletes ever to come out of Oakland County and this state, the former Southfield High standout fell just a vote short from the Modern Era Committee. He’s a borderline Hall of Famer with a career WAR above 50. He played 20-plus years and was one of the best switch hitters ever, outperforming the average player by a wide margin during his era. “Simba” played a premium position, catcher. It’s just that Simmons, like Whitaker, never got past his first ballot in 1994. It was wrong, and his Hall merits haven’t been debated nearly enough since. Glad to see they finally are.\n5. Good for Bill Lajoie - Team president Jim Campbell and manager Sparky Anderson got the biggest share of credit for the ’84 Tigers, and their decade-plus of tremendous success, but Lajoie was the brains behind the operation. As scouting director working with a limited budget and staff, he is the one who discovered and drafted Trammell, Morris, Whitaker, Kirk Gibson, Lance Parrish and Dan Petry. As general manager, he is one who orchestrated the spring training trade for Willie Hernandez, which put the ’84 Tigers over the top. In the 1976 MLB draft, the Tigers selected Trammell in second round, Morris in the fifth round and Ozzie Smith in the seventh round.\nSmith didn’t sign with the Tigers. I asked Lajoie if he regretted not being able to sign Smith.\n“Why? We got the better player,” Lajoie said.\nMy favorite quote ever.", "By John Revill\nZURICH, April 18 (Reuters) - The Swiss government on Tuesday played down Switzerland's reappearance on a U.S. Treasury watch list of potential currency manipulators, saying the status would have no immediate consequences.\n\"The Swiss National Bank, according to its legal mandate, follows its own independent monetary policy,\" the Swiss finance ministry said in a statement.\n\"Their currency purchases are not aimed at devaluing the currency and raising the competitiveness of Swiss exports,\" it added. \"Its goal is to limit the extent of the franc's overvaluation and prevent a strong downward push in inflation.\"\nSwitzerland, which was also mentioned by the Treasury last October, appeared along with China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Germany on the latest list which aims to curb what the U.S. calls \"unfair currency practices\".\nThe Swiss qualified because for years they have used foreign exchange purchases to counter persistent inflows into the safe-haven franc. The SNB has also introduced negative interest rates to make the franc less attractive.\nThe SNB's foreign exchange reserves jumped by nearly 15 billion Swiss francs ($14.93 billion) in March to 683.18 billion francs, larger than Swiss gross domestic product.\nSight deposits at the central bank, a proxy for currency interventions, showed the SNB continued to sell francs ahead of the French presidential elections starting on Sunday, according to the latest data on Tuesday.\nThe SNB was not immediately available for comment.\nInstead of market interventions, Switzerland should rely more on fiscal policy and interest rates to support its economy and ward off demand for the franc, the U.S. Treasury said in its report on Friday.\nSwitzerland met two of its currency manipulation criteria -- having a material current account surplus at 10.7 percent of GDP in 2016 -- and having engaged in a \"sizeable one-sided foreign exchange purchases\", the U.S. report said.\nAt $13.7 billion Switzerland did not however have enough of a bilateral trade surplus with the United States to meet the third criteria, which could trigger bilateral talks aimed at correcting the situation.\n\"As long as Switzerland is only on the watch list, it isn´t a problem,\" said David Marmet, an economist at Zuercher Kantonalbank. \"Switzerland fulfils two of the three criteria, but it cannot be long before the trade balance means it meets all three, when it could become a problem.\n\"Still the Swiss will try to explain to the Americans their situation,\" Marmet said. \"I think the SNB would prefer not to be on the list, but I don't think it will affect its monetary policy - what else can they do?\" (Additional reporting by Angelika Gruber, Editing by Michael Shields)", "W&T Offshore (NYSE:WTI) shares traded down -5.42% during most recent session. Wall Street analysts covering the stock are projecting that the stock will reach $4.38 within the next 52-weeks. The mean target projections are based on 2 opinions. Since analyst price targets calculations are subjective, there often can be wide range of targets from various analysts.\nHaving a look in a broader way analysts from brokerage firms on the street with an extensive view have high price target of W&T Offshore (NYSE:WTI) at $4.75 and with a conformist view have low price target of $4 while the stock’s latest closing price was $5.58. This is the consensus price target based on the analysts polled by Thomson Reuters’ First Call, the average is taken from the individual analysts which provided targets and are short term projections for the 12 months.\nThe ABR is the calculated average of the actual recommendations (strong buy, hold, sell etc.) made by the brokerage firms for the given stock. Currently shares of W&T Offshore (NYSE:WTI) have an average brokerage recommendation (ABR) of 3 number of Recs in ABR is 1 however the company’s industry rank by ABR is 178 out of 265. Industries are ranked based on the average broker recommendation of each company belong to this industry. A low number means that brokers and analysts expect that the industry outperform the market.\nOutperform is an analyst recommendation which means that a stock is expected to do slightly better than the market return. Outperform is also known as “moderate-buy” or “over-weight” or “accumulate”. Whereas Underperform can also be taken in with “moderate sell” or “under-weight” or “weak-hold”.\nFor W&T Offshore (NYSE:WTI) out of the analyst recommendations 0 analysts recommend stock a Buy, 0 rate the stock Outperform, 2 analysts recommend to Hold the stock, 0 rate Underperform and 0 analysts recommend the stock a Sell.\nThe Average True Range (ATR) is an indicator that measures volatility, it was developed by J. Welles Wilder. Typically, the Average True range (ATR) is based on 14 periods and can be calculated on an intra-day, daily, weekly or monthly basis. Because there must be a beginning, the first TR value is simply the High minus the Low, and the first 14-day ATR is the average of the daily TR values for the last 14 days. W&T Offshore (NYSE:WTI)’s ATR-14 is at 0.35, while its weekly volatility is at 10.00% and monthly volatility is at 6.85%. A stock experiencing a high level of volatility has a higher ATR, and a low volatility stock has a lower ATR. The ATR may be used by market technicians to enter and exit trades, and it is a useful tool to add to a trading system. It was created to allow traders to more accurately measure the daily volatility of an asset by using simple calculations. The indicator does not indicate the price direction, rather used primarily to measure volatility caused by gaps and limit up or down moves. The ATR is fairly simple to calculate and only needs historical price data.\nRSI is an extremely popular momentum indicator, the Relative Strength Index (RSI) also developed by J. Welles Wilder, is a momentum oscillator that measures the speed and change of price movements. RSI value of W&T Offshore (NYSE:WTI) is 66.83. RSI oscillates between zero and 100. Traditionally, and according to Wilder, RSI is considered overbought when above 70 and oversold when below 30. Signals can also be generated by looking for divergences, failure swings, and centerline crossovers. RSI can also be used to identify the general trend. The default time frame for comparing up periods to down periods is 14, as in 14 trading days.\nShares of W&T Offshore (NYSE:WTI) has a market capitalization of $819.2 Million and its number of outstanding shares are 146.81 Million. During previous trade 3.4 Million shares of W&T Offshore (NYSE:WTI) exchanged hands whereas on average almost 2.26 Million shares has been traded.", "Drake has answered back to a controversial blackface photo of him Pusha T has used in their ongoing rap war.\nThe superstar rapper, 31, took to Instagram Stories on Wednesday evening with a post of text to explain the image his rap rival incorporated to push his anti-Drake diss track, The Story of Adidon.\n'I know everyone is enjoying the circus,' the Toronto, Canada native wrote, 'but I want to clarify this image in question.'\nScroll below for video\nStating his case: Drake has answered back, via Instagram Stories, to a controversial blackface photo Pusha T used in their ongoing rap war\nThe God's Plan performer clarified that 'this was not from a clothing brand shoot or [his] music career,' but a 2007 project he was an actor in which detailed the struggles young black actors face 'to get roles,' as well as 'being stereotyped and type cast.\n'The photos represented how African Americans were once wrongfully portrayed in entertainment,' he said.\nThe Nice for What artist said he collaborated with his 'best friend at the time,' Sudanese actor Mazin Elsadig, with the two 'attempting to use our voice to bring awareness to the issues we dealt with all the time as black actors at auditions.'\nDrake said that the use of blackface was borne out of their 'frustrations with not always getting a fair chance in the industry and to make a point that the struggle for black actors had not changed much.'\nSpeaking out: Drake posted this text to social media explaining the background of the photo\nShots fired: Pusha T has used this artwork to demean Drake amid their rap war\nThe statement came in response to Pusha T's use of the photo as the promotional art for his new single The Story of Adidon, which launches some of hip hop's boldest salvos in years.\nIn the song, Pusha T takes vicious digs as everything from Drake's cultural background to his parents' relationship to the health of his producer Noah Shebib, who's battling multiple sclerosis. He also accuses the rapper of fathering a child with an ex-adult actress from France named Sophie Brussaux.\nThe two rap artists have been in conflict for years, with Pusha T hitting at Drake with 2012’s Exodus 23:1, and Drake hitting back with the track Tuscan Leather in 2013. More blows were traded two years ago with Pusha T's HGTV Freestyle and Drake's Two Birds, One Stone.\nDrake, in his latest single Duppy Freestyle, put out last week, intimated that Pusha T was intentionally using Drake to inflate his own sales and celebrity.\nCourting controversy: Pusha T, snapped in February in NYC, has pelted Drake with a cavalcade of insults and accusations on his latest diss track, titled The Story of Adidon", "The Wild are 10-5 in the past month and change and a big reason for their recent roll is goaltender Devan Dubnyk, who is on a Vezina-like run.\nCalgary Flames at Minnesota Wild\n6 p.m. MT, Xcel Energy Center, TV: Sportsnet West, Radio: Sportsnet 960 The Fan\nTHE BIG MATCHUP\nFlames C Sean Monahan vs. Wild G Devan Dubnyk\nThe Wild are 10-5 in the past month and change and a big reason for their recent roll is Dubnyk, who is on a Vezina-like run. Dating back to Nov. 9, the Calgary-raised puck-stopper — a graduate of what was then known as the Crowchild minor-hockey program — has posted an 8-2-1 record with a 2.44 goals-against average, a .925 save percentage and three shutouts. The best bet to solve Dubnyk is Monahan, who ranks among the NHL’s leading marksmen with 17 snipes so far.\nFIVE STORYLINES FOR THE GAME\nDOING IT WITH DEFENCE\nJust one week ago, fans were panicking about the Flames’ dreadful defensive-zone play. The local hockey heroes seem to have patched those leaks and, as a result, are currently riding a three-game points streak. The Flames have allowed just five regulation goals during that span, which includes a 2-1 shootout loss to the Maple Leafs in Toronto, a 3-2 overtime triumph against the Canadiens in Montreal and Saturday’s 4-2 victory over the Canucks at the Saddledome.\nUPDATE ON JAGR\nFlames right-winger Jaromir Jagr skated solo Monday morning as he tries to rebound from a lower-body injury that has kept him out of the lineup for the past three games. That the 45-year-old was skating at all is still a good sign. “He won’t be playing (Tuesday),” said Flames head coach Glen Gulutzan prior to Monday’s flight to Minny. “He’ll resume with us on Wednesday.” In the meantime, Garnet Hathaway has filled in admirably on the third line with Sam Bennett and Mark Jankowski.\nBIRTHDAY BUMPER\nFlames trouble-maker Matthew Tkachuk is no longer a teenager, with No. 19 celebrating his 20th birthday Monday. The youngest guy on the player payroll at the Saddledome, Tkachuk accomplished plenty in 104 regular-season showings as a teen — 19 goals, 48 assists, 67 points and 132 penalty minutes. He’s already been suspended three times. The sophomore left-winger returned from his latest ban to score Saturday’s tie-it-up tally against the Canucks and then seal the victory with an empty-netter.\nWE HARDLY KNEW YA\nBlueline call-up Ryan Murphy contributed a goal and an assist as the Wild wrapped a three-game tour of California with Sunday’s 4-3 overtime win in San Jose. The 24-year-old Murphy, in case you’d forgotten, was Flames property for a few hours this summer. He was acquired as part of a June 29 swap with the Hurricanes — goalie Eddie Lack was the headliner in that trade — but received a contract buyout the very next day.\nMORE ON THE HOSTS\nThe Wild have points in six straight games at Xcel Energy Centre, with a 5-0-1 record during that superb stretch … The Flames swept the season series last winter, but the Wild won the first meeting of this campaign — a 4-2 decision at the Saddledome on Oct. 21. Wild D Ryan Suter piled up three points that night … Minnesota’s offensive leaders are LW Jason Zucker (14 G) and C Eric Staal (26 P).\nFLAMES GAME DAY LINES\nJohnny Gaudreau-Sean Monahan-Micheal Ferland\nMatthew Tkachuk-Mikael Backlund-Michael Frolik\nSam Bennett-Mark Jankowski-Garnet Hathaway\nTroy Brouwer-Matt Stajan-Curtis Lazar\nDEFENCE PAIRINGS\nMark Giordano-Dougie Hamilton\nTJ Brodie-Travis Hamonic\nBrett Kulak-Michael Stone\nGOALIES\nMike Smith\nDavid Rittich\nWILD GAME DAY LINES\nNino Niederreiter-Eric Staal-Mikael Granlund\nJason Zucker-Mikko Koivu-Charlie Coyle\nTyler Ennis-Matt Cullen-Joel Eriksson Ek\nMarcus Foligno-Daniel Winnik-Zack Mitchell\nDEFENCE PAIRINGS\nRyan Suter-Matt Dumba\nJonas Brodin-Ryan Murphy\nGustav Olofsson-Nate Prosser\nGOALIES\nDevan Dubnyk\nAlex Stalock\nSPECIAL TEAMS\nPOWER PLAY\nFLAMES: 19.4% (15th)\nWILD: 22.4% (5th)\nPENALTY KILL\nFLAMES: 76.5% (28th)\nWILD: 81.8% (T-11th)\nSICK BAY\nFLAMES\nRW Jaromir Jagr (lower body), LW Kris Versteeg (hip)\nWILD\nLW Zach Parise (back), D Jared Spurgeon (groin)", "The rap world and social media are embroiled in the ongoing beef between Drake and Pusha-T as the two rappers trade barbs in rhyme. With Drake preparing to drop his new project, Scorpion, sometime in June, and Pusha-T having just released Daytona, his latest album, which was produced by Kanye West, the music world could very well be gearing up for a summer with the highest-profile rap feud in years. To the average music fan, the 6 God’s level of fame is much higher than Pusha-T’s, although the latter is a well known figure in the rap world, particularly for his work with his previous group, The Clipse.\nDrake may be in for a rougher ride in his current beef with fellow rapper Pusha-T, writes Raju Mudhar. ( City of Toronto )\nWhile the rappers have a long and convoluted history — which includes both praise and insults — things have really heated up in the past two weeks. It started with Pusha-T’s song “Infrared,” off his new album, which references the longtime accusation that Drake uses ghostwriters for his songs: “It was written like Nas, but came out like Quentin,” a reference to Quentin Miller, a rapper who has long been rumoured as Drake’s ghostwriter. Within a day, Drake responded with “Duppy Freestyle,” a song taking shots at Kanye West, and questions Pusha-T’s credibility and history as a drug dealer, something that has long been one of the main subjects he raps about. One of the lines in Drake’s song references the increased publicity that this song would give to his rival’s project: “Tell ’Ye we got an invoice comin’ to you/Considering we just sold another 20 for you,” implying that he helped sell 20,000 more copies of his album. Pusha’s response was a tweet to “Send the invoice for the extra 20.” So Drake did, creating an invoice for $100,000 for “Promotional assistance and career revival,” which he posted on Instagram.\nArticle Continued Below\nThat’s when things moved to the next level. On Tuesday evening, Pusha-T responded with “The Story of Adidon,” a no-holds-barred diss track, in which, among insults aimed at his pride and multi-ethnicity, he accuses Drake of being the “deadbeat” father of a child with a porn star and takes a shot at producer Noah “40” Shebib, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, by saying, “How much time he got? The man is sick sick sick.” Shebib responded by pointing out the track came out just before World MS Day. Likely the most controversial thing about “The Story of Adidon” is the imagery used to promote it: a photo of smiling Drake in blackface. It’s a real image, shot in 2008 by Canadian photographer David Leyes. While the fuse has been lit between these two rappers, there is a long history between them and some of their rap affiliations. Lil Wayne is considered Drake’s mentor, and he and Pusha-T’s previous group, The Clipse, also had some bad blood over various tracks. As well, Pusha-T released songs previously, like “Don’t F--k with Me” in 2011 and “Exodus 23:1,” which took aim at Cash Money and Drake. Drake is no stranger to rap feuds, although in the past, he has usually been quickly victorious. After Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill tweeted about Drake’s use of ghostwriters in 2015, the rapper responded with the track “Back to Back,” which featured an image of Toronto Blue Jay Joe Carter’s famous World Series home run trot after the team beat the Philadelphia Phillies in 1993. In this case, though, as both rappers have albums to promote, and the low blows that the two are already trading, this looks like it has the trappings of being a much more incendiary rap fued.\nRead more about:", "KANSAS CITY — The Raiders arrived two and a half hours late to Sunday’s game, scoring 15 fourth-quarter points after the game was already decided.\nThe Chiefs owned a 26-0 lead after three quarters, well on their way to a win that pushed Oakland back below .500 and into sole possession of third place in the AFC West. The Raiders, after entering Sunday with a share of first place in the division, looked nothing like a playoff team.\nHere’s how we graded them after Sunday’s loss.\nPass offense: D\nAdvertisement\nDerek Carr was abysmal for most of the game, failing to generate any offense against a team that allowed 28 or more points in four of its last six games. Carr completed only five passes for 31 yards and threw an interception in the first half after playing his best game of the year against the Chiefs in Week 7. He finished 24-for-41 on Sunday with 211 passing yards, one touchdown and two interceptions. As he has in several Raiders’ no-shows this year, Carr padded his stats when the game was already decided. If it wasn’t already clear, Carr is nowhere near the MVP-level player of 2016. Whether it’s simply his lack of talent, his back or a combination of both, Carr has devolved into a problem for the Raiders rather than a solution.\nRush offense: B-\nThe Raiders couldn’t run as much as they wanted to trailing by so much, so Oakland only rushed 11 times on the afternoon. Marshawn Lynch ran seven times for 61 yards and a touchdown and DeAndre Washington carried four times for nine yards. Lynch’s 27-yard run was the Raiders’ first-half offensive highlight, which shows you how dreadful their first 30 minutes were. His 22-yard bruising run into the end zone early in the fourth quarter might’ve been their second-half offensive highlight, again displaying how little Carr did in the air aside from a fourth-down touchdown pass to Jared Cook. This grade would be higher if the Raiders ran the ball more, but their deficit didn’t allow it.\nPass defense: B-\nNone of the Chiefs’ scores came through the air, so I guess that’s good for the Raiders. Right? Luckily for Oakland, its pass defense was bailed out by Kansas City’s penalties and drops. Alex Smith completed 20-of-34 passes for 268 yards, but four different players had long receptions 20 or more yards. TJ Carrie, Sean Smith and Dexter McDonald looked helpless at times, and several missed tackles doomed Oakland in crucial moments. Karl Joseph grabbed the Raiders’ second interception of the season, though, the first by a defensive back. That’s why this one rests slightly above average, even if the 26-15 final indicates it shouldn’t.\nRush defense: F\nKareem Hunt hadn’t scored since Week 3, but sure enough the Chiefs’ running back found the end zone for the first touchdown of the day. Oakland’s run defense sat just inside the top half of the league entering Sunday, but Kansas City ran 25 times for 165 yards and two touchdowns for an average of 6.6 yards per rush. Hunt ran 25 times for 116 yards and his touchdown, Charcandrick West rushed three times for 25 yards and a 13-yard touchdown and Smith carried five times for 24 yards and a touchdown. Probably the worst performance by the Raiders’ run defense all year.\nSpecial teams: C-\nMarquette King had one of his worst days of the year, punting seven times with an average of only 40.9 yards. That’s his second-lowest of any single game this season, and his net average of 35.6 was his third-lowest of the year. While the Raiders kept Tyreek Hill in check on punt returns, the Raiders didn’t return any of Kansas City’s three punts. Oakland also didn’t return any of the Chiefs’ seven kickoff and Giorgio Tavecchio didn’t attempt a field goal. Pretty bleh day overall for the special teams.\nCoaching: D\nAll you need to know about the Raiders this year lied at the beginning of their last drive. At their own 12-yard line down 11 with under three minutes left, Carr completed passes of seven yards, five yards and six yards. Then came passes of 11 yards, seven yards and nine yards. Todd Downing’s offense showed little desire to win when it had the slightest chance, despite Jack Del Rio claiming otherwise. And how can you have Amari Cooper blocking in a bunch formation on a bum ankle? This coaching staff is feeling the heat, and it’ll only crank up if the Raiders miss the playoffs.", "RENO, Nev. — Madeleine Pickens wanted the African-American chef she recruited from the country club she owns in Southern California to cook “black people food” — not “white people food” — at her rural Nevada dude ranch and wild horse sanctuary, according to a federal lawsuit accusing her of racial discrimination.\nArmand Appling says the wealthy philanthropist and ex-wife of Oklahoma energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens told him fried chicken, BBQ ribs and corn bread would be perfect for the tourists who pay nearly $2,000 a night to stay in plush cottages, ride horses and take Wild West “safaris” on ATVs at her Mustang Monument Wild Horse Eco-Resort.\nAppling alleges he was fired 2014 in retaliation for complaining about a hostile work environment. He says Pickens’ stereotypical references were commonplace at the Elko County ranch stretching across 900 square miles on the edge of the Ruby Mountains about 50 miles west of the Utah line.\nRelated: T. Boone Pickens Discusses Proposed Solution to Nation’s Energy Woes\nAmong other things, he says Pickens, who is white, instructed him to terminate two other black kitchen staffers — one she referred to as her “bull” or “ox” and another who had “too much personality.” He says she told him they didn’t “look like people we have working at the country club” and didn’t “fit the image” of the staff she wanted at the ranch.\nPickens’ lawyers argue that even if all the allegations are true, none of her comments were racially motivated. At worst, Pickens’ remarks “reflect a non-racial personality conflict and amount to discourtesy, rudeness or lack of sensitivity,” they wrote in recent court filings.\nU.S. District Judge Miranda Du said during a hearing in Reno last week that Appling’s lawyers have failed so far to prove the sort of racial hostility needed to win such a civil rights claim. She dismissed the original lawsuit that was filed in February but gave them until Jan. 13 to refile an amended complaint seeking unspecified damages from Pickens’ nonprofit, Save America’s Mustangs.\n“It takes a lot to prove these allegations,” Du told California attorney Willie Williams on Thursday.\nRelated: Trump Ally Carl Paladino Slammed for ‘Racist’ Wish List for Obamas\nDu agreed with Pickens’ lawyer, Dora Lane of Reno, that the only comment that specifically referred to race was the reference to “black people food.”\nLane said categorizing foods by ethnicity is commonplace in the restaurant industry. Some restaurants serve Mexican food, others Chinese or Thai food, she said.\n“The suggestion that such categorizations are inherently offensive is nonsense,” Lane argued in earlier court documents. “This is especially true here, given that Pickens’ alleged comments actually reflect a preference for ‘black people food’ rather than a racial animas against ‘black people’ or ‘black people food.'”\nWilliams said Pickens’ comments about the fired employees “not fitting in” reinforces a long history of African-Americans not being allowed into elite, private-club settings. Pickens owns the exclusive Del Mar Country Club north of San Diego where Appling worked before she hired him for a 5-month stint in Nevada.\nRelated: Civil Rights Groups Criticize Fox News for ‘Racist and Offensive’ Chinatown Segment\n“In many cases, the people fighting to keep African-Americans out of these private clubs would use code phrases like ‘they do not fit the image,'” Williams said in court documents. He added the use of the words “ox” and “bull” implies ownership of property, given “America’s long history of slavery where they were considered personal property of their owners.”\nLane argued it was a complimentary reference to physical strength and “was not accompanied by any overtly racial slurs.”\n“Indeed, Appling does not allege that he ever heard any overtly racial epithets, such as the ‘N-word,'” she wrote in court documents.\nBut Williams told the judge last week the comments must be viewed in the context of racial stereotypes.\nDu agreed that Lane’s arguments focus on the “plain meaning of words” while seemingly ignoring the context of comments made about “African-Americans in history and stereotypes that could give rise to racial animas.”\n“If the alleged comments were not directed at him, but others who look like him, it may affect his work environment,” the judge said.", "Back in March, Kanye West split from his longtime manager Izzy Zivkovic and hired Scooter Braun, the man behind Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Carly Rae Jepsen, and more. It was a kingmaking move of sorts for the rapper, but the partnership will apparently be short lived. According to multiple reports, including Billboard, TMZ, and Page Six, the two are no longer working together, at least as it pertains to West’s music career. The reports differ in one significant way, though, with Page Six saying that West fired Braun, and TMZ and Billboard presenting the decision as Braun’s. A source told Billboard that the split was based on Kanye’s decision to “leave the traditional music business,” and that the rapper wants to take his entire business operation in-house instead of using an outside manager and legal team.\nTMZ and Page Six’s reports make allusions to the stability of West’s mental health. TMZ reports that its “sources say [West] seems a little erratic”; Page Six—citing a site called The Blast, which was started by ex-TMZ staffers—writes that West is “behaving in a similar way as he did before his breakdown in 2016,” when he was hospitalized after the cancellation of his Saint Pablo Tour. Despite speculation and rumors regarding his health, West has never revealed any sort of diagnosis.\nThe separation from Braun is the latest development in what has been a wild reemergence into the public eye by West, who has been tweeting incessantly for over a week, with the lowlight being his dalliance with America’s right wing. He also announced the date of several albums, including his own and a collaboration with Kid Cudi, as well as new records by Nas, Pusha T, and Teyena Taylor. This morning he had a frankly bizarre phone call with Ebro Darden of Hot 97, who yesterday had reported that West had told him he “really love[s]” Donald Trump and had been hospitalized for an opioid addiction.", "As always, readers are encouraged to do their own due diligence, manage risk appropriately, and avoid blindly following.\nTwo former ROTY Contenders popped back on my radar and we are initiating pilot positions in both.\nWelcome to the 37th entry in our Runner of the Year (ROTY) series.\nOur model account utilizes a full position size of $10,000 and can hold up to 10 positions. Trades typically occur in quarter increments ($2,500), with cost averages calculated at the day's close. The model account is primarily for referential purposes, so no matter a reader's account size, they can easily follow along and scale trades accordingly.\nNote: Readers are encouraged to pay close attention to each entry in the series, as positions could be added to or sold at any moment for a variety of reasons (material events, red flags, swapping out for a more promising stock, etc.).\nExpect one to three editions of ROTY to be published each week, depending on developments and trades.\nStocks mentioned in ROTY editions at times experience significant volatility, especially on days articles are published. Readers are encouraged to avoid the urge to impulse buy, taking the time to evaluate ideas for themselves, doing due diligence, and only making trades as part of their own plan. ROTY is not about blindly following, but instead aiding readers in becoming better traders/investors as they make their own decisions.\nCurrent Snapshot of ROTY Model Account\nAbove: Basic View Below: Detailed Versión\nCurrent ROTY Contenders\nRemember that the Contenders List consists of stocks that are potentially setting up for a big move. The list changes constantly, with new ideas added and old ones dropping off due to negative price action, red flags, or other reasons. In ROTY, we are constantly looking for only the best opportunities to profit - if a Contender is showing bullish price action and relative strength, it is possible that it will be substituted for whichever ROTY idea is underperforming or not playing out as expected.\nCurrent Realized Profits and Losses Along With My Rationale/Thoughts\nSpreadsheet Link - I originally wrote this just for myself for reference sake and to constantly improve, but readers requested that I include it. It has been updated with recent trades.\nGeneral Commentary\nWe took profits on Motif Bio (MTFB), with the sell price executed at the day´s close as per our transparency rules. Stay tuned for my blog post this weekend on the importance of having a plan for taking profits on winners and maximizing your gains. In the case of Motif, the early morning spike and failure to follow through was a clear signal to take profits (would have resulted in a 60% to 70% gain as opposed to a 40% gain we recorded).\nUpdates on Model Account Positions\nSarepta Therapeutics (SRPT) and Summit Therapeutics (SMMT)- The ROTY model account is very well positioned to capitalize on the red hot DMD space. Sarepta´s stock continues to trend upward and now has reached the psychologically important $50 level- not to get ahead of ourselves, but new 52 week highs could be in sight soon. As management continues to execute, the price tag for a potential takeover continues to rise. Additionally, there´s always the chance the larger firm decides to take over its smaller partner. While risks shouldn´t be discounted, I am increasingly bullish on this space and positioning of the ROTY model account reflects this.\nAVEO Pharmaceuticals (AVEO)- It was announced that the TIVO-3 study will continue without modifcation as planned after the results of a futility analysis by an independent statistician. Keep in mind that the analysis did not allow for early stopping due to efficacy to make sure there was enough follow up to measure overall survival. Data is scheduled to readout in the first quarter.\nToday's ROTY Model Account Trades:\n1. Initiating a pilot position in Therapix Biosciences (TRPX)- See my original article and rationale here. The chart appears to be setting up for a potential run nicely, although the company´s activity on social media is a potential red flag for me. I like the medical marijuana space a lot and think we should give this one a chance. Top-line data from the phase 2a Yale study in TS is expected at the end of the fourth quarter.\nTRPX data by YCharts\n2. Initiating a pilot position in Aevi Genomic Medicine (GNMX)- See my original article and rationale here. The chart appears to be setting up nicely as well, although we need further signs of strength to confirm the movement. Initial data from an early-stage signal finding study of AEVI-002 in severe pediatric onset Crohn´s disease and top-line data for AEVI-001 in mid 2018 should push the stock price higher.\nGNMX data by YCharts\nFinal Thoughts\nKeep in mind that my objective for readers is to make their own decisions, trading their own plans, and adapting ROTY to fit their own needs and objectives. If you don't agree with some of the holdings in the model account (or they simply don't appeal to you), feel free to pick and choose from the Contenders List or tickers selected from your own research.\nKeep in mind each position entails its own unique risks, from binary catalysts to disappointing data, competition to dilution. Weakness in the biotech space, as well as ideas with a lack of near-term catalysts, could also contribute to increased volatility.\nAll positions in the ROTY model account are established at the closing price on the day this article is published for the sake of transparency.\nAuthor's note: My goal is to bring to readers' attention to undervalued stocks with catalysts that could propel shares higher, as well as provide a fresh perspective on stocks you may already be aware of. I also touch on planning trades and risk management, as those are two areas I feel are often neglected. If you found value in the above article, consider clicking the orange \"follow\" button and getting email alerts to receive my latest content. My sincere appreciation for readers who add value and join the discussion in the comments section, as well as those who share my work with others who could benefit from it.\nDisclosure: I am/we are long SMMT.\nI wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.", "China: Looking attractive and wearing the perfect attire is all dependent on the fashion you sport. To be different in the crowd is a desire that prevails among all of us. Now-a-days outfit of the person characterizes them and therefore it becomes crucial for everyone to look best at every moment, be it the workplace or a family meeting. Fashion is not just about clothes, but it is all about dressing sense, accessories, latest heels or shoes, and hairstyles. The style is beyond culture and represents the ongoing trend in the society.\nStreetwear-clothing.com is known to produce a variety of Hip Hop clothing in funky colors and styles. The color combinations of these dresses are unique, and the craftsmen have made these outfits keeping in mind the latest texture and designs. It has an oversized look, bright color and latest patterns making them perfect clothing to suit every customer. Different types of hoodies, tees, jacket, jeans, and accessories are also available at an affordable price.\nIn the race of fashion, women are mostly highlighted, and most of the fashion products are for women starting from hairstkits, makeup kit, different types of dresses and accessories. Streetwear women also have a variety to offer. Latest designs and floral patterns are used crafted on hoddies, jeans, jackets and t-shirts. The all women section features Long Sleeve Sweatshirt, Marilyn Monroe Printed sweatshirt, Printed oversize sweaters and embroidered hoodie. They also have a collections for hot and winter climatic conditions.\nThe store has a wide section for the summer season which includes off white t shirts, Marilyn Monroe cotton T-shirt, Printing T-shirts, Oil Painting T-Shirt, and Kanye West Oversize t-shirts. White is everyone’s favorite especially during summer season. High-quality raw materials were used in making these t-shirts, it lasts long, and the colors do not wash away. One can use it roughly and clean as much as required. Customers can view the image of the product they want to see and place an order online. The company accepts customers globally, and ensures orders are delivered on time.\nThe company has a well-designed website where customers can visit and place order quite easily. Each product Is well-categorized to facilitate the buyer to select a product depending on their requirements with ease. One will only need to move to a particular section and browse through their collection.\nAbout Streetwear-clothing.com\nStreetwear-clothing.com is an online ecommerce company established five years ago, and Tyler Liu promotes it. It has been one of the affordable e-commerce sites and offers latest outfits as well as accessories to its customers. It has many satisfied clients all around the globe. To know more, please visit their official website.\nContact:\nPerson: Tyler Liu\nCompany: Shenzhen MiBaoSpace Technology Co.,Ltd.\nAdd: 501-B11 Haide Building A Nanxin Road Nanshan District Shenzhen Guangdong CN\nTel: +86 13221717614\nSite: https://www.streetwear-clothing.com\nEmail: service@streetwear-clothing.com", "WASHINGTON, D.C.: After a friendly dinner at a US landmark, US President Donald Trump and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron will get down to business on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) on divisive issues like the Iran nuclear accord and international trade.\nThey were to meet face to face for half an hour, and then again for an hour in a broader meeting with more aides—the climax of Macron’s three-day state visit to Washington.\nBefore getting the full red carpet treatment at the White House on Monday—payback for wooing Trump with military parades and a dazzling Eiffel Tower dinner in Paris last July—Macron took an impromptu stroll to the Lincoln Memorial with his wife Brigitte.\nHailing the “very important” visit, Macron then rolled into the West Wing from Lafayette Square—named after the storied French general who fought in America’s war for independence—beneath dozens of fluttering tricolor French flags and before a full US military color guard.\nWaiting at the door, the US president smiled and held out his hand for Macron to shake, and the French leader kissed him on both cheeks.\nLater, the first couples had dinner at Mount Vernon, the mansion that was the home of George Washington, the first US president.\nThey talked about the state of the US economy, Trump’s approval rating, the mid-term elections in November in the US, internet regulation and the fight against Islamist terror, according to the French leader’s office.\nTrump is deeply unpopular in France and Macron, like other world leaders—from Japan’s Shinzo Abe to Britain’s Theresa May—is under growing pressure to show voters the benefits of his courtship with the 71-year-old Republican.\nLooming over it all are two May deadlines that have the potential to wreck already fragile trans-Atlantic relations.\nWar ‘against everybody… doesn’t work’\nBiting trade sanctions on European steel and aluminum will enter into force on May 1 unless Trump agrees to sign a waiver. If he refuses, there are fears of a full-fledged trade war.\nMeanwhile, France and other European nations are battling to save a complex nuclear deal with Iran, which Trump will scuttle if he refuses to waive sanctions against Tehran by a May 12 deadline.\nIran says it is ready to relaunch its nuclear program—which the West suspects is designed to produce a bomb—if Trump kills the deal.\nEuropean officials say Trump’s demand to reopen the deal are impossible, and are scrambling to address his concerns on Tehran’s missile testing, inspections and the regime’s behavior in the region.\nThere is growing frustration in European capitals that Trump’s stubbornness over the Obama-era agreement is diverting attention away from other pressing issues.\nIn an interview broadcast on the eve of his arrival, Macron went on Trump’s favorite television channel, Fox News, to make his pitch.\n“If you make war against everybody,” Macron said, “trade war against Europe, war in Syria, war against Iran—come on—it doesn’t work. You need allies. We are the allies.”\nMacron will also be keen to temper Trump’s instinct to precipitously pull the US military out of Syria, amid cooperation in fighting the Islamic State group and coordinated strikes on chemical weapons installations operated by Damascus.\n“I think the US role is very important to play,” he said.\n“Why? I will be very blunt. The day we will have finished this war against ISIS, if we leave, definitely and totally, even from a political point of view, we will leave the floor to the Iranian regime, Bashar al-Assad and these guys.”\nIn public, both countries are keen to emphasize their historic relationship—recalling that France was the first ally of American revolutionaries fighting for independence.\nMacron brought with him an oak sapling that he and Trump planted at the White House on Monday as a symbol of friendship.\nAFP", "Listing of the Day\nLocation: Madiran, France\nPrice: €2.475 million (US$2.9 million)\nVineyards, views of the Pyrenees and visions of 17th-century duels are some of the highlights of the Chȃteau D’Arricau-Bordes.\nLocated in the countryside in southwest France, the property has wine-making history, as well as ties to a real-life musketeer and a British military hero. But it’s not just the place’s pedigree that makes it enticing—the chȃteau has been restored to a high standard and been outfitted with modern amenities.\n“It’s an impressive and beautifully finished property,” said Jack Harris, an agent with London-based Knight Frank. “It’s got its own grounds, its own hobby vineyard … and views of the mountains.”\nAnd compared to similar properties elsewhere in France, the price is very attractive. In fact, the price has come down about €1 million over the last 18 months, Mr. Harris said.\nRestorations on the centuries-old chȃteau were taken up in the 1970s, when the building was close to ruin.\nMore: Historic Fortress in Aix-en-Provence, France, Could be Yours for €15 Million\n“Quite often you’ll find when chȃteaus are restored, they deck them out in completely contemporary fittings,” Mr. Harris said. “This has been very tastefully done; they left a lot of the original features.”\nThat includes the original fireplaces, wooden beams and stone walls, he said, as well as a stone spiral staircase which leads to the main building’s third floor. Like any good chȃteau, there are numerous reception areas, including a formal living room, a billiards room and a drinks parlor.\nThe roof has also been recently restored, so potential buyers don’t have to worry. “Other places require a huge amount of work,” Mr. Harris said. “Not just time and money, but energy.”\nThe current owners, a British family, don’t spend as much time there as they once did.\nStats\nThe seven-bedroom, five-bathroom chateau sits on more than 34 acres of gardens, vineyards and woodlands. There’s also a three-bedroom, one-bathroom cottage on the property.\nMore: A Four-Story Villa in Cannes With Astonishing Ocean Views\nAmenities\nThe south tower boasts a wine cellar, and there’s an elevated terrace overlooking the swimming pool and out buildings.\nA separate cottage can serve as a guest house or caretaker’s quarters, and features an open layout and private terrace. There are three additional outbuildings, one outfitted as an office with a meeting room, the listing said.\nThe grounds include the vineyards, plus gardens and woods with mature trees, wild flowers and a dozen types of orchids, according to the listing. Sunflowers, kiwis and corn are just some of the crops growing in the valleys around the estate, and the area also boasts deer, wild boar and birds of prey.\nHistory\nThe property has its origins in the Middle Ages, according to the listing, and was given an elegant makeover during the Renaissance.\nIn the 18th century, the uncle of Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan—the inspiration for Alexandre Dumas’s “The Three Musketeers\"—is said to have entertained the captain at the estate. Mr. Harris concedes it’s more of a \"rumor” than a demonstrable fact, but don’t let that get in the way of fantastic fantasies of valor and adventure.\nAnd in March 1814, the Duke of Wellington apparently stayed at the house on his way to one of the last battles of the Napoleonic Wars, the Battle of Toulouse.\nMore: Côte d’Azur Villa With A Rich Past Hits Market for €27M\nNeighborhood notes\nThe local village is “within striking distance,” Mr. Harris said. The Pau airport is about 30 miles away, with Bordeaux and Toulouse about 120 and 136 miles away, respectively.\nAgent: Jack Harris, Senior Negotiator, Knight Frank\nView the original listing.\nWrite to Listing of the Day\nFollow Mansion Global:\nWrite to us: info@mansionglobal.com", "Photo: Charlie PA Images / Sipa / USA Today\nBy Scott T. Sterling\nQueens of the Stone Age want to creep you out.\nJosh Homme and company have shared the band’s latest music video, “Head Like a Haunted House,” which lives up to its billing with a wild animated clip that plays like a surreal nightmare.\nRelated: Queens of the Stone Age Announce 2018 Tour Dates\nThe clip delves inside the dark recesses of Homme’s mind, featuring the singer traversing through a series of nightmarish scenarios while trying to sleep.\nHomme is seen being terrorized by UFOs, flying through the night sky on winged coffins and being assailed by a disembodied green hand that’s permanently flying the middle finger.\n“Head Like a Haunted House,” which does contain explicit lyrics, is the latest track from QOTSA’s most recent full-length, Villains. Watch the Liam Lynch-directed video at Radio.com.", "The estate of singing icon Whitney Houston is officially responding to Kanye West's use of a photo of her bathroom on the cover of an album he produced.\nInterested in Whitney Houston? Add Whitney Houston as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Whitney Houston news, video, and analysis from ABC News. Add Interest\nThe rapper and producer used the photo, which depicts the messy bathroom vanity strewn with items including what could have been drug paraphernalia, for the cover of Pusha T's album, \"Daytona,\" released on his label GOOD Music.\nHouston was found dead at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in 2012. Prescription drugs were found near her body and bottles of alcohol were found in an adjacent room. She was 48. The photo used was reportedly taken years before her death.\nHouston's estate has come forward and said they are \"extremely disappointed in Kanye's choice,\" in a statement to Entertainment Tonight.\nalbum 1 PUSHA T DAYTONA dropping 2mrw pic.twitter.com/M1UPvax5fa — KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) May 24, 2018\n\"Even in Whitney’s death, we see that no one is exempt from the harsh realities of the world,\" the statement continues.\nHouston's estate did not immediately respond to ABC News' request for further comment.\nThe estate is not the first entity or person to speak out again West using this photo. When the album dropped last week, Houston's cousin Damon Elliott told People magazine that the usage of the image was hurtful.\nHe said he found out when his daughter called him in a panic.\n\"She sent me this picture from the album cover and I immediately got sick to my stomach because it took me right back to six years ago,\" the music producer told the magazine. \"To do something for a publicity stunt to sell records, it’s absolutely disgusting. It hurt my family and my daughter. It’s petty. It’s tacky.\"\n\"I’ve watched the train wreck happening,\" Elliott added, referring to West's recent headlines, \"but I didn’t think he’d go this far in invading someone’s family privacy.\"\nThe controversial photo came at high price. Pusha T said West told him he paid $85,000 for the rights to use the photo.\nIn an interview last week with Angie Martinez, Pusha T explained that the West decided to change the cover last minute. In fact, the original artwork was supposed to be a picture of him.\n\"One a.m., my phone rings. No caller I.D.,\" the rapper said in the interview. \"[West said], 'Hey, yeah, I think we should change the artwork.' And, 'I like this other artwork. And this other artwork is 85 grand.' I said, 'Hey, I don't want to pay for that and I wasn’t even going to ask you to pay for that. We picked what we picked, it’s here, it’s ready.' 'No, this is what people need to see to go along with this music. Im'ma pay for that.'\"", "Interim Austin police Chief Brian Manley, center, talks to the media after an explosion, early Monday, March 19, 2018, in Austin, Texas. The area around the explosion site has been blocked off and authorities are interviewing neighbors and searching for possible witnesses. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)\nAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Authorities have called on the person or people behind the bombings in Austin, Texas, to reach out to the police to let them know why they’re setting off the explosives.\nPolice Chief Brian Manley said Monday that it’s too soon to say whether Sunday night’s bombing that injured two men could have been a response to his call for those behind the bombings to reach out.\nManley says investigators see “similarities” between Sunday night’s bomb and three others this month that killed two people and injured two others. But he says Sunday’s differed in that it involved a tripwire whereas the others were package bombs left on people’s doorsteps.\nFrederick Milanowski, the special agent in charge for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, says the latest bomb is “more sophisticated” because it used a tripwire.\nAdvertisement\nEARLIER:\n10:15 a.m.\nAuthorities say investigators see “similarities” between the latest bomb to detonate in Texas’ capital city and three bombs that went off earlier this month.\nPolice Chief Brian Manley said at a news conference Monday that although the bomb that injured two men Sunday night seems linked to the three previous ones, the latest bomb involved a tripwire and those three were package bombs left on people’s doorsteps.\nFrederick Milanowski, the special agent in charge for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, says the latest bomb is “more sophisticated” because it used a tripwire.\nManley says the two victims are men ages 22 and 23 and that they are hospitalized in stable condition with significant injuries.\nBoth men are white, as opposed to the victims of the three prior bombings, who were black or Hispanic. Those attacks killed two people and injured two others.\n9 a.m.\nAustin’s mayor says growing anxieties are “legitimate and real” following the fourth bombing in the city this month.\nMayor Steve Adler told The Associated Press on Monday that residents shouldn’t think twice about calling 911 if they see anything suspicious. A blast occurred Sunday night in a neighborhood far from the sites of the three package bombings in Austin this month.\nPolice haven’t confirmed the latest explosion, which injured two men who were riding or pushing bikes, is related to the first three, but they’re looking into the possibility.\nAuthorities say Sunday’s explosion was detonated by a tripwire and showed a different level of skill from previous blasts. Adler says the concern now is that “the methodology has changed.”\n8:30 a.m.\nAustin’s police chief says the two men injured in the most recent bombing in Austin were riding or pushing bicycles when the explosives detonated.\nPolice Chief Brian Manley told ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Monday that Sunday night’s explosion was detonated by a tripwire and showed “a different level of skill.” The attack differed from three earlier blasts in Austin this month, which were caused by package bombs left on people’s doorsteps.\nThe men injured in Sunday’s blast were white, unlike the victims of the first three bombings, who were black or Hispanic.\nAuthorities have cordoned off the neighborhood where the bomb went off Sunday night and have warned residents to remain indoors while officers check for anything suspicious.\n8:20 a.m.\nThe University of Texas’ campus police force is warning students returning from spring break to be aware of the four recent bombings to hit Austin, saying, “We must look out for one another.”\nIn a tweet Monday, UT Austin police said, “When you get on campus this morning ASK your friends if they’ve heard about the bombings. TELL them about the incidents.”\nIt also urged students to report suspicious items to the authorities. Classes were resuming Monday after a week off.\nA blast triggered by a tripwire in a residential neighborhood Sunday night injured two men. Three previous package bombs detonated in different parts of the city since March 2, killing two people and injured two more.\nNone of those incidents were close to the university’s sprawling campus near the heart of Austin.\n8 a.m.\nAustin’s police chief says the latest bombing to hit the city was detonated by a tripwire, “showing a different level of skill.”\nPolice Chief Brian Manley told ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Monday that both of the men injured in Sunday night’s blast are white, unlike the victims in the city’s three previous bombings this month, who were black or Hispanic.\nSunday night’s explosion happened in the southwestern Austin residential neighborhood of Travis Country. The three previous bombings happened two-plus weeks in residential neighborhoods east of Interstate 35, which divides the city.\nAuthorities have warned Travis Country residents to remain indoors until 10 a.m. as police scour the area for anything suspicious.\n7:25 a.m.\nPolice have warned residents near the site of the latest explosion in Austin to remain indoors and to call 911 if they need to leave home before 10 a.m.\nAuthorities say Sunday night’s explosion in the Travis Country neighborhood in southwestern Austin injured two men and may have been triggered by a tripwire. The police chief repeated his warning to residents not to touch or approach suspicious packages.\nInvestigators are trying to determine whether the blast is related to three package bombings this month in other parts of the city that killed two people and injured two others.\nAustin’s school district announced that buses wouldn’t be going into the Travis Country neighborhood.\nAuthorities had already offered $115,000 in rewards for information leading to an arrest in the first three bombings.", "Bobby Brown is also slamming Kanye West for using a photo of Whitney Houston’s drug-strewn bathroom as the cover for Pusha T’s new album.\n“Why would he post that on his album cover? That’s really disgusting that he would do that,” Brown, 49, told Rolling Stone on Wednesday.\n“That’s in really bad taste. Something should happen to Kanye. He’s already crazy. I knew that when I first met him. Now he’s pushing the bar a little bit,” the singer said, adding, “He needs somebody to slap him up or something. And I’m just the person to do it.”\nRELATED: New Whitney Houston Doc Shows Daughter Bobbi Kristina Using Drugs, Hints at Suicide Attempt: ‘She Hated Her Life’\nBobby Brown; Kanye West Astrid Stawiarz/Getty; Craig Barritt/Getty\nHouston, who struggled with drug addiction, was married to Brown from 1992 until 2007 and the pair had one child, daughter Bobbi Kristina, who died at age 22 in July 2015.\nThree years before Bobbi Kristina’s death, Houston was found dead in a bathtub at The Beverly Hilton hotel in February 2012. The icon’s death was ruled an accidental drowning, with heart disease and cocaine use also to blame. In August 2012, her autopsy stated she also had marijuana, Xanax, Benadryl and other medication in her system.\nWant to keep up on the latest from PEOPLE? Sign up for our daily newsletter to get our best stories of the day delivered straight to your inbox.\nIn 2006, the National Enquirer featured the photo showing Houston’s bathroom filled with drug-covered spoons and drug paraphernalia on its cover, which had been taken secretly by a family member in 2006 as the late singer struggled with drug addiction. West paid $85,000 to license the photo but it is not clear who he paid to use the image.\nalbum 1 PUSHA T DAYTONA dropping 2mrw pic.twitter.com/M1UPvax5fa — KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) May 24, 2018\nOn Friday, Houston’s cousin, Damon Elliott, slammed West for using the photo of the late singer’s drug-strewn bathroom, telling PEOPLE, “I immediately got sick to my stomach because it took me right back to six years ago. I was actually in shock. I didn’t think [West] would go this far in invading someone’s family privacy.”\nMeanwhile, on Wednesday, Houston’s nephew, Gary Michael, defended West, telling Good Morning America in a statement: “Not to be divisive, but I’m of a different mindset when it comes to situations like this. People will automatically look to people like Pusha T and Kanye West and try to place blame or say they have ill or malicious intent to gain publicity. But I get it. I get the correlation (sans my aunt but the photo itself).”\nGary Michael added, “Bottom line — they are artists and in this day and age, if they can afford to pay someone for usage of that photograph in order to convey a visual message to accompany their musicianship…then so be it.”\nRELATED: Kim Kardashian West Claps Back on Twitter, Defending Kanye Amid New Feud Involving Drake\nWhitney Houston and Bobby Brown in October 2005 Lester Cohen/WireImage\nRecently, Pusha T, 41, revealed that while he and West were originally intending to use different cover art for his new album DAYTONA, which West produced, the father of three ultimately changed his mind at the last minute.\n“One a.m., my phone rings. No caller ID. [He says,] ‘Hey, yeah, I think we should change the artwork. And I like this other artwork. And this other artwork is 85 grand,’ ” Pusha T recalled during his May 23 appearance on The Angie Martinez Show.\n“I said, ‘Hey, I don’t want to pay for that and I wasn’t even going to ask you to pay for that. We picked what we picked, it’s here, it’s ready,’ ” he continued, adding that West then offered to pay for the photo himself.", ".......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........\nRENO, Nev. — Madeleine Pickens wanted the African-American chef she recruited from the country club she owns in Southern California to cook “black people food” — not “white people food” — at her rural Nevada dude ranch and wild horse sanctuary, according to a federal lawsuit accusing her of racial discrimination.\nArmand Appling says the wealthy philanthropist and ex-wife of Oklahoma energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens told him fried chicken, BBQ ribs and corn bread would be perfect for the tourists who pay nearly $2,000 a night to stay in plush cottages, ride horses and take Wild West “safaris” on ATVs at her Mustang Monument Wild Horse Eco-Resort.\nAppling alleges he was fired 2014 in retaliation for complaining about a hostile work environment. He says Pickens’ stereotypical references were commonplace at the Elko County ranch stretching across 900 square miles on the edge of the Ruby Mountains about 50 miles west of the Utah line.\nAmong other things, he says Pickens, who is white, instructed him to terminate two other black kitchen staffers — one she referred to as her “bull” or “ox” and another who had “too much personality.” He says she told him they didn’t “look like people we have working at the country club” and didn’t “fit the image” of the staff she wanted at the ranch.\nAdvertisement Continue reading\nPickens’ lawyers argue that even if all the allegations are true, none of her comments were racially motivated. At worst, Pickens’ remarks “reflect a non-racial personality conflict and amount to discourtesy, rudeness or lack of sensitivity,” they wrote in recent court filings.\nU.S. District Judge Miranda Du said during a hearing in Reno last week that Appling’s lawyers have failed so far to prove the sort of racial hostility needed to win such a civil rights claim. She dismissed the original lawsuit that was filed in February but gave them until Jan. 13 to refile an amended complaint seeking unspecified damages from Pickens’ nonprofit, Save America’s Mustangs.\n“It takes a lot to prove these allegations,” Du told California attorney Willie Williams on Thursday.\nDu agreed with Pickens’ lawyer, Dora Lane of Reno, that the only comment that specifically referred to race was the reference to “black people food.”\nLane said categorizing foods by ethnicity is commonplace in the restaurant industry. Some restaurants serve Mexican food, others Chinese or Thai food, she said.\n“The suggestion that such categorizations are inherently offensive is nonsense,” Lane argued in earlier court documents. “This is especially true here, given that Pickens’ alleged comments actually reflect a preference for ‘black people food’ rather than a racial animas against ‘black people’ or ‘black people food.'”\nWilliams said Pickens’ comments about the fired employees “not fitting in” reinforces a long history of African-Americans not being allowed into elite, private-club settings. Pickens owns the exclusive Del Mar Country Club north of San Diego where Appling worked before she hired him for a 5-month stint in Nevada.\n“In many cases, the people fighting to keep African-Americans out of these private clubs would use code phrases like ‘they do not fit the image,'” Williams said in court documents. He added the use of the words “ox” and “bull” implies ownership of property, given “America’s long history of slavery where they were considered personal property of their owners.”\nLane argued it was a complimentary reference to physical strength and “was not accompanied by any overtly racial slurs.”\n“Indeed, Appling does not allege that he ever heard any overtly racial epithets, such as the ‘N-word,'” she wrote in court documents.\nBut Williams told the judge last week the comments must be viewed in the context of racial stereotypes.\nDu agreed that Lane’s arguments focus on the “plain meaning of words” while seemingly ignoring the context of comments made about “African-Americans in history and stereotypes that could give rise to racial animas.”\n“If the alleged comments were not directed at him, but others who look like him, it may affect his work environment,” the judge said.", "Madeleine Pickens wanted the African-American chef she recruited from the country club she owns in Southern California to cook \"black people food\" — not \"white people food\" — at her rural Nevada dude ranch and wild horse sanctuary, according to a federal lawsuit accusing her of racial discrimination.\nArmand Appling says the wealthy philanthropist and ex-wife of Oklahoma energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens told him fried chicken, BBQ ribs and corn bread would be perfect for the tourists who pay nearly $2,000 a night to stay in plush cottages, ride horses and take Wild West \"safaris\" on ATVs at her Mustang Monument Wild Horse Eco-Resort.\nAppling alleges he was fired 2014 in retaliation for complaining about a hostile work environment. He says Pickens' stereotypical references were commonplace at the Elko County ranch stretching across 900 square miles on the edge of the Ruby Mountains about 50 miles west of the Utah line.\nAmong other things, he says Pickens, who is white, instructed him to terminate two other black kitchen staffers — one she referred to as her \"bull\" or \"ox\" and another who had \"too much personality.\" He says she told him they didn't \"look like people we have working at the country club\" and didn't \"fit the image\" of the staff she wanted at the ranch.\nPickens' lawyers argue that even if all the allegations are true, none of her comments were racially motivated. At worst, Pickens' remarks \"reflect a non-racial personality conflict and amount to discourtesy, rudeness or lack of sensitivity,\" they wrote in recent court filings.\nU.S. District Judge Miranda Du said during a hearing in Reno last week that Appling's lawyers have failed so far to prove the sort of racial hostility needed to win such a civil rights claim. She dismissed the original lawsuit that was filed in February but gave them until Jan. 13 to refile an amended complaint seeking unspecified damages from Pickens' nonprofit, Save America's Mustangs.\n\"It takes a lot to prove these allegations,\" Du told California attorney Willie Williams on Thursday.\nDu agreed with Pickens' lawyer, Dora Lane of Reno, that the only comment that specifically referred to race was the reference to \"black people food.\"\nLane said categorizing foods by ethnicity is commonplace in the restaurant industry. Some restaurants serve Mexican food, others Chinese or Thai food, she said.\n\"The suggestion that such categorizations are inherently offensive is nonsense,\" Lane argued in earlier court documents. \"This is especially true here, given that Pickens' alleged comments actually reflect a preference for 'black people food' rather than a racial animas against 'black people' or 'black people food.'\"\nWilliams said Pickens' comments about the fired employees \"not fitting in\" reinforces a long history of African-Americans not being allowed into elite, private-club settings. Pickens owns the exclusive Del Mar Country Club north of San Diego where Appling worked before she hired him for a 5-month stint in Nevada.\n\"In many cases, the people fighting to keep African-Americans out of these private clubs would use code phrases like 'they do not fit the image,'\" Williams said in court documents. He added the use of the words \"ox\" and \"bull\" implies ownership of property, given \"America's long history of slavery where they were considered personal property of their owners.\"\nLane argued it was a complimentary reference to physical strength and \"was not accompanied by any overtly racial slurs.\"\n\"Indeed, Appling does not allege that he ever heard any overtly racial epithets, such as the 'N-word,'\" she wrote in court documents.\nBut Williams told the judge last week the comments must be viewed in the context of racial stereotypes.\nDu agreed that Lane's arguments focus on the \"plain meaning of words\" while seemingly ignoring the context of comments made about \"African-Americans in history and stereotypes that could give rise to racial animus.\"\n\"If the alleged comments were not directed at him, but others who look like him, it may affect his work environment,\" the judge said.", "London: Manchester City took a huge step towards the Premier League title with a vital victory at rivals Manchester United.\nChelsea's title defence looks all but over after a miserable loss at West Ham United, while Wayne Rooney's first Merseyside derby goal earned Everton a draw at Liverpool.\n(Also read: EPL Sunday Report: Manchester City win, meanwhile Arsenal and Liverpool draw)\nHere are five things we learned from the Premier League this weekend:\nJose Mourinho set his stall out nice and early ahead of the Manchester derby. The days leading up to the game were accompanied by a familiar drip-drip-drip of jibes, about City`s alleged propensity for diving and \"tactical fouling\" and opposite number Pep Guardiola`s right to wear a ribbon in support of Catalan separatists, in a bid to get inside his opponents` heads. His tactical approach was familiar, too, a back four, two midfield scrappers and four quick players on the break. But the tried and tested Mourinho formula was fatally undermined by set-piece sloppiness, with Romelu Lukaku particularly culpable, that enabled City to pull off a 2-1 win and move 11 points clear at the head of the table. Mourinho was left to fall back on another similar tactic, blaming the referee, in this case for failing to award Ander Herrera what would have been a dubious late penalty.\n(Also read: EPL: Manchester City beat Manchester United 2-1 in a nerve-wracking derby win)\nAntonio Conte`s champions delivered a lethargic display on Saturday. Even against an improving West Ham, Conte would have expected more, but instead, the 1-0 defeat left the Italian conceding that hopes of successfully retaining the title are over. Despite complaints that his squad is too small to cope with the extra matches, the side he turned out should have had enough to at least share the points, but there was no spark even from the reliable Cesc Fabregas while Eden Hazard drifted in and out of the match. It was a welcome boost for West Ham counterpart David Moyes, who has had little to smile about since his return to the dug out.\n`Can we play you every week?` is an English terrace taunt that tends to be heard when a team are coasting to victory and in the case of Tottenham Hotspur and Stoke City, it is particularly apposite. Spurs` 5-1 win over Stoke made Mauricio Pochettino`s side the first team to win four successive games against the same opponents by four goals or more in the history of the English top flight, following three previous 4-0 victories. Son Heung-Min starred and Harry Kane scored twice at Wembley as Spurs brought an end to a four-game winless run that put paid to their title ambitions. Stoke will not be looking forward to April`s return fixture.\nThe gasp was audible when the Liverpool team was read out over the Anfield public address system, and the next thought was the same for most Reds fans, had boss Jurgen Klopp lost his mind after leaving star forwards Philippe Coutinho and Roberto Firmino on the bench. Klopp`s decision to rest the Brazil duo backfired badly as Liverpool were unable to turn territorial dominance into a Merseyside derby victory over Everton. Despite leading through Mohamed Salah`s latest stunner, the Reds were pegged back by Wayne Rooney`s late penalty. Klopp complained that the spot-kick shouldn`t have been awarded and blamed the need to rest Coutinho and Firmino on Liverpool`s draining European exploits in midweek. Whether those excuses will appease the devotees on the Kop is another matter.\nThings are turning sour on Tyneside, where one point from seven games and elongated takeover talk has left Newcastle United in the thick of a relegation battle and boss Rafael Benitez under fire. A 3-2 home loss to Leicester City could prove a defining moment for the Magpies and their coach. Without cash for reinforcements in the January transfer window, it is increasingly tough to imagine how long Benitez will sit it out in the north-east as the natives grow more restless less than a year after he led them to promotion.", "Baldwin Brothers Inc. MA lessened its stake in shares of AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) by 58.5% during the second quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 3,826 shares of the technology company’s stock after selling 5,392 shares during the period. Baldwin Brothers Inc. MA’s holdings in AT&T were worth $144,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.\nA number of other institutional investors also recently bought and sold shares of the business. Parametrica Management Ltd acquired a new stake in shares of AT&T in the 1st quarter valued at $417,000. Winslow Evans & Crocker Inc. boosted its holdings in shares of AT&T by 8.4% in the 1st quarter. Winslow Evans & Crocker Inc. now owns 67,916 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $2,822,000 after purchasing an additional 5,268 shares in the last quarter. American National Bank boosted its holdings in shares of AT&T by 8.4% in the 1st quarter. American National Bank now owns 18,863 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $784,000 after purchasing an additional 1,455 shares in the last quarter. Atria Investments LLC boosted its holdings in shares of AT&T by 20.3% in the 1st quarter. Atria Investments LLC now owns 181,804 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $7,554,000 after purchasing an additional 30,738 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Community Bank of Raymore boosted its holdings in shares of AT&T by 21.6% in the 1st quarter. Community Bank of Raymore now owns 112,384 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $4,669,000 after purchasing an additional 19,950 shares in the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 54.99% of the company’s stock.\nGet AT&T Inc. alerts:\nCOPYRIGHT VIOLATION NOTICE: This article was first posted by Chaffey Breeze and is the sole property of of Chaffey Breeze. If you are reading this article on another publication, it was copied illegally and reposted in violation of US & international trademark & copyright legislation. The original version of this article can be viewed at https://www.chaffeybreeze.com/2017/10/06/baldwin-brothers-inc-ma-sells-5392-shares-of-att-inc-t.html.\nShares of AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) traded down 0.7181% during trading on Friday, hitting $38.7398. The stock had a trading volume of 11,236,554 shares. The firm has a market cap of $237.86 billion, a PE ratio of 18.2048 and a beta of 0.49. The stock has a 50 day moving average of $37.79 and a 200 day moving average of $38.58. AT&T Inc. has a 52-week low of $35.10 and a 52-week high of $43.03. AT&T also saw some unusual options trading activity on Thursday. Investors acquired 294,492 call options on the stock. This is an increase of approximately 654% compared to the average daily volume of 39,059 call options.\nAT&T (NYSE:T) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, July 25th. The technology company reported $0.79 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of $0.74 by $0.05. The company had revenue of $39.84 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $39.84 billion. AT&T had a net margin of 8.12% and a return on equity of 14.53%. The firm’s quarterly revenue was down 1.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $0.72 earnings per share. On average, equities analysts anticipate that AT&T Inc. will post $2.94 EPS for the current year.\nThe company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, November 1st. Investors of record on Tuesday, October 10th will be given a dividend of $0.49 per share. This represents a $1.96 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 4.96%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, October 6th. AT&T’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 92.45%.\nSeveral equities research analysts recently weighed in on the company. Vetr raised AT&T from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating and set a $42.91 price objective on the stock in a report on Wednesday, August 16th. Cowen and Company reissued a “market perform” rating and set a $41.00 price objective (down previously from $43.00) on shares of AT&T in a report on Wednesday, July 26th. Jefferies Group LLC reissued a “buy” rating and set a $48.00 price objective on shares of AT&T in a report on Thursday, August 24th. Robert W. Baird reissued an “outperform” rating and set a $43.00 price objective on shares of AT&T in a report on Thursday, September 21st. Finally, BidaskClub raised AT&T from a “strong sell” rating to a “sell” rating in a report on Monday, July 31st. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, nineteen have assigned a hold rating and eleven have given a buy rating to the company. The company has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $43.87.\nAT&T Company Profile\nAT&T Inc is a holding company. The Company is a provider of communications and digital entertainment services in the United States and the world. The Company operates through four segments: Business Solutions, Entertainment Group, Consumer Mobility and International. The Company offers its services and products to consumers in the United States, Mexico and Latin America and to businesses and other providers of telecommunications services worldwide.\nWant to see what other hedge funds are holding T? Visit HoldingsChannel.com to get the latest 13F filings and insider trades for AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T).\nReceive News & Ratings for AT&T Inc. Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for AT&T Inc. and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter.", "We asked British nationals living in the EU to tell us how they view the latest Brexit negotiations and where they see the future\n‘I am still not sure if myself and my children will be landlocked’\nKate, 49, project manager, has lived in the Netherlands for 17 years.\nI am still not sure whether myself and my children will be landlocked or will be able to live our lives as we did before the vote. I only hope we can continue to plan and have the same aspirations as any other EU citizen in the EU. My children will probably get Dutch citizenship: I think that is a good thing as they would have so many rights and benefits as EU citizens.\nQuick guide What are Brexit options now? Four scenarios Show Hide What are Brexit options now? The four scenarios If the UK has a change of heart, it could sign up to all the EU’s rules and regulations, staying in the EU’s single market and customs union. Freedom of movement would continue and the UK would keep paying into the Brussels pot. We would continue to have unfettered access to EU trade, but the pledge to “take back control” of laws, borders and money would not have been fulfilled. This is an unlikely outcome and one that may be possible only by reversing the Brexit decision, after a second referendum or election. Britain could follow Norway, which is in the single market, is subject to freedom of movement rules and pays a fee to Brussels – but is outside the customs union. That combination would tie Britain to EU regulations but allow it to sign trade deals of its own. A “Norway-minus” deal is more likely. That would see the UK leave the single market and customs union and end free movement of people. But Britain would align its rules and regulations with Brussels, hoping this would allow a greater degree of market access. The UK would still be subject to EU rules. A comprehensive trade deal like the one handed to Canada would help British traders, as it would lower or eliminate tariffs. But there would be little on offer for the UK services industry. It is a bad outcome for financial services. Such a deal would leave Britain free to diverge from EU rules and regulations but that in turn would lead to border checks and the rise of other “non-tariff barriers” to trade. It would leave Britain free to forge new trade deals with other nations. Many in Brussels see this as a likely outcome, based on Theresa May’s direction so far. Britain leaves with no trade deal, meaning that all trade is governed by World Trade Organisation rules. Tariffs would be high, queues at the border long and the Irish border issue severe. In the short term, British aircraft might be unable to fly to some European destinations. The UK would quickly need to establish bilateral agreements to deal with the consquences, but the country would be free to take whatever future direction it wishes. It may need to deregulate to attract international business – a very different future and a lot of disruption.\nI have worked so much abroad, and always in a very international environment, though I’m not fluent in Dutch yet. We were thinking of moving near Maastricht in a few years and it was definitely on our radar to move to Germany as I have to cross borders to Germany, Poland and France all the time for my work. Now we don’t know if we can do that. Will I need to get visas? The latest agreement means nothing has changed; we British citizens feel the least cared for group in the negotiations as nobody cares about us – not like the EU cares for EU nationals.\n‘We are being ignored’\nKen Wood, 68, retired, has lived in France for four years.\nI feel, like many, that we are being ignored. Agreements made regarding continuation of pension and health arrangements were only achieved because of EU pressure regarding their own citizens resident in the UK. Had that not happened I suspect we would have been given far worse status, possibly as bad as those who receive no pension uprating and no health cover.\nThere is still no clarity as to our overall status, from both a UK and EU perspective. Within the EU, it almost seems that different member states will decide their own attitude towards us. My primary concern is to our long-term status, particularly if my wife and I (she’s a Chinese citizen with a UK passport) wish to return to the UK in the future. The present government’s treatment of EU citizens in the UK leads one to suspect that immigration policy supersedes any other consideration.\n‘We both wished to remain EU citizens so the only step left was to vote with our feet’\nRebecca, 27, photographic agent, has lived in Germany for 14 months.\nWe’ve been in a state of high alert since the Brexit process started, and while this agreement promises us a right to stay, it provides little to no detail and our rights are still going to be removed. My partner (also British) and I moved to Berlin as soon as we could after the Brexit vote: we both wished to remain EU citizens so the only step left was to vote with our feet. Having studied in Berlin on an Erasmus year and being fluent in German, it was the speeding up of an inevitable move anyway.\nThe latest agreement promises our right to stay now that we are here, but gives no detail as to how we will travel the EU, how we might work across borders and what our visa status will specifically be. As it stands, I’m still planning on applying for German citizenship as soon as I’m eligible in seven years’ time and will hope to regain my EU citizenship. We have different work situations (my boyfriend works freelance) and we are now looking into marrying to guarantee that, worst comes to worst, we stay together: not quite the romantic dream we’d always planned.\n‘Our situation is different to those losing a right they’re not currently using’\nLloyd Stiles, 39, teacher, has lived in Austria for about 10 years.\nI won’t trust anything until a final deal is made, but my biggest hope is that the freedom of movement I’ve used all my adult life is not taken away from me and my daughter. Those of us already using it and want to keep it should be allowed to do so: I’d love it if they created a special EU passport for Brits like me so I can keep access to both the UK and the EU because, like it or not, our situation is much different to those losing a right they’re not currently using.\nMy biggest fear is that Austria decides that my wife (who is a US citizen) won’t have her visa renewed in a few years’ time because she would no longer be married to an EU citizen, meaning I either have to become an Austrian (and possibly have issues going back to the UK) or worse, be forced to move to either the UK or US, which we deliberately chose to leave in the first place.\n‘I may be forced to apply for Greek citizenship’\nValerie, 53, teacher, has lived in Greece for 20 years.\nWe’re a British family with two kids who have grown up here – initially having moved to Greece because of my husband’s job in aquaculture. We currently feel in limbo. I’m not sure why I should be penalised for making a contribution to British influence abroad (I teach in a British curriculum school where 99% of pupils head to the UK for further education!).\nI don’t want to apply for Greek citizenship as none of us in the family are Greek, but I may be forced to in order to keep on working here without work permits etc. My two children will not now be able to live and work in Europe as I have been able to do, despite being born and raised as Europeans and learning the language. Many British teachers in Europe are probably long-term residents of their host country: Brexit is not a great advert for British education abroad and I’m generally not very optimistic about the future.\n‘I don’t trust what the media or politicians are claiming’\nDaniel Yeo, 27, freelancer; former civil servant, has lived in France for two years.\nI was a second generation immigrant to the UK (I have Malaysian-Chinese parents) and we (myself my wife and our child) are now first generation immigrants to France, having moved for a better quality of life.\nWe should be reassured, but I don’t think lots of the news coming from the negotiations means anything until it’s all agreed. It’s really hard to know what’s actually going to happen – I don’t trust what the media or politicians are claiming. The reality of the negotiations is so much more complex.", "The Department of Environmental Affairs has been slammed for allowing canned lion hunting and the export of lion bones without evidence that it has any scientific or conservation value. The British NGO Born Free Foundation says that the department is supporting a small clique of breeders and the situation is providing loopholes for wildlife traffickers. By DON PINNOCK.\nIn a report, Cash Before Conservation, released on 19 March, Born Free says the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) persists in allowing canned hunting, trade in lion bones and sale of rhino horn while admitting its decisions are not backed by science or conservation information.\n“It is alarming,” says the report, “that the DEA has issued an export quota of 800 skeletons and permits for thousands of other skeletons and large quantities of bones since 2008 without having completed any of the research it has now commissioned. This also applies to the continued breeding of lions for hunting.”\nBorn Free says the DEA also cannot demonstrate that the trade in bones from captive-bred lions will in fact protect wild lions in Africa or tigers in Asia, neither can it provide any evidence that the trade will not prejudice the survival of wild lions.\n“Far from contributing to lion conservation, lion breeding poses an additional threat to wild lions through the legal export of lion bones, mainly to Asia. The trade stimulates demand for lion bones, which are increasingly used as a substitute for tiger bones in wines.\n“This in turn incentivises poachers to target wild lions and launder their bones into these markets.”\nThis appears to be confirmed by an increase of the past 18 months of wild lions killed by poachers for body parts in Southern Africa.\nThe report says profits are being placed before sound and ethical wildlife management. This is having an increasing impact on world opinion, and South Africa’s stance on captive lion breeding has been intensely criticised, both domestically and abroad. Even the world’s largest hunting organisation, Safari Club International, recently refused to acknowledge trophies from or advertise hunts of canned lions.\n‘In the light of this overwhelming opposition,’ says the report, ‘why does the DEA still persist in allowing the captive breeding of lions and lion bone exports?’\nBorn Free expressed concern that the legal trade in captive bred lion skeletons and bones may be used as a cover by criminal syndicates to launder illegally obtained bones and skeletons from wild-caught animals. According to many conservation organizations and wildlife groups, syndicates involved in the illegal trade in wildlife are exploiting rising prices for fake tiger bones.\nThe International Union for the Conservation of Nature estimates that as few as 20 000 wild lions remain in Africa, occupying just 8% of their historic range. Breeding facilities, mainly in the Free State and North West Province, privately own around 8 000 lions and other predators at more than 200 sites, many languishing in poor conditions.\nBetween 2008 and 2015, South Africa issued permits for the export of more than 5,363 lion skeletons, nearly 98% of which went to Laos and Vietnam, countries considered by global conservation and law enforcement agencies as key conduits for massive illegal international trade in wildlife.\nIn a written answer to a question in Parliament, the Minister of Environmental Affairs, Edna Molewa, admitted that permits for the sale of lion bones and skeletons included some to the notorious Laotian wildlife trafficker Vixay Keosavang. This is despite the fact that Keosavang’s role in widespread illegal wildlife trade had been noted by various law enforcement agencies in Asia from as early as 2003.\nKeosavang also played a key role in one of South Africa’s best known rhino poaching cases in which a Thai citizen, Chumlong Lemtonghtai, was found guilty of staging “pseudo hunts” during which a large number of rhinos were shot, ostensibly to be exported as trophies. In fact the horns were sold into the Far Eastern traditional medicine market.\nLast year The Guardian reported that Keosavang was granted permission to trade in 12 different species including crocodiles, monkey and pangolin anteaters, the skins of 100,000 pythons, 250 tonnes of soft-shelled turtles (which would mean killing about 45,000 of the animals), 100 tonnes of dogs, which are commonly cooked in Vietnamese restaurants, 1,000 magpies and 20 tonnes of animal bones, probably for ‘tiger-bone’ wine.\nInformation obtained from the Gauteng Provincial Government by researchers also shows that in 2016, permits were issued for the export of 153 lion skeletons to Vinasakhone Trading in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), a company which has repeatedly been shown to be at the centre of extensive illegal trade in wildlife.\nAccording to the report, in South Africa captive lions bred to be killed are unashamedly exploited for profit by their captors at every stage of their often short lives. Cubs are removed within a few days of birth in order to bring their mothers back into breeding condition quickly.\n“They provide unwitting tourists with cute photo props and misguided volunteers with cubs to hand-rear in the mistaken belief that they are genuine orphans and that, one day, they are destined to be returned to the wild.\n“As the animals grow,” says the report, “they are used for other tourist activities such as walking with lions. The ultimate fate for many of these unfortunate animals is to be shot in a canned hunt by a paying hunter, usually from overseas, to be killed so their body parts can be exported to Asian markets, or to be cycled back into the breeding machine.”\nUnder the banner of sustainable use, the DEA has increasingly treated the wild creatures it should be protecting as a source of revenue. The number of predators bred in captivity in the country has increased significantly over the past 20 years and it now holds more lions in captivity than any other country in the world. During this period, South Africa became one of the few administrations advocating international sales of elephant ivory and the breeding of colour variant game species. Controversially, it also recently re-opened domestic trade in rhino horn and is the largest global exporter of live cheetahs.\nAccording to Born Free, Minister Molewa, who used to be premier of North West Province where canned hunting of lions is widespread, appears to be working against earlier recommendations of three environmental ministers who preceded her. In 1997 Pallo Jordan recommended a moratorium of the issuing of licenses to lion breeding facilities. His successor, Vali Moosa, was outright opposed to breeding of lions for hunting and his successor, Marthinus van Schalkwyk, said the practice of captive-bred hunting should be disallowed.\nMolewa appears to have sidestepped the issue of canned lion hunting by insisting that the DEA does not have a mandate to look after the welfare of wild animals in captivity. She says she believes this duty falls under the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), which administers the Animal Protection Act and the Performing Animals Act (these acts were never intended to deal with the welfare of wild animals held in captivity).\nIn April 2015, a draft Biodiversity Management Plan for Lion (BMP) was submitted to parliament which encouraged further growth of the canned lion industry. This contradicted its mandate to conserve wild animals and to not encourage or facilitate trade unless this supported conservation efforts.\nThe plan was drawn up by the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI). It emphasised the Government’s support for trade in lion parts and stated that one of the objectives of the plan was to “promote sustainable legal trade in lions and lion products”.\nAccording to Wild Aid, this position shows that in the past five years, Van Schalkwyk’s attempts to curtail the lion breeding industry has been completely rejected by the DEA under its new leadership and that the government now publicly supports the industry.\nThe report notes that Molewa has, on several occasions, insisted that lion bone trade has no impact on wild lions, but has not provided any official documents supporting these claims. In 2016 the DEA refused to close down lion breeding facilities because of “legal issues” and because they fell within the government’s commitment to “the sustainable use of the country’s biodiversity”.\nA spin-off of the canned lion industry has been a boom in donkey skins. Lion and other predator breeding facilities have, for many years, bought donkeys from rural communities to feed their animals. With a sudden rise in the use of donkey skins for traditional medicine in China, lion breeders have found another lucrative export.\nSeveral African countries, including Niger and Burkina Faso, have banned the export of the skins because the trade has dramatically reduced donkey numbers. Other countries, including South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya, plan to exploit the new market and increase exports by permitting construction of new donkey abattoirs.\nThe North West Provincial Government, in particular, encourages trade in donkeys with China. In 2015, Premier Supra Mahumapelo met with a delegation from China and afterwards said trade in donkeys must be developed in the province to help create jobs. He called for donkey farms and an abattoir to be created specifically to provide for this trade.\nBorn Free says it’s unclear why the DEA would choose to support the business interests of a small group of people driven by the desire to make profit from lions and their body parts at the expense of good conservation practice – and in the face of overwhelming international criticism.\n“Only… lion breeders and bone and skeleton traders benefit from the predator breeding industry and the DEA has no independent information on the number of jobs created by the industry.\n“Approving sales to countries where large quantities of wildlife products are laundered into markets across the region – and whose traders are implicated in the illegal trade in rhino horns, pangolins and other species of conservation importance – only compounds the situation and serves to promote trafficking.\n“If South Africa is to be regarded as a responsible and ethical custodian of its wildlife and a country that cares about wildlife elsewhere in Africa and across the globe, urgent action needs to be taken to curtail the captive breeding of lions and the sale of their bones and skeletons.” DM\nAll Photos: Conservation Action Trust", "Electronic radio tags could be used to track invasive Asian hornets and stop them colonising the UK and killing honeybees, new research shows.\nScientists from the University of Exeter attached tiny tags to Asian hornets, then used a tracking device to follow them to their nests; the first time this has been achieved.\nThey tested the technique in southern France and Jersey - where Asian hornets are well established - and the tags led researchers to five previously undiscovered nests.\n\"Our new method of tracking offers a really important new tool to tackle the spread of this invader, providing an efficient means of finding hornets' nests in urban, rural and wooded environments,\" said lead researcher Dr Peter Kennedy, of the Environment and Sustainability Institute on the University of Exeter's Penryn Campus in Cornwall.\nAsian hornets prey on honeybees and other pollinators, and the scientists say the technique demonstrated in their study could help protect Britain's \"beleaguered pollinator populations\".\n\"It is vital to find the nests early in the season to prevent the hornet spreading, as later in the year hundreds of new queens emerge and disperse from each nest, each with the potential to make new nests,\" said Professor Juliet Osborne, a co-author on the study, and Director of the Environment and Sustainability Institute.\nThe work was funded as part of Defra's efforts to prepare for future outbreaks of the Asian hornet in the UK.\nSouth West beekeepers also saw the urgency of the work, supporting it with their own funds.\nNicola Spence, Defra Deputy Director for Plant and Bee Health, said: \"This work is key for ensuring a rapid response to Asian hornets when sightings are confirmed, and in future bee inspectors will be able to use this technique to take swift action.\"\n\"In France, the Asian hornet is unlikely to be eliminated, so efforts are now focussed more on limiting their impact,\" said Dr Denis Thiéry from INRA Bordeaux-Aquitaine in France, who collaborated on this work.\nMr Willie Peggie, Director of The States of Jersey Department of the Environment, where the technique was also tested, said: \"We are pleased to be investigating efficient methods of tracking Asian hornets to their nests, as we're concerned about their impact on our wild insect pollinators, as well as their effect on local honey production.\"\nThe researchers used the smallest radio tags available - made by UK firm Biotrack Ltd - and attached them to hornets with sewing thread. Hornets were able to carry them as long as the tag weighed less than 80% of the insect's weight.\nAsian hornets are the latest threat to Britain's honeybees, which - like many pollinators - are suffering due to factors including habitat loss, parasites and pesticides.\nThe British Beekeepers Association are also pleased about the development of a reliable technique for tracking this invasive predator, and stated: \"The BBKA are greatly concerned about the possible incursion by the Asian Hornet because of the devastation likely to be caused to honeybees and other pollination insects.\"\nAdult Asian hornets \"hawk\" at beehives, meaning that they hover outside to grab bees, before dismembering them and taking them back to their nest to feed to larvae.\nThe first Asian hornet discovered in Britain was in Gloucestershire in 2016, when a nest was found and destroyed. Another nest was destroyed in Woolacombe, Devon, last year. In April this year, a single hornet was found in Lancashire.\nAsian hornets are smaller than native European hornets, have a largely dark brown or black body and yellow-tipped legs, a distinctive orange-yellow stripe near the end of their abdomen, and often a thin orange-yellow line just behind the \"waist\". Their face is orange, and the back of the head is black, unlike the European hornet in which both the face and back of the head are yellow.\nAny suspected sighting of an Asian hornet should be reported, ideally with a photo, via email to alertnonnative@ceh.ac.uk or by using the Asian Hornet Watch app.\nThe paper, published in the journal Communications Biology, is entitled: \"Searching for nests of the invasive Asian hornet (Vespa velutina) using radio-telemetry.\"\n###\nThe main funder of the research was the UK government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).", "SEC chair Jay Clayton wants regulatory surveillance of the exchanges trading cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, and investor protection rules for those doing the trading. That, of course, could slow down a red-hot market that has thrived in part because it resembles the Wild West.\nWASHINGTON — Several weeks after becoming the top cop for U.S. markets last May, Jay Clayton began reading everything he could get his hands on about bitcoin, realizing it was quickly evolving from a method of payment to a global investment craze.\nSince then, the Securities and Exchange Commission chairman has elevated digital currencies to the forefront of his agenda, asserting that many of the products fall under the agency’s oversight. During Clayton’s tenure, the SEC has unleashed its enforcement lawyers on companies that are illicitly raising money by selling digital tokens, put the kibosh on attempts to set up cryptocurrency mutual funds and repeatedly urged investors to take more seriously the risk of getting fleeced.\nClayton’s latest concern, detailed in an interview this past week, is the lightly regulated exchanges where the currencies are bought and sold. With many located offshore, Clayton said federal authorities have no insight into their operations and little recourse when things blow up for U.S. investors.\n“These platforms that these things trade on, they are very easily manipulated and I don’t think investors understand that,” Clayton said. While there’s a thick set of regulations that exchanges must adhere to, “none of that exists” when they aren’t registered with the SEC.\nHe said he’s concluded that a number of venues should fall under the SEC’s jurisdiction, which would open them up to regular surveillance and ensure they follow investor-protection rules. That, of course, could slow down a red-hot market that has thrived in part because it resembles the Wild West.\nSitting at a conference table in his 10th floor office overlooking the U.S. Capitol, Clayton spoke approvingly of the digital-ledger technology underlying the coins and said the SEC isn’t trying to stand in the way of progress.\nYet just days after a Japanese exchange revealed it had been robbed of more than $500 million in tokens, Clayton said he was increasingly worried about fraud hitting “Main Street” investors.\n“When an ordinary person loses 10, 15, 25 grand, that makes a material difference in their lives and that’s bad,” he said. “Anytime our markets are used like that, we need to be paying attention.”\nSome also think that digital currencies are a bubble that will inevitably pop. After jumping more than 1,400 percent in 2017 and minting more than a few overnight millionaires, bitcoin has lost a third of its value this year amid fears that regulators will subject the industry to more rules.\nBeing Washington, D.C.’s chief cryptocurrency skeptic is an unusual position for Clayton, a former Wall Street deals lawyer appointed by President Donald Trump. But despite his free-market credentials, Clayton has embraced a go-slow approach that has at times appeared to put the SEC at odds with the other main regulator in the area, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).\nThat agency’s chairman, J. Christopher Giancarlo, late last year allowed two exchanges to offer bitcoin futures, arguing the move would help the CFTC gain insight into the largely unregulated markets where the cryptocurrency is traded.\nAlthough many expected the futures would hasten SEC approval for mutual and exchange-traded funds based on digital coins, it has not. Instead, the agency said this month such offerings raise a number of investor-protection questions.\nClayton made clear in the interview that he’s in no hurry to sign off on the funds, saying such a move would be seen as “a tacit endorsement” he is not yet ready to make.\nThough some of the legal and jurisdictional issues are novel or are being worked out, the CFTC claims some authority over actual digital currencies — which it classifies as commodities — and derivatives, such as futures, tied to them. The SEC is responsible for regulating securities that are comprised of digital tokens. That includes so-called initial coin offerings, which were used to raise an estimated $3.7 billion last year even though some of the companies behind them have laid out scant business plans.\nIn an initial coin offering (ICO), a firm sells digital tokens that can eventually be redeemed for goods or services. The coins can be traded in a secondary market — which the SEC says makes them securities and subject to its oversight. In the case of an ICO, that would mean filing extensive documents detailing plans for the offering. The exchange it trades on would also have to be registered with the SEC. Thus far, no trading venue or ICO has taken those steps.\nAt the moment, the main way the SEC is trying to ensure compliance is through its enforcement arm. Already, the agency has formed a special group to dig into potential fraud and filed several high-profile lawsuits. Last month, the SEC sued to halt a Texas-based ICO that claimed to have raised more than $600 million, using celebrities like former boxing champ Evander Holyfield to tout the offering.\n“We have brought cases, and if people don’t change their ways we’re going to be bringing more cases,” Clayton said.\nBut there are limitations on the SEC’s reach, a problem that’s particularly vexing because there have been a spate of thefts across the globe involving hackers, who if they could be found, are likely to ignore U.S. subpoenas.\n“If a U.S. person sends their money to a foreign country through the internet and it gets taken, there’s not much I can do about it,” Clayton said.\nFor now, he said the agency has all the power it needs to regulate crypto products. He added that SEC oversight will ultimately help the industry flourish.\n“There’s no doubt in my mind that our regulatory framework is not holding back the promise of this technology,” Clayton said. “In fact, it could be the other way around.”", "This is his bailiwick, though, and there’s plenty of it on this strong album. On “Hard Piano,” he’s sneering, and “The Games We Play” is staggeringly good: “Caviar facials remove the toxins/This ain’t for the conscious, this is for the mud-made monsters.” On “Come Back Baby,” he traces the path from illegal business to legal, from anonymity to fame back to anonymity:\nBlew through thousands, we made millions\nCocaine soldiers, once civilians\nBought hoes Hondas, took care children\nLet my pastor build out buildings\nRapped on classics, I been brilliant\nNow we blend in, we chameleons\nPusha-T doesn’t hurry; he’s sniper patient. On songs like “If You Know You Know,” he sometimes raps so crisply and sparsely — “A rapper turned trapper can’t morph into us/But a trapper turned rapper can morph into Puff” — that he almost feels disconnected from the song’s rhythm. His syllables have hard edges, and rarely does he let feeling get in the way, though the one exception is “Santeria,” inspired by the murder of his road manager. On this song, you can almost hear the wetness in Pusha-T’s rhymes, his typical stoicism traded for something a little short of breath.\nImage Pusha-T’s fourth solo release is “Daytona.”\n“Daytona” was produced in deeply satisfying fashion by Kanye West, with additional production by his longtime collaborators Andrew Dawson and Mike Dean. It is a return to Mr. West’s early days as a seeker and reinterpreter of deep samples, but overlaid with the coldness and menace of his “Yeezus” era.\nWhen “Daytona” was released last week, it was met with a fevered response. But in a desert, water has a way of appearing not just wet, but sweet. “Daytona” may stand alone in this moment — particularly in contrast to the woozy, blown-out rap albums dominating the charts because of the primacy of streaming — but it isn’t as effective as “My Name Is My Name,” Pusha-T’s 2013 full-length solo debut album. “Daytona” is terser, leaving only nits to pick; say, that the second and third verses of “Come Back Baby” lack the fire and wit of the rest of the album.\nAuthority, of course, is regionally and temporally specific — what’s acknowledged as certitude now sounds nothing like it did when Pusha-T was growing up. “I’m too rare amongst all of this pink hair,” he raps on “Hard Piano,” a sidelong shot at the excesses of the SoundCloud generation. Pusha-T stands out amid the meditative, louche koans of Playboi Carti or the creaky whine of Lil Baby.", "New direct flights have improved access to the wild and scenic Mediterranean island. Beverley Rouse discovers its appeal.\nCorsica may be the birthplace of French military leader Napoleon Bonaparte, but there is no risk of this beautiful, laid-back island becoming a theme park to its most famous son.\nThe family home where Napoleon was born in 1769 in the island’s capital, Ajaccio, is now a museum, and the port city situated on the west of the island is one of the destinations for Air Corsica’s new direct seasonal flights from London Stansted.\nCorsica is a mountainous Mediterranean island off the west coast of Italy and the south-east coast of France. It’s been governed by France since it was handed over by the Republic of Genoa to pay debts in 1768.\nPort city Ajaccio (Thinkstock/PA)\nOn the road\nAfter flying into to Ajaccio, we take a scenic two-and-a-half-hour drive from west to east to the Sunelia Perla Di Mare resort, near Ghisonaccia.\nThe route takes us along quiet, winding mountain roads and through green countryside and dense pine forests. Traffic lights are few and far between, so if you’ve never driven abroad, Corsica is an ideal place to start – as long as you can hold your nerve when a coach comes the opposite way, when you’re on a narrow road next to a steep drop.\nThe island is home to the GR20 – said to be one of the most difficult hiking trails in Europe – and is popular with cyclists, although e-bikes are available to hire for those whose legs need a little help.\nBeverley on her bike (Beverley Rouse/PA)\nI decide to give my legs an easier challenge with a cycle round the bumpy paths of the pine forest near my family-friendly lodge (bike hire is €12/£10 a day for adults or €50/£45 per week).\nThe resort is right on the beach and there’s a kids’ club to keep children entertained.\nThere is also a beautiful spa (€60/£53 for a 50-minute massage), and yoga takes places on a quiet decked area within the spa complex.\nDining by the beach at Sunelia Perla di Mare (Sunelia Perla di Mare/PA)\nEvening entertainment near the bar area is great for parents who want to dine while their children are happily occupied by karaoke or a conga led by Sunny, Sunelia’s ladybird mascot.\nExploring the island\nCorsica has plenty more to offer for those who hire a car and leave the site.\nThe medieval town of Bonifacio, on the southern tip of the island, is a must-see, with a breathtaking view from the restaurant-lined harbour of the Bastion d’Etendard. This formed the most important part of fortifications which date back to 1195, and were built to defend the city.\nView of Bonifacio cliff coast rocks (Thinkstock/PA)\nWalk up the steep hill for a closer look or, like me, take the Petit Train de Bonifacio (€5/£4.50) and save your legs for the walk back down.\nNatural attractions\nA 30-minute boat trip with SPMB Promenades en Mer (€35/£30) from Bonifacio to the nature reserve at Lavezzu – part of the archipelago Iles Lavezzi – is one of the highlights of my stay and shows how close the French island of Corsica is to Sardinia, its Italian neighbour which is just eight miles away.\nThe Lavezzi islands (Thinkstock/PA)\nWe have a picnic lunch on Lavezzu, an unspoilt island of granite rocks where there is little but an abandoned shepherd’s hut and a cemetery housing the remains of 700 sailors who died in a shipwreck in 1855.\nOn the hour-long journey back, it’s fascinating to see the sheer white cliffs and caves, one of which locals say is the shape of Napoleon’s hat. The boat even goes inside one cave to see a hole to the sky, which is said to be shaped like Corsica. It’s an impressive feat when they turn the boat around to get it out again!\nLocals in Bonifacio say this cave resembles the shape of Napoleon’s hat (Beverley Rouse/PA)\nThere is also a fantastic view of the King of Aragon’s Stairway, 187 steps which were said to have been cut into the cliff by invading soldiers in 1420, although the less dramatic truth is that it was created by locals in a natural rift in the cliff to access drinking water.\nFor those staying longer, Delphine – who has been a tour guide for nine years – recommends a trip to see the spectacular rocky red granite needle-shaped peaks of the Aiguilles de Bavella in the south of the island.\nDelving into history\nWhile we don’t manage that, we do squeeze in a visit to the Aleria Museum (€2/£1.70) where fascinating objects from the history of Corsica include fertility symbols and drinking vessels in the shape of animals’ heads.\nAleria fortress (Thinkstock/PA)\nThe ticket price includes a look around the remains of the ancient town of Aleria, built between the first and second century BC, with parts of the forum, shops, temples and baths visible following excavation.\nWhile relaxing in Corsica’s glorious sunshine may be top of most holidaymakers’ to-do lists, there is plenty to do for anyone who prefers to be out and about.\nThe island’s Mavela whisky distillery – which was launched in Aleria in 1999 to produce its artisan Corsican whisky – is open for tours from May to October, and also produces eau de vie spirits from local crops of chestnuts and myrtle berries.\nA taste of the island\nSome farms which make cheese and yoghurt from sheep and goats’ milk also offer tours and tastings. The cows we see grazing on Corsica during our travels are only kept for meat not milk, Delphine explains.\nThe island also produces essential oil from the scented, yellow, everlasting ‘immortelle’ flowers, which grow wild in the countryside. The oil is used in age-defying skincare by Helios di Corsica, as well as being used by L’Occitane and sold on high streets in the UK.\nCorsica is quite rightly proud of its produce and we end our stay with lunch at Aux Coquillages de Diana, a popular fish and seafood restaurant on stilts at the Etang de Diana in Aleria on the east coast.\nThe produce is caught in the brackish water of the Diana lake shortly before it’s served up to hungry diners (moules marinières with chips €16/£14) in the bustling restaurant with views over the placid water.\nFrench and Italian influences ensure Corsica offers visitors a delicious menu and a unique experience but, while its history is fascinating, it is the island’s modern vibrancy which makes it such an interesting place.\nSo, forget Napoleon brandy and fill your glass with chestnut beer, rosé wine or myrtle liqueur, and enjoy the flavours of Corsica.\nHow to get there\nSunelia Perla di Mare (sunelia.com/en) is open from April to October each year. A lodge (sleeping five) costs from from €378/£335 per week. Fly with Air Corsica (aircorsica.com) from £103 return, from a choice of three airports. For information about the island, visit corsica-pro.com\n© Press Association 2018", "Bobby Brown has some strong thoughts on the controversial Whitney Houston bathroom photo that Kanye West chose for Pusha T's new album, DAYTONA.\n\"Why would he post that on his album cover?\" the former New Edition singer -- who was married to Houston from 1992 to 2007 -- told Rolling Stone on Wednesday. \"That's really disgusting that he would do that. That's in really bad taste.\"\nWest was in hot water over the use of the photo of the late singer's drug-filled bathroom, which was reportedly taken by a family member in 2006 when Houston was supposedly in the depths of her drug addiction. The \"I Will Always Love You\" songstress tragically died on Feb. 11, 2012 in Beverly Hills, California. Her death was attributed to an accidental drowning in a bathtub combined with drug use.\n\"Something should happen to Kanye. He's already crazy. I knew that when I first met him,\" Brown continued. \"Now he's pushing the bar a little bit. He needs somebody to slap him up or something. And I'm just the person to do it.\"\nAs ET previously reported, West -- who produced Pusha T's latest project -- paid $85,000 to obtain the rights to the controversial pic.\nAdditionally, in an exclusive statement to ET, Houston's estate expressed that they are \"extremely disappointed in Kanye's choice\" to use that photo.\n\"Even in Whitney’s death, we see that no one is exempt from the harsh realities of the world,\" the statement said.\nSee more on the controversy in the video below.\nRELATED CONTENT:\nWhitney Houston Estate Responds to Kanye West's Usage of Controversial Bathroom Photo (Exclusive)\nWhitney Houston’s Cousin Says Kanye West Is ‘Absolutely Disgusting’ For Using Bathroom Photo as Album Cover\nKanye West Paid $85K to Put Whitney Houston's Controversial Bathroom Photo on Pusha T's Album\nRelated Gallery", "As US and North Korean tensions have escalated since then, some diplomats predict the 15-member Security Council could soon negotiate on a ninth resolution. (Representative Image: Reuters)\nThe United States could tighten a global economic noose on North Korea by pushing for further United Nations sanctions likely targeting Pyongyang’s textile exports and supplies of oil to the government, diplomats say. The U.N. Security Council unanimously strengthened sanctions on North Korea on Aug. 5 for the eighth time since 2006. But diplomats say about $2 billion more in exports could be blacklisted to cut off funding for Pyongyang’s ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programs. The latest U.N. resolution aimed to slash a third from North Korea’s $3 billion annual exports by banning Pyongyang’s trade in coal, iron, iron ore, lead and seafood.\nAs U.S. and North Korean tensions have escalated since then, some diplomats predict the 15-member Security Council could soon negotiate on a ninth resolution. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Monday vowed to leave “no North Korean source of revenue untouched.”\n“In particular, the U.S. will continue to request Chinese and Russian commitments not to provide the regime with economic lifelines and to persuade it to abandon its dangerous path,” they wrote in the Wall Street Journal.\nChina and Russia typically view only a long-range missile launch or nuclear weapon test as a trigger for possible further U.N. sanctions. A resolution needs nine votes in favor and no vetoes by China, Russia, the United States, France or Britain.\nYou may also like to watch:\n“There probably will be another resolution at some point, sadly,” said a senior Security Council diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity. “We can divide up that $2 billion into other sectors and take another third off by cutting out the textile sector or something else.”\nTextiles were North Korea’s second-biggest export after coal and other minerals in 2016, totaling $752 million, according to data from the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA). Nearly 80 percent of the textile exports went to China, according to Chinese customs data.\nAIRLINE, NORTH KOREAN WORKERS\nOther measures could include a ban on North Korea’s national airline, cutting off oil for the government and military, high seas interdiction of ships and adding top Pyongyang officials to a blacklist to subject them to a global asset freeze and travel ban, diplomats said.\nThe military-controlled airline, Air Koryo, flies to Beijing and a few other cities in China, including Dandong, the main transit point for trade between the two countries. It also flies to Vladivostok in Russia, but flights to Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Kuwait have ended.\nNew sanctions would build on eight previous resolutions ratcheting up action against Pyongyang in response to five nuclear tests, four long-range ballistic missile tests and dozens of medium-range rocket launches.\nA second council diplomat said there are likely to be few surprises for Pyongyang ally China – and Russia – “because this has been done so often” and Washington has foreshadowed possible sanctions targets.\nA November resolution aimed to cut North Korea’s annual export revenue by a quarter – or $800 million – by slashing coal exports by 60 percent and banning the export of copper, nickel, silver, zinc and statues.\nThe August 5 resolution also prohibits countries from increasing the number of North Koreans working abroad. Some diplomats suggested there could be a push for a complete ban on the use of North Korean workers abroad in a future sanctions resolution.\nThe United States and China typically agree on new sanctions before formally involving other council members, though Washington keeps Britain and France in the loop during the process and China talks with Russia.\nWashington and Beijing agreed on the latest U.N. sanctions in a third of the time it took to negotiate the November resolution. The second council diplomat said the measures adopted this month were straightforward, which likely helped accelerate the talks.", "Pusha T’s latest release The Story of Adidon, in a long line of Drake diss tracks, claimed that the Canadian rapper had a secret son with the former porn star Sophie Brussaux who he is not in contact with, called Adonis.\nThe new track was posted on Soundcloud along with an image of Drake in blackface, the image having been originally taken to promote the clothing line Jim Crow Couture by Too Black Guys and was in response to Drake’s Duppy Freestyle.\nPusha was also swept up in a media frenzy ahead of the release of his new album DAYTONA, which caused controversy after Kanye West reportedly paid $85,000 for a photo of the late Whitney Houston’s drug-strewn bathroom to use as the cover. But what is Pusha T’s net worth?\nPusha T’s release The Story of Adidon is the latest in a long line of Drake diss tracks\nWho is Pusha T?\nBorn Terrence LeVarr Thornton on May 13, 1977, in New York City, his foray into music started after he and his brother Gene ‘No Malice’ Thornton formed the duo, Clipse.\nWith support from Pharrell Williams, they released their first album, Exclusive Audio Footage and Pusha T went on to be featured on a number of tracks by the likes of Kelis and Nivea.\nThe two brothers then launched a record label imprint called Re-Up Records and formed a group with Ab-liva and Sandman, referring to themselves as Hell Hath No Fury.\nPusha T then embarked on a solo career, featured on Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and premiered the new track in 2010, with a special performance at the MTV Video Music Awards.\nSeveral releases by Pusha T were leaked and amid speculation about his diss tracks, he performed at Coachella and came out with his debut studio album My Name is My Name in 2013.\nAs President of GOOD Music, he announced that he would be releasing a second album and went on to work with Linkin Park and Gorillaz.\nPusha T's foray into music started when he and Gene ‘No Malice’ Thornton formed Clipse\nDAYTONA\nPusha T’s album DAYTONA follows up King Push, which came out back in 2016 and focuses on a number of cultural figures at the moment such as Trump, Kanye West, Meek Mill, Drake and Kendrick Lamar.\nReleased in May 2018, this album is the first in what is being dubbed as ‘The Summer of Kanye’ as the producer has a number of records which will unveiled in the next few months, including his own.\nHowever, it garnered criticism after Kanye paid $85,000 for the rights to a 2006 picture of Whitney Houston’s drug-strewn bathroom to use as the album cover.\nPusha was also swept up in a media frenzy ahead of the release of his new album DAYTONA\nThe Story of Adidon\nIn Pusha T’s most recent release The Story of Adidon, the rapper took aim at Drake and claimed that he had a secret son with the former porn star Sophie Brussaux. The track was released with a picture of Drake in blackface, which led to many fans criticising the Canadian rapper.\nThe lyrics are: ‘Adonis is your son / And he deserves more than an Adidas press run, that’s real / Love that baby, respect that girl / Forget she’s a pornstar, let her be your world,’ Pusha T rapped.\nIn The Story of Adidon, the rapper claimed that Drake had a secret son with Sophie Brussaux\nPusha T net worth\nPusha T’s net worth has accumulated to approximately $15 million (£11m), according to Celebrity Net Worth.\nHe is thought to have earned $96,000 (£72,000) for his album Hell Hath No Fury, of which 78,000 copies were sold in the first week, $17,000 (£12,800) for Fear of God II: Let Us Pray in 2011 and $163,000 (£123,000) for My Name is My Name.\nAlongside this, the contract he signed with Kanye’s GOOD Music label was valued at $1 million (£753,000) for three albums with Def Jam Records.", "Rates\nOn Friday, global core bonds lost minor ground, as initial losses were largely erased. The failure to take out key US yield support on Thursday and Trump's suggestions that a huge corporate tax package was under preparation, weighed still on core bonds in Asian and to lesser extent in European morning trading. So did higher US import prices. The last down-move lacked conviction though and was the start of a bond recovery. Weaker Michigan consumer confidence helped the recovery. Rising equities and oil prices were ignored. In a daily perspective, the German yield curve steepened with yields varying between -1.6 bps (2-yr) to up +3.4 bps (30-yr). US yields were 0.1 (30-yr) to 2 bps (5-yr) higher. On the EMU bond markets, the peripheral markets' rally was aborted. 10-yr yield spreads versus Germany widened following two days of substantial spread narrowing. Spreads increased 6, 7 and 9 bps for Portugal, Spain and Italy. The French 10-yr yield spread widened again 6 bps, underperforming other semi-core bonds. Greek bonds outperformed with yield spreads narrowing by 117 bps (2-yr) and 43 bps (10-yr) on signals that an agreement between Greece and its creditors has come closer, which would avoid insolvency when €8B of Greek bonds mature in July.\nEco calendar empty today, but busy later this week\nThe EMU economic calendar remains thin and contains the (outdated) December production, Q4 GDP (revision) and the German ZEW economic confidence on Tuesday. In the US, main releases are the PPI on Tuesday, the Empire State manufacturing survey, CPI, retail sales, production and homebuilders' sentiment on Wednesday. On Thursday, housing starts and permits and Philly Fed survey on business sentiment are released.\nUS Fed speakers are plentiful with Lacker, Kaplan , Lockhart, Rosengren and Harker. However, most attention will evidently go to chairwoman Yellen who gives her semi-annual testimony before Congress on Tuesday and Wednesday. We don't expect Fed Chairwoman Yellen to give more information on the outlook for rates. The Fed is firmly in wait-and-see mode, as the lastest Fed statement showed. Yellen doesn't want to stimulate the market in thinking that rates will be raised in March, even as before the February 1 FOMC meeting, we heard some hawkish soundbits coming from the Fed. Yellen probably will only guide market expectations towards higher rates when she gets more clarity on the size, timing and composition of the proposed fiscal stimulus. We suspect that Trump, who promised news on the corporate tax package in the next 2 to 3 weeks, will use his appearance before Congress on February 28 to give more details.\nNew supply from Italy, France and Spain\nThe Italian Treasury kicks off this week's supply with a tap of 5 BTP's for an targeted amount of €10.75B. It taps the 0.05% Oct2019, the 0.7% May2020, the 0.65% Oct 2023, the 5% Aug.2039 and finally the 2.7% Mar 2047 BTP. Italian yields have gone up substantially recently and so have spreads against Germany and swaps (also underperformance on Friday), especially at the longer end of the curve. Italian political uncertainty remains high and the banking sector woes are not resolved yet. 2017 BTP issuance is also up some €40B from 2016. In this context, we are eager to see whether yields/spreads have gone up enough to attract sufficient demand, despite the price concession (also on Friday).\nWill Yellen and US inflation give core bonds direction?\nOvernight, Asia is trading with a mild risk-on bias. The Trump-Abe meeting went well and nothing was said on currencies. Commodities are sharply up, equities trade with modest gains and the US T-Note opened lower. Japanese GDP stats were about neutral, but other stats showed Japanese investors continued to sell US Treasuries (in December). So, the Bund may open on the defensive.\nToday's eco calendar is empty. The BTP auction is interesting (see higher). Given the empty calendar, sentiment and technicals will drive the price action today. In this respect, it looks like the upward corrective rally of Bund and T-Note future ran out of steam at the end of last week and more evidence may come today. More evidence is needed though to firmly state that 164.90 (Bund) and 125-09/16 resistances won't be tested again. This week, investors may be cautious to buy core bonds ahead of Yellen testimony (Tuesday) and US CPI (Wednesday) and maybe even ahead of president Trump announcement on corporate tax, probably when he appears in Congress on February 28. This will tell the markets much about the fate of the reflation trade. Uncertainty about the upcoming elections (Netherlands, France, Italy? Germany) is a Bund supportive factor. However, spreads went already out substantially. So while prices may still go against our bearish view short-term, it only opens opportunities longer term to enter short core bond positions at better levels.\nTechnically, the short term picture of the Bund improved after the break above 162.49/62, with next resistance at 164.90. Longer term, we hold our negative views on both German Bund and US Note future on the back of accelerating growth and inflation. US investors still have to adapt to the Fed's 2017 rate hike scenario (3 hikes) while European investors may face another \"recalibration\" of the ECB's APP in H2 2017.\nDownload The Sunrise Market Commentary", "By Alan Baldwin\nBANBURY, England, March 19 (Reuters) - Britain is on top of the world in Formula One, with Lewis Hamilton beginning his quest for a fifth championship in Australia this weekend, but there is concern at grassroots level.\nWith costs spiralling and some junior kart teams racing on six figure budgets, youngsters hoping to emulate Hamilton's rise from social housing to stardom are being priced out of contention.\nBritain's Motor Sports Association says the number of MSA licence holders in karting -- where future champions learn their craft -- has fallen by 30 percent in the decade since Hamilton made his grand prix debut in 2007.\nLess than 12 percent of the total are under the age of 21.\n\"I don´t think it´s an insurmountable problem but it´s certainly something we need to address quickly,\" David Richards, the former F1 team principal who was appointed chairman of the MSA in January, told Reuters.\n\"Otherwise, where will the next Lewis Hamiltons come from?\n\"So it´s going to be one of our big focuses now over the next couple of years at the MSA, looking at karting and how we can make it more accessible, how we can make it more affordable, how we can stop it becoming too bureaucratic...\"\nRichards, whose Banbury-based Prodrive motorsport and engineering company runs race programmes for manufacturers including Aston Martin, recognised that Britain was still well off compared to other nations.\nThe country has produced a string of top drivers, boasts world-class engineering and most of the Formula One teams are based there.\nRichards was concerned, however, about what could happen five or 10 years down the road.\n\"If there are such big barriers to participation that we can´t get the talent in the first place, that means we don´t get the best people in,\" he said. \"I really do believe that at the grassroots level today, those barriers do exist.\"\nRIDICULOUSLY EXPENSIVE\nSpeaking at the launch of his Mercedes team's W09 car last month, Hamilton doubted it would have been possible for someone from his background, without money or connections, to come through now.\n\"Right now racing is just ridiculously expensive,\" said the 33-year-old.\n\"I think it´s much harder for anyone from a council estate in Stevenage to get to Formula One now. It´s pretty much impossible because you don´t have the money.\"\nRichards suggested electric karts, which can be electronically tuned to ensure they are evenly matched, could be one way to contain costs and level the playing field.\n\"We can look at ways in which we make sure that the karts are all equal and we don´t end up with this ridiculous situation where people are buying 10 engines to find the best one,\" he said.\n\"We can´t have motorsport accessible only to the rich,\" added the businessman. \"This sport has got to be accessible to far more people.\"\nThe former Benetton and BAR F1 team boss, who was also a world rally champion co-driver and whose company ran the Subaru team that won titles in the 1990s, hoped to get more women involved at all levels and saw esport as something to be embraced.\nThe fate of the British grand prix was another concern, with Silverstone hosting the first Formula One championship race in 1950 but its future uncertain after 2019.\nCircuit owners the BRDC have activated a break clause in their contract that means a farewell unless a new deal is struck.\nRichards, who has not been involved in negotiations so far, said the race was a key asset that the country should not let slip -- particularly in the light of impending Brexit.\n\"I think the opportunity to use a flagship event like the grand prix to promote Britain at a time when we need to be promoting ourselves, our engineering expertise and our talent in this country, shouldn´t be lost on government,\" he said.\n\"We will do everything we can as a governing body to try and find a way of retaining it and are looking at the opportunities to do that.\" (Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Pritha Sarkar)" ]

[ "Ethics" ]

[ "medical ethics", "corporate ethics", "Focus", "ethics of war", "Focus World", "Ethics Code", "Deep focus", "focus groups", "focus of infection", "Hospitality ethics", "Ford Focus", "Operation Focus", "ethical and moral principles", "focus light", "ethics of policy", "DIY ethic", "Fashion in Focus", "Focus Features", "ethical egoist", "Sub Focus", "ethics violations", "utilitarianism", "What's Up?", "meta-ethical theories", "What a Friend", "What's Happening!!", "Eusociality", "The Samsung Focus S", "What's in It for Me", "evolution of morality", "things are what they are", "European theology" ]

[ "elephants" ]

[ "What Happened to Us", "the ratio of what is produced to what is used in producing it", "animator", "animation", "Us", ".us", "What's Up?", "What a Friend", "What's Happening!!", "anime", "What's in It for Me", "things are what they are", "What If Nothing", "the US", "What a Life!", "what application should be used to open a file", "This is Us", "What A Night", "What If It's You", "What Are Words", "What Car?", "What You Want Is What You Get", "What Not to Wear", "What You Cache Is What You Get", "what is visible", "Animation Courtyard", "What Part of No", "What So Not", "What If We", "What a Waste", "Ragnarok the Animation", "What Is a Youth" ]

[ "American Marketing Association" ]

[ "The Who by Numbers", "The Firm", "Brooks Nielsen", "rank", "Connie Nielsen", "firm", "Brigitte Nielsen", "Number 1 Angel", "jersey number 1", "Kirstjen Nielsen", "Rick Nielsen", "Reed Nielsen", "Eigil Nielsen", "Jakob Nielsen", "Strawberry Sampler Number 1", "Allan Nielsen", "Who", "Kelsi Nielsen", "Leslie Nielsen", "the Who", "Artie Nielsen", "Ulrich Nielsen", "To market, to market", "Who?", "audit firms", "the firm skull", "The Old Firm", "people who have the highest social rank", "The Nature of the Firm", "firm bumps", "Who Made Who", "Running with the Firm" ]

[ "UPDATE 3-Nestle takes food price rises in its stride\nZURICH, Aug 9 Nestle expects pressure from the rising price of ingredients for its products such as chocolate bars, coffee and soup to ease, helping it meet its target for increasing sales despite tough markets." ]

[ "For the quarter ended March 31, 2018, the Company reported net earnings available to shareholders of $10.8 million, or $0.56 per share compared with net earnings of $9.5 million, or $0.49 per share for the same period last year. Included in the results for the quarter ended March 31, 2018, was a $0.84 per share, or $16.5 million benefit resulting from the Tax Reform Act, excluding this, adjusted losses were ($0.28) per share for the quarter ended March 31, 2018.\n\"Customer demand for our self-moving and self-storage products remains steady,\" stated Joe Shoen, chairman of AMERCO. \"We made progress in managing the sale of our pickups and cargo vans during the quarter but more work remains. We continue to invest in self-storage, the rental fleet and technology for the long-term.\"\nHighlights of Fiscal Year and Fourth Quarter 2018 Results\nThe recently enacted Tax Reform Act resulted in a net benefit to the Company of $355.7 million. We expect our blended GAAP effective tax rate for the twelve months of fiscal 2019 will be approximately 24.3%. During the quarter the Company issued bonuses to all of its team members in response to the enactment of the Tax Reform Act totaling approximately $20.3 million.\nSelf-moving equipment rental revenues increased $31.2 million or 6.7% in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018 compared with the fourth quarter of fiscal 2017, and finished the full year up $116.9 million or 5.0% compared with fiscal 2017. During fiscal 2018 we added to the number of Company operated locations and grew our truck, trailer and towing device fleets. Both In-Town and one-way transactions increased compared with fiscal 2017.\nSelf-storage revenues increased $9.9 million or 13.3% in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018 compared with the fourth quarter of fiscal 2017 and for the full year increased $37.0 million or 12.9% compared with fiscal 2017. The average monthly amount of occupied square feet increased by 10.3% during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018 compared with the same period last year. Over the last twelve months, we have added approximately 3.7 million net rentable square feet to our owned self-storage portfolio. Average monthly occupancy throughout fiscal 2018 for the entire owned storage portfolio was 72%. Of this amount, facilities open for more than three years averaged 84% while facilities open less than three years averaged 39%.\nFor the quarter, depreciation, net of gains and losses on sales increased $21.5 million. Depreciation on the rental equipment fleet increased $10.9 million primarily due to a larger fleet. Losses on the sales of rental trucks increased $4.5 million due to higher cost of units sold combined with lower proceeds per unit on sale. All other depreciation increased $6.1 million from the increase in new moving and storage locations. For the full fiscal year, depreciation, net of gains and losses on sales increased $94.2 million. Depreciation on the rental equipment fleet increased $56.5 million primarily due to a larger fleet. Gains on the sales of rental trucks decreased $20.7 million due to higher cost of units sold with the volume of sales increasing. All other depreciation increased $17.0 million largely from the increase in new moving and storage locations.\nNet gains on the sale of real estate increased $191.8 million. The increase was caused by the sale of a portion of our Chelsea, NY property in the third quarter of fiscal 2018 which resulted in a pre-tax gain of $190.7 million.\nFleet maintenance and repair costs increased $17.9 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018 compared with the same period last year and $72.9 million for the full year of fiscal 2018. Higher repair and maintenance spending was primarily associated with the portion of the fleet nearing resale.\nOperating earnings at our Moving and Storage operating segment decreased $40.1 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018 compared with the same period last year. Total revenues climbed $47.7 million and total costs and expenses increased $87.8 million.\nGross truck and trailer capital expenditures for fiscal 2018 were approximately $1,007 million compared with approximately $1,179 million for fiscal 2017. Proceeds from the sales of rental equipment were approximately $491 million for fiscal 2018 compared with $475 million in fiscal 2017. Spending on real estate related acquisitions and projects increased approximately $123 million to $607 million in fiscal 2018 compared with fiscal 2017.\nCash and credit availability at the Moving and Storage operating segment was $882.0 million at March 31, 2018 compared with $804.7 million at March 31, 2017.\nOn March 8, 2018, we declared a cash dividend on our Common Stock of $0.50 per share to holders of record on March 23, 2018. The dividend was paid on April 6, 2018.\nAMERCO will hold its investor call for fiscal 2018 on Thursday, May 31, 2018, at 8 a.m. Arizona Time (11 a.m. Eastern). The call will be broadcast live over the Internet at www.amerco.com. To hear a simulcast of the call, or a replay, visit www.amerco.com.\nAbout AMERCO\nAMERCO is the parent company of U-Haul International, Inc., Oxford Life Insurance Company, Repwest Insurance Company and Amerco Real Estate Company. U-Haul is in the shared use business and was founded on the fundamental philosophy that the division of use and specialization of ownership is good for both U-Haul customers and the environment.\nCertain of the statements made in this press release regarding our business constitute forward-looking statements as contemplated under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those anticipated as a result of various risks and uncertainties. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements that speak only as of the date hereof. The Company undertakes no obligation to publish revised forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as required by law. For a brief discussion of the risks and uncertainties that may affect AMERCO's business and future operating results, please refer to our Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2018, which is on file with the SEC.\nReport on Business Operations\nListed below on a consolidated basis are revenues for our major product lines for the fourth quarter and the full year of fiscal 2018 and 2017.\nQuarter Ended March 31,\nTwelve Months Ended\nMarch 31,\n2018\n2017\n2018\n2017\n(In thousands) Self-moving equipment rentals $ 494,525 $ 463,314 $ 2,479,742 $ 2,362,833 Self-storage revenues\n84,586\n74,692\n323,903\n286,886 Self-moving and self-storage product and service sales\n56,248\n53,878\n261,557\n253,073 Property management fees\n6,128\n6,025\n29,602\n29,075 Life insurance premiums\n37,793\n40,515\n154,703\n163,579 Property and casualty insurance premiums\n14,166\n12,132\n57,100\n52,334 Net investment and interest income\n27,966\n26,522\n110,473\n102,276 Other revenue\n36,209\n32,358\n184,034\n171,711 Consolidated revenue\n757,621\n709,436\n3,601,114\n3,421,767\nListed below are revenues and earnings from operations at each of our operating segments for the fourth quarter and the full year of fiscal 2018 and 2017.\nQuarter Ended March 31,\nTwelve Months Ended\nMarch 31,\n2018\n2017\n2018\n2017\n(In thousands) Moving and storage\nRevenues 680,445\n632,785\n3,290,667\n3,113,000 Earnings from operations before equity in earnings of subsidiaries (11,121)\n28,995\n711,773\n688,913 Property and casualty insurance\nRevenues 18,867\n15,833\n74,571\n68,986 Earnings from operations 6,760\n5,345\n25,878\n27,161 Life insurance\nRevenues 60,397\n62,149\n243,862\n245,599 Earnings from operations 7,423\n9,760\n27,959\n27,646 Eliminations\nRevenues (2,088)\n(1,331)\n(7,986)\n(5,818) Earnings from operations before equity in earnings of subsidiaries (292)\n(355)\n(1,291)\n(1,457) Consolidated Results\nRevenues 757,621\n709,436\n3,601,114\n3,421,767 Earnings from operations 2,770\n43,745\n764,319\n742,263\nThe Company owns and manages self-storage facilities. Self-storage revenues reported in the consolidated financial statements represent Company-owned locations only. Self-storage data for our owned storage locations follows:\nQuarter Ended March 31,\n2018\n2017\n(In thousands, except occupancy rate) Room count as of March 31\n366\n318 Square footage as of March 31\n30,974\n27,305 Average monthly number of rooms occupied\n249\n226 Average monthly occupancy rate based on room count\n68.9%\n72.2% Average monthly square footage occupied\n22,621\n20,514\nTwelve Months Ended March 31,\n2018\n2017\n(In thousands, except occupancy rate) Room count as of March 31\n366\n318 Square footage as of March 31\n30,974\n27,305 Average monthly number of rooms occupied\n246\n226 Average monthly occupancy rate based on room count\n71.6%\n75.8% Average monthly square footage occupied\n22,203\n20,386\nAMERCO AND CONSOLIDATED ENTITIES CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS\nMarch 31,\nMarch 31,\n2018\n2017\n(Unaudited)\n(In thousands) ASSETS\nCash and cash equivalents $ 759,388 $ 697,806 Reinsurance recoverables and trade receivables, net\n193,538\n178,081 Inventories and parts, net\n89,877\n82,439 Prepaid expenses\n165,692\n124,728 Investments, fixed maturities and marketable equities\n1,919,860\n1,663,768 Investments, other\n399,064\n367,830 Deferred policy acquisition costs, net\n124,767\n130,213 Other assets\n244,782\n97,525 Related party assets\n33,276\n86,168\n3,930,244\n3,428,558 Property, plant and equipment, at cost:\nLand\n827,649\n648,757 Buildings and improvements\n3,140,713\n2,618,265 Furniture and equipment\n632,803\n510,415 Rental trailers and other rental equipment\n545,968\n492,280 Rental trucks\n4,390,750\n4,091,598\n9,537,883\n8,361,315 Less: Accumulated depreciation\n(2,721,142)\n(2,384,033) Total property, plant and equipment\n6,816,741\n5,977,282 Total assets $ 10,746,985 $ 9,405,840 LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY\nLiabilities:\nAccounts payable and accrued expenses $ 510,678 $ 450,541 Notes, loans and leases payable\n3,513,076\n3,262,880 Policy benefits and losses, claims and loss expenses payable\n1,248,033\n1,086,322 Liabilities from investment contracts\n1,364,066\n1,112,498 Other policyholders' funds and liabilities\n10,040\n10,150 Deferred income\n34,276\n28,696 Deferred income taxes\n658,108\n835,009 Total liabilities\n7,338,277\n6,786,096\nCommon stock\n10,497\n10,497 Additional paid-in capital\n452,746\n452,172 Accumulated other comprehensive loss\n(4,623)\n(51,236) Retained earnings\n3,635,561\n2,892,893 Cost of common shares in treasury, net\n(525,653)\n(525,653) Cost of preferred shares in treasury, net\n(151,997)\n(151,997) Unearned employee stock ownership plan shares\n(7,823)\n(6,932) Total stockholders' equity\n3,408,708\n2,619,744 Total liabilities and stockholders' equity $ 10,746,985 $ 9,405,840\nAMERCO AND CONSOLIDATED ENTITIES CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS\nQuarter Ended March 31,\n2018\n2017\n(In thousands, except share and per share data) Revenues:\nSelf-moving equipment rentals $ 494,525 $ 463,314 Self-storage revenues\n84,586\n74,692 Self-moving and self-storage products and service sales\n56,248\n53,878 Property management fees\n6,128\n6,025 Life insurance premiums\n37,793\n40,515 Property and casualty insurance premiums\n14,166\n12,132 Net investment and interest income\n27,966\n26,522 Other revenue\n36,209\n32,358 Total revenues\n757,621\n709,436\nCosts and expenses:\nOperating expenses\n460,506\n395,436 Commission expenses\n54,502\n51,900 Cost of sales\n36,033\n35,634 Benefits and losses\n45,314\n43,468 Amortization of deferred policy acquisition costs\n6,297\n7,087 Lease expense\n8,683\n8,139 Depreciation, net of gains on disposals\n146,707\n125,240 Net gains on disposal of real estate\n(3,191)\n(1,213) Total costs and expenses\n754,851\n665,691\nEarnings from operations\n2,770\n43,745 Interest expense\n(32,780)\n(30,209) Pretax earnings (losses)\n(30,010)\n13,536 Income tax benefit (expense)\n40,853\n(3,988) Earnings available to common shareholders $ 10,843 $ 9,548 Basic and diluted earnings per common share $ 0.56 $ 0.49 Weighted average common shares outstanding: Basic and diluted\n19,589,871\n19,587,204\nAMERCO AND CONSOLIDATED ENTITIES CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS\nTwelve Months Ended March 31,\n2018\n2017\n(In thousands, except share and per share data) Revenues:\nSelf-moving equipment rentals $ 2,479,742 $ 2,362,833 Self-storage revenues\n323,903\n286,886 Self-moving and self-storage products and service sales\n261,557\n253,073 Property management fees\n29,602\n29,075 Life insurance premiums\n154,703\n163,579 Property and casualty insurance premiums\n57,100\n52,334 Net investment and interest income\n110,473\n102,276 Other revenue\n184,034\n171,711 Total revenues\n3,601,114\n3,421,767\nCosts and expenses:\nOperating expenses\n1,807,983\n1,568,083 Commission expenses\n276,705\n267,230 Cost of sales\n160,489\n152,485 Benefits and losses\n185,311\n182,710 Amortization of deferred policy acquisition costs\n24,514\n26,218 Lease expense\n33,960\n37,343 Depreciation, net of gains on disposals\n543,247\n449,025 Net gains on disposal of real estate\n(195,414)\n(3,590) Total costs and expenses\n2,836,795\n2,679,504\nEarnings from operations\n764,319\n742,263 Interest expense\n(126,706)\n(113,406) Amortization on early extinguishment of debt\n-\n(499) Pretax earnings\n637,613\n628,358 Income tax benefit (expense)\n152,970\n(229,934) Earnings available to common shareholders $ 790,583 $ 398,424 Basic and diluted earnings per common share $ 40.36 $ 20.34 Weighted average common shares outstanding: Basic and diluted\n19,588,889\n19,586,606\nNON-GAAP FINANCIAL RECONCILIATION SCHEDULE\nYear Ended\nMarch 31, 2018\n(In thousands, except share and per share amounts)\nAMERCO and Consolidated Subsidiaries\nEarnings per common share: basic and diluted $ 40.36 Gain on sale of Chelsea property, per common share basic and diluted\n(7.34) Earnings per common share: basic and diluted before gain on sale of Chelsea property $ 33.02\nGain on sale of Chelsea property $ 190,712 Income tax expense\n(46,915) Gain on sale of Chelsea property, net of taxes $ 143,797 Gain on sale of Chelsea property, net of taxes, per common share basic and diluted $ 7.34 Weighted average shares outstanding: basic and diluted\n19,588,889\nYear Ended\nMarch 31, 2018\n(In thousands, except share and per share amounts)\nAMERCO and Consolidated Subsidiaries\nEarnings per common share: basic and diluted $ 40.36 Tax Reform Act adjustment, per common share basic and diluted\n(18.16) Earnings per common share: basic and diluted before Tax Reform Act adjustment $ 22.20\nTax Reform Act adjustment $ 355,748 Tax Reform Act adjustment, per common share basic and diluted $ 18.16 Weighted average shares outstanding: basic and diluted\n19,588,889\nQuarter Ended\nMarch 31, 2018\n(In thousands, except share and per share amounts)\nAMERCO and Consolidated Subsidiaries\nEarnings per common share: basic and diluted $ 0.56 Tax Reform Act adjustment, per common share basic and diluted\n(0.84) Losses per common share: basic and diluted before Tax Reform Act adjustment $ (0.28)\nTax Reform Act adjustment $ 16,527 Tax Reform Act adjustment, per common share basic and diluted $ 0.84 Weighted average shares outstanding: basic and diluted\n19,589,871\nYear Ended\nMarch 31, 2017\n(In thousands, except share and per share amounts)\nAMERCO and Consolidated Subsidiaries\nEarnings per common share: basic and diluted $ 20.34 PEI litigation accrual reduction, net of taxes, per common share basic and diluted\n(0.79) Earnings per common share: basic and diluted before PEI litigation accrual reduction $ 19.55\nPEI litigation accrual reduction $ 24,600 Income tax benefit\n(9,053) PEI litigation accrual reduction, net of taxes $ 15,547 PEI litigation accrual reduction, net of taxes, per common share basic and diluted $ 0.79 Weighted average shares outstanding: basic and diluted\n19,586,606\nView original content:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/amerco-reports-fiscal-2018-financial-results-300656878.html\nSOURCE AMERCO\nRelated Links\nhttp://www.amerco.com", "\"We're very pleased to report first quarter 2018 net income growth of $2.7 million and diluted EPS growth of $0.18 per share over the same period last year,\" said Gregory A. Dufour, President and Chief Executive Officer of Camden National. \"In the first quarter, we saw the benefit of the lower federal corporate income tax rate, which we estimate contributed $0.12 per diluted share to earnings for the first three months of 2018. Our strong first quarter results also reflect revenue2 growth of $1.3 million and improved asset quality over the past year. Through our ongoing efforts, we were able to favorably resolve one large loan relationship that drove a negative credit loss provision for the first quarter of 2018. We are fortunate to have a highly experienced credit team that is focused on maximizing potential recoveries and protecting the Company's assets.\"\nFIRST QUARTER 2018 FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS\nNet income for the first quarter of 2018 increased 27% to $12.8 million over the first quarter of 2017.\nTotal loans at March 31, 2018 of $2.8 billion increased 5% over March 31, 2017 and low-cost deposits 3 of $2.3 billion at March 31, 2018 increased 8% over the same period.\nFirst quarter 2018 efficiency ratio was 58.76%, compared to 58.00% for the first quarter of 2017.\nNon-performing assets to total assets ratio was 0.47% at March 31, 2018 , compared to 0.50% at December 31, 2017 and 0.68% at March 31, 2017 .\n_____________________________________________________________________________\n1 This is a non-GAAP measure. Please refer to \"Reconciliation of non-GAAP to GAAP Financial Measures\" for further details. 2 Revenue is the sum of net interest income and non-interest income. 3 Low-cost deposits include demand, interest checking, savings and money market.\nFINANCIAL CONDITION\nTotal assets of $4.1 billion at March 31, 2018 increased 4% over March 31, 2017. Year over year, total loans increased $144.0 million, or 5%, to $2.8 billion driven by commercial loan growth of 8%, commercial real estate loan growth of 7% and residential real estate loan growth of 5%. The consumer and home equity loan portfolio over the same time period remained relatively flat.\nThe Company sold $47.1 million, or 55% of its residential mortgage production in the first quarter of 2018 and sold $231.5 million, or 55%, over the last 12-months.\nTotal deposits at March 31, 2018 grew $88.4 million, or 3%, to $3.0 billion over March 31, 2017 led by low-cost deposit growth of $178.3 million, or 8%, while borrowings increased $65.4 million, or 12%, over the same period. Average deposits (excluding brokered deposits) for the first three months of 2018 were $2.7 billion, representing an increase of $194.2 million, or 8%, over the same period last year, which was driven by average low-cost deposit growth of 9%.\nAt March 31, 2018, our loan-to-deposit ratio was 92%, compared to 90% at March 31, 2017.\nThe Company's capital position remained strong at March 31, 2018 with a total risk-based capital ratio of 14.32%, well in excess of regulatory requirements, and a tangible common equity ratio1 of 7.59%.\nASSET QUALITY\nThe Company maintained strong asset quality across its loan portfolio throughout the first quarter of 2018 with non-performing loans to total loans of 0.69% at March 31, 2018, compared to 0.99% at March 31, 2017. Asset quality improvement over the past year led to a decrease in provision for credit losses of $1.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2018 compared to the same period last year.\nFor the three months ended March 31, 2018, a negative credit loss provision of $497,000 was recognized primarily due to the favorable resolution of a large commercial real estate loan that was on non-accrual and credit quality improvement across our loan portfolio, which drove a 5 basis point decrease in the allowance for loan losses to total loans ratio since December 31, 2017.\nOPERATING RESULTS\nNet income for the first quarter of 2018 was $12.8 million, representing an increase over the first quarter of 2017 of $2.7 million, or 27%. The growth in net income between periods was driven by:\nA decrease in income tax expense of $1.3 million primarily due to a decrease in the Company's effective income tax rate as the federal corporate income tax rate was reduced under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (\"Tax Act\"), which went into effect in 2018.\nA decrease in provision for credit losses of $1.1 million resulting from strong asset quality.\nAn increase in net interest income of $1.0 million , or 4%, driven by an increase in average loans of $156.4 million , or 6%, and an increase in average deposits of $194.2 million , or 8%.\nNet interest margin on a fully-taxable equivalent basis, excluding loan and CD fair value mark accretion income and collection of previously charged-off loans, decreased 2 basis points to 3.04% for the first quarter of 2018, compared to the first quarter of 2017. The decrease between periods was due to the lower federal corporate income tax rate, effective January 1, 2018 .\nAn increase in non-interest income of $232,000 , or 3%\nPartially offset by an increase in non-interest expense of $876,000 , or 4%, due to (i) normal merit increases and continued wage inflation, an increase in headcount, and other personnel-related expenses; (ii) an increase in data processing costs due to recent technology investments and advancements over the past year; and (iii) an increase in recruiting, training, donation and marketing costs.\n_____________________________________________________________________________\n1 This is a non-GAAP measure. Please refer to \"Reconciliation of non-GAAP to GAAP Financial Measures\" for further details.\nFIRST QUARTER 2018 DIVIDEND\nThe Company declared a first quarter 2018 dividend of $0.25 per share, payable on April 30, 2018, to shareholders of record as of April 13, 2018. This distribution represents an annualized dividend yield of 2.25%, based on the March 29, 2018 (last business day) closing price of Camden National's common stock at $44.50 per share as reported by NASDAQ.\nANNUAL MEETING\nCamden National has scheduled its annual meeting of shareholders for Tuesday, April 24, 2018, at 3:00 p.m. local time, at Point Lookout Resort and Conference Center, 67 Atlantic Highway, Northport, Maine 04849. The date for determining the Company's shareholders of record for the annual meeting was February 23, 2018.\nCONFERENCE CALL\nCamden National will host a conference call and webcast at 1:00 p.m., Eastern time, on Tuesday, April 24, 2018 to discuss its first quarter 2018 financial results and outlook. Participants should dial in to the call 10 - 15 minutes before it begins. Information about the conference call is as follows:\nLive dial-in (domestic): (888) 349-0139 Live dial-in (international): (412) 542-4154 Live webcast: http://services.choruscall.com/links/cac180424.html\nA link to the live webcast will be available on Camden National's website under \"Investor Relations\" at www.CamdenNational.com prior to the meeting, and a replay of the webcast will be available on Camden National's website following the conference call. The transcript of the conference call will also be available on Camden National's website approximately two days after the conference call.\nABOUT CAMDEN NATIONAL CORPORATION\nCamden National Corporation (NASDAQ: CAC), headquartered in Camden, Maine, is the largest publicly traded bank holding company in Northern New England with $4.1 billion in assets and nearly 650 employees. Camden National Bank, its subsidiary, is a full-service community bank founded in 1875 that offers an array of consumer and business financial products and services, accompanied by the latest in digital banking technology to empower customers to bank the way they want. The Bank provides personalized service through a network of 60 banking centers, 74 ATMs, and lending offices in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, all complemented by 24/7 live phone support. This year marks the 8th time Camden National Bank has received the \"Lender at Work for Maine\" Award from the Finance Authority of Maine. Comprehensive wealth management, investment, and financial planning services are delivered by Camden National Wealth Management. To learn more, visit www.CamdenNational.com . Member FDIC.\nFORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS\nCertain statements contained in this press release that are not statements of historical fact constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including certain plans, expectations, goals, projections and other statements, which are subject to numerous risks, assumptions and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements can be identified by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts. They often include words like \"believe,\" \"expect,\" \"anticipate,\" \"estimate,\" and \"intend\" or future or conditional verbs such as \"will,\" \"would,\" \"should,\" \"could\" or \"may.\" Certain factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from expected results include increased competitive pressures, changes in the interest rate environment, changes in general economic conditions, operational risks including, but not limited to, cybersecurity, fraud and natural disasters, legislative and regulatory changes that adversely affect the business in which Camden National is engaged, changes in the securities markets and other risks and uncertainties disclosed from time to time in in Camden National's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017, as updated by other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (\"SEC\"). Camden National does not have any obligation to update forward-looking statements.\nUSE OF NON-GAAP MEASURES\nIn addition to evaluating the Company's results of operations in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (\"GAAP\"), management supplements this evaluation with certain non-GAAP financial measures, such as adjusted net income, adjusted diluted EPS, adjusted return on average assets, adjusted return on average equity and average tangible equity; the efficiency and tangible common equity ratios; and tangible book value per share. Management utilizes these non-GAAP financial measures for purposes of measuring our performance against our peer group and other financial institutions and analyzing our internal performance. We also believe these non-GAAP financial measures help investors better understand the Company's operating performance and trends and allow for better performance comparisons to other financial institutions. In addition, these non-GAAP financial measures remove the impact of unusual items that may obscure trends in the Company's underlying performance. These disclosures should not be viewed as a substitute for GAAP operating results, nor are they necessarily comparable to non-GAAP performance measures that may be presented by other financial institutions. Reconciliation to the comparable GAAP financial measure can be found in this document.\nANNUALIZED DATA\nCertain returns, yields and performance ratios are presented on an \"annualized\" basis. This is done for analytical and decision-making purposes to better discern underlying performance trends when compared to full-year or year-over-year amounts.\nSelected Financial Data (unaudited)\nAt or For The Three Months Ended (In thousands, except number of shares and per share data)\nMarch 31,\n2018\nDecember 31,\n2017\nMarch 31,\n2017 Financial Condition Data\nInvestments\n$ 913,653\n$ 907,642\n$ 943,061\nLoans and loans held for sale\n2,798,696\n2,790,542\n2,650,818\nAllowance for loan losses\n22,990\n24,171\n23,721\nTotal assets\n4,113,185\n4,065,398\n3,938,465\nDeposits\n3,025,580\n3,000,491\n2,937,183\nBorrowings\n622,347\n611,498\n556,922\nShareholders' equity\n404,055\n403,413\n397,827\nOperating Data\nNet interest income\n$ 28,902\n$ 29,659\n$ 27,855\n(Credit) provision for credit losses\n(497)\n238\n579\nNon-interest income\n8,804\n9,840\n8,572\nNon-interest expense\n22,304\n23,099\n21,428\nIncome before income tax expense\n15,899\n16,162\n14,420\nIncome tax expense\n3,079\n19,335\n4,344\nNet income (loss)\n$ 12,820\n$ (3,173)\n$ 10,076\nKey Ratios\nReturn on average assets\n1.28 %\n(0.31) %\n1.05 % Return on average equity\n12.91 %\n(3.02) %\n10.36 % Net interest margin\n3.10 %\n3.20 %\n3.15 % Non-performing loans to total loans\n0.69 %\n0.73 %\n0.99 % Non-performing assets to total assets\n0.47 %\n0.50 %\n0.68 % Annualized net charge-offs to average loans\n0.10 %\n0.07 %\n0.00 % Tier I leverage capital ratio\n9.23 %\n9.07 %\n8.90 % Total risk-based capital ratio\n14.32 %\n14.14 %\n14.05 % Per Share Data\nBasic earnings per share\n$ 0.82\n$ (0.20)\n$ 0.65\nDiluted earnings per share\n$ 0.82\n$ (0.20)\n$ 0.64\nCash dividends declared per share\n$ 0.25\n$ 0.25\n$ 0.23\nBook value per share\n$ 25.96\n$ 25.99\n$ 25.65\nWeighted average number of common shares outstanding\n15,541,975\n15,521,447\n15,488,848\nDiluted weighted average number of common shares outstanding\n15,603,380\n15,521,447\n15,568,639\nNon-GAAP Measures(1)\nAdjusted net income\n$ 12,820\n$ 11,090\n$ 10,076\nAdjusted return on average assets\n1.28 %\n1.09 %\n1.05 % Adjusted return on average equity\n12.91 %\n10.56 %\n10.36 % Adjusted return on average tangible equity\n17.35 %\n14.20 %\n14.37 % Tangible common equity ratio\n7.59 %\n7.66 %\n7.74 % Tangible book value per share\n$ 19.57\n$ 19.57\n$ 19.14\nAdjusted diluted earnings per share\n$ 0.82\n$ 0.71\n$ 0.64\nEfficiency ratio\n58.76 %\n57.75 %\n58.00 %\n(1) Please see \"Reconciliation of non-GAAP to GAAP Financial Measures (unaudited).\"\nConsolidated Statements of Condition Data (unaudited)\n(In thousands, except number of shares)\nMarch 31,\n2018\nDecember 31,\n2017\nMarch 31,\n2017 ASSETS\nCash and due from banks\n$ 48,159\n$ 44,057\n$ 43,634\nInterest-bearing deposits in other banks\n76,950\n58,914\n34,461\nTotal cash and cash equivalents\n125,109\n102,971\n78,095\nInvestments:\nAvailable-for-sale debt securities, at fair value\n796,687\n789,093\n822,465\nHeld-to-maturity debt securities, at amortized cost (fair value of $91.9 million, $94.9\nmillion and $94.3 million, respectively)\n93,192\n94,073\n94,474\nOther investments\n23,774\n24,476\n26,122\nTotal investments\n913,653\n907,642\n943,061\nLoans held for sale, at fair value\n9,548\n8,103\n5,679\nLoans:\nResidential real estate\n860,533\n858,369\n819,639\nCommercial real estate\n1,169,533\n1,164,023\n1,096,475\nCommercial(1)\n420,429\n418,520\n389,530\nConsumer and home equity\n338,653\n341,527\n339,495\nTotal loans\n2,789,148\n2,782,439\n2,645,139\nLess: allowance for loan losses\n(22,990)\n(24,171)\n(23,721)\nNet loans\n2,766,158\n2,758,268\n2,621,418\nGoodwill\n94,697\n94,697\n94,697\nOther intangible assets\n4,774\n4,955\n6,292\nBank-owned life insurance\n88,097\n87,489\n78,697\nPremises and equipment, net\n41,545\n41,891\n42,100\nDeferred tax assets\n23,181\n22,776\n37,278\nOther assets\n46,423\n36,606\n31,148\nTotal assets\n$ 4,113,185\n$ 4,065,398\n$ 3,938,465\nLIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY\nLiabilities\nDeposits:\nDemand\n$ 463,496\n$ 478,643\n$ 387,173\nInterest checking\n840,054\n855,570\n767,521\nSavings and money market\n1,005,329\n985,508\n975,856\nCertificates of deposit\n471,155\n475,010\n458,069\nBrokered deposits\n245,546\n205,760\n348,564\nTotal deposits\n3,025,580\n3,000,491\n2,937,183\nShort-term borrowings\n552,624\n541,796\n487,287\nLong-term borrowings\n10,773\n10,791\n10,841\nSubordinated debentures\n58,950\n58,911\n58,794\nAccrued interest and other liabilities\n61,203\n49,996\n46,533\nTotal liabilities\n3,709,130\n3,661,985\n3,540,638\nShareholders' equity\n404,055\n403,413\n397,827\nTotal liabilities and shareholders' equity\n$ 4,113,185\n$ 4,065,398\n$ 3,938,465\n(1) Includes the Healthcare Professional Funding Corporation (\"HPFC\") loan portfolio.\nConsolidated Statements of Income Data (unaudited)\nFor The Three Months Ended (In thousands, except per share data)\nMarch 31,\n2018\nDecember 31, 2017\nMarch 31, 2017 Interest Income\nInterest and fees on loans\n$ 29,834\n$ 29,728\n$ 27,062\nInterest on U.S. government and sponsored enterprise obligations (taxable)\n4,225\n4,091\n4,256\nInterest on state and political subdivision obligations (nontaxable)\n672\n685\n702\nInterest on deposits in other banks and other investments\n547\n536\n394\nTotal interest income\n35,278\n35,040\n32,414\nInterest Expense\nInterest on deposits\n3,749\n3,243\n2,554\nInterest on borrowings\n1,780\n1,283\n1,161\nInterest on subordinated debentures\n847\n855\n844\nTotal interest expense\n6,376\n5,381\n4,559\nNet interest income\n28,902\n29,659\n27,855\n(Credit) provision for credit losses\n(497)\n238\n579\nNet interest income after (credit) provision for credit losses\n29,399\n29,421\n27,276\nNon-Interest Income\nDebit card income\n1,929\n2,192\n1,834\nService charges on deposit accounts\n1,836\n1,897\n1,823\nMortgage banking income, net\n1,391\n1,797\n1,553\nIncome from fiduciary services\n1,283\n1,277\n1,247\nBrokerage and insurance commissions\n650\n546\n453\nBank-owned life insurance\n608\n620\n577\nOther service charges and fees\n462\n471\n468\nNet gain on sale of securities\n—\n28\n—\nOther income\n645\n1,012\n617\nTotal non-interest income\n8,804\n9,840\n8,572\nNon-Interest Expense\nSalaries and employee benefits\n12,562\n12,866\n11,933\nFurniture, equipment and data processing\n2,586\n2,690\n2,325\nNet occupancy costs\n1,873\n1,650\n1,946\nConsulting and professional fees\n804\n706\n845\nDebit card expense\n730\n721\n660\nRegulatory assessments\n499\n559\n545\nAmortization of intangible assets\n181\n392\n472\nOther real estate owned and collection costs (recoveries), net\n75\n413\n(44)\nOther expenses\n2,994\n3,102\n2,746\nTotal non-interest expense\n22,304\n23,099\n21,428\nIncome before income tax expense\n15,899\n16,162\n14,420\nIncome tax expense\n3,079\n19,335\n4,344\nNet Income (Loss)\n$ 12,820\n$ (3,173)\n$ 10,076\nPer Share Data\nBasic earnings per share\n$ 0.82\n$ (0.20)\n$ 0.65\nDiluted earnings per share\n$ 0.82\n$ (0.20)\n$ 0.64\nQuarterly Average Balance and Yield/Rate Analysis (unaudited)\nFor The Three Months Ended\nAverage Balance\nYield/Rate (In thousands)\nMarch 31,\n2018\nDecember 31, 2017\nMarch 31, 2017\nMarch 31,\n2018\nDecember 31, 2017\nMarch 31, 2017 Assets\nInterest-earning assets:\nInterest-bearing deposits in other banks(1)\n$ 52,510\n$ 51,020\n$ 34,529\n1.40 %\n1.08 %\n0.69 % Securities - taxable\n826,529\n811,006\n833,162\n2.22 %\n2.21 %\n2.20 % Securities - nontaxable(2)\n99,560\n101,371\n102,928\n3.42 %\n4.16 %\n4.20 % Loans(3)(4):\nResidential real estate\n860,783\n861,658\n814,626\n4.12 %\n4.15 %\n4.10 % Commercial real estate\n1,171,598\n1,153,842\n1,076,788\n4.20 %\n4.15 %\n3.93 % Commercial(2)\n349,963\n343,921\n319,556\n4.27 %\n4.12 %\n4.09 % Municipal(2)\n17,277\n18,442\n16,071\n3.33 %\n3.73 %\n3.39 % Consumer and home equity\n341,078\n343,942\n342,775\n4.76 %\n4.54 %\n4.33 % HPFC\n43,757\n46,565\n58,252\n7.99 %\n8.14 %\n8.34 % Total loans\n2,784,456\n2,768,370\n2,628,068\n4.30 %\n4.26 %\n4.15 % Total interest-earning assets(1)\n3,763,055\n3,731,767\n3,598,687\n3.78 %\n3.77 %\n3.67 % Other assets\n292,312\n307,329\n305,155\nTotal assets\n$ 4,055,367\n$ 4,039,096\n$ 3,903,842\nLiabilities & Shareholders' Equity\nDeposits:\nDemand\n$ 452,629\n$ 486,753\n$ 391,671\n— %\n— %\n— % Interest checking\n833,410\n824,247\n716,940\n0.38 %\n0.28 %\n0.15 % Savings\n493,660\n497,929\n489,041\n0.06 %\n0.06 %\n0.06 % Money market\n487,685\n489,426\n483,914\n0.66 %\n0.58 %\n0.45 % Certificates of deposit(4)\n472,213\n490,779\n463,786\n1.00 %\n0.90 %\n0.88 % Total deposits\n2,739,597\n2,789,134\n2,545,352\n0.42 %\n0.36 %\n0.30 % Borrowings:\nBrokered deposits\n238,870\n217,328\n308,594\n1.59 %\n1.35 %\n0.87 % Customer repurchase agreements\n237,056\n254,529\n221,590\n0.72 %\n0.50 %\n0.32 % Subordinated debentures\n58,930\n58,892\n58,775\n5.83 %\n5.76 %\n5.83 % Other borrowings\n328,141\n257,420\n330,918\n1.68 %\n1.48 %\n1.21 % Total borrowings\n862,997\n788,169\n919,877\n1.68 %\n1.45 %\n1.18 % Total funding liabilities\n3,602,594\n3,577,303\n3,465,229\n0.72 %\n0.60 %\n0.53 % Other liabilities\n50,147\n44,979\n44,337\nShareholders' equity\n402,626\n416,814\n394,276\nTotal liabilities & Shareholders' Equity\n$ 4,055,367\n$ 4,039,096\n$ 3,903,842\nNet interest rate spread (fully-taxable equivalent)(1)\n3.06 %\n3.17 %\n3.14 % Net interest margin (fully-taxable equivalent)(1)\n3.10 %\n3.20 %\n3.15 % Net interest margin (fully-taxable equivalent), excluding fair value mark accretion and collection of previously charged-off acquired loans(1)(4)\n3.04 %\n3.12 %\n3.06 %\n(1) Prior periods were revised to include average interest-bearing deposits in other banks in total average interest-earning assets. Previously, average\ninterest-bearing deposits in other banks was presented in other assets. (2) Reported on a tax-equivalent basis using the corporate federal income tax rate in effect for the period, including certain commercial loans. (3) Non-accrual loans and loans held for sale are included in total average loans. (4) Excludes the impact of the fair value mark accretion on loans and certificates of deposit generated in purchase accounting and collection of\npreviously charged-off acquired loans for the three months ended March 31, 2018, December 31, 2017 and March 31, 2017 totaling $558,000,\n$689,000 and $804,000, respectively.\nAsset Quality Data (unaudited)\n(In thousands)\nAt or For The\nThree Months Ended\nMarch 31, 2018\nAt or For The\nYear Ended\nDecember 31, 2017\nAt or For The\nNine Months Ended\nSeptember 30, 2017\nAt or For The\nSix Months Ended\nJune 30, 2017\nAt or For The\nThree Months Ended\nMarch 31, 2017 Non-accrual loans:\nResidential real estate\n$ 6,185\n$ 4,979\n$ 4,465\n$ 4,890\n$ 4,105\nCommercial real estate\n4,603\n5,642\n5,887\n16,291\n12,858\nCommercial\n1,991\n2,000\n1,830\n2,056\n1,994\nConsumer\n1,464\n1,650\n1,626\n1,371\n1,552\nHPFC\n655\n1,043\n838\n1,083\n1,014\nTotal non-accrual loans\n14,898\n15,314\n14,646\n25,691\n21,523\nLoans 90 days past due and accruing\n—\n—\n—\n76\n—\nAccruing troubled-debt restructured loans not\nincluded above\n4,361\n5,012\n5,154\n4,809\n4,558\nTotal non-performing loans\n19,259\n20,326\n19,800\n30,576\n26,081\nOther real estate owned\n130\n130\n341\n341\n621\nTotal non-performing assets\n$ 19,389\n$ 20,456\n$ 20,141\n$ 30,917\n$ 26,702\nLoans 30-89 days past due:\nResidential real estate\n$ 2,777\n$ 5,277\n$ 3,169\n$ 3,020\n$ 2,379\nCommercial real estate\n1,121\n1,135\n2,297\n3,442\n2,531\nCommercial\n243\n518\n712\n269\n168\nConsumer\n1,190\n1,197\n1,256\n1,378\n1,008\nHPFC\n528\n887\n938\n639\n777\nTotal loans 30-89 days past due\n$ 5,859\n$ 9,014\n$ 8,372\n$ 8,748\n$ 6,863\nAllowance for loan losses at the beginning of the\nperiod\n$ 24,171\n$ 23,116\n$ 23,116\n$ 23,116\n$ 23,116\n(Credit) provision for loan losses\n(500)\n3,026\n2,786\n1,984\n581\nCharge-offs:\nResidential real estate\n31\n482\n433\n195\n5\nCommercial real estate\n426\n124\n81\n12\n3\nCommercial\n171\n1,014\n650\n281\n136\nConsumer\n175\n558\n493\n454\n15\nHPFC\n—\n290\n274\n81\n—\nTotal charge-offs\n803\n2,468\n1,931\n1,023\n159\nTotal recoveries\n(122)\n(497)\n(442)\n(317)\n(183)\nNet charge-offs (recoveries)\n681\n1,971\n1,489\n706\n(24)\nAllowance for loan losses at the end of the\nperiod\n$ 22,990\n$ 24,171\n$ 24,413\n$ 24,394\n$ 23,721\nComponents of allowance for credit losses:\nAllowance for loan losses\n$ 22,990\n$ 24,171\n$ 24,413\n$ 24,394\n$ 23,721\nLiability for unfunded credit commitments\n23\n20\n22\n7\n9\nAllowance for credit losses\n$ 23,013\n$ 24,191\n$ 24,435\n$ 24,401\n$ 23,730\nRatios:\nNon-performing loans to total loans\n0.69 %\n0.73 %\n0.72 %\n1.12 %\n0.99 % Non-performing assets to total assets\n0.47 %\n0.50 %\n0.50 %\n0.77 %\n0.68 % Allowance for loan losses to total loans\n0.82 %\n0.87 %\n0.89 %\n0.89 %\n0.90 % Net charge-offs to average loans (annualized):\nQuarter-to-date\n0.10 %\n0.07 %\n0.11 %\n0.11 %\n— % Year-to-date\n0.10 %\n0.07 %\n0.07 %\n0.05 %\n— % Allowance for loan losses to non-performing loans\n119.37 %\n118.92 %\n123.30 %\n79.78 %\n90.95 % Loans 30-89 days past due to total loans\n0.21 %\n0.32 %\n0.30 %\n0.32 %\n0.26 %\nReconciliation of non-GAAP to GAAP Financial Measures (unaudited)\nAdjusted Net Income; Adjusted Diluted EPS; and Adjusted Return on Average Assets:\nFor the\nThree Months Ended (In thousands, except per share data)\nMarch 31, 2018\nDecember 31, 2017\nMarch 31, 2017 Adjusted Net Income:\nNet income (loss), as presented\n$ 12,820\n$ (3,173)\n$ 10,076\nAdd: impact of the revaluation of deferred tax assets and liabilities due to the\nTax Act\n—\n14,263\n—\nAdjusted net income\n$ 12,820\n$ 11,090\n$ 10,076\nAdjusted Diluted EPS:\nDiluted EPS, as presented\n$ 0.82\n$ (0.20)\n$ 0.64\nAdd: impact of the revaluation of deferred tax assets and liabilities due to the\nTax Act\n—\n0.91\n—\nAdjusted diluted EPS\n$ 0.82\n$ 0.71\n$ 0.64\nAdjusted Return on Average Assets:\nReturn on average assets, as presented\n1.28 %\n(0.31) %\n1.05 % Add: impact of the revaluation of deferred tax assets and liabilities due to the\nTax Act\n— %\n1.40 %\n— % Adjusted return on average assets\n1.28 %\n1.09 %\n1.05 %\nAdjusted Return on Average Tangible Equity and Adjusted Return on Average Equity:\nFor the\nThree Months Ended (In thousands)\nMarch 31, 2018\nDecember 31, 2017\nMarch 31, 2017 Net income (loss), as presented\n$ 12,820\n$ (3,173)\n$ 10,076\nAdd: impact of the revaluation of deferred tax assets and liabilities due to the\nTax Act\n—\n14,263\n—\nAdjusted net income\n12,820\n11,090\n10,076\nAdd: amortization of intangible assets, net of tax(1)\n143\n255\n307\nAdjusted tangible net income\n$ 12,963\n$ 11,345\n$ 10,383\nAverage equity\n$ 402,626\n$ 416,814\n$ 394,276\nLess: average goodwill and other intangible assets\n(99,568)\n(99,823)\n(101,229)\nAverage tangible equity\n$ 303,058\n$ 316,991\n$ 293,047\nAdjusted return on average tangible equity\n17.35 %\n14.20 %\n14.37 % Adjusted return on average equity\n12.91 %\n10.56 %\n10.36 % Return on average equity\n12.91 %\n(3.02) %\n10.36 %\n(1) Reported on a tax-equivalent basis using the corporate federal income tax rate in effect for the period.\nEfficiency Ratio:\nFor the Three Months Ended (In thousands)\nMarch 31,\n2018\nDecember 31,\n2017\nMarch 31,\n2017 Non-interest expense, as presented\n$ 22,304\n$ 23,099\n$ 21,428\nNet interest income, as presented\n$ 28,902\n$ 29,659\n$ 27,855\nAdd: effect of tax-exempt income(1)\n254\n525\n520\nNon-interest income, as presented\n8,804\n9,840\n8,572\nLess: net gain on sale of securities\n—\n(28)\n—\nAdjusted net interest income plus non-interest income\n$ 37,960\n$ 39,996\n$ 36,947\nNon-GAAP efficiency ratio\n58.76 %\n57.75 %\n58.00 % GAAP efficiency ratio\n59.15 %\n58.48 %\n58.82 %\n(1) Reported on a tax-equivalent basis using the corporate federal income tax rate in effect for the period.\nTangible Book Value Per Share and Tangible Common Equity Ratio:\nMarch 31,\n2018\nDecember 31, 2017\nMarch 31,\n2017 (In thousands, except number of shares and per share data)\nTangible Book Value Per Share:\nShareholders' equity, as presented\n$ 404,055\n$ 403,413\n$ 397,827\nLess: goodwill and other intangible assets\n(99,471)\n(99,652)\n(100,989)\nTangible equity\n$ 304,584\n$ 303,761\n$ 296,838\nShares outstanding at period end\n15,565,868\n15,524,704\n15,508,025\nTangible book value per share\n$ 19.57\n$ 19.57\n$ 19.14\nBook value per share\n$ 25.96\n$ 25.99\n$ 25.65\nTangible Common Equity Ratio: Total assets\n$ 4,113,185\n$ 4,065,398\n$ 3,938,465\nLess: goodwill and other intangibles\n(99,471)\n(99,652)\n(100,989)\nTangible assets\n$ 4,013,714\n$ 3,965,746\n$ 3,837,476\nTangible common equity ratio\n7.59 %\n7.66 %\n7.74 % Shareholders' equity to total assets\n9.82 %\n9.92 %\n10.10 %\nView original content with multimedia:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/camden-national-corporation-reports-record-quarterly-net-income-of-12-8-million-300634807.html\nSOURCE Camden National Corporation\nRelated Links\nhttp://www.camdennational.com", "COLUMBIA, S.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 24, 2018--South State Corporation (NASDAQ: SSB) today released its unaudited results of operations and other financial information for the three-month period ended March 31, 2018. Highlights for the first quarter of 2018 include the following:\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180424005445/en/\nFirst quarter 2018 financial results: Net income was $42.3 million, compared with $2.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2017, an increase of $39.9 million Diluted EPS of $1.15, compared with $0.08, an increase of $1.07 Adjusted net income (non-GAAP) was $51.2 million, compared to $41.4 million, a 23.8% increase, or $9.9 million Adjusted diluted EPS (non-GAAP) of $1.39, compared to $1.30, a 6.9% increase During the first quarter of 2018, there were three items driven primarily by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (Tax Act) which was signed into law on December 22, 2017: (1) paid $2.8 million in bonuses to all employees; (2) reduced income tax provision by approximately $6.8 million; and (3) increased the cash dividend for shareholders to $0.34 per share, up $0.01 per share over last quarter. Performance ratios first quarter 2018 compared to fourth quarter 2017 Return on average assets totaled 1.19% compared to 0.08% Adjusted return on average assets (non-GAAP) was 1.44% compared to 1.33% Return on average equity totaled 7.41% compared to 0.51% Return on average tangible equity (non-GAAP) was 14.69% compared to 1.59% Adjusted return on average tangible equity (non-GAAP) increased to 17.60% from 15.83% Efficiency ratio was 67.2% down from 68.5%, due primarily to lower merger costs associated with the Park Sterling Corporation (“Park Sterling” or “PSTB”) merger Adjusted efficiency ratio (non-GAAP) was 60.7% up from 57.0% (excluding merger-related and conversion expenses and securities gains, net) Balance sheet linked quarter Cash and cash equivalents increased by $266.9 million Net loan growth for the quarter totaled $15.3 million, or 0.58% annualized, as the overall loan portfolio continues to remix Noninterest bearing deposits increased by $73.4 million, or 9.8% annualized increase; and interest bearing deposits increased by $56.9 million, or 2.7% annualized Federal funds purchased and repurchase agreements increased $70.7 million to $357.6 million during the quarter Shareholders’ equity increased $13.7 million, primarily from net income, net of the dividends paid of $30.2 million offset by accumulated other comprehensive loss (“AOCI”) of $17.0 million, net of tax, primarily within the available for sale securities portfolio Total equity to total assets decreased to 15.81% from 15.96% Tangible equity to tangible assets (non-GAAP) decreased to 9.20% from 9.23% Asset quality Nonperforming assets (NPAs) decreased by $2.0 million, or 5.7%, to $34.0 million at March 31, 2018 from the level at December 31, 2017, and was down $4.6 million, or 12.0% from March 31, 2017 NPAs to total assets improved to 0.23% at March 31, 2018, from 0.25% at December 31, 2017 and from 0.35% at March 31, 2017 Net charge offs on non-acquired loans were 0.02% annualized, or $367,000, compared to $265,000, or 0.02% annualized in the fourth quarter of 2017. Compared to the first quarter of 2017, net charge offs totaled $628,000, or 0.05% annualized. Net charge offs on acquired non-credit impaired loans were 0.02% annualized, or $169,000, compared to 0.07% annualized, or $402,000 in the fourth quarter of 2017. In the first quarter of 2017, net charge-offs were 0.08% annualized, or $326,000. Coverage ratio of ALLL on non-acquired non-performing loans was 316% at March 31, 2018 compared to 293% at December 31, 2017 and 295% at March 31, 2017.\nQuarterly Cash Dividend\nThe Board of Directors of South State Corporation declared a quarterly cash dividend on April 19, 2018, of $0.34 per share payable on its common stock. This per share amount is higher by $0.01 per share, or 3.0% compared to last quarter and the same quarter one year ago. The dividend will be payable on May 18, 2018 to shareholders of record as of May 11, 2018.\nDurbin Impact\nEffective July 1, 2018, the cap on interchange fees under the Durbin amendment will be in place for the Company. We continue to refine this estimate of lower interchange income, and expect this to total approximately $8.5 million (pre-tax) during the last half of 2018.\nThe Company reported consolidated net income of $42.3 million, or $1.15 per diluted common share for the three-months ended March 31, 2018, a $39.9 million increase from the fourth quarter of 2017. Interest income was up $20.2 million primarily as a result of an increase in non-acquired loan interest income of $2.6 million during the first quarter, and from an increase of $16.1 million from acquired loan interest income due to a full quarter of acquired loans from PSTB. In addition, investment securities income increased by $1.6 million due primarily to the addition of the PSTB securities portfolio held for the full quarter. Interest expense increased by $3.5 million, with $1.5 million increase from transaction and money market accounts, $1.1 million attributable to certificate and other time deposits and $702,000 increase in other borrowings. These increases in interest expense were related to the merger with PSTB and increases in interest rates within most categories. The Company’s cost of funds was 0.41% for the first quarter of 2018, an increase of 0.12% from the fourth quarter of 2017. Compared to the first quarter of 2017, cost of funds increased by 0.19% which is primarily the result of the addition of Park Sterling funding cost which historically was higher than legacy South State’s. The total provision for loan losses decreased $1.4 million compared to the fourth quarter of 2017. Valuation allowance (impairment) related to acquired loans was $1.1 million lower than in the fourth quarter of 2017, as multiple pools had releases and improved cash flows, offset by certain valuation impairments recognized on acquired credit impaired loan pools. The provision for loan losses related to acquired non-credit impaired loans was lower by $233,000, compared to the fourth quarter of 2017. The provision for loan losses on non-acquired loans was flat compared to the fourth quarter of 2017. Noninterest income increased by $4.4 million within all categories due primarily to having Park Sterling for the full quarter. Salaries and employee benefits included $2.8 million in bonuses paid to all employees during the quarter in response to the Tax Act. Most noninterest expense categories were higher for the first quarter of 2018 due to the full quarter impact of Park Sterling operations.\nIncome Tax Expense\nDuring the first quarter of 2018, the Company’s effective income tax rate was 21.05%, or $11.3 million, reflective of the Tax Act signed in December 2017. The effective tax rate in the fourth quarter of 2017 was 32.55%, excluding the charge taken to revalue all deferred tax items. This reduced rate allowed us to earn back approximately $6.8 million of the $26.6 million charge recorded in the fourth quarter of 2017. We currently expect to earn back this charge in 2018.\n“We are pleased with the progress in the first quarter of 2018 in all areas of the company. We successfully completed the Park Sterling system conversion this past weekend and are excited to build upon this merger,” said Robert R. Hill Jr., CEO of South State Corporation. “South State is very well positioned to leverage the talent of the combined companies and capitalize on growth opportunities.”\nThis article has been truncated. You can see the rest of this article by visiting http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180424005445/en.", "Universal Insurance Holdings, Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Sean P. Downes commented: \"During the first quarter, Universal reported excellent top line growth and strong underwriting profitability, leading to a robust bottom line result and an annualized return on average equity of 34.6%. We continue to grow on an organic basis in our home state of Florida, where our average statewide rate increase of 3.4% was approved in December and is now in use for both new and renewal policies. We also made further progress in our Other States expansion efforts, which contributed substantial premium growth in the first quarter, and we began writing business in New Hampshire during April. Universal DirectSM, our unique direct to consumer online platform, continues to steadily grow, contributing to growth in each of our active states. Our vertically integrated structure again served us well, with Universal Adjusting Corporation contributing profitability resulting from increased service activity following Hurricane Irma. Lastly, our effective tax rate for the quarter included a sizable benefit from the tax reform legislation passed in late 2017. Overall, we are very pleased with our first quarter results for 2018, which mark a strong start to the year, and we remain well positioned to deliver outstanding value to shareholders throughout the remainder of 2018 and beyond.\"\nFirst Quarter 2018 Highlights\nContinued Organic Growth – Direct premiums written grew 10.0% in the first quarter, with 7.2% growth in Florida and 32.7% growth in Other States; Universal Direct SM contributed to growth in all geographies. We began writing in New Hampshire on April 4, 2018 , and currently write in 17 states with licenses in 3 additional states.\nDirect premiums written grew 10.0% in the first quarter, with 7.2% growth in and 32.7% growth in Universal Direct contributed to growth in all geographies. We began writing in on , and currently write in 17 states with licenses in 3 additional states. Strong Underwriting Profitability – The first quarter net combined ratio was 76.5% compared to 78.9% in the prior year's quarter, with improvement in both the loss and LAE ratio and the G&A expense ratio. The current quarter includes approximately $10.4 million (5.7 points) of estimated pretax profit relating to additional income generated by Universal Adjusting Corporation (UAC) following Hurricane Irma. The current quarter includes no impact from weather events beyond plan, compared to $3.0 million (1.9 points) of weather losses beyond plan in the first quarter of 2017. There was a de minimis amount of prior year reserve movements in both the current year and prior year's quarter. Our underwriting results reflect increased underlying loss trends resulting from the impact of continued geographic expansion, an increased level of catastrophic activity in recent years, and the marketplace dynamics within Florida , including the impact of Assignment of Benefits (AOB) related claims.\nThe first quarter net combined ratio was 76.5% compared to 78.9% in the prior year's quarter, with improvement in both the loss and LAE ratio and the G&A expense ratio. The current quarter includes approximately (5.7 points) of estimated pretax profit relating to additional income generated by Universal Adjusting Corporation (UAC) following Hurricane Irma. The current quarter includes no impact from weather events beyond plan, compared to (1.9 points) of weather losses beyond plan in the first quarter of 2017. There was a de minimis amount of prior year reserve movements in both the current year and prior year's quarter. Our underwriting results reflect increased underlying loss trends resulting from the impact of continued geographic expansion, an increased level of catastrophic activity in recent years, and the marketplace dynamics within , including the impact of Assignment of Benefits (AOB) related claims. Solid Balance Sheet – Book value per share grew 4.8% from December 31, 2017 (16.8% from March 31, 2017 ) to $13.28 . Our investment portfolio is conservative and composed of high quality securities, we have minimal debt or goodwill, we believe our loss reserves are appropriately set at current levels, and we are protected by a comprehensive reinsurance program.\nBook value per share grew 4.8% from (16.8% from ) to . Our investment portfolio is conservative and composed of high quality securities, we have minimal debt or goodwill, we believe our loss reserves are appropriately set at current levels, and we are protected by a comprehensive reinsurance program. Focused on Shareholder Returns – Return on Average Common Equity (ROE) was 34.6% for the first quarter of 2018. We paid dividends of $0.14 per share in the first quarter, equating to an annualized dividend yield of 1.7% at current share price levels. During the first quarter, we repurchased 92,749 shares for $2.7 million ( $29.61 per share) and $17.0 million remains on our current share repurchase authorization.\nFirst Quarter 2018 Results\nDirect premiums written grew 10.0% from the prior year's quarter to $270.0 million, with 7.2% growth in our Florida book and 32.7% growth in our Other States book. Our organic growth strategy within our home state of Florida remains on track, and we highlight that we received approval for an average statewide rate increase of 3.4% in early December, which went into effect for new business on December 7, 2017 and for renewal business on January 26, 2018. Our organic geographic expansion efforts within our Other States book continue to produce results; on April 4, 2018, we announced that we had written our first policy in New Hampshire, our 17th state of operation. For the quarter, net premiums earned grew 13.0% to $182.6 million.\nCommission revenue grew by 14.6% versus the prior year's quarter to $5.3 million, including a benefit of approximately $0.6 million of reinstatement commissions received by Blue Atlantic Reinsurance Corporation during the first quarter of 2018. Policy fees grew by 6.5% versus the prior year's quarter to $4.8 million, driven by an increase in the number of new and renewal policies written compared to the prior year. Other revenue grew 15.6% versus the prior year's quarter to $1.8 million.\nThe net combined ratio was 76.5% in the first quarter of 2018 compared to 78.9% in the prior year's quarter. The increase in underwriting profitability was driven by a reduction in both the loss and loss adjustment expense ratio and the general and administrative expense ratio.\nThe net loss and LAE ratio was 41.6% in the first quarter of 2018, compared to 43.7% for the prior year's quarter. The main drivers of the change in the loss and LAE ratio are as follows:\nThe current year's quarter includes no impact from weather events beyond plan, compared to $3.0 million (1.9 points) of weather losses beyond plan in the first quarter of 2017.\n(1.9 points) of weather losses beyond plan in the first quarter of 2017. Universal Adjusting Corporation (UAC) generated additional revenues following Hurricane Irma (which occurred during the third quarter of 2017). During the first quarter of 2018, UAC produced $10.4 million (5.7 points) of pretax profit, the vast majority of which related to additional revenues resulting from Hurricane Irma.\n(5.7 points) of pretax profit, the vast majority of which related to additional revenues resulting from Hurricane Irma. First quarter 2018 results include $44 thousand (0.0 points) of favorable prior year reserve development, compared to $96 thousand (0.1 points) of unfavorable prior year reserve development in the first quarter of 2017.\n(0.0 points) of favorable prior year reserve development, compared to (0.1 points) of unfavorable prior year reserve development in the first quarter of 2017. Our underlying loss and LAE ratio reflects continued geographic expansion into states outside of Florida (where non-catastrophe loss ratios are generally higher than in Florida ), an increased level of catastrophic activity in recent years, and the marketplace dynamics within our home state of Florida , including the impact of Assignment of Benefits (AOB) related claims.\nThe net general and administrative expense ratio was 34.9% in the first quarter of 2018, compared to 35.2% for the prior year's quarter, as a modest increase in the policy acquisition cost ratio was more than offset by a decline in the other operating expense ratio. The net policy acquisition cost ratio was 20.8% compared to 20.1% in the prior year, while the net other operating expense ratio was 14.1% compared to 15.1% in the prior year.\nNet investment income grew by 77.0% from the prior year's quarter to $4.8 million, driven by the increasing size of our investment portfolio compared to the prior year, a shift in asset mix, and an increased investment portfolio yield as compared to the prior year's quarter. Net realized investment losses were $2.6 million in the first quarter of 2018, compared to net realized losses of $63 thousand in the prior year's quarter. Net unrealized investment losses were $5.1 million during the first quarter of 2018; we highlight that this line item was added during the quarter ended March 31, 2018, because of the adoption of accounting guidance for equity securities, and as such, this item was not presented in the comparable prior year's quarter. Total unrestricted cash and invested assets was $974.4 million at March 31, 2018, growth of 17.9% from $826.4 million at March 31, 2017.\nInterest expense was $79 thousand for the first quarter of 2018, compared to $103 thousand in the prior year's quarter, with long term debt of $12.5 million at March 31, 2018 (debt-to-equity of 2.7%), compared to $14.0 million as of March 31, 2017 (debt-to-equity of 3.5%).\nThe effective tax rate for the first quarter of 2018 was 22.5%, compared to 34.1% in the prior year's quarter. The decrease in our effective tax rate is primarily the result of the enactment of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which resulted in a reduction in the federal corporate tax rate from 35.0% to 21.0% effective January 1, 2018. The current year's quarter included a credit to income tax expense of $1.8 million for excess tax benefits resulting from stock-based awards that vested and/or were exercised during the first quarter, benefitting the current quarter's effective tax rate by 3.5 percentage points. The prior year's quarter included $2.1 million of credits to income tax expense relating to discrete items, benefitting the first quarter 2017 effective tax rate by 4.4 percentage points.\nStockholders' equity was $465.1 million at March 31, 2018, growth of 5.7% from December 31, 2017, or 16.6% from March 31, 2017. Book value per common was $13.28 at March 31, 2018, growth of 4.8% from December 31, 2017, or 16.8% from March 31, 2017. Annualized Return on Average Common Equity (ROE) was 34.6% for the first quarter of 2018 compared to 31.4% for the first quarter of 2017.\nDuring the first quarter, the Company repurchased 92,749 shares for $2.7 million, or an average cost of $29.61 per share. Our current share repurchase authorization program has $17.0 million remaining and runs through December 31, 2018.\nOn January 22, 2018, the Company announced that its Board of Directors declared a cash dividend of $0.14 per share of common stock, which was paid on March 12, 2018 to shareholders of record as of February 28, 2018. On April 12, 2018, the Company announced that its Board of Directors declared a cash dividend of $0.14 per share of common stock, to be paid on May 4, 2018 to shareholders of record as of April 27, 2018.\nConference Call\nMembers of the Universal management team will host a conference call on Wednesday, April 25, 2018 at 10:00 AM ET to discuss first quarter 2018 financial results. Following prepared remarks, management will conduct a question and answer session. The call will be accessible by dialing toll free at (855) 752-6647 or internationally (toll) at (503) 343-6667 using the Conference ID: 4868529. A live audio webcast of the call will also be accessible on the Universal Insurance website at www.universalinsuranceholdings.com. A replay of the call can be accessed toll free at (855) 859-2056 or internationally (toll) at (404) 537-3406 using the Conference ID: 4868529, and will be available through May 9, 2018.\nAbout Universal Insurance Holdings, Inc.\nUniversal Insurance Holdings, Inc., with its wholly-owned subsidiaries, is a vertically integrated insurance holding company performing all aspects of insurance underwriting, distribution and claims. Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Company (UPCIC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, is one of the leading writers of homeowners insurance in Florida and is now fully licensed and has commenced its operations in North Carolina, South Carolina, Hawaii, Georgia, Massachusetts, Maryland, Delaware, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Michigan, Alabama, Virginia, New Jersey, New York, and New Hampshire. American Platinum Property and Casualty Insurance Company (APPCIC), also a wholly-owned subsidiary, currently writes homeowners multi-peril insurance on Florida homes valued in excess of $1 million, which are limits and coverages currently not targeted through its affiliate UPCIC. APPCIC is additionally licensed and has commenced writing Fire, Commercial Multi-Peril, and Other Liability lines of business in Florida. For additional information on the Company, please visit our investor relations website at www.universalinsuranceholdings.com.\nForward-Looking Statements and Risk Factors\nThis press release may contain \"forward-looking statements\" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The words \"believe,\" \"expect,\" \"anticipate,\" and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date the statement was made. Such statements may include commentary on plans, products and lines of business, marketing arrangements, reinsurance programs and other business developments and assumptions relating to the foregoing. Forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, some of which cannot be predicted or quantified. Future results could differ materially from those described, and the Company undertakes no obligation to correct or update any forward-looking statements. For further information regarding risk factors that could affect the Company's operations and future results, refer to the Company's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017.\nUNIVERSAL INSURANCE HOLDINGS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS (UNAUDITED) (in thousands, except per share data)\nMarch 31,\nDecember 31,\n2018\n2017 ASSETS\nInvested Assets\nFixed maturities, at fair value\n$ 634,238\n$ 639,334 Equity securities, at fair value\n66,043\n62,215 Short-term investments, at fair value\n10,000\n10,000 Investment real estate, net\n19,406\n18,474 Total invested assets\n729,687\n730,023\nCash and cash equivalents\n244,673\n213,486 Restricted cash and cash equivalents\n2,635\n2,635 Prepaid reinsurance premiums\n53,123\n132,806 Reinsurance recoverable\n72,641\n182,405 Premiums receivable, net\n57,455\n56,500 Property and equipment, net\n33,169\n32,866 Deferred policy acquisition costs\n78,007\n73,059 Goodwill\n2,319\n2,319 Other assets\n21,998\n28,900 TOTAL ASSETS\n$ 1,295,707\n$ 1,454,999\nLIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY\nLIABILITIES:\nUnpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses\n129,637\n248,425 Unearned premiums\n540,167\n532,444 Advance premium\n39,322\n26,216 Reinsurance payable, net\n54,218\n110,381 Long-term debt\n12,500\n12,868 Other liabilities\n54,769\n84,677 Total liabilities\n830,613\n1,015,011\nSTOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY:\nCumulative convertible preferred stock ($0.01 par value) 1\n—\n— Common stock ($0.01 par value) 2\n461\n458 Treasury shares, at cost - 11,136 and 11,043\n(107,869)\n(105,123) Additional paid-in capital\n84,294\n86,186 Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), net of taxes\n(7,312)\n(6,281) Retained earnings\n495,520\n464,748 Total stockholders' equity\n465,094\n439,988 TOTAL LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY\n$ 1,295,707\n$ 1,454,999\nNotes:\n1 - Cumulative convertible preferred stock ($0.01 par value): Authorized - 1,000 shares; Issued - 10 and 10 shares; Outstanding - 10 and 10 shares; Minimum liquidation preference - $9.99 and $9.99 per share. 2 - Common stock ($0.01 par value): Authorized - 55,000 shares; Issued - 46,148 and 45,778 shares; Outstanding 35,012 and 34,735 shares.\nUNIVERSAL INSURANCE HOLDINGS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME (UNAUDITED) (in thousands)\nThree Months Ended\nMarch 31,\n2018\n2017 REVENUES\nNet premiums earned\n$ 182,577\n$ 161,559 Net investment income\n4,785\n2,704 Net realized gains/(losses) on investments\n(2,641)\n(63) Net unrealized gains/(losses) on investments (5,109)\n— Commission revenue\n5,271\n4,598 Policy fees\n4,775\n4,483 Other revenue\n1,842\n1,593 Total revenues\n191,500\n174,874\nEXPENSES\nLosses and loss adjustment expenses\n75,926\n70,570 Policy acquisition costs\n38,043\n32,428 Other operating expenses\n25,753\n24,402 Interest expense\n79\n103 Total expenses\n139,801\n127,503\nIncome before income tax expense\n51,699\n47,371 Income tax expense\n11,644\n16,172 NET INCOME\n$ 40,055\n$ 31,199\nUNIVERSAL INSURANCE HOLDINGS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES SHARE AND PER SHARE INFORMATION (in thousands, except per share data)\nThree Months Ended\nMarch 31,\n2018\n2017\nWeighted average common shares outstanding - basic\n34,839\n35,140 Weighted average common shares outstanding - diluted\n35,660\n36,180 Shares outstanding, end of period\n35,012\n35,073\nBasic earnings per common share\n$ 1.15\n$ 0.89 Diluted earnings per common share\n$ 1.12\n$ 0.86\nCash dividend declared per common share\n$ 0.14\n$ 0.14\nBook value per share, end of period\n$ 13.28\n$ 11.37\nReturn on average equity (ROE)\n34.6%\n31.4%\nUNIVERSAL INSURANCE HOLDINGS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION (in thousands, except Policies In-Force)\nThree Months Ended\nMarch 31,\n2018\n2017 Premiums\nDirect premiums written - Florida\n$ 234,178\n$ 218,438 Direct premiums written - Other States\n35,806\n26,977 Direct premiums written - Total\n$ 269,984\n$ 245,415\nNet premiums written\n$ 269,984\n$ 245,229 Direct premiums earned\n$ 262,261\n$ 236,375 Net premiums earned\n$ 182,577\n$ 161,559\nUnderwriting Ratios - Net\nLoss and loss adjustment expense ratio\n41.6%\n43.7% Policy acquisition cost ratio\n20.8%\n20.1% Other operating expense ratio\n14.1%\n15.1% General and administrative expense ratio\n34.9%\n35.2% Combined ratio\n76.5%\n78.9%\nOther Items\n(Favorable)/Unfavorable prior year reserve development (44)\n96 Points on the loss and loss adjustment expense ratio\n0.0%\n0.1%\nAs of\nMarch 31,\n2018\n2017 Policies In-Force\nFlorida\n621,820\n585,359 Other States\n155,787\n114,116 Total\n777,607\n699,475\nIn-Force Premium\nFlorida\n$ 941,418\n$ 872,307 Other States\n140,806\n102,223 Total\n$ 1,082,224\n$ 974,530\nTotal Insured Value\nFlorida\n$148,659,550\n$136,641,073 Other States\n55,952,252\n38,986,908 Total\n$204,611,802\n$175,627,981\nContacts:\nInvestors Media Dean Evans Andy Brimmer / Mahmoud Siddig VP Investor Relations Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher 954-958-1306 212-355-4449 de0130@universalproperty.com\nView original content:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/universal-insurance-holdings-inc-reports-first-quarter-2018-results-300635722.html\nSOURCE Universal Insurance Holdings, Inc.\nRelated Links\nhttp://www.universalinsuranceholdings.com", "TORONTO, May 30, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bradmer Pharmaceuticals Inc. (TSX VENTURE:BMR.H) (“Bradmer” or the “Company”) today announced its first quarter 2018 financial results.\nFinancial Results\nAmounts in US dollars, unless specified otherwise, and results prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”).\nFor the three months ended March 31, 2018, the Company recorded a net loss of $273,000 or $0.014 per common share based on the weighted average outstanding shares of 19,659,726 during the three month period, compared to a net loss of $33,000 or $0.002 per common share for the quarter ended March 31, 2017 based on the weighted average outstanding shares of 19,659,726.\nGeneral and administrative expenses were $280,000 in the three months ended March 31, 2018 compared to $28,000 in the same quarter of the prior year. Major expenses in 2018 consisted of legal fees of $253,000, consulting fees of $14,200, filing fees of $6,300, audit fees of $2,900 and directors and officers’ liability insurance premiums of $2,500. In 2017 major expenses consisted of consulting fees of $13,600, legal fees of $6,000, audit fees of $2,800 and directors and officers’ liability insurance premiums of $2,400.\nThe main reason for the increased net loss in 2018 is the $247,000 increase in legal fees related to the ongoing work on the reverse takeover transaction.\nCash financed Bradmer’s operational activities for the three months ended March 31, 2018. At March 31, 2018, the Company had a working capital deficiency of $56,000, compared to working capital of $218,000 at December 31, 2017. Bradmer had available cash of $266,000 (CDN $344,000) as at March 31, 2018, compared to cash of $319,000 (CDN $400,000) as at December 31, 2017. The $53,000 decrease in cash was due to the $273,000 net loss partially offset by the $222,000 decrease in non-cash working capital.\nAs at May 31, 2018 and March 31, 2018, the Company had 19,659,726 common shares and options to purchase 1,950,000 common shares outstanding.\nBradmer Pharmaceuticals Inc.\nPaul Van Damme\nChief Financial Officer\n[email protected]\n1.416.847.6905\nAdditional information about Bradmer, including the MD&A and financial results may be found on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.\nNEITHER THE TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE NOR ITS REGULATION PROVIDER (AS THAT TERM IS DEFINED IN THE POLICIES OF THE TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE) ACCEPTS RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ADEQUACY OR ACCURACY OF THIS RELEASE.\nBradmer’s common shares have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) or any state regulatory agency in the United States. The resale or transfer by a U.S. investor of such common shares of Bradmer Pharmaceuticals Inc. is subject to the requirements of Rule 904 of Regulation S of the Securities Act or such other applicable exemption thereunder, and other applicable state securities laws.\nExcept for historical information, this news release may contain forward-looking statements, which reflect the Company’s current expectation regarding future events. These forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainties, which may cause but are not limited to, changing market conditions, the establishment of corporate alliances, the impact of competitive products and pricing, new product development, uncertainties related to the regulatory approval process and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company’s ongoing quarterly and annual reporting.\nBRADMER PHARMACEUTICALS INC.\nCondensed Interim Statements of Financial Position\nAs at\n(All amounts expressed in United States dollars)\nMarch 31, December 31, Notes 2018 2017 Assets Current assets Cash $ 266,440 $ 318,879 Amounts receivable 4,070 2,515 Prepaid expenses 1,195 1,259 Total assets $ 271,705 $ 322,653 Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity (Deficiency) Current liabilities Accounts payable and accrued liabilities 10 $ 327,873 $ 104,860 Shareholders’ Equity (Deficiency) Share capital 6 1,780,830 1,830,372 Contributed surplus 1,967,872 2,022,618 Accumulated other comprehensive income 766,194 662,594 Deficit (4,571,064) (4,297,791) Total shareholders’ equity (deficiency) (56,168) 217,793 Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity $ 271,705 $ 322,653\nBRADMER PHARMACEUTICALS INC.\nCondensed Interim Statements of Comprehensive Income\nFor the three months ended March 31\n(All amounts expressed in United States dollars)\n2018 2017 Expenses General and administrative $ 279,730 $ 28,199 Other (income) loss Interest (28) (27) Foreign exchange (gain) loss (6,429) 5,148 Loss for the period $ (273,273) $ (33,320) Other comprehensive income (loss) 103,600 (30,798) Comprehensive loss for the period $ (169,673) $ (64,118) Loss per share Basic and diluted $ (0.014) $ (0.002) Weighted average number of shares outstanding 19,659,726 19,659,726\nBRADMER PHARMACEUTICALS INC.\nCondensed Interim Statements of Changes in Shareholders’ Equity (Deficiency)\nFor the three months ended March 31\n(All amounts expressed in United States dollars)\nAccumulated Share capital Other Total Number of Contributed Comprehensive Shareholders’ shares Amount surplus Income Deficit equity (Deficiency) Balance, January 1, 2017 19,659,726 $ 1,710,138 $ 1,889,755 $ 895,332 $ (4,113,501) $ 381,724 Foreign currency translation adjustment – 16,459 18,188 (30,798) – 3,849 Loss for the period – – – – (33,320) (33,320) Balance, March 31, 2017 19,659,726 $ 1,726,597 $ 1,907,943 $ 864,534 $ (4,146,821) $ 352,253 Balance, January 1, 2018 19,659,726 $ 1,830,372 $ 2,022,618 $ 662,594 $ (4,297,791) $ 217,793 Foreign currency translation adjustment – (49,542) (54,746) 103,600 – (688) Loss for the period – – – – (273,273) (273,273) Balance, March 31, 2018 19,659,726 $ 1,780,830 $ 1,967,872 $ 766,194 $ (4,571,064) $ (56,168)\nBRADMER PHARMACEUTICALS INC.\nCondensed Interim Statements of Cash Flows\nFor the three months ended March 31\n(All amounts expressed in United States dollars)", "IkeGPS, the unprofitable laser measurement tool maker, narrowed its annual loss after lifting sales 37 per cent and cutting a fifth from its wage bill, and is optimistic positive cash flow generated in the fourth quarter will persist, meaning it won't need to raise more capital.\nThe Wellington-based company reported a net loss of $6.7 million, or 9 cents per share, in the 12 months ended March 31, compared to a loss of $10.6m, or 18 cents, a year earlier, it said in a statement.\nOperating revenue rose to $7.7m from $5.7m, with sales of the firm's IKE4 product beating expectations while its Spike tool fell short of forecast.\nIkeGPS cut 19 per cent from its wage bill to $6.5m, with a smaller spend on research and development, helping cut operating costs 18 per cent to $10.8m.\nAdvertisement\nThe company's operating cash outflow narrowed to $2.8m for the year from a $9m outflow in 2017, and ikeGPS said cash flow was positive in the final three months of the financial year, a position it expects to keep through the 2019 year. It held cash and equivalents of $2.6m as at March 31, including a $4m share placement to investors last August.\n\"FY18 was a positive period for our business with all key performance metrics improving significantly against FY17,\" chief executive Glenn Milnes said.\n\"We believe that FY19 can be a stronger period again for both the IKE4 solution in the US communications and electric utility market and for the Spike solution in the signage and geospatial markets.\"\nThe company expects to lift annual sales by more than 30 per cent again and keep operating costs flat, leading to earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation breaking even.\nDespite the optimism, the board acknowledged its status as a 'going concern' relied on a base business plan where sales keep growing and costs are kept down, and if the operating cash outflow persisted, ikeGPS would need to raise additional capital or find new funding.\nThe directors said the firm has scope for deeper cuts to spending. A stress test of the 2019 plan, reducing forecast sales by 15 per cent and expenses by $428,000, would still keep ikeGPS as a going concern, albeit with less cash. The directors said they believe they'd be able to raise more capital if needed.\nAuditor PwC noted that 'material uncertainty related to going concern' in its report, saying if ikeGPS doesn't achieve the business plan, and achieve forecast sales growth in particular, it might not be able to meet its obligations as they fall due. The auditor assessed group materiality at $400,000, or 5 per cent of the firm's three-year average pre-tax loss.\nThe shares last traded at 59 cents, and have jumped 40 per cent so far this year, making it the sixth best performer on the S&P/NZX All Index.", "U.S. cereal company Post Holdings has agreed to buy British brand Weetabix from China’s Bright Food Group Co Ltd in a 1.4 billion pound ($1.76-billion) deal that will expand its international business, the companies said on Tuesday.\nThe deal will add the Weetabix, Alpen and Barbara’s brands to a portfolio of cereals including Honey Bunches of Oats and Grape-Nuts. It will allow for expanded distribution of Post products in a number of international markets, while expanding Weetabix and Barbara’s in North America.\n“Combining together two category leaders continues our strategy of strengthening our portfolio in stable categories and diversifying into new markets,” said Rob Vitale, Post’s chief executive, in a statement.\nWeetabix is Britain’s second-largest ready-to-eat cereal maker overall, and Weetabix is the nation’s top-selling brand.\nThe sale marks the end of Chinese ownership of Weetabix after state-owned Bright Food took control of the company from Lion Capital in 2012 amid a major overseas push stretching from Australia to Israel.\nBright agreed to buy a 60 per cent stake in Weetabix in 2012 from private equity firm Lion Capital in a deal that valued it at 1.2 billion pounds. Baring Private Equity Asia subsequently bought Lion’s remaining stake in 2015.\nPost said the deal will immediately add to its adjusted operating profit margins and its free cash flow, excluding one-time transaction expenses.\nPost also affirmed its 2017 outlook and reported financial results for the second quarter ended March 31. It posted net sales of $1.25-billion and a net loss of $4-million.\nIt said it still expects 2017 adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) of $920-million to $950-million, excluding any contribution from Weetabix.\nHISTORIC BRAND\nThe sale did not signal the end of Bright’s international ambitions, Shanghai-based Bright spokesman Pan Jianjun said.\n“This is a part of our internationalization strategy. Selling assets enables us to better expand. Going forward Bright will stick to our overseas push,” he said.\nReuters reported in January that Post Holdings, the No.3 U.S. cereal company, was among four interested parties vying for Weetabix, a business founded 85 years ago.\nBright hired Goldman Sachs to run an auction for the well-known British brand less than five years after the Chinese company agreed to take control of it, with sources familiar with the matter saying Bright it had struggled to crack the Chinese market, where many consumers tend to eat hot breakfasts.\nWeetabix had earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) of 130 million pounds in 2016, Reuters reported in December.\nBright Food is the parent firm of a number of listed companies including Bright Dairy and Food Co Ltd.\nReport Typo/Error", "FILE PHOTO - A TMX Group sign, the company that runs the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), is seen in Toronto, June 23, 2014. REUTERS/Mark Blinch/File Photo\nTORONTO Canada's main stock index will post modest gains but still reach a fresh all-time high by the end of 2017, a Reuters poll found, but some investors worry the index is overvalued and vulnerable to a correction.\nMedian forecasts from the poll of more than 20 portfolio managers and strategists were for the Toronto S&P/TSX composite index .GSPTSE to rise 3 percent to 16,000 by the end of 2017 from Tuesday's close of 15,598.57, eclipsing the record high of 15,943.09 set in February.\nIt rose 17.5 percent in 2016 and has more than doubled from a trough in March 2009, set during the global financial crisis, and is expected to climb by mid-2018 to 16,470.\n\"The equity rally is eight years old but rallies don't die because of old age, they end because of recessions,\" said Ben Jang, portfolio manager at Nicola Wealth Management.\nA recent pick-up in the global economy could help support Canada's commodity-linked stock market, while domestic growth has also strengthened. Also, last week the government held off from raising taxes on investors in its budget.\nInvestors had worried increased taxes on capital gains and dividends would reduce the competitiveness of Canada's businesses, just as the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump focuses on trade deals and tax reform.\nTrump's administration last week approved TransCanada Corp's (TRP.TO) Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring more than 800,000 barrels of heavy crude per day from Canada's oil sands to U.S. refineries and ports along the Gulf of Mexico.\nBut Canada, which sends about 75 percent of its exports to the United States, could suffer badly if the North American Free Trade Agreement is renegotiated or the United States implements a border adjustment tax.\nAsked about the TSX's valuation, 10 of the 15 analysts that responded in the past week said the index is overvalued, while nine of the 15 said it is likely to suffer a 10 percent correction by the end of 2017.\nSome analysts are cautious after U.S. crude oil prices pulled back recently below $50 a barrel, pressured by record high U.S. inventories and uncertainty over whether a production cut led by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries will be extended beyond June.\nThe energy group accounts for more than 20 percent of the TSX's weighting, while financials have an even heavier weighting at more than one-third.\nEarlier in March, the country's major banks attracted increased scrutiny of their sales practices, which the banks have defended.\n\"Banks are looking toppy ... failing to respond to positive earnings and with attitudes toward banks souring as Canadians realize that big earnings and dividend growth have been built on aggressive sales tactics,\" said Colin Cieszynski, senior market analyst at CMC Markets Canada.\nOther investors worry geopolitical risks or weakening of China's economy could weigh on the TSX.\n\"Our housing market is partially dependent on Chinese capital and if it flees because of problems on the mainland it would probably coincide with a significant downdraft in commodity prices, hurt by lack of demand in China,\" said Matt Skipp, president of SW8 Asset Management.\nHe expects the index to fall around 10 percent from current levels by mid-2017 before recovering all of its losses by mid-2018 as the economic policies of Trump \"start to gain traction.\"\n(For other stories from the Reuters global stock markets poll)\n(Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)", "\"In the first quarter, Capital One delivered year-over-year growth in loans, deposits, revenues and pre-provision earnings,\" said Richard D. Fairbank, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. \"We continue to build an enduringly great franchise with the scale, brand, capabilities and infrastructure to succeed as the digital revolution transforms banking.\"\nAll comparisons below are for the first quarter of 2018 compared with the fourth quarter of 2017 unless otherwise noted.\nFirst Quarter 2018 Income Statement Summary:\nTotal net revenue decreased 1 percent to $6.9 billion .\n. Total non-interest expense decreased 5 percent to $3.6 billion :\n: 5 percent decrease in operating expenses.\n10 percent decrease in marketing.\nPre-provision earnings increased 3 percent to $3.3 billion (2) .\n. Provision for credit losses decreased 13 percent to $1.7 billion :\n: Net charge-offs of $1.6 billion .\n.\n$56 million reserve build.\nreserve build. Net interest margin of 6.93 percent, down 10 basis points.\nEfficiency ratio of 51.72 percent.\nEfficiency ratio excluding adjusting items was 51.45 percent(1).\nFirst Quarter 2018 Balance Sheet Summary:\nCommon equity Tier 1 capital ratio under Basel III Standardized Approach of 10.5 percent at March 31, 2018 .\n. Period-end loans held for investment in the quarter decreased $6.2 billion , or 2 percent, to $248.3 billion .\n, or 2 percent, to . Credit Card period-end loans decreased $7.2 billion , or 6 percent, to $107.6 billion .\n, or 6 percent, to .\nDomestic Card period-end loans decreased $6.8 billion , or 6 percent, to $98.5 billion .\n, or 6 percent, to .\nConsumer Banking period-end loans decreased $404 million , or 1 percent, to $74.7 billion :\n, or 1 percent, to :\nAuto period-end loans increased $820 million , or 2 percent, to $54.8 billion .\n, or 2 percent, to .\nHome loans period-end loans decreased $1.0 billion , or 6 percent, to $16.6 billion , primarily driven by run-off of acquired portfolios.\n, or 6 percent, to , primarily driven by run-off of acquired portfolios.\nCommercial Banking period-end loans increased $1.4 billion , or 2 percent, to $66.0 billion .\n, or 2 percent, to . Average loans held for investment in the quarter decreased $2.8 billion , or 1 percent, to $249.7 billion .\n, or 1 percent, to . Credit Card average loans decreased $527 million , or less than 1 percent, to $109.5 billion .\n, or less than 1 percent, to .\nDomestic Card average loans decreased $637 million , or 1 percent, to $100.5 billion .\n, or 1 percent, to .\nConsumer Banking average loans decreased $292 million , or less than 1 percent, to $75.0 billion :\n, or less than 1 percent, to :\nAuto average loans increased $597 million , or 1 percent, to $54.3 billion .\n, or 1 percent, to .\nHome loans average loans decreased $885 million , or 5 percent, to $17.2 billion , primarily driven by run-off of acquired portfolios.\n, or 5 percent, to , primarily driven by run-off of acquired portfolios.\nCommercial Banking average loans decreased $2.0 billion , or 3 percent, to $65.2 billion .\n, or 3 percent, to . Period-end total deposits increased $7.1 billion , or 3 percent, to $250.8 billion , while average deposits increased $3.7 billion , or 2 percent, to $245.3 billion .\n, or 3 percent, to , while average deposits increased , or 2 percent, to . Interest-bearing deposits rate paid increased 13 basis points to 0.98 percent.\nEarnings Conference Call Webcast Information\nThe company will hold an earnings conference call on April 24, 2018 at 5:00 PM Eastern Time. The conference call will be accessible through live webcast. Interested investors and other individuals can access the webcast via the company's home page (www.capitalone.com). Choose \"About Us,\" then choose \"Investors\" to access the Investor Center and view and/or download the earnings press release, the financial supplement, including a reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures, and the earnings release presentation. The replay of the webcast will be archived on the company's website through May 8, 2018 at 5:00 PM Eastern Time.\nForward-Looking Statements\nCertain statements in this release may constitute forward-looking statements, which involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Capital One cautions readers that any forward-looking information is not a guarantee of future performance and that actual results could differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking information due to a number of factors, including those listed from time to time in reports that Capital One files with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, but not limited to, the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017.\nAbout Capital One\nCapital One Financial Corporation (www.capitalone.com) is a financial holding company whose subsidiaries, which include Capital One, N.A., and Capital One Bank (USA), N.A., had $250.8 billion in deposits and $362.9 billion in total assets as of March 31, 2018. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Capital One offers a broad spectrum of financial products and services to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients through a variety of channels. Capital One, N.A. has branches located primarily in New York, Louisiana, Texas, Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey and the District of Columbia. A Fortune 500 company, Capital One trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol \"COF\" and is included in the S&P 100 index.\n(1) Amounts excluding adjusting items are non-GAAP measures that we believe help investors and users of our financial information understand the effect of adjusting items on our selected reported results and provide alternate measurements of our performance. See Table 15 in Exhibit 99.2 for a reconciliation of our selected reported results to these non-GAAP measures.\n(2) Pre-provision earnings is calculated based on the sum of net interest income and non-interest income, less non-interest expense for the period.\nExhibit 99.2\nCapital One Financial Corporation Financial Supplement(1)(2) First Quarter 2018 Table of Contents\nCapital One Financial Corporation Consolidated Results Page\nTable 1: Financial Summary—Consolidated 1\nTable 2: Selected Metrics—Consolidated 3\nTable 3: Consolidated Statements of Income 4\nTable 4: Consolidated Balance Sheets 6\nTable 5: Notes to Financial Summary, Selected Metrics and Consolidated Financial Statements (Tables 1—4) 8\nTable 6: Average Balances, Net Interest Income and Net Interest Margin 9\nTable 7: Loan Information and Performance Statistics 10\nTable 8: Allowance for Loan and Lease Losses and Reserve for Unfunded Lending Commitments Activity 12 Business Segment Results\nTable 9: Financial Summary—Business Segment Results 13\nTable 10: Financial & Statistical Summary—Credit Card Business 14\nTable 11: Financial & Statistical Summary—Consumer Banking Business 16\nTable 12: Financial & Statistical Summary—Commercial Banking Business 17\nTable 13: Financial & Statistical Summary—Other and Total 18\nTable 14: Notes to Loan, Allowance and Business Segment Disclosures (Tables 7—13) 19 Other\nTable 15: Calculation of Regulatory Capital Measures and Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Measures 20 ___________\n(1) The information contained in this Financial Supplement is preliminary and based on data available at the time of the earnings presentation. Investors should refer to our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended March 31, 2018 once it is filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. (2) This Financial Supplement includes non-GAAP measures. We believe these non-GAAP measures are useful to investors and users of our financial information as they provide an alternate measurement of our performance and assist in assessing our capital adequacy and the level of return generated. These non-GAAP measures should not be viewed as a substitute for reported results determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the U.S. (\"GAAP\"), nor are they necessarily comparable to non-GAAP measures that may be presented by other companies.\nCAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION (COF) Table 1: Financial Summary—Consolidated\n2018 Q1 vs. (Dollars in millions, except per share data and as noted)\n2018\n2017\n2017\n2017\n2017\n2017\n2017\nQ1\nQ4\nQ3\nQ2\nQ1\nQ4\nQ1 Income Statement\nNet interest income\n$ 5,718\n$ 5,813\n$ 5,700\n$ 5,473\n$ 5,474\n(2) %\n4 % Non-interest income\n1,191\n1,200\n1,285\n1,231\n1,061\n(1)\n12\nTotal net revenue(1)\n6,909\n7,013\n6,985\n6,704\n6,535\n(1)\n6\nProvision for credit losses\n1,674\n1,926\n1,833\n1,800\n1,992\n(13)\n(16)\nNon-interest expense:\nMarketing\n414\n460\n379\n435\n396\n(10)\n5\nOperating expenses\n3,159\n3,319\n3,188\n2,979\n3,038\n(5)\n4\nTotal non-interest expense\n3,573\n3,779\n3,567\n3,414\n3,434\n(5)\n4\nIncome from continuing operations before income taxes\n1,662\n1,308\n1,585\n1,490\n1,109\n27\n50\nIncome tax provision\n319\n2,170\n448\n443\n314\n(85)\n2\nIncome (loss) from continuing operations, net of tax\n1,343\n(862)\n1,137\n1,047\n795\n**\n69\nIncome (loss) from discontinued operations, net of tax\n3\n(109)\n(30)\n(11)\n15\n**\n(80)\nNet income (loss)\n1,346\n(971)\n1,107\n1,036\n810\n**\n66\nDividends and undistributed earnings allocated to participating securities(2)\n(10)\n(1)\n(8)\n(8)\n(5)\n**\n100\nPreferred stock dividends\n(52)\n(80)\n(52)\n(80)\n(53)\n(35)\n(2)\nNet income (loss) available to common stockholders\n$ 1,284\n$ (1,052)\n$ 1,047\n$ 948\n$ 752\n**\n71\nCommon Share Statistics\nBasic earnings per common share:(2)\nNet income (loss) from continuing operations\n$ 2.63\n$ (1.95)\n$ 2.22\n$ 1.98\n$ 1.53\n**\n72 % Income (loss) from discontinued operations\n0.01\n(0.22)\n(0.06)\n(0.02)\n0.03\n**\n(67)\nNet income (loss) per basic common share\n$ 2.64\n$ (2.17)\n$ 2.16\n$ 1.96\n$ 1.56\n**\n69\nDiluted earnings per common share:(2)\nNet income (loss) from continuing operations\n$ 2.61\n$ (1.95)\n$ 2.20\n$ 1.96\n$ 1.51\n**\n73\nIncome (loss) from discontinued operations\n0.01\n(0.22)\n(0.06)\n(0.02)\n0.03\n**\n(67)\nNet income (loss) per diluted common share\n$ 2.62\n$ (2.17)\n$ 2.14\n$ 1.94\n$ 1.54\n**\n70\nWeighted-average common shares outstanding (in millions):\nBasic\n486.9\n485.7\n484.9\n484.0\n482.3\n—\n1\nDiluted\n490.8\n485.7\n489.0\n488.1\n487.9\n1 %\n1\nCommon shares outstanding (period-end, in millions)\n485.9\n485.5\n484.4\n483.7\n482.8\n—\n1\nDividends declared and paid per common share\n$ 0.40\n$ 0.40\n$ 0.40\n$ 0.40\n$ 0.40\n—\n—\nTangible book value per common share (period-end)(3)\n61.29\n60.28\n63.06\n60.94\n58.66\n2\n4\n2018 Q1 vs. (Dollars in millions)\n2018\n2017\n2017\n2017\n2017\n2017\n2017\nQ1\nQ4\nQ3\nQ2\nQ1\nQ4\nQ1 Balance Sheet (Period-End)\nLoans held for investment(4)\n$ 248,256\n$ 254,473\n$ 252,422\n$ 244,302\n$ 240,588\n(2) %\n3 % Interest-earning assets\n332,251\n334,124\n329,002\n319,286\n316,712\n(1)\n5\nTotal assets\n362,857\n365,693\n361,402\n350,593\n348,549\n(1)\n4\nInterest-bearing deposits\n224,671\n217,298\n212,956\n213,810\n214,818\n3\n5\nTotal deposits\n250,847\n243,702\n239,062\n239,763\n241,182\n3\n4\nBorrowings\n50,693\n60,281\n59,458\n49,954\n48,439\n(16)\n5\nCommon equity\n44,842\n44,370\n45,794\n44,777\n43,680\n1\n3\nTotal stockholders' equity\n49,203\n48,730\n50,154\n49,137\n48,040\n1\n2\nBalance Sheet (Average Balances)\nLoans held for investment(4)\n$ 249,726\n$ 252,566\n$ 245,822\n$ 242,241\n$ 241,505\n(1) %\n3 % Interest-earning assets\n330,183\n330,742\n322,015\n318,078\n318,358\n—\n4\nTotal assets\n362,049\n363,045\n355,191\n349,891\n351,641\n—\n3\nInterest-bearing deposits\n219,670\n215,258\n213,137\n214,412\n212,973\n2\n3\nTotal deposits\n245,270\n241,562\n238,843\n240,550\n238,550\n2\n3\nBorrowings\n54,588\n58,109\n54,271\n48,838\n53,357\n(6)\n2\nCommon equity\n44,670\n46,350\n45,816\n44,645\n43,833\n(4)\n2\nTotal stockholders' equity\n49,031\n50,710\n50,176\n49,005\n48,193\n(3)\n2\nCAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION (COF) Table 2: Selected Metrics—Consolidated\n2018 Q1 vs. (Dollars in millions, except as noted)\n2018\n2017\n2017\n2017\n2017\n2017\n2017\nQ1\nQ4\nQ3\nQ2\nQ1\nQ4\nQ1 Performance Metrics\nNet interest income growth (period over period)\n(2) %\n2 %\n4 %\n—\n—\n**\n** Non-interest income growth (period over period)\n(1)\n(7)\n4\n16 %\n(5) %\n**\n** Total net revenue growth (period over period)\n(1)\n—\n4\n3\n—\n**\n** Total net revenue margin(5)\n8.37\n8.48\n8.68\n8.43\n8.21\n(11) bps\n16 bps Net interest margin(6)\n6.93\n7.03\n7.08\n6.88\n6.88\n(10)\n5\nReturn on average assets\n1.48\n(0.95)\n1.28\n1.20\n0.90\n243\n58\nReturn on average tangible assets(7)\n1.55\n(0.99)\n1.34\n1.25\n0.95\n254\n60\nReturn on average common equity(8)\n11.47\n(8.14)\n9.40\n8.59\n6.73\n**\n474\nReturn on average tangible common equity(9)\n17.32\n(12.12)\n14.11\n13.09\n10.37\n**\n695\nNon-interest expense as a percentage of average loans held for investment\n5.72\n5.98\n5.80\n5.64\n5.69\n(26)\n3\nEfficiency ratio(10)\n51.72\n53.89\n51.07\n50.92\n52.55\n(217)\n(83)\nEffective income tax rate for continuing operations\n19.2\n165.9\n28.3\n29.7\n28.3\n**\n** Employees (in thousands), period-end\n47.9\n49.3\n50.4\n49.9\n48.4\n(3) %\n(1) % Credit Quality Metrics\nAllowance for loan and lease losses\n$ 7,567\n$ 7,502\n$ 7,418\n$ 7,170\n$ 6,984\n1 %\n8 % Allowance as a percentage of loans held for investment\n3.05 %\n2.95 %\n2.94 %\n2.93 %\n2.90 %\n10 bps\n15 bps Net charge-offs\n$ 1,618\n$ 1,828\n$ 1,606\n$ 1,618\n$ 1,510\n(11) %\n7 % Net charge-off rate(11)\n2.59 %\n2.89 %\n2.61 %\n2.67 %\n2.50 %\n(30) bps\n9 bps 30+ day performing delinquency rate\n2.72\n3.23\n2.93\n2.69\n2.61\n(51)\n11\n30+ day delinquency rate\n2.91\n3.48\n3.24\n2.99\n2.92\n(57)\n(1)\nCapital Ratios(12)\nCommon equity Tier 1 capital\n10.5 %\n10.3 %\n10.7 %\n10.7 %\n10.4 %\n20 bps\n10 bps Tier 1 capital\n12.0\n11.8\n12.2\n12.2\n12.0\n20\n—\nTotal capital\n14.5\n14.4\n14.8\n14.9\n14.7\n10\n(20)\nTier 1 leverage\n10.1\n9.9\n10.5\n10.3\n9.9\n20\n20\nTangible common equity (\"TCE\")(13)\n8.6\n8.3\n8.8\n8.8\n8.5\n30\n10\nCAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION (COF) Table 3: Consolidated Statements of Income\n2018 Q1 vs.\n2018\n2017\n2017\n2017\n2017\n2017\n2017 (Dollars in millions, except per share data and as noted)\nQ1\nQ4\nQ3\nQ2\nQ1\nQ4\nQ1 Interest income:\nLoans, including loans held for sale\n$ 6,134\n$ 6,133\n$ 5,960\n$ 5,669\n$ 5,626\n—\n9 % Investment securities\n452\n431\n431\n433\n416\n5 %\n9\nOther\n51\n40\n29\n26\n28\n28\n82\nTotal interest income\n6,637\n6,604\n6,420\n6,128\n6,070\n—\n9\nInterest expense:\nDeposits\n539\n457\n410\n382\n353\n18\n53\nSecuritized debt obligations\n107\n91\n85\n82\n69\n18\n55\nSenior and subordinated notes\n251\n209\n194\n179\n149\n20\n68\nOther borrowings\n22\n34\n31\n12\n25\n(35)\n(12)\nTotal interest expense\n919\n791\n720\n655\n596\n16\n54\nNet interest income\n5,718\n5,813\n5,700\n5,473\n5,474\n(2)\n4\nProvision for credit losses\n1,674\n1,926\n1,833\n1,800\n1,992\n(13)\n(16)\nNet interest income after provision for credit losses\n4,044\n3,887\n3,867\n3,673\n3,482\n4\n16\nNon-interest income:\nInterchange fees, net\n643\n665\n662\n676\n570\n(3)\n13\nService charges and other customer-related fees\n432\n394\n414\n418\n371\n10\n16\nNet securities gains (losses)\n8\n1\n68\n(4)\n—\n**\n** Other\n108\n140\n141\n141\n120\n(23)\n(10)\nTotal non-interest income\n1,191\n1,200\n1,285\n1,231\n1,061\n(1)\n12\nNon-interest expense:\nSalaries and associate benefits\n1,520\n1,521\n1,524\n1,383\n1,471\n—\n3\nOccupancy and equipment\n490\n523\n471\n474\n471\n(6)\n4\nMarketing\n414\n460\n379\n435\n396\n(10)\n5\nProfessional services\n210\n274\n297\n279\n247\n(23)\n(15)\nCommunications and data processing\n306\n306\n294\n289\n288\n—\n6\nAmortization of intangibles\n44\n61\n61\n61\n62\n(28)\n(29)\nOther\n589\n634\n541\n493\n499\n(7)\n18\nTotal non-interest expense\n3,573\n3,779\n3,567\n3,414\n3,434\n(5)\n4\nIncome from continuing operations before income taxes\n1,662\n1,308\n1,585\n1,490\n1,109\n27\n50\nIncome tax provision\n319\n2,170\n448\n443\n314\n(85)\n2\nIncome (loss) from continuing operations, net of tax\n1,343\n(862)\n1,137\n1,047\n795\n**\n69\nIncome (loss) from discontinued operations, net of tax\n3\n(109)\n(30)\n(11)\n15\n**\n(80)\nNet income (loss)\n1,346\n(971)\n1,107\n1,036\n810\n**\n66\nDividends and undistributed earnings allocated to participating securities(2)\n(10)\n(1)\n(8)\n(8)\n(5)\n**\n100\nPreferred stock dividends\n(52)\n(80)\n(52)\n(80)\n(53)\n(35)\n(2)\nNet income (loss) available to common stockholders\n$ 1,284\n$ (1,052)\n$ 1,047\n$ 948\n$ 752\n**\n71\n2018 Q1 vs.\n2018\n2017\n2017\n2017\n2017\n2017\n2017 (Dollars in millions, except per share data and as noted)\nQ1\nQ4\nQ3\nQ2\nQ1\nQ4\nQ1 Basic earnings per common share:(2)\nNet income (loss) from continuing operations\n$ 2.63\n$ (1.95)\n$ 2.22\n$ 1.98\n$ 1.53\n**\n72 % Income (loss) from discontinued operations\n0.01\n(0.22)\n(0.06)\n(0.02)\n0.03\n**\n(67)\nNet income (loss) per basic common share\n$ 2.64\n$ (2.17)\n$ 2.16\n$ 1.96\n$ 1.56\n**\n69\nDiluted earnings per common share:(2)\nNet income (loss) from continuing operations\n$ 2.61\n$ (1.95)\n$ 2.20\n$ 1.96\n$ 1.51\n**\n73\nIncome (loss) from discontinued operations\n0.01\n(0.22)\n(0.06)\n(0.02)\n0.03\n**\n(67)\nNet income (loss) per diluted common share\n$ 2.62\n$ (2.17)\n$ 2.14\n$ 1.94\n$ 1.54\n**\n70\nWeighted-average common shares outstanding (in millions):\nBasic common shares\n486.9\n485.7\n484.9\n484.0\n482.3\n—\n1 % Diluted common shares\n490.8\n485.7\n489.0\n488.1\n487.9\n1 %\n1\nDividends declared and paid per common share\n$ 0.40\n$ 0.40\n$ 0.40\n$ 0.40\n$ 0.40\n—\n—\nCAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION (COF) Table 4: Consolidated Balance Sheets\n2018 Q1 vs.\n2018\n2017\n2017\n2017\n2017\n2017\n2017 (Dollars in millions)\nQ1\nQ4\nQ3\nQ2\nQ1\nQ4\nQ1 Assets:\nCash and cash equivalents:\nCash and due from banks\n$ 4,220\n$ 4,458\n$ 4,154\n$ 3,352\n$ 3,489\n(5) %\n21 % Interest-bearing deposits and other short-term investments\n9,788\n9,582\n4,330\n3,363\n5,826\n2\n68\nTotal cash and cash equivalents\n14,008\n14,040\n8,484\n6,715\n9,315\n—\n50\nRestricted cash for securitization investors\n309\n312\n304\n300\n486\n(1)\n(36)\nInvestment securities:\nSecurities available for sale, at fair value\n47,155\n37,655\n39,742\n41,120\n41,260\n25\n14\nSecurities held to maturity, at carrying value\n23,075\n28,984\n28,650\n27,720\n26,170\n(20)\n(12)\nTotal investment securities\n70,230\n66,639\n68,392\n68,840\n67,430\n5\n4\nLoans held for investment:(4)\nUnsecuritized loans held for investment\n213,313\n218,806\n217,659\n214,864\n211,038\n(3)\n1\nLoans held in consolidated trusts\n34,943\n35,667\n34,763\n29,438\n29,550\n(2)\n18\nTotal loans held for investment\n248,256\n254,473\n252,422\n244,302\n240,588\n(2)\n3\nAllowance for loan and lease losses\n(7,567)\n(7,502)\n(7,418)\n(7,170)\n(6,984)\n1\n8\nNet loans held for investment\n240,689\n246,971\n245,004\n237,132\n233,604\n(3)\n3\nLoans held for sale, at lower of cost or fair value\n1,498\n971\n1,566\n777\n735\n54\n104\nPremises and equipment, net\n4,055\n4,033\n3,955\n3,825\n3,727\n1\n9\nInterest receivable\n1,496\n1,536\n1,426\n1,346\n1,368\n(3)\n9\nGoodwill\n14,536\n14,533\n14,532\n14,524\n14,521\n—\n—\nOther assets\n16,036\n16,658\n17,739\n17,134\n17,363\n(4)\n(8)\nTotal assets\n$ 362,857\n$ 365,693\n$ 361,402\n$ 350,593\n$ 348,549\n(1)\n4\n2018 Q1 vs.\n2018\n2017\n2017\n2017\n2017\n2017\n2017 (Dollars in millions)\nQ1\nQ4\nQ3\nQ2\nQ1\nQ4\nQ1 Liabilities:\nInterest payable\n$ 353\n$ 413\n$ 301\n$ 376\n$ 260\n(15) %\n36 % Deposits:\nNon-interest-bearing deposits\n26,176\n26,404\n26,106\n25,953\n26,364\n(1)\n(1)\nInterest-bearing deposits\n224,671\n217,298\n212,956\n213,810\n214,818\n3\n5\nTotal deposits\n250,847\n243,702\n239,062\n239,763\n241,182\n3\n4\nSecuritized debt obligations\n18,665\n20,010\n17,087\n18,358\n18,528\n(7)\n1\nOther debt:\nFederal funds purchased and securities loaned or sold under agreements to repurchase\n656\n576\n767\n958\n1,046\n14\n(37)\nSenior and subordinated notes\n31,051\n30,755\n28,420\n28,478\n26,405\n1\n18\nOther borrowings\n321\n8,940\n13,184\n2,160\n2,460\n(96)\n(87)\nTotal other debt\n32,028\n40,271\n42,371\n31,596\n29,911\n(20)\n7\nOther liabilities\n11,761\n12,567\n12,427\n11,363\n10,628\n(6)\n11\nTotal liabilities\n313,654\n316,963\n311,248\n301,456\n300,509\n(1)\n4\nStockholders' equity:\nPreferred stock\n0\n0\n0\n0\n0\n—\n—\nCommon stock\n7\n7\n7\n7\n7\n—\n—\nAdditional paid-in capital, net\n31,779\n31,656\n31,526\n31,413\n31,326\n—\n1\nRetained earnings\n31,996\n30,700\n31,946\n31,086\n30,326\n4\n6\nAccumulated other comprehensive loss\n(1,599)\n(926)\n(622)\n(683)\n(934)\n73\n71\nTreasury stock, at cost\n(12,980)\n(12,707)\n(12,703)\n(12,686)\n(12,685)\n2\n2\nTotal stockholders' equity\n49,203\n48,730\n50,154\n49,137\n48,040\n1\n2\nTotal liabilities and stockholders' equity\n$ 362,857\n$ 365,693\n$ 361,402\n$ 350,593\n$ 348,549\n(1)\n4\nCAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION (COF) Table 5: Notes to Financial Summary, Selected Metrics and Consolidated Financial Statements (Tables 1—4)\n(1) Total net revenue was reduced by $335 million in Q1 2018, $377 million in Q4 2017, $356 million in Q3 2017, $313 million in Q2 2017 and $321 million in Q1 2017 for the estimated uncollectible amount of billed finance charges and fees and related losses. (2) Dividends and undistributed earnings allocated to participating securities and earnings per share are computed independently for each period. Accordingly, the sum of each quarterly amount may not agree to the year-to-date total. We also provide adjusted diluted earnings per share, which is a non-GAAP measure. See \"Table 15: Calculation of Regulatory Capital Measures and Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Measures\" for additional information on our non-GAAP measures. (3) Tangible book value per common share is a non-GAAP measure calculated based on tangible common equity divided by common shares outstanding. See \"Table 15: Calculation of Regulatory Capital Measures and Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Measures\" for additional information on non-GAAP measures. (4) Included in loans held for investment are purchased credit-impaired loans (\"PCI loans\") recorded at fair value at acquisition and subsequently accounted for based on estimated cash flows expected to be collected over the life of the loans (under the accounting standard formerly known as \"SOP 03-3,\" or Accounting Standards Codification 310-30). These include certain of our consumer and commercial loans that were acquired through business combinations. The table below presents amounts related to PCI loans:\n2018\n2017\n2017\n2017\n2017\n(Dollars in millions)\nQ1\nQ4\nQ3\nQ2\nQ1\nPCI loans:\nPeriod-end unpaid principal balance\n$ 10,542\n$ 11,399\n$ 12,658\n$ 13,599\n$ 14,838\nPeriod-end loans held for investment\n9,935\n10,775\n11,985\n12,895\n14,102\nAverage loans held for investment\n10,286\n11,060\n12,270\n13,305\n14,433\n(5) Total net revenue margin is calculated based on annualized total net revenue for the period divided by average interest-earning assets for the period. (6) Net interest margin is calculated based on annualized net interest income for the period divided by average interest-earning assets for the period. (7) Return on average tangible assets is a non-GAAP measure calculated based on annualized income from continuing operations, net of tax, for the period divided by average tangible assets for the period. See \"Table 15: Calculation of Regulatory Capital Measures and Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Measures\" for additional information on non-GAAP measures. (8) Return on average common equity is calculated based on annualized (i) income from continuing operations, net of tax; (ii) less dividends and undistributed earnings allocated to participating securities; (iii) less preferred stock dividends, for the period, divided by average common equity for the period. Our calculation of return on average common equity may not be comparable to similarly-titled measures reported by other companies. (9) Return on average tangible common equity (\"ROTCE\") is a non-GAAP measure calculated based on annualized (i) income from continuing operations, net of tax; (ii) less dividends and undistributed earnings allocated to participating securities; (iii) less preferred stock dividends, for the period, divided by average tangible common equity for the period. Our calculation of ROTCE may not be comparable to similarly-titled measures reported by other companies. See \"Table 15: Calculation of Regulatory Capital Measures and Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Measures\" for additional information on non-GAAP measures. (10) Efficiency ratio is calculated based on total non-interest expense for the period divided by total net revenue for the period. We also provide an adjusted efficiency ratio, which is a non-GAAP measure. See \"Table 15: Calculation of Regulatory Capital Measures and Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Measures\" for additional information on our non-GAAP measures. (11) Net charge-off rate is calculated based on annualized net charge-offs for the period divided by average loans held for investment for the period. (12) Capital ratios as of the end of Q1 2018 are preliminary and therefore subject to change. See \"Table 15: Calculation of Regulatory Capital Measures and Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Measures\" for information on the calculation of each of these ratios. (13) TCE ratio is a non-GAAP measure calculated based on TCE divided by tangible assets. See \"Table 15: Calculation of Regulatory Capital Measures and Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Measures\" for additional information on non-GAAP measures. ** Not meaningful.\nCAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION (COF) Table 6: Average Balances, Net Interest Income and Net Interest Margin\n2018 Q1\n2017 Q4\n2017 Q1\nAverage\nBalance\nInterest\nIncome/\nExpense(1)\nYield/Rate(1)\nAverage\nBalance\nInterest\nIncome/\nExpense(1)\nYield/Rate(1)\nAverage\nBalance\nInterest\nIncome/\nExpense(1)\nYield/Rate(1) (Dollars in millions, except as noted)\nInterest-earning assets:\nLoans, including loans held for sale\n$ 250,906\n$ 6,134\n9.78 %\n$ 254,080\n$ 6,133\n9.66 %\n$ 242,249\n$ 5,626\n9.29 % Investment securities\n69,576\n452\n2.60\n68,992\n431\n2.50\n68,418\n416\n2.43\nCash equivalents and other\n9,701\n51\n2.10\n7,670\n40\n2.09\n7,691\n28\n1.46\nTotal interest-earning assets\n$ 330,183\n$ 6,637\n8.04\n$ 330,742\n$ 6,604\n7.99\n$ 318,358\n$ 6,070\n7.63\nInterest-bearing liabilities:\nInterest-bearing deposits\n$ 219,670\n$ 539\n0.98\n$ 215,258\n$ 457\n0.85\n$ 212,973\n$ 353\n0.66\nSecuritized debt obligations\n19,698\n107\n2.17\n19,751\n91\n1.84\n17,176\n69\n1.61\nSenior and subordinated notes\n30,430\n251\n3.30\n30,020\n209\n2.78\n24,804\n149\n2.40\nOther borrowings and liabilities\n6,849\n22\n1.28\n10,355\n34\n1.31\n12,356\n25\n0.81\nTotal interest-bearing liabilities\n$ 276,647\n$ 919\n1.33\n$ 275,384\n$ 791\n1.15\n$ 267,309\n$ 596\n0.89\nNet interest income/spread\n$ 5,718\n6.71\n$ 5,813\n6.84\n$ 5,474\n6.74\nImpact of non-interest-bearing funding\n0.22\n0.19\n0.14\nNet interest margin\n6.93 %\n7.03 %\n6.88 %\n__________ (1) Interest income and interest expense and the calculation of average yields on interest-earning assets and average rates on interest-bearing liabilities include the impact of hedge accounting. In the first quarter of 2018, we adopted Accounting Standard Update No. 2017-12, Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815): Targeted Improvements to Accounting for Hedging Activities. As a result, interest income and interest expense amounts shown above for Q1 2018 include $1 million and $30 million, respectively, related to hedge ineffectiveness that was previously included in other non-interest income.\nCAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION (COF) Table 7: Loan Information and Performance Statistics\n2018 Q1 vs. (Dollars in millions, except as noted)\n2018\nQ1\n2017\nQ4\n2017\nQ3\n2017\nQ2\n2017\nQ1\n2017\nQ4\n2017\nQ1 Loans Held for Investment (Period-End)\nCredit card:\nDomestic credit card\n$ 98,535\n$ 105,293\n$ 99,981\n$ 92,866\n$ 91,092\n(6) %\n8 % International card businesses\n9,041\n9,469\n9,149\n8,724\n8,121\n(5)\n11\nTotal credit card\n107,576\n114,762\n109,130\n101,590\n99,213\n(6)\n8\nConsumer banking:\nAuto\n54,811\n53,991\n53,290\n51,765\n49,771\n2\n10\nHome loan\n16,630\n17,633\n18,820\n19,724\n20,738\n(6)\n(20)\nRetail banking\n3,233\n3,454\n3,454\n3,484\n3,473\n(6)\n(7)\nTotal consumer banking\n74,674\n75,078\n75,564\n74,973\n73,982\n(1)\n1\nCommercial banking:\nCommercial and multifamily real estate\n27,360\n26,150\n27,944\n27,428\n27,218\n5\n1\nCommercial and industrial\n38,208\n38,025\n39,306\n39,801\n39,638\n—\n(4)\nTotal commercial lending\n65,568\n64,175\n67,250\n67,229\n66,856\n2\n(2)\nSmall-ticket commercial real estate\n385\n400\n420\n443\n464\n(4)\n(17)\nTotal commercial banking\n65,953\n64,575\n67,670\n67,672\n67,320\n2\n(2)\nOther loans\n53\n58\n58\n67\n73\n(9)\n(27)\nTotal loans held for investment\n$ 248,256\n$ 254,473\n$ 252,422\n$ 244,302\n$ 240,588\n(2)\n3\nLoans Held for Investment (Average)\nCredit card:\nDomestic credit card\n$ 100,450\n$ 101,087\n$ 93,729\n$ 91,769\n$ 93,034\n(1) %\n8 % International card businesses\n9,052\n8,942\n8,816\n8,274\n8,135\n1\n11\nTotal credit card\n109,502\n110,029\n102,545\n100,043\n101,169\n—\n8\nConsumer banking:\nAuto\n54,344\n53,747\n52,615\n50,803\n48,673\n1\n12\nHome loan\n17,224\n18,109\n19,302\n20,203\n21,149\n(5)\n(19)\nRetail banking\n3,429\n3,433\n3,446\n3,463\n3,509\n—\n(2)\nTotal consumer banking\n74,997\n75,289\n75,363\n74,469\n73,331\n—\n2\nCommercial banking:\nCommercial and multifamily real estate\n26,542\n27,770\n27,703\n27,401\n26,587\n(4)\n—\nCommercial and industrial\n38,246\n39,020\n39,723\n39,815\n39,877\n(2)\n(4)\nTotal commercial lending\n64,788\n66,790\n67,426\n67,216\n66,464\n(3)\n(3)\nSmall-ticket commercial real estate\n393\n410\n433\n453\n474\n(4)\n(17)\nTotal commercial banking\n65,181\n67,200\n67,859\n67,669\n66,938\n(3)\n(3)\nOther loans\n46\n48\n55\n60\n67\n(4)\n(31)\nTotal average loans held for investment\n$ 249,726\n$ 252,566\n$ 245,822\n$ 242,241\n$ 241,505\n(1)\n3\n2018 Q1 vs.\n2018\nQ1\n2017\nQ4\n2017\nQ3\n2017\nQ2\n2017\nQ1\n2017\nQ4\n2017\nQ1 Net Charge-Off (Recovery) Rates\nCredit card:\nDomestic credit card\n5.26 %\n5.08 %\n4.64 %\n5.11 %\n5.14 %\n18 bps\n12 bps International card businesses\n2.49\n3.92\n3.08\n4.08\n3.69\n(143)\n(120)\nTotal credit card\n5.03\n4.99\n4.51\n5.02\n5.02\n4\n1\nConsumer banking:\nAuto\n1.53\n2.12\n1.96\n1.70\n1.64\n(59)\n(11)\nHome loan\n(0.03)\n0.23\n0.02\n0.04\n0.03\n(26)\n(6)\nRetail banking\n1.89\n1.94\n2.10\n1.71\n1.92\n(5)\n(3)\nTotal consumer banking\n1.19\n1.66\n1.47\n1.25\n1.19\n(47)\n—\nCommercial banking:\nCommercial and multifamily real estate\n—\n(0.01)\n(0.01)\n0.03\n—\n1\n—\nCommercial and industrial\n0.20\n1.47\n1.64\n1.34\n0.22\n(127)\n(2)\nTotal commercial lending\n0.12\n0.86\n0.97\n0.81\n0.13\n(74)\n(1)\nSmall-ticket commercial real estate\n(0.18)\n(0.05)\n0.12\n(0.22)\n1.05\n(13)\n(123)\nTotal commercial banking\n0.11\n0.85\n0.96\n0.80\n0.14\n(74)\n(3)\nTotal net charge-offs\n2.59\n2.89\n2.61\n2.67\n2.50\n(30)\n9\n30+ Day Performing Delinquency Rates\nCredit card:\nDomestic credit card\n3.57 %\n4.01 %\n3.94 %\n3.63 %\n3.71 %\n(44) bps\n(14) bps International card businesses\n3.62\n3.64\n3.54\n3.28\n3.39\n(2)\n23\nTotal credit card\n3.58\n3.98\n3.91\n3.60\n3.68\n(40)\n(10)\nConsumer banking:\nAuto\n5.15\n6.51\n5.71\n5.40\n5.03\n(136)\n12\nHome loan\n0.20\n0.20\n0.17\n0.14\n0.15\n—\n5\nRetail banking\n0.75\n0.76\n0.73\n0.54\n0.59\n(1)\n16\nTotal consumer banking\n3.86\n4.76\n4.10\n3.79\n3.45\n(90)\n41\nNonperforming Loans and Nonperforming Assets Rates(1)(2)\nCredit card:\nInternational card businesses\n0.25 %\n0.25 %\n0.28 %\n0.37 %\n0.47 %\n—\n(22) bps Total credit card\n0.02\n0.02\n0.02\n0.03\n0.04\n—\n(2)\nConsumer banking:\nAuto\n0.50\n0.70\n0.65\n0.53\n0.36\n(20) bps\n14\nHome loan\n0.86\n1.00\n0.84\n1.31\n1.27\n(14)\n(41)\nRetail banking\n1.04\n1.00\n0.97\n0.96\n0.82\n4\n22\nTotal consumer banking\n0.61\n0.78\n0.71\n0.75\n0.64\n(17)\n(3)\nCommercial banking:\nCommercial and multifamily real estate\n0.01\n0.15\n0.23\n0.13\n0.13\n(14)\n(12)\nCommercial and industrial\n0.78\n0.63\n1.82\n1.62\n2.02\n15\n(124)\nTotal commercial lending\n0.46\n0.43\n1.16\n1.01\n1.25\n3\n(79)\nSmall-ticket commercial real estate\n1.46\n1.65\n1.59\n1.89\n1.65\n(19)\n(19)\nTotal commercial banking\n0.47\n0.44\n1.16\n1.01\n1.25\n3\n(78)\nTotal nonperforming loans\n0.32\n0.35\n0.54\n0.53\n0.57\n(3)\n(25)\nTotal nonperforming assets\n0.35\n0.41\n0.60\n0.60\n0.66\n(6)\n(31)\nCAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION (COF) Table 8: Allowance for Loan and Lease Losses and Reserve for Unfunded Lending Commitments Activity\nThree Months Ended March 31, 2018\nCredit Card\nConsumer Banking\n(Dollars in millions)\nDomestic\nCard\nInternational\nCard\nBusinesses\nTotal Credit\nCard\nAuto\nHome\nLoan\nRetail\nBanking\nTotal\nConsumer\nBanking\nCommercial\nBanking\nOther(3)\nTotal Allowance for loan and lease losses:\nBalance as of December 31, 2017\n$ 5,273\n$ 375\n$ 5,648\n$ 1,119\n$ 58\n$ 65\n$ 1,242\n$ 611\n$ 1\n$ 7,502\nCharge-offs\n(1,697)\n(128)\n(1,825)\n(410)\n—\n(21)\n(431)\n(21)\n1\n(2,276)\nRecoveries\n376\n72\n448\n202\n1\n5\n208\n2\n—\n658\nNet charge-offs\n(1,321)\n(56)\n(1,377)\n(208)\n1\n(16)\n(223)\n(19)\n1\n(1,618)\nProvision (benefit) for loan and lease losses\n1,380\n76\n1,456\n226\n(6)\n14\n234\n(5)\n(1)\n1,684\nAllowance build (release) for loan and lease losses\n59\n20\n79\n18\n(5)\n(2)\n11\n(24)\n—\n66\nOther changes(4)\n—\n(1)\n(1)\n—\n—\n—\n—\n—\n—\n(1)\nBalance as of March 31, 2018\n5,332\n394\n5,726\n1,137\n53\n63\n1,253\n587\n1\n7,567\nReserve for unfunded lending commitments:\nBalance as of December 31, 2017\n—\n—\n—\n—\n—\n7\n7\n117\n—\n124\nBenefit for losses on unfunded lending commitments\n—\n—\n—\n—\n—\n(1)\n(1)\n(9)\n—\n(10)\nBalance as of March 31, 2018\n—\n—\n—\n—\n—\n6\n6\n108\n—\n114\nCombined allowance and reserve as of March 31, 2018\n$ 5,332\n$ 394\n$ 5,726\n$ 1,137\n$ 53\n$ 69\n$ 1,259\n$ 695\n$ 1\n$ 7,681\nCAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION (COF) Table 9: Financial Summary—Business Segment Results\nThree Months Ended March 31, 2018 (Dollars in millions)\nCredit Card\nConsumer\nBanking\nCommercial\nBanking(6)(7)\nOther(6)(7)\nTotal Net interest income\n$ 3,558\n$ 1,615\n$ 536\n$ 9\n$ 5,718\nNon-interest income\n857\n174\n187\n(27)\n1,191\nTotal net revenue (loss)\n4,415\n1,789\n723\n(18)\n6,909\nProvision (benefit) for credit losses\n1,456\n233\n(14)\n(1)\n1,674\nNon-interest expense\n2,039\n1,000\n403\n131\n3,573\nIncome (loss) from continuing operations before income taxes\n920\n556\n334\n(148)\n1,662\nIncome tax provision (benefit)\n213\n130\n78\n(102)\n319\nIncome (loss) from continuing operations, net of tax\n$ 707\n$ 426\n$ 256\n$ (46)\n$ 1,343\nThree Months Ended December 31, 2017 (Dollars in millions)\nCredit Card\nConsumer\nBanking\nCommercial\nBanking(6)\nOther(5)(6)\nTotal Net interest income\n$ 3,568\n$ 1,636\n$ 566\n$ 43\n$ 5,813\nNon-interest income\n847\n179\n188\n(14)\n1,200\nTotal net revenue\n4,415\n1,815\n754\n29\n7,013\nProvision for credit losses\n1,486\n340\n100\n—\n1,926\nNon-interest expense\n2,108\n1,081\n437\n153\n3,779\nIncome (loss) from continuing operations before income taxes\n821\n394\n217\n(124)\n1,308\nIncome tax provision\n297\n144\n79\n1,650\n2,170\nIncome (loss) from continuing operations, net of tax\n$ 524\n$ 250\n$ 138\n$ (1,774)\n$ (862)\nThree Months Ended March 31, 2017 (Dollars in millions)\nCredit Card\nConsumer\nBanking\nCommercial\nBanking(6)\nOther(6)\nTotal Net interest income\n$ 3,346\n$ 1,517\n$ 566\n$ 45\n$ 5,474\nNon-interest income\n738\n195\n158\n(30)\n1,061\nTotal net revenue\n4,084\n1,712\n724\n15\n6,535\nProvision (benefit) for credit losses\n1,717\n279\n(2)\n(2)\n1,992\nNon-interest expense\n1,929\n1,042\n391\n72\n3,434\nIncome (loss) from continuing operations before income taxes\n438\n391\n335\n(55)\n1,109\nIncome tax provision (benefit)\n167\n143\n122\n(118)\n314\nIncome from continuing operations, net of tax\n$ 271\n$ 248\n$ 213\n$ 63\n$ 795\nCAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION (COF) Table 10: Financial & Statistical Summary—Credit Card Business\n2018 Q1 vs.\n2018\n2017\n2017\n2017\n2017\n2017\n2017 (Dollars in millions, except as noted)\nQ1\nQ4\nQ3\nQ2\nQ1\nQ4\nQ1 Credit Card\nEarnings:\nNet interest income\n$ 3,558\n$ 3,568\n$ 3,440\n$ 3,294\n$ 3,346\n—\n6 % Non-interest income\n857\n847\n865\n875\n738\n1 %\n16\nTotal net revenue\n4,415\n4,415\n4,305\n4,169\n4,084\n—\n8\nProvision for credit losses\n1,456\n1,486\n1,466\n1,397\n1,717\n(2)\n(15)\nNon-interest expense\n2,039\n2,108\n1,961\n1,918\n1,929\n(3)\n6\nIncome from continuing operations before income taxes\n920\n821\n878\n854\n438\n12\n110\nIncome tax provision\n213\n297\n306\n301\n167\n(28)\n28\nIncome from continuing operations, net of tax\n$ 707\n$ 524\n$ 572\n$ 553\n$ 271\n35\n161\nSelected performance metrics:\nPeriod-end loans held for investment\n$ 107,576\n$ 114,762\n$ 109,130\n$ 101,590\n$ 99,213\n(6)\n8\nAverage loans held for investment\n109,502\n110,029\n102,545\n100,043\n101,169\n—\n8\nAverage yield on loans held for investment(8)\n15.24 %\n15.13 %\n15.58 %\n15.14 %\n14.99 %\n11 bps\n25 bps Total net revenue margin(9)\n16.13\n16.05\n16.79\n16.67\n16.14\n8\n(1)\nNet charge-off rate\n5.03\n4.99\n4.51\n5.02\n5.02\n4\n1\n30+ day performing delinquency rate\n3.58\n3.98\n3.91\n3.60\n3.68\n(40)\n(10)\n30+ day delinquency rate\n3.59\n3.99\n3.92\n3.62\n3.71\n(40)\n(12)\nNonperforming loan rate(1)\n0.02\n0.02\n0.02\n0.03\n0.04\n—\n(2)\nPurchase volume(10)\n$ 86,545\n$ 95,659\n$ 84,505\n$ 83,079\n$ 73,197\n(10) %\n18 %\n2018 Q1 vs.\n2018\n2017\n2017\n2017\n2017\n2017\n2017 (Dollars in millions, except as noted)\nQ1\nQ4\nQ3\nQ2\nQ1\nQ4\nQ1 Domestic Card\nEarnings:\nNet interest income\n$ 3,229\n$ 3,268\n$ 3,132\n$ 3,011\n$ 3,093\n(1) %\n4 % Non-interest income\n774\n781\n787\n802\n699\n(1)\n11\nTotal net revenue\n4,003\n4,049\n3,919\n3,813\n3,792\n(1)\n6\nProvision for credit losses\n1,380\n1,402\n1,417\n1,327\n1,637\n(2)\n(16)\nNon-interest expense\n1,832\n1,880\n1,754\n1,727\n1,717\n(3)\n7\nIncome from continuing operations before income taxes\n791\n767\n748\n759\n438\n3\n81\nIncome tax provision\n184\n280\n273\n277\n160\n(34)\n15\nIncome from continuing operations, net of tax\n$ 607\n$ 487\n$ 475\n$ 482\n$ 278\n25\n118\nSelected performance metrics:\nPeriod-end loans held for investment\n$ 98,535\n$ 105,293\n$ 99,981\n$ 92,866\n$ 91,092\n(6)\n8\nAverage loans held for investment\n100,450\n101,087\n93,729\n91,769\n93,034\n(1)\n8\nAverage yield on loans held for investment(8)\n15.10 %\n15.08 %\n15.51 %\n15.07 %\n15.01 %\n2 bps\n9 bps Total net revenue margin(9)\n15.94\n16.03\n16.72\n16.62\n16.30\n(9)\n(36)\nNet charge-off rate\n5.26\n5.08\n4.64\n5.11\n5.14\n18\n12\n30+ day delinquency rate\n3.57\n4.01\n3.94\n3.63\n3.71\n(44)\n(14)\nPurchase volume(10)\n$ 79,194\n$ 87,287\n$ 76,806\n$ 75,781\n$ 66,950\n(9) %\n18 % Refreshed FICO scores:(11)\nGreater than 660\n66 %\n66 %\n65 %\n64 %\n63 %\n—\n3\n660 or below\n34\n34\n35\n36\n37\n—\n(3)\nTotal\n100 %\n100 %\n100 %\n100 %\n100 %\nCAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION (COF) Table 11: Financial & Statistical Summary—Consumer Banking Business\n2018 Q1 vs.\n2018\n2017\n2017\n2017\n2017\n2017\n2017 (Dollars in millions, except as noted)\nQ1\nQ4\nQ3\nQ2\nQ1\nQ4\nQ1 Consumer Banking\nEarnings:\nNet interest income\n$ 1,615\n$ 1,636\n$ 1,649\n$ 1,578\n$ 1,517\n(1) %\n6 % Non-interest income\n174\n179\n192\n183\n195\n(3)\n(11)\nTotal net revenue\n1,789\n1,815\n1,841\n1,761\n1,712\n(1)\n4\nProvision for credit losses\n233\n340\n293\n268\n279\n(31)\n(16)\nNon-interest expense\n1,000\n1,081\n1,051\n1,059\n1,042\n(7)\n(4)\nIncome from continuing operations before income taxes\n556\n394\n497\n434\n391\n41\n42\nIncome tax provision\n130\n144\n181\n158\n143\n(10)\n(9)\nIncome from continuing operations, net of tax\n$ 426\n$ 250\n$ 316\n$ 276\n$ 248\n70\n72\nSelected performance metrics:\nPeriod-end loans held for investment\n$ 74,674\n$ 75,078\n$ 75,564\n$ 74,973\n$ 73,982\n(1)\n1\nAverage loans held for investment\n74,997\n75,289\n75,363\n74,469\n73,331\n—\n2\nAverage yield on loans held for investment(8)\n6.86 %\n6.84 %\n6.79 %\n6.56 %\n6.48 %\n2 bps\n38 bps Auto loan originations\n$ 6,707\n$ 6,215\n$ 7,043\n$ 7,453\n$ 7,025\n8 %\n(5) % Period-end deposits\n193,073\n185,842\n184,719\n186,607\n188,216\n4\n3\nAverage deposits\n187,785\n184,799\n185,072\n186,989\n183,936\n2\n2\nAverage deposits interest rate\n0.80 %\n0.69 %\n0.62 %\n0.59 %\n0.57 %\n11 bps\n23 bps Net charge-off rate\n1.19\n1.66\n1.47\n1.25\n1.19\n(47)\n—\n30+ day performing delinquency rate\n3.86\n4.76\n4.10\n3.79\n3.45\n(90)\n41\n30+ day delinquency rate\n4.27\n5.34\n4.61\n4.33\n3.93\n(107)\n34\nNonperforming loan rate(1)\n0.61\n0.78\n0.71\n0.75\n0.64\n(17)\n(3)\nNonperforming asset rate(2)\n0.70\n0.91\n0.88\n0.96\n0.92\n(21)\n(22)\nAuto—At origination FICO scores:(12)\nGreater than 660\n51 %\n51 %\n51 %\n51 %\n51 %\n—\n—\n621-660\n18\n18\n18\n18\n18\n—\n—\n620 or below\n31\n31\n31\n31\n31\n—\n—\nTotal\n100 %\n100 %\n100 %\n100 %\n100 %\nCAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION (COF) Table 12: Financial & Statistical Summary—Commercial Banking Business\n2018 Q1 vs.\n2018\n2017\n2017\n2017\n2017\n2017\n2017 (Dollars in millions, except as noted)\nQ1\nQ4\nQ3\nQ2\nQ1\nQ4\nQ1 Commercial Banking\nEarnings:\nNet interest income\n$ 536\n$ 566\n$ 560\n$ 569\n$ 566\n(5) %\n(5) % Non-interest income\n187\n188\n179\n183\n158\n(1)\n18\nTotal net revenue(6)(7)\n723\n754\n739\n752\n724\n(4)\n—\nProvision (benefit) for credit losses\n(14)\n100\n63\n140\n(2)\n**\n** Non-interest expense\n403\n437\n394\n381\n391\n(8)\n3\nIncome from continuing operations before income taxes\n334\n217\n282\n231\n335\n54\n—\nIncome tax provision\n78\n79\n103\n85\n122\n(1)\n(36)\nIncome from continuing operations, net of tax\n$ 256\n$ 138\n$ 179\n$ 146\n$ 213\n86\n20\nSelected performance metrics:\nPeriod-end loans held for investment\n$ 65,953\n$ 64,575\n$ 67,670\n$ 67,672\n$ 67,320\n2\n(2)\nAverage loans held for investment\n65,181\n67,200\n67,859\n67,669\n66,938\n(3)\n(3)\nAverage yield on loans held for investment(6)(8)\n4.16 %\n4.03 %\n3.98 %\n3.81 %\n3.65 %\n13 bps\n51 bps Period-end deposits\n$ 34,449\n$ 33,938\n$ 32,783\n$ 33,153\n$ 33,735\n2 %\n2 % Average deposits\n34,057\n34,117\n33,197\n34,263\n34,219\n—\n—\nAverage deposits interest rate\n0.52 %\n0.46 %\n0.42 %\n0.36 %\n0.31 %\n6 bps\n21 bps Net charge-off rate\n0.11\n0.85\n0.96\n0.80\n0.14\n(74)\n(3)\nNonperforming loan rate(1)\n0.47\n0.44\n1.16\n1.01\n1.25\n3\n(78)\nNonperforming asset rate(2)\n0.49\n0.52\n1.22\n1.04\n1.27\n(3)\n(78)\nRisk category:(13)\nNoncriticized\n$ 62,773\n$ 61,162\n$ 63,501\n$ 63,802\n$ 63,390\n3 %\n(1) % Criticized performing\n2,432\n2,649\n2,878\n2,660\n2,492\n(8)\n(2)\nCriticized nonperforming\n309\n284\n788\n686\n844\n9\n(63)\nPCI loans\n439\n480\n503\n524\n594\n(9)\n(26)\nTotal commercial loans\n$ 65,953\n$ 64,575\n$ 67,670\n$ 67,672\n$ 67,320\n2\n(2)\nRisk category as a percentage of period-end loans held for investment:(13)\nNoncriticized\n95.1 %\n94.7 %\n93.8 %\n94.3 %\n94.2 %\n40 bps\n90 bps Criticized performing\n3.7\n4.1\n4.3\n3.9\n3.7\n(40)\n—\nCriticized nonperforming\n0.5\n0.4\n1.2\n1.0\n1.2\n10\n(70)\nPCI loans\n0.7\n0.8\n0.7\n0.8\n0.9\n(10)\n(20)\nTotal commercial loans\n100.0 %\n100.0 %\n100.0 %\n100.0 %\n100.0 %\nCAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION (COF) Table 13: Financial & Statistical Summary—Other and Total\n2018 Q1 vs.\n2018\n2017\n2017\n2017\n2017\n2017\n2017 (Dollars in millions)\nQ1\nQ4\nQ3\nQ2\nQ1\nQ4\nQ1 Other(5)\nEarnings:\nNet interest income\n$ 9\n$ 43\n$ 51\n$ 32\n$ 45\n(79) %\n(80) % Non-interest income\n(27)\n(14)\n49\n(10)\n(30)\n93\n(10)\nTotal net revenue (loss)(6)(7)\n(18)\n29\n100\n22\n15\n**\n** Provision (benefit) for credit losses\n(1)\n—\n11\n(5)\n(2)\n**\n(50)\nNon-interest expense(14)\n131\n153\n161\n56\n72\n(14)\n82\nLoss from continuing operations before income taxes\n(148)\n(124)\n(72)\n(29)\n(55)\n19\n169\nIncome tax provision (benefit)\n(102)\n1,650\n(142)\n(101)\n(118)\n**\n(14)\nIncome (loss) from continuing operations, net of tax\n$ (46)\n$ (1,774)\n$ 70\n$ 72\n$ 63\n(97)\n** Selected performance metrics:\nPeriod-end loans held for investment\n$ 53\n$ 58\n$ 58\n$ 67\n$ 73\n(9)\n(27)\nAverage loans held for investment\n46\n48\n55\n60\n67\n(4)\n(31)\nPeriod-end deposits\n23,325\n23,922\n21,560\n20,003\n19,231\n(2)\n21\nAverage deposits\n23,428\n22,646\n20,574\n19,298\n20,395\n3\n15\nTotal\nEarnings:\nNet interest income\n$ 5,718\n$ 5,813\n$ 5,700\n$ 5,473\n$ 5,474\n(2) %\n4 % Non-interest income\n1,191\n1,200\n1,285\n1,231\n1,061\n(1)\n12\nTotal net revenue\n6,909\n7,013\n6,985\n6,704\n6,535\n(1)\n6\nProvision for credit losses\n1,674\n1,926\n1,833\n1,800\n1,992\n(13)\n(16)\nNon-interest expense\n3,573\n3,779\n3,567\n3,414\n3,434\n(5)\n4\nIncome from continuing operations before income taxes\n1,662\n1,308\n1,585\n1,490\n1,109\n27\n50\nIncome tax provision\n319\n2,170\n448\n443\n314\n(85)\n2\nIncome (loss) from continuing operations, net of tax\n$ 1,343\n$ (862)\n$ 1,137\n$ 1,047\n$ 795\n**\n69\nSelected performance metrics:\nPeriod-end loans held for investment\n$ 248,256\n$ 254,473\n$ 252,422\n$ 244,302\n$ 240,588\n(2)\n3\nAverage loans held for investment\n249,726\n252,566\n245,822\n242,241\n241,505\n(1)\n3\nPeriod-end deposits\n250,847\n243,702\n239,062\n239,763\n241,182\n3\n4\nAverage deposits\n245,270\n241,562\n238,843\n240,550\n238,550\n2\n3\nCAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION (COF) Table 14: Notes to Loan, Allowance and Business Segment Disclosures (Tables 7—13)\n(1) Nonperforming loan rates are calculated based on nonperforming loans for each category divided by period-end total loans held for investment for each respective category. (2) Nonperforming assets consist of nonperforming loans, real estate owned (\"REO\") and other foreclosed assets. The total nonperforming asset rate is calculated based on total nonperforming assets divided by the combined period-end total loans held for investment, REO and other foreclosed assets. (3) Primarily consists of the legacy loan portfolio of our discontinued GreenPoint mortgage operations. (4) Represents foreign currency translation adjustments and the net impact of loan transfers and sales where applicable. (5) Charges for the impacts of the Tax Act of $1.77 billion are reflected in the Other category of our business segment results for Q4 2017. This amount is a reasonable estimate as of December 31, 2017, which may be adjusted during the measurement period ending no later than December 2018. The Tax Act refers to the Act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on budget for fiscal year 2018 enacted on December 22, 2017. (6) Some of our commercial investments generate tax-exempt income, tax credits or other tax benefits. Accordingly, we present our Commercial Banking revenue and yields on a taxable-equivalent basis, calculated using the federal statutory tax rate (21% for the first quarter of 2018 and 35% for all periods in 2017) and state taxes where applicable, with offsetting reductions to the Other category. (7) In the first quarter of 2018, we made a change in how revenue is measured in our Commercial Banking business to include the tax benefits of losses on certain investments. These tax benefits are included in revenue on a taxable-equivalent basis within our Commercial Banking business, with an offsetting reduction to the Other category. In addition, all revenue presented on a taxable-equivalent basis in our Commercial Banking business was impacted by the reduction of the federal tax rate set forth in the Tax Act. The net impact of the measurement change and the reduction of the federal tax rate was a decrease of $28 million in revenue in our Commercial Banking business in the first quarter of 2018, with an offsetting impact to the Other category. (8) Average yield on loans held for investment is calculated based on annualized interest income for the period divided by average loans held for investment during the period for the respective loan category. Annualized interest income is computed based on the effective yield of the respective loan category and does not include any allocations, such as funds transfer pricing. (9) Total net revenue margin is calculated based on annualized total net revenue for the period divided by average loans held for investment during the period for the respective loan category. (10) Purchase volume consists of purchase transactions, net of returns, for the period, and excludes cash advance and balance transfer transactions. (11) Percentages represent period-end loans held for investment in each credit score category. Domestic card credit scores generally represent FICO scores. These scores are obtained from one of the major credit bureaus at origination and are refreshed monthly thereafter. We approximate non-FICO credit scores to comparable FICO scores for consistency purposes. Balances for which no credit score is available or the credit score is invalid are included in the 660 or below category. (12) Percentages represent period-end loans held for investment in each credit score category. Auto credit scores generally represent average FICO scores obtained from three credit bureaus at the time of application and are not refreshed thereafter. Balances for which no credit score is available or the credit score is invalid are included in the 620 or below category. (13) Criticized exposures correspond to the \"Special Mention,\" \"Substandard\" and \"Doubtful\" asset categories defined by bank regulatory authorities. (14) Includes charges incurred as a result of restructuring activities. ** Not meaningful.\nCAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION (COF) Table 15: Calculation of Regulatory Capital Measures and Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Measures(1)\nBasel III Standardized Approach (Dollars in millions, except as noted)\nMarch 31,\n2018\nDecember 31,\n2017\nSeptember 30,\n2017\nJune 30,\n2017\nMarch 31,\n2017 Regulatory Capital Metrics\nCommon equity excluding AOCI\n$ 46,441\n$ 45,296\n$ 46,415\n$ 45,459\n$ 44,614\nAdjustments:\nAOCI(2)(3)\n(1,599)\n(808)\n(538)\n(593)\n(807)\nGoodwill, net of related deferred tax liabilities\n(14,379)\n(14,380)\n(14,300)\n(14,299)\n(14,302)\nIntangible assets, net of related deferred tax liabilities(3)\n(371)\n(330)\n(372)\n(419)\n(465)\nOther\n620\n258\n93\n78\n121\nCommon equity Tier 1 capital\n$ 30,712\n$ 30,036\n$ 31,298\n$ 30,226\n$ 29,161\nTier 1 capital\n$ 35,073\n$ 34,396\n$ 35,657\n$ 34,585\n$ 33,519\nTotal capital(4)\n42,264\n41,962\n43,272\n42,101\n40,979\nRisk-weighted assets\n291,352\n292,225\n292,041\n283,231\n279,302\nAdjusted average assets(5)\n347,287\n348,424\n340,579\n335,248\n336,990\nCapital Ratios\nCommon equity Tier 1 capital(6)\n10.5 %\n10.3 %\n10.7 %\n10.7 %\n10.4 % Tier 1 capital(7)\n12.0\n11.8\n12.2\n12.2\n12.0\nTotal capital(8)\n14.5\n14.4\n14.8\n14.9\n14.7\nTier 1 leverage(5)\n10.1\n9.9\n10.5\n10.3\n9.9\nTangible common equity (\"TCE\")(9)\n8.6\n8.3\n8.8\n8.8\n8.5", "Logos of ConocoPhillips are seen in its booth at Gastech, the world's biggest expo for the gas industry, in Chiba, Japan, April 4, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai\nHOUSTON ConocoPhillips reported a surprise quarterly loss on Tuesday as operating costs came in higher than expected, sending its shares lower in afternoon trading.\nHowever, the largest U.S. independent oil producer's results reflected a slow but steady improvement across the industry bolstered by improved pricing for its oil and natural gas. Crude prices are up more than 50 percent from a year ago.\nDon Wallette Jr., chief financial officer, said the latest quarter included a $200 million loss from a currency hedge tied to the British pound and a benefit of about $100 million from a tax loss carry forward.\nThe company expects to complete the sale of some Canadian oil sands and natural gas properties this quarter, and will finish a planned $3 billion share buyback by year end, he said in a conference call.\nThe Houston-based company said its total realized price was $36.18 per barrel of oil equivalent in the first quarter, compared with $22.94 a year earlier.\nConocoPhillips's production, excluding Libya, inched up 2 percent to 1.584 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) in the latest quarter.\nThat was higher than Wall Street expectations of 1.571 million boepd.\n\"Production was above guidance, but this was outweighed by higher costs,\" Raymond James analyst Pavel Molchanov said.\nThe company's operating expenses of $1.30 billion were higher than Raymond James' estimate of $1.24 billion, Molchanov said. Exploration expenses of $258 million on a pre-tax basis were also much larger than the $70 million Barclays analysts had estimated.\nConocoPhillips said it expects production of between 1.495 million and 1.535 million boepd for the current quarter, excluding any output from Libya. The estimate does not reflect the impact of recently announced asset sales.\nThe oil producer said last month it would sell natural gas-heavy assets in San Juan basin to privately held Hilcorp Energy Co for about $3 billion and earlier agreed to sell oil sands and western Canadian natural gas assets to Cenovus Energy Inc for C$17.7 billion.\nConocoPhillips has also marked other gas-weighted assets for sale, including some assets in the Anadarko basin, the Barnett shale field, and the Gulf of Mexico.\nNet profit was $800 million, or 62 cents per share, in the first quarter ended March 31, compared with a net loss of $1.5 billion, or $1.18 per share, a year earlier.\nExcluding a gain on the sale of assets in Canada, the company posted a loss of 2 cents per share. Analysts on average were expecting a profit of 1 cent per share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.\n(Reporting by Swetha Gopinath in Bengaluru and Gary McWilliams in Houston; Editing by David Gregorio)", "FILE PHOTO: Encana offices is pictured in Parachute, Colorado, U.S. on December 10, 2014. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart/File Photo\nEncana Corp (ECA.TO) will likely benefit if the United States imposes a potential border tax, Chief Executive Douglas Suttles said on Tuesday as Canada's No. 2 oil and natural gas producer reported better-than-expected operating profits for the first quarter.\nA U.S. \"border adjustment tax,\" pushed by Republicans in Congress as a way to boost domestic manufacturing, could slap a tax of up to 20 percent on imports including crude oil, affecting Canadian companies, which send most of their products southward.\nBut speaking to media on a conference call, Encana (ECA.N) CEO Suttles said while the details of potential changes are not known, a border tax in general would make the company's condensate output more profitable.\n\"Condensate is (usually) an imported product from the United States,\" he said. \"If a border tax raised the price of oil in the United States, it will also raise the price of condensate. So even though we're producing it here in Canada, we'd still benefit.\"\nEncana would also benefit due to its significant U.S. crude production and from the expectation that a tax will depreciate the Canadian dollar, improving the company's margins, Suttles said.\nEncana on Tuesday posted a net profit of $431 million for the first quarter, compared with a loss of $379 million a year ago, helped by higher commodity prices.\nOil prices began to rise late last year after a two-year slump and have now stabilized at around $50 per barrel, as an OPEC-led production cut and rebounding demand slowly erode a global glut.\nGlobal benchmark Brent crude prices LCOc1 jumped 55 percent in the January-March period.\nEncana said it realized $43.45 per barrel of oil and natural gas liquids production in the quarter ended March 31, compared with $33.09 a year ago.\nOn a per-share basis, Encana reported an operating profit of 11 cents, beating analysts' average estimate of 3 cents, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.\nEncana has narrowed operations to focus on four core North American plays: the Montney and Duvernay in Western Canada, and the Eagle Ford and Permian in the United States.\nThis narrowing meant the company's production fell 17 percent to 317,900 barrels of oil equivalent per day in the first quarter.\nEncana said it expects to grow oil and condensate production by more than 35 percent between the fourth quarter of 2016 and the fourth quarter of 2017, with output from its core assets estimated to rise.\n(Reporting by Ethan Lou in Calgary, Alberta, and Swetha Gopinath in Bengaluru; editing by Savio D'Souza, G Crosse)", "Signal Staff’s Week 6 prep football picks\nBy Signal Staff\nLast update: 1 min ago\n0 SHARES Share Tweet\nHaley Sawyer, Signal Sports Editor\nValencia 24, Hart 18\nThe Indians defense will play well, but Valencia has too many weapons in too many different places.\nGolden Valley 35, Saugus 14\nThe Grizzlies are quick on offense and defense, and they’ll put on a show after having a week off.\nWest Ranch 27, Canyon 24\nCanyon has a great quarterback, but West Ranch has a ground game that’s tough to slow down.\nSanta Clara (Oxnard) 21, Trinity 18\nThe Knights are struggling right now and Santa Clara is having a total turnaround after last year’s rough season.\nRyan Posner, Signal Staff Writer\nValencia 35, Hart 24\nExpect the Vikings to come out angry after a close loss to Calabasas last week. A much stouter performance from their defense can also be expected after allowing 65 points in the loss.\nGolden Valley 31, Saugus 18\nWith Nathan Eldridge’s health still in question, Golden Valley gets the sizeable edge. The Cents will also get their first exposure to USC commit DeGabriel Floyd.\nCanyon 28, West Ranch 25\nThe Cowboys are on a roll and should provide the Cats with their biggest test to date. Shawn Gallagher is proving to be one of the area’s finest dual-threat quarterbacks.\nSanta Clara (Oxnard) 18, Trinity Classical Academy 10\nThings won’t get any easier for the Knights following their close Faith Bowl loss. Santa Clara is 4-1 and coming off 39-0 win over Fairmont Prep.", "TORONTO, March 19, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Partners Value Investments Inc. (the “Company”) announced today its financial results for the year ended December 31, 2017. All amounts are stated in US dollars.\nThe Company generated net loss of $14 million ($0.19 per common share) for the year ended December 31, 2017 compared to $56 million ($0.76 per common share) in the prior year. The loss is primarily driven by the recognition of our outstanding warrants as a financial liability causing our net income to drop by $81 million. Adjusting for the warrant liability valuation loss, net income for the year was $67 million.\nThe market price of a Brookfield share increased from $32.96 to $43.54 during the year.\nConsolidated Statements of Operations\nFor the years ended December 31\n(Thousands) 2017 2016 Investment income Dividends $ 87,666 $ 61,942 Other investment income 2,142 5,228 89,808 67,170 Expense Operating expenses (13,418 ) (15,269 ) Financing costs (5,358 ) (2,116 ) Retractable preferred share dividends (27,341 ) (25,289 ) 43,691 24,496 Other items Investment valuation gains (losses) 87,784 72,967 Warrant liability valuation gain (loss)1 (80,908 ) (141,553 ) Amortization of deferred financing costs (2,473 ) (1,834 ) Change in value of fund unit liability — (896 ) Income taxes (20,059 ) (22,394 ) Income from equity accounted investment 253 — Foreign currency gains (losses) (42,347 ) 13,509 Net loss $ (14,059 ) $ (55,705 )\nWarrant liability valuation loss relates to the mark to market of warrants during 2017.\nFinancial Profile\nThe Company’s principal investment is its interest in 86 million Class A Limited Voting Shares (“Brookfield shares”) of Brookfield, representing a 9% fully-diluted interest as at December 31, 2017. In addition, the Company owns a diversified investment portfolio of marketable securities.\nThe information in the following table has been extracted from the Company’s Statement of Financial Position:\nStatement of Financial Position\nAs at\n(Thousands, US dollars) December 31,\n2017 December 31,\n2016 Assets Cash and cash equivalents $ 29,794 $ 5,544 Accounts receivable and other assets 6,443 20,881 Investment in Brookfield Asset Management Inc. 1 3,737,431 2,829,156 Other securities Available for sale investments 288,306 231,277 Marketable securities 462,161 381,457 Equity Accounted Investment 13,643 — Goodwill 3,102 — $ 4,540,880 $ 3,468,315 Liabilities and Equity Accounts payable and other liabilities $ 103,096 $ 119,196 Preferred shares2 575,620 521,155 Warrant liability 233,958 139,526 Deferred taxes3 468,040 340,470 1,380,714 1,120,347 Equity Common equity 3,160,166 2,347,968 $ 4,540,880 3,468,315\nThe investment in Brookfield Asset Management Inc. consists of 86 million Brookfield shares with a quoted market value of $43.54 per share as at December 31, 2017 (December 31, 2016 – $32.96). Represents $585 million of retractable preferred shares less $9 million of unamortized issue costs as at December 31, 2017 (December 31, 2016 – $529 million less $8 million). The deferred tax liability represents the potential future income tax liability of the Company recorded for accounting purposes based on the difference between the carrying values of the Company’s assets and liabilities and their respective tax values, as well as giving effect to estimated capital and non-capital losses.\nChief Executive Officer Appointment\nPartners Value Investments Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of Brian D. Lawson as the Chief Executive Officer of the Company, effective March 20, 2018. Mr. Lawson will be replacing George Myhal who has held the position since 2015.\nFor further information, contact Investor Relations at [email protected] or 647-503-6516.\nFORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION\nThis news release contains “forward-looking information” within the meaning of Canadian provincial securities laws and “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities regulations. The words “potential” and “estimated” and other expressions which are predictions of or indicate future events, trends or prospects and which do not relate to historical matters, identify forward-looking information. Forward-looking information in this news release includes statements with regard to the Company’s potential future income taxes.\nAlthough the Company believes that its anticipated future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements and information are based upon reasonable assumptions and expectations, the reader should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements and information because they involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are beyond its control, which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to differ materially from anticipated future results, performance or achievement expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and information.\nFactors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated or implied by forward-looking statements and information include, but are not limited to: the financial performance of Brookfield Asset Management Inc., the impact or unanticipated impact of general economic, political and market factors; the behavior of financial markets, including fluctuations in interest and foreign exchanges rates; global equity and capital markets and the availability of equity and debt financing and refinancing within these markets; strategic actions including dispositions; changes in accounting policies and methods used to report financial condition (including uncertainties associated with critical accounting assumptions and estimates); the effect of applying future accounting changes; business competition; operational and reputational risks; technological change; changes in government regulation and legislation; changes in tax laws, catastrophic events, such as earthquakes and hurricanes; the possible impact of international conflicts and other developments including terrorist acts; and other risks and factors detailed from time to time in the Company’s documents filed with the securities regulators in Canada.\nThe Company cautions that the foregoing list of important factors that may affect future results is not exhaustive. When relying on the Company’s forward-looking statements and information, investors and others should carefully consider the foregoing factors and other uncertainties and potential events. Except as required by law, the Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements and information, whether written or oral, that may be as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.", "Moneycontrol News\nThe Nifty is likely to start on a positive note on Tuesday, tracking positive handover from Wall Street. The index formed a doji type of candle and closed slightly below its 20-days exponential moving average placed at 9157.28.\nHere are top cues from domestic and international markets that could have a bearing on the D-Street.\nTCS shareholders approve buyback, Q4 results\nTCS will be in focus after its shareholders have approved Rs 16,000 crore share buyback plan. The buyback programme, which was passed by a special resolution, saw 99.81 percent of the total number of valid votes being cast in favour of the proposal, the company said in a regulatory filing.\nIndia’s largest software services exporter will report its results for the quarter ended March post market hours on Tuesday. According to an average of estimates of analysts polled by CNBC-TV18, TCS is expected to report a 2 percent de-growth sequentially in profit at Rs 6,638 crore, while revenue may increase 0.4 percent to Rs 29,864 crore in the quarter ended March 2017.\nWall Street rallies\nUS stocks bounced back as market focus shifted from geopolitical tension to earnings. Goldman Sachs, General Electric, and Johnson & Johnson are some companies which are scheduled to release their results later this week.\nThe Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 183.67 points, or 0.9 percent, to 20,636.92, the S&P 500 gained 20.06 points, or 0.86 percent, to 2,349.01 and the Nasdaq Composite added 51.64 points, or 0.89 percent, to 5,856.79.\nSGX Nifty\nThe Nifty futures on the Singapore Stock Exchange were trading 32 points higher at 9,198.50 indicating a flat-to-positive opening for the domestic market.\nChina GDP growth surpasses expectations\nChina's economy grew faster than expected in the first quarter as higher government infrastructure spending and a gravity-defying property boom helped boost industrial output by the most in over two years, said a report.\nThe growth of 6.9 percent was the fastest in six quarters, with forecast-beating March investment, retail sales, and exports all suggesting the economy may carry solid momentum into spring.\n9 companies will report Q4 results today\nAs much as nine companies are scheduled to report their results for the quarter ended March 31 on Tuesday, which include names like TCS, Ashram Online.com, HOEC, Kreon Finnancial Services, Muthoot Capital, Omax Autos, Srestha Finvest, Tamilnadu Telecommunications, and VST Industries.\nDollar steadies on Mnuchin comments\nThe greenback steadied after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said dollar strength is good over long periods of time, said in a report. He further added that the US President Donald Trump's recent remarks that the dollar is getting too strong were about the short term.\nThe dollar index, which measures the greenback against a basket of six major currencies, was down 0.23 percent at 100.33.\nRupee closes marginally lower to 64.52\nThe rupee turned weaker against the US currency and lost 11 paise to close at 64.52 on Monday weighed down by fresh bouts of dollar demand from importers amid continued geopolitical headwinds.\nAfter a flat opening at 64.42 against last Thursday’s closing value of 64.41, the home unit quickly regained strength to hit a fresh intra—day high of 64.29 stimulated by a weaker dollar.\nParis replacing Mauritius as tax haven\nCitigroup, once perceived as a master in regulatory arbitrage, has drawn the government’s attention to Paris emerging as a new tax haven with Mauritius losing its charm.\nIn a recent meeting with officials of the finance ministry, Citi pointed out how some global banks and funds are taking advantage of India’s treaty with France to escape tax, sources in the financial market told ET.\nIn the past few months, a few leading foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) have set up shop in Paris to attract offshore investors and issue participatory notes (PNs), derivatives sold to foreign investors keen to trade in Indian stocks, said the report.\nPNB, BoB to take over small lenders\nThe government is working on a road map for the overhaul of state-run lenders that involves the next round of consolidation, public offers in the next few months by banks to raise fresh capital, and changes in the hiring policy, including increased lateral entry, said a report.\nThis could see Punjab National Bank (PNB) and Bank of Baroda taking over smaller lenders, said a senior finance ministry official.\nGold hits 5-month high\nGold jumped to a five-month high on Monday as investors took shelter in safe-haven assets amid rising geopolitical tensions over North Korea.\nSpot gold was up 0.4 percent at USD 1,290.40 an ounce, after hitting its highest since early November at USD 1,295.42 earlier in the session, said a report.", "First Quarter and Recent Highlights:\nSales were $895 million , or $938 million on an adjusted basis\n, or on an adjusted basis Global THVT sales grew 2 percent; underlying 1 sales increased 12 percent\nsales increased 12 percent EPS declined 9 percent, driven by special items; adjusted 1 EPS grew 30 percent\nEPS grew 30 percent 2018 adjusted EPS guidance raised to $4.50 to $4.70 from $4.43 to $4.63\nto from to CENTERA CE Mark received; U.S. pivotal trial approved\nContinued Access Protocol approved for PARTNER 3 Trial patients\n\"We are pleased with our start to 2018 with first quarter total adjusted sales of $938 million, consistent with our expectations. This represents 9 percent underlying sales growth, and positions us for 10 to 11 percent underlying sales growth this year,\" said Michael A. Mussallem, chairman and CEO. \"Therapy adoption of transcatheter heart valves once again drove the majority of our growth, aided by solid performance in our other product lines. Adjusted EPS grew 30 percent, even while investing aggressively and making significant progress in our transcatheter mitral and tricuspid therapies. Most importantly, even more patients are benefiting from our life saving technologies than ever before.\"\nFirst Quarter 2018 Results\nSales for the quarter ended March 31, 2018 were $894.8 million, up 1.3 percent. Total adjusted sales were $937.5 million, up 9.3 percent over the first quarter last year. Diluted earnings per share for the quarter was $0.96 per share, while adjusted earnings per share grew 29.8 percent to $1.22.\nFor the quarter, the company reported Transcatheter Heart Valve Therapy (THVT) sales of $551.6 million, a 2.3 percent growth rate over the first quarter last year. Consistent with company expectations, adjusted THVT sales were $559.6 million, up 12.4 percent on an underlying basis including the adjustment for stocking inventory in Germany. The company continues to expect its THVT full year underlying sales growth rate to be at the higher end of 11 to 15 percent. TAVR growth is being driven by continued strong global therapy adoption, and the global average selling price remained stable.\nDuring the quarter, the company announced receipt of a CE Mark for the CENTERA system. In addition, the company announced today it received FDA approval to initiate a U.S. pivotal trial of the CENTERA system in severe, symptomatic aortic stenosis patients at intermediate risk of open-heart surgery. \"We look forward to launching this rigorous study to build robust evidence for this innovative, self-expanding valve system,\" said Mussallem.\nEdwards also received approval from the FDA for a limited continued access protocol for the PARTNER 3 Trial for low-risk patients with severe, symptomatic aortic stenosis to allow for ongoing treatment. Data from the PARTNER 3 Trial is expected to be presented at ACC 2019, and FDA approval is anticipated late that year.\nSurgical Heart Valve Therapy sales for the quarter were $179.5 million, down 10.0 percent compared to the first quarter last year, or up 2.4 percent on an underlying basis. Adjusted results exclude a sales return reserve related to conversion to a consignment inventory model. Edwards' new products drove underlying sales growth at a rate higher than total procedure growth.\nCritical Care sales were $163.7 million for the quarter, representing an increase of 13.0 percent versus last year, or 8.4 percent on an underlying basis. This performance was driven by strong growth across the portfolio, led primarily by the HemoSphere advanced monitoring platform and strong regional performance in the U.S. and Asia Pacific.\nFor the quarter, the company's adjusted gross profit margin was 74.5 percent, compared to 75.7 percent in the same period last year. This reduction was driven primarily by the impact from FX, partially offset by a more profitable product mix.\nSelling, general and administrative expenses increased 11.5 percent to $256.0 million for the quarter. This increase was driven by the strengthening of the euro against the dollar and personnel related expenses.\nResearch and development investments for the first quarter increased 11.3 percent to $143.2 million, or 16.0 percent of sales. This increase was primarily the result of continued investments in transcatheter heart valve programs, including spending on clinical trials.\nThe high reported tax rate of 21.6 percent for the quarter was driven by a $24.0 million reserve. Excluding the impact of this reserve and other special items, the tax rate would have been 13.2 percent. Edwards now expects its 2018 tax rate, excluding special items, to be between 13 and 16 percent.\nAdjusted free cash flow for the fourth quarter was $108.1 million, defined as cash flow from operating activities of $151.3 million, less capital spending of $43.2 million.\nCash, cash equivalents and short-term investments totaled $1.5 billion at March 31, 2018. Total debt was $1.1 billion.\nOutlook\nFor the full year 2018, Edwards remains confident in achieving the higher end of its sales guidance range of $3.5 to $3.9 billion. Additionally, the company now expects its estimate for 2018 adjusted earnings per share to be between $4.50 to $4.70.\nFor the second quarter 2018, at current foreign exchange rates, the company projects total sales to be between $950 million and $1.0 billion, and adjusted EPS of $1.05 to $1.15.\n\"We are confident in our outlook for continued strong sales growth, and we remain passionate about helping more patients around the world. We continue to focus on driving organic growth with leading innovative technologies, while aggressively investing in our future. Our foundation of leadership positions us well for continued longer-term success and greater shareholder value as we pursue multi-billion dollar market opportunities,\" said Mussallem.\nAbout Edwards Lifesciences\nEdwards Lifesciences, based in Irvine, Calif., is the global leader in patient-focused medical innovations for structural heart disease, as well as critical care and surgical monitoring. Driven by a passion to help patients, the company collaborates with the world's leading clinicians and researchers to address unmet healthcare needs, working to improve patient outcomes and enhance lives. For more information, visit www.Edwards.com and follow us on Twitter @EdwardsLifesci.\nConference Call and Webcast Information\nEdwards Lifesciences will be hosting a conference call today at 2:00 p.m. PT to discuss its first quarter results. To participate in the conference call, dial (877) 704-2848 or (201) 389-0893. For 72 hours following the call, an audio replay can be accessed by dialing (877) 660-6853 or (201) 612-7415 and using conference number 13677987. The call will also be available via live or archived webcast on the \"Investor Relations\" section of the Edwards web site at ir.edwards.com or www.edwards.com. A live stream and archived replay can also be accessed via mobile devices by downloading Edwards' IR App for iPhone and iPad or Android.\nThis news release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These forward-looking statements can sometimes be identified by the use of words such as \"may,\" \"will,\" \"should,\" \"anticipate,\" \"believe,\" \"plan,\" \"project,\" \"estimate,\" \"expect,\" \"intend,\" \"guidance,\" \"outlook,\" \"optimistic,\" \"aspire,\" \"confident\" or other forms of these words or similar expressions and include, but are not limited to, statements made by Mr. Mussallem, full year and second quarter 2018 financial guidance, expected releases of clinical information, projected product approvals, and information in the Outlook section. Forward-looking statements are based on estimates and assumptions made by management of the company and are believed to be reasonable, though they are inherently uncertain and difficult to predict. The company's forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made and the company does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date of the statement. If the company does update or correct one or more of these statements, investors and others should not conclude that the company will make additional updates or corrections.\nForward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results or experience to differ materially from that expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results or experience to differ materially from that expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements include uncertainties associated with the timing and pace of therapy adoption, particularly in THVT; unpredictability of the timing and impact of new product launches; competitive products and other changes to the competitive landscape; the timing and extent of regulatory approvals and reimbursement levels for the company's products; the company's success in developing new products and avoiding manufacturing and quality issues; the impact of currency exchange rates; the timing or results of R&D and clinical trials; unanticipated actions by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and other regulatory agencies; unexpected litigation impacts or expenses; and other risks detailed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017. These filings, along with important safety information about our products, may be found at edwards.com.\nEdwards, Edwards Lifesciences, the stylized E logo, Edwards CENTERA, CENTERA, PARTNER, PARTNER 3, and HemoSphere are trademarks of Edwards Lifesciences Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.\n[1] \"Adjusted\" amounts are non-GAAP items. Adjusted sales, or \"underlying\" growth rates, in this press release exclude foreign exchange fluctuations and a sales return reserve related to a surgical heart valve consignment inventory system. Adjusted sales and \"underlying\" growth rates also exclude the positive impact of THVT stocking sales in Germany, and the negative impact of de-stocking. Adjusted earnings per share is a non-GAAP item computed on a diluted basis and in this press release excludes intellectual property litigation expenses, amortization of intellectual property, fair value adjustments to contingent consideration liabilities arising from acquisitions, a sales return reserve related to a surgical heart valve consignment inventory system, a pension curtailment gain, the impact of THVT stocking sales in Germany, and the impact from implementation of tax law changes. See the Non-GAAP Financial Information page and reconciliation tables below.\nEDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATION Unaudited Consolidated Statements of Operations (in millions, except per share data)\nThree Months Ended\nMarch 31,\n2018\n2017 Net sales $ 894.8\n$ 883.5\nCost of sales 233.6\n215.6\nGross profit 661.2\n667.9\nSelling, general, and administrative expenses 256.0\n229.6\nResearch and development expenses 143.2\n128.7\nIntellectual property litigation expenses, net 5.7\n10.2\nChange in fair value of contingent consideration liabilities 3.8\n1.1\nOperating income 252.5\n298.3\nInterest (income) expense, net (0.8)\n2.4\nSpecial gains, net (7.1)\n—\nOther (income) expense, net (3.1)\n2.3\nIncome before provision for income taxes 263.5\n293.6\nProvision for income taxes 56.9\n63.4\nNet income $ 206.6\n$ 230.2\nEarnings per share:\nBasic $ 0.98\n$ 1.09\nDiluted $ 0.96\n$ 1.06\nWeighted-average common shares outstanding:\nBasic 210.2\n211.2\nDiluted 215.1\n216.4\nOperating statistics\nAs a percentage of net sales:\nGross profit 73.9 %\n75.6 % Selling, general, and administrative expenses 28.6 %\n26.0 % Research and development expenses 16.0 %\n14.6 % Operating income 28.2 %\n33.8 % Income before provision for income taxes 29.4 %\n33.2 % Net income 23.1 %\n26.1 %\nEffective tax rate 21.6 %\n21.6 %\nNote: Numbers may not calculate due to rounding.\nEDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATION Unaudited Balance Sheets (in millions)\nMarch 31, 2018\nDecember 31, 2017 ASSETS\nCurrent assets\nCash and cash equivalents $ 1,227.0\n$ 818.3\nShort-term investments 272.3\n519.2\nAccounts and other receivables, net 446.8\n462.2\nInventories, net 573.9\n554.9\nPrepaid expenses 78.0\n60.6\nOther current assets 118.9\n116.9\nTotal current assets 2,716.9\n2,532.1\nLong-term investments 532.1\n567.0\nProperty, plant, and equipment, net 711.6\n679.7\nGoodwill 1,144.8\n1,126.5\nOther intangible assets, net 480.5\n468.0\nDeferred income taxes 181.4\n167.1\nOther assets 57.8\n108.9\nTotal assets $ 5,825.1\n$ 5,649.3\nLIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY\nCurrent liabilities\nAccounts payable and accrued liabilities $ 674.1\n$ 753.2\nShort-term debt 598.6\n598.0\nContingent consideration liabilities 41.8\n51.7\nTotal current liabilities 1,314.5\n1,402.9\nLong-term debt 456.0\n438.4\nContingent consideration liabilities 196.3\n192.6\nTaxes payable 290.8\n347.5\nUncertain tax positions 177.7\n164.6\nOther long-term liabilities 144.1\n147.1\nStockholders' equity\nCommon stock 213.0\n212.0\nAdditional paid-in capital 1,229.1\n1,166.9\nRetained earnings 2,179.1\n1,962.1\nAccumulated other comprehensive loss (121.3)\n(132.7)\nTreasury stock, at cost (254.2)\n(252.1)\nTotal stockholders' equity 3,245.7\n2,956.2\nTotal liabilities and stockholders' equity $ 5,825.1\n$ 5,649.3\nEDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATION\nNon-GAAP Financial Information\nTo supplement the consolidated financial results prepared in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (\"GAAP\"), the Company uses non-GAAP historical financial measures. Management makes adjustments to the GAAP measures for items (both charges and gains) that (a) do not reflect the core operational activities of the Company, (b) are commonly adjusted within the Company's industry to enhance comparability of the Company's financial results with those of its peer group, or (c) are inconsistent in amount or frequency between periods (albeit such items are monitored and controlled with equal diligence relative to core operations). The Company uses the term \"adjusted sales\" or \"underlying growth rate\" when referring to non-GAAP sales information, which excludes foreign exchange fluctuations, sales return reserves associated with transcatheter heart valve therapy (\"THVT\") product upgrades, the conversion to a consignment inventory system for surgical heart valves (\"SHV\"), and the positive impact of THVT stocking sales in Germany and the negative impact of de-stocking. The Company uses the term \"adjusted\" to also exclude intellectual property litigation income and expenses, amortization of intellectual property, fair value adjustments to contingent consideration liabilities arising from acquisitions, gains and losses from significant investments, impairments, litigation, the positive impact of THVT stocking sales in Germany and the negative impact of de-stocking, realignment expenses, sales return reserves and related costs associated with THVT product upgrades, the conversion to a consignment inventory system for SHV, charitable contributions to the Edwards Lifesciences Foundation, business development transactions, pension curtailment or settlement gains and losses, and the impact from implementation of tax law changes. Fluctuations in exchange rates impact the comparative results and sales growth rates of the Company's underlying business. Management believes that excluding the impact of foreign exchange rate fluctuations from its sales growth provides investors a more useful comparison to historical financial results. The impact of foreign exchange rate fluctuations has been detailed in the \"Reconciliation of Sales by Product Group and Region.\"\nGuidance for sales and sales growth rates is provided on an \"underlying basis,\" and projections for diluted earnings per share, net income and growth, gross profit margin, taxes, and free cash flow are also provided on a non-GAAP basis as adjusted for the items identified below due to the inherent difficulty in forecasting such items. The Company is not able to provide a reconciliation of the non-GAAP guidance to comparable GAAP measures due to the unknown effect, timing, and potential significance of special charges or gains, and management's inability to forecast charges associated with future transactions and initiatives.\nManagement considers free cash flow to be a liquidity measure which provides useful information to management and investors about the amount of cash generated by business operations, after deducting payments for capital expenditures, which can then be used for strategic opportunities or other business purposes including, among others, investing in the Company's business, making strategic acquisitions, strengthening the balance sheet, and repurchasing stock.\nManagement uses non-GAAP financial measures internally for strategic decision making, forecasting future results, and evaluating current performance. These non-GAAP financial measures are used in addition to and in conjunction with results presented in accordance with GAAP and reflect an additional way of viewing aspects of the Company's operations by investors that, when viewed with its GAAP results, provide a more complete understanding of factors and trends affecting the Company's business and facilitate comparability to historical periods.\nNon-GAAP financial measures are not prepared in accordance with GAAP; therefore, the information is not necessarily comparable to other companies and should be considered as a supplement to, and not as a substitute for, or superior to, the corresponding measures calculated in accordance with GAAP. A reconciliation of non-GAAP historical financial measures to the most comparable GAAP measure is provided in the tables below.\nThe items described below are adjustments to the GAAP financial results in the reconciliations that follow:\nSHV Consignment Conversion - In the first quarter of 2018, the Company recorded a $34.7 million sales return reserve ($30.8 million, net of related costs) related to its conversion to a consignment inventory system for surgical heart valves.\nPension Curtailment Gain - The Company recorded a $7.1 million gain in the first quarter of 2018 related to the curtailment of its defined benefit plan resulting from the closure of its manufacturing plant in Switzerland.\nTHVT Germany Stocking Sales - In the first quarter of 2017, the Company recorded $61.8 million in net stocking sales ($48.0 million, net of related costs) to customers in Germany, as these customers elected to purchase additional inventory in anticipation of a potential supply interruption resulting from intellectual property litigation. In the first quarter of 2018, these customers consumed on a net basis $8.0 million ($6.0 million, net of related costs) of their stocking inventory.\nIntellectual Property Litigation Expenses, net - The Company incurred intellectual property litigation expenses of $5.7 million and $10.2 million in the first quarter of 2018 and 2017, respectively.\nChange in Fair Value of Contingent Consideration Liabilities - The Company recorded expenses related to changes in the fair value of its contingent consideration liabilities arising from acquisitions in the amount of $3.8 million and $1.1 million in the first quarter of 2018 and 2017, respectively.\nAmortization of Intellectual Property - The Company recorded amortization expense related to intellectual property in the amount of $0.6 million and $2.1 million in the first quarter of 2018 and 2017, respectively.\nProvision for Income Taxes - During the first quarter of 2018, the Company recorded a $24.0 million tax expense to adjust its estimated provisional amounts related to the implementation of U.S. tax law changes. The income tax impact of the expenses and gains discussed above is based upon the forecasted items' effect upon the Company's full year effective tax rate. Adjustments to forecasted items unrelated to these expenses and gains, as well as impacts related to interim reporting, will have an effect on the income tax impact of these items in subsequent periods.\nEDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATION Unaudited Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Financial Information (in millions, except per share and percentage data)\nRECONCILIATION OF GAAP TO ADJUSTED OPERATING INCOME\nThree Months Ended\nMarch 31,\n2018\n2017 GAAP Operating Income\n$ 252.5\n$ 298.3\nGrowth Rate %\n(15.4)%\nNon-GAAP adjustments: (A)\nSHV consignment conversion\n30.8\n—\nTHVT Germany stocking sales\n6.0\n(48.0)\nIntellectual property litigation expenses, net\n5.7\n10.2\nChange in fair value of contingent consideration liabilities\n3.8\n1.1\nAmortization of intellectual property\n0.6\n2.1\nAdjusted Operating Income\n$ 299.4\n$ 263.7\nGrowth Rate %\n13.5 %\nRECONCILIATION OF GAAP TO ADJUSTED DILUTED EARNINGS PER SHARE\nThree Months Ended\nMarch 31,\n2018\n2017 GAAP Diluted Earnings Per Share\n$ 0.96\n$ 1.06\nGrowth Rate %\n(9.4)%\nNon-GAAP adjustments: (A), (C)\nSHV consignment conversion\n0.12\n—\nPension curtailment gain\n(0.03)\n—\nTHVT Germany stocking sales\n0.02\n(0.17)\nIntellectual property litigation expenses, net\n0.02\n0.03\nChange in fair value of contingent consideration liabilities\n0.02\n0.01\nAmortization of intellectual property\n—\n0.01\nProvision for income taxes\nImpact of U.S. tax legislation\n0.11\n—\nAdjusted Diluted Earnings Per Share\n$ 1.22\n$ 0.94\nGrowth Rate %\n29.8 %\nNote: Numbers may not calculate due to rounding.\n(A) See description of non-GAAP adjustments on the \"Non-GAAP Financial Information\" page. (B) The tax effect on non-GAAP adjustments is calculated based upon the impact of the relevant tax jurisdictions' statutory tax rates on the Company's estimated annual effective tax rate, or discrete rate in the quarter, as applicable. The tax effect on the THVT Germany stocking sales adjustment is calculated using the global effective tax rate. (C) All amounts are tax effected, calculated based upon the impact of the relevant tax jurisdictions' statutory tax rates on the Company's estimated annual effective tax rate, or discrete rate in the quarter, as applicable.\nRECONCILIATION OF GAAP TO ADJUSTED GROSS PROFIT MARGIN\nThree Months Ended\nMarch 31,\n2018\n2017 GAAP Gross Profit Margin\n73.9 %\n75.6 %\nNon-GAAP adjustments: (A)\nSHV consignment conversion\n0.5\n—\nTHVT Germany stocking sales\n—\n(0.2)\nAmortization of intellectual property\n0.1\n0.3\nAdjusted Gross Profit Margin\n74.5 %\n75.7 %\n(A) See description of non-GAAP adjustments on the \"Non-GAAP Financial Information\" page.\nRECONCILIATION OF GAAP TO NON-GAAP TAX RATE\nThree Months Ended\nMarch 31,\n2018\n2017 GAAP Tax Rate\n21.6 %\n21.6 %\nNon-GAAP adjustments: (A)\nImpact of U.S. tax legislation\n(8.0)\n—\nSHV consignment conversion\n(0.6)\n—\nPension curtailment gain\n0.3\n—\nOther\n(0.1)\n0.2\nNon-GAAP Tax Rate\n13.2 %\n21.8 %\n(A) See description of non-GAAP adjustments on the \"Non-GAAP Financial Information\" page.\nEDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATION Unaudited Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Financial Information ($ in millions)\nRECONCILIATION OF SALES BY PRODUCT GROUP AND REGION\n2018 Adjusted\n2017 Adjusted\nSales by Product Group (QTD)\n1Q\n2018\n1Q\n2017\nChange\nGAAP\nGrowth\nRate*\nSHV\nConsignment\nConversion Germany\nStocking\n1Q 2018\nAdjusted\nSales\nGermany\nStocking\nFX\nImpact\n1Q 2017\nAdjusted\nSales\nUnderlying\nGrowth\nRate * Transcatheter Heart Valve Therapy\n$ 551.6\n$ 539.2\n$ 12.4\n2.3 %\n$ —\n$ 8.0\n$ 559.6\n$ (61.8)\n$ 20.6\n$ 498.0\n12.4 % Surgical Heart Valve Therapy\n179.5\n199.5\n(20.0)\n(10.0)%\n34.7\n—\n214.2\n—\n9.6\n209.1\n2.4 % Critical Care\n163.7\n144.8\n18.9\n13.0 %\n—\n—\n163.7\n—\n6.2\n151.0\n8.4 % Total\n$ 894.8\n$ 883.5\n$ 11.3\n1.3 %\n$ 34.7\n$ 8.0\n$ 937.5\n$ (61.8)\n$ 36.4\n$ 858.1\n9.3 %\n2018 Adjusted\n2017 Adjusted\nSales by Region (QTD)\n1Q\n2018\n1Q\n2017\nChange\nGAAP\nGrowth\nRate*\nSHV\nConsignment\nConversion Germany\nStocking\n1Q 2018\nAdjusted\nSales\nGermany\nStocking\nFX\nImpact\n1Q 2017\nAdjusted\nSales\nUnderlying\nGrowth\nRate * United States\n$ 479.5\n$ 464.6\n$ 14.9\n3.2 %\n$ 34.7\n$ —\n$ 514.2\n$ —\n$ —\n$ 464.6\n10.7 % Europe\n230.0\n261.0\n(31.0)\n(11.9)%\n—\n8.0\n238.0\n(61.8)\n28.9\n228.1\n4.3 % Japan\n92.7\n79.3\n13.4\n16.9 %\n—\n—\n92.7\n—\n3.9\n83.2\n11.4 % Rest of World\n92.6\n78.6\n14.0\n17.9 %\n—\n—\n92.6\n—\n3.6\n82.2\n12.7 % International\n415.3\n418.9\n(3.6)\n(0.9)%\n—\n8.0\n423.3\n(61.8)\n36.4\n393.5\n7.6 % Total\n$ 894.8\n$ 883.5\n$ 11.3\n1.3 %\n$ 34.7\n$ 8.0\n$ 937.5\n$ (61.8)\n$ 36.4\n$ 858.1\n9.3 %\n* Numbers may not calculate due to rounding.\nView original content with multimedia:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/edwards-lifesciences-reports-first-quarter-results-300635768.html\nSOURCE Edwards Lifesciences Corporation\nRelated Links\nhttp://ir.edwards.com\nhttp://www.edwards.com", "CVS Health Corp (CVS.N) reported a bigger-than-expected quarterly profit as higher margins in its pharmacy business helped offset the loss of major contracts last year.\nSame-store prescription volumes fell 460 basis points in the first quarter due to the loss of contracts to fill prescriptions for Tricare, a U.S. Department of Defense health care program, and for customers of pharmacy benefits manager Prime Therapeutics, to rival Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA.O).\nHowever, higher generic drug dispensing rate and a cut back on promotions at the front-end of the store lifted gross margin in the pharmacy business by about 35 basis points to 29.4 percent.\nFront-end same-store sales fell 4.9 percent in the first three months ended March 31. The company sells beauty products, snacks and over-the-counter drugs at the front-end of its nearly 9,700 stores.\nFront-end same-store sales slipped for the fourth straight quarter and the company has been investing to turn around sales by improving the store layout and product assortment.\nCVS reiterated its 2017 profit forecast and estimated second-quarter adjusted earnings largely below analysts' average estimate of $1.33 per share.\nThe company's shares were down 2 percent at $80.23 in morning trading on Tuesday. Through Monday's close, they had gained 5.4 percent since Walgreens reported a surprise drop in sales last month.\nRevenue in CVS's bigger pharmacy services business rose 8.5 percent to $31.2 billion as claims increased across its network and on strong demand for its specialty pharmacy service.\nThe specialty pharmacy service provides expensive drugs to people with chronic conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis.\nNet income attributable to CVS fell to $952 million, or 92 cents per share, in the first quarter, from $1.15 billion, or $1.04 per share, a year earlier.\nInterest expenses declined 11 percent to $252 million, while the company also got $19 million in tax benefits from the adoption of new accounting guidance for share-based compensation.\nExcluding items, the company earned $1.17 per share.\nRevenue rose 3 percent to $44.51 billion.\nAnalysts on average had expected earnings of $1.10 per share on revenue of $44.20 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.\n(Reporting by Sruthi Ramakrishnan in Bengaluru; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty and Sriraj Kalluvila)", "Cash Availability Performance Improvement Validates Canadian Divestiture\nEUGENE, OR--(Marketwired - Apr 18, 2017) - Quest Solution, Inc. ( OTCQB : QUES), is pleased to announce its financial results for the year ended December 31, 2016.\nYear End and Subsequent Highlights\nNet revenues of $60.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2016, an increase of 2.5% compared to the prior year period;\nCompany secures trade extension agreement with a key supplier and converts $12.4 million of accounts payable into a promissory note and extends the maturity to September 30, 2017\nCompany completes divesture of its Canadian operations\nNet loss from continuing operations for the year ended December 31, 2016 of $7.5 million\nAdjusted EBITDA for the year and three months ended December 31, 2016 of $1.1 million and $0.6 million, respectively\nRedemption of 3,042,500 common shares for the year ended December 31, 2016\nAppointment of Shai Lustgarten as President and CEO\nFourth Quarter and Year-end 2016- Select Financial Results from Continuing Operations(1) Three Months Ended 12/31/2016 Three Months Ended 12/31/2015 Year Ended 12/31/2016 Year Ended 12/31/2015 Revenues 16,607,405 17,653,607 60,047,124 58,598,531 Gross profit 3,303,735 3,035,044 12,094,545 11,948,254 Gross profit margin 19.9 % 17.2 % 20.1 % 20.4 % Net loss from continuing operations (2,138,433 ) (1,704,964 ) (7,493,270 ) (1,475,524 ) Adjusted EBITDA 631,104 54,311 1,134,442 1,153,131 Adjusted EBITDA 3.8 % 0.3 % 1.9 % 2.0 % Loss per share from continuing operations - basic (0.06 ) (0.04 ) (0.21 ) (0.04 ) Weighted average shares outstanding - basic 34,742,996 37,725,736 35,947,523 36,195,065\nPlease refer to the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016, and the financial tables included below for the Company's GAAP financial statements and a reconciliation of GAAP results to Non-GAAP measures.\n(1) All the assets and liabilities attributable to the divestiture of Quest Solution Canada Inc. have been reclassified into the \"held for disposal\" asset and liability categories on the balance sheet. On the statement of operations, the financial results of Quest Solution Canada Inc. have been reclassified out of the activity from continuing operations, and disclosed separately in the category for discontinued operations.\nQ4-2016 Revenue Increased and Expenses Decreased Over Q3-2016\nIn the fourth quarter Company revenue increased by 22% from $13.56M in Q3 to $16.6M. There were significant wins of a million dollars or more in Retail, Transportation and Logistics and Pharmaceutical. For the quarter, there were shipments greater than $100,000 to over 30 accounts in multiple industries demonstrating the strength of the Company's sales organization. Some of these accounts have rollouts that will continue into 2017 positioning the Company for future growth.\nFor Q4-2016, G&A expenses, comprised of general and administrative, salary and employee benefits and professional fees, as a percentage of net revenues, was 17.1% compared to 18.9% in Q3-2016 as the Company began to realize benefits from cost reduction programs.\nResult is Adjusted EBITDA Increased to 3.8% in Q4-2016 from 1.4% in Q3-2016\n\"In the fourth quarter of 2016, the Company concluded the carve out of Quest Solution Canada Inc., with an effective date of September 30, 2016, as such Q4-2016 was the first full quarter of operations post divestiture of the Canadian operations and the benefits have already started to be felt. The Adjusted EBITDA as a percentage of net revenues increased from 1.4% in Q-3 2016 to 3.8% in Q4-2016\". Q4-2016 represented 56% of the year's Adjusted EBITDA providing evidence that the Company's actions are beginning to show early results. Tom Miller, Chairman of the Board stated, \"We believe Q4 represents an important turning point for the Company and we will continue to show improvement throughout 2017. We will remain focused on continuing to drive sales, creating a more favorable product and services mix to improve margins and realizing additional cost efficiencies across the enterprise\".\nSignificant Progress on Note Reduction\nIn Q4-2016, the Company was able to reduce the Supplier Promissory Note by $2.2 million to $9.4 million as compared to $12.4M in July 2016. At the end of March 2017, the note was further reduced to $7.8 million representing a reduction of 37% since July 2016. This was possible because the Company did not have to fund the negative cash flow of the Canadian operations and is using those funds to accelerate the pay down of the Supplier Note.\n2017 Outlook\nManagement believes that the decisions taken in Q3 and Q4 2016 which included the divestiture of Canada, write off of non-performing assets, cost reductions and restructuring charges and a return of Quest to its core business with a simplified business model, provides the foundation for significantly improved Company performance in 2017. The Company is undertaking further steps in 2017 to consolidate operations and reduce G&A expenses. With the introduction of the new Route Edge mobile software in Q1-2017, an expansion of new business partner relationships and an increasing emphasis on providing professional and managed services the Company expects revenue growth in 2017. During 2017 as financial performance improves the Company intends to further reduce debt and associated interest expense. Tom Miller, Chairman of the Board stated, \"I am enthusiastic about the appointment of Shai Lustgarten as President and CEO beginning April 2017. He is an experienced executive with demonstrated success in developing technology businesses.\"\nYear End Financial Results\nRevenues\nFor the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015, the Company recognized $60,047,124 and $58,598,531 in net revenues, respectively. This represents an increase of 2.5% attributable to organic growth. The growth rate is in line with that of the industry. We will continue to grow our revenues by providing additional value added services.\nGross Margin\nGross profit margin for the year ended December 31, 2016 was 20.1% of revenue compared to 20.4% for the year ended December 31, 2015. The Company has been able to maintain stable gross margin in light of the very competitive market conditions which exemplifies its strong relationships with its customer base.\nNet loss from continuing operations\nIncluded in the net loss from continuing operations of $7.5 million for the 2016 fiscal year, were $3.5 million of non-recurring charges, most of which were non-cash. The one-time charges include a $0.3 million net loss on asset write-off and settlement of contingent liability, $0.6 million financing charges related to the early termination of the line of credit, $0.5 million in restructuring charges, $0.8 million in the increase of the valuation allowance for the deferred income tax assets and $1.3 million in interest expense from the acceleration of the accretion of the debt discount. In addition, the interest expense included $0.8 million of accretion of debt discount which will not continue in 2017 as the entire balance has been accredited at December 31, 2016 and will have a favorable impact on the profitability of the Company going forward. The net loss from continuing operations for the year ended December 31, 2015 was $1.5 million.\nNet loss from discontinued operations\nThe Company realized a net loss from discontinued operations of $6,851,875 for the year ended December 31, 2016, which represents nine months of operations, and a net loss from discontinued operations of $239,956 for the year ended December 31, 2015, which represents three months of operations.\nEBITDA\nThe Company's operating expenses during both the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015 included non-cash expenses including depreciation, amortization of acquisition intangibles and stock-based compensation for employee and director stock options and one-time non-recurring costs.\nWithout the effect of these non-cash expenses, the Adjusted Earnings Before Interest, Taxes and Depreciation and Amortization (\"Adjusted EBITDA\") for the year ended December 31, 2016 was $1.1 million compared to $1.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2015.\nPlease refer to the financial tables included below for a reconciliation of generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (\"GAAP\") to non-GAAP financial results. Please refer to the financial tables included below for a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP results.\nBalance Sheet Summary\nNet deferred revenue consists of prepaid third party hardware service agreements, software maintenance service contracts and the related costs and expenses recorded net of the revenue charged. As stated in the footnotes to the financials, the Company had deferred revenue of $8.7 million and deferred costs of $7.3 million. This net deferred revenue of $1.4 million at December 31, 2016 will be recognized in income over the term of the contracts, normally one to five years, with three years being the average term.\nAbout Quest Solution, Inc.\nQuest Solution is a Specialty Systems Integrator focused on Field and Supply Chain Mobility. We are also a manufacturer and distributor of consumables (labels, tags, and ribbons), RFID solutions, and barcoding printers. Founded in 1994, Quest is headquartered in Eugene, Oregon, with offices in the United States.\nRated in the Top 1% of global solution providers, Quest specializes in the design, deployment and management of enterprise mobility solutions including Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC), Mobile Cloud Analytics, RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), and proprietary Mobility software. Our mobility products and services offering is designed to identify, track, trace, share and connect data to enterprise systems such as CRM or ERP solutions. Our customers are leading Fortune 500 companies from several sectors including manufacturing, retail, distribution, food / beverage, transportation and logistics, health care and chemicals / gas / oil.\nInformation about Forward-Looking Statements\n\"Safe Harbor\" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Statements in this press release relating to plans, strategies, economic performance and trends, projections of results of specific activities or investments, and other statements that are not descriptions of historical facts may be forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. This release contains \"forward-looking statements\" that include information relating to future events and future financial and operating performance. The words \"may,\" \"would,\" \"will,\" \"expect,\" \"estimate,\" \"can,\" \"believe,\" \"potential\" and similar expressions and variations thereof are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements should not be read as a guarantee of future performance or results, and will not necessarily be accurate indications of the times at, or by, which that performance or those results will be achieved. Forward-looking statements are based on information available at the time they are made and/or management's good faith belief as of that time with respect to future events, and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual performance or results to differ materially from those expressed in or suggested by the forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause these differences include, but are not limited to: fluctuations in demand for Quest Solution, Inc.'s products, the introduction of new products, the Company's ability to maintain customer and strategic business relationships, the impact of competitive products and pricing, growth in targeted markets, the adequacy of the Company's liquidity and financial strength to support its growth, the Company's ability to manage credit and debt structures from vendors, debt holders and secured lenders, the Company's ability to successfully integrate its acquisitions, risks related to the sale of Quest Solution Canada Inc. to Viascan Group Inc. and other information that may be detailed from time-to-time in Quest Solution Inc.'s filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Examples of such forward looking statements in this release include, among others, statements regarding revenue growth, driving sales, operational and financial initiatives, cost reduction and profitability, and simplification of operations. For a more detailed description of the risk factors and uncertainties affecting Quest Solution, Inc. please refer to the Company's recent Securities and Exchange Commission filings, which are available at http://www.sec.gov. Quest Solution, Inc. undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, unless otherwise required by law.\nFinancial Tables Follow\nQUEST SOLUTION, INC. CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS For the three months For the years ending December 31, ending December 31, 2016 2015 2016 2015 Revenues Total Revenues 16,607,405 17,653,607 60,047,124 58,598,531 Cost of goods sold Cost of goods sold 13,303,670 14,618,563 47,952,579 46,650,277 Gross profit 3,303,735 3,035,044 12,094,545 11,948,254 Operating expenses General and administrative 518,241 760,116 2,327,889 2,813,984 Salary and employee benefits 2,176,206 2,394,415 8,409,223 8,220,135 Depreciation and amortization 445,249 2,528,907 1,792,326 2,598,823 Professional fees 151,221 122,339 754,411 411,261 Total operating expenses 3,290,917 5,805,777 13,283,849 14,044,203 Income (loss) from operations 12,818 (2,770,733 ) (1,189,304 ) (2,905,949 ) Other income (expenses): Restructuring expenses - - (544,941 ) - Gain on foreign currency - - 129,589 - Interest expense (1,728,283 ) (426,007 ) (4,531,263 ) (1,438,422 ) Write-off of other assets - - (450,000 ) - Gain on intangible license settlement - - - 374,500 Gain on extinguishment of other liabilities 150,000 - 150,000 - Other (expenses) income 4,130 (118,001 ) 11,001 (100,777 ) Total other expenses (1,574,153 ) (544,008 ) 5,235,614 (1,164,699 ) Net loss Before Income Taxes (1,561,335 ) (3,314,741 ) (6,424,918 ) (3,260,648 ) (Provision) benefit for Income Taxes Deferred (769,633 ) 1,797,977 (769,633 ) 1,797,977 Current 192,535 51,756 (298,719 ) (12,453 ) (577,098 ) 1,849,733 (1,068,352 ) 1,785,524 Net loss from continuing operations (2,138,433 ) (1,465,008 ) (7,493,270 ) (1,475,124 ) Net loss from discontinued operations - (239,956 ) (6,851,875 ) (239,956 ) Net Loss (2,138,433 ) (1,704,964 ) (14,345,145 ) (1,715,080 )\nQUEST SOLUTION, INC. CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS As of December 31, 2016 December 31, 2015 ASSETS Current assets Cash $ 289,480 $ 823,391 Restricted Cash 665,220 690,850 Accounts receivable, net 10,589,677 7,903,338 Inventory, net 531,593 471,479 Prepaid expenses 272,926 649,123 Deferred tax asset, current portion - 160,545 Other current assets 772,966 395,642 Assets held for disposal - 18,254,601 Total current assets 13,121,862 29,348,969 Fixed assets 136,835 201,897 Deferred tax asset - 433,997 Goodwill 10,114,164 10,114,164 Trade name 2,936,481 3,513,481 Intangibles, net - 8,250 Customer Relationships 6,435,652 7,560,352 Other assets 47,563 689,347 Total assets $ 32,792,557 51,870,457 LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' (DEFICIT) Current liabilities Accounts payable and accrued liabilities $ 10,566,066 14,360,980 Accrued interest and accrued liabilities, related party - 177,776 Line of credit 5,059,292 2,960,342 Advances, related party 100,000 400,000 Accrued payroll and sales tax 1,829,934 1,322,188 Deferred revenue, net 879,026 685,317 Current portion of note payable 9,782,925 - Notes payable, related parties, current portion - 6,790,148 Other current liabilities 227,932 369,609 Liabilities held for disposal - 10,795,906 Total current liabilities 28,445,175 37,862,266 Long term liabilities Note payable, related party, net of debt discount 17,515,345 13,546,840 Accrued interest and accrued liabilities, related party 629,238 - Long term portion of note payable 130,294 126,942 Deferred revenue, net 565,423 533,874 Other long term liabilities 332,270 271,902 Total liabilities 47,617,745 52,341,824 Stockholders' deficit Series A Preferred stock; $0.001 par value; 1,000,000 shares designated, 0 shares issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2016 and 2015, respectively. - - Series B Preferred stock; $0.001 par value; 1 share designated, 0 shares and 1 share issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2016 and 2015, respectively. - 1 Series C Preferred stock; $0.001 par value; 15,000,000 shares designated, 3,143,530 and 0 shares issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2016 and 2015, respectively, liquidation preference of $1 per share and a cumulative dividend of $0.06 per share 3,144 - Common stock; $0.001 par value; 100,000,000 shares authorized; 35,095,763 and 36,871,478 shares issued and outstanding of December 31, 2016 and 2015 respectively.. 35,095 36,871 Common stock to be repurchased by the Company (230,490 ) - Additional paid-in capital 18,302,262 17,948,997 Accumulated deficit (32,935,199 ) (18,457,236 ) Total stockholders' deficit (14,825,188 ) (471,367 ) Total liabilities and stockholders' deficit $ 32,792,557 51,870,457\nQUEST SOLUTION, INC. RECONCILIATION OF GAAP MEASURES TO NON-GAAP MEASURES For the three months For the years ending December 31, ending December 31, EBITDA Calculation: 2016 2015 2016 2015 Net loss income (2,138,433 ) (1,704,964 ) (14,345,145 ) (1,715,080 ) Net loss from discontinuing operations - 239,956 6,851,875 239,956 Income Taxes 577,098 (1,849,733 ) 1,068,352 (1,785,524 ) Depreciation & Amortization 445,249 2,528,907 1,792,326 2,598,823 Interest Expense 1,728,283 426,007 4,531,263 1,438,422 Non-admissible foreign exchange (gain) loss - - (129,589 ) - EBITDA 612,197 (359,827 ) (230,918 ) 776,597 Adjusted EBITDA Calculation: EBITDA 612,197 (359,827 ) (230,918 ) 776,597 Non Cash stock compensation 66,372 414,138 374,451 751,034 Write-off of other assets - - 450,000 - Gain on intangible license settlement - - - (374,500 ) Restructuring expenses - - 544,941 - Divestiture related costs 102,535 - 102,535 - Merger related costs - - 25,188 - Gain on extinguishment of other liabilities (150,000 ) - (150,000 ) - One time nonrecurring costs - - 18,245 - Adjusted EBITDA 631,104 54,311 1,134,442 1,153,131 Net Revenue 16,607,405 17,653,607 60,047,124 58,598,531 Adjusted EBITDA as a % of Net Revenue 3.8 % 0.3 % 1.9 % 2.0 %\nThe merger related costs are fees from an independent valuation firm and legal firm which are related to the business acquisitions. The divestiture related costs are fees from a legal firm which are related to the divestiture of Quest Solution Canada Inc.", "HanseYachts Aktiengesellschaft: Interim management statement on the 3rd quarter\nThe issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.\n- Revenue increased by 6% in first nine months of current financial year\n- Very strong order backlog\n- Start-up losses and extreme winter negatively impact 2017/2018 financial year\nFurther increase in revenue and higher order backlog in first nine months of 2017/2018\nIn the first nine months (1 July 2017 - 31 March 2018) of the financial year 2017/2018, HanseYachts AG again increased revenue (by 6% to EUR 85.2 million) and order backlog as at the end of March compared with the previous-year period (by 12.7% to EUR 69.4 million).\nResults for the third quarter\nIn the third quarter (1 January to 31 March 2018) of financial year 2017/2018, HanseYachts AG generated total output of EUR 39.9 million, which was up by 2.3% compared to the same period of the previous year, after taking into account the increase in inventory of finished and unfinished products in the amount of EUR 5.5 million (prior-year period: increase of EUR 2.9 million) and own work capitalised of EUR 0.4 million. Other operating income in the amount of EUR 0.7 million is EUR 0.3 million higher than in the previous year. The cost of materials ratio increased by 0.8% to 58.6%. This means gross income in the third quarter of the current 2017/2018 financial year of EUR 16.5 million is unchanged compared with the same period of the previous year. The personnel cost ratio increased by 3.9 percentage points to 28.4%. On a quarterly comparison, other operating expenses rose by EUR 0.6 million to EUR 5.3 million. EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes and depreciation and amortisation) was EUR 0.6 million as of the end of the quarter (prior-year period: EUR 2.7 million). Depreciation and amortisation fell slightly by EUR 0.1 million to EUR 1.4 million. After taking taxes and the financial result into consideration, we generated a quarterly loss of EUR 1.1 million (previous year: gain of EUR 0.7 million).\nCumulative results for the first nine months\nTotal output (sales revenue, change in inventory, own work capitalised) in the reporting period of July 2017 to March 2018 increased by 9.6% to EUR 98.4 million (comparable prior-year period: EUR 89.8 million). Other operating income of EUR 1.9 million is significantly below the prior-year period of EUR 3.2 million, since the previous year included the extraordinary income of EUR 2.2 million from the write-up of the \"Fjord\" brand. Cost of materials of EUR 57.6 million means the cost of materials ratio of 58.5% is 1.6 percentage points higher in relation to total output compared with the prior-year period. Amongst other reasons, this is due to the temporary workers, who were reported as purchased services in cost of materials. They were needed in order to cope with increased production volume, but were also employed to offset the unusually high shortfall of personnel in February and March 2018 due a flu outbreak. Extreme weather at times during the winter months led to suppliers having weather-related delivery problems, which caused production delays and postponements. There were also a higher-than-average number of product start-ups of new yacht models recorded in the reporting period, which led to significant additional expenses. Personnel expenses in the amount of EUR 28.8 million increased by EUR 4.0 million year-on-year in absolute terms and by 1.7% in relation to total output. The personnel increase due to growth affected the personnel expenses, while the wage increase in accordance with the collective wage agreement affected the relation to total output. Other operating expenses rose by EUR 1.8 million to EUR 14.4 million. The reasons for the increase in this area are in particular: increased expenses for marketing and advertising, for example market positioning of the new brand \"Privilège\" and higher-quality exhibitions at trade fairs, but also increased legal and advisory costs since HanseYachts AG is currently successfully defending itself against an instance of product piracy in Italy.\nEBITDA declined in the nine-month reporting period from EUR 4.6 million in the previous year to minus EUR 0.4 million in the current reporting period. Depreciation and amortisation were almost unchanged at EUR 4.3 million (previous year period: EUR 4.4 million). The financial result remained unchanged at EUR -1.3 million, most of which is the planned interest payments of the 8% 2014/2019 bond.\nAfter income tax, consolidated net income amounted to minus EUR 5.9 million (previous year period: minus EUR 1.0 million). The non-recurring item reported in the prior-year period due to the brand write-up of EUR 2.2 million that was recognised in income, the incorporation of the Privilège\nbrand into the HanseYachts brand portfolio, the higher-than-average number of product start-ups of new yacht models and unforeseeable one-time costs due to weather led to high additional expenses in the third quarter of 2017/2018 and thus ultimately to a significant deviation from the previous year. In order to improve earnings, optimisation measures will be initiated in development, production, logistics and purchasing but will not take full effect in this financial year. HanseYachts AG will therefore report a consolidated net loss as of 30 June 2018.\nThe Management Board assumes that the subsequent 2018/2019 financial year that begins 1 July 2018 will again show positive consolidated net income with moderate revenue growth.\nAs of 31 March 2018, the equity ratio amounted to 11.9% (15.9% after taking into account the long-term shareholder loans in accordance with the bond terms of the 2014/2019 bond).\nFinancial situation\nAs of 31 March 2018, there were cash balances at banks in the amount of EUR 4.4 million. In the previous financial year, our current account credit lines were expanded considerably so that there are current account credit lines in the amount of EUR 9.0 million in addition to existing bank balances. These lines were drawn down in the amount of EUR 7.7 million as of the reporting date.\nMarket situation and products\nHanseYachts AG is globally active in the production and sale of sailing yachts and motor yachts that range in length from 9 to 21 metres. Globally, the market is growing. The most important sales regions for us are Europe and North America. HanseYachts AG meets the challenges of its industry with constant investments in developing new yachts, product maintenance of well-established models as well as a clearly separate positioning of the \"Hanse\", \"Dehler\" and \"Moody\" brands and the \"Sealine\" and \"Fjord\" brands of motor yachts. The recent incorporation of the Privilège brand of catamarans complements the brand diversity. Our revenue growth and high order backlog prove the success of our strategy.\nIn addition to top quality and a particularly luxurious look, special product design and a high degree of individualisation are the main product characteristics of the yachts made by HanseGroup. In addition, the successful and consistent application of the multi-brand strategy and continual development of attractive yachts such as the new motor yachts Sealine C430, F430, Fjord 42 open and sailing yachts such as Hanse 348, 388, 418, 588, and Dehler 34, 42 are the foundations of our growth dynamics.\nTABLE OF KEY FIGURES\nIn EUR m\n1 July 2017-\n31 March 2018\n1 July 2016-\n31 March 2017\n1 July 2015-\n31 March 2016\n1 July 2014-\n31 March 2015\nRevenue\n85.2\n80.2\n71.6\n64.8\nCost of materials as a percentage of total output\n58.5%\n56.9%\n60.7%\n63.0%\nEBITDA 1)\n-0.4\n+2.4 1)\n+0.3\n-2.6\nOrder backlog\n69.4\n61.6\n57.5\n46.9\n1) 2016/2017 adjusted for one-time income from write-up of EUR 2.2 million\nEnd of report\n30.05.2018 Dissemination of a Corporate News, transmitted by DGAP - a service of EQS Group AG.The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.The DGAP Distribution Services include Regulatory Announcements, Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases. Archive at www.dgap.de\nLanguage:\nEnglish\nCompany:\nHanseYachts Aktiengesellschaft\nLadebower Chaussee 11\n17493 Greifswald\nGermany\nPhone:\n+49 (0)3834-5792-20\nFax:\n+49 (0)3834-5792-81\nE-mail:\nir@hanseyachts.com\nInternet:\nwww.hansegroup.com\nISIN:\nDE000A0KF6M8, DE000A11QHZ0, DE000A1X3GL4\nWKN:\nA0KF6M, A11QHZ, A1X3GL\nListed:\nRegulated Market in Frankfurt (General Standard); Regulated Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart\nEnd of News\nDGAP News Service\n690761 30.05.2018\nSHARE THIS POST EMAIL COPY LINK", "SAIC Motor Corp's logos are pictured at its booth during the Auto China 2016 auto show in Beijing, China April 26, 2016. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon\nBEIJING China's largest automaker SAIC Motor Corp Ltd (600104.SS) posted a 7.4 percent jump in 2016 profits, slightly lower than it had expected, and cautioned sales growth will slow this year as the country rolls back a tax cut on small-engine cars.\nThe Shanghai-based manufacturer, which makes cars in joint ventures with General Motors Co (GM.N) and Volkswagen AG (VOWG_p.DE) in addition to own-brand vehicles, said its net profit totaled 32.0 billion yuan ($4.6 billion) last year.\nThis was below SAIC's preliminary prediction for a 7.5 percent rise in 2016 profit.\nSAIC's revenue rose 12.8 percent to 756 billion yuan.\nDemand for cars in China, the world's biggest auto market, got a shot in the arm in 2016 as people rushed to buy ahead of a planned expiry at year-end of lower taxes. The tax cut - on vehicles with engines of 1.6 liters or below - mainly helped the mass market, smaller car segment where Volkswagen excels.\nBut sales are expected to come under pressure this year following an increase in the purchase tax on small-engine vehicles to 7.5 percent as of Jan. 1, from 5 percent in 2016. The tax will return to its normal level of 10 percent in 2018.\nSAIC said the rush to buy cars before the hike in taxes could mean lower sales in 2017.\n\"After the blowout in (2016) auto market sales, it will be difficult to avoid an 'overdraft',\" SAIC said in an exchange filing. \"Market growth is facing greater challenges.\"\nSAIC on Wednesday said its vehicle sales rose 3 percent in the first three months of 2017. For the full year, the automaker aims to sell 6.7 million vehicles, up only about 3.8 percent from 2016, when sales saw a 10 percent growth.\nChina's overall vehicle sales growth is expected to slow to 5 percent in 2017 from 13.7 percent last year, according to China's automakers association.\nAmid a more challenging domestic market, SAIC plans to continue pursuing new markets outside and said it had formally agreed to buy an Indian factory from General Motors (GM.N).\nGM had previously said it was moving forward with talks to sell its Halol plant in India's western state of Gujarat to SAIC.\nSAIC did not provide any further details in its filing.\n\"We continue to progress towards the sale of the Halol plant, as we consolidate manufacturing at our Talegaon plant,\" GM told Reuters in an emailed statement, referring to a second India plant.\n(Reporting by Jake Spring Additional reporting by Norihiko Shirouzu; Editing by Himani Sarkar and Clarence Fernandez)", "Regarding the company's performance and returns to shareholders, Rich Templeton, TI's chairman, president and CEO, made the following comments:\n\"Revenue increased 11 percent from the same quarter a year ago. Demand for our Analog and Embedded Processing products continued to be strong in the industrial and automotive markets.\n\"Our cash flow from operations of $5.7 billion for the trailing 12 months again underscored the strength of our business model. Free cash flow for the trailing 12 months was up 17 percent from a year ago to $4.9 billion , or 32.1 percent of revenue. This reflects the quality of our product portfolio, as well as the efficiency of our manufacturing strategy, including the benefit of 300-millimeter Analog production.\nfor the trailing 12 months again underscored the strength of our business model. Free cash flow for the trailing 12 months was up 17 percent from a year ago to , or 32.1 percent of revenue. This reflects the quality of our product portfolio, as well as the efficiency of our manufacturing strategy, including the benefit of 300-millimeter Analog production. \"We have returned $5.1 billion to owners in the past 12 months through stock repurchases and dividends, consistent with our strategy to return to owners all of our free cash flow. Over the last 12 months, our dividends represented 45 percent of free cash flow, emphasizing their sustainability.\nto owners in the past 12 months through stock repurchases and dividends, consistent with our strategy to return to owners all of our free cash flow. Over the last 12 months, our dividends represented 45 percent of free cash flow, emphasizing their sustainability. \"TI's second-quarter outlook is for revenue in the range of $3.78 billion to $4.10 billion , and earnings per share between $1.19 and $1.39 , which includes an estimated $10 million discrete tax benefit.\nto , and earnings per share between and , which includes an estimated discrete tax benefit. \"We now expect our ongoing annual operating tax rate to be about 16 percent starting in 2019 and 20 percent in 2018, lower than our previous expectations of 18 percent and 23 percent, respectively.\"\nFree cash flow, a non-GAAP financial measure, is cash flow from operations less capital expenditures.\nEarnings summary\nAmounts are in millions of dollars, except per-share amounts.\n1Q18\n1Q17\nChange Revenue $ 3,789 $ 3,402\n11% Operating profit $ 1,548 $ 1,252\n24% Net income $ 1,366 $ 997\n37% Earnings per share $ 1.35 $ 0.97\n39%\nCash generation\nAmounts are in millions of dollars.\nTrailing 12 Months\n1Q18\n1Q18\n1Q17\nChange Cash flow from operations\n$ 1,112\n$ 5,680\n$ 4,756\n19% Capital expenditures\n$ 189\n$ 757\n$ 534\n42% Free cash flow\n$ 923\n$ 4,923\n$ 4,222\n17% Free cash flow % of revenue\n32.1%\n30.7%\nCash return\nAmounts are in millions of dollars.\nTrailing 12 Months\n1Q18\n1Q18\n1Q17\nChange Dividends paid\n$ 611\n$ 2,215\n$ 1,763\n26% Stock repurchases\n$ 873\n$ 2,879\n$ 2,052\n40% Total cash returned\n$ 1,484\n$ 5,094\n$ 3,815\n34%\nTEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED AND SUBSIDIARIES Consolidated Statements of Income (Millions of dollars, except share and per-share amounts)\nFor Three Months Ended\nMarch 31,\n2018\n2017 Revenue\n$ 3,789\n$ 3,402 Cost of revenue (COR)\n1,342\n1,258 Gross profit\n2,447\n2,144 Research and development (R&D)\n385\n369 Selling, general and administrative (SG&A)\n433\n439 Acquisition charges\n80\n80 Restructuring charges/other\n1\n4 Operating profit\n1,548\n1,252 Other income (expense), net (OI&E)\n28\n21 Interest and debt expense\n23\n18 Income before income taxes\n1,553\n1,255 Provision for income taxes\n187\n258 Net income\n$ 1,366\n$ 997\nDiluted earnings per common share\n$ 1.35\n$ .97\nAverage shares outstanding (millions):\nBasic\n983\n998 Diluted\n1,005\n1,019\nCash dividends declared per common share\n$ .62\n$ .50\nSupplemental Information (Quarterly, except as noted)\nProvision for income taxes is based on the following:\nOperating taxes (calculated using the estimated annual effective tax rate)\n$ 316\n$ 382 Discrete tax items\n(129)\n(124) Provision for income taxes (effective taxes)\n$ 187\n$ 258\nAnnual operating tax rate\n20%\n30% Effective tax rate\n12%\n21%\nAs a result of accounting rule ASC 260, which requires a portion of Net income to be allocated to unvested restricted stock units\n(RSUs) on which we pay dividend equivalents, diluted EPS is calculated using the following:\nNet income\n$ 1,366\n$ 997 Income allocated to RSUs\n(11)\n(10) Income allocated to common stock for diluted EPS\n$ 1,355\n$ 987\nTEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED AND SUBSIDIARIES Consolidated Balance Sheets (Millions of dollars, except share amounts)\nMarch 31,\n2018\n2017 Assets\nCurrent assets:\nCash and cash equivalents\n$ 1,717\n$ 1,073 Short-term investments\n2,362\n1,976 Accounts receivable, net of allowances of ($8) and ($11)\n1,454\n1,337 Raw materials\n144\n102 Work in process\n1,076\n1,017 Finished goods\n812\n724 Inventories\n2,032\n1,843 Prepaid expenses and other current assets\n1,025\n811 Total current assets\n8,590\n7,040 Property, plant and equipment at cost\n4,907\n4,833 Accumulated depreciation\n(2,171)\n(2,332) Property, plant and equipment\n2,736\n2,501 Long-term investments\n271\n241 Goodwill\n4,362\n4,362 Acquisition-related intangibles\n866\n1,184 Deferred tax assets\n218\n361 Capitalized software licenses\n102\n116 Overfunded retirement plans\n215\n102 Other long-term assets\n147\n71 Total assets\n$ 17,507\n$ 15,978\nLiabilities and stockholders' equity\nCurrent liabilities:\nCurrent portion of long-term debt\n$ 500\n$ 378 Accounts payable\n488\n429 Accrued compensation\n344\n352 Income taxes payable\n133\n77 Accrued expenses and other liabilities\n395\n366 Total current liabilities\n1,860\n1,602 Long-term debt\n3,578\n2,980 Underfunded retirement plans\n92\n97 Deferred tax liabilities\n53\n36 Other long-term liabilities\n1,282\n624 Total liabilities\n6,865\n5,339 Stockholders' equity:\nPreferred stock, $25 par value. Authorized – 10,000,000 shares\nParticipating cumulative preferred – None issued\n—\n— Common stock, $1 par value. Authorized – 2,400,000,000 shares\nShares issued – 1,740,815,939\n1,741\n1,741 Paid-in capital\n1,770\n1,597 Retained earnings\n35,619\n33,595 Treasury common stock at cost\nShares: March 31, 2018 – 759,098,020; March 31, 2017 – 743,085,976\n(28,096)\n(25,767) Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), net of taxes (AOCI)\n(392)\n(527) Total stockholders' equity\n10,642\n10,639 Total liabilities and stockholders' equity\n$ 17,507\n$ 15,978\nTEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED AND SUBSIDIARIES Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (Millions of dollars)\nFor Three Months Ended\nMarch 31,\n2018\n2017 Cash flows from operating activities\nNet income\n$ 1,366\n$ 997 Adjustments to Net income:\nDepreciation\n137\n139 Amortization of acquisition-related intangibles\n80\n80 Amortization of capitalized software\n12\n11 Stock compensation\n70\n68 Deferred taxes\n(31)\n9 Increase (decrease) from changes in:\nAccounts receivable\n(176)\n(68) Inventories\n(97)\n(53) Prepaid expenses and other current assets\n356\n(71) Accounts payable and accrued expenses\n(51)\n(78) Accrued compensation\n(372)\n(356) Income taxes payable\n(131)\n149 Changes in funded status of retirement plans\n(15)\n(14) Other\n(36)\n(18) Cash flows from operating activities\n1,112\n795\nCash flows from investing activities\nCapital expenditures\n(189)\n(127) Proceeds from asset sales\n—\n40 Purchases of short-term investments\n(996)\n(757) Proceeds from short-term investments\n1,455\n1,120 Other\n(4)\n(9) Cash flows from investing activities\n266\n267\nCash flows from financing activities\nRepayment of debt\n—\n(250) Dividends paid\n(611)\n(500) Stock repurchases\n(873)\n(550) Proceeds from common stock transactions\n178\n161 Other\n(11)\n(4) Cash flows from financing activities\n(1,317)\n(1,143)\nNet change in Cash and cash equivalents\n61\n(81) Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period\n1,656\n1,154 Cash and cash equivalents at end of period\n$ 1,717\n$ 1,073\nSegment results\nAmounts are in millions of dollars.\n1Q18\n1Q17\nChange Analog:\nRevenue\n$ 2,566\n$ 2,256\n14% Operating profit\n$ 1,166\n$ 935\n25% Embedded Processing:\nRevenue\n$ 926\n$ 803\n15% Operating profit\n$ 328\n$ 240\n37% Other:\nRevenue\n$ 297\n$ 343\n(13)% Operating profit*\n$ 54\n$ 77\n(30)%\n* Includes Acquisition charges and Restructuring charges/other.\nCompared with the year-ago quarter:\nAnalog: (includes Power, Signal Chain and High Volume)\nRevenue increased due to Power and Signal Chain. High Volume was about even.\nOperating profit increased due to higher revenue and associated gross profit.\nEmbedded Processing: (includes Connected Microcontrollers and Processors)\nRevenue increased in both product lines, led by Processors.\nOperating profit increased primarily due to higher revenue and associated gross profit.\nOther: (includes DLP® products, calculators and custom ASIC products)\nRevenue decreased by $46 million , and operating profit declined by $23 million .\nNon-GAAP financial information\nThis release includes references to free cash flow and ratios based on that measure. These are financial measures that were not prepared in accordance with GAAP. Free cash flow was calculated by subtracting Capital expenditures from the most directly comparable GAAP measure, Cash flows from operating activities (also referred to as cash flow from operations).\nWe believe that free cash flow and the associated ratios provide insight into our liquidity, our cash-generating capability and the amount of cash potentially available to return to shareholders, as well as insight into our financial performance. These non-GAAP measures are supplemental to the comparable GAAP measures.\nReconciliation to the most directly comparable GAAP measures is provided in the table below.\nAmounts are in millions of dollars.\nFor 12 Months Ended\nMarch 31,\n2018\n2017\nChange Cash flow from operations (GAAP)\n$ 5,680\n$ 4,756\n19% Capital expenditures\n(757)\n(534)\nFree cash flow (non-GAAP)\n$ 4,923\n$ 4,222\n17%\nRevenue\n$ 15,348\n$ 13,764\nCash flow from operations as a percent of revenue (GAAP)\n37.0%\n34.6%\nFree cash flow as a percent of revenue (non-GAAP)\n32.1%\n30.7%\nThis release also includes references to an annual operating tax rate, a non-GAAP term we use to describe the estimated annual effective tax rate, a GAAP measure that by definition does not include discrete tax items. We believe the term annual operating tax rate more clearly communicates that discrete tax items are excluded from such rate. The term also helps differentiate from the effective tax rate, which includes discrete tax items. No adjustments are made to the estimated annual effective tax rate when using the term annual operating tax rate.\nNotice regarding forward-looking statements\nThis release includes forward-looking statements intended to qualify for the safe harbor from liability established by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements generally can be identified by phrases such as TI or its management \"believes,\" \"expects,\" \"anticipates,\" \"foresees,\" \"forecasts,\" \"estimates\" or other words or phrases of similar import. Similarly, statements herein that describe TI's business strategy, outlook, objectives, plans, intentions or goals also are forward-looking statements. All such forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements.\nWe urge you to carefully consider the following important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the expectations of TI or our management:\nMarket demand for semiconductors, particularly in our end markets;\nOur ability to compete in products and prices in an intensely competitive industry;\nCustomer demand that differs from forecasts and the financial impact of inadequate or excess company inventory that results from demand that differs from projections;\nEconomic, social and political conditions in the countries in which we, our customers or our suppliers operate, including security risks; global trade policies; political and social instability; health conditions; possible disruptions in transportation, communications and information technology networks; and fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates;\nEvolving cybersecurity threats to our information technology systems or those of our customers or suppliers;\nNatural events such as severe weather, geological events or health epidemics in the locations in which we, our customers or our suppliers operate;\nOur ability to develop, manufacture and market innovative products in a rapidly changing technological environment;\nTimely implementation of new manufacturing technologies and installation of manufacturing equipment, and the ability to obtain needed third-party foundry and assembly/test subcontract services;\nAvailability and cost of raw materials, utilities, manufacturing equipment, third-party manufacturing services and manufacturing technology;\nCompliance with or changes in the complex laws, rules and regulations to which we are or may become subject, or actions of enforcement authorities, that restrict our ability to manufacture or ship our products or operate our business, or subject us to fines, penalties or other legal liability;\nProduct liability or warranty claims, claims based on epidemic or delivery failure, or other claims relating to our products, manufacturing, services, design or communications, or recalls by our customers for a product containing one of our parts;\nChanges in tax law and accounting standards that can impact the tax rate applicable to us, the jurisdictions in which profits are determined to be earned and taxed, adverse resolution of tax audits, increases in tariff rates, and the ability to realize deferred tax assets;\nA loss suffered by one of our customers or distributors with respect to TI-consigned inventory;\nFinancial difficulties of our distributors or their promotion of competing product lines to our detriment, or the loss of a significant number of distributors;\nLosses or curtailments of purchases from key customers or the timing and amount of distributor and other customer inventory adjustments;\nOur ability to maintain or improve profit margins, including our ability to utilize our manufacturing facilities at sufficient levels to cover our fixed operating costs, in an intensely competitive and cyclical industry and despite changes in the regulatory environment;\nOur ability to maintain and enforce a strong intellectual property portfolio and maintain freedom of operation in all jurisdictions where we conduct business; or our exposure to infringement claims;\nInstability in the global credit and financial markets that affects our ability to fund our daily operations, invest in the business, make strategic acquisitions, or make principal and interest payments on our debt;\nIncreases in health care and pension benefit costs;\nOur ability to recruit and retain skilled engineering, management and technical personnel;\nOur ability to successfully integrate and realize opportunities for growth from acquisitions, or our ability to realize our expectations regarding the amount and timing of restructuring charges and associated cost savings; and\nImpairments of our non-financial assets.\nFor a more detailed discussion of these factors, see the Risk Factors discussion in Item 1A of TI's most recent Form 10-K. The forward-looking statements included in this release are made only as of the date of this release, and we undertake no obligation to update the forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.\nAbout Texas Instruments\nTexas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is a global semiconductor design and manufacturing company that develops analog ICs and embedded processors. By employing the world's brightest minds, TI creates innovations that shape the future of technology. TI is helping approximately 100,000 customers transform the future, today. Learn more at www.ti.com.\nTI trademarks:\nDLP\nOther trademarks are the property of their respective owners.\nTXN-G\nView original content:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ti-reports-1q18-financial-results-and-shareholder-returns-300635745.html\nSOURCE Texas Instruments Incorporated\nRelated Links\nhttp://www.ti.com", "Buildings under construction are seen among fog in Rizhao, Shandong province, China, May 19, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer\nBEIJING China's economy likely grew by a solid 6.8 percent in the first quarter, the same pace as the previous quarter, due to sustained government infrastructure spending and a gravity-defying housing market, according to a Reuters poll of 60 economists.\nBut the world's second-largest economy is widely expected to lose steam later in the year as the impact of earlier stimulus measures starts to fade and as local authorities step up a battle to rein in red-hot housing prices.\nA tighter monetary policy stance by the central bank and intensifying efforts by regulators to contain debt risks and asset bubbles could also weigh on growth in the world's second-largest economy if not handled well, economists said.\n\"Growth is still driven by infrastructure investment and the property sector, but property investment is likely to slow in the second half due to curbs on home buying and mortgages,\" said Tang Jianwei, economist at Bank of Communications in Shanghai.\n\"The economy is stabilising and warming up, but there are still downside risks in the medium term.\"\nA surprisingly upbeat reading would likely boost stocks and global commodity prices, but a weak outcome could fuel the risk of more capital outflows, putting fresh pressure on the yuan currency CNY=CFXS.\nThe government is aiming for 2017 growth of around 6.5 percent, slightly lower than last year's target of 6.5-7 percent and the actual 6.7 percent, which was the weakest pace in 26 years.\nTop leaders have signalled tolerance for more modest growth this year to help defuse financial risks created by an explosive growth in debt.\nEconomists in the poll estimated GDP grew 1.6 percent quarter-on-quarter, versus 1.7 percent in the fourth quarter, though only 25 analysts gave sequential forecasts.\nPROPERTY, DEBT KEY RISKS\nMost analysts agree the property market may pose the single biggest immediate risk to growth.\nIn March and early April, more than a dozen local governments imposed or tightened restrictions on home purchases and tightened mortgage down payment rules, after data showed housing prices, sales and investment remained strong, defying earlier cooling measures.\nIncreasingly tough measures are expected to slow activity in the property market eventually, but at the risk of a nasty crash that would damage the economy and consumer confidence.\nAt the same time, China's central bank has shifted to a tightening bias and is using more targeted measures to contain risks in the financial system, after years of ultra-loose settings.\nThe People's Bank of China (PBOC) has raised short-term interest rates modestly several times already this year and some market watchers expect one or two more hikes by year-end.\nBut it is considered unlikely to tighten policy abruptly ahead of a major leadership transition later this year.\nIndeed, some analysts believe the government could quickly unwind tightening measures and revert to traditional pump-priming if growth slows too sharply, despite official warnings about the dangers of prolonged debt-fuelled stimulus.\nThe Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) says China's total private and public debt has exceeded 250 percent of GDP, up from 150 percent before the global financial crisis.\nSTEADY MARCH EXPANSION EXPECTED\nChina will release first-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) on April 17 (Monday), along with March industrial output, retail sales and fixed asset investment.\nIndustrial output likely grew at a steady 6.3 percent pace in March, aided by a continuing construction boom and a pickup in export orders as global demand improves.\nFixed asset investment was expected to grow 8.8 percent in the first quarter, easing marginally from 8.9 percent in the first two months of the year.\nInvestors and policymakers will be watching for any further signs of improvement in private investment, which quickened in January and February after a sharp loss of momentum in the last few years.\nRetail sales could remain a source of concern, however. Growth is expected to pick up only marginally to 9.6 percent in March from 9.5 percent in January and February combined, which was the weakest pace in nearly two years.\nStill, China auto sales grew 7 percent in the first quarter, the strongest January-March period since 2014 and raising the possibility of an upside surprise.\nGrowth in car sales was expected to be weaker this year after the government reduced tax incentives on small cars.\nData on Wednesday showed China's producer price inflation cooled for the first time in seven months in March as iron ore and coal prices tumbled, pressured by fears that Chinese steel production is outweighing demand. Consumer prices remained mild.\nMarch trade figures will be issued on Thursday, with an expected rebound in exports being overshadowed by concerns about a rise in U.S. protectionism.\n(Reporting by Kevin Yao and Shaloo Shrivastava; Editing by Kim Coghill)", "\"We are off to the strong start we expected in 2018. First-quarter revenue grew 29% over Q1 2017, driven by growth across all major regions. Robust replenishment, following strong Q4 2017 holiday sell-through, and shipments to support Q2 holidays in the United States, drove domestic revenue growth of 26% over last year. EMEA and Japan also saw significant year-over-year growth of 47% and 38%, respectively, in part driven by the revenue uplift from acquisitions, neither of which we had in Q1 2017,\" said Colin Angle, chairman and chief executive officer of iRobot.\n\"Given our Q1 results and our outlook for the rest of the year, we are reaffirming our 2018 full-year revenue and operating income expectations, and increasing our full-year expectations for earnings per share. We anticipate full-year 2018 revenue of $1.05 to $1.08 billion, which is year-over-year growth of 19 – 22%, operating income of $86 to $96 million, and EPS of $2.15 to $2.40.\n\"We are off to a very strong start in 2018, and I am very excited about the year ahead. We expect our global business to deliver strong financial performance in 2018 that will fund our ability to reinforce our core product leadership in the RVC category, widen our competitive moat through technological differentiation protected by our IP portfolio, and extend our product portfolio.\n\"We believe that consistent execution of this strategy is the most effective way to drive sustainable growth and shareholder value.\"\nFinancial Results\nRevenue for the first quarter of 2018 was $217.1 million , compared with $168.5 million for the first quarter of 2017.\n, compared with for the first quarter of 2017. Operating income in the first quarter of 2018 was $25.4 million , compared with $21.6 million in the first quarter of 2017.\n, compared with in the first quarter of 2017. Quarterly earnings per share were $0.71 , compared with earnings per share of $0.58 in the first quarter of 2017. In Q1 2018, earnings per share included $0 .05 of tax benefit relating to stock compensation accounting compared with a $0.06 tax benefit in Q1 2017.\nBusiness Highlights\nWe delivered year-over-year double-digit Q1 quarterly revenue growth across all major regions.\nFirst-quarter revenue grew 26% in the U.S. and 32% internationally over Q1 2017.\nOur acquisitions have enabled more consistent global control of our brand and execution of our marketing programs.\nOur investments in R&D continue as planned, and our new product introductions are on schedule for launch in the second half.\nFinancial Expectations\nManagement provides the following expectations with respect to the fiscal year ending December 29, 2018.\nFiscal Year 2018: Current Previous Revenue $1.05 - $1.08 billion $1.05 - $1.08 billion Operating Income $86 - $96 million $86 - $96 million Earnings Per Share $2.15 - $2.40 $2.10 - $2.35\nFirst-Quarter Conference Call\niRobot will host a conference call tomorrow at 8:30 a.m. ET to discuss its financial results for the first fiscal quarter 2018, business outlook, and outlook for fiscal year 2018 financial performance. Pertinent details include:\nDate: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 Time: 8:30 a.m. ET Call-In Number: 213-358-0894 Passcode: 7776299\nA live, audio broadcast of the conference call will also be available at http://investor.irobot.com/events/event-details/q1-2018-irobot-corp-earnings-conference-call. An archived version of the broadcast will be available on the same website shortly after the conclusion of the live event. A replay of the telephone conference call will be available through May 1, and can be accessed by dialing 404-537-3406, passcode 7776299.\nAbout iRobot Corp.\niRobot, the leading global consumer robot company, designs and builds robots that empower people to do more both inside and outside of the home. iRobot created the home robot cleaning category with the introduction of its Roomba® Vacuuming Robot in 2002. Today, iRobot is a global enterprise that has sold more than 20 million robots worldwide. iRobot's product line, including the Roomba and the Braava® family of mopping robots, feature proprietary technologies and advanced concepts in cleaning, mapping and navigation. iRobot's engineers are building an ecosystem of robots and technologies to enable the smart home. For more information about iRobot, please visit www.irobot.com.\nFor iRobot Investors\nCertain statements made in this press release that are not based on historical information are forward-looking statements which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. This press release contains express or implied forward-looking statements relating to, among other things, iRobot Corp.'s expectations regarding: future financial performance; future operating performance; revenue growth; demand for robotic vacuum cleaners; the impact of our investments in intellectual property, technology and innovation; the introduction of new products and the timing and impact thereof; the impact of our acquisitions on our brand and execution of marketing programs; and anticipated revenue, operating income and earnings per share for the fiscal year ended December 29, 2018. These statements are neither promises nor guarantees, but are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated in these forward-looking statements. In particular, the risks and uncertainties include, among other things: our ability to operate in an emerging market; the financial strength of our customers and retailers; general economic conditions; market acceptance of and adoption of our products; and competition. Existing and prospective investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. iRobot Corp. undertakes no obligation to update or revise the information contained in this press release, whether as a result of new information, future events or circumstances or otherwise. For additional disclosure regarding these and other risks faced by iRobot Corp., see the disclosure contained in our public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.\nThis press release includes Adjusted EBITDA, which is a non-GAAP financial measure as defined by SEC Regulation G. We define Adjusted EBITDA as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization, stock-based compensation expense, net merger, acquisition and divestiture (income) expense, gain on business acquisition, net intellectual property litigation expense, and restructuring expense. A reconciliation between net income and Adjusted EBITDA is provided in the financial tables at the end of this press release.\niRobot Corporation Consolidated Statements of Income (in thousands, except per share amounts) (unaudited)\nFor the three months ended\nMarch 31, April 1,\n2018 2017\nRevenue $ 217,068 $ 168,467 Cost of revenue:\nCost of product revenue 96,501 80,260 Amortization of intangible assets 4,782 864 Total cost of revenue 101,283 81,124\nGross margin 115,785 87,343\nOperating expenses:\nResearch and development 32,945 25,508 Selling and marketing 31,329 22,575 General and administrative 25,833 17,622 Amortization of intangible assets 273 - Total operating expenses 90,380 65,705\nOperating income 25,405 21,638\nOther income, net 519 3\nIncome before income taxes 25,924 21,641 Income tax expense 5,523 5,282 Net income $ 20,401 $ 16,359\nNet income per share\nBasic $ 0.73 $ 0.60 Diluted $ 0.71 $ 0.58\nNumber of shares used in per share calculations\nBasic 27,988 27,304 Diluted 28,923 28,295\nStock-based compensation included in above figures:\nCost of revenue $ 341 $ 226 Research and development 1,689 1,099 Selling and marketing 738 570 General and administrative 3,178 2,436 Total $ 5,946 $ 4,331\niRobot Corporation Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets (unaudited, in thousands)\nMarch 31,\nDecember 30,\n2018\n2017\nAssets\nCash and cash equivalents $ 144,501\n$ 128,635 Short term investments 39,960\n37,225 Accounts receivable, net 69,532\n142,829 Inventory 112,111\n106,932 Other current assets 24,584\n19,105 Total current assets 390,688\n434,726 Property and equipment, net 47,223\n44,579 Deferred tax assets 32,690\n31,531 Goodwill 123,218\n121,440 Intangible assets, net 40,613\n44,712 Other assets 15,005\n14,534 Total assets $ 649,437\n$ 691,522\nLiabilities and stockholders' equity\nAccounts payable $ 69,119\n$ 116,316 Accrued expenses 56,107\n73,647 Deferred revenue and customer advances 6,271\n7,761 Total current liabilities 131,497\n197,724 Deferred tax liabilities 8,349\n9,539 Other long term liabilities 12,963\n13,932 Total liabilities 152,809\n221,195 Stockholders' equity 496,628\n470,327 Total liabilities and stockholders' equity $ 649,437\n$ 691,522\niRobot Corporation Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (unaudited, in thousands)\nFor the three months ended\nMarch 31, April 1,\n2018 2017 Cash flows from operating activities:\nNet income $ 20,401 $ 16,359 Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating\nactivities:\nDepreciation and amortization 8,747 3,486 Stock-based compensation 5,946 4,331 Deferred income taxes, net (3,061) 17 Non-cash director deferred compensation 16 16 Deferred rent 1,077 - Other 390 166 Changes in operating assets and liabilities — (use) source\nAccounts receivable 73,642 25,155 Inventory (4,223) (6,546) Other assets (6,114) (1,745) Accounts payable (46,461) (5,026) Accrued expenses (19,693) (8,612) Deferred revenue and customer advances (517) (284) Long term liabilities (360) (558) Net cash provided by operating activities 29,790 26,759\nCash flows from investing activities:\nAdditions of property and equipment (8,717) (3,008) Change in other assets 379 (504) Purchases of investments (6,438) (3,498) Sales and maturities of investments 3,500 3,500 Net cash used in investing activities (11,276) (3,510)\nCash flows from financing activities:\nIncome tax withholding payment associated with restricted stock vesting (3,478) (2,778) Proceeds from stock option exercises 399 722 Net cash used in financing activities (3,079) (2,056)\nEffect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents 431 12 Net increase in cash and cash equivalents 15,866 21,205 Cash and cash equivalents, at beginning of period 128,635 214,523 Cash and cash equivalents, at end of period $ 144,501 $ 235,728\niRobot Corporation Supplemental Information (unaudited)\nFor the three months ended\nMarch 31, April 1,\n2018 2017\nRevenue: *\nConsumer $ 217,068 $ 168,248\nDomestic $ 106,862 $ 84,789\nInternational $ 110,206 $ 83,459\nOther revenue $ - $ -\nGross Margin Percent 53.3% 51.8%\nConsumer units shipped* 815 704\nVacuum 712 582\nMopping 103 121\nOther - 1\nConsumer revenue** $ 217 $ 168\nVacuum*** $ 201 $ 151\nMopping*** $ 16 $ 17\nOther - -\nAverage gross selling prices for robot units - Consumer $ 309 $ 258\nDays sales outstanding 29 26\nDays in inventory 101 64\nHeadcount 954 636\n* in thousands\n** in millions\n*** includes accessory revenue\niRobot Corporation Adjusted EBITDA Reconciliation to GAAP (unaudited, in thousands)\nFor the three months ended\nMarch 31, April 1,\n2018 2017\nNet income $ 20,401 $ 16,359\nInterest income, net (330) (383) Income tax expense 5,523 5,282 Depreciation 3,661 2,580 Amortization 5,086 906\nEBITDA 34,341 24,744\nStock-based compensation expense 5,946 4,331 Net merger, acquisition and divestiture (income) expense (141) 840 Net intellectual property litigation expense 2,571 262\nAdjusted EBITDA $ 42,717 $ 30,177 Adjusted EBITDA as a % of revenue 19.7% 17.9%\nUse of Non-GAAP Financial Measures\nIn evaluating its business, iRobot considers and uses Adjusted EBITDA as a supplemental measure of its operating performance. The Company defines Adjusted EBITDA as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization, stock-based compensation expense, net merger, acquisition and divestiture (income) expense, gain on business acquisition, net intellectual property litigation expense, and restructuring expense. The Company also presents Adjusted EBITDA because it believes it is frequently used by securities analysts, investors and other interested parties as a measure of financial performance.\nThe term Adjusted EBITDA is not defined under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, or U.S. GAAP, and is not a measure of operating income, operating performance or liquidity presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Adjusted EBITDA has limitations as an analytical tool, and when assessing the Company's operating performance, investors should not consider Adjusted EBITDA in isolation, or as a substitute for net income (loss) or other consolidated income statement data prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Among other things, Adjusted EBITDA does not reflect the Company's actual cash expenditures. Other companies may calculate similar measures differently than iRobot, limiting their usefulness as comparative tools. iRobot compensates for these limitations by relying primarily on its GAAP results and using Adjusted EBITDA only supplementally.\nView original content with multimedia:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/irobot-reports-first-quarter-financial-results-300635695.html\nSOURCE iRobot Corp.\nRelated Links\nhttp://www.irobot.com", "* Asia ex-Japan set for 12.5 pct quarterly gain; Nikkei posts loss\n* European stock markets set for flat to lower start\n* China strong manufacturing, services data boost mainland stocks\n* Dollar index higher but poised for quarterly loss\n* Oil surrenders some gains made after Kuwait supply cut agreement\nBy Nichola Saminather\nSINGAPORE, March 31 Asian shares fell on Friday as investors balanced positions on the last day of the quarter.\nThe dollar rose on positive U.S. economic growth data and the euro was flat after overnight losses on figures suggesting slowing expansion in Europe.\nEuropean shares were headed for a muted start, with financial spreadbetters expecting Britain's FTSE 100 to open 0.3 percent lower, France's CAC 40 to start the day down 0.1 percent and Germany's DAX to be little changed.\nMSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan retreated 0.55 percent. The benchmark is up 12.5 percent for the quarter.\nHong Kong shares fell 0.6 percent, but were still headed for a 9.8 percent quarterly jump.\n\"Asia saw some pretty healthy profit-taking after a few sessions of solid gains, and as investors await Eurozone and U.S. inflation data tonight,\" said James Woods, global investment analyst at Rivkin Securities in Sydney.\nChina's CSI 300 index bucked to trend to add 0.4 percent, putting it on track for a 4.2 percent quarterly rise.\nActivity in China's manufacturing sector expanded at the fastest pace in nearly 5 years in March, beating expectations, an official survey showed on Friday.\nThe data came as U.S. President Donald Trump foreshadowed a tense meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping next week by tweeting on Thursday that the U.S. could no longer tolerate massive trade deficits and job losses.\nTrump will also sign executive orders on Friday aimed at identifying abuses that are causing the deficits and clamping down on non-payment of anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties on imports, his top trade officials said.\nChinese Vice Foreign Minister Zheng Zeguang said on Friday that China does not have a policy to devalue its currency to promote exports, and neither does it seek a trade surplus with the United States.\nU.S. stock futures were down between 0.2 and 0.3 percent in Asian trade.\nJapan's Nikkei reversed gains to close down 0.8 percent as markets digested data that showed Japanese core consumer prices rose 0.2 percent in February. While that is the fastest annual pace in nearly two years, household spending and consumer inflation remained subdued when the effect of rising energy costs was stripped out.\nThe Japanese benchmark was down 1.1 percent for the first quarter.\nThe South African rand dropped to a two-month low after President Jacob Zuma sacked and replaced both the finance and deputy finance ministers in a cabinet reshuffle after days of speculation that has rocked the country's markets and currency.\nThe weakened rand saw the dollar up 1.7 percent at 13.5098 rand, on track to end the week almost 9 percent higher.\nOvernight, all three major Wall Street indexes closed about 0.3 percent higher after fourth-quarter annualized growth in U.S. gross domestic product was revised up from the previously reported figure.\nThe upbeat data also helped lift the dollar.\nThe dollar index, which tracks the greenback against a basket of six peers, rose 0.1 percent to 100.54, after hitting a two-week high on Thursday. Despite this week's gains - it is up almost 1.7 percent since Monday's four-month low - the greenback is set to end the quarter 1.6 percent lower.\nThe dollar was steady at 111.885 yen after Thursday's 0.9 percent jump, but is heading for a 4.2 percent quarterly decline.\nMarkets are looking to U.S. personal consumption data for February later on Friday, a measure of potential inflation watched by the Federal Reserve.\nNervousness could return to U.S. markets on news Trump's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, has offered to testify before congressional committees probing possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, his lawyer said on Thursday.\n\"Looking forward, this is important,\" said Angus Gluskie, managing director at White Funds Management in Sydney. \"As markets have shown over recent weeks, if Trump's position is undermined by security issues or a reticent right wing Congress, investors are likely to respond negatively.\"\nThe euro was flat at $1.0676 after Thursday's 0.8 percent tumble. The common currency is on track to post a gain of 0.9 percent for March and 1.45 percent for the quarter.\nData showed German and Spanish consumer inflation slowed more than expected in March, disappointing investors who were hoping for a wind-down of the European Central Bank's monetary stimulus.\nIn commodities, U.S. crude slipped 0.5 percent to $50.09 a barrel. On Thursday, it closed 1.7 percent higher after zipping to a three-week-high earlier in the session after Kuwait backed an extension of OPEC production cuts.\nIt is heading for a 6.7 percent loss for the quarter.\nGlobal benchmark Brent slid 0.7 percent to $52.64 a barrel and is on track for a 7.4 percent decline for the quarter.\nGold pulled back 0.1 percent to $1,241.81 an ounce, extending Thursday's 0.7 percent loss on the dollar's strength, but remains set for a 7.85 percent quarterly gain. (Reporting by Nichola Saminather; Editing by Shri Navaratnam and Eric Meijer)", "NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sprint Corp reported quarterly revenue on Friday that beat analyst estimates, as the No. 4 U.S. wireless carrier raised its free cash flow outlook for the 2017 fiscal year.\nShares rose 3.7 percent to $5.29 in early trading, a day after sliding 5.7 percent to their lowest in a year and a half.\nThe company has sought to strengthen its balance sheet by cutting costs and mortgaging a portion of its airwaves and equipment, but industry analysts have raised concerns about how it can adequately fund network improvements after merger talks with rival T-Mobile US Inc ended last year.\nSprint now expects $2.5 billion to $2.7 billion in operating income, up from its previous estimate of $2.1 billion to $2.5 billion. It expects adjusted free cash flow of $500 million to $700 million, compared to previous estimates of breaking even.\n“We think recent weakness in shares is reflective of lowered investor expectations, while in-line to slightly better financial results could provide some near-term relief,” said Matthew Niknam, analyst at Deutsche Bank, in a research note.\nOn the post-earnings conference call, Sprint Chief Executive Officer Marcelo Claure said Sprint would launch a mobile 5G network in the United States by the first half of 2019.\nFILE PHOTO: The logo of U.S. mobile network operator Sprint Corp is seen at a Sprint store in San Marcos, California August 3, 2015. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo\nThe company is also looking for ways to reduce the number of executives at the top, he said. Sprint cut costs by about $260 million in the quarter, excluding $100 million of hurricane-related charges.\nClaure said “becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of (SoftBank Group Corp) could be a possibility” but that the decision would be up to SoftBank Chief Executive Masayoshi Son. Japan’s SoftBank owns a majority of Sprint and has been increasing its stake.\nFor the quarter, Sprint reported net additions of 184,000 phone subscribers who pay a monthly bill, compared to additions of 368,000 a year earlier.\nNet operating revenue in the third quarter ended Dec. 31 was $8.24 billion, down from $8.55 billion a year earlier.\nSprint reported quarterly net income of $7.16 billion, or $1.79 per share, due to the impact of federal tax reforms, after a loss of $479 million, or 12 cents per share, a year earlier.\nExcluding the impact of tax cuts signed into law by U.S. President Donald Trump late last year, net income was 3 cents a share.\nAccording to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S, analysts had expected revenue of $8.15 billion and a net loss of 4 cents a share.", "Revenue for the first quarter of 2018 was $2.9 million, a decrease of 30% compared to $4.2 million in the same quarter last year. Operating loss in the first quarter of 2018 was $0.7 million compared to operating income of $0.2 million in the first quarter of 2017. The decrease in revenue and resulting operating loss were primarily due to: (i) lower biometrics software license sales; (ii) lower service revenue, and (iii) no income from a patent arrangement that were partially offset by no cost of software licenses and lower cost of services.\nNet loss in the first quarter of 2018 was $0.5 million, or $0.02 per diluted share, which compares to net income of $0.3 million, or $0.01 per diluted share, in the same period a year ago.\nKevin Russell, Aware's chief executive officer and president, said, \"Our results for the first quarter were below our expectations. We have a number of opportunities that we are working on that we were not able to close in the first quarter. Our pipeline for 2018 looks promising, but we are unable to predict when opportunities will result in revenue. We continue to see interest in our product offerings in the government, commercial and mobile markets.\"\nAware also announced today that its Board of Directors has approved a program authorizing the Company to purchase up to $10 million of its common stock. The shares may be purchased from time to time in the open market or through privately negotiated transactions at management's discretion, depending upon market conditions and other factors. The authorization to repurchase Company stock expires on December 31, 2019.\nAbout Aware\nAware is a leading provider of biometrics software products and development services to governments, system integrators, and solution providers globally. Our products include SDKs, software components, workstation applications, and a modular, centralized, service-oriented platform. They fulfill a broad range of functions critical to biometric authentication and search, including face, fingerprint, iris, and voice capture, sample quality assurance, data compliance, capture hardware peripheral abstraction, centralized data processing and workflow, subsystem connectivity, and biometric matching algorithms. The products apply biometrics to enable identity-centric security solutions for applications including banking and payments, border management, credentialing and access control, intelligence and defense, and law enforcement. Aware is a publicly held company (Nasdaq: AWRE) based in Bedford, Massachusetts.\nSee Aware's website for more information about our biometrics software products.\nSafe Harbor Warning\nPortions of this release contain forward-looking statements regarding future events and are subject to risks and uncertainties, such as estimates or projections of future revenue and earnings, and the growth of the biometrics markets. Aware wishes to caution you that there are factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results indicated by such statements.\nRisk factors related to our business include, but are not limited to: i) our operating results may fluctuate significantly and are difficult to predict; ii) we derive a significant portion of our revenue from government customers, and our business may be adversely affected by changes in the contracting or fiscal policies of those governmental entities; iii) a significant commercial market for biometrics technology may not develop, and if it does, we may not be successful in that market; iv) we derive a significant portion of our revenue from third party channel partners; v) hardware revenue is likely to decline in future periods; vi) we face intense competition from other biometrics solution providers; vii) our business is subject to rapid technological change; viii) our software products may have errors, defects or bugs which could harm our business; ix) our business may be adversely affected by our use of open source software; x) we rely on third party software to develop and provide our solutions and significant defects in third party software could harm our business xi) our intellectual property is subject to limited protection; xii) we may be sued by third parties for alleged infringement of their proprietary rights; xiii) we must attract and retain key personnel; xiv) we rely on single sources of supply for certain components used in our hardware products; xv) our business may be affected by government regulations and adverse economic conditions; xvi) we may make acquisitions that could adversely affect our results, and xvii) we may have additional tax liabilities.\nWe refer you to the documents Aware files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, specifically the section titled Risk Factors in our annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017 and other reports and filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission.\nAware is a registered trademark of Aware, Inc. Any other trademarks appearing herein are the property of their respective owners.\nAWARE, INC.\nCONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS\nAND COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)\n(In thousands, except per share data)\n(unaudited)\nThree Months Ended\nMarch 31,\n2018\n2017\nRevenue:\nSoftware licenses\n$1,473\n$2,486\nSoftware maintenance\n1,294\n1,253\nServices\n144\n374\nRoyalties\n-\n43\nTotal revenue\n2,911\n4,156\nCosts and expenses:\nCost of software licenses\n-\n247\nCost of services\n50\n216\nResearch and development\n1,875\n1,857\nSelling and marketing\n924\n915\nGeneral and administrative\n785\n790\nTotal costs and expenses\n3,634\n4,025\nPatent related income\n-\n91\nOperating income (loss)\n(723)\n222\nInterest income\n162\n84\nIncome (loss) before provision for (benefit from) income taxes\n(561)\n306\nProvision for (benefit from) income taxes\n(66)\n5\nNet income (loss)\n($495)\n$301\nNet income (loss) per share – basic\n($0.02)\n$0.01\nNet income (loss) per share – diluted\n($0.02)\n$0.01\nWeighted-average shares – basic\n21,547\n22,255\nWeighted-average shares - diluted\n21,573\n22,321\nAWARE, INC. CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS (In thousands) (unaudited)\nMarch 31, 2018\nDecember 31, 2017 ASSETS\nCash and cash equivalents\n$50,648\n$51,608 Accounts receivable, net\n3,498\n3,818 Property and equipment, net\n4,295\n4,304 Deferred tax assets\n5,163\n5,071 All other assets, net\n324\n234\nTotal assets\n$63,928\n$65,035\nLIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY\nAccounts payable and accrued expenses\n$1,531\n$1,569 Deferred revenue\n2,396\n2,932 Total stockholders' equity\n60,001\n60,534\nTotal liabilities and stockholders' equity\n$63,928\n$65,035\nView original content:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/aware-inc-reports-first-quarter-2018-financial-results-300635636.html\nSOURCE Aware, Inc.\nRelated Links\nhttp://www.aware.com", "Workers work at a construction site in front of Shanghai's financial district of Pudong in Shanghai, China March 27, 2017. REUTERS/Aly Song\nBEIJING A flurry of data in coming weeks is expected to show China posted solid economic growth in March, as President Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump meet for the first time this week with China's trade surplus expected to be high on the agenda.\nTrump has foreshadowed the risk of talks being tense, tweeting on Thursday that the United States could no longer tolerate massive trade deficits and job losses.\nWhile Trump has not followed through yet on campaign threats to label China a currency manipulator or impose punitive tariffs on Chinese goods, many analysts reckon the new administration is just beginning to flex its trade muscles.\nChina's import growth for March is likely to remain strong, while exports could rebound modestly, according to Reuters polls, producing an expected trade surplus of $10 billion after a rare deficit in February.\nExports were expected to rise 3.2 percent, while imports were seen up 18 percent, led once again by raw materials such as iron ore which are feeding a months-long construction boom.\nImports had surged 38 percent in February while exports unexpectedly dipped, but China's data in the first two months of the year can be heavily skewed by the timing of the Lunar New Year holidays, when many businesses shut for a week or more.\nReflecting continued strength in the manufacturing sector, and particularly heavy industry, China's producer price index (PPI) likely rose 7.6 percent from a year earlier, after jumping 7.8 percent in February, its fastest pace in nearly nine years.\nHowever, while factory surveys show manufacturers have been able to pass on some higher input costs by raising prices of their goods, there has been scant evidence of it flowing through to consumer inflation and becoming a worry for policymakers.\nMany analysts believe China's producer inflation may peak soon, and see consumer inflation remaining mild. The consumer price index (CPI) is mainly driven by prices of food, particularly pork, and services.\nThe CPI likely rose 1.0 percent in March, after slowing to 0.8 percent in February, its weakest pace since January 2015, as food prices fell. Beijing is targeting consumer inflation at 3 percent this year, unchanged from 2016.\nChina's foreign exchange reserves likely edged up in March to $3.01 trillion after unexpectedly rising for the first time in eight months in February, rebounding above $3 trillion as a regulatory crackdown and a steadying yuan helped staunch capital outflows.\nThe rebound in reserves could ease fears in global markets that China will engineer another sharp one-off devaluation of the yuan, which would run the risk of inflaming trade tensions with the new U.S. administration.\nChina announces foreign exchange reserves on Friday, followed by inflation and trade data on Wednesday and Thursday respectively, while loan and money data is expected anytime from April 10-15.\nOUTPUT DATA LIKELY TO SUGGEST SOLID Q1 GROWTH\nChina will release first-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) on April 17, along with March industrial output, retail sales and fixed asset investment.\nIndustrial output was expected to have remained at 6.3 percent in March, from 6.3 percent in Jan-Feb combined, while fixed asset investment was likely to grow 8.8 percent, down from 8.9 percent in Jan-Feb.\nRetail sales were expected to grow 9.6 percent in March, marginally better than 9.5 percent in Jan-Feb, which was the weakest pace in nearly two years.\nAnalysts are awaiting early March data before fine-tuning their GDP forecasts for Q1, but some expect it will be roughly in line with or possibly even slightly stronger than the 6.8 percent growth China posted in the fourth quarter of 2016.\nMany analysts think that may be as good as it gets for Chinese growth this year, even if Trump takes no direct action on trade in coming months.\nActivity is expected to start cooling later in 2017 as the boost from record bank lending and strong government infrastructure spending last year begins to fade. Chinese iron ore and steel prices fell sharply in March on worries that high inventories were already signaling supply is outpacing demand.\nIntensifying government measures to get the overheated housing market under control could also brake economic growth, though few market watchers predict an outright property crash.\nLOANS SEEN UP DESPITE C.BANK TIGHTENING\nLoan data will also be closely watched for signs of whether authorities are sticking to credit-fueled stimulus despite official warnings about the risks from a rapid build-up in debt.\nChinese banks likely extended 1.25 trillion yuan ($181.29 billion) in new loans in March, up from 1.17 trillion yuan in February but far below January's 2.03 trillion yuan, the second highest ever.\nIn recent months, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) has adopted a modest tightening bias in a bid to contain financial risks, though it is treading cautiously to avoid crimping economic growth - which Beijing has said will be a more modest 6.5 percent this year.\nIn a bid to reduce leverage in the financial system, the PBOC has bumped up interest rates on money market instruments and special short- and medium-term loans several times so far in 2017, though analysts do not expect a full-blown policy rate increase this year.\n($1 = 6.8950 Chinese yuan renminbi)\n(Reporting by Sue-Lin Wong; Editing by Kim Coghill)", "Jars of Comvita brand Manuka honey from New Zealand are photographed on the shelves of a health food store in Sydney, Australia, April 6, 2017. REUTERS/Jason Reed\nWELLINGTON New Zealand and Australian produce suppliers are taking a hit as daigou, individuals who unofficially export their goods into China, reduce purchases of their products amid Beijing's constantly changing stance on cross-border e-commerce.\nScott Coulter, the chief executive of New Zealand honey producer Comvita Ltd (CVT.NZ), which this week issued a profit warning, said daigou are instead working through stockpiles built up during a speculative bubble over the past two years.\n\"They're concerned about what the future might look like,\" Coulter said in a telephone interview with Reuters on Thursday. \"They're just not committing to the amount of inventory that they were previously.\"\nDaigou, unofficial shopping agents who transport goods into China from abroad either in personal luggage or by post, have become powerful exporters and their activities are increasingly scrutinised.\nThere was panic among daigou a year ago when China raised taxes and ramped up its policing on goods bought on overseas e-commerce platforms, but a lack of follow-through on that crackdown allowed the industry to flourish.\nA Chinese Commerce Ministry statement on March 21 supported that by indicating a more relaxed stance, with smaller shipments being treated as \"personal\" packages.\nShares in Australian milk company Bellamy's (BAL.AX) jumped 15 percent and vitamins firm Blackmores (BKL.AX) gained 13 percent on that statement, as anecdotal data suggested strong daigou growth.\nBut Comvita's experience of selling its luxury Manuka honey, prized in Asia for its reported medicinal qualities, shows the seemingly never-ending boom-bust cycle for exporters relying on grey channels into China.\nThe company's shares plummeted more than 17 percent on Wednesday after it slashed its forecast net profits for the year ending June to NZ$9 million ($4.88 million) from NZ$20-22 million estimated in February.\nAnd despite the brief bump, Bellamy’s shares are trading down 33 percent so far this year. Blackmores stock has gained 5 percent after heavy losses of more than 50 percent in 2016.\nCoulter declined to say what proportion of his company's sales went to China via informal routes, but said it was a big channel.\nCoulter said he now believed it would take until next year or possibly longer for the daigou market to return to early 2016 levels. In the meantime, Comvita has struck a deal with official distributor Shenzhen Comvita Natural Food Co Limited that begins on July 1.\n\"We know that longer term the Chinese are likely to push more products through formal channels,\" Coulter said.\n(Reporting by Charlotte Greenfield; Editing by Jane Wardell and Stephen Coates)", "The Vegas Golden Knights announced festivities surrounding Fan Appreciation Week that will take place during the last week of regular season home games from March 26-31.\nEach game that week will feature a giveaway to fans in attendance, including a Vegas Golden Knights flag on March 26 vs. Colorado Avalanche, a shield window cling on March 28 vs. Arizona Coyotes, a car flag presented by the D Las Vegas on March 30 vs. St. Louis Blues and a panoramic photo from the home opener presented by Toyota on March 31 vs. San Jose Sharks.\nThe final home game of the regular season on March 31 – which is presented by Toyota – will also feature a postgame “Jerseys Off Our Backs” event where players will take the ice after the game and hand-deliver game-worn jerseys to select winners.\nAlso on March 31, there will be a regular season awards ceremony after the game, with three total awards being presented to the winning players, including a Vegas Golden Knights First Star Award as determined by stars of the game voting at home games, Vegas Strong Service Award for the player most involved in serving and giving back to the Vegas community and Seventh Player Award for the player who most exceeded expectations on the ice.\nFans are invited to participate in selecting a winner for the Seventh Player Award through an online poll at vegasgoldenknights.com/awards. Marc-Andre Fleury, William Karlsson, Deryk Engelland and Reilly Smith are the nominees up for the award. Voting will end on Wednesday, March 28, at 5 p.m.\nThe Golden Knights will also give away prizes to fans on its social media channels and vegasgoldenknights.com the entire week.", "The odds of a messy trade war between the United States and China are rising again.\nScroll for more content...\nThe Trump administration shocked the world on Tuesday by tearing up a truce with Beijing and announcing it would impose tariffs on $50 billion worth of Chinese goods and restrict Chinese investment in the United States.\nChina said Wednesday it was ready to retaliate.\nHere's a timeline that shows how trade tensions between the world's two biggest economies have grown for over a year.\nApril 2017 - Trump launches investigation into steel imports\nPresident Donald Trump, who repeatedly vowed to bring manufacturing and jobs back to the United States, directs the Commerce Department to investigate whether imports of foreign steel and aluminum from China and other countries could be a threat to national security.\nAugust 2017 - Another investigation tightens the screws on China\nTrump launches a new investigation explicitly targeting China. He asks US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to look into unfair Chinese trade practices, with a particular focus on alleged theft of US intellectual property.\nChina's state-run media says the probe will \"poison\" the relationship between the two countries, while the Chinese government later slams the Trump administration's \"unilateralism and protectionism.\"\nA quiet few months\nThe Trump administration's threats against China, including the investigations, don't result in tangible action over the rest of 2017 as Trump shows restraint amid a budding relationship with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.\nHowever, experts warn that 2018 could be a different story.\nJanuary 2018 - First, solar panels and washing machines\nThe first major trade action against China comes at the beginning of the year, when the United States announces tariffs on imported solar panels, most of which come from China, and washing machines.\nChina expresses \"strong dissatisfaction\" over the decision, adding that it \"aggravates the global trade environment.\"\nMarch 9, 2018 -- Trump imposes tariffs on steel imports\nTrump follows through on tariff recommendations from his commerce department, announcing a global tax on steel imports at 25% and aluminum imports at 10%.\nChina, the world's biggest steel exporter, calls the tariffs \"a serious attack\" on international trade and says it will take \"firm action\" if Chinese businesses suffer losses as a result.\nApril 2, 2018 - China hits back\nBeijing imposes tariffs on about $3 billion worth of US imports, including a 15% duty on 120 American products such as fruits, nuts, wine and steel pipes. There's also a 25% tax on eight other US goods including recycled aluminum and pork.\nThe Chinese government says its tariffs are specifically in response to the US trade measures against steel and aluminum.\nApril 3-4, 2018 - US and China each threaten to target $50 billion in imports\nTrump's team responds barely 24 hours after China's first retaliation.\nThe US Trade Representative proposes a 25% tax on close to 1,300 Chinese goods from the aerospace, machinery and medical industries. The goods account for about $50 billion worth of Chinese exports.\nThe next day, the Chinese government announces plans for another set of retaliatory tariffs that nearly mirror the Trump administration's proposal -- 25% on a range of US products worth approximately $50 billion.\nThe 106 products on China's list include aircraft and automobiles as well as soybeans and chemicals.\nApril 5, 2018 - Trump calls for targeting another $100 billion in Chinese goods\nTrump threatens a wave of new tariffs worth $100 billion. He asks Lighthizer to look into which products his administration can target.\nChina warns it has \"already formulated very detailed countermeasures.\"\nApril 16-17, 2018 - ZTE and Sorghum become targets\nThe United States turns up the heat again, banning one of China's biggest tech companies -- ZTE -- from buying components from American firms for seven years because it allegedly failed to honor a deal under which it admitted to violating sanctions on Iran and North Korea.\nThe next day, China's Commerce Ministry said it would start charging importers a fee of about 179% on US sorghum after an investigation found the shipments were unfairly subsidized and damaging Chinese producers.\nSorghum is a grain that is used to feed livestock and make a popular Chinese liquor. American imports of sorghum to China were worth nearly $1 billion last year.\nApril 22, 2018 - Offer to launch talks\nOfficials from the United States and China say they would be interested in holding talks to discuss trade issues.\nEarly May 2018 - Negotiations begin\nThe White House describes the first round of talks in early May as \"frank discussions.\" China says the two sides were far apart on some issues.\nAs talks continue, Trump tweets that he is working to give ZTE \"a way to get back into business, fast.\"\nCommerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says the administration is exploring \"additional remedies\" to its harsh punishment of the Chinese smartphone maker.\nMid-May 2018 - A misunderstanding\nUS officials tell CNN that Beijing has proposed boosting Chinese purchases of American goods by around $200 billion to reduce the massive trade imbalance between the two countries.\nBut China's Foreign Ministry quickly denies the assertion, saying \"these rumors are not true.\"\nHowever, China announces it will remove its huge import tax on US sorghum in a move to ease tensions.\nMay 19, 2018 - Trade war put 'on hold'\nChina and the United States announce they have reached a ceasefire, leading to a brief period of calm.\nIn a joint statement, the countries say China will \"significantly increase\" purchases of US goods and services, but they do not put a dollar amount on China's commitment. Both sides agree to not impose new tariffs on one another while talks continue.\n\"We're putting the trade war on hold,\" US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin tells Fox News.\nA few days later, China's Finance Ministry says it plans to cut import duties on passenger vehicles from 25% to 15%. Trump had previously criticized these duties, saying they were unfair and significantly higher than US duties.\nMay 29, 2018 - US revives tariff threat on $50 billion from China\nIn a surprise move, the White House says it will move ahead with its 25% tariffs on $50 billion worth of Chinese goods. It also announces new limits on Chinese investment in high-tech industries.\nChina says it is ready to retaliate.\n\"We want to reiterate that we don't want a trade war, but we aren't afraid of fighting one,\" says a spokesperson at China's foreign ministry.\n- Jackie Wattles contributed to this report.", "New Delhi: Can a financial statement help someone to convince parents to allow drop out from college? Well, some stories are meant to be.\nDell Technologies founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Michael Dell took to micro-blogging site Twitter to share an interesting trivia regarding his decision to drop out of college.\nHe shared the first financial statement of his company dated July 31, 1984. The statement shows a gross profit of USD 198,367.38 or a 22 percent rise in a single quarter. Dell added that the statement helped him convince his parents to allow him to drop out of college. His tweet has since been retweeted 5431 times and garnered 18,055 likes.\nFirst financial statement for @Dell. The one I used to convince my parents that it was OK for me to not go back to college pic.twitter.com/kKuGDsyvYZ — Michael Dell (@MichaelDell) March 18, 2018\nEventually, Dell dropped out the University of Texas in Austin at the age of 19.\nThe PC market, which Michael Dell helped shape by founding Dell in 1984 as a University pre-med freshman with USD 1,000 in savings, has remained stagnant due to the popularity of smart phones and tablets, shrinking by 0.2 percent in 2017, according to International Data Corporation.\nThe company’s net loss was USD 440 million, or USD 1.09 per share, in the quarter ended February 2, compared with a profit of USD 441 million, or USD 1.04 per share, a year earlier, mainly due to a tax charge of USD 970 million.\nExcluding one-time items, the Palo Alto, California-based company earned USD 1.68 per share, while total revenue rose 13.6 percent to USD 2.31 billion.\nDell’s USD 52.5 billion debt pile is expected to become more burdensome this year because the U.S. tax reform enacted couple of months back caps a company’s ability to deduct interest expense to 30 percent of its annual earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation.", "* Jan-March growth seen at 7.3 pct y/y, vs 7.2 pct in Oct-Dec qtr\n* Manufacturing pick-up should help economic recovery\n* IMF expects growth pace to rise to 7.4 pct in 2018/19\n* GDP data due on Thursday, May 31 at 1200 GMT\nBy Neha Dasgupta\nNEW DELHI, May 31 (Reuters) - India likely retained the position of world’s fastest growing major economy in the January-March quarter, surpassing China’s growth of 6.8 percent, driven by gains in manufacturing and consumer spending.\nThe median in a Reuters poll on the latest quarter’s annual growth was 7.3 percent, the best pace since July-September 2016, the quarter before the government unexpectedly scrapped high-value currency notes.\nForecasts for January-March ranged from 6.9 to 7.7 percent.\nThe government will release GDP data on Thursday around 1200 GMT. On Monday, Economic Affairs Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg said growth in Asia’s third largest economy was expected to grow 7.3-7.5 percent.\nThe data, combined with April’s higher annual inflation pace of 4.58 percent, could put pressure on the Reserve Bank of India to raise interest rates next week after keeping them on hold for a fourth straight meeting last month.\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi, who is expected to seek a second term in 2019 general elections, has launched a nation-wide goods and services tax and allowed foreign investment in defence and e-commerce businesses to boost economic growth.\nHowever, a botched implementation of the GST nearly scuttled India’s growth prospects in the near term.\nEconomists said a rise in capital investment growth to near 9 percent in the last quarter of the 2017/18 fiscal year compared with 2.4 percent a year earlier indicated a pick-up in the private investments.\nYet banking credit, a main source for corporate borrowing, remained weak following a surge in bad loans, as banks have been reluctant to extend new loans. The 21 state lenders hold two-thirds of banking assets, and accounted for the bulk of the record $150 billion of soured loans in the banking sector in 2017.\nConsumption, which accounts for nearly 70 percent of the $2.5 trillion economy likely remained firm, supporting economic growth as reflected in the higher sales of consumer durables and vehicles.\n“Corporate sector results and the industrial production readings have been better than expected. Hence, the industrial sector could pull the GDP growth number up,” said Tushar Arora, senior economist with HDFC Bank.\nGrowth is likely to get a boost from monsoon rains, which hit the southern state of Kerala a few days earlier than normal, potentially brightening the outlook for agricultural output.\nRISING OIL PRICES\nThe biggest risk India faces is rising crude oil prices , which this month hit $80 a barrel, their highest since 2014.\nIndia meets 80 percent of its oil needs from imports.\nPrices of diesel and petrol surged to a record high last week, stoking opposition criticism of Modi’s administration.\nHigher oil prices have already pressured the rupee, near a record low last week and Asia’s worst performer.\n“Rising oil prices can weigh on the consumer demand and lead to higher borrowing costs for the government,” Arora of HDFC Bank said.\nThe government’s Economic Survey, issued in January, estimated that every $10 per barrel rise in global oil prices cuts growth by 0.2-0.3 percentage points.\nStill, some analysts expect India’s economy to grow more than 7 percent in 2018/19, helped by a normal monsoon and a pick-up in private investment.\nThe International Monetary Fund expects economic growth could reach 7.4 percent in 2018/19.\nAn Indian Finance Ministry official told CNBC on Monday that estimated growth in the last fiscal year, which ended on March 31, was 6.7 percent, below 2016/17’s pace of 7.1 percent. (Additional reporting by Manoj Kumar; Editing by Richard Borsuk)", "FILE PHOTO - A bottle of Ricard, aniseed-flavoured beverage, is pictured during a news conference to present the company's 2015-2016 half-year results in Paris, France, February 11, 2016. REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen\nPARIS Pernod Ricard's (PERP.PA) third quarter sales beat forecasts on Thursday, lifting its shares, but the French spirits group cautioned that a ban on alcohol sales near Indian highways would slow growth in its second-largest market.\nPernod, the world's second-biggest spirits group after Britain's Diageo (DGE.L), maintained its profit outlook, saying it saw further robust growth in the U.S, its largest market, and in Europe and improving Chinese demand for its Martell cognac.\nThe owner of Mumm champagne and Absolut vodka said it expected underlying operating profit growth of between 2 and 4 percent in the full year to June 30.\nIndia, which accounts for about 10 percent of group revenue, has been a key growth area, driven by local whisky brands such as Blender's Pride and Royal Stag.\nBut a government ban on high-value bank notes held back local consumption in the second and third quarter and sales growth in India slowed to 1 percent in the nine months to March 31, from 12 percent in the full year 2015-16, Pernod said.\nWhile the ban on alcohol sales near Indian highways will impact sales mainly in the fourth quarter and in the first half of the fiscal year 2017/18, finance chief Gilles Bogaert told Reuters he hoped they should be close to flat in the full year ending June 30 and he was confident about India over the long-term.\nThe company did not specify what proportion of its sales in India would be hit by the highway sales ban.\nPernod Ricard posted sales of 1.987 billion euros (1.66 billion pounds) in the three months to March 31, up 3 percent on a like-for-like basis, beating expectations for 1 percent growth, helped by double-digit sales growth of its Jameson Irish whiskey in the United States and improving demand in Europe.\nPernod shares had gained 1.8 percent to 115.3 euros by 1010 GMT, outperforming the French blue chip CAC-40 index.\n\"The stronger-than-expected (results) ... should provide further comfort that the business continues to improve,\" Jefferies analysts, who have a \"buy\" rating, said in a note.\nHowever, the performance marked a slight slowdown from 4 percent growth in the second quarter, reflecting weaker sales in Asia due to regulatory changes in India and the earlier timing of the Chinese New Year, which helped second quarter sales.\nLike other spirits makers, Pernod Ricard has been hit by a downturn in China sparked by a government clampdown on extravagant spending and its sales fell in the third quarter and were flat over the nine months, after falling 9 percent last year, although Bogaert said the underlying trend was improving.\n\"The expected rebound in China is materialising,\" he said, echoing Remy Cointreau (RCOP.PA) which made optimistic comments over its prospects in the country.\n(Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta and Alexander Smith)" ]

[ "Do you like cashews? You've never had them like this! I have never met a nut I didn't like, so of course I volunteered to try this new product. I looked at the container and thought, hey yeah, cashew snacks -- gotta be good, right? Well not only are these GOOD, they are completely and utterly sublime. The blend of sea salt and pepper adds just the right spice to the cashew. I could eat this snack all night! It will add a little zip to an otherwise ho hum dish of nuts at a reception or party! I am currently trying to figure out how I could use them in another recipe -- say for instance, a chinese rice and cashew chicken entree???? YUM! Get some today!" ]

[ "I was expecting to have lots of candy like the picture did...Wow..not even close. Small pieces and not all the candy that was listed was in the box. Very disappointed.", "This 5 Money tree Plant Braided into one tree...IS AWESOME. It is far better than I expected...WOW, what a beautiful piece of nature....", "WOW, cinnamon licorice! I've never heard of such a thing, but what a find. I'm a cinnamon nut. I like everything 'cinnamon' and to find licorice with a cinnamon flavor, Wow. Real good clean cinnamon flavor, but not any heat. Just perfect!", "I love WOW cookies and feel they are better than their 'wheat' counterparts by far. I have really never been a fan of oatmeal cookies until I tried these...all I can say is they are better than any I have ever made or eaten and that includes my mom's which are really good. One of the reasons I've never really liked oatmeal cookies is because most have raisins in them, which I do not like, but these have soft cranberries instead. The taste and texture is fantastic and you would NEVER know they were not made with wheat flour. Another soft and delicious cookie from WOW! Gotta love the name which stands for With Out Wheat.", "Is this the best, smoothest cup of coffee? No. Not by any means. However, it is better than nearly all the roasted decaf coffees you can buy in stores. If you're a home roaster and need decaf, this isn't a bad choice. But don't expect it to really wow you.", "I bought these for a friend for Christmas who is a malted milk ball fan. She said they were awesome, so I bought some for myself. Wow. A thick layer of Ghirardelli chocolate around the malted milk ball makes these sinfully good. They are like chocolate crack so don't expect them to last long!", "This is the real deal people. This is real Jamaican Coffee. There are a few brands that claim to be from Blue Mountain, but they do not have that authentic taste. My wife is Jamaican and we have been to Jamaica a few times, but I never seem to bring back enough coffee so I set out to find a brand here in the states that would be atleast close to what you get in Jamiaca and this is it. Wow what flavor!", "Nothing--and I mean nothing--compares to Click. The creater of this product is a genius-espresso AND protein? And chocolate? Wow.<br /><br />Don't buy this expecting it to taste like a SBux iced mocha, cuz it really doesn't compare. However, for what it is (a bona fide protein shake) Click is a darn close second.<br /><br />I haven't tried it hot yet (you kidding me? It's 110 in the shade where I live!), but I mix it with cold water when I'm looking for \"iced coffee\" and skim milk/couple of ice cubes when I want a meal replacement (around 30 grams of protein/280 calories when made with 14oz of skim milk). It is tasty either way. Click mixes very well in those blender bottles (with the little metal whisk ball). I've never had issues with clumpy shakes.<br /><br />I am waiting on delivery of the new Vanilla Latte flavor, but I bet it's just as good.", "We were introduced to Siciliani olive oil by Chef Bettancourt at his excellent restaurant, \"62 on Wharf\" in Salem, Ma. It is the best I've had in over 40 years of dining, but difficult to find in local stores (thus we are delighted to order from Amazon). Believe me, you will never regret buying this product! Dip your bread into a little bowl of Siciliani, and WOW!, what a taste.", "WOW, WOW, WOW, this is the Best Dry Sausage/Salami I have ever had in my Life!! This is the BEST, and I have tried them from throughout the whole of Europe!! I have traveled all over the world and have tasted these from Peru to Italy and you can feel very confident with buying this product. I am a collector and connoisseur of Fine Dry Cured Sausages. This is one of the absolute best I have ever tasted, and is a \"must try\" for any Dry Cured Sausage enthusiast. I will be purchasing these amazing cured meats, for as long as they sell them...", "These Tuna filets packed in Olive Oil are extremely fresh and obviously high qulity. Tonnino has always exceeded our expectations and you will be surprised on the taste difference between over the counter Tuna and the Tonnino filets. Try their canned Tuna as well and you will never goback to store bought!", "Got the product on time and as expected. I have place multiple orders and have never had a problem.", "I have been trying to find this product at major & minor pet stores in Va and Delaware. Wow! Who knew that Amazon had them. Thanks. The Holistic pet store in Orlando carries only this brand and recommends it because of the nutrient value and no wheat. Plus they really do the job for my dog. He loves them and his breath no longer offends people. My Bone-A- mints arrived when expected and i was pleased.", "This was a birthday gift for our 8 year old son. As soon as he came home he saw the plants: WOW!!! This is my best birthday gift!! The plants were perfectly packet, and earlier than we expected. Just one thing please could you put the instructions in plastic bags? Thank you, we are going to buy more plants from here, specially carnivorous plants.", "You've got to be kidding me. I thought I must be missing something when I first saw the price and read the description.. like maybe that price was for several packs of 24.<br />Wow, I live in SC, and I usually wait til they go on sale for $2.99/12 pk to buy. I never pay more than $3.99. What a rip off this \"deal\" is.", "WOW! Condensed Milk in a bottle, what a great idea! We love condensed milk on strawberries and shaved ice, but can never use up the entire can, sure you can refrigerate the leftovers, but it gets really thick and the texture changes, just not as good. No problems with the bottle - just flip and squeeze! Will be buying these from now on...", "I had a energy infusion from Mr Trivedi back in June of 2011 in San Francisco, CA for the first time.<br />I bought some water just for the fun of it, honestly I did not expect much.<br /><br />This product increases precious life force and healing in the body. I am certified as a holistic nutritionist, a yoga teacher and I have been healing practitioner for almost 18 years. I HAVE NEVER COME ACROSS A PRODUCT WITH SO MUCH ENERGY and a immediate effect on my energy field. Wow! Powerful! From the moment it touched my mouth, this product increased purification of energy, increased energy field (life force), and increased the healing in my body. Only warning is, it can be strong and you want more. If I could bathe in it I would, my skin glows, I am looking younger and younger, I feel great and I have more energy when I drink it.<br /><br />blessings to all, Amy [...]", "I don't know...maybe you need to be from Philly. Snapper soup, not the fish, but turtle is wonderful. If you never had it before, it is sort of thick, rich,dark brown and obviously with chunks of turtle meat. Some recipes have carrots. Generally it is served with with a small flask of sherry. You add sherry to taste and wow...good eating. Of course the best snapper soup is Bookbinders. Bookbinders is a famous seafood restraunt in the city of Philadelphia and has been for like 100 years. I'm living in Florida now and had a case shipped in from Amazon. I'm in heaven!", "I really appreciate Amazon for carrying this product. Shin Ramyun is the #1 selling ramen in S. Korea and also it is my favorite. So there is no doubt for the taste.<br /><br />The only problem is that it is more expensive in the U.S. But, thanks to Amazon, now we have this good deal, pack of 20 costs only $14.49? Wow, it's the best deal I've found on Amazon. Two thumbs up!<br /><br />For those who have never tried this wonderful ramen, I would recommend you to add an egg 20-30 seconds before you finish cooking and gently stir the egg. It will make the spicy taste of soup milder and richer. Yum!", "My husband loves medium blends. I love dark roast, I heard that this was the \"best\". So I bought it for him this past Christmas. Husband thought it was fantastic, I was expecting the \"best\" and was disappointed, I got him the medium roast. I really liked it, but wished for a darker roast. Coffee really is subjective. Recently someone told me to try a particular Sumatra, said it was the \"best\" and it was nasty, I tossed it out. Very bitter, it should never be bitter.<br /><br />His birthday is tomorrow and I had to get him another medium pound, but I also added this dark roast. WOW. I am in love!<br /><br />It's the best. Now that I understand how subjective coffee is, we all like diffrent beans, blends,roasts, some in my family like added flavors (shudder), i think good coffee has enough flavor by itself and only inferior needs additives.<br /><br />I love darker roasts, creamy, chocolately, luscious. This is all you'd expect.<br /><br />Having now tried both, all I can say is you will really enjoy both types, but love the roast you normally prefer.<br /><br />The price can't be beat and they don't charge you high S&H rates, that's a nice feature.<br /><br />I hope this helps.", "Mc Canns Irish Oatmeal Steel Cut Wow what a taste so smooth and sweet. I love Oatmeal but htis one is Great!!!!!! When I first started eating it I was Only Pouring hot water over it, I was used to instant {awful stuff}It was too crunchy then I read the label and found it had to be cooked for 30 min. wow was it delicious. Philip", "I bought this for my kid, so he could have original, never-seen candies in his advent calendar.<br />THe box is beautiful, the candy were just right as described, and since I live in Montevideo (Uruguay, South America), it goes to the company's credit that the box arrived perfectly, not a single candy crushed or damaged...WOW!!<br />Will certainly buy again from them, this time the 50s!!", "I bought this to use with my face mask called \"Aztec healing clay\" mi mix this with it instead of water and wow, it clears my face up and makes it feel so clean. i also drink two tablespoons mixed with a little water in the morning and at night. i ALSO use it sometimes in the shower on a wash cloth for my face to get all the junk out of my pores. my skin has never looked better!!", "Wow!!! This coconut oil is FANTASTIC!!!! We put it on everything(our daily bowl of oatmeal, rice, gluten free banana bread, quinoa). I have Crohn's Disease and my wife has Reumatoid Arthritis and this oil helps a whole lot along with a gluten free diet!!! We never had it before and instantly fell in love with it and cannot imagine how we lived without it!Absolutely the Best!!!!", "The fireballs are much smaller than they appear. In other words, they are not the usual size of fireball - they are miniatures. Not what I expected - never would have ordered had I known they were so small.", "Amazingly smooth and pure honey! Never thought such honey existed untill read the reviews and tried!... Wow! The cap indeed, is very convenient, leaving the bottle clean and non-sticky at all times! Would highly recommend this product! I personally, like to dilute 1 tsp in a cup of room temp water and enjoy throughout the day.<br />Happy and Healthy New Year, everyone!", "I picked up Hodgson Mill's Buckwheat pancake mix at my local grocery, not expecting anything much, but knowing how good buckwheat is for one's health. Wow, was I surprised to find pancakes or belgian waffles made with this taste great, too!<br /><br />I find that pancake/waffle batter is a wonderful place to hide healthy additions like soy protein powder (add a little water), flax seed, etc. I use organic coconut oil and add fun items like chocolate chips, banana, or walnuts to the batter for a breakfast that makes me (and my whole family) feel upbeat and energetic for many hours into the day, even if I only have one pancake!<br /><br />Well done, Hodgson Mill!", "A justifiably award winning olive oil. Clean clean tasty wow. I did an olive oil tasting at my house and this was a consistent favorite. Buy it!", "I never drink this tea alone. I always steep it with another tea, such as Oolong or Jasmine because the taste isn't the best. I use honey and sugar to sweeten and down the hatch it goes! Expect some, um, gastrointestinal responses the next day. Sometimes I feel a bit of cramping and sometimes I don't. Sometimes it will take most of the next day for it to 'work'...and sometimes it won't!!", "I am absolutely enjoying my Juniper Bonsai tree! It is exactly what I was hoping for and at a price I never expected to find. I would recommend this site 100%. Thank you.", "You always know what to expect from the Millstone brand; the flavor is consistent - never a bad bag. I enjoy the Hazelnut Cream flavored variety. This is a good coffee and a great value.", "I will never order again. The box was open, so I don't know whether this was a returned item or really what happened to it. The expiration date is only 5 months out which is not what I expected." ]

[ "The Investment bank Morgan Stanley has announced plans to shed 1,600 jobs — about half of those cuts will be made in the U.S. The move is a seen as aimed at cutting costs and boosting equity returns for the banks investors." ]

[ "Newsweek is the latest news organization planning to cut staff, according to The Wall Street Journal. Aiming to lower costs, the magazine's owner, The Washington Post Co., also may reduce the number of pages in the magazine and shrink its circulation base. Critical ad revenue continues to drop, as readers migrate to the Internet. But the online world is not immune to downsizing either. Yahoo employees started receiving pink slips Wednesday. The company announced in October that it would reduce its staff by 10 percent. STEVE INSKEEP, host: NPR's business news starts with a shrinking media. (Soundbite of music) INSKEEP: Newsweek is the latest news organization planning to cut its staff. This news comes to us from The Wall Street Journal. It says Newsweek's owner, The Washington Post Company, plans job cuts. And it may also reduce the number of pages in the magazine and shrink Newsweek's circulation base. These changes are aimed at reducing costs. Ad revenues are dropping as readers migrate to the Web, which is not immune to downsizing either. Yesterday, Yahoo employees started receiving pink slips. The company announced back in October that it would reduce staff by 10 percent.", "President Obama has endorsed a bipartisan plan to name a special commission that would come up with ways to cut the spiraling deficit. The proposed task force will have a difficult job. They have to recommend ways to cut the deficit without hurting jobs or Wall Street.", "Amid falling sales, details are emerging from Ford Motor Co. about job cuts and plant closings. The restructuring plan could result in the elimination of 7,500 jobs. Jeffrey McCracken, <EM>The Wall Street Journal</EM> automotive reporter, discusses the state of Ford's business and its future plans.", "On today's Planet Money: -- This week Nassim Taleb, the economist who lives by the Black Swan Theory, joined Ian Bremmer of Eurasia Group and The Fat Tail in our studios. Taleb's message to the world goes like this: Never mind math to manage risk. End the bond industry. And render Wall Street as we know it illegal. -- Noel Paterson got laid off from the Microsoft games division in January. And then, miracle of miracles, Paterson got another gig, one he likes even better — despite the small cut in pay. Bonus: The card Paterson's kid made him, plus your ideas for naming the new Oliver Stone movie about Wall Street. Download the podcast; or subscribe. Intro music: The New Pornographers's \"The Laws Have Changed.\" Find us: Twitter/ Facebook/ Flickr Read More &gt;&gt; Noel Paterson's kid Kallen gave him this card during his layoff. Inside it reads, \"Dad, I hope you get an awesome job. P.S. Please take me out golfing soon.\" Paterson writes, \"This is what keeps me going.\" Today on Twitter, we asked for your suggestions for the Wall Street sequel. Blue ribbons entries that are probably not coming to a marquee near you: @RogerandDave: Yellow Submarine@not_yet: The Incredible Shrinking GDP@valueinvestr: Wrath of Roubini@not_yet Wall-Eek, or Driving Miss Daisy to the Poorhouse@thadkew Portfolio: the Embiggening@sietecuerdas Attack of the Flesh-Eating Pigs, or Fall Street, or On Golden Ponz.shanezilla: Bawl Street@lukenapoli: Epic Fail Street And winning my personal prize for greatest amount of content with least chance of winning: @saalon Wall Street 2: A Technical Explanation of Margin Debt's Decreased Role in Today's Stock Market", "The past two years have been rough ones for a lot of Wall Street firms, when the fat times suddenly ended and profits slipped away. To make sure they are better prepared next time, firms are turning to people like Damian Handzy, CEO of Investor Analytics, a New Jersey-based firm that specializes in risk management. \"I help people understand what type of risks their investments are exposed to, and more importantly, how to mitigate those risks,\" Handzy says. The firm develops highly complex computer models that help institutional investors like hedge funds and endowments determine how risky their portfolios are — or, in other words, what might happen to their assets if, say, interest rates fall and oil prices fall. As the financial markets improve, many firms are putting more money into better risk management models, and firms like Handzy's are seeing a sudden upturn in business. In fact, risk management is one of the few corners of Wall Street that is hiring these days. Cutting The Fat, And The Toxic The financial services sector employed 8.3 million people at its peak in December 2006. Today it is down to about 7.6 million, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Many of those jobs will never come back, especially in controversial areas like structured mortgage finance. \"If you sold a product that became toxic, that developed a bad reputation, you're going to have a great deal of trouble getting another job,\" says Richard Lipstein, managing director of Boyden Global Executive Search. Even if you worked in one of the less tainted corners of the financial world, it's still a highly competitive job market, says Benjamin Poor, director of institutional practices at Cerulli Associates, which analyzes the financial sector. Many Wall Street firms hired too many people during the boom and are afraid of doing so again, he says, so they're trying to make do with fewer employees. A Thaw On The Fringes Still, some hiring is taking place along the fringes of Wall Street, Poor says. Big firms like the bond giant PIMCO are beginning to expand. A lot of smaller firms — especially privately held companies with more freedom to hire whom they want, without worrying about shareholders — are also looking for new people, and they're finding a glut of highly talented candidates to choose from. \"We talk to, on a regular basis, people in the industry, some of whom have 20 years' experience, and they're not just average Joes, but they're really talented individuals,\" Poor says. \"And when that type of talent is available you've got to be able to take advantage of that talent and bring it into your firm.\" On Wall Street, where talent is critical, being able to hire highly skilled people puts a firm at an enormous advantage and leaves it a lot better positioned for the next upturn, he says. The Next Boom And Roy Smith, professor of finance and entrepreneurship at New York University's Stern School of Business, says there is no doubt about it — Wall Street will come back. The financial markets have been through a number of downturns, but each time someone came along to invent something, such as derivatives or securitization, that helped lead to a new boom. \"Wall Street lives in an environment of bull markets and bear markets, expansions and contractions,\" Smith says. \"For at least the last 50 years or so, every time there's been a slowdown the businesses have expanded in its wake, and, indeed, have way expanded what the businesses were at before.\" Where might growth come from next time around? One possibility is wealth management, or helping well-heeled investors figure out what to do with their money, says Lipstein. A lot of people tried to manage their own assets during the boom, only to lose a lot of money when the crash happened, and they are now more willing to leave their portfolios in the hands of professionals, he says. Another potential growth area is green technology, says Smith. If alternative energy really does grow as much as some people expect, Wall Street will need people to bring the new companies to market and analyze their profit potential, he says. \"This will require a new kind of beefing up, much like what took place in the computer and telecommunications sector in the 1990s,\" Smith says. Still, no one can see over the horizon, and by their very nature, booms are hard to predict. All that's clear is that when the next one arrives, some people will grow very rich, and in the process a lot of new jobs will be created. STEVE INSKEEP, host: All this week in our series New Jobs For A New Decade, we've been looking at various parts of the economy and finding out where new jobs are likely to be created. And we're going to look this morning at Wall Street. Now, it used to be said that Wall Street profits, whether the market goes up or goes down, doesnt matter as long as the market moves, but not when it goes down as much as it did in the last couple of years. Banks, investment firms and insurance companies", "Back in 2012, reporter Kevin Roose went undercover at a very exclusive party. It was a dinner for a secret society, held once a year, at the St. Regis hotel in New York City. The secret society is called Kappa Beta Phi, and it's made up of current and former Wall Street executives — people like Michael Bloomberg, former heads of Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Goldman Sachs. And every year the group holds a dinner to induct new people into the group — they're called neophytes. No reporter has ever made it in. Roose wore a tuxedo, and got a seat at a table. He says he thinks the guests thought he was a waiter. The neophytes came out onstage, dressed fully in drag. They sang songs, like \"Bailout King\" to the tune of ABBA's \"Dancing Queen.\" They told jokes, like:\"What's the difference between Hillary Clinton and a catfish?\" Answer: \"One has whiskers and stinks; one's a fish.\" January 2012, you'll recall, was the moment of Occupy Wall Street. Bank bailouts were still fresh. And banking executives who'd gotten bailed out were laughing about the bailouts and getting pelted with pieces of bread. \"It was like The Wolf of Wall Street meets the Elk Club,\" Roose says. Roose wondered if parties like these were an anachronism, or if this throwback scene was the kind of thing brand-new Wall Street recruits were looking forward to. What was the culture of Wall Street like after the crash? For his new book Young Money, Roose found eight people willing to let him shadow them for their first two years on Wall Street. All of them, it seems, had an experience like Jeremy's, a guy who started out at the commodities desk at Goldman Sachs. (Jeremy, like all the names in the book, is a pseudonym.) Jeremy's new boss asked him why he came to Goldman. Jeremy said something along the lines of \"helping companies to hedge their fuel costs is this great function of the capital markets, and eventually those savings will get passed onto customers.\" His boss cut him off: \"Dude. If you're not here to make money,\" Roose paraphrases, \"this isn't the place for you. We're not here to save the world. What you're here to do is make a lot of money for yourself and for the firm.\" That's the kind of greed-is-good motivational speech that would have energized Wall Street recruits in the past. But, Roose says, Jeremy was a little shaken up. That's in line with studies about what millennials want out of a job these days. Even if the job doesn't actually fulfill a higher purpose, today's young people want to feel like it does anyway. Jeremy, like two other recruits that Roose profiles, left Wall Street to found a tech startup. Roose says that's pretty typical. \"The sex appeal is in Silicon Valley now. That's where you go if you want to strike it rich. It has the cultural cachet that Wall Street used to have.\" He points to a study that cites Google, Apple and Facebook as the top three companies where young people want to work. The highest-ranking bank in that study is JPMorgan, and it comes in 41st. \"There's this idea that the tech industry is making things, they're bringing new things into existence,\" Roose says. Out of the eight Wall Street recruits Roose profiled, only three are still in finance, and only one seems actually truly happy at the job. None seems destined for the Wall Street frat that Roose sneaked into. In fact, they'd never heard of it.", "With jobs evaporating at an alarming rate, President-elect Barack Obama's case for a big package of tax cuts and spending to stimulate the economy looks ever more compelling. The question now is what will Congress do? David Wessel of <em>The Wall Street Journal</em> talks with Renee Montagne about the stimulus package.", "As we learn more about just where the $38 billion in fiscal year 2011 federal budget cuts will come from, news stories are making it appear that the spending reductions will be less historic than both the White House and congressional leaders from both parties have been advertising. The Associated Press, for example, writes this morning that \"last week's hard-won agreement to avoid a government shutdown and cut federal spending by $38 billion significantly eased the fiscal pain by pruning money left over from previous years, using accounting sleight of hand and going after programs President Obama had targeted anyway.\" Politico says that \"when it comes to the most crucial domestic battlegrounds, the cuts are a far cry from what House Republicans demanded. Indeed, the president will come out of the fight with more money to implement his education and Wall Street reforms.\" Bloomberg News notes that \"the $38 billion in cuts includes $12 billion in reductions that had already been approved as part of previous stopgap bills funding the government.\" And The Washington Post reports that some of the trims \"are not quite what they seem, and officials said they would not necessarily result in lost jobs or service cutbacks. In several cases, what look like large reductions are actually accounting gimmicks.\" USA Today's On Politics blog headlines its post with the news that \"Budget Deal Funds Health Care Law, NPR.\"", "It's not clear yet whether the Occupy Wall Street protests will be a good thing or a bad thing for Democrats. That's why President Obama always treads carefully when asked about them. \"People are frustrated, and that frustration has expressed itself in a lot of different ways,\" he said Tuesday on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. \"It expressed itself in the Tea Party. It's expressing itself in Occupy Wall Street.\" Polls show there is broad support for the sentiment behind Occupy Wall Street, with almost half agreeing with the protesters' views about income inequality and corporate greed. But the protesters have yet to turn their frustrations into clear-cut goals. \"I really am into social change, and I want to see some changes in our country. Just kind of a changing in how, you know, the way society is structured,\" says Sarah MacAdams, who's been occupying downtown Washington at an encampment two blocks north of the White House. The Power Of A 'Populist Revolt' Obama describes the protests as a left-wing Tea Party, but that's far from clear. \"At this point, we're staying away from political actions and really focusing on building awareness,\" protester Ashley Lowe says. Unlike the Tea Party, which was willing to walk precincts and field candidates in a successful effort to push the Republican Party to the right, Occupy Wall Street doesn't want to get involved in electoral politics — at least not yet. Even so, former Clinton White House aide Bill Galston says he thinks the protests represent a force Democrats should try to harness. \"We're having a populist revolt now because the people who soared off into the economic stratosphere during the past two decades did not discharge their responsibilities to the broader society,\" Galston says. \"And I think President Obama has everything to gain and nothing to lose by articulating that basic truth.\" But another centrist Democrat, Matt Bennett of the group Third Way, isn't so sure. \"When political parties get close to angry populist movements, bad things tend to happen — it certainly has happened to Democrats before,\" he says. \"So we're a little bit worried about how Democrats can embrace some of the themes of the Occupy Wall Street folks without really embracing the movement itself.\" Bennett wants to avoid having Democrats tied to the excesses of the fringe of the Occupy Wall Street protests — the way the party was tied for decades to the excesses of the anti-war movement. Republicans see that opportunity. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., has called Occupy Wall Street \"growing mobs.\" Talk show hosts Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh have made similar charges. \"The violent left is coming to our streets — all of our streets — to smash, to tear down, to kill, to bankrupt, to destroy,\" Beck said recently. \"This is Obama's protest to counter the Tea Party,\" Limbaugh said. \"They're jealous! The Democrats are so jealous of [the] Tea Party they can't see straight.\" A Tough Balancing Act If Occupy Wall Street had an agenda, it might be able to bring grass-roots energy to the Democrats the way the Tea Party did for the GOP. But first, Obama would have to win the movement back. He told Leno that if people feel they're getting a fair shake, \"then people won't be occupying the streets, because they'll have a job, and they'll feel like they're able to get ahead. \"But right now, they're frustrated. And part of my job over the next year is to make sure that if they're not seeing it out of Congress at minimum, they're seeing out of their president somebody who is going to be fighting for them,\" he said. On Wednesday, the president took on one of the demonstrators' issues, announcing that some student loans can be refinanced sooner than originally planned. That should appeal to the young saddled with mountains of college debt and no jobs. But when it comes to Wall Street, the balancing act for Obama hasn't been easy. He's oscillated between bashing Wall Street and accommodating it. \"The most successful Democratic president, Franklin Roosevelt, managed to channel populist energy and anger without pandering to it or succumbing to it politically,\" Galston says. \"And that is the challenge for a leader like Barack Obama.\" RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne. Steve is in Seattle this morning, visiting member stations KUOW and KPLU. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: And sitting in for him, I'm Ari Shapiro. The Occupy Wall Street protests that have spread from New York around the country reached a new level this week, as police arrested protesters in Oakland and Atlanta. While the movement has yet to channel its energy into a candidate or even a party, President Obama is paying attention, as NPR's Mara Liasson reports. MARA LIASSON, BYLINE: It's not clear yet whether the Occupy Wall Street protests will be a good thing or a bad thing for Democrats. And that's why President Obama always treads carefully when asked about them. Here he is on Jay Leno, Tuesday", "Saudi Arabia, Russia, Venezuela and Qatar announced a plan today to freeze oil output in an effort to stop the dramatic slide in oil prices. It is welcome news for many OPEC countries struggling from low prices, but it is not a production cut as some had hoped, and it comes with some caveats. Jason Bellini of the Wall Street Journal talks with Here & Now&#8216;s Lisa Mullins to explain the details. Guest\n\nJason Bellini, senior producer at The Wall Street Journal. He tweets @jasonbellini.", "Economists worry the Federal Reserve may have to raise interest rates by the end of the year to prevent inflation. Prices of food, gasoline, and other consumer products are surging. Their concerns come 10 days after the Fed cut interest rates in a bid to sure up the credit market. David Wessel, economic editor for The Wall Street Journal speaks with Renee Montagne. RENEE MONTAGNE, host: On Fridays we talk about Your Monday. And today not everyone is happy about the Federal Reserve's decision to cut interest rates. The Fed hoped to treat a worsening housing bust. To find out how the patient has responded to the Fed's medicines, we turn to David Wessel. He's economics editor for The Wall Street Journal and frequent guest on this program. Good morning. Mr. DAVID WESSEL (Economics Editor, The Wall Street Journal): Good morning. MONTAGNE: The rate cut has made investors happy, at least so far. The stock market has been consistently up. But it seems to have angered a lot of what you might call ordinary people. Why is that? Mr. WESSEL: That's a great question, Renee. You know, we asked people on wsj.com, the online version of The Wall Street Journal, did they think the Fed's rate cut decision was appropriate? It's not a random survey. It's nonscientific. But I was stunned. We get seventy-nine hundred people responding and 60 percent of them said the Fed was too aggressive. And I've gotten e-mail, one I got the other day was - writes: let the speculators and those that have priced housing behind any real-world salary die, die, die. And it was a Hotmail account, so then there was a little ad at the bottom that said: share your special parenting moment at this Web site. (Soundbite of laughter) Mr. WESSEL: I think what's going on here are two things. One is there's always a camp of people who worry that when the Fed cuts rates because of a financial problem they are somehow creating an incentive for people to make foolish bets in the future. And they never learned their lesson if the Fed sort of bails them out. And that's common, and I don't think that's unusual this time. What is unusual is there seemed to be a large number, probably a minority, but a large number of people who just are angry at the speculators, angry at the hedge funds, angry that the people on Wall Street are making so much money. And they see this somehow as the Fed helping those people at the expense of everybody else. And I think that anger is coming out in the kind of e-mails we're getting. MONTAGNE: Well, it says that the Fed is bailing out the big guys and somehow rewarding reckless speculation and greed. Is there something to that? Mr. WESSEL: Yes, there's always something to that. That's the dilemma of the central banker. The central banker knows that if he or she cuts interest rates in a time of financial crisis in order to keep the markets going, he or she is going to help somebody in the banking business. That's the way it works. And they take that risk, they take that as given in order to save the rest of the economy from going on into recession. MONTAGNE: Wall Street really wanted a rate cut. Is it the case that what's good for Wall Street could be good for the rest of us? Mr. WESSEL: Could be, yes, but it's not necessarily the same thing. I think what will determine the answer to that question remains to be seen. If the Fed has injected just enough adrenaline into the system to get lenders lending again, so that people who want to buy houses can get mortgages, so that businesses that need to borrow can borrow money to invest and expand their businesses, then it'll prove to have been in the best interests both of Wall Street and the whole economy. If they did too much, and we end up with a lot of lousy investments paying off and we get a lot of inflation or something, then it'll be seen as too much of a sop to Wall Street and not worrying enough about the real economy. MONTAGNE: Of course the traditional risk of cutting the interest rate is that it would lead to inflation. Is that something we should be worrying about now, inflation? Mr. WESSEL: After all, food prices are up, energy prices are up, and the unemployment rate is still relatively low, so there is an inflation risk out there, I think. But we're starting from a very low level of inflation, and the Federal Reserve had to decide what was the bigger risk. And they decided we'd rather risk a little inflation in the future in order to avoid this credit market problem turning us into a big recession. MONTAGNE: And just finally, David, you're saying that economics isn't an exact science, that we can't really predict the effect of these sort of carefully crafted policies and formulas on the economy. Mr. WESSEL: Absolutely. And especially when it comes to being a central banker, it's much more art than science. MONTAGNE: David, thanks very much. Mr. WESSEL: You're welcome. MONTAGNE: David Wessel is economics editor of The Wall Street Journal.", "The biggest news of the day, barring any surprises, looks to be the December employment report due from the Bureau of Labor Statistics at 8:30 a.m. ET. We'll post the numbers as quickly as possible, so check back here when the time arrives. To get us all ready, here's some of the morning's reporting about what to expect: -- Reuters says it polled 84 economists yesterday and that the consensus was that the number of jobs on U.S. businesses' payrolls likely didn't change much last month. That doesn't sound so great, but remember: A year ago businesses cut payrolls by more than 700,000 jobs in one month. Since then, the pace of job losses has slowed dramatically. -- The jobless rate, which in November stood at 10%, likely ticked up to 10.1%, forecasters tell The Wall Street Journal. -- On Morning Edition, NPR's Frank Langfitt said the economy seems to be about ready to start producing jobs at a slow, but steady, rate: -- Also on Morning Edition, NPR's Jim Zarroli continued the show's series on \"new jobs for a new decade\" with a report on the outlook on Wall Street: Yesterday on All Things Considered, by the way, NPR's John Ydstie filed this report on how to understand this morning's employment report: One more thing: President Barack Obama is scheduled to make a statement about how the economy is doing at 2:40 p.m. ET. Planet Money follows the economy here.", "Some analysts expect the rising number of mortgage-payment delinquencies and drop in jobs to constrain consumer spending. That could mean trouble for the overall economy, placing pressure on the Federal Reserve Board to cut the interest rates. David Wessel, economics editor for The Wall Street Journal speaks with Steve Inskeep. STEVE INSKEEP, host: And let's get right to the question that some people are asking in light of recent economic news. We're going to put that question to David Wessel. He's economics editor of The Wall Street Journal, a regular guest in this program. David, the question is, is there going to be a recession or not? Mr. DAVID WESSEL (The Wall Street Journal): Well, I don't know, and neither does anybody else. You'll find people who will make firm predictions one way or the other, I think more to get attention than because they know anything. But clearly, particularly with last week's news that we lost 4,000 jobs in August, the odds of a recession are rising. We know that the economy was beginning to weaken even before this big blowup in the credit markets, and it's hard to believe that it got better since then. INSKEEP: I wondered if some inventors might see that unemployment news as, in a perverse way, good news because it would increase the pressure on the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates, which seems to be what a lot of people on Wall Street wanted. Mr. WESSEL: Well, there always is this perverse pleasure that the bond market in particular takes on bad economic news for the reasons you suggest. I think the market has it right. This has enormously increased the pressure on the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates when officials meet on September 18th. The only question in my mind now is whether they cut the rate by a quarter percentage point or a half percentage point. They weren't as reluctant to cut interest rates when it appeared that they were responding to turmoil in the financial markets that wasn't hurting the economy. But now that they have a very tangible bit of evidence that the economy is suffering, it's almost impossible to avoid a rate cut. INSKEEP: Can interest rates really help in this situation where the major issue seems to be anxiety and confidence about whether investments are sound or not? Mr. WESSEL: That's a good question. Sometimes a cut in interest rates can have more of a psychological effect than a real economic effect because it gives people the impression that the Federal Reserve is on the job. It does make borrowing cheaper though. And we know from the past that it takes a while for the effects to be felt, but monetary policy really does influence the economy. And if the Fed cuts interest rates fast enough and by enough, it will manage to regenerate growth in the economy. INSKEEP: Is there any part of the market that has not been touched by the crisis, if you want to call it that, in the housing market and the lending market in general? Mr. WESSEL: Well, there are certainly parts of the economy that haven't been touched. Manufacturing, for instance, has been surprisingly strong, partly propelled by exports to other markets. What's happened in the last couple of weeks is that housing, which some people had hoped was stabilizing, has begun to get worse again, and it seems to now be infecting the rest of the economy. Not in the channel that we all expected, that somehow consumers would stop spending, but through the financial, markets which are all up in uproar about mortgage-backed securities. And it looks like it will be harder for people and businesses to borrow, and that is a recipe for spreading a little virus to the whole economy. INSKEEP: You're saying the major problem is still that different mortgage lenders bundled these mortgages together, sold them off as securities on Wall Street, and now there's some question about what those things are worth. Mr. WESSEL: That is the cause of the current problem, but it has certainly spread beyond that, and credit is the fuel for the economy. Without it, the economy cannot grow. That's why the Fed will cut interest rates, because they want to offset this restriction of credit that the markets are imposing. INSKEEP: Did you suggest or imply that consumers are still spending, even though their houses may seem to be worth less, and even though their credit situation may be a little bit more grim? Mr. WESSEL: Consumer spending has definitely slowed, but it's been surprisingly vibrant, given everything else that's going on. The reason that people worry so much about the downturn in the job market is this: people will keep spending if they still get paychecks. The downturn in the job market suggests that fewer people will have paychecks, and that inevitably will hurt consumer spending. INSKEEP: So I want to just try to trace the last few years if I can, David Wessel. Of course in the last '90s there was a boom in stock values and that seemed to drive the economy, the tech boom and so forth. Stoc", "Good morning. A lot's been happening since last evening, and we've already posted about: -- Terror Threat Is 'A Tip,' And Isn't 'Rock-Solid' -- Power Coming Back On In San Diego; Human Error Blamed -- Texas Wildfires: 'Aerial Assault' To Start Today -- Interpol Issues Arrest Warrants For Gadhafi And His Son -- President's Plan Would Have 'Substantial, Powerful Effect,' Geithner Says Other stories making headlines include: -- Along the Susquehanna River in northeast Pennsylvania: \"Flood Waters Begin Fall From Late Thursday Peaks.\" (The Times-Tribune in Scranton) -- Bank of America's job cuts may total 40,000. (The Wall Street Journal) -- \"Slipping Bachmann Seeks Jolt For GOP Campaign.\" (The Associated Press)", "Good morning. After Thursday's sharp drops on Wall Street, lots of folks are wondering what's going to happen in the stock market today. Well, according to Reuters: \"Stock index futures pointed to a sharply weaker open for equities on Wall Street on Friday.\" Translation: Expect a drop. Markets fell earlier today in Asia and Europe. Gold has hit another record high, rising to nearly $1,820 an ounce. Meanwhile, the other early-morning headlines include: Read More -- \"Attack On British Council Compound In Kabul Kills Nine\": \"Gunmen have stormed the British Council office in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing at least nine people and taking over the compound for hours. A suicide car bomb destroyed the compound wall and a number of heavily armed men forced their way inside. After several hours of gunfire and blasts, the U.K.'s ambassador in Kabul said all the gunmen had been killed. The Taliban said the attack marked the anniversary of Afghanistan's independence from the UK in 1919.\" (BBC News) -- \"Suicide Attack Kills 40 In Khyber Mosque Bombing\": \"Forty people were killed in a mosque bombing in northwest Pakistan, with 85 wounded, a government official said. Local administrator Fazal Khan said there's some evidence it was a suicide attack. Some 300 people were at the mosque for Friday prayers when the bomb exploded in the Ghundi village of Khyber tribal region.\" (Pakistan's DAWN) -- Rockets Fired Into Israel; Israeli Aircraft Hit Targets In Gaza: \"Less than a day after coordinated terror attacks killed eight Israelis, Palestinian attacks on Israel continue as 10 Grad and Qasasm rockets were fired Friday morning at Ashkelon, Be'er Sheva and Kiryat Gat. Most of the rockets fell in open areas and did not cause damage or injuries, but one of the missiles hit a building in an Ashdod industrial park, wounding six people, one of them seriously. ... The Palestinian rocket fire followed an [Israeli Air Force] attack on the Gaza Strip overnight which came in response to the coordinated terror attacks on Israel that took place on Thursday afternoon.\" (Israel's Haaretz) -- \"Bank Of America To Eliminate 3,500 Jobs\": \"Bank of America Corp. has begun eliminating 3,500 jobs companywide [about 1 percent of its workforce] ahead of further cuts that are expected to come this fall. The reductions come as Bank of America chief executive Brian Moynihan is working to cut expenses to boost profitability and build capital as the Charlotte bank continues to wrestle with mortgage-related losses. The bank's shares are down about 47 percent this year.\" (Charlotte Observer)", "Note: This is the second of two related posts. In his latest New York Times Magazine column, Adam Davidson writes that Wall Street, \"play[s] the crucial role of intermediation — matching borrowers with lenders. Most of the time, the industry does this extremely well.\" Of course, sometimes the industry does it poorly. So how often does Wall Street engage in valueless lending? To continue the discussion, we asked two economists on different sides of the debate - Thomas Philippon of New York University and John Cochrane of the University of Chicago - to answer the following question: \"How much fat can we cut out of Wall Street?\" John Cochrane's response is below. To read Thomas Philippon's response, click here. Wall Street is big. Much of its recent growth comes from fees paid to hedge fund managers or other active traders. Chicago-school economists have been deploring this for decades – trading is a zero sum game. On the other hand, it's a pretty free market. If wealthy people want to pay hedge fund managers to churn the portfolio, that's their business. Kim Kardashian gets $600,000 just to show up at a nightclub. There are a lot more fashion designers in Milan than seem \"socially necessary.\" Who is to play central planner here? (Though, the number of tax-free endowments handing money to active managers does raise some flags.) Before you feel too jealous of managers and traders, note that working on Wall Street is one of the riskiest occupations in the country. This week's news announced big bonus cuts and layoffs. In how many other jobs can large numbers of workers routinely get their salaries cut in half? Private equity managers much deplored in the news these days also serve a vital social service. What keeps private companies from looking like, say, the post office? Only the threat of a rapacious Wall Street takeover. Read More: The banks are always one step ahead of the regulators, and they will remain so. Adam is exactly right on regulations as well. Our government gave big banks a huge incentive to gamble, with taxpayers covering the losses because they're \"too big to fail.\" Then, we hoped to \"regulate\" their activities. But the banks were always one step ahead of the regulators, and they will remain so. We're doubling our bets on this regime. Wall Street will surely get bigger, with armies of lawyers, accountants, financial engineers, and lobbyists to navigate profits out of the Dodd-Frank Rube Goldberg contraption. But whose fault is that? It feels good to deplore \"greed,\" but is there any chance that doing so will change matters? I have hope for the financial system, and for much-maligned financial engineering. In the 1930s, each mortgage was held by the local bank, funded by local deposits. When the mortgages failed, the bank failed, depositors failed; other banks were legally prohibited from entering, so the people who knew how to make loans were unemployed. In 2008, the mortgages were, with government encouragement, bundled into run-prone securities to avoid banking regulation. But the mortgage-backed security is a great invention. If the originator fails, another bank can sweep in and buy the lending operation, putting it right back in business. The securities can go into a long-only mutual fund, held by a pension. If some mortgages fail, investors on the other side of the world lose money. Global risk sharing! No run, no crisis, no bailout. This is much easier than loading the whole thing on the balance sheet of some huge multinational bank, leveraged 10:1, and hoping that equity analysts and green eyeshade regulators can keep an eye on risks. Financial innovation can still give us a run-free, small enough to fail, financial system.", "The Dow Jones closed at a record high on Monday in spite of the doom and gloom speculation surrounding the housing slump and credit crunch. Have investors regained their confidence in the markets and will this last? Marketplace's Sam Easton says the Dow's surge is not as unusual as it appears, and investors' confidence is not out of place. Wall Street, he says, hates uncertainty. And although the recent string of credit and housing reports are mostly bad news, they at least give investors some information to work with. And working on the theory of \"buy the wake and sell the wedding,\" the increase in housing stocks shows that investors believe the worst of the housing market crisis is over. Easton says the new reports and market resurgence also indicate that the chances of a recession are much smaller than previously assumed. ALEX COHEN, host: From NPR News, it's DAY TO DAY. Okay, let's try to make sense of the economic news this week. Yesterday, record highs on Wall Street. Today, word that pending home sales fell to the lowest level in more than six years. Then housing stocks respond by rising. You with me still? I know. It's confusing but MARKETPLACE's Sam Eaton is here and he's going to help us understand what is going on. So Sam, what gives us all this ups and downs? SAM EATON: It's a little counterintuitive, I guess to say the least. You just look at how the market responded to yesterday's news. We had Citigroup announcing a huge hit on profits - on upcoming profits due to housing woes, Credit Suisse and UBS posted similar warnings and the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit an all-time high. Now, on the surface, this may leave many of us scratching our heads but it's actually a pretty common reaction. Wall Street hates uncertainty and the string of bad news reports out yesterday and today helped ease that anxiety. So the thinking basically goes even if the news isn't good, at least it's news. COHEN: And we have seen what it is. Okay, so these reports take away some uncertainty. What's the next step? How does that lead to gains like what we saw yesterday? EATON: Well, basically, traders are feeling that the crisis is over here and we're talking about the mortgage crisis and that string of bad economic reports that were coming out or the news that was coming out, and that we've seen the worst of that mortgage crunch. But it also points to another funny thing about Wall Street. Good economic reports, on the flipside, rarely lead to rallies. I talked to Al Goldman who's the chief market strategist at AG Edwards, and he says the reason for that is because markets are essentially forward looking. Mr. AL GOLDMAN (Chief Market Strategist, AG Edwards): How many times have your listeners seen a stock come out with good news, raise their dividends, flip their shares and the stock goes down. Now, this makes no sense except when you realize that the stock perhaps was up 10 or 15 percent in anticipation of the news. EATON: Now, Goldman says there's an old saying on Wall Street for this trend, it's buy the wake and sell the wedding. COHEN: Ha, okay. So does this mean that this six months stretch of doom and gloom that we've been in this over or will the Wall Street guys just call this a relief rally? EATON: It's - you'd have to basically have a crystal ball, Alex, to answer that one, but many market analysts seem to think that we're headed for better times here. One of the big questions still looming is the jobs data coming out this Friday. Most are expecting a gain in hundred thousand jobs. But if it turns out to be the opposite we could see what analysts like to call adjustments. COHEN: So Sam, just to wrap it up, are we possibly headed towards a recession now? Are we clear of that? EATON: Wall Street seems to think we're in for more of a soft landing. They're now saying that the former predictions of 30 to 40 percent chance of recession need to be cut in half now in light of the new data and how the market is reacting to that data. COHEN: Thanks so much, Sam. That's Sam Eaton of public radio's daily business show Marketplace. It's produced by American Public Media.", "\"Economic growth appears poised to continue at a moderate pace over coming quarters,\" Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is telling Congress this hour, and will be supported in part by additional \"accommodative monetary policy\" from the central bank. While there's been a slowing in job growth, Bernanke says that Fed policymakers believe household spending has been \"relatively well sustained\" and are encouraged by \"consumer spentiment [that is] ... up noticeably from its levels late last year.\" He also says the soft job growth may in part be due to unusual gains over the winter when weather was warmer than normal. But Bernanke, in testimony prepared for the Joint Economic Committee, also warns that \"a severe tightening of fiscal policy at the beginning of next year that is built into current law — the so-called fiscal cliff — would, if allowed to occur, pose a significant threat to the recovery.\" That's his way of saying that the deal struck by lawmakers to let the so-called Bush tax cuts expire and to have more than $100 billion in automatic spending cuts go into effect could send the economy back into recession. \"Fortunately,\" Bernanke says in his prepared remarks, \"avoiding the fiscal cliff and achieving long-term fiscal sustainability are fully compatible and mutually reinforcing objectives. Preventing a sudden and severe contraction in fiscal policy will support the transition back to full employment, which should aid long-term fiscal sustainability. At the same time, a credible fiscal plan to put the federal budget on a longer-run sustainable path could help keep longer-term interest rates low and improve household and business confidence, thereby supporting improved economic performance today.\" The chairman also promises that the Fed, as always, is \"prepared to take action\" if necessary to keep the economy moving. The hearing is being webcast here. At this hour, stock indexes are rising on Wall Street. Bernanke's testimony has been widely anticipated by investors. Update at 11:55 a.m. ET. For those who want to follow a live-blog of the chairman's appearance, The Wall Street Journal's is here. Update at 10:30 a.m. ET. For those who like word clouds, here's what the chairman's prepared testimony looks like:", "Unemployment is now at a two-year high of 5 percent, as the Labor Department's latest jobs report shows that very few jobs were added to the U.S. economy in December. The news, released Friday, will likely raise more fears of a recession. Economists had been expecting a net increase of about 70,000 jobs. Instead, the economy added only 18,000 jobs. The numbers are the worst reported for a month since August 2003. The construction, manufacturing and retail sectors all lost jobs in December, while health care and professional services came in on the positive side. The poor showing leaves many wondering how the Federal Reserve will react. Many Wall Street analysts are hoping for a sizable rate cut. But inflation worries may limit the size of such a cut. STEVE INSKEEP, host: Ford suffered from a slowdown in consumers spending. And today we get another clue to how much the economy may be weakening. NPR's Jim Zarroli is waiting for the latest unemployment report. JIM ZARROLI: The unemployment report is always scrutinized carefully by economists and business leaders - and that's especially true this time around. The mortgage crisis and the ensuing credit crunch already have the economy by the ankles. If there is a recession in 2008, as some economists fear, the evidence will start to show up in the nation's payrolls. Already there are signs that hiring is down. The online job site Monster.com said its employment index fell last month to its lowest level in almost a year. The Commerce Department said durable goods orders fell for the fourth straight month in December. And a report co-produced by the forecasting group Macroeconomic Advisers and the payroll company ADP said private employers added about 40,000 jobs last month - less than what's needed to keep up with population growth. Most economists believe government and private employment rose by a meager 70,000 jobs and that the unemployment rate will inch up by a tenth of a percentage point to 4.8 percent. This is more than just a numbers game. Wall Street is anxiously awaiting another interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve. And a weak employment report will make it more likely that Fed policymakers will approve one. Jim Zarroli, NPR News, New York.", "From billion-dollar bailouts to Occupy Wall Street, it's safe to say the financial crisis didn't exactly paint a great picture of the banking industry. It's precisely that stigma that drove Kevin Roose to follow a group of young Wall Street recruits around for three years. In today's episode, Roose takes us behind the scenes of some of the largest banks, their secret societies and the young people escaping it all. For more, check out Roose's new book, \"Young Money.\" Music: Lorde's \"Royals.\" Find us: Twitter/ Facebook/ Spotify/ Tumblr. Download the Planet Money iPhone App. ZOE CHACE, HOST: OK so, Kevin, where are we? KEVIN ROOSE: So we are at 277 Park Avenue at the New York headquarters of JPMorgan Chase. It's one of the biggest banks in the world. I would say there's a chance - it's a very small one - but there's a chance that they will let you up. CHACE: What do you think is going to happen? ROOSE: I think you will probably be very politely asked to get the heck out of the building. CHACE: OK. Let's go. UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Do you have an appointment? CHACE: No. UNIDENTIFIED MAN: You're trying to get an appointment. CHACE: Correct. UNIDENTIFIED MAN: You just can't show up with this equipment. What are you doing? CHACE: We're journalists, so I was trying to talk to some of the traders here. UNIDENTIFIED MAN: You have to leave the facility. CHACE: You sure we can't just go upstairs? UNIDENTIFIED MAN: No, you can't. CHACE: Hello and Welcome to Planet Money. I'm Zoe Chace. Today, we actually do get inside JPMorgan Chase and a bunch of the other big financial giants surrounding it with Kevin Roose. He's a financial writer with New York Magazine. And it's hard to get a sense of what it's like to work on Wall Street, and Roose has this unusually intimate portrait of what it's like inside. Even though, the people in these buildings run an enormous chunk of our economy, they don't really talk to reporters or let reporters inside very often. That's why unless you work there, you're best notion of what the culture is like on Wall Street probably comes from the movies. Kevin Roose spent the last three years with investment bankers, traders on Wall Street to find out what it's like to work at the place that brought down the global economy, when you're just 22 years old. And he discovered among other things a secret society made up of top Wall Street executives in drag. He didn't just discover it. He actually attended a meeting undercover, and we'll take you there on the show. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, \"ROYAL\") LORDE: (Singing) I've never seen a diamond in the flesh. I cut my teeth on wedding rings in the movies. And I'm not proud... CHACE: Kevin Roose graduated from Brown University in 2009. 2009 - I don't need to remind you - was not a good looking year for Wall Street. The year before was Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, TARP. And Roose remembers the moment that he realized how much things were changing. He was at a dinner party right after he graduated college. ROOSE: It was a bunch of people in their early 20s and some parents. We were all going around the table talking about our jobs - where we worked what we did - and it got to this one girl, who I didn't know very well. And she - all she would say is I work downtown, and everyone sort of looked at her and said - and one of the parents said, well, where? Where downtown? And said, well, I work in finance, and the parents said, well, where in finance? You know, what company? And she sort of sheepishly - I mean, turned bright red and said Goldman Sachs. CHACE: Goldman Sachs - what used to be a sign that you were making it as a 22 year old had become something that some of Roose's peers were ashamed of. ROOSE: I mean, 2009 and 2010 were a moment on Wall Street. It was after the biggest cataclysm in the financial industry since the Great Depression. I was really curious about what it was like to be in this hated, vilified sector as a 22 year old who had no responsibility for what, you know - they were in college when Lehman Brothers was blowing itself up. They had - they didn't do it. CHACE: But there was a stigma. People back then were angry at the banks, and the new Wall Street recruits - they were bringing some of that shame, resentment, anger with them into these new jobs. And that's what Roose wanted to find out about. He ended up following eight kids through their first two years on Wall Street for his new book out this week called \"Young Money.\" And all of them, it seems, had an experience like this one guy who worked on the commodities desk at Goldman Sachs, a blonde kid from California who road crew in college, a trader whom he calls Jeremy. ROOSE: You know, one point one of his bosses asks him, you know, so why do you come to Goldman? And he gives this sort of idealistic spiel about how allowing big companies to hedge their fuel costs is like a legitimate function of the capital markets and eventually those savings get passed on to customers. And the guy sort of cut h", "President Obama's stimulus bill has sparked much debate among economists. Stephen Moore, senior economics writer for The Wall Street Journal editorial page, talks with Alex Cohen about his perspective on the rescue package. Mr. STEPHEN MOORE (Senior Economics Writer, Wall Street Journal): I think that the more that the American people are learning about what's actually inside this near trillion dollar bill the more they're disgusted by it. ALEX COHEN, host: Stephen Moore is one of the authors of the book \"The End of Prosperity.\" He's also the senior economics writer for the Wall Street Journal's editorial page. He takes the issue with the stimulus package from a conservative prospective. Mr. MOORE: Most of the spending in this bill has very little to do with economic stimulus or creating jobs. A lot of it is just political payback to Democrat interest groups like the unions and ACORN and organizations like that. There's also hundreds of billions of dollars for welfare programs. Now, that might be something we want to do when people lose their jobs, to provide them with welfare assistance, but that's certainly not a job creator. In fact, if anything, it keeps people out of jobs. So, I think that the other aspect of it that has really angered people is the amount of traditional, kind of, pork spending in the bill that has no place in a stimulus bill, everything from money for the National Endowment for the Arts, a newer sewer system in Washington, D.C., and on and on and on. COHEN: One of the things that you mentioned is the money that's going towards items like renewable energy... Mr. MOORE: Right. COHEN: And mass transit. What exactly are you concerned about? Mr. MOORE: Well, I think the biggest single item in terms of infrastructure is actually for this renewable energy, for building, you know, solar paneling on libraries, on public buildings, and for windmills, and those are just hopelessly inefficient technologies. I mean, there's a reason that the private sector hasn't invested in solar and wind. It's because they are just hopelessly inefficient in terms of the cost of building these things and the amount of electricity they generate. So, we did this, by the way, in the late 1970s. We invested huge amounts of government tax dollars in renewable energy, and it was most almost all a waste of money. And the other provision - things like mass transit - I mean, the truth is that just very few people in the country use mass transit; you know, 99 times as many people use roads and highways as use transit systems. COHEN: Going back for a moment to renewable energy, I think you could make the argument that much has changed in terms of technology and development since the 1970s. I think some might argue as well that there are benefits that could go beyond immediate returns, things like protecting the environment. Isn't that worth something? Mr. MOORE: Well, except that these are so expensive to build per a unit of electricity that they generate that they're actually not very good for the environment. I mean, just to give you an example, if you wanted to light up Manhattan, where I am right now, at night with wind power, you'd have to convert the entire state of Connecticut into a wind farm. So far, the costs are much, much higher than getting electricity from things like natural gas and coal. COHEN: Many fiscal conservatives, such as yourself, are calling for tax cuts instead, but aren't there problems there as well? Permanent tax cuts can take a long time to approve. And even short-term ones, Americans might well hold on to that money instead of spending it. How's that a stimulus package? Mr. MOORE: Well, what we really need to do is provide incentives for businesses to hire more workers and to take risks and expand their businesses. One way that's been proven very successful of doing that - I mean, Ronald Reagan proved this in the early 1980s when we were in an even bigger economic crisis than we're in right now - is by cutting tax rates to make those kinds of hiring decisions more attractive. So, there's very little in this bill. In fact, one of the points that we've made on the editorial page is there's more money in this bill for the National Endowment for the Arts than there is for small businesses to expand their enterprises. And as we know, 70 percent of the jobs in this country come from small business. COHEN: Stephen Moore writes for the Wall Street Journal's editorial page, and he is coauthor of \"The End of Prosperity.\" Thank you. Mr. MOORE: Thank you. (Soundbite of music) COHEN: Stay with us on Day to Day from NPR News.", "As Britain joins the string of European nations from Ireland to Italy that have resorted to austerity measures -- with deep and immediate cuts in public-sector jobs, entitlement programs and defense spending -- what are the chances it could happen in the U.S.? Unlikely, says David Wessel, economics editor of The Wall Street Journal. The U.K. government has ordered spending cuts totaling $130 billion through 2015, which amounts to about 1 percent of gross domestic product per year. That would be the equivalent of slashing the U.S. budget by $250 billion in a single year -- a level of pain that isn't \"even in the talks stage\" on this side of the Atlantic, Wessel tells NPR's Renee Montagne on Morning Edition. Instead, $250 billion is \"about what President [Obama] has asked the deficit reduction commission that he's appointed to do over four years,\" Wessel says. Britain's finance minister, George Osborne, said the cuts -- which will wipe out an estimated 500,000 government jobs -- along with tax increases are needed to close spending deficits. \"Basically, Britain is proposing to wipe out its deficit in five years, and President Obama's plea is that we come up with some policies that will leave us with a deficit of 3 percent of GDP by 2015,\" he says. \"I think the most interesting thing is that the new British government is willing to tackle entitlement spending, the benefits that upper- and middle-class and, in some cases, poor people get in Britain.\" He adds that \"it's something that people talk about doing here, but something that people are afraid to actually do.\" Such cuts are feasible in Britain because the climate is much different from in the U.S., where politicians of all stripes talk vaguely about reducing spending but rarely have the backbone to be specific, he says. \"They have a parliamentary system where what the prime minister wants, he gets,\" Wessel says. \"They elected a government that was promising austerity and they're getting it.\" He acknowledges that trying to compare the two economies as \"apples and apples\" is difficult, because the public sector in Britain is so much larger than in the U.S. Britain has about 6 million public-sector jobs and a population of 62 million people, while the U.S. has just over 2 million public-sector jobs and a population of 307 million. Britain also remains much more vulnerable to global financial markets than the U.S., he says. \"They can't count on borrowing trillions of dollars a year from the Chinese at very low interest rates. They are a small economy,\" Wessel says. \"The prime minister's case is 'if we don't do this, no one will lend to us and things will be even worse.' \" But economists remain split over whether Britain's move makes sense while the global economic picture remains so weak. \"Some see what the British government is doing as a model of courage and leadership -- the sort of things that Republicans might do if they took over but seem to be afraid to do in order to get our fiscal house in order,\" Wessel says. \"But others think this is lunacy, this is strangling a weak economy,\" he says. \"Some of those economists think … if the [British] economy gets so weak, they will just have to pull back because tightening fiscal policy in the face of a fragile world economy is just stupid.\" So what could the U.S. do if it wanted to get serious about cutting its own deficit? Raise the retirement age on Social Security and \"change the way we inflation-adjust all sorts of federal benefits,\" Wessel says. \"We'd have to make deep cuts in departments across the government -- defense to education -- and we'd have to revisit health care\" in order to slow its growth \"for real this time.\" RENEE MONTAGNE, host: And in the U.S., there's a lot of talk about budget cutting to bring down the deficit, but few politicians here are willing to provide specifics. Certainly not on the scale of the British plan. David Wessel joins us to talk about what British-style austerity would be like in the U.S. He's economics editor of the Wall Street Journal, and also a regular guest on this program. Good morning. Mr. DAVID WESSEL (Economics editor, Wall Street Journal): Good morning, Renee. MONTAGNE: You know, listening just now. How does the British government's budget-cutting plan compare to what's being talked about even just talked about - here in the U.S.? Mr. WESSEL: Well, the British government is actually proposing real cuts. In the United States, we just talk about cuts in general, nothing in specific or not very much in specific. But the magnitude is interesting here. The International Monetary Fund says the British Government is trying to reduce its structural deficit that's the part that's not cause by a weak economy by about 1.7 percent GDP in a single year. If the U.S. was going to do that, that would be $250 billion of deficit reduction, tax increases or spending - or spending cuts - in a single year. Think about it this way. That's what the president has asked this de", "Hungary today declared a state of emergency, sealing off its southern border with Serbia, in an effort to stop the migrants coming in. As the crisis continues, many in Europe and the United States are profiting from the influx of migrants, including shop owners and American pension funds. A piece in The Wall Street Journal titled &#8220;The Growth of Refugee Inc.&#8221; reads: In many ways, private companies are increasingly defining the European migration experience. In some cases, the companies see potential to win favor with a future group of European consumers, a welcome jolt amid the Continent’s economic doldrums. In other cases, they are stepping in to help provide services that governments can’t or won’t. At times they have provoked protests from advocacy groups who accuse them of cutting corners in order to profit from human misery. Jason Bellini of The Wall Street Journal discusses this with Here & Now&#8217;s Peter O&#8217;Dowd. Guest\n\nJason Bellini, senior producer at The Wall Street Journal. He tweets @jasonbellini.", "The Obama Administration is intent on making an example of departing Bank of America Chief Executive Kenneth Lewis by sending him into retirement without his 2009 salary and bonus. Kenneth Feinberg, the Obama Administration's Wall Street pay czar, wanted a pound of flesh from Lewis because of the billions in bailout money BofA received and the BofA chief agreed to give it. But while Lewis gave a pound, he still keeps a ton. As The Wall Street Journal reports: Mr. Feinberg's rationale is based largely on the fact that Mr. Lewis will leave the firm with a package of retirement benefits and other stock awards worth between $69.3 million and $120 million, these people said. So shed no tears for Lewis. As the Associated Press reports: Kenneth Feinberg, the U.S. Treasury Department's special master for compensation, suggested that Lewis should get no pay for the year and Lewis agreed, Bank of America spokesman Robert Stickler said. In fact, Lewis will pay back about $1 million he has received so far of a $1.5 million salary. Wall Street has been eagerly awaiting Feinberg's decisions about pay at seven firms that got the most taxpayer money. Read More >> More stunning than the fact that Lewis will leave with at least $70 million in retirement and stock awards is the reaction the financial community will have to this news, according to The Wall Street Journal. The move will stun Wall Street, which has been anxiously awaiting Mr. Feinberg's rulings on compensation at seven firms receiving large sums of government aid, including also Citigroup Inc. and General Motors. Mr. Feinberg had been expected to clamp down on compensation by cutting salaries for the most highly-paid employees at these firms. But until now there's been little indication he would take away an employee's entire pay. It's another example of the disconnect between Wall Street and Main Street. Most Americans, put in the position of leaving their jobs with at least $70 million wouldn't feel victimized, even if they lost salary and bonus for the current year. But on Wall Street, such an outcome is an unspeakable horror.", "Just yesterday on the podcast, we talked about a slight dip in new claims for unemployment insurance. So much for that. From NPR: Employers cut 533K jobs in Nov., most in 34 years. From the New York Times: Washington's new tack: Helping homeowners. More news after the jump. Read More >> From the Wall Street Journal: Fed weighs its options as Europe cuts rates. From the BBC: Lebanon 'immune' to financial crisis. From the AFP: China gets on board railway project to speed up economy. From the San Jose Mercury News: San Jose makes bid for $1 billion in economic stimulus dollars. From the Charlotte Observer: City reconsiders building mass transit.", "New York Gov. David Paterson has called on state legislators to slash $5 billion from the state's budget over the next two years in an effort to head off a ballooning budget gap. But so far, he's not getting too much cooperation. In announcing his plan Thursday, Paterson, a Democrat, called it a \"time of uncommon difficulty.\" He asked the state legislature to balance New York's $80 billion budget. His proposal includes nearly $1 billion in spending cuts to health care and education, in an effort to close a projected budget gap of $3 billion in the current fiscal year. But state Senate Finance Committee Chairman Carl Kruger, a Democrat from Brooklyn, has called Paterson's forecast of budget gaps \"hysteria.\" He's said that he is against Paterson's proposed cuts to education and health care. Paterson, meanwhile, says that committee members don't want to \"meet the obligations.\" \"I guess they're against the cuts, but I guess they're also against governing,\" Paterson tells Robert Siegel. Without cuts, the state risks having to borrow money precipitously or closing institutions, Paterson says. \"I gave them six weeks to give me suggestions as to how to reduce the deficit,\" he says, referring to a request earlier this year that legislators come up with budget cuts. \"And they're just saying, 'We're not reducing it, we're not cutting.' But they also don't want to raise taxes. When a family runs out of money, they don't spend until they have the resources. That's what I'm doing.\" A year ago, Paterson told NPR that when Wall Street crashes, New York feels the brunt because capital gains receipts go down. And if company executives who live in New York don't get big bonuses, the state gets lower tax receipts. New York gets 20 percent of its money from Wall Street, he says. \"I would also suggest that New York state is in a lot of our trouble now because we bargained on Wall Street and we over-relied on Wall Street,\" he says. \"There is no derivatives market anymore. So the kinds of resources New York was receiving are just not possible. I think we should be governing, not gambling.\" Paterson is proposing $400 million in cuts to Medicaid and other health care expenditures. \"None of the cuts will apply to Medicaid patients,\" Paterson says. \"Our cuts are calling for mergers of facilities — perhaps there will be greater crowding. It will be painful, but we're going to share the burden. The recession has hurt all of us, and it's going to take a sacrifice by all of us to save our state.\" Paterson says the state needs to make payments by mid-December, and he needs action from the state Senate Finance Committee around Nov. 3.", "Employers cut jobs last month and unemployment rates hover around 5 percent. Despite the grim financial outlook, Exxon Mobil posted record earnings last year. Marketplace's Bob Moon talks to Alex Chadwick about why crude prices are soaring in a stalling economy. ALEX CHADWICK, host: From NPR News, it's DAY TO DAY. We're going to MARKETPLACE now, and we need to because the economic news, well, it's confusing. It's puzzling, especially on employment. The number of jobs actually went down. The number of people working suffered a net loss of 17,000 jobs this last month, and yet the unemployment rate also dropped slightly. Bob Moon is here from MARKETPLACE to explain. Bob, you know, these figures, sometimes they are in apparent contradiction like this. Now, remind me how this occurs. BOB MOON: Well, this was a slight drop in the unemployment rate, and it could just mean that people left the job market for various reasons, including that they just gave up looking work. So it's cut in the payrolls that many economists are worried about right now, because the number was a lot worse than they had expected. In fact, the general consensus was that 80,000 jobs would be created during the month. But what we really saw was a net reduction in payrolls, and that hasn't happened in four and a half years. If that reading was showing up on a cockpit gauge right now, we might be hearing a stall-out warning. Manufacturing jobs were among the hardest hit. Manufacturers cut around 28,000 workers during the past month. That marks the 19th straight month of contraction for that sector. Construction jobs suffered almost as much. That sector shed around 27,000 jobs. And if you look at the numbers since employment peeked back in September of 2006, the number of construction-related jobs has swelled to 284,000 that have been lost. CHADWICK: So I know that economists are looking at these numbers and trying to figure out what is the state of the economy. What will they derive from this? MOON: Well, a lot of them are saying today that this could well be the last nail in the coffin when it comes to a recession. The reason for that gloom is that the job market is seen as a lagging indicator. It tends to show up as a result of business troubles that are already happening. CHADWICK: Uh-huh. How's Wall Street reacting? MOON: Well, the financial markets have really been whipsawed by all this news, because they're asking is the economy strong, or is it strained here? The Institute for Supply Management just announced that factory activity rose in January from December, and that would be a sign of expansion. So things are still confusing, even for Wall Street right now. CHADWICK: Yeah. President Bush talking about the economy today, he says - well, he says things are okay, but they're uncertain and perhaps weakening. Is anything doing well out there? MOON: Well, we can tell you that ExxonMobil reported a record $40 billion in profit for 2007. That figures out to roughly $75,000 every minute. Record oil prices have boosted its fourth quarter earnings to $11.6 billion, and that's the highest ever operating profit by a U.S. company. CHADWICK: Well, there's some good news. Bob, thank you. Bob Moon of public radio's daily business show, MARKETPLACE.", "What could make the popular idea of deep cuts in discretionary federal spending less popular and more politically risky? One obvious answer: credible arguments that such cuts would slow the economy and reduce job growth. Which is why House Republicans are pushing back hard against recent analyses that argue that $61 billion in current-fiscal year spending cuts recently approved by House Republicans would damage the economy as it still tries to gain momentum coming out of the worst recession since the Great Depression. Read More To that end, Speaker John Boehner's media operation pointed out that John Taylor, a highly respected Stanford University economist who is a conservative favorite, disagrees with a Goldman Sachs analysis that the cuts could cost the economy as much as two percentage points off gross domestic product and the better part of a million jobs. Boehner's people also sought to discredit Mark Zandi, chief economist with Moody's Analytics who agreed with Goldman about the negative impact of spending cuts. From the Boehner news release: One of America's top economists, John B. Taylor of Stanford University's Hoover Institute, today released an analysis that debunks claims made by partisan Democrats (via Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs, Democratic economist Mark Zandi and others) about the impact of the House GOP spending cuts on unemployment. The portrayal of Goldman and Zandi as partisan Democrats is somwehat curious since Goldman's report was a confidential on to its clients. Those clients are presumably not just Democrats, Republicans and independents but foreigners whose main interest is making money, period. Also, the political views of Goldman executives run across the political spectrum. Meanwhile, Zandi was an adviser to 2008 Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain. So if Goldman and Zandi are Democratic political hacks, that would be news to many people.", "The Labor Department on Friday offered startling evidence that the U.S. economy is slowing, hampered by high gas prices and natural disasters in Japan that have hurt U.S. manufacturers. Employers hired only 54,000 new workers in May, the fewest in eight months, and the unemployment rate rose to 9.1 percent. The pace of hiring has weakened dramatically from the previous three months, when the economy added an average of 220,000 new jobs. Private companies hired only 83,000 new workers in May — the fewest in nearly a year. The numbers in Friday's report are \"well below the worst expectations of Wall Street,\" said Hugh Johnson of money manager Hugh Johnson Advisors. \"Wall Street had sort of been revising down their expectations and expected an increase of between 100- and 150,000 jobs, but when you only get 54 [thousand], it's a pretty disappointing report.\" The change in job gains represents \"a huge pullback,\" NPR's Yuki Noguchi explained on Friday's Morning Edition. The key question is whether the meager job gains mark a temporary setback or are evidence of a more chronic problem. The White House stressed that \"overall trajectory of the economy has improved dramatically over the past two years,\" in a blog post by Austan Goolsbee, chairman of the Council on Economic Advisers. But, Goolsbee wrote, \"While the private sector has added more than 2.1 million jobs over the past 15 months, the unemployment rate is unacceptably high and faster growth is needed to replace the jobs lost in the downturn. ... This report is a reminder of the challenges that remain.\" After the Labor Department's report, stocks on Wall Street fell Friday for the third straight day. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 94 points in the first hour of trading. Broader indexes also opened lower. 'Disappointing' Losses In Manufacturing Local governments cut 28,000 jobs last month, the most since November. Nearly 18,000 of those jobs were in education. Cities and counties have cut jobs for 22 straight months and have shed 446,000 positions since September 2008. The anemic pace of job creation presents a huge challenge to President Obama's re-election prospects next year. And it followed a string of disappointing economic data in the past month that suggest the economy is hitting a soft patch after a strong start. \"The people who watch these things closely started getting more pessimistic when they saw weakness in the data that came out earlier this week — they saw falling housing prices, manufacturing in a slump, consumers losing confidence. And so they had revised numbers, but not this low,\" Noguchi said. The manufacturing sector, a key driver of the economic recovery, grew at its slowest pace in 20 months. \"We're seeing the manufacturing sector of the economy now losing jobs — 5,000 jobs for the month of may — where it'd been gaining jobs of between 20- and 40,000 per month,\" said Johnson of Hugh Johnson Advisors. \"So that was pretty disappointing.\" Home prices reached their lowest level since 2002 in March, the higher gas prices have left less money for consumers to spend on other purchases, and average wages aren't even keeping up with inflation. As a result, consumer spending, which fuels about 70 percent of the economy, is growing sluggishly. But consumer spending is what's needed to drive economic growth, Noguchi said — especially because the government is looking to cut its own spending. \"There's almost certainly going to be less government spending,\" Noguchi said. And what that means is that the growth is going to have to come organically — you know, from consumers feeling confident and then spending, and then businesses responding to that by hiring to sort of fill the demand.\" A Rough Patch, Or Worse? Economists have said that most of the factors slowing the economy are temporary. But some are now concerned that the impact is greater than they first envisioned. Steven Wood, chief economist for Insight Economics, said U.S. economic activity has clearly hit \"a soft patch.\" The question is: Are the numbers we're seeing today just a blip, or do they indicate some longer-term drag for employment? \"Some people worry about a possible dip back into recession — what in the past we might've called a double dip or, at this point, a triple dip,\" Noguchi said. \"But a more optimistic view is that this is temporary — a rough patch along the way to a more solid recovery. In addition to higher oil prices, we also had that earthquake in Japan, which is disrupting supply chains for automakers and computer makers. All of that is sort of adding up.\" More people entered the work force in May. But most of the new entrants couldn't find work. That pushed the unemployment rate up from 9.0 percent in April. The number of unemployed rose to 13.9 million. The number of long-term unemployed — people who have been without a job for more than 27 weeks — increased by nearly 400,000. They now make up almost half of those without work. And the government revise", "The Federal Reserve's Open Markets Committee, the group that determines key U.S. interest rates, meets today. They are expected to leave rates unchanged. David Wessel, deputy Washington bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, talks to Renee Montagne about mixed signals in the economy. RENEE MONTAGNE, host: In this holiday season, the stock market is joyous. The bond market is glooming. The Federal Reserve meets today and its decision on what to do about interest rates will reflect one mood or the other. To make sense of the mood swings, we turn to David Wessel, deputy Washington bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal. Good morning. Mr. DAVID WESSEL (Deputy Washington bureau Chief, The Wall Street Journal): Good morning, Renee. MONTAGNE: How do these different indicators see the economy in such different ways? Mr. WESSEL: Well, this is one of those times when there are a lot of cross currents in the economy. The economy has definitely slowed significantly. The auto industry is hurting, housing is hurting even worse. But as we saw in last week's unemployment report, the other parts of the economy are doing okay. The service sector is producing more jobs, enough more jobs so that net employment is up. The Fed is pretty optimistic. It thinks this slow patch is temporary and we're going to come out of it. The bond market is not persuaded. They think the Fed is seeing the economy through rose-colored glasses. And as soon as they figure out that things are really going to be bad, they're going to start cutting interest rates. Not today, but some time next year. MONTAGNE: But you said the Fed is optimistic. Mr. WESSEL: Right. The Fed does see a slowdown of the economy. It actually welcomes a slowdown in the economy. It thought the economy was getting a little ahead of itself and we we're going to get inflation unless things slowed down. It doesn't think this soft patch will last very long. It saw the good news in last week's employment report. And it is a little worried about inflationary pressures. You know, that's the thing that the Fed is charged with avoiding, inflation. They see a little quickening of price pressures and they want to head that off. The bond market thinks the Fed just has it wrong. MONTAGNE: Well, what about that? You said just a little upping of prices. Is that really inflation? Mr. WESSEL: Well, in a historical sense we're in a period of very low inflation. And the new Fed chairman, Ben Bernanke, wants to be sure we keep it that way. So he didn't panic when oil prices went up. But there has a been a quickening of the pace of price increases. It's easier for businesses to raise prices. There's a little upward pressure on wages. And what he's trying to do is say we're not going to let that get out of control and so that's why he's seeming sort of tough on inflation. It's actually pretty ironic because when he took the job, the bond market thought this guy was going to be too weak-kneed on inflation, and now they think he may be a little bit too strong armed. MONTAGNE: One thing, David, when Ben Bernanke first took over, we spoke about him being plain spoken. That was sort of a difference between him as a Fed chairman and Greenspan. Why does the bond market apparently not actually believe what he's saying? Mr. WESSEL: Well, that's a great question, Renee. I think that the bond market and investors in general are having a little trouble getting used to the new Fed chairman. It's sort of a learning experience. And when he says something, they interpret it as if Alan Greenspan was saying it. So at the end of 2000, the Fed was talking tough about inflation, but then at the beginning of 2001, they started cutting interest rates and rates came down pretty fast. So the bond market thinks that's what Bernanke is doing now. He's talking tough but he's actually going to act differently. And he actually doesn't believe in that kind of thing. He thinks you should say what you think, and he's having a hard time convincing the bond market that's really what he's doing. MONTAGNE: But he's convinced you? Mr. WESSEL: Well, yes, he has convinced me. I think that whether or not Mr. Bernanke has the right economic forecast is beyond my competence. But I am convinced that he is adopting a kind of call-it-as-you-see-it approach. And if he says that he sees no need to cut interest rates right away because he thinks the economy is going to pick up and he's worried about inflation, I take him at his word. MONTAGNE: David, thanks very much. Mr. WESSEL: My pleasure. MONTAGNE: David Wessel is deputy Washington bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal.", "It's hard to tell if the Occupy Wall Street protests had much impact on banks, but banks are doing some de-Occupying within their own ranks. It wasn't as bad as the massive layoffs following the 2008 meltdown, but last year was painful for Wall Street. Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman, Morgan Stanley — almost all the big banks — announced big layoffs, totaling more than 60,000 employees. That's not surprising, given last year's losses. In one quarter, the securities industry lost $3 billion. For the full year, the industry is expected to have made money, but just half of what it did compared to the previous year. Bank analyst Nancy Bush says with businesses and consumers still focused on reducing debt, there just is not the same need for financial services as a whole as there was before. \"And that's why you're seeing the banks respond to the present environment with layoffs, branch closures, etc.,\" she says. \"We just don't need them anymore; it's that simple.\" A Climate Of Caution There have been fewer big corporate deals, and doing those deals brings in a lot of money for banks. There's also been a drop in company stock and bond offerings that generate big fees. \"If you've got a business which is built around trading and investing banking, you've got a problem, because you are not generating the types of earnings that you would like,\" says bank analyst Dick Bove with Rochdale Securities. There are also new rules limiting, for example, the fees banks can charge retailers for debit card transactions. Those have been cut in half. Banks used to make big profits trading with their own money, and that's now being curtailed by regulators who say it's too risky. Regulators are also requiring banks to put more money aside in case of future financial downturns. That might make them safer, but it means Wall Street firms have less money to invest or lend. Then there's the general climate of caution. \"People don't want to take risks because they are uncertain about the future,\" says Paul Miller, a bank analyst at FBR Capital Markets. He cites fears about Europe's debt crisis as a top reason for Wall Street's falling profits. \"Until people get more bullish on the future, it's going to be very difficult for Wall Street to make money and they will continue to shed employees. They will continue to cut people's pay,\" Miller says. Smaller Bonuses, Relatively Speaking For those still employed, year-end bonuses being handed out now are expected to be as much as 30 percent lower compared with a year ago. \"Last year there was this generalized groaning about payouts being down, about their bonuses being down,\" Bush says. \"This year? Not a peep ... People left on Wall Street are very much thinking, 'You know what? It's good that I have a job.' \" Smaller bonuses may please critics of Wall Street, but to put things into perspective, average salaries for these workers last year (not including bonuses) was more than $360,000. And top executives and the biggest deal makers will continue to earn millions. \"Wall Street tends to go through these paroxysms of, you know, growth and contraction,\" she says. \"This is different. This is the financial services industry looking at its prospects, I think, over a long period of years.\" The outlook in the years ahead is for a smaller, more stable and less profitable industry. DAVID GREENE, HOST: Here in the U.S., stock prices are down. Investors are disappointed with news from one of the country's biggest banks. JP Morgan said earnings last quarter fell 23 percent, largely on lower investment banking and trading. Other big banks are also having a rough time. In recent weeks, almost all the country's major banks have announced tens of thousands of layoffs. From New York, Charlie Herman of member station WNYC has more. (SOUNDBITE OF VARIOUS NEWSCASTS) CHARLIE HERMAN, BYLINE: It's not like the massive layoffs following the 2008 meltdown, but last year was painful for Wall Street. Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman, Morgan Stanley - almost all the big banks announced layoffs, totaling more than 60,000 jobs. It's not surprising, considering that in one quarter last year, the securities industry lost $3 billion. For the full year, the industry is expected to have made money, but only half what it did compared to the previous year. Nancy Bush, with NAB Research, says with businesses and consumers still focused on reducing debt... NANCY BUSH: There just is not the same need for financial services, as a whole, as there was before. And that's why you're seeing the banks respond to the present environment with layoffs, branch closures, etc., etc. We just don't need them anymore; it's that simple. HERMAN: Also, there are fewer big corporate deals - doing those deals brings in a lot of money for banks. And there's been a drop in company stock and bond offerings that generate big fees. Bank analyst Dick Bove works for Rochdale Securities. RICK BOVE: If you've got a business which is built around trading a", "A number of you have asked about the situation in South Korea, so we'll start there today. And where do we end? With job cuts in West Virginia, after the jump. From the Korea Herald: Central bank cuts rate to record low/ Turbulence rocks financial sector. From the Straits Times: EU to tackle stimulus plan. From the Detroit Free-Press: House OKs aid for automakers; Senate picture hazy/ Why are these GOP senators unhappy with auto aid? Read More >> From Bloomberg: U.S. trade deficit widens as exports decrease/ U.S. jobless claims hit 26-year high. From the Wall Street Journal: The new mattress stuffers/ IEA expects world oil demand to contract. From the San Jose Mercury News: UCLA economists predict worsening picture in 2009/ Yahoo slashes 1,500 jobs. From the Wheeling, W.V. News-Register: Steel plant to lay off 90." ]

[ "Anything of you've got a knife" ]

[ "Pumped up kicks shaped a generation", "Got into shape and was able to cut back on drinking." ]

[ "Treasury Secretary John W. Snow will remain in his job after weeks in which Republicans had talked openly about his impending departure." ]

[ "Tony Snow, the White House spokesman, said he was unaware of any discussions about a pardon for the vice president’s former chief of staff.", "Bush&#39;s chief of staff denies he&#39;s going to be named to succeed the current Treasury Secretary. WASHINGTON (CNN) - White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card refuted speculation Monday that he might become the next Treasury Secretary of the United States.", "In Washington and on Wall Street these days, the talk is not when, but how soon, John Snow will leave the US Treasury. He has long been expected to remain in the post for about", "White House chief of staff Andrew Card will remain in the job and is expected to play a key role in shaping President Bush's Cabinet for a second term, the White House said on Monday.", "Congress&#39;s chief opponent of legislation to revamp the intelligence community says he remains unmoved, leaving the White House scrambling this weekend for a solution to the impasse that", "US Treasury Secretary John Snow repeated his pledge that the government&#39;s policy remained one of a strong dollar even as markets drove the currency to a record low against the euro in the belief the US was comfortable with a", "White House Press Secretary Tony Snow said today that he plans to step down Sept. 14 and President Bush said he will \"sadly accept\" his chief spokesman's resignation.", "DES MOINES, Iowa, Aug 20 - High foreign ownership of US debt is &quot;a healthy situation&quot; and the dollar will remain the world&#39;s preferred reserve currency, Treasury Secretary John Snow said on Friday.", "Washington - President George Bush&#39;s chief of staff, Andrew Card, will remain in his job for another four years, the White House announced on Monday.", "White House -- The White House says it&#39;s still confident of the way it screens its Cabinet nominees, despite the aborted nomination of Bernard Kerik to be homeland security chief.", "U.S. News & World Report - When President Bush made the surprising decision to re-enlist Treasury Secretary John Snow in his cabinet, investors took that as a sign of the administration's \"two dollar policy.\" In other words, Wall Street thinks the White House will talk about wanting a strong dollar but won't do much to keep the greenback from sliding further.", "Former Goldman Sachs Chairman Henry Paulson will be sworn in on Monday as the new U.S. Treasury Secretary, the White House said on Thursday.", "If White House press secretary Tony Snow won't save for retirement, why should you?", "But the Treasury chief says the economy is strong enough to weather the storm.", "The dollar's slide against the euro and yen halts as US Treasury Secretary John Snow says a strong currency \"is in America's interest\".", "White House press secretary Tony Snow sounds as if he's had about enough.", "White House press secretary Tony Snow apologized on Monday for suggesting that President Bush believed stem-cell research amounted to \"murder,\" saying he was \"overstating the president's position.\"", "The upcoming Group of 20 meeting of finance chiefs from advanced and developing nations is not a forum for discussion of currency issues, US Treasury Secretary John Snow said amid a swirling debate over the ...", "The United States will try to convince more of Iraq&#39;s creditors to forgive the country&#39;s debt, Treasury Secretary John Snow said on Friday.", "The Treasury Department, next door to the White House, was evacuated Wednesday after a pipe burst on the second floor of the building.", "U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow said on Thursday he had completed his last day on the job.", "Ireland's outstanding economic success shows the critical connection between political and economic freedom, U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow said in an address at Chatham House, London, November 17.", "After hearing a talk by US Treasury Secretary John Snow on Monday, Susan Falde felt more confident about the country&#39;s economy.", "WASHINGTON White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card says the Food and Drug Administration is doing a &quot;spectacular job&quot; of protecting the public.", "The citation would be against the White House chief of staff and a former White House counsel for refusing to cooperate in an investigation into the firings of federal prosecutors.", "White House press secretary Tony Snow, who is undergoing treatment for cancer, will step down from his post Sept. 14 and be replaced by deputy press secretary Dana Perino, the White House announced Friday.", "USC alumnus Andrew Card will remain White House chief of staff during President Bush’s second administration. “The president has asked Andy Card to stay on and he has agreed to do so,” spokesman Taylor Gross said.", "The United States would like the dollar to strengthen but says international currency markets should set its value, U.S. Treasury Secretary John W. Snow said yesterday.", "The White House is enlisting former Treasury Department officials to sell the president's initiatives on Social Security and taxes, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.", "The White House directed the nation’s chief antidrug official to appear with vulnerable Republican members of Congress, a leading Democrat charged.", "The White House says its drive to halve federal deficits by 2009 remains on track, though it projects that the cost of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will help drive this year's shortfall to a record &#36;427 billion.", "The United States remains committed to letting the market find the value for the ailing dollar, U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow said Wednesday as the euro hit an all-time high against the dollar." ]

[ "The shipper Luggage Forward charges $76 to $159 to ship a bag 25 pounds or less one way from New York to Beverly Hills, depending on speed.The $76 option is by ground and takes four to seven business days.n top of the basic fees, Delta charges—each way—an extra $90 for bags 51 to 70 pounds, and $175 for bags 71 to 100 pounds, as well as $175 if the bag’s dimensions total 63 to 80 inches. Luggage Forward charges $195 to $483 to ship an oversized bag—up to 75 pounds—cross-country one way." ]

[ "Luggage Forward is the most trusted door-to-door luggage delivery service. Shipping luggage ahead to your destination creates a true luxury travel experience. Luggage Forward can send luggage to your hotel, cruise ship, golf course or vacation home within the United States, Europe, Asia, South America, Australia or virtually any other destination.", "Shipping to your cruise with Luggage Free is easy, and reliable. Prepare your luggage as you normally would, and Luggage Free will take care of the rest. Delivery directly to your ship is guaranteed. It’s really that simple. Sending luggage home from your cruise is also simple and reliable.", "Our luggage shipping service is guaranteed, allowing the traveler to avoid unnecessary aggravation and save time – safely and in style. 1 Baggage Delivery Service. 2 Baggage Forward. 3 Baggage Shipping International. Baggage Shipping 1 Services. Baggage Shipping. Baggage 1 to UK. Best Luggage Shipping Companies. Best Luggage Shipping Company.", "Ship to a Cruise Ship Golf Clubs Ship Your Bike Ship Your Skis Ship Luggage. Learn More Get Started Now. None of these services could top New York’s Luggage Free, which seemed to grasp the concept that if you’re paying for a premium service, you want premium service….", "can you please advise of the cost of a taxi or shuttle from Carnaval cruise ship to the airport SJU. For 2 adults. 2 pieces of luggage and 1 carry on. thank you,", "Walt Disney World MM luggage tag, part of the Disney Parks Luggage TAG collection Package Dimensions: 6.1 x 4.2 x 0.3 inches Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)", "Travel Luggage-Free, Stress-Free. Bring your luggage to a FedEx Office or FedEx World Service Center ® near you and we'll ship it to your destination.Plus, avoid wear and tear with our new FedEx Luggage Bags.ring your luggage to a FedEx Office or FedEx World Service Center ® near you and we'll ship it to your destination. Plus, avoid wear and tear with our new FedEx Luggage Bags.", "Luggage Free is a specialty service offering travelers the ability to ship luggage ahead to any destination worldwide, allowing them the ability to avoid the inconvenience of carrying, checking and claiming luggage – even going through customs.", "Also be sure to attach luggage tags to both your carry on and checked luggage for easy identification and for security purposes. 3,552,727 Reviews. 31,218,689 Bags Shipped.", "1 If you want to avoid possible handling fees at the hotel, you can also pick up your luggage at a FedEx location. 2 Money saved. 3 If you want to avoid the unforeseen, rising fees that airlines are charging for luggage handling, calculate the cost to ship your luggage via FedEx ® on fedex.com. There's no need for you to wait in line to check your baggage or stand around at the carousel once you reach your destination. 2 Let FedEx Express or FedEx Ground handle your luggage so it's waiting when you arrive. 3 Reliability. 4 We'll deliver your luggage wherever you need it: a residential address, your home, a hotel.", "If you have a little more time or want to enjoy a few mour hours onboard the ship, then let Royal Caribbean take your luggage. Numbers. Royal Caribbean gives every cruiser luggage tags with a number at the end of the cruise in sequential order. The number corresponds to what time your luggage will be ready for you to get off the ship. These numbers are supposed to be based on your plans for after the cruise, meaning those with early flights will get lower numbers while locals may get higher numbers.", "Because of Transportation Security Administration rules, wine is not a common carry-on. Although you can take wine purchased inside the terminal in your carry-on luggage, all other wine must be packaged and shipped with your checked luggage.", "Enjoy Seattle luggage free! The Port of Seattle is pleased to offer complimentary luggage transfer to your ariline at the end of your cruise. Passengers may receive their airline boarding pass while on board their ship and have their luggage delivered directly to their airline - all compliments of the Port of Seattle. Select this link to learn how the Port Valet program works.", "Step 5. Contact a luggage shipping company if you want more personalized service than a regular shipping company affords, or if your travel itinerary could change. Luggage shipping companies handle travel bags exclusively, so they are more prepared to reroute a suitcase in the event of a change in plans.hipping your suitcase ahead using UPS, FedEx, DHL or another shipping service may be less expensive than the fees and also saves you time at the airport. You can also track your suitcase with most shipping companies, which might be a relief to travelers who have been the victim of a lost airline bag. Step 1.", "You can visit one of our Samsonite Company Stores for assistance in shipping your luggage. Although, only an authorized repair center will be able to evaluate the luggage and determine if it’s covered under the warranty.", "Rating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: They state one piece of hand luggage and that is exactly what they mean. You will have to put the handbag into the hand luggage. Make sure also that the hand luggage does not exceed te size or weight limits of the airline as this will cost you money.ating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: They state one piece of hand luggage and that is exactly what they mean. You will have to put the handbag into the hand luggage. Make sure also that the hand luggage does not exceed te size or weight limits of the airline as this will cost you money.", "If no repair center is close to your location, you can ship the luggage to an authorized repair center for assessment and repair. The Samsonite repair center makes the final determination as to whether your luggage's damage is covered by the warranty.", "These tags clearly display cruise status, cruisers name, stateroom, and ship name, on both sides - no cutting, taping or stapling, making it easy for porters to deliver luggage to the appropriate stateroom without the risk of the paper tags being ripped or torn off, meaning less lost luggage.", "This cruise season, the Port of Seattle will offer a complementary luggage program for guests. Passengers with flights departing after 11:00 am can receive their boarding pass while on board their ship and have their luggage delivered directly to their airline - all compliments of the Port of Seattle.", "To begin with, as you approach the cruise terminal you can expect to see masses of excited people handing their luggage to porters, who place the luggage in bins. When full, these bins will be loaded onto the ship, for delivery to your cabin later.", "Years ago when we were shipping supplies via cruise ship, we were told by one cruiseline (either Carnival, Norwegian or Royal) withthat there was a 200 pound per person limit for luggage, and no number of bags specified.", "If you want peace of mind, take Princess' transfers. Unless something has changed, your luggage will automatically be loaded on the ship and the next time you'll see it is when it comes to your cabin.f you want peace of mind, take Princess' transfers. Unless something has changed, your luggage will automatically be loaded on the ship and the next time you'll see it is when it comes to your cabin.", "Get your packing supplies and let our shipping experts help you ship with FedEx. Our professionals can even help you pack your specialty items like luggage or golf clubs and ship them FedEx Express or FedEx Ground to meet you at your destination.", "Left Luggage (Luggage Storage, Lockers & Facilities) The left luggage (luggage storage) at the Lima International Airport is located in the domestic arrivals area. It is opened 24 hours and costs S/. 24.00 (Peruvian Soles) per day (24 hours) and S/. 4.00 per hour and piece of luggage. Big items (like surf boards) set you back with S/. 8.00 per hour.", "Your luggage will travel with you from the ship, on your sightseeing bus. At the end of the tour, you and your baggage can be dropped off at the Honolulu Airport. PARKING AT HONOLULU. Self parking and Valet Parking is available at the Port of Honolulu at the Aloha Tower. However this is very expensive and can cost as much as $6.00 per hour.", "Shop Best Laptop Backpacks, Camera Bags, and Travel Carry-On Luggage. Sleeve and Case Protection for your iPhone, iPad and MacBook. Free Shipping at Incase.", "Number of employees. Ship Sticks (Ship Sticks LLC), founded in 2011, is a private company based in West Palm Beach, Florida. It was founded by Jonathan Marsico and Nicholas Coleman, its CEO. It offers a novelty service wherein customers' golf clubs, skis and other luggage are shipped to them at a desired destination.", "Titanic Photo: Passengers traveling onboard Titanic carried an average of two luggage pieces per person. Luggage intended for off-board use was placed in a trunk and put in the Ship's hold. Clothing and other personal items needed for onboard usage were placed in a separate trunk and carried to cabins by a steward.", "On previous cruises with Holland America and Princess, they had a pre-disembarkation window for passengers who wanted to leave early and who were willing and able to walk off the ship with all of their luggage.", "'Copenhagen port' is not a welldefined location, but if you mean where the cruise ships leave from then the answer is: If you have heavy luggage you'll have to go by taxi.", "1 More choices. 2 You can ship for less using FedEx Ground by bringing your suitcases to an eligible FedEx location a few days before your travel time. 3 Find the transit time for your luggage to get to its destination via FedEx Ground. 4 Or for added convenience, FedEx Express can ship your luggage where you need it overnight. There's no need for you to wait in line to check your baggage or stand around at the carousel once you reach your destination. 2 Let FedEx Express or FedEx Ground handle your luggage so it's waiting when you arrive. 3 Reliability. 4 We'll deliver your luggage wherever you need it: a residential address, your home, a hotel.", "9. Secure the contents of your vehicle. If you are shipping your dog in a vehicle crowded with boxes, luggage, or other belongings, be sure that everything is well-secured so that a sudden stop or turn will not cause heavy objects to fall on your dog.. Secure the contents of your vehicle. If you are shipping your dog in a vehicle crowded with boxes, luggage, or other belongings, be sure that everything is well-secured so that a sudden stop or turn will not cause heavy objects to fall on your dog." ]

[ "Blog: Codemasters Online Gaming announces plans for a game version of Dirty Dancing to coincide with the film's 20th anniversary." ]

[ "The system&#39;s first dancing game --and a dance pad controller to play it on-- are coming this fall from Mad Catz. Fans of music games have longed for the genre to break out on GameCube, and their wish is finally being fulfilled by Mad Catz.", "Variety - (Variety) &#151; SYDNEY -- Seventeen years after the motion picture shimmied its way into the psyches of little girls the world over, \"Dirty Dancing\" is to be realized live onstage.", "Belly dancing is helping pregnant women shimmy their way through drug-free labor", "As dozens of teenagers swayed and shimmied to the throb of a go-go band on a District dance floor yesterday, a handful crammed onto benches nearby, silent and fidgeting as they waited to be tested for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.", "An acrimonious dispute at Streb Extreme Action is an unusual airing of dirty laundry in the modern dance and performance-art scene.", "Finger-twistin' fun, it says here We thought real dance mat games were bad enough, but at least players can argue it keeps 'em fit. Not so the miniature, USB-powered version that's just been released.…", "An online game fusing Pac-Man with Mondrian's painting \"Broadway Boogie Woogie\" has caught the attention of both gamers and art critics.", "Michigan coach Lloyd Carr was doused with water, surrounded by dancing players, and then carried onto the field.", "Highlights included Dance Dance Revolution Hottest Party for the Wii, Contra for the DS, Castlevania for the PSP, and, of course, Metal Gear Solid 4.", "SanDisk takes on RealNetworks as a dance partner, hot on the heels of Microsoft's Zune news and the latest iPods.", "Intel's entertainment-oriented line of computers begs the question: Who needs a PC tethered to a television? By Dan Goodin.", "One of the past snags in gaining acceptance of PC components in couch-potato HQ has been the difficulty of integrating them into a home entertainment network.", "Accessory manufacturer Mad Catz Interactive has decided to create a dance game to go along with their dance pads. MC Groovz Dance Craze will be the first dance game Nintendo GameCube and should hit stores in time for the holiday season.", "Law and Order and Dirty Dancing actor Jerry Orbach dies of prostate cancer at the age of 69.", "Nobody puts Lionsgate in a corner. That's the message of a trademark infringement lawsuit the studio behind \"Dirty Dancing\" has filed against several companies selling merchandise featuring the phrase \"Nobody puts Baby in a corner\" from the hit ...", "Travel: Celebrate the 20th anniversary of 80s hit Dirty Dancing at the hotel where much of it was filmed, suggests Sarah Bourn.", "roundup Plus: KDE updates Linux desktop...EA to take World Cup soccer to Xbox...IBM chalks up two health care wins.", "Intel and Motion Computing show off the C5 tablet PC, a digital assistant for overworked nurses.", "Touch Detective 2 1/2 and Duck Amuck bring a healthy dash of humor to Nintendo's portable videogame system.", "PANDIRUPU, Sri Lanka - The four men pressed dirty rags to their mouths as they toppled a decomposed corpse off a mat onto a smoldering bonfire.", "The Simpsons aren&#39;t just hitting the big screen - in The Simpson&#39;s Movie July 27 - they are diversifying digitally. The Simpsons Game (Electronic Arts, due Oct. 30, for Microsoft Xbox 360, Sony PlayStation 2 and 3, plus PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS and Wii) satirizes the game industry just as the TV show takes potshots at pop culture.", "Playbill - It was a very good week for the Toronto production of Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story on Stage. The producers reported sales of $1,347,525 (CAD) for the week of Dec. 26-30.", "Description: From Broadway to Dirty Dancing to Law and Order, Jerry Orbach became one of modern America&#39;s favorite authority figures.", "Several readers have written in to report on Tuesday&#39;s lawsuit regarding &#39;The Guy Game&#39;. The PC/console offering, which strings a weak trivia game around footage of naked college age girls, has come under", "West End musical Dirty Dancing has taken £11m in advance ticket sales ahead of its official premiere.", "Bobbie Johnson tries out a giant touchscreen, a videogame system that recognises his body movements, a car that drives itself and electronic paper", "Software transforms brainy games like chess and backgammon. Why not the brawny sport of the pigskin? By Sam Jaffe.", "Jerry Orbach, who starred in the television series &quot;Law &amp; Order&quot; and portrayed the overprotective father in the dance-film classic &quot;Dirty Dancing,&quot; died of prostate cancer on Tuesday evening, according to reports.", "Finnish phone manufacturer to distribute rudeware Nokia has signed a deal with Vivendi to distribute the latter's games through their Download! client on the S60 platform, including the eponymous Leisure Suit Larry.…", "VoIP is the belle of the telecom ball. Jotting her onto their dance cards are such well-dressed suitors as America Online and AT&#38;T", "Microsoft&#39;s (Quote, Chart) newest digital entertainment campaign got some play today, as the company announced its latest move into your home on the back of Windows XP Media Center 2005.", "Travel: Dirty Dancing fans can stay in Baby's Bungalow. Catherine Quinn has the time of her life on location at Lake Lure in North Carolina." ]

[ "It is necessary to know the heat flux near a wall in order to understand the unsteady heat transfer in a combustion chamber. In this study, a fuel-air mixture was ignited at the center of a constant-volume vessel and the heat flux was determined from the change in the temperature distribution in the boundary layer near the wall of the end gas side by analyzing the interference image. The heat flux was compared with that from a thin surface coaxial thermocouple with high response. It was found that before the flame arrives at the wall, the heat transfer is smaller than the thermal radiation from the flame, and the temperature of unburned gas changes nearly adiabatically. After the flame reaches the wall, the heat flux due to the temperature gradient becomes larger than that due to the thermal radiation." ]

[ "We study flames expanding radially from the center of a spherical enclosure which is initially filled with a two-phase premi.xture: premixed reactive gases and an inert solid suspension. An overall Arrhenius rate is postulated for the burning process, and the radiant exchanges among the particles is assumed to follow an Eddinglon differential equation specialized to a grey continuous medium. Different temperatures and velocities are allowed for each phase. Transfers to the walls and heating by compression are also accounted for The problem is analysed by asymptotic methods in a multiple-limit procedure which assumes large Zel'dovich numbers (activation to reaction temperature ratio), small Boltzmann numbers (radiant to convective heat-flux ratio), small loadings by the particles, optically very thin flame fronts and specific-heat ratios in the gas phase that are close to unity. We analytically reduce the whole problem to a single integral equation for the burning speed as a function of the fireball radius...", "Stagnation point heat transfer measurements have been made for premixed methane-air flames and heated air jets impinging normally on hemispherical nosed bodies using a steady state calorimeter. Laser Doppler anemometry was used to measure local mean velocities and turbulence intensities: Theoretical predictions of heat flux were made using analytical equations for laminar flames, modified by including experimentally determined values for the variation of the stagnation point velocity gradient with free stream turbulence intensity.", "Precise information is needed on the turbulent energy flux in the flame of turbulent flames to understand the real phenomena occurring there and to model the turbulent flame structure [1]. Many experimentalists have studied this problem using a compensating fine thermocouple probe to measure temperare [2,3], an ion probe to measure ion concentration [4], an LDV to measure velocity [3,5–7], and the Rayleigh scattering method to measure temperature and density [5,8–10]. Driscoll, Schefer and Dibble [4] measured the turbulent quantities of velocity and density and their correlations in non-premixed turbulent flames of Re = 24000. They found that v′ρ′ and u′ρ′were not simply related to the local time mean density gradients.", "Ignition and flame spread above liquid fuels initially below the flashpoint temperature are studied. Opposed air flow to the flame spread due to forced and/or natural convection is considered. Unsteady computations are performed in order to study the ignition event and to describe both uniform and pulsating flame spread. Pools of finite width and length are studied in air channels of prescribed height and width, thereby requiring a three-dimensional space resolution in order to capture the effects at the edge of the pool and at the side walls of the air channel. The effects of variations in surface tension due to surface temperature variations and of buoyancy in both the liquid and gas phases are considered. One-step chemical kinetics, Fickian diffusion, Fourier heat conduction, and laminar flow with variable properties are considered. Boundary layers at the walls and at the liquid/gas interface are resolved. A moving mesh scheme is employed to follow the flame motion. Regions of pulsation are found at bo...", "The influence of geometric and fluiddynamic parameters on local heat and mass transfer is analyzed for different finned tube configurations. A visualization method is used to understand the near wall transport phenomena. The local heat transfer coefficients are quantified by a measuring technique which allows the calculation of the heat flux distributions to optimize heat exchangers.", "N heat transfer between a gas and a wall, the heat flux can be determined by considering the transfer of heat at the wall through a layer so thin that the chances of intermolecular collisions can be disregarded Blodgett and Langmuir1 have analyzed heat transfer between two coaxial cylinders under the following conditions Heat from the inside cylinder at a temperature T is transferred by \"free\" molecules over a distance equal to the mean free path I, where the temperature is T fa (the difference T — Ta' is assumed to be the temperature drop) The heat is then transferred in accordance with the usual laws of heat conduction Without imposing limitations due to the possible effect of curvature of the cylinder, the investigators arrived at the following equation for the heat flux:", "Abstract We investigate the behavior of a gas in a pressurized container during early expansion for the special case where the outflow is choked. Using a boundary-layer approximation that includes conduction and gas expansion effects we are able to obtain analytical solutions in closed form. A key quantity that determines the subsequent process the gas will go through in later stages if the discharge is the wall heat transfer. From the analytical results we are able to identify the important parameters that govern this early portion of the discharging process, and particularly the heat transfer process.", "Abstract This paper describes an experimental study of heat transfer in oscillating flow inside a cylindrical tube. Profiles of temperature are taken inside the wall and in the fluid from an instrumented test rig, in different conditions of oscillating flow. Profiles obtained allow the observation of the wall effect on heat transfer. A method using the inverse heat conduction principle allows the characterization of local heat transfers at the fluid–solid interface. Finally, a comparison between global and local approaches of heat transfer shows the difficulty of defining a dimensionless heat flux density to model local heat transfer in oscillating flow.", "An inverse heat conduction problem is solved by using Alifanov's iterative regularization method to estimate the time-varying heat transfer coefficient of forced-convective flow boiling over the outer surface of a heater tube. The estimation is based on transient temperature measurements taken by a thermocouple on the inner surface of the circular tube on which the flow boiling occurs. The inverse problem is solved as an optimization problem in which a squared residue functional is minimized with the conjugate gradient method. A sensitivity problem is solved to determine the step size in the direction of descent, and an adjoint problem is solved to determine the gradient of the functional. No prior information is used in the functional form of the heat transfer coefficient variation with time. Numerical experiments are performed to test the proposed mathematical model of the measurement of flow boiling heat transfer coefficient. Effects of the time scale of the heat transfer coefficient variation, the mea...", "Abstract : A new computational method is introduced for radiation heat transfer analysis in combustion chambers containing jet flame plumes. The governing equation of radiation heat flux incident over the surface of the combustor is analytically derived. The governing equation is solved numerically by using the Gaussian integration method. The methodology has been applied to diesel combustion in such a way that the effect of various engine parameters on its radiation heat transfer is evaluated.", "The report covers heat exchanger studies stressing measurements of local heat transfer coefficients by a method based on the heat and mass transfer analogy. Local ablation rates are obtained on a model covered with napthalene and from these heat transfer rates are deduced through the analogy. Impingement cooling and porous wall heat transfer have also been investigated. A number of studies in film cooling were also completed: Experiments covered measurements in a cascade, effects of free stream conditions and of laminar boundary layer. A laser-Doppler setup was used to measure local and instantaneous velocities at the exit cross-section of a gas turbine combustor and turbulence intensities were derived. (Author)", "The differential model of turbulence, supplemented with the transport equation for turbulent heat flux, is used to perform a numerical investigation of the boundary layer on a heat-insulated wall with suction in a compressible gas flow. It is shown that the laminarization of the initially turbulent boundary layer occurs under conditions of suction of gas, as is evidenced both by the behavior of integral and local characteristics of the flow and heat transfer and by the degeneracy of turbulence when the suction becomes asymptotic. In so doing, the temperature recovery factor is independent of Prandtl number and becomes equal to unity, i.e., the temperature of the heat-insulated wall becomes equal to the stagnation temperature of the outer flow.", "The electron heat transport is studied by analysis of observed cold pulse propagation during gas modulation in HL-2A ohmic discharge.The electron heat transport is analyzed using perturbation transport equation.According to the results of curve fitting and numerical calculation with the electron temperature perturbation measured from modulated gas puffing experiment during ohmic discharge on HL-2A tokamak,the character of the electron heat transport coefficient profile at high field side is χ=15-14(1-r~2)~2m~2·s~(-1).", "Abstract The effect of surface roughness on heat transfer in concentric annular ducts with the roughness elements only on the outer wall are analytically studied on the basis of the experiment for the fully developed flow. Three annuli having different radii of the inner cores, Ri = 25.4, 38.2 and 54 mm with a fixed outer tube, Ro=97 mm, are used over a range of Reynolds number between 15,000 and 62,000. The roughness element on the outer wall consists of the roughness height of 2 mm and the roughness pitch to height ratio (P/e) of 2. The resulting heat transfer is discussed by means of the radius ratio, Reynolds number, and heating boundary conditions; i. e., 1) the inner wall heated with the outher insulated, 2) the outer wall heated with the inner insulated, and 3) both the walls heated with different heat flux.", "In order to analyze heat flow in the impinging combustion flame which is generated during line heating process, a 3-dimensional computer program has been developed.Reduced reaction mechanism model and Mixing combustion model are employed in this program.It is found that the calculated gas temperature distribution in the flame is in agreement with the experimental one except the peak temperature of center part of the flame when Mixing combustion model is employed.", "We have performed a numerical analysis of the nonstationary turbulent natural convection in a closed region with heat-conducting walls of finite thickness and a heat source located at the cavity base under the conditions of convective-radiative heat exchange with the environment. Typical distributions of the thermohydrodynamic parameters (streamlines, temperature field, field of the kinetic energy of turbulence, and dissipation field of the kinetic energy of turbulence) in a fairly wide range of Grashof numbers 10 7 ≤ Gr ≤ 10 9 have been obtained. Results characterizing the scales of influence of the nonstationarity factor and the relative heat conductivity coefficient of the material of the surrounding walls on the heat transfer intensity are presented. A correlation for determining the average Nusselt number on the heat source surface has been established.", "The article describes an approximate method for determining the average heat-transfer coefficient on a surface upstream from a built-inα-calorimeter, on the basis of temperature measurements on the wall, as well as measurements of the local heat-transfer coefficient and the local flow velocity at the point of installation of theα-calorimeter.", "Improved experimental techniques for the joint two-dimensional measurement of reaction progress variable and OH mole fraction, detailed in a companion paper (Chen and Bilger, 2001), are applied here to the investigation of the instantaneous flame-front structure in turbulent premixed flames. The flames are of natural-gas/air mixtures and are pilot-stabilized on the Bunsen-type burner used by Frank et al. (1999). Multiple joint image pairs show distortion and folding of the preheat zone in the reaction progress variable images at the higher turbulence levels in the range investigated. A modified interaction length scale, ϱm, is defined to describe this phenomenon which occurs when ϱm > δth, where δth is the thermal flame front thickness of an unstretched laminar flame determined from the maximum temperature gradient. Significant departures from flamelet structure are found for spatial derivatives of the progress variable and for OH concentrations. It appears that these quantitative effects persist for ϱm <...", "The article describes a method for calculating the flow of heat through a wavy boundary separating a layer of liquid from a layer of gas, under the assumption that the viscosity and heat-transfer coefficients are constant, and that a constant temperature of the fixed wall and a constant temperature of the gas flow are given. A study is made of the equations of motion and thermal conductivity (without taking the dissipation energy into account) in the approximations of the theory of the boundary layer; the left-hand sides of these equations are replaced by their averaged values over the layer. These equations, after linearization, are used to determine the velocity and temperature distributions. The qualitative aspect of heat transfer in a thin layer of viscous liquid, under regular-wavy flow conditions, is examined. Particular attention is paid to the effect of the surface tension coefficient on the flow of heat through the interface.", "Large Eddy Simulations of an unconfined turbulent lean premixed flame, which is stabilised behind a bluff body, are conducted using unstrained flamelets as the sub-grid scale combustion closure. The statistics from the simulations are compared with the corresponding data obtained from the experiment and it is demonstrated that the experimental observations are well captured. The relative positioning of the shear layers and the flame brush are analysed to understand the radial variations of the turbulent kinetic energy at various streamwise locations. These results are also compared to confined bluff body stabilised flames, to shed light on the relative role of incoming and shear driven turbulence on the behaviour of the flame brush and the turbulent kinetic energy variation across it.", "The measuring device comprises two flat-wall heat exchangers (3a, 3b), one to each side of a flat plate (1), two samples (2a, 2b) of similar thickness (E) of the material being tested, placed between the outer surface of the heat exchanger (3a, 3b) and one surface of the central plate (1), a device for positioning and holding the heat exchangers (3a, 3b) and at least two temperature sensors, one of which (T2) consisting of a thermocouple is incorporated in the central plate (1), the other (T1) also consisting of a thermocouple, being incorporated in the outer wall of the plate of one of the heat exchangers (3a). Application in the injection of plastics.", "This paper presents numerical simulations of premixed combustion of low calorific value gases (LCVGs), providing a description of the flame characteristics in a tubular flame burner. The investigated gaseous fuels were methane diluted with nitrogen, simulating LCVGs with different heat values by regulating quantity of nitrogen. The flame shape and thermal field are consistent with experimental results. It consists of two segments of different feature, the lengths of which dependent on inlet velocity. Comparative study of flow fields at cold and thermal states were carried out with an aim to gain further understanding of the flow/flame interaction in the tubular burner. Heat release from combustion diverts the main pressure gradient to axial direction, thereby tangential velocity drop tends to close with axis of swirling, and axial velocity distribution changes to be trapezoid-shaped. Changing in low heat values influences the burning positively, while the flow does not exert an apparent effect.", "It is a device for cleaning of the heating surfaces in a thermal system described in which at least one heating surface for heat recovery from the flue gas produced in the thermal reaction of a starting material, is provided. The device is characterized in that at least one cleaning device for one of the heating surfaces is provided at least, which is introduced from one of the side walls of a boiler of the thermal coating system, in which the flue gas is led into the boiler draft. Furthermore, a method of cleaning the heating surfaces is described. With the invention, it is possible to free the pipe systems such as superheater, economizer and evaporator during boiler operation of deposits, thereby optimizing heat transfer to reduce an increase in pressure loss in the boiler interior via the travel time and / or to remove pollutants from the pipes ,", "The principle of Sasaki's method for surface-temperature measurement is that the temperature of the measuring junction of a thermocouple indicated by a meter in the couple circuit is the temperature of the surface of a body if the junction temperature has been so adjusted that the meter shows no deflection when the junction makes a brief light contact with the surface. Hence, this method does not sensibly affect the surface conditions, and one can eliminate the main errorproducing factor common to the contact methods of temperature measurement. However, an inevitable bias error occurs because of radiation shielding when a finite-size thermocouple junction is brought close to the wall surface. In the present study, we have analyzed the conjugate heat transfer in a body whose surface temperature is being measured, and have developed a simple equation to estimate the foregoing inherent bias error.", "Abstract Radially propagating spherical premixed flames are studied for mixtures characterized by a Lewis number (Le) that is less than unity. It is known that small flames (Zeldovich flames) have a flame temperature that exceeds the remote gas temperature by ∼ ( Q C p )·( Y ∞ Le ) , where Y ∞ is the remote reactant concentration; and large flames are slowly varying (SVFs) with a flame temperature close to the adiabatic flame temperature, so that the increment ∼ ( Q C p ) Y ∞ . It is shown, using asymptotic methods, that there is an intermediate class of flames, characterized by intermediate flame temperatures. The radius of each of these flames grows, essentially, like t , behavior that has been observed in microgravity ignition experiments. When volumetric heat losses are included these flames can exhibit abrupt extinction at some critical time and this, superficially, also agrees with experimental observations.", "Local temperature variation beneath boiling bubble was measured with a MEMS (Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems) integrated sensor to investigate a boiling heat transfer mechanism. The sensor consisting two trigger heaters and six thin film thermocouples across the heaters within 880 region on a silicon or glass substrate can measure temperature distribution of heating surface with less than 0.1 ms temporal resolution. As a result, measured temperature variations can be brought into correspondence with the bubble behavior taken by a synchronized high-speed video. The temperature variations also show a formation of micro layer, extension of a local dryout region and rewetting with bubble departure. Based on the measurement, a state transition chart of the heating wall beneath the bubble in temporal and spatial domain can be drawn. This study presents a new approach method to the heat transfer mechanism of mucleate boiling.", "Abstract We examine the premixed flame (PF) quenching problem, where an initially steadily propagating flame front impinges on a cold isothermal wall. We employ the simplest possible kinetics, R → P with a reaction order of unity, and we restrict ourselves to unit Lewis number. We formulate the problem in terms of the excess enthalpy function, H = τ + Y − 1. Interpretations are provided for the inflection points and maxima of various functional behaviors: for instance, flame arrest occurs at the inflection point of Y (0, t ) whereas extinction occurs at the maximum of the cold wall H -gradient. The numerical solution code FRAPPE integrates formulae obtained from a simplified set of the conservation equations. Our results compare well qualitatively and quantitatively with the full numerical solutions of the original equations.", "A method is described for the measurement of heat flux using the temperature gradient in a metal pad welded to two adjacent cooling tubes. A number of laboratory experiments have shown that the simple theoretical expression for calculating the heat flux is justified; the meter has operated successfully in an oil-fired boiler.", "The mechanisms governing the transition to turbulence in natural convection boundary layers along strongly heated vertical walls remain neither very clear nor well understood, because of the lack of experiments and the difficulties of physical modelling. Our measurements bring experimental data focusing on this transition, in quiescent air along radiating and conducting plates, in the whole range of 2000 to 8000 W.m -2 heating rate. The analysis of the time series obtained by sliding window cross-correlation thermoanemometry leads us to point out coherent turbulent structures on short heights throughout the thin boundary layer, which seem to be governed by heat transfer and time microscales of turbulence through the inner sublayer. Physical interpretations are given to relate the observed heat transfer correlation and these turbulence transition structures along with radiation and conduction.", "The imaging of planar laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF) has been used for simultaneous, multiple-point measurements of OH concentration in a variety of combustion flows including a premixed laminar flat flame, a premixed turbulent flame, a sooting flame and a nonpremixed turbulent flame. Sheet illumination from a tunable laser was used to excite the fluorescence which was detected using an image-intensified, Reticon array camera. Experimental results are presented and the detectivity and resolution of the technique are discussed.", "A detector setup with three LN‐cooled Si(Li) diodes is used to measure soft x‐ray spectra (0.8–20 keV) emitted from the inside walls of the PDX vessel during the plasma discharge. The setup is part of a pulse‐height‐analysis system, which is used to measure the plasma and wall radiation simultaneously at five different radial positions. The wall and the plasma radiation are measured under different plasma conditions (e.g., OH and neutral beam heating). The wall radiation is very much increased during the neutral beam heating, with an enhancement factor of at least 10 over the OH wall radiation. Since we measure the plasma and the wall radiation at the same time, the measurements allow the conclusion that the wall radiation can be attributed essentially to fluorescence (line radiation, e.g., Ti‐Kα) and scattering (continuum part of the wall radiation spectrum). The fluorescence and the scattering are both caused by soft x‐ray radiation flux coming from the plasma. There seems to be no need to invoke other,...", "Transient natural convection adjacent to a flat vertical surface with appreciable thermal capacity is investigated both experimentally and numerically. The surface is immersed in initially quiescent water, and has the same uniform temperature distribution. It is then suddenly loaded with a uniform and constant heat flux thereby generating a buoyancy induced flow adjacent to the surface. Surface temperature response was recorded by means of thermocouples embedded inside the surface, and boundary layer temperature measurements were also taken. An explicit finite difference numerical scheme is used to obtain solutions to the partial differential equations describing the conservation of mass, momentum, and energy in their time dependent form. Good agreement between the calculated and measured results is observed for both the heating and cooling transient processes." ]

[ "Miami International Airport serves as the primary international airport of the Greater Miami Area. One of the busiest international airports in the world, Miami International Airport caters to over 35 million passengers a year. The airport is a major hub and the single largest international gateway for American Airlines. Miami International is the busiest airport in Florida, and is the United States' second-largest international port of entry for foreign air passengers behind New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, and is the seventh-largest such gateway in the world. The airport's extensive international route network includes non-stop flights to over seventy international cities in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East." ]

[ "Miami International Airport and PortMiami are among the nation's busiest ports of entry, especially for cargo from South America and the Caribbean. The Port of Miami is the world's busiest cruise port, and MIA is the busiest airport in Florida, and the largest gateway between the United States and Latin America. Additionally, the city has the largest concentration of international banks in the country, primarily along Brickell Avenue in Brickell, Miami's financial district. Due to its strength in international business, finance and trade, many international banks have offices in Downtown such as Espírito Santo Financial Group, which has its U.S. headquarters in Miami. Miami was also the host city of the 2003 Free Trade Area of the Americas negotiations, and is one of the leading candidates to become the trading bloc's headquarters.", "During his annual state-of-the-nation address on September 2, 2014, President of Mexico Enrique Peña Nieto unveiled plans for a new international airport to ease the city's notorious air traffic congestion, tentatively slated for a 2018 opening. The new airport, which would have six runways, will cost $9.15 billion and would be built on vacant federal land east of Mexico City International Airport. Goals are to eventually handle 120 million passengers a year, which would make it the busiest airport in the world.", "Downtown Miami is home to the largest concentration of international banks in the United States, and many large national and international companies. The Civic Center is a major center for hospitals, research institutes, medical centers, and biotechnology industries. For more than two decades, the Port of Miami, known as the \"Cruise Capital of the World\", has been the number one cruise passenger port in the world. It accommodates some of the world's largest cruise ships and operations, and is the busiest port in both passenger traffic and cruise lines.", "New York's airspace is the busiest in the United States and one of the world's busiest air transportation corridors. The three busiest airports in the New York metropolitan area include John F. Kennedy International Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport, and LaGuardia Airport; 109 million travelers used these three airports in 2012, and the city's airspace is the busiest in the nation. JFK and Newark Liberty were the busiest and fourth busiest U.S. gateways for international air passengers, respectively, in 2012; as of 2011, JFK was the busiest airport for international passengers in North America. Plans have advanced to expand passenger volume at a fourth airport, Stewart International Airport near Newburgh, New York, by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Plans were announced in July 2015 to entirely rebuild LaGuardia Airport in a multibillion-dollar project to replace its aging facilities.", "Construction is currently underway on the Miami Intermodal Center and Miami Central Station, a massive transportation hub servicing Metrorail, Amtrak, Tri-Rail, Metrobus, Greyhound Lines, taxis, rental cars, MIA Mover, private automobiles, bicycles and pedestrians adjacent to Miami International Airport. Completion of the Miami Intermodal Center is expected to be completed by winter 2011, and will serve over 150,000 commuters and travelers in the Miami area. Phase I of Miami Central Station is scheduled to begin service in the spring of 2012, and Phase II in 2013.", "Indira Gandhi International Airport, situated to the southwest of Delhi, is the main gateway for the city's domestic and international civilian air traffic. In 2012-13, the airport was used by more than 35 million passengers, making it one of the busiest airports in South Asia. Terminal 3, which cost ₹96.8 billion (US$1.4 billion) to construct between 2007 and 2010, handles an additional 37 million passengers annually.", "Mexico City is served by Mexico City International Airport (IATA Airport Code: MEX). This airport is Latin America's second busiest and one of the largests in traffic, with daily flights to United States and Canada, mainland Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, South America, Europe and Asia. Aeroméxico (Skyteam) is based at this airport, and provide codeshare agreements with non-Mexican airlines that span the entire globe. In 2014, the airport handled well over 34 million passengers, just over 2 million more than the year before. This traffic exceeds the current capacity of the airport, which has historically centralized the majority of air traffic in the country. An alternate option is Lic. Adolfo López Mateos International Airport (IATA Airport Code: TLC) in nearby Toluca, State of Mexico, although due to several airlines' decisions to terminate service to TLC, the airport has seen a passenger drop to just over 700,000 passengers in 2014 from over 2.1 million passengers just four years prior.", "Miami is home to one of the largest ports in the United States, the PortMiami. It is the largest cruise ship port in the world. The port is often called the \"Cruise Capital of the World\" and the \"Cargo Gateway of the Americas\". It has retained its status as the number one cruise/passenger port in the world for well over a decade accommodating the largest cruise ships and the major cruise lines. In 2007, the port served 3,787,410 passengers. Additionally, the port is one of the nation's busiest cargo ports, importing 7.8 million tons of cargo in 2007. Among North American ports, it ranks second only to the Port of South Louisiana in New Orleans in terms of cargo tonnage imported/exported from Latin America. The port is on 518 acres (2 km2) and has 7 passenger terminals. China is the port's number one import country, and Honduras is the number one export country. Miami has the world's largest amount of cruise line headquarters, home to: Carnival Cruise Lines, Celebrity Cruises, Norwegian Cruise Line, Oceania Cruises, and Royal Caribbean International. In 2014, the Port of Miami Tunnel was completed and will serve the PortMiami.", "The primary city airport is George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH), the tenth-busiest in the United States for total passengers, and twenty eighth-busiest worldwide. Bush Intercontinental currently ranks fourth in the United States for non-stop domestic and international service with 182 destinations. In 2006, the United States Department of Transportation named IAH the fastest-growing of the top ten airports in the United States. The Houston Air Route Traffic Control Center stands on the George Bush Intercontinental Airport grounds.", "In 2014, the airport received 15 new boarding bridges, totalling 28 in all. This was the main requirement made by the federal government, which transferred the operation of the terminal to the Inframerica Group after an auction. The group invested R$750 million in the project. In the same year, the number of parking spaces doubled, reaching three thousand. The airport's entrance have a new rooftop cover and a new access road. Furthermore, a VIP room was created on Terminal 1's third floor. The investments resulted an increase the capacity of Brasília's airport from approximately 15 million passengers per year to 21 million by 2014. Brasília has direct flights to all states of Brazil and direct international flights to Atlanta, Buenos Aires, Lisbon, Miami, Panama City, and Paris.", "Miami's heavy-rail rapid transit system, Metrorail, is an elevated system comprising two lines and 23 stations on a 24.4-mile (39.3 km)-long line. Metrorail connects the urban western suburbs of Hialeah, Medley, and inner-city Miami with suburban The Roads, Coconut Grove, Coral Gables, South Miami and urban Kendall via the central business districts of Miami International Airport, the Civic Center, and Downtown. A free, elevated people mover, Metromover, operates 21 stations on three different lines in greater Downtown Miami, with a station at roughly every two blocks of Downtown and Brickell. Several expansion projects are being funded by a transit development sales tax surcharge throughout Miami-Dade County.", "Raleigh-Durham International Airport, the region's primary airport and the second-largest in North Carolina, located northwest of downtown Raleigh via Interstate-40 between Raleigh and Durham, serves the city and greater Research Triangle metropolitan region, as well as much of eastern North Carolina. The airport offers service to more than 35 domestic and international destinations and serves approximately 10 million passengers a year. The airport also offers facilities for cargo and general aviation. The airport authority tripled the size of its Terminal 2 (formerly Terminal C) in January 2011.", "The city's primary commercial airport is the San Diego International Airport (SAN), also known as Lindbergh Field. It is the busiest single-runway airport in the United States. It served over 17 million passengers in 2005, and is dealing with an increasingly larger number every year. It is located on San Diego Bay three miles (4.8 km) from downtown. San Diego International Airport maintains scheduled flights to the rest of the United States including Hawaii, as well as to Mexico, Canada, Japan, and the United Kingdom. It is operated by an independent agency, the San Diego Regional Airport Authority. In addition, the city itself operates two general-aviation airports, Montgomery Field (MYF) and Brown Field (SDM). By 2015, the Tijuana Cross-border Terminal in Otay Mesa will give direct access to Tijuana International Airport, with passengers walking across the U.S.–Mexico border on a footbridge to catch their flight on the Mexican side.", "Oklahoma's largest commercial airport is Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City, averaging a yearly passenger count of more than 3.5 million (1.7 million boardings) in 2010. Tulsa International Airport, the state's second largest commercial airport, served more than 1.3 million boardings in 2010. Between the two, six airlines operate in Oklahoma. In terms of traffic, R. L. Jones Jr. (Riverside) Airport in Tulsa is the state's busiest airport, with 335,826 takeoffs and landings in 2008. In total, Oklahoma has over 150 public-use airports.", "This makes for a large number of takeoffs and landings and it is not unusual for flights to be delayed in the holding pattern before landing. Following the airport's master plan, Infraero built a second runway, which was finished in 2006. In 2007, the airport handled 11,119,872 passengers. The main building's third floor, with 12 thousand square meters, has a panoramic deck, a food court, shops, four movie theatres with total capacity of 500 people, and space for exhibitions. Brasília Airport has 136 vendor spaces. The airport is located about 11 km (6.8 mi) from the central area of Brasília, outside the metro system. The area outside the airport's main gate is lined with taxis as well as several bus line services which connect the airport to Brasília's central district. The parking lot accommodates 1,200 cars. The airport is serviced by domestic and regional airlines (TAM, GOL, Azul, WebJET, Trip and Avianca), in addition to a number of international carriers. In 2012, Brasília's International Airport was won by the InfrAmerica consortium, formed by the Brazilian engineering company ENGEVIX and the Argentine Corporacion America holding company, with a 50% stake each. During the 25-year concession, the airport may be expanded to up to 40 million passengers a year.", "Tourism is also an important industry in Miami. Along with finance and business, the beaches, conventions, festivals and events draw over 38 million visitors annually into the city, from across the country and around the world, spending $17.1 billion. The Art Deco District in South Beach, is reputed as one of the most glamorous in the world for its nightclubs, beaches, historical buildings, and shopping. Annual events such as the Sony Ericsson Open, Art Basel, Winter Music Conference, South Beach Wine & Food Festival, and Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Miami attract millions to the metropolis every year.", "Paris is a major international air transport hub with the 4th busiest airport system in the world. The city is served by three commercial international airports: Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly and Beauvais-Tillé. Together these three airports recorded traffic of 96.5 million passengers in 2014. There is also one general aviation airport, Paris-Le Bourget, historically the oldest Parisian airport and closest to the city centre, which is now used only for private business flights and air shows.", "Miami is the southern terminus of Amtrak's Atlantic Coast services, running two lines, the Silver Meteor and the Silver Star, both terminating in New York City. The Miami Amtrak Station is located in the suburb of Hialeah near the Tri-Rail/Metrorail Station on NW 79 St and NW 38 Ave. Current construction of the Miami Central Station will move all Amtrak operations from its current out-of-the-way location to a centralized location with Metrorail, MIA Mover, Tri-Rail, Miami International Airport, and the Miami Intermodal Center all within the same station closer to Downtown. The station was expected to be completed by 2012, but experienced several delays and was later expected to be completed in late 2014, again pushed back to early 2015.", "The Greater Richmond area is served by the Richmond International Airport (IATA: RIC, ICAO: KRIC), located in nearby Sandston, seven miles (11 km) southeast of Richmond and within an hour drive of historic Williamsburg, Virginia. Richmond International is now served by nine airlines with over 200 daily flights providing non-stop service to major destination markets and connecting flights to destinations worldwide. A record 3.3 million passengers used Richmond International Airport in 2006, a 13% increase over 2005.", "St. John's is served by St. John's International Airport (YYT), located 10 minutes northwest of the downtown core. In 2011, roughly 1,400,000 passengers travelled through the airport making it the second busiest airport in Atlantic Canada in passenger volume. Regular destinations include Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, as well as destinations throughout the province. International locations include Dublin, London, New York City, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Glasgow and Varadero. Scheduled service providers include Air Canada, Air Canada Jazz, Air Saint-Pierre, Air Transat, United Airlines, Porter Airlines, Provincial Airlines, Sunwing Airlines and Westjet.", "Israel is served by two international airports, Ben Gurion International Airport, the country's main hub for international air travel near Tel Aviv-Yafo, Ovda Airport in the south, as well as several small domestic airports. Ben Gurion, Israel's largest airport, handled over 12.1 million passengers in 2010. On the Mediterranean coast, Haifa Port is the country's oldest and largest port, while Ashdod Port is one of the few deep water ports in the world built on the open sea. In addition to these, the smaller Port of Eilat is situated on the Red Sea, and is used mainly for trading with Far East countries.", "Swiss private-public managed road network is funded by road tolls and vehicle taxes. The Swiss autobahn/autoroute system requires the purchase of a vignette (toll sticker)—which costs 40 Swiss francs—for one calendar year in order to use its roadways, for both passenger cars and trucks. The Swiss autobahn/autoroute network has a total length of 1,638 km (1,018 mi) (as of 2000) and has, by an area of 41,290 km2 (15,940 sq mi), also one of the highest motorway densities in the world. Zürich Airport is Switzerland's largest international flight gateway, which handled 22.8 million passengers in 2012. The other international airports are Geneva Airport (13.9 million passengers in 2012), EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg which is located in France, Bern Airport, Lugano Airport, St. Gallen-Altenrhein Airport and Sion Airport. Swiss International Air Lines is the flag carrier of Switzerland. Its main hub is Zürich.", "Nanjing's airport, Lukou International Airport, serves both national and international flights. In 2013, Nanjing airport handled 15,011,792 passengers and 255,788.6 tonnes of freight. The airport currently has 85 routes to national and international destinations, which include Japan, Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, USA and Germany. The airport is connected by a 29-kilometre (18 mi) highway directly to the city center, and is also linked to various intercity highways, making it accessible to the passengers from the surrounding cities. A railway Ninggao Intercity Line is being built to link the airport with Nanjing South Railway Station. Lukou Airport was opened on 28 June 1997, replacing Nanjing Dajiaochang Airport as the main airport serving Nanjing. Dajiaochang Airport is still used as a military air base.", "Other major newspapers include Miami Today, headquartered in Brickell, Miami New Times, headquartered in Midtown, Miami Sun Post, South Florida Business Journal, Miami Times, and Biscayne Boulevard Times. An additional Spanish-language newspapers, Diario Las Americas also serve Miami. The Miami Herald is Miami's primary newspaper with over a million readers and is headquartered in Downtown in Herald Plaza. Several other student newspapers from the local universities, such as the oldest, the University of Miami's The Miami Hurricane, Florida International University's The Beacon, Miami-Dade College's The Metropolis, Barry University's The Buccaneer, amongst others. Many neighborhoods and neighboring areas also have their own local newspapers such as the Aventura News, Coral Gables Tribune, Biscayne Bay Tribune, and the Palmetto Bay News.", "The City of Charleston is served by the Charleston International Airport. It is located in the City of North Charleston and is about 12 miles (20 km) northwest of downtown Charleston. It is the busiest passenger airport in South Carolina (IATA: CHS, ICAO: KCHS). The airport shares runways with the adjacent Charleston Air Force Base. Charleston Executive Airport is a smaller airport located in the John's Island section of the city of Charleston and is used by noncommercial aircraft. Both airports are owned and operated by the Charleston County Aviation Authority.", "The distances passengers need to move within a large airport can be substantial. It is common for airports to provide moving walkways and buses. The Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport has a tram that takes people through the concourses and baggage claim. Major airports with more than one terminal offer inter-terminal transportation, such as Mexico City International Airport, where the domestic building of Terminal 1 is connected by Aerotrén to Terminal 2, on the other side of the airport.", "Miami is a major center, and a leader in finance, commerce, culture, media, entertainment, the arts, and international trade. In 2012, Miami was classified as an Alpha−World City in the World Cities Study Group's inventory. In 2010, Miami ranked seventh in the United States in terms of finance, commerce, culture, entertainment, fashion, education, and other sectors. It ranked 33rd among global cities. In 2008, Forbes magazine ranked Miami \"America's Cleanest City\", for its year-round good air quality, vast green spaces, clean drinking water, clean streets, and city-wide recycling programs. According to a 2009 UBS study of 73 world cities, Miami was ranked as the richest city in the United States, and the world's fifth-richest city in terms of purchasing power. Miami is nicknamed the \"Capital of Latin America\", is the second largest U.S. city with a Spanish-speaking majority, and the largest city with a Cuban-American plurality.", "Miami is partitioned into many different sections, roughly into North, South, West and Downtown. The heart of the city is Downtown Miami and is technically on the eastern side of the city. This area includes Brickell, Virginia Key, Watson Island, and PortMiami. Downtown is South Florida's central business district, and Florida's largest and most influential central business district. Downtown has the largest concentration of international banks in the U.S. along Brickell Avenue. Downtown is home to many major banks, courthouses, financial headquarters, cultural and tourist attractions, schools, parks and a large residential population. East of Downtown, across Biscayne Bay is South Beach. Just northwest of Downtown, is the Civic Center, which is Miami's center for hospitals, research institutes and biotechnology with hospitals such as Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami VA Hospital, and the University of Miami's Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine.", "The title of \"world's oldest airport\" is disputed, but College Park Airport in Maryland, US, established in 1909 by Wilbur Wright, is generally agreed to be the world's oldest continually operating airfield, although it serves only general aviation traffic. Bisbee-Douglas International Airport in Arizona was declared \"the first international airport of the Americas\" by US president Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1943. Pearson Field Airport in Vancouver, Washington had a dirigible land in 1905 and planes in 1911 and is still in use. Bremen Airport opened in 1913 and remains in use, although it served as an American military field between 1945 and 1949. Amsterdam Airport Schiphol opened on September 16, 1916 as a military airfield, but only accepted civil aircraft from December 17, 1920, allowing Sydney Airport in Sydney, Australia—which started operations in January 1920—to claim to be one of the world's oldest continually operating commercial airports. Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota, opened in 1920 and has been in continuous commercial service since. It serves about 35,000,000 passengers each year and continues to expand, recently opening a new 11,000 foot (3,355 meter) runway. Of the airports constructed during this early period in aviation, it is one of the largest and busiest that is still currently operating. Rome Ciampino Airport, opened 1916, is also a contender, as well as the Don Mueang International Airport near Bangkok,Thailand, which opened in 1914. Increased aircraft traffic during World War I led to the construction of landing fields. Aircraft had to approach these from certain directions and this led to the development of aids for directing the approach and landing slope.", "Melbourne has four airports. Melbourne Airport, at Tullamarine, is the city's main international and domestic gateway and second busiest in Australia. The airport is home base for passenger airlines Jetstar Airways and Tiger Airways Australia and cargo airlines Australian air Express and Toll Priority; and is a major hub for Qantas and Virgin Australia. Avalon Airport, located between Melbourne and Geelong, is a secondary hub of Jetstar. It is also used as a freight and maintenance facility. Buses and taxis are the only forms of public transport to and from the city's main airports. Air Ambulance facilities are available for domestic and international transportation of patients. Melbourne also has a significant general aviation airport, Moorabbin Airport in the city's south east that also handles a small number of passenger flights. Essendon Airport, which was once the city's main airport also handles passenger flights, general aviation and some cargo flights.", "Oklahoma City is served by two primary airports, Will Rogers World Airport and the much smaller Wiley Post Airport (incidentally, the two honorees died in the same plane crash in Alaska) Will Rogers World Airport is the state's busiest commercial airport, with over 3.6 million passengers annually. Tinker Air Force Base, in southeast Oklahoma City, is the largest military air depot in the nation; a major maintenance and deployment facility for the Navy and the Air Force, and the second largest military institution in the state (after Fort Sill in Lawton).", "In 2010, Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) was conferred the fourth best airport award in the world in the 15–25 million category, and Best Improved Airport in the Asia-Pacific Region by Airports Council International. The airport was rated as the Best airport in the world in the 25–40 million passengers category in 2015, by Airports Council International.[not in citation given][better source needed] Delhi Airport also bags two awards for The Best Airport in Central Asia/India and Best Airport Staff in Central Asia/India at the Skytrax World Airport Awards 2015." ]

[ "College football has a championship coming; the NBA's LeBron James is out with injuries, and the NFL playoffs are starting. ESPN's Howard Bryant tells NPR's Eric Westervelt what to watch for." ]

[ "For years, the great brouhaha in college football was its lack of a real playoff. But at last we have one — the four qualifying teams to be announced Sunday. The irony is that the erstwhile playoff controversy finally is resolved in a year when football has never been otherwise more controversial. Concussions, players beating up women and children, misbehaving — to use a polite adjective — players getting sweetheart treatment from adoring police, and — to use another polite adjective — coddled college players getting sweetheart treatment from adoring professors. College football players looking to be unionized, the NCAA losing a huge lawsuit involving the exploitation of players. And I've probably forgotten the odd scandal or two. In just the past few weeks, the University of Michigan came under renewed criticism from the school's president himself for academic shenanigans with athletes, and Roger Goodell, the NFL's \"Humpty-Dumpty\" commissioner, got made a fool of again by the courts. And yet, irony upon irony, the mere fact of the college football playoff only makes the sport more attractive, and we can be assured that this will be, indisputably, the most popular year in American football history. When it comes to football, just give the fans what they want and never mind the niceties of academia, neurology and jurisprudence. The four playoff qualifiers will be chosen by a venerable committee of 12, which is rife with pigskin conflict of interest. Five of the selectors are athletic directors, plus there's also a retired athletic director, as well as a retired conference commissioner, retired sports writer, retired coach, retired NCAA official, plus Condoleezza Rice, the go-to female for giving various \"old boys\" in sports a sanitizing woman's presence. If you'll recall, Rice was also one of the first two women to be accepted as members of the Augusta National Golf Club. If I were Goodell, knee deep in job insecurity, I'd keep a wary eye out in her direction. But prominently missing from the playoff committee is someone who could be the most honest expert. I was amused a few weeks ago when all those athletic directors had Mississippi State on top, with Alabama No. 5, as the two Dixie juggernauts prepared to meet. However, the Las Vegas line not only had Alabama the favorite, but gamblers even made Alabama a heavier favorite. And, of course, Vegas had it right and the buddy-buddy committee was wrong as Alabama beat Mississippi State. The 11 gentlemen and one lady on the selection committee would be wise to leave some of those fancy credentials at the doorstep Sunday and simply check with the oddsmakers in Vegas before they meet to make history. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: It's the year college football finally adopts a playoff format. And our commentator Frank Deford says it's too bad that a moment that should delight fans is overshadowed by scandals. FRANK DEFORD: For years, the great brouhaha in college football was its lack of a real playoff. And at last we have one, the four qualifying teams to be announced this Sunday. The irony is that the erstwhile playoff controversy finally is resolved in the year when football has never been more controversial - concussions, players beating up women and children, misbehaving - to use a polite adjective - misbehaving players getting sweetheart treatment from adoring police and coddled - to use another polite adjective - coddled college players getting sweetheart treatment from adoring professors, college football players looking to be unionized, the NCAA losing a huge suit involving the exploitation of players, and I've probably forgotten another scandal or two. In just the past few weeks, the University of Michigan came under renewed criticism from the school's president himself for academic shenanigans with athletes, and Roger Goodell, the NFL's Humpty Dumpty commissioner, got made a fool of again by the courts. And yet - and yet - irony upon irony - the mere fact of the college football playoff only makes the sport more attractive, and we can be assured that this will be indisputably the most popular year in American football history. When it comes to football, just give the fans what they want and never mind the niceties of academia, neurology and jurisprudence. The four playoff qualifiers will be chosen by a venerable committee of 12, which is rife with pigskin conflict of interest. Five of the selectors are athletic directors, plus there's also a retired AD as well as a retired conference commissioner, retired sports writer, retired coach, retired NCAA official, plus Condoleezza Rice, the go-to female for giving various old boys in sports a sanitizing woman's presence. If you'll recall, Ms. Rice was one of the first two women to be accepted as members of the Augusta National Golf Club. If I were Roger Goodell, knee-deep in job insecurity, I'd keep a weary eye out in her direction. Ah, but prominently missing from the playoff committee is someone who could be the mos", "For the third time in four years, Clemson and Alabama will square off in the college football national championship game. Meanwhile, NFL playoff matchups are set, and several teams are looking for new head coaches. Here & Now&#8216;s Lisa Mullins talks with sports analyst Mike Pesca (@pescami), host of the daily podcast &#8220;The Gist&#8221; and editor of the book &#8220;Upon Further Review: The Greatest What-Ifs in Sports History.&#8221;", "Alabama starts the year ranked No. 1, but after the playoffs, rankings will be less subjective. Guest host Wade Goodwyn checks in with NPR's Mike Pesca for a preview of the sports ahead: the start of the NFL season, the concussion settlement and a look at the 2013 college football.", "Here we are in May, in the middle of the NBA playoffs and the NHL playoffs. And what is everyone on sports radio and TV talking about? An NFL team that’s not even playing right now. From the Here & Now Contributors Network, Curt Nickisch of WBUR in Boston reports on the impact of the NFL report that suggests the Patriots violated rules by deflating footballs last season. \nRead more on this story via WBUR\n\nGuest\n\nCurt Nickisch, business and technology reporter for WBUR. He tweets @CurtNickisch.", "Twice this month, President-elect Barack Obama unflinchingly took sides in one of this country's most contentious debates — whether there should be a college football playoff. Absolutely, he said. \"I don't know any serious fan of college football who has disagreed with me on this, so I'm going to throw my weight around a little bit. I think it's the right thing to do,\" Obama said on CBS' 60 Minutes Sunday. Will presidential weight be enough to change a much maligned, albeit lucrative college football system? Yahoo Sports columnist Dan Wetzel says Obama might have won by an even bigger margin if he had stumped for a college football playoff in places like Auburn, Ala. Wetzel says that people there hate the current system, called the BCS, or Bowl Championship Series, because it excluded the 2004 undefeated Auburn Tigers from the national championship game. \"If he'd just gotten up there like Bill Clinton and said, 'I feel your pain, Auburn fans. The BCS must go. We must tear down this BCS wall.' I honestly think if he had embraced this, he could've won 49 states. Alaska, with no college football teams and Gov. Sarah Palin, probably would've been impossible to topple, but everyone else would've gone his way.\" A Controversial Format The BCS was created in 1998 as a way to isolate the top two teams so they could play for the championship. The teams are chosen using polls, computers and an assessment of how tough a team's schedule is. This format often has created a controversial ending to the season and an annual plea from a majority of college football fans: Please let us have a playoff — like nearly every other college and professional sport has. The coordinator of the BCS, John Swofford, responded to Obama's plea this week, saying, \"We welcome a dialogue on what's best for college football ... and what's best is the current system.\" A Big TV Deal That system generates a huge amount of money for the major athletic conferences that make up the BCS. And Tuesday, the BCS announced a new four-year, $500 million TV deal with ESPN, which will go into effect when the current deal with Fox expires in 2011. \"ESPN's deal represents a 50 percent increase over what Fox had been paying,\" which was an average of about $82.5 million a year, says John Ourand, a media reporter for SportsBusiness Journal and SportsBusiness Daily. ESPN obviously believes the current system is valuable enough to cough up $125 million a year. Wetzel of Yahoo Sports says networks would pay even more money with a post-season playoff. \"A playoff system in college football would rival the Super Bowl and the NFL playoffs as the most watched and exciting sporting event in America,\" he says. The problem for playoff proponents, though, is that every weekend of the college football regular season right now is like a playoff. Just watch a lesser team upset a favorite: Fans storm the field; players on the losing team are shell-shocked, knowing they may not qualify for a prized BCS bowl game. In those moments, when the ratings and the attendance and the drama is high, the push for a playoff, even with a presidential nudge, gets overwhelmed by a feeling that college football is OK. And BCS officials everywhere smile. RENEE MONTAGNE, host: Twice this month, President-elect Barack Obama unflinchingly took sides in one of this country's most contentious debates. Of course, we're talking about whether or not there should be a college football playoff. The president-elect says, absolutely. Most recently on CBS's \"60 Minutes\" this past Sunday. (Soundbite of Obama interview on CBS News program \"60 Minutes\") President-elect BARACK OBAMA: I don't know any serious fan of college football who has disagreed with me on this, so I'm going to throw my weight around a little bit. I think it's the right thing to do. MONTAGNE: Will presidential weight be enough to change a much maligned, albeit lucrative college football system? NPR's Tom Goldman reports. TOM GOLDMAN: What took the president-elect so long? That's what Yahoo sports national columnist Dan Wetzel wonders. Imagine, says Wetzel, if much earlier in the campaign, Obama had stumped for a college football playoff in places like Auburn, Alabama. People there, says Wetzel, hate the current system called the BCS because it excluded the 2004 undefeated Auburn Tigers from the national championship game. Mr. DAN WETZEL (Sports Columnist, Yahoo): If he'd just gotten up there like Bill Clinton and said, I feel your pain, Auburn fans. The BCS must go. We must tear down this BCS wall. I honestly think if he had embraced this, he could have won 49 states. Alaska, with no college football team and Governor Sarah Palin, probably would have been impossible to topple. But everyone else would have gone his way. GOLDMAN: The BCS, short for Bowl Championship Series, was created in 1998 as a way to isolate the top two teams so they could play for the championship. The teams are chosen using polls, computers, and assessmen", "The NFL is deep in the playoffs, college football coaches are jumping ship, and the NBA is suspending a gun-wielding player. And that all means it's time to check in with Kevin Blackistone, columnist for AOL Fanhouse and regular on ESPN's <em>Around the Horn.</em> Blackistone fills in host Guy Raz on the latest from the sports world.", "It's no secret that President-elect Barack Obama is a big sports fan. Speaking with CBS News' 60 Minutes, Obama said he favors a college football playoff instead of the current bowl game system. On that issue and more, NPR's Tony Cox speaks with bloggers Kevin Figgers of AM570Radio.com and Carron Phillips of The Maven Report. FARAI CHIDEYA, host: I'm Farai Chideya, and this is News & Notes. It is time again for sports and our very own Tony Cox is here. Hey, Tony. TONY COX: Hey, Farai. You know, it's no secret that our president-elect Barack Obama is a big sports fan. And being that he's about to become the most powerful man in the world, you would think his suggestions - wink, wink - about our college football ranking system would be taken seriously. Here's what Mr. Obama said on \"60 Minutes\" last Sunday. (Soundbite of TV show \"60 Minutes\") President-elect BARACK OBAMA: We should be creating a playoff system. Eight teams. That would be three rounds to determine a national champion. It would add three extra weeks to the season. You could trim back on the regular season. I don't know any serious fan of college football who has disagreed with me on this, so I'm going to throw my weight around a little bit. I think it's the right thing to do. COX: Well, he can throw his weight around all he likes, but will it do any good? Mr. President-elect, you might have an easier time getting a bailout for the big three automakers than convincing university presidents and the commissioners of the Big 12, SCC, Pac-10 and the rest to switch up from the system that is currently in place. But let's see what our sports bloggers have to say about that. Joining us this week are Kevin Figgers, who blogs for sports talk am570radio.com in Los Angeles and Carron Phillips, who joins us from Atlanta. He blogs for themavenreport.com. Hey, fellas. Mr. CARRON PHILLIPS (Blogger, themavenreport.com): Hey, how's it going, Tony? Mr. KEVIN FIGGERS (Blogger, am570radio.com, Los Angeles): Hey, Tony. COX: Hey, fellas. OK, make sure that you're here with me. Let's talk about this, first of all. What do you think? Can the new president get some movement on this issue, Kevin? Mr. FIGGERS: I don't believe so. I think the only president whose opinion - no offense to Mr. Obama - but the only president whose opinion matters is the college presidents' and the commissioners' and the bowl committees. Those are the ones - it's all about money. It's about finances. I mean, you talk about playoffs. It's always about a bowl feeling they're being slighted. When these teams go out for bowl appearances, they pick up and move the entire school, and so to ask for them to do the week-by-week when it's normally - if you go the Rose Bowl, it's about a week-and-a-half long thing. So you're asking it to move an entire school for one week and then have another week where they move and another week where they might not. There's a lot of money and a lot of sponsors that are going to be upset about that. So I'm not so sure that's going to happen. COX: Kevin doesn't sound like he's for this. Carron, what about you? Mr. PHILLIPS: I'm actually for it. I think Barack can actually do it. I just think it's bad timing right now because Disney just bought the rights to the BCS, so BCS games along with everything being on ESPN will be aired on there until, I believe, 2014. And they just paid $125 million for it. We look at what President Bush did with the steroids in baseball, and he threw his weight around with that and actually, you know, got Congress and went on involved with baseball. So I actually think he could do it with college football and do something with a playoff system, but I just think with the timing of them signing that new contract, I don't think it will work right now. But if he gets elected eight years and Michelle does, maybe we possibly can. (Soundbite of laughter) COX: All right. Well, Barack Obama might be the next leader of the free world, but this is, as you say, Kevin Figgers, college football. That will be a real test. We'll have to wait and see. So, moving on, fellas. It seems like every week a sports figure says something that gets him in hot water. Last week, Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donavon McNabb did not know that a pro football game could end in a tie. That's after his team tied with the Cincinnati Bengals 13-13 on Sunday. Took a lot of flak for that, but apparently a lot of guys in the NFL don't know the overtime rule, either. So the question, Kevin, is shouldn't the quarterback, the team leader, know better? Mr. FIGGERS: You would think so, especially a veteran like Donavon McNabb who's been in the league for, I believe, what, 11 years now? COX: Yeah. Mr. FIGGERS: So he should definitely know what the rules are. And you know, the - he's been in the league a long time. He's a veteran. He's played against a team that - in the post-season against Michael Vick, a Falcons team that actually went into an overtime game. So whe", "For sports fans, the summer drought is finally over. College football just kicked off, the NFL gets serious this week, and baseball's hitting its stretch run. Kevin Blackistone, columnist for AOL Fanhouse, sorts through the upcoming sports calendar.", "The recent start of the college football playoffs drew the largest audience in the history of cable television, with 28.2 million TV viewers watching Oregon beat Florida State. And NFL games continue to dominate primetime TV. This comes as football is under increased scrutiny for the injuries sustained by many players, and amid controversies over how the NFL handles players accused of domestic abuse. Derek Thompson, senior editor at the Atlantic, joins Here & Now&#8217;s Lisa Mullins to discuss how football is becoming both more controversial and popular at the same time. \nRead Derek Thompson&#8217;s piece, &#8220;The Shameful Triumph of Football&#8221;\n\nGuest\n\nDerek Thompson, senior editor at The Atlantic. He tweets @DKThomp.", "Washington plays Alabama and Ohio State takes on Clemson in the College Football Playoff semi-final games Saturday. The winners will play for the national championship on Jan. 9. The games are part of the 41-game college football bowl game slate this season. Here & Now&#8216;s Lisa Mullins speaks with Here & Now sports analyst Mike Pesca (@pescami), also host of the Slate podcast The Gist, about what to watch for this weekend.", "Next season, there will be a new playoff system for big time college football. A committee, which includes former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, will select the four teams that will play in the semifinals ahead of the championship game. That system will replace the Bowl Championship Series which has, until now, determined which college teams play for the national championship. John Bacon, a journalist who has written about college football, tells Here & Now&#8216;s Meghna Chakrabarti the new system is sort of like the old Who song that goes &#8220;new boss, same as the old boss.&#8221; Guest\n\nJohn Bacon, author of &#8220;Fourth And Long: The Fight For The Soul Of College Football.&#8221; He tweets @Johnubacon.\n MEGHNA CHAKRABARTI, HOST: Well, now, from Washington to big-time college football, which is seeing some fairly big changes to its playoff system. The new college football playoff selection committee will pick the squads that will play in a new four-team playoff for the national championship next season. This week, we're learning who's on that committee. A bunch of interesting names, including Archie Manning, father of pro quarterbacks Eli and Peyton Manning. Also on the committee, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. John Bacon is here to explain. He's author of \"Fourth and Long: The Fight for the Soul of College Football.\" He joins us from a Michigan Radio. John, welcome back to HERE AND NOW. JOHN BACON: Thank you, Meghna. CHAKRABARTI: OK. So first of all, let me ask you, I remember back in the day reading an article about Condoleezza Rice and that she would watch football in the mornings while running on the treadmill and that she is a huge football fan. But why does that make her qualified enough member for this new committee? BACON: A fair question, of course. But, honestly, some of the current ADs have not played football or ever coached football. So these days, I think it's more about professionalism than it is about your actual background. That said, of course, Pat Dye, the Auburn coach who coached Bo Jackson famously, he said that to understand football, you got to play with your hand in the dirt. So as you might imagine, some of the good old boys are against her, but other guys, like Steve Spurrier, who'd actually won national titles said, she's a Stanford graduate, and she plays a little golf. Why not? (LAUGHTER) BACON: And that seems to be the consensus. You got to figure also, if you can handle Ahmadinejad, you are going to handle these egos. But that's not a guarantee. CHAKRABARTI: I know. I was going to say because, you know, football is a serious business. But who else is part of this group? BACON: You've got four athletic directors from Clemson, West Virginia, Wisconsin and USC. You got a bevy of former players, coaches, commissioners and even a former sports reporter, Steve Wieberg, late of the USA Today. So you'd think that if you can handle a sports reporter, you can probably handle a woman on the committee. CHAKRABARTI: Well, before we talk about what this committee is actually going to do, let's take a step back and talk about how college football championships were picked up until now because to the uninitiated - and I'm going to include myself in this - it always seems like the same teams, like Alabama win anyway. BACON: To we Michigan fans, it feels the same way, trust me. (LAUGHTER) BACON: We share your pain on that one. In every other sport you have a playoff, but not in college football for over a century, since 1869, when the first game was played. Until 1998, they picked it by polls basically. So it was very common to have two or even more than that, national champions, because they did not necessarily even play each other during the season. So that was very common. In fact, the last year, in '97, Michigan split with Nebraska based on the AP poll versus the coaches' poll. So that's how that often broke down. But in '98, they went to the BCS, the Bowl Championship Series, which is where they picked two teams, the top two teams, to make them play each other in the final game. And that always resulted in one national title at least, one national champion. So that improved in that sense. But now, they're going to go to four teams, so they're going to have a final four playoff in January. And that will be the new system. CHAKRABARTI: OK. So hang on. Let me - I'm a little confused here, so let me just back up a second. BACON: Sure. And you should be confused. (LAUGHTER) CHAKRABARTI: So they're going to pick four teams now. But I guess I'm still not fully clear on how the new system differs from the old one, except that they have this new committee. (LAUGHTER) BACON: Meghna, well done. They do not want you think that, but that's exactly the same situation. The old complaint was that they picked two teams based on polls, strength of schedule, computerized rankings. And now, they're going to have a selection committee pick four teams based on polls, strength of schedu", "For years, college football longed to build a football playoff system for one simple reason: money. Unlike basketball's March Madness, which generated a record $1 billion in advertising revenue alone in 2013, the NCAA didn't make a dime off the bowl system that year. Who did? TV networks, the bowl organizers and the coaches. Well, enough of that. When it was announced that the new four-team football playoff would start in 2014, the TV rights alone would be worth almost half a billion dollars for just three games. So what if college football survived just fine without a playoff for 145 years — since Rutgers and Princeton played the first football game back in 1869. Year by year, it added game after game. First, it quadrupled the number of bowl games, from 11 to 41, which require 82 teams to fill them. Now just about any team with a winning record gets to go. Then it tacked on a 12th regular-season game, when schools play \"tomato cans\" like McNeese State, Norfolk State and Bethune-Cookman, all just to grab another payday. Then it piled on conference title games, too, increasing the total games a team can play from 11 to 14 — just two shy of an NFL season. But we need a playoff now, it told us, to determine who's best on the field. How? Instead of picking two teams based on polls, strength of schedule and computerized rankings, now four teams are picked — based on polls, strength of schedule and computerized rankings. Problem solved. Instead of the third-ranked team complaining that it got screwed, now the fifth-place team does all the whining. Another problem solved. Who wins? The coaches, whose compensation can actually double if they win the national title. How many coaches, faced with a star receiver who got caught plagiarizing, or a quarterback with a concussion, would have the integrity to bench those players and forfeit a $5 million payday? I suspect very few. And then there's the TV ratings, the one thing everybody agreed would improve. Turns out they actually dropped dramatically in the playoffs' second year. One reason: They stubbornly insist on scheduling the first round for New Year's Eve. Guess what? On New Year's Eve, even football fans have better things to do. Sure, it's always easier to say the old way was better. But it's even easier when you've got the data to back it up. John U. Bacon is a sports commentator. His latest book is Endzone: The Rise, Fall, and Return of Michigan Football. DAVID GREENE, HOST: This is college football's big moment on the calendar. It's bowl season. And of course, we now also have a college football playoff system that crowns a champion. Commentator John U. Bacon has a theory about why the NCAA introduced a playoff, and it has nothing to do with actually picking a winner. JOHN U BACON: For years, the NCAA longed to build a football playoff system for one simple reason - money. Unlike basketball's March Madness, which generated a record $1 billion in advertising revenue alone in 2013, the NCAA did not make a dime off the bowl system that year. Who did? TV, the bowl organizers and the coaches, that's who. Well, enough of that. When NCAA president Mark Emmert announced the new four-team football playoff would start in 2014, the TV rights alone would be worth almost half a billion dollars - that's billion with a B - for just three games. So what if college football survived just fine without a playoff for 145 years, since Rutgers and Princeton played the first football game back in 1869? Year by year, they added game after game. First, they quadrupled the number of bowl games from 11 to 41, which require 82 teams to fill them. Now, just about any team with a pulse gets to go. Then they tacked on a 12th regular season game, where schools used to play tomato cans like McNeese State, Norfolk State and Bethune-Cookman, all just to grab another payday. Then they piled on conference title games, too, increasing the total games a team can play from 11 to 14, just two shy of an NFL season. But we need a playoff now, they told us, to determine who's the best on the field. How? Instead of picking two teams based on polls, strength of schedule and computerized rankings, now they pick four teams based on polls, strength of schedule and computerized rankings - problem solved. So now instead of the third-ranked team complaining that it got screwed, the fifth place team does all the whining - another problems solved. Who wins? The coaches, whose compensation can actually double if they win the national title. How many coaches, faced with a star receiver who got caught plagiarizing or a quarterback with a concussion, would have the integrity to bench those players and forfeit a $5 million payday? I suspect very few. And then there's the TV ratings - the one thing everybody agreed would improve. Turns out they actually dropped dramatically in only the playoffs' second year. One reason - they stubbornly insist on scheduling the first round for New Year's Eve. Well, guess what? On New", "The NFL kicks off an exciting weekend of games Saturday when it starts its playoffs. Meanwhile, there's big news in the sport that most of the rest of the world calls football. Fox television is making a major play to air more soccer games in this country, including an English Premier League game before the Super Bowl. Sportswriter Stefan Fatsis talks with Robert Siegel about the news in both kinds of football.", "There has been a crowded docket in our preeminent sport. Let's take just three cases. The defendants: the NFL, Roger Goodell and football itself. The NFL first. If American banks, which nobody likes, are too big to fail, then the NFL, which everybody likes, is too popular to fail. Probably too big by now too. Despite all the negative news recently, has it really been damaged? Why, one of its smallest franchises, the Buffalo Bills, just drew a record price. Do you see any indication that fans have, in disgust, turned to Gilligan's Island reruns Sunday afternoons? Not to mention Thursday, Sunday and Monday nights. Long ago Walter Winchell used to address his radio audience: Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea. Well, Mr. and Mrs. NPR and all the planes in the air: Do you have any friends who have sworn off watching NFL games? Have you? Verdict: guilty on all counts. As punishment, by popular demand, we sentence the NFL to more playoff games for us to watch. Next up for trial: Roger Goodell. He, the boyish blond, with a shoeshine and a smile; lifetime league functionary, promoted to a $40 million-a-year position thanks to the Peter Principle. Back more than a year ago I said here that he wasn't up to the job. It's only become more obvious since. Long before he was \"ambiguous\" about what might have happened to Ray Rice's fiancee on that elevator, he was disingenuous about his sport's dangers, ignorant of team bullying and team bounties. He doesn't even have the courage to tell the owner of the Washington franchise that his team's nickname is racist. Verdict: guilty on all counts. The court hereby orders the NFL to hire someone from outside the football family of stature, honor and sensitivity to be the new commissioner. And lastly on trial this morning: football itself. A new study shows that almost one-third of NFL players will suffer long-term cognitive problems. Granted, that's professionals, but obviously younger brains are at jeopardy on all gridirons. What mother or father can any longer willfully allow a son to play such a game with such odds? Verdict: Football is dangerous to your brain. The court orders that some brave college conference with high academic standards — like the New England Small College, the Midwest, the North Coast, the Southern California IAC — have the courage to lead the way and drop football. That's called a no-brainer.", "Injuries are always a problem in professional sports. But this year star players in the National Football League seem to be burdened with more than their fair share of broken bones, bruises and concussion. Host Bob Edwards talks with commentator Peter Richmond about the rash of NFL injuries and which teams are staying healthy enough to make a run for the playoffs.", "Florida Gators defensive coordinator Charlie Strong, who is black, says he has been denied head coaching jobs in college football because his wife is white. NPR's Tony Cox discusses that and other sports news with New York Times sports columnist Bill Rhoden. FARAI CHIDEYA, host: It's time now for a look at the week in sports with our very own Tony Cox. Hey, Tony. TONY COX: Hey, Farai. You know, it's all about football this week, college and pro, and here to bring us up to speed on what's important to look for this weekend is News & Notes's grid iron guru, New York Times sports columnist Bill Rhoden. Hey, Mr. Bill. BILL RHODEN: Happy New Years - the great Tony Cox. COX: Happy New Year to you, Mr. Rhoden. You know, the big sports news today, of course, is the BCS championship game between the Florida Gators and the Oklahoma Sooners. But you know what? A lot of folks, me included, are not so sure that whoever wins that game deserves to be the national champion because there are some other teams, Bill, that are legitimate contenders - Utah, USC, even Texas. Do you think the outcome of this game really answers the question about who is best in college football? RHODEN: No, no, no, a million times no, Tony. We are on the same page on this. I think it's bogus. It's a bogus system. The game tonight is OK. It's a waste of time. How could you be a fan of college football and look at a game in which USC is not involved? I mean, it's - you know, it's really bizarre, and like I said, it's bogus, really. COX: Absolutely. Well, let's move on to another topic. Here are two things that are not normally spoken about in the same breath - college football and inter-racial marriage. But those two things are now linked in the story out of the University of Florida, where the Gators' defensive coordinator, Charlie Strong, who is African-American, says he is not getting head coaching jobs because his wife is white. I'm not sure what to say about that to be honest with you, Bill. It's one of those things you can't prove, but he's certainly convinced of it, and he is not alone, Charles Barkley recently charging that it was race that kept the black candidate from getting the head coaching job at Auburn. What do you say? RHODEN: Well, no. Absolutely. I mean, any time you look at the terrain of college football and see - there's always like four or five head football coaches, yeah, race - well, it's not so much race, but racism is alive and well. Now, it's because these guy's wife is - why I, you know - I mean, if he feels that way, then it's, you know, at least he thinks it's legitimate. I think it's far more pervasive. I mean, sometimes if your wife is white, they'll hire even quicker, I've just got to say. COX: And I guess you never know, do you? RHODEN: No. But I think that - I think that racism is a tremendous problem, and why it is could be your wife is white. It could be because, you know, it could be millions of reason, but we've got to eradicate the cause. COX: Well listen, we talked about coaches and the wives that they choose. How about coaches and their son-in-law? Detroit sports news - sports columnist Rob Parker resigning after asking the wrong question at a news conference. A couple of weeks ago, he asked Detroit Lions coach Rod Marinelli if he wished his daughter had married a better defensive coordinator. Now, Marinelli's son-in-law coached the defense of the worst team in the history of the NFL, of course. The Lions went 0 and 16. But Marinelli did not like the question, nor did Parker's bosses, who demoted him. Parker says it was a joke, but it looks like the joke's on him. RHODEN: Yes, unfortunately. Rob is a very good friend of mine. I've known Rob for years, and I think it's unfortunate. I think what we have here is clearly, there's been bad blood between, you know, Rob and the paper because they - those stupid questions are asked every single day. All you've got to do is look at Sports Center. So I think that there's something deeper, deeply rooted, and I guess what's troublesome for me, Tony, is that we've just got a terrible track record - we're African-Americans in the media and period. If you go to a sports press box during the football season, during the baseball season, it would seem like you're in 1955. And so I think that's the large - of how we've lost another African-American journalist in a field. We could at least afford it. COX: Well, you're absolutely right, although Parker has a record of saying things that can get him in hot water in a number of places where he has worked before. We'll see what happens. Let's move on to another topic, though. This time of the season, all eyes are on the playoffs, but in your column in the New York Times this week, you suggest that the players should be concerned a lot more about selecting the new executive director for the NFL Players Association. Why, briefly, is this so important, and what's at stake? RHODEN: Tony, outside of the NFL commis", "Boise State's loss Friday against Nevada dashed their hopes of playing in a national title game this year. It's been a matter of debate in the college football world about whether the Bowl Championship Series is even fair to a school like Boise State. Host Scott Simon talks with Boise State University President Robert Kustra, who says the current BCS system makes it difficult for a team like his to ever win a national championship. SCOTT SIMON, host: Let's turn back to Boise State now, because the Broncos' loss last night to Nevada dashed their hopes of playing for a national title game this year. It was a crushing disappointment for Boise fans everywhere. And they are all over the country at this point. So we are grateful that we're joined now by Robert Kustra, who's the president of Boise State University. Mr. President, thanks for being with us. Mr. ROBERT KUSTRA (President, Boise State University): You're welcome, Scott. SIMON: First, congratulations on 24 straight victories. But what happened last night? Mr. KUSTRA: As they say, on given Saturday afternoon, or whenever we play, any team can be beaten. And we knew going into this game, Nevada's tough. Their quarterback's incredible. They played a great game. They just played a great game. And they played a little better game than we did, as the score showed. Nothing to feel badly about for the Broncos. We congratulate Nevada. But this is the way it works in college football. In many ways it's a metaphor on life. And you learn to win and sometimes you have to learn how to lose. SIMON: Mr. President, you've been a critic of the BCS system that ranks teams according to this complicated formula we won't try and replicate here, of computer algorithms and polls. And I wonder, does Boise's defeat last night undermine some of your arguments that the system isn't fair to schools like Boise? Mr. KUSTRA: Well, not really. The fact of the matter is that with our defeat last night we've still only lost one game, had a great run, a great season. And among the automatic qualifying conferences, you have the ACC Conference that has had a very difficult year. And the winner of that conference will probably go to a BCS bowl game with anywhere from two to three to four losses. So how does it happen that a team that's played as well as we did until our defeat last night is just automatically written off as not going to a BCS bowl and the ACC team goes? That's the inequity built into the BCS system. If it were a playoff, then I would have no quarrel. SIMON: The president of Ohio State, Gordon Gee, and you had a kind of exchange of words this week. He said that big name conferences like his face a schedule of tough opponents that he - I think the quote was it's like facing a murderer's row every week. You countered and say there's absolutely little substance to that claim. Where do you disagree with President Gee? Mr. KUSTRA: Well, first of all, Scott, let me say I mentioned the ACC and it's really the Big East Conference that I was referring to when it comes to the schedule and who's going to go represent them in a BCS bowl. As far as the concern I had this week over President Gee's statements, I just really thought that it wasn't fair to characterize any Division 1 football team with student athletes who devote the incredible amount of time and energy and discipline to what they do, a schedule that looks very different from what we normally think of a college student having in those wonderful years - to write them off as the little sisters of the poor was, again, a metaphor that didn't work and doesn't work. And I assume he realizes that now. I think we all get caught up in the heat of the moment. SIMON: We've invited Bill Hancock, executive director of the BCS, to join us on our show next week. In the meantime, we have a statement from him that reads in part: The BCS is the best way to match the number and number two teams in the bowl system. College football gives fans the most meaningful regular season in sports, capped by a championship bowl game that is more popular than a Final Four, NBA playoffs or World Series. The game of college football is doing great. There is no need to monkey with the system. So President Kustra, why do you think there is? Mr. KUSTRA: Well, I think there is because the simple fact of the matter is that in every other sport in NCAA intercollegiate athletics there is a playoff system which actually does determine who at the very end is the national champion by wins and losses all the way up to the end, as we know from Sweet 16 and the Final Four in basketball and every other sport. That's not the way it works in football, and along the way some teams are not given the opportunity, regardless of their one loss record, to participate in that kind of a playoff system. Instead it's a playoff system that is designed by the BCS and in many ways is rigged by the BCS to allow some teams in and to deny other teams the access I think ", "Monday night's game between Oregon and Ohio State was a hit with viewers, as the first-ever college football playoff championship turned in the highest ratings in the history of both ESPN and cable TV. The broadcast averaged 33.4 million viewers. \"That was a 21 percent increase over the ratings for last year's BCS National Championship between Florida State and Auburn, which was a far closer game,\" NPR's Nathan Rott reports. Last night, the teams were divided by only a one-point margin in the third quarter before Ohio State pulled away late for a 42-20 win. As for how the ratings compare with NFL viewership, we'll note that TV By the Numbers reports, \"Through three games, 2015 NFC Playoff games on FOX are averaging 39.3 million viewers.\" Monday's record ratings only narrowly trail the most-watched college football championship on network television (between Southern California and Texas). \"The 2006 national championship game attracted 35.6 million viewers, a bigger audience than Monday's game,\" The Wall Street Journal's Steven Perlberg reports, \"but it aired on ABC, a broadcast network, not a cable channel.\" This year's championship and two playoff games all surpassed the previous most-watched cable program, the 2011 BCS Championship between Oregon and Auburn, which attracted 27,316,000 viewers and a 15.3 rating. Despite the success of the playoff games that were played on New Year's Day (and attracted more than 28 million viewers each), things will be different next year. That's because the \"playoffs\" designation rotates among bowls – and two of them, the Rose and Sugar, won't be moved from Jan. 1, as Awful Announcing has noted. ESPN has acknowledged to Sports Illustrated that New Year's Eve — which isn't a federal holiday and already has an excess of prime time extravaganzas --poses \"a challenge.\" For now, the sports giant can look on the bright side. As it noted in a news release today, \"ESPN has now televised the Top 20 programs in cable history.\" If you're curious about how last night's game did in different parts of the U.S., here's Nielsen's list of the 10 metered markets with the highest ratings: Columbus (51.2) Dayton (43.8) Cleveland (41.3) Portland, Ore. (37.6) Birmingham (36.1) Cincinnati (26.5) Jacksonville (25.7) Knoxville (25.5) Greenville (24.1) Atlanta (23.0)", "The NFL playoff picture will be settled this weekend, and one team will limp in. Meanwhile, baseball again faces its steroid problems. Howard Bryant of The Washington Post discusses the bowl lineup with Linda Wertheimer. LINDA WERTHEIMER, Host: This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Linda Wertheimer. NFL playoffs, steroids, bowls, bowls, bowls, lots to talk about this week in sports. Joining us is Howard Bryant. He is a staff writer for the Washington Post. Good morning. HOWARD BRYANT: Good morning, Linda. How are you? WERTHEIMER: Good. First, let's talk about the NFL. There are five teams with a seven-and-eight record fighting for an NFC playoff spot. How bad do you have to be to get into the post-season? BRYANT: Well, obviously, not bad enough. This is a battle for mediocrity. You'd think that when you have seven losses or eight losses on the last week of the season, you could make your vacation plans. But you've got too many teams that have a chance to make the playoffs. You've got the... WERTHEIMER: Most likely to succeed would be what, do you think? BRYANT: Most likely to succeed, I think, are the New York Giants - Tiki Barber's last game. And they've got - they're the only team that really has the best chance to win and need the least amount of help. Every other team, you have to come up with some crazy formula to get them in mathematically. WERTHEIMER: Well, I think it doesn't hurt them that they're playing our own Washington Redskins. Howard, we've had another twist in the ongoing baseball steroid scandal. An appeals court in San Francisco has signed off on the government's use of evidence, the names of 100 players who've tested positive for steroids. What does this mean for baseball, do you think? BRYANT: Well, it means the story never ends. And it also means that finally, there's going to be some consequences to this whole story. You have the Baseball Players Association fighting an appeal, and I understand the players association's belief about privacy and about where does this go, how far does this story go to uncover the, you know, to uncover what they think is the - they think it's a scourge. We all know that it is. But I think that the real issue here is when you get - when you go down this road and you have these reporters in San Francisco who are going to jail, and you have the players using their money to try and avoid the truth, it's a question of how far is the government willing to go to get to the bottom of this? And I think that baseball is finding out that this story can't just be - you can't just bury it over the course of the season. Sooner or later, we're going to get to the end of this story. And now, if these players' names get uncovered - you've got a hundred players who've said that they didn't do anything, and now we'll find out. I think the real issue is what happens if we find out all 100 and if Mr. Barry Bonds is one of them? WERTHEIMER: Let's look at college football for a second. Bowl fever, the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day, number three Michigan faces number seven USC. Both teams are looking to prove something, like maybe they should be number one. BRYANT: Yeah, maybe they should be number one. But the nostalgia and the - I like big stories. And I was really hoping that we were going to get round two of Michigan and Ohio State. I know that USC has been the team to beat the last couple years, even though they didn't win last year but they went to the championship game. And you know that Michigan really believes they should have beaten Ohio State. But I like rivalries. And it think that it would have been great for college football to have those two teams, Ohio State and Michigan, play one more time on the big stage. WERTHEIMER: I'm with you. Thank you very much, sports writer Howard Bryant.", "This is the third year of the college football playoffs. NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to Dan Wetzel of <em>Yahoo Sports</em> about how the new playoff system is working.", "NFL players who suffer violent blows to the head in games will be evaluated for possible concussions by using a new system of tests in the 2011-2012 season, according to reports. The news comes after a season in which head injuries made headlines in sports coverage, as the NFL levied record fines against defenders whose hits on defenseless players were determined to be beyond newly tightened rules. And less than a week ago, former NFL player Dave Duerson shocked the football community by committing suicide — and leaving a note requesting that after his brain be studied under the NFL's Brain Bank program, which analyzes the ways the sport might change brain physiology. More details about the new test will come out Friday, when the NFL holds its scouting combine. Here are more details, from the AP: But the NFL says the new sideline test will include a checklist of symptoms, a limited neurologic evaluation and a balance assessment. It will employ many components of the evaluation process developed during a Concussion in Sport meeting at Zurich in 2008. The test was developed by the NFL's Head, Neck, and Spine Committee, with input from the NFL team physicians and athletic trainers and their professional associations. The effort to protect players from possible brain injury related to concussions may help extend the careers of the NFL's offensive stars. For instance, Super Bowl-winning quarterback Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers suffered two concussions in the 2010-2011 season. Back in 2000, concussions put a premature end to quarterback Troy Aikman's career. The former quarterback is widely believed to have suffered at least 10 concussions in his career. A New York Times article relates the aftermath of one of Aikman's concussions, in a 1994 playoff game that put him in Super Bowl XXVIII. That article — from 17 years ago — includes this line: \"Aikman's concussion has focused attention on a dangerous and recurring injury in the National Football League.\" Sadly, that attention seems to have resulted in only incremental gains in players' safety — mostly due to improved helmet design and materials.", "The NFL's draft of college players has become a glitzy TV extravaganza likely to attract more viewers than an NBA playoff game or a NASCAR race. Stefan Fatsis of The Wall Street Journal talks football and business with Robert Siegel. ROBERT SIEGEL, host: The National Football League's annual draft of college players is this weekend. What once was a gathering of middle-aged men in dark suits and thin ties in a hotel conference room has morphed into a glitzy television extravaganza, and it's likely to attract more viewers than an NBA playoff game or a NASCAR race this weekend. Joining us now is sportswriter Stefan Fatsis of The Wall Street Journal. Welcome back, Stefan. Mr. STEFAN FATSIS (Sportswriter, The Wall Street Journal): Hi, Robert. SIEGEL: The draft lasts two days, 12 rounds - 255 players will be selected. But for fans, this has become more than just an announcement of who's going to which team. Mr. FATSIS: Yeah. Forty years ago that's exactly what it was. The change began in 1979 when this new television network called ESPN suggested to the NFL that it televise the draft. And the initial response from Commissioner Pete Rozelle at the time was why, why would you want to do that? But within a few years, the NFL was pressed to move the draft from the middle of the week to Sunday, Monday and then to Saturday, Sunday. Now, it's a vacation for thousands of fans who've come to watch it live at Radio City Music Hall. The NFL this year had to post a notice on its Web site, telling fans that they couldn't start lining up for the free tickets before 5:00 in the morning tomorrow. They've been getting there the night before and camping out. ESPN is going to show 18 hours of coverage. The NFL Network is going to show 20 hours of coverage this weekend. SIEGEL: And it isn't just a one-day phenomenon. Sports fans have been reading and hearing about the draft ever since the Super Bowl. Mr. FATSIS: And it really parallels how the league operates. February, March and April maybe downtime in terms of games, but they are the busiest and most intense months of the year for NFL executives. Players in the NFL have to produce quickly. They don't last very long. Careers are short, so a lot does ride on who teams select. And now, you can't argue that the draft is totally over-hyped because ultimately, all that really matters is who does get picked, not who anyone thinks is going to get picked. But fans love it. They love to play general manager. They love to agonize or rejoice in whoever their teams selects. One of my favorite Web sites is a site called Kissing Suzy Kolber, which is a funny and a little bit profane blog about the NFL. One of its writers this week responded to one of those media broadsides about the draft by writing: Pardon me for getting excited about how new players come to my team. Sorry for being a fan. SIEGEL: Well, the Oakland Raiders have the first pick tomorrow. And according to all of those draft projections, it appears that they'll select quarterback JaMarcus Russell from Louisiana State. What is the track record actually for top picks? Mr. FATSIS: In the last few years, it's not so great. My colleague, Allen St. John at The Journal has a piece in today's paper, examining whether the draft is a good predictor of NFL success. Now, he looked at the 80 players who were named All-Pro in the NFL for the last five years. Forty-four percent of them were not drafted in the first round, and only one of the last five top picks, Peyton Manning of the Indianapolis Colts, was an All-Pro. Now, the four teams that Allan found that were best at drafting future All-Pros are the Baltimore Ravens, Pittsburg Steelers, San Diego Chargers and Indianapolis Colts - and those are all recent playoff teams, and the two past Super Bowl champions. SIEGEL: Now, some future NFL players will be affected by a decision yesterday by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. A decision to prohibit schools from sending cell-phone text messages to potential recruits. That's a total ban, correct? Mr. FATSIS: Total ban. This rose out of complaints from athletes and parents that recruits are getting 50 or more text messages a day at all hours from coaches, and then were spending hours in running a big phone bill in replying. Coaches have used texting as a way to circumvent rules against telephoning recruits. They'll text a recruit and say call me back, so it did need to be controlled. But if you look at the way kids communicate today, an outright ban seems kind of lud-eye(ph). Now, the NCAA said it couldn't find a way to regulate the time and the frequency of messages, the way they do for other forms of contacting recruits. And coaches were clearly pushing the limits of this to the point of abuse so they just banned the whole thing. SIEGEL: Thank you, Stefan. Mr. FATSIS: Thanks, Robert. SIEGEL: Sportswriter Stefan Fatsis of The Wall Street Journal, who joins us on Fridays to talk about sports and the business of sports", "Finally, the NBA lockout is over. Sports commentator Ron Rapoport examines the settlement and sums up the NFL playoffs.", "The BCS — the current system of bowl games — uses computer formulas and polling to pick the top teams in college football. The bowl commission argues that the current setup makes every game important. But many sports fans argue it's time for playoffs in college football.", "So comes now another gathering of congressmen to hear Mr. Roger Clemens and his former friends speak under oath and for the representatives to continue to generally examine baseball's drug problem. Oyez, oyez, batter up! There are some, of course, who believe that this sort of thing is nonsense, that government should not bother umpiring sports, that that's a diversion from the more pressing business of the republic. Myself, however, I incline my thinking in the other direction, that we need government to intrude occasionally, because sports is too popular, too important culturally to be left to the coaches and commissioners. There are times, of course, when government can be as frivolous as the games it postures to protect. We had the example not long ago, for instance, of the Georgia House of Representatives actually voting passionately, 151-9, on a resolution to urge the NCAA to establish a college football playoff, all because the dear Georgia Bulldogs didn't make the title game this year. If ever there was a case of, hey, get over it ... And since sports creates a wider audience than, say, an examination of import taxes on widgets, politicians are always vulnerable in these instances to grandstanding. Or ever worse, as was the case when Roger Clemens paid social calls on the Hill last week, congressmen will act like moonstruck adolescents before the big sports guy. But that's a small price to pay for trying to keep sports on that level playing field it always brays about. A great many countries have a ministry of sports which oversees athletics, and in nations where soccer is uber alles — which is most of them — the country's soccer coach is often a national figure on the par with the prime minister. While we don't care that much about international sport, our domestic leagues and our big-time college sports are so prominent in our public consciousness that, yes, especially when it comes to matters of cheating, the government has every good reason to investigate, no less than it would peer into possible improprieties in other institutions. Yes, if professional players are taking illegal drugs and affecting the outcomes of games and influencing the behavior of young athletes, then elected officials are right to step in. And yes, like Sen. Arlen Specter, I do very much want to know why the NFL commissioner destroyed those illegal videos taken by the Patriots, the most successful franchise of this century. And yes, Congress was correct in looking into the way that old NFL players may be treated in a business otherwise so prosperous and glorious. Of course, I do find it inconsistent that Congress almost never seems to stick its nose into college sports, even though they are autocratically ruled by the NCAA, an organization that sports economy authority Andrew Zimbalist so perfectly labels as nothing more than \"a trade organization for coaches, athletic directors and conference commissioners.\" There is more hypocrisy and cheating in college sports than the pros would ever dream of. But, of course, like the ladies and gentlemen of the Georgia House of Representatives, our federal politicians all love their alma maters and play up to the alumni who vote, so they keep their attention focused on the pros. And so now we welcome Mr. Clemens to take the oath and explain himself. RENEE MONTAGNE, host: Commentator Frank Deford has two words for those participating in today's hearing: batter up. FRANK DEFORD: There are some, of course, who believe that this sort of thing is nonsense, that government should not bother umpiring sports, that that's a diversion from the more pressing business of the republic. Myself, however, I incline my thinking in the other direction, that we need government to intrude occasionally because sports is too popular, too important culturally to be left to the coaches and commissioners. There are times, of course, when government can be as frivolous as the games it postures to protect. We had the example not long ago, for instance, of the Georgia House of Representatives actually voting passionately, 159-9, on a resolution to urge the NCAA to establish a college football playoff, all because the dear Georgia Bulldogs didn't make the title game this year - if ever there was a case of, hey, get over it. And since sports creates a wider audience than, say, an examination of import taxes on widgets, politicians are always vulnerable in these instances to grandstanding, or even worse, as was the case when Roger Clemens paid social calls on the Hill last week. Congressmen will act like moonstruck adolescents before the big sports guy. But that's a small price to pay for trying to keep sports on that level playing field it always brays about. A great many countries have a ministry of sports which oversees athletics. And in nations where soccer is uber alles, which is most of them, the country's soccer coach is often a national figure on par with the prime minister. While we do", "When baseball fell into its current schedule more than a century ago, the national pastime owned the sporting landscape. There was no professional football, and college football was a regional enterprise in a nation where few folks even had a college alma mater to care about. In a culture still quite agricultural, the schools started later. So, in effect, the harvest extended summer. Baseball could pretty much do what it wanted. The 1911 World Series didn't start until mid-October. After all, because of the cooler spring weather and the nice autumn days, the 154-game schedule didn't begin until mid-April — leisurely, when God made baseball weather. Now, of course, the season is 162 games, which forces a start, chilly and damp, two weeks earlier, and with playoffs, runs until about Halloween –– a time when only the most involved fans can be weaned away from fantasy football and point spreads. The situation is exacerbated because baseball mandates that a smaller percentage of its teams qualify for the postseason. And since the rich teams can buy success more easily than in other sports, the fans in many cities are virtually driven out of baseball, into football's arms. Or, guess what: There are television programs to watch now that weren't around in 1911. Hello, baseball: The culture has changed. It's time to adapt. September begins tomorrow, and even though most teams have no chance, and the kids are back to school, and football is starting, baseball is still going to limp along for another month before crowds where, as the old saying goes, \"A lot of fans came dressed up as empty seats.\" Stop it, baseball. Do two contradictory things: First, end the season on Labor Day. A 140-game season will do just fine. Other sports are not prisoners to old records. But second, as you reduce the regular season, add teams to the playoffs. There are only eight now, and talk of adding two more. No — double the qualifiers: 16 playoff teams, like the NBA and NHL do. Give fans hope. Even more radical, who says all playoff teams have to play protracted head-to-head series? Start off with four-team round-robins, as they do in the soccer World Cup. Like the dimwits who run college football, the fundamentalists will cry that this diminishes the regular season. OK. So what? Baseball is not an ecclesiastical calendar. It's an entertainment. Do you want to diminish the regular season, or diminish the whole sport? Because that's what the current arrangement does. September should be a climactic month for baseball. Instead it's a calculated delaying action, until you can play the most important games when it's too cold for baseball, and too late at night for disenchanted baseball fans to watch.", "Hall of Fame coach Joe Gibbs has agreed to return as head coach of the Washington Redskins, the National Football League team he led to three Super Bowl championships in the 1980s and early 1990s. The news comes as the NFL prepares to hold four playoff games this weekend. NPR's Bob Edwards reviews the latest sports news with <EM>GQ</EM> columnist Peter Richmond.", "The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the San Diego Chargers 11-10 Sunday night. It was the first time in NFL history that a game ended with that score. What are the odds? Peter Hirdt, vice president of The Elias Sports Bureau, offers his insights in a conversation with Melissa Block. MELISSA BLOCK, host: It was freezing and snowy in Pittsburgh yesterday, and NFL history was made when the Steelers beat the San Diego Chargers 11-10. It was the first time in NFL history that a game has been decided by that score. And to help us understand why this 11-10 is such a rare score, we're going to talk now with Peter Hirdt, vice president of The Elias Sports Bureau. That's the official statistician for the NFL and other major sports leagues. Thanks for being with us. Mr. PETER HIRDT (Vice President, Elias Sports Bureau): Thank you, Melissa. BLOCK: And if I have this right, there have been 12,837 games in NFL history and never an 11-10 score. Why not? Mr. HIRDT: Well, football is an unusual sport because in most sports you increase your score one at a time, or one or two at a time. Football is different. Football you score in multiples. You get three points for a field goal. You get six or seven points for a touchdown, depending on whether you add the extra point. And because of that, there are certain scores that are common in football and some that are uncommon or rare. And 11 is just one of those combinations that doesn't come up. BLOCK: So, it's the 11 part of the score that's the strange one here? Mr. HIRDT: Oh yeah. Eleven alone is a very unusual score in football. It's about a 400 to one chance that a team will score 11 points in a football game. BLOCK: Well, let's walk through how the Steelers ended up with 11 points. It's a little bit fluky, right? They recorded a safety. They tackled the chargers in their own end zone. That's two points, right? Mr. HIRDT: Yeah. And that in itself was why the score ended up, as you say, fluky. The safety, which is a play that I would say occurs maybe once every two weeks in the NFL over the course of a season, or once every 30 games - and I'm just guessing - that was the play that caused sort of like a non-standard score to happen. And the fact they scored no touchdowns kept the score low as well. BLOCK: OK. So, two points plus three field goals at three points apiece. So 11 total. Mr. HIRDT: Yeah. BLOCK: You know, for folks in your line of work, following sports numbers throughout history, is a game like yesterday's Steelers starters game, is it a great day that something has happened that hasn't happened in almost 13,000 games? Mr. HIRDT: You know, one of our roles - and this is in all sports - is to identify events that make a particular game unusual or unique. So in a sense this just made our job very easy. In some cases, you have to look really hard to try and find things that distinguish a particular game. I'll give you an example. Last night, the Dallas Cowboys defeated the Washington Redskins, and it was the 10th time in their history that the Redskins had played on November 16. And they've lost all 10 of those. (Soundbite of laughter) Mr. HIRDT: Now this is not an important event as far as NFL history goes, but it's something that made that particular game different than all others because no team in NFL history has lost all 10 games it's played or that many games on a particular date. BLOCK: This 11-10 score, unprecedented in NFL history. Have we seen that score in college football? Mr. HIRDT: Yeah. There have been - not a lot - but there have been some college football games decided by that score. The most recent one was in 1999 between Vanderbilt and South Carolina. Vanderbilt defeated South Carolina 11-10. But that was the only one of those in 25 years. And that represents a universe of about 15,000 games. So that, you know - it's happened at about the same rate as the NFL would suggest, once in roughly 13,000. I was trying to think of what other things happen about once in 13,000 tries, and someone here mentioned that those are the odds that are usually associated with the chance that an average golfer will hit a hole in one sometime during that round of golf. So watching an 11-10 score in football is sort of like going out and hitting a hole in one, and I would guess that most golfers would rather hit the hole in one, but... BLOCK: Yeah, probably, unless they're Steelers fans. Mr. HIRDT: Yeah. That's true. (Soundbite of laughter) BLOCK: Well, Peter Hirdt, thanks for talking with us. Mr. HIRDT: Thank you, Melissa. BLOCK: Peter Hirdt is vice president of The Elias Sports Bureau, the official statisticians for the NFL and other major sports leagues, in New York.", "The NFL season is over, but not the debate over hard hits on the football field. Daily Beast columnist Buzz Bissinger once opposed violent tackles. But now he says cutting violence out of football is not an option, and there are only two paths left: acceptance, or abolishment of the game itself. \"During the playoffs,\" Bissinger tells NPR's Neal Conan, \"there were two just totally smash-mouth games.\" The teams \"hated each other, it was gritty, it was in the dirt, they were going after each other. And that is football to me.\" Bissinger clarifies he doesn't wish injury on the players, but the game made him realize that \"football is a celebration of violence.\" And if the NFL tries to legislate violence of out the game, he thinks, \"you will not have football. And If you're that concerned, you've got to ban it.\" He knows injuries on the field have been shown to lead to early death, but Bizzinger isn't convinced hits to the head can be proven to lead to suicide. And anyway, even as the rules stand now, such as the one banning helmet-to-helmet hits, concussions still happen. \"If you talk to football players,\" says Bissinger, \"to a person, they say this is part of the game, this is an occupational hazard ... and this is the way we're trained to play ... and frankly, this is the way fans want football players to play.\" Fines, suspensions and banning certain kinds of hits, he says, won't change that the game's violent. \"This is why we like it. There can be moments of absolute grace, but it's in the trenches, in the tackles. It's James Harrison of the Steelers, ramming someone into the ground, or Ray Lewis of the Baltimore Ravens.\" Whether it's right or wrong, concludes Bissinger, the game \"is distinctly American.\" NEAL CONAN, host And now the Opinion Page. The final whistle at the Super Bowl last night ended the NFL season, and more than a few commentators suggest the next football game ought to be played under new rules to greatly reduce the violence of the sport. Blown knees and dislocated shoulders are bad enough, but recent reports focus on the dangers of concussion that can lead to dementia and early death. Daily Beast sports columnist Buzz Bissinger argues we need to accept the game as it is or get rid of it altogether. Can football be football without all the violence? 800-989-8255. Email us: talk@npr.org. You can also join the conversation on our website. That's at npr.org, click on TALK OF THE NATION. Buzz Bissinger joins us now from a studio in Philadelphia. He's, of course, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. The author of \"Friday Night Lights,\" and his column \"NFL Playoffs: Why Football Needs Violence\" ran in the Daily Beast last month. Nice to have you back in the program today. Mr. BUZZ BISSINGER (Sports Columnist, The Daily Beast): Hey, thank you. CONAN: And I have to point out, you could have been found in the other camp before. Mr. BISSINGER: Well, you know, I think I could've and probably was. But, you know, it was during the playoffs, I forget which weekend, it was actually the first weekend and there were two just totally, you know, smash mouth games, in particular, when the Steelers played the Baltimore Ravens. And that to me was, you know, they hated each other. It was gritty. It was in the dirt. They were going after each other. And that is football to me. And I loved it, and I realized that football is a celebration violence. It is violence. You don't want - wish that anyone gets hurt. But if you legislate violence out of the game, as I think they're trying to do, you will not have football. And if you're that concerned, then you got to ban it. CONAN: You say, you know, you never want anybody - any injuries to happen. Injuries are quite predictable. It's going to happen. And indeed, all of the research, and you cite some of it in your piece, all the research suggests this leads to early death. Mr. BISSINGER: Well, there are studies that say it leads to early death. However, and I did cite them, I'm not sure whether you can ever prove that someone actually committed suicide because of getting a lot of hits to the head, because suicide is such an individual private act. But there are cases -Andre Waters was one. He committed suicide at a very early age. When they looked at his brain, it had significantly atrophied. But even with the rules that you have now, Neal, with, you know, no helmet-to-helmet hits, you're still getting concussions. There was a horrific concussion when the Seattle Seahawks played the Bears, and it was a beautiful hit. The defensive back caught off John Carlson at the knees, a tight end. He was trying to leapfrog over him, and his head hit the freezing turf in Chicago, and he got a concussion. Now, you know, did I feel bad for him? Frankly, no. I'm glad he didn't break his neck, but it was an absolutely beautiful play. And if you talk to football players, there was just a recent article in GQ, to a person, they say this is part of the game. This is an occupa", "When you think about it, college football really is a strange duck. Things are simply more different in college football than in other major sports. And it's not just the bizarre system used to pick the two teams that will play for the championship, which is Thursday night. It's a system that isn't employed in any sport anywhere in the world. Consider, too, that only in college football do teams in the playoff take off a month or more between the end of their regular season and the title game. A Growing Fixation Another strange aspect of college football is that the attention devoted to the top individual award far exceeds that of any other team sport. People start handicapping the Heisman Trophy winner as soon as the season starts. The so-called Heisman Watch is a weekly feature. But in college basketball, now, do you hear talk about who the winner of the Wooden Award will be? Discussion about the MVPs in professional sports rarely peaks till near the end of the season. College football is different. College football also has so many more players — and coaches and subordinates of every stripe — than any other sport. Its finances dwarf the rest. It's the only sport in which a large number of athletes choose to become unhealthy in order to play. The number of obese players dwarfs those in every other sport, too. Football As A Cultural Force And really, at the end of the day, college football is more cultural than athletic. Even as baseball became the national pastime, college football was becoming far more important on campus. Football, after all, correlates with the start of the school year. College is back; football is back. People don't think of college football games; they think of college football weekends. The alumni return to campus for homecoming — for football. So many college football programs now are, in effect, overseen by off-campus, quasi-official booster clubs. This seems to be one of the reasons why college football alone awards so few head coaching jobs to African-Americans. In college basketball and in the major pro sports, black coaches are so common now that nobody much bothers to mention race when one is hired or fired. But just a month ago, only three of the 119 Division I football coaches were African-American — 2.5 percent — when it's estimated that at least half of all Division I players are black. A veritable frenzy of minority hiring has raised the number of black coaches to seven — but it's invariably the lesser colleges that give blacks a chance. Auburn chose a white guy whose record was 5 wins, 19 losses, instead of Turner Gill, an African-American who had completely turned around the University of Buffalo's program. Gill's alma mater, Nebraska, had passed on him, too. Race And The Face Of A School In some countries, the second most famous man in the land is the national soccer coach. That's also pretty analogous to the way it is in our colleges with football, only more so. The football coach is the face of a college, and a lot of boosters and alumni and athletic directors and presidents aren't ready to see a black man out in front of our football team — our place. College football is different, different even from the United States. Frank Deford joins us from member station WSHU in Fairfield, Conn. ARI SHAPIRO, host: The Florida Gators and the Oklahoma Sooners meet tomorrow night in Miami for the National College Football Championship. One of them will win the title, but that's not likely to settle the controversy over how college football chooses its champion. Commentator Frank Deford says it's just one of the sport's oddities. FRANK DEFORD: When you think about it, college football really is a strange duck. Things are just more different in college football than in our other major sports. It's not only the bizarre system used to pick the two teams that play for the championship tomorrow night - a playoff that isn't employed in any sport anywhere in the world. The attention devoted to the top individual award for college football far exceeds that of any other team sport. People start handicapping the Heisman Trophy winner as soon as the season starts. The so-called Heisman Watch is a weekly feature. But in college basketball, now, do you hear talk about who the winner of the Wooden Trophy will be? College football is different. College football has so many more players and coaches and subordinates of every stripe than any other sport. Its finances dwarf all the others. It's also the only sport where a large number of athletes choose to become unhealthy in order to play. The number of obese players dwarfs those in every other sport, too. And really, at the end of the day, college football is more cultural than athletic. Even as baseball became the national pastime, college football was becoming far more important on campus. Football, after all, correlates with the start of the school year. College is back, football is back. People don't think of college football g", "It&#8217;s a new twist in the debate over whether college athletes should be paid &#8212; why not set up a minor league that allows the athletes to skip college altogether and concentrate on their sport? A group that has deep ties to the NFL plans to do that next year. The new league will give young football players a chance to prepare for pro football rather than going to college and playing football at the same time. Here & Now&#8216;s Jeremy Hobson discusses with sports analyst Mike Pesca (@pescami), host of the daily podcast The Gist.", "It's hard to imagine a much more dramatic weekend of NFL playoff games. There was the big comeback by the Indianapolis Colts, who had fallen 28 points behind the Kansas City Chiefs. Indy bounced back to win a 45-44 thriller. The game included arguably the most amazing play of the weekend: Colts quarterback Andrew Luck's touchdown late in the fourth quarter when he picked up a ball that had bounced off a teammate's shoulder. Luck dove toward the end zone and managed to just stretch across the goal line. The NFL has posted video of that wild moment here. The Colts-Chiefs contest was followed by the New Orleans Saints' dramatic 26-24 victory — thanks to a field goal that was the last play of the game — over the Philadelphia Eagles. Also settled by a last-second field goal: the San Francisco 49ers' 23-20 victory over the Green Bay Packers — a game played in sub-zero temperatures. Finally, the San Diego Chargers pulled off an upset. They went into frigid Cincinnati and beat the Bengals 27-10. As we said, Luck's touchdown was arguably the highlight from a weekend of highlights. We're interested in what others think. Tell us in the comments thread. Next weekend, Indianapolis goes to New England to play the Patriots. San Diego heads to Denver to go up against the Broncos. San Francisco flies across the nation to play the Carolina Panthers. New Orleans faces the Seahawks in Seattle. Now, fans of the NFL aren't necessarily also college football fanatics. But many surely are. For them, there's tonight's NCAA championship game between No. 1 Florida State and No. 2 Auburn. It's the last \"Bowl Championship Series\" game. Next season, the NCAA turns to a four-team playoff format. On Morning Edition, NPR's Tom Goldman told host David Greene that fans who like offense \"should be in for a treat\" because both teams have high-scoring offenses." ]

[ "Of course, blocking a person's number on iPhone does not prevent that person from contacting you through third-party apps like Instagram or WhatsApp. But text messages sent from a blocked number will not be delivered to your iPhone, and you won't receive phone or FaceTime calls from said number." ]

[ "Method 2: Sending Text or iMessage to the iPhone Number to Check for Block. You can also try to check if your number has been blocked by sending the person a message. If the iMessage never shows a “Delivered” or “Read” message, and it's still blue, then you may have been blocked – but not always.", "['There is one way to check and see if someone has blocked you or is still blocking you without calling or texting them. ... ', \"You may already know when you're blocked on an iPhone your iMessages start to show up as green. ... \", \"In the iMessage app there's a location sharing feature.\"]", "You can use the Do Not Disturb feature on your iPhone whenever you want to block any calls, texts, or other notifications from making your phone ring. The notifications and alerts will still be stored on your phone, and you can check them at any time, but your iPhone won't light up or ring.", "The answer is big No No. You can't text somebody who has blocked you on WhatsApp. Even if you try sending them a text, it won't reach them as it'll be blocked by WhatsApp Server. If someone has blocked you in WhatsApp well you can still send a message however it will not be delivered to the person.", "Our system does not notify the person you've blocked. However, their text will not go through when texting your specific number. This leads them to think that you've blocked them, but we don't text them or notify them that you blocked him/her.", "If you block someone on WhatsApp are they still in your contact and can you still call them? ... You also won't be able to contact them through WhatsApp, since you blocked them. However, you will be able to contact them via regular SMS and phone calls, unless you also block their number in your phone.", "Attributes are tags, or labels, for blocks. You can use attributes to add any text to a block. For example, attributes are often used to fill in the text in a title block. By placing the attributes where you want them in the title block, you can facilitate the entering of the text.", "So for the five free blocks do they receive a notifcation when they call or text me? And can you still contact them? When a number is blocked, if the person has Verizon service, they'll receive a red X and a message \"Delivery failed. Invalid destination or service blocked at destination\".", "once you have blocked someone you can not call or text them and you can not receive any messages or calls from them either. you will have to unblock them to contact them. once you have blocked someone you can not call or text them and you can not receive any messages or calls from them either.", "Most Android phones have a native number blocking feature. This means that you can block numbers from calling and texting you through the settings of your Android phone. Calls from blocked numbers will go straight to voicemail and text messages from blocked numbers will go undelivered.", "When you block a phone number in Voice: ... Existing calls and texts from the number will be marked Blocked . When the number calls you, the person will hear a \"Number not in service\" message. When the number texts you, you won't get the message.", "What happens when you block a number on a Samsung Galaxy S10. Simply put, after you block a number, that caller can no longer reach you. ... The recipient will also receive your text messages, but will not be able to effectively respond, since you won't receive incoming texts from the number you've blocked.", "Block a Phone Number or Contact on Your Phone. If you're receiving spam calls or someone won't leave you alone, you can block their phone number. That way, their calls and text messages will no longer appear on your phone. But don't worry, you can always unblock them if you change your mind.", "Answer: A: Answer: A: You can call them, text them, iMessage them, FaceTime, etc. At least until they block you.", "They are only sending to you through the app. This means that, if a person had your phone number, they could still text you outside of Whatsapp. If you want to block text messages sent directly to your phone number, you might consider trying an app like Mr.", "The person that you blocked CAN still call your whatsapp number BUT although the person will hear the call ringing, you won't even know that they are trying to call you. ... You can't call a person on WhatsApp if you are blocked by them. There's no way that your call will reach them if he/she has already blocked you.", "Can you tell if someone blocked your texts for sure? No. ... If an Android user has blocked you, Lavelle says, “your text messages will go through as usual; they just won't be delivered to the Android user.” It's the same as an iPhone, but without the “delivered” notification (or lack thereof) to clue you in.", "Calls blocked from your Sprint account are notified that you are not receiving calls or text messages. There is no way to review or be notified if a blocked number attempted to call or text you when the number is blocked from your My Sprint account.", "If you want to recover deleted text messages on iPhone without backup files, you need iBeesoft iPhone Data Recovery. It is a professional tool that helps you to scan your iPhone for the deleted text messages, which are imvisible to you. After then, you can select text messages to preview and restore them.", "Blocking a contact in iPhone blocks it in calling, messaging(messaging app in iPhone ), and face time. Once you have done this, the contact on whatsapp won't get blocked, since thats a completely different system, you can still message that contact in whatsapp.", "What happens to the blocked number if you delete it? ... You can see it in your block list , the name won't be there because you have deleted the contact but the number corresponding to the contact can be clearly seen in the block list , so don't worry the number is still blocked.", "A blocked number can still call you and that person will hear the rings. ... Since you don't actually hear the call, you will only find out about it after caller hangs up (with no voicemail option for them) and you will received a new blocked call notice with that blocked number on your caller id.", "His/her texts won't be delivered to you when trying to contact you. Then, only, can the person may understand. And calls will fail all the time. If the blocked number tries to text you, the message will not get delivered to that person who has blocked the number with an android phone.", "Block phone number. If you don't want to receive calls or messages from certain phone numbers, you can block them. If you receive a call from a blocked phone number, the caller will hear a busy signal. ... Tap Block number.", "The texts would not be delivered if you unblock them and even if you unblock them, it'll only be possible for them know that if they're consta texting you just to see if you've unblocked them. Ever since you block them, you won't receive any text they have sent you until you unblocked them.", "When you block someone from My Verizon, it prevents the other person from calling/texting you. It also prevents you, the account owner from calling/texting such number. You and the blocked number will get a message that the call is being restricted.", "Originally Answered: If someone blocked your number, will they know if you call them anyway? No there is no way they can ever know unless you physically tell them that you tried to call. Once blocked no calls, texts etc go through to the person and no report of any contact trying to be made is issued either.", "If your number is blocked then you can leave a voicemail because you can't speak to that phone as it is sent directly to voicemail. If you have blocked a number from calling your phone, you can still call it and leave a voicemail.", "All those messages will not be sent to you after you unblock that particular contact. ... If you unblock them those text messages that were sent to them while blocked will not be received or sent to them as they already were blocked. You will have to send them new text messages.", "You can back up your iPhone's text messages to iCloud for reliable storage, and you can access them any time from almost any Apple device. Syncing your iPhone messages with your Mac computer also ensures you won't lose future texts, and allows you to view or write texts right from your Mac.", "Yes, until you block them, they can see what you watch. It won't disappear when you block them because you read it while still connected with them.", "Blocking contacts via Messages When a blocked number tries to send you a text message, it won't go through. ... You also won't see notifications for these texts." ]

[ "By . Eleanor Harding and Tom Kelly . PUBLISHED: . 17:37 EST, 7 July 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 02:46 EST, 8 July 2013 . She has cheered him on through every game - for better or for worse. But it seems Kim Sears may be waiting a little longer to hear those words at the altar, despite her obvious devotion. Andy Murray yesterday batted off questions over whether he was ready to settle down as he celebrated his historic victory. Scroll down for video . Love match: Murray gets a kiss from Kim as he climbs into the Players' Box at the end of the Wimbledon final . Supportive to the end: Miss Sears cheers on her boyfriend during the Wimbledon men's singles final yesterday . What a match: An ecstatic Miss Sears holds her head as Murray clinches victory on Centre Court yesterday . Later on: Murray and Miss Sears arrive at a winners' party last night at a hotel on Park Lane in central London . There has long been speculation as to . when he might propose to his girlfriend of seven years, and this has . intensified now that he has finally achieved his dream of winning . Wimbledon. But asked about . whether he was ready to marry Miss Sears, Murray looked perturbed. After . a long pause, he said: ‘No… I haven’t thought about that yet.’ Yesterday . patient Kim was in the Players’ Box cheering on her boyfriend as usual – . with the  tension of the game clear to see on her face. On . seeing Murray win, she put her hands on her head in apparent disbelief . and mouthed: ‘Oh my God.’ Minutes earlier, she had said ‘I can’t believe . this’ as Murray won yet another vital point. Miss Sears, 25, wore a £925  mint green lace dress designed by Victoria Beckham. It . is thought the dress was given to Kim to wear as the Beckhams and . Murray are both managed by Simon Fuller’s XIX Entertainment, offering . Mrs Beckham unrivalled free advertising in front of millions of . television viewers. Couple: Murray and Miss Sears are pictured at London fashion parties in 2011 (left) and last September (right) Early days: Murray kisses Miss Sears after beating Lleyton Hewitt in a match in San Jose, California, in 2006 . Six years ago: An injured Murray watches tennis with Miss Sears from a balcony at Wimbledon in June 2007 . Last year Miss Sears was loaned  a pair of £300 Victoria Beckham sunglasses to wear for the Wimbledon finals, when Murray lost to Roger Federer. Miss Sears was still a teenager in the sixth form when she met Murray through her father Nigel, the head of UK women’s tennis coaching. 'No… I haven’t thought about that yet' Murray responds to question on whether he is ready to marry girlfriend Kim Sears . The pair were introduced at a tournament in America and Murray wooed her with flowers and texts. The couple moved in together  in 2009 before splitting briefly. Six months later, they reunited after discovering they were miserable apart. Those close to Murray have said Miss Sears would be the perfect tennis wife because she brings ‘calmness’ to him while he  is on court. Murray has hinted in the past that marriage is something Miss Sears would want, but has always said they were not at the right stage in their lives. Last year he said: ‘I have no plans to get married right now. I am still fairly young. But we’ll see.’" ]

[ "He may be out of the Wimbledon championships – but the reasons for Andy Murray’s four-letter outbursts during his humiliating defeat by Grigor Dimitrov were still being feverishly discussed yesterday. Did a row with his girlfriend Kim Sears a few minutes before play prompt him to turn towards the players’ box and shout incredulously: ‘Five minutes before the f***ing match?’ Had there been a disagreement with his new coach Amelie Mauresmo? And who was the target of his ‘Shut the f*** up!’ attack, which he screamed in the direction of Miss Sears, Miss Mauresmo and his mother Judy Murray? Scroll down for video . Contrite? Murray arrives at coach Amelie Mauresmo's house yesterday with a card... and leaves in good spirits . Here – as Murray prepares to return to training in Miami – the Daily Mail examines speculation surrounding his flare-up and names the main suspects. KIM SEARS: . Face of the defeated: Murray's loss was chronicled by the change in expressions of girlfriend Kim Sears . The story of Murray’s defeat was chronicled blow by blow in the facial expressions of his loyal girlfriend Kim Sears. Occasionally she appeared to offer advice beyond the standard ‘Come on Andy!’, preferred by much of the Centre Court crowd. Fact: They didn’t leave together after the match – Andy jumped in an All England Club courtesy car immediately after his post-match press conference and had not changed out of his kit. Their separate departures would not normally be cause for speculation but Miss Sears did accompany him after his 2012 defeat by Roger Federer – and on Wednesday was said to have been ‘looking upset’ when she left without him. Wicked internet speculation that she had chosen five minutes before the big match to dump him/tell him she was pregnant/say she had always liked Roger cannot be substantiated. But the breaking news last night was that Miss Sears had accidentally let slip the ending of a box-set TV series they had been watching. Yesterday his grandfather Roy Erskine, 82, said of the ‘five-minutes’ mystery: ‘Normally he’ll be alone in his dressing room so I have no idea what could possibly have gone wrong.’ AMELIE MAURESMO: . Coach: Miss Mauresmo was seen sprinting up the stairs to the competitors’ box just moments before Murray came on to court . The French former world number one started coaching Murray after he lost in the semi-finals of the French Open last month. Recently when asked about their professional partnership, she volunteered that things were getting ‘smoother and smoother’ perhaps implying there was a time when they were less so. Fact: Miss Mauresmo was seen sprinting up the stairs to the competitors’ box just moments before Murray came on to court to face Dimitrov. Did she tell him to change his strategy? Might she have clashed with him over tactics? Was something she said playing on Murray’s brooding mind? Yesterday a track-suited Murray arrived at her flat near the ground for a pre-arranged meeting. He was carrying what appeared to be a card in an envelope with a single name written on it. Cards declaring ‘Sorry I Told You to Shut The F*** Up’ are not widely available – but in any case, it is Amelie’s 35th birthday tomorrow. The pair spent more than two hours inside before Andy left alone. But conspiracy theories which suggested coach and player were about to separate amid some unspecified acrimony fell flat when he failed to stomp out in a strop. 'Off his game': Andy Murray's play was 'not quite right' during their warm-up according to his friend Dimitrov . Enraged: The defending champion also yelled 'shut the f*** up!' at his team according to photographers . Speculation: The 23-year-old Bulgarian (pictured with Murray after his win) said 'it is just a feeling' when he told reporters Andy was not playing to his best ability. The pair are close friends and play together regularly . JUDY MURRAY: . Andy’s mother and long-time former coach remains a constant presence. Except, that is, for some possibly critical minutes on Wednesday at the start of the match. Fact: Mrs Murray was at court 18 to cheer her other son, Jamie, to victory in his mixed doubles opener with Australian Casey Dellacqua. Little brother Andy had already lost the first set by the time she arrived. Last week Andy joked he was ‘the number two son’, and that his family seemed to spend a great deal of time watching the number one. Support: Andy’s mother Judy and long-time former coach remains a constant presence. Except, that is, for some possibly critical minutes on Wednesday at the start of the match . Another theory: Was Mrs Murray shouting advice that contradicted Murray’s coach? Perhaps. But even for a grumpy Scot in a foul mood, it is surely beyond the realms of possibility that he would tell his own mother to ‘shut the f*** up’. Afterwards she stressed she knew of nothing that might have upset him. MAGGIE MAY: . Roger Federer has entered the debate over Wimbledon’s all-white dress code, saying it is ‘too strict’. The seven-time champion urged the All England Club to ‘loosen its grip’. He said: ‘We’re all white. White, white, full-on white … My personal opinion, I think it’s too strict. ‘ . Tighter rules were brought in this year amid concerns that sponsors were weaving more colour into players’ kit. The couple’s beloved border terrier, named after the Rod Stewart hit, has previously used Twitter throughout her master’s Wimbledon appearances. This year she has not tweeted even a bark. Has she been unwell? Fact: Four years ago Mrs Murray revealed Andy was ‘worried sick’ throughout the tournament after Maggie fell ill. THE BANANA: . Murray has previously relied on bananas for their energy-giving qualities. Fact: On the advice of a nutritionist, he cut back on bananas last year – and won Wimbledon. This year he admitted he was back on them – and lost. FATE: . Play began on Centre Court at noon rather than the usual time of 1pm. Murray’s early start led to suggestions afterwards that he he was not mentally prepared for his game. Was he given only five minutes’ notice of the change? Murray dismissed the speculation in his BBC blog yesterday, declaring: ‘There was nothing different in the build-up, and no reason to expect that kind of performance.’ ANDY MURRAY: . Perhaps the player himself is the only real suspect. Could it simply be that he lost? It is the only theory he publicly supports. ‘Yeah,’ said Murray. I certainly lost the match, yeah.’ Shock: Dimitrov, who ranks at No13 in the world, was astounded when he secured his place in the semi-finals . The fashions may have changed since their hit duet 45 years ago. But Cilla Black and Sir Cliff Richard’s devotion to each other clearly has not. The singers have been firm friends since their pop heyday and released the duet Walk On By in 1969. Yesterday, they arrived at the Royal Box arm-in-arm, laughing and joking as they enjoyed the women’s semi-finals. They also chatted to Love Actually actor Colin Firth and Inbetweeners star Laura Haddock in the Royal Box. Sir Cliff, of course, is a Wimbledon regular and in 1996 gave an impromptu performance of Singing in the Rain on Centre Court during a long delay in play caused by rain. The singers have been firm friends since their pop heyday and released the duet Walk On By in 1969 .", "Andy Murray’s hometown today sent their congratulations to their local hero after he announced his engagement to long-term love Kim Sears. Children made colourful cards congratulating the tennis ace on his love game, while the local butchers created a message in sausage. And Murray’s beaming gran joked: 'It’s about time'. Shirley Erskine, 83, said she was delighted to reveal her good news after being initially sworn to secrecy. Celebrations commence: Dunblane business's and residents congratulated their local hero Andy Murray today on his engagement to Kim Sears. Andy's granny Shirley Erskine is pictured here with congratulation cards made by kids at the Dunblane Centre. Speaking at her Dunblane home, she said: 'We’re delighted. Kim is a lovely girl. Andy phoned and said \"just to tell you, I proposed to Kim today\". His grandpa Roy and I were thrilled. 'Roy told him \"I hope she said yes\". I asked, \"can I give my congratulations to Kim\", and he said \"she’s right here\". 'He passed the phone to Kim. She was very excited - we all were. I’m told it’s a lovely ring. Kim has been such a great support to Andy through all his highs and lows. 'We couldn’t be happier for them both.' Mrs Erskine agreed to deliver to her grandson handmade cards created by local children at the Dunblane Centre, adding: 'They’re brilliant. He’ll love them.' Marco McCool, 10, whose card read 'Andy + Kim 4 ever', said: 'Andy’s an amazing tennis player – and now he’s a very lucky guy.' Katie Wales, aged eight, added: 'I want to say well done – Kim’s lovely.' Thrilled: Speaking at her Dunblane home, Shirley said: 'We're delighted. Kim is a lovely girl. His grandpa Roy and I were thrilled' Gemma Greer, centre manager, said: 'Everyone is really excited. We watch all Andy’s games and have gone through all his ups and downs. 'Everyone’s hoping they will be married at Andy’s hotel, Cromlix House. It would be lovely if Dunblane was able to give them a good send off for married life. 'It will be the event of the year.' One person posted a congratulations message, complete with love hearts, on the City of Dunblane sign welcoming visitors to Murray’s home. Another attached a pink heart to the golden post box in Dunblane High Street, painted in celebration of Murray’s gold medal at the London Olympics . Engaged at last: Tennis star Andy Murray has proposed to Kim Sears, his partner of more than nine years . Supportive: Roy Erskine and Shirley Erskine, grandparents of Andy Murray, watch his match on Centre Court against Croatia's Ivo Karlovic on day four of the 2012 Wimbledon Championships . Passing on the news: Mrs Erskine agreed to deliver to her grandson handmade cards created by local children at the Dunblane Centre . Even the Dunblane butcher was celebrating – with a congratulatory message reading 'Andy and Kim', with a love-heart all made out of sausage. Butcher Connor Wilson, 22, of Bennett’s of Dunblane, said: 'It’s our way of saying congratulations and all the best. 'Hopefully the wedding will be in Dunblane and we can treat Andy and Kim to a nice big steak.' Andy’s old school pal, Stewart McClymont, 27, said: 'When we were kids all we talked about was football and wrestling, but we’ve all grown up and I couldn’t be more pleased for him. 'Kim’s a lovely girl. She’s down to earth, easy going and obviously exactly what Andy needs. They seem perfectly suited.' Pub landlord Alan Duncan, 48, who has shown all of Andy’s big matches at the Dunblane Hotel in recent years, said: 'We all wish Andy and Kim many more happy years together. It’s not been his best year on the court but he’s still managed to end the season on a high note.' Andy proposed to Kim Sears, 26, last week with a diamond ring he chose himself and she immediately said ‘yes’. Look of love: Left, a candid moment between the pair, and right, after winning Olympic gold in 2012 . Sources said the couple had hoped to keep their engagement secret for some time and have not yet made plans for their wedding. Murray, 27, who flew to the Philippines for a tennis tournament yesterday, had not even shared his happy news with some of his closest family members. The sportsman’s mother Judy said last night that she was ‘thrilled’, but his grandmother said she had heard only ‘rumours’. Since last year becoming the first British man to win the Wimbledon singles title since 1936, Murray has repeatedly batted off questions about when he would ask Miss Sears to marry him. But he popped the question last Wednesday, placing a painstakingly selected engagement ring on her finger. Miss Sears was just 17 and still studying her A-Levels when she met the up-and-coming tennis player at the US Open in 2005. Murray wooed her with phone calls and flowers. But she did not allow their burgeoning romance to affect her schoolwork, and she achieved straight As in her exams. The couple managed to keep their relationship quiet – until Murray won his first tournament in California in 2006 and ran through the crowd to give his girlfriend a kiss. They separated briefly in 2009, reportedly because of the sports star’s video games obsession, but rekindled their romance after six months and have stayed together since. She has been credited with improving the tennis player’s scruffy appearance and helping him to control his fiery temper on court. British tennis player Andy Murray poses with the 2013 Wimbledon trophy along with his fiancee Kim Sears during the Wimbledon Champions Dinner in July 2013, a day after he won the men's singles final match . Victor: Andy Murray of Great Britain climbs into his player's box to celebrate with friends, family and members of his coaching team following his victory in 2013 . Kiss for a champion: Kim Sears reacts at the men's final at Wimbledon in July 2013 . Murray, who grew up in Dunblane in Scotland, has spoken of the strength he draws from Miss Sears, particularly in the light of his own parents’ separation when he was just 11. ‘I work better in a relationship. At the end of a day, especially if I’ve lost a match, I don’t like talking about tennis, so it’s nice to have someone to talk to about other stuff,’ he said in 2009. The couple live in a £5.6million house in Oxshott, Surrey, with their two Border terriers, Rusty and Maggie May. There had been a series of rumours that Murray was about to propose to Miss Sears before their engagement was officially confirmed yesterday. In January he jokingly tweeted: ‘We are getting married just after Wimbledon, should be a great day.’ The message prompted Twitter users to offer their congratulations, until he admitted that it was just ‘tongue-in-cheek’. Murray has already spoken of how he would like to have children with Miss Sears. Domesticity: The pair pop out to do some shopping in 2010 . The tennis star's mother Judy and Sears celebrate his Wimbledon win over Stanislas Wawrinka in June 2009 . Murray holds the British flag aloft following his 2012 Olympic triumph over Roger Federer . In his 2013 memoir Seventy-Seven: My Road to Wimbledon Glory, he wrote: ‘I would like to start a family and try to be a good father. That’s important to me. It’s something that I’m starting to think about because Kim and I have been together for eight years.’ Last night Mrs Murray, 55, who was recently voted off Strictly Come Dancing, said simply: ‘I’m thrilled.’ The sports star’s grandmother Shirley Erskine added: ‘I know there have been rumours but that’s as much as we know. It would be nice, without a doubt.’ A spokesman for Murray confirmed that the star had become engaged but declined to give any further details. Early days: Andy Murray with girlfiend Kim Sears celebrates his win over Lleyton Hewitt in 2006 .", "She shocked audiences worldwide with her astonishing four-letter outburst this week - and now even her father has joking condemned Kim Sears' tirade, calling it 'disgraceful behaviour'. Nigel Sears, a coach and pundit, was asked about his daughter's expletive-filled howl as she watched tennis playing fiancée Andy Murray overcome Thomas Berdych in a heated Australian Open semi-final on Thursday. The 57-year-old joked 'she's always had a potty mouth - gets it from her mother of course' before expressing his surprise that Miss Sears' 'feisty' support had created such a furore. Scroll down for video . Expletives: Kim Sears appeared to unleash a foul-mouthed tirade while watching tennis playing fiancée Andy Murray overcome Thomas Berdych in a heated Australian Open semi-final on Thursday . Joked: Kim's father Nigel Sears said his daughter must have learnt her bad language from her mother . Speaking to EuroSport, he said: 'Quite amazing how much has been made of this - but it's pretty emotional in that box when you're close to someone... and it was a feisty match. 'They've been together a long time, and it just goes with the territory. Andy's a huge figure in the game, so naturally her association with him means there's always going to be a certain spotlight on Kim. 'I think by and large she deals with it extremely well.I think people are reading a lot into this.' Miss Sears sent Twitter into meltdown after the usually poised 27-year-old appeared to hurl a string of expletives towards Czech player Tomas Berdych in one of several heated moments during the clash. Miss Sears sent Twitter into meltdown after the usually poised 27-year-old appeared to hurl a string of expletives towards Czech player Tomas Berdych . As tensions boiled over, the devoted supporter was caught on camera appearing to mouth 'F*****g have that, you Czech flash f***', or 'Take that, you flash f**k'. The clip, which was recorded after the camera zoomed in on Ms Sears, sparked an online frenzy, with hundreds both amused and shocked by the outburst from Murray's usually-demure other half. The tennis star quickly jumped to the defence of his fiancée and said the seemingly uncharacteristic episode was down to 'a lot of tension' whipped up before the match. He told reporters: 'When there's a lot of tension surrounding something which you (the media) created, which you created, then it's completely normal. 'The whole first set, everyone was tight. My physical trainer, physio, I'm sure for Dani it was uncomfortable. 'Even Tomas, who very rarely says anything on the court, there was tension there for him, as well. Yeah, in the heat of the moment you can say stuff that you regret. And, yeah, that's it.' Murray, pictured during Thursday's game, will now compete in the final at Melbourne Park for the fourth time . Defence: Murray quickly jumped to the defence of his fiancée and said the seemingly uncharacteristic episode was down to 'a lot of tension' whipped up before the match . The dramatic outburst came as Murray won a tense baseline rally in the first set to claim a break back against world number 7. Luckily, there were no microphones nearby to pick up her exact choice of colourful words - but it was evident Ms Sears was deeply invested in the match. The highly-charged fixture was the first time Murray and Berdych had come head-to-head since the latter hired Murray's former trainer Dani Vallverdu. Mr Vallverdu helped Murray win his two grand slam titles and an Olympic gold before they stopped working together in November. The dynamic dominated the pre-match build-up, despite both players trying to quietly play down tensions between the two camps. But there was no doubt that it added a fiery edge to the match, with Murray admitting afterwards that there had been acrimonious mood around Melbourne Park. Murray eventually beat the Czech in four sets, earning himself a spot in the coveted final this weekend. Speaking on court, he said: 'A lot was made of Dani working with him. We've been friends since we were 15 and I felt like that was a bit unfair and unnecessary. (L-R) Judy Murray, Kim Sears are her father Nigel watch Andy Murray play at Queen's Club back in in 2006 . Influential figure: Nigel Sears is not just the father of the future Mrs Andy Murray, but also a hugely well-respected coach in the women's game . 'This is sport, there is more to life and I thought it was unfair and created a bit of extra tension. 'It was there definitely at the beginning but I think everyone calmed down after the start of the match.' But the Scot also used his victory to heap praise on his coach, Amelie Mauresmo. He said: 'A lot of people criticised me for working with her and I think so far this week we have showed women can be very good coaches as well. 'Madison Keys, who reached the semi-finals here, is also coached by a woman in Lindsay Davenport and I see no reason why that can't keep moving forward so I am very thankful to Amelie for doing it. 'I would say it was a brave choice from her and hopefully I can repay her in a few days.' Meanwhile, on the sidelines, Ms Sears was facing a tennis WAG-off against Berdych's tanned model partner Ester Satorova for the second day running. Much has been made of the rivalry between the two women, both of whom have recently got engaged to their tennis pros. The dramatic outburst came as Murray won a tense baseline rally in the first set to claim a break back against world number 7 . Murray eventually beat the Czech Thomas Berdych, pictured, in four sets, earning himself a spot in the coveted final this weekend . Murray and Berdych both proposed to their respective girlfriends recently before presenting them with expensive diamond rings. The British No 1 proposed to Sears, his girlfriend of nine years last year with a 3.5 carat platinum diamond ring, which he is said to have selected himself. Murray's engagement ring to Sears has been valued at around £250,000 while Berdych's love token is estimated to be worth around £225,000 . U.S television coverage further built up the so-called 'battle of the bling', with ESPN displaying another split screen of Sears and Satorova, with added captions at the bottom showing the estimated worth of their rings. A 50-50 split screen was shown of Sears and Berdych's fiancee Ester Satorova, after which Ms Sears appeared to mouth: 'Oh for f**k sake.' Due to marry: The pair, both 27, had been together for nine years when Murray proposed in November last year . Back on court, after coming out on top in a long exchange in the first set, Murray turned in the direction of Vallverdu, who sitting in his opponent's box, and let out a wild roar in celebration. Berdych was clearly incensed, giving the Scot a long stare as both players walked back to their courtside chair. Then, as Murray sat down, he pumped his fist towards his own box, to which Sears responded with a fist pump of her own. Moments later, Berdych complained to umpire Pascal Maria about the quality of the tennis balls, to which Murray responded: 'He always does this.' As Murray let out some expletives in annoyance at his own play, the big screens in Rod Laver Arena further added to the drama. U.S television coverage further built up the so-called 'battle of the bling', with ESPN displaying a split screen of Sears and Satorova, with added captions at the bottom showing the estimated worth of their rings . Kim's £250K ring . Kim's ring: . Kim Sears’s ring (seen yesterday during Murray’s match) is said to be platinum featuring a brilliant-cut diamond of around 3.5 carats, surrounded by smaller stones. Diamonds in the shoulders of the ring take the weight up to around 4.7 carats. Its estimated value for insurance purposes is £250,000. Ester's £225K ring . Ester's ring: . Ester Satorova’s design (pictured yesterday) is thought to be handmade from platinum. It has a square-cut centre diamond of around four carats, set with a pair of baguette stones, taking the total to around 5.3 carats. Its estimated value for insurance purposes is £225,000. It then came to a head between Murray and Berdych after the latter claimed a 76-minute first set. But Murray quickly hit back on the court, putting on a convincing display as he clinched the remaining sets 6-0, 6-3, 7-5. Afterwards,the handshake between the pair at the net was surprisingly civil. But Berdych later said: 'I'm really not happy and not really in a good mood. I'm very disappointed to lose this match. I had one bad set for the second set, and that's it.'", "Andy Murray is set to tie the knot with Kim Sears at the £1.8million luxury hotel he owns in Scotland. The couple are understood to be arranging the private service for April 11 at the five-star Cromlix House Hotel, close to his home town of Dunblane. But just last summer the hotel's restaurant, which is run by renowned chef Albert Roux, failed a hygiene inspection and was issued with an 'improvement required' rating by Food Standards Agency at Stirling Council. The issue was swiftly rectified by hotel bosses. Scroll down for video . Andy Murray and Kim Sears, pictured yesterday, are set to say 'I do' at the star's luxury Scottish hotel in April . Andy Murray bought the five-star hotel near his hometown of Dunblane in 2013 . The tennis ace proposed to his 27-year-old girlfriend of nine years with a jaw dropping three-carat diamond engagement ring, believed to be worth around £200,000, in November. Ahead of his proposal Murray, who became the first British man to win the Wimbledon singles title in 2013 since 1936, was repeatedly forced to bat off questions about when he would ask Miss Sears to marry him. The usually tight lipped star opened up about his wedding plans in an on-court interview at the recent Australian Open that he might wear a kilt with no underwear at their wedding. Miss Sears will be able to walk down the aisle in the £1.8 million hotel's own private chapel . Murray presented Miss Sears with a diamond engagement ring which is believed to be worth £200,000 . Murray bought Cromlix in 2013 for £1.8 million and it opened last year after a refurbishment. The privacy conscious couple will be able to say 'I do' away from prying eyes, as the hotel boasts its very own private chapel. The wedding party will also have 10 bedrooms and five suites to chose from, each of which is named after a great Scot, including Robert the Bruce, William Wallace, Robert Burns and even fellow sporting legends Sir Alex Ferguson and Sir Chris Hoy. Several of the luxury suites feature hand-painted freestanding gold, silver and copper baths and the rooms’ 32in televisions screens are disguised as mirrors. The hotel overlooks 34-acres of secluded woodland, manicured grounds and tennis courts. Mr Murray and Miss Sears will also be following in the footsteps of the star's older brother, Jamie ,who also got married at Cromlix. He wed Alejandra Guitierrez in a 2010 ceremony, in which Mr Murray acted as best man. Last month Jamie revealed he had not yet been asked to return the favour. Just weeks after it opened its doors to guests the hotel, where guests can expect to pay up to £595 a night during peak season, was named Scottish hotel of the year. With just over two months until their big day the couple appeared relaxed as they walked their dogs near their Surrey home yesterday . The happy couple will be following in the footsteps of Murray's older brother Jamie, who wed Alejandra Gutierrez, at the same venue in 2010 . Cromlix took the top prize at the Scottish Hotel Awards during a ceremony in Edinburgh with judges calling it a 'national treasure'. The hotel restaurant was inspected in July last year by the Food Standards Agency at Stirling Council and issued with an ‘improvement required’ rating. At the time the FSA said the classification means that the restaurant, which is run by renowned chef Albert Roux, ‘had not achieved an acceptable level of compliance with requirements of food hygiene law’. The couple will say 'I do' in front of their family and friends in the luxury hotel's intimate chapel . The wedding party will have 10 bedrooms and five suites to chose from. Pictured: The Eden Room at the luxury hotel . Another luxury room at the hotel, which could be used by guests during the marriage . The hotel underwent an extensive redevelopment after it was bought by the tennis ace . The couples wedding guests will be able to enjoy pre-ceremony drinks at the hotel bar . During the big day guests will be able to relax in the hotel's inviting main lounge area . Bosses at the hotel, near Kinbuck, Perthshire, insisted it was only a minor issue caused by a faulty sink, which was swiftly fixed and a new inspection was ordered. Last week Murray, the current world number six, progressed to the final of the Australian open in Melbourne where he was defeated by world number one Novak Djokovic. His bride-to-be was at the centre of media controversy during the tournament after she was caught on national television, unleashing a torrent of swear words during the semi final between Murray and Tomas Berdych, . Days later for the final Miss Sears poked fun at the row when she appeared court-side wearing a jumper that humorously declared: 'parental advisory: explicit content.' Miss Sears is the Sussex-born daughter of the former Lawn Tennis Association Head of Women's Tennis Nigel Sears. The couple met at the US Open in 2005 when Miss Sears was just 17 and studying for her A Level exams . Their relationship became public when Murray, who grew up in Dunblane, Scotland, won his first tournament in California in 2006 and ran through the crowd to kiss Miss Sears . She was just 17 and still studying her A-Levels when she met the up-and-coming tennis player at the US Open in 2005. She was said to have been wooed by the star, who is now said to be worth of £30 million, with a series of phone calls and flowers. The couples relationship became public when Murray, who grew up in Dunblane, Scotland, won his first tournament in California in 2006 and ran through the crowd to kiss Miss Sears. The sporting stars video game obsession was reportedly behind a brief separation in 2009. But after just six months apart the romance was back on. Murray has in the past spoken of the strength he draws from Miss Sears, particularly in the light of his own parents’ separation when he was just 11. After winning the Wimbledon titled in 2013 Murray celebrated by climbing through the crowd to share a kiss with Miss Sears . Murray has credited his girlfriend of nine years with helping to control his fiery temper and improving his dress sense . She is also credited with having helped control his temper on the court and with smartening up his appearance. ‘I work better in a relationship,' he has previously said of his relationship in 2009. 'At the end of a day, especially if I’ve lost a match, I don’t like talking about tennis, so it’s nice to have someone to talk to about other stuff,.' Andy Murray revealed in a post match interview after the Australian Open, pictured playing in the tournament, that he might wear a kilt with no underwear on the big day. Miss Sears, pictured right, caused controversy at the event after being captured on camera repeatedly swearing . The couple live in a £5.6million house in Oxshott, Surrey, with their two Border terriers, Rusty and Maggie May. In his 2013 memoir Seventy-Seven: My Road to Wimbledon Glory, he wrote: ‘I would like to start a family and try to be a good father. That’s important to me. It’s something that I’m starting to think about because Kim and I have been together for eight years.’ Murray's mother, Judy, who appeared on Strictly Come Dancing, has previously described Miss Sears as the 'best thing to happen to Andy.' Murray's mother, Judy, previously said Miss Sears was 'the best thing' to happen to her son .", "Andy Murray has jumped to the defence of his fiancée Kim Sears after she appeared to launch a furious tirade at his opponent during his Australian Open semi-final victory. In one of several heated moments during the clash, the usually poised 27-year-old appeared to hurl a string of expletives towards Czech player Tomas Berdych. As tensions boiled over, the devoted supporter was caught on camera appearing to mouth 'F*****g have that, you Czech flash f***', or 'Take that, you flash f**k’. Scroll down for video . Kim Sears (pictured left and right) appeared to unleash the tirade as she watched Andy Murray do battle in the Australian Open semi-final . In the X-rated rant, the 27-year-old appeared to say 'F*****g have that, you Czech flash f**k' as the camera put her on the big screen . Ms Sears was also facing a tennis WAG-off against Tomas Berdych's tanned model partner Ester Satorova (pictured left and right), who looked less impressed as the match developed . The clip, which was recorded after the camera zoomed in on Ms Sears, sent Twitter into meltdown, with hundreds both amused and shocked by the outburst from Murray's usually-demure other half. But speaking after the game, Murray said the seemingly uncharacteristic episode was down to 'a lot of tension' whipped up before the match. He told reporters: 'When there's a lot of tension surrounding something which you (the media) created, which you created, then it's completely normal. 'The whole first set, everyone was tight. My physical trainer, physio, I'm sure for Dani it was uncomfortable. 'Even Tomas, who very rarely says anything on the court, there was tension there for him, as well. Yeah, in the heat of the moment you can say stuff that you regret. And, yeah, that's it.' The dramatic outburst came as Murray won a tense baseline rally in the first set to claim a break back against world number 7. Luckily, there were no microphones nearby to pick up her exact choice of colourful words - but it was evident Ms Sears was deeply invested in the match. The highly-charged match was the first time Murray and Berdych had come head-to-head since the latter hired Murray's former trainer Dani Vallverdu. Ms Sears was caught on camera using colourful language as Murray secured a break in the third set to put himself firmly in control of the match with Czech Tomas Berdych. He won the game in four sets . The pair met for the tenth time in today's march. Berdych is now coached by Murray's former coach Dani Vallverdu, which made for an extra tense occasion . Mr Vallverdu helped Murray win his two grand slam titles and an Olympic gold before they stopped working together in November. The dynamic dominated the pre-match build-up, despite both players trying to quietly play down tensions between the two camps. But there was no doubt that it added a fiery edge to the match, with Murray admitting afterwards that there had been acrimonious mood around Melbourne Park. Murray eventually beat the Czech in four sets, earning himself a spot in the coveted final this weekend. Speaking on court, he said: 'A lot was made of Dani working with him. We've been friends since we were 15 and I felt like that was a bit unfair and unnecessary. 'This is sport, there is more to life and I thought it was unfair and created a bit of extra tension. Berdych had won six of the 10 matches between him and Murray (pictured during today's game) and beat Rafael Nadal for the first time in nine years in the last eight - but Murray kept up his impeccable form . Murray, pictured during today's game, will now compete in the final at Melbourne Park for the fourth time . It was the first time Murray had played Berdych (pictured) since he hired Murray's former coach, which no doubt added a fiery edge to the match . 'It was there definitely at the beginning but I think everyone calmed down after the start of the match.' But the Scot also used his victory to heap praise on his coach, Amelie Mauresmo. He said: 'A lot of people criticised me for working with her and I think so far this week we have showed women can be very good coaches as well. 'Madison Keys, who reached the semi-finals here, is also coached by a woman in Lindsay Davenport and I see no reason why that can't keep moving forward so I am very thankful to Amelie for doing it. 'I would say it was a brave choice from her and hopefully I can repay her in a few days.' Meanwhile, on the sidelines, Ms Sears was facing a tennis WAG-off against Berdych's tanned model partner Ester Satorova for the second day running. Much has been made of the rivalry between the two women, both of whom have recently got engaged to their tennis pros. Murray and Berdych both proposed to their respective girlfriends recently before presenting them with expensive diamond rings. U.S television coverage further built up the so-called 'battle of the bling', with ESPN displaying a split screen of Sears and Satorova, with added captions at the bottom showing the estimated worth of their rings . Kim's £250K ring . Kim's ring: . Kim Sears’s ring (seen yesterday during Murray’s match) is said to be platinum featuring a brilliant-cut diamond of around 3.5 carats, surrounded by smaller stones. Diamonds in the shoulders of the ring take the weight up to around 4.7 carats. Its estimated value for insurance purposes is £250,000. Ester's £225K ring . Ester's ring: . Ester Satorova’s design (pictured yesterday) is thought to be handmade from platinum. It has a square-cut centre diamond of around four carats, set with a pair of baguette stones, taking the total to around 5.3 carats. Its estimated value for insurance purposes is £225,000. The British No 1 proposed to Sears, his girlfriend of nine years last year with a 3.5 carat platinum diamond ring, which he is said to have selected himself. Murray's engagement ring to Sears has been valued at around £250,000 while Berdych's love token is estimated to be worth around £225,000 . U.S television coverage further built up the so-called 'battle of the bling', with ESPN displaying another split screen of Sears and Satorova, with added captions at the bottom showing the estimated worth of their rings. A 50-50 split screen was shown of Sears and Berdych's fiancee Ester Satorova, after which Ms Sears appeared to mouth: 'Oh for f**k sake.' Back on court, after coming out on top in a long exchange in the first set, Murray turned in the direction of Vallverdu, who sitting in his opponent's box, and let out a wild roar in celebration. Berdych was clearly incensed, giving the Scot a long stare as both players walked back to their courtside chair. Then, as Murray sat down, he pumped his fist towards his own box, to which Sears responded with a fist pump of her own. The pair, both 27, had been together for nine years when Murray proposed in November last year . Moments later, Berdych complained to umpire Pascal Maria about the quality of the tennis balls, to which Murray responded: 'He always does this.' As Murray let out some expletives in annoyance at his own play, the big screens in Rod Laver Arena further added to the drama. It then came to a head between Murray and Berdych after the latter claimed a 76-minute first set. But Murray quickly hit back on the court, putting on a convincing display as he clinched the remaining sets 6-0, 6-3, 7-5. Afterwards,the handshake between the pair at the net was surprisingly civil. But Berdych later said: 'I'm really not happy and not really in a good mood. I'm very disappointed to lose this match. I had one bad set for the second set, and that's it.'", "British No 1 and Wimbledon champion Andy Murray is engaged to Kim Sears, his girlfriend of more than nine years. Murray's representatives have confirmed the engagement of 27-year-old Murray and Sears, aged 26, but have not released any details or where the proposal took place. Sussex-born Miss Sears, who has an English Literature degree, met Murray at the US Open in 2005. Her father is player-turned-coach Nigel Sears. Andy Murray poses with the Wimbledon trophy along with his fiancee Kim Sears . Murray was on his way to the Philippines on Wednesday to play in the International Premier Tennis League. But he gave no indication of his big news, instead tweeting: 'Off to the Philippines for the first time today, should be a fun trip... Anyone got some suggestions for first time tourists in Manila?' The couple met in 2005 at the US Open when Kim was travelling with her dad Nigel, who is a tennis coach. Their meeting came long before he acquired fame and fortune. She was only 17 at the time and Andy was her first serious boyfriend. He said: 'I'm lucky. I know she isn't with me because I'm in the spotlight.' The couple briefly split for six months in 2009 but they now share a multi-million pound mansion in Oxshott, Surrey with their dogs Maggie and Rusty. Sears in tears (left) following Murray's 2012 final defeat to Rodger Federer and overjoyed (right) after he became Wimbledon champion . Murray climbs into his player's box to celebrate with friends, family and members after beating Novak Djokovic in the 2013 final . In the past Murray has been notoriously reluctant to answer questions about his relationship with Sears but earlier this year he was forced to deny that he planned to marry her after joking about his love life on Twitter. Asked when he plans to marry Miss Sears during a Twitter Q&A with fans in January, Murray responded: 'We're getting married just after Wimbledon, should be a great day.' But just hours later, Murray was forced to issue another tweet explaining that his words were said with his tongue firmly in cheek after the original message went viral. He tweeted: '3 things.. I don't smoke grass, I'm not getting married(yet) and I don't want to kill rafael Nadal.. [sic]' Murray flies the flag aloft following his 2012 Olympic triumph over Roger Federer . Teenage Murray, right, kisses Kim Sears after beating Australia's Lleyton Hewitt in the final match at the SAP Open in 2006 . Andy Murray's mother, Judy (L), Kim Sears and her father Nigel cheer on Murray at Stella Artois Championships in 2006 . In June it was reported that bookies believed the Scot had asked Sears to marry him - after a flurry of betting on him popping the question at Wimbledon. Tennis fans bet heavily on the champion to both retain his 2013 title and get engaged at 8/1 with bookmaker William Hill, which eventually stopped taking bets on it. Murray may have caught the love bug on Saturday when he was best man at Ross Hutchins’ wedding, his former doubles partner who has battled back from Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Murray and Sears in the crowd at boxing match between Amir Khan and Gairy St Clair at ExCeL Arena, London in 2008 . Murray and Sears at Wimbledon in 2007, the Scot had been ruled out of the tournament by injury . The couple share a multi-million pound mansion in Oxshott, Surrey with their dogs Maggie and Rusty . Murray and Sears at Buckingham Palace as the British No 1 arrived to collect his OBE in 2013 . The announcement followed Murray dispensing with the services of his longstanding assistant coach Dani Vallverdu and physical trainer Jez Green. The two have been working with him for five and seven years respectively, and were key members of his team when Ivan Lendl became head coach and Murray enjoyed success including a U.S. Open title, Olympic gold medal and his historic Wimbledon triumph. In releasing a statement on Wednesday, he reaffirmed his commitment to working with Amelie Mauresmo next year, with whom he teamed up at the start of this summer's grass court season.", "The wedding of the year in Scotland takes place on Saturday when British No 1 and two-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray marries Kim Sears, his girlfriend of almost 10 years, in his hometown of Dunblane. Murray and Sears, both aged 27, met when the pair were teenagers during the US Open in 2005. Murray was playing in only his second Grand Slam tournament, while Sears was travelling with her tennis coach father Nigel. The couple got back together in 2010 following a brief split and after having to field constant questions over the years on when he would propose, their engagement was confirmed last November. Andy Murray kisses his new girlfriend Kim Sears in the crowd after winning his first ATP World Tour title in San Jose in February 2006 . Murray pictured walking alongside Sears on the streets of London during the Wimbledon Championships in June 2006 . Murray watches his brother Jamie in action at London's Queen's Club in June 2007 alongside Sears and mother Judy (left) Murray watches his brother in action at Wimbledon in 2007 alongside Sears and Carlos Mier (right), who will be one of Murray's three best men . Murray and Sears watching British boxer Amir Khan in action during a title fight at the ExCel Arena in London in February 2008 . Murray and Sears attend the exhibition match held to mark the launch of the new Wimbledon Centre Court roof in May 2009 . Murray and Sears attend a Burberry fashion show alongside Serena Williams (second left) and Sarah Jessica Parker (left) in September 2010 . Murray was the best man for the wedding of his brother Jamie (right) and wife Alejandra (second right) at Cromlix House in October 2010 . Television viewers are well used to the sight of Sears, pictured here at Wimbledon in 2011, showing her emotions during Murray's matches . Murray looks dejected as he and Sears wait for transport after the Brit lost the Wimbledon 2012 final to Roger Federer . There were happier moments just weeks later though as Murray celebrates with Sears after beating Federer to win Olympic gold in London . Murray then won his first Grand Slam title at the US Open in New York in September 2012 by beating Novak Djokovic in an epic final . Murray and Sears laugh with television host Jimmy Fallon before an appearance on the show following his US Open victory . Murray and Sears pose for photographers as they arrive for a Burberry fashion show during London Fashion Week in September 2012 . Murray leans over to kiss Sears after becoming the first British man in 77 years to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon in July 2013 . Murray and Sears pose with the famous trophy during the Wimbledon Champion's Dinner at a hotel in Park Lane later that evening . Murray and Sears stand outside Buckingham Palace in October 2013 after the British No 1 was awarded an OBE by Prince William . Murray and Sears outside Dunblane High School after the local hero received the Freedom of Stirling at his former school in April 2014 . Murray and Sears watch golf as the couple stroll by the fairways of Ridgewood Country Club in New Jersey during The Barclays in August 2014 . Sears poked fun at the reaction to her foul-mouthed rant during the Australian Open this year by wearing this t-shirt for Murray's final .", "By . Tom Kelly and Eleanor Harding . PUBLISHED: . 06:03 EST, 9 July 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 06:03 EST, 9 July 2013 . He could have been forgiven for enjoying a well-deserved day off. But Andy Murray packed in a more than full schedule on Monday – despite having less than two hours’ sleep after celebrating his emotional triumph in Sunday’s Wimbledon men’s singles final. Murray crammed in media interviews, sponsors’ events, dozens of congratulatory phone calls and even a visit to Downing Street. Asked how he managed to keep going after such an exhausting fortnight, the 26-year-old replied: ‘Adrenaline.’ Scroll down for video . The start of the celebrations: Andy Murray celebrates at the Wimbledon Champions Dinner at the Intercontinental hotel in London where he did not leave until 2am . 7.55am: Murray yawns as he starts a marathon round of interviews at Wimbledon yesterday . 8.05am: With Mike Bushell on BBC Breakfast, the first of six interviews in one hour . Murray did not leave the Wimbledon Champion’s Ball until around 2am yesterday to return with girlfriend Kim Sears to his £5million mansion in Oxshott, Surrey. Well before 8am, he was heading back to Wimbledon after only ‘an hour or so’s sleep’. On his way, he took a call from David Beckham and also received a message of congratulations from Sir Alex Ferguson. Between 8am and 9am he gave no fewer than six BBC interviews, including to Radio 4’s Today, Radio 5 Live and Radio Scotland. 8.10am: Next on the list of BBC interviews is Radio 4's Today programme . 8.20am: This time it is the Radio 5 Live team . 8.50am: Talking to Chris Evans on Radio 2 . He also gave an interview to Holly Willoughby on ITV’s This Morning, where he was asked again – to his obvious annoyance – about whether he planned to marry Miss Sears. Later he yawned as he arrived for a press conference and admitted: ‘The last few weeks have been pretty stressful.’ Responding to questions from fans on Twitter, he revealed that he had not slept with the Wimbledon trophy but that he and Miss Sears had allowed their two terriers to share the bed. At noon, Murray travelled to a deprived council estate in Kennington, South London, where he returned to the court to play tennis against the public as a part of an event organised by one of his sponsors, Adidas. This is the moment Holly Willoughby found out what it was like to be on the receiving end of an Andy Murray volley – after she dared ask him whether marriage was on the horizon. The Wimbledon champion snapped during an interview for ITV’s This Morning when the question of his relationship with 25-year-old Kim Sears came up. Miss Willoughby said: ‘I’m trying to think what your next challenge will be. You’ve had the US Open, the Olympics, now Wimbledon – could it be popping the question?’ In a cutting reply, Murray said: ‘I only met you like ten minutes ago so I wouldn’t be telling you first.’ However, he then added: ‘I haven’t planned it. But you never know. It’s been getting close to eight years now we’ve been together. It’s a long time.’ It is the second time 26-year-old Murray has got a little touchy on the subject this week, after being asked the same question at a press conference on Sunday. He looked unsettled before replying: ‘No ... I haven’t thought about that yet.’ But while Murray  may not want to discuss any future wedding, there is speculation he may be planning it imminently. Bookies are already accepting bets on whether the couple will become engaged later this summer. Murray revealed yesterday that he was planning to take artist Miss Sears on a romantic getaway in the US after his next block of training. Those close to Murray have said that Miss Sears, who is the daughter of tennis coach Nigel Sears, brings ‘calmness’ to him while he is on court. More than 100 people of all ages lined up in the heat for the chance to face the Wimbledon champion. Those who managed to return his serve had their photo taken with Murray and his trophy. 10.50am: Hugging the precious trophy at a photocall . The star looked slightly bemused as dozens of children surrounded him begging for autographs, with event organisers struggling to calm them down. He also gave more interviews, including to U.S. news outlets. Asked how he had got through a morning full of media interviews and television appearances, the tennis ace, who normally sleeps for between eight and ten hours a night, explained: ‘Probably just adrenaline. ‘I’m sure the next couple of days I’ll get to catch up on sleep. It’ll be a busy few days and then I get to relax afterwards.’ But there was no time to rest yesterday, as he was whisked to Westminster, where at 4pm he was cheered into Downing Street. David Cameron greeted Murray and applause rang out from No 10 aides and invited guests, who included Labour leader Ed Miliband, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and the Scottish National Party’s Westminster leader Angus Robertson. Murray, wearing a smart navy suit, sipped a glass of water as he chatted with the political leaders in the Downing Street garden. And he had no thoughts of an early night. At 9.15pm he and Miss Sears arrived at Nobu restaurant in Mayfair for a meal with friends, family and other members of Team Murray. As he left the restaurant he was mobbed by fans looking for autographs and in the scrum Murray was poked in the eye by an over enthusiastic fan. Of the coming weeks, the new Wimbledon champion said: ‘I haven’t had much time to think. I want to go away on holiday and try and get rest.’ All of Britain would agree that no one deserves it more. Noon: Mobbed by happy youngsters at a two-hour sponsor's event in South London . 4pm: Sharing a joke with Nick Clegg, David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Angus Robertson in the N0 10 garden . 9.15pm: Running on empty and arriving at Nobu for dinner with friends and family . In the eye: Andy Murray is hit in the eye by an over enthusiastic autograph hunter . One in the eye: Murray and girlfriend Kim Sears are mobbed as they leave the restaurant . Mobbed: But Murray may have to get used to increased interest in him . Time to go home: After a long day Murray leaves in the back of a car .", "Bookings have surged at the luxury Scottish hotel owned by Andy Murray after it was reported it would be the venue when he weds fiancee Kim Sears. The 27-year-old is understood to be tying the knot with Miss Sears at the £1.8million Cromlix House Hotel, near his hometown of Dunblane in Stirling on April 11. The two-times Grand Slam winner owns the exclusive retreat, where plush suites can cost up to £600 a night. Since it was revealed that Cromlix House would be the venue for the nuptials of the Murray and Miss Sears, pictured, other couples have been snapping up dates at the hotel . The Cromlix House Hotel near Dunblane, where Andy Murray is set to marry fiancee Kim Sears on April 11. The two-times Grand Slam winner owns the £1.8million hotel . And since it was revealed that Cromlix House would be the venue for the nuptials of the 2013 Wimbledon champion, other couples have been snapping up dates at the hotel for their big day, which opened last year after a major refurbishment. A source said: 'There is still some availability at Cromlix into September but it's going fast. 'Interest has really rocketed since Andy announced he was getting married there.' Experts are now predicting that the publicity surrounding the couple's wedding is likley to put the hotel in the same league as other famous venues such as Skibo Castle, near Dornock, where Madonna married film director Guy Ritchie in December 2000. The hotel has its own private chapel, where the privacy conscious couple will be able to say 'I do' away from prying eyes . The wedding party will have 10 bedrooms and five suites to chose from. Pictured: The Eden Room at the luxury hotel . The hotel underwent an extensive redevelopment after it was bought by the tennis ace and re-opened last year where suites can go for up to £600 per night . The couples wedding guests will be able to enjoy pre-ceremony drinks at the hotel bar. Experts predict that ublicity surrounding the couple's wedding is likley to put the hotel in the same league as other famous Scottish venues . Nastasha Radmehr, editor of the Scottish Wedding Directory, said couples will be desperate for some of the tennis star's glamorous celebrity lustre to rub off on their own nuptials. She said: 'It is going to be Scotland’s version of a Royal wedding and the excitement is already building. 'A lot of women really admire Kim and will want to emulate her. After winning the Wimbledon titled in 2013 Murray celebrated by climbing through the crowd to share a kiss with Miss Sears . 'There’s going to be a great deal of media attention and people calling the venue to try to have their weddings there.' Murray presented Miss Sears with a diamond engagement ring which is believed to be worth £200,000 . Murray bought Cromlix in 2013 for £1.8 million and it opened last year after a refurbishment. The privacy conscious couple will be able to say 'I do' away from prying eyes, as the hotel boasts its very own private chapel. The wedding party will also have 10 bedrooms and five suites to chose from, each of which is named after a great Scot, including Robert the Bruce, William Wallace, Robert Burns and even fellow sporting legends Sir Alex Ferguson and Sir Chris Hoy. Several of the luxury suites feature hand-painted freestanding gold, silver and copper baths and the rooms’ 32in televisions screens are disguised as mirrors. The hotel overlooks 34-acres of secluded woodland, manicured grounds and tennis courts. Mr Murray and Miss Sears will also be following in the footsteps of the star's older brother, Jamie, who also got married at Cromlix. He wed Alejandra Guitierrez in a 2010 ceremony, in which Mr Murray acted as best man. Murray, who last weekend reached the final of the Australian Open, proposed to his 27-year-old girlfriend of nine years with a three-carat diamond engagement ring, believed to be worth around £200,000, in November. Ahead of his proposal Murray, who became the first British man to win the Wimbledon singles title in 2013 since 1936, was repeatedly forced to bat off questions about when he would ask Miss Sears to marry him. Miss Sears is the Sussex-born daughter of the former Lawn Tennis Association Head of Women's Tennis Nigel Sears. The happy couple will be following in the footsteps of Murray's older brother Jamie, who wed Alejandra Gutierrez, at the same venue in 2010 . The tennis player's mother Judy, who appeared on Strictly Come Dancing, has previously described Miss Sears as the 'best thing to happen to Andy' She was just 17 and still studying her A-Levels when she met the up-and-coming tennis player at the US Open in 2005. She was said to have been wooed by the star, who is now said to be worth of £30 million, with a series of phone calls and flowers. The couples relationship became public when Murray, who grew up in Dunblane, Scotland, won his first tournament in California in 2006 and ran through the crowd to kiss Miss Sears. Murray's mother, Judy, who appeared on Strictly Come Dancing, has previously described Miss Sears as the 'best thing to happen to Andy.'", "Andy Murray lost to Novak Djokovic after a well-fought battle at the Australian Open court earlier today. The Scotsman may have missed out on the trophy but his fiancée Kim Sears, 27, was on hand to console the tennis champ while Novak celebrated his triumph alone as wife Jelena, 28, remained at home in Monte Carlo, with their three-month old son. It’s just the latest on-court meeting between Andy and Novak and as Murray prepares to fly home, we examine how their off-court partners– who share seemingly identical tanned good looks, perfect hair and sparkling engagement rings – match up. Scroll down for video . Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic have fought a close battle throughout their careers. Their partners Jelena Djokovic and Kim Sears are equally matched. FEMAIL looks at the Tennis WAGs. Andy's loyal fiancee Kim is attracted even more attention courtside today than usual with her statement sweater and long golden locks, a position usually mirrored by Novak's wife Jelena, 28, were she not needed at home to babysit their young child. The two women share many traits - they are both known for their outlandish support of their partners in the bleachers and  the press love to follow their fashion choices at every competition. The ladies are also both huge dog lovers, close to their family and place an emphasis on maintaining  interests outside of their famous partner's sporting commitments. Both tennis stars have also widely credited their WAGs for keeping their feet on the ground in what is an extremely nomadic and fraught career path. So FEMAIL put the two women head-to-head, to see who wins the TWAG trophy (the cup that REALLY matters): . Jelena wells up while watching Novak at Wimbledon in 2011 (left), while Kim (right) is caught telling one of Andy's opponents to to mouth 'F*****g have that, you Czech flash f***' at the Australian Open last week . Courtside manner: . Kim and Jelena both find it impossible to keep a poker face when watching their partners battle it out on the tennis court. The women regularly appear on the brink of tears or react angrily to the decisions made by the umpire. Jelena once said of her inability to control her emotions during competitions: 'You can get very passionate when watching your boyfriend from the players' box. 'We just want them to be happy. You don't want to see them in pain. If they are not happy, neither are you.' Just last week, Kim was caught on camera mouthing 'F*****g have that, you Czech flash f***' at the Australian Open last week to Andy's opponent Tomas Berdych.. Kim shows off her diamond engagement ring at the Australian Open Tennis Championships last week (left), while a pregnant Jelena cheers on Novak at Wimbledon last summer . Relationship Status: . Andy Murray proposed to his girlfriend of eight years last autumn with a three-carat diamond ring said to be worth around £200,000. The couple have already been living together in a mansion in Oxshoot, Surrey, for more than three years. Childhood sweethearts Jelena and Novak married last July in the grounds of Montenegro's exclusive Aman Sveti Stefan resort. Jelena, who was pregnant at the time with the couple's first child, wore a dressed designed by Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen. The couple have since welcomed their son Stefan into the world, in October last year, which is the reason that Jelena is missing from her usual court-side spot at this year's Australian Open. Novak and Jelena with their pet toy poodle Pierre . Kim Sears with her two border terriers, Rusty and Maggie May . Dog points: . Both Jelena and Kim are animal  lovers, but Kim definitely takes the doggy biscuit in this leg of the competition. Jelena and Novak dote so heavily on their two poodles Pierre and Tesla, regularly taking them away on holiday together and sharing their antics on instagram. But Kim is so devoted to her two border terriers, Rusty and Maggie May, that they inspired her business - Kim Sears, Brushes And Paws, where she paints portraits of people's pet dogs. Kim at Wimbledon in 2012 (left) and Jelena at the Australian Open in 2012 (right) Hair fame: . Kim Sears fans envy the 27-year-old as much for her long bouncy locks as for her money-can't-buy courtside seats. The golden barnet is now so well-known that it has spawned a twitter handle of it's own - Kim Sears Hair, which describes itself as: 'I'm fabulous. I am the gorgeous mane you all love.' Jelena's honey-coloured tresses have reached almost the same level of stardom in her home country of Serbia, with fashion bloggers regularly commenting on her unruffled appearance during stressful matches. Jelena Ristic models for N Brown's Figleaves range . The website for Kim's art business - Brushes and Paws . Career: . In the early days of her relationship with Novak, Jelena was a successful model, starring in several high profile campaigns, including Figleaves (pictured above). But Jelena is just as much brains as beauty - she graduated from university in Milan with a Masters degree and is now working the director's of the Novak Foundation, which invests in pre-school education in Serbia. After graduating from Sussex university, Kim Sears struggled to find a her ideal job for a couple of years but finally settled on the art world. She has established herself as a very successful painter of pet portraits and is commissioned by people from all over the world through her website, Brushes And Paws. Anna Wintour and Jelena at the Ralph Lauren show in September 2013 . Andy Murray sits alongside his girlfriend Kim and Vogue Editor Anna Wintour while they watch the Burberry Prorsum show in September 2012 . Fashion credentials: . Kim and Jelena both have the ace card in the fashion stakes - each woman has been photographed FROW with none other than Anna Wintour. Jelena was snapped deep in conversation with the Vogue editor at the Ralph Lauren SS14 show in September 2013, while Andy and Kim were given the coveted spot next to the taste-maker at the Burberry Prorsum show in September 2012.", "He is known for being meticulous in his preparations for major tennis tournaments. But when it comes to the biggest event in his life, Andy Murray is happy to take a back seat. The 2013 Wimbledon champion and Olympic gold medalist has revealed he has left the vast majority of planning next week's wedding to his fiancée, Kim Sears. Scroll down for video . Murray will marry long-term girlfriend Kim Sears at Dunblane Cathedral next week - he is pictured as best man at brother Jamie's wedding to Alejandra Gutierrez at the Cromlix House Hotel in 2010 . Murray was presented with a cake to mark his 500th ATP Tour victory cake in Miami this week - for his wedding he has said he was involved in the cake tasting, but has left the majority to his fiancee . Miss Sears, 27, pictured in Miami, has been been entrusted with planning the pair's wedding next week . Murray and Miss Sears, both 27, will tie the knot at Dunblane Cathedral next week, and the tennis star has admitted he 'couldn't care less' about the finer details of the day saying 'I try to stay out of all that sort of stuff'. However Murray, a self-confessed foodie, will have some input for the wedding as he has chosen the menu based on a series of food tasting sessions. In an American interview, the 2012 US Open winner, said: 'I think in a lot of cases it's just better to let the woman have it how she would like. 'In terms of flowers and colour schemes and those sorts of things, I couldn't really care less about that, to be honest. 'The only thing I wanted to do was to be involved with the food. Because I like my food - I like good food. 'I went along and did the food tasting, and I also did the cake tasting as well. So that would be the thing that I would say I have been most involved in.' He added: 'The music is something we chat about together as well.' Miss Sears is in charge of colours schemes and flowers as Murray admits 'he couldn't care less about that' The 27-year-old has been a permanent fixture at the court side since she and Murray started dating in 2005 . Sussex-born Miss Sears, who is the daughter of former Lawn Tennis Association head of women's tennis Nigel Sears, met Murray at the US Open in 2005 . The couple have dated since they met in 2005 . Murray and Miss Sears, who have been together for a decade, will wed at the 1000-year old Dunblane Cathedral and not, as anticipated, in the tiny chapel at his Cromlix House Hotel, near the Perthshire town where he grew up. The 12th century cathedral is much larger than the chapel in the grounds of Cromlix, which seats only 28. Murray purchased the 15-bedroom country home for £1.8m in 2013. Thousands are expected to line the streets of Dunblane on the day to celebrate the wedding of their most famous son. Murray attended the primary school in 1996 when gunman Thomas Hamilton killed sixteen children and one teacher in the Dunblane massacre. Murray's uncle Niall Erskine said: 'I'm sure it will be a popular decision, as he's had so much support from the people of Dunblane in the past. 'Andy is looking forward to bringing all his family and friends to Dunblane. I'm sure lots of people will come down to see the cars as they go past and it will be a very popular day.' The cathedral's minister, the Rev Colin Renwick, added: 'There is excitement because there is a great deal of affection for Andy in Dunblane and a great deal of pride in him. I think people are genuinely very pleased for him.' Tom Casey, chair of Discover Dunblane, the organisation which represents the town's traders, said the couple would be 'Dunblane's royalty'. He said: 'A number of shops will be doing individual things to mark the event as they normally do when Andy is playing tennis. 'As a town, we are going to put up some bunting and wedding bows along the high street and decorate the shops with messages. 'Of course we will be making extra efforts to celebrate the wedding of Dunblane's most famous son of modern sense. He is our royalty. 'But it is also important we respect the family's wishes.' Next week's ceremony will take place at the 12th century Dunblane Cathedral (pictured) The reception will then be at Cromlix House (pictured), the five-star 15-bedroom country hotel Murray bought for £1.8million two years ago . The couple announced their engagement in November last year. Breaking with tradition, Murray will have three best men at his wedding, his brother Jamie, close friend and tennis player Ross Hutchins (who recovered from cancer to return to tennis) and former training partner Carlos Mier. It is believed Miss Sears will have four bridesmaids. Murray said: 'The thing for me is it's double standards in a way with the guys and girls because Kim has four bridesmaids and I was saying well, \"why is that fine for you?\" 'Imagine you had to pick one of your four best friends which you've had since you were at school. it's very difficult to chose one. 'She was like, \"Come on, come on, pick one\". I said, \"No, it's difficult, so I think I'm going to have two for sure possibly a third if he can come'.\" Murray has previously played best man at Jamie's wedding when he married Alejandra Gutierrez at Cromlix House in 2010, and when Ross Hutchins tied the knot with Lindsay Wood last year. The tennis star roars in celebration after defeating Tomas Berdych in the Miami Open semi final yesterday . In previous interviews on the subject, Murray has said he is not fazed by the prospect of marriage. 'Kim and I had spoken about getting married a lot for the past couple of years but, if you go back a couple of years, we were still only 25. 'We've been together since we were 18. Because we were so young when we started - and we do spend a lot of time apart - it just felt like the right time for both of us.' Sussex-born Miss Sears, who is the daughter of former Lawn Tennis Association head of women's tennis Nigel Sears, met Murray at the US Open in 2005. She was once described by future mother-in-law Judy Murray as 'the best thing to happen to Andy'. They split briefly in 2009, before rekindling their relationship. The couple live in Surrey with their two Border terriers, Maggie and Rusty. Back on the court, Murray will face world number one Novak Djokovic in the final of the Miami Open tomorrow. Third seed Murray beat Czech eighth seed Tomas Berdych 6-4 6-4 yesterday to reach the final for a fourth time.", "She may be dressed down in a simple white T-shirt and parka jacket – but one part of Kim Sears’ outfit certainly stands out. Balancing two cups of coffee as she picked up her food shopping, Miss Sears gave the first glimpse of her enormous diamond engagement ring from tennis star Andy Murray. The former Wimbledon champion proposed to his girlfriend last month with a ring he chose himself, believed to be worth around £200,000. Scroll down for video . Statement piece: Kim Sears unveiled her ring, right, believed to be at least three carats, while out shopping . Experts said Murray, who has an estimated fortune of £30million and earned £11.5million this year alone, had picked out a ‘perfect statement ring’ for Miss Sears, 27, who has been a constant courtside presence during his career. Diamond jeweller Lewis Malka said the ring appears to be a three-carat diamond, surrounded by smaller stones for an even greater impact. ‘It’s the perfect statement ring of the moment; every girl wants a large diamond and this is an exquisite piece,’ Mr Malka added. ‘Knowing how much of a perfectionist Andy is, I would say the colour and clarity is top notch, and I would conservatively value the ring at around £100,000.’ Perfect match: Andy Murray and Miss Sears (left in 2012 and right in 2013) have been dating for nine years . Shopping trip: The ring, which is believed to be worth £200,000 was spotted for the first time on Friday . Wedding bells: Judy Murray, above with her son, said the couple are planning to wed next autumn . But jeweller and diamond expert Vashi Dominguez said he believed the central diamond was a five-carat stone, meaning the ring could be worth more than £200,000. He added: ‘Stepping away from the traditional shapes such as the round solitaire and emerald cut diamond, the couple are clearly choosing a lane of their own with a very loud and bold statement piece.’ Miss Sears – an artist who specialises in pet portraits – has been dating Murray, 27, for nine years. The couple, who live in a £5.6million home in Oxshott, Surrey, are planning their wedding for next autumn, according to Murray’s mother Judy. Courtside: Miss Sears, 27, who has been a constant presence at matches during Murray's tennis career . Celebration: Miss Sears (right) kisses Andy Murray following his win at Wimbledon last year (left) They met in 2005 when 17-year-old Miss Sears was at a tennis championship with her father Nigel Sears, a coach. Murray, who is ranked sixth in the world, has credited Miss Sears with helping him to ‘work better’. Murray wooed her with phone calls and flowers. But she did not allow their burgeoning romance to affect her schoolwork, and she achieved straight As in her exams. The couple managed to keep their relationship quiet – until Murray won his first tournament in California in 2006 and ran through the crowd to give his girlfriend a kiss. Young love: The couple, pictured, met in 2005 when 17-year-old Miss Sears was at a tennis championship . Success: Murray, above with Miss Sears and his Wimbledon trophy, has spoken of the strength she gives him . Brief time apart: The couple pictured at Wimbledon in 2009 - the year that they separated for six months . They separated briefly in 2009, reportedly because of the sports star’s video games obsession, but rekindled their romance after six months and have stayed together since. She has been credited with improving the tennis player’s scruffy appearance and helping him to control his fiery temper on court. Murray, who grew up in Dunblane in Scotland, has spoken of the strength he draws from Miss Sears, particularly in the light of his own parents’ separation when he was just 11. ‘I work better in a relationship. Supportive: Speaking after the engagement, Judy Murray (above with Miss Sears) said she was 'thrilled' Planning for the future: Andy Murray has previsously spoken of his want to have children with Miss Sears . Affectionate: The couple embrace after Murray's defeated Federer to win gold at the 2012 London Olympics . At the end of a day, especially if I’ve lost a match, I don’t like talking about tennis, so it’s nice to have someone to talk to about other stuff,’ he said in 2009. In January he jokingly tweeted: ‘We are getting married just after Wimbledon, should be a great day.’ The message prompted Twitter users to offer their congratulations, until he admitted that it was just ‘tongue-in-cheek’. Murray has already spoken of how he would like to have children with Miss Sears. In his 2013 memoir Seventy-Seven: My Road to Wimbledon Glory, he wrote: ‘I would like to start a family and try to be a good father. That’s important to me. It’s something that I’m starting to think about because Kim and I have been together for eight years.’", "Andy Murray is to marry his fiancee Kim Sears at the luxury hotel he owns in Scotland. The couple are understood to be arranging the private service for April 11 at the five-star Cromlix House Hotel, close to his home town of Dunblane. The former Wimbledon champion bought the venue in 2013, which has its own chapel, for £1.8million and it opened last year after a refurbishment. Andy Murray and fiancee Kim Sears take their dogs for a walk in the snow on Wednesday . Murray and Sears are understood to be planning their wedding for April 11 . Murray is set to marry fiancee Sears at the Cromlix House Hotel that he owns near Dunblane, Scotland . The hotel, that Murray brought for £1.8million in 2013 has its own chapel . The luxury hotel has recently undergone extensive refurbishment . The hotel was the venue for his brother Jamie's wedding in 2010. The British No 1 was beaten in the Australian Open final last week as he crumbled to a four-set defeat by Novak Djokovic in Melbourne. It was Murray's first Grand Slam final since winning Wimbledon in 2013 but he was unable to claim his third major title. Fiancee Sears was was caught up in a controversy herself down under, appearing to swear on camera in Murray's semi-final win over Tomas Berdych, before wearing a shirt at the final which had 'Parental advisory: explicit content' written on it. The British No 1 and Sears have been together for nine years and got engaged in November last year . The Australian Open finalist uploaded a picture of himself to Instagram in bed with his dogs . Murray flew back from Australia on Monday and was pictured out and about for the first time on Wednesday as he and Sears enjoyed a walk in the snow with their dog. 'Ready to take off back 2 London.Thanks 2 everyone @ausopen for making it such a special event, well done on number 5 Novak incredible record,' Murray tweeted. Adding once he landed: 'Thanks to everyone who's been supporting me and believing in me after a tough year. I'll keep working hard to get better....Treat yourself. Murray and Sears got engaged in November after being together for nine years. Murray shouts out in frustration after losing a point during the Australian Open final last week . Murray's fiancee Kim Sears looks up at the big screen in Melbourne after they notice her choice of top . British No 1 Murray was beaten in four sets by Novak Djokovic in the final of the Australian Open . The Scot joked during an on-court interview at the Australian Open that he might wear a kilt with no underwear at their wedding. The hotel where they will tie the knot was named Scottish hotel of the year in 2014 - just weeks after it opened its doors to guests. The tennis star bought Cromlix, three miles (4.8km) from Dunblane in central Scotland, in 2013. The Victorian mansion was extensively refurbished, featuring 10 bedrooms and five suites which overlook manicured grounds and tennis courts.", "PUBLISHED: . 17:48 EST, 11 September 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 04:25 EST, 13 September 2012 . With his thrilling five-set US Open victory, Andy Murray is assured of a place in the tennis history books. His epic triumph also brings the promise of more immediate material rewards, however. Experts yesterday predicted that by ending the nation's 76-year wait for a Grand Slam men's singles champion, Murray's career earnings could now top £100million – making him one of Britain's richest sports superstars. Scroll down for video . Andy Murray before an interview on the NBC Today Show during a New York City trophy tour yesterday . Professional: Andy Murray stayed on soft drinks as he and girlfriend Kim Sears celebrated his victory with a meal at New York's Hakkasan restaurant . 'Tennis king': Andy Murray stands proudly in New York's Central Park with the US Open trophy he won by defeating defending champion Novak Djokovic . Touching: Andy Murray hugs his mother Judy after a photo session in Central Park following his US Open victory . Andy Murray poses with his trophy in Central Park after winning the men's singles title . His four-hour, 54-minute win over . Novak Djokovic was worth almost £1.2million in prize money alone. But . that will be dwarfed by the riches set to flood into the 25-year-old's . bank account. Coupled with his Olympic Gold . medal-winning defeat of Roger Federer last month, the US Open result . will see major international sponsors clamour for a piece of 'Brand . Murray'. Murray already has a £15million . five-year deal with Adidas, as well as lucrative contracts with Royal . Bank of Scotland, Head racquets and Jaguar. According to the Sunday Times Sport . Rich List, his £24million fortune makes him the UK's 42nd-richest . sportsman. But by joining tennis's elite Grand Slam club and emulating . the achievement of Fred Perry – the last Briton to see such success, . with eight Slams between 1933 and 1936 – the young Scot is likely to . have huge brands such as Coca-Cola and Visa lining up to be associated . with him. Andy Murray looks on next to the US Open Championship trophy during an interview on CNN . In the money: Despite being made to sweat for almost five hours to win the title, new US Open champion Andy Murray looked fine as he reflected on a win that could earn him up to £100million . Champion: U.S. Open tennis men's singles champion Andy Murray posing with the trophy . Andy Murray celebrates in Central Park with the trophy in front of the press following his win . Murray walks with his girlfriend Kim Sears after a photo session in New York's Central Park . Nigel Currie, of sports marketing . agency BrandRapport, said: 'Andy Murray could realistically triple his . off-court earnings from sponsorship, advertising and endorsements to . reach around £20million in the next 12 months. 'Tennis and golf are two of the few . genuinely global sports that reach every country and as one of the top . four players in tennis he has a huge global profile. 'The last obstacle to him really moving into the very top league of sports earners was winning a Grand Slam tournament. Winning team: Andy Murray and his girlfriend Kim Sears pose with the US Open championship trophy . Triumphant: Andy Murray, wearing a £2,580 watch provided by his sponsors, holds the US Open trophy aloft after defeating Serbia's Novak Djokovic in the men's singles final match in New York . 'Once you're a Grand Slam winner . you're in a unique group, and it's that uniqueness that becomes highly . marketable. He will become one of the few athletes who is recognised in . every part of the world.' One reward Murray is not apparently . angling for, however, is a knighthood. He said: 'A lot of my friends . have been messaging me about it. I think it should maybe take more than . just one or two good tournaments to deserve something like that, but I . think people will be saying that because it's been such a long time . since it happened in tennis. It would probably be a bit rash.' Praise from the PM: David Cameron hailed Andy Murray's triumph as a 'truly great victory' Licence to thrill: Comedian David Walliams joked on Twitter that support from James Bond actor Sir Sean Connery had helped Murray win the title . Cheer: Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey, who was among the crowd watching the match, tweeted his congratulations to Murray after the match . Murray's win, capping a golden summer . of British sport, came in a stunning performance witnessed by a crowd . featuring a strong contingent of British celebrities. Sir Sean Connery was joined by Sir . Patrick Stewart, young actors Andrew Garfield and Jack Huston and . Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson to cheer on Murray at the . Arthur Ashe Stadium. American actors Kevin Spacey and Mad . Men star Jon Hamm were also there. As the plaudits rolled in, David . Cameron was quick to hail the triumph a 'truly great victory'. Murray's manager Simon Fuller was among the delighted spectators, seeing one of his sporting clients make history. But the man behind the 19 management . group that also looks after David Beckham and Lewis Hamilton must now . try to persuade his charge to re-sign when his contract expires in . December – just at the time when Murray's commercial potential has . rocketed. Kim Sears looks to the big screen with her hands clasped together as a point is challenged . Friends in high places: Actor Matthew Perry tweeted pictures of himself meeting Andy Murray and holding the US Open trophy . Actor Sean Connery awaits the start of the U.S. Open men's final . American Beauty star Kevin Spacey, left, smiles as he watches the drama unfold on court. Right, Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson also came to see Murray . Residents of Dunblane watch local boy Andy Murray play at Dunblane Hotel in Scotland . Local boy done good: Fans of tennis player Andy Murray react as they watch his US Open men's singles final match against Novak Djokovic on TV in the bar of The Dunblane Hotel . Staff at a hairdressing salon in Murray's home town of Dunblane wave American flags to celebrate his triumph at the US Open . Family occasion: Andy Murray's uncle Niall Erskine stands next to a cardboard cut-out of the star with his wife Tracey and children Cora and Ailsa at Dunblane Tennis Club (left), while the player's grandparents, Roy and Shirley Erskine, celebrate the win (right) Alex McIntosh and Stewart McLymont of David Bennett Butchers in Dunblane show off burgers and sausages specially made to mark Murray's triumph . Now and then: Andy Murray laughs as he is interviewed after his win over Novak Djokovic of Serbia (left), showing a smile seldom seen on the court since he was a promising junior player in 2003 (right) VIDEO: Murray looks for his watch after winning the US Open title .", "Andy Murray's girlfriend Kim Sears was less than pleased with the attention as she watched her boyfriend play Roger Federer in another quarterfinal in Melbourne today. Sitting in the players' box, the court-side camera kept focusing on the 25-year-old tennis WAG instead of the game, and finally Kim lost her temper. Andy Murray's partner of eight years became so annoyed that she attempted to cover it with a baseball cap, before enlisting the help of a fellow attendee who wrapped it in a towel. Game, set, match: Kim Sears, Andy Murray's partner of eight years had enough, placing the black cap over the lens . No eyes on her: Kim Sears attempt to cover a camera with a cap during Andy Murray's match against Roger Federer . Helping hand: A fellow attendee gets an approving nod from Kim as he covers the camera in a towel . Kim's cover-up did nothing to help her partner on the pitch, as 26-year-old Murray was later knocked out of the Australian Open by Roger Federer. The 32-year-old Swiss seemed to have reverted to his prime as he closed out the Wimbledon champion 6-3, 6-4, 6-7 (6-8), 6-3. It was Murray who appeared the older player as he somewhat stiffened up towards the end of their quarter final on a cool Melbourne evening which saw his back get its first real test since surgery in September. Murray, who underwent back surgery last year, expressed signs of pain during the latter half of the match, grimacing in discomfort. He later admitted he had not played enough matches since his surgery to be fully match-fit again. Knocked out: Andy Murray lost the quarterfinal against Roger Federer of Switzerland during day 10 of the 2014 Australian Open at Melbourne Park . Tennis fan: Liam Gallagher turned up with a friend to watch Andy Murray play Federer in one of today's quarter finals in Melbourne . Champagne Supernova: Gallagher was all smile despite Andy Murray losing on the court . 'I was proud of the way I fought,' he told MailOnline 'That’s the highest level I have had to play at in a long time. 'I . thought I hung in well and I almost got myself back into the match. I . have come a long way in four months and I did a good job to get myself . competitive but right now I am very disappointed. In an earlier quarter final, Spaniard Rafael Nadal was seen receiving medical care for a nasty-looking wound in . the palm of his racquet hand, thought to have been caused by a callous . blister. Despite his injury, . the 27-year-old, beat Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov in the match and is . through to the semi-final where he will meet Federer. No pain no gain: Spain's Rafael Nadal suffered a hand injury during his quarterfinal match against Grigor Dimitrov in Australian Open . Care: Rafael Nadal receives medical attention during the game in Melbourne after a blister appeared in the palm of his racquet hand . Nadal played with taped up fingers to . fend off blisters, but ended up with an open wound after a blister burst . in the palm of his hand during the game. Although . the injury sometimes appeared to affect his feel for the ball during an . undulating quarter final, he won by do 3-6, 7-6, 7-6, 6-2 against the . 22-year-old Bulgarian. 'I . was very lucky in the tiebreak, on one set point he missed an easy . forehand, I felt anything could happen. My hand affects the serve, the . rest of things are more or less fine,’ Nadal told MailOnline. ‘I . will have to try and improve the hand in the next two days. I can . practice but the problem is if I don’t protect the hand it will get . worse. Injury: Nadal's blister is believed to have been cause by a callus torn off by the movement of the raquet . Frequent tennis . players and professionals get calluses on their hands, which can become . mobile if the hardened skin grows an edge. As . the callus moves on top of another layer of skin, blisters develop . underneath. When this happens, the movement of the racquet can tear off . the callus, which is thought to be the case of Nadal. The tournament is taking place amid a crippling heatwave, with temperatures exceeding 40C in Melbourne last week. Players . have complained of ‘inhumane’ conditions after one hallucinated, . claiming he could see cartoon character Snoopy mid-match, a ball boy . fainted, one player vomited, and drink bottles melted on court. It . was during a qualifier in the first round that Canadian player Frank . Dancevic hallucinated then fainted during his match against Frenchman . Benoit Paire. He was unconscious for almost a minute but returned to the court before losing the match.", "Andy Murray is so determined to maintain his positive start to the tennis season that he is shelving any plans for a honeymoon until the end of the year in November. And the world No 4, who is marrying Kim Sears on April 11 in Dunblane Cathedral, has not entirely ruled out playing in the Monte Carlo Open in the week immediately afterwards. He thinks that unlikely, but as one of the most momentous days in his eventful life looms he is adamant that he can compartmentalise such questions and focus on the Miami Open, his last tournament as a single man. Andy Murray practices in Florida ahead of his opening match at the Miami Open this week . Andy Murray takes time out to sign autographs for supporters in Florida on the second day of the Miami Open . The world No 4 poses with fans at the Crandon Park Tennis Centre . Murray happily signed autographs ahead of his opening match against either Donald Young or Yen Hsun Lu . After reaching the semi-final in Indian Wells last week Murray is now the second highest points scorer on the ATP Tour this year, albeit some way behind the dominant Novak Djokovic. He now arrives at the event hosted by the city he considers a second home – where plays either Donald Young or Yen Hsun Lu – and is not finding it hard to separate the two biggest things in his life, happy to discuss the forthcoming nuptials with Kim when relaxing at his downtown apartment. 'Tennis is important but we also have lives to live as well,' he said on Tuesday. 'When I'm on the court I'm not thinking \"I'm getting married in a few weeks\" but back at the apartment there's time to do that. I can concentrate on both. 'As long as it's not in the forefront of my mind when I'm training then it's fine. It hasn't been a problem for me yet and I don't see it as an issue.' Whatever happens at this tournament the 27 year-old Scot will not rush back across the Atlantic: 'Hopefully it won't finish for me here until a week on Sunday and then I'll go home after that,' said Murray, who is having not just one but three best men: brother Jamie, former Davis Cup player Ross Hutchins and an old friend from Spain, Carlos Mier. Murray said he is shelving plans for a honeymoon after marrying Kim Sears in April until later this year . The 27-year-old, who has started the year in good form, waits to speak to members of the media on Tuesday . Murray says he is coping fine juggling his tennis and planning a wedding . Murray is marrying long-term partner Sears in his hometown Dunblane on April 11 . 'If I don't do well I'm going to stay here anyway and train on the clay and get used to playing in hot conditions. Regardless of how I do I'll be here for the next ten days.' With his 28th birthday looming time is short and Murray's first few weeks as a married man will involve getting stuck into the clay with little luxuriating in his new status. He will play in Munich, Madrid and Rome before the French Open, and might even take his new bride straight to the Riviera. 'Depending on how I feel after the wedding there's potential to play Monte Carlo, but I'd say that's unlikely. The honeymoon won't be until the end of the year.' It was this time last year that he split from Ivan Lendl in a tumultuous week when he cut a distraught figure, and he now feels far more settled with the Czech's replacement Amelie Mauresmo. 'My mind is a lot clearer and I think that's shown,' he said. 'Last year I came here and had struggled for the first three months and physically I was still not feeling great after surgery. I hadn't seen Ivan much, probably for only three to four weeks since my surgery (in late September) and there wasn't much direction. That carried on for a bit after I finished here. 'I was disappointed with how I played against Novak on Saturday but otherwise I felt I played well at Indian Wells. I hadn't played well there for about five years and this was by far the best in that time.' British No 1 Murray crashed out of the BNP Paribas semi-final at Indian Wells after losing to Novak Djokovic . Murray will be hoping to go one step further in Miami, a tournament he has won twice before in 2009 and 2013 . Murray's caoch Amelie Mauresmo watches on from the stands in Indian Wells . A look at the 'Race for London' confirms this has been a decent start to the year for Murray, with him ahead of Tomas Berdych, Stan Wawrinka and Roger Federer, in that order. The perception that he has stuttered might have been inflated by the loss to the imperious Djokovic. The world No 4 took one of his near three million followers on Twitter to task on Monday for questioning his methods in a curiously long exchange – you never know what you are going to get from Murray on social media, but at least he does not leave his account to others for mere PR puffs. In the hot mid-day sun on Tuesday he went well beyond the call of duty doing pictures and autographs, having also discussed his hiring of Jonas Bjorkman as assistant coach. The Swede cannot join him until he is knocked out of his country's version of Strictly Come Dancing. 'We spoke on the phone for two and a half hours,' Murray revealed. 'The time went very quickly. He has also spoken to Amelie on the phone and apparently they also got along very well.'", "Tensions boiled over during Andy Murray's Australian Open semi-final victory against Tomas Berdych as the British No 1's fiancee appeared to fire an expletive-ridden blast towards his opponent. After Murray won a gruelling baseline rally in the first set to claim a break back, Sears was caught on camera apparently mouthing 'F***** have that you Czech flash f***'. It was just part of a series of heated moments during Murray's 6-7 (6-8), 6-0, 6-3, 7-5 win against Berdych on Thursday. Kim Sears was apparently recorded swearing about Tomas Berdych as tensions heated up in Melbourne . Sears' apparent foul-mouthed rant came as Andy Murray broke back in the first set . Sears showed her emotion as she watched the action from the stands . A mocked up image of what Sears was reported to have said from the stands . There were no microphones to pick up the 27-year-old’s exact choice of colourful words. But within moments of the uncharacteristic outburst being captured on film, thousands took to social media to comment on it, with some speculating that she had actually said: ‘Take that, you flash f***,’ or even: ‘F****** have it, you Czech f***.’ John Cassidy, a professional lip-reader, insisted that although Miss Sears’ mouth is partially obscured at the start of the utterance, he could ‘clearly’ see her saying: ‘You little f***.’ Asked about his girlfriend’s apparent cursing in the box Murray said: 'I was told about that. When there’s a lot of tension surrounding something which you (the media) created, then it’s completely normal that the whole first set everyone was tight. 'My physical trainer, the physio, I’m sure for Dani it was uncomfortable, even Tomas, who very rarely says anything on the court. There was tension there for him as well. In the heat of the moment you say stuff that you regret.' The build-up to the match had been dominated by talk of Murray going up against former coach Dani Vallverdu, who is now working with world No 7 Berdych, for the first time. Both had tried to play down that particular dynamic but there was no doubt it added a fiery edge to the match. Anyone thinking that all would be civil were surely thinking otherwise after Murray broke back for 4-5 in the first set. After coming out on top in a long exchange, Murray turned in the direction of Vallverdu sitting in his opponent's box and let out a wild roar in celebration. Murray roars with emotion as he celebrates winning a point against Berdych on Thursday . Murray was clearly pumped up for the game and rose to the challenge as tensions mounted . Murray endured a tough start to the game, losing the first set and clearly was feeling frustrated . Murray celebrates his battling win as he walks off court at the end of the match . Berdych was clearly incensed, giving the Scot a long stare as both players walked back to their chairs. As Murray sat down, he pumped his fist towards his own box, to which Sears responded with a fist pump of her own before clearly mouthing expletives as she glanced over towards Berdych's team. Moments later, Berdych complained to umpire Pascal Maria about the quality of the tennis balls, to which Murray responded: 'He always does this.' Berdych later explained what he said when the two passed at the changeover that seemed to rile Murray up: 'I really remember it well. I say to myself well done Tomas. That’s it. I think I’m allowed to do that when I win a set. What, I have to be worried about every word I am going to say? I just pumped myself up for winning the first set then sat on the chair. Maybe next time I should stay even more calm, and that’s it. It was a great battle a good match, unfortunately with a bad end for me.' Dani Vallverdu, Murray's former coach, watches on as his new charge Berdych battles on . Berdych complained to umpire Pascal Maria about the quality of the balls during the game . As Murray let out some expletives in annoyance at his own play, the big screens in Rod Laver Arena further added to the drama. A 50-50 split screen was shown of Sears and Berdych's fiancee Ester Satorova. Sears appears to mouth: 'Oh for f*** sake.' It then came to a head between Murray and Berdych after the latter claimed a 76-minute first set. As he sat down in his chair, Murray complained to the umpire that Berdych had taken a dig at him as they walked past each other. He said: 'He's talking to me when we're passing.' Ester Satorova showed her support for fiancee Berdych during the tense game . Satorova, like her opposite number Sears, was put through a roller coaster of emotions . Berdych chipped in: 'Good play Tomas. That's all I said.' Meanwhile, American television coverage further built up the battle of the WAGS. ESPN displayed another split screen of Sears and Satorova, this time with added captions at the bottom with the estimated worth of their rings and amount of carats in their engagement bands. Murray quickly hit back on the court by taking the second set and then a break in the third had Berdych viciously hitting a ball high in the air which landed on the roof of the Rod Laver Arena. Berdych and Murray talked at the net after the Brit had booked his place in Sunday's final . Berdych congratulated Murray on his victory at the end of the match . Sears jumps for joy as Murray books his place in the Australian Open final . The tension looked to have fizzled out when Murray went 2-1 up but not so as Berdych hit him in the leg with a volley and Murray muttered in frustration. Murray went on to close out the match and clinch a place in the final and the handshake between the pair at the net after was surprisingly civil after all that had gone on before. Asked out about the tension afterward, Murray said: 'There was a little bet extra tension. It is a big match and a lot was made of Dani working with him. Me and Dani have been friends since I was 15 years old an I felt that was a little bit unnecessary. 'This is sport and there's more to life than just sport. I thought it was maybe a little bit unfair and created a bit extra tension. But still it was there at the beginning but everyone calmed down at the start of the match.'", "By . Daily Mail Reporter . Last updated at 2:17 AM on 2nd July 2011 . Oh, the pain. After all the waiting, the excitement and anticipation, Andy Murray’s name stays off the Wimbledon champions’ board for another year. The prospect of seeing a Brit in the final for the first time in 73 years – and maybe even its first champion since 1936 – was snatched away by the mighty Spaniard Rafael Nadal in the semi-final for the second year in a row. The 24-year-old Scot finished close to tears after winning the first set, then  being overwhelmed by Nadal’s power. Going out: Murray's initial confidence in the match turns to misery . Down and out: Andy Murray shows his frustration on his way to a four-set defeat at the hands of Nadal . Depressing scenes: Fans watch Murray slip away with barely a whimper as Nadal ends his resistance . Number one: Rafael Nadal's progress to the final is assured after a commanding performance on Centre Court . In the dumps: The faces of Murray's mother Judy and girlfriend Kim Sears reflect his woes . But he can still hold his head high . as the best British player in decades – and the way his game has . improved, he will have many more chances of Grand Slam glory. Asked if he had cried, Murray, who . also lost in the semis two years ago, to Andy Roddick, replied: ‘Not . today.’  What was it like to get this far and lose? ‘It’s tough,’ he . said. ‘But I’m giving it my best shot each time and I’m trying my . hardest – that’s all you can do.’ Of Nadal, he said: ‘He’s one of the  best players ever, and a great athlete  on top of that.’ Gracious: The Scot congratulates Nadal on his triumph . See you next year: Murray salutes the crowd at Wimbledon as he bows out . Nadal told the BBC: ‘Seriously, I . feel sad for Andy. Against him I have to play my best to have any chance . and that’s what I had to do today.’ Asked what Murray needs to do to win a major, he said: ‘I think he’s playing well enough, probably a little more luck.’ The 25-year-old reigning  champion . destroyed Murray’s new-found confidence, returning some seemingly . impossible  balls to earn a final clash with  Novak Djokovic. Team Murray: Andy's mother Judy and his girlfriend Kim Sears arrive on Centre Court for his semi-final match, while former athlete Denise Lewis enjoys the action . Beautiful day: Stunning Pippa Middleton enjoys the tense semi-final . Nadal's ladies: Mother of Rafael Nadal, Ana Maria, left, his girlfriend Xisca Perello, centre, and his sister Maria Isabel during the semi final match . Nadal turned the clock back to reveal . flashes of the swearing, uncontrolled, cap-throwing Murray which had . rarely been seen this year. Murray’s defeat wiped out all that . talk of comparison to Fred Perry, the last Brit to win the title in . 1936, and Bunny Austin, the last to get to the final two years later. Naturally the women in his life – mother Judy and girlfriend Kim Sears – saw every second of it from the players’ box. Celebrity fans: Kelly Brook and boyfriend Thom Evans enjoy the action . Fans were in confident mood ahead of Murray's semi-final with Rafael Nadal . Not alone: Fans of the Spanish sensation also flocked to Wimbledon to support their idol . Their faces became the barometer for . Murray’s progress, then the lack of it. Judy clapped with hands aloft . and shouted: ‘You can do it!’ to gee him up; leapt to her feet to share . moments of triumph; then became increasingly grim-faced. Kim sat in . silent synchronisation alongside her and spent a great deal of time . nervously tossing her hair. Whatever happens in the future, the . cliffhanger match they witnessed will be remembered as the day Murray . looked as if he might do it. But even with the nation’s hopes . pinned on him, the prospect apparently wasn’t worthy of filling the . Royal Box throughout. Fifty of the 75 seats remained empty for the first . three games, with the royals represented by the Duke of York and his . daughter Princess Beatrice. Pippa Middleton parked her celebrated . derriere in the stalls. Nor was it an occasion for which Murray felt the . need to be clean-shaven. The straggly facial fluff he has sported for . the entire tournament was still in evidence. Fans hoping to watch the semi-finals from Murray Mount are escorted into the grounds . Novak Djokovic celebrates his victory over Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in this afternoon's first semi-final . No man standing: Djokovic and Tsonga both end up flat on the floor after one rally . Hundreds of fans had camped out all night for the chance to be here on a day when tennis glory could have been in the offing. Four thousand backsides eventually . bagged places on the hillside renamed Murray Mount in his honour. Another 4,000 fans watched on a separate screen inside Court Two. The grass slope was dotted with Union . Flags, Scottish Saltires and occasional flashes of Spanish national . colours. Surrey (where Murray lives, remember) does have a county flag . but curiously, none was visible. Maria Sharapova, who plays in the women's final tomorrow, was out on the practise courts this morning . The Duke of York arrives with Princess Beatrice in the Royal Box on Centre Court . Katherine Jenkins and TV presenter Gethin Jones were in the crowd on Centre Court for the men's semi-finals . Liam Broady, 17, from Stockport, stormed into today's boys' final by beating the former world junior number one, Australian Jason Kubler . Wimbledon eventually could have a second court with a retractable roof. Having wrapped up a 15-year renovation project, the All England Club is contemplating future work, and one possible change being considered is adding a cover for Court 1. Centre Court has had a roof since the 2009 tournament. Wimbledon spokesman Johnny Perkins says that 'everything is up for discussion' and adds that 'a Court 1 roof can't be ruled in, but couldn't be ruled out'. There are two retractable roofs at the Australian Open, and the French Open says it will have a retractable roof on its main stadium by 2016. The U.S. Tennis Association says it does not plan to put a roof on Arthur Ashe Stadium, the top court for the U.S. Open.", "By the time Andy Murray ties the knot next Saturday he will hopefully have forgotten the utter frustration at becoming Novak Djokovic's Easter bunny. The 27-year-old Scot has lost his last seven matches to the Serb, this one the Miami Open final 7-6 4-6 6-0 on a brutally punishing afternoon, suffering the undeserving ignominy of conceding another love set against his old rival. He pushed him hard and had enough early chances to have won it in straight sets. In fact Murray pushed Djokovic so hard that, at the end of the second set, the furious Serb wrenched his towel off a startled ballkid and screamed at his box on his way to the chair, gaining a warning as his mask of statesmanship slipped. Novak Djokovic raises his arms aloft after claiming victory over Andy Murray 7-6 4-6 6-0 in the Miami Open . Djokovic poses with the Butch Buchholz trophy on the beach at Key Biscayne after his Miami Open win . The Serb gives the thumbs up as he shows off the glass trophy on the beach in Miami . The Serbian world No 1 jumps for joy as he celebrates his success over Andy Murray in the final . Djokovic kisses his fifth Miami Open winner's trophy after an emphatic finish to the match on Sunday . A deflated Murray holds his runners-up trophy alongside Djokovic after the pair battle the heat of Florida . A fired-up Djokovic battled to a three-set victory over Murray for his fifth Miami Open winner's trophy . Djokovic snatches his towel from a ball boy at the end of the second set, claimed by Murray . The Serbian yells after Murray broke his serve to claim the second set and take the match to a decider . Murray has had a good enough week to walk down the aisle with Kim Sears having got back to world No 3, but it is now ten out of eleven defeats against the world No 1. How to seize the moment against this phenomenal competitor is a hugely pressing issue for him and everyone else. As for Djokovic, he will now be holding that distinction for the 141st week of his career on Monday, putting him on sixth equal in the all-time list with Rafael Nadal. In some ways this was a truncated version of their Australian Open final. A forlorn Murray reflected afterwards: 'Game wise, I feel like in the couple of the matches we played this year I've been able to hang with him, but just not quite for long enough unfortunately. Murray celebrates his first break of Djokovic's serve in the opening set at Crandon Park Tennis Center . World No 1 Djokovic powers a forehand back at the Scotsman during their clash in Key Biscayne, Florida . Murray plays a slice backhand during a tight first set that included four breaks of serve before the tie-break . Murray takes a moment in the shade as the Miami sun beams down on the finalists . Djokovic (left) and Murray launch into a forehand and backhand respectively as they battle it out in Miami . 'I need to try to work out why that is. I played well for two sets and was struggling physically in the third. I don't feel like I can do loads more than what I'm doing to get myself in the best condition possible, I do push myself very hard.' The first set was notable for Murray's early aggression that brought him a break in the third game and should have seen him open up a 3-1 lead. But it transpired that it was desperately difficult playing into the fierce lunchtime sun. Nobody actually held at the city end of the court until the eleventh game when the Serb managed it. Murray forced the tiebreak but, beginning on the more difficult side, could not recover from 0-4 down as he hit several forehands long. Djokovic dives desperately at the net as the first set goes the distance in the blazing heat . Murray shows his frustration as his two breaks in the first set are immediately countered by the Serbian . Both stars struggled serving into the sun with all four breaks in the first set coming from the same end . Djokovic had been starting to blow hard – rather like he did in Australia – and just like in Melbourne it all proved to be irrelevant as he took it 7-3. Gauging how the 27 year-old Serb is feeling is an extremely inexact science, and you could only speculate as a brutally punishing second set unfolded in more level fashion than the break-filled opener. Murray became more and more agitated as he failed to gain the breakthrough but held on until 5-4 when Djokovic dissolved into a ball of Balkan anger. Murray broke him to love and the Serb angrily snatched his towel off the ballboy, apologising later: ' I'm sorry, because I didn't pay attention to the ball boy and I just screamed at my box,' he said. The sun-soaked scene in Miami as a pair of US Coast Guard helicopters fly over the Stadium Court . Andy Murray's fiancee Kim Sears (left) and Novak's wife Jelena Djokovic take shade under big hats in Florida . Murray's coach Amelie Mauresmo cheers on the British No 1 in front of his soon-to-be wife Sears . Murray remonstrates with himself as he shows some emotion in front of his second home crowd . Murray jumps for joy as he claims the second set but he isn't able to keep the pep in his step in the third . Florida-based Australian golf legend Greg Norman takes in the Miami Open final with his wife Kirsten Kutner . Djokovic wipes away the sweat shows his frustration as he falters in the second set in Key Biscayne . There was also a volley of abuse, Murray style, towards Boris Becker and his support team up in the box, but it only seemed to galvanise Djokovic. Murray had to hold at the start of the decider to set him on his way to what would have been a massive victory in the context of his season, the first time he had won a Masters level event since his Wimbledon triumph of 2013. The first three games of the decider were long and hard before – helped by some wonky Murray overheads – Djokovic just cracked his opponent's body and spirit.", "Andy Murray clearly has a vision for how his wedding day will play out when he marries his long-term girlfriend Kim Sears in his hometown of Dunblane on Saturday. The world No 3 posted on Twitter a hilarious series of ‘emojis’ to his 2.98 million followers, displaying his various plans for the day. From the tweet its clear Murray expects a day featuring plenty of laughter, romance, alcohol and even dancing. Andy Murray is delighted after some Snooker with friends Ross Hutchins (left) and Jamie Delgado (centre) The world No 3 posted this humorous Tweet in 'emojis' on the morning of his wedding day in Dunblane . Murray’s friend and fellow tennis player Jamie Delgado also tweeted how the Scot has been preparing for the big day with a caption on a Twitter selfie: ‘pre wedding snooker ended in another victory for guess who? @andy_murray @RoscoHutchins @JohnnyDelgado .’ The final preparations for the wedding in Dunblane’s Cathedral on Saturday afternoon are underway after the happy couple visited the venue on Friday to run through rehearsals. The pair have been together for 10 years after meeting at the 2005 US Open and announced their engagement last November. Here is Andy Murray's wedding day tweet in emoticons broken down to the individual 'emojis' However Murray will sacrifice a traditional honeymoon to jet off to Barcelona after his nuptials to kick-start his clay court season. The 27-year-old, who reached the Miami Masters final on Sunday before eventually losing to Novak Djokovic, will also take a look at prospective new assistant coach Jonas Bjorkman in Spain. The possible appointment of Bjorkman, the former world singles No 4 and doubles No 1, has taken on greater significance since his coach Amelie Mauresmo announced she is pregnant. Preparations are well underway at the Cathedral in Dunblane for the Scot's big day . Fans and members of the public have been lining the streets of Dunblane to congratulate Murray . Members of the public have weathered torrid conditions to queue up outside the venue in Dunblane . Crowds have been building all Saturday outside the Cathedral in Andy Murray's hometown of Dunblane . Murray and Kim Sears leave Dunblane Cathedral together ahead of their last night of being single on Friday . Andy Murray celebrates taking a set against Novak Djokovic in the final of the Miami Open on Sunday . Murray had to settle for the runner's-up trophy in Miami, losing to World No 1 Novak Djokovic in three sets . Andy Murray looked understandably nervous as he arrived for his wedding rehearsal on Friday . Fiancee Kim Sears appeared at the rehearsal in Dunblane alongside friends and family . The pair will be married in Murray's hometown Dunblane Cathedral on Saturday afternoon . Local businesses have been getting ready to join in the celebrations of their returning hero . Murray has a golden postbox in his hometown after winning gold at the 2012 London Olympics .", "As Andy Murray and Kim Sears prepare for their nuptials in his home town of Dunblane on Saturday, the local residents are also getting ready for the big day. The inhabitants of the Scottish cathedral town have gone into overdrive for wedding of their most famous resident, lining the streets with bunting and creating special-themed produce in many of the stories. Since the Wimbledon champion announced his plans to say 'I do' at the cathedral, there have also been plans to line the streets with well-wishers as the couple make their way to the venue. Andy Murray and Kim Sears are preparing to marry in his home town of Dunblane this weekend . Messages to the happy couple are in many of the shop windows and several business owners have already sent gifts to either Andy, 27, or his bride-to-be ahead of the big day. Lesley Anderson, 52, who owns Point Nouveau Bridal shop in Dunblane, sent a crystal-covered garter to Kim Sears six weeks ago and received kind a thank you note which said it was 'gorgeous'. The ivory-coloured piece is hand-embroidered on the inside with the couple's initials and wedding date and was designed by Nicola Ure from K C Bridal specialists in Falkirk. A handmade card featuring Andy and Kim, 27, on the front drawn by local artist Lorna Brown accompanied the garter. Local shops and shop owners are preparing their shop fronts to reflect the great day . Many of the local businesses have decorated their shop fronts with colourful bunting . The card shows Andy in his kilt holding a tennis racket and Kim in her dress along with their Border Terriers. Kim's reply to the gifts read: 'Dear Lesley and all at Point Nouveau Bridal. 'Just a little note to say a huge thank you for the gorgeous gift Nicola made for me. 'It was very kind of you and I hadn't found a garter yet so thanks ever so much. 'Also, that card of Lorna Brown's is absolutely fabulous! It really made us giggle, especially our two little dogs in the background! 'We are really excited for our big day in a month's time and are happy to be celebrating our wedding in Dunblane. 'Thank you again for your thoughtfulness and generosity. Best wishes, Kim Sears X.' Lesley Anderson, 52, (left) who owns Point Nouveau Bridal shop in Dunblane, sent a crystal-covered garter to Kim Sears with a hand-drawn picture of the couple (left). Kim replied with a handwritten note (right . Lesley is close friends with Andy's grandmother, Shirley Erskine, 83 and gave the garter and card to her to take to Kim. She said: 'Out of the blue we got this beautiful card. To be honest we never ever thought we would hear very much at all so when we got this beautiful card we were chuffed to bits. 'I was absolutely delighted. This was such a personal thing. We were really, really chuffed. Andy continues to maintain a close bond with the town - after winning Wimbledon, he shook hands with all the shop owners on the Dunblane High street. When Murray, 27, says 'I do' on April 11, the guests wishing them well will be largely a gathering of close family and friends. A local butcher has poems about the happy couple in the shop window . Murray's status as one of the world's best tennis players means he has mixed with everyone from A-list celebrities such as James Corden to the Prime Minister and even the Queen. But the biggest name likely to be in attendance at Dunblane Cathedral, where the couple are tying the knot, is one-time British tennis star Tim Henman. Indeed, when the sport's world number one, Novak Djokovic, was asked by a journalist recently if he would be attending the celebration, he replied with a curt: 'Not invited', before following up with a more charitable: 'But I wish him all the best.' A sign telling people about parking restrictions around Dunblane Cathedral ahead of Andy's wedding to Kim . Murray has said: 'There won't be any celebrities as such. 'I don't have any celebrity friends so it wasn't something that was planned. '[It'll be] Everyone who we're close to, people we've spent a lot of time with in the past but also people we see ourselves spending time with in the future. 'That's how we came up with the names. Pretty much everything is done now and under control. I'm sure a few things will come up next week but it's pretty much sorted.' There will be names from the tennis world in attendance but certainly not players who are as well known as the likes of Nadal or Federer. Dunblane Cathedral, where the couple will hold their nuptials . Murray has invited Dutch doubles player Jules Rojer, who he spends time with while training in Miami and Davis Cup team mate James Ward. Another British pro Jamie Delgado will also attend. For the 27-year-old's many fans and friends in the town,  at least part of the wedding of the year will be a spectator sport, played out on the streets of the community. It is understood local residents and businesses urged the former Wimbledon champion to hold the April 11 service at the cathedral rather than at luxury hotel Cromlix House in nearby Kinbuck – so they too could toast his big day. The reception will be held at Cromlix, which Murray owns. Kim shows off her engagement ring at the Australian Open in Melbourne, Australia, last January . The 300-seat, 12th century cathedral is much bigger than the chapel at Cromlix, which seats only 28. Thousands are expected to line Dunblane High Street on the day. Murray's uncle Niall Erskine said: 'I'm sure it will be a popular decision, as he's had so much support from the people of Dunblane in the past. Andy has admitted that, food aside, he's left much of the preparation for the big day to his betrothed: 'Kim's been pretty much doing it' 'I've tried to help out when she has asked, but I haven't been over-involved. I did all the food and cake tasting which I really enjoyed, although I didn't think I was going to. He added: 'It's a big day for Kim. Pretty much everything is taken care of now. She seems fairly relaxed but as we get closer that might change.'", "She has a reputation for being a ‘pushy parent’ and with some newly acquired dance moves under her belt, she might have been expected to muscle in. But it emerged yesterday that when Andy Murray and his new bride had their first dance on Saturday night, Judy Murray was strictly on the sidelines. The former star of Strictly Come Dancing – who frequently failed to impress the judges with her efforts – left the newlyweds to it as they took to the floor at their reception in Cromlix House Hotel, following their wedding at Dunblane Cathedral in the afternoon. Scroll down for video . Love match: Andy and Kim after the ceremony at Dunblane Cathedral (left). Judy Murray (pictured right during Strictly Come Dancing) says she is 'terrible' at dancing . As Judy’s mother, Shirley Erskine, 80, left the venue, she admitted the wedding of Andy, 27, to his long-term girlfriend Kim Sears, also 27, had been ‘fantastic’ and ‘wonderful’. She added: ‘We’ve just all been up there together and everybody’s parting in dribs and drabs, so we’re on the way home.’ But neither she, nor Andy’s grandfather Roy, were able to recall what the couple’s first dance was. Mr Erskine, 83, said: ‘It was something with music anyway. They actually did go out for the first dance.’ They also confirmed that Mrs Murray did not take to the dance floor first and let the bride and groom lead the evening’s festivities at Cromlix, the luxury hotel bought by Andy in 2013 for £1.8million, and where his brother had also held his wedding reception. Mrs Erskine also said that the newlyweds would not be going on honeymoon ‘until later’ in the year. The bride dazzled in a pretty flowing silk chiffon gown by designer Jenny Packham, while her husband opted for traditional Scots dress to tie the knot. And as for the mother-of-the-groom, 55-year-old Mrs Murray wore a white dress coat, which was belted at the waist. Just a few hours earlier, she was resplendent in a stunning white dress coat and eye-catching hat. But the morning after her younger son’s wedding, Judy Murray had slipped into something more comfortable – her favoured old blue tracksuit. The morning after her younger son’s wedding, Judy Murray had slipped into something more comfortable – her favoured old blue tracksuit . After admitting to focusing more on her outfits following her appearance on Strictly Come Dancing last year, Mrs Murray, 55, broke with tradition on Saturday by wearing a white coat, the same colour, as the stunning Jenny Packham gown worn by bride, Kim Sears. But it was back into the sports gear when she left Cromlix House yesterday. Beneath, Mrs Murray opted for a nude pencil skirt and lace top as well as a hat by Scottish milliner William Chambers that resembled an oversized fascinator. In an interview last year to promote her appearance on the hit BBC show Strictly, Mrs Murray said that despite raising two tennis stars – her son, Jamie, 28, is a Wimbledon doubles champion – she is not a pushy parent. She said: ‘I’ve definitely been pigeon-holed as pushy and overbearing but if you ask any of my friends or family, I’m all about having fun. ‘My children would tell you exactly the same.’ And although she admitted to being a terrible dancer, she said she ‘absolutely loved’ the programme and being part of the competition.She added: ‘I’m terrible, I don’t know if it’s my age but I just can’t remember the steps.’ Mrs Murray, 55 (pictured left with Will Murray) broke with tradition on Saturday by wearing a white coat, the same colour as the stunning Jenny Packham gown worn by bride, Kim Sears (right) The bride and groom were cheered and showered with confetti as the left the cathedral in Andy’s hometown after the 45-minute ceremony, which went ahead smoothly despite earlier showers of hail and snow. Hundreds of well-wishers had gathered outside to catch a glimpse of the happy couple. Clearly unable to contain his excitement in the run-up to his love match, Andy had posted a tweet to his 2.98million followers which showed his plans for the day – through the use of emojis. He tweeted an umbrella, a picture of a church, a ring, a kiss, cake, drinks including beer, cocktails and wine and ending with hearts, a face blowing a kiss and several Zzzz icons for sleep. Meanwhile, Judy earlier expressed some apprehension over the weather, initially tweeting, ‘Hailstones. Marvellous,’ and then: ‘Snowing. White wedding.’", "By . Lucy Waterlow . PUBLISHED: . 12:10 EST, 26 June 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 13:19 EST, 26 June 2013 . Kim Sears bought some sunshine to Wimbledon today as she took her seat on court one wearing a vibrant canary yellow dress. Rain would have delayed play for her boyfriend Andy Murray but the skies reflected her choice of outfit as the Brit took on Yen-Hsun Lu. Kim teamed her yellow dress with a denim jacket and wedge sandals and carried her trusty Mulberry bag as she cheered and clapped her partner on to victory in his second round match. Scroll down for video . Sunny: Kim Sears arrives on court one to see watch Andy Murray's match against Yen-Hsun Lu in a pretty yellow dress . Doesn't court publicity: The artist said she and Andy usually avoid the limelight . The 25-year-old may have carried a designer bag but she is known for her love of the British High Street, often wearing garments from Topshop and Hobbs to Andy's matches. Kim was joined by Andy's father, Will, while his mother, Judy, and Andy's best friend, Ross Hutchins, 28, who is currently battling cancer, were also there offering their support. Earlier this month at Queen's Andy organised fundraising tennis tournaments in support of cancer charities in honour of his former doubles partner. Taking her seat: Artist Kim carried her favourite Mulberry handbag . Fan club: Kim watched the match with Andy's father, Will, left . Kim, an artist specialising in animal portraits, was happy to pose for photographers as she arrived on court one today. But on the BBC documentary Andy Murray: The Man Behind the Racquet, broadcast on Sunday night, she said she doesn't normally court the lime light. She added that photographers don't tend to stalk her and Andy too much over the Wimbledon fortnight because the couple, who own two dogs, are 'too boring'. Andy, 26, explained: 'The last few Wimbledons they used to wait outside the house to see what we're doing on my off days and after the fourth or fifth dog walk they realised it was a waste of time so they don't come back anymore!' On to the next round: Andy won in straight sets against Chinese Taipei's Yen-Hsun Lu in his second round match . Meanwhile on centre court... Mo Farah and Carole and Michael Middleton were spectators in the royal box . However the couple have proved they have a great sense of humour with their Twitter account set up in their dog Maggie's name, who currently has more than 17,000 followers. While Andy's off court life might not impress photographers his tennis moves are continuing to wow viewers as he won the first two sets 6-3, 6-3 while the last was closer at 7-5. As he was on court one rather the centre court today those in the royal box, including Michael and Carole Middleton and Olympian Mo Farah, were not able to cheer him on. Andy credited Mo earlier this year, as well as Jessica Ennis and Greg Rutherford, with giving him some extra fire power to go on and win his own Olympic gold medal as he said he was inspired by their victories on Super Saturday.", "By . Harriet Arkell . Andy Murray dramatically bowed out of the championship at Wimbledon today, and the agony of watching it was etched deep on the Duchess of Cambridge's face. Sitting in the royal box at Centre Court, 32-year-old Kate grimaced with every point the 27-year-old reigning champion conceded in his quarter final clash against Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov, 23. Earlier the Cambridges took their seats alongside Princess Beatrice and her long-term boyfriend, Dave Clark, comedian Michael McIntyre, and England rugby union coach, Stuart Lancaster. Murray's match, which began with him losing the first two sets to the Bulgian 11th seed, came after Romania's Simona Halep defeated Germany's Sabine Lisicki n the ladies' quarter final match. In the players' box, Murray's girlfriend Kim Sears, 26, was there to cheer him on, though there was no sign of Dimitrov's girlfriend, tennis player Maria Sharapova, 27, who suffered a shock defeat by Angelique Kerber yesterday. Scroll down for video . Many faces: The Duchess of Cambridge winces as she watches Andy Murray lost the first two sets in his tense quarter-final clash at Wimbledon this afternoon . Can't stand it: The agony of watching Murray give away his first set of the tournament was evident in Kate's expressions as she fiddled nervously in the royal box . Cheering them on: The royal couple watched the ladies' single quarter final match between Sabine Lisicki and Simona Halep first - Halep won . Angry Murray: The pain of dropping the first set to the 11th seed was written all over the Scotsman's face as he grimaced under the bright sun . Not happy: Murray was sheltered from the sun by a ball boy holding an umbrella during a break from the action on Centre Court . Taking no prisoners: Dimitrov stormed his way to victory taking three straight sets from reigning champion Murray at Wimbledon today . 'Beating Murray AND going out with Sharapova - respect': Twitter was full of messages from tennis fans impressed by the young Bulgarian . Worry for Murray: The Scotsman's girlfriend, 26-year-old Kim Sears, was in the players' box to cheer him on during today's ill-fated match against Dimitrov . And in the players' box: Andy Murray's girlfriend Kim Sears, 26, arrived in a bright pink dress and with her trademark perfect blow-dry . Tension: Murray's girlfriend Kim Sears was all smiles at the start of his match against Dimitrov, but as he dropped the first set, her nerves began to show . The women in Murray's life: Kim Sears chatted to her boyfriend's new coach, Amelie Mauresmo, in the players' box before the match . Celebrity fans: Comedian Michael McIntyre was among those watching the Murray game from the royal box, while singer Louise Redknapp arrived to watch the tennis . Seeing the funny side: Comedian Michael McIntyre keeps his wife Kitty amused despite the depressing scene on the court in front of them . Celebrity tennis fans: Jamie Redknapp and his singer wife, Louise, were smartly dressed as they arrived at the All England Club to enjoy the tennis this afternoon . One isn't amused: Prince William looked as angst-ridden as his wife as they watched Murray lose a second set to the Bulgarian . At one point the Duchess pushed back her sunnies for a moment of levity as her husband made her laugh . Wimbledon guests: The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrived at Wimbledon today to watch Andy Murray, 27, take in Grigor Dimitrov, 23, in the quarter finals . Tense match: Murray is pictured focused in action against old friend and now rival Dimitrov during day ten of the Wimbledon . Stiff competition: Murray lost the first set in the men's quarter final this afternoon but he is still the favourite to win the match . They're smiling now: Opponents Andy Murray of Great Britain and Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria posed by the net before the start of their quarter final match . The pressure's on: Murray, right, arrived on Centre Court to defend his title against quarter final opponent Dimitrov, 23 . The curls are back: Kate, 32, still wore her dark hair in the ringlets she sported yesterday for a trip to a primary school in Islington, north London . The Duchess of Cambridge's parents, Carole and Michael Middleton, went to SW19 to watch the tennis today, elegantly dressed despite the heat . Having fun: The Duchess, who appeared in good spirits, paid homage to the Wimbledon players' dress code in her cream dress by Australian designer Zimmermann . Kate paid homage to the All England Club's strict dress code for players by wearing a white dress by Australian fashion brand Zimmermann.  She also wore the elegant knee-length outfit in Sydney during the Royal Tour in April. Murray and Dimitrov know each other well and, on the eve of Wimbledon, Murray's fitness trainer Jez Green took part in a charity 200-metre race against Dimitrov's coach Roger Rasheed. Their friendship even led to Murray grabbing a hair dryer and brush to assist with Dimitrov's hair cut during a tournament in Rome in May. The 23-year-old Bulgarian was clearly pleased with the job, declaring it was 'beautiful', but the pair were both in a more serious frame of mind when their match began at 1.30pm. However the friendly smiles quickly turned to angry grimaces, on Murray's part at least, as he dropped first one set, then another, and then another, losing to the Bulgarian in straight sets. The home audience howled in despair as he dropped point after point and it became increasingly clear that the reigning champion was not going to hang on to his title. Australian . teenager Nick Kyrgios was also back on court today after beating world . number one Rafael Nadal in a match even his own mother thought he would . lose. The . 19-year-old produced one of the greatest shocks in the tournament's . history by defeating the Spaniard in four sets last night. Wild-card entrant Kyrgios arrived at Wimbledon ranked 144th in the world, and will leave having reached at least number 65. Princess Beatrice and boyfriend Dave Clark strolled to the royal box hand in hand ahead of an afternoon's tennis;  Sir Cliff Richard was also in SW19 to watch the action . Royal tennis fan: Princess Beatrice, 25, took her seat in the royal box - she was accompanied by her boyfriend of eight years, Dave Clark . Princess Beatrice and her boyfriend appeared relaxed as they settled down to watch the ladies' quarter final match this afternoon . Meet and greet: Kate, who had trouble with her long, flyaway hair, wore a dress she also wore during her Royal Tour of Sydney in April . The forecast for SW19 was dry and bright but Kate carried a bright red pashmina in case temperatures dropped later . He seemed surprised with how the match went, posting a message on Twitter which simply read: 'Erm, ok then...........' Kyrgios wrote last week that he wanted 25,000 Twitter followers by the end of Wimbledon and he cracked the milestone mid-way through the match. He now has more than 59,000. Meanwhile three-time Wimbledon champion John McEnroe was so impressed by Kyrgios's performance that he believes he could emulate Boris Becker by winning the title in his teens. Come on Muzza! But these Andy Murray fans were no help to him when he lost the first two sets of his match to Dimitrov . McEnroe, commentating at the tournament for the BBC, reckoned Kyrgios had the look of a champion about him as he demolished Nadal's title hopes. 'I could see it from the commentators' box, that he absolutely believed he was going to win this match, and he's acting to me like he can win this tournament,' McEnroe said. 'The last guy I saw like this is ... Boris Becker, that young teenager, no fear whatsoever - ‘no matter what comes my way I'm going to be better than them'.'Becker won Wimbledon in 1985 at the age of 17.", "Andy Murray’s coach has announced she is pregnant – two days before the British tennis star’s wedding to Kim Sears. Former world No 1 Amelie Mauresmo is expecting her baby in August, and will be heavily pregnant as she guides Murray through Wimbledon. The openly gay 35-year-old broke the news on social media on Thursday night. Amelie Mauresmo was appointed as Andy Murray's coach last summer . Mauresmo revealed on Twitter: ‘Baby will be here in august! #pregnant So happy.’ Murray, 27, marries long-time fiancee Kim Sears at Dunblane Cathedral on Saturday and the news is likely to overshadow their preparations. Mauresmo, who won Wimbledon and the Australian Open titles in 2006, came out as gay at the 1999 Australian Open. Mauresmo roars on Murray during his Australian Open quarter-final clash with Nick Kyrgios in January . Thursday’s Tweet was accompanied by a photo of a pair of baby-sized blue All Star trainers next to a pair of adult shoes. Mauresmo was appointed as Murray’s coach in June 2014 following his split from Ivan Lendl three months earlier. Much of the initial debate around Mauresmo’s appointment centred on whether she could instil a more aggressive attitude in Murray. But it also focused on whether he could rediscover the self-control that became so evident under Lendl. Mauresmo,  a former world number one,  won Wimbledon and Australian Open singles titles back in 2006 . Mauresmo celebrates beating Justine Henin-Hardenne to win Wimbledon in 2006 . Mauresmo also won the Australian Open in 2006 . Away from the court, on which he is ferociously competitive, Murray is said to be thoughtful, with a gentle and sensitive side, similar to softly spoken Mauresmo. He was forced to defend her appointment, saying: ‘She was someone who struggled with nerves and conquered them later in her career. Someone like that can help more than someone who hasn’t had those issues before. ‘You can talk about Amelie’s accomplishments, she won a lot. She was No 1 in the world, she won multiple Grand Slams, she had a creative game style. As a person, she is very nice, very easy to communicate with, but she is firm as well. So those are the reasons I wanted to give it a shot.’ Murray insisted his coaching liaison with Mauresmo was long-term after he surrendered his Wimbledon crown last summer. The Scot arrived back in Britain on Monday as world No 3 in the new rankings. Despite his recent tournament finishes getting him back near the top of his game, Murray has had to put tennis aside this week as he and Kim Sears make last-minute preparations for their wedding on Saturday.", "The year’s first Grand Slam sees Andy Murray with a new kit, a new personal logo, a slimmed-down support team, pain-free and engaged to be married. And, as he insisted during a break in preparation for the Australian Open, which starts on Monday, he also feels unencumbered by a surrounding atmosphere he felt may have held him back in 2014. It was an unusual sight to see him practising without Dani Vallverdu, who — along with trainer Jez Green — departed in the off-season, the former to work with Tomas Berdych. Andy Murray (left) recently parted ways with trainer Jez Green (right) Murray also split with another of his coaching staff in Dani Vallverdu (right) Murray said he had different ideas on how to progress compared to Green and Vallverdu . They had been through a lot and achieved much together, but it is becoming clear how much their harmony had deteriorated in the wake of Ivan Lendl leaving and being replaced by Amelie Mauresmo. Murray referred to ‘moving together in one direction’ so often that it sounded like the topic might have been boy bands rather than the split from two of his most trusted lieutenants. ‘When I sat down with Dani and Jez at the end of the year it was clear they had different views on things and what they wanted to do,’ said Murray, who meets a qualifier in the first round. ‘I didn’t really agree with them and that’s why things ended up changing. ‘When you’re actually playing tournaments you’re not discussing every little thing, but when you look back at the year and the last few months I would say the atmosphere within the team wasn’t particularly good. ‘It’s not helpful for anyone when it’s like that and that hadn’t always been the case, we had a very good relationship for most of the time. When things aren’t going well and you look back and the atmosphere hasn’t been good, it affects how everybody works. ‘The atmosphere is good now. When the people around you are pulling in the same direction it’s beneficial and hopefully that will mean some good performances.’ It is clear that, aside from the passage of time — which can fray any good coaching relationship — one of the areas of disagreement involved training methods. Murray and Matt Little, the trainer now working full-time with him, have been focusing more on speed and slightly less on the hard yards in the gym. Murray (left) pictured in training ahead of the Australian Open as coach Amelie Mauresmo (right) watches on . Murray feels that he is in good shape going into the first major championship of the year . He already feels it is paying a dividend and performances in his first two, albeit unofficial, tournaments of the year have banished the memory of that 6-0, 6-1 loss to Roger Federer at the O2 Arena in November. ‘I have never moved as well at the beginning of a year,’ he said. ‘Coming into the Australian Open last year I did loads of fitness, too much, probably. I trained almost every day for three months and you could say I was very fit but I was tired as well. ‘When I was playing matches I was waking up sore and stiff so I wasn’t necessarily match fit, whereas now I feel in good match shape. My first match of the year was long but I woke up with no issues. I feel strong and balanced. I have been doing a lot more speed work on the court. I have been working a lot on my movement in the off-season — three, four days a week. That isn’t something I have done much of over the last few years. ‘I feel that my speed around the court is a huge strength and something I should work on and try to get better at, because when I move well around the court, even when I am not playing good tennis, I can still find ways to win matches.’ He is also clearly of a mind to prove wrong those who question whether Mauresmo is the right person to restore him to the status of Grand Slam winner. Murrayhits a return during a training session as he prepares for the Australian Open . Murray unveiled his own logo this week and it will be launched at the Australian Open in 2015 . Andy Murray says he will leave the wedding planning to fiancee Kim Sears. A word of warning — when engaged to Kim Clijsters, former world No 1 Lleyton Hewitt declared: ‘I’ll just rock up. She can organise it.’ Nine months later the pair split amid rumours of a dispute over the organising of their big day. ‘You can’t judge how a relationship is working with someone based on a few events, you have to look over an extended period of time,’ he said. ‘In the off- season it has been the first time I have got to spend a good amount of time on the court with her to consistently work on things.’ The sense is that he is excited about his prospects, in contrast to 12 months ago when he was nervous about how his back would hold up following surgery. There is also the anticipation of his nuptials later this year, although he is leaving much of the arranging to fiancee Kim Sears, saying: ‘I try to stay out of all that. I just agree with Kim on most things. The only thing I will be involved in is the food — that is what I am particularly interested in. The rest is on Kim.’ Murray (left) is engaged to Kim Sears (right) but is letting her plan the wedding . Yesterday’s draw has kept him in the opposite half to strong favourite Novak Djokovic but there could be a fourth-round meeting with world No 11 Grigor Dimitrov, who knocked him out of the Wimbledon quarter-finals last year. And in the last eight Murray is due to meet Federer, so there is plenty of scope for avenging some of the disappointments of 2014. James Ward will face world No 33 Fernando Verdasco while Heather Watson, who overnight was attempting to win her second WTA title at the Hobart International, is up against world No 67 Tsvetana Pironkova. Britons Kyle Edmund and Liam Broady were involved in the last round of qualifying.", "Andy Murray is known for his stern face and tough demeanor and it seems even a belly dancer can't raise a smile from the Wimbledon champion. Attending a players' dinner at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships Murray looked unimpressed as the pretty woman pranced around him. Although he did turn to look at her at one point there was not even a flicker of a grin on his face. Andy Murray looks on as a belly dancer gyrates in front of him at the Dubai championships tennis party . The belly dancer was seen trying to talk to the former Wimbledon champion during the meal held for players . Murray looked bored as he attended the dinner in Dubai on Wednesday night . Murray, pictured drinking a glass of water, was not joined by fiancee Kim Sears at the event . The 27-year-old appeared to be there on his own as fiancee Kim Sears was nowhere in sight. Murray is in Dubai to take part in the championships and won his first-round tie against Luxembourg's Gilles Muller on Tuesday. Murray said of the victory: 'I made him work very hard on his service games. That was something I wanted to try to do from early on. 'The end of both sets I didn't serve so well but apart from that, I didn't give him any opportunities really.' On Wednesday, the Scot made short work of Joao Sousa once again to race into the quarter-finals of the tournament  with a 6-0, 6-2 win. Andy Murray was in cruise control as he beat Joao Sousa 6-0, 6-2 at the Dubai Duty Free Championship . Murray has raced into the competition's quarter-finals on Wednesday in under an hour . Last month. as Murray took on Czech player Tomas Berdych in the Australian Open semi final Miss Sears was seen calling him a, 'Czech Flash F***.' However, she poked fun at herself the next day when she rocked up to Andy's next game in a jumper which read: 'Parental Advisory, Explicit Content.' Murray later defended Sears' actions saying in an interview that she had been 'whipped up,' by the media storm surrounding his match. The day after being caught on camera swearing during one of Andy's tennis matches Kim was spotted wearing this parental advisory jumper . Murray said at the time: 'When there's a lot of tension surrounding something which you (the media) created, which you created, then it's completely normal.' He added: 'Even Tomas, who very rarely says anything on the court, there was tension there for him, as well. Yeah, in the heat of the moment you can say stuff that you regret. And, yeah, that's it.' It was recently confirmed that Murray and Kim have set the date for their wedding as April 11. They will wed in an intimate ceremony at Cromlix House, a hotel in Scotland owned by Murray himself.", "British No 1 Andy Murray hopes to marry Kim Sears next year after the former Wimbledon champion announced their engagement last week after nine years together. 'We have a plan to get married next year, that's the plan but no dates were set yet,' Murray told reporters in Manila on Sunday, where he is taking part in the new International Premier Tennis League (IPTL) team tournament. Murray has yet to win a match in the Philippines after his team, the Manila Mavericks, went down against an Indian Aces side led by Roger Federer and Ana Ivanonic on Saturday. Andy Murray is playing for Manila Mavericks in the International Premier Tennis League with Maria Sharapova . Murray plans to marry girlfriend of nine years Kim Sears after the pair recently became engaged . The world number six lost his singles match to Gael Monfils 6-4 before teaming up with Maria Sharapova for the mixed doubles, in which they stumbled to a 6-1 defeat against doubles specialists Rohan Bopanna and Sania Mirza. Murray, who also lost twice on Friday against the UAE Royals, said his team had struggled in their first matches in the tournament because 'we're not used to playing this format'. 'We're not used to being part of a team,' he added. 'It's been a good experience. We've had good fun and it's been something completely different for the players.' Sharapova and Murray enjoy themselves despite falling to a 6-1 defeat in their double set against Indian Aces . Murray and Sharapova high-five at the Mall of Asia Arena in Manila, Philippines, during their loss . Murray will return to court later on Sunday against the Singapore Slammers, a team featuring women's world No 1 Serena Williams and Andre Agassi. The 27-year-old Scot said the event in Manila hoped to draw more fans to professional tennis as some of the world's best players visited an Asian city where no ATP and WTA tournaments were currently held. 'An event like this gives tennis fans in the Philippines an opportunity to come and watch some of the best players in the world and experience live tennis in a completely different format, a fun format,' he said . Murray will be back in action on Sunday for the Mavericks against Serena Williams' Singapore Slammers . 'It will good for tennis in the long term.' Murray added that he would be spending the Christmas holidays with his family in Scotland before flying to Melbourne for the Australian Open in January. The second leg of the IPTL will be played in Singapore next week before moving on to New Delhi and Dubai.", "Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding is arguably the most famous marital ceremony of the the 21st Century so far. So it is should be of little surprise that their choice of wedding decor has started to influence some of Britain's celebrities. As the preparations for Andy Murray and Kim Sears's nuptials reach the final few days, wedding planners for the couple have been seen carrying trees into Dunblane Cathedral ahead of Saturday's ceremony. Scroll down for video . Andy Murray and Kim Sears,pictured at the Wimbledon Champions Dinner 2013, are preparing to marry in his home town of Dunblane this weekend . The decoration was first seen at the royal wedding in 2011, when trees lined the aisle at the end of each pew in Westminster Abbey. There is less than 48 hours now until the Scottish tennis champion and his girlfriend exchange vows in his hometown. For the last week, the whole town have been getting involved in the celebrations. The inhabitants of the Dunblane have gone into overdrive for wedding of their most famous resident, lining the streets with bunting and creating special-themed produce in many of the stories. Trees were wheeled into Dunblane cathedral earlier today ahead of the nuptials . Trees lined the aisle at Prince Williams wedding to Kate Middleton . Am official portrait from the royal wedding in 2011 . Since the Wimbledon champion announced his plans to say 'I do' at the cathedral, there have also been plans to line the streets with well-wishers as the couple make their way to the venue. Messages to the happy couple are in many of the shop windows and several business owners have already sent gifts to either Andy, 27, or his bride-to-be ahead of the big day. Lesley Anderson, 52, who owns Point Nouveau Bridal shop in Dunblane, sent a crystal-covered garter to Kim Sears six weeks ago and received kind a thank you note which said it was 'gorgeous'. The ivory-coloured piece is hand-embroidered on the inside with the couple's initials and wedding date and was designed by Nicola Ure from K C Bridal specialists in Falkirk. A handmade card featuring Andy and Kim, 27, on the front drawn by local artist Lorna Brown accompanied the garter. Decorations feature in many of the shop windows in Dunblane . Messages and mascots also feature in the town's stores . The card shows Andy in his kilt holding a tennis racket and Kim in her dress along with their Border Terriers. Kim's reply to the gifts read: 'Dear Lesley and all at Point Nouveau Bridal. 'Just a little note to say a huge thank you for the gorgeous gift Nicola made for me. 'It was very kind of you and I hadn't found a garter yet so thanks ever so much. 'Also, that card of Lorna Brown's is absolutely fabulous! It really made us giggle, especially our two little dogs in the background! 'We are really excited for our big day in a month's time and are happy to be celebrating our wedding in Dunblane. 'Thank you again for your thoughtfulness and generosity. Best wishes, Kim Sears X.' Local shops and shop owners are preparing their shop fronts to reflect the great day . Many of the local businesses have decorated their shop fronts with colourful bunting . Lesley Anderson, 52, (left) who owns Point Nouveau Bridal shop in Dunblane, sent a crystal-covered garter to Kim Sears with a hand-drawn picture of the couple (left). Kim replied with a handwritten note (right . Lesley is close friends with Andy's grandmother, Shirley Erskine, 83 and gave the garter and card to her to take to Kim. She said: 'Out of the blue we got this beautiful card. To be honest we never ever thought we would hear very much at all so when we got this beautiful card we were chuffed to bits. 'I was absolutely delighted. This was such a personal thing. We were really, really chuffed. Andy continues to maintain a close bond with the town - after winning Wimbledon, he shook hands with all the shop owners on the Dunblane High street. When Murray, 27, says 'I do' on April 11, the guests wishing them well will be largely a gathering of close family and friends. A local butcher has poems about the happy couple in the shop window . Murray's status as one of the world's best tennis players means he has mixed with everyone from A-list celebrities such as James Corden to the Prime Minister and even the Queen. But the biggest name likely to be in attendance at Dunblane Cathedral, where the couple are tying the knot, is one-time British tennis star Tim Henman. Indeed, when the sport's world number one, Novak Djokovic, was asked by a journalist recently if he would be attending the celebration, he replied with a curt: 'Not invited', before following up with a more charitable: 'But I wish him all the best.' A sign telling people about parking restrictions around Dunblane Cathedral ahead of Andy's wedding to Kim . Murray has said: 'There won't be any celebrities as such. 'I don't have any celebrity friends so it wasn't something that was planned. '[It'll be] Everyone who we're close to, people we've spent a lot of time with in the past but also people we see ourselves spending time with in the future. 'That's how we came up with the names. Pretty much everything is done now and under control. I'm sure a few things will come up next week but it's pretty much sorted.' There will be names from the tennis world in attendance but certainly not players who are as well known as the likes of Nadal or Federer. Dunblane Cathedral, where the couple will hold their nuptials . Murray has invited Dutch doubles player Jules Rojer, who he spends time with while training in Miami and Davis Cup team mate James Ward. Another British pro Jamie Delgado will also attend. For the 27-year-old's many fans and friends in the town,  at least part of the wedding of the year will be a spectator sport, played out on the streets of the community. It is understood local residents and businesses urged the former Wimbledon champion to hold the April 11 service at the cathedral rather than at luxury hotel Cromlix House in nearby Kinbuck – so they too could toast his big day. The reception will be held at Cromlix, which Murray owns. Kim shows off her engagement ring at the Australian Open in Melbourne, Australia, last January . The 300-seat, 12th century cathedral is much bigger than the chapel at Cromlix, which seats only 28. Thousands are expected to line Dunblane High Street on the day. Murray's uncle Niall Erskine said: 'I'm sure it will be a popular decision, as he's had so much support from the people of Dunblane in the past. Andy has admitted that, food aside, he's left much of the preparation for the big day to his betrothed: 'Kim's been pretty much doing it' 'I've tried to help out when she has asked, but I haven't been over-involved. I did all the food and cake tasting which I really enjoyed, although I didn't think I was going to. He added: 'It's a big day for Kim. Pretty much everything is taken care of now. She seems fairly relaxed but as we get closer that might change.'", "What better way to kick off the week you get married than by settling a pressing matter at work before you relax and prepare for the big day? That is how Andy Murray may be feeling as he looks to face Novak Djokovic in the final of the Miami Open. The British No1 marries Kim Sears in Dunblane on Saturday and, win or lose on Sunday, he will be heading straight to the airport to get back and focus on what lies ahead next weekend. Andy Murray reacts as he reaches the Miami Open final with a win over Tomas Berdych in the last four . He will face long-time rival Novak Djokovic in the final in Miami on Sunday . Murray's fiancee Kim Sears watches on in the heat in Miami during his semi-final . He would dearly love to do so with the trophy in his luggage. For one, it would represent his biggest tournament win since taking the Wimbledon title in 2013, irrefutable proof that he is back towards his best. Perhaps even more importantly it would end the growing dominance of Djokovic over the Scot — and everyone else for that matter. Murray will need no reminding that he has lost nine out of his last 10 matches against the Serb, so it is a huge task. Even more remarkably, Djokovic has won his past nine finals at these Masters-level events, which are one tier down from the Grand Slams. Murray allowed himself to get befuddled by the world No1’s histrionics in the Australian Open final, and then played a plain bad match when thrashed by him in their Indian Wells semi-final last month. The 27-year-old was in clinical form as he set up a final showdown with Novak Djokovic . Murray reacts after winning the final point before shaking hands with Berdych as he heads into the final . ‘I learned more in the Indian Wells match from what I didn’t do,’ said Murray. ‘The final in Australia didn’t necessarily feel like it came down to the tennis or the tactics, but in Indian Wells there were a few things I did wrong.’ Top of that list was to lapse into his tendency to feel his way into the match, rather than come out firing on all cylinders. If Murray does that again he will lose, but he plays well here and is hugely familiar with the heavier conditions, so this should be closer. He has also played all his matches during the day, which will help with the lunchtime start (6pm UK). His opponent, however, looked incredibly sharp in defusing John Isner’s big serve in the semi-final and Djokovic knows recent history is on his side. Murray is set to marry his fiancee in Dunblane next Saturday . ‘It can only serve as a positive, going in with the fact I won the last six matches we played against each other, especially the most recent one,’ said Djokovic. ‘It gives me confidence and maybe a slight mental advantage. But we are talking about small margins, that’s always the case when we play each other.’ One thing for sure is that the next big tournament when they face off, two players who have been rivals since before their teenage years will both be married men.", "Wimbledon winner Andy Murray has blasted claims that he dislikes the English as 'nonsense' pointing out 'I am going to get married to one'. The British tennis number one, who will tie the knot with English fiancee Kim Sears in April, said he finds the accusation upsetting as some of his family are English as well as his future in-laws. 'The whole notion that I don't like English people is nonsense,' he said. 'I work with English people on a daily basis. I am going to get married to one. I live here. It is just nonsense.' Wimbledon winner Andy Murray, who will tie the knot with fiancee Kim Sears (pictured together) in April, has blasted claims that he dislikes the English as 'nonsense', saying: 'I am marrying one' 'That's the thing that upsets me the most about it. Some of my family are English. I am also getting married to an Englishwoman so my in-laws are all English.' He defended his late intervention into the Scottish independence debate to declare his support for a Yes vote on the eve of the referendum. 'I was lying awake at night. I wanted to say something,' said the Scot. 'The thing that irritates me the most is that somehow you can't be pro-independence and pro-British. 'My feeling is Scotland is its own country. Every country would work better if it was in control of its own destiny. 'I said at the time was that the people of Scotland will make the right decision. Just because I think one way doesn't mean it's the right way for Scotland.' He defended his late intervention into the Scottish independence debate to declare his support for a Yes vote on the eve of the referendum . His tweet saying that 'No campaign negativity totally swayed my view on this' provoked a backlash on the eve of the poll. And after an onslaught of abuse online, the player said he was 'disappointed' by his decision to send the tweet and claimed it was not really in his character. 'I don't normally do stuff like that. So, yeah, I was a bit disappointed by that. It's time to move on. I can't go back on that and I'll concentrate on my tennis for the next few months,' he said at the time. Murray first received his anti-English tag in 2006 as a 19-year-old when he jokingly said he hoped 'anyone but England' would win the World Cup. But the champion tennis player insisted his commitment to playing for Great Britain was beyond doubt, saying he 'loved' representing his country. The champion insisted his commitment to playing for Great Britain was beyond doubt and said he 'loved' representing the country . He won the British public round when he beat Novak Djokovic to win the Wimbledon title in 2013 . 'When I compete for GB, I absolutely love it,' said Murray. 'My results when I have competed for GB since I was 12 would suggest that. 'When I represented Britain in the Olympics, I played maybe the best tournament of my life. I love competing for my country. I don't think any differently about Great Britain after what has happened.' He inspired a generation and won the British public round when he beat Novak Djokovic to win the Wimbledon title in 2013. The historic win ended Britain's 77-year wait for a men's champion. He has won 19 Davis Cup singles rubbers and lost only two and on Friday he will anchor the British side again in their anticipated World Group first-round match against the USA in Glasgow. Kim Sears is also known for her fiery temper after she was caught swearing on camera in January and then turned up to Murray's next game in a jumper which read: 'Parental Advisory, Explicit Content' His long-term partner Kim has spent years cheering him on from the sidelines and is set to marry him this spring. The tennis star met his match when he first locked eyes with aspiring artist Kim at the US Open back in 2005. It was a year before the couple went public at a tournament in San Jose, California, where Murray scored his first big win. After the final he found his girlfriend in the crowd and gave her a kiss. She has been by his side as he competed across the world ever since - often leading the fashion pack from the stands. The 27-year-old is also known for her fiery temper after she was caught swearing on camera in January. As Andy took on Czech player Tomas Berdych in the Australian Open semi final she was seen calling him a, 'Czech Flash F***.' She poked fun at herself the next day when she rocked up to Andy's next game in a jumper which read: 'Parental Advisory, Explicit Content.'", "By . Becky Evans and Simon Tomlinson . PUBLISHED: . 20:50 EST, 8 July 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 03:53 EST, 10 July 2013 . An overzealous fan who accidentally smacked Andy Murray in the eye with a programme was today identified as an autograph-hunter who set up a business selling mementoes on eBay. Ifran Ahmed struck the Wimbledon champion during a scrum for his signature as he left an upmarket restaurant in Mayfair last night. The World No. 2 was being ushered through the crowd of well-wishers when a brochure bearing the words 'winning serve' was waved near his face. However, in his desperate bid to get the 26-year-old's attention, Mr Ahmed misjudged the angle and caught him straight in the face. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEOS . Too keen for comfort: Ifran Ahmed (pictured with Olympic cycling gold medallist Bradley Wiggins) has been identified as the man who accidentally struck Andy Murray with a programme while trying to get his autograph . Well struck: Andy Murray is caught in the face as Mr Ahmed reaches out in a desperate bid to get his attention . Keen: Mr Ahmed thrusts the programme bearing the words 'winning serve' as Murray tries to get into a car . Mr Ahmed set up a business selling autographs and memorabilia from an account called 'pieceoffame' on eBay in 2002. Among the items currently listed on the site is a Formula 1 helmet signed by various drivers including champions Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton on sale for £5,000. Others include a guitar signed by . Rolling Stones star Keith Richards for £750 and a giant tennis ball . signed by Murray and Wimbledon finalist Novak Djokovic on offer for £500. However, it is understood that Mr Ahmed no longer runs the business himself or makes money from the items placed on the account. Mr Ahmed has also posted pictures on his Twitter account posing with stars such as Olympic diving star Tom Daley, Tour de France winner and London 2012 gold medallist Bradley Wiggins and wrestling icon Hulk Hogan. On his TwitPic profile, he says: 'My business is selling autographs and memorabilia!!! I also obtain autographs. So I am gonna share my experiences with you of meeting these guys!' Mixing with the stars: Mr Ahmed (pictured, left, with Olympic diving star Tom Daley) set up his own business selling autographs and memorabilia on eBay . Nosy fan: Murray was swatted in the nose as he left Nobu in Mayfair with girlfriend Kim Sears . Great shot: Not even Murray can duck out of the way in time as the programme is thrust into his face . Sour taste: Dressed in a navy suit and blue shirt, the double Grand Slam champion had just finished dinner with his girlfriend of seven years, Kim Sears (centre) Fault! The British Number 1 pulls his head away after being poked in the face in a scrum of autograph hunters . Ouch! The 26-year-old was celebrating after becoming the first British men's winner of Wimbledon in 77 years . Murray had just enjoyed a quiet dinner with girlfriend Kim Sears at Nobu Berkley ST restaurant when he smacked in the eye as he left for . home. He screwed up his face before covering his eyes with his hands and climbing into a waiting car. Dressed . in a navy suit and blue shirt, the double Grand Slam champion had just . finished dinner with his girlfriend of seven years, who wore an . embellished black dress and oversized clutch. The . pair were joined for dinner by Murray's . mother Judy, who all left together before he was hit in the face. Take cover: Murray shields his eye after the programme with the words 'Winning Service' hit him . Shocked: Murray looked a bit taken aback as he was ushered through the crowds of wellwishers . Eye-watering end to the night: Murray is ushered away by security as he continues to rub his face . Feeling the effects: The Scot covers his face and grimaces as he gets into a waiting car outside the restaurant . That's a stinger: The tennis ace keeps on rubbing his eye as he gets into his chauffeur-driven car . Bleary-eyed: Murray shows the effects of a hectic day as he and Miss Sears are driven away from Nobu . It was an unceremonious end to a day . filled with celebratory interviews for the Scot that included a trip to . meet children at a tennis court in Lambeth, south London. The day of media commitments - after just two hours sleep - culminated . with a trip to Downing Street where he was greeted by David Cameron, Ed . Miliband and Nick Clegg. Asked how he managed to keep going after such an exhausting fortnight, the 26-year-old replied: ‘Adrenaline.’ Making the most of it: Murray and Miss Sears partied the night away at The Rose Club in Marylebone . Celebration: The Wimbledon champion Andy Murray enjoyed a night out with a group of 20 friends . Night out: Murray and girlfriend Kim Sears continued to celebrate his victory at Nobu on Monday . Relaxing: The couple were enjoying a quiet dinner after a day of interviews and a trip to Downing Street . Whirlwind: Murray and his girlfriend were joined by his mother Judy (right) for the meal . Murray successfully dodged questions about whether he is planning to propose to his long-term girlfriend. This Morning presenter Holly Willoughby asked if 'popping the question' could be among his list of upcoming challenges. But Murray replied with a smile: ‘I only met you like ten minutes ago so I wouldn’t be telling you first.' Ending 77 years of hurt: Murray poses with the trophy after defeating Novak Djokovic to become the first British men's winner since Fred Perry in 1936 . Just a day after the historic victory, Murray later revealed he is already looking forward to stepping onto Centre Court next year as defending Wimbledon champion. He said: 'I just cannot imagine what that experience will be like. 'There will be a lot of pressure and nerves but I don't think it can be as bad as it has the last few years.' He suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of Andy Murray in the Wimbledon men's final on Sunday afternoon. But Novak Djokovic seemed to have put his loss behind him as he hosted a star-studded gala dinner in aid of his Novak Djokovic Foundation on Monday night. And the 26-year-old tennis star's stunning girlfriend Jelena Ristic proved he is still very much her champion as she proudly posed alongside her man on the green carpet at London's Roundhouse venue. Still her champion: Novak Djokovic seemed to have put his Wimbledon loss behind him as he hosted a gala dinner in aid of the Novak Djokovic Foundation alongside his stunning girlfriend Jelena Ristic . Fun and games: The World Number 1 plays a joke tennis match with former Wimbledon champion Boris Becker . Ace time: Goldie Hawn takes part in a charity tennis game in a dress and high heels as daughter Kate Hudson looks on . Proving she is every inch the doting . girlfriend, Jelena worked the star-studded crowd like a true . professional, chatting to stars from the worlds of showbiz and sport . with ease. And the event certainly pulled in a . stellar crowd, with the likes of Hollywood actress Kate Hudson, . supermodel Naomi Campbell, actor Gerard Butler and retired tennis . champion Boris Becker turning out to do their bit for the charity. The inaugural foundation dinner was . even given the royal seal of approval with Sarah Ferguson and her . daughters Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie also putting in an . appearance. Royal seal of approval: The inaugural foundation dinner was also attended by Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie (left) and their mother Sarah Ferguson (right) A-list company: Kate posed alongside her actress mother Goldie Hawn, Muse frontman fiance Matt Bellamy and hosts Novak Djokovic and Jelena Ristic inside the event . Singer Holly Valance, with husband Nick Candy, (left) and Tamara Beckwith (right) leave with Uniqlo goodie bags . The Serbian sportsman looked every . inch the dapper gentleman as he arrived at the gala dinner, wearing an . immaculately tailored black suit, which he teamed with a crisp white . shirt and bow-tie. But Jelena was the one who truly . commanded attention on the green carpet, opting for an eye-catching navy . and white strapless gown, featuring a nipped-in waist and full skirt. The swimwear model wore her honey . blonde locks swept up off her shoulders into a stylish up-do, and . accessorised with glittering diamond drop earrings and a navy clutch . bag." ]

[ "Big box stores sell groceries, tools, and now even offer home mortgages. But critics warn the financial products aren't regulated like they are at banks. Host Michel Martin discusses the pros and cons of big box banking with <em>New York Times</em> business reporter Stephanie Clifford." ]

[ "Host Scott Simon talks to retail analyst Patty Edwards of Trutina Financial about the escalating holiday-retail battle: Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and this year, the big-box stores which opened on Thursday night.", "Investment banking giant UBS has announced $10 billion in write-downs, or a slash in the value of its assets in the subprime mortgage market. To bolster its finances in one of the largest write-downs in the subprime crisis, UBS is receiving a cash infusion from investors in Singapore and the Middle East. In other business news, CompUSA said it will close all 103 of its outlets after the holiday shopping season. The electronics retailer has struggled in the face of falling computer prices and competition from big-box stores like Best Buy and Wal-Mart. The closing is a loss for Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim. He bought a majority stake in CompUSA, hoping to break into the U.S. retailing market. STEVE INSKEEP, Host: It's too late to save a major chain store. CompUSA says it is shuttering all 103 outlets after the holiday shopping season. The electronics retailer has struggled for years in the face of falling computer prices and competition from big-box stores like Best Buy and Wal-Mart. The closing is a loss for Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim. He bought a majority stake in CompUSA, hoping that investment would break him into the U.S. retailing market.", "(Reporting from New Delhi, NPR's Julie McCarthy sends along an update on a story that aired on Morning Edition Wednesday. Essentially, Indians were considering whether to allow big-box stores like Wal-Mart into the country.) After another two-day contentious debate, the Upper House of Parliament in India today fell in step with the Lower House and voted to open up the country's massive retail sector and allow in big name, big box stores including Walmart. They can open stores and hold a 51 percent interest in them, an economic reform that proponents say will bring India more in line with the globalized economy and spur badly needed foreign investment at a time when the third largest economy in Asia is slowing down. Critics forcefully argued in both Chambers that small is beautiful and that the introduction of big name, multinational retailers put at risk the livelihoods of tens of millions of mom and pop stores, street vendors and corner stores known as kiranas which now predominate India's $450 billion retail sector. But analysts say that with only two percent of Indian food shops falling into what known as the formal, organized economy the Walmarts of the world do not pose any sort of considerable risk to Indian shopowners. What they offer according to some economists is greater choice for India's rising middle class on the lookout for one-stop shop convenience and competitive pricing. Yet the deep suspicions among some constituencies of huge multinational chains is not likely to diminish any time soon.", "Some towns rely on taxes that big-box stores pay to help keep their lights on. But in several states, cities accuse those retailers of undervaluing their own properties so they can pay less tax.", "When giant retailers like Wal-Mart or Best Buy move out of a building or go bankrupt, the so-called \"big box\" stores they abandon often stay vacant for years. Communities face several challenges -- including the awkward size of these vast, empty buildings -- in their efforts to find new tenants. NPR's Anne Hawke reports.", "NPR's Eric Weiner reports that the \"Big Box\" has landed in Japan. Huge discount warehouse stores are just beginnning to open up there. Japanese consumers are unaccustomed to both the cutrate deals on household items, and the no-frills atmosphere. Stores such as CostCo are providing stiff competition to Mom-and-Pop retailers, who pride themselves on personal service, right down to delivering a single bottle of sake to a customer's front door.", "Some communities fight with all their might against \"big box\" retailers coming into their neighborhoods. One suburb near Baltimore, Md., would welcome such stores. Residents of Randallstown -- a middle-class, mostly black community -- say although the town has gained in wealth, it lacks brand-name retail stores and restaurants found in nearby neighborhoods. Hear NPR's Cheryl Corley.", "The holiday shopping season is a challenge for retailers. But amid reports of violence at malls and big box stores, it's apparently a challenge for shoppers, too. Our resident humorist has some advice for holiday bargain seekers.", "Big box retailers and advocates for the poor are teaming up for what could be a fight with congressional Republicans who want to change the corporate tax code. At issue is the border adjustment tax.", "Big box retailer Target said it will remove questions about prior arrests on its job applications, but many companies still ask. Host Michel Martin speaks with Madeline Neighly from the National Employment Law Project and Elizabeth Milito from the National Federation of Independent Businesses about the pros and cons of the practice.", "Chicago approves a plan requiring big-box retailers to pay a \"living wage\" to their employees, making it the biggest city in the nation with such a law. The city council brushed aside warnings from Wal-Mart and other companies to pass the ordinance after three hours of debate. The measure requires mega-retailers to pay wages of at least $10 an hour plus $3 in fringe benefits by mid-2010. Critics say it will lead to hemorrhaging of jobs in the city. A court challenge is expected. MICHELE NORRIS, host: In Chicago today, labor and community activists are celebrating their big victory in the city council. Chicago aldermen voted yesterday to approve a big-box living wage ordinance. It will require huge retailers, such as Wal-Mart, Target and Home Depot, to pay employees a higher minimum wage and more benefits. Chicago is the first big city in the country to pass such a measure. NPR's David Schaper reports. DAVID SCHAPER reporting: On this sticky and sweltering summer day, Brian Gearing(ph) is selling cold bottled water to passing motorists at a busy intersection on Chicago's west side. Mr. BRIAN GEARING (Chicago resident): Ice cold water, water. SCHAPER: This is a neighborhood plagued by boarded up apartment buildings, vacant lots and abandoned factories. Gearing is selling water to raise money for a church-based recovery center. But he knows others in this neighborhood who do this sort of thing for a living. Mr. GEARING: A lot of people out here are hustling to make ends meet because they can't get a proper job. But then again, a lot of them turn to crime and selling drugs because they can't get jobs and they make quicker money on the street. SCHAPER: Gearing says a new Wal-Mart being built just down the street might help change the neighborhood. Mr. GEARING: I look at it like this. A low-paying job is better than a no-paying job. SCHAPER: Workers are cutting metal studs that will be used to frame the entryway of this new Wal-Mart on the city's Westside. When this store opens in September, it will pay workers about $7.25 an hour. Come July 1st of next year, the minimum wage for this store will shoot up to $9.25 an hour. This is Wal-Mart's first store in the city of Chicago. But the company now says this might be the last. Under the Chicago big-box living wage ordinance, retailers with more than a billion dollars a year in sales and stores larger than 90,000 square feet must pay a higher minimum wage that peaks in 2010 at $10 an hour plus another $3 an hour in benefits. Alderman Emma Mitts says Wal-Mart wasn't just creating 450 jobs in this store for her neighborhood, but was attracting other retailers to build nearby. Ms. EMMA MITTS (Chicago Alderman): I have a Menard's scheduled to come in and they fall under the category as well. And they're a little hesitant to see now. They're telling me they have to see what's going to happen. They have to go back to their company and talk whether they want to come in or not. Mr. DAVID VITE (Illinois Retail Merchants Association): The closed for business sign has been hung out on the borders of the city of Chicago. SCHAPER: David Vite is president and CEO of the Illinois Retail Merchants Association and says big retailers are already reconsidering their Chicago plans. Vite is hoping Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, who opposed the ordinance, will for the first time in his 18 years in office use his veto powers. If Daley doesn't or the city council overrides the veto, Vite says big retailers will take the city to court. Mr. VITE: We believe that this ordinance is discriminatory. It only effects about 19 companies operating in the city of Chicago, operating about 40 stores, when there are 10,000 stores in the city of Chicago that are not covered. SCHAPER: Alderman Joe Moore got a festive greeting as he walked into his neighborhood office this morning. Moore is the measure's primary sponsor and his phone didn't stop ringing all day. Politicians from other cities all over the country want his input in crafting similar laws. Mr. JOE MOORE (Chicago Alderman): I think there's a real recognition that working men and women, particularly those on the lowest economic rung of the ladder need a helping hand. It is absolutely unconscionable that you can work a full day's job and not earn enough money to get you out of poverty. SCHAPER: And Moore doubts the claims of critics that the ordinance will scare away big-box retailers. Mr. MOORE: Look, the largest cities in this country are the last frontier for big-box retailers. They have saturated the rural markets. They have saturated the suburban markets. There is a lot of dollars in the cities and a lot of potential for some big profits. SCHAPER: Moore argues that the ordinance was written to withstand legal challenges, but still he takes his victory with a grain of salt. Big labor and big retail both spent millions on the big-box campaign and both will likely spend millions more as the minimum wage battle appears headed f", "Retailers are finding more ways to offer their customers financial products — mortgages, loans and the like. In the past, people looked to banks for this kind of product. But big-box stores are trying to find new ways of getting money to those who cannot use banks, or want to avoid them altogether. Costco may be best known for pallets of bottled water or bulk toilet paper that can last a family an entire year. But earlier this year, it also added mortgages to its growing array of financial offerings. Costco is not actually making the loans. Rather, it refers customers to its partner banks, with whom it has negotiated discounts on closing costs and interest rates. Jay Smith, the director of business and financial services for Costco, says offering mortgages helps boost Costco's No. 1 profit center: annual membership fees. \"This is a great way to increase that value for membership,\" he says, \"and that's why we're offering\" loans. Costco, which also offers auto and home insurance, is just one of the latest entrants in the alternative consumer finance market, an area some refer to as \"shadow banking.\" For some retailers, like Home Depot, branded credit cards and loan offerings are old hat. The home improvement chain established its credit and loan offerings almost at its inception. That's because it sells lots of big-ticket items, especially after disasters like Hurricane Sandy, when there is sudden demand for new credit. Home Depot's vice president of financial services, Dwaine Kimmet, says the company recently sweetened its offers in part because other sources of credit have dried up. \"And customers just can't get access to capital, because there's just not equity in their homes, in many cases,\" he says. Offering credit in a store also helps sales, of course. Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, partners with other companies to offer checking accounts, check-cashing, money orders and a host of other services. Alternative financial products appeal to a growing number of people, says Wal-Mart Vice President Daniel Eckert. \"I think there's also a group of the population that engages in these services, frankly because their needs are not being met by 'mainstream financial services,' and are unhappy about the value proposition or the costs,\" he says, adding that those customers \"have found that this is a better way for them to manage and control their finances, and is more accessible to them.\" In fact, in a recent report, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., which regulates banks, said a growing number of Americans are going outside the mainstream banking system to manage their money. More than 8 percent of U.S. households avoid traditional banks altogether. Norma Garcia, a senior attorney for Consumers Union, says the fact that retailers see an opportunity in financial service products is a sign of the times. \"And it really should be a wake-up call for the banks that they are losing customers,\" she says. \"And that they need to be more responsive to the needs of consumers.\" Garcia notes the backlash against banks over increased overdraft fees and other charges. She says that although mortgages offered through Costco and checking accounts through Wal-Mart may offer some lower initial fees, Consumers Union is still studying the products to see whether they also come with notable drawbacks. \"What we have seen is that the protections vary considerably,\" she says. \"It's not always apparent to the consumers what the risks might be with that product. In some cases there are activation fees, [or] there are dormancy fees if you don't use the product for a certain period of time.\" Just because they might appear at the checkout aisle, she says, mortgages and loans are not — and should not be — impulse buys.", "Wal-Mart will offer cash tax refunds to taxpayers this year at all of its stores. And the big box retailer won&#8217;t charge customers to pick up their refunds. Wal-Mart is touting the &#8220;Direct2Cash&#8221; program as more convenient than cashing a check, but of course it also conveniently puts customers in Wal-Mart with cash in hand. Guest\n\nMaggie Lake, business reporter for CNN. She tweets @maggielake.", "The indie music retailer CD Baby has joined forces with electronics chain Best Buy. CD Baby is widely known among musicians and fans as one of the best distribution options for independent musicians, while big box retailers have been criticized for driving mom and pop stores out of business. From Minnesota Public Radio, Annie Baxter reports.", "Quick, what's a good price for a box of baking soda? If you're not sure, don't worry. You're not alone. Aside from a few staple items, most shoppers don't have a real sense of how much things should cost. So retailers send \"pricing cues.\" NPR's Michele Norris talks with MIT Management professor Duncan Simester about strategies retailers use to make consumers think they're getting a bargain.", "Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, wants to expand its business into banking. On Monday, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is holding hearings on Wal-Mart's bank application. Madeleine Brand talks to Bob Moon of <em>Marketplace</em> about the public response to Wal-Mart's application.", "It was probably only a matter of time before entrepreneurs in the adult entertainment industry found their way to big-box retailing. But the arrival of adult superstore chains in Milford, Conn., does not sit well with municipal officials. Tandaleya Wilder of member station WSHU reports.", "Retailers had placed much hope on a big midsummer shopping spurt, but July proved to be somewhat lackluster, amid renewed lockdowns and new waves of coronavirus cases. Retail sales grew only 1.2% last month compared to June. Overall sales in July stayed above pre-pandemic levels. This followed a blockbuster June, when sales jumped 8.4% — marking the first month since the start of the pandemic when shoppers spent more than a year earlier, recovering from the historic wipeout in spring. In July, people bought a lot of electronics to stay entertained at home and appliances for home remodels, and finally slowed their run on exercise gear and outdoor equipment like kayaks and dumbbells. They also started shopping for clothes again, got into their cars for trips, stopping to fill up at gas stations, and cautiously went out to eat as more stores and restaurants reopened, the Commerce Department data showed Friday. Retail sales — a measure including spending on gasoline, cars, food and drink — are a major part of the economy. The U.S. is slowly dragging out of the sharpest economic contraction in modern history, as parts of the country still report record spikes in coronavirus cases. Many locales have shuttered their businesses again and reimposed restrictions on public gatherings. Here's where people were spending in July, compared with a month earlier: Electronics stores: +22.9% Gas stations: +6.2% Clothing and accessories stores: +5.7% Restaurants and bars: +5% Online retailers: +0.7% Grocery stores: +0.4% Department stores: +0.1% Big-box stores: -0.2% Home improvement and gardening stores: -2.9% Sports, music and other hobby stores: -5% Many restaurants, bars and stores continue to struggle to stay afloat — five months into the pandemic. Tens of millions remain jobless and the boosted unemployment checks, which spurred a wave of spending in May and June, expired at the end of July. Online shopping has been the clear winner during the pandemic. Walmart, Amazon, grocery delivery company Instacart and scores of other online retailers have reported skyrocketing demand. Amazon, for one, doubled profits between April and June, netting $5.2 billion despite spending billions on coronavirus-related costs and hired almost 200,000 new workers. Overall, demand for clothes had taken an especially big hit in the early months of the pandemic, tipping a growing list of major retailers into bankruptcy: department stores Stein Mart, J.C. Penney, Lord & Taylor and Neiman Marcus; men's retailers Brooks Brothers and the parent company of Jos. A. Bank and Men's Wearhouse; clothing chains J. Crew and parent company of Ann Taylor and Loft; and others. \"Time will tell, but the bottom line is that the economy is far from being out of the woods,\" National Retail Federation Chief Economist Jack Kleinhenz wrote last week. \"The question is whether it is re-entering the woods.\"", "The first-quarter profits at JPMorgan Chase, the second biggest bank in America, make it look like a big Wall Street investment bank that happens to have a retail banking operation attached to it. Read More &gt;&gt; The bank said today that it made $3.3 billion in profits in the first three months of this year. Most of that money — $2.5 billion — came from its investment banking division, which made a lot of money trading bonds, the company said. The bank's \"retail financial services\" group, which includes retail banking, mortgage banking and real estate portfolios, lost $131 million during the quarter, driven by big losses in real estate. The bank also set aside $2.3 billion \"for litigation reserves, including those for mortgage-related matters.\" \"Obviously, the mortgage area has been a very confusing, complex area,\" said Jamie Dimon, the bank's CEO, according to Dow Jones Newswires.", "It's an anniversary that most Americans can celebrate — the birthday of the big-box store. Discount shopping as we know it began 50 years ago. In 1962, enterprising retailers invented Wal-Mart, Target and Kmart. These stores changed the way we shop and the way we think about price. Historian Marc Levinson, author of The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America, talked to NPR's Linda Wertheimer about what happened all those years ago, and how the stores will continue to evolve in the Internet age. Interview Highlights On why 1962 was the year of the big-box store \"In 1962, a number of different companies decided to try and create brand new store formats. The leader in that in 1962 is forgotten today. It was a company called Woolworths and it opened a store called Woolco. Woolco was expected to be the giant because Woolworths was gigantic. And everyone thought Woolco was going to conquer the world. Woolco, as your listeners will know, didn't make it.\" On how big-box stores popularized the idea of discounting after World War II \"There were laws meant to prohibit big retailers from getting volume discounts, so they couldn't buy merchandise more cheaply than mom-and-pop stores and mark it down. The other thing was that the manufacturer could make a product, could tell the retailer, 'You may sell our good, but only at the price we set.' And so if a retailer wanted to sell a certain brand of camera or a certain phonograph record or whatever, it had to sell it at the set price. That started breaking down in the 1950s, and that really opened the way to discount retailing.\" On how big-box stores cornered the suburban market \"One of the prerequisites for the big-box was the car. Everybody had to have a car because the big-box was sitting out in a parking lot somewhere. The big-box made shopping into a family experience. Mom and dad and the kids all piled into the car, they went out to this big store, and they could spend several hours there because there was, by the standards of the day, an enormous amount of merchandise. Now, you've got to give people a little sense of scale. We're talking about stores that were gigantic for their time, and that meant they might have about 50,000 square feet of space. If you go into a typical Wal-Mart Supercenter today, it's perhaps four times that size. So 'big' is relative, but for its day, 1962, these stores were quite large.\" On how the big boxes evolved from traditional variety stores \"Stores had to figure out how to distinguish themselves. You couldn't all have the same merchandise and be just like the other one. And we went through a period of experimentation. ... Some [companies are] no longer with us. Some of them tried strategies and they just didn't work out. It was not clear in 1962 that running a discount store like this was going to be a winning strategy.\" On whether big-box stores will still be around in 50 years \"There are very few retailers that have that kind of lifespan. There aren't too many that have been around for a hundred [years]. But even if they still exist, they may be quite different. For example, you see now retailers trying very much to integrate their physical store with their Internet store. So maybe the physical store becomes mostly a showroom — you don't actually go there to buy things and walk out with them. You go there to look at things, and then you order them online and then they're delivered to your house. Or maybe you order them online and you go to the store to pick them up, but the store may not be filled with quite so much merchandise. There are quite a few possibilities, and I think it's really foolhardy to guess what this is going to look like frankly in 10 years, much less 50.\" LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: Here's an anniversary most Americans can celebrate - the birthday of the big-box. Discount shopping, as we now know it, began 50 years ago. In 1962, enterprising retailers invented Wal-Mart, Target and Kmart. Remember this? (SOUNDBITE OF KMART COMMERCIAL) UNIDENTIFIED PEOPLE: (Singing) Stop and shop at Kmart. Get the best big name brand merchandise. The guarantee that's quality and discounts, good price. WERTHEIMER: Those stores change the way we shop. Here to help us understand what happened to us all those years ago is Marc Levinson, historian, author of \"The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America.\" Mr. Levinson, welcome to the program. MARC LEVINSON: Thank you for having me. WERTHEIMER: Now, why was 1962 the year of the big box - or perhaps, the beginning of it? LEVINSON: In 1962, a number of different companies decided to try and create brand-new store formats. The leader in that in 1962 is forgotten today. It was a company called Woolworths and it opened a store called Woolco. Woolco was expected to be the giant because Woolworths was gigantic. And everyone thought that Woolco was going to conquer the world. Woolco, as your listeners will know, didn't make it. WERTHEIMER: Now discounting - hard to", "Recent mass shootings have renewed pressure on retailers that sell guns, including Walmart. Gun control advocates are once again calling for big box stores to stop selling guns and ammunition.", "Many of those seeking temporary work or extra cash may be turning to retailers this season, but they'll face stiff competition. NPR's Senior Business Editor Marilyn Geewax says job hunters may have better luck when submitting their applications to warehouses, Fed Ex, and similar companies. She speaks with guest host Allison Keyes.", "Charities are turning to the digital key pads at retailers' checkout lanes to help fundraise. Customers are especially happy to give if the charity is related to the business. For example, a pet rescue group raising money at a high-end dog food store. But charities might be losing out on the bigger dollars that come from actually knowing who's giving.", "The financial regulation overhaul passed last year created a new agency to protect consumers and promised sweeping changes for everything from Wall Street investment firms to Main Street banks. But a relatively small provision — added as an amendment late in the process — is now at the center of a massive lobbying effort pitting retailers against banks. This is a multibillion-dollar fight about who should bear the cost when you swipe your debit card to buy a bag of Skittles, a cup of coffee or a television. Right now, the retailer pays a charge to your bank and either Visa or Mastercard. Hidden to consumers, it's called an interchange fee. Nationwide, these fees cost retailers about $16 billion a year. But thanks to the financial overhaul legislation, costs to retailers are about to go down. Banks and card companies Visa and MasterCard are poised to lose billions. So, they're pushing legislation to delay the start of the new rule. \"Congress is going to decide who's going to win. Is it a big business or the biggest business?\" says Paul Blumenthal, senior writer at the Sunlight Foundation, an open-government group. He's watching this fight closely. On one side, you've got Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Amazon and the convenience store on the corner. And on the other, you've got Visa, MasterCard, Wells Fargo and the credit union down the block. \"Senators and congressmen see this as the premier lobbying issue at the moment,\" Blumenthal says. \"This seems to be the one that sticks out as the one that they're being lobbied on the most.\" Lobbying Efforts Intensify There's a huge amount of money being spent, but it's hard to get a read on just how much. In the first quarter of this year, the coalitions for the retailers and the banks spent a combined $340,000 on lobbying. But it's not just the coalitions. Individual retailers, individual banks and all of their trade associations are lobbying on this, too. Then there are the ads — even on the subway in Washington, D.C. One reads: \"Washington is helping giant retailers clean out your wallet.\" Trish Wexler, a spokeswoman for the Electronic Payments Coalition, the group of banks and credit unions behind the ads, says they are running on about 100 rail cars. \"When you talk about it in terms like interchange fees, or merchant discount fee, you know, we kind of tune it out as average Americans,\" she says. \"My job was to make sure that people understood that this means that our debit card is going to end up costing us more as a result.\" The banks and credit unions say that if the rule goes through and they lose $12 billion a year in interchange fees, they're going to have to raise fees on consumers, slash rewards or stop issuing debit cards altogether. Retailers say if they win, they'll pass the savings on to consumers. Both sides say if the other guys win, consumers lose. Dueling Business Interests Both the banks and the retailers say they have the little guys on their side. \"We've had over 250,000 of our members contact their representatives in Washington, just in the last month,\" says Bill Cheney, president of the Credit Union National Association. Retailers are calling and writing their members of Congress, too, asking that they let the rule go into effect as planned. \"We already worked on this one, we already figured that this isn't fair,\" says Tariq Hussein, a 7-Eleven franchisee in Washington, D.C. \"Why reopen now? What happened?\" What happened is that $12 billion is a lot of money. If Congress doesn't act, which is entirely possible, then the new rule will take effect July 21. And sometime after that, maybe we'll learn how consumers came out. RENEE MONTAGNE, Host: NPR's Tamara Keith reports. TAMARA KEITH: Banks and the card companies are poised to lose billions. So now they're pushing legislation to delay the start of the new rule. PAUL BLUMENTHAL: Congress is going to decide who's going to win. Is it a big business or the biggest business? KEITH: On one side you've got Wal-Mart and Home Depot and Amazon and the convenience store on the corner. And on the other side you've got Visa and MasterCard and the big banks and the credit union down the block. BLUMENTHAL: Senators and congressmen see this as the premier lobbying issue at the moment. This seems to be the one that sticks out as the one that they're being lobbied on the most. KEITH: Unidentified Woman: Red line (unintelligible)... KEITH: I'm riding on the Metro here in Washington, D.C., and the fight over these interchange rules has made it even here. There are ads all over this train that say: Washington is helping giant retailers clean out your wallet. (SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER) TRISH WEXLER: We have ads running on about 100 railcars. KEITH: Trish Wexler is the spokesperson for the Electronic Payments Coalition, the group of banks and credit unions behind the Metro ads. WEXLER: When you talk about it in terms like interchange fees or merchant discount fee, you know, we kind of tune it out as average Americans. My", "A bill before the Montana legislature would tax retail businesses on gross receipts in excess of $20 million, unless they pay their employees at least $22,000 a year. The measure is aimed at \"big box\" retailers such as Wal-Mart and Costco.", "NPR's Jack Speer reports that the current economic uncertainty means an unexpected boom for two retail chains, Wal-Mart and Home Depot. Consumers are especially bargain conscious.", "As Black Friday 2015 gets underway across the United States, <em>Morning Edition</em> heads to a big box store in Los Angeles. Are shoppers finding bargains, and are they spending money?", "The country&#8217;s largest retailer is getting into banking. Walmart is teaming up with Green Dot Bank, known for pre-paid credit and debit cards, to offer low price checking accounts starting this October. Walmart will effectively act as bank branches for GoBank, the mobile banking platform backed by Green Dot Bank. Will Walmart succeed and what would that mean for the nation&#8217;s banking system? CNN&#8217;s Maggie Lake joins Here & Now&#8216;s Robin Young to discuss Walmart&#8217;s new business venture. Guest\n\nMaggie Lake, business reporter for CNN. She tweets @maggielake", "The humorist Bill Bryson once wrote that \"the purpose of the modern American suburb is to make sure that no citizen is ever more than 500 yards from a food product featuring melted cheese.\" That's an exaggeration, but health officials have long worried that our environment of plentiful, cheap and easily accessible calories is contributing to obesity. A group of economists argues in a new paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research that the prevalence of restaurants and big-box grocers and warehouse clubs contributes mightily to weight gain. \"Food's gotten cheaper and more readily available, so we eat more of it. It's really simple,\" says study coauthor Charles Courtemanche, a health economist at Georgia State University. \"At least a sizable portion of the rise in obesity can be characterized as responses to economic incentives.\" A major report from a group of government-appointed nutrition experts released Thursday noted that about two-thirds of American adults are overweight or obese and nearly half suffer from chronic conditions related to poor diet and exercise. Many studies have shown that additional caloric intake rather than reduced exercise is driving the trend. A big part of the problem of overeating, Courtemanche and his colleagues argue, is that restaurants and big-box stores are such effective delivery devices for loads of fattening foods. \"With 20 years of data, you can really identify the exact moment when a new Wal-Mart or new restaurants came in and you saw the rise in BMI,\" Courtemanche says. The study, coauthored by researchers at the universities of Iowa, Virginia and Louisville, looks at the nation as a whole, rather than focusing in on specific locales (although Courtemanche says there are clear regional differences). The authors compared information they had compiled about restaurant and big-box-store locations with survey data looking at individual health, as well as state-level data examining more than two dozen economic and demographic factors. What they found was that the density of restaurants and large-scale food retailers in particular areas was a major factor between 1990 and 2010 in the nationwide rise of obesity and BMI, or body mass index, which measures weight against an individual's height. They attribute nearly half the rise in severe obesity — referring to people who are more than 50 percent above their ideal weight — to such businesses. Courtemanche concedes that it would be impossible to prove to a certainty that big-box stores and restaurants cause increases in obesity, \"unless you're able to randomize which counties get a Wal-Mart and which ones don't.\" But he says even after controlling for other factors, such businesses have a measurable effect. But others focused on the obesity problem are skeptical. Health officials have long debated how much our evolving environment, such as a lack of sidewalks and the prevalence of fast-food restaurants, has contributed to the obesity epidemic. And there's a potential \"chicken and egg\" problem with the big-box analysis, says Ted Kyle, advocacy adviser to the Obesity Society, a Maryland-based group that promotes obesity research. \"What they did find is an association between areas with high numbers of big-box stores and people with high rates of obesity,\" Kyle says. \"It could be that the consumers who have high rates of obesity make very good customers for big-box stores.\" Kyle emphasizes that he doesn't mean retailers go looking for areas with large numbers of obese residents, but that they do naturally seek customers who will purchase large quantities of packaged goods. So, do the big-box stores cause obesity, or simply serve people with a propensity to buy in big amounts? \"They're not going to put big-box stores in a place where there aren't people who are going to shop there,\" says Marlene Schwartz, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at the University of Connecticut. (The center was formerly at Yale University.) Still, Schwartz notes that the study is careful to filter for other possible explanations, such as income levels and population density and age. Big-box stores and restaurants, she says, are part of the perils of abundance in the American diet. Our brains respond greedily to a surfeit of food, she suggests. \"Historically, food didn't last forever,\" Schwartz says. \"You had to eat food when you had it [so] the idea of eating more when you have so much available makes sense to me.\" Wal-Mart and other retailers say the study does not take into account their efforts to offer more healthful choices and reduce the number of calories consumers take home with them. They also cite their involvement with first lady Michelle Obama on her \"Let's Move\" initiative and the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation. Still, they haven't stopped selling foodstuffs in mass quantities. Yet the problem may not be that food retailers are seemingly everywhere, selling chocolate pretzels in 3.5-gallon container", "Analyst Howard Davidowitz of the consulting firm Davidowitz and Associates discusses holiday retail sales. He notes a boom in Internet sales but warns of mixed results among brick-and-mortar retailers.", "Retail giant Wal-Mart has applied to get into the banking business. Reporter Alix Spiegel examines Wal-Mart's move, and the reasons behind the historical separation of commerce and banking.", "Several large retailers are hiring ten of thousands of people for the upcoming holiday shopping season. But analysts say sales of small-ticket items won't give the economy the jolt that big-ticket items would." ]

[ "Birds have ears, however they do not stick out like ours. Birds will die anywhere. If they all went somewhere special there would be an enormous pile of dead birds somewhere and I have not yet heard of \"Dead Bird Mountain\"." ]

[ "Good question. Not hearing; sight. They seem to be hearing movement, but birds go by sight. I thought the same thing.", "few birds in the wild would survive long enough to die of old age, so it mostly depends on what the cause of death is.\\n\\nmany birds are eaten by various predators, others are killed when they strike immobile objects like buildings or glass doors. a large number of them can starve to death or succumb to the elements during winter, or catch a disease (like West Nile) and die. most of these will probably be whereever they happened to roost when they die.\\n\\nso there isn't one single place that birds will head for when they think they're going to die. it takes most of them by surprise.", "I don't think they die in any particular place... Just die where they fall.", "I don't know if they explode. I DO KNOW that when the birds eat the raw rice and then it drinks, the rice starts to swell in the bird's stomach. I am not sure how they die but some do. \\n\\nThat is why they tell you to throw birdseed at weddings instead of rice.", "COULD BE FROM A BLOCKED ESTACIAN TUBE. AN INNER EAR INFECTION, EAR WAX BUILD UP OR FROM TINNITUS. DO YOU ALSO HEAR RINGING AND/OR BUZZING IN THE EAR. IS YOUR HEARING ALSO ON THE DECLINE? SEE AN EAR.NOSE.THROAT DOC ASAP..", "Some people have soft earwax, while others have hard, firm earwax. It can get irritating if it accumulates in the ear. You may hear a ringing sound, feel pressure in the ear, or have decreased hearing. I suggest you put 3 drops of baby or mineral oil in the affected ear while lying sideways (the affected ear is facing upwards). Rub the oil in the ear for 2-3 mins. then stand up. Let the oil flow out of the ear. Do this for a week. This will soften the earwax and it will move out slowly. Avoid using Q-tips as they will push the earwax further inside the ear. If the earwax is persistent, you may have to go to a doctor who will flush out the earwax using water and a tube that he inserts into the ear.", "GIVE ME THE COUNTRY WHERE YOU CAN HEAR THE CRICKETS AND BIRDS AN NO BOOM BOXES ANY DAY AND HORNS GOING OFF AND BURGLAR ALARMS AND NOISY FUMES OF TRAFFIC", "mouth gaurds ??..Ear guards ??", "Yoki is right on. Some birds that normally summer in northern Canada do not go very far south at all. Juncos and tree sparrows, two birds of the far north like to winter in the northern U S. And of course some do not migrate at all. Normally, birds whose food supply consist of insects and fruit and flowers are the migrators. But as Yoki pointed out the Artic Tern, a fish eater, is one of the worlds longest migrators. Some Artic Terns do not make it all the way to the Artic however. There is a large colony that breed on a small island off the coast of Maine.", "I would imagine doing something like that would expose your ear(s) to too much loud noise, and could damage your hearing.", "I did when I was at the zoo. I also watched the Rain bird dive through the hole in a broken guitar (it was a musical display), but it was sad cause the Rain bird tried to fly, but the guide said he will die if he ever leaves the zoo.", "I think they do. I mean who would send a violation for a question about birds. It makes them feel powerful. That's why when they go to the doctors office. They should tell them that they have to have a colonoscopy. Hurt that *ss I say.", "Firstly they have a coned ear which basically can be turned to the direction of the sound, thus collecting more soundwaves than the human ear. \\n\\nThen the frequency of sound they can hear. Humans can hear any sound in the frequency band of 20Hz to 20000Hz. Anything above or below is inaudible to human ear. On the other hand are much more broader extending high and low to the human audible range.\\n\\n.:Fishie:.", "Depends on the bird, but they settle down about nightfall and nest in trees, buildings, rooftops, bushes, and just about any other place of saftey they can find. They work very hard at keeping their nests concealed, making them hard to find and they are often in places away from people. With some practace and a pair of binoculars, you'd be surprized how many nests you could find though. Especially in the spring when the birds are flying back and forth to their nests to feed their chicks!", "They both breathe air,eat,drink,sleep,reproduce,die and so on", "still in the trees. deadwood, holes in branches etc. natural hidy holes. thats why itr is important to keep old forrests around - so the trees have little places like that for the birds", "Yes, all male birds have two testicles within their abdomen. As most birds do not have a penis, it is not easy to see any external genitalia in these animals.", "They don't have ears in the sense you are familiar. You probaby think of ears needing some sort of distinguishable outer ear sturcture (humans, dogs, cats, mice, etc.). Snakes have ears, but they don't have an outer ear structure. Thier ears are very similar to that of fish. They have an area on the proximal latteral end of their heads where you can find structures known as tempanic membranes. These are the equivalent of your ear drums, but they are found on the surface of their heads. These sturctures are able to relay vibrations much like we do with our ear drums.\\n\\nHowever, it's also important to note that snakes are able to sense vibrations with other parts of their body. They are very sensitive to vibrations using the nerve endings in their body. The tempanic membranes help sense vibrations above ground. They basically use their bodies to sense vibrations through the ground. So they can \"hear\" you walking up on them, even if they don't see you, by feeling the vibrations you create when you feet touch the ground.", "Well first your ear uses some of that wax as protection....cleaning the outside of the ear with a q-tip is fine, but the furthur you penetrate into the ear you run the risk of damaging the ear-drum which can cause hearing loss. You really only need to do the q-tip thing about once a week....then just clean your ears in the shower with a washcloth if you are that concerned about earwax build-up", "Yes i am worried. people are GOING to die, if we don't take the proper precautions, i am going to Austria in may 2006, where the bird flu is, and i am really freaked out. Can anyone help me with this.", "It is completely unclear whether they actually do. There seems to be some evidence for both sides of the argument. When the tsunami in East Asia hit it seems that the local dogs and cats and assorted wildlife in a variety of protected habitats were killed alongside the people, not a trace of an exodus before the fact. \\nMost stories of an animal sixth sense are anecdotal and have not been scientifically studied (how could you scientifically study anything to do with a completely unexpected calamity anyway?). \\nSo far it isn't really clear whether that sixth sense is an individual thing in animals, or part of their sensory early detection system or just a myth.", "that's why everyone thought they were extinct! they are the last two....", "of course they make sounds. Havent you ever watched JAWS? They go \" du dum du dum, du dum du dum\" right before they kill someone.", "why do we ignore the fact that over 200,000 people a year die in drunk driving accidents but yet we yell about the men and wemon who die serving our country, we only hear what we want to hear, what fits into our perseption of things, and what the media wants to portay to us.", "well my guess is that they breathe and they may possibly eat sometimes too. but don't my word for it . try going scientest hunting . i hear its fun", "Let's look at the facts...\\n\\nIn 2003, the estimated number of deaths of persons with AIDS (in the U.S.) was 18,017, including 17,934 adults and adolescents, and 83 children under age 13.\\n\\nAlthough avian influenza A viruses usually do not infect humans, more than 100 confirmed cases of human infection with avian influenza viruses have been reported since 1997.\\n\\nThat's over 18,000 deaths in the U.S. in 2003 alone and only about 100 confirmed cases, not deaths, of \"bird flu\" since 1997. In addition, though people may live longer with HIV/AIDS than with the bird flu, 100% of people with AIDS die from it, and the bird flu is not that deadly. Moreover, the U.S. gov't is getting closer and closer to finding a vaccine for the bird flu. Obviously, AIDS is more threatening to the world than the bird flu is. If the bird flu were more airborne like normal flu, it might be more threatening, but still not even close to AIDS. The only reason why people are scared is that the media and gov't have done a good job of scaring us about bird flu, when what they should be doing is devoting themselves to scaring people about AIDS so people take more precautions not to get it or pass it on!\\n\\nNote: The fact that the other two people who have responded to this question feel that bird flu is more threatening PROVES that there isn't enough fear of HIV/AIDS.\\n\\nAnd by the way, it's much easier to get HIV than bird flu.", "we are from about 70 to 22000 Hz, we have one of the widest hearing ranges. So assume dears are somewhere in there. I think the harder question to answer is what is the sensitvity of their hearing in decibels", "I know what you mean. I have a hearing loss in my left ear. I've had this since I was about 3. There are many disadvantages, I agree: People having to repeat themselves, but you need to hear what is being said just in case it's important. I can't stand the fact that I can't tell where a sound is coming from. I do like that fact that I have an advantage of blocking out sound when sleeping or the fact that I can tune out some noises. I'd rather have hearing, don't get me wrong.. but that part is nice at least. Just live you life and love who you are.", "They are birds. \\nThey lay eggs.", "You may be pushing the Q Tip in too far. It is dangerous to use stuff like that to clear your ears with, as if you do go in too far you can perforate/break your eardrum. You could even push the wax in further causing more problems. Believe me, as someone who is hard of hearing, you don't want to go down that road...it's no joke truly.\\n\\nIf you need to loosen earwax use warm olive oil and if that doesn't work, arrange to have your ears syringed by a doctor or nurse. If you are still having problems now, then I truly think you should seek medical advice.\\n\\nPlease take care...you cannot replace your hearing. (hearing aids are no substitute for natural hearing)", "Yeah- it really suck when you get them, doesn´t it- but that´s the way life is I guess... Those not to nice scarings aren´t much to do about (except the laser thing you where talking about). Also hear that cocoa butter should reduce it- but I think you have to apply it while it´s happening. There are a \"St. Ives\" lotion that is said to minimize scares and bleach them- but I´m not sure you can get it over there.", "if u got the answers plz let me know 2!!!!!!" ]

[ "This paper first documents the rationales behind the transitional exchange rate system reform adopted by China on 21 July 2005. It then outlines the theory behind the medium- and long-term exchange rate arrangements that could be adopted. Thereafter, the paper provides recommendations on supplementary packages that could increase the chance of a successful reform, and increase China's immunity and resilience against financial crises in the future. Finally, the paper discusses the market and economic developments after the transitional reform, and highlights that failure to check the stock market bubble and rampant property inflation could turn the initial success of the reform to an eventual failure and bring disasters to China in the longer future." ]

[ "A fully opened capital account, a pure floating exchange rate, and inflation-targeting monetary policy is the macroeconomic setting currently recommended in Latin America by the International Monetary Fund and the orthodoxy. In this paper, we present an alternative macroeconomic regime proposal focused on growth and employment. A competitive real exchange rate, as an intermediate target, is an essential component of the regime. The paper argues in favor of the proposed policies by showing that they are viable and manageable and also discusses some possible objections from the mainstream or orthodox approach.", "This paper analyzes the transmission channels of the US exchange rate strategy on China's inflation in the post-Crisis era,and then constructs an econometric model to test the obvious international spillover effects. Based on the empirical results,this paper argues that the US strategic devaluation of the dollar had significant and negative impact on China's inflation,while RMB exchange rate as well as China's growth had significant but positive impact on China's inflation. Finally,this paper recommends a broader daily fluctuation band of RMB exchange rate and a reduction of the various growth-stimulus policies for China.", "List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Introduction Acknowledgements Map of Provinces PART I: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS Economic Reforms and Recent Macroeconomic Performance C.Harvie Growth, Inflation and the Asian Financial Crisis T.Van Hoa Corporate Governance and State-Owned Enterprise Reform C.Harvie & T.Naughton Business Alliances, Organizational Change and Township and Village Enterprises C.Harvie Financial Sector Reform G.O'Leary Trade and Investment C.S.Suh & J.S.Seo PART II: KEY ISSUES Balanced Development: The Challenge for Science, Technology and Innovation Policy T.Turpin & X.Liu Labour Migration since 1978 R.Iredale Regional Income Inequality K.Chowdhury, C.Harvie & A.Levy Land Reform and the Competitiveness of China's Cities D.McKay Index", "Abstract A demand-oriented macroeconometric model of the Kenyan economy is developed and estimated in line with the cointegration technique. The estimated structure of the model is used to perform policy simulation experiments to determine the sensitivity of key macroeconomic variables to changes in exchange rate, net government current expenditure and nominal interest rate. The results of policy simulation experiments reveal that the exchange rate and fiscal policies are relatively more effective than the monetary policy, i.e. changing the nominal interest rate, in influencing the level of economic activity. The results point to the possibility of devaluation improving the international trade balance.", "We examine the economic reforms in China's electric power industry during the 1980s, describe China's pre-reform economy and show how investment and price reforms affected the power industry. Despite notable gains in economic and energy efficiencies following the introduction of market-oriented policies, some reform measures produced undesirable side-effects for the power industry. Using a simple economic model, it is possible to show that the multiple-price system adopted in the mid-1980s for paying power producers results in the underutilization of China's newest and most energy-efficient plants. We provide an estimate of the fuel losses which may have resulted from this pricing policy and suggest alternative pricing rules which will reduce efficiency losses in the power industry.", "This paper presents a comparative analysis of the macroeconomic adjustment in Chile, Colombia, and Peru to commodity terms-of-trade shocks. The study is done in two steps: (i) an analysis of the impulse responses of key macroeconomic variables to terms-of-trade shocks and (ii) an event study of the adjustment to the recent decline in commodity prices. The experiences of these countries highlight the importance of flexible exchange rates to help with the adjustment to lower commodity prices, and staying vigilant in addressing depreciation pressures on inflation through tightening monetary policies. On the fiscal front, evidence shows that greater fiscal space, like in Chile and Peru, gives more room for accommodating terms-of-trade shocks.", "In September 2010,House of Representatives of United States passed Currency Reform for Fair Trade Act which is characterized as imposing currency exchange-rate policy into international trade by stipulating that \"fundamentally undervalued currency\"consititutes \"export subsidies\".The Act,however,violates international law in three aspects.First,its characterized measure is inconsistent with IMF Agreement and WTO Agreement on jurisdiction matters;second,United States has no right to unilaterally determine exchange rate undervaluation of other countries;third,according to standards provided by SCM Agreement,fundamentally undervalued currency does not contain features of export subsidies.For China,it is advised to insist exchange rate is of national sovereignty,explore ways to alleviate exchange-rate pressure from the United States,and resort to WTO dispute settlement body when necessary.", "Preface Janos Kornai Introduction Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman Part I. Fiscal Policy and Institutions: 1. Politics of the labor market adjustment: the case of Russia Vladimir Gimpelson 2. Creating effective tax administrations: the experience of Russia and Georgia Vito Tanzi 3. Politics, institutions and macroeconomic adjustment: Hungarian fiscal policy-making in comparative perspective Stephan Haggard, Robert R. Kaufman and Matthew S. Shugart 4. Brothers-in-arms or rivals in politics? Top politicians and top policy-makers in the Hungarian transformation Bela Greskovits Part II. The Welfare State: 5. Lessons from Sweden for post-socialist countries Assar Lindbeck 6. The borderline between the spheres of authority of the citizen and the state: recommendations for the Hungarian health reform Janos Kornai 7. Security through diversity: conditions for successful reform of the pension system in Poland Jerzy Hausner 8. The politics of pension and health care reforms in Hungary and Poland Joan M. Nelson.", "The Efficient Market Hypothesis proposes that macroeconomic policy actions do not influence stock market development but the Tobin’s q theory argues otherwise. This paper uses the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) technique to investigate the impact of macroeconomic policy on the development of the Ghana Stock Exchange for the period 1991-2011. The paper finds government revenue and exchange rate reduce stock market development. A policy mix identified was that, the outcomes of government expenditure and government borrowing interest rate exert no influence on stock market development. For equity investors not to easily transfer their investments in response to changes in macroeconomic policies among others, the study recommends good macroeconomic management. Keywords : Stock Market Development, Macroeconomic policy, Government spending, ADRL, Ghana, West Africa", "This article employs structural break tests of unknown point with nuisance parameter to test for possible break in China's business cycle volatility and identifies that the last quarter of 1995 is the significant structural break point. The paper then constructs a counterfactual analysis to examine the driving factors of the structural change in China's business cycle fluctuations. The results of several robustness analyses suggest that systematic improvements in macroeconomic policies account for 20%–40% of the change while the remaining portion is explained by the reduction in the volatility of random shocks. These findings provide important implications for the ongoing economic revolution and policy adjustment in China.", "This paper examines power sector reform in China's largest province, Guangdong, following the publication of the No.9 document of the China State Council on 'Deepening Reform of the Power Sector' in March 2015. We look at the operation of the pilot wholesale power market in Guangdong in the light of international experience. We discuss how the power market pilot is working in Guangdong and the extent to which the current market design is in line with successful power markets we see elsewhere. We examine the evidence on whether the market reform has successfully brought new players into the electricity system in Guangdong. We consider the effects of the reform on the operational and investment decisions of firms in the sector. We conclude with several lessons for the Chinese government's ongoing power sector reform programme.", "The export enterprises in China will receive foreign exchange payment for goods and loans in production in the future,but the companies also face a twofold risk in the foreign exchange and interest rate of RMB.So it's imperative to research these issues about risk management.We can use the forward exchange rate,foreign futures and forward rate,which are widely used in market trade,to manage the risks respectively with simultaneous and independent hedging strategies.And then the statistics of return,risk and efficiency will be calculated to compare and evaluate these two kinds of risk management strategies.As the receiving conclusion shows that synchronized management is superior to the independent management,enterprises can use synchronized management strategies to avoid the twofold risk more effectively.", "Korea performed the reformation on the separation of dispensing from prescription around 2000. Korean government’s policy of the Separation of Dispensing from Prescription involves two interest groups-the physicians and the pharmacist, so Korean government has limited influence on the field of medical service. It can be seen from the policy-making process and final outcome of the Separation of Dispensing from Prescription that Korean government meets many difficulties in the reformation. It will be helpful to analyze the problems in Korean reformation on the Separation of Dispensing from Prescription and Korea’s practices and lessons will supply precious inspiration to China’s reformation on the separation of dispensing from prescription.", "\"No.1 Document\" has played a very positive role in the policy-oriented rural reforms in China in three aspects: a good promotion of the agriculture in China,a quick growth of the rural economy and the increasing incomes of the farmers.\"No.1 Document\" issued between 1982 and 1986 ushered in five glorious chapters in China's reform;\"No.1 Document\" issued between 2004 and 2009 were another six monumental documents for integrating the urban and rural development.The eleven \"No.1 Documents\" have pointed out the four aspects waiting for further reforms,that is,the reform of the economic and management system at the village level;the breakthrough in the institutional reform at the township level;the establishment of some special rural cooperatives and the economic organizations for modern agricultural development;the establishment of the effective agricultural socio-service system.", "The liquidity risk in China's banking sector has been a serious concern among theorists and practitioners.Based on the sample of listed banks between 2006 and 2012,using loan to deposit ratio and liquidity ratio as measures for bank's liquidity,this paper investigates what factors affect bank' s liquidity from perspectives of bank's characteristics,macroeconomic condition and monetary policy etc.Robust results show that,the lower loan to asset ratio or the higher deposit to debt ratio is,the better banks liquidity will be.This result indicates that asset structure and debt structure have dominating influences on bank's liquidity.In contrast,the effects of macroeconomic condition and monetary policy on bank' s liquidity vary in different samples.This study is helpful for understanding the liquidity risk in China's banking sector.", "The object of this paper is to investigate the effects of fiscal and monetary shocks on the exchange rate within a world macroeconomic model. The model is macroeconomic in the sense that it has no ‘supply-side’ at this stage; the equilibrium (or ‘natural’) values of output, real interest rates, real exchange rates, etc., are all taken as exogenous.", "The reform and practice of credit system plays an important part in teaching management reform among China's colleges and universities.Summarizing the practice of the implementing of credit system in Hainan University,this paper probes the problems in management system,curriculum construction,resource utilization,etc.,as well as relevant countermeasures.", "China is an agricultural country, which contains the whole meaning of the Chinese culture all through the ages. The success of the countrys economic system reform results from the cultural elements. The leaders culture (like the leaders theory, idea) always functions as “a locomotive”;the culture of the society has certain influnce on the change of the countrys productional relationship; the farmers culture leads to a new age of the countrys economic system reform of China. In the reform of the countrys economic system, the influnce of the culture cant be ignored.", "After the Opium War,the traditional monetary system of modern China started to proceed a compulsory transition from the double monetary system of silver and copper to a paper monetary system. In this monetary reform,the scholars from the block of three alleys and seven streets have made great contributions to the successful reform of modern China's monetary system and its conformity with international practices. Through systematically analyzing their thoughts about the monetary reform and objectively evaluating their contributions to the time,I put forward some constructive suggestions for China's monetary reform under the background of today's economic globalization. This can not only enrich the research of cultural connotation of the block of three alleys and seven streets from the perspective of economic history,but also benefit the construction of China monetary system in future.", "At present,China′s \"Province governing the county\" system reform has entered upon an acceleration stage.After analysing the concept of the \"Province governing the county\" system,this paper makes a further discussion on the positive and negative effects that the \"Province governing the county\" system reform has on the urban-regional relationship on four levels: county-to-county,county-to-city,city-to-city and provincial regional level,combining with some instances of the cities in Yangtze River Delta region.Furthermore,this paper puts forward some targeted measures,providing a useful reference for the policy making on the \"Province governing the county\" system reform.", "Purpose – This paper aims to provide an overview of education system reform in China since 1978, and its practical implications.Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected from literature review and interview. An overview of education system reform and its practical implications was found through data analysis.Findings – There has been two types of education system reforms in China since 1978. The first type is school education system reform, and the second is education management system reform.Practical implications – A point arising is how to reform the education system at the national level.Originality/value – This is the first time the researcher has studied education system reform and its characteristics in China since 1978, and it can help people to understand education system reform in China systematically.", "Abstract The paper describes the electricity tariff system, electricity price reform evolution and the achievements of tariff reform in Shandong Province of China during 1991–1994. The existing problems of tariff system up to 1994 are also presented. In order to solve these problems and establish reasonable tariff systems, the proposed action plan of tariff reform in Shandong Province, P. R. China in the future is also presented.", "This paper compares tax reforms and current tax systems in China and Russia. In both countries, earlier tax reforms aimed at providing incentives to state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to improve productivity. In the 1990s, China and Russia established market-oriented tax systems, and both experienced a decline in tax revenues. Entering the new century, China adopted an increased-spending fiscal policy, while Russia adopted a tax-cut policy to stimulate economic growth. Both countries have similar value-added tax systems, but their personal and corporate income tax structures and social security systems are substantially different. The tax share of the gross domestic product (GDP) is substantially higher in Russia than in China. Russia is expected to continue its tax-reduction policy, and China is also considering major tax reforms.", "At the early stage of the founding the People's Republic of China,the management of the old private banking could not keep pace with the demand of the new national economic restruction and development.The state adopted a series of policies for restructuring and managing the private banking and accomplished a gradual socialist reformation of the private banking,which create some favorable condition for the later three major reformations.", "Dr. Vijit Supinit has been and still have significant role for ASEAN financial integration and capital market integration. His different positions and expertise gave him as a key role to plan and design the financial and capital market integration. He involved the ASEAN financial and capital market integration in many decades already. He also assists China Banging system reform in 1990’s. He has hold many different positions in various field in financial and capital market sectors. Governor of the Central bank of Thailand; Chairperson of Central bank of Thailand; Chairperson of Stock Exchange of Thailand and Chairperson of Security and Exchange Commission ket integration. He involved the ASEAN financial and capital market integration in many decades already. He also assists China Banging system reform in 1990’s. He has hold many different positions in various field in financial and capital market sectors.", "Since 1980s, western countries has began to make overall reforms in their social security policies in order to use a more positive social security policy to take place the negative provision of welfare. The essence of this active policy reform from providing welfare to offering work is to replace social security and social welfare by a labor policy in order to send the unemployed to labor market, to solve the issue of unemployment which is increasingly inflated and to reduce the dependence of the unemployed on welfares. At the same time, under the background of globalization, China is also facing with broad issues of unemployment and of constructing system of social security. There are other hills whose stones are good for working jade. Many pieces of enlightenment and experience of reforms in western countries' social security policies can be used for reference to construct system of social security in China by using a new mind", "Purpose – This study aims to examine the dynamics between exchange rate and equities contextualizing the current liberal currency regime in China. This investigation also extends the analysis to explore the potential important factors influencing the interactions between these two markets. After exchange rate reforms, currency issue has emerged as a new dimension in portfolio decisions and diversification strategies in Chinese equity markets. Design/methodology/approach – This research uses the dynamic conditional correlation generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity model proposed by Engle (2002) to explore the dynamic interactions between the currency and stock markets. Further, the paper uses regression analysis to explore the explanatory channels of the correlation. The sample comprises 1,265 listed companies over the period 2005-2012 with daily, weekly and monthly observations. To make analysis robust, the study also considers different exchange rates and equities belonging to differe...", "This paper offers a theoretical basis for the concept of rebalancing and applies it to China, where it is currently a topical issue. Rebalancing here means the correction of economic and social imbalances built up during industrialization. This correction is accompanied by a structural transformation towards a more inward- and consumption-driven growth path, associated with growth slowdown. Attempts to mitigate this growth slowdown by either retarding this structural reform process or by using expansionary stimulus programmes as done over the past decade in China create new imbalances that have to be corrected (rebalanced) again. Managing these multiple rebalancing tasks together is a tremendous undertaking, as this paper shows.", "Abstract The article uses trade data between China and ASEAN countries to test hypotheses related to pricing to market (PTM) and consequent local currency price stability (LCPS). The degree of price discrimination associated with real RMB exchange rate changes between China and ASEAN + 2 shows evidence of local currency price stability in some industries in which exporters may be less competitive. China's trade policy may have also played a role in the local currency price stability. The article finds no evidence that RMB appreciation creates a larger impact on price adjustment than RMB depreciation.", "The development in land management in rural areas of new China led to three reformations of the rural governing system: that in the early days of new China, the People's Commune that integrating both politics and production, and that after the 3rd Session of the 11th Central Committee of CCP. Compared with that in economic field, the political system reformation in rural areas lags much behind, which reduces to a great extent the positive effect of the new management of land. Therefore, it is realistic and significant to study in depth the political system reformation in rural areas of China.", "The current population policy of China, which emphasizes one child per family, is facing considerable challenge brought about by socioeconomic reforms. The principal challenge is greater individual freedom created by the reforms. The present article examines this conflict.", "Currently,the price reform of domestic factors receives a lot of atention,among which energy price reform is more exigent.How and to what degree does energy price reform influence China's macro-economy? This paper studies the effect of rising energy price on China's economy based on one of CGE model-MCHUGE model.The research shows that,on one hand,rising energy price can significantly reduce China's energy intensity either in the short term or in the long term,because the increase of energy price optimized the industrial structure in China.Declining proportion ofsecondary industry,especially the heavy industry,in GDP reduced overall Energy consumption.On the other hand,the increase of energy price leads to the decrease of exports and investments in China,which is the main reason for the decrease of China's GDP." ]

[ "live the life of Riley. To lead a life of great ease, comfort, or luxury. The phrase is likely of early 20th-century Irish-American origin, but to whom Riley refers is uncertain. Pampered from a young age after his father came into sudden wealth, Jonathan lived the life of Riley compared to the hardships his older siblings faced." ]

[ "It means you eat corned beef hash, enjoy jigs, have a last name like O'Malley or McDougal, follow Murphy's Law, and have an irresistable urge to use the word blarney. That is …living the life of Riley. Also, living the life of Riley requires that you were born in a pub.", "The name Riley is an American baby name. In American the meaning of the name Riley is: Irish Meaning: The name Riley is an Irish baby name. In Irish the meaning of the name Riley is: Surname.Gaelic Meaning: The name Riley is a Gaelic baby name. In Gaelic the meaning of the name Riley is: Valiant.he name Riley is an American baby name. In American the meaning of the name Riley is: Irish Meaning: The name Riley is an Irish baby name. In Irish the meaning of the name Riley is: Surname.", "The Life of Riley, 1940's radio show starring William Bendix, The Life of Riley was the easy life, everything went his way no problems, So it was the easy life.jerryb · 6 years ago.he Life of Riley, 1940's radio show starring William Bendix, The Life of Riley was the easy life, everything went his way no problems, So it was the easy life. jerryb · 6 years ago.", "Those sort of people lived the life of Riley while I had my nose to the grindstone, grinding out their basic needs. In the life of Riley, two people play a significant role ( Messrs Phil Sharpe and Glenn Turner.", "Riley Name Meaning. Irish: variant spelling of Reilly.English: habitational name from Ryley in Lancashire, so named from Old English ryge ‘rye’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’. There is a Riley with the same meaning in Devon, but it does not seem to have contributed to the surname, which is more common in northern England.rish: variant spelling of Reilly.English: habitational name from Ryley in Lancashire, so named from Old English ryge ‘rye’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’. There is a Riley with the same meaning in Devon, but it does not seem to have contributed to the surname, which is more common in northern England.", "Riley is the daughter of Cory and Topanga and she goes to school with her friends Maya and Farkle and new person Lucas who Riley likes. Cory is Riley's history teacher and everything Riley and Maya do has something to do with their school life problems.", "What does Riley mean, popularity, numerology and more. The name Riley is of Irish origin. The meaning of Riley is courageous, valiant. It is also of rye meadow and origin, where its meaning is .iew the Riley Name Popularity Page to see how the popularity trend for Riley has changed since 1880, or to compare the popularity of Riley to other names.", "And who has to brave the challenges of her new world. For Riley, the here&now is a little bit like her life on the human plane. Except there is no one that she knows besides her family. There is also no time or date, its always here & now.Join riley in the adventure of her next life.", "Like all of us, Riley is guided by her emotions-Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness. The emotions live in Headquarters, the control center inside Riley's mind, where they help advise her through everyday life. As Riley and her emotions struggle to adjust to a new life in San Francisco, turmoil ensues in Headquarters.", "What does Riley mean? Riley [ri-ley] as a girls' name (also used less commonly as boys' name Riley) is pronounced RY-lee. It is of Irish and Gaelic origin, and the meaning of Riley is courageous. Variant of O'Reilly. Lately adopted for girls and boys. Associated with: irish.", "What does Riley mean? [ 2 syll. ri-ley, ril-ey ] The baby boy name Riley is also used as a girl name, with the latter form being more common. Its pronunciation is RIYLiy- †. Riley is used chiefly in the English language and it is derived from Old English origins. The name is of the meaning rye field.", "Origin. The phrase originated in the Irish/American community of the USA, in the early part of the 20th century. The first printed citation of it that I have found is from the Connecticut newspaper The Hartford Courant, December 1911 - in a piece headed ' Bullet Ends Life of Famous Wild Cow ':he best in the house is none too good for Reilly. So, while the idea of a notional Irishman living the high life was current in late 19th century America, the phrase 'the life of Riley' isn't found until the early 20th century.", "1 Answer 1. active oldest votes. up vote 2 down vote accepted. The phrase is frequently said to have originated in the words of a song, but although many songs of the late 19th and early 20th centuries feature a person called Riley or Reilly, none has been identified as furnishing a clear source for the exact phrase. heard the saying, life of Riley when someone was talking about my cat, and I wondered what the origin of the expression is. The only thing I can think of is that it comes from the name of someone who was pampered and lazy, a king for example.", "“The Life of Riley” was a successful network radio show of the 1940s and television sitcom of the 1950s. By that time, the phrase “life of Riley” was already recognizable slang for an indolent, carefree lifestyle. The phrase originated in 19th-century Irish-American humor.Although fans of poet James Whitcomb Riley suggest that the term refers to the pleasant country life he described, there is no historical documentation for that theory.In the oldest texts, for instance, “Riley” is spelled in the Irish style, “Reilly.”.lthough fans of poet James Whitcomb Riley suggest that the term refers to the pleasant country life he described, there is no historical documentation for that theory. In the oldest texts, for instance, “Riley” is spelled in the Irish style, “Reilly.”.", "Look up Riley in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Riley is a given name for males and females, which first appeared as Raghallach, which was originated on a man who died in the Battle of Clontarf. Its source gives its meaning as valiant.Though originally a given name, it is more popular and well known as a surname.The surname's first variant is O ó (Raghallaigh descendent/Of Of) raghallach which was later adapted In english As'O reilly which itself has been anglicized Into. reillyook up Riley in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Riley is a given name for males and females, which first appeared as Raghallach, which was originated on a man who died in the Battle of Clontarf. Its source gives its meaning as valiant.", "What would I mean if i said Life imitates Art? In an assignment I have to prove that Life imitates Art....what does this statement mean and what would I have to prove.", "Lately adopted for girls and boys. ALSO: The name Riley is a baby boy name. The name Riley comes from the Gaelic origin. In Gaelic The meaning of the name Riley is: Valiant.OR: Riley Origin: Irish Meaning: Small Stream. Source(s): http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/...http://www.babyhold.com/list/Gaelic_Baby...he name Riley comes from the Gaelic origin. In Gaelic The meaning of the name Riley is: Valiant. OR: Riley Origin: Irish Meaning: Small Stream. Source(s): http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/... http://www.babyhold.com/list/Gaelic_Baby...", "THEMES-THEME ANALYSIS. Secret Lives. The major theme of this novel is expressed in its title, which comes from a statement made by August: Most people don t have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don t know anything about (148). Throughout the novel, the reader learns how most characters are not what they seem on the surface. People s lives are usually much more complex and complicated than they appear. Throughout the novel, Kidd builds on the hive and bees as a metaphor of life.", "Riley is a given name for males and females, which first appeared as Raghallach, which was originated on a man who died in the Battle of Clontarf.Its source gives its meaning as valiant. Though originally a given name, it is more popular and well known as a surname.he surname Riley is an over time translated version of Reilly. It currently is #8 in England and Wales, #9 in Northern Ireland, #15 in Scotland, #30 in Australia and New Zealand, #64 in Canada, #156 in the United States, and #198 in the Netherlands.", "What does lobo mean in spanish? already exists. already exists as an alternate of this question. exists and is an alternate of. Are the songs ordered chronologically by when they impacted your life? What does LOBO stand for? What does after mean in Spanish? What does los lobos mean? What is a lobo wolf? What does you ain't no Lobos'' mean? What ...", "The surname Riley is an over time translated version of Reilly. It currently is #8 in England and Wales, #9 in Northern Ireland, #15 in Scotland, #30 in Australia and New Zealand, #64 in Canada, #156 in the United States, and #198 in the Netherlands.", "What does it mean that we are not to cause others to stumble? What is Christian discipleship? How can I have the mind of Christ? Return to: Questions about the Christian Life Return to: GotQuestions.org Home What does it mean that believers are to be salt and light (Matthew 5:13-16)?", "vive ut vivas. live life to the fullest.. (literally) live that you may live. One should live a very full life, without fear of a possible future consequences. The phrase suggests that one should live life to the fullest and without fear of possible consequences.", "A Oh, dear. The experts have been struggling with this one for decades but can’t agree on who Riley might have been or how he managed to achieve his enviable existence of comfort and ease. He (that much is assumed) was certainly fictional but competing theories argue that he might have been either American or British.he first known examples of the phrase are American and strongly suggest that it started life in the US Army around the time America entered the First World War in 1917. Small-town newspapers frequently published letters sent home by soldiers from training camps in the US and from active service in France.", "It's sorta like saying Long Live Life (except without the long). It's not a saying that means live your life or live the life, it's just means life's great. (btw, I love the Coldplay song, Viva la Vida). Blaire · 7 years ago.", "Death Finds a Way: A Janie Riley Mystery. by Lorine McGinnis Schulze. Janie Riley is an avid genealogist with a habit of stumbling on to dead bodies. She and her husband head to Salt Lake City Utah to research Janie's elusive 4th great-grandmother. But her search into the past leads her to a dark secret.", "solved What does pci 16x mean and is there suppose to be a 2.0 or 3.0 at the end? What does life & work mean to you? solved What does the T or U mean on a CPU? solved what does a high GPU and CPU ms mean; solved What does this 2 CPU mean; What does the bulk mean in the end of the title of motherboard?", "Meaning of Riley. English name. In English, the name Riley means-Rye. Form of Ryley.. Other origins for the name Riley include-English, Irish, Irish, Gaelic.The name Riley is a unisex name and can be used for a boy or girl name (male or female).English Name Meaning-Rye.nglish name. In English, the name Riley means-Rye. Form of Ryley.. Other origins for the name Riley include-English, Irish, Irish, Gaelic.The name Riley is a unisex name and can be used for a boy or girl name (male or female). English Name Meaning-Rye.", "What does Goku's name mean? Well in the first episode of Dragon Ball, Goku himself says that Goku means savior of life (or light, I may have heard him wrong). But I read that 'savior of life' was just a made up definition of the name to make 'Goku' seem more cool. So what does the name really mean...whats...", "Debauchery | What Does Debauchery Mean What Does Debauchery Mean? the fact of living a wild life. Debauchery On YouTube Debauchery Around The Web Movie Beat:... Imperative | What Does Imperative Mean What Does Imperative Mean? adj urgent; which has to be done - It is imperative that a reply be given...", "Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it’s no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her emotions – Joy (Amy Poehler), Fear (Bill Hader), Anger (Lewis Black), Disgust (Mindy Kaling) and Sadness (Phyllis Smith).", "Life Of Riley picked up insults such as so unimaginative and staid it's embarrassing and about as funny as inflamed piles. The central will now go to his relative, DCI John Barnaby, who is to be played by Neil Dudgeon, whose past roles have included Life Of Riley and Common As Muck." ]

[ "Natural-born-citizen clause Status as a natural-born citizen of the United States is one of the eligibility requirements established in the United States Constitution for holding the office of President or Vice President. This requirement was intended to protect the nation from foreign influence.[1]" ]

[ "Running mate The practice of a presidential candidate having a running mate was solidified during the American Civil War. In 1864, in the interest of fostering national unity, Abraham Lincoln from the Republican Party (popular in the North) and Andrew Johnson of the Democratic Party (popular in the South), were co-endorsed and run together for President and Vice-President as candidates of the National Union Party. Notwithstanding this party disbanded after the war ended, with the result that Republican Lincoln was succeeded by Democrat Johnson; the states began to place candidates for President and Vice-President together on the same ballot ticket - thus making it impossible to vote for a presidential candidate from one party and a vice-presidential candidate from another party, as had previously been possible.", "List of female United States presidential and vice-presidential candidates The first woman considered for a major party presidential candidacy by an incumbent president was Oveta Hobby, by Dwight D. Eisenhower. Eisenhower encouraged Hobby to run in 1960, but she declined.[2] In 1964, Margaret Chase Smith announced her candidacy for the Republican Party nomination, becoming the first female candidate for a major party's nomination. She qualified for the ballot in six state primaries, and came in second in the Illinois primary, receiving 25% of the vote. She became the first woman to have her name placed in nomination for the presidency at a major political party's convention.[3] In 1968, Charlene Mitchell became the first African American woman to run for president, and the first to receive valid votes in a general election. She qualified for the ballot in two states, winning 1,075 votes.[4] In 1972, Shirley Chisholm became the first black candidate for a major party's presidential nomination, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's nomination.[5] Tonie Nathan, the Libertarian Party's vice-presidential candidate in 1972, became the first woman to receive an electoral vote, via faithless elector Roger MacBride.[6] In the 1988 presidential election, Lenora Fulani and her running mate Joyce Dattner became the first women to achieve ballot access in all fifty states.[7] Fulani was also the first African American to do so. In the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries, Hillary Clinton became the first woman to win a presidential primary, and the first to be listed as a presidential candidate in every primary and caucus nationwide.[8] Despite losing the nomination in a close race against Barack Obama, Clinton won more votes in 2008 than any primary candidate in American history.", "Grand Canyon National Park \"Grand Canyon\" was officially designated a national park on February 26, 1919,[5] though the landmark had been well known to Americans for over thirty years prior.[6] In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt visited the site and said: \"The Grand Canyon fills me with awe. It is beyond comparison—beyond description; absolutely unparalleled through-out the wide world... Let this great wonder of nature remain as it now is. Do nothing to mar its grandeur, sublimity and loveliness. You cannot improve on it. But what you can do is to keep it for your children, your children's children, and all who come after you, as the one great sight which every American should see.\"[7]", "Inauguration of John F. Kennedy And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.[35]", "UK Singles Chart records and statistics The longest unbroken run at number one is \"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You\" by Bryan Adams, which spent 16 consecutive weeks in 1991.", "Who Do You Think You Are? (U.S. TV series) Who Do You Think You Are? is an American genealogy documentary series that is an adaptation of the British BBC series of the same name. In each episode, a different celebrity goes on a journey to trace parts of his or her family tree.", "Just to See You Smile \"Just to See You Smile\" is a song written by Mark Nesler and Tony Martin, and performed by American country music artist Tim McGraw. It was released in August 1997 as the third single from McGraw's fourth studio album Everywhere. Having spent 42 weeks on the Billboard chart, it set what was then a record for being the longest-running single on the Billboard country chart since the inception of Nielsen SoundScan in 1990.[1] It was also the longest chart run for any country single in the 1990s.[2]", "Golden Rule The \"Golden Rule\" was given by Jesus of Nazareth, who used it to summarize the Torah: \"Do to others what you want them to do to you.\" and \"This is the meaning of the law of Moses and the teaching of the prophets\"[31] (Matthew 7:12 NCV, see also Luke 6:31). The common English phrasing is \"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you\". A similar form of the phrase appeared in a Catholic catechism around 1567 (certainly in the reprint of 1583).[32] The Golden Rule is stated positively numerous times in the Hebrew Pentateuch as well as the Prophets and Writings. Leviticus 19:18 (\"Forget about the wrong things people do to you, and do not try to get even. Love your neighbor as you love yourself.\"; see also Great Commandment) and Leviticus 19:34 (\"But treat them just as you treat your own citizens. Love foreigners as you love yourselves, because you were foreigners one time in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.\").", "List of female United States presidential and vice-presidential candidates In 1872, Victoria Woodhull ran for president. While many historians and authors agree that Woodhull was the first woman to run for president, some have questioned the legality of her run. They disagree with classifying it as a true candidacy because she was younger than the constitutionally mandated age of 35, but election coverage by contemporary newspapers does not suggest age was a significant issue. The presidential inauguration was in March 1873, and Woodhull's 35th birthday was sixth months later in September. In 1884, Belva Lockwood followed with a run for president. Her running mate was Marietta Stow, who became the first woman to run for vice president.[1]", "Look What You Made Me Do \"Look What You Made Me Do\" runs for 3 minutes and 31 seconds.[6] Music critics have described the track as a hybrid of electroclash and pop,[15] as well as a dance-pop[16] and an electro-pop song.[12] It emphasizes the blame that is placed on an enemy, in particular the line \"I've got a list of names and yours is in red, underlined\". The middle eight of the song features Swift saying, \"I'm sorry, the old Taylor can't come to the phone right now / Why? / Oh, 'cause she's dead!\"", "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You American singer Brandy rerecorded \"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You\" for the standard version of second studio album Never Say Never (1998). Producer David Foster reworked the arrangement of the original song, with Dean Parks playing the acoustic guitar.", "How Do You Like Me Now?! (song) \"How Do You Like Me Now?!\" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Toby Keith. It released in November 1999 as the second single and title track from his album of the same name. Keith wrote it with Chuck Cannon.", "More Than Words The song was described by Bettencourt as a song warning that the phrase \"I love you\" was becoming meaningless: \"People use it so easily and so lightly that they think you can say that and fix everything, or you can say that and everything's OK. Sometimes you have to do more and you have to show it—there's other ways to say 'I love you.'\"[3]", "Designated survivor Only Cabinet members who are eligible to succeed to the presidency (i.e., natural-born citizens over the age of 35, who have resided in the United States for at least 14 years) can be chosen as designated survivors. The designated survivor is provided presidential-level security and transport for the duration of the event. An aide carries a nuclear football with them. However, they are not given a briefing on what to do in the event that the other successors to the presidency are killed.[2]", "Victoria Woodhull In 1872, Woodhull ran for President of the United States. While many historians and authors agree that Woodhull was the first woman to run for President of the United States, some have questioned that priority given issues with the legality of her run. They disagree with classifying it as a true candidacy because she was younger than the constitutionally mandated age of 35. However, election coverage by contemporary newspapers does not suggest age was a significant issue. The presidential inauguration was in March 1873. Woodhull's 35th birthday was in September 1873.", "Do You Wanna Go to Heaven \"Do You Wanna Go to Heaven\" is a song written by Curly Putman and Bucky Jones, and recorded by American country music artist T.G. Sheppard. It was released in July 1980 as the second single from the album Smooth Sailin. \"Do You Wanna Go to Heaven\" was T.G. Sheppard's fifth number one on the country chart. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of eleven weeks on the country chart.[1]", "Who Do You Think You Are? (UK TV series) Who Do You Think You Are? is a British genealogy documentary series that has aired on the BBC since 2004. In each episode, a celebrity traces their family tree. It is made by the production company Wall to Wall. The show has regularly attracted an audience of more than 6 million viewers.[1] More than ten international adaptations of the show have been produced.", "You Can Do It \"You Can Do It\" is a song by American rapper Ice Cube. It was released as the second single from the Next Friday soundtrack. The song features Ice Cube's Westside Connection bandmate Mack 10, as well as female rapper Ms. Toi. \"You Can Do It\" later used as the lead single on Cube's sixth studio album, War & Peace Vol. 2 (The Peace Disc). The song also appears on his Greatest Hits and In the Movies compilations. It would also appear on the double platinum Save the Last Dance.", "Who Do You Think You Are? (U.S. TV series) Who Do You Think You Are? is an American genealogy documentary series that is an adaptation of the British BBC series of the same name. In each episode, a different celebrity goes on a journey to trace parts of his or her family tree. The show premiered on NBC on March 5, 2010, as one of the replacement shows of The Jay Leno Show. It ran on NBC for three seasons before being cancelled in 2012;[1] it was then picked up by TLC,[2] where it has aired for six additional seasons.[3][4]", "Justin Guarini Idol judge Simon Cowell praised Guarini's performance in the show's first season, at one early audition telling him \"Justin, you know, occasionally you're very privileged when you do a competition like this to hear somebody undiscovered who has a voice like yours\", with Guarini ultimately becoming the runner-up to winner Kelly Clarkson in September 2002. Soon after, Guarini signed with American Idol's 19 Management and secured a record deal with RCA. Prior to the American Idol Tour, he was the only contestant asked to appear on The Oprah Winfrey Show, on which Oprah Winfrey told him, \"Justin, you have it.\"", "Elections in the United States While the United States Constitution does set parameters for the election of federal officials, state law, not federal, regulates most aspects of elections in the U.S., including primaries, the eligibility of voters (beyond the basic constitutional definition), the running of each state's electoral college, as well as the running of state and local elections. All elections—federal, state, and local—are administered by the individual states.[2]", "Who Do You Love (Marianas Trench song) \"Who Do You Love\" is about the desire to become a better person for the one you love.", "Look What You Made Me Do \"Look What You Made Me Do\" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, released on August 24, 2017 by Big Machine Records as the lead single from her sixth studio album Reputation (2017). Swift wrote the song with her producer Jack Antonoff. \"Look What You Made Me Do\" is an electroclash and pop song,[2] with lyrics about various issues that built Swift's reputation. Right Said Fred band members Fred Fairbrass, Richard Fairbrass, and Rob Manzoli are also credited as songwriters since it interpolates the melody of their song \"I'm Too Sexy\" (1991).", "You Don't Know Her Like I Do \"You Don't Know Her Like I Do\" is a song recorded by American country rock artist Brantley Gilbert. It was released in December 2011 as the second single from the deluxe edition of his 2010 album Halfway to Heaven. The song was written by Gilbert and Jim McCormick and was the second most-played country song on radio in 2012.[1]", "United States presidential election, 1788–89 In the absence of political parties, there was no formal nomination process. The framers of the Constitution had presumed that Washington would be the first president, and there was no opposition to him since George Washington was widely seen as \"essential to the successful operation of the new government.\"[according to whom?] The nation was undivided, regardless of national beliefs or affiliations, in its decision of Washington as president, so it was of little curiosity to the nation that he won unanimously during the 1788–89 election. Alexander Hamilton, a devoted advocate of George Washington, stated to Washington that \"...the point of light in which you stand home and abroad will make an infinite difference in the respectability in which the government will begin its operations in the alternative of your being or not being the head of state.\" Alexander Hamilton's letter to Washington is an attempt to persuade him to leave retirement on his farm in Mount Vernon, Virginia to run for the presidency, exemplifying the unanimous nature of George Washington's position as a candidate in the first election.", "United States presidential election, 2016 The United States presidential election of 2016 was the 58th quadrennial American presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016. In a surprise victory, the Republican ticket of businessman Donald Trump and Indiana Governor Mike Pence defeated the Democratic ticket of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S. Senator from Virginia Tim Kaine[2] despite losing the popular vote. Trump took office as the 45th President, and Pence as the 48th Vice President, on January 20, 2017. Incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama was ineligible to run for a third term due to the term limits established by the 22nd Amendment. Concurrent with the presidential election, Senate, House, and many gubernatorial and state and local elections were also held on November 8.", "Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To) \"Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)\" is a song written by Michael Masser and Gerald Goffin, and initially recorded by American singer Thelma Houston in 1973, and then most notably by Diana Ross as the theme to the 1975 Motown/Paramount film Mahogany.[1]", "That Thing You Do (song) \"That Thing You Do\" is a 1996 song that appears in the film That Thing You Do! The song is performed by the fictional 1960s band The Wonders, who are the focus of the film.", "Anything You Can Do (song) In the musical, the song sets the scene for the climactic sharpshooting contest between Annie Oakley and Frank Butler.[2] Its most memorable lines are, \"Anything you can do I can do better; I can do anything better than you.\" The song was first performed in Annie Get Your Gun by Ethel Merman and Ray Middleton.[3]", "State of the Union After continuing applause from the attendees has diminished, the Speaker introduces the President to the Representatives and Senators, stating: \"Members of Congress, I have the high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to you the President of the United States.\"[20][21] This leads to a further round of applause and, eventually, the beginning of the address by the President.[21]", "United States Senate Article I, Section 3, of the Constitution, sets three qualifications for senators: (1) they must be at least 30 years old; (2) they must have been citizens of the United States for the past nine years or longer; and (3) they must be inhabitants of the states they seek to represent at the time of their election. The age and citizenship qualifications for senators are more stringent than those for representatives. In Federalist No. 62, James Madison justified this arrangement by arguing that the \"senatorial trust\" called for a \"greater extent of information and stability of character.\"", "United States nationality law Non-citizen U.S. nationals may reside and work in the United States without restrictions, and may apply for citizenship under similar rules as foreign nationals or citizens, except that they do not need to hold U.S. permanent resident status when they apply or to have held it for any length of time before applying.[28][29] Like permanent residents, they are not currently allowed by any U.S. state to vote in federal or state elections, although, as with permanent residents, there is no constitutional prohibition against their doing so." ]

[ "More than 4,500 people took part in the mile-long (1.6km) event as part of the open water festival in Hyde Park.\nWith the swimmers starting in 18 separate waves Guy Davis and Lara Langston, were the first man and woman to cross the finish line.\nMs Langston said: \"It was a great swim. I didn't realise it was the first year so it's quite nice to be part of it.\"\nOrganised by London Marathon Events, places were distributed by ballot after the first 16,000 applications were received.\nHugh Brasher, the event director, said: \"Our aim is to grow it into the largest open water swimming event in the UK.\"\nOn Sunday the festival turns more serious when it hosts the invitational British Open Water Swimming Championships where swimmers will compete over a 3.1 mile (5km) course." ]

[ "An event spokesman said a 59-year-old woman named Cheung died on Wednesday, having been pulled from the water on Sunday and taken to intensive care.\nA man died during Sunday's event. Both were in the 'leisure' category for slower swimmers.\nWorld aquatics governing body Fina announced a review of the race and other open-water events globally following Sunday's death.\nThree thousand swimmers registered for the 1.5km race, which resumed in 2011 after a 30-year break because of fears of pollution levels in the water.\nHong Kong is one of the world's busiest ports, used by more than 400,000 vessels every year.", "Despite a water temperature of 16C, more than 2,500 people entered the races in Loch Lomond being held throughout the day.\nEvents started at 09:00 with the half-mile swim and finished at 15:30 with the 5km race.\nNow in its third year, the Great Scottish Swim allows swimmers of all ages and abilities to take part.\nThe event also hosted the national one-mile open water championship race as part of the elite competition, which saw some of the world's best open water swimmers compete against Scotland's top home-grown talent.\nThe Great Scottish Swim said the men's race was \"extremely competitive\" with 2014 Commonwealth Champion Ross Murdoch, from nearby Balloch, and Commonwealth silver medallist and World Champion Robbie Renwick taking part.\nThe race was won by Christian Riechert in a time of 18:05:06.\nThe women's race featured the two-time national US 10km champion, Christine Jennings, alongside Team GB's Keri-Anne Payne, a two-time World Champion and Olympic Silver medallist.\nMs Jennings beat Ms Payne by less than half a second to take first place.\nAlex Jackson, Great Swim series event director, said: \"It's great to see the appetite for open water swimming increasing, the trend for taking on longer more challenging swims shows no sign of slowing down, over 250 people will take on the 5k challenge on Saturday.\n\"The opportunity to swim in such an iconic location continues to resonate with our swimmers not just in Scotland but around the UK, many are travelling up to enjoy a fantastic weekend in Scotland.\"", "A mass dance warm-up took place at Saundersfoot before the swimmers braved the sea, cheered on by thousands of spectators.\nPembrokeshire-born adventurer Tori James, the first Welsh woman to climb Mount Everest, was on hand to start the swim.\nNow in its 32rd year, the event has raised more than £500,000 for charity.\nHighlights among the fancy dress included a large Star Wars Millennium Falcon and Mrs Brown's Boys.", "Extra water was available this year and organisers have said air quality was fresher after high pollution on Friday.\nOrganisers said 9,426 people started this year's race.\nKenyan Duncan Maiyo, 24, won the men's race, setting a new personal best time of two hours 34 minutes and 25 seconds, while compatriot Pennina Wanjiru, 30, won the women's race in 2:34:25.\nSpokesman Michael Butcher said the event had gone very well and the atmosphere was \"fantastic\".\nThe runners had a slightly chilly start and conditions were windy, but the weather was beautiful, he added.\n\"Thousands of people are out there now. I went to the finish line and had to walk along the course because it was impossible to get on to the pavements,\" he said.\nRace director Tom Naylor said people travelled from across the world to take part, including 14 who had come from Australia.\n\"Once you've done one marathon, maybe New York or Berlin, then the running tourist wants more events,\" he added.\nHe said: \"It's a fantastic tourist destination. The course is great - nice and flat and fast. It takes in the best parts of the city, and who wouldn't want to come and do Brighton Marathon?\"\nTwo years ago, a runner collapsed and died while taking part in the race, partly from dehydration.\nMr Naylor said this year water was provided at 21 stations, one at nearly every mile of the course.\n\"It means runners can drink more often which means they can drink less at each water station, which is much better for the body and much better for their performance,\" he said.", "Media playback is not supported on this device\nThe festival starts on Saturday with a mass-participation one-mile open water swim across the famous lake, with 4,500 people expected to take part.\nThen, on Sunday, the British Open Water Swimming Championships take place, including an elite invitation race.\nJoining the swimming on both days will be Rio 2016 Olympian Jack Burnell and BBC Breakfast's Louise Minchin.\nGet Inspired takes a look at the journey of four of the first-timers.\nSwim motivation: It may have been 40 years ago but Carol Carter has never forgotten the joy and terror of giving birth to her son Mark, who was born 13 weeks premature.\nHe weighed just 1lb 13oz, and staff at West Middlesex Hospital didn't think he would survive.\nNow, nearly four decades, later Mark is a healthy father and grandfather. He is also the inspiration for Carol to take on the Swim Serpentine and raise money for the charity that helped her.\nCarol says: \"It was a long time ago but it's not something you forget. I don't know why he came so early and he was just so small when he was born.\n\"I remember him being wrapped up in silver foil and whisked away. It was hard because I couldn't hold him or touch him and he was in hospital for three months. But the doctors and nurses saved his life and I'll be forever grateful. That's why I'm happy to be swimming for Tommy's.\nFind out how to get into swimming with our special guide.\n\"I was quite a good swimmer when I was younger but after I got married and had children I didn't swim for quite a long time. Then, two years ago, I joined a gym and started building up the lengths in the outdoor swimming pool.\n\"Open-water swimming really is special. I don't think once you have done it you go back to an indoor pool. The other morning I was out early in the morning with the sun shining overhead, there were ducks around and geese flying overhead. It was amazing.\"\nSwimming for: Tommy's\nTarget sponsorship: £500\nSwim motivation: In 1984, Lee Menday was badly injured in the Falklands while serving in the Royal Navy. The injury left him in constant pain and resulted in surgery to have his lower leg amputated.\nNow, at the age of 57, Lee is preparing for the Swim Serpentine, to give back to a charity who have supported him throughout.\nLee says: \"It was hard at times. Physical training was the whole of my life. As part of my job in the Navy, I organised sports on my ship and on other ships. I enjoyed my career but the injury ended that.\n\"After my last operation I knew the place to be to start my rehabilitation was the pool. I got to the point with my swimming where I started to see progress and then I wanted to take it further - that's when Swim Serpentine came along.\n\"To now be in a situation where I can raise money for a charity like Blesma is great. If there has ever been an issue during my injury, the charity has been there to help and look after me.\"\nSwimming for: Blesma\nTarget sponsorship: £500\nSwim motivation: When 24-year-old Theodora Moss found out two years ago that she had Stage 2 Lymphoma it had a big impact on her life and her love for swimming.\nStudying at medical school at the time, Theodora had chemotherapy while maintaining her studies. Because of her weakened immune system, she was not allowed to swim in public pools, but then found open-water swimming.\nTheodora says: \"As I lay in my student flat hearing friends come crashing in at 4am, I felt defeated by the injustice of it all. I simply could not believe this was happening to me.\n\"As my treatment came to an end and the spring arrived, I discovered the wonder of wild, open-water swimming. There were none of the coughs and colds I had to be wary of in public pools. Diving into a clear Yorkshire river I have never felt more alive.\n\"Every inch of my skin tingled and as the water flowed past I felt the worries wash away with it. That summer I swam as much outside as I could, from the Yorkshire Dales to Tooting Lido and the Cornish coast, and so was born a new obsession.\n\"Trekstock are an amazing charity run by young people for young people and their refreshing and inspiring network of young people and support programmes have helped me get my life back on track - open-water swimming included!\"\nSwimming for: Trekstock\nTarget sponsorship: £2,000\nSwim motivation: For 10-year-old Mae Webster, life has not been easy. At the age of two she was diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis and has spent years on medication to try to keep the condition in check.\nMae had been making a steady progress until she had a relapse this year. That spurred 33-year-old mum Keri to take on the challenge of Swim Serpentine.\nKeri says: \"Mae had a flare-up earlier this year and ended up back in hospital. It was then that I decided to do something. I knew I had to do something positive to help children like her, who live with this incredibly painful and debilitating condition on a daily basis.\n\"Mae has been really supportive of me since I started training and she has found it quite inspiring. But to me, Mae is the real inspiration. She is so strong.\n\"Everyone pictures childhood as running and jumping around without any problems but Mae can't do these things without being in pain.\n\"Arthritis is hard to understand - not just the fact that you can get it at any age, but the fact that it is often a lifelong and very invisible condition.\n\"Arthritis Research UK has been an invaluable source of information for us. That's why I am honoured to be raising funds for the charity, and raising awareness.\"\nSwimming for: Arthritis Research UK\nTarget sponsorship: £350\nTarget time: 35 minutes\nGet yourself out in the water. Take a look at our guide to getting into swimming to find out where to start.", "Media playback is not supported on this device\nAndrea Holland, BBC Sport\n\"The athletes train so hard for this unique sport, putting in 10-hour days at least five days a week. It is very acrobatic and the skill is just incredible.\"\nThe swimmers perform precision routines which require them to hold their breath for periods of more than a minute as they carry out a succession of dizzying turns, kicks and flips, most of which are done while upside down in the water.\nWhen they emerge from beneath the surface they must resist the urge to gulp down air, instead holding a smile to make it appear as though the whole display is effortless.\nAt the same time they are treading water, often using a technique known as the egg-beater, which keeps them afloat while they perform a series of arm movements.\nSince synchronised swimming's introduction in 1984, the United States, Russia, Canada and Japan have been the dominant forces in the Olympic pool.\nSynchronised swimming is a strenuous and skilful sport that places huge demands on competitors, who need strength, flexibility, rhythm and flair to succeed.\nThis is exemplified by the egg-beater move, which is a powerful way of treading water while making arm movements above the surface, and one of the most important techniques in synchronised swimming.\nIt requires massive levels of endurance as the swimmers execute routines, often holding their breath under water, which can last up to four minutes, depending on which part of the programme they are competing in.\nThe effort required to compete saw synchronised swimmers ranked second only to long-distance runners when the aerobic capacities of athletes from the different Olympic sports were compared.\nAbdominal core muscle strength and endurance are also boosted due to the strain of having to stay afloat in water while performing complex lifts and poses.\nSynchronised swimmers must also exercise away from the water. Lung capacity can be boosted through long-distance running, weight training helps build muscle mass and flexibility is improved through gymnastic and ballet-like routines.\nFor people (both male and female) who enjoy modern dance, ballet and gymnastics, synchronised swimming is the perfect way to transfer those skills to the pool.\nIt is essential that beginners receive tuition from qualified coaches to ensure that they learn the different techniques. Other than that, all that is needed are some swimming trunks or a swimming costume.\nThere are more than 1,500 swimming clubs in the UK, and they provide the best foundation for those looking to develop as synchronised swimmers.\nVisit the British Swimming,Swim Ulster,Scottish Swimming and Swim Wales websites for information about the different membership schemes.\nBritish Swimming is working with the BBC to get the UK into the pool in a celebration of swimming called the Big Splash.\nA wide-range of activities, including competitive races, swimming lessons and aqua aerobics, are being put on in swimming pools throughout the country.\nSign up to British Swimming's mailing list to be sent details of the latest events and use their pool finder to find out where you can get started.\nFor those wanting to watch synchronised swimming, visit the British Swimming website for a list of upcoming events.\nTo keep up-to-date with synchronised swimming at London 2012, use British Swimming's companion site.\nMore on the British Swimming website\nSynchronised swimming has its roots in ornamental water ballets of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which evolved into the Busby Berkeley Hollywood water spectaculars popularised by Esther Williams in the 1940s and 50s.\nBetween 1948 and 1968 it was an exhibition sport at the Olympics and finally became an official event at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles.\nDuet and solo events made up that first Olympic programme but they were dropped in 1992 and replaced by a team event. The duet was reinstated in 2000.\nSynchronised swimming was one of two sports at London 2012 to be contested only by women, the other being rhythmic gymnastics.\nMore on the IOC website\nAre you inspired to try Synchronised Swimming? Or maybe you are a keen enthusiast already? Get in touch and tell us your experience of the activity by tweeting us on @bbcgetinspired or email us on getinspired@bbc.co.uk.\nSee our full list of activity guides for more inspiration.", "Payne, 27, who needed a top-10 finish to qualify for Rio, clocked one hour 58 minutes and 58.53 seconds in Kazan.\nAurelie Muller of France finished 49.3 secs faster to take gold, ahead of Dutchwoman Sharon Van Rouwendaal and Brazil's Ana Chunha, who was third.\n\"It's not the result I wanted, but it's not the end,\" Payne told BBC Sport.\nThe two-time world champion and team-mate Danielle Huskisson, who was 35th, will have a second opportunity to qualify for Rio at the Olympic qualification event in Portugal in June next year.\nFellow Briton Jack Burnell secured his place in Rio by finishing fifth in the men's event on Monday.\nPayne, the 2008 Beijing Olympic silver medallist, had been undecided about whether to continue in the sport after finishing fourth at London 2012.\n\"I've only been back in full-time training for a year and maybe I've raced too much or too little,\" she told BBC Sport.\n\"I'm technically old at 27 in the sport, but am still learning and trying out new things all of the time so I think there's a lot to build on from here.\"\nHuskisson will battle Payne for the sole position Britain can now attain for the women's 10km race at the Rio Olympics and believes officials can do more to ensure fairer competition.\n\"Most of the girls seem to think it's rugby rather than open water swimming,\" said Huskisson, who received a yellow card whilst trying to maintain position.\n\"There are definitely favoured swimmers, but there's nothing you can do but go out and swim as hard as you can, which I'll continue to do.\"", "Payne, 29, was born in South Africa but represented Great Britain for over 12 years, having made her debut in 2004.\nThe long-distance specialist won silver in the 10km open water event at the 2008 Olympics and secured world titles over the distance in 2009 and 2011.\nPayne said swimming had given her \"life-defining experiences\" and \"joy in taking on incredible challenges\".\nShe said: \"I've loved being part of the huge transformation in open water swimming.\n\"In 2008 I had to explain what my event was. Four years later I walked out in front of 30,000 fans for my race at the London 2012 Olympic Games.\"\nPayne, who finished fourth in London and eighth at Rio 2016, will now focus on a business venture with her husband David Carry, also a former Great Britain swimmer.", "The \"bemusement park\" at a derelict seaside lido in Weston-super-Mare attracted thousands of visitors when it opened last summer.\nOther awards nominees include electronica band Years and Years and the BBC Two adaptation of Wolf Hall.\nThe winners will be announced at a ceremony, hosted by Lord Melvyn Bragg, at London's Savoy Hotel on 5 June.\nNow celebrating their 20th anniversary, the awards honour \"the very best of British culture and achievement\".\nBanksy competes in the visual art category against Cornelia Parker for Magna Carta (An Embroidery) at The British Library and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Verses After Dusk at the Serpentine Gallery.\nHistorical drama Wolf Hall is joined in the TV drama category alongside Channel 4's Humans and Doctor Foster (BBC One).\nIn the pop category, Benjamin Clementine, Years and Years, and Sleaford Mods go head to head.\nThe film category features Ex Machina, 45 Years and Brooklyn, while the theatre contenders are Oresteia, People, Places and Things and Hangmen.\nLord Bragg said the South Bank Sky Arts Awards were a \"freeze-frame on a unique moment in British cultural history\".\nHe added: \"This is the 20th of these annual awards and a ripple through the records shows an extraordinary tapestry of talent, ever-changing but always the same in its high quality.\"\n2016 FULL LIST OF NOMINEES", "18 October 2016 Last updated at 08:33 BST\nMore than 150,000 people braved the rain to line the parade route sporting gold hats and waving flags.\nThe procession started at the Museum of Science and Industry and ended in Albert Square where 400 athletes gathered on stage.\nLondon will have its own celebration on Tuesday in Trafalgar Square.", "Media playback is not supported on this device\nAndrea Holland, BBC Sport\n\"The athletes train so hard for this unique sport, putting in 10-hour days at least five days a week. It is very acrobatic and the skill is just incredible. For Team GB, the duet of Jenna Randall and Olivia Federici is worth looking out for. They got a silver at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and are going all out to get on the podium in London. Internationally, the ones to watch are Russia, the current World and European champions in the duet. Although Russia have dominated since Sydney 2000, there will be hot competition this year particularly from China, current World silver medallists and Spain, who won silver at the recent European Championships.\"\nThe swimmers perform precision routines which require them to hold their breath for periods of more than a minute as they carry out a succession of dizzying turns, kicks and flips, most of which are done while upside down in the water.\nWhen they emerge from beneath the surface they must resist the urge to gulp down air, instead holding a smile to make it appear as though the whole display is effortless.\nAt the same time they are treading water, often using a technique known as the egg-beater, which keeps them afloat while they perform a series of arm movements.\nSince synchronised swimming's introduction in 1984, the USA, Russia, Canada and Japan have been the dominant forces in the Olympic pool.\nSynchronised swimming is a strenuous and skilful sport that places huge demands on competitors, who need strength, flexibility, rhythm and flair to succeed.\nThis is exemplified by the egg-beater move, which is a powerful way of treading water while making arm movements above the surface, and one of the most important techniques in synchronised swimming.\nIt requires massive levels of endurance as the swimmers execute routines, often holding their breath under water, which can last up to four minutes, depending on which part of the programme they are competing in.\nThe effort required to compete saw synchronised swimmers ranked second only to long-distance runners when the aerobic capacity of athletes from the different Olympic sports were compared.\nAbdominal core muscle strength and endurance are also boosted due to the strain of having to stay afloat in water while performing complex lifts and poses.\nSynchronised swimmers must also exercise away from the water. Lung capacity can be boosted through long-distance running, weight training helps build muscle mass and flexibility is improved through gymnastic and ballet-like routines.\nFor people (both male and female) who enjoy modern dance, ballet and gymnastics, synchronised swimming is the perfect way to transfer those skills to the pool.\nIt is essential that beginners receive tuition from qualified coaches to ensure that they learn the different techniques. Other than that, all that is needed are some swimming trunks or a swimming costume.\nGet your performance under pressure analysed in just 20 minutes by four-time Olympic gold medallist Michael Johnson\nStart the experiment\nThere are more than 1,500 swimming clubs in the UK, and they provide the best foundation for those looking to develop as synchronised swimmers.\nVisit the British Swimming,Swim Ulster,Scottish Swimming and Swim Wales websites for information about the different membership schemes.\nBritish Swimming is working with the BBC to get the UK into the pool in a celebration of swimming called the Big Splash.\nA wide-range of activities, including competitive races, swimming lessons and aqua aerobics, are being put on in swimming pools throughout the country.\nSign up to British Swimming's mailing list to be sent details of the latest events and use their pool finder to find out where you can get started.\nFor those wanting to watch synchronised swimming, visit the British Swimming website for a list of upcoming events.\nTo keep up-to-date with synchronised swimming at London 2012, use British Swimming's companion site.\nMore on the British Swimming website\n'Join In Local Sport' aims to get as many people as possible to turn up and take part in activities at their local sports facilities on 18/19 August, 2012 - the first weekend between the Olympic and Paralympic Games.\nThe aim of the initiative is for every sports club and community group in the UK to put on a special event in a bid to encourage more people to get involved as members, supporters or volunteers.\nMore than 4,000 local sports clubs will be opening their doors to host events and show people just how they can get involved.\nAs well as tips on playing sport there will be information on coaching, supporting and how to help out.\nFind an event near you.\nIdentical twins Karen and Sarah Josephson of the USA won the duet in 1992, beating another set of identical twins, Canada's Penny and Vicky Vilagos\nMore on the London 2012 website\nSwimmers in the team and duet events perform a technical and a free routine.\nIn the technical routine, two panels of five judges each reward half the marks for technique and artistic performance respectively.\nThe time limit is two minutes and 20 seconds for the duet or two minutes and 50 seconds for the team competition.\nThe free routine involves presentation of a composition with own-choice technical elements combined with choreography.\nThere is a time limit of three minutes and 30 seconds for the duet and four minutes for the team display. The results for the two routines are combined to produce the final ranking.\nPoints deductions can be imposed by judges for offences such as making deliberate use of the bottom of the pool or missing out any of the compulsory elements of the technical routine.\nMore on the Team GB website\nTeam GB's Jenna Randall and Olivia Federici will compete in the duet. A medal looks to be out of reach, so their main goal is to qualify for the final.\nRussia have won six gold medals at the Olympics but no silver or bronze medals\nThey will also form part of the GB team, which is already through to the final. Anything higher than eighth place would be a success.\nRussia's Natalia Ischenko and Svetlana Romashina are reigning world and European duet champions, and won the London test event. It would be a surprise if they did not add the Olympic title.\nRussia will also be favourites for team gold, with China and Spain likely to pose their main threat.\nSynchronised swimming has its roots in ornamental water ballets of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which evolved into the Busby Berkeley Hollywood water spectaculars popularised by Esther Williams in the 1940s and 50s.\nBetween 1948 and 1968 it was an exhibition sport at the Olympics and finally became an official event at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles.\nDuet and solo events made up that first Olympic programme but they were dropped in 1992 and replaced by a team event. The duet was reinstated in 2000.\nSynchronised swimming is one of two sports at London 2012 to be contested only by women, the other being rhythmic gymnastics.\nMore on the IOC website", "While 103 athletes have so far won places for Great Britain at the Games, or hit qualifying standards, Burnell is the first to win a named place.\nThe 22-year-old's place is expected to be ratified early next year.\n\"I came for a medal, but the main thing was the Olympic place,\" said Burnell.\nThe Scunthorpe-born swimmer finished in one hour 50 minutes and 5.8 seconds, just 5.1 seconds behind bronze medallist Spyridon Gianniotis of Greece.\nUSA's Jordan Wilimovsky took the title with Dutchman Ferry Weertman second.\nThe open water marathon only entered the Olympic programme in 2008, when Britain's Keri-Anne Payne and David Davies both claimed silver.\nPayne then finished fourth at London 2012, with Daniel Fogg fifth in the men's event.\n\"To be honest, something just didn't feel right today, but I know I can challenge for a medal in Rio,\" Burnell, who is the current open water World Cup leader, told BBC Sport.\n\"Hopefully this is just part of the journey to that.\"\nHis official Team GB selection is expected to be ratified by the British Olympic Association in early 2016 at the same time as the pool-based swimmers are selected.\nBurnell's team-mate Fogg was in contention for a medal at the halfway stage, but his challenge faded after being involved in a physical battle around a buoy in the final 2kms, which saw him swallow water and lose crucial time.\nWith no further Rio Olympic qualification opportunities for British male open water swimmers. Fogg admits he may have no future in the event.\n\"There's no point carrying on with no more places up for grabs,\" he told BBC Sport after finishing 14th.\n\"I need to go home, have a rest and a real think about whether I want to come back and try to qualify for the Olympics in the 1500m event now.\"\nOn Tuesday two-time world champion Payne will aim to secure herself a place at the Rio Games.\nLike the men, she and team-mate Danielle Huskisson need top-10 finishes to attain named spots for next year's Olympics.\nFollowing publication of this story, it emerged modern pentathlete Samantha Murray had already obtained a named place by finishing fifth at the World Championships - although this was not realised by the sport's administrators at the time.", "However, two brave souls are wearing only swimsuits and woolly hats, about to dip their toes - and more - in the water.\nJenny Latto and Anna Neubert-Wood are part of a recently-formed sea swimming group, which goes out regularly in all weathers.\nSo why open water, and not a pool?\nMrs Neubert-Wood said: \"You're out in the elements, you're connecting to nature. There's always a chance that a fish might jump up at you or a seal might swim alongside you.\"\nMrs Latto said she gets nervous before taking the plunge.\nHowever, she said: \"Once you're submerged and your body's under, it's fine. It's the coldness in the water which I find invigorating, and you don't get that in a swimming pool.\"\nAccording to Scottish Swimming, more people are taking to the open water.\nThe organisation runs a number of courses to prepare people for the hazards of wild swimming.\nKirsten Philips, Scottish Swimming spokeswoman, said: \"The popularity of these events have grown and grown. And many people are taking part with the view to do open water swimming in 2016.\n\"There's always been a love of the great outdoors and this is an extension of this.\n\"The mass participation events such as the Great Swim series have captured the imagination and people realise you don't have to be an elite swimmer to take part in these.\"\nHowever, she warns that swimmers need to be prepared.\n\"The coldness of the water can really take people by surprise. The body can go into shock and while the surface of the water may look calm, you don't see the undercurrents.\n\"And the sense of direction is often more difficult swimming in the open, and with the currents and weather conditions you can swim off track.\"\nThe Portobello pair follow safety guidelines and never swim alone. They also look out for each other in the water.\nEmerging from the sea after their morning splash, Mrs Latto and Mrs Neubert-Wood said they felt refreshed and ready to face the day.\nDespite numb fingers and toes Mrs Neubert-Wood said: \"That was amazing. Now the sun's out and if you close your eyes you can imagine you're somewhere warm.\"\nMrs Latto said it was addictive.\nShe said: \"I just feel completely refreshed. It gives you a boost of energy, and your mood is completely lifted and you just feel brilliant.\"\nLuckily, there are Turkish Baths nearby where they can warm up.", "28 April 2017 Last updated at 16:43 BST\nThousands lined the side of the streets to cheer on the competitors.\nWe spoke to a young Yorkshire resident Max to see what the atmosphere was like down on the start line.\nCheck out the video.", "Media playback is unsupported on your device\n2 August 2015 Last updated at 13:49 BST\nThe competitors took part in heats based on their weight, and were judged on their board skills.\nOrganisers say money collected at the event will go to animal welfare charities.\nWatch the clip to see some of the dogs in action with their owners...", "The estimated temperature was about 5C (41F) as people of all ages dived into the waves.\nDave Cocks from the RNLI Redcar team photographed many of those taking part.", "Media playback is not supported on this device\nOnly a new world record from Hungary's Daniel Gyurta could deny the 23-year-old gold, while Japan's Ryo Tateishi took bronze.\nJamieson, in his debut Olympics, came charging down the final 50m to deafening noise in the Aquatics Centre and closed right up on Gyurta.\nBut the 2011 world champion held on to touch in 2 mins 07.28 secs, just 15 hundredths of a second ahead of the fast-finishing Glaswegian and clear of Tateishi's 2:08.29.\nJamieson's compatriot and training partner Andrew Willis was in the medal mix at 150m but paid for his efforts late on to finish down in eighth.\nDouble Olympic champion Kosuke Kitajima of Japan, aiming to be the first man in Olympic swimming history to win the same event at three consecutive Games, could only finish fourth.\nBut Jamieson's surprise medal - he was only fifth at last year's World Championships, and second at the British Championships earlier this year - brought the best noise of the Games so far from the packed stands.\nBritain's swimmers have under-performed at these Olympics so far, with just Rebecca Adlington's 400m freestyle bronze to show from the first five days of competition.\nJamieson, who came to London as far more of a medal outsider than some of his more illustrious team-mates and set a new British record in his heat, could never be accused of the same crime.\nHe said afterwards: \"I loved it. I had a little more to give after last night. It's so much easier to swim with a bit of confidence behind you.\n\"I cannot believe I have got 2:07, but I forgot about the time tonight - it was more tactical. I tried to stay on Gyurta's shoulder for the first hundred. I wanted to have everything on the line.\n\"I was desperate to get on the podium tonight to repay the faith and support we've had. After last night I thought I could win it but he was too strong in the end.\n\"I had planned for this night and that helped with the nerves beforehand. For so many years I have gone over this in my head.\n\"Unbelievable swim. Jamieson did everything he could possibly do, he almost ran Gyurta down. That's one of the best swimming races we've seen all week, and it involved a Brit. Well done Michael Jamieson. He has not lost the gold there, but earned the silver. He was just outside the world record. He knocked two seconds off the British record to get the silver - a great swim.\"\n\"I couldn't have done any more. It was everything I hoped it would be - the crowd bringing me down the final 50m was the greatest experience of my life.\"\nJamieson's medal was the first by a British male in the pool at an Olympics since Steve Parry took 200m butterfly bronze in Athens in 2004.\nAnd when he stood on the podium in front of his home crowd, which included Prince Harry and comedian turned charity swimmer David Walliams, the 17,000-strong support roared their appreciation.\nWith Adlington's preferred event, the 800m freestyle, still to come in the pool, Great Britain could yet match the three medals they won indoors in Beijing four years ago. The team's other three medals at the last Olympics came in the open-water events.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device", "Media playback is unsupported on your device\n1 January 2015 Last updated at 19:03 GMT\nMore than 500,000 people were expected at the event, which started outside The Ritz Hotel, in Piccadilly, and came to an end in Parliament Square.\nIts route included Lower Regent Street, Pall Mall and Trafalgar Square.\nBBC London's Chris Rogers joined the crowds.", "Last year, over 2,000 people took part in the event.\nThe A4086 Pen y Gwryd road was closed during races.\nThe sold-out event included a lake swim in Llyn Padarn, cycling over Llanberis pass and along the Ogwen Valley, and a run through Padarn Country Park.", "The six male athletes also said they engaged in disruptive behaviour.\nThe admission follows a report that assessed Australia's poor swimming performance at the London 2012 Games which pointed to a \"toxic\" team culture.\nSwimming Australia said the swimmers will face an inquiry panel.\nStilnox, used to treat insomnia, is not considered a performance enhancer and is not a banned substance, but the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) put it on the prohibited list ahead of the Games.\nIn their statement, the six members of the men's 4x100 freestyle relay team said the prescriptions \"were filled in Australia before their departure to their staging camp in Spain and prior to the AOC's announcement the drug was (prohibited)\".\nBut they \"acknowledge that at the time Stilnox was consumed it had been recently prohibited for use\".\n\"We stand here collectively to confirm that we did take part in a bonding exercise during which members of the relay team took Stilnox,\" the six swimmers said.\n\"We acknowledge by our recent action in continuing a recent tradition in the Australia swim team, we have let ourselves down and the people who have supported us.\"\nAll but one team member took the medication, they said. Then they engaged in pranks they described as \"childish\" and \"stupid\", such as knocking on the doors of other athletes and making phone calls. They said they were asleep by 22:30.\n\"I think one of the reasons I agreed to go along with it was all the pressure I was under,\" one of the swimmers, James Magnussen, said. \"Completely inappropriate in hindsight.\"\nThe relay team, nicknamed Weapons of Mass Destruction before the Olympics, came in fourth in the event, in which they had been expected to deliver a medal.\nMagnussen, a favourite to win the men's 100 metres freestyle, won a silver.\nTheir admission follows the release of a review of the sport after the country's worst Olympic swimming performance in two decades.\nIt found that amid a lack of leadership a \"toxic\" team culture developed that led to bullying and misuse of prescription drugs, and that standards and discipline were \"too loose\".\nAustralia's swimmers won just one gold medal at London 2012, far short of previous medal hauls at other recent Olympics.", "Hundreds of people gathered around Castletown harbour to watch brave competitors race their customised bathtubs over a 400m course.\nNick Cain was crowned men's world champion for the third time while Erika Cowen claimed her 16th women's title.\nThe event has raised more than £150,000 for local charities since it began.\nCompetitors use decorated tin baths like small paddle boats.", "The world's longest ocean race - at 40,000 nautical miles - features 700 participants over its eight stages.\nThe first leg, which launched at St Katharine Docks, will see teams travel 6,000 miles to Brazil's Rio De Janeiro.\nOn each of the 70ft yachts, only the skipper is professional. The other crew members are all amateurs.\nAround 40% of participants had never sailed when they signed up, organisers say.\nBoats set off at 14:15 BST from St Katharine Docks and passed under Tower Bridge at 15:30 to the upper pool before beginning the parade along the Thames.\nRacing will start off Southend at 12:30 BST on Monday.\nTeachers, doctors, IT workers, students and an Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter are all among those taking part.\nThe youngest participant is 18 and the oldest is 74.\nMore than half of those taking part - 441 people - are from Britain.\nSome crew members will be on board the yachts for the whole course of the journey, while others will compete only in certain stages.\nAfter travelling to Brazil, the yachts will go on to South Africa, then to Albany in Western Australia.\nFrom there, participants will sail to Queensland, and on to Vietnam and China.\nThey will continue to Seattle and from there to New York via Panama.\nThe final leg will see the yachts travel from New York back to London, where they are due at the end of July next year.", "Media playback is not supported on this device\nThe elder Brownlee, injured for the first half of the year, went away on the 10km run and crossed the line with a union jack draped over his shoulders to delight a huge Hyde Park crowd.\nIt was Great Britain's 19th gold medal of these London Olympics.\nJonny had incurred a 15-second penalty for mounting his bike too early in transition one and had to take it at the end of the penultimate run lap.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nThat cost him any realistic chance of a fraternal one-two, but he dug in over the last 2.5km to hang on for a gutsy third, behind Spain's Javier Gomez in silver.\nAt the finish, Jonny collapsed across the line and was given immediate medical treatment in the shelter of the main stands, before being taken away in a wheelchair to put the medal ceremony on hold.\nAlistair has been the dominant triathlete of the last three years when not injured, but his Olympic dream seemed in doubt when he tore his Achilles at the start of the year.\n\"The race was unbelievable and the crowds were amazing,\" he said. \"My ears are still ringing from all that noise.\nBritish triathlete and current Ironman world champion Chrissie Wellington hails Alistair Brownlee's success following his injury battle\n\"It is incredibly impressive. Not only would it have been physically difficult to train but mentally he will have been riddled with self-doubt. It is never easy struggling with an injury and that is what makes this victory all the more impressive. He even had a pool installed so he could aqua jog and do some of his training in the water.\"\nWatch the 1500m Serpentine swim again\nWatch the 43km bike ride again\nWatch the 10km run again\n\"The pressure was stacked up and so many things put to bed today.\n\"It feels a bit underwhelming because Jonny has collapsed, but, no, it is fantastic. I am massively proud of Jonny.\"\nAlistair only returned to World Series racing in Kitzbuehel last month but wound up the pace to burn off 2010 world champion Gomez in ruthless fashion.\nFour years ago in Beijing, as a callow 20-year-old, he had led for three laps of the run before blowing up and finishing down in 12th.\nThis time there would be no repeat. Gomez stuck to his heels as long as he could but was stretched and stretched until he snapped.\nBoth Brownlees came out of the 1500m Serpentine swim in a lead group of five that also included Gomez, with third Briton Stuart Hayes just a few seconds back.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nJonny then made an error by mounting his bike too early and so incurred a 15-second penalty.\nThat group of five built a lead of around 20 seconds after the first bike lap of seven but were then closed down as a large group came together with four laps left.\nAll the big guns were in that lead pack coming into transition two, meaning the battle for medals would come down to the 10km run.\nThe brothers went off hard, taking Gomez with them as a small gap immediately opened up, and for the first two laps around the lake the three stayed together.\nThe younger Brownlee was the first to drop off, before Gomez capitulated as Alistair wound the pace up relentlessly from the bell.\nBrownlee's 10km run split of 29 minutes and seven seconds was only just over a minute and a half slower than Mo Farah's gold medal-winning time in the track 10,000m last Saturday and only a second off the second-placed Briton in that final, Chris Thompson.\nAlthough that comparison is slightly unfair on Farah - his personal best in the 10,000m of 26 mins 46.57 secs is considerably faster than he needed at the Olympic Stadium - Brownlee jogged the final 200m here, walking across the line as he soaked up the adoration of the home crowd.", "One of the biggest groups to feel the heat were the thousands arriving at Glastonbury Festival. Elsewhere, people took to pools, parks, fountains and rivers to cool off.", "In what was considered the weakest of her four events, the 20-year-old GB swimmer came second in Wednesday's S14 100m breaststroke final.\nGold medal favourite Michelle Alonso Morales from Spain won by .27 seconds.\n\"It is her favourite event and to challenge her was exciting and I am glad I did it,\" said Firth.\n\"I am not really a breaststroker so to come here and do that, I am so happy.\n\"I am so pleased to get a personal best in this event and I am over the moon with a silver.\n\"Those girls I was racing against are specialists in breaststroke so to go against them in my 'fun' event was really exciting.\n\"I have had to do a lot more events than other swimmers so to get silver, I could not ask for more.\"\nFirth still has one of her stronger events - the 200m individual medley - to come on Saturday.\n\"I have not had a season's best in that event this season, so hopefully this is the gala where I get it,\" added Firth from Seaforde in County Down\nFirth, who completes in the S14 classes for swimmers with an intellectual disability, successfully defended her 100m backstroke title in Rio last Thursday and also clinched 200m freestyle gold on Sunday.\nThe 100m breaststroke was expected to represent Firth's toughest challenge in Rio, but she did produce a personal best of 1.12:89 in Wednesday's final.\nShe was leading early in the race - and also just after the turn - but narrowly lost out to her Spanish rival whose winning time was 1.12.62.\nAs a 16-year-old, Firth clinched the 100m backstroke gold for Ireland in London and went on to win three silver medals at the IPC World Championships in Montreal a year later before opting to switch allegiance to Great Britain.", "Swimming is England's most popular mass-participation sport, ahead of athletics or cycling, but a 2016 survey found a drop in adult swimming numbers.\nThe strategy - titled 'Toward a Nation Swimming' - aims for a \"significant increase\" in participation.\nThis includes encouraging young people to try other types of aquatic sport.\nThe strategy document cites six areas of focus:\nIt details how Swim England will support its 200,000 members and the thousands of young people who take part in weekly swimming lessons, as well as the workforce that teaches and coaches them.\nYoung people will be encouraged to try diving, water polo and synchronised swimming, and swimmers supported to reach their potential.\nFind out how to get into swimming with our fully inclusive guide.\nJane Nickerson, who was confirmed last week as Swim England's chief executive, said: \"Our vision is a nation swimming and our strategy sets out how we will bring together organisations from across the swimming, health and physical activity sectors to work towards this.\n\"Leadership and support for our partners are key parts of our strategy and, as such, we have changed from a local delivery organisation to one that is more strategically-focused.\n'Toward a Nation Swimming' is the first strategy that focuses solely on swimming in England. Click on the following links to find out more about swimming in Scotland, Wales, and Ireland.", "The participants, aged between three and 22, swam, cycled and raced at the event at Cardiff Metropolitan University\nOrganisers Bigmoose said disabilities included cerebral palsy, epilepsy, blindness and Down's syndrome.\nThe charity said the event was geared towards individual goals, with 120 volunteers accompanying the children and their families.", "The event, organised by the Bristol Smile Instigation Collective, saw thrill-seekers armed with squirt pistols, water filled balloons and mega blasters descend on Millennium Square.\nThe event kicked off at 19:30 BST, with a countdown on the square's big screen.\nBecca Mills, one of the organisers, said: \"We weren't expecting that many people but it's quite a big space.\"\nLaunched on the group's Facebook page less than a week ago, the \"awesome water fight\" attracted nearly 3,500 sign-ups ahead of the event.\nWith temperatures approaching 20C (68F), hundreds descended on the square for the public water fight - using its water fountains to fill up balloons, bottles and buckets.\n\"We didn't realise it was going to be this well attended or get this big,\" admitted Ms Mills.\n\"Because it exploded so much, it was all a bit last minute.\"\nSet up to boost community \"happiness and wellbeing\", the Smile Instigation Collective has been running a series of workshops focussed on \"interacting with strangers\".\nAlong with organising an art exhibition in a phone box, decorating trees with ribbons and attaching helium balloons to bicycles, the group also gave out cakes and flowers to strangers.", "Hundreds of performers in bandstands across the UK joined in a rendition of Coldplay's Viva La Vida.\nThe band allowed musicians to play their 2008 single at 14:00 BST in a nationwide musical moment.\nThe Bandstand Marathon was the official finale event of the London 2012 Festival.\nThe 12-week festival was the climax of the Cultural Olympiad - a programme of arts events that has been running since 2008.\nFind your nearest bandstand\nWith an overall investment of £55m - including lottery funding - the London 2012 element of the festival began on 21 June and closes on 9 September at the end of the Paralympic Games.\nColdplay, meanwhile, are one of the star acts of the Paralympic Games closing ceremony on Sunday night.\nIn Scotland this weekend, choreographer Michael Clark has created a large-scale, participatory dance event at Glasgow's music venue Barrowlands to mark the handover to the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.\nAmong the London 2012 Festival's most high-profile events were the mass bell-ringing on the opening day of the games, the World Shakespeare Festival, the Damien Hirst retrospective at Tate Modern and BBC Radio 1's Hackney Weekend.\nBut the programme has included thousands of other events and performances across the UK.\n\"We haven't felt in competition with the sport,\" said London Festival director Ruth Mackenzie, as she previewed the final events this week. \"It's felt like the art and athletes have been working together - which is how it was in ancient Greece and it's what we always hoped for.\"\nAnish Kapoor's Orbit - the twisting steel structure that overlooks the Olympic Stadium - has been arguably the most visual symbol of the London 2012 Festival.\n\"Every time you look at the Olympic television coverage, you see Anish's wonderful sculpture towering above the stadium, not in competition, but as a collective celebration of talent,\" said Mackenzie.\n\"It's art back at the heart of the games.\"\nThe London 2012 Festival opened in June with five headline events across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.\nAmong them were Scotland's The Big Noise concert in Raploch, Stirling, led by superstar conductor Gustavo Dudamel; and a pyrotechnic show that lit up the shores of Windermere in Cumbria.\nAt the beginning of August, organisers said more than 12 million people had taken part in the festival, basing their figures on ticket sales, attendance figures and surveys of the UK population.\nApproximately 2.9 million joined in with Martin Creed's All The Bells mass bell-ringing session, including then-Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, whose bell flew off its handle, narrowly missing another participant.\nA further 9.6 million visited free events like the Hackney Weekend and the Tate Modern's oil tanks.\nSome 2.5 million people went to paid-for events such as the BBC Proms and the art exhibitions by Hirst and David Hockney.\nUpdated audience figures will be announced next week, as the focus shifts to the festival's legacy.\nOne thing under consideration is whether the UK should hold a biennial arts festival.\nCultural Olympiad chairman Tony Hall and Mackenzie have been asked to report back to the Culture Secretary on its feasibility.\n\"We always said the first thing was to have a great festival and to make sure that people had Olympic and Paralympic magic all round the UK,\" said Mackenzie.\n\"The second thing is to make the most of the legacy of that,\" she added.\n\"There are measurables like audience numbers and economic impact, but then there are the unmeasurables - such as the memories and new experiences of art they have had.\"", "Ervin, who is now the oldest Olympic swimming champion at 35, quit the sport after winning gold in Sydney 2000 and returned years later, for London 2012.\n\"Maybe a piece of me wanted to see if I could get that medal back,\" Ervin, who had battled depression, alcoholism and drug addiction, told NBC.\n\"I got it,\" the veteran added.\nErvin won Friday's 50m freestyle race in 21.40 seconds, beating France's Florent Manaudou, by just 0.01 seconds.\n\"I feel the overwhelming support of all my people,\" he said after the event.\nThe heavily-tattooed Californian had already claimed gold in the 4x100m freestyle earlier this week.\nWhen asked before Friday's race what he would do if he won another gold, Ervin was bluntly honest: \"I don't know. I'm living in the moment, man.\"\nIt remains to be seen, though, how long Ervin will keep his medals in his cabinet, as he sold his Sydney trophy to raise money in aid of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami victims.\nFew had expected that Ervin would be able to return triumphantly in the pool after his abrupt decision to quit the sport in 2003 - at the age of only 22.\nDuring his prolonged \"swimmer's burnout\" period he tried many things, from learning guitar to immersing himself in Buddhism.\nHe even stopped telling people he had used to be an Olympic swimming champion, Ervin admitted in his biography Chasing Water: Elegy of an Olympian, published earlier this year.\n\"The oppression of my former swimming identity loses its hold on me,\" Ervin wrote.\n\"I am no longer Anthony Ervin the Swimmer, but Tony, just another guy in a band.\"\nErvin reached an \"absolute low\" when after years of abusing himself on drugs he was hardly able to rise from a a sofa for days, his friend told people.com website.\nBut he started to train again in 2011, finishing fifth at the 50m freestyle at the London Olympics.\n\"It's fair to say nobody has been through what he has,\" US swimming coach David Marsh told people.com.\n\"But Anthony's got the most efficient freestyle I've ever seen. That's been the case since he was young. He's just a barracuda in the water.\"\nErvin - who has Jewish, African-American and Native American roots - was raised in Valencia, California.", "Media playback is not supported on this device\nWorld champions Adam Peaty and James Guy lead a 26-strong swimming team from 16-22 May.\nFormer Olympian Leon Taylor provides the diving analysis while swimming expertise comes from double Olympic gold medallist Becky Adlington and former world champion Mark Foster.\nAll times are subject to change. The BBC is not responsible for any that may be made. Also coverage on BBC Red Button can experience late schedule changes, so details may differ from this page. Further programmes and times will appear when confirmed.\nYou can view BBC Sport output as well as listen to our radio sports programming on the BBC iPlayer.\nThe BBC Sport website is available via desktop, mobile, tablet and app, giving fast and easy access to the live stream, reports and on-demand highlights of the day's action. The BBC Sport app is available free on Apple and Android devices.\nNational and regional variations have been included in this list where possible, but please check your local listings for more detailed information.", "It follows the victory parade in Manchester on Monday when thousands of supporters lined the streets to cheer on the victorious athletes.\nTeam GB won 67 medals in Rio, two more than they gained at London 2012, while the Paralympians won 147 medals - 27 more than four years ago.\nMedallists also attended a reception at Buckingham Palace.\nAbout 6,000 people were expected at the \"Heroes Return\" event in central London which began at 13:00 BST.\nSeveral of the athletes addressed the crowd from the stage, paying tribute to the support they had received.\nParalympian Richard Whitehead MBE said the event was \"amazing\" and called London \"a special place for sport\".\nSwimmer Adam Peaty, who won Team GB's first gold medal and broke his own world record at Rio, said seeing the number of spectators in Trafalgar Square meant \"so much\" to him.\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said the athletes had \"inspired millions of people\".\n\"I feel privileged and humbled to be here as a fan,\" he said.\nThe event ended with the athletes dancing on stage during a performance by The Vamps, after which confetti was released in the square.\nVarious members of the Royal Family - including the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry - joined the Queen to meet medallists at the Buckingham Palace reception.\nYou can read more stories about inspiring sporting stars on our Pinterest board" ]

[ "How much water you need to drink to get the most benefits depends on your diet, exercise routine, health and weather. You can start by aiming for the basic recommended amount for adults, which is 8 to 12 cups a day, according to Clemson Cooperative Extension, and making adjustments as needed." ]

[ "Marijuana will stay in your system for 10 days if you have been smoking occasionally. If it is smoked on regular basis it will be there up to 45 days and if you smoke constant pace then it will be in the system for as long as 90 days.KEEP ON SMOKING :).he traces of marijuana found in urine samples are stored in fat cells. So depending how much fat you have and also depending on how much you workout and sweat the toxins depe … nds on how long it will take to flush. Also drink lots of water to flush your system.", "3 tips to naturally lower your blood sugar fast. 1. Hydrate. The more water you drink, the better. Drink at least two glasses of water, one right after the other. Water helps flush out your system and stabilize the glucose in the bloodstream.2. Exercise. tips to naturally lower your blood sugar fast. 1. Hydrate. The more water you drink, the better. Drink at least two glasses of water, one right after the other. Water helps flush out your system and stabilize the glucose in the bloodstream.", "It can detect both abstinence and consumption. How to Pass an EtG Test After Drinking. If you’re wondering how to beat an EtG urine alcohol test, the best way is obvious-just don’t drink. Some people suggest drinking loads of water after consuming alcohol will flush out the system but this method is unreliable.", "It takes 1-7 days for opiates to get out of your system to pass a drug test. Suragel will cover it. It takes a month if you take them on a regular basis. All depends on your b … ody weight and how much water you drink too.ow long does it take for Oxycontin to get out of your system to pass drug tests? 3 to 5 days depending on how much you took and how often you take it. If you take them daily it may take up to a week because it has built up in your sys. You can try to flush … your systems with vitamins and lots of water / gatorade.", "1. Water. An effective way of getting rid of caffeine jitters is to flush out your system with water. Drinking water can decrease the effects of caffeine in a relatively short time so it’s a good idea to drink up! Try drinking a glass of water for every cup of coffee you had.", "A vacuum breaker is an attachment commonly placed on a bibcock valve or toilet or urinal flush valve, that prevents water from being siphoned backward into the public drinking water system. This prevents contamination should the public drinking water system's pressure drop. vacuum breaker typically contains a plastic disc that is pressed forward by water supply pressure, and covers small vent holes.", "Best Answer: You don't want to dehydrate yourself. The best way to get rid of water retention is by flushing it out of your system. Talk to your doctor about giving you water pills or drink a lot of water.", "Eating greasy and/or salty foods also causes bloating, because sodium retains water, and if you’re not drinking enough water to flush out your system, your body can’t properly digest those junk foods.", "to clean something using a lot of water Flush the pipes out with clean water. Synonyms and related words. To wash something clean:wash, flush out, scrub... Explore Thesaurus. a. to remove something by pouring a lot of water through the place where it is Use plain water to flush out the debris. flush something out of something: Drinking plenty of water helps to flush harmful substances out of your body. Synonyms and related words.", "When a person drinks too much water the kidneys cannot flush it out as well and this causes the excess water to enter the cells and cause them to swell. When the brain cells begin to swell the situation can turn lethal fast.", "1: Drain coolant system 2: Purchase coolant flush, making sure you have the proper amount for your size of coolant system 3: Pour coolant flush into your radiator, filling the rest with water 4: On the coolant flush bottle it will tell you how long to run your vehicle", "How to Prepare for Your MRI and MRA Contrast Study. If you are having an MRI or MRA with a contrast injection please be sure drink plenty of water before and after the exam. This will ensure that the injection itself is as painless as possible and that the Gadolinium is flushed out of your system quickly. Not all patients can receive Gadolinium injections.", "Health tips and benefits of drinking lemon water in early morning in empty stomach. 1. Lemon helps in protecting our body against the immune system deficiencies, as it is rich in vitamin C. 2. Drinking lemon water helps in maintaining the pH levels in the body.3. Lemons acts as a powerful antibacterial as it contains pectin fibers which is beneficial for colon. 4. Drinking lemon water in morning empty stomach will helps in flush out of toxins.. Drinking lemon water helps in maintaining the pH levels in the body. 3. Lemons acts as a powerful antibacterial as it contains pectin fibers which is beneficial for colon. 4. Drinking lemon water in morning empty stomach will helps in flush out of toxins." ]

[ "http://www.azcorrections.gov/HRD/hrdjobs.htm" ]

[ "The oldest contuinous opeartions of a team are with the Arizona Cardinals which started as the Morgan Athletic club on Chicago's South side in 1899", "Start off by downloading any office software preferabbly Microsoft Office. Type in Microsoft Word, and correct your spelling with spellcheck, you can practice with it and see your mistakes. Good luck!", "That depends on their contract with the broker. Each office is different. Talk to many office brokers and ask to see their contract. While you are at the office, note how busy they are. Be sure to ask what your commission split will be when you start and at what level does it change. Also many offices now offer a salary + commission program. This might be best to start out. Most real estate agents work for less than $15 / hr.. You have to build your business to increase your income.", "Your best start would be to find an Ophthalmologist that is specializing in this type of procedure. Definitely check out his references and history. It should not be hard to find a reputable doctor and office. Stay away from the discounted or heavily advertised ones. You get what you pay for and expect it to cost around $4000.00. Schedule an appointment to discuss it. They will assess your correction and thoroughly discuss your expectations and concerns, if they are a good doctor. If they don't, find another doctor. They will not pressure you to commit unless you are certain you are prepared and are a positive candidate for the correction. Everyone isn't...if your correction is too severe. This surgery is wonderful if it works right, but there are risks, as with anything. Seek out as much information as you need and then make an informed decision. Good Luck!", "Yes they can. It depends on if their job limits them. Call the peronnel office that is repsonsible for your pay and hiring, they will be able to let you know if you are in a mission essential job that does not allow you to continue or start a career in the reserves.", "It will depend on what the treatment is, what your insurance provisions are, and how your doctor codes it to the insurance company. They may pay for your office visit fee but not the actual treatment itself.", "Deductibles depend upon the insurance company. Usually, whatever the amount, you have to spend that much out of your own pocket on medically approved care before the company will pay anything on your bill. For example, if you have a $500 deductible, you have to ante up that much before the company starts paying for hospital bills, lab tests, etc. If you use doctors approved by your insurance company, co-pay is what you have to pay for office visits. This is based on an agreement the doctor has with them and has nothing to do with the deductible. In my experience, it does not apply to the deductible either.", "Depends on what type of job, office, retail, foodservice. I think retail is fairly easy and they do pay well for management but the hours SUCK!", "I know that there are several parcels in Arizona for sale that start at $40,000 for a 40 acre parcel\\n\\nIf this suits you let me know", "Develop a relationship with a credit union. Start building a savings and get to know the loan officer. Make an appointment with a loan officer and ask them what it would take to get a loan with them. They will tell you.", "As long as it is notarized, it is fine. You do not need to file it at the county Recorder's Office. The note should be clear on when payment starts and how much the interest is being charged. The note can be used as evidence in court case if the party does not pay.", "In the Marine Corps (might be the same in other branches), \"something stupid\" usually gets you NJP'd (non-judicial punishment). NJP is a system to deal with lesser forms of misconduct, a way to take punitive action on minor misconduct that doesn’t warrant being sent to a court-martial. It’s not designed to devastate, it’s designed to correct behavior.\\n\\nThe punishments vary depending on the commanding officer. Officers, captain (0-3) and below, can award forfeiture of seven days pay, seven days correctional custody unit for lance corporals and below, 14 days of restriction, or 14 days of extra punitive duty. Field-grade officers, major (0-4 and above), can award a forfeiture of a one-half months pay for two months, reduction to the next lower grade for sergeants (E-5) and below, 30 days of CCU for lance corporals and below, or 60 days of restriction and 45 days EPD.\\n\\nThe most common way NJP can hurt a Marine’s career is in promotion and re-enlistment when that Marine is compared to others who have clean records.", "Local DMV is correct, or atleast it is in Texas. To get it for your passport you go to the Post Office", "Most states corrections departments have web sites now. They may not be up to the minute but the info may be there. Otherwise, try the parole officer or district parole office.", "Sounds like you are preparing a speech. Still, your point about where the money is to come from is well taken.\\n\\nI say scrap the whole idea of public schools, SELL the infrastructure to entrepreneurs and let them start private schools. Honestly, what with all you pay in taxes, and supplies, and fees, and so on, a good private school could be run. And face it, the public schools have become vast propaganda and indoctrination machines, teaching kids that the only way to see the world is through the eyes of the Politically Correct.\\n\\nDo you know where the term Politically Correct comes from? The old Soviet Central Committee, meeting in Moscow, had one person (and he had a staff, I am sure) whose job title was sort of ideologue. (It was something in Russian, of course.) And what he said was Politically Correct for the Communist party was correct -- because there was only one legal political party.\\n\\nWhich American party wants you to treat it as the only one there is? Let's see; which one is Politically Correct?", "well.......i hear what your saying but....fact is the kids need to learn spanish for their own future.....most professions....like doctors, nurses, correction officers, teachers.....need to communicate with all........those who don't know spanish are only hurting themselves", "Martha Layne Collins :Governor of Kentucky, 1984-1987.\\n\\nJennifer Granholm : Michigan Governor .\\n\\nJanet Napolitano: Governor of Arizona\\n\\nFerguson, Miriam A. (\"Ma\") Governor as Texas.\\n\\nHollister, Nancy : Governor of Ohio December 31, 1998, \\n\\nJane Dee Hull: governor of Arizona. Her term of office began in 1997.\\n\\nKunin, Madeleine : Vermont's governor 1985-1991.\\n\\nMofford, Rose: Arizona's governors, 1988-1991 (Mofford) and 1997-present, \\n\\nRoberts, Barbara : Governor of Oregon 1991-1995.\\n\\nRoss, Nellie Tayloe : Governor of Wyoming, 1925-27, \\n\\nShaheen, Jeanne\\n\\nWallace, Lurleen : Governor of Alabama 1967-1968.", "The power point software may be corrupted. You need to correct the corrupted part. Go to start menu -> control panel -> add/remove programs -> power point. It will give you an option of completely remove it or recover it. Select \"recover\" option. It will ask for Office CDs. Make sure that you have those ready.\\n\\n--\\nthanks and regards,\\nPrasanna", "if they're in prison, go to the department of corrections site for that state...or county jail whatever the case may be. It will tell you what they're incarcerated for and any related priors. For a full background check, normally you have to pay $$ for it.", "Administrative assistant means different things to different organisations. In some it is a data-entry and filing clerk, in others it is a full administrative position (form filling, reporting, data handling/manipulation, etc).\\n\\nThe pay is usually more near entry-level, i.e. not very high. You can move up in larger organisations though of course, and becoming an administrator is great way into the organisation of your choice. Next comes Administration Officer, then Senior Administrator, Office Manager, etc... These obviously pay more. (or move to become a Finance Officer, or PA, or ...)\\n\\nIn the UK, expect to start on anything between £14,000 to £18,000. Although if just starting out expect more like 15K till you have some proven experience behind you.\\n\\nTyping speed is one of the most important things for being an administrator, at least 40 wpm, although i suggest getting to at least 50. Good use of MS Office is essential, particularly MS Word & Excel, and sometimes Access.", "sure you downloaded for the correct version of office you are using? Also, copying it to C: might make a difference perhaps.", "Volunteer to pay for and take a lie detector test for yourself and the officer.", "Have you asked you JAG office. They would be your best bet for the correct info in your situation", "Friday because it is payday and you get to pay bills and what is left of your time you get to start your \"Party\"", "You may have to pay for what you need. But the place to start for any standards would be IEEE.org", "The mailing address for The University of Arizona is:\\n\\nThe University of Arizona\\nTucson AZ 85721", "Not certain about the question, but the United States Patent Office is the best place to get clear and correct information about patents. Go to uspto.com", "In the good old honest days was was correct of course. But then the fashions changed and because high society in London started saying were, were became accepted as correct.\\nIt's still officially correct, but was is now also accepted (it's made a welcome come-back.) It will resume it's rightful place in our time. I already use it and what I don't know about English usage is not worth knowing.", "There actions are subject to oversight by the state attorney general, the US attorney general and by the voters in some state.\\n\\nIn Arizona, voters have the right to a recall their elected officials. They would have to get a recall petition and the required number of voter signatures and there would be a special recall election. The results determines if the elected official stays in office.", "There really isn't an \"average\" jet pilot pay. To come up with one would be misleading. Only if you considered pilots who flew the same type of aircraft, with the same years of tenure/seniority and in the same seat (captain or first officer) would you truly get an average.\\n\\nPilot pay varies wildly based on these variables:\\ntime with the company\\naircraft flown\\nthey are captain or first officer\\nthe pilots collective bargaining agreement/contract\\n\\nGo to http://www.airlinepilotpay.com and you can see the pay rates for these Canadian airlines-\\nAir Canada\\nAir Canada Jazz\\nAir Labrador\\nBearskin\\nCalm Air\\nCanJet\\nCargo Jet\\nCentral Mt. Air\\nFirst Air\\nKelowna\\nWestJet\\n\\n(Multiply the hourly rate of the seniority, seat & airline you want to know by the 'minimum guarantee' to find base pay.)\\n\\nAnd yes, you can become a pilot as long as your vision is correctable to the medical standard required.", "If you received the pell grant by filling out the FAFSA and then decide not to go to college for a semester you don't have to pay the money back as long as you don't enroll yourself in any classes. If you already enrolled but the semester hasn't started yet contact the college and drop that semester to avoid having to pay back your pell grant. If the classes have already started, but you can still drop the classes, then do so as soon as possible. If the classes have already started, and it is too late to drop the classes, you will have to pay a portion of your pell grant back to the government. You can still withdraw from the classes to avoid getting an \"F\" in every class, but since the deadline to drop the classes has passed your transcript will still show a \"W\" in every class, which is considered as failing as far as your financial aid is concerned. Your best bet is to talk to your college financial aid office to see what options are available.", "It depends on what degree you want to get. Some PhD programs in the biological science areas will support you from day 1 and will pay you $18000 - 23000 a year. While this might seem a lot for you, it all comes down to which city are you living in. For example, I'm getting my PhD in Arizona and get paid 22000. By restricting some expenses and not having a car I could probably be able to save 500 dollars a month." ]

[ "Infants tend to have higher average hemoglobin levels than adults. This is because they have higher oxygen levels in the womb and need more red blood cells to transport the oxygen." ]

[ "The oxygen dissociation curve of the fetus is to the left of that for its mother. Explain the advantage of this for the fetus. Higher affinity / loads more oxygen at low / same / high partial pressure / pO2; ... After birth, fetal haemoglobin is replaced with adult haemoglobin.", " Red blood cells are able to carry oxygen so efficiently because of a special protein inside them: haemoglobin. In fact, it is the haemoglobin that is responsible for the colour of the red blood cell. Haemoglobin contains a haem prosthetic group that has an iron atom at its centre.", "Haemoglobin's function is as a transport molecule and carries oxygen around the body. ... This is why it is important that Haemoglobin is soluble (so it can travel around the body in the blood) and Collagen is insoluble (wouldn't be able to provide support otherwise as would always dissolve).", "Haemoglobin is an allosteric protein. This means that the binding of oxygen to one of the subunits is affected by its interactions with the other subunits. ... Myoglobin therefore has a higher affinity for oxygen than does haemoglobin. This reflects the different functions of the two oxygen binding proteins.", "\"The brown colour is from a pigment that is laid down on the egg, it's called protoporphyrin IX, which is like the haem group in haemoglobin in your blood. \"But the haemoglobin in your blood has iron in it which is why you get the red colour; on the eggshell there's no iron which is why you get the brown colour.\"", "Allostery: Haemoglobin. Haemoglobin, like myoglobin is an oxygen-binding protein. Whereas myoglobin exists as a monomer, haemoglobin is a tetramer: each of the four subunits is similar in terms of fold to myoglobin. ... As haemoglobin binds successive oxygens, the oxygen affinity of the subunits increases.", "There is a switch from fetal haemoglobin because its greater affinity for oxygen is no longer required — or advantageous. ... The adult form's lower oxygen affinity facilitates preferential treatment of the fetus in the transfer of oxygen between mother and child.", "Breastfeeding an infant does burn an average of 480 calories a day. So why wasn't I losing more weight?", "Azathioprine has a good safety profile in pregnancy. Treatment with azathioprine is therefore continued during pregnancy to prevent disease relapse and/or transplant rejection. Currently, infants born to mothers taking azathioprine in pregnancy do not routinely have their haemoglobin level measured.", "Higher concentrations of oxygen must be reached in order for hemoglobin to transition from the lower-affinity T-state to the higher-affinity R state. The binding of 2,3-BPG has further physiological consequences. Fetal hemoglobin has a higher oxygen-binding affinity than that of maternal hemoglobin.", "The mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC) is a measure of the concentration of haemoglobin in a given volume of packed red blood cell. It is calculated by dividing the haemoglobin by the haematocrit.", "It is due to the breakdown of red blood cells (which release bilirubin into the blood) and to the immaturity of the newborn's liver (which cannot effectively metabolize the bilirubin and prepare it for excretion into the urine).", "After a donation, most people's haemoglobin levels are back to normal after 6 to 12 weeks. This is why we ask donors to wait for a minimum of 12 weeks between donations (12 weeks for men and 16 weeks for women) to ensure that we don't risk lowering your haemoglobin levels over the long term.", "Your newborn has been diagnosed with anemia. This means the baby's blood contains fewer red blood cells than normal. Red blood cells carry oxygen throughout the body. When a baby has anemia, the body doesn't get enough oxygen.", "Haemoglobin is expected to drop during pregnancy. In fact, it is considered normal for haemoglobin to drop to 10.5g/dl during pregnancy. The reason behind it is quite simple – when a woman is pregnant, her blood volume increases by 50% to provide essential nutrients to the developing baby.", "What is the difference between AS and AC genotype? ... AS,SS,AC,CC etc are defective inherited haemoglobin genotypes on the red cells. AA is the normal haemoglobin genotype. AS and AC have adult haemoglobin as one of the allele and they do not give any medical problems of anaemia.", "Hemoglobin is what gives colour to red blood cells. When you don't have enough iron, red blood cells become small and pale, a condition called anemia. They can't carry enough oxygen to your body's organs and muscles. Babies and children need iron for their brains to develop normally.", "It is a common misconception that iron and haemoglobin are the same thing. This is incorrect. Iron is a component of haemoglobin and is also found in other parts of the body. It is possible to have a normal haemoglobin level but be lacking in iron.", "Sleep Position: Why Back is Best. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that healthy infants be placed on their backs for sleep, as this is the safest position for an infant to sleep.", "Hypoxemia causes increased fetal erythropoietin release and subsequent polycythemia. When these extra red blood cells break down, there is increased incidence of hyperbilirubinemia at days to weeks after birth.", "Red blood cells They contain the protein haemoglobin , which gives them their red colour. Haemoglobin can combine reversibly with oxygen. This is important - it means that it can combine with oxygen as blood passes through the lungs, and release the oxygen when it reaches the cells.", "Fetal hemoglobin (HbF) modulates the phenotype of sickle cell anemia by inhibiting deoxy sickle hemoglobin (HbS) polymerization. The blood concentration of HbF, or the number of cells with detectable HbF (F-cells), does not measure the amount of HbF/F-cell.", "The baby's body makes more red blood cells than it should. The baby got extra red blood cells from another source, such as from a twin during pregnancy. Just after birth, too many red blood cells traveled from the umbilical cord to the baby before the cord was clamped.", "Newborn babies have low levels of vitamin K in their blood and occasionally start to bleed. This is called Vitamin K Deficiency Bleeding (VKDB) in newborn babies. (It used to be called haemorrhagic disease of the newborn (HDN)).", "6.0 At Risk Infants 6.2 Asphyxiated infant are more vulnerable to heat loss due to the process of resuscitation. 6.3 Infants with respiratory distress are more prone to hypothermia as the process of non-shivering thermogenesis requires the presence of oxygen to metabolise the brown fat.", "['Low oxygen levels at birth.', 'Trouble staying warm.', 'Trouble feeding and gaining weight.', 'Infection.', 'Breathing problems and immature lungs (infant respiratory distress syndrome)', 'Nervous system problems, such as bleeding inside the brain (intraventricular hemorrhage)']", "The capability of the binding oxygen molecule, with the heme proteins, is what makes a difference in both the molecules. Haemoglobin is called as tetrameric hemoprotein, while myoglobin is called monomeric protein. Haemoglobin is found systematically all over the body, while myoglobin is found in muscles tissues only.", "And infants require time on their backs and tummies to develop. That is why we do not recommend Bumbo Seats and other fixed devices for infants, like infant floor seats and jumper seats. Instead, keep it simple and let your child develop at their own pace with little intervention.", "Hemoglobin has a tendency to release oxygen where: temperature is lower. pH is more acidic. partial pressures of carbon dioxide are lower.", "Each molecule of haemoglobin can hold four oxygen molecules. It is haemoglobin that carries the oxygen as it is transported around the body in the blood. Only a small amount of oxygen (1.5% in arterial blood) is simply dissolved in the plasma. Haemoglobin is the main component in oxygen transport throughout the body.", "In the blood, oxygen is bonded to molecules of hemoglobin in red blood cells for transport.", "- The right shift shows a decrease in affinity. Hemoglobin is more likely to release Oxygen. This is due to high temperature, high metabolism, and low pH. While Hemoglobin has 4 subunits, Myoglobin has one subunit." ]

[ "You won’t find one super food that makes cuts heal faster, but your diet has a big role in the healing process. Optimal repair of wounds with minimal scarring depends on specific nutrients. The Cleveland Clinic refers to a variety of foods as power foods to help with wound healing. These foods are rich sources of the nutrients essential for rebuilding tissues: protein, zinc, iron, vitamin C and vitamin A." ]

[ "Phases of healing. After a burn injury, your skin goes through several phases of healing. During each phase of healing, it is important to follow the guidance provided by your burn team to improve how your skin heals. What you see: Light-colored skin replacing open wounds. The faster a wound heals, the less scarring will occur.", "If your skin blisters, allow the blisters to heal. Blistering skin means you have a second-degree sunburn. You should not pop the blisters, as blisters form to help your skin heal and protect you from infection. Take extra care to protect sunburned skin while it heals.", "Best Answer: It's not the stitches that heal, it's the skin they hold together. Your skin will heal the surface fairly quickly, usually within 4-5 days. The skin below that will take a bit longer.Depending on where on your shoulder these stitches are, a doctor might opt to leave them for a week or more.est Answer: It's not the stitches that heal, it's the skin they hold together. Your skin will heal the surface fairly quickly, usually within 4-5 days. The skin below that will take a bit longer.", "How Long Do Tattoos Take To Heal? Pounded Ink. It is important to know what your tattoo does during the healing process You will start to see peeling of dead skin after 34 days but your tattoo . You are safe to stop all care procedures but keeping the skin moist won't hurt.", "Best Answer: Will vary depending on how your body heals, what age you are, how healthy your diet is, if you excercise regularly, and if you rest the cut muscle long enough. If your under 18 this is the optimum time for it to heal faster, as you age, it will take longer.If you eat healthily, and a well balanced diet, you are also promoting it to heal faster.f your under 18 this is the optimum time for it to heal faster, as you age, it will take longer. If you eat healthily, and a well balanced diet, you are also promoting it to heal faster.", "1. Diet. What you eat has so much to do with how your body looks on the outside. Your weight, your hair, your skin, and nails are all attributed to what you eat. If you consume a lot of greasy foods, or foods with little to no nutritional value, your skin will show it.", "What you eat after your competition is as important as what you eat before. If you have an early morning competition, eat a light breakfast within 30 minutes after finishing to promote muscle healing and replenish energy stores. This light meal should include a mix of carbs, protein and fat.", "Why do wounds take so long to heal? The way the skin heals is determined partly by your genes - some people do heal quicker than others, and also your age - healing slows down the older your are. Your lifestyle makes a difference too - smoking reduces the blood supply to the skin, which slows healing.", "-Eric Lai. Cells reproduction rate Cells reproduction rate is pretty fast. Different cells in different parts of the body reproduce in different rates. The skin cells reproduce really fast because the skin cells takes more damage then any other cells.If skin cells don't reproduce as fast as now, then your skin won't be able to heal as fast and you would get hurt easier. Skin cells reproduce about one million cells per second. That is how your skin heals fast.If you keep bothering your skin, then the injured spot won't heal as fast.f skin cells don't reproduce as fast as now, then your skin won't be able to heal as fast and you would get hurt easier. Skin cells reproduce about one million cells per second. That is how your skin heals fast. If you keep bothering your skin, then the injured spot won't heal as fast.", "Your skin may peel in the area as it heals. Additionally, it may take three to 20 days for a first-degree burn to heal properly. Healing time may depend on the area affected. Always consult your doctor if the burn shows signs of infection or becomes worse.Tell us what you think.he pain and swelling may be mild and, after a day or so, your skin may start to peel. For a first-degree burn that occurs in larger areas of your skin, you may experience an increased level of pain and swelling. You may want to report large wounds to your doctor.", "What To Look For in an Eating Disorder Specialist. Finding an eating disorder specialist will be an integral part of your recovery. There are several aspects you may want to consider and keep in mind when searching for the professionals you want to guide you through your healing journey.", "What to eat and drink. You need to have as healthy a diet as possible during radiotherapy. Your body needs protein to heal itself and you need plenty of calories. Your radiographer, doctor or nurse can advise you on how to eat well.", "What is a scar? A scar is a mark left on your skin after an injury heals. When you injure your skin — by accident or from a surgery — your body works to repair the wound. The body creates collagen (a tough fiber in your body that gives the skin strength and flexibility) to reconnect the tissues broken apart by the injury.", "How long is it supposed to it take a skin graft to heal? I'm getting skin grafting done on my hand; how long would it take to heal? A friend burned her hand with an iron cause of a seizure and had skin grafts, how long till she completely heals up? What to do if I got worse.", "Stress can affect your whole body, including your hair, nails, and skin. Since stress is a part of life, what matters is how you handle it. How Stress Affects Skin. Stress causes a chemical response in your body that makes skin more sensitive and reactive. It can also make it harder for skin problems to heal.", "What is a skin ulcer? A person with a skin ulcer has an open sore in the skin that looks like a crater. A skin ulcer is caused by an injury to skin that has poor blood supply. Small skin ulcers caused by casts, splints, or insect bites usually heal in 2 weeks. Ulcers may never heal completely in those with peripheral vascular disease. Skin ulcers are more common in the elderly and in those with diabetes. What are the symptoms of a skin ulcer?", "Vitamin D helps our skin, as it strengthens your skin barriers. This means that having adequate vitamin D can help with the overall healing of the outer epidermis of your skin. • Vitamin D has been shown to increase synthesis of PDGF: promoting wound healing. In the case of skin, this means that any wounds or eczema you have, heals faster when you have adequate amounts of vitamin D, as it promotes proper tissue repair and improves wound healing.", "How Skin Heals. When your skin gets cut, your body springs into action to heal the wound. First, the body works to limit blood loss by reducing the amount of blood flowing to the wounded area.", "What to eat after wisdom teeth removal? There is of course a lot of pain involved during the healing process of removed wisdom teeth since the uncomfortable operation often leaves you sore and swollen. Chewing your food is out of the question. However, you still need to eat to get the essential nutrients your body needs. So you better start thinking about what to eat after wisdom teeth extraction. Tips on what to eat after wisdom teeth removal. 1. Soups. Soup is probably the easiest and the most obvious food to eat after wisdom teeth removal. Those giant holes in the back of your mouth are sensitive and trying to heal so chewing (and spitting!) will only exacerbate the pain and irritation and increase the risk of infection.", "Breathable Bandage. Oxygen is vital for a healing tattoo, without it, your skin suffocates. Saniderm is engineered to be gas permeable so your skin can breathe and get all the oxygen it needs to heal perfectly. Because it is breathable, Saniderm can be worn for several days at a time while your tattoo heals.", "Read about the skin biopsy procedure and what to expect if your doctor orders this procedure for a lesion. Learn about the different kinds of skin biopsy, including shave biopsy, punch biopsy, and excision. Discover the results, procedure, healing times and potential infections of skin biopsy.", "What To Eat for Breakfast for Acne Clear Skin. What should I eat for an acne free breakfast? In this article, I talk about what to eat for breakfast to maintain clear skin. Okay, I figure the easiest way to do this (for now) is to tell you guys all about what I eat on a daily basis.", "Both colored and noncolored tattoos require the same care, which involves protecting and cleansing the skin. The size and position of your tattoo, as well as your skin type, dictates how long the healing process takes. However, your tattooed skin will likely heal after one to three weeks.", "Poor healing. Slow-healing skin (symptom description): Slow-healing skin is listed as a type of or related-symptom for symptom Poor healing. Slow-healing skin (symptom description): For a medical symptom description of 'Slow-healing skin', the following symptom information may be relevant to the symptoms: Poor healing (type of symptom). However, note that other causes of the symptom 'Slow-healing skin' may be possible.", "The full time to heal completely as the doctors say is between 4 to 6 weeks, but if you do eat lots of vitamins it's up to 4 weeks for a full reconstruction of the skin inside your penis. Good luck.17 people found this useful. bone heals quite quick though as in having or getting the cells needed in order to glue it back together again. This happens much at the same rate as skin cells would heal up. It is the process of hardening and strengthening this freshly formed new material that is responsible for the long time it takes.", "What's the best way to heal a skinned knee? Quick Answer. To heal a skinned knee, WebMD advises rinsing the knee with water immediately following the injury to ensure that dirt and debris are removed. Pressure is then applied to stop bleeding, if necessary, and a clean dressing is applied.", "How to Heal Your Metabolism will q How to Heal Your Metabolism will help educate you on how eating the right foods, eating the right amount of food, consuming the right food supplements, consuming the right amount of water, sleeping and resting, doing the right amount of exercise, and finding happiness will increase your metabolic rate and help heal ...", "As you age, it takes your skin longer to heal. Skin becomes thinner and more transparent, and you lose some of the fat cushion beneath your skin. With less cushioning, your blood vessels are more prone to injury, so even a bump against a table can bruise or break your skin. You may even bleed under your skin. scab or hard skin crust would quickly form to protect the area while it healed. With older skin, the healing process takes longer because skin cells are not repaired and renewed as quickly. New skin cells take more time to multiply, and it may take a while before a new layer of skin forms.", "For canker sore diet, pay attention with what you eat because there are foods that could help speed up the healing process, and some that could worsen the pain. For canker sore diet, pay attention with what you eat because there are foods that could help speed up the healing process, and some that could worsen the pain.", "Cold sores at this stage no longer have a visible cold sore scab and your skin has totally healed. Under your new skin, healing is still taking place as the destroyed cells are regenerated. This produces a red spot that may linger for another 2 to 14 days - depending on your personal healing speed.", "What is the difference between regeneration and fibrosis? ChaCha Answer: Regeneration heals the skin (like the scab) and the fibrosis...", "However, to avoid disease and live strong, a good diet and sensible eating is critical.. A basic knowledge of how food and herbs can help what ails you is key to your sensible eating plan, Chasens explains. Here are 10 healing herbs to add to your recipe rotation." ]

[ "You can redefine \\sectionmark:\n\n\\documentclass[a4paper]{memoir}\n\\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}\n\\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}\n\\usepackage{lipsum}\n\n\\pagestyle{headings}\n\\def\\sectionmark#1{\\markright{#1}}\n\n\\begin{document}\n\n\\chapter{Memoir with headings style}\n\n\\section{My section}\n\n\\lipsum[1-30]\n\n\\end{document}" ]

[ "Use \\leftmark/\\rightmark instead of \\thechapter/\\thesection. See p. 120 of the memoir manual for details.\n\n\\documentclass{memoir}\n\n\\makepagestyle{dtu}\n\\makeevenhead{dtu}{\\sffamily\\leftmark}{}{\\sffamily\\rightmark}\n\\makeoddhead{dtu}{\\sffamily\\rightmark}{}{\\sffamily\\leftmark}\n\\makeevenfoot{dtu}{\\sffamily\\thepage}{}{}\n\\makeoddfoot{dtu}{}{}{\\sffamily\\thepage}\n\\makeheadrule{dtu}{\\textwidth}{1pt}\n\\pagestyle{dtu}\n\n\\usepackage{lipsum}\n\n\\begin{document}\n\n\\chapter{foo}\n\n\\section{foobar}\n\n\\lipsum[1-12]\n\n\\end{document}", "I don't know memoir jargon, but if I understood you correctly, you want to insert a PDF that stretches to the normal \\textwidth on an otherwise empty page. This can be achieved by defining a customized page style (unless redefined, plain would include a page number) and using the \\includegraphics options width and height, which are passed on by pdfpages.\n\nAs pointed out by @egreg, with memoir and no pagestyle customizations needed, rather \\thispagestyle{empty} should be used. Further, graphicx provides a parameter keepaspectratio which ensures that if both width and height of the PDF are specified, it is scaled such that the aspect ratio is kept and neither width nor height are exceeded.\n\n\\documentclass{article}\n\\usepackage{pdfpages}\n\\usepackage{fancyhdr}\n\n\\fancypagestyle{mystyle}{%\n \\fancyhf{}% %clear headers, footers\n \\renewcommand{\\headrulewidth}{0pt}% %and remove header rule\n}\n\n\\begin{document}\n\n\n\\includepdf[pages=1,\n pagecommand={\\thispagestyle{empty}}, %is default, only mentioned to show alternative usage of customized mystyle\n width=\\textwidth,\n height=\\textheight, \n keepaspectratio,\n frame]{yourfile.pdf} \n\\end{document}", "You need to expand the number when you define \\parttitle:\n\n\\documentclass[11pt, oneside, a4paper]{memoir}\n\n\\usepackage{lipsum}\n\n\\newcounter{DocPart}\n\\setcounter{DocPart}{0}\n\\newcommand{\\pageNumber}{}\n\\newcommand{\\parttitle}{}\n\\renewcommand{\\part}[1]{%\n \\ifnum\\theDocPart = 0\n \\renewcommand{\\parttitle}{A. #1}\n \\renewcommand{\\pageNumber}{A.\\thepage}\n \\cftaddtitleline{toc}{part}{A. #1}{}\n \\else\n \\edef\\parttitle{A\\theDocPart. #1}%&lt;----\n \\edef\\pageNumber{A\\theDocPart.\\noexpand\\thepage}%&lt;-----\n \\cftaddtitleline{toc}{part}{A\\theDocPart. #1}{}\n \\fi\n \\stepcounter{DocPart}\n}\n\n\\makepagestyle{test}\n\\makeoddhead{test}{\\pageNumber}{}{\\parttitle}\n\\pagestyle{test}\n\n\\begin{document}\n\n\\part{PART NUMBER ZERO} % I want this to say A. PART NUMBER ZERO in the header, which it does\n\\chapter{FAKE CHAPTER ONE}\n\\theDocPart \\thispagestyle{test}\n\\lipsum[88]\n\\chapter{FAKE CHAPTER TWO}\n\\thispagestyle{test}\n\\lipsum[120]\n\n\\newpage\n\n\\tableofcontents*\n\n\n\\part{PART NUMBER ONE} % I want this to say A1. PART NUMBER ONE in the header\n\\chapter{FAKE CHAPTER TWO}\n\\thispagestyle{test}\n\\lipsum\n\n\n\\part{PART NUMBER TWO} % I want this to say A2. PART NUMBER TWO in the header\n\\chapter{FAKE CHAPTER THREE}\n\\thispagestyle{test}\n\\lipsum\n\n\n\\end{document}", "You can use \\sectionmark. \n\n\\section{long version%\n \\sectionmark{header version}}\n\\sectionmark{header version}\n\n\nYou need two \\sectionmark-commands to get the correct header both for the current page and the following ones. The KOMA-classes have additional options to handle this. \n\n(Untested as you didn't provide a complete minimal example).", "Since you are using the appendices environment (of memoir class or of the appendix package), no \\appendix command is required.\n\nWithout the environment, only one \\appendix command must be issued.", "The error message is clear:\n\n\n Class memoir Error: The 'extrafontsizes' option is required to use (memoir) the '25pt' option. ... {The 17pt option will be used instead}\n\n\nSimply use \\documentclass[extrafontsizes,25pt]{memoir}", "With \\renewcommand*{\\notedivision}{\\chapter*{\\notesname}} I changed the the original \\chapter to \\chapter*, thus preventing an automatic entry in the ToC. You could also use \\section* but than it won't start on a new page etc.\n\nIn the line \\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Notes} I manually add it to the ToC, please change \"Notes\" to whatever you like. If you do not want it in the ToC at all, just remove this line.\n\n\\documentclass{memoir} \n\n\\renewcommand*{\\notedivision}{\\chapter*{\\notesname}\\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Notes}}\n\n\\makepagenote\n\n\\begin{document} \n\n\\tableofcontents\n\n\\chapter{this is a chapter}\n\nText text text.\\pagenote{this is an endnote} text text text.\\pagenote{this is an endnote}\n\n\\chapter{another chapter}\n\nText text text.\\pagenote{this is an endnote} text text text.\\pagenote{this is an endnote}\n\n\\printpagenotes\n\n\\end{document}", "As has been mentioned in comments, titlesec and memoir are not fully compatible. You can use the built-in commands from memoir to easily define your style; a simple example (make the necessary adjustments according to your needs):\n\n\\documentclass[a4paper,openany,twocolumn]{memoir}\n\\usepackage{lipsum}\n\n\\makeatletter\n\\makechapterstyle{Nordestgaard}{%\n\\renewcommand*{\\printchaptername}{}\n\\renewcommand*{\\printchapternum}{}\n\\renewcommand*{\\chaptitlefont}{\\normalfont\\Huge\\bfseries}\n\\renewcommand*{\\printchaptertitle}[1]{%\n\\fbox{%\n \\begin{minipage}[b][5cm][b]{\\dimexpr\\textwidth-2\\fboxsep-2\\fboxrule\\relax}\n \\raggedright\\chaptitlefont\\strut##1\\par\\smallskip%\n \\end{minipage}}}\n\\setlength\\afterchapskip{15pt}\n\\setlength\\beforechapskip{-40pt}\n}\n\\makeatother\n\\chapterstyle{Nordestgaard}\n\n\\begin{document}\n\n\\chapter{Test chapter}\n\\lipsum[1-6]\n\n\\end{document}", "I assume from the strange way they've specified your layout, and the fact that it's a thesis, that it's one-sided.\n\nTry this (the lipsum bits are just to give us some blind text):\n\n\\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,oneside]{memoir}\n\\setulmarginsandblock{1.5cm}{1.5cm}{*}\n\\setlrmarginsandblock{4cm}{1.5cm}{*}\n\\checkandfixthelayout\n\\usepackage{lipsum}\n\\begin{document}\n\\lipsum[1-4]\n\\end{document}\n\n\nThis solution assumes the margins are \"conventional\" -- from the page edges to the text block.\n\nI don't know for sure (I've never used it), but fancyhdr does things that memoir has its own facilities for doing, so there may be a conflict there.\n\nIf you want to alter stock and trim, you can, but that really only makes sense if you're actually going to physically trim the printed sheets.", "Section headers.\nOr smaller section headers\nOr even smaller section headers\nAnd, please, for the love of Erdős, do not use those other hacks. They are wrong semantical markup, and I find them all very objectionable. For instance, I have found myself searching for the source of a &quot;quote&quot; in the past, thinking that they were quoting something that someone wrote earlier in another answer.\n(Also, you are not writing an ad. Excessive highlighting should be avoided, in my view.)", "Use the \\clipboard command directly. (I'm the package author.)\nSyntax: \\clipboard {key} {content}.\n\\documentclass{memoir}\n\\usepackage{clipboard}\n\\newclipboard{notes}\n\\begin{document}\n\\clipboard{test}{This should only show up when it is pasted, not when it is copied.}\nThis should be the first line of the document. \\Paste{test} \n\\end{document}", "Your bibliography environment uses\n\n\\section{References}\n\n\nwhich sets a section with numbering. If you don't want that, then use\n\n\\section*{References}\n\\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{\\protect\\numberline{}References}\n\n\nBased on the (re)definition of thebibliograhy, the headers should be set correctly to References (via \\markboth).\n\nThe addition of \\protect\\numberline{} ensures that the alignment of your \\section titles in the ToC is correct - numbered or unnumbered sections. If you drop it, the References title will be flush left with the other (numbered) elements.", "x64_dbg uses TitanEngine's ConvertVAtoFileOffsetEx() function to apply the patches. That function validates that the virtual addresses of the bytes to be patched are within a section's memory space at run-time (based on the section's virtual address and the section's virtual size). Since the bytes you're patching are after the end of the section's virtual size, ConvertVAtoFileOffsetEx() returns 0 and the patches are never applied.\n\nAs a workaround, I'd recommend patching the virtual size of the section to which you're appending those new bytes. Whatever the current virtual size is, make it 14 bytes bigger in the PE section's header.\n\nYou can use a tool like Explorer Suite to make this change by navigating to the file's Section Headers and increasing the value in the target section's Virtual Size field:", "You need to make AUCTeX aware of the frame environment, i.e., \\frametitle:\n\n(add-to-list 'TeX-outline-extra '(\"\\\\\\\\frametitle\\\\b\" 4))\n\n\nFrom the documentation on Tex-outline-extra:\n\n\n List of extra TeX outline levels.\n \n Each element is a list with two entries. The first entry is the\n regular expression matching a header, and the second is the level of\n the header. See ‘LaTeX-section-list’ for existing header levels.\n\n\nSimilarly, you need to explicitely tell reftex to show \\frametitle in its TOC:\n\n(setq reftex-section-levels '((\"part\" . 0)\n (\"chapter\" . 1)\n (\"section\" . 2)\n (\"subsection\" . 3)\n (\"subsubsection\" . 4)\n (\"frametitle\" . -3)\n (\"paragraph\" . 5)\n (\"subparagraph\" . 6)\n (\"addchap\" . -1)\n (\"addsec\" . -2)))", "Comment out or simply remove lines\n\nehdr-&gt;e_shoff += PAGE_SIZE;\n\nif (text_found)\n{\n phdr[i].p_offset += PAGE_SIZE;\n continue;\n}\n\n\nand change shdr-&gt;sh_offset's to shdr[i].sh_offset's. \n\nExplanation:\nYou may run readelf -a hello for more details. It will output following problems:\n\nreadelf: Error: Reading 1856 bytes extends past end of file for section headers\nreadelf: Error: Section headers are not available!\nreadelf: Warning: note with invalid namesz and/or descsz found at offset 0xc\nreadelf: Warning: type: 0x600ff0, namesize: 0x00000000, descsize: 0x00150003, alignment: 4\n\n\nIt means that your section headers address was increased by PAGE_SIZE too. Indeed, after modification it equals:\n\nStart of section headers: 10544 (bytes into file)\n\n\nAnd before:\n\nStart of section headers: 6448 (bytes into file)\n\n\nSo you don't want to add PAGE_SIZE to ehdr-&gt;e_shoff, since otherwise the start of section headers now points to some random data.\n\nRegarding phdr[i].p_offset's, I don't think you have to change them at all, since they are just segment offsets.\n\nNote: GCC by default compiles to position independent executable, so it will have e_type equal 3 (ET_DYN instead of ET_EXEC), but will still be an ELF executable.", "The -S flag lists all section headers, not \"sig[nature] section header\". The S stands for \"sections\", not \"signature\".\n\nMoreover, these section names appear to be quite unrelated to linux itself, but are part of the linux AppImage application, a third party application framework that includes it's own signed update mechanism. The only references I could find to these section names are part of it's update mechanism as can be seen in this Pull Request.", "According to ELF-format SHT_PROGBITS meens only that\n\n\n The section holds information defined by the program, whose format and meaning are determined solely by the program.\n\n\nBut ELF-section's type is not the only (and not main) attribute for parsing data from file. There are also section's name and attributes. \n\nSections like .text and .data also have SHT_PROGBITS-type, but their names are special.\n\nGenerally (and very simply) the process of ELF-parsing is so:\n\n\nRead File header\nRead Section Headers table\nRead Symbol table\nMake Relocations\n\n\nMore info you can take from IDA's ELF-loader (IDA_Dir\\loaders\\elf.ldw (or dll)) or from a tools like readelf.", "Note that the in example in the question, data is being disassembled as code. The .dynsym section holds the dynamic linking symbol table and does not contain code.\n\n\n\n\nInformation such as the name and the virtual address of the first byte of a section is given in the section header of that section. \nThe section header is a structure stored in the section header table of an ELF binary. \n\n\nIn this case objdump prints the virtual address 00000000004002c0 and the name .dynsym because this is the information stored in the section header for that particular section (technically, section names are strings stored in the section header string table .shstrtab, but this is not so important in this case). If there was no section header for this section or if there was no section header table present in the binary, objdump would not be able to output this information. \n\nThere is no need for heuristics unless the section header table is not present in the binary. This is unusual, but has been observed to be the case in certain Linux ELF binaries (viruses) in order to thwart analysis since gdb, objdump, and other Binary File Descriptor-based utilities (thank you Igor Skochinsky for the correction) rely on information in the section header table to parse the binary.\n\nRelevant documentation can be found in the System V ABI (generic) beginning in chapter 4 \"Object Files\" (page 44), as well as the manual page for ELF.\n\n\n A section header table contains information describing the file’s sections. Every section has an entry in the table; each\n entry gives information such as the section name, the section size, and so on.\n\n\nMore specifically:\n\n\n An object file’s section header table lets one locate all the file’s sections. The section header table is an array of Elf32_Shdr or\n Elf64_Shdr structures. A section header table index is a subscript into this array. The ELF header’s e_shoff member gives the byte offset from the beginning of the file to the section header table; e_shnum tells how many entries the section header table contains; e_shentsize gives the size in bytes of each entry.\n\n\nAdditionally,\n\n\n Sections contain all information in an object file, except the ELF header, the program header table, and the section header table. Moreover, object files’ sections satisfy several conditions.\n \n \n Every section in an object file has exactly one section header describing it. Section headers may exist that do not have a section.\n Each section occupies one contiguous (possibly empty) sequence of bytes within a file.\n Sections in a file may not overlap. No byte in a file resides in more than one section.\n An object file may have inactive space. The various headers and the sections might not ‘‘cover’’ every byte in an object file. The contents of the inactive data are unspecified.\n \n\n\nHere is a high-level overview of what is involved in locating information contained in an ELF binary's individual section headers. The documentation cited is for ELF32 binaries, but the process is the same with ELF64 binaries.\n\nThe location of the section header table is given in the ELF header:\n\n\n\nThe ELF header is a struct and the offset of the section header table is stored in a member called e_shoff:\n\n\n\n\n\n$ readelf -h /bin/ls\nELF Header:\n Magic: 7f 45 4c 46 02 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 \n Class: ELF64\n Data: 2's complement, little endian\n Version: 1 (current)\n OS/ABI: UNIX - System V\n ABI Version: 0\n Type: EXEC (Executable file)\n Machine: Advanced Micro Devices X86-64\n Version: 0x1\n Entry point address: 0x404890\n Start of program headers: 64 (bytes into file)\n Start of section headers: 108288 (bytes into file) &lt;---------- e_shoff\n Flags: 0x0\n Size of this header: 64 (bytes)\n Size of program headers: 56 (bytes)\n Number of program headers: 9\n Size of section headers: 64 (bytes)\n Number of section headers: 28\n Section header string table index: 27\n\n\nThe section header table is usually located at the end of the binary following all of the sections:\n\n\n\nAs stated in the documentation and mentioned previously, every section has an entry in the section header table. Each entry is a structure that contains information about the section, including its name and its virtual address when the binary is mapped into memory. The name of the section is stored in a struct member called sh_name, and the address information is stored in a struct member called sh_addr:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRetrieving this information is just a matter of correctly parsing these structures within a given binary.\n\nMore information can be found here:\n\n\nThe ELF Object File Format: Introduction\nThe ELF Object File Format by Dissection", "If you just\n\\documentclass{memoir}\n\\begin{document}\n%....\n\\end{document}\n\nyou will get the same output as\n\\documentclass{book}\n\\begin{document}\n% ....\n\\end{document}\n\nexcept that the ToC, LoF and LoT will be listed in the ToC (but you can stop that happening).\nHopefully you are able to code with the book class; if not I suggest you learn to do that from the various &quot;getting started&quot; guides or Leslie Lamport's excellent LaTeX book.\nIn the manual I tried to provide a chapter dealing with specific topics. You mention designing chapters; there is much information, and code, on this in chapter 6 Document divisions.\nDon't try and read the whole manual in one go, pick out the bits that you are interested in.", "In your definition of \\makechapterstyle{heading-1}{...} you used\n \\renewcommand\\midchapskip{1ex}\n\nbut it should have been\n\\setlength{\\midchapskip}{1ex}\n\nYou can define both chapterstyles in the preamble. The following is a cobbled together corrected version of what you might have supplied as an MWE.\n% memchapprob.tex SE 583682 \n\n\\documentclass{memoir}\n\\usepackage{pgfornament}\n\n\\makechapterstyle{myheading-1}\n{\\renewcommand\\chapternamenum{\\fontsize{20}{20}\\centering}\n\\renewcommand\\printchaptername{}\n%\\renewcommand\\midchapskip{1ex}\n\\setlength\\midchapskip{1ex}\n\\renewcommand\\chaptitlefont{\\fontsize{18}{18}\\scshape\\centering}\n \\renewcommand\\afterchaptertitle{%\n \\par\\centering%\n \\raisebox{1ex}{\\pgfornament[scale=0.35]{88}}\\par\\nobreak\\vspace{3ex}}\n}\n\n\\makechapterstyle{afterwards}{%\n\\setlength{\\beforechapskip}{-50pt} \n\\renewcommand\\chapternamenum{} \n\\renewcommand\\printchaptername{} \n\\renewcommand\\chaptitlefont{\\fontsize{18}{18}\\scshape\\centering} \n\\renewcommand\\afterchaptertitle{% \n\\par\\centering% \n\\raisebox{1ex}{\\pgfornament[scale=0.35]{88}}\\par\\nobreak\\vspace{3ex}} \n} \n\n\\chapterstyle{myheading-1}\n\\makepagestyle{chapter}{\\thispagestyle{empty}}\n\n\\begin{document}\n\\chapter{Main chapter}\nSome text.\n\n\\backmatter\n\\chapterstyle{afterwards}\n\n\\chapter{Afterwards}\nMore text.\n\\clearpage\nEven more text.\n\n\\end{document}", "Ordinary object file\n\nAs the notes say, the -R is only meaningful for dynamic objects. For ordinary .o files from simple programs, the -r will show the relocation entries. As an example, this simple program:\n\n#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;\nint main() {\n puts(\"Hello, world!\\\");\n}\n\n\nWe can produce an object file with this:\n\ncc -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -std=c11 -c -o sample.o sample.c\n\n\nProduces this output when we run the command objdump -r sample.o:\n\nsample.o: file format elf64-x86-64\n\nRELOCATION RECORDS FOR [.text]:\nOFFSET TYPE VALUE \n0000000000000005 R_X86_64_32 .rodata\n000000000000000a R_X86_64_PC32 puts-0x0000000000000004\n\n\nRELOCATION RECORDS FOR [.eh_frame]:\nOFFSET TYPE VALUE \n0000000000000020 R_X86_64_PC32 .text\n\n\n(This is an x86_64 Linux box.)\n\nWith objdump -R sample.o we get this:\n\nobjdump: sample.o: not a dynamic object\nobjdump: sample.o: Invalid operation\n\n\nThis is expected since this is not a shared library.\n\nShared library\n\nBy contrast, we can use this code:\n\n#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;\nint hello() {\n return puts(\"Hello, world!\\n\");\n}\n\n\nAnd create a library with this:\n\ngcc -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -std=c11 -fPIC -shared -o libsample.so sample.c\n\n\nNow the -R makes sense:\n\nobjdump -R libsample.so \n\n\nOutput:\n\nlibsample.so: file format elf64-x86-64\n\nDYNAMIC RELOCATION RECORDS\nOFFSET TYPE VALUE \n0000000000200df8 R_X86_64_RELATIVE *ABS*+0x0000000000000660\n0000000000200e00 R_X86_64_RELATIVE *ABS*+0x0000000000000620\n0000000000200e10 R_X86_64_RELATIVE *ABS*+0x0000000000200e10\n0000000000200fd8 R_X86_64_GLOB_DAT _ITM_deregisterTMCloneTable\n0000000000200fe0 R_X86_64_GLOB_DAT __gmon_start__\n0000000000200fe8 R_X86_64_GLOB_DAT _Jv_RegisterClasses\n0000000000200ff0 R_X86_64_GLOB_DAT _ITM_registerTMCloneTable\n0000000000200ff8 R_X86_64_GLOB_DAT __cxa_finalize@GLIBC_2.2.5\n0000000000201018 R_X86_64_JUMP_SLOT puts@GLIBC_2.2.5\n\n\nPlaying games\n\nThere are two other utilities: readelf and elfedit that allows us to look at and modify the binary in more detail. If we create a shared object as shown above, but on a 32-bit Linux machine and then run readelf -a libsample.so the output is long, but starts with this:\n\nELF Header:\n Magic: 7f 45 4c 46 01 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 \n Class: ELF32\n Data: 2's complement, little endian\n Version: 1 (current)\n OS/ABI: UNIX - System V\n ABI Version: 0\n Type: DYN (Shared object file)\n Machine: Intel 80386\n Version: 0x1\n Entry point address: 0x3f0\n Start of program headers: 52 (bytes into file)\n Start of section headers: 5884 (bytes into file)\n Flags: 0x0\n Size of this header: 52 (bytes)\n Size of program headers: 32 (bytes)\n Number of program headers: 7\n Size of section headers: 40 (bytes)\n Number of section headers: 29\n Section header string table index: 26\n\n\nWe can then play games such as changing the file to a EXEC type instead of a DYN type:\n\nelfedit --output-type=EXEC test.so\n\n\nNow if we rerun readelf, everything is the same except for that tag:\n\nELF Header:\n Magic: 7f 45 4c 46 01 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 \n Class: ELF32\n Data: 2's complement, little endian\n Version: 1 (current)\n OS/ABI: UNIX - System V\n ABI Version: 0\n Type: EXEC (Executable file)\n Machine: Intel 80386\n Version: 0x1\n Entry point address: 0x3f0\n Start of program headers: 52 (bytes into file)\n Start of section headers: 5884 (bytes into file)\n Flags: 0x0\n Size of this header: 52 (bytes)\n Size of program headers: 32 (bytes)\n Number of program headers: 7\n Size of section headers: 40 (bytes)\n Number of section headers: 29\n Section header string table index: 26\n\n\nAlthough the type has changed, it will still function as a shared library.", "In this particular case, repairing the header can be automated. Since the section header string table is present, the original value of e_shnum can be found by counting the number of strings in the table.\n\nOriginal:\n\n$ readelf -h hello\nELF Header:\n Magic: 7f 45 4c 46 01 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 \n Class: ELF32\n Data: 2's complement, little endian\n Version: 1 (current)\n OS/ABI: UNIX - System V\n ABI Version: 0\n Type: DYN (Shared object file)\n Machine: Intel 80386\n Version: 0x1\n Entry point address: 0x3e0\n Start of program headers: 52 (bytes into file)\n Start of section headers: 6056 (bytes into file)\n Flags: 0x0\n Size of this header: 52 (bytes)\n Size of program headers: 32 (bytes)\n Number of program headers: 9\n Size of section headers: 40 (bytes)\n Number of section headers: 29 &lt;-----------------\n Section header string table index: 28\n\n\nCorrupted:\n\n$ readelf -h hello\nELF Header:\n Magic: 7f 45 4c 46 01 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 \n Class: ELF32\n Data: 2's complement, little endian\n Version: 1 (current)\n OS/ABI: UNIX - System V\n ABI Version: 0\n Type: DYN (Shared object file)\n Machine: Intel 80386\n Version: 0x1\n Entry point address: 0x3e0\n Start of program headers: 52 (bytes into file)\n Start of section headers: 6056 (bytes into file)\n Flags: 0x0\n Size of this header: 52 (bytes)\n Size of program headers: 32 (bytes)\n Number of program headers: 9\n Size of section headers: 40 (bytes)\n Number of section headers: 52 &lt;------------------\n Section header string table index: 28\nreadelf: Error: Reading 2080 bytes extends past end of file for section headers\nreadelf: Error: Reading 7216 bytes extends past end of file for dynamic string table\n\n\nReading the section header string table:\n\n\n#!/usr/bin/python3\n\nfrom elftools.elf.elffile import ELFFile\n\nwith open('hello', 'rb') as f:\n elffile = ELFFile(f)\n print(\"original e_shnum:\\t\" + str(len(elffile.get_section(28).data().decode('ascii').split('\\x00')) + 1))\n\n\n\nWhen run against the binary with the corrupted header, the output is as follows:\n\n$ python3 recover_e_shnum.py \noriginal e_shnum: 29\n\n\nThis script will repair the header automatically:\n\n\n#!/usr/bin/python3\n\nfrom elftools.elf.elffile import ELFFile\nfrom struct import pack\n\nwith open('hello', 'rb+') as f:\n elffile = ELFFile(f)\n e_shnum = len(elffile.get_section(28).data().decode('ascii').split('\\x00')) + 1 \n f.seek(48)\n f.write(pack('h', e_shnum))", "Using the tip described on TeX Stack Exchange:\n\n\\addtocontents{toc}{\\setcounter{tocdepth}{-1}}\n\\chapter{Preface}\n\\addtocontents{toc}{\\setcounter{tocdepth}{2}}", "To do this, you will need to use Sections. Also, when you create a new section, make sure to disable the \"Link to Previous\" option so that the formatting starts where you want it to. Make sure your opening content is in one section, then start your first chapter in a second section. Add a footer to the first page of the chapter and insert your page number there. To get the rest of the page numbers to appear at the top, you will need to create a third section starting with the next page, then add a header with the page numbers in the header. When you start the second chapter, you will need a new section, and so on.\n\nThis behavior will vary depending on the version of Word you are using, so you may have to play with it some. This kind of formatting can be very frustrating with Word, and they certainly don't go out of their way to make it easy.", "Update \\chaptermark; here's the default definition (from report.cls, but it would be similar in book.cls):\n\n\\def\\chaptermark#1{%\n \\markboth {\\MakeUppercase{%\n \\ifnum \\c@secnumdepth &gt;\\m@ne\n \\@chapapp\\ \\thechapter. \\ %\n \\fi\n #1}}{}}%\n\n\nWe update it to use \\scshape and \\MakeLowercase directly:\n\n\\renewcommand{\\chaptermark}[1]{\\markboth{\\scshape\\MakeLowercase{%\n \\ifnum\\c@secnumdepth &gt; \\m@ne \\@chapapp\\ \\thechapter.\\ \\fi #1}}{}}\n\n\nHere is a complete minimal example:\n\n\n\n\\documentclass{report}\n\n\\usepackage{fancyhdr,graphicx}\n\\pagestyle{fancy}\n\\fancyhead{} % Clears the standard fancy style header\n\\makeatletter\n\\fancyhead[CO]{\\leftmark} % Displays current chapter name in small-caps on odd-numbered pages\n\\renewcommand{\\chaptermark}[1]{\\markboth{\\scshape\\MakeLowercase{%\n \\ifnum\\c@secnumdepth &gt; \\m@ne \\@chapapp\\ \\protect\\resizebox{!}{1.15ex}{\\thechapter}.\\ \\fi #1}}{}}\n\\makeatother\n\n\\usepackage{lipsum}% Just for this example\n\n\\begin{document}\n\n\\setcounter{chapter}{16}% Just for this example\n\\chapter{A Chapter}\n\n\\lipsum\n\n\\end{document}", "The explanation, is that, when you write \\thesection in \\titlecontents, it uses the value of the section counter at the time of code writing – and this counter has not yet been incremented. What you must use is the value written in the .tocfile, and this one is accessed to with \\thecontentslabel, as mentioned in the documentation.\nHere is a working code:\n\\documentclass[10pt]{book}\n\\usepackage{fontspec}\n\\usepackage{titlesec}\n\n\\usepackage{lipsum}\n\\usepackage{titlesec}\n\\titleformat{\\section}{\\Large\\bfseries}{Section~\\thesection}{1em}{}\n\n\\usepackage{titletoc}\n\\titlecontents{section}[1.5em]{\\large}\n{\\thecontentslabel\\hspace{1cm}}\n{}\n{}\n\n\\begin{document}\n\n\\tableofcontents\n\n\\chapter{One}\n\n\\section{Here}\n\\section{Here}\n\\section{Here}\n\\section{Here}\n\\section{Here}\n\\section{Here}\n\\section{Here}\n\\section{Here}\n\n\\chapter{Two}\n\\section{Here}\n\\section{Here}\n\\section{Here}\n\\section{Here}\n\\section{Here}\n\\section{Here}\n\n\\end{document} \n\n\nB.t.w. do you not want the section page numbers in the table of contents?", "Of course there is. Read chapter 2 in the documentation (&gt; texdoc memoir). \n\n\\documentclass{memoir}\n\\usepackage{lipsum}\n\\setlrmargins{2in}{1in}{*}\n\\checkandfixthelayout\n\\begin{document}\n\\lipsum\n\\end{document}\n\n\nwhere \\setlrmargins{&lt;spine&gt;}{&lt;edge&gt;}{&lt;ratio&gt;} sets the spine margin, the outer margin, or one of these and the ration between them. The above will give a spine margin of 2 inches and an outer margin of 1 inch.\n\nBooks, which I assume you are trying to write as that is what the memoir default of twoside is aimed at, normally have the edge margin twice that of the spine margin so that when the book is opened the three \"margins\" (outers and across the spine) are equal. I suggest you think carefully about what you want --- print a few pages double-sided, put them together, and see how they look.", "The LGPL v2.1 is specifically designed for libraries; in particular, it allows distribution of modified versions of the library only in certain circumstances (section 2), including\n\n\n The modified work must itself be a software library.\n\n\nHowever, you can distribute your library and its associated programs under the LGPL, because section 3 of the LGPL allows it to be upgraded to standard GPL (version 2 or later). Thus a recipient making changes and wishing to redistribute them can do so either under the LGPL or the GPL, whichever is appropriate. (After distribution occurs under the GPL though, further distribution of modified works on top of that can only use the GPL.)\n\nHaving said all that, using two licenses within your source code isn't all that complex: all you need to do is include both the LGPL and the GPL, and make sure the source files' headers indicate which license applies to them (as explained at the end of the license documentation).", "I think you are asking about what to do with headers in tabular data, if so, here are my thoughts: \n\nHeaders should be one column/one row and only one column/one row. If you have to label across rows, simply add the name of the label to the rows you want to apply it to. \n\nThis does lead to extremely long headers, so also another thing to apply here is some deductive reasoning. Do you truly need to say all of that in the header? In some cases, headers are redundant. And in these cases, I simply delete the text entirely. When they are necessary, I go with the longer headers. \n\nJust my opinion. I've found one row/column headers to be much more easy to work with across many platforms and technologies.", "You'll make 2 assumptions: \n\n\nall virtual memory allocations are done with 4k (0x1000) incremental\n.text section will (in most cases) be places after the PE header\n\n\nSo, your goal would be to find the DLL's PE header and parse it to find all the parameters of the other sections, assuming they are present. Using above assumptions, you would:\n\n\nDecrement your known base address by 0x1000\nCheck that this new address is valid (i.e VirtualQuery)\nCheck for presence of MZ signature starting the address from (1)\n\n\nIf found, parse the header and you can calculate the offsets based on the header data - you already know where .text located, extrapolate for other sections the same way.\n\nRepeat for reasonable amount of times till you find the header.", "When putting a sum-over-the-entire-column formula into a regular cell, you are basically self-referencing the formula cell as a value cell.\n\nTry putting the the formula into a footer row. This way you can reference only the cells in a column without including the header or footer row.\n\n\nAdd a footer row in the \"Header &amp; Footer\" section in the Format > Table sidebar\n\n\n\n\n\nPut the SUM formula in the footer row (the last row in the image below) and select the entire column by referencing the column letter or the column header title (column header title here is \"Header\" :).\n\n\n(Select footer cell, type \"=SUM\", press Enter, type header title or column letter, press Enter)\n\n\n\nAs shown, only the cells, without the header or footer row, are selected. The sum is calculated over all cells in the column, even when adding new rows.", "Use the standard LaTeX command \\addcontentsline{&lt;file&gt;}{&lt;kind&gt;}{&lt;text&gt;} immediately after your \\section*{Abbreviations} as:\n\n\\section*{Abbreviations}\n\\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Abbreviations}\n\n\nwhich will put an unnumbered section style heading and page number into the .toc file for printing in the ToC." ]

[ "['A completed DL-43 application (this form is also available at the driver license office)', 'Your current (or expired within two years) Texas DL or ID card. ... ', 'U.S. Citizenship or lawful presence documents (i.e. birth certificate) may be required.', 'Applicable fee.']" ]

[ "What documents do I need? You'll need two documents to open an Irish bank account: one valid form of photo ID and a document to prove your address. Your passport, driving licence or national identity card (if you're an EU citizen) are all valid forms of photo ID.", "To get a PPS Number, you will need to provide evidence of why you need a PPS Number. Provide a copy of your photo Identity document (Passport, Driving Licence, ID card etc.) If you do not have valid documents, you should provide whatever ID documents that you do have. Proof of your Address.", "What documents do I need to travel on a domestic flight? Mexican citizens need a boarding pass and official ID (voter ID, passport, driver's license). Foreign citizens must have a boarding pass and valid passport.", "To get a new Florida driver license or ID card in person, visit the nearest driver license office and apply for a replacement. In order to do this, you will need to make sure you have documents that prove both your identity and your residence.", "What documents do I need to rent a car? You will need to bring your payment card, i.e. credit card, a valid driver's license and your ID or passport. If paying by debit card you will also need one further proof of address, such a utilities bill.", "When do I need to get a REAL ID? Beginning October 1, 2020, you will need have a REAL ID compliant driver's license or another acceptable form of ID, such as a valid passport or U.S. military ID, to fly within the U.S.", "['How much can I borrow? ... ', 'What documents will you need? ... ', 'What types of mortgage do you offer? ... ', 'What interest rate choices do I have? ... ', 'What arrangement fees do I have to pay? ... ', 'What valuation options are available?']", "Q: WHAT DOCUMENTS ARE REQUIRED TO GET A REAL ID? To obtain a New Mexico REAL ID you will need (1) Proof of Identification Number, (1) Proof of Identity & Age and (2) Proofs of Residency. Please note, all documents must reflect your current legal name*.", "What personal documents—including proof of citizenship—do I need to bring? In order to board the ship at the start of a cruise, all Guests must provide a valid government-issued photo ID. For certain international itineraries, you will also need to present a valid passport and travel visa.", "Can I renew or replace my driver's license or ID, update to a REAL ID, or get a DMV printout at a AAA branch? AAA cannot assist with driver's license or ID services, including but not limited to driver's license renewals, replacements, Real IDs and/or DMV printouts.", "['How old is this hot tub?', 'Do I trust the seller?', 'What maintenance will this hot tub likely require? Are maintenance records available?', 'Who will deliver and install this hot tub? ... ', 'What will I do if I need to make repairs or replace a part?']", "['What Do I Want to Learn/Need to Learn? ... ', 'Why Is This Important? ... ', 'How Do I Intend to Use This Knowledge? ... ', 'What Do I Know and What Do I Need to Find Out? ... ', 'What Are My Capabilities/Limitations? ... ', 'Where Can I Find out What I Need to Know? ... ', 'Who Can I Ask for Help?']", "Replace a North Dakota ID Card You may need to provide the same documents required for original applications. See above for more information. You will need to pay the $8 fee to replace your identification card in North Dakota.", "To get a replacement ID card, you need to visit a SC DMV office in person. You cannot apply for a replacement ID card online or by mail. You will need: A completed Affidavit for Lost/Surrendered Driver's License (Form DL-49).", "How can I get a replacement Social Security Card without any form of ID available? You need two forms of ID, preferably one with a picture. Go to the DMV with a certified birth certificate and a current utility bill or bank statement in your name.", "If you have a passport or birth certificate, this is typically sufficient to get your lost license replaced. But, if you don't have an official form of ID, you'll likely need several other documents with your signature, full name, address and picture.", "What documents do I need to bring with me to register at PDSA? You will need to bring with you proof of your benefits (dated within last 12 months) and photo ID (passport, driving licence, bank card). Although we will always ask for proof of photo ID, if you don't have any let us know and we can arrange an alternative.", "['What type of hearing aids do you recommend for my hearing loss? ... ', 'How much do they cost? ... ', 'Is there a warranty? ... ', 'When should I expect to replace them? ... ', 'What kind of trial period do you offer? ... ', 'How often do I need to have them adjusted? ... ', 'What services are included?']", "How can I replace my lost or stolen driver's license/ ID? You may apply for a replacement GA Driver's License or ID at any CSC location. Click here for a list of acceptable documents to bring. You may also apply for a replacement driver's license using Online Services or the DDS 2 GO Mobile App.", "What identity documents do I need to travel to Norfolk Island? Passports and visas are not required when travelling to Norfolk Island from the Australian mainland.", "['What Exactly Do You Do as a Wedding Planner?', 'Do I Need to Include the Dress Code on the Invite?', 'What Do I Need to Know About Venue Contracts?', 'Do We Need a Choice of Entrée for a Seated Dinner?', 'Do We Need Welcome Bags for Out-Of-Town Guests?', 'Do We Have to Do Favors?', 'How Do I Get a Deal?']", "Do I Need to File a Texas State Tax Return? Residents in the state of Texas do not have to file a Texas state income tax return. However, they still have to file a federal tax return.", "To get a learner's permit, driver's license, or Mass ID in Massachusetts, you'll need to provide proof of citizenship or lawful presence, a Social Security number, and Massachusetts residency. Learn what documents you can use below.", "['Do I Have All the Coverage I Need? ... ', 'Am I Getting All the Discounts and Savings I Can? ... ', 'What Is Covered if My Car Is in an Accident or Gets Damaged? ... ', 'What is Covered if My Car Is in an Accident and Someone Is Injured or Dies?']", "What document(s) do I need to return to Canada? You can come back to Canada with the documents you initially came in with, as long as they are still valid. Make sure your travel document, and eTA or visa has not expired.", "Personal documents - You'll need to bring all of the following: An original proof of citizenship document. An acceptable photo ID document. A photocopy of the front and back of the citizenship document and photo ID document.", "You technically do not need anything more than a document to prove citizenship such as as a birth certificate and some photo ID to enter Canada. You may get in, but they also may very well deny entry to the person with the expired passport because they technically do not have valid documents to return to the US.", "What to do if you lose your driver's license. If you lose your driver's license or state ID card, you can get it replaced online, by mail or by visiting the local government agency that issues licenses. ... If you have a passport or birth certificate, this is typically sufficient to get your lost license replaced.", "Some commonly needed documents to get an EDL/EID are certified birth certificate, U.S. passport, or military ID. A full list of document options to obtain an enhanced driver license or ID card is available on the DOL website. The enhanced driver license or ID card is optional.", "Replacing your lost, stolen or damaged ID will cost R140. Immigrants who have valid permanent residence permits can also get an ID. A temporary ID serves as proof of identity while you are waiting for your application for an ID to be processed. This document is only valid for a short period.", "Why Do You Need One? A Social Security number is important because you need it to get a job, collect Social Security benefits and get some other government services. ... Note: For REAL ID document purposes, you may not need a Social Security number (SSN) card as proof of an SSN.", "['What can I do to help relieve morning sickness? ... ', 'How much weight should I gain during pregnancy? ... ', 'What vitamins or supplements do I need to take? ... ', 'What medications and supplements should I avoid while pregnant? ... ', 'Do I need to avoid anything else? ... ', 'Can I still drink coffee? ... ', 'Can I keep getting my hair dyed or highlighted?']" ]

[ "Touting a rebound in manufacturing jobs, President Obama announced a public-private partnership to expand that momentum. He unveiled a manufacturing innovation institute in North Carolina, the first of three similar hubs he proposed in last year's State of the Union address. Though factory jobs are being added, economists say it's highly unlikely that manufacturing can become a significant source of future employment." ]

[ "Last winter's $787 billion federal stimulus was intended to help create jobs and bolster the economy. But with unemployment rising above 10 percent, President Obama is encouraging the private sector and local governments to help curb job losses. Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert has one solution. He explains his plan to create partnerships with manufacturers from China and South Korea to create jobs for Dallas.", "The Senate advanced an $838 billion version of President Obama's stimulus plan Monday, clearing the way for a Tuesday vote in which formal passage is expected. Despite efforts to forge bipartisan support for the measure, only three Republicans joined Democrats in the 61-36 vote to cut off debate: Susan Collins and Olympic Snowe of Maine and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. Hitting the 60-vote threshold enables Democrats to prevent Republicans from using procedural tactics to filibuster the bill. Collins had been instrumental in working with Democrats and a handful of Republicans over the weekend to create compromise legislation, which trimmed about $86 billion in spending — including $40 billion for the states — and $18 billion in tax cuts from the previous Senate version. The Congressional Budget Office readjusted the estimated cost of the bill Monday to $838 billion, up from an $827 billion figure that had been widely quoted. Congressional leaders now must work out a compromise between the Senate package and the House bill approved last week. Obama has said he wants to sign a bill into law by Presidents Day, which is Feb. 16. An Appeal To The People Earlier, as the Senate edged toward its vote, Obama took his case to the American people, saying the national unemployment rate could hit double digits if action isn't taken immediately. \"We have inherited an economic crisis as deep and as dire as any since the Great Depression,\" Obama told residents of Elkhart, Ind., where unemployment has soared to more than 15 percent — twice the national average. \"Economists from across the spectrum have warned that if we don't act immediately, millions more jobs will be lost, and national unemployment rates will approach double digits.\" Obama said the plan will save or create 3 million to 4 million jobs over the next two years, extend unemployment benefits, provide job training assistance, provide a tax credit for college students and give tax relief for middle-class workers and families. \"I'm not going to tell you that this bill is perfect; it isn't,\" Obama said. \"But it is the right size, the right scope, and has the right priorities to create jobs that will jump-start our economy and transform it for the 21st century.\" Elkhart Loses Jobs Elkhart has been hard hit by the downturn in the economy. Obama said as many as 8,000 jobs have been lost in the community as recreational vehicle manufacturers — Monaco Coach, Keystone RV and Pilgrim International — have fallen on hard times. Answering questions from the crowd of 1,700, Obama told one woman he favors using tax incentives to encourage businesses not to relocate overseas. But he said the key to attracting and keeping businesses is to provide a well-trained workforce. He said the Senate version of his recovery plan has slashed funds for education, but he hopes they are restored. The president acknowledged to another questioner that he had made some mistakes in choosing nominees for high-level posts who owed back taxes — but he said the individuals were honest and had made honest mistakes. \"If you're not going to appoint anybody who's ever made a mistake in your life, then you're not going to have anybody taking your jobs,\" he said. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was criticized for owing $34,000 in self-employment taxes, but he paid them late and was confirmed. Former Sen. Tom Daschle and former Treasury Department official Nancy Killefer withdrew their names from consideration for top Obama administration jobs. On Tuesday, Geithner is expected to unveil a plan for spending the second half of a financial aid package for U.S. banks battered by the financial crisis. The plan is expected to include government insurance of bad assets, a proposal to shift some securities off bank balance sheets, and money to modify home mortgages. From NPR and wire reports", "Critics of Big Government interference in the workings of the free market have some extra ammo Monday, courtesy of a report by the Treasury Department's inspector general. Neil Barofsky, the Treasury IG, said the department arguably contributed, ifonly unintentionally, to higher overall unemployment by ordering auto makers to close car dealerships much more quickly than the manufacturers had planned. For years, auto industry experts had criticized Detroit's Big 3 for keeping bloated dealership networks which reduced profits for the companies. The Obama Administration's position was that to keep the automakers from wasting taxpayer-bailout money, the domestic auto makers had to significantly pare back their number of dealerships. Read More But Barofsky said the Obama Administration may have moved too hastily, causing the loss of numerous jobs in the larger economy. This audit concludes that before the Auto Team rejected GM's original, more gradual termination plan as an obstacle to its continued viability and then encouraged the companies to accelerate their planned dealership closures in order to take advantage of bankruptcy proceedings, Treasure (a) should have taken every reasonable step to ensure that accelerating the dealership terminations was truly necessary for the long-term viability of the companies and (b) should have ar least considered whether the benefits to the companies from the accelerated terminations outweighed the costs to the economy that would result from potentially tens of thousands of accelerated job losses. NPR's All Things Considered reports that a jobless man at the White House Monday to be in a photo op with President Barack Obama who bashed Republicans for thwarting new jobless benefits, was himself a car dealership worker until last year. And in a report, NPR's Scott Horsley quotes a Russell Whatley, a third-generation Chrysler dealer in Mineral Wells, Texas who says: \"We were given three weeks to shut down operations. And it pretty much threw everybody for a loop.\" White House press secretary Robert Gibbs defended the decision, saying that the decision to close auto dealerships helped keep the wider car industry afloat, saving even more jobs. I will point out that since 2007 -- since mid-2007, the decline in auto dealership employment is about half the decline in auto manufacturing employment. So what has taken a greater hit in that supply structure are the manufacturers and the parts suppliers.", "Sen. Barack Obama unveiled Monday a package of economic measures, including tax credits for job creation and a 90-day moratorium on some home foreclosures. Austan Goolsbee, senior economic adviser to the Obama campaign, says that in the long run, Obama's plan is fiscally more responsible than McCain's.", "President Obama promised in his State of the Union speech to focus on jobs and the deficit. He did just that at a town hall meeting Tuesday in New Hampshire, where he unveiled a plan to increase lending to small businesses. He also took some swipes at Republicans for opposing almost everything he supports.", "A day after delivering his State of the Union address to Congress, President Obama took his message on the road. Obama hoped that stops at manufacturing sites in Iowa and Arizona would drive home his point that the government should do more to encourage factory jobs. The three-day trip also includes stops in Colorado, Nevada and Michigan. Those are all states likely to be important in the November election. Obama kicked off his road trip at Conveyor Engineering and Manufacturing, a factory in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Though Conveyor is not a particularly big company — just 65 workers — it hopes to double in size in the next several years. The Hawkeye State is home to a significant number of factories. And manufacturing is one of the central \"pillars\" in Obama's blueprint for a stronger U.S. economy. It's also been a relative bright spot in the U.S. economy. Read More The auto industry in particular has rebounded with the help of the government's rescue of General Motors and Chrysler. Speaking to a crowd at Conveyor, Obama said the U.S. auto industry has added some 160,000 jobs in the past two years. \"Today, the American auto industry is back,\" Obama said. \"And I want what's happening in Detroit to happen in other industries. I want it to happen in Cleveland and Pittsburgh and Raleigh. And I want it to happen right here in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.\" Obama also spoke fondly of the Iowa caucuses that launched his national political career four years ago. But it's not just nostalgia that brought him to Cedar Rapids. Iowa, like all the states he's visiting this week, is important to the president's re-election chances. While Iowa is perhaps better known for corn and soybeans, the state is also home to a significant number of factories. \"The eastern part of the state along the Mississippi River is an area that is well-known historically for its farm machinery, construction machinery, and a broad array of durable goods manufacturing,\" says Dave Swenson of Iowa State University. Iowa's experience helps illustrate why the administration wants to promote manufacturing. Factory jobs tend to pay higher wages and create a bigger ripple effect in the surrounding economy. Factories account for just 11 percent of the jobs in Iowa but 17 percent of the state's payroll. In order to command those high wages, today's factory workers need specialized skills, Swenson says. \"It may have been 25, 30 years ago you didn't even need to go to high school to get a manufacturing job and to have a good life,\" Swenson says. \"Those days are rapidly going away. You need to be able to operate computer equipment, you need to be able to operate computer-driven machine tools. Then, you need to have quantitative problem-solving skills.\" Skilled workers and advanced equipment are helping to make U.S. factories more productive than ever and most cost-competitive with rivals overseas. Obama wants the federal government to encourage that trend. \"We've got to seize that opportunity,\" Obama said. \"We've got to help these companies succeed. And it starts with changing our tax code.\" Obama announced during his State of the Union address Tuesday that his upcoming budget will propose a series of tax breaks to reward companies for locating factory jobs in the U.S., while eliminating breaks for companies that move jobs offshore. It's not at all clear that Congress will go along with those changes. But by making the case, Obama is also trying to make a larger argument about the role of government: He hopes to show that his controversial rescue of the auto industry has paid off and that prosperity is greatest when it's most widely shared. \"You know, this country only exists because generations of Americans worked together, and looked out for each other, and believed that we're stronger when we rise together,\" he said. That's a pillar not only of the president's economic blueprint, but also of his re-election campaign. MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Melissa Block. ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: And I'm Robert Siegel. President Obama took his ideas from the State of the Union on the road today. With stops in Iowa and Arizona, he is underscoring his message that government should do more to encourage manufacturing jobs. The president's three-day trip also includes stops in Colorado, Nevada and Michigan. Those are all states likely to be important in the November election. NPR's Scott Horsley reports on the president's economic and political agenda. SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE: Manufacturing is one of the central pillars in Mr. Obama's blueprint for a healthy U.S. economy. So he kicked off his road trip at a factory in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, that's home to a company called Conveyor Engineering. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: They specialize in making augers, those giant screws, and they're used to mix and move everything from cement to chocolate. They don't use the same ones for... (SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER) OBAMA: Just in case you were wondering. HORSL", "President Obama unveiled tougher fuel-efficiency standards for vehicles Tuesday that he said would provide certainty to car companies as they design a new fleet for the 21st century. Auto executives welcomed a national standard that encourages more environmentally friendly cars, but they worry whether enough consumers will actually want to buy them. Auto officials say the new standard — which calls for an average of about 35 miles to the gallon — creates big challenges to their business plans. And whether they can succeed under these new rules hinges on the future price of gas. \"It's a very tricky situation,\" says Marc Cannon, a top executive at AutoNation, the country's biggest car retailer. Cannon says consumers care about the environment, but they care even more about money. Unless the price of gas is consistently high, Cannon says there just isn't enough demand for the fuel-efficient cars Obama wants manufacturers to build. \"This summer gasoline was $4, and every single automaker was trying to put out fuel-efficient vehicles as fast as they could,\" Cannon says. \"All of a sudden, come December, gasoline drops to $2 and nobody wants fuel-efficient vehicles.\" Instead, dealers say, they began to return to trucks and SUVs, which earn manufacturers a lot more money. Cannon says that if gas prices keep bouncing around, companies will struggle to find a mix of vehicles that turn a profit. \"I think it's going to whipsaw everybody back and forth,\" he says. A Tough Sell Auto analysts say the new fuel standard could put pressure on manufacturers in other ways. The White House says car companies will have to employ new technology that will add a total of $1,300 to the cost of each vehicle. But U.S. car companies have never done all that well selling small cars, says Sean McAlinden, chief economist at the Center for Automotive Research, an industry think tank in Ann Arbor, Mich. McAlinden says a company like GM has never been able to sell enough small cars at a high enough price to make much money. \"On average, they've lost about $1,000 a unit — fully accounted — for the last 25 years on every small car they've tried to sell in the U.S. market,\" he says. Auto executives say the solution to this is a gas tax, but many analysts say the public won't go for it. \"Any discussion of higher taxes is politically not viable,\" says Eric Fedewa, an executive with CSM Worldwide, a global auto forecasting company. When the new fuel standards go into full effect in 2016, the government expects gas to be selling for about $3.50 a gallon. A New Relationship Between Detroit, Washington Some auto executives aren't criticizing the new standards publicly because they want to stay on good terms with the White House. Chrysler and General Motors are surviving on billions of dollars in taxpayer loans. In Tuesday's Detroit Free Press, columnist Tom Walsh put it bluntly: \"General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC are under almost total federal control now and must do whatever Uncle Sam says.\" At the end of Tuesday's announcement, Obama made a personal pitch for fuel-efficient cars that underscored the new relationship between Washington and Detroit. \"By the way, I just wanted to mention, I think I still have my Ford parked in Chicago,\" he said, returning to the podium in the White House Rose Garden in what appeared to be an afterthought. \"Ford Hybrid. Runs great. You guys should take a look.\" Despite their concerns, auto executives say they will abide by the new standards and that, over time, they expect gas prices will rise and they will be able to make some money. One GM official said that after months of working with the car companies, the White House now has an intimate understanding of challenges automakers face. And having already sunk billions of dollars into Chrysler and GM, the government has a vested interest in their survival. MELISSA BLOCK, host. From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Melissa Block. MICHELE NORRIS, host: And I'm Michele Norris. Today, President Obama unveiled tougher fuel economy standards for cars and trucks. In the White House Rose Garden, he was upbeat about what this means for auto companies. President BARACK OBAMA: This rule provides the clear certainty that will allow these companies to plan for a future in which they are building the cars of the 21st century. NORRIS: And standing behind the president, auto executives. They've welcomed the new standards. But as NPR's Frank Langfitt reports, they worry whether fuel-efficient cars will sell. FRANK LANGFITT: The image today at the White House Rose Garden was one of unity. The president stood with Republicans, fellow Democrats, and representatives from the car business. Pres. OBAMA: We have 10 of the world's largest auto manufacturers. LANGFITT: And publicly those car executives had nothing but nice things to say about the president's proposal. But privately, auto officials say the new standard, an average of about 35 miles to the gallon, creates ", "President Obama on Wednesday unveiled a blueprint to pump $2.4 billion in grants into the electric vehicle and battery industry, as part of an effort to create jobs and show that the economic stimulus plan is working despite nagging unemployment. Accelerating production of electric cars would create tens of thousands of jobs through grants that will come out of the $787 billion stimulus package, the president said in Elkhart County, Ind., which has staggered under one of the nation's worst jobless rates. Obama trumpeted \"American innovation\" as he announced grants to 48 companies and universities in more than 20 states, the bulk of which were in Michigan and Indiana. \"We've got to imagine a future in which new American cars are powered by new American innovation,\" Obama said during a visit to Navistar International Corp., which was awarded a $39 million grant to manufacture advanced-battery electric trucks with a range of 100 miles. Navistar bought the Wakarusa, Ind., factory in June when its former owner, an RV manufacturer, went bankrupt. \"You know, just a few months ago, folks thought that these factories might be closed for good, but now they're coming back to life,\" Obama declared in front of a crowd of cheering employees. The president said his scaled-up manufacturing effort would create thousands of jobs in Elkhart County, where the unemployment rate was 16.8 percent in June. Nationwide, unemployment hit 9.5 percent in June — the highest level in 26 years — and a new report due Friday could see the rate reach a new high. Obama's trip to Elkhart, his fourth in 15 months, was part of a broader push as members of his economic team took to the road Wednesday to announce the grants and reassure the public that the administration's policies are putting Americans back to work. In Michigan, Vice President Biden announced more than $1 billion in grants for Michigan-based companies and universities involved in clean-energy manufacturing. Two Michigan companies will get $550 million in grants to establish a manufacturing base for advanced batteries in the state, while two others receive more than $300 million for making battery cells and materials. Michigan-based automakers — including General Motors, Chrysler and Ford — are also slated to receive more than $400 million to make hybrid and electric vehicles, batteries and electric drive components. The University of Michigan, Wayne State University in Detroit and Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Mich., will receive more than $10 million to train researchers, technicians and service providers. The universities will also conduct consumer research. Echoing Obama's comments, Biden said the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was designed to promote American innovation. \"For our nation and our economy to recover, we must have a vision for what can be built here in the future — and then we need to invest in that vision,\" Biden said. Energy Secretary Steven Chu spread the grants and jobs creation message in Charlotte, N.C., while Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson was in Florida to announce details of a $95.5 million grant to build a plant to manufacture lithium-ion cells, modules and battery packs. Other administration officials announced grants in Pennsylvania and Missouri. In Indiana, six companies and one university engaged in electronic vehicle technology are slated to get more than $400 million in grants. \"If we want to reduce our dependence on oil, put Americans back to work, and reassert our manufacturing sector as one of the greatest in the world, we must produce the advanced, efficient vehicles of the future,\" Obama said. The Energy Department chose grant recipients based on their applications for creation and development of the next generation of electric vehicles and battery technologies. Despite the positive jobs creation message, the day's economic picture was mixed with one survey by a business services firm showing job losses slowed in July, while another suggested that there are more layoffs to come. The labor market shrank by an estimated 371,000 jobs in July according to a report by ADP Employer Services. While still a decline, the report showed that last month's job losses had slowed significantly from previous months. July's figures followed a revised decline of 463,000 in June and could be a sign the labor market is beginning to bottom out. But another survey by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas was more ominous. That survey found a 30 percent jump in planned layoffs. The job picture should be clearer on Friday when the Labor Department releases its employment estimates for July, but administration officials have warned that job losses could grow through the end of the year. So far, the U.S. has lost about 6.5 million jobs since the recession began at the end of 2007.", "Friday's dismal jobs report raises the stakes for President Obama as he prepares to unveil a new jobs plan next week. So far, Republicans in Congress have shown little interest in the president's proposals. And the economic slowdown suggests that political gridlock has a growing price tag.", "The Senate approved an $838 billion economic stimulus bill with scant Republican backing Tuesday, setting the stage for negotiations to work out differences with a bill already passed by the House. The Senate bill passed on a 61-37 vote, with only three Republicans voting for the package. The approval came as President Obama tried to rally support for quick passage of his economic recovery plan in a Florida community dragged down by double-digit foreclosures and unemployment. Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania broke with their party and supported the bill. Specter said in an opinion piece in The Washington Post on Monday that he had no choice but to support the package. \"I am supporting the economic stimulus package for one simple reason: The country cannot afford not to take action,\" he wrote. House, Senate Bills Differ The Senate and House bills have some key difference that may be difficult to reconcile. The Senate version contains more tax cuts — including a $15,000 tax credit for homebuyers — and it cuts spending for school construction and state governments. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said she wants to restore some spending, criticizing the Senate for cutting money to rebuild schools. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said finding a compromise won't be easy. \"Obviously, we are confronted with the reality of three people saying, 'Look, if you change anything we are jumping ship.' That is something that will change the tenor of the conference, and that's not a position we ought to be in,\" he said, referring to the three Republicans who supported the bill. Hoyer said negotiations on a compromise could go through the middle of next week. Obama Wants Quick Passage But Obama has said he wants to sign the bill into law by Presidents Day — and he's appealing directly to the public for support. Speaking in Fort Myers, Fla., Obama said the plan would save or create 3 million to 4 million jobs over the next two years, extend unemployment benefits, provide job training assistance, provide a tax credit for college students and give tax relief for middle-class workers and families. \"Folks here in Fort Myers and across America need help. They need action, and they need it now,\" Obama said. Lee County, where Fort Myers is located, illustrates the key weaknesses in the U.S. economy. The community has been stung by double-digit unemployment and foreclosures, as well as falling home values. The county's unemployment rate stands at 10 percent, and the home foreclosure rate is 12.5 percent, according to The Miami Herald. Obama said his plan would create jobs building wind turbines and solar panels, upgrading schools, computerizing the health care system, building broadband Internet lines and rebuilding crumbling roads, bridges, dams and levees. \"This plan will put people back to work right now,\" Obama told the crowd. He also promised to unveil a housing strategy in the coming weeks that would aid homeowners facing foreclosure, not just banks. Bipartisan Support Joined by Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, a Republican, Obama encouraged bipartisan support for his plan, saying, \"When the town is burning, you don't check party labels. Everybody needs to grab a hose.\" It was the second day in a row that the president reached out for public support. On Monday, he held a town hall meeting in Elkhart, Ind., where the unemployment rate is more than 15 percent because of the steep decline in the manufacturing of recreational vehicles. \"The situation we face could not be more serious. We have inherited an economic crisis as deep and as dire as any since the Great Depression,\" he told the 1,700 Hoosiers gathered for the town hall meeting. And Monday night, he took to the airwaves in a televised appeal for support. Obama also plans to visit two Illinois communities later this week as he tries to pressure Congress to act quickly on the plan. From NPR and wire reports", "Taxpayers, many of them kicking and screaming, voted with their dollars to bail-out General Motors. The automaker today returned the favor, sort of, by unveiling plans to build a $43 million plant in Michigan to build lithium-ion batteries for its Chevrolet Volt electric-powered car to be sold next year and which gets a company-reported 230 miles per gallon. GM said in its press release: It is the first lithium-ion battery manufacturing plant in the U.S. operated by a major automaker, and demonstrates GM's commitment to deliver more fuel-efficient vehicles to consumers. The plant will provide more than 100 advanced technology jobs and will be part of a wholly owned subsidiary of General Motors called GM Subsystem Manufacturing LLC. Local and state incentives, along with Recovery Act funding announced last week by the U.S. Department of Energy, are helping to make the facility possible. GM is making a virtue of necessity. If it had decided to build the new battery plant in Mexico or elsewhere overseas, it would have brought itself unbelievable controversy. Meanwhile, GM has an entirely new board selected with the approval of the Obama Administration's auto task force. So it was a Hobson's choice; GM could've placed the new plant anywhere it wanted to, so long as it was in the U.S. Read More >> The plant will provide more than 100 advanced technology jobs and will be part of a wholly owned subsidiary of General Motors called GM Subsystem Manufacturing LLC. Local and state incentives, along with Recovery Act funding announced last week by the U.S. Department of Energy, are helping to make the facility possible. The investment includes renovation and lease costs for the 160,000-square-foot landfill-free facility, new machinery and equipment, and special tooling. With the exception of specialized battery machinery and equipment, GM is reusing equipment from other GM facilities. Equipment installation at the Brownstown site is under way and production will start in the fourth quarter of 2010 to support the launch of the Chevrolet Volt. \"Developing and producing advanced batteries is a key step in GM's journey to become the leader in electric vehicles,\" said Fritz Henderson, GM president and CEO. \"This state-of-the-art battery manufacturing site reinforces our commitment to achieve that goal and to deliver clean, fuel-efficient vehicles to our customers.\" Henderson also noted the importance of this new technology to the nation's and Michigan's overall economic growth.", "The percentage of Americans working in manufacturing fell under President Reagan. It also fell under Presidents Bush, Clinton, Bush and Obama (respectively). Which is to say, the decline of manufacturing jobs in the U.S. economy is not about who is president or what his policies are. It's the result of long-running, irreversible, historical factors (read: technology and globalization). But when the subject of jobs came up last night, President Obama and former Gov. Romney talked a lot about manufacturing. There are gauzy, nostalgic reasons for this. In the decades after the second world war, high school dropouts could walk onto factory floors all around America and find decent, secure middle-class jobs. By the early '70s, a a quarter of American workers worked in manufacturing. But in the decades that followed, technological improvements allowed manufacturers to produce more stuff with fewer workers. And the workers factories did need had to be more highly skilled. They were needed not for their brawn, but for their ability to operate and maintain high-tech equipment. Today, only 9 percent of Americans work in manufacturing. That's not nothing. And, in fact, the sector has been adding jobs recently after getting hammered during the recession. But the long-run picture is clear. Manufacturing jobs will never again hold the central place in our economy that they once did. At the same time lots of other sectors — health care, professional services — will continue to become more important, and will continue to offer good, middle-class jobs. But those jobs will not, for the most part, be open to high school dropouts. Education, not manufacturing, is the key to long-term job growth in America. As Cristina Romer, the former chairwoman of Obama's Council of Economic Advisers has written: There are sectors where workers with good educations could earn good wages if the economy were healthy. Why focus on manufacturing to create such jobs? Instead, government could make it easier for workers to get the education needed for high-skilled jobs in many fields — and encourage business formation wherever entrepreneurs see a promising opportunity. ... AS an economic historian, I appreciate what manufacturing has contributed to the United States. It was the engine of growth that allowed us to win two world wars and provided millions of families with a ticket to the middle class. But public policy needs to go beyond sentiment and history. ... So far, a persuasive case for a manufacturing policy remains to be made ...", "Deficit reduction takes a back seat to job growth in the federal budget President Obama will unveil Monday. The spending plan forecasts more red ink in the current fiscal year than in 2011. Under the president's plan, budget deficits wouldn't reach a sustainable level until 2018. The budget blueprint calls for hundreds of billions of dollars in new federal spending, aimed at spurring economic growth. Many of the proposals are recycled from the American Jobs Act that Obama put forward in September. Most of those plans have languished in a divided Congress, and the president's budget is likely to do the same. Rather than a realistic road map for government spending, the White House budget is likely to serve as a political tool in the president's re-election bid. It provides more detail for the policies spelled out in the State of the Union address. \"We must transform our economy from one focused on speculating, spending and borrowing to one constructed on the solid foundation of education, innovating and building,\" says a budget document prepared by the White House. The plan calls for $140 billion in research and development spending, including $2.2 billion for advanced manufacturing. Obama also wants to invest $476 billion over six years in transportation infrastructure, financed in part with money that will no longer be needed in Iraq and Afghanistan. The president's budget renews his call for higher taxes on the wealthy. That includes an end to Bush-era tax cuts for families earning more than $250,000 a year, limited tax deductions for high earners, and the so-called \"Buffet Rule,\" which would ensure that millionaires pay a minimum tax rate of 30 percent. All told, the budget proposes $1.5 trillion in new tax revenue over the coming decade. That includes a new $61 billion tax on big banks and $41 billion in additional taxes on fossil fuel producers. Even before Monday's formal release, Republicans criticized the spending plan for raising taxes without doing more to stem the deficit. Republican presidential candidates and members of Congress favor deeper spending cuts and lower taxes. That disagreement is likely to frame the debate between now and the November election. \"I think there is pretty broad agreement that the time for austerity is not today,\" said White House chief of staff Jacob Lew on NBC's Meet the Press. Lew served as White House budget director until recently. Obama spent much of the past year trying unsuccessfully to reach a deficit-cutting \"grand bargain\" with Republicans. Since September, he has focused more aggressively on promoting job growth, and his approval ratings have improved slightly. The president has also benefited from an improving job market, but that won't be reflected in the new budget. The document's economic section, which was locked in months ago, predicts average unemployment this year of 8.9 percent, a figure that White House economists say is already out of date. January's jobless rate was 8.3 percent.", "As the presidential campaigns continue to ramp up their attacks (see: felon, liar, outsourcing), the candidates are homing in this week on the country's electoral fertile crescent. President Obama held a town hall-style rally Monday in Cincinnati, and GOP candidate Mitt Romney is planning to head to Pennsylvania on Tuesday and follow the president to the Buckeye State on Wednesday. While Pennsylvania remains an important Obama-leaning swing state, no state will be more crucial to a November victory than Ohio and its 18 electoral votes. As he has in his previous forays to Ohio, including a two-day bus tour earlier this month, Obama characterized the voters there as the tiebreakers in what promises to be an exceedingly close race. \"The choice,\" Obama told the friendly, boisterous crowd at the Cincinnati Music Hall, \"is up to you.\" (Granted, Obama has been suggesting the same to non-Ohio voters. But the assertion resonates a bit more in this high-stakes state that tops almost every prognosticator's list — followed by Virginia, Pennsylvania and Florida — as the most likely to tip the election one way or the other.) Read More On Monday, Obama intensified his attacks on Romney's tax plan with a claim that it would create 800,000 jobs — overseas. Seizing on an economist's analysis that a Romney-supported tax exemption on profits earned overseas by U.S. corporations would lead to a huge job shift overseas, Obama doubled down on his campaign's Romney-as-job-outsourcer claim: \"Today we found out there's a new study out by nonpartisan economists that says Gov. Romney's economic plan would, in fact, create 800,000 jobs. There's only one problem: The jobs wouldn't be in America. \"They'd be in other countries. By eliminating taxes on corporations' foreign income, Gov. Romney's plan would actually encourage companies to shift more of their operations to foreign tax havens, creating 800,000 jobs in those other countries. \"Now, this shouldn't be a surprise, because Gov. Romney's experience has been investing in what were called \"pioneers\" of the business of outsourcing. Now he wants to give more tax breaks to companies that are shipping jobs overseas.\" The GOP response? That the analyst who wrote the report, Kimberly Clausing, is an Obama supporter and campaign contributor. And the president's own Export Council has also supported the so-called territorial tax system changes endorsed by Romney. But Obama, who won Ohio in 2008 with just over 51 percent of the vote, drew applause and laughter from the receptive crowd in Hamilton County, the lone blue county in far southwest Ohio. He asserted that government loans to the auto industry, which Romney opposed, saved that sector, which accounts for 1 in 8 jobs in Ohio. And he touted tax cuts during his administration that he says eased the tax burden of middle-class families by $3,600. In 2008, Obama won the big-vote county, which borders Indiana and Kentucky, with 52 percent of the vote. He lost the three surrounding counties to GOP Sen. John McCain by big margins. Republican George W. Bush won the state in 2000 and 2004. But in 2008, there was a 6-percentage-point swing toward the Democratic column. Obama ran about 2.6 percentage points ahead of where Kerry was in 2004, and McCain ran 3.6 points behind where Bush finished four years earlier. This time around, the improving economic conditions in Ohio are expected to cut into Romney's argument that Obama has failed to revive the economy. The state's unemployment rate, which was as high as 10.6 percent in the last half of 2009, now sits at 7.3 percent. The national average is 8.2 percent. And local officials say manufacturing is returning to levels not seen in a decade. And for months, Republican Gov. John Kasich has been touting the state's jobs recovery. Between May 2011 and May 2012, the number of employees on nonfarm payrolls in Ohio increased by 75,700, according to seasonally adjusted numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That included 21,600 new manufacturing jobs. Around the time Obama was speaking Monday, Kasich tweeted: \"Good news for NE OH. Maines picked OH over MD for their expansion. That means new jobs and investment.\" Maines is a paper and food service company that broke ground Monday for an expansion in Ohio. Romney no doubt hopes to use his forays into Pennsylvania and Ohio to change the current conversation about his time as a private equity capitalist and his reluctance to release a full complement of tax returns. His campaign has branded this new phase, \"Obama's Political Payoffs Versus Middle-Class Layoffs.\"", "The first car to roll out of Volkswagen's new Chattanooga plant will be a cheaper version of the German car manufacturer's Passat. The New York Times reports that the redesigned 2012 Passat was introduced at the Detroit auto show to dutiful applause. Edmund's Inside Line has the some of the specs: The 2012 Passat for the U.S. is a different vehicle from the European Passat unveiled last fall at the Paris auto show. The U.S. car features four-wheel independent suspension, with a multilink rear end. For the time being, VW plans to offer only a front-wheel-drive version; 4Motion all-wheel drive may be added later as an option. The Detroit Free Press reports that manufacturing the car in U.S. will create 12,000 new jobs and represents VW's renewed seriousness about the U.S. market: Rebecca Lindland, an analyst with IHS Automotive, said Volkswagen recognizes how important the U.S. market and consumer is to those plans. “To produce this vehicle in Tennessee is really significant,” Lindland said. “They are starting to understand the subjective nature of the U.S. marketplace. And how we define quality and reliability may be different than in other parts of the world.” The car will cost $20,000.", "The United States has a cultural obsession with manufacturing. When policymakers stump about job growth and job creation, they often focus on manufacturing jobs. But for more than 60 years, the number of manufacturing jobs has been stagnant, while the number of service jobs has exploded. Service jobs now account for over 80 percent of all private sector jobs. People often associate service jobs with low-wage sectors like restaurants and retail stores. And while those sectors do make up a chunk of service jobs, there's also lots of work in higher-paying fields like IT, healthcare, and professional services (a broad category that includes accounting, law and some fields of engineering). Economists have criticized politicians' tendency to focus on manufacturing jobs while overlooking other sectors that have lots more jobs. Christina Romer, the former chairwoman of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisors, writes: There are sectors where workers with good educations could earn good wages if the economy were healthy. Why focus on manufacturing to create such jobs? Instead, government could make it easier for workers to get the education needed for high-skilled jobs in many fields — and encourage business formation wherever entrepreneurs see a promising opportunity.", "President Obama delivered his final State of the Union address Tuesday night, followed by South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley's Republican address. Below the video from PBS NewsHour, NPR reporters provided live analysis of the president's remarks. Reality Check NPR reporters provided context on a variety of issues that President Obama spoke about in his State of the Union address. Guantanamo: Obama: \"Leadership depends on the power of our example. That is why I will keep working to shut down the prison at Guantanamo: It's expensive, it's unnecessary, and it only serves as a recruitment brochure for our enemies.\" Obama's vow represents a return to his flagship campaign promise from his first election in 2008 and previews what could be a major standoff this year with Republicans in Congress. The president has asked the Defense Department for a plan he can send to Capitol Hill to give lawmakers a chance to vote to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center and relocate its detainees to the U.S. If that doesn't happen, however, Obama hasn't ruled out testing his own executive authority and taking some kind of action on his own. Congress has passed a bill for several years that forbids relocating Guantanamo detainees to the U.S., or bars the Pentagon from spending money to study alternative detention sites. Even so, the Defense Department has been working on alternatives. It sent survey teams to prisons in South Carolina, Kansas and Colorado to assess how they might work, but its recommendations remain under wraps. The Wall Street Journal reported the White House sent the Pentagon's proposal back across the Potomac River because it might have been too expensive. One of Obama's arguments to Congress is that the number of guards required, the remote location in Cuba and other arrangements mean Guantanamo is just too expensive to maintain. So his administration has been transferring as many prisoners as it can to other nations to whittle down the remaining population and strengthen that cost argument. There are more than 100 prisoners still at Guantanamo, of whom about 50 have a chance of getting out. The others are considered too dangerous and would remain in U.S. custody under the laws of war. They were detained in the early portion of President George W. Bush's war on al-Qaida focused in Afghanistan and Pakistan. At the same time, however, the administration continues to hold detainees it has decided not to prosecute. NPR's David Welna profiled one such prisoner, Mohamedou Slahi, who wrote a memoir about his ordeal. But because of ongoing security restrictions, Slahi has never been permitted to receive a copy of his own book. -- Phil Ewing, national security editor Manufacturing: Obama: \"Manufacturing has created nearly 900,000 new jobs in the past six years.\" Obama touted a manufacturing surge of 900,000 new jobs in his State of the Union speech. He's right — according to the Labor Department there were an estimated 12.3 million manufacturing jobs in December 2015, compared with just under 11.5 million during a recent trough, in 2010 (a total gain of 878,000 jobs). That's a resurgence; but taking a longer view, it's a small bump. Manufacturing employment has fallen off dramatically since the industry was at peak employment. There are 7 million fewer manufacturing jobs in the U.S. than when employment in the industry was at its peak in the early 1980s. It's not that output shrank along with employment. As NPR's Jacob Goldstein summed up in 2012, \"technology and globalization\" helped to slash jobs. Technological advances meant factories could crank out more goods with fewer people. In addition, an interconnected world meant that some manufacturing jobs migrated overseas. While Obama (and workers with the 878,000 new jobs) may cheer the new-job creation, whatever manufacturing renaissance is underway will never quite reach the heights of the 1970s and '80s. Obama is also pushing the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a huge trade deal that has some in the manufacturing industry worried. The administration says the TPP will boost manufacturing by preventing trade barriers and cutting tariffs, while others fear it will hurt some of America's manufacturing workers. Still, the National Association of Manufacturing recently endorsed the deal, albeit \"after careful analysis,\" as U.S. News reports. — Danielle Kurtzleben, politics reporter Economy: Obama: \"Let me start with the economy, and a basic fact: The United States of America, right now, has the strongest, most durable economy in the world. We're in the middle of the longest streak of private sector job creation in history. More than 14 million new jobs; the strongest two years of job growth since the '90s; an unemployment rate cut in half.\" The U.S. economy is the largest in the world. China's economy is growing faster, albeit not as fast as it was in years past. And the U.S. economy is relatively stable compared with much of Europe, for example. American employers hav", "President Obama is proposing some new tax breaks he hopes will encourage businesses to expand and get the economy moving again. The President is set to unveil the tax breaks along with a plan for $50 billion worth of infrastructure investment in a speech about the economy on Wednesday, but some details about the tax breaks are already being reported. One proposed tax break that's receiving a lot of attention, would allow business to write off 100 percent of new capital investments, money spent on plants and equipment, through 2011. Companies can already deduct these expenses, but currently they have to wait longer to do so. Allowing businesses to take the deduction upfront, will mean they have more cash on hand to spend or invest. Economists at the White House estimate that the plan would cut business taxes by around $200 billion over two years. The President is also going to propose increasing and making permanent tax credits for research and development. The research tax credit is typically extended by Congress year after year, but some gaps have left business groups frustrated. Read More: What impact will these tax breaks have? Laura Tyson, a member of the president's economic recovery advisory board, spoke about the proposed extension on CBS's \"Face The Nation\" this weekend. ...I don't think this is something that has an immediate - as immediate a job impact as, say, movement on the current tax credits for the unemployed or extending a payroll tax holiday of some sort,\" she continued. \"But I think it's very important in terms of job creation over the longer term. So if we're thinking about growth and long-term good jobs, research is important.\" Administration officials estimate that making the tax credit permanent would cost around $100 billion over the next decade. President Obama's call for expanding tax cuts for businesses, comes as he is facing criticism for not extending another set of tax cuts, those for the top two percent of income earners. In an interview with the WSJ, Bill Rys, tax counsel for the National Federation of Independent Business, a small-business group, said the expiration of these cuts is a higher priority for many in his community. The best thing to do is to get rid of uncertainty, and that includes the cliff we're falling off with all these [tax] provisions that are expiring. The tax cuts for higher earners are set to expire at the end of this year.", "House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday unveiled his own jobs proposal. He also weighed in on President Obama's jobs plan. And in both instances, the Ohio congressman touted one main theme: the need to avoid raising taxes.", "European Union officials are due to unveil new limits on carbon dioxide emissions from cars, and penalties for carmakers that don't meet them. But the plan has met with a surprising amount of pushback as Germany and Sweden fight to protect their auto manufacturers.", "The trouble with the whole \"Nixon goes to China\" theory — which is grounded in the calculus that big progress is made when a politician goes against type to address a seemingly intractable challenge — is that sometimes the \"bold\" gesture is really just more of the same. This is an important reality to recognize as the major media in the United States begins to play up the reshaping of General Motors by the Obama administration's auto-industry task force as a courageous or groundbreaking \"new\" initiative to \"save\" domestic automaking. It's not. The GM bankruptcy and bailout is the continuation of post-industrial policies of the Clinton and Bush years. Those policies, which encouraged companies to shutter factories in the US and move operations to foreign countries with lower wages and weaker regulations, were defined by Wall Street rather than Main Street. The model of a \"healthy\" American company was defined by stock and bond speculators, who rewarded short-term thinking and brutal cost-cutting, even if these strategies resulted in the loss of millions of jobs, the closing of hundreds of functional factories and the deindustrialization of communities, regions and whole states that had once been among the most productive in the world. Nothing about the old way of doing business made sense, and it made a wreck of GM. After decades of closing factories, laying off workers and shifting production overseas, the company now finds itself with $172.8 billion in debt. It would make sense to change course, radically. But the Obama administration is not doing anything radical. Rather, it wants to create a \"New GM\" that stays the course of the old GM. If all goes according to plan, the \"New GM\" will close down as many as 20 factories in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and Delaware. Additional plants in Tennessee and Michigan will be put on \"standby,\" for probable closing. At least 21,000 family-supporting jobs will be lost, as the corporation shifts production to new facilities in China and other foreign countries. Those cuts come on the heels of GM factory closings last year that cost tens of thousands of jobs and shattered communities across the Great Lakes states just as the downturn was developing into a deep recession. This massive de-industrialization plan — with its rapid offshoring of work once done in the United States — will be paid for by the federal government. It will cost US taxpayers a great deal to eliminate this many US jobs — Washington has already handed GM $20 billion and is expected to shift another $30 billion into the coffers of the corporation. \"Whether that investment will ever be recovered is still an open question,\" suggests the New York Times report. So what should taxpayers make of a scheme to risk $50 billion on a project to layoff US workers, close US factories and shift work overseas in order to satisfy speculators who continue to reward only race-to-the-bottom strategies? The Times suggests that we ought to be impressed with the \"Nixon-goes-to-China\" courage being displayed by the president and his auto-industry task force. \"The company will also have to shed 21,000 union workers and close 12 to 20 factories, steps that most analysts thought could never be pushed through by a Democratic president allied with organized labor,\" the paper chirps on its front page. Spare us. It takes very little courage for a Democratic president to side with multinational corporations, in the same way that his Democratic and Republican predecessors have. Courage involves breaking pattern and doing something bold, like recognizing that the United States needs a manufacturing sector and making a commitment to modernizing basic industries and keeping skilled workers on the job. This is not a rejection of globalization; rather, it is an embrace of the future that says the US chooses to compete rather than give up. An investment of $50 billion in federal money to close 20 major factories and shed 21,000 jobs is not a plan to \"save,\" let alone revitalize, manufacturing in this country. It is an abandonment workers and communities that speeds up the de-industrialization of the United States. And it encourages GM executives — be they \"old\" or \"new\" — to be more concerned about the company's stock value than the adoption of smart long-term strategies.", "The design for the Obama Presidential Center was unveiled Wednesday at an event attended by former President Obama and Michelle Obama. The Center, slated to be completed in 2021, will be located in the Jackson Park neighborhood of Chicago's South side and it will include three buildings — a museum, forum and library that surround a public plaza. The buildings will be made up of variegated stone with glass openings to allow for natural light and be certified at LEED v4 Platinum for resource efficiency and sustainability. The Obamas are in Chicago Wednesday to unveil the library and host a roundtable discussion on the future of the Center. By planning more than one building, the Obama Foundation says it hopes the Center will be a \"living, working center for engagement — an ongoing project for the community and world to shape what it means to be an active citizen in the 21st century.\" \"The Obamas want to create a safe, warm, inviting place that brings people in, teaches them something new, and inspires them to create change in their own communities,\" said Obama Foundation Chair Marty Nesbitt. \"The Center will be a place for doing, not just looking or listening, \" The Foundation also says the Center will \"strengthen the economic climate of the community by bringing hundreds of thousands of visitors to the South Side every year, creating new jobs and opportunities on the South Side, and revitalizing historic Jackson Park,\" according to a release. Obama reportedly called early versions of the design \"too quiet.\" \"He said it was too unflashy,\" one of the Center's architects Billie Tsien told ArchDaily. \"He looked at what we did and he said, 'I said you could be sort of quiet, but I think you're a little too quiet.'\"", "In January 2009, as the U.S. economy was freezing up, employers were cutting roughly 800,000 jobs that month. President Obama had just taken office and a few weeks later, he headed to Elkhart, Ind., where the unemployment rate was surging to 19 percent. The key problem: Most jobs there were tied to the production of recreational vehicles. In the depths of the Great Recession, few Americans were buying expensive RVs. On Wednesday, Obama returned to Elkhart to tout its stunning recovery and the role his administration's policies played in the turnaround. These days, the community's unemployment rate hovers around 4 percent and employers are facing labor shortages, largely thanks to the RV industry recovery. In 2009, the RV industry shipped 166,000 vehicles. This year, 396,400 units will be shipped, according to the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association. \"It is great to be back at Elkhart,\" Obama told a cheering crowd. After facing \"the worst economic crisis of our lifetime,\" America has rebounded to prove \"it's the strongest, most durable economy in the world,\" he said. Wednesday also brought this encouraging news about manufacturing: The Institute for Supply Management said its monthly report on factory activity showed that of the 18 manufacturing industries covered, 12 pointed to expansion last month. \"The solid May ISM manufacturing report is further proof that the U.S. economy is picking up in the second quarter,\" PNC economist Gus Faucher said in an analysis. \"Manufacturing should transition to a positive for U.S. growth over the rest of 2016.\" The U.S. economy has been in recovery since June 2009 and continues to regain ground lost to the Great Recession. For example, a Commerce Department report on Tuesday showed that personal spending surged 1 percent in April, marking the biggest gain in nearly seven years — suggesting the economy will continue expanding quickly enough to support more manufacturing. But critics say the White House's efforts had little to do with Elkhart's rebound. They credit cheap gas, not federal policies, with boosting RV sales. Dan Coats, a Republican senator from Indiana, said in a statement that Elkhart's resurgence reflects the city's \"strong work ethic,\" as well as \"pro-growth policies pursued by the state of Indiana.\" Other skeptics say Obama's efforts fell far short of helping diversify Elkhart's economy. In August 2009, Obama returned to the Elkhart area to announce federal grants to promote job creation through the development of electric vehicles. A $39.2 million grant got absorbed into research efforts and fizzled out in terms of creating jobs. Regardless of what caused Elkhart's rebound, U.S. manufacturing \"is making a big comeback,\" according to Deborah Wince-Smith, CEO of the Council on Competitiveness, a nonpartisan organization of corporate CEOs, university presidents and labor leaders. Earlier this spring, the council, working with the consulting firm of Deloitte, issued a report saying the United States is \"leapfrogging China\" in terms of manufacturing competitiveness because of investments in new technologies. It predicts that by 2020, the U.S. will move up from No. 2, behind China, to No. 1 as the most competitive manufacturing center in the world. U.S. success reflects this country's \"manufacturing investments, a strong energy profile, and high-quality talent, infrastructure and innovation,\" Deloitte concluded. Still, all of the technological innovations may reduce the need for labor. Manufacturing accounts for about 9 percent of the U.S. workforce, or 12.33 million jobs, up from 11.5 million jobs in February 2010. Still, factory employment is down from the peak of 19.55 million in 1979. While the business cycle can send factory employment nudging up or down, the long-term trend has been down for decades as global competition has intensified and machines and software have replaced workers.", "Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden unveiled his economic recovery plan Thursday. He outlined steps for immediate relief, with a focus on mobilizing manufacturing in the United States.", "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency unveiled new rules today to reduce emission levels for smog-causing ozone, which is linked to asthma and other health problems. The draft measure calls for lowering the threshold for ozone from 75 parts per billion to between 65 ppb and 70 ppb. The agency said it would take comments on an ozone level as low as 60 ppb. \"Bringing ozone pollution standards in line with the latest science will clean up our air, improve access to crucial air quality information, and protect those most at-risk,\" EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said in a statement. \"It empowers the American people with updated air quality information to protect our loved ones — because whether we work or play outdoors, we deserve to know the air we breathe is safe.\" The Clean Air Act requires the agency to review standards every five years. The ozone levels were set at 75 ppb in 2008 by President George W. Bush's administration. The new rules are likely to draw opposition from industry groups as well as Republicans. Critics say the standards will hurt jobs and adversely affect an economy that is only just recovering from the Great Recession. Jay Timmons, the president and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers, said today that the proposed rules would jeopardize the manufacturing sector. \"This new standard comes at the same time dozens of other new EPA regulations are being imposed that collectively place increased costs, burdens and delays on manufacturers, threaten our international competitiveness and make it nearly impossible to grow jobs,\" Timmons said in a statement. \"Before the Obama administration moves the goalposts with yet another set of requirements that will make it more difficult for manufacturers across the country, they need to allow existing ozone standards to be implemented and give time to American businesses to meet those already stringent and onerous requirements.\" Rep. Pete Olson, R-Texas, told the Los Angeles Times that the current ozone standard was healthy and the new levels would hurt the economy. \"The law as it stands now says [the EPA] can't look at jobs,\" Olson told the newspaper. \"But if you don't have jobs, you don't have health care, and that is a public health issue.\" The EPA's McCarthy rejected those claims in an op-ed article on CNN.com. She said states will have until 2020 to 2037 to meet the new standards, depending on how severe the area's ozone problem is. \"Critics play a dangerous game when they denounce the science and law EPA has used to defend clean air for more than 40 years,\" she said. \"The American people know better.\" The rules must be finalized by Oct. 1, 2015.", "President Obama, fresh from his first State of the Union address, vowed Thursday to fight for job programs and push his health care overhaul, as he traveled to Florida to announce $8 billion in federal stimulus money for a national high-speed-rail system. The day after his prime-time speech, the president tried to reconnect with the public with a hard focus on the economy. Obama and Vice President Biden held a town hall meeting at the University of Tampa to unveil the new funding and try to bolster flagging support for their domestic agenda and soothe Americans' economic anxieties. \"It's important to repave our roads; it's important to repair our bridges so that they're safe,\" he told students. \"But we want to start looking deep into the 21st century.\" He said the measure would create jobs immediately. Under the administration plan, 13 rail corridors in 31 states will receive funds. Projects in California, Florida and Illinois are among the big winners. In Wednesday's State of the Union, the president called for new job-creation measures, including a plan to raise $30 billion from Wall Street banks to help small business start hiring again after the worst recession since the 1930s. He reiterated the need to pump money into the economy to encourage job growth, but also announced a targeted freeze of government spending for three years beginning in 2011 in an effort to contain the deficit. On Thursday, the U.S. Senate passed a \"pay as you go\" measure aimed at curbing spending. Obama said he was grateful for the measure that would require new spending to be offset with cuts elsewhere in the budget. Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid also said on Thursday that his party would unveil a major jobs package next week. Reid told reporters the Senate package would include long-term and short-term job-creation measures, and take a broad view of the unemployment situation in the United States. Economists say that with U.S. unemployment hovering at 10 percent, the need to get Americans back to work and fuel the country's consumer-driven economy is imperative for a long-term recovery. The Labor Department reported Thursday that new claims for state unemployment benefits fell less than expected last week, fresh evidence of a weak job market. The president on Thursday recalled coming to Tampa two weeks before the election. \"I said, 'Change never comes without a fight.' That was true then. It is true now,\" he said. \"I want the Republicans off the sidelines,\" he said, calling on them to help produce solutions to the nation's problems. \"I want them with us.\" But Senate Republicans balked at following the Democrats, who cast a party-line vote to increase the government's borrowing authority to $14.3 trillion, which would allow the Treasury Department to continue servicing the country's spiraling national debt through most of 2010. The lines in the president's speech that drew the biggest applause from the university crowd, not surprisingly, dealt with education. \"We're not going to stop fighting to give our kids a world-class education, to make college more affordable, to make sure that by 2020, we have the highest rate of college attendance of any country in the world,\" he said. The president said he had asked Congress to pass a bill giving families a $10,000 tax credit for four years of college and an increase in Pell Grants. He also said that upon graduation, former students should only be required to pay 10 percent of their income toward paying down student loans. After 20 years, education debt should be forgiven, he said, with debt forgiveness coming after 10 years for those who go into careers in public service. \"No one should go broke because they chose to go to college,\" he said to wild applause. Despite Obama's remarks in the State of the Union speech, Sen. Jon Kyl, the Republican whip, who spoke with NPR's Steve Inskeep, said the president needs to take responsibility for the economy. \"I don't think the American people want a whiner who says, 'Woe is me.' It was a terrible situation, and more than a year after he was sworn in, he's still complaining about the Bush administration,\" the Arizona senator said. In that speech, Obama renewed his commitment to a passing heath care overhaul, despite Democrats' having lost their all-important 60-vote majority when Republicans captured the Senate seat held by the late Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts. In Tampa, he vowed again to \"not stop working for a health care system that works for the American people, not just the insurance industry.\" Obama has the luxury of waiting until 2012 to seek re-election, while all 435 House seats and a third of the Senate seats are up for grabs this November. Some Democrats most nervous about the election are urging the administration to slow down, especially on the health care issue that has dominated Congress's attention for months. In their post-speech commentaries, several Democrats ignored nearly all of Obama's remarks except tho", "President Obama is in Pittsburgh Friday to highlight American manufacturing, which he hopes to boost with a series of appearances and a program called the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership. Coming from the industrial Midwest, Obama knows the value of factory jobs. From his first days in office, he's been talking about lighting a fire under the nation's factory boilers. \"One of the changes, and I'm going to be talking about this in the coming weeks, is I'd like to once again see our best and brightest commit themselves to making things,\" he said at Georgetown University in the spring of 2009. The president's keen interest in making things is more than just smokestack nostalgia. Economist Jared Bernstein, who until recently led the administration's Middle Class Task Force, notes that pay and benefits in factory jobs average 20 percent higher than those in the service sector. \"There's no question in my mind,\" Bernstein says, \"that a stronger manufacturing sector with more employment opportunities is really important for loosening the middle class squeeze and providing people with better access to better jobs.\" Manufacturers are bouncing back from the recession. Over the last year and a half, factories have recovered nearly 240,000 jobs, making the sector one of the brighter spots in the still-sluggish recovery. But over the longer term, manufacturing's role in the economy has shrunk, from one in four jobs in 1970 to less than one in 10 today. That's partly the result of foreign competition, and partly the result of productivity gains, which allow modern U.S. factories to churn out more goods with fewer workers. No one expects to reverse those trends entirely. But Bernstein, who's now with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, says the U.S. can support more factory jobs with a little government encouragement. \"The government can help plant important seeds to help grow the industry,\" Bernstein says. \"If you think back to railroads or transistors or the Internet, the government has always played a role in early innovation.\" That's the goal of the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership that Obama is announcing Friday. Along with businesses such as Dow Chemical and Proctor & Gamble, and Carnegie Mellon and other universities, the government hopes to identify opportunities and remove roadblocks to help small- and mid-sized factories grow. The administration wants to channel some $500 million into the effort, with most of that money coming from existing government programs. White House technology adviser Eric Lander insists the administration is not getting into the business of picking winners and losers. \"We are not endorsing industrial policy. What this is all about is creating the ecosystem in which private entrepreneurs, private innovators, can flourish,\" Lander says. \"That kind of ecosystem, though, does need some public support.\" Proctor & Gamble, for example, has agreed to share software it developed with help from the Los Alamos National Laboratory to reduce manufacturing costs. The partnership also hopes to foster more efficient factory processes and cultivate advanced materials. Obama will continue his push for advanced manufacturing next week when he visits an Alcoa plant in Davenport, Iowa. The plant supplies aluminum to both Boeing and Airbus. Spokesman Michael Belwood says the 123-year-old company has been developing new alloys to make planes lighter, more durable and more fuel-efficient. \"The company is built on the ability to make aluminum and aluminum products better than anyone else, and Davenport is a great example of how we do that,\" Belwood says. Innovation has been good for business. The Davenport plant now employs some 2,000 people, which is more than it had before the recession. Alcoa expects to hire about 80 more within the coming months. STEVE INSKEEP, Host: NPR's Scott Horsley reports on the president's trip to Pittsburgh today. SCOTT HORSLEY: Coming from the industrial Midwest, President Obama knows the value of factory jobs. From his first days in office, he's been talking about lighting a fire under the nation's factory boilers. Here he is at Georgetown University in the spring of 2009. (SOUNDBITE OF APPLAUSE) BARACK OBAMA: And, by the way, one of the changes that I would like to see - and I'm going to be talking about this in the coming weeks to come - is once again seeing our best and our brightest commit themselves to making things. HORSLEY: The president's keen interest in making things is more than just smokestack nostalgia. Economist Jared Bernstein - who until recently led the administration's Middle Class Task Force - notes, on average, pay and benefits in factory jobs are 20 percent higher than those in the service sector. JARED BERNSTEIN: There's no question in my mind that a stronger manufacturing sector with more employment opportunities is really important for loosening the middle class squeeze and just providing people with better access to better jobs. HORSLEY: No ", "President Obama unveiled a sweeping plan Tuesday designed to deal with climate change. For the first time, carbon emissions from power plants would be regulated. The policy, which can be implemented by the administration without congressional approval, calls for a broad range of actions, including steps to deal with extreme weather events that are already occurring. It wasn't a coincidence that the president chose to give this speech to a young crowd — at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. And it may also have been deliberate to give the speech outside, as the temperature hit 92 degrees. The president said he is taking these measures to address climate change to protect the world that these young adults — and their children — will inherit. \"As a president, as a father and as an American, I'm here to say, 'We need to act,' \" Obama said. \"I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that's beyond fixing.\" And while the president made clear that his national climate action plan wouldn't come close to solving the problem, it's a step in the right direction, he says. First, and most controversially, it calls for the Environmental Protection Agency to develop standards for emissions of carbon dioxide from power plants. There are already rules to restrict mercury and other toxic emissions from those smokestacks, Obama noted, \"but power plants can still dump unlimited amounts of carbon pollution into the air for free. That's not right, that's not safe, and it needs to stop.\" His plan would encourage more efficient use of energy, and also lead to a transition toward cleaner sources of power. Obama noted that wind and solar energy supplies doubled during his first term in office. \"The plan I'm announcing today will help us double again our energy from wind and sun,\" he said. That includes opening up more federal lands so private companies can build wind farms and solar plants there. A second major element of the plan calls for actions to help the nation cope with weather-related changes that are already taking place. That means preparing farmers to cope better with droughts, and to help local governments be better prepared for weather disasters. \"What we've learned from Hurricane Sandy and other disasters is that we've got to build smarter, more resilient infrastructure that can protect our homes and businesses and withstand more powerful storms,\" he said. The final element of the plan is to step up international efforts, including a new climate treaty. Scientists project that carbon dioxide will continue to build up in the atmosphere even as the United States and Europe constrain their emissions. That's because China and India are rapidly pulling hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, and they're burning a lot of fossil fuels in the process. Obama anticipated resistance to his ideas. Many Republicans in Congress don't even acknowledge climate change as a serious issue. But all the particulars of his program can be implemented without involving Congress. Obama said he also would welcome measures from Capitol Hill if attitudes there were to shift back to the days when the concern about climate change was truly a bipartisan issue. \"Nobody has a monopoly on what is a very hard problem,\" Obama said. \"But I don't have much patience for anyone who denies that this challenge is real. We don't have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society.\" Obama also made passing reference to the Keystone XL Pipeline, saying the pipeline from Canada to Texas would only be approved if it does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution. The most controversial element of Obama's new policy is the new set of rules that would limit carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. The Obama plan simply directs the EPA to come up with those emission rules, but doesn't specify what they should be. Scott Segal, a lawyer at Bracewell & Giuliani, a firm that represents power companies, says that with any policy, \"the devil is in the details.\" Make the rules too lenient and you don't restrict carbon emissions; make them too onerous, Segal says, and manufacturers might move overseas in search of cheaper power. And if they do that, he says, \"the irony is the carbon footprint of the American economy gets worse, not better.\" The president anticipated such criticism. It's the same argument industry has made about every clean-air rule, Obama noted, and it has never come to pass. Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, also sees the control of power plant emissions as the most important element of the president's plan. \"I think it's a major step forward,\" Beinecke says. She anticipates a fight to make those standards tough enough to make a dent in carbon pollution, but says that's familiar territory for environmental groups like hers. \"Our job is making sure [the standards are] as strong as possible,\" she says. A draft of the new regulation is supposed to be ready in a yea", "Jobs, jobs, jobs is the mantra of Washington policymakers, especially Democrats, who fear losing their own jobs if they don't do something and quick about the nation's unemployment problem. Thus a bipartisan team of senators unveiled a jobs bill Thursday meant to demonstrate to voters that lawmakers are, indeed, doing something. Experts and skeptics doubt the new bill will really create jobs, jobs, jobs. But, again, in politics it's often the appearance of action more than its effectiveness that wins elections. So what's in the $85 billion jobs bill? What's in the bill now isn't necessarily likely to be in the final version when it's all said and done since Sen. Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, says he wants to rewrite it to focus it more on job creation. The bill unveiled by Sen. Max Baucus, a Montana Democrat and chair of the Senate Finance Commitee, and Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa who's the panel's top Republican, contained small business tax breaks but also a whole lot of language unrelated to job creation. As The Hill reports: The bill now include(s) four components: tax credits for employers who hire new workers; a provision allowing businesses to write off the cost of capital investments; Build America Bonds, which allow state and local governments to lower their borrowing costs; and a one-year extension of funding for transportation programs in the Surface Transportation Act. Read More >> Politico.com has the following about some parts of the bill that aren't about job creation: The bill includes an infusion of funds into the Highway Trust Fund, the so-called doc fix for Medicare reimbursements and an extension of unemployment insurance and other benefits for the jobless. It also includes several provisions outside the panel's jurisdiction, like a reauthorization of the USA Patriot Act, the national flood insurance program and $1.5 billion in agriculture disaster assistance. Democrats weren't pleased with the parts of the legislation that weren't directly jobs related which is why Reid planned to revise it. More from The Hilll: \"I would prefer a jobs bill that simply focused on job-creating initiatives; this bill has become something more than that,\" said Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), who led early negotiations to produce a jobs bill. \"Maybe that's what has to be done in order to get some bipartisan support.\" If the White House had any doubts with the bill containing features that weren't about job creation, it didn't betray them in the statement from President Barack Obama it issued: \"The President is gratified to see the Senate moving forward in a bipartisan manner on steps to help put Americans back to work. The draft bill released today by Senators Baucus and Grassley includes several of the President's top priorities for job creation, including a tax incentive to encourage businesses to hire, a tax cut to make it easier for small businesses to invest and expand, further measures to keep people at work repairing our nation's roads and bridges, and extended unemployment insurance and health care assistance for Americans who are out of work. \"The American people want to see Washington put aside partisan differences and make progress on jobs. The House has already passed a constructive set of measures and the President is hopeful that the draft language presented today will lead to a bipartisan Senate bill. The President looks forward to working with members from both parties on this bill and on the additional job creation measures he has identified, including incentives for energy efficiency investments and increased access to credit for small businesses.\" Meanwhile, the Associated Press reports that experts doubt the legislation will actually lead to the creation of jobs: The bill includes tax cuts to please Republicans and its passage would hand President Barack Obama a badly needed political victory. But even the Obama administration acknowledges the legislation's centerpiece - a tax cut for businesses that hire unemployed workers - would work only on the margins. Tax experts and business leaders said companies are unlikely to hire workers just to receive a tax break. Before businesses start hiring, they need increased demand for their products, more work for their employees and more revenue to pay those workers. \"We're skeptical that it's going to be a big job creator,\" said Bill Rys, tax counsel for the National Federation of Independent Business. \"There's certainly nothing wrong with giving a tax break to a business that's hired a new worker, especially in these tough times. But in terms of being an incentive to hire a lot of workers, we're skeptical.\"", "President Obama says his job in the next two years is to put the economy into overdrive. To help in that task, he's called on the CEO of General Electric to lead a new business advisory board. Jeffrey Immelt's assignment is to look for ways to encourage private employers to hire more workers. Immelt has already been working closely with the White House. He served on an earlier advisory board, and late last year, Immelt joined the president on a trade mission to Mumbai, India, where the GE chief executive expressed great interest in that country's fast-growing demand for electric generators. \"My first trip to India was 25 years ago. There was a shortage of electricity. I'm happy to say 25 years later, there's still a shortage of electricity. I view that as a business opportunity for GE,\" he said. \"And we plan to capitalize on our share of that trillion-dollar opportunity in energy.\" Immelt came home from that trip with a contract worth $755 million to supply electric turbines to an Indian power company. Much of the work is being done at a GE factory in Schenectady, N.Y. Obama toured the plant Friday and was excited to see that 90 percent of the factory's output is headed overseas. \"As I was walking through the plant, you guys had put up some handy signs so I knew what I was looking at,\" he said. \"And I noticed on all of them, they said, 'This is going to Kuwait. This is going to India. This is going to Saudi Arabia.' That's where the customers are. And we want to sell them products made here in America.\" Job Growth Boosting exports is a key part of the president's plan to grow the economy, without sending U.S. consumers deeper into debt. He says the Indian contract alone helps to support some 1,600 jobs in Schenectady. But while GE has been adding to its workforce, many other companies have not. Obama says it's great that the economy is growing again, but it's time to translate that growth into more jobs. \"Our challenge is to do everything we can to make it easier for folks to bring products to market, and to start and expand new businesses, and to grow and hire new workers,\" he said. \"I want plants like this all across America. You guys are a model of what's possible.\" Toward that end, Obama has appointed Immelt to lead a new President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, with the goal of boosting private sector hiring. Immelt wrote an op-ed column for Friday's Washington Post, saying the panel will focus on manufacturing, exports and innovation. Stock analyst Daniel Holland, who follows GE for Morningstar, says Immelt's own record in those areas is encouraging. \"Most people view him as a thoughtful manager, somebody that's prudent, making sure that the company is able to grow within itself, you know, and doesn't take massive risks with the core franchise,\" Holland says. Research And Development GE reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings Friday of $4.5 billion. The company that Thomas Edison founded continues to invest a healthy chunk of its money in research and development. And Obama noted that GE is spending millions of dollars on advanced equipment for its Schenectady plant, taking advantage of a new tax break. The president wants the government to keep making similar investments in long-term growth, even as he looks for ways to cut spending elsewhere in the federal budget. Speaking to his workers in New York on Friday, Immelt said he feels a responsibility to make the United States the most competitive country in the world. \"We know in GE, the future is given to no one. We have to compete. We have to win. And I know that this team can compete with anybody in the world,\" he said. \"We can absolutely do what it takes.\" The president says he'll soon be announcing other members of the advisory panel, including labor leaders, economists and other business people. He'll also have more to say about jobs and global competition in next week's State of the Union speech. SCOTT SIMON, host: President Obama says his job in the next two years is to put the economy into overdrive. To help that task he's called on the CEO of General Electric to lead a new business advisory board. Jeffrey Immelt's assignment is to look for ways to encourage private employers to hire more workers. NPR's Scott Horsley reports. SCOTT HORSLEY: Jeffrey Immelt has already been working closely with the White House. He served on an earlier advisory board and late last year Immelt joined the president on a trade mission to Mumbai, India, where the GE chief executive expressed great interest in that country's fast-growing demand for electric generators. Mr. JEFFREY IMMELT (Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, GE): My first trip to India was 25 years ago. There was a shortage of electricity. I'm happy to say 25 years later there's still a shortage of electricity. I view that as a business opportunity for GE and we plan to capitalize on our share of that trillion-dollar opportunity in energy. HORSLEY: Immelt came home from that", "President Obama hopes the proposed $800 billion-plus stimulus package can jump-start the economy and lay the groundwork for long-term prosperity. If it doesn't show immediate results, New York Times columnist David Leonhardt says the state of the economy could end up dominating Obama's term. Some of the current economic trouble is rooted in what Leonhardt calls \"investment deficit disorder.\" \"I think our economy has been far too dependent on consumption over the past couple decades and not dependent enough on investment,\" he tells NPR's Renee Montagne. In the 1950s, he says, the government spent the equivalent of about 7 percent of GDP investing in highways, buildings and other infrastructure. But that amount has declined to 4 percent in recent years. \"That's really problematic for the economy,\" Leonhardt said. \"When the government has invested in basic things — like the highway system, like the Internet — the government has a very good record of that. And it's doing a lot less of that.\" Funding has dwindled in such areas as science, education, roads and bridges, mass transit, and alternative energy. One of the challenges the Obama administration faces is how to fix that at a time when money isn't easy to come by. But barely two weeks into Obama's term, Leonhardt says he sees an attempt to balance short-term and long-term concerns. The president \"clearly has this idea in mind of trying to do more of these investments,\" he said. As an example, Leonhardt cites health care provisions in the stimulus package. The plan will likely include money to ease the transition to electronic medical records. Leonhardt said this is \"precisely the kind of investment that can pay real dividends in the long term,\" by making health care both more efficient and better. The Glamour Of Green One area in which the reality might not live up to billing is green jobs. Obama has touted green jobs as a way to cut reliance on foreign oil, improve the environment and boost development of new technologies. But Leonhardt said it's no panacea: \"They've oversold green jobs a little bit.\" He notes that the president has talked about green jobs \"almost like they're a free lunch — that they will bring a huge economic boom, and they'll bring these environmental and political booms.\" Obama's energy policy, according to Leonhardt, is actually aimed at making \"dirty energy\" more expensive to encourage the use of cleaner energy technology. \"And raising the cost of dirty energy isn't a great force for an economic boom,\" he said. Looking For A New Engine Unlike in the past, America isn't relying on a central \"engine\" to drive the economy. \"The engines we have now don't look like they can be engines for decades to come,\" Leonhardt says. \"I think one of the reasons that people latched on to 'green jobs' is that it's very tangible. But I think it's very hard to know in advance what the engine of the economy is going to be, going forward.\" That uncertainty is a challenge in itself — people would much rather believe that whatever industry is fueling the economy will keep doing so in the future. \"More than a hundred years ago, people said it has to be agriculture, and if it's not, we'll end up being poor,\" Leonhardt said. \"And now, a lot of us feel like, 'Well, it has to be manufacturing. Manufacturing is somehow superior to services.' That's not really the case. Services can be better than manufacturing.\" Whatever driving force emerges, Leonhardt said, if the U.S. government makes smart investments in a range of areas, then \"the economy can in fact do better going forward than it has in the past. But it will be different.\" Time To Target Interest Groups Leonhardt blames special interest groups for distorting perceptions of the U.S. economy. Citing the work of economist Mancur Olson, he said that stable and prosperous countries can get into trouble over time because \"interest groups — whether it's Wall Street or whether it's the American Medical Association — end up getting enough power that they are essentially able to benefit at the expense of everyone else.\" The recent banking crisis is proof of that theory, Leonhardt said. \"Wall Street was able to go underregulated, and now we're all paying a huge price for that,\" he noted. \"Wall Street benefited from that. People made enormous profits on Wall Street, and many of those profits they'll get to keep.\" Leonhardt said the nation's economic crisis presents an unusual chance to challenge some of these interest groups. Normally, he said, the costs of their activities are too diffuse to engender resistance. But the benefits for the interest groups are great enough that they fight extremely hard to keep them, despite any damage to the national economy. \"So these are the groups that, you hope, a really serious economic crisis like this gives the government — and the rest of us — a chance to take on.\" RENEE MONTAGNE, host: President Obama will be talking about his stimulus plan with congressional leaders again", "The nation's unemployment rate surged to 8.9 percent in April, its highest level in more than 25 years, but the 539,000 jobs shed represented the fewest losses in six months, the Labor Department said Friday. President Obama called the latest numbers \"somewhat encouraging\" but added that the losses were \"still a sobering toll.\" \"It underscores the point that we're still in the midst of a recession that was years in the making and will be months or even years in the unmaking,\" the president said, adding that Americans \"should expect further job losses in the months to come.\" The 539,000 jobs shed represented the fewest losses in six months, the Labor Department said, and the news was met by Wall Street investors with cautious optimism, sending the markets up sharply. The figure was up from March's 8.5 percent rate, but the easing of job losses surprised most economists and broke a five-month streak of payrolls shedding 600,000 or more jobs, a possible sign that the recession is bottoming out. Companies, however, remain cautious, and many laid-off Americans are finding it tough to find new work. On Thursday, the Labor Department reported a record number of people receiving state unemployment benefits. DuPont Co. and Microsoft Corp. were among the companies this week that said more staff cuts might be needed. Economist Hugh Johnson of Johnson Illington Advisors cautioned that one month's numbers are not enough to go on, but he said that the snapshot looks encouraging. The data are \"clearly better than I thought,\" he told NPR. \"Things are not quite as bad as they were in the previous six months.\" \"I would be cautiously optimistic. The jobless numbers seem to be leveling off,\" he said. In Obama's remarks on Friday, he announced a plan to ease restrictions on government grants for education to help retrain unemployed Americans, saying the unemployment system needed to be \"not just a safety net but a steppingstone to a new future.\" He called for an easing of restrictions on federal Pell grants for education to help furloughed workers retrain. \"The idea here is to fundamentally change our approach to unemployment in this country, so that it's no longer just a time to look for a new job, but to prepare yourself for a better job,\" he said. Meanwhile, the Commerce Department reported on Friday that wholesalers slashed inventories for a seventh straight month in March, cutting them 1.6 percent. That followed a 1.7 percent drop in February, the largest monthly decline on records that go back 17 years. Wholesalers saw sales plunge 2.4 percent in March, the fifth decline in six months. Since the recession began in December 2007, the economy has lost a net total of 5.7 million jobs. March's payroll figure was revised to show a decline of 699,000, instead of the initially reported drop of 663,000. Job losses in February were also revised to 681,000 from 651,000. Government jobs were up by 72,000 after falling by 6,000 in March. The service sector lost 269,000 positions; manufacturing shed 149,000 and construction cut 110,000 for in April. From NPR staff and wire reports" ]

[ "As the end of high school approaches, everyone’s going to be talking about where they’re going to college and their plans for the fall. How do you defend your decision not to go to college like everyone else?" ]

[ "Choosing a college major is an important decision. Your major can significantly shape your future. Some people prefer to follow their passions by selecting a major that makes them happy and enthusiastic.", "Congratulations! You have been thinking about your future in College. Applying to College, getting in and finally going off to College is a stressful but very rewarding experience.", "Dropping out of high school is a serious decision that many people may regret later in their life. A high school diploma is required for many jobs and college attendance.", "Going to college is exciting, but it can also be an overwhelming and even lonely experience. Many college students struggle with depression and related mental health issues.", "Going to college or university is an exciting time where you gain more freedom, meet new people, and learn more about topics that you are interested in.", "Going to university? Choosing the right course is a big decision and it is important to get it right, as it can impact your future success, and for those doing a course they are not happy with, nothing is set in stone!", "Going to college is a time that is exciting for many new students. However, having a visual impairment might make this process seem a bit daunting. Remember that your impairment doesn't have to impact your success in college.", "Unless you are involved in a small claims dispute or going against another person who is unrepresented, defending yourself in court is a very difficult and risky decision.", "In some circumstances, you may find it helpful to write a letter to a judge. For example, if you are a victim of a crime or a friend of a criminal defendant, the judge may consider your input when deciding to set bail or make a sentencing decision.", "Boozy conversations and endless drunken parties may not be what you had in mind when you went off to college. Or you may have wrestled with substance abuse in the past and you're concerned that being around a bunch of party animals could derail your success in the present.", "To start with, there is no such thing as a good or bad college. While most people depend their decision on the basis of popularity of a given institution, it is better to consider the fact that a student himself is the primary mover for his own goals in life, particularly in academics.", "Attending college or university can be incredibly expensive, and high living costs on top of the tuition you're already paying can make paying for school even harder.", "Do you have bad or less than acceptable grades and want to attend college or university? If so, you may think that a degree is unattainable with your academic record.", "Going to college can be incredibly expensive, and most students need to offset the cost with student loans. Unlike grants and scholarships, student loans must be repaid, which means that they may negatively impact your finances for years or even decades after you graduate.", "College is a time full of expenses, and most people don't have much earning power during their college years. You can absolutely get through college without landing hopelessly in debt – but you'll need to work hard and use all of the options available to you!", "The recent market downturn has cut many college savings funds in half. Parents and college-bound kids are going to have to make some tough choices between now and next fall, and the toughest of those choices will be dealing with the financial reality that a large portion of their college funds are gone.", "So you're in college, and you've decided to branch out and become involved. There are many ways to expand your horizons in college, but going Greek, at least for most students, is the first to come to mind.", "College is a chance to discover a lot about yourself and the world. Unfortunately, some people struggle with what they learn and develop an identity crisis.", "Along with buying a house, paying for college can be one of the biggest investments you will make in a lifetime. If you don't have access to college financial aid, then paying for your education will take some careful planning.", "Somewhere along the line, you may have found your education interrupted by family, work or other responsibilities. That doesn’t mean your college career has to be over.", "College costs have increased greatly, and they will likely continue to rise. If you are planning to attend college, or have children who will likely attend college, it is important to begin saving as early as possible.", "If you’ve recently graduated college, you are likely in the unique situation of having little disposable income, but also few major expenses (aside from potential student loans).", "After you file a complaint in your lawsuit, the defendant must respond. Typically, a defendant responds by filing an “answer.” However, the defendant could also file a “motion to dismiss.”", "Joining a sorority is a typical part of college life for many American students. If you are interested in sorority life at your university or college, you will need to go through a formal recruitment process .", "Sims 2 University is one of the eight expansion packs to The Sims 2. It gives Sims the opportunity to go to college! There are many different ways to move a Sim to college.", "Do you have exams coming up soon? Are you worried about how to study for them? Maybe you could roll through high school half asleep with your hands tied behind your back, but unfortunately college is a slightly different level.", "There is a reason why so many people look back on college fondly. You have more freedom than you have ever had before, but you’re not yet burdened by all of the responsibilities of adulthood.", "College can be tough, but you want to have impressive grades so you can get a good job or go to graduate school. Here is how to maintain a 4.0 in college.", "Let’s face it: college isn’t for everyone. Whether you’re taking care of a sick family member, can’t afford the steep tuition or just have other plans, there are a few things worth considering when putting your education on hold that will improve your chances of success in the future.", "A character letter is a letter written on behalf of a criminal defendant by someone who knows the defendant. In a character letter, the author attempts to persuade a judge to impose a minimal sentence upon the defendant by vouching for the defendant's good character.", "Is it your first year in secondary school? Are you afraid that you're going to mess up somehow? That you might not be smart enough or fit in? No need to worry!", "School is an important part of your life. [1] You want to make sure that you’re somewhere you feel comfortable and enjoy. It might take time to convince your parents that you need to switch schools, but if you have good reasons and a good argument, you can successfully help them to understand why you want to change schools." ]

[ "1983 NFL Draft - Wikipedia The 1983 NFL draft was the procedure by which National Football League teams selected amateur college football players. It is officially known as the NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting. ... Of the six first round quarterbacks drafted, two did not sign with the teams that selected them for the 1983 season. First overall pick...", "1999 NFL Draft - NFL.com Check out every draft since 1936 alphabetically, by round, by pick, by school, by year, by team, by position. ... All Time #1 All Time #2 1st Round By Team Full Draft ... 1999 - Round 1 ... 1, Cleveland Browns Tim Couch, QB, Kentucky ..... 246, Jacksonville Jaguars Chris White, DE, Southern University ... Player Services.", "1999 NFL Draft - Wikipedia The 1999 NFL draft was the procedure by which National Football League teams selected amateur college football players. It is officially known as the NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting. ... Five quarterbacks were selected in the first round, second most after the 1983 NFL Draft. ... Rnd. Pick #, NFL team, Player, Pos.", "List of Kentucky Wildcats in the NFL Draft - Wikipedia The University of Kentucky Wildcats football team has had 196 players drafted into the National ... the first round and one overall number one pick, Tim Couch in the 1999 NFL draft. ... The team with the worst record the previous year picks first, the next-worst .... Quarterback, Green Bay Packers, Super Bowl Champion (III)", "National Football League: NFL Draft History - by Team - NFL.com Check out every draft since 1936 alphabetically, by round, by pick, by school, by year, by team, by position. ... All Time #1 All Time #2 1st Round By Team Full Draft ... 7, 208, Greg McElroy, QB, Alabama .... 1999 - New York Jets ... 7, 195, Lawrence Hart, TE, Southern University .... 12, 327, Bill Ransdell, QB, Kentucky..." ]

[ "WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Peyton Manning's 1998 NFL Draft ... Aug 2, 2015 ... The 1998 NFL Draft was one of the biggest hit-or-miss drafts in recent ... Peyton Manning was picked No. 1 ... At age 39, he's currently the starting quarterback for the Denver Broncos. .... 16 overall by the Tennessee Oilers.", "Agent: Manning was first pick in '98 draft because Ryan Leaf ... Jan 22, 2014 ... Ryan Leaf and Peyton Manning at the 1998 NFL draft. ... Colts to select Tennessee quarterback Peyton Manning over Washington State ... he told me, referring to the Colts, who owned the No. 1 pick. Instead, because of the...", "Rashaan Salaam - Wikipedia Rashaan Iman Salaam (born October 8, 1974) is a former American college and professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for four seasons during the 1990s. Salaam played college football for the University of Colorado and won the 1994 Heisman Trophy. ... He was picked by the Chicago Bears in the first round of the 1995 NFL Draft,...", "The Latest: 5 Ohio State players selected in 1st round | Sports News ... Apr 28, 2016 ... CHICAGO (AP) The Latest on the first day of the NFL draft (all times local): ... the 17th pick in the first round of the 2016 NFL football draft, Thursday, April 28, ... One year after no true safeties were selected in the first round of the NFL draft, .... The others are Jim Plunkett, John Elway, Drew Bledsoe, Peyton...", "Jeopary Questions page 879 - WHAT'S THAT THING CALLED ... ... to be selected No. 1 in the NFL Draft was this Miami Hurricanes quarterback in 1987 ... PRO FOOTBALL: In 1972 this NFL team moved its home games to Arrowhead Stadium, upping its seating capacity by over 30,000 THE FABULOUS...", "Jevon Kearse - Wikipedia A first-round pick in the 1999 NFL Draft, he played professionally for the Tennessee Titans and Philadelphia Eagles of the NFL. Kearse played for the Eagles for...", "1998 NFL Draft - NFL.com Check out every draft since 1936 alphabetically, by round, by pick, by school, ... 1998 - Round 1 ... 1, Indianapolis Colts Peyton Manning, QB, Tennessee.", "Jake Plummer - Wikipedia Jason Steven \"Jake\" Plummer (born December 19, 1974) is a former professional football player, a quarterback for ten seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Arizona Cardinals in the second round of the 1997 ... Denver Broncos. Plummer played college football at Arizona State University.", "UltimateDraft: Round 1 - Pittsburgh Steelers Apr 21, 2016 ... Below are the candidates for the best pick ever drafted in Round 1. ... In 1955, they had cut a quarterback they picked on the ninth-round named John Unitas; and in 1957, they would draft Dawson but cut him after three years and only 17 ... the Year Award (1972 and 1974), and a five-time first-team All-Pro.", "1998 NFL Draft - Wikipedia First selection Peyton Manning, QB Indianapolis Colts Mr. Irrelevant, Cam Quayle, TE Baltimore Ravens. Most selections (12), New York Jets. Fewest selections (5), Detroit Lions. 1997 NFL Drafts 1999 . The 1998 NFL draft was the procedure by which National Football League teams selected ... NFL by 2002 and is considered one of the biggest draft busts in NFL history.", "Andre Ware - Wikipedia Andre Ware (born July 31, 1968) is an American sports analyst and commentator and a former American football player. He was the 1989 Heisman Trophy winner as a quarterback for the University of Houston. In the 1990 NFL Draft, Ware was the first round selection (#7 overall) of the ... That year, his junior year, he threw for 4,699 yards, 44 touchdowns, and set...", "Chris Claiborne - Wikipedia Christopher Ashon Claiborne (born July 26, 1978) is a former American college and ... Offseason and/or practice squad member only ... The Detroit Lions selected Claiborne in the first round (ninth pick overall) of the 1999 NFL Draft, and he...", "1998 Indianapolis Colts season - Wikipedia The 1998 Indianapolis Colts season was the 46th season for the team in the National Football ... Coming off a 313 season the year before, the Colts drafted quarterback Peyton Manning with the first overall pick. Manning would mark the...", "1998 NFL Draft Results by Position - Quarterbacks - ESPN See all 1998 NFL Draft picks by position, including stats, school information, ... He has no glaring weaknesses and will usually win his individual matchups, but...", "1989 NFL Draft - Wikipedia The 1989 NFL draft was the procedure by which National Football League teams selected ... Hall of Fame. The only exception was Tony Mandarich, the second pick. Mandarich is considered to be one of the biggest NFL draft busts. ... Dallas Cowboys (supplemental draft), Steve Walsh, Quarterback, Miami (FL). -, Phoenix...", "Remember When: Kurt Warner led Rams to title after Trent Green ... Sep 12, 2014 ... Let's take a look back at the triumphant season of the 1999 Rams. ... It was 1999, and Trent Green was poised to take over the Rams' starting quarterback position. ... for about the first two weeks of camp that year, Green reminded, and he ... NFL Europe, a man who had played in the Arena Football League,...", "Colin Kaepernick - Wikipedia Colin Rand Kaepernick is a professional American football quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Nevada, and was drafted by the 49ers in the ... Kaepernick began playing youth football at 8 years old as a defensive end and punter. He then became his...", "Fins at 50: Marino's one regret - Miami Herald Aug 18, 2015 ... In the five decades of Dolphins football, there has never been a player ... When he retired after the 1999 season, Marino was the NFL's career leader ... He became the first NFL quarterback to throw for 5,000 yards. His 48 touchdown passes weren't just an NFL record, they were 12 .... Most TD Passes, 420.", "1998 Tennessee Volunteers football team - Wikipedia The 1998 Tennessee Volunteers football team represented the University of Tennessee in the ... Fiesta Bowl (BCS NCG), W 2316 vs. ... national title, and sixth overall, after defeating Florida State in the Fiesta Bowl, ... In his first game as a starter QB Tee Martin went only 9-of-26 for 143 yards, .... See also: 1999 Fiesta Bowl...", "All-time best fantasy players drafted by each team | NFL.com May 1, 2014 ... Here's the parameter ... each player had to be drafted by and play ... long been one of the top fantasy players at his position in the NFL. .... Donovan McNabb, quarterback (1999): Eagles fans clamored for their team to draft Ricky Williams, ... Eddie George, running back (1996): Drafted by the Houston Oilers,...", "Joe Namath - Wikipedia Joseph William Namath nicknamed Broadway Joe, is a former American football quarterback ... Namath was an AFL icon and played for that league's New York Jets for most of his ... He finished his career with the NFL's Los Angeles Rams. .... He became the first professional quarterback to pass for 4,000 yards in a season...", "1989 Dallas Cowboys season - Wikipedia The 1989 Dallas Cowboys season was the first year of the franchise under the ownership of ... Curiously, they also drafted quarterback Steve Walsh later in the NFL's ... draft (in doing so, they gave up a number one pick in the 1990 draft).", "Guest Bios and Interviews < Guest Profiles and Interviews on The ... The basketball coach for the University of Iowa has one game plan for life: God first, ..... He called The 700 Club for prayer for the journey that led him closer to the Lord. .... back shocked the football world when, at 23 years old, he called it quits. ...... NFL Hall of Famer and former Buffalo Bills quarterback Jim Kelly shares...", "Dan Marino - Wikipedia Daniel Constantine Marino Jr. (born September 15, 1961) is a former American football player who was a quarterback for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL). The last quarterback of the quarterback class of 1983 to be taken in the first ..... Marino is currently fifth, behind Brett Favre, Peyton Manning, Tom Brady and...", "Dan Marino - Wikipedia Daniel Constantine Marino Jr. (born September 15, 1961) is a former American football player who was a quarterback for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL). The last quarterback of the quarterback class of 1983 to be taken in the first ... During that year, he threw a then-NFL record 48 touchdown passes.", "UCLA Bruins football - Wikipedia The UCLA Bruins football program represents the University of California, Los Angeles in ... The program has produced 28 first round picks in the NFL Draft, ..... He would bring his #1 ranked UCLA Bruin team to face #2 USC in one of the ..... starting quarterback and Heisman Trophy Candidate Dennis Dixon to a knee injury.", "Jeopary Questions page 2109 - FOODS - TriviaBistro.com THE NFL: 2 years before becoming the Rams' starting QB in 1999, he was playing in the ... QUOTES FROM THE BATTLE OF THE SEXES: Despite 30 years of research, this psychoanalyst famously pondered, \"What does a woman want?\".", "Three No. 1 picks and Tom Brady: The NFL's final four - NY Daily ... Jan 18, 2016 ... Subscribe to the newspaper, our e-edition, or both. ... No. 1? Not him. Tom Brady was the 199th pick in the NFL draft. ... 1 overall pick John Elway in three AFC Championship Games. ... 1 overall, but 12th overall in the 1965 NFL draft), Terry Bradshaw (1970) four times, Jim Plunkett (1971) twice, Elway twice,...", "Chris Weinke - Wikipedia Christopher Jon Weinke (born July 31, 1972) is an American football coach and former player ... In 2000, at 28, he became the oldest person to receive the Heisman Trophy. ... in the 2001 NFL Draft, where he served mostly as backup quarterback until being .... Weinke was not brought back by the 49ers for the 2008 season.", "8 Heisman Trophy Winners in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Dec 13, 2014 ... 8 Heisman Trophy Winners in the Pro Football Hall of Fame ... a top-five overall pick and the first quarterback taken in the 2015 NFL Draft. ... the Pro Bowl and All-Pro team every year he played in the NFL and won ... Heisman Year: 1963 ... He went on to be selected by the Dallas Cowboys of the NFL in the...", "List of San Francisco 49ers first-round draft picks - Wikipedia The San Francisco 49ers entered professional football in 1946 as a member of the All-America Football Conference. The team joined the NFL along with the Cleveland Browns and the original Baltimore Colts in 1950. The 49ers' first draft selection in the NFL was Leo Nomellini, a defensive ... Every year during April, each NFL franchise seeks to add new players to its...", "Remembering the NFL players who were drafted by the Yankees ... Feb 7, 2016 ... Charlie Ward - Yankees' 18th round pick in 1994. The 1993 Heisman Trophy winner and college football National Champion did ... With the Yankees not convinced that he was committed to baseball, he was released ... In his first five seasons as a starting quarterback, he was named to the Pro Bowl three..." ]

[ "This undated image shows Maddison Holland. The 24-year-old says a road rage driver forced her off the road in Lafayette, Calif. on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017.\n\"He was just relentless.\" #Oakland woman says \"road rage\" driver forced her off hwy after she honked horn. Broke bones, injured spine. pic.twitter.com/sCtCFbe92H — Elissa Harrington (@ElissaABC7) October 6, 2017\nA 24-year-old Oakland woman is recovering at the hospital after she says a road rage driver forced her off the road.Maddison Holland just had surgery for a broken pelvis and several broken bones. She says she was driving to work Wednesday when a man in a maroon truck cut her off exiting the Caldecott tunnel. They were traveling eastbound on Highway 24.According to Holland, she honked her horn and flashed her lights, which she says sent the driver into a rage.She says he chased her for seven miles until he eventually forced her off the side of the freeway in Lafayette.Her car landed upside down at the dead end of 2nd Street. Neighbors who heard the crash dragged her out of the car and called 911.Family members are searching the crash site for her cellphone because they say she says she recorded video of the driver.The case is currently being investigated by the CHP." ]

[ "A woman suffered a neck injury in crash this lunchtime, which has left a Plymouth road blocked.\nPolice have confirmed they were called to Lipson Road at 12.45pm following reports of a two vehicle crash.\nThe collision occurred near Pentyre Terrace and Freedom Fields Park.\nA force spokesperson said one woman had been injured and was complaining of neck pains.\nThe road is blocked and cars are having to mount the pavement to get around the crash scene, added the police spokesperson.", "The Georgia State Patrol and Whitfield County Sheriff's Office are responding to an ambulance crash in Rocky Face Wednesday night.\nIt happened around 9:00 p.m. in the 300 block of Lafayette Road.\nDetails of how the crash happened have not been released.\nWe have not confirmed if any patients were being transported during the crash or if anyone was injured.\nOur crew at the scene says two ambulances left the crash site and a tow truck has arrived to remove the ambulance.\nDeputies have closed a portion of Lafayette Road while crews work to clean up the crash.\nThe road is expected to reopen shortly after 11:00 p.m.\nStay with WRCBtv.com for updates to this developing story.", "A Niagara Falls woman who police say was the innocent victim of a road rage incident will be laid to rest Monday.\nNicole (Nikki) Turcotte died Jan. 28 following a multi-vehicle chain reaction crash on the Queen Elizabeth Way in Mississauga. She was 22.\nA GoFundMe page - https://www.gofundme.com/39s33-nicoles-funeral - launched by Turcotte’s cousin Brandy Sommer Wood to assist the family with funeral expenses has raised almost $11,000.\n“I am amazed by how many people wanted to help,” Sommer Wood said.\n“The sad thing is that tragedy brings people together.”\nTurcotte, a graduate of Stamford Collegiate, was a photography student at Humber College.\nThe Ontario Provincial Police are still searching for the vehicle believed to have caused the pile up and are appealing to driver to come forward.\nSommer Wood has a simple message to the mystery motorist.\n“Turn yourself in and deal with the repercussions of what happened,” she said.\n“Whether it was a momentary lapse of judgment or a burst of anger, the most important thing for you do to is turn yourself in. It is unfair to the family and to all of those who are suffering from this. You don’t realize how many people you have affected negatively from your actions.”\nPolice say a Honda Civic was traveling in the middle lane of traffic when it suddenly moved into the left lane and quickly slowed down in what police referred to as a “brake check.”\nThe driver behind the lead vehicle slowed to avoid a collision with the lead vehicle, which triggered a chain reaction crash. The driver did not stop and was last seen exiting the highway.\nA 19-year-old Niagara Falls woman, who was a passenger in the same car as Turcotte, remains in a Toronto hospital. Five other people sustained minor injuries.\nThe suspect vehicle is a silver or beige 2010 or newer Honda Civic. The licence plate is believed to include the letters C, E, A and T.\nPolice would also like to speak to the driver of a transport truck which was driving in the middle or right lane at the time of the crash.\nMeanwhile, Humber College plans to honour their student in the near future with an exhibition of her work.\n“She loved being in the studio,” said David Scott, co-ordinator of the Toronto college’s photography program.\n“She was very creative soul.”", "NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – A woman was shot early Saturday during an incident of road rage, according to Metro Police.\nThe shooting occurred around 1 a.m. near the intersection of 17th Avenue and Church Street.\nPolice say the woman pulled over on the side of interstate 40 westbound near 46th Avenue and called for help.\nWhen officers arrived they found her with a gunshot wound to her thigh.\nThe woman reportedly told police that a person inside a silver Jeep Grand Cherokee fired several shots into her car.\nShe was taken to Vanderbilt Medical Center for treatment with non life-threatening injuries.\nNo additional information about the shooting was immediately available.", "An argument over a scratched windshield ends with one woman injured and another in jail.\nSt. Johns County deputies responded to a gas station on E Church St in Hastings Thursday night in reference to a stabbing. The arrest report says 55-year-old Karen McLaughlin, a 29-year-old woman who lives with her, and McLaughlin’s 16-year-old grandchild had gone to get gas. The 29-year-old pumped the gas and then went to clean the windshield, accidentally scratching the windshield in the process.\nSurveillance video from the gas station shows McLaughlin immediately getting upset. The victim told investigators they then got in to a verbal argument, and when they were in the car, McLaughlin got out a pocket knife and started “violently swinging” it.\nThe victim suffered two deep cuts to her hand while trying to grab McLaughlin’s hand with the knife. She suffered a bite on her shoulder as well, and while the victim says she doesn’t remember how that happened, the arrest report says McLaughlin admitted to biting her. McLaughlin reportedly admits to the dispute, but says she was not armed with a knife. The teen told investigators he witnessed McLaughlin cut the victim.\nThe arrest report says the victim was able to get out of the car, and McLaughlin drove off. She was found at her home in Putnam County, and returned to St. Johns to cooperate with the investigation.\nWhile it’s unclear from the report how exactly McLaughlin and the victim came to know each other, the arrest report says the victim told investigators that McLaughlin had previously threatened to kill her and threatened her with a weapon.\nMcLaughlin has now been arrested for aggravated battery.", "A 50-year-old man has been charged over the horrific crash which claimed two lives and injured 10 others in the New South Wales Central West.\nThe man was arrested on Friday evening after being discharged from Liverpool Hospital, where he was being treated for leg fractures suffered in the crash, Daily Telegraph reports.\nPolice will allege the driver of the semi-trailer hit the other vehicles, two trucks and a sedan, while they were stopped at roadworks on the Newell Highway, in Dubbo, on January 16.\nA 50-year-old man has been charged over the horrific crash (pictured) which claimed two lives and injured 10 others in the New South Wales Central West\nPolice will allege the driver of the semi-trailer hit the other vehicles, two trucks and a sedan, while they were stopped at roadworks on the Newell Highway, in Dubbo, on January 16\nThe man is due to face Parramatta Bail Court on Friday, facing 10 charges, including two counts of dangerous driving occasioning death and three counts of dangerous driving occasioning grievous bodily harm.\nThe driver has also had his driving privileges suspended in New South Wales.\nA teenage university student and her boyfriend were identified as the victims of the horror seven-vehicle crash, which was described by police as 'absolute carnage'.\nCharles Sturt University student Hannah Ferguson, 19, died after the semi-trailer slammed into her car.\nMs Ferguson's 19-year-old boyfriend, Reagan Skinner, was also killed in the crash.\nCharles Sturt University student Hannah Ferguson (pictured), 19, died after the semi-trailer slammed into her car on the Newell Highway\nMs Ferguson's 19-year-old boyfriend, Reagan Skinner (pictured) was also killed in the crash\nHannah Ferguson (pictured) was one of the victims of the tragedy near the NSW town of Dubbo\nA total of 11 others were harmed - including a two-year-old girl - with injuries ranging from broken limbs to suspected spinal injuries.\nThe impact reportedly threw at least one commuter from their vehicle.\nAn 18-year-old man in another car suffered burns and was taken to Concord Hospital.\nIn a third car were the driver - a 43-year-old woman who suffered a broken arm - a 52-year-old woman and a 25-year-old man who suffered minor injuries.\nA two-year-old girl named Jalirah was travelling with her family and was freed from the wreck by her uncle (pictured)\nThe fourth car contained a 26-year-old woman who suffered facial injuries, a 24-year-woman who was taken to hospital with a suspected spinal injury, a two-year-old girl and a 19-year-old who suffered minor injuries.\nA 39-year-old man driving a utility, and the driver of a B-double, a 27-year-old man, suffered minor injuries and were taken to Dubbo Base Hospital.\nThe two-year-old girl named Jalirah was travelling with her family and was freed from the wreck by her uncle, 9 News reported.\nThe horror smash happened near the town of Dubbo - about 400km north-west of Sydney\n'I was pulled out by a passer-by. As I got out I heard bub crying,' her uncle told 9 News.\n'I grabbed her out, then tried to get the other passenger and the driver. But I wasn't able to grab them because they needed to be cut out.'\nNSW roads minister Melinda Pavey told the ABC a road worker collapsed after witnessing the crash.\n'It is an absolute horror... We had a worker collapse with shock. This is a terrible, terrible crash,' she said.", "A St. Louis County woman is accused of ramming her car through a road construction crew, sending one worker to the hospital.\nThe victim was directing traffic at the intersection of Edgar and East Jackson in Webster Groves near I-44.\nPolice say Kelly Bievenue became impatient and drove around several vehicles to get through. The victim was waving her to stop but witnesses say she honked and yelled at him, then bumped him with her car, knocking him to the ground.\nShe tried to take off but was stopped by the victims co-workers.\nBievenue was arrested and charged with assault.\nThe victim was taken to urgent care with minor injuries.\nCopyright 2017 KMOV (Meredith Corporation). All rights reserved", "SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Six people were injured, including two men who suffered life-threatening injuries and two small children who suffered minor injuries, when an airborne car driven by a girl too young to have a driver's license landed atop a family traveling in a mini-van in the University City area Friday night.\nThe collision was reported at 8:22 p.m. in the area of Miramar Road and La Jolla Village Drive, said San Diego police Sgt. Ed Zwibel.\nA Toyota sedan, driven by a 15-year-old girl who had a 22-year-old man as her passenger, was speeding westbound Miramar Road when the car began to slide and struck the center median, sending the car airborne into the eastbound lanes, Zwibel said.\nThe car landed atop of a Honda mini-van carrying a man, a woman, and two small children restrained in car seats.\nThe man driving the mini-van and the girl's passenger in the sedan suffered life-threatening injuries due to the collision, Zwibel said.\nThe teen driver of the sedan sustained a broken leg and lacerations, and the adult female passenger in the van also sustained broken bones, police said.\nThe two young children were properly restrained and were treated for minor car seat injuries, according to Zwibel.\nAlcohol and drugs are not believed to be factors in the collision but the cause is under investigation, police said. No arrests were reported.", "#GoFundMe for #Oakland woman Maddison Holland. In terrifying car crash - says angry driver forced her off highway. https://t.co/3pUGIzRatt — Elissa Harrington (@ElissaABC7) October 6, 2017\n\"He was just relentless.\" #Oakland woman says \"road rage\" driver forced her off hwy after she honked horn. Broke bones, injured spine. pic.twitter.com/sCtCFbe92H — Elissa Harrington (@ElissaABC7) October 6, 2017\nThe hunt is on for an alleged road rage driver who reportedly forced a young woman off the road in Lafayette. Her car flew off the side of a highway, took out a tree and a fence, and landed upside down.It's a story you'll see only on ABC7 News.\"I keep seeing myself turning and crashing,\" said Maddison Holland. \"And I can't stop thinking about it,\"The 24-year-old Oakland resident is recovering at the hospital after a terrifying crash sent her car flying over the side of Highway 24 on Wednesday afternoon. She says she was forced off the road by an angry driver.Holland says it all started when a man in a maroon truck cut her off in the Caldecott Tunnel. She honked her horn and flashed her lights, which she says sent the driver into a rage.\"He kept following me to each lane I would get into and I was just trying to get away from him. And he was just like relentless and it was scary. It was so scary. And he just thought it was some joke, like it was so funny to be harassing someone,\" she said through tears.The chase lasted for seven miles.Holland's car ended upside down at the dead-end of 2nd Street in Lafayette.Neighbor Robin Pizza heard the crash.\"I will never forget it,\" she said. \"It was like a boom and then a horrible crunching sound.\"She called 911 while her twin teenage boys ran to the car and dragged Holland out.\"We were just trying to do what was right, you know? Try to get her help,\" said Lafayette resident Antonio Soto. \"Because we didn't know what was going on with the car, (we were) trying to get her out as quick as possible.\"Since the crash, family and friends keep returning to the site to search for Holland's cellphone.\"We're looking for her phone,\" said stepmother Deb Burton. \"She did get a video of the guy that was chasing her.\"Holland broke several bones and suffered a spinal injury.The case is currently being investigated by the CHP. Officers are trying to track down witnesses and find the driver.", "A bicyclist mowed down by a hit-and-run driver last month already has encountered several obstacles in what is predicted to be a long, painful recovery.\nPolice in Lebanon County, meanwhile, still have not identified the driver who witnesses say purposefully tried to run over the 67-year-old bicyclist and three of his cycling friends in late July.\nThe driver twice steered into the bicyclists, who were riding in a single file line along the right side of Colebrook Road near Upper Lawn Road, according to witnesses. The driver gave no warning.\nThomas Bay suffered a crushed pelvis and broken elbow in the July 22 wreck. Two of his friends were knocked off their bikes, but they suffered less serious injuries.\nBay required a 10-hour surgery to repair his broken bones, then open-heart surgery last week to remove blood clots from his heart and lungs, according to his friend, Ted Achorn.\nThe surgery went well but then Bay suffered a bout of pneumonia.\nOver the weekend, Bay made some progress, Achorn said, with a \"major victory\" Sunday of being able to sit outside for ten minutes.\nPrior to the crash, Bay, a lifelong athlete, frequently spent hours outside, traveling with his wife and friends and bicycling long distances.\nAbout 80 cyclists erected three red bikes at the scene of the crash on July 31 to represent the injured cyclists along with a sign reminding motorists that state law requires them to maintain a distance of four feet.\nA core group of cyclists returned to the site at 6 p.m. Monday Aug. 14 to remove the red bikes, which were donated by Ross Willard, of Recycle Bicycle.\nEven though the symbolic bikes were removed, friends of Bay are still holding on to hope that someone will come forward with information to South Londonderry police to identify the hit-and-run-driver.\nA reward is being offered and callers can remain anonymous.\nThe driver's car was reported as a light-colored sport-utility vehicle, possible a late 1990s or early 2000s Dodge Durango .\nAnyone with information should call police at (717) 838-1376 or Pennsylvania Crime Stoppers Toll Free at 1-800-4PA-TIPS.", "A woman was was hit by a car during a fight last week at a convenience store in North Little Rock, authorities said.\nSurveillance footage from the Exxon at 8701 Maumelle Blvd. shows the 36-year-old at the fuel pump around 8:45 a.m. May 23 in her Honda Accord, according to a police report released Wednesday. Another woman was parked behind her in a Toyota Camry.\nThe 36-year-old Little Rock resident used what police believe was a high-heeled shoe to hit the windshield of the Camry, authorities said. The Camry's driver then got into the car, reversed and ran into the assailant, propelling her onto the hood, the report states.\nAs she was leaving, the driver reportedly hit the right side of the Accord, knocking the woman on the hood to the ground.\nThe victim was taken to Baptist Health Medical Center, where she was treated for a left ankle injury that authorities said was non-life-threatening.\nThe report states that the fight was over a 32-year-old man, although Sgt. Amy Cooper with the North Little Rock Police Department said his relationship to the women remains unclear.\nA Little Rock woman was listed as a suspect, but Cooper said Wednesday that no arrest has been made.", "A woman is her early 20s remained fighting for her life Monday in the hospital after being struck about 11:30 p.m. Sunday by a southbound SUV at 200 South and State Street.", "(WXYZ) - A mother with two small children in her vehicle is accused of causing a fiery crash that sent her own kids, and a teen driving a second vehicle to the hospital.\nAccording to Oakland County Sheriff’s Office investigators, a 28-year-old mother is believed to have caused the crash shortly after midnight in Oxford Township. The crash happened early Saturday morning.\nIt’s believed the mother’s vehicle crossed into oncoming traffic on Lapeer Road and crashed into a Dodge Durango that was being driven by a 19-year-old girl.\nThe impact of the crash flipped the truck, and caused it to start on fire. Two people who were nearby rushed into action and pulled the teenager from the burning vehicle.\nThe unidentified teen was rushed to a hospital in Lapeer and later airlifted to Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak where she is in critical condition.\nThe alleged drunk driver’s two children were also injured.\nHer 7-year-old son was listed in critical condition at the same hospital in Royal Oak at last check. A 5-year-old daughter was listed in stable condition.\nDeputies obtained a search warrant for a blood draw, but results have not yet been obtained.\nA crash reconstruction unit is working to piece together the accident to explain how it happened.", "The search for a 29-year-old woman whose sneaker and cellphone were found in West Milford along with her crashed car entered its fourth day Wednesday.\nPolice who responded to the minor crash off Oak Ridge Road near the Jefferson border found the car and the items but not Stephanie Bronaugh of the Sussex County town of Lafayette, 25 miles due east.\nAn \"exhaustive\" but unsuccessful search involved K9 units a State Police helicopter and West Milford's Search & Rescue and Special Operations teams.\nExactly a year ago Tuesday, police in Sparta said they found Bronaugh slumped over the wheel of her 2016 BMW, with 10 wax folds of heroin in the driver's side compartment, as well as a small amount of pot and several prescription pills in the car.\nThey processed and released her pending court action on drug charges.\nAnyone who sees Bronaugh or knows where to find her urged to call Wes Milford police: ( 973) 728-2800 .\nClick here to sign up for Daily Voice's free daily emails and news alerts.", "A woman has been charged with dangerous driving after she hit a six-year-old boy and his mother on a pedestrian crossing in Sydney.\nThe boy has leg and shoulder fractures and cuts to his face after being hit by the woman's Toyota Camry in Bankstown on Monday morning.\nHis 30-year-old mother also suffered abdominal injuries with the pair taken to Westmead Hospital.\nThe driver, a 32-year-old woman, escaped injury but was taken to Bankstown Hospital for mandatory testing.\nShe was then taken to Bankstown Police Station and charged with dangerous driving occasioning grievous bodily harm, NSW Police said.\nShe will face Bankstown Local Court on April 18 after being granted conditional bail.\nAnother two people were hit by vehicles in Sydney within an hour of the Bankstown crash on Monday prompting NSW Ambulance to urge drivers to take greater care.\nA woman in her 50s was hit by a truck in the CBD and an eight-year-old boy was hit by a vehicle in Artarmon.", "Police say a mother with two small children in her vehicle was drunk when she caused a fiery crash that sent her kids and a teen driving a second vehicle to the hospital.\nOakland County Sheriff’s says the 28-year-old mother caused the crash shortly after midnight Saturday in Oxford Township.The woman’s vehicle crossed the center line into oncoming traffic on Lapeer Road and crashed into an SUV driven by a 19-year-old woman.\nThe impact of the crash flipped the truck, which burst into flames. Two people who were nearby pulled the teenager from the burning vehicle.\nThe teen was airlifted to Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak where she is in critical condition.\nThe drunk driver’s two children were also injured.\nHer 7-year-old son was listed in critical condition. A 5-year-old daughter was listed in stable condition.", "Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email\nA NURSE crashed her car into another vehicle after having no breaks during a hectic hospital nightshift.\nGillian Pick, 47, was on the wrong side of the road when she ploughed her Renault Scenic into a vehicle, leaving two people injured.\nThe 8am smash just outside Minishant left a woman with a broken hand and ribs.\nAyr Sheriff Court heard that Pick’s blood sugar level was low because she had not had time for a teabreak during her 12-hour shift at Ayr Hospital.\nShe pled guilty to dangerous driving in the dock last week.\nDepute fiscal Scott Toal told the court the other driver mounted the pavement to avoid hitting mum-of-three Pick head-on.\nThe cars still collided, causing extensive damage, during the February 29 incident.\nHe added: “The two people involved were injured as a result of this.”\nHe continued: “She offered no explanation why she had allowed her car to drift into the other lane.”\nCrash victim John McKechnie had cuts and bruises and Kay McKechnie suffered fractured ribs and a broken bone in her right hand.\nLawyer Peter Lockhart, defending, said the respiratory nurse worked constant night shifts, starting at 7pm and finishing at 7.30am.\nHe said: “Mrs Pick’s son suffers from ADHD and she likes to be available during the day in case she is called to the school to assist.”\nHe continued: “She had been driving home after her nightshift on Monday morning.”\nDescribing Pick’s night before, he said: “She normally has a number of breaks but because of work pressure she didn’t have time for a cup of coffee.”\nThe dedicated mum left work as soon as possible to be home for her children.\nThe accident happened on a sweeping bend on the approach to Minishant.\nThe lawyer continued: “She lost concentration and drifted out. Fortunately the other car was aware and attempted to take evasive action.\n“It is very fortunate no-one was severely injured.”\nHe said paramedics at the scene found Pick’s blood sugar level to be low because she had no snacks at work.\nMr Lockhart added that his client knew the road well as she drove it every day.\nHe said: “She is at a loss to understand how this can happen.”\nThe collision was caught on CCTV.\nSheriff Mhairi Mactaggart fined Pick £450 and banned her from driving for a year.", "A woman is in a serious but stable condition in hospital with a fractured skull, after being bashed by a man armed with a baseball bat in Logan, according to police.\nA man and teenager have been charged and detectives allege the female victim was trying to stop an assault when she was targeted.\nPolice said a 20-year-old man opened the front door of his Waterford West home about 8pm on Saturday and was confronted by a man wearing a bandana on his face and armed with a baseball bat.\nIt will be alleged the resident quickly closed the door, but the armed man then smashed one of the front windows of the house on Tygum Road before leaving.\nJust before 10pm, the 20-year-old man with two women, aged 35 and 23, parked at nearby Tygum Park and a short time later a Commodore with five men inside arrived, police said.\nIt will further be alleged a teenager armed with a baseball bat and a man armed with a golf club were among the occupants of the Commodore and they threatened the 20-year-old man before he was beaten. He suffered a broken arm and cut to the head.\nAdvertisement\nPolice will allege the 23-year-old woman, who had arrived with the victim, tried to defuse the situation, but was also bashed with the baseball bat, leaving her in a serious but stable condition in the Princess Alexandra Hospital, having sustained a fractured skull.\nA Loganlea man has been charged with grievous bodily harm, wilful damage and assault occasioning bodily harm while in company. He is scheduled to appear in the Beenleigh Magistrates Court on Monday.\nA 16-year-old Loganlea youth has been charged with the same offences.\nA Queensland Police Service spokeswoman said the 20-year-old male victim knew his two alleged attackers, but it was not clear if they were known to the female victim.\nInvestigations were continuing, with police yet to speak to the female victim due to her injuries.", "Surveillance cameras were rolling during what appears to be an act of road rage occurred in Arnold. Credit: KMOV\nA woman in Arnold was the victim of what appears to be road rage.\nShe was driving home Friday night when all the sudden a truck started tailgating her along Interstate 55.\nShe is so fearful of the man who was driving she doesn’t want to be identified, but she’s desperate for him to be caught.\nShe decided to pull into the Walgreens parking lot off Vogel Road in Arnold because it was lit and populated.\nThe man got out of his car and started yelling at her.\nHe eventually kicked her car repeatedly and then when she tried to take a picture of his license plate, he tackled her and threw her phone.\nIn the surveillance video released by Arnold Police you can see when the man drives away he nearly runs the woman over.\nShe described the man as having grey hair and he was driving a blue truck. Police describe the truck as a GMC Sierra and ask anyone with information to call police.\nCopyright 2017 KMOV (Meredith Corporation). All rights reserved", "A teenager is fighting for her life after being struck by a car while on her way to work.\nLiz Gibson was crossing the road in Canning Vale, near Holmes Street in Perth, when she was hit by a Honda Accord.\nThe 19-year-old made it across two lanes but didn't see the vehicle coming on the third lane causing her to be hit and thrown, Perth Now reports.\nLiz Gibson, 19 was struck by a Honda Accord while on her way to work on Tuesday afternoon\nA West Australian police spokesperson told Daily Mail Australia that Ms Gibson crossed between vehicles that were stationary waiting at the traffic lights before entering a lane with turning traffic.\n'The driver of a Honda Accord was unable to avoid the woman and hit her.'\nMs Gibson was believed to be on her way to Dome Café to start her 3pm shift.\nShe was rushed to the Royal Perth Hospital and remains there in an induced coma.\nThe accident had caused her to suffer critical head injuries and broken bones.\nA Royal Perth Hospital spokesperson told Daily Mail Australia on Thursday that Ms Gibson condition remained critical, two days on.\nMs Gibson’s best friend Chelsea Holden had posted an update of the incident on her Facebook page.\n'On behalf of Liz and her family, we would like to thank everyone for all the kind words, the love and the support we have all received in this rough time.\n'Liz has a compassionate heart of gold and is a very strong young woman and is definitely fighting with everything she has.\n'She is still in a critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit, but is showing no signs of deterioration.\nMs Gibson's best friend has posted an update of the incident on her personal Facebook page", "Arkansas State Police say a Louisiana woman and two children were killed after the car they were in crashed into the rear of a tractor-trailer rig in southwest Arkansas. A police report says 30-year-old Aileen Jose, a juvenile girl and a juvenile boy - all from Lake Charles, Louisiana - died as a result of injuries suffered in the collision Saturday.\nStart the conversation, or Read more at KATC-TV Lafayette.", "A Kingston, Ont., man faces four charges including impaired driving after he allegedly collided with a group of cyclists taking part in a cancer fundraiser.\nThe collision happened May 27, during the second day of the 7 Days in May ride — a 1,200-kilometre journey around Lake Ontario to raise money for Pancreatic Cancer Canada.\nThe ride's founder, Gord Townley, told CBC Radio's As it Happens​ the cyclists were riding from Cobourg, Ont., to Kingston along Bath Road in Loyalist Township when one rider fell and hit his head.\nAs they were tending to his injuries, Townley said, a car swerved onto the shoulder to pass a van and collided with the group.\nTownley said one man who was struck head-on was in hospital Tuesday in critical condition.\nHe also said his daughter Erin suffered a broken arm, several other broken bones and a punctured lung in the crash.\nOntario Provincial Police say a motor vehicle collided with a group of stationary cyclists on Bath Road west of Kingston, Ont., on May 27, 2018. (OPP)\nBail hearing today\nOntario Provincial Police said Wednesday they had charged a 51-year-old man with two counts of driving while impaired with a drug, causing bodily harm.\nHe has also been charged with two counts of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing bodily harm, OPP said.\nThe man was scheduled to appear in court in Napanee, Ont., this afternoon for a bail hearing.\nOPP said one injured cyclist remains in hospital.", "Get weekly updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email\nAN Earl Shilton driver who sped away from traffic lights smashed head-on into another car leaving an elderly man and his wife severely injured.\nMark Biggs, 41, was also left badly hurt in the crash along with his mother, who was a front seat passenger, after he lost control of his new high-powered Mitsubishi Evoke.\nThe lorry driver, of Windermere Road, pleaded guilty to two counts of causing serious injury by dangerously driving in Aylestone Road, Leicester,\nHe was given a 15 month jail sentence, suspended for two years, with 180 hours of unpaid work.\nBiggs was also banned from driving for two years.\nLeicester Crown Court heard the smash happened on the afternoon of March 6 2015 at around 4.15pm.\nBiggs was taking his mother for a ride which he’d bought two weeks earlier.\nHe pulled up at a set of red traffic lights heading out of the city along Aylestone Road, near Saffron Lane.\nWhen the lights turned green, Biggs accelerated at speed before veering across the road and crashing into an oncoming white Vauxhall Corsa, said Gary Short, prosecuting.\nWitnesses reported hearing a loud screech and a huge bang.\nMr Short said: “He accelerated hard from the lights and, for reasons we may never know, lost control and veered across the road and had a head-on collision at speed.”\nThe 60-year-old woman in the Corsa, which was being driven “perfectly properly” by her husband, suffered “life changing injuries”.\nThey included a broken vertebrae, a ruptured diaphragm, a perforated bowel, a broken ankle and four fractured ribs.\nShe underwent major surgery and was in an induced coma for three weeks.\nThe court was told the woman is no longer able to do her daily six-mile run, has restricted mobility and suffers from depression.\nHer 80-year-old husband fractured both collarbones and four ribs, and underwent surgery to insert a plate into a broken arm.\nBiggs’s mother, who suffered a broken sternum and severe bruising, was in an induced coma for several days and an inpatient for two weeks.\nBiggs fractured his sternum, hand and foot, and, like the other involved in the crash, is said to have ongoing difficulties.\nJudge Nicholas Dean QC said: “I accept it was a one-off error and won’t be repeated.”\nHe said the defendant’s mother described her son telling her to “hold tight” just before the impact as he anticipated a collision.\nThe judge said: “There was, at the very least, heavy-footed acceleration and a serious error of judgement which caused him to lose control of the vehicle, which was relatively new to him and he was unfamiliar with.\n“He cannot be described as a boy racer like so many young men who drive stupidly under the influence of drink, drugs or both.\n“Since the early 2000s he’s been gainfully employed as the driver of a heavy goods vehicle and there’s no reason to think he’s anything other than normally a sensible and prudent driver, and his record with his employer bears that out.”\nThe judge said the injuries to the victims were serious, especially for the woman in the Corsa, who was left “seriously disadvantaged”.\nHe said that “thankfully the defendant was insured”, and that there was “no reason” for the insurers to delay making settlements to those who suffered “through no fault of their own”, including the defendant’s mother.\nHelen Johnson, defending, said in mitigation the ban would mean the loss of Biggs’ employment as an HGV driver and that his home was being sold as a result.\nShe said: “It wasn’t persistent bad driving and there are no aggravating features such as drink or drugs, but it was dangerous and had serious consequences.\n“He has to live with what he’s caused not only to his mother but the two other people he didn’t know.”", "TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a 26-year-old man following the assault of a male acquaintance at a karaoke parlor in Musashino City on Friday, reports Sankei Sports (Aug. 11).\nBetween 1 a.m. and 2 a.m., Aguri Yoshiura, a company employee, is alleged to have repeatedly beat his acquaintance, 27, in the head at parlor Cote D’ Azur, located near JR Kichijoji Station.\nThe victim, who lost consciousness at one point, suffered broken bones in his face. His injuries are expected to require one month to heal, according to the Musashino Police Station.\nYoshiura, who has been accused of inflicting injury, claims he does not remember anything about the incident since he was drunk, police said.\nPrior to the incident, Yoshiura arrived at the parlor with the victim and a woman. The assault took place after the suspect and victim got into a dispute.\nAfter the incident, Yoshiura fled the scene. A parlor employee then alerted police after finding the victim collapsed and bleeding. Police later apprehended the suspect at his residence.", "Other vehicles and a fence were also damaged Tuesday night in the 900-block of Carlton Terrace\nVictoria Police say one woman was transported to hospital Tuesday night after a series of multi-vehicle collisions in a parking lot.\nPolice were called to the 900-block of Carlton Terrace in Esquimalt just after 9 p.m. for a reported collision involving two properties and more than one vehicle. When they arrived, they discovered that a one car had been involved in a collision while parking that spanned two neighbouring properties and damaged multiple vehicles.\nIn a Facebook post a woman named Joni Birdie Oldhoff said that her car was one of the vehicles damaged.\n“A woman somehow, plowed through our fence twice, completely smashing her front end and leaking liquid everywhere,” the post reads.\nThe driver of the vehicle remained on scene and was taken to hospital for medical evaluation.\nPolice say drugs and alcohol were not involved, and that no one was injured in the incident.\nThe driver’s license was seized for a review.\nnicole.crescenzi@vicnews.com", "Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email\nA mum claims her teenage son was left \"in agony\" on the side of the road for two hours after a motorbike crash.\nKay Brown says that by the time parademics turned up, her 18-year-old son, Jamie, was \"shaking and his lips were blue\".\nThe furious mother says she plans to put in a complaint regarding the actions of the ambulance service.\nJamie was going to see his girlfriend in Hemel Hempstead when he came off his bike near Swindon last weekend, the Bristol Post reports.\nA member of the public found the teen, from Yate, south Gloucestershire, by the side of the road shortly after 1pm and rang 999.\n(Photo: Bristol Post WS)\nBut Kay claims it then took a crew of paramedics more than two hours to reach the teenager, who was by this time suffering severely from shock.\nMrs Brown said: “I am disgusted really, it is appalling.\n“Jamie was left on the roadside for over two hours in absolute agony because they couldn’t get there. When they turned up he was shaking and his lips were blue.\n\"His arm looked like a slinky it was broken so bad – it was all bent at right angles out of shape.\n“Thankfully his injuries weren’t too bad, but it doesn’t bear thinking about what could have been if they had been worse.\n“It is every parent’s worst nightmare.”\nJamie came off his motorbike on Cirencester Road last Sunday after his back wheel skidded on some loose gravel.\n(Photo: Bristol Post WS)\nThe teenager crashed into a hedge and managed to flag down a passing car before collapsing in the road.\nThe car driver called for an ambulance and was joined by an off duty policeman about 20 minutes after the crash.\nMrs Brown claims the police officer then radioed the South West Ambulance Service (SWAS) to ask for an update on the status of the paramedics, only to be told that an ambulance had not been sent.\nThe mother says that the officer then asked for one to be dispatched, which the call handler promised to arrange.\nMrs Brown arrived on the scene shortly before 2pm after being called by the passing driver.\nShe said: “It seemed to take hours to get there. When me and my husband pulled up the police officer had put a sign up to shield Jamie from the sun, but I honestly thought it was to stop the public from seeing something awful.\n(Photo: Bristol Post WS)\n“When we arrived I could only see his legs sticking out from behind the sign and I immediately thought the worst.”\nThe anxious mother says she was comforted by the police officer who stayed with Jamie until the ambulance arrived.\n“He was so good to us,” Mrs Brown said.\nThe mother said the ambulance crew told her, when they arrived, that they had been sent from Cinderford in Herefordshire which is more than an hour away.\nJamie, who works at Tesco, was taken to Swindon Hospital where he was found to have broken his arm in two places and broken his wrist in two places. He also sustained severe bruising to his legs and ankles.\nMrs Brown said: “The doctor told him it was like a bomb had gone off inside his arm – his bone was shattered in to that many fragments.”\nThe teenager had a three-hour operation to pin the bones back together on Monday and will likely have to undergo further surgery on his arm in the future.\n(Photo: Bristol Post WS)\nJamie is back home and coming to terms with the crash, but his family are left feeling angry at the slow response from the ambulance service.\nMrs Brown says she plans to put in a complaint to SWAS in an attempt to prevent this from happening again.\nShe said: “What if his injuries had been much worse? What would of happened then? Two hours is not acceptable.”\nMirror Online has contacted SWAS for a response.", "A Bucks County mother was driving with a blood alcohol concentration that was more than twice the legal limit during a crash that killed her 8-year-old son and injured a married couple, investigators said.\nKelly Anne Colbridge, 37, of Warminster, is charged with homicide by vehicle while DUI, aggravated assault by vehicle while DUI and other offenses.\nInvestigators say Colbridge was driving a Dodge Avenger sedan back on April 7 shortly before 7:30 p.m. on the 300 block of Street Road in Upper Southampton Township. Colbridge crossed a center turn lane and struck a Kia Sorento SUV, officials said.\nThe crash caused damage to both vehicles and Colbridge was trapped inside the sedan. While calling out for emergency responders to help her, Colbridge never mentioned that her son was in the backseat, according to the affidavit. Officials say the responding officers weren’t aware her son was inside the vehicle until they checked and found him.\nThe boy was taken to Abington Hospital and flown by helicopter to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia where he died from his injuries on April 10.\nThe couple inside the Kia Sorento suffered serious injuries and were treated at Abington Hospital.\nColbridge suffered several broken bones and a punctured lung. She was taken to St. Mary Medical Center where she was interviewed by police a day after the crash.\nColbridge allegedly told police she had been with her son at a party at a bowling alley in Feasterville where she had a few alcoholic drinks prior to the crash. She said the last thing she remembered was speaking in hands-free mode to her boyfriend on the telephone while she was on her way home, according to officials. Police say Colbridge’s BAC was measured at .168 percent after the crash.\nFire officials found a handbag containing several controlled substances including Suboxone strips and clonazepam pills inside Colbridge’s Dodge Avenger, according to the affidavit. Investigators also say they found marijuana and marijuana paraphernalia inside her vehicle.\nColbridge was arraigned and her preliminary hearing is scheduled for May 10. Her bail is set at $100,000 unsecured pending a bail hearing once she’s released from a medical facility.", "Security officers stand outside a rescue helicopter which is transporting Prime Minister Beata Szydlo after car accident in Oswiecim, Poland February 10, 2017. Forum via REUTERS\nWARSAW Poland's Prime Minister Beata Szydlo is recovering quickly from a car crash last week but will remain in hospital for the next few days, the government spokesman said on Monday.\nSzydlo was hurt when her car struck a tree in a crash in southern Poland on Friday. She was flown to a hospital in Warsaw and very few details about her condition have been made public.\nHer accident raised serious security concerns, given it was the third collision involving a senior official since the eurosceptic Law and Justice (PiS) came to power a little more than a year ago.\nRafal Bochenek, the government spokesman, read a doctors' statement saying her injuries have not required any surgery.\n\"The nature of the injuries and the progress in treatment and rehabilitation promise a quick recovery,\" Bochenek said. He added that she did not suffer any broken bones.\nSzydlo will skip Tuesday's scheduled cabinet meeting and will remain \"for observation\" for the next several days. The cabinet session will be headed by First Deputy Prime Minister Piotr Glinski.\nBochenek said Szydlo has been able to work from hospital and has met with government officials and colleagues.\nThe cause and circumstances of the collision are under investigation. Local police said Szydlo's car was in a convoy overtaking another car and veered off the road to escape hitting that vehicle, which suddenly turned left.\n(Reporting by Lidia Kelly, Anna Koper and Agnieszka Barteczko; Writing by Lidia Kelly; Editing by Tom Heneghan)", "A Southington man is facing charges after police said he punched a woman during a road rage incident.\nPolice said last Friday night a woman was driving behind a truck on Marion Avenue that she said had pulled over to the right side of the road.\nThe woman assumed the truck driver, identified as 58-year-old Paul Haburay, wanted her to pass, so she did and continued down the road.\nThen, police said the woman noticed the truck pull up close behind her so she pulled into a parking lot.\nThat’s when the victim said Haburay got out of his truck and began yelling at her. The victim said he then punched her under her left eye.\nShe was able to obtain Haburay’s license plate.\nPolice arrested Haburay and charged him with third-degree assault and illegal operation of a motor vehicle with intent to harass or intimidate.\nHe is expected to appear in court on June 19.\nCopyright 2017 WFSB (Meredith Corporation). All rights reserved.", "In a suspected road rage incident in Santa Ana, a witness caught a woman holding onto the side of a car as it travels through lanes on the 55 Freeway.Witness Josh Molesky said the incident happened Monday night as he and his friends were driving on the freeway near the Dyer Road exit. He said they saw a white car stop on the freeway and a woman got out of it.The woman then ran over to a black Honda Civic and pounded on the windows, according to Molesky. He said traffic on the freeway stopped as the events unfolded.As the woman was pounding on the window, the Civic driver hit the gas to drive away and the woman grabbed onto the side of the car.Molesky then recorded video, showing the Civic weaving through traffic as the woman continued holding onto the car. The video shows the white vehicle attempting to pull in front of the Civic to stop it a few times.After a few seconds, the Civic stopped near the right shoulder and the woman let go, walking away from the vehicle.Her friends in the white car stopped again, got out of the car and were heard yelling at the Civic driver who continued to drive away from the scene.It was unclear what led to the woman getting out of the car.", "SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) – A woman ran over someone with a car and injured them, police say.\nOfficers say it happened after 6 p.m. on May 22, when 25-year-old Ambrosia Renicks joined a group of women who planned to get in a fight with others over a social media dispute. They say the group went to the 1300 block of South 15th Street, when Renicks got behind the wheel of a car and backed up at a fast speed, hitting the person.\nPolice say she then drove forward and ran over them again before fleeing the scene.\nThe person injured needed treatment at HSHS St. John’s Hospital for lacerations and a broken arm.\nRenicks faces two counts of aggravated battery. She is behind bars in the Sangamon County Jail after a Thursday arrest.\nThe investigation is ongoing. Police want anyone with information to call Springfield police at (217)788-8311 or Crime Stoppers at (217)788-8427.", "A woman was hospitalized Wednesday night after she was struck by a vehicle in the central Las Vegas Valley.\nLas Vegas police investigate after a woman was struck by a vehicle on Lake Mead Boulevard near Jones Boulevard on Wednesday, May 30, 2018.(Max Michor/Las Vegas Review-Journal)\nLas Vegas police investigate after a woman was struck by a vehicle on Lake Mead Boulevard near Jones Boulevard on Wednesday, May 30, 2018.(Max Michor/Las Vegas Review-Journal)\nA woman was hospitalized Wednesday night after she was struck by a vehicle in the central Las Vegas Valley.\nThe crash was called in about 9:40 p.m. on Lake Mead Boulevard near Jones Boulevard, according to Metropolitan Police Department Lt. David Gordon.\nGordon said the woman was crossing Lake Mead west of Jones when she was struck by a Nissan. She was not using a marked crosswalk.\nThe woman was hospitalized with several broken bones but is expected to survive, Gordon said. The driver of the Nissan returned to the scene and cooperated with police. The investigation is ongoing.\nContact Max Michor at mmichor@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0381. Follow @MaxMichor on Twitter.\nLake Mead Boulevard and Jones Boulevard, Las Vegas, NV" ]

[ "Selenis Leyva struggled for years as an actress of color before her big break playing Gloria on the hit show <em>Orange is the New Black</em>. She talks about how her experience informs her work and opinions." ]

[ "For our sabiduría, or words of wisdom, actress Selenis Leyva speaks out against the deep divisions in the Latino community, and addresses the need for Latinos to vote in the coming election.", "Diane Guerrero, an actress best known for her role in \"Orange Is the New Black,\" speaks with Maria Hinojosa about growing up after her family was deported to Colombia.", "Diane Guerrero, an actress best known for her roles in <em>Orange Is the New Black</em> and <em>Jane the Virgin</em>, speaks with Maria about growing up after her family was deported to Colombia.", "Piper Kerman's TV tie-in prison memoir, <em>Orange is the New Black,</em> has hit half a year on the list.", "Piper Kerman's <em>Orange Is The New Black</em>, a memoir that inspired a Netflix series, rises to No. 1.", "The new movie Chapter & Verse tells the story of an African-American man recently released from prison and struggling to carry on with his life. It's writer and director Jamal Joseph's first full-length feature, and though the story is fiction, it's informed by Joseph's own experience growing up in Harlem. As a teenager, Joseph was a member of the Black Panthers. He did time for participating in the group's campaign to rid Harlem of drug dealers, and later served six years for sheltering radicals involved in the infamous 1981 Brinks robbery and murders. While in prison, he earned two college degrees and became interested in playwriting. \"When I came out, I started working right away as a paralegal,\" he says. \"And even as I was working, I felt whenever I went to my parole officer, if he had heard a rumor, got a letter, got a phone call, that I could wind up going back to jail. There's always that feeling until the day you get off parole that at any moment your parole officer could show up and put handcuffs on you.\" Lance, the protagonist of Chapter & Verse, feels threatened in much the same way, but he does his best to stay out of prison. He learned computer skills while he was incarcerated, so in addition to the food pantry job his parole officer finds him, Lance launches his own business repairing computers in the back of his friend's barber shop. The film's cast is packed with prominent black and Latino actors, including Loretta Devine (who starred in Dreamgirls on Broadway), Omari Hardwick (of the cable drama Power) and Selenis Leyva (of Orange is the New Black). Lance is played by veteran stage actor Daniel Beaty, who also co-wrote the screenplay. Beaty says there's a lot in the film that he can relate to. \"My father has been in and out of prison 60 times — 6-0 — over the course of my life. He was a heroin addict and also a dealer and committed a variety of crimes.\" The actor's older brother also spent time in and out of prison. Both Beaty and Joseph live in Harlem, which, like just about every other New York City neighborhood, has been gentrified in recent years. But Joseph says he still sees the old Harlem. \"In the building where I raised my sons, of the black and Latino boys who were born around the same time in this building, three are dead, three went to prison — four did go to college, two of those being my sons.\" Filmmaker Warrington Hudlin, head of the Black Filmmaker Foundation, says Joseph's personal experience is what keeps Chapter & Verse from lapsing into clichés. \"Unlike people from the outside who commercialize and monetize black life, Jamal comes forward with tremendous insight and sensitivity,\" Hudlin says. \"It's very important to not only focus on the tensions and difficulties of black life but also the joys, triumph and artistic expression of black life. And so that's why I think he gets it right.\" Actor Daniel Beaty says the film tells a story Americans urgently need to hear. \"I think it's important to have narratives like Chapter & Verse where we actually spend time with one of these men,\" he says. \"Because I think that if we are able to truly understand and have compassion for this man, we will hopefully care more about creating a system and a society where there's more opportunity so that people like Lance don't end up in the prison system.\" Joseph says that's why he and Beaty made the film: \"The right to reclaim one's life and have a second chance — whether that reclamation is from illness, from drug recovery or from prison — is a human right, not just a civil right.\" Joseph's next project is a feature film about his experiences as a high school honor student who joined the Black Panthers. You can follow Jon Kalish @kalishjon and find more on his website.", "Jackie Cruz plays a convict in the series <em>Orange Is the New Black</em>, but she's also a singer. She talks to NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro about her debut album, <em>Hija de Chavez.</em>", "U.S. gymnast Danell Leyva has won the bronze medal in the men's all-around competition in London. The gold was taken by Japanese star Kohei Uchimura, while the silver medal went to Marcel Nguyen of Germany. With a final score of 92.690, Uchimura was nearly 2 points ahead of Leyva, at 90.698. And with his win, Uchimura vanquished the disappointments of his 2008 Beijing, when his struggles on the pommel horse cost him a gold medal. Leyva, of Miami, took third place on his final rotation of the day, the high bar. He used that apparatus, and the parallel bars, to overcome poor scores on the pommel horse and rings. American John Orozco finished in eighth place in the field of 24 contenders. Update at p.m. ET: Leyva's Journey. Born in Cardenas, Cuba, Leyva is one of the first Cuban-American to compete in U.S. gymnastics at the Olympics. His mother and stepfather, both gymnasts who competed for Cuba, immigrated to the United States in the early 1990s — as recounted in a recent article in The Miami New Times. Leyva's bronze medal will help ease some of the frustration that followed the team competition, in which the talented U.S. gymnasts finished fifth, despite qualifying in first place. But the victory wasn't sealed until after Leyva's final routine. The AP reports on his reaction: \"When Leyva saw his high bar score, guaranteeing him a medal, he pumped his fist and threw a few roundhouse punches while his energetic stepfather and coach, Yin Alvarez, hopped up and down.\" Update at 3 p.m. ET: An early version of this story cited Leyva as the first Cuban-American to compete on a U.S. gymnastics team. As our readers pointed out, gymnast Annia Hatch, who immigrated to the United States in 1997, was part of the 2004 U.S. Olympic team in Athens.", "The iconic actress Rita Moreno talks about her new role on <em>One Day At A Time</em> on Netflix and offers lessons about life.", "Whenever you think you've think you've heard the worst story of vicious Mexican drug violence imaginable, you should probably just reserve judgment because there'll be another grisly crime that's even worse. The story of the murder of the family of a Mexican marine who himself was killed in a military operation that wound up killing a major Mexican drug lord is one such story. As NPR's Jason Beaubien reported on All Things Considered, it seems possible that Mexican President Felipe Calderon may have unwittingly contributed to the killing. An excerpt from Jason's report: After elite troops from the Mexican Navy surrounded and killed the head of the Beltran Leyva cartel last week, top security officials in Mexico warned that the drug boss's death would spawn a wave of violence. Melquisedec Angulo was the only soldier killed in the hours long firefight that brought down Arturo Beltran Leyva, known as \"the Boss of Bosses.\" Six of Beltran Leyva's gunmen died with him. President Felipe Calderon praised Angulo as a national hero who laid down his life for a better Mexico. Late Monday night, just hours after Angulo's funeral, men bashed in his family's door with a sledgehammer, according to local police, and sprayed the family with bullets. His mother, his brother, his sister and an aunt were killed. Usually Mexican soldiers and elite police troops wear black ski masks to hide their identity. President Calderon's praise of Angulo, after the slaying of the drug lord, revealed his identity and may have inadvertently outed Angulo's family. Calderon in a statement denounced the attack as \"cowardly.\" It's a horrible news story. I just wish it were the worst we were likely to hear from the battle lines of the Mexican drug war. But we know better.", "Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors and musicians, and often includes excerpts from live in-studio concerts. This week: Jason Isbell Locates His Musical Compass On 'Southeastern': The singer-songwriter earned a name for himself while playing with Drive-By Truckers and The 400 Unit, but on his new album — written after he got sober — Isbell finds a new level of emotional honesty. Here, he talks with Terry Gross about his life and plays songs from Southeastern. The Only Surprise In Rowling's 'Cuckoo's Calling' Is The Author: After \"Robert Galbraith\" was revealed to be the pen name for J.K. Rowling, many readers have been circling back to a \"debut\" novel they'd initially overlooked. Critic Maureen Corrigan says the mystery is respectable, but she will shelve it in the \"I've read worse, but I've read better\" category. Laughs And Drama Behind Bars With 'Orange Is The New Black': Netflix recently unveiled its newest exclusive series: Orange Is the New Black, created by Jenji Kohan, who also created Weeds. All 13 one-hour episodes of the first season are available for streaming, and David Bianculli says the show is another Netflix success. You can listen to the original interviews here: Jason Isbell Locates His Musical Compass on 'Southeastern' The Only Surprise In Rowling's 'Cuckoo's Calling' Is The Author Laughs And Drama Behind Bars With 'Orange Is The New Black'", "For our <em>sabiduría</em>, or words of wisdom, Asher Diaz tells us how his idea of beauty changed as he transitioned from female to male in his Puerto Rican family.", "Paramedics and doctors rarely spend more than a few moments together treating patients, but a new system in Tucson, Ariz., will change that. Dubbed \"ER Link,\" video cameras are being fitted inside and outside of ambulances to provide a high-definition, wireless connection between doctor and paramedic. Though the technology could build bridges, some medics fear the system might undermine their value. ROBERT SIEGEL, Host: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel. Paramedics in Arizona have a new tool to help patients make it to the hospital. In Tucson, fire department ambulances now have wireless hi-definition video feeds. They connect the paramedics to trauma doctors in the emergency room. From member station KJZZ in Phoenix, Tony Ganzer reports. TONY GANZER: Medics Bryce Walmac(ph) and Nick Janton(ph) grab their medical bags and gurney as Medic One stops at the scene of an apparent drug overdose. BRYCE WALMAC: This patient's(ph) saying he's probably on heroin, cocaine, maybe some meth. NICK JANTON: What are you on? What are you taking? GANZER: The patient is built like a linebacker, covered in dirt and soaking in sweat, his eyes are saucers and his heart rate is racing near 180. The medics say at all times, point two cocaine overdose. WALMAC: You're going to the hospital, Dude. GANZER: The crew of Medic One helps the patient onto the gurney and into the ambulance, and Senior Paramedic Walmac begins to monitor his patient's vital signs. This is not a serious life-threatening trauma call, like a car accident, stabbing or shooting, but Walmac fires up his E.R. Link video system anyway. It's the first night he's had it and he wants to see it work. WALMAC: We do not have a trauma patient here. We have a drug overdose. We're just testing out the camera to see how it works. Can you hear me? Unidentified Woman: Go talk through your headset. GANZER: A rotating camera springs to life in the corner of the ambulance, and images from University Medical Center streamed to a monitor. The image of a nurse in pink scrubs flashes on the screen in crisp streaming video, though her voice is a little garbled. Woman: Go ahead. (Unintelligible). WALMAC: Did you not understand me? Well, that was (unintelligible) before, right? GANZER: This was E.R. Link's first real run. The system's audio connection wasn't clear. So medic Bryce Walmac had to use his standard radio. Still, E.R. Link's creator say the system has a great potential. RIFAT LATIFI: It's almost like being there. GANZER: That's Dr. Rifat Latifi, he's a surgeon with University Medical Center, one of the driving forces behind E.R. Link. LATIFI: So you see the patient, you see the paramedic, you see the procedures, you see the vital signs - everything that a paramedic is seeing we will have access to it. GANZER: Latifi says information is key for treatment providers instead of only hearing about a patient's condition and spurts over a radio. E.R. Link will give the doctor a real-time connection with the patient and paramedic in the field. But to make this system work, Latifi needed help. (SOUNDBITE FROM VIDEO FEED) Unidentified Man #4: We've great video coming from trauma center. FRANCISCO LEYVA: We're looking at the video inside the van right now. We're leaving the hospital. And it's a real good definition. You can count the follicles in his hand. GANZER: That help came from a Tucson city engineer, Francisco Leyva. He put all the pieces of ER Link together. The secure video feeds from the ambulance and the hospital are delivered via computer interface and travel through a wireless system in Tucson's traffic light. Leyva says future upgrades will even allow a patient's vitals to stream to the hospital interface. LEYVA: This could be live data coming to the patient instead of that two minutes that would take for them to fax it over. GANZER: E.R. Link is currently required for use on trauma calls only. Though Leyva says Tucson Fire Department has told its medics they can use the system on all calls, not just traumas, to see how effective it is. The idea of an always-on E.R. Link worries medic Nick Jandon. JANDON: We don't need somebody watching everything we do. We're trained. We're skilled. We know what we're doing. It almost feels like somebody's second-guessing our skills in that aspect, and it'd be kind of frustrating. GANZER: E.R. Link is currently running in 17 Tucson Fire Department ambulances. Medics say it's a nice system to have and it could be beneficial, but the crew of Medic One, at least, aren't making any firm endorsements yet. They say the want to see the system prove itself before they fully sign on. And the medics add, they still have to press a button to open a call through the E.R. Link, and for now, during a trauma, that's the last thing on their minds. For NPR News, I'm Tony Ganzer.", "California passed a bill last week that would require public universities in California to provide medication abortions on campus. If signed into law by California Gov. Gavin Newsom, 34 campus health centers would distribute pills used to induce an abortion early in a pregnancy to students looking to terminate pregnancies. Supporters of the bill are hailing this a victory for abortion access, but anti-abortion rights groups are challenging the legality of requiring universities to participate in administering an abortion. A medication abortion often consists of two pills that can be taken at home during the first trimester of pregnancy. Students would need a sonogram to verify they’re not beyond 10 weeks pregnant to receive the pills, which should be taken around 12 hours apart, says California state Sen. Connie Leyva, who authored the bill. Leyva says she was approached by students at the University of California Berkeley who said the administration denied their request to provide medication abortion at their health center. “You have a constitutional right to abortion,” she says. “But if you don&#8217;t have access, then you really have no right at all.” One of the students who testified on behalf of the legislation talked about missing class and having to find a ride to an off-campus provider to get a medication abortion, she says. Another woman said she had to wait so long she had to have a surgical abortion. Leyva says there’s no difference between a student obtaining the pill on campus or off. But Kristan Hawkins, president of anti-abortion rights nonprofit Students for Life, opposes the state’s “expensive and very dangerous choice” to pass the bill because she says it violates the conscience rights of health center employees. The federal protection of conscience rights “prohibit recipients of certain federal funds from discriminating against health care providers who refuse to participate in these services based on moral objections or religious beliefs,” according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Hawkins says this law violates these rights. Conscience rights are protected at state schools since they receive federal funds, but Leyva says funding for the pills will come from a coalition of private donors. In 2018, the Supreme Court struck down a California bill that mandated anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers provide patients with information about abortion, and Hawkins says this new bill bears similarities. “The health care workers who are working there at the UC and CSU campus health centers are going to now become abortion facility workers,” she says, “not a job that they signed up for.” The bill requires universities to offer the pill on campus, however, it does not mandate individual employees who are opposed to abortion to distribute the pills. Despite this, Hawkins says enacting this legislation would mean “fundamentally altering” the goals of on-campus health centers, which are to provide preventative care and help students be healthy. A report released this month by policy research organization Guttmacher Institute found the number of abortions performed in the U.S. declined 7% between 2014 and 2017. The report cites improved access to contraceptives and “increases in the number of individuals relying on self-managed abortions outside of a clinical setting” as reasons for the decline. Hawkins says she disagrees with this conclusion and that abortions are declining in America because people are learning more about the “violent destruction” that “abortion actually is.” If the bill is signed by the governor, she says the organization will work to educate university health care workers about their conscience rights. “We&#8217;ll be fighting this in states across the nation as the abortion industry continues this new wave of transforming their model,” she says, “moving from brick and mortar abortion facilities into making abortion something available on every public school campus.” But Leyva says it’s important for California to be a leader in protecting access to abortion as the Trump administration and conservative judges in different parts of the country are rolling back women’s right to choose. “If Roe vs. Wade were overturned, if women don&#8217;t have access to an abortion, it doesn&#8217;t mean that women wouldn&#8217;t still have abortions,” Leyva says. “It just means that women will die.” Jill Ryan produced and edited this interview for broadcast with Kathleen McKenna. Allison Hagan adapted it for the web. This article was originally published on WBUR.org.", "The prolific musician joins <em>Alt.Latino</em> to discuss her life and times with Tijuana No! and Julieta Venegas, as well as her solo career.", "Uzo Aduba's breakout role was as Suzanne \"Crazy Eyes\" Warren in the Netflix series about a women's prison, 'Orange is the New Black.' Now she stars in the HBO reboot of 'In Treatment,' as therapist Dr. Brooke Taylor. We'll talk about the 180 degree change between the two roles.<br/><br/>Ken Tucker reviews new albums by Chrissie Hynde singing Dylan songs and Shannon McNally doing songs associated with Waylon Jennings. <br/><br/>Desus Nice and The Kid Mero started out doing comedy together on Twitter, then created the 'Bodega Boys' podcast. Their comedy series on Showtime is now in its third season. We talk about growing up in the Bronx in the '80s and '90s, graffiti, hip-hop and the odd jobs that shaped them.", "Aduba plays Suzanne Warren, an inmate better known as \"Crazy Eyes\" in the Netflix series <em>Orange Is the New Black. Originally broadcast Aug. 4, 2018. </em>", "Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors and musicians, and often includes excerpts from live in-studio concerts. This week: Behind 'The New Black': The Real Piper's Prison Story: When she was 24, Piper Kerman dated a woman who was part of a drug smuggling ring. Years later, after being named as part of that ring, Kerman served time in a federal prison and at one point shared a cell with her former girlfriend. Her memoir of that experience inspired the Netflix series. 'Orange' Creator Jenji Kohan: 'Piper Was My Trojan Horse': Orange Is the New Black's showrunner explains how a story about a privileged white woman and criminality allows her to tell \"really fascinating tales\" of black women, Latinas, old women and criminals. Kohan also created the Showtime series Weeds. Valerie June Wants To Be On Your Mind: June can sing a duel with the Devil, even as her voice tells you she knows she's already triumphed. On Mount Everest, Sherpa Guides Bear The Brunt Of The Danger: Sherpa guides are 10 times more likely to die than commercial fishermen, the most dangerous, nonmilitary occupation in the U.S. But they're offered little financial protection by companies who charge Western climbers thousands of dollars for a trip up the mountain. You can listen to the original interviews here: Behind 'The New Black': The Real Piper's Prison Story 'Orange' Creator Jenji Kohan: 'Piper Was My Trojan Horse' Valerie June Wants To Be On Your Mind On Mount Everest, Sherpa Guides Bear The Brunt Of The Danger", "Mexico has captured Edgar Valdez Villarreal, an alleged drug trafficker known as \"La Barbie.\" Valdez, 37, was born in Laredo, Texas, and has been battling for control in the Beltran Leyva cartel -- which lost its former boss, Arturo Beltran Leyva, in December 2009. NPR's Melissa Block talks to Jason Buch, a reporter at the <em>San Antonio Express-News.</em>", "Smith graduate Piper Kerman was bored with her middle class life — so she joined a group of bohemian artists-turned-drug smugglers. After traveling to exotic resorts and smuggling a suitcase packed with drug money from Chicago to Brussels, she broke free from the drug trade and found a new life, normal jobs and a blooming romance. But 10 years later, federal officers knocked on her door. Kerman pleaded guilty to drug smuggling and money laundering and went on to serve time in a federal women's prison in Danbury, Conn. In her memoir, Orange Is The New Black: My Year In A Women's Prison, Kerman recounts a year in which she learned to clean her cell with maxipads, to wire a light fixture, and to make prison cheesecake — all while finding camaraderie with women from all walks of life. NEAL CONAN, host: This is TALK OF THE NATION. Im Neal Conan, in Washington. Piper Kerman graduated Smith College with a taste for adventure. Her circle of friends came to include a Bohemian artist who doubled as a courier for a West African drug lord, and Kerman soon found herself along for a wild ride to exotic locations - and ended up smuggling a suitcase packed with drug money from Chicago to Brussels. Eventually, she broke free, found normal jobs and a blooming romance, and then federal officers knocked on her door with an indictment. Piper Kerman pleaded guilty and got a sentence of 15 months. She served 13, most of which was at FCI Danbury, where she learned a great many things. If you've been inside a women's prison as an inmate or corrections officer, call and tell us what you learned: 800-989-8255. Email us: talk@npr.org. You can also join the conversation on our Web site. Thats at npr.org. Click on TALK OF THE NATION. Later in the program, a monthly magazine goes virtual for one issue. We'll talk with the editor of Inc. But first, Piper Kerman on her year in women's prison. Her book is titled \"Orange is the New Black,\" and she joins us from our bureau in New York. Nice to have you on TALK OF THE NATION today. Ms. PIPER KERMAN (Author, \"Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison\"): Nice to be here, Neal. Thanks so much for having me. CONAN: And I wanted to ask you about the advice you got from your lawyer just before you went inside: Keep to yourself. Don't make any friends. Ms. KERMAN: I had a - I was lucky. I was very lucky to be able to have and afford a really wonderful, private attorney, and he gave me good advice on a lot of things. But that was not advice that I think anyone could realistically follow because it would be very difficult to survive and navigate the prison system without friends. CONAN: And you describe the women you met and who came to be your friends, and who mattered a great deal to you in the book. But I have to say, the title is somewhat misleading: Except right at the end, you're wearing khaki. (Soundbite of laughter) Ms. KERMAN: I did wear khaki for most of my time that I was in prison, a simple, khaki uniform. But at the very end of my strange and twisted journey, I did end up in the stereotypical orange jumpsuit for a variety of reasons. But you know, the real reason for the title, above and beyond being a play on the orange jumpsuit, is the fact that women are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. prison population, which is an unfortunate fact. CONAN: And we want to talk with people today about what they - what you learn inside there. And one of things that you learned, toward the end of the book, you write: All of my friends outside, the people who love me, wanted me to be innocent - when, in fact, you were not. Ms. KERMAN: No, and I take full responsibility for my offense, you know, an offense committed when I was a young woman, at a time when a lot of young people seek to take risks. Some - and I think that a lot of young people sort of take the risks that are right in front of them, sometimes very positive risks, and sometimes very negative risks. And that's the direction I went in. And, you know, it was a reckless and selfish time in my life, which I'm not proud of. CONAN: You weren't proud of it before you went to prison, but you came to terms with it in a new way while you were there. Ms. KERMAN: Yes, yes, I did. You know, there's a really important thing that I learned about myself and about, I think, crime in general -certainly my own crime - and that it's really borne out of an indifference to other people's suffering. And that is certainly at the heart of my own crime and, I think, most crimes. And I learned that not because of my sentence, per se, but because of my contact with the women that I served my time with, many of whom, their own lives had been ravaged by drug addiction and their health sometimes, their families torn apart. And I really came to recognize my own part in their pain and their suffering. CONAN: You also point out that maybe you could have learned that same lesson doing community service but... Ms. KERMAN: I mean, that's true. ", "With January first marking the start of many people's self-improvement projects, Lourdes Garcia Navarro shares a story she reported earlier this year about plastic surgery in Brazil. This story first aired on All Things Considered on Oct. 7, 2014.", "Before Emmy-award winning actress Uzo Aduba landed the role of a lifetime in the Netflix series Orange is the New Black, she was about to give up on acting. The roles just weren't coming to her despite audition after audition, year after year. The day she auditioned for Orange in Brooklyn, she was late because she had the wrong address. Because of this, she was positive she wouldn't get the role. She cried the entire subway ride home. Aduba thought to herself, \"This is not for you. God is telling you this is not for you.\" And then she got home and turned on Oprah's Master Class with Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels. All of a sudden, the words \"Keep the Faith\" flashed across the screen. Minutes later, Aduba received a call from her agent and manger telling her she got the role she had auditioned for on Orange. That role was for Suzanne 'Crazy Eyes' Warren. Believe it or not, when Aduba returned to finish the Oprah's Master Class episode with Michaels two weeks later, she did not see the words again. Aduba told Sam that the supernatural \"message\" has been her motto ever since. Fast forward six years later — Aduba is an integral part of the Netflix series and has won two Emmy awards for her work on the show. — Producer Anjuli Sastry Interview Highlights On the female ensemble cast that makes up Orange is the New Black You get to really sort of dig into ... their humanity. And I certainly don't think we get the opportunity enough to see such a wide array of women of color, of different colors, existing in a single space. That's still something I haven't yet seen copied yet in this golden age of television. Orange is unique in that it's not only a female driven show telling this particular story, but such a wide makeup of different women. On the inner workings of her character, Suzanne 'Crazy Eyes' Warren [Suzanne] is a person who is haunted. And she has her demons. Like all people have. And she's just trying to navigate through those waters as best she can, navigate through her feelings as best she can. And she's someone who acts before they think. And that is where her mental health is in question because what that pause button — that nanosecond that we all have to consider a choice and consequence — she doesn't have. She just moves. And it's not until after she's moved that she thinks about what just happened. On growing up Nigerian in small-town Massachusetts When you are not being validated or affirmed through society, it challenges every child. Every brown, black, little child into wondering, 'Well am I enough?' And for myself, I grew up in a very traditional New England town, very few people of color in my class ... and even fewer black people in my hometown. ... When I was growing up and around me, beauty was defined — the girls who boys liked had blond hair, blue eyes, brown hair, green or hazel eyes. And that was looked at as beautiful. ... I really truly thank God for my mom. I thank God for my family, because these are beautiful, strong, chocolate, gorgeous, phenomenal women who just kept pushing and pressing and forcing myself, my sisters, my brothers, everybody, to be like ... we are not going to buy into this narrative.", "Mexican troops have scored one of their biggest victories to date in their war on drug cartels. In a more than two-hour battle, Mexican troops killed the boss of drug bosses, Arturo Beltran Leyva. Observers fear Leyva's death will lead to more killings as others battle for control of the cartel.", "Dascha Polanco is no stranger to an erratic schedule. \"I was never a college student without working,\" she told Ophira Eisenberg, host of NPR's Ask Me Another at the Bell House in Brooklyn. \"I was working the overnight, and then I would rush to Hunter [College], eight o'clock in the morning — organic chem.\" Polanco now stars in Orange Is the New Black, but she originally set out to become a nurse. However, she said she was jealous of the students in Hunter's performing arts programs. She reflected on her decision to follow her dreams of performance: \"'Am I going to reach a certain part of my life where I'm going to look back and regret it, or am I going to look back and say I risked it?' At this point, risking it is the best thing that I ever did.\" Polanco's first film role was in Gimme Shelter, starring Vanessa Hudgens, Rosario Dawson and James Earl Jones. The film began production in 2011, yet, despite having been cast in a movie, Polanco held on to her jobs in the medical field. She said that at one point, she almost gave up on acting to focus on completing her nursing program and supporting her loved ones. \"At the time, I needed consistency. I have family, I'm a parent of two, and I also lived with my siblings and my nieces and my partner at the time, my fiancé,\" she recalled. \"So there was a lot going and I had to either choose: Am I going to keep doing this, or am I going to be secure?\" Before abandoning her dream, Polanco tried out for Netflix's Orange Is the New Black in 2012. However, she almost missed her first audition. \"It was a day that I had to work overnight and I totally mixed up the time and I was in my sweats, I was not going to put on makeup,\" she said.\" \"I was just going to go, get it over with. It was at that point where I was like, 'I really don't care, I need to focus on this nursing thing.'\" Despite running late, Polanco scored a callback. It was scheduled on a Saturday when she had clinicals, the practical learning element of nursing programs. She said she broke all the rules, and asked the casting director for her callback to be rescheduled for later in the day. The following Monday, her agent told her that she won the role. Polanco still remembers that phone call. \"She said, 'Oh my god, you booked it.' I can never forget the words, 'Your life is going to change'...I just went outside and I started crying.\" Polanco was cast as Dayanara \"Daya\" Diaz for the show's first season, but she still kept her other jobs. She told Eisenberg, \"I stayed working even when I was in Orange. 'Til the show came out, then they fired me.\" Ultimately, Polanco said she was grateful for being fired — it pushed her to devote herself to acting. Six years since being cast in Orange Is the New Black, Polanco is in the midst of preparing for the seventh and final season of the show. And, on top of her acting work, she's an advocate for incarcerated women, particularly mothers. \"Without Orange, I wouldn't have had a chance,\" she said. \"I mean, I don't think that I'm more deserving than others, but for some reason I was given that opportunity. Why not give back, and spread that energy so it keeps repeating itself?\" In addition to her advocacy and acting, Polanco is also interested in perfumes. For her Ask Me Another challenge, she played a game in which she smelled and identified the scents of essential oils. Heard on Dascha Polanco And Mo Amer: Orange Is The New Black Flag", "For the past 25 years, Luna Lauren Vélez has been portraying powerful Latinas in front of the camera. From a young Nuyorican mother in the 1994 cult classic \"I Like It Like That\" to a Cuban police captain in the hit show \"Dexter,\" the actress has been able to show the complexities of identity in her characters. That inspiration didn't come out of nowhere. Vélez is one of eight siblings in her large Puerto Rican family and is continually inspired by the strong women that raised her. Luna Lauren Vélez joins Maria Hinojosa for an intimate conversation about her childhood and the iconic characters she's played.", "Actor Justina Machado talks about playing single mother and retired Army veteran Penelope Alvarez in the hit Netflix series \"One Day at a Time.\"", "Netflix's original series Orange Is the New Black has two important TV predecessors. One is HBO's Oz, the 1997 men-in-prison drama from Tom Fontana that paved the way for HBO's The Sopranos. The other is Showtime's Weeds, which in the fourth season put one of its central characters behind bars. The creator of Weeds, Jenji Kohan, clearly enjoyed the idea of a women's prison as fertile ground for both comedy and drama. With Orange Is the New Black, she goes back behind bars, but in a way that's more ambitious — and ultimately more impressive — than Weeds. Weeds was played mostly for laughs. Oz was so serious, and so ominous, it was scary. Orange is somewhere in between. Some of it's funny, but some of its scenes and many of its characters stick with you. The series is based on a memoir by Piper Kerman, whose character in Orange is named Piper Chapman. Each episode contains flashbacks that provide insight into the past of a different character — a structure familiar from Lost, and, before that, from Oz. But while the flashbacks are intriguing, and increasingly surprising, it's the scenes set in the present, as Piper enters the prison system, that really draw you in. Taylor Schilling, whose only other significant TV role was as Nurse Veronica on NBC's Mercy series four years ago, stars as Piper. She displays more than enough vulnerability to elicit our empathy, even though she is indeed a criminal. (Though in these days when we end up rooting for the likes of Tony Soprano and Walter White, Piper hardly seems in the same league.) On her first day in prison, Piper meets her assigned counselor, Sam Healy, played by Michael Harney. Fans of Weeds may remember him as that show's Detective Mitch. He looks over her file, curious as to how a well-to-do 32-year-old white woman ended up in jail. When Piper goes through her first day — meeting her bunkmates, going to the cafeteria — every step is tricky. If she befriends the wrong person or says the wrong thing (which she does, a lot), the consequences can be severe. We, as the audience, are taken along, experiencing the same steep learning curve. By the third episode, we're as familiar with the nightly head-count routine as Piper is — and by the end of these 13 episodes, we not only know all the characters in this very large, very diverse ensemble comedy-drama, we feel for them, too. And that's quite an achievement. The cast is so large that singling out only a few for specific praise is tough. But the two biggest names in Orange Is the New Black deserve credit for embodying characters that shatter the memories of their most famous TV roles. Kate Mulgrew, who played Captain Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager, is almost unrecognizable, and absolutely riveting, as Red, the proud Russian inmate who runs the commissary. And Laura Prepon, as Piper's former drug-smuggling lover, obliterates all traces of the sweet Midwestern teen she played on That '70s Show. But there are plenty of others, too, from Jason Biggs as Piper's current boyfriend to Michelle Hurst as a particularly imposing prisoner named Miss Claudette. Each episode deepens our knowledge of these characters, so much so that by the end of the first 13 episodes, they're all three-dimensional, and more than a little haunting. And each episode ends with a cliffhanger that has you eager to see the next show immediately — which on Netflix, you can do. But when I watched all of the first season of Orange Is the New Black, I wasn't just binge-viewing. I was binge-reviewing. And my verdict, after all that, is that Netflix has indeed done it again. After House of Cards and Arrested Development, Orange Is the New Black is the outlet's third triumph this year. TERRY GROSS, HOST: Netflix recently unveiled its newest exclusive TV series - \"Orange is the New Black,\" created by Jenji Kohan, the creator of the Showtime series \"Weeds.\" Last week, Netflix made all 13, one-hour episodes of the first season of \"Orange is the New Black\" available for streaming. And our TV critic David Bianculli spent the weekend watching them all. Here's his review. DAVID BIANCULLI, BYLINE: Netflix's newest original series, \"Orange is the New Black,\" has two important TV predecessors. One is HBO's \"Oz,\" the 1997 men-in-prison drama from Tom Fontana that paved the way for HBO's \"The Sopranos.\" The other is Showtime's \"Weeds,\" which in 2009 put its pot-selling protagonist behind bars for most of Season 6. The creator of \"Weeds,\" Jenji Kohan, clearly enjoyed the setting of a women's prison as fertile ground for both comedy and drama. Her new series, \"Orange is the New Black,\" goes back behind bars but in a way that's more ambitious and ultimately, more impressive than \"Weeds.\" \"Weeds\" was played mostly for laughs. \"Oz\" was so serious and so ominous, it was scary. \"Orange\" is somewhere in between. Some of it is funny, but some of its scenes - and many of its characters - stick with you. The series is based on a memoir by Piper Kerman, whose character in \"Orang", "NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with actress Hilary Swank and showrunner Jessica Goldberg about their new Netflix series, <em>Away.</em>", "Actress Danielle Brooks caught the eye of many Netflix viewers as Tasha \"Taystee\" Jefferson in the streaming platform's original series Orange Is The New Black. All seven seasons of the show, which tells the fictional stories of women in prison, are streaming on Netflix now. Brooks sat down with Sam Sanders to talk about what it took to step into the role of Taystee, as well as taping her final emotional scenes — plus, what kind of mother Brooks hopes to be.", "NPR's Scott Simon asks Aaron Bobrow-Strain about his new book <em>The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez</em>, which documents the life of a young Mexican woman journeying through the U.S. immigration system.", "We end the show with words of wisdom from Army veteran Consuelo Castillo Kickbusch, who tells us her favorite story about looking beyond your present situation.", "Students headed for college this fall can expect a slew of new efforts aimed at preventing campus sexual assault. A federal law that took effect this summer requires schools to offer programs to help raise awareness and lower risk. It was once a tiny niche market, but it is now an exploding industry with everything from fingernail polish that detects date-rape drugs in drinks to necklaces that hide mini panic buttons — and all kinds of crash courses on how to get and give consent. \"Every other day there's a new group sprouting up offering slick advertisements and products,\" says Sharyn Potter, a researcher at the University of New Hampshire. Schools don't want to risk stiff penalties, and \"corporations know that these administrators are panicking ... and shopping,\" she says. Potter says UNH can barely keep up with demand for a program it is selling called Bringing in the Bystander. Cited by the White House as one of the most promising, the program teaches students to recognize when trouble is brewing and how best to step in and try to stop it. Georgianna Meléndez, head of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, was one of about two dozen campus administrators from around New England who recently came to UNH to learn how to administer the program. Like many, she says she was spurred by the new federal mandate. \"It's making us step it up a lot faster,\" Meléndez says. \"There were certainly some things we weren't engaged in yet, we were talking about it. So now it's sort of like 'you need to get this done.' \" Bringing In The Bystander During the all-day training session, Caroline Leyva, lead training and curriculum development specialist at UNH's Prevention Innovations Research Center, demonstrates a series of exercises meant to increase empathy for survivors, educate students about consent and encourage bystander intervention. The day culminates with Leyva drilling the group members on what they would do in a series of hypotheticals. For example, she says: Imagine you're at a party and you see a girl who's really drunk being taken home by a guy who has told you he wants to hook up with her. A middle-aged administrator from a campus in New England ventures a solution. \"So we looked at the pros and cons and felt it was most appropriate to go home with them, to look out for the woman but then also to have a talk with your friend if his intentions are less than honorable,\" he says. Leyva offers a nod and then gently tries to prod the administrators to think more like 19-year olds, who would be loath to intervene if it means sounding all preachy and holier-than-thou to their friends. \"Help students be creative,\" she says. Rather than a direct confrontation, a student could walk over to the couple and ask if they want to go for pizza. Or maybe, she says, a student could just back up to a light switch and accidentally on purpose flip it on. \"It's like deer in a headlight,\" Leyva explains. \"It's going to halt the process for just a moment to let that person have an out.\" Bringing in the Bystander, which costs $1,600 plus $350 for training, can be run as one 90-minute session or as several sessions over the course of a week. Many other products on the market aim to do the trick in a lot less time. Tracking Progress Haven is a 45-minute online program that students do at home before they come to campus. A second 15-minute follow up is offered on campus later in the fall. Designed by EverFi, a company that has been offering online alcohol awareness programs since 2000, it includes basic education as well as exercises designed to boost students' willingness and ability to intervene. It's a slick design, with actors performing college party scene scenarios and a Wheel of Fortune-like device that students can \"spin\" for solutions. \"It's incredibly effective,\" says Rob Buelow, one of Haven's developers. \"Students are living and learning more and more in a digital world and to not use that environment to engage them on these issues is a real missed opportunity.\" Buelow says interest in the program has skyrocketed. Six hundred campuses are currently running it, twice what it was two years ago. Most schools pay between $10,000 and $20,000 a year, depending on their size. Part of the value, Buelow says, is that schools get a way to document that they're complying with the law, since the program tracks whether students have completed it. The company says exit surveys show students' attitudes improve after the course, especially those students with the most room for improvement. But many in the field remain skeptical of what they call click-through programs. \"These quick-and-dirty programs online are really good at marketing their product,\" says John Foubert, an Oklahoma State University professor who studies prevention and runs programs of his own. \"But I'm not at all convinced that they're effective at doing much of anything except documenting that policy has been met.\" There's Even An " ]

[ "The prosecutor for the International Criminal Court will present evidence next week of alleged war crimes committed in the Darfur region of Sudan, the court announced Thursday." ]

[ "The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor has nearly completed an investigation into war crimes in Sudan's Darfur region and has sufficient evidence to file charges soon, he said on Thursday.", "The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor will name the first suspects accused of committing war crimes in Sudan's Darfur region next Tuesday, the prosecutor's office said on Thursday.", "The International Criminal Court is close to launching prosecutions against war crimes suspects in Sudan's Darfur region, the chief prosecutor said Thursday.", "The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court said he believes he has evidence to prove who is most responsible for crimes against humanity in Sudan's Darfur region.", "The International Criminal Court's prosecutor on Tuesday named a former Sudanese junior minister and a militia leader as suspects in war crimes and crimes against humanity in the country's Darfur region", "International Criminal Court prosecutor (ICC) Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Thursday urged the UN Security Council to ensure that a Sudanese minister and a Khartoum-backed Janjaweed militia leader accused of war crimes in Darfur face justice.", "The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Tuesday named a Sudanese minister and a Janjaweed militia leader as the first war crimes suspects for the conflict in Darfur.", "UNITED NATIONS - The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court yesterday challenged the United Nations and its members to break their silence on two men he charged with war crimes in Darfur.", "The two Sudanese named by the International Criminal Court's prosecutor as suspects in war crimes in Darfur:", "The Christian Science Monitor - After 20 months, more than 100 formal witness statements, and visits to 17 countries, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Tuesday indicted a high-ranking Sudanese interior minister and a janjaweed militia leader on 51 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the ongoing crisis in Sudan's troubled Darfur region.", "Prosecutors for the International Criminal Court on Tuesday named a former Sudan state interior minister and a militia commander as the first suspects it wants tried for war crimes in Darfur.", "The International Criminal Court expects to finalize by February its first case against suspects who bear the greatest responsibility for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sudan's Darfur conflict, the chief prosecutor said in a report Wednesday.", "The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor named the first two suspects accused of committing war crimes in Sudan's Darfur region on Tuesday, a former state interior minister and a militia commander.", "The International Criminal Court has found sufficient evidence to identify the perpetrators of some of the worst atrocities in Sudan's Darfur region, and the probe offers \"reasonable grounds to believe\" that crimes against humanity were committed, chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo told the annual...", "The International Criminal Court's prosecutor on Tuesday will name suspects accused of crimes against humanity in Darfur, the first time the court has unveiled details of its investigation.", "U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon should press Sudan to arrest and hand over two suspects charged with war crimes in Darfur when he visits Khartoum next week, the chief prosecutor said on Friday.", "The International Criminal Court's prosecutor on Tuesday linked Sudan's government to atrocities in Darfur, naming a minister close to the president as a war crimes suspect who helped recruit, arm and bankroll the murderous desert fighters known as the janjaweed.", "Sudan on Thursday faced a fresh US warning of more sanctions if it does not quickly allow joint UN-African Union peacekeeping in Darfur and a demand from the International Criminal Court (ICC) to hand over two war crime suspects.", "The chief prosecutor today presented evidence against a former Sudanese minister and a janjaweed militia leader.", "A Bosnian Serb general indicted for war crimes is to be transferred to The Hague, the chief UN war crimes prosecutor says.", "The International Criminal Court is on Tuesday to name the first suspects accused of commiting war crimes in the Darfur region of Sudan.", "A Serb officer indicted for war crimes in the siege of Sarajevo during the 1992-95 Bosnian war was on his way to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague on Friday, chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte said.", "Chief U.N. war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte speaks with Serbia's President Boris Tadic The top United Nations war crimes prosecutor is meeting with Serbian authorities in Belgrade to review the ...Comment", "UNITED NATIONS : The UN&#39;s top rights official accused Sudan of failing the people of Darfur after her mission to the troubled region found evidence of probable war crimes.", "The International Criminal Court's prosecutor plans to charge suspects for atrocities in Darfur by February, nearly two years after the U.N. Security Council asked him to probe the Sudan region.", "The former chief military prosecutor for the planned war-crimes trials of Guantánamo detainees said he was pressured to rely increasingly on classified evidence.", "The U.S. military will begin filing war crimes charges against detainees at Guantanamo Bay this week under new rules for trials that allow coerced or hearsay evidence, the lead prosecutor for the tribunals said Tuesday.", "Sudan said Tuesday it will try three Sudanese for crimes committed in Darfur, including a member of the country's security forces who is being sought by an international war crimes court.", "Sudan must arrest a minister and a militia leader charged with war crimes, the ICC warns.", "Carla del Ponte, the UN's top prosecutor for war crimes at The Hague, is to give her final press conference.", "A Serb general indicted for war crimes in the siege of Sarajevo during the 1992-95 Bosnian war gave himself up to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague on Friday, chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte said.", "Chief U.N. war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte, international law experts and human rights activists gathered in Belgrade on Friday to review Serbia's shortcomings in dealing with war crimes committed during ..." ]

[ "To show gratitude and congratulate the performer. Its a clear way to see how well a performer did and how much the crowd enjoyed it. The performer can visually see the clapping and hear it. Its entirely cultural, common etiquette. Its not something people do naturally as a reaction to things they enjoy. The natural methods people use to demonstrate that they enjoy something are very subtle, things like smiling and body language, so in order for this to be conveyed to a performer on stage another method (clapping) evolved." ]

[ "Clapping isn't a reflex -- it's something you are taught to do. Likely, the same goes for this hand raising thing. Why does it happen? Probably because people like to do what is expected of them. (Or, what they expect is expected of them.)", "Pressure. If I see one person clapping, I might think, \"meh\" and sit. Someone is going to start clapping with that person most likely (in certain places). Now, I have the pressure of two people subliminally telling me to clap. The reason it takes a long time is because the number of people clapping increases in a somewhat exponential way. 1, 2, 4, 8, etc.", "It's something called a \"memetic\" (Or \"meme\"). That's when an idea or something appeals to one person, and is either talked about, show cased, displayed, so on to another person, and that person follows along and continues the path of talking, showing, etc. This applies with the cloths we wear, the language we speak, the way we act, what we know is right and wrong, cats on the internet, and so on. Memetics is what culture is made out of. Without it, humans would just rely on instinct like other animals. I do not know what the story behind the clapping part is, but there's probably a few answers to that. My guess is; let's say one man decided to think \"Hey, I like what this guy has done to entertain me. I need to show a way to show my appreciation for a job well done.\" So he decides to clap his hands to make noise. It's less rude than yelling, but serves the same purpose.", "Clapping is ancient and instinctive. Babies often clap hands together as soon as they learn that is makes a noise. There are references in the Hebrew Bible dating back thousands of years to clapping. Clapping to show appreciation of a performance seems to have been solidified in culture by the romans. The Romans had many different responses to a performance including clapping, snapping fingers, waving togas around, booing, all to convey appreciation or distain. In the European courts and stages applause became the respectful and polite way to show appreciation, while yelling and whistling was considered uncouth, low class, and plain bad manners.", "Clapping as a form of applause is ancient, and we know that at least the ancient Romans clapped to show approval at a performance or political speech. It is probably much older than that. Even the Standing Ovation dates back to ancient Rome, usually for returning victorious generals who did not quite earn a Triumph. Other forms of applause are wide spread and culturally dependent, from snapping fingers, chanting, stomping feet, or flapping cloth/clothing, and so forth. Basically any noise that when performed by a mass of people sounds unified and loud has been used as applause.", "If you look at crowds when they have to clap at the same time, it's never really in synch, there is always some people clapping too early and some clapping late. If the singer/entertainer takes the time to clap, the claps get a lot more synched, that's because everyone pays attention to one person's predictable gestures and time their clap with it. The conductor swings his stick in a way that every musician can time the notes in a predictable way. He also tells some musician when a side of the band isn't loud enough or one instrument doesn't sound right.", "The Romans would have different methods of expessing their appreciation of a performance such as waving a napkin, flapping a toga, clapping or snapping of fingers. Different gestures showed different levels of appreciation. Clapping is louder so I assume this is why we stuck with it.", "Whistling is hard. Collective screaming is chaotic. Clapping seems to be the best option for compliments. Or sarcasm if you do it in slo-mo.", "Are you talking about the clapping from John Fogerty's song \"Centerfield\"?", "There's no real reason really. We could have chosen any gesture to represent cheering such as snapping fingers or stomping feet. However, clapping makes a lot of noise, doesn't require another surface nearby, and takes barely any technique to be effective. Some people just started doing it, and it caught on because there wasn't a need for something different.", "To share with others or so that they can relive it later. Plus, recording a min or so of the concert isn’t going to stop someone from “living in the moment” considering the shows typically last much longer than that.", "hi! there's always room for more contributions, but FYI this question has come up a few times; see here for previous responses [When did people start clapping to show appreciation?](_URL_1_) [Is clapping/applause a \"pre-historical\" concept? Do we have evidence of it being written/drawn about and spread through cultures?](_URL_2_) [How did the round of applause come into being?](_URL_4_) [When did the act of applause become commonplace?](_URL_0_) [How/when did clapping become an appropriate form of appreciation?](_URL_3_)", "The concert, for these people, is an experience. If they just wanted to listen to the music, they could do that at home or in their car. At a concert, the music is live (and *alive*), it is louder, and the whole experience is different. Many people cannot contain themselves. They are overcome with emotion and energy, and they react to it. Undoubtedly we have been conditioned to react to it a certain way, based on how we have seen other concertgoers react, but it's fairly universal that certain music makes many people want to *move*. This is more fun for many people. They didn't just listen to music. They danced. I usually prefer to just listen and \"dance\" while seated, but I'm in the minority.", "It is often so loud down on the field that anything verbal is hard to get across reliably. A good clap is louder and easier for the center to discriminate from all the other noise. Plus it provides a visual cue to the guys far away (wide receivers etc.).", "You've picked it up by watching others in your culture do it. There's no biological reason, it's just the \"appropriate\" response to convey your feelings in certain situations. It's like how you clap to show approval or nod your head 'yes', or shake your head 'no'. The response in other cultures may be different.", "Honestly the rules for this sub is a pain in the ass for questions like this. This can be answered easily, but the rules says I have to have a shit ton of words to comment. But the reason is simply, it's for the show. It's an act to entertain the audience", "It is really just kind of a ritualized release of energy built up during the performance - from the highs, lows, awe, dread, excitement and what not. People have stomped their feet, jumped up and down, flailed about excessively at various times in our cultural history to express this energy in different ways.", "it's building hype. and in many cases they: (one of this options) 1. love the crowd, so they want to give them more 2. pretend to love the crowd, so they want to make them happy.", "It's what they are performing. It's helpful so that they can make sure they're on beat, on key, and remaining audible. In a large concert situation, it can be easy for the performer to get drowned out and not hear what they are doing, and get off track without realizing it.", "Lots of reasons, but here are two big ones: Microphones pick up nearby sounds really well. They pick up all of the sounds of the audience nearby better than they pick up the sound from the stage. This can be fixed by buying a directional microphone on a boom and pointing it towards the stage. Another reason is that most phones and camcorders use automatic gain control - that means that when it's really quiet, they increase the recording volume, and when it's really loud, they decrease it. That's great for everyday recording but horrible for music, it makes the band suddenly drop in volume everytime people clap. A pro camcorder will have the ability to turn off AGC and let you monitor audio levels manually instead.", "You would only hear the claps close to you. When you clap, you send waves of pressure through the air, which is rather like ripples on the water of a lake. Imagine you have a small lake, and throw a handful of gravel into it making the stones hit the waters surface at the same time. This symbolizes a lot of people clapping at the same time. The waves would interfere, and dissipate in all different directions, but they will not amplify each other. You won't get one huge wave, you'll only get lots of smaller ones. The same goes for clapping in air. You'll hear people clapping here and there close to you, and maybe the harmonics will carry individual sounds very far. But you won't get one really loud clap.", "Well they believe the action is worth a high five but the person is probably on a stage so they just high five themselves", "In my experience, it's babies imitating what they see adults do when adults are happy. When a baby does something, adults tend to clap and cheer to encourage the baby. For example, when you're encouraging a baby to crawl in your direction, to call its name, talk in a pleasant voice, and often clap. \"Come on, Tommy, come over here, that's a good boy, yay! You made it!\"", "Artist: Hey, I gotta pee. Brb. --- It's just expected these days, and part of the act now. It *may* have been in the past that the crowd would have gotten them back to play something else (\"don't let the night end! You guys SO rock!!!\") but now, it's part of the price of the show. But hey, you dreamers out there go on believing \"YEAH! We got 'em back out!\" is a thing.", "When I was in school that was a sorority thing. Clapping isn't lady like or something. I think only one actually followed that thought.", "Their main income is from touring and live performances. Also, merchandise such as clothing (concert tees and such) Many pop artists have secondary incomes like clothing lines (J. Lo) and perfumes (Brittney Spears), even dolls (Taylor Swift). They do still sell albums via iTunes and physical CDs. They also get royalties when their music is played in streaming services and on the radio. They *can* sell the rights or grant permission for their music to be used in movies, commercials, TV shows, etc. **Most importantly; if you like a band, go see them live! This really is the highest level of support you can give them. Plus, concerts are awesome. No one has ever died saying that regretted going to so many concerts!**", "It's sort of to recognize what the athlete has given for the audience. They're out there risking serious injury for our entertainment; when they have a close call and are able to stand, we applaud to show our appreciation for that risk and the strength that lets them continue.", "Cooked something really nice? Show it. Lost a few/lot of extra pounds? Show your transformation off. Have kids that make you feel proud to be their parents? Show why you are. Have cats that you love? Sure why not, just show it, people love animals. People like to show others things that they are proud of.", "They may be what is called [beat deaf](_URL_0_). This is a fairly new discovery and not much research has been done on it yet. People with beat deafness can have normal hearing but they are unable to synchronize their body movements to a beat. It is a rare condition and seems to be related to a part of the brain that processes rhythms. Personally, I enjoy music and I can hear the beat in most music, but if I’m at a concert where everyone starts clapping to the beat, I’m lost. I have to look at other people and try to clap when they clap, but even then I don’t get it right. I can’t tap my foot or bob my head reliably to music. I can’t dance, even though every girl I’ve ever been with has tried to teach me and I even paid good money for professional lessons to no avail. I’m not uncoordinated in other areas; I can play most sports well enough. It has been a life long hinderance and it becomes frustrating when people don’t understand that I’m not just being obstreperous.", "To get over the ambient noise. People don't shut up, and hundreds to thousands of people all yammering away that's a lot of noise to get over top of. Go to a busy restaurant, and then sit for a few minutes and listen to how loud it actually gets with so many people talking.", "This might be a better question for /r/Anthropology. This is a pre-history question. Clapping or applauding has likely been used as a way of showing approval or joy since our earliest human ancestors emerged. Primates applause (making noise through various means such as clapping, snapping, stomping, etc) to communicate, to get attention, and when pleased or frightened. There is no recorded history of the \"conception\" of applause, as far as I'm aware. Applause is ubiquitous in humanity's cultures and throughout recorded history. A better question might be \"what is the history of applause\" in a particular culture. The Romans for example, used different methods of applause to communicate degrees of approval or disapproval.", "Wait, we clap now. What happened to throwing feces?" ]

[ "[\"Hit 'login' at the top right of the page.\", 'Sign in with your email and password.', \"Hover over your username at the top right of the screen, click on 'Account'.\", \"Click on 'Connected Accounts'.\", 'Scroll down and you should see the following image:']" ]

[ "Rarest Fortnite Skins & Cosmetics They won't be back again unless Epic changes their policy completely.", "Developer Epic Games has changed how challenges work in Fortnite season 10, aka season X. Instead of daily challenges, there are Limited Time Mission Objectives that unlock a new objective every day.", "Will Fortnite be cancelled in 2020? ... This caused a great deal of distress among the games fans, while some fake Epic Games Twitter accounts posted that Fortnite will be shutting down, owing to the lawsuit and demanding development.", "Epic is bringing back an OG skin. The Ghoul Trooper will rise again in Fortnite. ... Epic Games, the developer of the popular battle royale game, on Wednesday brought back the Ghoul Trooper skin according to the Fortnite Twitter account Wednesday. This comes after the developer teased the news earlier in the day.", "A now-deleted tweet from a fake Epic Games account said: “Fortnite will be shutting down on September 26th 2018.", "Epic Games' Fortnite is said to be shutting down in June 2020. ... In addition to deleted tweets from fake Epic Games accounts, there were also concerns back in October 2019 that the game had died thanks to its black hole event that eventually culminated with the birth of Fortnite Chapter 2.", "Legendary Flux is an Account Resource in Fortnite Save the World used to upgrade an Epic rarity Hero or Schematic to Legendary. They come in pairs of 5 and can be bought at the Event Store.", "Epic Games' Fortnite World Cup Finals Will Have a $30 Million Prize Pool - Fortnite Arena in v8.", "'Fortnite' X 'Avengers: Endgame' Event Is Live With An Awesome New Mode: Here's How It Works. A brand new Avengers: Endgame mode just went live in 'Fortnite: Battle Royale. ... Last year around the time of Avengers: Infinity War's release, Epic Games and Marvel teamed up on a special Thanos-themed Fortnite mode.", "Share All sharing options for: Fortnite is out of 'early access,' Save the World no longer going free to play. Fortnite is dropping its early access label, Epic Games announced on Tuesday, as part of a change to the game's original survival mode, Save the World. ... More details are available at Epic's website.", "While there was a copyright battle against the game, it now seems Fortnite is safe, for now. ... A now-deleted tweet from a fake Epic Games account said: “Fortnite will be shutting down on September 26th 2018. “We just simply can't keep up with the big demand.", "We are sorry to inform you that Fortnite Battle Royale Will be coming to an end May 24, 2018. ... A now-deleted tweet from a fake Epic Games account said: “Fortnite will be shutting down on September 26th 2018. “We just simply can't keep up with the big demand.", "This caused a great deal of distress among the games fans, while some fake Epic Games Twitter accounts posted that Fortnite will be shutting down, owing to the lawsuit and demanding development. ... However, Epic Games has said nothing to this effect, instead speaking a lot on the contrary!", "Epic tweeted on the Fortnite Status Twitter account five days ago that the Bandage Bazooka has been disabled from core, competitive, and playground playlists, so basically all of them. The reason for it being disabled is due to syncing issues caused by the item. ... 20 Fortnite update.", "Lightsabers are no longer in Fortnite as they have been removed by Epic Games. The discontinuation of lightsabers is because the Fortnite Winterfest event has come to an end.", "Epic Games have revealed/released what the Fortnite Season 10/X secret mystery skin is. The name of the skin is “The Scientist”. ... However, this was changed an hour ago to “The Scientist”, and Epic have revealed that the skin in in fact the Season 10 mystery/secret skin.", "Fortnite's creator made $7 billion this year At least one person is winning big off the video-game phenomenon that is Fortnite: Tim Sweeney, founder and CEO of Fortnite developer Epic Games. Fortnite reportedly generates $2.5 million a day in revenue, which helped Epic Games rake in $3 billion in profits in 2018.", "Are Lightsabers available in Fortnite Competitive? No, this Lightsabers in Fortnite are only available for pubs/casual games and will not be making their way into Arena or any practice cups at all. Epic has seen how an over-powered weapon like this could easily ruin the 'competitive' nature of the game in seconds.", "Fortnite seemingly shut down by Epic Games to end Season X. Fortnite, the battle royale game that has become a worldwide phenomenon, is gone.", "Fortnite servers are back online as Epic Games has finished implementing the latest update for the popular battle royale game. Epic confirmed the downtime for Fortnite had finished at around 8:50am today after the game was offline for roughly an hour.", "It's called Apex Legends, and it's a free-to-play battle royale game in the vein of Epic Games' hugely successful and influential Fortnite. In keeping with the surprise approach, the game isn't just being announced today: it's also launching. You can download it right now on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.", "Fortnite is still just a game, not a publicly traded company. You also can't invest in the privately-held Epic Games. What you can do is invest in Tencent ($TCEHY). ... Since the company owns nearly half of Epic Games, it's the closest you can get to investing in Fortnite.", "Epic Games has made considerable changes to \"Fortnite Battle Royale\" with the release of Chapter 2, Season 2 back in February 2020. ... The community believes that the Pump Shotgun, one of the most popular weapons in the game, has been secretly changed.", "Fortnite Save The World Will No Longer Be Free. Epic Games have announced the PvE Fortnite mode, Save the World, will no longer be offered free to play in the future.", "GTA 5 does not support cross platform or crossplay between Epic Games, PS4, and Xbox One in 2020. ... This will obviously disappoint a number of gamers as the ability to play with mates on other platforms has become more common in recent years with the likes of Fortnite, Warzone, and even Predator Hunting Grounds.", "Both Epic Games and PUBG Corp. are partly owned by Chinese firm Tencent. Both Fortnite and PUBG also use Epic Games' Unreal Engine.", "“Fortnite” is made by Cary, N.C.-based Epic Games, which isn't publicly traded.", "The Bandage Bazooka has been missing in Fortnite for about a week and a half. ... Epic removed the Bandage Bazooka from Fortnite on November 9, citing syncing issues as the reason for its disappearance. To this day, many players still don't know exactly why Epic removed it in the first place.", "FortTory Gingerbread texture pack, potentially for a future Fortnite Pet. While the texture pack and its name has been revealed, the return of the 'Merry Marauder' skin or a Gingerbread Man inspired piece of Back Bling has not yet been confirmed. ... Epic Games New characters from Epic Games for Fortnite Season 7.", "Epic promptly removed the excessive bots from the game, but people started blaming him, believing he had compelled Epic to bring SBMM back. But, as Ninja says, “Sypher you ruined Fortnite!”", "In what appears to get a gigantic marketing stunt, Epic Games has literally deleted Fortnite from the internet after the end of their Season 10 'The End' event. ... Epic is now live streaming the black hole on the official Fortnite Twitch channel, where at the time of writing there were close to 40,000 people streaming it.", "Ziplines return to Fortnite. After nine days, they're back. After nine days, Epic Games has finally fixed a Zipline bug and brought them back to Fortnite." ]

[ "As the title suggests (\"The Raw Life\"), author Paul Nison advocates a departure from the usual American diet, which is decidely heavy on animal protein and animal fat. If you want to follow the regimen to the letter, even such staples as fish and poultry are to be eliminated, as is any food, regardless of origin, to which you apply heat.\nRaw fruits and vegetable comprise the totality of the suggested diet. Moreover, you eat only certain combinations of raw food at any one sitting.\nMy take on the diet is that it would help the typical overweight American, but would also prove to be extremely difficult to follow. For example, with salad bars on the wane, where could one realistically dine in a social situation, such as at a restaurant with family and friends? Eating is as much social as it is biological.\nI think that if you have the requisite will power, excess weight and bad dietary habits probably aren't a problem for you as it is for most of the rest of us. To help with the required commitment, the author creates a series of fictive \"enemies\" that have to be taken on and defeated. One by one, readers are inveighed to take on and vanquish the challenges of \"Sugar Man\" and \"Smoking Man\". Some people will find this approach helpful, while others will find it overdone and hokey.\nI offer one caution, if you decide to follow the Raw Life diet religiously. Author Nison freely admits that a Vitamin B-12 deficiency is a possibility, if one eats only vegetables and fruits. In an evolutionary sense, mankind probably ingested some small amounts of animal protein, even before the invention of cooking. This was probably taken in the form of small animals, insects, and fish. Since most folk probably won't be able to follow the strict diet completely, B-12 deficiency won't pose a problem.\nNonetheless, lack of sufficient Vitamin B-12 over time can pose significant problems. If you follow the book to the letter, you may wish to eventually consider B-12 supplementation, by using injections or by using tablets that are absorbed sublingually (i.e., placed under your tongue).\n\"The Raw Life\" is an intriguing and potentially useful book. Readers should realize that following the dietary changes will require serious changes in thinking and in lifestyle." ]

[ "When plugging the headpiece into my Panasonic phone, it gives a static noise unless you position it until it stops. This is in time of using it . I believe I 've had this since 2011\nIt still does the job somewhat", "Perfect! Arrived vacuum sealed with a separate, black zip lock bag to keep the loose tea leaves fresh after opening. By far, the best White Darjeeling tea I 've found.", "Fun Activities To Do With Your Kids was a terrific book. I\"ve been looking for more fun and entertaining things to do with my little boy and this helped a ton. Thanks so much really awesome book!", "Really nice boot. Have other Bogs that have been great also. This pair is for my daughter, and have not had them out in the cold yet, so don't know how warm there going to ve.", "Unfortunately I will never get the time back I wasted reading this book. Badly written, stupid plot (if you can call it a plot) and it has the reader wishing that heroine does commit suicide so you don't have to listen to her whine anymore.", "Just to let you know I`ve used many bibles in the past and so far feel\nthis NKJV Signature bible by Nelson is the best.\n\n Allan of Glasgow bibles have yet to come up with a quality NKJV bible.\nThe calfskin leather is soft and it opens and feels like a dream.\nThe paper is also what I like since inferior paper tends to dry out\nmy hands!\nThe pages are in a quality binding and will stay intact for a long time.\nAs for the format less is better for me. I would rather read the bible\nand focus on the word than comments from elsewhere.\nBuy it you`ll like it!", "As usual J.D. Robb leaves you wondering where she gets her ideas for her books. They leave you questioning whether Dallas will get the perpetrator before he commits another murder . I love thr interactions she has woth Roark, Peabody and the other players.", "Our Kitty loves this OurPets toy the best out of the few we got because of the feathers. All of these products are FILLED! STUFFED! to the max with very fine, quality catnip and you can tell the difference. Buster loves it!", "I am a BIG James Bond fan since I was young I\"ve seen every JB movie since 1963.\nAny I started to collect the James Bond movies 1st in VHS format then in DVD (singles) but no one store had all the collection together, the store that almost had the whole collection was costco and I went back and forth lookin.\nThen I was looking through Amazon and there they were and I jumped on this.\n\nJohnnie Waller\n\nPS, and the price was cool too!", "Products work just fine, clear, nice and loud, bright sounding. However, you don't get the colors that are pictured. I got 8 (eight) pink shakers - and I have mostly boys in my class.... the boys don't want pink shakers!", "The story is about a racist, who was involved in a murder, of two children, and disfiguring their father. He is being sentence to death via the gas chamber for this murder, that he only helped, but did not fully commit (Although he had committed many other crimes in the past)\n\nAs one writer said the first half of this book is about this terrible racist man who deserves to die. The second half on the book was about the same man, but he is now portrayed as a guy with a heart, and was truly sorry, and thru the true story you learn that he didn't wish for anyone to die, just a different kinda crime to be committed.\n\nI wasn't able to finish this book, because the plot became very predictable, and the facts about what happens when someone suffers at the hands of the chamber became too much for me.", "Good. The adapter is the 5v -2a and doesn't charge as fast as I wanted. The 5.3v-2a charger that I have and thought I was getting chargers super fast with this cable. The data cable is just fine. I should have looked at the description that I was getting a regular adapter. Because the 5v-2a is normal with almost every charger and I got a whole bunch of normal chargers. If you want fast charging this type of cable is fine but the adapter is average.", "The fabric is kind of stiff and it smelled like dye when I got it, but it's pretty and after a washing was fine!", "I did not receive the item pictured. I got the full size version elm327 not the fineed mini elm337.", "Media is not recognized - hence you cannot play music when plugged into this. Bummer.\n\nUpdate - Something was up with my Aux cable. Changing from 3 to 5. It works just fine. I got to say awesome customer support though - they took my review seriously. OMG.", "This is my first review. I feel motivated to discourage people from buying this DVD. Akira has long been one of my favorite movies and I consider it a must see. It would be a good addition to any collection. However the voiceovers for this DVD have been changed as well as some of the lines, and it sucks. Akira fans will be very disappointed. Perhaps people who?ve never seen the movie won?t mind since they have no basis for comparison, but long time fans are sure to be disappointed.", "the other flavors I got were fine. But this one had a weird after taste. Im not sure why. Not buying this flavor again", "the bracelet was toooooo small for an adult. my grandson got it for his birthday and it fit him fine, he is only 2 years old.", "Was a bit shorter than I expected, but so was the dress I got it to go under, so it worked out fine! This is what dance pants are for..." ]

[ "[According to the German wiki](_URL_1_), Der Adler was an air-force propaganda magazine published between 1939 and 1944 with a total of 146 numbers. They are not overly common and apparently, according to the [German Central Magazine Database](_URL_0_), there was a reprint in 1977. So don't be surprised if you find them at ridiculously low prices, for those seem to be said reprints." ]

[ "I would like to say that the American ex-pat community living in Paris after WWI, i.e. the \"Lost Generation,\" had something to do with it. What I can say for certain is that the idea existed in American culture by the late 1930's/early 1940's and was reinforced by some of the more enduring pieces of media from that era, e.g. *Casablanca* (When Rick says, \"We'll always have Paris\" and the flashbacks to La Belle Aurore). Movies like that are the source of a surprising number of references throughout subsequent eras, which I would say reinforces", "Sure. They get you interested about history and make you start asking questions.", "The earliest work I've read which described decades as such was \"A Rose for Emily\", which was published in 1930. It describes some part of her house being reminiscent of the 70's- the 1870's.", "Not so much an event as a person, King David is evidenced in the archaeological record by things like the Tel Dan stele, a carving discovered in Israel in the 90's. In addition, in 2014 a team from Mississippi State found several bullae (clay seals) that date from this era that may support the existence of David's kingdom.", "Textbooks seem to have been available for that purpose. _URL_1_ (blog post from independent scholar indicating three to six 1930's era--post Scopes--textbooks available that taught fundamental evolutionary concepts well, though may have used synonyms for most contentious terms). Google scholar is productive if you search for \"biology education 1940 evolution.\" (Several paywalled articles, but find something that's cited by a bunch, and check through the citing works.) Try this article (\"Biological education in American Schools, 1890-1960\") seems on point, if you can find it. _URL_0_", "Certainly. The works of Randall Bytwerk are very useful. The three titles I've read by him are *Bending Spines: The Propagandas of Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic*, *Doctor Goebbels: His Life and Death*, and *Julius Streicher: Nazi Editor of the Notorious Anti-Semitic Newspaper Der Stuermer*. Bytwerk also maintains a fantastic [website dedicated to Nazi and East German propaganda](_URL_0_). I would also recommend David Welch *Propaganda and the German Cinema 1933-1945*. For an online resource, check out the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's online site for their past exhibit [State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda](_URL_1_).", "The Nazi government provided some support to [Konrad Zuse](_URL_3_). They also excused him from military service so that he could continue to develop his computers. He started working on his first computer, the Z1, using his own funds in 1934. Later he received funding from the Aerodynamic Research Institute for his Z2, Z3 and Z4 (though the Z4 wasn't completed until after the war). His computers were used for some computations for aircraft design, but were not a serious contribution to the German war effort. He continued his computer work after the war. As for Turing's work in the 1930's, and that of other computer science pioneers like Alonzo Church (Turing's adviser at Princeton), their papers were openly published in the 1930's. Apparently Konrad Zuse was not familiar with them though.", "Yes, there are. However, that's a lot of information to review...in lieu of me typing a novel, is there a more specific question you have?", "Because you live in the West. Hitler's atrocities are more personal to you and your countrymen. If you lived in Asia you would hear a lot more about Mao and 1930's/1940's Japan.", "Airships had reached the limits of their possibilities in the 1930's, while planes were making rapid advances in speed, range, ceiling and rough-weather capacities. The Nazi's weren't very interested in airships, and a number of other disasters before 1940 (USS Akron, USS Macon and British R 101) has shown the weaknesses of airships.", "Short answer: No. The hyperinflated reichsmarks were decomissioned and as such rendered effectively useless to anyone but a collector. That said, they do have a bit of a collectible value so I suppose some people may eventually have made a bit of money that way. Source: When Money Dies - Fergusson, A. 2010", "Please don't throw them away! A massive problem for historians trying to study the day to day lives of people outside the ruling classes of society is the lack of written documents concerning their lives. The problem is, as you have said, that people regard these letters as superfluous due to their content and don't bother preserving them or just throw them away. This leads to a shortage of actual primary sources that we can use to find out about the day to day lives of ordinary people. Letters between ordinary people are a useful way of finding out about how they lived, what things were of greatest concern to them (usually mentioned frequently in letters or often at the beginning) and what relationships they had. It might be worth trying to find someone who can do a proper transcription and translation and give you a better idea of what the letters say. I'm sure future generations of your family will be fascinated to read about their ancestors lives and to have such a physical link.", "Who was the listed publisher? That would have some implications on the goal. Also, is there any accompanying material -- any interpretation or notes attached?", "I asked a similar question from a poster on here a little while back with a great list of books, none of which I've had time to read unfortunately. For the sake of completeness I'll provide a link to the original discussion below and you can see if it's of any value to you. _URL_0_", "You're asking more for an opinion than to explain a concept. This isn't really the right subreddit for that. Try maybe /r/askreddit or an educational subreddit for your question, perhaps. But that being said, they'll likely continue to come down in price over time.", "Back when I was a pirate in the 2000's it wasn't uncommon for me to have a copy of a movie before opening day. There's always a leak. Back then I found them on Usenet.", "Yes they usually are, though it sometimes depends on what you’re doing with it. As I counsel the Rhet 101 students at the archives, \"primary sources\" are often about how you're approaching the document. An article written in a college paper in 1950 on methods for students to protect their health *could* be a secondary source on the topic (though largely a worthless one now as it's so outdated), but if you're writing about say teen and young adult health in the 50s it can be a primary source for attitudes on health, methods of presentation of information to them, etc. So sometimes it’s about the angle. [The Yale guide to primary sources](_URL_0_) talks about this very well I think.", "Sort of, kind of, *yes* but not really... I expand on this considerably more in [this old response](_URL_0_) which I would recommend to you. I can do my best with follow ups if you have any.", "It's called a \"long s\" and this is the character you say is similar to an f \" ſ \". It was used when there was an \"s\" at the beginning or in the middle of a word as in Greek initial and medial σ and the final ς. For instance the German Eszett ß is a development of the ligature of \"ſs\", that's why it's also known as double s and the last name Gauss is written as Gauß in german along many other words. I don't know much about its decline but i hope this helps :)", "Yes. Here's a nice review article on them! There are tons, actually. _URL_5_", "School desegregation, while important to the NAACP, was far from the most important or most emphasized program they followed for cultural equalization. Remember that the NAACP was founded in 1909 and was a nationwide organization with hundreds of chapters with different, yet similar, goals. Throughout the years the NAACP pushed for many different cases, anti-lynching legislation in the 1910's-1930's, Military desegregation in the 1940's, bus desegregation with the prime example of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery NAACP leading the charge in Alabama. They also tackled restaurant segregation, bus stations, public parks, police brutality, housing laws, equal pay, voter registration and many more. While the importance of *Brown v. Board* absolutely cannot be understated, School Desegregation wasn't their only goal by far.", "Probably because you associate the styles they’re dressed in with the people who are from that era. What was popular in the 50’s-90’s with the youth is still getting worn by people from that era only they’re older. Hairstyles mostly. That’s why a lot of senior citizens wear their hair in curls bc it was popular in the 50’s. When we get old I suspect us to be wearing the same style clothes pretty much, and they’ll be considered “old” in time too.", "modern type refrigerators were prototyped in 1911 and became commercially available by 1913. Despite this most homes and businesses continued to use ice boxes which used ice cut from lakes and glaciers to cool. In 1928 Freon was created by DuPont which greatly accelerated the rate of adoption of modern refrigerators through the 1930's and 1940's. [The story of the Refrigerator](_URL_0_) PDF by the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers.", "As far as I can tell the premise of your question is flawed. I haven't been able to find anything that shows there was any national taboo surrounding the word \"cancer\" prior to the 1980's. Rather I've found several sources from the era in question that *do* use the word. *Edit: [Example #1](_URL_1_), [Example #2](_URL_0_)* This is not to say that there has never been taboo surrounding cancer, or that euphemisms have never been employed to reference it. Simply that I can find no evidence that there was a widespread national taboo on the word prior to the 1980's.", "A serious of scrolls that were discovered in the 1940's and are the oldest known written from of the old testament as well as various other deuterocanonical texts.", "What do you consider the early days of ghettoization? The first mention of a ghetto is from 1084. However, I get the feeling you refer to the 1940's", "You'd like looking up for \"Der gerade Weg\" (The right way). It was a newspaper edited by Franz Gehrlich in the 1930s which fiercely opposed Nationalsocialism. In the internet you can find much of the content prior to its ban and Gehrlich's arrest by the Nazis in 1933. I think the political satirical illustrations might fit into the sort of critique you are asking about. I'd link it here but I'm in a hurry right now. Also I don't remember if there's any of it available in english, (assuming that you can't understand german; otherwise there will be no problem finding it online).", "From how blind people were depicted in art throughout history, it doesn't seem like they wore anything over their eyes before sunglasses. A few examples: Pieter Bruegel the Elder's [*Blind leading the blind*](_URL_1_) from 1568 [The blind girl](_URL_2_) by John Millais from 1856, [Blinds in the ditch](_URL_5_) by James Tissot around 1880's. [Two blind women](_URL_3_), cartoon by Charles Dana Gibson around 1900's. Sunglasses became widespread after [Sam Foster started selling them in Atlantic City in 1929](_URL_0_). Prior to this there were examples of handmade sunglasses but they seemed rather rare to find. (Just a personal note: it seems that dark glasses became so widespread after 1929 that even [Abing](_URL_4_), a blind homeless Chinese street musician wore them in his only known photo from 1930's-1940's.)", "They're still being published. I have an extra from 2003 and the invasion of Iraq, for example.", "Nope. read this, and then read the citations.... _URL_0_ then read this, particularly the last paragraph or two: _URL_1_", "> The sexual connotations of the phrase \"make out\" appear to have developed in the 1930s and 1940s from the phrase's other meanings of \"to succeed\". Such as, \"I went to Las Vegas and made out really well\"", "[This has been asked before, and there are a few links to them, if you can find them useful :)](_URL_0_)" ]

[ "Antarctica" ]

[ "Ross & Rachel", "\"This Land Is Your Land\"", "Mounting", "Betsy Ross", "Victor/Victoria", "Diana Ross", "radium (discovered by the Curies)", "Victoria Gotti", "Doug Ross", "Marion Ross", "Katherine Ross", "Victoria Cross", "Victoria & Albert", "Victoria's Secret", "Victoria Principal", "\"Victor Victoria\"", "S-A", "Temple Mount", "Victoria Abril", "Mount Carmel", "horse (or mount)", "Victoria Woodhull", "S", "Mount Shasta", "the Sermon on the Mount", "a land bridge", "landing gear", "the landing of the Mayflower", "Land Management", "Landing strip", "Mount Sinai", "land mines" ]

[ "Blood tests For example, if the lymphoma invades the bone marrow (where new blood cells are made) a person might have anemia (not enough red blood cells). A high white blood cell count is another possible sign of HL, although it can also be caused by infection." ]

[ "White blood cells fight infection. A normal white blood cell count is between 5,000 and 10,000 cells. A white blood cell count below 1,000 cells increases the risk of infection.", "With a low white blood cell count and, in particular, a low level of neutrophils (neutropenia), a type of white blood cell that fights infection, you're at higher risk of developing an infection. And if you develop an infection when you have a low white blood cell count, your body can't protect itself.", "White blood cell count A mono infection typically causes your body to produce more white blood cells as it tries to defend itself. A high white blood cell count can't confirm an infection with EBV, but the result suggests that it's a strong possibility.", "Understanding the WBC (white blood cell) count A white blood cell (WBC) count is a test that measures the number of white blood cells in your body. This test is often included with a complete blood count (CBC).", "Your doctor will conduct a complete blood count (CBC) to determine if you have leukemia. This test may reveal if you have leukemic cells. Abnormal levels of white blood cells and abnormally low red blood cell or platelet counts can also indicate leukemia.", "White blood cell count and your thyroid Hashimoto's causes a high number of white blood cells to build up in the thyroid gland. White blood cells then produce antibodies that start attacking the thyroid (6).", "If you have fewer than normal white blood cells, you have a higher risk of getting an infection. When you have a low white blood cell count, your immune system isn't working as well as it should.", "['Acute abdominal pain.', 'Low-grade fever.', 'High white blood cell count.']", "Hodgkin lymphoma starts when an abnormal change to the DNA of a white blood cell (called a lymphocyte) causes it to become a lymphoma cell that, if untreated, results in the uncontrolled growth of cancerous lymphocytes.", "Treating a low white blood cell count A blood test can tell you if your white blood cell count is low. Your treatment will depend on what is causing your condition and will often include antibiotics. You may also need specific treatment: to boost your white blood cells.", "High white blood cell count during pregnancy Typically, white blood cell count is elevated during pregnancy, with the lower limit of the reference range being around 6,000 cells per μl and the upper limit around 17,000 cells per μl. The stress imposed on the body through pregnancy causes this rise in white blood cells.", "A low white blood cell count is called neutropenia . If you have a low white blood cell count, you may: Have repeated fevers and infections. Get bladder infections that may make it painful to pass urine, or make you urinate more often.", "Low white blood cell count. A low white blood cell count usually means your body isn't making enough white blood cells. It can increase your risk of all sorts of infections.", "High Blood Pressure Med May Increase Risk of Low White Blood Cell Count. A common drug used to treat high blood pressure may elevate the risk in some patients of a condition in which a person's white blood cell count is severely diminished, leaving them more susceptible to infection.", "A red blood cell count that's higher than normal (erythrocytosis), or high hemoglobin or hematocrit levels, could point to an underlying medical condition, such as polycythemia vera or heart disease. White blood cell count.", "Lymphoma is a type of tumor that starts in white blood cells called lymphocytes, and when it is not cancerous, it is called benign lymphoma, pseudolymphoma, or benign lymphoid hyperplasia (BLH).", "White blood cells are vital components of the blood. Their role is to fight infection, and they are essential for health and well-being. A high white blood cell count may indicate that the immune system is working to destroy an infection. It may also be a sign of physical or emotional stress.", "['An insufficient supply of healthy red blood cells (anemia)', 'A large number of white blood cells due to long-term illness, infection or a white blood cell disorder such as leukemia or lymphoma.', 'Vitamin or mineral deficiencies.', 'Recent or long-term blood loss.']", "Increased white blood cells in urine may indicate: A bacterial urinary tract infection. This is the most common cause of a high white blood cell count in urine. Inflammation of the urinary tract or kidneys.", "A low white blood cell count in adults is less than 4,000 cells per microliter of blood. A low white blood cell count can be an indicator of certain conditions, including lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, vitamin deficiencies, or a side effect of cancer treatment. Low White Blood Cell Count Menu.", "Leukopenia: A low white blood cell count. A decrease in the production of functional leukocytes (white blood cells) weakens the body's immune defense, which may make you more prone to infections. Thrombocytopenia: A low blood platelet count. Platelets are the blood cells responsible for blood clotting.", "The definition of low white blood cell count varies from one medical practice to another. In general, for adults a count lower than 4,000 white blood cells per microliter of blood is considered a low white blood cell count. For children, that threshold varies with age.", "The white blood cell (WBC) count indicates the number of white blood cells in a sample of blood. This count provides a clue to the presence of illness. White blood cells are made in the bone marrow and protect the body against infection and aid in the immune response.", "Complete blood count ( CBC ): This measures the number of red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets you have. It can tell your doctor if multiple myeloma is keeping you from making enough blood cells, and if so, how far off your count is.", "Complete blood count (CBC). This test measures the presence of 10 cell types in the white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets. Examples of these results include hematocrit, hemoglobin, red blood cell count, and white blood cell count. CBC results are usually available to your doctor within 24 hours.", "A type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in which too many T-cell lymphoblasts (immature white blood cells) are found in the lymph nodes and spleen. It is most common in young men. Also called precursor T-lymphoblastic lymphoma.", "What is diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL)? Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is a common type of fast-growing non-Hodgkin lymphoma. It develops when B-cells (also called B-lymphocytes) become abnormal. B-cells are white blood cells that fight infection.", "During delivery and in the hours that follow, the white blood cell count range can be anywhere between 9,000 and 25,000 white blood cells per μl of blood. The white blood cell count will typically return to normal around four-weeks after delivery.", "If your doctor believes you might have sepsis, he'll do an exam and run tests to look for the following: Bacteria in the blood or other body fluids. The source of the infection (he may use an X-ray, CT scan, or ultrasound) A high or low white blood cell count.", "A high white blood cell count may indicate that the cat is harboring an infection, is under extraordinary amount of stress, or is affected by a serious and chronic illness. A platelet count measures the concentration of these disk-shaped blood cells that are necessary for blood clotting.", "An absolute eosinophil count is a blood test that measures the number of one type of white blood cells called eosinophils. Eosinophils become active when you have certain allergic diseases, infections, and other medical conditions. Blood is comprised of red blood cells, platelets, and various white blood cells.", "These tests include: Laboratory tests. Blood tests may include a complete blood count (CBC) and an analysis of the different types of white blood cells, in addition to the erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR or \"sed rate\") and liver and kidney function tests. Blood tests alone cannot detect Hodgkin lymphoma." ]

[ "By . Victoria Woollaston . PUBLISHED: . 05:41 EST, 17 July 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 06:01 EST, 17 July 2013 . Never mind heat wave, how's this for a brain wave: an Illinois-based design company has created a paw-activated water fountain for dogs. The Doggie Fountain, dubbed Koolinator, attaches to a standard garden hose and provides thirsty pets with a supply of fresh running water to help them keep cool in hot weather. It can also be used in place of a water bowl to make sure your pets are not left without a drink when you're at work, especially with the hot temperatures set to continue. Scroll down for videos . An Illinois-based design company has created a paw-activated water fountain for dogs. The Doggie Fountain, dubbed Koolinator, pictured, attaches to a standard garden hose and provides thirsty pets with a supply of fresh running water to help them keep cool in hot weather . Once a dog learns to press the Doggie Fountain paddle with its paw, the gadget can be used to replace a water bowl for when owners are at work or out of the house and can't keep the bowl topped up . Allied Precision Industries which invented the gadget said: 'Owners can just simply attach the innovative dog water dispenser to the end of their garden hose. 'When your dog steps on the paw switch, a stream of fresh drinking water is released. 'As a bonus you get to teach your pet a new trick and once it gets a hang of it you will be free of the task of filling its water bowl. 'The dog will finally able to enjoy a cool, refreshing drink of water whenever it feels like it.' The Doggie Fountain costs £45 and can be bought online. Another gadget recently invented to help tackle the rising temperatures across the UK is the desktop humidifier. The Mini Mister sits on the top of a standard bottle of water, draws the liquid up through a detachable 12cm-long tube, and sprays water vapour into the air, meaning the room is kept cool and fresh. This gadget creates around 30ml of . vapour per hour and can be used in the office, in the car or even to . cool down a bedroom overnight. The Mini Mister portable humidifier sits on the top of a standard water bottle, pictured, and draws liquid up through a detachable 12cm-long tube. It then sprays water vapour into the air, meaning the room or car is kept cool and fresh . When the Mini Mister is fitted to a 500ml bottle of water, right, it will last around eight hours. It can also be used on smaller bottles and comes in three colours - red, silver and blue . When the Mini Mister is fitted to a 500ml bottle of water it will last around eight hours. Designed by South Korean company Amazing Grace, the device can be charged using a laptop or phone charger via a USB-to-mini-USB cable. The tubular core doubles as a water filter, too. And, once the summer months are over, the humidifier can double us as an aroma defuser for aromatherapy oils and perfumes. It comes with two cores, which must be replaced every three months, and costs £22.50. Mini Mister creates around 30ml of vapour per hour and can be used in to cool down a bedroom overnight. It can also be charged using a laptop or phone charger via a USB-to-mini-USB cable, pictured . The portable humidifier comes with two tube cores and costs £22.50.The tubular cores double as a water filter, too. Once the summer months are over, the humidifier can be used as a defuser for aromatherapy oils and perfume ." ]

[ "Students, parents and staff at a Melbourne high school are horrified after the discovery students have been drinking treated sewage water from a bubbler on campus for more than a year. In a letter sent to all parents during the school holidays, the principal of St Peter’s College in Cranbourne East, Tim Hogan admitted that ‘Class A’ recycled water had been inadvertently connected to an outdoor drinking fountain. The bubbler had been dispensing recycled water for 16 months– from December 17 2013 until April 1 2015. ‘The cross-connection came to our attention through the maintenance staff of the College on the 30th of March, 2015,’ Mr Hogan wrote in the letter, issued on April 14. Unfortunately for students, ‘Class A’ recycled water is sewage that has been treated to a standard that’s safe for watering gardens, washing clothes and flushing toilets. Students at Melbourne high school St Peter's College were drinking from a bubbling dispensing recycled water for more than a year . Although it is the highest quality of recycled water, the water that the students had been consuming is not considered acceptable for consumption. Whilst drinking the water, the students would have been at a greater risk of contracting gastroenteritis or diarrhoea due to the possible presence of a parasite, Cryptosporidium. An investigation has been launched by the Department of Health and Human Services to assess the extent of the possible health impact on the students. The principal assured students, parents and staff that the drinking fountain was shut down on April 1 and is no longer in use. The other 20 bubblers at the school have been tested and none show traces of recycled water. The ongoing investigation will determine the number of students who have drunk from the water foundation since it became contaminated. Although it is the highest quality of recycled water, the water that the students had been consuming is not considered acceptable for consumption . ‘The Department has advised that drinking the Class A recycled water may have led to a slightly increased risk of gastro,’ the principal warned. However, preliminary testing of the chemicals present in the drinking water from the bubbler found that ‘the vast majority were at very low concentrations’, meaning the student were unlikely to have been harmed from consuming the water. Daily Mail Australia spoke with a number of parents of St Peter's students. All the parents were unaware of any cases of gastro or anyone who believed they'd been adversely affected by the bubbler. A Health Department official will be on site at the school on Thursday April 16 to respond to concerns the parents may have. ‘If anyone is suffering from a gastrointestinal illness and experiencing symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhoea and abdominal pain, they should seek advice from their GP,’ Mr Hogan advised. Families and staff are being encouraged to contact the Department of Health & Human Services on 1300 761 874. Whilst drinking the water, the students would have been at a greater risk of contracting gastroenteritis or diarrhoea due to the possible presence of a parasite, Cryptosporidium .", "By . Associated Press . Californians increased water consumption this year during the severe drought, despite pleas from the governor to conserve, fallowed farm fields and reservoirs that are quickly draining, according to a report released Tuesday. The State Water Resources Control Board released the updated results from a water-use survey that said overall consumption had risen one percent, even as Gov. Jerry Brown has called for a 20 percent cutback. The report corrected survey results released just a month ago that said use statewide had declined by 5 percent. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO . A worker uses a hose to wash the sidewalk in front of a residential hotel in San Francisco as the California drought continues . The earlier survey prompted the water board to consider the most drastic response yet to California's drought - imposing fines of up to $500 a day for people who waste water on landscaping, fountains, washing vehicles and other outdoor uses. Board Chairwoman Felicia Marcus said the new usage figures underscore the need for action. 'Not everybody in California understands how bad this drought is... and how bad it could be,' she said. 'There are communities in danger of running out of water all over the state.' The increase noted in the new report is attributable to two regions of the state: Southern California coastal communities and the far northeastern slice of the state. The updated number was based on surveys taken from water districts throughout California and was based on consumption from May compared to the same month in previous years. Marcus said the board will consider other steps if the $500-a-day fines being considered Tuesday don't work. Fines of up to $500 for Californians who waste water did not seem to work during this year's drought (runner pictured jogging through sprinklers in San Fran today) Those could include requiring water districts to stop leaks in their pipes, which account for an estimated 10 percent of water use, stricter landscape restrictions and encouraging water agencies to boost rates for consumers who use more than their share of water. No region of California met Brown's request for a 20 percent reduction, but some came closer than others. Communities that draw from the Sacramento River reduced consumption the most, by 13 percent, while those along the North Coast reduced consumption by 12 percent. San Francisco Bay Area cities and Southern California cities that draw from the Colorado River decreased water use by 5 percent. The California Department of Water Resources estimates that cities and suburbs use about 20 percent of the state's water, with about half going outdoors. Agriculture is by far the greatest water user, accounting for 75 percent of consumption in the state. California farmers are just as guilty of using too much water as their urban neighbors, according to a separate report released Tuesday. The study by the University of California, Davis found that farmers could see their wells run dry next year unless the state sees a wet winter. California is the only western state that does not measure groundwater use. Sprinklers water a partially dead soccer field in San Francisco as voluntary conservation is falling well below the suggested 20 percent . The outdoor water rules being considered Tuesday by the state board would prohibit the watering of landscaping to the point that runoff spills onto sidewalks or streets. Hosing down sidewalks, driveways and other hard surfaces would be banned along with washing vehicles without a shut-off nozzle. Violations would be infractions punishable by the fines, although most cities are likely to have a sliding scale that starts with a warning and increases for repeat violations. It estimates that the proposed restrictions could save enough water statewide to supply more than 3.5 million people for a year. 'Not everybody in California understands how bad this drought is... and how bad it could be. 'There are communities in danger of running out of water all over the state.' Board Chairwoman Felicia Marcus . Officials in some cities, including San Francisco, worry about the prohibition on washing streets and sidewalks. Public Works Department spokeswoman Rachel Gordon said that could interfere with the frequent cleaning of alleys to wash away human waste where there are high concentrations of homeless people. During the past 12 months, she said the city responded to about 8,000 calls to steam clean streets of such waste. The proposed state regulations already provide exceptions when health or safety is at risk, but Gordon said San Francisco wants to make sure it doesn't run afoul of the rules even as it takes other steps to conserve water. Marcus, the chairwoman, said the board will try to adjust its regulation to allow for the judicious use of power-washing, after industry representatives said it is efficient and necessary for everything from erasing graffiti to preparing homes for repainting. 'Our intention in this first round was to do what was reasonable and easier to do,' she said.", "We usually associate power cords with unsightly, tangled cables that need to be hidden away. But a group of US researchers believes everyday cables can be revolutionised using cheap sensors to perform complex tasks. Their research could lead to radios that turn on by bending the cable, or lamps that switch off when its wires are kicked. Scroll down for video . A prototype of a hard drive cable. A pull on the cord sends a request to for safe ejection of the device . The technology is being developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as part of the 'Cord UIs' project. 'Everyone hates cables,' Philipp Schoessler of MIT's Tangible Media Group told FastCoDesign. 'Every device has one, and yet we see them as a nuisance. We wanted to see if we could give cords additional meaning.' Using a water hose for inspiration, the research team developed a five prototypes of 'super cables' to demonstrate their abilities. Using a water hose for inspiration, the research team developed a five prototypes of 'super cables' to demonstrate their abilities . The first of the prototypes was a lamp with the dimmer knob replaced by a knot on the cord (top).  In another prototype, a clip clamping on the Macbook charger wire was able to control a computer's power function (bottom left). Another cable (bottom right) allowed the user to pinch headphone to control the play function . There seems to be a wave of chargers that promise to speed up the time it takes to fully charge a phone or tablet. The latest one, SONICable, claims to halve the amount of time it takes to get a battery from zero to 100 per cent, it is available to pre-order for both iPhone and Android handsets. Designed by a team from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the SONICable has two functions. When it’s plugged into a device, but switched off, it acts like a standard USB cable and syncs content from one device to another. But, when it is switched on, the syncing functions are disabled so the cable concentrates all of its energy into charging the connected device. The Indiegogo campaign features a graphic that shows the SONICable charging a device twice as fast as a traditional charger. SONICable comes with a Lightning connector, for the iPhone 5 and later models, the fourth generation iPad and above, and the iPad mini range. It also has a microUSB option that will work for HTC, Samsung and other compatible devices, including eReaders. After the initial run of cables are shipped, they will retail for $36 (£24). They are expected to be available sometime next month. Each of the cords was controlled by either knotting, pinching, sensing pressure, bending or stretching. The first of the prototypes was a study lamp with the dimmer knob replaced by a knot on the cord. As the knot is tightened, embedded sensors and a micro-controller dims the light. In another prototype, a clip clamping on the Macbook charger wire was able to control a computer's power function, including sending it to sleep. It was able to do this because the charger cable, infused with pressure-sensitive sensors, sent a pulse that was detected by the computer. They embedded sensors that detect whether a knot has been tied in a cord, along with where and how tight it is to control a gadget, such as a lamp. The team also created headphones use special external woven fibres that detect touch and pressure. Pinching the cord triggers the pause functionality of the iPhone's 3.5mm jack. Existing sensors were also used to help detect if a cable is being stretched too far. A final prototype involved a hard drive cable. A pull on the cord sends requests to the computer for safe ejection of the device. The scientists say most of the capabilities being explored in Cord UIs would be cheap and easy for companies to incorporate into existing devices. 'Most of the presented interactions lend strongly from the metaphor of regarding the cord as a hose and the power and data as liquid flowing in that hose,' they wrote in their paper. 'Cords offer endless possibilities of manual manipulation.' The team also created headphones use special external woven fibres that detect touch and pressure. The scientists say most of the capabilities being explored in Cord UIs would be cheap and easy for companies to incorporate into existing devices .", "By . Mark Duell . PUBLISHED: . 01:10 EST, 19 July 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 04:55 EST, 19 July 2013 . Splashing about in the water, playing on the sand, sitting on deckchairs and cooling off from the sweltering heat with the garden hose. These glorious photographs from the 1920s and 1930s show that while the outfits have changed, many ways of enjoying the sun are still rather similar. The newspapers showed what life was like in Scotland and the South West of England during heatwaves experienced by Britain almost 100 years ago. Wet wet wet: The Western Daily Press of Bristol from July 1929 showed youngsters finding 'a new use for the garden hose' and proving that 'you can have a \"bathe\" without going to the seaside' They are taken from the British Newspaper Archive and come as temperatures in Britain are expected to hit a seven-year high of 35C next week. The Western Daily Press and Bristol Mirror of August 1935 showed ‘competitors in the Bathing Beauty Competition’ in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. The women were photographed walking along in a line in modest outfits with the council chairman and local hospital president at Weston Hospital Fete. Another picture from the same newspaper gave the rather bizarre sight of six nurses from Weston-super-Mare Hospital coming down a helter skelter. And in The Courier and Advertiser of . Dundee from July 1931, a group of five adults and children could be seen . playing rounders on the beach. The . caption said: ‘An exciting game of rounders, complete with the . regulation costume - beach pyjamas or bathing costume - on North Berwick . beach’. The Western Daily . Press of Bristol from July 1929 showed youngsters finding ‘a new use for . the garden hose’ by bathing 'without going to the seaside’. It also pictured a group of youngsters around a fountain, ‘waiting their turn' in a 'heatwave scene on Durdham Down’ in Bristol. And the Western Morning News and Daily . Gazette from August 1932 showed the ‘Opening of Salcombe Regatta’ as . the ‘West swelters in heatwave’. It . also featured a child playing with a bucket of water in the sand, . people sitting in deckchairs and children jumping into the water on . beaches in Plymouth. The . same newspaper also showed scenes four years later in August 1936 of . girls and boys having fun while taking part in a wheelbarrow race. They . were pictured in Perranporth, Cornwall, and their photograph was under . the newspaper’s headline of: ‘Heatwave frolics on the beach’. Fashionable: The Western Daily Press and Bristol Mirror of August 1935 showed 'competitors in the Bathing Beauty Competition' in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset . 'Frolics': The Western Morning News and Daily Gazette showed scenes in August 1936 of girls and boys having plenty of fun in a wheelbarrow race . 'Costumes for rounders': In The Courier and Advertiser of Dundee from July 1931, a group of five adults and children could be seen playing rounders on the beach . Hot hot hot: The Western Morning News and Daily Gazette from August 1932 showed the 'Opening of Salcombe Regatta' as the 'West swelters in heatwave'", "Water can be made to appear to flow in a remarkable corkscrew shaped stream by means of a simple experiment involving the right frequency of bass and a video camera with an adjustable frame rate. A mesmerising YouTube video shows how one amateur scientist made the flow appear to stay still then, by adjusting bass frequency, rotate in both directions. The video, uploaded along with a how-to guide by user brusspup on Monday, has already gone viral - attracting nearly 500,000 views and nearly 18,000 'thumbs up'. Corkscrew: Water can be made to appear to flow in a remarkable corkscrew shaped stream by means of a simple experiment involving the right frequency of bass and a video camera with an adjustable frame rate . Brusspup said on the video-sharing site: 'This is a really fun project and when you first see the results, chances are your jaw will drop.' The effect cannot be seen with the naked eye, so anyone who wants to try it at home will have to first get their hands on a camera capable of shooting at exactly 24 frames per second. To recreate the effect, the first thing you will need to do is get hold of an amplifier and a speaker with a frequency response low enough to reach 23hz - a very low bass sound. Connect the speaker to a computer running tone generating software - many such programs are available as open-source freeware - and tune it down to 24hz . Take a soft rubber hose and connect that to your tap, then run it down past the speaker, across the cone, so that one or two inches hang past the bottom of the case, and tape it securely into place. Optical illusion: The effect cannot be seen with the naked eye, so anyone who wants to try it at home will have to first get their hands on a camera capable of shooting at exactly 24 frames per second . 'The goal is to make sure the hose is touching the actual speaker so that when the speaker produces sound (vibrates) it will vibrate the hose,' brusspup explains. Point the camera at the end of the hose, turn on your tap, press play on your tone generator and, as brusspup puts it: 'Watch the magic begin'. The effect can be changed by altering the frequency of the tone. Set it to 23hz and it will look like it's moving backwards. Set it to 25hz and the stream will appear as though its moving forward in slow motion. Variable: The effect can be changed by altering the frequency of the tone. Set it to 23hz and it will look like it's moving backwards. Set it to 25hz and the stream will appear as though its moving forward in slow motion . One of the top rated comments on the video's YouTube page explains how it works. User necraduq explains: 'When the frequency of the speaker is the same with the frequency of the video frames (frames/sec) the camera actually captures the same frame everytime and thus the same water shape. 'You can see the change 1hz makes when filming (if filming is kept at the same rate 24fps) as this translates into a \"forward movement\". 'Imagine a clock with only a seconds indicator. If you would close your eyes and open them precisely once every 60 seconds you would think the indicator is not moving.'", "By . Hannah Roberts . The iconic Cafe de Paris in Rome - the inspiration behind Federico Fellini's classic La Dolce Vita - has been destroyed in a suspected arson attack. During the heady days of the Dolce Vita in the 1960s, Cafe de Paris was one of the preferred watering holes of the rich and famous with patrons such as Sofia Loren and Frank Sinatra. The blaze at the historic bar on Rome’s Via Veneto is thought to be connected to the eviction of its new management on the morning of the fire. The iconic Cafe de Paris in Rome - the inspiration behind Federico Fellini's classic La Dolce Vita - has been destroyed in a suspected arson attack . Flames broke out in the basement next to a changing room for employees at around 1am on Tuesday. No one was injured. Aldo Berti, manager of the bar since 2009, said: ‘A can of petrol was found next to the start of the fire. 'Not long afterwards we were served with an eviction notice. Now all the staff will lose their jobs.’ Cafe de Paris, one of the places that gave the world the word paparazzi, fell into decline along with the rest of Rome's famed Via Veneto in 2009 when police discovered it was a mafia money-laundering front and confiscated it before it was entrusted to a legal guardian. During the heady days of the Dolce Vita in the 1960s, Cafe de Paris was one of the preferred watering holes of the rich and famous with patrons such as Sofia Loren and Frank Sinatra . During the heady days of the Dolce Vita in the 1960s, Cafe de Paris was one of the preferred watering holes of the rich and famous such as Sofia Loren and Frank Sinatra . The . bar on one of Rome’s most expensive streets had been bought in 2005 for . 250,000 euros in cash in the name of a penniless barber called Damiano . Villari, although at the time it was worth an estimated six million . euros. The famed sidewalk cafe and restaurant had in fact been purchased by the . Cosoleto clan of the 'Ndrangheta organized crime group from southern . Calabria in 2005 and it had been used, along with other bars and . restaurants in Rome and Milan, to launder drug money. Four years ago marked a rebirth when, in association with one of Italy's leading anti-Mafia groups Libera, Cafe de Paris started serving wines, pasta and other foods produced on lands confiscated from the Mafia throughout southern Italy . It is a far cry from Fellini's 1960 classic, which starred the Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni as a society reporter - his kiss with Anita Ekberg in the Trevi Fountain has become one of the most famous scenes in cinema history . Father . Luigi Ciotti, the head of Libera said at the time: 'Everyone should know that the . Cafe de Paris is now free of the mafia presence. An establishment that . once enriched the clans of the 'Ndrangheta has returned to being a legal . business.' 'This . is a concrete sign of a daily fight (against organised crime) that is . gradually bearing fruit. We need people to know that this establishment . is now 'clean'. It's the start of a new chapter.' The . Ndrangheta are the country’s wealthiest and most feared criminal . organisation and are responsible for the import of 80 per cent of . Europe’s cocaine. Much of their earnings are laundered through legitimate businesses. Seven in ten of Rome’s historic centre restaurants pizzerias and cafes are thought to be in the hands of organised crime, according to the municipal. Figures from LUISS University in Rome put the turnover for Mafia groups from their Rome operations at more than one billion euros a year. Fellini's 1960 classic film, which starred the Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg and Anouk Aimee, was considered scandalous at the time of its release but is quite tame by the standards of today. In seven loosely connected episodes, Mastroianni, playing reporter Marcello, covers the escapades of residual nobility, nouveau riche, starlets and hangers-on of the cafe set on the Via Veneto as he struggles to find meaning in his own life. Marcello chronicles events with a photographer whose last name is Paparazzo: the name Fellini gave him is now in dictionaries in nearly every language meaning aggressive street photographers. In its emblematic scene, Sylvia, a towering phosphorescent blonde diva played by Ekberg, lures Marcello into a sensual midnight wade in the cold waters of Rome's Trevi Fountain.", "By . Ray Massey . PUBLISHED: . 21:25 EST, 25 September 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 06:17 EST, 26 September 2012 . If the drudgery of the daily commute has lost its charm, businessman Jeremy Paxton may have the high-octane antidote. He's started doing his treks to the office on an amazing water-powered jet pack that appears to owe more to the technology of James Bond and Buzz Lightyear than the Clapham omnibus. Instead of getting the car out of the garage or heading to the bus stop, he straps on the device, which uses water pressure to lift him up to 30ft in the air and propel him along horizontally at speeds of up to 25mph. Scroll down for demo!... To infinity and be-Bond! Jeremy Paxton shows off his 007-style jet pack which he uses to commute to work . Water way to travel: The jet pack can lift Mr Paxton up to 30ft in the air and propel him horizontally at speeds of up to 25mph . He says the 40-mile journey from his riverside boathouse home in Marpledurham near Reading to his office at the Lower Mill Estate in the Cotswolds is possible because the River Thames and waterways run direct between the two. Though he does have to walk the last three minutes to his office. Mr Paxton, 51, has also been asked to be the UK's 'test pilot' and to compile a 'Pilot User Guide' for other would-be customers. But the fun comes at a price. The jet pack, which is imported from Germany where it is made under license from American company JetLev, will set you back a cool £115,000 – enough to buy an Aston Martin V8 Vantage for 007 and still have change for a few gadgets. Who needs the car: The 51-year-old uses the device to travel from his riverside boathouse home in Marpledurham near Reading to his office at the Lower Mill Estate in the Cotswolds . A practical plaything: Depending on the pilot's weight, a JetLev Flyer can top speeds of 30mph and cruise for between two to three hours before refueling, with a range of around 80 miles . The jet pack is not a rocket. Instead it operates on the same principle as a giant pump by generating huge amounts of water pressure to provide a thrust similar to that of a fireman’s hose. Mr Paxton, whose business interests include the Lower Mill Estate in Gloucestershire, an upmarket 600-acre waterside community of eco-friendly luxury second-homes in the Cotswolds, said: 'I’m the first person in Britain to buy one. I just like alternative means of transport. 'It’s a different way to commute. It’s better than sitting in a traffic jam or being stuck on a crowded train. It’s environmentally-friendly. 'It’s fantastic fun and it’s not complicated to operate. I often commute to London by train and sometimes take my boat to the station. I have a pilot’s licence and fly planes and helicopters. Why not this?’ 00-heaven: The jet pack, designed by Chinese-born Canadian Raymond Li, was inspired by the one used by James Bond in the opening scenes of the 1965 film Thunderball (right) A Toy Story: The jet pack is not too dissimilar to the backpack used by Buzz Lightyear (right) The jet pack comprises a number of key parts. First, there is the pack itself which resembles the one used by James Bond in Thunderball or by Buzz Lightyear in the movie Toy Story. This is connected to a 33ft hose which in turn is connected to a boat-like flotation device, inside which is a 250cc four-stroke petrol motor. The 'boat' is the pump generator and sits in the water sucking up vast quantities of water which are then forced through the hose and into the jet nozzles on a special lightweight carbon-fibre frame weighing 30lbs strapped to the pilot’s back. The sheer force of this jet lifts the pilot off the ground or out of the water. He or she then controls the speed by a motor-cycle-style twist-grip on one of the handles. Direction is just like flying and depends on the pilot shifting his or her weight. The maximum altitude is limited by the length of the tube, which also limits the distance from water a pilot can travel. A digital fly-by-wire system is used to . control the throttle which the makers say make flight controls simple, . light and intuitive. Mr Paxton added: 'It’s entirely buoyant so it won’t sink. You can go 30ft high or hover over the water – even walk on the water. 'If . you want to go right you put down your right hand you can do tight . turns. After a few goes, you get the hang of it It’s like riding a . bicycle. You have a \"kill switch\" around your wrist to cut the power.' Inspired by the jet pack used in the . opening scenes of Thunderball, the Jetlev is the brainchild of Raymond . Li, a Chinese-born Canadian who first . sketched out his concept on a yellow Post-it Note in 2000 and spent the . next 10 years developing it. The makers say that, depending on pilot weight, a standard JetLev Flyer could top speeds of 30mph and cruise for between two to three hours before refueling with a range of around 80 miles. It can accommodate pilots of 1.5metres to 2metres in height and between 40kg and 150kg in weight. Mr Paxton is himself a keen flyer who has his own aeroplane and helicopter. Earlier this month, he abseiled down London’s new Shard skyscraper with the Duke of York in aid of charity. The makers say basic skills can be mastered in just 15 minutes though intermediate skills will take between one and 10 hours. Pioneer: Mr Paxton has been asked to be the UK's 'test pilot' and to compile a Pilot User Guide for other would-be customers . Price: £115,000 . Maximum altitude: 30ft . Top speed: circa 30mph . Cruising duration: 2 to 3 hours . Range:Around 80 miles . Weight of jet-pack harness: 30lbs . Jetpack height: 3ft 2in . Width: 2ft 11ins . Length: 2ft . Power: 250cc four-cylinder petrol engine . ‘Boat’ length: 10ft 7 inches . Height: 2ft 3 inches . Weight: 649 lbs . Jetlev’s website notes: ‘As soon as sufficient lift is applied, you and the jetpack become weightless and levitate in the air and even small amounts of force will move or turn you. 'You will feel some pressure from the saddle and the trapeze, but usually no more than from riding a bicycle.’ But pilots must be 18 years old. And Jetlev cautions: ‘You must be a good swimmer and should not feel uncomfortable having your face in the water from time to time. 'You should not have a fear of heights. 'You should be in good health and physical condition. 'You should have no history of any heart conditions and flying is not advised for women who are pregnant.’ Last month, hotel manager Grant Engler, 25, and his fiancé and Amanda Volf tied the knot in the world’s first jet pack wedding at a ceremony in the U.S. They each flew to the beachside ceremony at Newport Beach in California wearing Jetlev water-powered jet pack. After exchanging vows the newlyweds performed an airborne first dance - above the water - to Frank Sinatra’s ‘Come Fly With Me’. The daring couple, from Grand Rapids, Michigan, became engaged on an adventure holiday to Mexico in April.", "By . Alun Rees . Petrol thieves have drilled into an underground pipeline and caused a leak of thousands of litres of fuel next to a popular fishing river, sparking a major environmental alert. About 150,000 litres of fuel have contaminated soil close to the River Kennet, just upstream from top public school Marlborough College in Wiltshire. Police are investigating the attack on the Esso refinery pipeline, believed to be the first of its kind in the UK. 150,000 litres of fuel have contaminated soil close to the River Kennet, pictured, in Wiltshire . A Wiltshire Police source told The Mail on Sunday: ‘We’re used to fuel being stolen from farms by rural criminals but this is quite a step further. Two men have been detained in the Somerset area with a large amount of illicit fuel but at this stage we don’t know if the two incidents are linked.’ The theft was from the Midline pipeline, which carries fuel from the Fawley Refinery near Southampton to the Birmingham Fuels Terminal. Using a technique more common in Iraq, the thieves dug down about 8ft to get to the pipeline, then drilled a small hole in it. They connected a hose to the pipe which they ran to a road nearby and then covered with soil. After putting a tap on the end of the hose and covering their tracks, it is believed they returned at night to fill containers. The pipeline alternates between carrying petrol and diesel fuel. About 150,000 litres of fuel have contaminated soil close to the River Kennet, just upstream from top public school Marlborough College, pictured, in Wiltshire . But three weeks ago a plough tore the illicit hose from its shallow trench and ripped it out of the pipeline, causing the leak. John Hounslow, who operates a trout farm on the river, said: ‘The big fear is that this fuel will get into the river and destroy the food chain. It’s very worrying.’ Esso is leading the efforts to contain the spill and is drilling at the site to try to discover what is happening to the fuel beneath  the surface. However it is unclear whether it will be washed into the river or sink into the chalk below. A spokesman said: ‘It’s very unfortunate and technical work is going on to try to establish whether this will affect the water table and the river.’ Charlotte Hitchmough, spokeswoman for environmental group Action for the River Kennet, said: ‘It is worrying and we hope the river won’t be badly impacted but no one can predict where  the fuel will end up.’", "(CNN) -- When 12-year-old Mason went to lunch each day last year, he could choose between orange juice and milk, but he couldn't get a cup of water. Like many public schools, his doesn't provide cups. To have free water with his lunch, Mason would have to wait in line at a water fountain shared by hundreds of other middle-school students and take a few sips of water before returning to eat. Not surprisingly, he usually didn't bother. His mother, Johanna Whittlesey, like other parents across the country, assumed her child had enough water, but nutrition advocates believe schoolchildren's access to water is a national problem the federal government has only begun to address. Fifteen percent of kids in Mason's age group consume adequate amounts of water, according to the CDC's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. \"Since children spend a large percent of their waking hours at school, they should be consuming at least one-half their total water intake at school,\" says Dr. Melina Jampolis, CNNHealth's Diet and Fitness Expert. \"The standard recommendations are for children to get 6-8 glasses of water per day. Teenage boys need even more, 11 glasses per day,\" she says. \"Mild dehydration can affect learning as well as mental and physical performance.\" Change you can drink . Last year Michelle Obama continued with her \"Let's Move!\" campaign to target childhood obesity, former military leaders warned that obesity could be a threat to national security and the ABC series \"Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution\" attempted to show Americans what their children are eating in school. On the heels of those headlines, Congress passed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 in December to improve school nutrition in the National School Lunch Program. The legislation requires that clean water be easily available in school. Advocates welcome the new legislation but say it's not clear if the new rules will go far enough to address the lack of hydration. According to the new federal law, school districts will have to provide water in student eating areas, but the law doesn't discuss accessibility. Vista Middle School outside Los Angeles has approximately 1,700 students and four water fountains in the student eating area. It's still to be decided if a school with those numbers -- 1,700 students, four water fountains and a 30-minute mealtime -- satisfies the new legislation. \"As part of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, the USDA will be engaging in a dialogue with schools and communities as we develop a proposed rule to implement this provision of the law,\" the USDA says. Where we are now . Schools face a variety of challenges when trying to provide something -- water -- that Americans take for granted. One such challenge: drinking cups. Advocates say, and many educators admit, that too many of America's largest school districts elect not to provide cups. Chicago Public Schools do not. Miami-Dade County Public Schools do not. Newark Public Schools do not. Atlanta Public Schools do not. Clark County School District in Nevada does not. Broward County Public Schools, in Fort Lauderdale, says drinking cups aren't provided unless a student asks for one. In the New York City Department of Education, the largest school district in the country by number of students, cups are \"generally available to all students,\" but spokesperson Margie Feinberg cannot say in which of its schools cups are available only upon request. Hillsborough County school district in Tampa says it does not provide cups of water and there is usually one water fountain in student eating areas. Educators say that providing cups can get expensive and take too much of their already dwindling school budgets. Another issue is the water fountains themselves. Some schools, advocates say, don't have enough to handle the number of students. At other schools, the fountains are old, don't work or work poorly. According to the California Food Policy Advocates, filling cups is \"likely a slow process at most water fountains.\" Other barriers to student hydration include poor-tasting water and fears that municipal tap water is not safe. Sitting down with water . \"Water fountains aren't providing adequate hydration,\" says Matt Sharp, senior advocate of the California Food Policy Advocates. \"When have you ever gone to a restaurant and been encouraged to go to a water fountain for a sip between bites of your meal?\" The UCLA/RAND Center for Adolescent Health Promotion, a CDC-funded prevention research program, has been test-driving a way to get children drinking more water at mealtime to help combat America's obesity epidemic. It's called a water intervention -- a five-week research program that includes a water filter and cups for five schools in the Los Angeles school district, provided free from the UCLA/RAND project. The test includes these steps: Install a water filter in the school. Fill five-gallon jugs. Chill jugs overnight. Place in the eating area during mealtime. Serve with cups. The results will not be published until next year, but anecdotally, the program is a success, researchers say. \"We've seen students really gravitate towards the water out here and fill up their cups right before and after lunch to hydrate\" says Burt Cowgill, the project manager. \"The water is very popular and we have a lot of participation.\" Now that the research has ended, it's up to the school district to continue funding if it so chooses, but the Los Angeles Unified School District says it cannot afford the estimated $1.8 million to $2.3 million annually it says it would cost to provide the cups and water for the entire district. Free drinking water and cups could also decrease revenue from bottled water sales. \"If students drink free water served at school instead of purchasing competitive beverages that fund extracurricular activities, schools may have to seek alternative fundraising strategies,\" said a report published in the journal Preventing Chronic Disease. The report was based on CDC-funded researchers' interviews with school personnel and families, primarily within the Los Angeles school system. Research shows that making water more accessible to children at school increases consumption of water and improves health. Researchers in Germany found that by installing a cooled, filtered water fountain with plain or optionally carbonated water, providing children with water bottles, educating them on the importance of drinking water and encouraging them to fill up their water bottles, they were able to reduce the risk of children becoming overweight by 31%. Those children were allowed to store their water bottles at school. When children have to take their water bottles home, they start forgetting to bring them back, and water consumption declines, according to a pilot program in a Los Angeles school. What the school district wants . David Binkle, deputy director of Los Angeles school district food services, would like the federal government to help pay for water instead of only mandating that water be made available. When schools serve children milk, they receive money from the federal government reimbursing them for that milk; when schools serve orange juice, the same. But water is not a reimbursable beverage, either from the tap or from bottles. Binkle says that has to change. \"It's an unfunded mandate,\" says Binkle. \"If the federal government let us offer water as part of a reimbursable meal, then the children, many of them, instead of taking a milk or juice, would take a water.\" Cindy Garcia, an eighth-grader at Vista Middle School, says having free water available in cups during the UCLA/RAND research program changed her drinking habits. \"I wouldn't really drink water because it's sort of hard to be eating your meal and then stop and go drink water at the water fountain,\" she said. \"Before, I would just drink whatever they have at the cafeteria, like juice or milk, and now I drink water in the cups that's available.\" The 'Good Old Days,' updated . Students have been drinking water from water fountains for decades, but research shows that children are not getting enough water throughout the day. \"Water maybe has always been insufficiently available, but schools have a unique and special responsibility to create an environment that makes it easy for students to make good choices,\" says Sharp of the California Food Policy Advocates. \"The environment has changed in so many ways in recent decades, sweetened beverages are cheap and widely available and heavily promoted, family mealtimes are fewer, and briefer, and convenience foods are a much more common part of youngsters' routines.\" At Vista Middle School, Principal Nidia Castro says she will do her best to keep cups of water in her school, even suggesting she might pay out-of-pocket to provide cups for her students. She wouldn't be the first school administrator to provide school supplies from her own wallet. \"I see how much the kids really like the water,\" she says. \"It is documented that if we provide the choices for them they will really go for it.\"", "Iron Man-style jet packs are becoming the must-have accessory for celebrities looking for the ultimate adrenaline rush. Dubbed the Jetovator, these extreme water toys can throw a passenger 30ft (9 metres) into the sky using powerful thrusters that let you 'fly' across lakes. Leonardo DiCaprio, Nicola Sherzinger and Liam Payne are fans – and now you can own one for $6,975 (£4,288). Scroll down for video . Iron Man-style jet packs have become a firm favourite with celebrities looking for the ultimate adrenaline rush . The device is powered by a 50ft-long (15.2 metre) hose which shoots water jets to propel the rider into the air. The idea for the product came to Northern Californian entrepreneur Rob Innes 20 years ago, but the prototype for the current Jetovator model was only built in 2011. Mr Innes says the experience of riding a Jetovator is a bit like riding a bike, but gives you the 'aerial capabilities of a fighter aircraft'. According to the company, also named Jetovator, a lot of the movement is intuitive with the rider leaning left to right in order to steer the product. Dubbed the Jetovator, the device is powered by a 50ft-long (15.2 metre) hose which shoots jets into water . The idea for the product came to Northern Californian entrepreneur Rob Innes 20 years ago, but the prototype for the current Jetovator model was not built until 2011 . It allows stunts like barrel rolls and backflips, and if you know a few people with the devices, there's always the option of doing some formation Jetovatoring . The gadget has been likened to the thrusters used by comic book superhero Iron Man to fly in the air . Riders can reach heights of up to 30ft (9 metres) and the Jetovator has also been designed to submerge up to 10ft (3 metres) underwater. 'It's very easy to operate and quick to master,' said Mr Innes. 'People don't need to be very athletic or skilled to do it so it's very popular. 'It is much much easier to learn and safer than water skiing, wakeboarding, wind surfing or kitesurfing.' Fisherman, . scientists and state officials in Hawaii are questioning the safety of . the 'Iron Man'-style jetpacks, and are concerned about how they may . affect fish and coral in the state's heavily trafficked tropical waters. The . devices are starting to show up for recreational rental in California, . Florida and Mexico, showing that their prevalence is a growing problem. University . of Hawaii coral scientist Bob Richmond last year officials he was . concerned about the noise the devices make, as fish avoid areas that are . too loud. He's also worried fish and coral larvae could get pumped through some of the equipment the watercraft use and die. Fisherman . Carl Jellings said watercraft already scare fish away from Oahu's bays, . and he worries these new machines will just add to the problem. 'More . and more and more these bays are being run over, taken over by other . activities. The marine life that depend on these places - they're being . displaced,' he said in an interview. Mr Innes says it is as easy as riding a bike, but the gadget gives you the 'aerial capabilities of a fighter aircraft' 'It's very easy to operate and quick to master,' said Mr Innes.'People don't need to be very athletic or skilled' Mr Innes said it is much much easier to learn and safer than water skiing, wakeboarding and wind surfing . Leonardo DiCaprio was spotted testing out a similar device last year while on holiday in Ibiza . It allows stunts like barrel rolls and backflips, and if you know a few people with the devices, there's always the option of doing some formation Jetovatoring. Other similar products on the market include the Jetlev, which can lift a person 30ft (9 metres) high by pumping water from a backpack through a hose connected to a small, unmanned boat. Another contraption called the Flyboard, which looks like a small snowboard attached to a hose, can propel riders 45ft (13.7 metres) in the air. Toys such as the Jetovator are starting to show up for recreational rental in California, Florida and Mexico . Riders can reach heights of up to 30ft (9 metres) and the Jetovator has also been designed to submerge up to 10ft (3 metres) underwater . According to the company, also named Jetovator, a lot of the movement is intuitive with the rider leaning left to right in order to steer the product .", "By . Daily Mail Reporter . A dramatic video has emerged showing the moment Las Vegas entertainer Wayne Newton's 65-foot yacht sunk. The National Park Service footage shows the luxury vessel quickly disappear underwater last fall. In February, investigators concluded that the sinking of the Lake Mead yacht owned by Mr Las Vegas was an accident. The October 18 sinking of the 65-foot . vessel was traced to the failure of two hoses to drain water from a rear . storage compartment, National Park Service spokeswoman Christie Vanover . said. Scroll down for video . Going: A dramatic video has emerged showing the moment Las Vegas entertainer Wayne Newton's 65-foot yacht, pictured, sunk . One hose was disabled by a kink, and the other wasn't properly connected, she said. The new footage was obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal through a Freedom of Information Act request. No one was on the boat and no one was injured when the 1996 Skipperliner, named Rendezvous, became swamped and sank stern-first in 49 feet of water in a slip at the Temple Bar marina on the Arizona side of the Colorado River reservoir. The vessel and items in it were a complete loss, the park service report said. Going: The National Park Service footage, obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal through a Freedom of Information Act request, shows the luxury vessel quickly disappear underwater . Gone: The October 18 sinking of the 65-foot vessel was traced to the failure of two hoses to drain water from a rear storage compartment, National Park Service spokeswoman Christie Vanover said . McCrone had said that Newton and his wife, Kathleen McCrone, were vacationing out of the country when the boat sank. The vessel was one of the largest on the vast reservoir behind Hoover Dam. A photo provided by the Park Service at the time showed the boat's bow sticking straight up from the water. The loss of Newton's yacht came several weeks after the 71-year-old 'Danke Schoen' crooner lost a three-year ownership battle for his 40-acre 'Casa de Shenandoah' estate. Newton had lived at the spread several miles southeast of the Las Vegas Strip since 1968. Newton had creditors at the door when he sold the property in 2010 for $19.5 million to CSD LLC, headed by investors Lacy and Dorothy Harber. Newton, his family and their menagerie of exotic animals moved in June to a downsized nearby property with several homes on about 20 acres. His former estate was put up for sale in September for $70 million. Abroad not aboard: Wayne Newton and his wife Kathleen were overseas at the time their yacht sank . In deep: The 65-foot vessel sank stern-first in 45 feet of water at the marina on the Arizona side of the Colorado River reservoir . Newton's sister-in-law, Tricia McCrone, . confirmed at the time that the 1996 Skipperliner named Rendezvous . belonged to Newton. She said Newton and his wife Kathleen were . vacationing out of the country when the boat sank. According to the Las Vegas Sun, some kind of equipment failure caused the yacht to take on water and sink within minutes. Lake Havasu City Vessel Assist salvaged the boat later. A photo provided at the time by the Park Service shows the boat's bow sticking straight up from the water. Wayne Newton is one of the best-known entertainers in Las Vegas and is known variously as Mr Las Vegas, The Midnight Idol and Mr Entertainment. He's best-known for his signature tune, Danke Schoen, which was released in 1963.", "A new restaurant is offering a five-course drink-paired menu stuffed with all the fashionable, nutritional foods you can think of. There's seaweed and kale puree to start, followed by a reishi mushroom flaxseed cream main course, with a dessert of coconut and blueberry chia pudding - with gluten-free cinnamon quinoa. But this bang on-trend meal isn't fit for human consumption - it's just for dogs. Scroll down for video . Foodie Fidos will be treated to a five-course drinks-paired set menu at The Curious Canine Kitchen which opens for one weekend only (11 to 12 April) in Shoreditch, London . Menu was devised by event organiser Natty Mason who worked with whole foods chef Emily Stevenson . These meals will be served for one weekend only at London's latest eatery, The Curious Canine Kitchen, a 'holistic restaurant for four-legged friends'. The doggie fine diner is the first of its kind in Britain to serve high-end, freshly prepared, organic canine cuisine and will pop up in Shoreditch, London, on Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 April. This ticketed charity event is the brainchild of event organiser and spiritual dog trainer Natty Mason who has worked with whole foods, and gluten-free trained chef Emily Stevenson to devise the menus. Ms Mason said: 'I am impassioned to provoke a rethink in healthy canine dining and hope that this event, the first of its kind here, inspires better doggie dinners across the UK'. For £20 a dog, foodie Fidos will be treated to the five-course The Nature Way Tasting Menu for dogs which includes dishes such as textures of tripe with seaweed and kale puree, crispy paddywack (the chewy dog treat) with reishi mushroom flaxseed cream, and coconut, and blueberry chia pudding with gluten-free cinnamon quinoa dog biscuits. Each dish will be served alongside refreshments such as alkaline water, beef consomme and coconut water. Service with a woof! Your pets will be served by  waiters at one of the restaurants four bespoke doggy tables . The meal will be polished off with a marrow bone from Hill & Szrok, known for its teeth cleaning properties and a 'Fresh Breath' herbal tea tonic to aid digestion. Human companions will be served an assortment of seven, raw whole food amuses-bouche and a variety of drinks as part of a set Rawsome Tasting Menu which features gazpacho raw soup, golden quinoa, coconut and mango salad as well as avocado, blueberry and chia cheesecake. Served by waiters at one of the restaurants four bespoke doggy tables, any leftovers will be available to take home in a doggy bag. All proceeds from event will be donated to Amazon CARES, a street dogs and cats charity in Iquitos, Peru where Ms Mason regularly volunteers. There will be two seatings each day (1 to 3pm and 3 to 5pm). Doggy foods: Textures of tripe with seaweed and kale puree, crispy paddywack with reishi mushroom flaxseed cream, and coconut, and blueberry chia pudding with gluten-free cinnamon quinoa dog biscuits, marrowbone from Hill & Szrok . Doggy drinks: Alkaline water, beef consomme and coconut water and Fresh Breath herbal tea tonic to aid digestion . Human food: Gazpacho raw soup, golden quinoa, coconut and mango salad as well as avocado, blueberry and chia cheesecake . The event takes place at ONE, Unit 1, 1 Teesdale Street, London, E2 6GF. Tickets cost £20 per dog and owner and can be purchased at CuriousCanineKitchen.com. 100 per cent of the proceeds will be donated to charity.", "Their hair neatly brushed or snipped carefully into delicate spheres, the stars of photographer Paul Nathan's new book couldn't be more elegant if they tried. But these are no ordinary models. Instead, they are Poodles, Cockerspaniels, Bichon Frisés, Bedlington Terriers and Komondors - each one groomed to within an inch of its life. 'To achieve the perfect canine haircut, beauty must coexist with and be dictated by harmony,' writes expert Jorge Bendersky in the foreword to Groomed. Looking good: Standard Poodles Karma and Indigo show off their fluffy plaited locks, neatly brushed fur and matching pink ribbons . Coiffed: Standard Poodle Sapphire shows off her perfectly groomed fur and does doggy glamour without turning a hair . 'The art of dog grooming is not only about highlighting the anatomical points that bring balance to the animal, it’s also about the deep connection between dog and groomer. 'For a successful outcome dogs must trust, cooperate with, and essentially bond with their groomer.' His collection of elegantly coiffed canines were photographed backstage at a grooming show, moments before they took to the stage. Groomed is not the first time Nathan has turned photographing a glamorous posse of pooches into an art form. His last book, Couture Dogs of New York, featured the pampered pets of wealthy New Yorkers for whom a $600 designer outfit and lavish 'barkmitzvahs' are a regular part of life. Adorable: Mator the poodle cross (left) and Hammer the Keeshond (right) show off their elaborate new hairdos for photographer Paul Nathan . Perfectly clean: Dice, a Bedlington Terrier, shows off his neatly trimmed fur and elegant ear topiary in this incredible photo . Groomed to perfection: An American Cocker Spaniel named Kermit (left) and adorable English Setter Jedi (right) show off their neatly coiffed fur . While the animals featured in his latest work don't have the same impressive wardrobes, some are given extreme makeovers, among them Francesca, the Standard Poodle, who has a palm tree and a parrot decorating her derriere. Others such as Sapphire, another Standard Poodle, have to make do with some prettily tied ribbons, while more still are left to rely on their shiny fur to impress the judges. 'My task as a dog groomer is to capture and enhance that particular animal’s singularity with a distinguished and fashionably tasteful grooming style,' adds Bendersky. 'It should bring out the best attributes of not only that particular breed, but also that individual dog.' Groomed by Paul Nathan and Jorge Bendersky, £22.50, is published by Pelluceo and is available from Amazon . Star of the show: Dogs like Willa, a Komondor, are the stars of photographer Paul Nathan's new book, Groomed (right) Goatee: . Conner, a Kerry Blue Terrier, boasts a neat goatee and a beautifully . executed haircut as he prepares to wow judges at a grooming show .", "By . Helen Lawson . PUBLISHED: . 08:23 EST, 7 June 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 09:35 EST, 7 June 2013 . A mansion built for a Turkish Sultan's top army commander could be yours - if you've got £75million to spare. The 150-year-old Zeki Pasha Palace boasts 27 bedrooms, eight bathrooms and four kitchens and 33,000 sq ft of living space. The five-storey manor in Istanbul was built by French-Ottoman architect Alexander Vallaury for Musir Zeki Pasha, who was a minister under Sultan Abdulhamit II in the late 19th century. The 150-year-old Zeki Pasha Palace sits on the waterfront of Istanbul's Bosphorus strait and is on the market for £115million . One of the mansion's 27 bedrooms is pictured complete with a grand chandelier . The five-storey home sits under the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, which connects the European and Asian sides of Turkey . Part of the secluded Japanese-style garden, which also has pools and fountains in the grounds . A tea room within the house has opulent red furnishings and large cabinets displaying trinkets . With . rooms covered from ceiling to floor in marble, plenty of art and antiques, plus a secluded Japanese-style garden with pools and fountains to care for, the new owner will inherit 20 members of . staff to maintain the property's upkeep. And there's sure to be plenty of space to choose from to avoid the noise from passing traffic. The house sits under the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge over the Bosphorus strait, which connects the European and Asian sides of Turkey. A 430ft pier juts out into the water as a parking spot for yachts with a private boathouse on hand. Vallaury designed a home for the Sultan following the success of Zeki Pasha Palace, and built palaces for other army commanders. This inner room shows silverware and elegant fittings, though the £75million price tag probably doesn't include the cat . French architect Alexander Vallaury designed tall rooms with floor to ceiling windows overlooking the Bosphorus strait . Musir Zeki Pasha commissioned the baroque mansion from Vallaury, who went on to design palaces for other army commanders in the Turkish forces . The new owner of Zeki Pasha Palace will inherit a staff of 20 to help with the upkeep . The 150-year-old palace comes with an experienced team of 20 to guide the new owner in dealing with a historical home . The chance to live in one of his creations is rare as many have since become museums and galleries. A spokesman for Sotheby's Realty said: 'This is a wonderful property that has received quite a large amount of interest. 'It was built by French architect Alexandre Vallaury, who helped to rebuild Istanbul after following the immense 1894 earthquake, and is a true gem.' Visitors won't need to bother with crossing the bridge - they can sail up to the house's 430ft pier in their yachts and drop anchor . Many of Vallaury's homes are now privately owned or museums and galleries, so it is a rare chance to live in a property designed by the French-Ottoman architect . Zeki Pasha was a minister in the government of Sultan Abdulhamit II in the late 19th century .", "A company has released matches that continue to burn even when submerged in water or buried underground in dirt. The UCO Stormproof Matches are made using an incredibly tough coating that smoulders no matter what happens to them and will start burning again once they come into contact with oxygen. The unique matches have to go through rigorous testing to make sure they keep alight in even the most difficult situations. Scroll down for video . Indestructable: The UCO Stormproof Matches (pictured) are made using an incredibly tough coating that smoulders no matter what happens to it and will start burning again once it comes into contact with oxygen . Eric Moe, the product specialist at Industrial Revolution which owns Utility, Comfort and Originality (UCO), explained the process. The Stormproof matches are made by UCO which has been making outdoor accessories for the past 44 years. They include 25 matches in a completely waterproof case with and three strike pads. The matches cost £5.47 ($7.99) from UCO's website and are available from the UK distributor Dalesman International. He said: 'The match sticks are dipped into our coating, which keeps smouldering even underwater, then reignites once exposed to oxygen. 'Essentially, you aren't burning the match stick, but burning the coating on the stick. 'We have drenched them in buckets, buried them in mud, and blown them with a compressed air hose. 'In all cases the flame keeps burning. The matches will still ignite if they get wet, and they are quite impact resistant.' Even when buried in sand (left), the matches can burn again once they are taken out and exposed to oxygen (right). They can also keep smouldering even while underwater . Mr Moe, 31, from Milton, near Seattle, Washington, US, said when you are in unfamiliar terrain, having a source of fire is vital for survival. He said: 'Whether they're in a snowstorm, rainstorm or wind storm, the UCO Stormproof Matches will offer heat and light. 'The importance of being able to create a fire in inclement weather cannot be overstated. 'These matches are designed to ignite and keep burning in the worst conditions. 'Everything is more challenging when you are cold and wet, and it is crucial to have reliable equipment.' The makers explained that essentially, the match stick isn't burning, it is the coating on the stick that is alight: 'We have drenched them in buckets, buried them in mud, and blown them with a compressed air hose' Here the match is shown being dipped into water (left), and when it is take out (right) it is still able to burn . He explained that other devices that are used to light a fire are not always reliable. Mr Moe said: 'Lighters can fail at high altitudes, or if wet. Standard matches have little resistance to elements. Primitive techniques are excellent, but hard to execute in poor weather. 'UCO Stormproof Matches address those problems and ensure a source of fire.'", "Anita Ekberg, the Swedish-born actress who is best known for her role in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita, has died at the age of 83. La Dolce Vita actress Anita Ekberg has died at the age of 83 . The moment where her character Sylvia, wades through Rome's Trevi Fountain in nothing but a strapless black dress is remembered as one the most iconic scenes ever in a movie and one which turned her into a fully-fledged sex-symbol. Ekberg's lawyer Patrizia Ubaldi confirmed she died in Rome on Sunday morning following a series of illnesses. She had been hospitalised most recently after Christmas. Ubaldi said that in her last days Ekberg was saddened by the illness and her advancing age. 'She had hoped to get better, something that didn't happen,' she said. Ubaldi added that a ceremony would be held in the coming days at a Lutheran church in Rome, and that Ekberg had specified that her remains be cremated. Born on Sept. 29, 1931, in the southern city of Malmo, Ekberg grew up with seven siblings. In 1951 she won the Miss Sweden competition, after being recommended to enter by organisers who saw her on the street, and went to the United States to compete for the Miss Universe title. She didn't win but became a model in Hollywood and later started taking on small acting roles. Her role in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita - where she played a movie star - shot her to stardom. The movie was a colossal success and came to define the wild and carefree days of the early 1960s. Death of an icon: Swedish actress Anita Ekberg, best known for her role in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita, has died in hospital in Rome following a 'series of illnesses' Hosting a Swedish radio program in 2005, Ekberg recalled shooting the scene in the Trevi Fountain in Rome. She said it was shot in February, the water in the fountain was cold and co-star Marcello Mastroianni was falling over in the fountain drunk on vodka. 'And there I was. I was freezing,' she said. 'They had to lift me out of the water because I couldn't feel my legs anymore.' 'I have seen that scene a few times. Maybe too many times. I can't stand watching it anymore, but it was beautiful at the time,' she said. Ekberg had long lived in Italy, the country that gave her worldwide fame thanks to the iconic dip opposite Mastroianni. Death of an icon: Ekberg's lawyer Patrizia Ubaldi confirmed she died in Rome on Sunday morning following a series of illnesses . Humble beginnings to superstar: Born on Sept. 29, 1931, in the southern city of Malmo, Ekberg grew up with seven siblings before going on to find fame in movies . Big break: In 1951 she won the Miss Sweden competition, after being recommended to enter by organisers who saw her on the street, and went to the United States to compete for the Miss Universe title . Her curvaceous body and glamorous social life made her a favorite of tabloid press in the Fifties and Sixties. She married twice but never had children - a fact she came to regret later in her life. Some gossip magazines called her The Iceberg in a nod to her Scandinavian background. But even as she became one of Sweden's most famous exports, Ekberg maintained a problematic relation with her native country. She never starred in a Swedish film and was often at odds with Swedish journalists, who criticised her for leaving the country and ridiculed her for adopting an American accent. Ekberg remained in Italy for years, appearing in scores of movies, many forgettable. She returned in two Fellini movies: Clowns and Intervista. Glamorous: Anita (pictured in 1960) became a pin-up following her breakout role in La Dolce Vita . Glamorous: Anita's curvaceous body and glamorous social life made her a favorite of tabloid press in the Fifties and Sixties . Ekberg married Briton Anthony Steel in 1956, but divorced him four years later. In 1963 she married again to actor Rik van Nutter, but that marriage also failed. In an interview with Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet in 2006, Ekberg said her only regret in life was never having children. 'I would have liked to have a child, preferably a son,' she was quoted as saying. 'It didn't turn out that way. That's life, you just have to accept it.' Not exactly romantic: Ekberg recalled shooting the famous scene in the Trevi Fountain in Rome, explaining it was shot in February, the water in the fountain was cold and co-star Marcello Mastroianni was falling over drunk on vodka . Chemistry: Mastroianni may have been 'falling over drunk on vodka' but the pair had incredible chemistry which won over audiences . In the interview, published in connection with Ekberg's 75th birthday, she also said she wasn't afraid of death. 'I'm just angry because I won't get the chance to tell others about death, where the soul goes and if there is a life afterward,' she was quoted as saying. 'I don't know if paradise or hell exist, but I'm sure hell is more groovy.' Twice divorced: Ekberg married Briton Anthony Steel in 1956, but divorced him four years later. In 1963 she married again to actor Rik van Nutter, but that marriage also failed . Not just a one-trick pony: Anita also starred in Four For Texas alongside Frank Sinatra . Regrets:  Ekberg (pictured in 1956), who became a sex symbol following her breakout role in La Dolce Vita, was married twice and said her greatest regret was not having any children . Saddened: Ubaldi said that in her last days Ekberg [pictured in 2010] was saddened by the illness and her advancing age .", "You might not be able to use this hoverboard to outpace bullies like Back To The Future's Marty McFly, but this aquatic version of the sci-fi skateboard will let you perform tricks in thin air. Invented by French jet ski champion Franky Zapata, the Hoverboard by ZR is a cross between flying and surfing and looks a little bit like a wakeboard attached to a large hose. The company that makes it describes the Hoverboard as ‘a new innovative extreme discipline that will make you experience new sensations’. Scroll down for video . The water-propelled hoverboard allows people to fly up to 16 ft (5 metres) above the surface of the water at speeds of up to 16mph (25km/h), as well as perform tricks including somersaults and spins. The 59 ft (18 metre) hose is attached to a speed boat, or similar . Inventor: French jet ski champion Franky Zapata . Sensation: A cross between surfing and flying . Propulsion: Jet of water provided from a 59 ft (18 metre) hose . Maximum height: 16ft (5 metre). Top speed: 16mph (25km/h) Extras needed: Lesson and a motor boat . Cost: $2,675 (£1,577) Speed: The 59 ft . (18 metre) hose is attached to a ‘personal water craft’, such as a speed . boat, which has between 180 and 300 horsepower. Restrictions: There . are no height restrictions for riders, although the French company . notes that people weighing more than 17 stone (110kg) may not get the . full effect of the device. The water-propelled device allows people to fly up to 16ft (5 metres) above the surface of the water at speeds of up to 16mph (25 km/h), as well as perform tricks including somersaults and spins. The board’s agility has been demonstrated by popular YouTuber Devin Supertramp and his friends in Mexico. It is attached to a hose and propelled by a powerful jet of water. The 59 ft (18 metre) hose is attached to a ‘personal water craft’, such as a speed boat, which has between 180 and 300 horsepower. The hoverboard has one rider and can be used solo, but relies on a motor boat driver following the Hoverboard’s lead, unless a special attachment is used. There are no height restrictions for riders, although the French company notes that people weighing more than 17 stone (110kg) may not get the full effect of the device. A hoverboard like the fictional one used by Marty McFly in Back To The Future II (pictured) does not need water propulsion. The aquatic equivalent, from French jet ski champion Franky Zapata, is set to launch this summer and can be pre-ordered for $2,675 (£1,577) The company that makes it describes the Hoverboard as 'a new innovative extreme discipline that will make you experience new sensations'. A flyboard is pictured on the right-hand side of this photograph . It can be used in a lake or at sea, but the water must be over 13 ft (4 metres) deep. Riders need at least one hour of professional training to get to grips with the controls of the Hoverboard, and ensure they are safe on it. The device is related to the company’s Flyboard, which lets riders ‘fly’ through the air by strapping a small board with two water nozzles attached to their feet. The Hoverboard is set to go on sale this summer - a year before Marty McFly was said to have used his in Back To The Future Part 2. It can be pre-ordered for $2,675 (£1,577) Cnet reported. Riders need at least one hour of professional training to get to grips with the controls of the Hoverboard, and ensure they are safe on it - and considerably more practice to pull stunts like this . To provide propulsion for the board, a 59 ft (18 metre) hose is attached to a 'personal water craft', such as a speed boat, which has between 180 and 300 horsepower . Researchers have taken a step closer in the quest to develop a hoverboard that does not rely on water, by levitating objects in 3D using sound waves. While scientists have previously managed to suspend objects in mid-air using what's called acoustic levitation, a team of Japanese engineers have managed to move objects around space in various directions. Bubbles, a screw and a tiny piece of wood have so far been manoeuvred like a hoverboard, but the objects must be inside a complex set-up of four arrays of speakers to be able to fly. The machine, which was created by engineers at the University of Tokyo and the Nagoya Institute of Technology, uses ultrasonic speakers to generate sound waves that cross over. According to the researchers, this intersection creates 'a moveable ultrasonic focal point,' or a cross-over of high frequency noise greater than 20kHz, which is at the upper limit of human hearing. Standing waves - waves that remain in a constant position - provide a suspending force so the focal point can be moved up, down and from side-to-side, in order to support a small floating object such as a screw that is trapped in the standing waves. While scientists have previously managed to suspend objects in mid-air using acoustic levitation, a team of Japanese engineers have proved they can move objects around at will through three dimensional space using a refinement of the technology .", "By . Bianca London . PUBLISHED: . 03:48 EST, 15 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 04:08 EST, 15 October 2013 . It all started with Paris Hilton’s pet pooch, Tinkerbell, when she trotted out wearing a diamante collar back in 2005. Fast forward eight years and the pet industry is now worth £2.7billion - with £500million alone spent on accessories. And now one website is hoping to cash in on the growing demand for animal accessories by unveiling a luxurious range of cashmere sweaters and scarves for dogs. Posh pet: Pets Pyjamas have launched a range of luxurious cashmere garments for dogs. One of the styles is this £49 scarf-like 'snood' The garments start from £49 for a scarf-like ‘snood’ and run up to £99 for a cable knit sweater. The on-trend knitwear collection, which is being sold on PetsPyjamas.com, features sumptuous cashmere turtlenecks in bubblegum pink and blue, stylish striped snoods and classic cableknit sweaters. Each item, which is made from 100 per cent cashmere, has been designed by Ruby Rufus Isaacs and ethically made in Mongolia. PetsPyjamas, which describes itself as a ‘one stop shop to find everything you need for the modern pet from basic collars and leads to high end designer products’, has seen business grow at a rate of 400 per cent over the last year with 150,000 pet fanatics visiting the website every month. It's cashmere, darling: The on-trend knitwear collection features sumptuous cashmere turtlenecks and classic cableknit sweaters . Cosy knits: The garments start from £49 for a scarf-like 'snood' and run up to £99 for a cable knit sweater . Another trend the pooch pampering site has noticed is the rise of owners dining out with their dogs. Denise Elphick, co-founder of PetsPyjamas.com said: 'The real trend revelation is that really exclusive, four star and five star bars and restaurants are welcoming pets. 'Colbert in Sloane Square gives your dog a complimentary huge bone, The Bluebird has pet teatime treats and Le Maurice in Paris provides dog beds and engraved personalised dog tags. 'Even celeb hang out Riding House Café welcomes pets. It makes sense that these leading dining destinations encourage our canine companions since more pets that children in the UK and if they want our custom, we come with a four legged friend.' Pet dining is big business and a host of new pet dining accessories such as collapsible dog bowls, Café Leads that hook to tables to keep your pooch a safe and Doggy Bags to make your pooch presentable prior to dining are on sale. Speaking about the doggy dining trend, Barry, who is the celebrity Dog Jogger (or dog walker to normal folk) to Elle Macpherson, said: ‘To ensure your dog is well behaved when going out establish yourself as pack leader. ‘Always walk into your house and ignore your dog so he isn’t getting attention on demand. ‘Always make sure it you enter and exit through the door first. When in the street ensure your dog walks behind your or by your side, never in front. Paw-dorable! Poochie Plumes- doggy hair extensions- are the latest dog accessory on the market. The £14.95 extensions are made from feathers and come in an array of colours and patterns, which aim to suit your dog's personality . ‘Always act in a confident and relaxed way so that your dog doesn’t pick up anxious or unsure behaviour from you. 'When feeding your dog eat a snack first or before giving food so that they don’t expect food every time they see it and you always eat before they do. ‘All these things will mean that your dog will trust and follow your orders, just as they would in a pack. This is essential when going out with your pet in public places.' Denise Elphick, co-founder of PetsPyjamas said: ‘Always take your dog for a walk before you go out to a restaurant so that they’re calm and well behaved when asked to sit for an extended period of time. ‘My most important tip is to ensure that your dog sits under the table, not under diners' feet. And you don’t to want to trip anyone up with long dog leads. Take a dog toy and a collapsible dog bowl.’ Rod Harris from Hurlingham added: ‘When out dining with your pet the key thing is to respect other people. ‘If you’re a good dog owner you’ll keep your pet well groomed as this is essential. Also never take a wet pet to a restaurant. They’ll be wet and smelly giving off D.O. (dog odour) which isn’t pleasant for fellow diners.’ The Olde Bell, Hurley, Berkshire . Serving simple, rustic food with an impeccable standard of quality, The Olde Bell adds an air of elegance to typical Sunday lunch fare. Try the scrumptious Olde Bell Seafood Pie as part of the three course Sunday lunch menu with your canine companion by your side. Just 45 minutes from London, The Olde Bell is the ideal escape from the hustle and bustle of the city. The Spotted Cow, Farnham, SurreyTucked away in four acres of luscious wooded grounds, The Spotted Cow is an idyllic country pub perfect for Sunday lunch with your pooch. Plenty of space and incredible country walks near the pub make for a perfect day in the country with your dog. The Potting Shed, Malmesbury, WiltshireFrom smoked salmon terrine to pomegranate molasses glazed beef ribs, Sunday lunch at The Potting Shed will please the taste buds of any discerning pub-goer. Pooches will be warmly welcomed with a fresh bowl of water and a treat while you enjoy your meal. The Black Horse Fulmer, Fulmer, BuckinghamshireA charming country pub that warmly welcomes dogs, The Black Horse Fulmer offers your pooch a bowl of water and a well stocked jar of dog biscuits on the bar. The Sir Charles Napier, Chinnor, OxonOffering a luxurious twist on classic Sunday lunch plates, The Sir Charles Napier features truly mouth-watering items including double baked smoked haddock and cheddar soufflé and Cornish cod with gnocchi and pheasant egg. After a delightful meal, you and your Pooch will love roaming the idyllic setting of the Chiltern Hills. A small treadmill to keep your pooch in shape will set you back £870 (L) and Pet Head Magical Deodorizing Spray, £9.98 (R) Want to treat your pooch to a cool treat? Look no further . 4 Venison Treats & 2 Popcorn, £18.50 . Doggie Ice Cream Cone Cookie, £6 . Din Dins is a natural and organic blend of superfoods, prebiotics and probiotics. The £13 superfood is designed to be sprinkled onto your pet's meals .", "By . Daily Mail Reporter . More than six New Jersey firefighters have been disciplined after posting a video on Facebook which shows two trucks blasting and knocking down a colleague with three high-powered water hoses in a so-called 'cold water challenge.' Under the challenge, which is doing the rounds online, participants nominate each other to jump in cold water and film it - if they do, they pay $10 towards a designated charity, if they don't they donate $100. The stunt, by Whitman Square Fire Company volunteer firefighters, was posted on YouTube on May 20 and quickly caught the attention of fire district officials who condemned the actions and started tracking down the firefighters involved. Scroll down for video . The video shows two Whitman Square Fire Co. trucks, left, and at least three firefighters blasting water from multiple hoses to a firefighter standing in a field, right . The video shows two Whitman Square Fire Co. trucks and at least three firefighters blasting water from multiple hoses to a firefighter standing in a field. The man is quickly drenched by the water and a blast to the head knocks him down. Someone can be heard laughing in the background. 'Recently, a video surfaced on social media involving several firefighters at one of our stations utilizing department equipment to \"deluge\" water on a firefighter in an open field,' Fire District Chief John Hoffman said in a statement, according to nj.com. The man is quickly drenched by the water and a blast to the head, pictured left, knocks him down. Someone can be heard laughing in the background . 'This action was NOT sanctioned by the department, the use of the equipment was not approved and the individual firefighters involved behaved inappropriately and outside of the boundaries of department policy, procedures and standing orders.' Hoffman said no firefighters were injured in the incident. But Board of Fire Commissioners Chairman Sam Micklus told nj.com that the incident could easily have left someone dead. 'The hose they used could've killed someone,' he said. 'I'm still shaking my head. They should've known better.' The stunt, by Whitman Square Fire Company, pictured, volunteer firefighters, was posted on YouTube on May 20 and quickly caught the attention of fire district officials . Micklus lambasted the use of public equipment and water for the challenge. 'That's taxpayer money and equipment out the window,' he said. All the firefighters involved were volunteers and not paid members of the department, however. Discipline will range from a verbal reprimand to suspension. Hoffman insisted that most cold water challenge videos are harmless and bring attention and funds to important charities. 'This one just got out of control,' Hoffman said. 'And we're dealing with it.'", "By . Graham Smith . Last updated at 5:23 PM on 15th December 2011 . Two sports fans who stole an estimated 98,000 litres of water from a fire hydrant to create an ice hockey rink in their back garden have been arrested. Tony Nelin and Timmy Ryan, both 20, used a fireman's hose to link up a school hydrant with the makeshift, and almost full-size, rink in Tinley Park, Illinois. The 250ft-long hosepipe, which was borrowed from a relative who was a firefighter, trailed though woods to the property. Scroll down for video . From left: Ice hockey fans Ken Schmidt, Tony Nelin, Jake Maas and Timmy Ryan sit alongside their homemade rink in Tinley Park, Illinois. Nelin and Ryan are scheduled to appear in court next month charged with stealing 98,000 litres of water from a school fire hydrant . Ambitious project: Tony Nelin and Timmy Ryan, both 20, used a fireman's hose to link up a school hydrant with the makeshift, and almost full-size, rink . But a school caretaker who spotted the hose attached to the hydrant called police on Sunday night. Officers followed the hose through a wooded area until they reached the partially-frozen 91ft by 43ft rink. Two other friends who helped construct the rink did not receive citations. Nelin told the Chicago Tribune: 'We had good intentions. We just wanted to do something productive for the winter instead of sit on the couch and play video games.' The pair are due in court on January 26, where police believe they are likely to be fined and ordered to pay for the estimated $127.44 (£82.22) of water they used. But in a gesture worthy of the season of goodwill a stranger who read about their plight in a local newspaper yesterday volunteered to pay any fines and legal costs Nelin and Ryan might accumulate. Heart surgeon Brian Foy, of Burr Ridge, Illinois, said he is happy to pay and expects the costs to be less than $1,000 (£645). When police were called to investigate the mysterious hose linked to a school fire hydrant, they trailed it through these woods and up to the ice rink . Repairs needed: Warmer weather has caused the rink to start melting, while water has drained away after police stakes used to measure its dimensions ripped small holes in the tarpaulin . The Good Samaritan said: 'I don't want this to put a big damper on the thing they are excited about and worked so hard on. 'I told them if there's a fine that comes from this, I'll take care of it.' Mr Foy decided to come forward with his generous offer because the young men were only trying to have some healthy fun outdoors. He added: 'I know the police have to do what they have to do, but probably they could have accomplished the same thing by saying, \"Hey, guys, that's not a good idea.\"' The rink has so far taken the hockey fans two weeks to build and has cost $350 (£225) in raw materials. Nelin said the group still plans to finish filling the rink up with water - but this time using the garden hose. Adding to their problems are small holes in the rink's tarpaulin, made when police used stakes to measure its dimensions. Nelin said: 'We lost a lot of water. But we've gone through so much with this, we really want to play on it.' View more videos at: http://nbcchicago.com.", "By . Jill Reilly . PUBLISHED: . 05:05 EST, 11 July 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 09:18 EST, 11 July 2012 . Some exasperated parents find their children don't need any excuse to get dirty. But when it's Michigan's annual Mud Day, the rulebook is thrown out and trying to get as muddy as possible is only agenda. Thousands of children and teenagers donned their swimming costumers and old T-shirts to wallow in the brown sludge at Hines Park in Westland. Scroll down for video . Muddy madness: Thousands of children and teenagers donned their swimming costumes and old T-shirts to wallow in glorious mud at Hines Park in Westland . Covered from head to toe: Claire Gehringer, left, and Eloy Kuzma smile as they spend the day getting dirty in the 75' by 150' mud pit . Relaxing: Kellan Clegg (right), age 9, of Livonia, Michigan, gets covered in mud by his friends while playing in a giant lake of mud at the 25th annual event . To create the muddy pit firefighters poured 100,000 litres of water on top of 200 tonnes of dirt. The result meant children spent hours diving, sliding and throwing sludge in the gigantic mud bath. The fun included limbo contests and . wheelbarrow races as well as the crowning of a mud king and queen – the . winners were the messiest children. Wheel barrow races were no doubt more difficult in the squelch than on dry land and when they became tired from the exertion of moving through the sludge, many just wallowed, glad to lie down in the cool brown water. Organiser Beverly Watts said: ‘Kids always have to stay clean at home. This is one day where they can get dirty.’ Big order: Firefighters poured 20,000 gallons of water onto 200 tons of topsoil to make the mudpit . Having a ball: Some people were shocked about the temperatrue of the mud, but soon go began to enjoy the mud fest . Fun times: The delighted youngsters made delicious mud pies and there were also organised games to keep them occupied . And it wasn't just the children having fun - the lure of the brown sludge was too . much for some parents and they also got stuck into getting muddy, . although they had to join the youngsters at the end to be hosed down by a firetruck. Candi Bostain was one of the adult participants who took part. She said: ‘There’s nothing like the mud squishing between your toes. Now I know what pigs feel like.’ Child's play: The lure of the brown sludge was too much for some adults and they also got stuck into getting muddy . Twist and turn: Many children tried to have wheelbarrow races through the mud as well as doing acrobatics . Slather the sibling: Sarah Rojewski (right), age 13, of Livonia, Michigan puts mud on top of her brother Ben, age 11 . Mud Day 2012 also doubled up as a training exercise for Western Wayne Hazardous Materials . Response Team, which includes firefighters from Farmington Hills and 22 . other metro Detroit departments. Farmington Hills Fire Lt. Mike Kish. told Farmington Hills Patch that no other hazmat team in the country does . a live decontamination exercise. 'We set the whole thing up in about 12 minutes,' he said. Children . moved through a line of firefighters who hosed the mud off them, . although some younger children were held up to hosed down by their . parents. 'In real life, there would be soap and water,' Mr Kish added. Hose down for home time: For the Western Wayne Hazardous Materials Response Team, the day was also a training exercise. They hosed off muddy participants as part of decontamination training .", "It's the kind of Christmas tradition that could only exist in Australia. The local fire brigade at Coledale, north of Wollongong in New South Wales, has staged its annual water fight against the local Surf Club and residents. The Northern Hemisphere may be gearing up to celebrate the festive season with snow and cold weather, but Down Under Australians are enjoying the summer sunshine. Scroll down for video . The local fire brigade at Coledale has staged its annual water fight against the local Surf Club and residents . Beachgoers in the seaside town, north of Wollongong in New South Wales, threw waterbombs at firies . Fire trucks drove along with their sirens blaring as the firefighters sprayed locals with the fire hose . Hilarious footage shows a fire truck driving along with its sirens blaring as the firefighters spray locals with the fire hose and yell out 'Merry Christmas everyone' through a megaphone. Beachgoers and campers throw water bombs at the firefighters who are dressed in full uniform standing on the roof of the truck. Adults and children on the side of the road, some standing on the back of a ute, try in vain to fight back at the firies but end up getting saturated by the hose. The fire truck is decorated with tinsel and a mini Santa Claus. Locals said the water fight lasted about two hours. Locals said the water fight lasted about two hours. The fire truck is decorated with tinsel and a mini Santa . Adults and children on the side of the road, some standing on the back of a ute, tried in vain to fight back at the firies but ended up getting saturated by the hose . The firefighters dressed in full uniforms to help protect them from getting drenched . It was a sunny lunchtime in NSW. Pictured are Italian tourists John Consuela and Marta Consuela at Bondi . North Bondi surf-club life-savers pose in front of their Christmas decorations on Thursday . NSW Rural Fore Service spokesman Matt Sun said many local brigades around the state have their own Christmas traditions. 'Some dress up as Santa, others have water balloon fights, it's just a bit of community spirit at a time when most of the community is available,' Mr Sun said. Mr Sun added that the bushfire season had not been as intense as it was last year, but said firefighters were still working hard. Between July 1 and Christmas Eve this year the NSW Rural Fire Service has attended 4637 bush and grass fires. 'We're not seeing a major fire incident like we saw last October but there's still plenty of activity around,' he said. 'We've had a number of hot days over the last few months and multiple total fire bans.' The Hawkesbury district fire servce got into the spirit and decorated their trucks with tinsel . Between July 1 and Christmas Eve the NSW Rural Fire Service has attended 4637 bush and grass fires .", "By . Ellie Zolfagharifard . Road trips always seem like a good idea at the time, but several hours of sitting in a hot, sticky car can be enough to dampen anyone’s spirits. Now, a new gadget could mean drivers have a way to freshen up ‘al fresco’ - whether they’re travelling through the desert or stuck on the motorway. The £125 ($210) system, named the 'Road Shower; provides a hot power shower using a 5ft (1.5m) long pressurised tank fitted to the roof of a car. Scroll down for video... Outdoor adventurers craving a hot power shower can now have one by their car after an explorer developed a heated water tank to fit on the roof . When temperatures rise above 30°C, water inside the black aluminium casing heats up to a suitable temperature in around two hours. Attached to the tank is 55in (139cm) hose, which means users can also wash equipment such as bikes or surfboards. The man behind the idea is Colorado-based Joel Cotton, who had what he describes as a ‘eureka’ moment while exploring the 120 mile (193km) White Rim Trail in Utah's Canyon lands. Mr Cotton, 58, said: ‘We would ride into camp looking dusty, dirty and sweaty. Attached to the tank is 55 inch (139cm) hose, which means users can also wash equipment such as bikes or surfboards. The nozzle can be set to one of its seven settings which include shower, jet and mist . The Road Shower uses the renewable energy from the sun which heats the black surface of the tank and warms the water inside. The tank can hold five gallons (19 litres) of liquid. Once it is filled, users can pressurise the tank by inflating air into it using a bike pump - allowing it to project water up to 60ft (18m). The nozzle can be set to one of its seven settings which include shower, jet and mist. Attached to the tank is 55in (139cm) hose, which means users can also wash equipment such as bikes or surfboards . ‘We would try using solar shower bags but there was nowhere to hang them, the water would drip out and it wasn't warm. ‘As a result, I've spent the last seven years developing a shower that heats up while you drive - and came up with a rack mounted pressured solar shower.’ The Road Shower has no solar panels but uses the renewable energy from the sun which heats the black surface and warms the water inside. The tank can hold five gallons (19 litres) of liquid. Once it is filled, users can pressurise the tank by inflating air into it using a bike pump - allowing it to project water up to 60ft (18m). The nozzle can be set to one of its seven settings which include shower, jet and mist. Currently, the Kickstarter Project is the only rack mounted portable solar shower on the market and for those seeking privacy, shower Mr Cotton said curtains can be sourced elsewhere. The tank can hold five gallons (19 litres) of liquid. Once it is filled, users can pressurise the water by inflating air using a pump through a valve - allowing it to project water up to 60ft (18m). It even allows space for a bicycle rack to be attached . He added that if the temperature is below 21°C, it won't be very effective at heating water. Mr Cotton, a retired computer science professor from Glenwood Springs, said: ‘People have given us some puzzled looks when they see others' showering. ‘But a full tank should be able to do three showers if you turn it off while soaping.’ ‘You can also clip the hose to the side of the shower and turn the nozzle on so you don't have to hold the nozzle while showering. ‘Considering my first model was made from PVC, acrylic glass and an aluminium bike tray, it's come a long way.’", "By . Tamara Cohen . PUBLISHED: . 18:12 EST, 12 March 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 04:39 EST, 13 March 2012 . Water companies unveiled an 11-point diktat last night to stop 20million people from beating a hosepipe ban. As the drought-hit South and East of the country faced drastic restrictions on consumption, bosses issued an extensive checklist to prevent households from exploiting loopholes. It includes a ban on using a hose or sprinkler to water plants, wash a car or boat, fill fountains, swimming or paddling pools, or to clean patios, driveways or windows. Even spraying your children to keep . them cool in the sunshine will be outlawed, and those caught breaking . the rules face a £1,000 fine. Seven water companies announced that . they would enforce Temporary Use Bans – affecting one in three UK homes – . from April 5 after the plans were revealed in the Daily Mail yesterday. The strict rules are an attempt to . close any loopholes after the last hosepipe ban in 2006 led to . widespread accusations of cheating, with thousands reported to water . companies by their neighbours or served with 'yellow card' letters . warning them to obey the law. Yesterday water companies stressed . that they hoped the ban would be enforced through goodwill and educating . people about the need to save water. No need for a bridge: The River Lavant has also totally disappeared at West Dean College, West Sussex . Water, water everywhere: Three years ago the River Lavant at West Dean was a picturesque waterway . The restrictions were brought in . following two years of chronically low rainfall which has left rivers . dry and reservoirs down to record low levels. Customers of Anglian Water, Southern, . Southeast, Thames, Veolia Southeast and Veolia  Central – which cover . parts of London and the Home Counties – and Sutton and East Surrey Water . will be affected. Water companies said that without persistent above-average . rainfall for several weeks, the unpopular measures could last until the . end of the summer in the 14 counties which are already officially in . drought. Otherwise they face 'severe drought' by the summer, the Environment Agency warned yesterday, which could . result in extending restrictions to businesses. Hosepipe bans may also be enforced in . East Yorkshire and Wiltshire which are at 'high risk' of drought . conditions this summer, the agency's Drought Prospects report said. Its chairman Lord Smith urged . businesses to cut down on use, as electricity companies which use water . for cooling and water-intensive industries such as concrete . manufacturing could be affected. Predictions of continuing dry weather . have raised fears that restrictions could be extended to car washes, . road cleaning and public pools. Dry as a bone: The River Pang has run dry from Bucklebury to its source seven miles upstream at Compton . Scenic: A verdant stretch of the River Pang before the lack of rain of recent months took its toll . The Met Office's long-range forecast, . which is given to Government and businesses, revealed that the chances . of heavy rain are as low as 10 per cent between March and May, compared . with a long-term average of 20 per cent. The average person uses 150 litres of . water a day. Water company infrastructure across England and Wales . leaked 3.4billion litres a day in 2010/11 – a third of the UK's usage – . according to the regulator Ofwat. The latest figures revealed that . groundwater levels across the affected region are even lower than during . the 1976 drought when taps were switched off in some cities, and . residents had to use standpipes in the street. People enjoying the warm spring weather in St James's Park, London. Forecasters predict a week of sunshine with temperatures reaching 19 degrees, seven degrees higher than the monthly average . Golden hello: The rising sun greets a dog walker on Bamburgh Beech, while as the day warmed up sun-worshippers flocked to the beach in Old Portsmouth . Drought conditions are already . affecting fruit and cereal crops, as well as destroying wildlife . habitats and causing fish to die in low rivers. Justin Taberham of the Chartered . Institution of Water and Environmental Management said that if consumers . do not start curbing their water use at home, the economy will be . affected. 'If water levels in drought-stricken . areas don't improve, hosepipe bans could be just the beginning and . industry will start to be affected,' he said. Summer sun: A woman enjoying Brighton beach yesterday morning . Riding out: Rachael Foister enjoys the hot weather and spring daffodils at West Dean College, West Sussex . Taking the plunge: A couple look set to brave the sea in Old Portsmouth . 'The first companies to face bans will . be those who waste water unnecessarily and aren't seen as particularly . important, like car wash firms. 'If things continue to get worse, . that's when agriculture will be affected and public parks will struggle . with maintaining their gardens. 'As industries pay per volume of water . used, they are not as wasteful of water as homeowners who may leave the . tap running or not use watering cans. Simply put, if people want to . stop facing these bans, they need to think more about what they are . doing.' This is one of the largest hosepipe . bans ever implemented. The last in the South was in 2006 affecting . 12million people, and 7million in the North East were hit in 2010. Ciaran Nelson of Anglian Water said: 'Although it is a hosepipe ban, it . is really symbolic of urging people to do everything they can to save . water at home. 'We don't have sprinkler patrols and . helicopters in the air watching people, but we are confident they will . do the right thing at a very difficult time because of the exceptionally . dry two years we have had.' Martin Baggs, chief executive of . Thames Water, said water levels in the underground aquifers were some of . the lowest ever recorded. He said: 'We know these restrictions . will be unpopular, but they will save a lot of water. A garden sprinkler . uses as much water in an hour as a family of four uses in a day.' Dry run: The beautiful weather brings out the joggers in Portsmouth . Dawn of summer: The sun rises over Bamburgh Castle in Northumberland at the start of what forecasters are predicting will be a warm week .", "He was the wooden puppet who dreamed about being a real boy. Pinocchio was the creation of Italian writer Carlo Collodi who wrote Le avventure di Pinocchio in 1883 at the Villa dei Satiri, near Florence, Italy. It has since become a children’s classic spawning a classic Disney film in 1940. The Villa dei Satiri, near Florence, Italy where Carlo Collodi wrote Le avventure di Pinocchio in 1883 . Now the villa where Collodi wrote the story is up for sale with a price tag of €19million (£15m) and potential buyers will get a taste of military as well as literary history – others who have stayed at the house, which dates back to 1366 include Ferdinand of Austria, Napoleon Bonaparte and Anna de' Medici. The main house is beautifully situated in Italianate gardens complete with terraces, steps, statues and fountains with water features. The main house is beautifully situated in Italianate gardens complete with terraces, steps, statues and fountains with water features. Pinocchio - with his creator Geppetto - wanted to be a real boy. Now the location of his creation is up for sale near Florence, Italy . Approximately 40 miles from Florence the main villa is set in the ruins of an original fortress and is spread across 32,600 sq feet. The estate agents describe it as 'spread over four levels that can be reached via a monumental double flight of steps'. As well as a villa potential buyers could also expect to get a summer house, a farm, a restaurant, baths building or Bagnetti and even a butterfly house for their money. The Villa dei Satiri, near Florence, Italy was built in 1366 and as well as Carlo Collodi has played host to Ferdinand of Austria, Napoleon Bonaparte and Anna de' Medici . Italian author Carlo Collodi looked out on this statue as he composed the tale of the wooden puppet who wanted to be a real boy . The ornate gardens of Villa dei Satiri, near Florence, Italy where Carlo Collodi created Pinnocchio . Outside the complex includes additional land, measuring about 12 hectares in total, with woods and a small productive olive grove containing 70 olive trees. The agents Casaitalia International said: \"Its high-impact image and large surface area, divided into several buildings, with the villa in a private, dominant position and the service buildings lower down, suggest uses that ranges from a prestigious residence to a high-level accommodation complex, a cultural centre or an exclusive intellectual retreat. \"It is also ideal as a location for hosting high-level events, thanks to its easy-to-reach location, far from the traffic and the crowds, while excellently connected to the airport, the motorway and to some of the major Tuscan cities of art - Florence, Lucca and Pisa. \"It is also close to the sea and the lake.\" The grounds of Villa dei Satiri, near Florence, Italy are replete with statues . Artworks dot the walls of Carlo Collodi's former home around 40 miles from Florence . The inside of Carlo Collodi's home near Florence . The staircases at the Villa dei Satiri are decorated with cherubs at the foot of the stairs . The amazing ceilings at the Villa dei Satiri have incredible designs . Approximately 40 miles from Florence the main villa is set in the ruins of an original fortress and is spread across 32,600 sq feet . As well as a villa potential buyers could also expect to get a summer house, a farm, a restaurant, baths building or Bagnetti and even a butterfly house for their money . Now the villa where Collodi wrote Pinocchio is up for sale with a price tag of €19million (£15m) and potential buyers will get a taste of military as well as literary history – others who have stayed at the house, which dates back to 1366 include Ferdinand of Austria, Napoleon Bonaparte and Anna de' Medici. Approximately 40 miles from Florence the main villa is set in the ruins of an original fortress and is spread across 32,600 sq feet. If you have a spare £15million, you can buy the Florence villa where Carlo Collodi wrote the story of Pinocchio, the wooden puppet who wanted to be a real boy . The main house is beautifully situated in Italianate gardens complete with terraces, steps, statues and fountains with water features .", "Anyone who has ever tried to bathe an animal, especially a big one, will probably tell you that it can be a real struggle. But this little elephant in Thailand proves that it’s not always as hard as you would think. In fact, it’s actually quite fun. Captured on video by a visiting tourist who dubbed the elephant Double Trouble, the excitable animal is filmed diving straight towards the bath, snagging its leg on the side of it, tripping up and falling straight into the water. After balancing on its head for a while looking as if it is struggling, the elephant manages to turn itself back onto its side and begins splashing about - seemingly unbothered by its less-than-graceful entry into the water. Returning to its feet, the elephant heads towards the man bathing it, who is believed to be Claus Jorgensen, the Danish tourist who later uploaded the footage from the Royal Elephant Kraal and Village, in Thailand. But the excitement isn't over for the young elephant. It proceeds to jumping back out of the bath and attempt to steal the hose, causing the surrounding visitors to laugh hysterically. The excited elephant charges straight towards the bath and snags its leg off of it on the way in causing it to fall over . The calf slip-slided its way in eventually as grown elephants stood in the back watching . Head over heels! The elephant looks like it is about to drown before it turns itself onto its side and begins splashing . The video concludes with Double Trouble jumping back into the bath even more enthusiastically, before a woman and little girl spray it with a hose. After an enjoyable roll around in the water, apparently delighting in its added shower, the elephant grabs the hose from the girl and her mother and runs away with it in its trunk. Royal Elephant Kraal & Village in Ayutthaya is a non-profit organisation that breeds elephants, cares for retired elephants and looks after all the ones in between. The little guy just couldn't get enough of the spray . After rolling about in the water, the elephant jumps up and attempts to steal the hose from the man . Their popular Elephantstay programme allows visitors to care for the animals and guides are on hand to instruct on the best ways to feed, wash and interact with them. Since the year 2000 The Royal Elephant Kraal’s breeding programme has resulted in over 60 births. The latest recorded birth on their website was in December 2014, when an elephant named Oijai gave birth to a boy named Plai Kotchasuwan. The video concludes with a woman and little girl spraying the elephant before it runs after with their hose .", "Schools cannot be a ‘hazard-free zone’ for children, a senior judge said yesterday as she stripped a nine-year-old pupil of £3,000 in compensation. Appeal Court judge Lady Justice Sharp said schools should be reasonably safe for pupils – who ‘are inclined to lark around’ – but could not safeguard them against freak accidents. She was ruling in the case of a schoolboy who successfully sued his local council for £3,215 in compensation after cutting his hand in a playground scuffle. Nine-year-old Lewis Pierce sued West Sussex County Council for damages after an accident at St Andrew's School in Nuthurst. The Court of Appeal overturned the decision . The Court of Appeal overturned the decision, saying the pay-out would mean ‘the law parting company with common sense’. Nine-year-old Lewis Pierce sued West Sussex County Council for damages after an accident at St Andrew’s School in Nuthurst. It arose when Lewis was sprayed with water from the fountain, which had been fitted in the playground earlier that day, by his seven-year-old brother, George. Incensed, he lashed out but George ducked and Lewis hit the fountain instead. He cut his thumb and damaged a tendon, which had to be repaired by surgeons under general anaesthetic. He made a full recovery from the accident in June 2010. The court heard that Lewis was ‘completely unconcerned’ by the 1in scar it left him with but his mother Annette began legal action on his behalf against the local education authority. The schoolboy hit a fountain Lewis hit the fountain during a scuffle. He cut his thumb and damaged a tendon, which had to be repaired by surgeons under general anaesthetic. File picture . Lawyers for the family said the school had not carried out a proper risk assessment before installing the water fountain and claimed that Lewis’s injury was the result of negligence or breach of duty. Brighton County Court agreed and awarded the schoolboy £3,215 in compensation last year.But West Sussex took the case to the Court of Appeal and argued that the same model of water fountain had been fitted in schools throughout England and Wales without causing injury. Iain O’Donnell, for the council, said schools might have to ban the fountains if Lewis was allowed to keep his pay-out, for fear of other potential claims. He told the court that schools could never be completely free from hazards. ‘Any part of the premises, for example the corner of a brick wall, could be perceived as sufficiently sharp to cause a laceration if punched,’ he said. The water fountain was ‘not unduly sharp to normal touch’ and Lewis’s injury was caused by his own ‘spontaneous and unpredictable act’, the Appeal Court heard. Lady Justice Sharp said schools should take reasonable steps to ensure children’s safety, ‘bearing in mind that children are inclined to lark around’. But she said they were not under a duty ‘to safeguard children in all circumstances’, adding: ‘The law would part company with common sense if that were the case.’ The Appeal Court ruled that the county council was not responsible for Lewis’s injury and warned that a ruling in his favour would have led to a legal obligation on schools to pad and protect every edge or corner on which a child could conceivably injure themselves. West Sussex County Council hailed the Court of Appeal decision as ‘a victory for common sense’. The legal costs of the original claim and the appeal will now have to be paid by the Pierces. The amount was not revealed. Mrs Pierce, 36, defended the decision to sue. Speaking at her family’s £300,000 home in Cowfold, West Sussex, she maintained that it was ‘more than a simple case of a minor accident resulting from a spot of playground rough and tumble’.", "Like man, the way to a dog's heart is through its stomach. No one knows that better than Kris Rotonda and Denise Fernandez, the couple who conceived the Doggy Cooking Network and founded online dating service YouMustLoveDogsDating.com, where pooch-loving singles can connect with potential mates. Their Doggy Cooking Network on YouTube taps into the popularity of cooking shows like The Pioneer Woman and Barefoot Contessa to show pet owners how to dish up fresh, homemade alternatives to commercial kibble. Scroll down for video . Canine cameo: The Doggy Cooking Network on YouTube teaches pet owners how to prepare healthy, homemade treats for dogs . It struck a chord as serving safe, wholesome food has become important to people putting more time, money and energy into pet care. Some animal lovers have emphasized home-cooked canine cuisine following complaints of tainted food sickening and killing pets. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has received reports that dog and cat treats made in China have killed 1,000 dogs and sickened more than 4,800 pets since 2007. The agency has not been able to prove the chicken, duck or sweet potato jerky treats are causing the illnesses, but large retailers PetSmart and Petco plan to pull them from shelves. Dream team: Denise Fernandez and Kris Rotonda conceived and star in the Doggy Cooking Network . Worried pet owners can find easy recipes in Rotonda and Fernandez's cooking shows. In their videos, they use simple ingredients like chicken, rice and eggs to make everything from frozen yogurt bars and sweet bean rice to meatloaf birthday cake, and they incorporate food trends like organic and gluten-free snacks. 'The idea is simple. Food brings families together,' Fernandez said. 'Only people who are really devoted to their dogs are going to cook for them.' She and Rotonda are not professional chefs but display quick ways to please a pet's palate after testing the dishes out on their four dogs. Easy: Recipes require simple ingredients and cooking processes are straightforward . Dog's dinner: The finished dishes are all natural so ideal for pets with food allergies . Viewers mix along with the couple as they joke, banter and show off their finished dishes during the four-minute cooking segments. Shows are being posted once a week on YouTube, but they hope to expand soon. They started their one-of-a-kind show about three months ago. With the holidays coming up, at least one episode a month will spotlight ideas for pet recipes and gifts, Fernandez said. Mary Montufar of Mountain View, California, will build on the show's recipes to make her own creations for her 11-year-old Maltese mix, Phoebe. If the Doggy Cooking Network features chicken with carrots and peas, she will try similar alternatives, like turkey and sweet potatoes. Here's some I made earlier... Co-host Denise Fernandez pictured before a recording in her kitchen . Not so scary: The couple film a Halloween special, showing how to make holiday-themed treats for pets . The fresh food helped combat Phoebe's extensive allergies. Montufar tried all kinds of store-bought food, but none of it stopped the dog's scratching and discomfort. So she decided to give the online cooking shows a try. The ingredients are simple and cheap and the recipes are so easy that she can make a week's worth of food at a time, Montufar said. She can also get it done in the same amount of time it would take her to go shopping, she said. Best of all, the food has cut way down on Phoebe's allergies. 'It's all fresh food, so there's nothing you would be afraid to eat yourself,' Montufar said.", "The way that we define a second could be about to change as scientists claim they have found a more accurate way to measure time. French researchers have demonstrated that a new type of atomic clock is so precise and stable that it could provide a new standard. Jérôme Lodewyck of the Paris Observatory . and his colleagues claim optical lattice clocks lost just one second . every 300 million years and are even more accurately than the current . atomic timepieces that we make do with. French researchers have demonstrated that a new type of atomic clock is so precise and stable that it could provide a new standard. Under a blue laser light, a cloud of strontium atoms kept in a vacuum fluoresces at a characteristic wavelength (pictured) which could be used to redefine the second . The atomic clock has been used to define a second in the International System of Units since the 1960s. The new clocks remain as perfectly in time that experimental precision can measure, according to his research, which is published in Nature Communications. This test of stability is crucial if optical lattice clocks will be used to redefine the second, he said. According to Nature, Christopher Oates, another expert in atomic clock standards at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Colorado, described the research as: 'very beautiful and careful work, which . gives grounds for confidence in the optical lattice clock and in optical . clocks generally'. The second has been measured to last precisely 9,192,631,770 oscillations of the microwave radiation emitted or absorbed when a caesium atom journeys between two energy states. The atomic clock has been used to define a second in the International System of Units since the 1960s. A cesium frequency standard atomic clock (pictured) is accurate to approximately three parts in 10 quadrillion so it loses one second over 100 million years . An atomic fountain is currently the most accurate way to measure this frequency. A laser forces atoms in gasous caesium skywards and the emission from them probed as they travel through a microwave beam twice. This type of atomic clock is used to set the national time standards, to which we all set our watches uses caesium atomic fountain clocks. They are accurate to approximately three parts in 10 quadrillion so only lose one second over 100 million years. But the new optical lattice clock as well as a couple of other types can do even better. The optical lattice clock of interest to Dr Lodewyck were first demonstrated less than 20 years ago and some experts believe that they will become the most accurate clock ever. The researcher has demonstrated that he is able to get one optical lattice clock to tick at exactly the same time as another to demonstrate its accuracy. The team has also shown that its optical lattice clocks can keep pace with all three caseium fountain clocks housed at the Paris Observatory. While traditional watch mechanisms (pictured) are attractive, stock markets, telecommunications systems and satellite navigation use incredibly accurate atomic clocks . While some may question the use of such incredibly accurate time pieces, they could be used by physicists to explore if some of nature's most constant features change over time. An ion clock is also in development and is currently even more accurate than optical lattice clocks. It loses one second every few billion years but as it relies on a single ion, is not considered dependable enough for commercial use.", "By . Associated Press Reporter . and Reuters Reporter . California’s Central Valley was once known as America's food basket providing vast supplies of fruit, vegetables and meat, but as these recent photographs show the devastating effects of the state’s worst drought in decades has played havoc on the region leaving much of it unfit for farming. And it's not just farms in the region, as luxury homes and golf clubs have also been left with scorched earth where once there had been lush grass. The most populous U.S. state is in its third year of what officials are calling a catastrophic drought, leading farmers to leave fallow nearly a half-million acres of land and leaving some small communities at risk of running out of drinking water. Thousands of workers facing losing their jobs and farmers in the state are facing losses of $1.7 billion, according to recent economic study of what may be the state's driest year on record. A series of new ariel photos reveal the terrible impact that three years of catastrophic drought have had on California's Central Valle . Thousands of workers facing losing their jobs and farmers in the state are facing losses of $1.7 billion, according to recent economic study of what may be the state's driest year on record . ‘We wanted to provide a foundation for state agricultural and water policymakers to understand the impacts of the drought on farmers and farm communities,’ said Richard Howitt, professor emeritus of agricultural and resource economics at the University of California, Davis and the report's lead author. As many as 14,500 full time and seasonal jobs could be lost as a result of the drought, as farmers fallow land and there are fewer crops to plant and pick, according to the preliminary study. Altogether, 410,000 acres may be left unplanted in the San Joaquin Valley alone, the analysis showed, as farmers enter the growing season with about two-thirds of the water that they need. By comparison, a drought in 2009 led to the fallowing of 270,000 acres of cropland and the loss of 7,500 jobs, the study showed. It's not just farms in the region, as luxury homes and golf clubs have also been left with scorched earth where once there had been lush grass . The everlasting drought for the past 14 years has forced waters down more than 130 feet since a high-water mark was last reached in 2000 . ‘Everyone is trying to get a handle on how bad it's going to be,’ said Dave Kranz, a spokesman for the California Farm Bureau Federation. Most farmers in California rely on irrigation rather than rain, many purchasing supplies from federal and state projects that pump from the San Joaquin-Sacramento River Delta. But less water than normal is available from those sources this year. Last week, Lake Mead dropped to the lowest levels since the reservoir was filled upon the completion of the Hoover Dam in the 1930s. The everlasting drought for the past 14 years has forced waters down more than 130 feet since a high-water mark was last reached in 2000. As entire marinas run dry, the Bureau of Reclamation fears that an ongoing drought could force the agency to declare a shortage by 2017, which could ultimately affect the more than 40 million people that rely on Lake Mead for water. This picture taken from a helicopter shows aircrafts lining up next to fields of dead grass at the San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, California . Altogether, 410,000 acres may be left unplanted in the San Joaquin Valley alone, the analysis showed, as farmers enter the growing season with about two-thirds of the water that they need . U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack visited drought-stricken homeowners on Friday in Central California, saying drought and climate change would require major investment to secure future water supplies. Vilsack also announced $9.7 million in new emergency drought aid to help rural Californians hurt by the state's three-year drought. A drought monitor sponsored by the federal government says 81 percent of the state is experiencing major agricultural losses and widespread water shortages or restrictions. All but one of the state's 58 counties are now federally designated disaster areas because of the drought, making farmers and ranchers eligible for emergency loans, according to the agriculture department. Outside the small city of Farmersville in Tulare County, 60-year-old Carlen Overby told Vilsack the running water in her home now came via a garden hose connected to a neighbor's well, the Fresno Bee reported. The drought could leave 14,500 workers without jobs in California's Central Valley, known as America's food basket for providing vast supplies of fruit, vegetables and meat . The Obama administration says it has designated more than $50 million in drought-related aid for California. Projects include supporting climate-change research hubs to seek ways to ease the impact . Overby's own well, like others in her area, had gone dry. She now showers each morning with the hose. ‘When you get up in the morning and turn the water on, you wonder if the water is going to come out,’ Overby told the agriculture secretary. The new drought spending is intended to help secure water supplies for 73,000 Californians in 11 counties. Recipients include Farmersville, where a $500,000 grant will connect residents who have dry wells to a water main. Vilsack called drought and climate change a major national concern. He said the country will have to invest in infrastructure, including more storage facilities. California Gov. Jerry Brown also is pushing for heavy investment to secure state water service, including a proposed $15 billion to build giant tunnels to carry water from the San Francisco Bay Area to the state's water-thirsty south . This picture taken from a helicopter shows a drought affected area - including a golf course - near Los Altos Hills, California, on Wednesday . California Gov. Jerry Brown also is pushing for heavy investment to secure state water service, including a proposed $15 billion to build giant tunnels to carry water from the San Francisco Bay Area to the state's water-thirsty south. The Obama administration says it has designated more than $50 million in drought-related aid for California. Projects include supporting climate-change research hubs to seek ways to ease the impact. The University of California, Davis, is a designated 'sub-hub' for that research.", "Louise Harris written book detailing how to pamper your pooch from 'liver lovehearts' to 'chewy Vuitton' treats . Quit job as City analyst to set up dog boutique . By . Bianca London . PUBLISHED: . 06:43 EST, 24 September 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 06:45 EST, 24 September 2012 . Paris Hilton set the trend for designer dogs when she kitted out her teacup Chihuahua Tinkerbell in a blingy juicy couture tracksuit. And now, pooch owners can follow Paris's lead with the help of a new book which guides pet owners on how to transform their furry friend into the ultimate pampered pooch. The book, most fittingly titled Diva Dogs, is billed as the definitive guide on how to create your own diamante-studded, designer clothed pet. Louise Harris with her Yorkshire Terrier Lola, has written a definitive guide on how to pamper your pooch . The new book offers a step-by-step guide of how to indulge your furry friend . It even comes with detailed instructions on how to throw an 'OTT' pet party - ensuring dog owners pick the perfect venue, shine up their tiaras and a step by step recipe for 'liver lovehearts'. The prissy pooch bible has been written by celebrity dog owner Louise Harris, who has used her extensive knowledge of pet pampering to create the informative guide. The book is also a memoir of Louise's infatuation with her own diva dog Lola, who she shot to fame with in TV 'dogumentary' A Different Breed. Broken up into 10 chapters, Louise explains the dos and don'ts of owning a dog, including 'Doggy dining', 'Divas don't do bad hairdays' and 'Pooch Fancy dress.' Billy the pug gets dressed for dinner, but it won't be standard pet food on the menu if Louise's 'liver lovehearts' are anything to go by . It's a dog's life for Lola who chills out on her plush pink sofa and has her own personalised wardrobe . She also shares her luxury lap-dog expertise in buying the perfect gifts for your pet, such as soft toy high-heels and 'chewy Vuiton' bones and squeaky 'Ko Ko Chewnell' treats. Louise, who owns Britain's most exclusive doggy boutique also offers extensive advice on how to pick a wardrobe and accessories, which will make your pet sparkle. The book advises dog owners to carry their pooch 'safely' offering ideas for the perfect handbag, car-seat and even pram. The prissy pooch bible has been written by celebrity dog owner Louise Harris, who has used her extensive knowledge of pet pampering to create the informative guide . The 173 page guide, which focuses on Yorkies, Chihuahuas, Pugs, Mini Dachshunds, Poodles, Pomeranians, Bichons and Frises, offers a detailed description of which breeds make the best Diva Dogs. Louise said: 'The book's full of practical tips on day to day doggy care from what to eat to how to stay fit and healthy. 'We explain the dos and don'ts of doggy grooming and, naturally, we also want to share our expertise on chic canine couture, poochie pampering and - my favourite part of all - how to throw a pet party. Blue the Miniature dachshund wraps up warm for winter whilst Betty the Maltese looks adorable in in a glitzy pink tutu . Yorkshire Terrier's Minnie and Lola celebrate in style at their own pup party . 'Over 8 million dogs are owned in the UK and several diva breeds are among the most popular. 'This is a fun and friendly guide to canine care and is the perfect gift item for any Diva Dog lover.' Louise was a former high-flying city analyst before she gave up her 12 hour a day job to open up her own pet boutique in Chelmsford, Essex, called Diva Dogs. In 2006 She starred with Lola in Sky 1's A Different Breed and has since dedicated her life to canines. Diva Dogs the book will be available is published by Simon Schuster and will be available in book stores from Thursday (September 27).", "Police in Rotterdam are tightening security and drafting in reinforcements ahead of a highly charged second leg of the Europa League match between Feyenoord and Roma. Feyenoord fans rioted in Rome before the first leg last week, damaging a recently renovated fountain, and leaving part of the city's historic center strewn with beer cans and smashed bottles. Fearing that visiting Roma fans may want to take revenge before Thursday's return leg, Rotterdam police spokesman Gijs van Nimwegen said on Wednesday officers will, if necessary, be given emergency powers to eject trouble-making fans from the city. A Feyenoord fan stands in the fountain that was originally made in 1627 but had been recently restored . Rome's riot squads are called and clash with Feyenoord supporters around the Barcaccia fountain . One supporter picks up a bottle to throw at police during the shocking scenes in the Italian capital . Meanwhile, Dutch authorities say they are supporting private fundraising initiatives aiming to help pay for the repair of the 400-year-old Fountain of the Barcaccia that was damaged last week in Rome. The damage to the Baroque fountain by Pietro Bernini, a sculptor responsible for many of Rome's greatest works, was serious, Anna Maria Ceroni, a local official responsible for restorations, told the Corriere della Sera newspaper. 'The extent of the damage still needs to be determined, but it's permanent,' she said. Mayor Ignazio Marino told La Repubblica daily: 'These crooks, these fake fans, hardened hooligans' had 'violated, dirtied and damaged' the fountain. Feyenoord's general director, Eric Gudde, said he was ashamed by the 'behaviour of a group of brainless people who Feyenoord distances itself from completely and who fill every normal thinking Dutch person with horror'. The Dutch embassy pledged to cooperate with Italy to catch the perpetrators. Fans fall to the ground as riot police weight in with batons in violent clashes between fans and police . An injured Feyenoord supporter has water thrown over him by police as he is escorted away from the area . One supporter lies on the floor while a riot police officer raises his baton above him and others rush in . Police use riot gear as they wade into crowd who are bearing makeshift missiles and flares . Injured fans lie on the ground with their hands tied - one has blood streaming from a wound on his head . 'I am furious,' retired shop owner Iola Commandini said in Rome's Spanish Square where the fountain is located. 'They haven't come back today to look at what they have done because they are afraid they'll get beaten up.' Some Italian politicians said UEFA should exclude Feyenoord from the Europa League. Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said Italian authorities would look into whether they had responded correctly, but placed the blame for the incident squarely on the 'barbarians'. The match at Roma's Stadio Olimpico ended in a 1-1 draw. Feyenoord and Roma eventually played out a 1-1 draw in the Europa League round of 32 tie . Former Arsenal forward Gervinho celebrates scoring Roma's opening goal at the Stadio Olimpico ." ]

[ "For most women, it will take at least a few days for hormone levels to return to normal after they stop taking most forms of hormonal birth control. The only exception to this is the birth control shot. The shot is designed to deliver three months worth of protection with one injection." ]

[ "Because hormonal birth control affects the reproductive cycle, it can temporarily delay how long it takes to get pregnant. The number of months it takes to get pregnant after going off your hormonal birth control depends on the specific method you were using.", "Even though it's made of the same hormone as the birth control pill, the morning-after pill does not have the same risks as taking the pill or other hormonal birth control methods continuously. That's because the hormone in the morning-after pill is not in your body as long as it is with ongoing birth control.", "Emergency contraception is safe. Even though it's made of the same hormone as the birth control pill, the morning-after pill does not have the same risks as taking the pill or other hormonal birth control methods continuously.", "Does birth control cause yeast infections? Birth control doesn't cause yeast infections. However, certain forms of hormonal birth control can increase your risk of developing a yeast infection. This is because the hormones in birth control disturb your body's natural hormonal balance.", "Can Taking Hormonal Birth Control Cause or Prevent Hair Loss? TLDR: No, birth control does NOT cause hair loss. No birth control does NOT prevent hair loss.", "Even though it's made of the same hormone as the birth control pill, emergency contraception does not have the same risks as taking the pill or other hormonal birth control methods continuously. That's because the hormone in emergency contraception is not in your body as long as it is with ongoing birth control.", "Why women quit taking birth control Another side effect commonly cited is on hormonal birth control's effect on mood, anxiety and depression. Anxiety and depression have been shown to fluctuate when women take hormonal birth control (for some women it makes symptoms better, for some, worse).", "The effect is the same and the contraction makes you poop more—as long as you're not taking hormonal birth control. Hormonal birth control limits the amount of prostaglandin released and, as a result, limits cramps and the extra poop.", "How does hormonal birth control affect the progesterone in my body? Progesterone levels while taking hormonal birth control will depend on whether your method inhibits ovulation. If you are not ovulating, then your progesterone levels will be low and flat (no peak).", "Not necessarily. Some women don't get their period for a few months after they stop hormonal birth control. That's because these forms of birth control impact your hormonal balance, and it may take your body a little while to go back to a pre-birth control-state. But you can get pregnant before you have your period.", "How does the birth control patch work? The birth control patch prevents pregnancy by stopping sperm from joining with an egg (which is called fertilization). Like most birth control pills, the patch contains the hormones estrogen and progestin. These are similar to the hormones our bodies make naturally.", "When changing the type of birth control pill or the dose of estrogen. When a woman does not take her birth control pill correctly, missing doses or not taking them at the same time each day. After using birth control for a long time, which can affect the lining of the uterus and cause bleeding.", "You'll likely experience some spotting and breakthrough bleeding in the first three to six months after starting a new method of hormonal birth control. It's especially common if you're taking a birth control pill that doesn't have estrogen.", "Birth control, in all forms, whether it is hormonal, non-hormonal, or natural, prevents conception. But an abortion takes place after fertilization, or conception has already occurred.", "Hormone Level Changes: In some women, hormonal changes are due to taking birth control pills. If you think that taking birth control pills is causing your yeast infection, DO NOT STOP TAKING THE BIRTH CONTROL, as this will not cure your infection.", "1. Take hormonal birth control. Oral birth control pills and birth control injections can be used to regulate your cycle. Hormonal birth control can also decrease cramping and shorten the number of days you menstruate each month.", "So, why does the morning after pill delay periods? The answer lies in the fact that Plan B contains levonorgestel hormones. These are the same hormones found in the common birth control pill, but Plan B contains a higher dose of the levonorgestel hormone since you are only meant to take it once.", "How long does nausea last? According to the Center for Young Women's Health, most side effects of birth control pills go away after the person has been taking the pills for a few days. A person will usually experience fewer side effects after taking the pills for 3–4 months.", "Use hormonal birth control or menopausal hormone therapy. The hormone estrogen may weaken vein valves and lead to varicose veins. Using hormonal birth control or taking menopausal hormone therapy may raise your risk of varicose or spider veins.", "How Long does a Birth Application Take. It can take up to four months to process your application and then receive a Notice of Birth Registration in the mail.", "But again—even if birth control does affect AMH levels, it's only temporarily. There's no long-term impact on fertility as a result of taking birth control for years, or even decades.", "If you normally use birth control pills for contraception, you should continue taking your pill on your regular schedule when you use any of these hormonal emergency contraception options. The morning after pill does not prevent you from becoming pregnant after you take it.", "How Long Does a Birth Control Patch Take to Work? The time it takes for a birth control patch to become effective depends on when you had your last period. If you start using the patch within the first part of your period, usually the first five days or so, the patch will start working immediately.", "I'm on hormonal birth control. Can I get pregnant if I take antibiotics? In most cases, no, as long as you continue to use your hormonal contraception as prescribed you are safe from pregnancy even if you are on antibiotics. It is a myth that all antibiotics will interfere with the efficacy of your birth control pill.", "Does taking the birth control pill affect you tolerance for alcohol? Current research (in contrast to some older studies) suggests that birth control pills and even changes in natural hormones over the menstrual cycle have very little to no effect on alcohol metabolism.", "Sometimes, birth control pills help migraines. Sometimes, they make headaches worse. How birth control affects migraines depends on the woman and on the level of hormones present in the pill she takes. A drop in estrogen levels can trigger migraines.", "Injectable birth control (Depo-Provera). Unlike other forms of hormonal birth control, it may be harder to get pregnant after you stop getting these shots. It may take 10 months or more before you ovulate again. For some women, it will take up to 18 months for periods to start again.", "It can cause irregular periods, unwanted hair growth, and acne. Taking birth control pills can improve these symptoms by balancing your hormones, lowering the level of testosterone, and regulating your period.", "The birth control shot is an injection of progestin, one of the hormones found in birth control pills. Hormones are chemicals that control how different parts of your body work. The shot prevents pregnancy by keeping the ovaries from releasing eggs.", "How long does it take to get a copy of my birth certificate in California? A certified copy takes 6 to 8 weeks to arrive.", "Oral birth control pills and birth control injections can be used to regulate your cycle. Hormonal birth control can also decrease cramping and shorten the number of days you menstruate each month. If you're just starting hormonal birth control, it may take several months before your periods become shorter.", "How Does the Birth Control Shot Work? The hormone progestin in the birth control shot works by preventing ovulation (the release of an egg during the monthly cycle). If a girl doesn't ovulate, she cannot get pregnant because there is no egg to be fertilized. The progestin also thickens the mucus around the cervix." ]

[ "A calorie deficit occurs when you consume fewer calories than your body expends. A calorie deficit of 500 calories per day is effective for healthy and sustainable weight loss." ]

[ "To do that you need to figure out how many calories you burn each day and then subtract your target deficit of 300 to 500 calories from that number. There are two components to your total calories burned daily: calories burned at rest and calories burned during workouts.", "How Many Calories Should I Cut? Most experts recommend that you cut approximately 500 to 750 calories per day1 to lose one to two pounds per week. You can use this weight loss calorie goal calculator to figure out how many calories you should eat each day.", "For those runners who want to lose weight during training, a calorie deficit of 250-500 calories a day is more appropriate. Solution: Based on approximately an hour of running a day, runners should consume 21 calories per pound of body weight each day.", "This is based on a daily calorie deficit of 500 calories. As one pound of fat contains 3,500 calories, an individual should technically lose 1 lb over seven days. However, while a well managed calorie deficit is encouraged, a dramatic one can be very harmful.", "How many calories will I burn with Lagree Fitness? You will burn 300-600 calories during class.", "You can burn 200 to 250 calories in walk of 3 hours. How does one burn more calories than they consume? How many calories do you have to burn while on a calorie deficit? How do you burn 7,000 calories a day?", "When applied properly, Eat Stop Eat sets you up for 1–2 days' worth of a calorie deficit each week. Over time, this reduction in your total calorie intake could result in weight loss as you burn more calories than you take in.", "['First, you need to know how many calories you eat (or want to eat) each day. I eat roughly 2,300 calories per day.', 'Next, determine your ideal ratio. ... ', 'Then, multiply your total daily calories by your percentages.', 'Finally, divide your calorie amounts by its calorie-per-gram number.']", "How many calories should you eat on average? The average woman needs to eat about 2,000 calories per day to maintain her weight, and 1,500 calories per day to lose one pound of weight per week.", "How many calories are there in a 330ml can of Coca‑Cola Original Taste? 139 calories. This represents 7% of the calories an average adult should eat and drink in a day to maintain a healthy, balanced diet.", "How many calories should you eat for breakfast? The fresh campaign encourages adults to consume no more than 400 calories for their morning meal. This comes as people eat on average an extra 200 – 300 calories a day.", "The common advice has long been that you need to burn 3,500 more calories than you eat to drop one pound. To do this in one week, then, you need to create a calorie deficit of 500 calories each day.", "1. Eating too few calories. Eating too few calories can cause a major decrease in metabolism. Although a calorie deficit is needed for weight loss, it can be counterproductive for your calorie intake to drop too low.", "So how many calories should a runner eat? Long-distance runners should consume 19 to 21 calories per pound of bodyweight for 1 – 1.5 hours of running or strenuous activity per day.", "So how much can I eat? A woman normally needs to have 2,000 calories a day - this includes food and drink. But when you are in the last trimester of your pregnancy, you should eat 200 extra calories a day. There is no need for any additional calories in the first six months.", "['How many calories you consume during the day.', 'How many calories you burn off through daily exercise.', 'Your age.']", "How to Calculate Your Daily Calorie Goal. Most people will lose weight following a 1,500 calorie diet. If you want to be even more precise about how many calories you should eat each day to lose weight, this simple calculation will give you a daily calorie goal that can help you lose a healthy 1 to 2 pounds per week.", "You've eaten 1,500 calories. Therefore you have 500 calories left to eat), Fitbit pulls in other data to calculate your Daily Calorie Estimate, a much more personalized and dynamic metric that uses your average activity to predict how many calories you should eat each day.", "How Much Should I Eat? In the months after childbirth, most new moms need between 1,800 and 2,200 calories each day.", "1 pound = a deficit of 3500 calories. That means each day, you have to have a deficit of 500 calories to lose 1 pound per week. 2 pounds = 7000 calories, so to lose 2 pounds per week, you need to be at a deficit of 1000 calories per day.", "How many calories do you need to burn to lose one kilogram? A general rule of thumb is you need to be in an energy deficit of around 7,000 calories (29,400 kilojoules) to lose one kilogram of fat.", "If you have a true deficit of 200 calories, it takes about 17 days to lose 1 pound. A 1200 calorie a day diet combined with exercise will result in about a pound and a half of weight loss per week, since it's a deficit of 800-1000 calories.", "HOW MANY CALORIES DO I BURN DURING A CLASS? It is estimated that you can burn between 600-1200 calories in a 60-75 minute heated workout. The number of calories each person burns will vary based on age, weight, gender, and the intensity of the workout.", "An hour in the gym (400 to 500 calories) plus 6,000 steps of being active throughout the day (300 calories) plus following the Pritikin Eating Plan (500-calorie deficit) nets you about a three-pound weight loss every week.", "MyFitnessPal will calculate the number of calories you've consumed from food and burned from exercise and let you know how many calories you have left to eat for the day. If you stick within your calorie limits, you should achieve the weight loss (or gain) you're looking for.", "The Deficit As seen in the table above, while on trail I generally consume around 5000 calories per day. This presents a conundrum in so much that during an average hiking day of 14 hours, I will be burning approximately 6000 – 6500 calories (Note: The amount varies according to exertion level and/or conditions).", "Many people choose to reduce their calorie intake by 500 kcal per day to achieve weight loss. For example, a person with a calorie need of 2,800 per day to maintain their current weight can lose weight if they eat 2,300 calories per day.", "Ideally, try to eat enough calories to equal 50 percent of what you burned during your workout. So if you burn about 600 calories, try to eat 300 calories after exercise. Don't worry about undoing the calorie-burning benefits of your workout—that's not how weight loss works.", "1. You'll burn roughly 400 to 600 calories per hour during your run, but your body can absorb only 240 to 280 calories per hour. You'll never dig out of this deficit, but eating early and often will keep you from bonking.", "There's no tried and true method for figuring out how many calories your body burns while digesting food. The general formula is to multiply the total calories you eat by 10%. 3 So, if you eat 2000 calories a day, you'll burn about 200 calories digesting that food.", "You need a calorie deficit to lose weight. Summary Your body uses the calories you get from food to fuel your basal metabolic rate (BMR), digestion, and physical activity. When the number of calories you consume matches the number of calories you burn, your weight will remain stable.", "When losing weight, more physical activity increases the number of calories your body uses for energy or “burns off.” The burning of calories through physical activity, combined with reducing the number of calories you eat, creates a “calorie deficit” that results in weight loss." ]

[ "Kate DiCamillo" ]

[ "Who's That Girl" ]

[ "Chevrolet Captiva. For the Chevrolet Captiva Sport sold in the Americas, see Opel Antara. The Chevrolet Captiva is a sport utility vehicle (SUV) that was developed by the South Korean manufacturer Daewoo, and has been sold by Chevrolet since 2006. It is a crossover and straddles the compact and mid-size SUV segments. It utilises the GM Theta platform and derives from the Chevrolet S3X concept car revealed in 2004." ]

[ "Chevrolet Captiva SUV. The Chevrolet Captiva is a huge SUV that offers seven-seat practicality and lots of equipment at a very low price.. The Chevrolet Captiva was a big SUV rivalling cars like the Hyundai Santa Fe, Kia Sorento, Nissan X-Trail and Land Rover Discovery – for size if not for price. It was available in five and seven-seat form, as well as with two or four-wheel drive.", "Chevrolet Captiva captures the spirit of the age. The appeal of a vehicle like the Chevrolet Captiva is that it will fulfill its duties on the shopping run one day, it will then take half the football team to the match the next day, followed by some off-roading or a trip onto the beach on the weekend.", "Blind Pass and Turner Beach. Blind Pass cuts between Sanibel Island and Captiva. Turner Beach is the beach on both sides of the pass. There’s a bridge spanning the pass which connects the two Islands and makes it possible to drive to Captiva Island. There’s parking on both sides and bathrooms and a shower on the Captiva side.", "Oringinal Chevrolet Captiva Sport keyless entry remotes! Standard transmitters let you lock / unlock your doors, also turn on and off the alarm, or start the vehicle by pressing a button on your keyfob.Replacement Chevrolet Captiva Sport wireless controls are available at deep discounts on our website.tandard transmitters let you lock / unlock your doors, also turn on and off the alarm, or start the vehicle by pressing a button on your keyfob. Replacement Chevrolet Captiva Sport wireless controls are available at deep discounts on our website.", "Similar cars to this model CHEVROLET CAPTIVA 2009. Size of tires and wheels for Chevrolet Captiva 2006; Size of tires and wheels for Chevrolet Captiva 2007; Size of tires and wheels for Chevrolet Captiva 2008; Size of tires and wheels for Chevrolet Captiva 2009; Size of tires and wheels for Chevrolet Captiva 2010", "Size of tires and wheels for Chevrolet Captiva 2006; Size of tires and wheels for Chevrolet Captiva 2007; Size of tires and wheels for Chevrolet Captiva 2008; Size of tires and wheels for Chevrolet Captiva 2009; Size of tires and wheels for Chevrolet Captiva 2010; Size of tires and wheels for Chevrolet Captiva 2011; Size of tires and wheels for Chevrolet Captiva 2012", "LCEC restored power to all customers just before 7:00 a.m. Tuesday morning. Traffic flow on Captiva remains limited in both directions at Captiva Drive and Osprey Way Drive as a result of a traffic crash Monday evening that caused a large power outage on the island.", "Local Weather Forecasts to help you start planning for your upcoming trip and what to pack. Captiva, North Captiva, and Sanibel Surf Forecast. Average Captiva, Sanibel, and North Captiva Temperatures.", "Find hotel deals, things to do, restaurants and more for your Sanibel Island or Captiva Island Vacation. 1 Sanibel Island & Captiva Island Lodging. 2 Sanibel Island & Captiva Island Lodging. 3 Sanibel Island & Captiva Island – Things To Do. 4 Sanibel Island & Captiva Island – Things To Do. 5 Sanibel & Captiva Islands – Restaurants:", "Remove Emc.Captiva.WebCaptureService.exe. emc.captiva.webcaptureservice.exe runs as a service under the name EMC Captiva Cloud Service (Emc.Captiva.WebCaptureService) with extensive SYSTEM privileges (full administrator access). The assembly utilizes the .NET run-time framework (which is required to be installed on the PC).", "The average sea temperature in and around Captiva in March is 21°C (70°F). Captiva sunrise & sunset times for March 2018. Browse the sunrise & sunset times for Captiva in March 2018. Select a month to view Captiva sunrise & sunset times for the next twelve months. Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec", "On Sanibel Island & Captiva you’ll find plenty of fun things to do for couples & families to enjoy together… making Sanibel Island & Captiva the perfect choice for your vacation.o learn more about the year-round Sanibel Island things to do & Captiva Island things to do, click the links below for some great ideas.", "The city is on Gulf coast of Southwest Florida, and is linked to the mainland by the Sanibel Causeway. A short bridge over Blind Pass links Sanibel to the unincorporated town of Captiva on Captiva Island.", "EMC Captiva Cloud Toolkit transforms web-based scanning support by eliminating browser and plug-in limitations. Enables developers to rapidly add scanning functionality to web-based applications through industry standards.", "The average sea temperature in and around Captiva in November is 24°C (75°F). Captiva sunrise & sunset times for November 2018 Browse the sunrise & sunset times for Captiva in November 2018.", "Get the Captiva weather forecast. Access hourly, 10 day and 15 day forecasts along with up to the minute reports and videos for Captiva, FL 33924 from AccuWeather.com Get the Captiva weather forecast. Access hourly, 10 day and 15 day forecasts along with up to the minute reports and videos for Captiva, FL 33924 from AccuWeather.com my recent locations °f", "Going to Captiva? Find the best month to visit Captiva based on the weather. Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec. Expect 27°C daytime maximum temperatures in the shade with on average 7 hours of sunshine per day in Captiva in November. Check more long-term weather averages for Captiva in November before you book your next holiday to Florida in 2018.", "© The London Eye 2015 all rights reserved. Conceived and designed by Marks Barfield Architects. ‘Coca-Cola’, the Dynamic Ribbon Device and the design of the ‘Coca-Cola Contour Bottle’ are registered trademarks of The Coca-Cola Company.", "Emc.Captiva.WebToolkitHost.exe is part of EMC Captiva Cloud Toolkit and developed by EMC Corporation according to the Emc.Captiva.WebToolkitHost.exe version information. Emc.Captiva.WebToolkitHost.exe's description is CloudCapture . Emc.Captiva.WebToolkitHost.exe is digitally signed by EMC Corporation. Emc.Captiva.WebToolkitHost.exe is usually located in the 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\EMC Captiva\\Captiva Cloud Runtime\\' folder. None of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal reports anything malicious about Emc.Captiva.WebToolkitHost.exe.", "Second Coming Of The Tardis — I rented a Captiva on a business trip for a week recently, after having test driven one (for my daughter). It looks small, but inside, it's fairly roomy. We had 3 adults and all were comfortable, though back seat was snug for me (6'/225 lbs) sitting behind driver (about 6').", "I have a 2013 Captiva LTZ. It's a very good vehicle though not perfect (like every other vehicle). I don't quite understand why GM killed this vehicle twice. Maybe the accountants could tell the buying public why they killed it again.", "Sanibel Florida & Captiva Awards. Sanibel Island and Captiva Island have received many awards over the past several years from some of the most respected national organizations in the country. Click Here to see our current list of Sanibel Island and Captiva Island superlatives.", "An Exclusive Captiva & Sanibel Island Vacation Resort. For decades, generations of guests have made South Seas Island Resort on Captiva Island the vacation destination of choice in which to share treasured moments and make lasting memories. Our iconic 330-acre wildlife preserve spans two and a half miles of pristine white-sand beaches framing the tranquil waters of the Gulf of Mexico.", "1 Find hotel deals, things to do, restaurants and more for your Sanibel Island or Captiva Island Vacation. 2 Find hotel deals, things to do, restaurants and more for your Sanibel Island or Captiva Island Vacation. Sanibel Island & Captiva Island, Florida are the perfect choice for your vacation whether you are looking for a romantic getaway, a family trip or a nature vacation.", "EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced strong adoption of its EMC Captiva Cloud Toolkit. The toolkit transforms web-based scanning by providing a simple way for developers to add scanning functionality to web applications, enabling scanning from all document scanners and multifunction peripherals (MFP) that support the ISIS and TWAIN standards.", "Combining Canon's high-quality imageFORMULA scanner technology and the EMC Captiva Cloud Toolkit provide our customers with an advanced imaging capture solution that allows users to seamlessly scan documents to web-based applications without the hassle of downloading additional software..", "Sanibel Island & Captiva Island Chamber of Commerce. The Sanibel Island and Captiva Island Chamber is the official source for information for tourists such as hotels and resorts, vacation condo rentals, restaurants, shopping, real estate and local events for tourists and locals.", "Captiva Island may be connected to Sanibel by a bridge, but it’s another world entirely. Any of the following words could be used to describe Captiva and all would be correct: quirky, upscale, charming, exclusive.", "Latuda is manufactured by Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. It is currently under the protection of a patent that prevents any generic versions from being manufactured in the United States.", "Let Gopher Enterprises do the work and take the worry out of finding you your dream vacation rental. Our 37+ years of Sanibel & Captiva vacation rental experience does make a difference when you are looking for a hassle free vacation. Please take a tour of our site and let us hear from you real soon.", "Godiva. Created in 1926 in Brussels by Pierre Draps and further established by Pierre’s son Joseph Draps, GODIVA Chocolatier has became one of the most prestigious chocolate brands in the world.", "Captiva Weather Forecast. Captiva Island rests in quiet privacy in the Gulf of Mexico, at the end of the road north of Sanibel Island. It has become the preferred vacation destination (as well as permanent residence) for discerning Floridians and other well-informed travelers. For Captiva Island offers what few other Florida beaches can: luxurious accommodations in the midst of unspoiled, natural beauty." ]

[ "It would be interesting to hear from the EU on this (which now exists, skip to the 2nd half of my post for that)... because David Davis thought they would likely reject it:\n\nThe Brexit secretary raised concerns that the “facilitated customs arrangement” compromise plan – which would allow the UK to set its own tariffs on goods arriving in the country – was too similar to a discarded idea that the EU had already rejected.\nThe “third way” customs proposal is intended to end the cabinet clash between the “maximum facilitation” model favoured by Brexiters, which relies on using technology to ensure the correct tariffs are levied on goods crossing the UK border, and May’s once favoured “customs partnership”, which involves the UK collecting tariffs on behalf of the EU.\nDavis’s concern is that the EU will block any deal for the UK to police its borders. The Daily Telegraph reported that in his letter he said the plan was doomed because it amounted to a customs partnership with some additional technological elements. The EU has previously rejected both the maximum facilitation and customs partnership models.\n\nBut insofar I couldn't find any EU reactions... they were more keen to shake their head at Davis' and Johnson's resignations, apparently. But a response from the EU is unavoidable.\nRe: &quot;so why not...&quot; what looks like a workable solution to techie/technocrat may sound horrible to a politician, as shown above.\nAn analysis from ING concurs:\n\nWill the EU accept the UK’s vision presented on Friday?\nNot in its current form - There are three reasons why the EU is likely to reject the UK’s proposal.\nFirstly, on the “facilitated customs arrangement”, the EU will likely view this as unworkable\n(practical issues of UK collecting potentially higher EU tariffs), legally-challenging (there are\nconcerns it could encourage smuggling) and politically unacceptable (the thought of a third\ncountry collecting EU tariffs is reportedly unpopular in Brussels).\n\n(The other points for immediate reaction are unrelated to FCA.) The ING analysis goes on to claim that it's likely that the UK will cave in and agree to a full customs union, because the FCA &quot;is halfway there&quot;.\n\nMichel Barnier gave an official reply around July 20 basically rejecting the proposal for the (easily anticipated) reasons outlined above:\n\nThe British government has said it wants to keep the UK in the EU single market for goods based on a common rulebook. In order to avoid customs checks, the government wants an unprecedented customs system where the UK would collect EU duties, while having the freedom to set different tariffs on goods destined for the British market.\nBarnier said this “facilitated customs arrangement” raised practical, legal, economic and budgetary questions.\nSetting out the questions he had posed to the new Brexit secretary, Dominic Raab, during their first meeting on Thursday, Barnier said he was concerned that European businesses would face higher administrative costs and there would be increased opportunity for fraud.\nBarnier also questioned whether a non-EU country could collect EU customs without being subject to EU oversight. For this reason, EU diplomats say privately that the British plan can never be accepted.\nThe EU is also deeply concerned that the customs plan would give outsider companies a competitive edge over European rivals if Britain and other countries used the UK as a route to avoid higher EU tariffs.\n\nAnd in more punditry style:\n\nMichel Barnier said the UK wanted to &quot;take back control&quot; of its money, law and borders - but so did the EU.\n[...]\n&quot;The EU cannot and the EU will not delegate the application of its customs policy and rules and VAT and excises duty collection to a non-member who would not be subject to the EU's governance structures,&quot; he said.\nAny customs arrangement or union &quot;must respect this principle&quot;, he said." ]

[ "In my experience, a vocal arrangement or piano arrangement might be your best bet. Guitar is a C instrument so you should be able to follow any of the chord progressions outlined in a piano arrangement. You might have to actually buy the sheet music, though. \n\nVocal Arrangement: Usually for a vocal arrangement the chords are specified as to facilitate a musical accompaniment that's independent from instrumentation. These chords could be valuable to you. If they sound funny, or don't fit your vocal range, you can shift them to a different key, which is probably the subject of a different question.\n\nPiano Arrangement: Ideally the chord progression will be outlined throughout the piece. If it isn't, you may be able to follow the notes on the piano to determine what chord is being played and what sounds best. This approach has the added benefit of having a lot of different chord voicing to choose from, and a lot of melodic lines to spice up your guitar arrangement.\n\nGood luck!", "In the UK, CompuServe, CIX, and Demon Internet were the most influential early ISPs, but there were plenty more, such as Dircon, Pipex and Freeserve. \n\nFreeserve built by far the largest customer base, and may be the nearest UK equivalent to AOL in the US. However, it was rather different in that it gave you access to the Internet in general, with no \"walled garden.\"\n\nAOL had customers, but was not terribly successful. The determination its UK marketing team had to make sure everyone got at least two AOL CDs every month was counter-productive, in that if you keep trying to force something that's free on the British, they'll assume it's worthless.", "I try to charge enough that I can do this work for free. But some customers don't like this arrangement so sometimes I have to make other arrangements. YMMV. The question really comes down to who gets to assume risk. There should be a financial premium on assuming risk to help even things out a bit.\n\nHere's the basic issue:\n\n\nThe customer doesn't want to get stuck with an unknown bill for a project.\nYou don't want to get stuck with a whole bunch of work that brings your per hourly earnings down below what you can live on.\n\n\nResolving this conflict requires adding on a basic third piece:\n\n\nWhoever assumes the risk should get, on average, a modest financial reward for assuming that risk.\n\n\nWhat I typically do is offer a rate that includes, free of charge, bugfixes afterwards for a year. That rate is double (!) my desired hourly rate. In most cases, I spend no time on after-market fixes. In a few cases I spend a lot of time. I try to plan so that I spend about 2/3 of my time as billable under this arrangement. This:\n\n\nProtects my interests and ensures I am making money.\nProtects my customers, ensuring they don't get stuck with large after-market bills.\n\n\nFor some customers though, they don't like this arrangement, and it breaks down for very large projects, so I also offer another rate in those cases (not advertised and sometimes as low as 50% my initial offer rate) with the explicit terms that the work comes with no warranty.and that I will bill for everything. On average I make a little less on these projects, but I also bear none of the testing and bugfix risk.\n\nTL;DR: I try to throw in these free of charge by billing at a rate that allows me to make more doing this. For large projects, or certain customers, I may however shift the risk to the customer and offer a large discount. I believe that this approach best meets the interests of all involved.", "EU citizens who travel to or live in a third country where their\n Member State of nationality does not have an embassy or consulate have\n the right to consular protection by the consular authorities of any\n other Member State. That Member State has to assist these\n unrepresented EU citizens under the same conditions as its own\n nationals.\n\n\nSource: Council Directive Explanatory Memorandum\n\nShort answer: yes. You can report to the consular office of any member country and receive their assistance. Having said that, the consulate will get in touch with the Netherlands' Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This does not mean that they will necessarily call Den Haag because they may have other instructions such as contacting a Dutch consulate in the region, or they may act independently. \n\nThe framework for this legislation occurs in the EU Citizenship Report 2010, which says ...\n\n\n ...Dismantling the obstacles to EU citizens’ rights\" the Commission\n announced it would increase the effectiveness of the right of EU\n citizens to be assisted in third countries, including in times of\n crisis, by the diplomatic and consular authorities of all Member\n States, by proposing legislative measures in 2011 and by better\n informing citizens via a dedicated website and targeted communication\n measures . The Commission reiterated this commitment in its\n Communication of 23 March 2011 on consular protection for\n unrepresented EU citizens and announced that it would submit\n legislation establishing the coordination and cooperation measures\n necessary to facilitate consular protection for unrepresented citizens\n and addressing the issue of financial compensation of consular\n protection in crisis situations\n\n\nThis was enacted by the European Commission Thursday 25 October 2012 Consular protection for citizens of the Union abroad P7_TA(2012)0394 \n\nIn all events, you are advised to keep the Netherlands's Ministry of Foreign Affairs email with you so that you can reach them via your mobile or internet cafe, and so on.\n\nAdding at the suggestion of JoeBlow\nFor your other question, you may choose any member consulate, even if a Dutch consulate is present but does not provide the service you require. This is stated explicitly in the law...\n\n\n Unrepresented citizens should be able to freely choose the embassy,\n consulate or, where appropriate, the Union delegation from which they\n seek consular protection. Member States should be able to enter\n arrangements on burden-sharing. Such arrangements should be fairly\n distributed and take into account the capacities of each Member State\n . However such arrangements should be transparent for the citizen and\n should not jeopardize effective consular protection.\n\n\nThe protection available from a member consulate is very specific...\n\n\nBeing the victim of a crime;\nBeing detained or arrested;\nRequiring financial assistance;\nRequiring travel documents or other means to verify identity;\nFacilitated procedure in crisis situations;\nIllness or death.\n\n\nAll of these are governed by procedures which range from simple to complex. Financial assistance, for example, requires liaison with the person's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. For all others, the service must be the same as that provided to their own citizens.\n\nThe regulations also address honorary consulates and explain that an honorary consulate may act as an embassy only within their competence. Their competence is established by the hosting country at the time the honorary consulate presents its credentials to the hosting country. \n\n\n The traditions regarding the competences of honorary consuls diverge\n among Member States. Honorary consuls are generally in a position to\n perform very limited consular tasks. Honorary consuls should only be\n regarded as equivalent to accessible embassies and consulates present\n in a third country on a permanent basis within the scope of their\n competences pursuant to national law and practices.\n\n\nThere is a body of real-life case studies where people have exercised these rights, but it is behind a pay wall and hence no use on SO. However, the main corpus of EU regulations is at http://eur-lex.europa.eu/homepage.html\n\nThere is an explanatory memorandum at http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52011PC0881\n\nFor others reading this: this answer applies to EU member states only and does not necessarily apply to countries still applying for EU membership, or even countries in the EEA. Also note: some countries, like the ROI and the UK, have opt-outs from various portions of the EU regulations. Also note: the information in this answer cannot be reliably extended to non members like the US, Canada, and so on.", "It's quite complicated and it was the subject of a claim on fullfact.org. The claim reads:\n\n\n The EU is the only place where free ports don’t really exist.\n\n\nAnd the conclusion was:\n\n\n Free ports do exist within the EU, although in a more limited form than elsewhere in the world.\n\n\nThe detailed explanation, quoted verbatim from fullfact.org as it's rather complicated and they put in the effort to carefully research it:\n\n\n There are around 80 free zones within the EU. Until 2012 there were five free ports within the UK, until the UK government allowed the domestic laws that set up those ports to expire.\n \n However, some experts have claimed that EU law limits the scope of free ports.\n \n Professor of EU law Catherine Barnard wrote last year that while there are many potential benefits of free ports, within the EU “it is not, however, easy for companies to benefit from these arrangements.”\n \n “Approvals for FZ [free zones] are also subject to EU state aid rules.”\n \n EU state aid rules generally prohibit EU governments from providing support to certain companies over their competitors. This can limit the abilities of member states setting up free ports with tax incentives (as this would essentially provide support for businesses within free ports compared to those outside of them).\n \n Professor Barnard illustrated this, saying: “The difficulty of obtaining an FZ status can be illustrated by the Shannon FZ in the Republic of Ireland. The Shannon FZ was successfully launched in 1958 but, upon Ireland’s accession to the EU in 1973, the incentives in the Shannon FZ were limited in order to comply with EU state aid rules (e.g. the 0% corporate income tax was increased to 10%).”\n \n EU rules also mean it’s more difficult for businesses to engage in something called “tariff inversion”. Because tariffs on component parts are often higher than tariffs on finished goods, it can be advantageous for a business to transport components to a free port, turn them into finished goods, and then import those finished goods into the rest of that country with a lower tariff.\n \n A 2005 paper from a UN body said: “The [European] Commission does allow the establishment of free zones within its territory but its definition of free zone is a very narrow one.”\n \n Attribution: https://fullfact.org/europe/free-ports/ \n\n\n\n\nQuoting from the third link in the quote above, by UK in a Changing Europe, the following programmes exist in the EU for free ports (these are selective non-consecutive quotes, just to illustrate the different programmes mentioned in the article):\n\n\n The main programme under EU law for the creation of FZ is the Processing under Customs Control (PCC) which applies to the processed products when they are released into free circulation, rather than the imported goods.\n \n Another EU programme is Inward Processing Relief (IPR). This releases customs duties and import VAT on goods that are imported from outside the EU to be processed and re-exported to markets outside the EU. Duties are thus paid only on the finished product. An example of an IPR is the operation of the Old Free Port of Hamburg.\n \n Outward Processing (OP) is a programme which allows goods to be temporarily exported abroad for processing purposes without subjecting them to (all or some) import duties upon their import back into the EU.\n \n Attribution: https://ukandeu.ac.uk/explainers/free-zones/ \n\n\n\n\nSpecific to your question, it seems this is covered by a part EU law called the Union Customs Code (regulation text here). More specifically, chapter 3 section 3 titled Free Zones. Its first article, article 243 reads:\n\n\n Designation of free zones\n \n \n Member States may designate parts of the customs territory of the Union as free zones.\n \n For each free zone the Member State shall determine the area covered and define the entry and exit points.\n Member States shall communicate to the Commission information on their free zones which are in operation.\n Free zones shall be enclosed.\n \n The perimeter and the entry and exit points of the area of free zones shall be subject to customs supervision.\n Persons, goods and means of transport entering or leaving free zones may be subject to customs controls.", "In the Menus page, click on the Custom Links section on the left.\nThe Custom Links option lets you link to any URL you want, but we’ve got a special trick instead.\nIn the URL input, replace “http://” with a pound sign “#,” and enter whatever text you want for the Link Text.\nClick the Add to Menu button, and then you can arrange the new item in your menu. Since the menu item isn’t linked anywhere, visitors won’t be taken to a new page if they click it.", "After researching some more I've given up trying to use the taxonomy template and opted for a plugin to amend the permalinks. I followed some of the advice from this similar question: Taxonomy archive with same slug as custom post type?\n\nCurrently I am using an amended archive template for the custom post types and then the WP Better Permalinks plugin to rewrite the permalinks how I need them i.e. example.com/custom-post-type/custom-taxonomy/post-name/\n\nIf you need a simple solution this plugin works very well as far as I can tell. I also used Custom Post Type Permalinks which gives a greater level of control (this works the same way as the default WordPress permalinks settings, in that you can arrange the permalink tags in whichever way you like). The only reason I dropped this plugin is that it refused to work with one out of my five CPTs, even though everything was setup the same.\n\nHopefully this helps someone else in the future.", "I am not a lawyer, and have experience only in Ontario, but under Ontario law wagering on games of skill is not gambling. In a well-known case from the 1960's or early 1970's, in which the St. Clair Bridge Studio was defending itself against charges of running a gambling house, barrister and bridge player Eric Murray in his winning defence argued that bridge is a game of chance only as played by the justices of the Ontario Superior Court, in chambers. This despite the obvious fact that there clearly is a substantial element of luck in the cards dealt to each side on every particular deal.\n\nAs all of Chequers, Othello and Four in a Row are games with absolutely no element of chance whatever, and perfect information, under Ontario Law I believe none of them would be regarded as games of chance for which wagering would be prohibited.", "The possibility to customize your environments is indeed one of the key characteristics of AWS Elastic Beanstalk in comparison to other PaaS offerings:\n\n\n Most existing application containers or platform-as-a-service\n solutions, while reducing the amount of programming required,\n significantly diminish developers' flexibility and control. [...] However, with Elastic\n Beanstalk, you retain full control over the AWS resources powering\n your application. If you decide you want to take over some (or all) of\n the elements of their infrastructure, you can do so seamlessly [...]\n\n\nWhat you are looking for is possible by facilitating a Custom AMI. Once you have launched an environment, you can customize its configuration details, amongst those the AMI used by your instances as illustrated in Configuring Servers. While there are some requirements to be met in order to properly execute within Beanstalk, you can basically customize these AMIs to your heart's content, the process is documented in Using Custom AMIs (for a 3rd party explanation see e.g. How to customize an Amazon Elastic Beanstalk instance).\n\nPlease be aware of the following implication though:\n\n\n Important\n \n After you are running on your own custom AMI, you will no longer\n receive any automated updates to the operating system, software stack,\n or the AWS Elastic Beanstalk host manager.\n\n\nThis means you will need to track the evolution of the AWS AMIs yourself to ensure stability and security of your application - this isn't as easy as it should be currently, as discussed e.g. in Amazon AMI product lifecycle questions and more recently Keeping up with the AWS Developers (Latest AMI's).\n\nGood luck!", "Online docs for customers\n\nThe absolute first for online docs: analytics and some sort of feedback form.\n\n\nAnalytics (such as Google Analytics) let you gather and explore reader data - anything from demographic information to search patterns and behavior patterns. However, this data is often tricky to interpret and requires a lot of observation, trial, and error to get results.\nFeedback forms (be it a way to send email or a rating form or even a discussion board). The key here is to keep it very simple and very easy to send feedback. For example: a question or two, some sort of star rating, the option to submit a free-worded comment. You will tend to get mostly negative feedback (people are just prone to sending feedback when they're unhappy) - but it is usually the thing that drives positive change. You will also get non-docs feedback at times, especially in end-user oriented documentation (people will complain about the product).\n\n\nYou can then build on from there with targeted surveys shown to readers under certain conditions or sent to particular customers through your customer success channels. \n\nOffline docs for customers\n\nPerhaps a questionnaire distributed along the docs (not likely to be very successful). Another way would be to use your customer success management people to reach out to customers and facilitate docs interviews with them. \n\nAnything internal - online or offline\n\nFace to face interviews plus feedback solicited through an official review process.", "Just like bringing a sacrifice, arranging a סעודת מצווה - a Mitzvah meal (feast) does not have to be on the same day. \n\nIt's not a Mitzvah on its own and there are no obligations to fulfill at that feast, it is a custom based on the Gemmorah in Kiddushin (31a):\n\n\n \"אמר רב יוסף מריש ה\"א מאן דהוה אמר לי הלכה כר\"י דאמר סומא פטור מן המצות עבידנא יומא טבא לרבנן\"\n\n\nThe feast can be held on the same day, same week's Shabbos or any other date (or years later).", "There are several things that you can do to spice up your retrospectives and keep getting value out of them:\n\n\nHave somebody else facilitate the retrospective. E.g. a team members, Scrum master from another team, agile coach, etc. A fresh facilitators can lead to other kinds of discussions, insights and views, topics or improvement approaches.\nChange the setting for the retrospective. Go outside, hop over to a nearby meeting center or facility, visit a museum, have dinner together, anything that can help team members to get out of the daily routine and get refreshed.\nChange the audience: Do a retrospective with stakeholders, customers, people from operations, or any other group of people that the team collaborates with. When the audience changes, the scope and perspective changes along; it becomes a project level retrospective, end to end retro, DevOps retro, Business - IT retro, etc.\nDo a retrospectives on how you have been improving as a team. This includes reflecting on the way that you are doing retrospectives, and also on how the follow up with improvement actions is done.\nCelebrate successes. For a team that's been together for so long there must be things that are going great, so take time to explore them and learn more about things that go well. Find your team strengths.\nAnd yes, change the retrospective exercise that you use (here's a toolbox with retrospective exercises)\n\n\nDon't wait until people are getting bored in retrospectives. Change your exercise, setting, facilitator, etc frequently so that your people stay fresh and keep coming up with useful improvement actions. Keep your agile retrospectives valuable!", "So my question is, would it be a huge ethical issue to accept such an offer? Would it even be worth it?\n\nLegally, it depends if there is an exclusive clause in your contract between you and your employer, the contract between your customer and your employer and the intention of every party.\n\nIf a party feel it is not ethical, have serious intention and is ready to spend money on lawyers, even if you are right and again, depending of your region, it can screw heavily your professional plan. I would try to avoid any conflict.\n\nA soft approach I attested multiple times in past for consultants companies where I work is the employer and the customer agreed to a price where the customer would pay to hire a coworker for a permanent position.\n\nIf you trust the customer, you could hint that you may be interested for a permanent position and validate if the customer would like to negotiate with your employer for an arrangement to hire you as a permanent position. \n\nVery important to not disclose your intention of leaving your employer but converge the idea of you willing to join the customer full time.\n\nIn the end, the employer may have more to gain with an accord like this because you have already a feet out and the relation with the customer is starting to erode. Agreeing to a deal like this may safe their face, carry a positive relation and keep the business between your employer and the customer.", "You do need to make him aware of the impact of his pontification, and it sounds like he has some awareness now. However, it will not cure the issue. It is a well constructed behavior pattern he has developed over his life time and is likely consistent with his personality make-up and a ton of social engineering, i.e., he has been rewarded in his past for this behavior. He will die pontificating.\n\nYour solution is meeting facilitation. You have a weak facilitator (if that's you, no offense). Facilitation requires staying on the meeting plan and controlling those who are talking. If the topic strays, the facilitator interrupts; if the time it is taking to cover a topic strays from plan, the facilitator interrupts. It can appear rude, but that's a narrow interpretation. It is part of a properly managed meeting.", "There's often a bit of confusion about this.\nFirst of all, this might help:\nOne of the main reasons for confusion is because there's muddling between political names (names of countries) and geographical terms (names of places).\nHere political names are in blue and geographical terms are in red\n\nNote: the term &quot;Republic of Ireland&quot; is often used but the correct name for Ireland the nation-state is simply Ireland.\nSecondly, the UK has a unique situation where both the constituent countries of the UK and the UK itself have the full status as a country. Politically they chose to be represented by the UK as a whole but it could be otherwise if the chose.\nThis being the case, the countries of the UK have in some cases chosen to be represented as the UK\\GB and in others to represent themselves as they see fit.\nIreland is a separate country and represents itself politically and in sports.\nIn Ireland in many sports such as rugby, cricket and GAA, national federations had already been formed and these organisations continued to just keep doing as they were doing with the sports people from Northern Ireland and Ireland choosing to still be represented by these bodies.\nIn other sports like football, there were differing opinions and people from Ireland chose to start a new governing body. The Football Association of Ireland was formed to govern football in Ireland (country) and the Irish Football Association, which had governed the whole country (when it was only one country), became the body for Northern Ireland only.\nThe reasons why some sports went one way and some went the other is probably down to the demographics of the sport, but that's just opinion.\nIn the Olympics:\nSince the first Olympics, the UK has chosen to be represented by one team. Now normally called &quot;Team GB&quot;, the correct name would be &quot;Team Great Britain and Northern Ireland&quot;, originally &quot;Team Great Britain and Ireland&quot;. This is just for the Olympics and often countries represent themselves for competitions within individual sports.\nSince gaining independence in 1922(but dominion status until 1937), Ireland has competed individually in the Olympics.\nSince the Good Friday Agreement, citizens of Northern Ireland are entitled to citizenship of the UK, Ireland or both. They are thus entitled to represent either Team Ireland or Team GB in the Olympics. It would have been common before then though.\nWith the unusually complicated nationality statuses, agreements with international governing bodies have had to be sought although in the case of older sports it was effectively continuing the existing arrangement.\nI'm sure I've left some holes, but there you go.", "As jonathanjo said in his answer and the comments afterwards, there are no special test traps for testing connectivity. Often, one of the RFC-defined traps (like linkup, linkdown or warmstart) is used.\n\nHowever, there is also MIB 1.3.6.1.4.1.8072.9999.9999, named netSnmpPlaypen. It was introduced by the net-SNMP project as a playground environment to introduce traps which only have meaning within your own network. \n\nYou could consider picking an OID within that MIB and using that to test if SNMP traps are working. However, two things are required then:\n\n\nyour network device needs to be able to send SNMP traps with a customized OID\nyour SNMP trap handler has to be configured to properly handle these customized traps\n\n\nSince it's often hard to arrange these two things, one of the RFC-defined traps (like the ones jonathanjo mentioned) is commonly used.", "You can define a custom agenda command in org-agenda-custom-commands, and add a special function to it. The function should take one argument, a match string (which defaults to the empty string). It can insert whatever text it wants to with insert.\n\nFor example, I tried this custom command:\n\n(setq org-agenda-custom-commands\n '((\"n\" \"Agenda and all TODO's\"\n ((my-agenda-spook \"\" nil)\n (agenda \"\" nil)\n (alltodo \"\" nil)\n nil))\n\n\nAnd defined my-agenda-spook like this, ignoring the match argument:\n\n(defun my-agenda-spook (&amp;rest _ignore)\n (spook))\n\n\nThen this appeared at the top of my agenda:\n\nTaiwan Security Council First responder FMS white noise Drug war\nanalyzer arrangements beanpole bluebird PSAC Afghanistan gorilla ASLET\nBasque Separatists\n\n======================================================================================================================================\nWeek-agenda (W42):\nMonday 12 October 2015 W42\n...\n\n======================================================================================================================================\nGlobal list of TODO items of type: ALL\n...\n\n\n(spook is an ancient Emacs command that aims to feed NSA's keyword scanner. I just chose it as an example of a function that inserts random strings; you might want to choose a different command for your agenda view.)", "In a sheet of music there are several creative actions involved, and therefore several authors with copyright claims, and any of them can be in the public domain or not according to their date of death and (specially in the US) date of publication.\n\n\nThe composer. Beware that the work of the composer is just the score he wrote.\nThe arrangements. Beware that most classical pieces have been adapted and are even usually played with musical instruments that hadn't been invented by the time the music was composed. Arrangement creates separate copyright.\nThe layout of the sheet. Even if the notes are just the same the composer wrote, usually changing its graphic form creates a new copyright on the layout.\nScanning. Scanning a public domain sheet might create new copyright rights for the person who did the scan in some countries (notably in the UK but not in the US).\n\n\nIn case of performance or recordings of a music piece, there are even more authors with copyright claims (the musicians, the conductor, the people who did the recording...). If you transcribe the recorded music, at least you will risk to infringe the copyright of the arrangement - and probably that of interpreters, too.\n\nIf you want to reuse a public domain composition the key point is that you need to identify what is in the public domain and then find a source for it, just to make sure that you are not mixing it with more recent (and copyrighted) material. A safe way would be to go for music scores old enough to be in the public domain - in the US I would go for music scores published before 1923 and in other countries I would search for sheets with editors dead more than 70 years ago (or 80, depending on the country).\n\nIf you take a recent sheet, it could be very difficult to tell apart what comes from the composer (and it's in public domain) from what has been added recently, but if you can, you can copy the public domain parts.\n\nAnyway, I'd recommend trying to find scans of XIX century and early XX century sheets on the Internet.", "Magento 2 has added a new layer of protection for the Customer Portal area same as Magento 1. CAPTCHA, which is disabled by default, can be enabled from the Dashboard panel.\nThis feature can help blocking spam and bots from logging into your website and it will effectively increase the security of the store.\n\nCAPTCHA can be configured from backend and you can arrange whether to force it to each login or limit the feature to pop up only after a few failed logins. CAPTCHA prerequisite can be enabled/disabled by the Administrator for the following forms:\n\n\nCreate user\nLogin\nForgot password\nCheck Out as Guest\nRegister during Checkout\nContact Us\nChange password\n\n\nFor more detail click here.", "I would use a donkey. The dairy and sheep farmers I visited in the UK as a child used them, and there's a field of cows near me that has a pair of donkeys in it. When I go by on my bike, the donkeys clearly and obviously arrange themselves protectively between me and the cows. (We have coyotes and wolves near us - you can hear them howl at night and a neighbor saw a wolf once.)\n\nIf you had ever been kicked or bitten by a donkey, you would not so quickly say \"The dog might be better if the predator is human.\" They'll do a great job against a variety of predators, and can also help out (if you have the right equipment and temperament) with tasks that require strength, like pulling something heavy. A dog isn't going to do that for you. And as you've mentioned, they don't need separate food or shelter from their guardees.", "I'd highly recommend seeing a local Physical Therapist. A full evaluation is required to properly diagnosis and plan a corrective exercise regimen based on your unique situation. I've included information below that provides an overview of typical patterns seen that are similar to what you're describing.\n\n\nPostural and Neuromuscular Dysfunctions\nWhen evaluating postural distortional patterns, opposing muscle groups at a joint were classically described as being tight and weak. The assumption was that tight muscles were strong and weak muscles were loose, so the imbalance of bony posture at a joint was described as being caused by strong/tight muscles on one side of the joint overpowering weak/loose muscles on the other side. It is now understood this description does not fully and accurately describe the state of the relationship of these muscles groups to neuro-myo-fascio-skeletal posture and function.\nTight vs Weak Musculature\nCurrent wisdom favors the use of the terms overly facilitated and overly inhibited muscles. These terms incorporate the role of the nervous system (NS) in recruiting musculature to contract for postural patterns. Overly facilitated muscles are excessively favored by the NS to contract; and overly inhibited muscles are under recruited by the NS to contract. The facilitated muscles end up overly concentrically contracted and short; and the inhibited muscles are overpowered by the facilitated muscles and end up being pulled long. This results in the imbalanced pull across a joint and the resultant altered posture.\nNeuromuscular System Contributions\nCertainly, the overly facilitated muscles can be described as tight. But it is not accurate to describe the inhibited muscles as loose. Ironically, because of the constant pull by the overly facilitated musculature, the overly inhibited musculature must increase its tone in an attempt to counter the overly facilitated musculature, and ends up being, in a sense, overly facilitated itself and tight as well. Hence we have two opposing muscle groups, the “facilitated” muscles tight and short, in other words locked short; and the “inhibited” muscles tight and long, in other words locked long.\nAnd because the length-tension relationship of muscle strength demonstrates that a muscle is strongest at resting length, and weaker when it is longer or shorter; we can say that both groups of muscles across the joint are overly weak. The inhibited musculature might be relatively weaker than the facilitated musculature, but in reality, both groups are weak. Effectively we have tight and weak musculature on both sides of the joint. A classic example of this would be the anterior pectoral musculature (locked short; tight and weak) and the posterior shoulder girdle retractor and thoracic spinal extensor musculature (locked long, tight and weak).\nCommon Treatments\nJust to give you an idea how these types of dysfunctions are commonly treated. Please follow your physical therapists plan, based on your eval.\n\nSoft tissue manipulation (massage)\nStatic stretching\nDynamic stretching\nProprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF)\n\n\nSources \nClinical Orthopedic Manual Therapy (by Dr. Joe Muscolino) \nhttps://learnmuscles.com/", "Instead of something related to Italy, how about something related to your own home? I (in the US) had a student from China; she gave me a tapestry depicting the Great Wall. I still have it hanging here many years later.\n\n\n Important note: you have finished the Ph.D. Giving gifts before that may be seen as an attempt to bribe him. It seems to be the custom in China and Korea to give gifts to the professor, but not in the US (probably also not in the UK). Wait until after you are finished, so it won't be seen as an attempt to unfairly influence the professor.", "Based solely on your account of what happened, you are in the right. Drop him quickly, and move on.\n\nA simple email of \"I am unable to continue working under the current arrangements\" should suffice (adjust as necessary).\n\nWhen I take on projects where I need input and information from the client, I give them a sheet of what information I need, by when, and note that late information causes a delay in the project that I am not responsible for. Have the customer sign it that they understand it, and agree to it; then copy it and give them a copy so they know what they signed.\n\nIf a customer does not see the project as important enough to get me the information I require to continue, then they need to take responsibility for it, and I need to find other work in order to keep getting paid. It's business, not a hobby.", "Should I be careful disclosing to my boss that I went to a startup\n event, asking the other party to keep that as a secret as to not have\n repercussions on eventual career progression inside the company,\n mistrust, etc?\n\n\nYes, you should be careful. \n\nYou don't want to be throwing off vibes that you are looking for a new job or are looking to start up your own company, if you want to progress in this one.\n\n\n What can I gain out of facilitating the connection? Should I try to\n remain as an intermediary? What are reasonable expectations to ask\n for? Should I ask them directly how can they help me?\n\n\nYou seem to be thinking that you can profit from running across this new startup. \n\nIt's extremely unlikely that an intern with no experience can decide to become some sort of ad-hoc sales agent for a startup company without a real product. And there are ethical and legal issues that could get in the way of trying to personally profit from a deal with the company for which you are interning.\n\nYou would probably be best served to pass along the information about the startup to someone in your company who is in a position to act on it. Just mention that you happened to run into this company and found it interesting, but don't go into depth about how that happened. \n\nPerhaps if this arrangement is beneficial to both sides, you will generate some goodwill for yourself. Don't expect anything more.", "The only available option that I could find was OwnFone \n\n\n\nIt's a customized phone that is made specially for the customer based on their order. They company intention is to provide our elders with an emergency easy to use phone however, it can be used a for children as well\n\n\nButtons can be images (or names) in case you child is too young to read\n999/emergency button is available \nNo text, no screen\nChoices of 2, 4, 8 or 12 pre-programmed numbers depending on how much you willing to pay\nDesigned and works only in the UK\n\n\nBiggest downside is that the phone is not SIM-free and it seems you cant even replace the SIM or the battery so you are stuck with the plans offered to you by the company.\n\nThe cell phone can be bought from this website\n\nEdit: It's available for children now from Mobile phones for children", "Most organizations, according to Gartner, are solidly cemented at low levels of BPM maturity. At these low levels, these organizations are barely aware of the processes it uses to get work done. There is typically a lot of work being performed that offers little to no value; work performed is often redundant, i.e., several roles or divisions performing the same work; ownership of a process or capability does not exist; and no one knows really what the other person is doing. \n\nJeff is right, in that the approach to begin scoping process and capability areas should be very simple and consistent with where they are in their maturity level. Nothing works better at this stage then facilitating small, well represented teams using nothing more than sticky notes and a big wall. Inundating your working team with a sophisticated modeling and simulating tool is a non starter. They will got lost and overwhelmed by the tool and make no progress.\n\nBy definition, the value stream level is a process map at a very high level. Therefore, begin decomposing your organization's capabilities top down. To help to deconstruct your capability breakdown structure, work right to left, i.e., identify the outputs first, then identify the capability needed to create the output, then identify the inputs (raw materials) needed. People naturally navigate left to right, but this proves to be a mistake. The best way to identify value added work, and thus non value added work, is to work in the opposite direction. You will quickly find a ton of work costing a lot of money that produces something no one uses anymore. \n\nUse verb-noun descriptions of your capabilities. Instead of \"customer service\", use \"service customers.\" This will help you avoid breaking down your processes by organization structure and help identify capabilities that are shared across organizations.\n\nDefine a capability as the combination of \"process, people, tools, and information.\" These four enablers create a capability. \n\nBefore beginning, adopt a mapping method. Adopt a single way of capturing the work flow in terms of the symbols you will use. Train the team before beginning the work. This will help minimize re-work. And keep it simple. Remember that the value maps are a means to an end, not the end. So adopt a method and mapping style that resonates with the people who are going to do something with it versus trying to be totally technically correct from some official standard. HOWEVER, as your organization matures, you may end up deploying a rather sophisticated BPM tool; you would want the work you produce today to easily map to the tool's capabilities. It is a balancing act between reasonableness and your future BPM strategy.\n\nFinally, use a strong facilitator with known skills, someone who knows how to read and control the room.", "Of course the Brexit party is \"unpopular\" with the existing parties. It isn't their party\n\nIn any electoral situation, parties go against each other and the Brexit party is no different\n\nThe Brexit party does not represent an existential threat to the other parties. It could alter the outcome but there are several reasons why it will find it difficult to make headway\n\nFirst, the first past the post system favours two large parties. New parties find it hard to get any seats at all. The previous vehicle of Nigel Farage, UKIP gained over 12% of the vote in the 2015 general election but only 1 MP\n\nSecond, psychologically the voters favour the parties they have always voted for. This is seen in the way that many constituency seats in the UK parliament are seen as \"safe\". Only marginal seats will change hands\n\nSee https://www.makevotesmatter.org.uk/first-past-the-post for a great discussion of these two points\n\nThirdly, their appeal is to (in simple terms) half of the population that favour Brexit. This already limits their voter base. The two big parties might be losing some coherency of ideas with their double speak over Brexit but the reason they do this is that people only hear what they want to hear and an inconsistent, illogical message makes more electoral sense than a firm position\n\nSo the parties will not hold off an election because they expect to lose to the Brexit party\n\nYou made a second point that a May deal without a backstop would kill their support\nThis isn't going to happen as the EU 27 have repeatedly said the backstop or a similar arrangement is a deal stopper.\nFor example see this report in the Guardian . Any EU country has a veto on the entire arrangement so the views of the Irish are critical\n\nI'm sure if some kind of exit from Europe actually happened then the Brexit party would be out of business but if the May deal was viable it would have happened months ago", "I have a set of five core principles that drive my project management/ management philosophy. I've had them for many years, even predating my adoption of agile. \n\nThey are:\n\nPeople, not projects: If you focus on the team, the team will do better. Better team, is a better product. I spend every day of my job trying to make myself obsolete by enabling the team and helping them grow. \n\nCommunication is 100% of your job: PMI says communication makes up about 80% of a PMs job. I call it 100% and the big thing is you have to be adding value. As a PM you are the ultimate translation point for the project. It's your job to facilitate all the communication and enhance it along the way. \n\nProcess is a Tool, not a roadblock (sub-concept: There is no \"one right way\"): Don't ever let process take control of your project. If a process does not contribute value to the end user/ end goal, then look at getting rid of it. And if something has to be done, be open to if there is an easier way to do it. Inspect and Adapt. \n\nThere is no \"one right way\": I rolled this into \"Process is a Tool, not a roadblock\" but it really is its own principle. If I want to go from San Francisco to New York there are dozens of options (Different airlines, drving, train, cruise ship, even biking) and any one of them could be the right way for me, depending on my goals and contraints. Anytime you hear \"That's the way we have to do it\" ask \"Why?\"\n\nAll roads lead back to the customer: It's one of my guiding mantras, rooted in my original high tech job in customer support. If you can't map what you are doing to some impact to the customer, then you should be asking why you are doing it.", "Crew seating is partly concerned with the regulations requiring a crew member next to certain exits. Airlines choose different combinations of seating based on class and galley/lavatory arrangements and this changes the number of required exits and crew required to sit next to the exits. Some long hall airlines require berths for crew rest and sleep - I imagine some airlines may have employee union requirements. \n\nAll this requires ongoing customized cabin arrangements. Airlines often change the seating during mandatory maintenance (a, b, and c checks) to accommodate different routes, cultural expectations and changing economy.\n\nInterestingly, the cockpit itself may vary. According to FAA regulations large aircraft must have at least one observer seat (usually called a \"jump seat\"). But, I have seen cockpit options that vary the number and type of \"jump seat\" in the triple 7. \n\nFor example, one cockpit of a Boeing 777 offered two padded conventional seats or three fold down \"bench\" type seats. I guess one company wanted the FAA observer to fall asleep and another company wanted to discourage \"observers\".", "The Output tab in Adobe Bridge does this (see the pink dots below):\n\n\nYou can select for instance 12 images, use the Layout section to select 12 columns and 1 row. You can also arrange these in a grid by doing a 3 rows x 4 columns or similar setup.\nIn the Overlays section you can include the filename without extension and customize the font, font size, etc.\nSet your page size to A4 landscape or something similar in the Document section. For a larger number of images the resulting PDF will be multipage.\nPlus some other options you can play with.", "When colour television broadcasts began (1960s, in the UK; perhaps a little earlier in North America?) there weren't any local devices that customers might want to use. Broadcast TV was the only source of images that any home user could imagine.\nAdding extra circuitry to handle separated R, G, B and sync inputs (with appropriate protections against overload etc.) wouldn't be straightforward, and certainly not cheap when receivers were generally constructed from discrete components (including thermionic valves). I'm guessing you've never disassembled a first-generation colour TV receiver?\nAs unit price was an important competitive element, no manufacturer would waste resources providing a feature that no customer wanted.\nRGB SCART and the like were developed only when devices existed (already using the available inputs) and there was some demand to create a higher-quality picture, avoiding the modulation process. And by that time, the target displays were built using transistors, moving to greater use of ICs than discrete components.", "There are attempts to create some standard or templates in other areas, but none that I know in commercial licenses agreements. If there were, not every contract would end up being different!\n\nAn example of related effort is common form for contract standardization and it may contain some licensing-related terms.\n\nNow the thing is that proliferation is rather small in the FOSS world... there are about a 1000 significant license variations (and 5 to 10 times more variations on notices..) .... whereas there are likely 10 or 100 times more variants of commercial license contracts. \n\nThat's the price to pay to paying: each license you pay for is also likely to be a whole new shiny thing.\n\nYou later asked:\n\n\n what are the unique concerns within the FLOSS community that made deproliferation desirable there [...]?\n\n\nWith FLOSS, one goal is to facilitate and foster reuse. Yet every package is also licensed and there are subtle license compatibility issues. If every package had a different license building complex system from FLOSS would be a nightmare (it is hard enough as it is) so naturally communities around a programming language, platform or framework have evolved to use similar or the same licensing: this makes reuse much simpler. For instance a lot of Perl project use the \"Same as Perl\" license, several C/C++-based userland utilities use a combo of LGPL for the library and GPL for the command line tools, several Java-based packages built on or reusing Apache-provided packages use the Apache license, some foundations or larger orgs even enforce this for simplicity and sanity such as the Apache or the Eclipse Foundations. Also FLOSS license terms are not negotiable: you either take it or pass. So there is usually no possibility of per-user variation.\n\nIn contrast, the goal of commercial software is not only to maximize usage but to maximize the financial gain. Since every contract needs some transaction (e.g. some signature or agreement and some money transfer) there is not much incentive per se to facilitate these transactions across vendors. Furthermore, each contract is eventually negotiable and customers may want special terms which further increase the number of variations. Yet, some vendors (such as Atlassian at least historically) have always used very standard, non-negotiable licensing terms that apply across all their product lines to avoid license proliferation across their customers." ]

[ "SO2 and NOx in the atmosphere cause acid rain." ]

[ "Water and nitrogen in the atmosphere cause the acid rain.", "The Acid Rain Program tries to increase nitrogen oxides.", "NOx and SO2 reductions need to reduce continuing damage from acid rain.", "Acid deposition could make these lakes susceptible to becoming chronically acidic.", "Acid rain and sulphur are bring dumped out there.", "The Acid Rain Program deals with emissions.", "Nitrogen oxide requirements under acid rain program", "The Acid Rain Program tries to reduce nitrogen oxides.", "Acid is handled by workers.", "SO2 and NOx react to form the fine particles that make up PM2.", "The Acid Rain Program wanted to increase SO2 emissions.", "Acidic lakes do not neutralize acid deposition.", "The Acid Rain Program wanted to reduce SO2 emissions.", "SO2 and NOx emissions contribute to the problems in the atmosphere.", "I have concerns that acid rain may be exaggerated.", "They carry material and acids.", "NOx makes no contribution to the deposition of acid.", "The Acid Rain Program was one of the things listed and included.", "Episodically acidic lakes neutralize acid deposition more readily than chronically acidic lakes.", "There is no acid rain.", "The flower is made of acid", "There are no requirements associated with the Acid Rain Program with nitrogen oxides", "Sources that emit NOx and SO2 can be a cause of PM2.", "And increase in acid deposition increase cannot end in chronic acidity.", "The water chemistry is affected by numerous things.", "Acid rain is reduced when emissions are lowered and air quality improves.", "Ozone can be created when NOx and volatile organic compounds are exposed to sunlight.", "SO2 is spewed freely into the atmosphere.", "SO2 can be controlled.", "Oak tree leaves can acidify the soil if they accumulate.", "The bottles are made of acid", "Most of the sulfur dioxide that is allowed are controlled by the Acid Rain Program." ]

[ "More than 100 fans were involved in city centre violence ahead of Manchester United's game against Sheffield United on 9 January 2016.\nBottles were thrown at officers amid the scuffles, but no-one was injured, Greater Manchester Police said.\nThose taken to court were banned from games for three to five years.\nThe disorder began when a group of around 80 Sheffield United fans came face-to-face with about 40 Manchester United supporters after leaving a pub.\nWhen the visiting fans reached Bengal Street in Ancoats the rival groups attacked each other.\nPolice footage showed one man launching a glass bottle.\nA total of 15 Manchester United supporters were summonsed to court over the incident.\nEleven Manchester United supporters were handed banning orders on 24 January.\nA twelfth man received an order when he appeared at Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court on Monday.\nPC Alex Robinson said: \"This was a violent incident which resulted in significant disorder and would have been extremely frightening for anyone who witnessed the events that unfolded.\n\"Thanks to police intelligence, officers were able to identify the potential for conflict and ensure the disorder was quickly brought to a close.\"\nThe following men received five-year banning orders:\nThe following men received three-year banning orders:" ]

[ "Disorder broke out before the match against Vitesse Arnhem in the Europa League fixture in August.\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said riot police quelled the violence, which lasted about 10 minutes.\nSix men, all from Southampton, were handed Football Banning Orders at the city's magistrates' court.\nThe CPS applied for four-year orders for Richard Bridle, 28, of Brookwood Road and Jack Jameson, 21, of English Road.\nOuter Circle resident James Whitlock, 23, Samuel Coleman, 23, of Effingham Gardens, Thomas Kitcher, 22, of Penny House, and 20-year-old Burke Drive resident Luke Fairhurst, were banned for three years.\nA CPS spokesman said: \"Prior to the match there was a large gathering of followers of both teams in the Korenmarkt area of Arnhem. The atmosphere had initially between good-natured between the two sets of opposing supporters.\n\"However, a large group of Vitesse Arnhem supporters then entered the square and fighting broke out between them and Southampton's supporters.\n\"When the police moved in to prevent the disorder, the violence continued, with chairs from nearby bars thrown at police officers and opposing followers.\n\"The violence involved hundreds of individuals and lasted for a period of approximately 10 minutes and it was not until riot police and officers on horseback moved in that order were restored.\"\nSouthampton won the game 2-0 but were knocked out in the next round by Danish side FC Midtjylland, who were in turn eliminated by Manchester United this week.", "Home Office figures reveal there were 2,181 fans banned at start of the latest season, compared with 2,273 the year before.\nNewcastle has the worst record in the Premier League, with 132 orders.\nMillwall fans have 64 banning orders against them, the largest number in the Championship before their relegation.\nThere were 484 new banning orders issued during the 2014/15 season, compared with 678 in 2013/14.\nBristol Rovers had the biggest number of new orders overall, with 31 issued during 2014/15.\nBurnley fans received the largest number of new banning orders in the Premier League, 26 in total, before their relegation.\nIn the Championship Wolverhampton Wanderers fans had 22 imposed.\nLeeds United fans sparked the most football-related arrests last season, 99 according to the figures.\nThe overall number of arrests has fallen, however. The Home Office statistics show there were 1,873 in the last season, a drop of 400.\nPublic disorder was the cause of the most arrests of Premier League fans, 273 between them. There were also 201 arrests for alcohol offences and 125 for violent disorder.\nIn the Championship, public disorder resulted in 290 arrests last season out of a total of 702 and alcohol accounted for 136.\nMillwall FC chief executive Andy Ambler said a number of the orders imposed on its fans were from one incident at Wembley in April 2013, when violence broke out during the FA Cup semi-final against Wigan.\n\"Things have improved year on year,\" Mr Ambler said.\n\"Some of the orders still in force relate to the incident in 2013 at Wembley and that will give us a higher number than some other clubs.\"\nFootball banning orders can last between three and 10 years and prevent an individual attending matches at home and abroad.\nBreaching an order is punishable by a maximum of six months in prison or a fine of £5,000, or both. Fans can have more than one banning order imposed.\nMike Penning, Minister for Policing, Crime, Criminal Justice and Victims, said: \"The UK is a world leader in tackling football violence and disorder.\n\"Today's figures show our tough laws to ban known troublemakers are working. The trend in football-related arrests continues to fall and the number of football-related arrests has more than halved since 2000/01.\n\"We are clear; law-abiding fans should enjoy football matches in safety and any violent, disorderly or anti-social behaviour at matches will not be tolerated.\"", "The youngest person to get a Football Banning Order (FBO) - used to prevent disorder and hooliganism - was aged 12.\nFigures for different police areas vary, with 43 FBOs for under-18s in one force's area and none in many others.\nPeople with FBOs may have to surrender passports before overseas matches, such as the current Euro 2016 tournament.\nEngland fans - and those from countries including Russia and Croatia - have been involved in violence at the championship in France.\nFBOs can be issued by courts after a football-related conviction, or following complaints by police forces or prosecutors.\nThey can last from three to 10 years, and breaching an order can lead to a £5,000 fine or a prison sentence.\nThe figures on FBOs, obtained by the Press Association through the Freedom of Information Act, cover the three years up to March 2016.\nThe case of the 12-year-old given a ban came after he threw missiles and was abusive during disorder after Newcastle United were beaten 3-0 by Sunderland in 2013, Northumbria Police said.\nThe same force has the highest number of FBOs for under-18s. The 43 FBOs in its area apply to 38 Newcastle United and five Sunderland fans\nChief Superintendent Steve Neill said: \"We recognise these numbers are high but a large number of these orders were issued following the Tyne-Wear derby in April 2013 where several young people got involved in disorder.\n\"Following this game we made a concerted effort to change the way we work and engage with the thriving football community that exists in the North East.\"\nHe said fans had behaved \"impeccably\" during the 2015-16 season.\nThe 106 FBOs for under-18s include:\nGeoff Pearson, a senior law lecturer at Manchester University, said there were \"huge discrepancies\" in how forces used FBO legislation.\nAmanda Jacks, from the Football Supporters' Federation, said FBOs should be a \"last resort\" for children, and more should be done to encourage young people to keep out of trouble at games.\nPolice forces were also asked about the oldest people given FBOs - and these included a 60-year-old Arsenal fan and a man of 64 in the Lancashire Police area.\nThe government said a total of 2,181 FBOs were in force (covering all age groups) in September 2015.\nData was requested from police forces in England, Scotland and Wales. Eight forces either failed to respond or did not supply the requested information.", "The Manchester United striker apologised over \"inappropriate\" pictures of him a day after England's World Cup qualifying win over Scotland.\nThe Daily Mirror has reported the FA found Rooney was invited to a wedding reception and that there was no curfew.\nRooney, 31, has been assured from \"high levels within the Football Association\" that he will not be charged.\nAn investigation followed the publication of images in The Sun which it said showed Rooney drunk at a party late on Saturday, 12 November.\nThe FA is also looking into claims several England players were out until late on the same Saturday night after the 3-0 win over Scotland - less than three days before they drew 2-2 with Spain in a friendly.\nEngland's players all reported back at 11:00 GMT on the Sunday as they were instructed to, and attended training in the afternoon.\nEngland players have since been banned by the FA from having nights out while on international duty.", "Gilroy Shaw, 47, was given the Football Banning Order at Birmingham Magistrates' Court on Monday.\nShaw, of Selwyn Road, Bilston, has been a \"prominent figure in hooligan circles for almost 30 years,\" West Midlands Police said.\nThe order bans Shaw from attending matches for five years.\nWolves supporter Shaw has been banned from its home ground Molineux since 2010 and must also stay outside a five-mile exclusion zone at stadiums involving the club for three hours before and after kick-off.\nWest Midlands Police said it applied for the civil injunction after amassing a \"huge backlog of evidence\" detailing his involvement in football violence and association with \"risk\" supporters.\nCh Insp Nick Rowe said: \"Shaw is a familiar face at fixtures at home and abroad and tends to be at the centre of disorder, inciting rival fans, threatening violence, and getting involved in mass brawls.\n\"He has been the number one target for us for some time but in recent years has become almost a godfather figure, organising and instigating violence and then slipping away while his minions throw the punches, hurl the missiles or damage property.\"\nA total of 166 people are currently the subject of Football banning Orders (FBOs) in the West Midlands but most orders are \"tagged on to\" criminal court convictions, the force said.", "March's friendly against the world champions in Dortmund was marred by the behaviour of some fans.\nSome booed the German national anthem and sang about World War Two.\nTwo fans received lifetime bans from the England Supporters Travel Club (ESTC), which means they are forbidden to attend away games.\nOne individual was spotted doing a Nazi salute in the away end, with another seen making an Adolf Hitler moustache and cut-throat gestures towards the German fans.\nIn all, 27 members have seen their ESTC membership suspended for varying lengths of time, with six handed written warnings and another case still pending.\nLast month the FA said it was working with police to pursue possible football banning orders - which would cover the domestic game - for some individuals.\nFA chairman Greg Clarke condemned the \"inappropriate, disrespectful and disappointing\" behaviour after the match, with the governing body understood to be concerned about a new generation of louts.\nThe ESTC is the only way to obtain tickets for the away end at England matches, with tickets required to be collected in the host city before the game.\nEngland have an allocation of 4,761 for Saturday's trip to Hampden Park for the 2018 World Cup qualifier against Scotland.\nStarting at that match, the FA is introducing new measures to try to curb anti-social behaviour, including getting stewards who are used to working at England games at Wembley to travel with fans to away matches.\nSupporters have been warned about their behaviour before the match in Glasgow, where Scottish police will impose a ban on drinking in open spaces.\nConcerns have been raised over the 17:00 BST kick-off, while the Scottish FA has announced a \"wide range of measures will be implemented as part of an enhanced security operation\" following the recent terror attacks in Manchester and London.\nIan Dennis, BBC Radio 5 live senior football reporter\nThe FA is clamping down on mis-behaving England fans - as a worrying generation of troublemakers is emerging.\nRecent matches have been marred by a minority of supporters intent on shaming the national football team with alcohol-fuelled anti-social behaviour.\nThose involved are often young males, aged under 25, who treat away games as a stag weekend with no inhibitions.\nThe FA is facing a challenge to tackle the issue and has issued lifetime bans for fans for the first time.", "The supporters had been on a stadium tour but managed to cut themselves off from the remainder of the party.\nThey were found on Saturday morning during a security sweep of the stadium before being handed over to police, who decided not to arrest the pair.\nUnited say there was no risk to supporters attending the Arsenal game.\nThe pair had been searched and their belongings put through a metal detector before they went on the tour.\nThe incident comes six months after United's Premier League game against Bournemouth at Old Trafford had to be called off at short notice when a suspect package was found in a toilet in the corner of the stadium.\nIt turned out to be a fake explosive left behind after a training exercise earlier in the week.", "Supporters in the south stand tore down hoardings displaying Tottenham slogans.\nTen spectators were arrested at the League Cup tie for a range of offences, including criminal damage. The FA will leave the matter to the police.\n\"We don't want any violence. We are at the disposal of the authorities to help them to sort it out,\" said Wenger.\nArsenal won the match 2-1, through two goals by Mathieu Flamini, and will play Sheffield Wednesday in the next round.", "Riot police were deployed when plastic bottles, seats and coins were thrown at the EFL Cup tie at the London Stadium.\nChelsea fan Michael Parker, 51, and West Ham fan Nicholas Greenway, 27, got five and three-year bans respectively.\nParker, of Eversleigh Road, Battersea, was charged with throwing a missile and Greenway, of Alexandra Road, Mitcham, was accused of threatening behaviour.\nMetropolitan Police commander BJ Harrington said: \"The orders will prevent them from causing more trouble.\n\"There were a minority who were clearly intent on being involved in confrontation and violence.\n\"Despite extensive work with both clubs and a robust policing operation, there were unacceptable incidents inside and outside the stadium, before, during and after the game.\"\nPolice made seven arrests after the match, with both clubs, the Football Association and the English Football League investigating the incident.\nOf those arrested on the night, one further supporter has been charged and is awaiting trial. Three others have been released on bail without charge.\nWest Ham have also banned an unspecified number of fans, who are no longer able to buy tickets, while any season ticket holders involved have had them revoked.\nThe east London club have struggled with crowd disturbances since their move to the London Stadium and prior to the Chelsea game had already banned 23 fans - some until the end of the season and others indefinitely.\n\"We will continue to work with our partners to tackle crime and disorder at the London Stadium and the banning orders are a part of this work,\" Harrington said.\n\"We are working tirelessly to identify people involved and bring them to justice. Anyone with information or witnesses to the disorder is asked to call the police non-emergency line on 101.\"", "Media playback is not supported on this device\nThe post came following Welbeck's winner for the Gunners against his former club Manchester United in an FA Cup quarter-final on Monday.\nPolice were informed of the abusive message when members of the public contacted them.\nIt follows an incident last month, in which Chelsea fans stopped a black man boarding a Paris metro train.\nThe Blues suspended five fans for an incident which occurred before Chelsea's Champions League game against Paris St-Germain.\nPolice are investigating reports of racist and abusive behaviour from Chelsea fans on a train from London to Manchester following their Capital One Cup win over Tottenham on Sunday, 1 March.", "Michael Jordan McGuire, 19, from Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, also had to pay £1,000 costs in a hearing at Swansea Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.\nPolice said the order also stopped McGuire from entering towns and cities where Swansea or Wales were playing.\nThey added that McGuire contested their court application to ban him.\nA spokesman said the court was shown video footage of McGuire during disorder at three games - Wolves versus Swansea in 2008, Swansea versus Charlton Athletic in 2009, and Swansea versus Leicester City last year.\nThe court was also shown photographs from the Swansea versus Cardiff City fixture in 2009.\nThe order was made on the basis that McGuire caused or contributed to violence and disorder at these matches, said South Wales Police.\nPolice said the court agreed he should be banned despite having never been arrested or convicted of football-related violence.\nThey said the ban extended to matches in the UK which were regulated under the Football Spectators Act 1989.\nSupt Phil Davies of Swansea police said: \"South Wales Police can, and will, pursue civil banning orders against those who are frequently and actively engaged in incidents of disorder at football events regardless of whether they have been arrested or convicted.\n\"I'm sure no Swansea City fans will want to miss any of this season's Premier League fixtures and therefore this case should be a deterrent to anyone thinking of getting involved in disorder.\n\"The feedback we have had following the opening three matches of this season has been extremely positive, including positive comments from Greater Manchester Police on the behaviour of the Swans fans and from Sunderland fans about the good atmosphere during their visit to Swansea last weekend.\"", "As well as minor public order offences, 10 of the arrests concerned alleged sectarian breaches of the peace.\nEleven men are expected to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Monday; five others are subject of a report to the procurator fiscal; three were issued with a fixed penalty notice.\nPolice said the behaviour of most fans at the game was \"excellent\".\nMatch commander Ch Supt Andy Bates said: \"As usual the vast majority of the 50,000 fans were here to enjoy the game and support their respective team; they deserve credit for their excellent behaviour.\n\"However, again, it is the minority of fans who spoiled the occasion by for example setting off flares and singing sectarian songs.\n\"We dealt with any incidents swiftly and with minimum disruption. As at 1700 hours, 19 men have been arrested for a number of offences - mostly alleged minor public order offences but include 10 arrests for alleged sectarian BOPs (breaches of the peace).\"", "A quarter were in connection with Championship matches according to the Home Office.\nIn the Premier League, Newcastle United fans had the most active football banning orders - 124 - prior to the club's relegation.\nWolverhampton Wanderers had 52 bans in force, the most in the Championship.\nThe figures revealed there were 1,895 football-related arrests in England and Wales in 2015-16, a 1% rise on the year before.\nThe most common causes for arrest were public disorder and alcohol offences.\nHowever, alcohol arrests have more than halved in the five seasons covered by home office data, down from 800 in 2011-12 to 373 in 2015-16.\nPublic disorder and alcohol accounted for the most arrests.\nThe figures showed more arrests in the Championship for alcohol offences, violent disorder, possession of pyrotechnics, criminal damage and offensive weapons than in the Premier League.\nChampionship side Birmingham City's fans were arrested most with 74 of the league's total of 672. Nearly half, 36, were for public disorder.\nManchester City fans made up the largest number of arrests with 66 of the Premier League's 707. Of those, 26 were for public disorder and 15 for violent disorder.\nOut of 56 arrests of Premier League club fans for pitch incursions, 15 of them were Sunderland supporters.\nThe club also accounted for four of the league's eight arrests for racist and indecent chanting.\nThere were two arrests of Championship side supporters for the same offence, one a Bolton Wanderers fan and the other Wolverhampton Wanderers.\nLiverpool saw the highest number of arrests for possession of pyrotechnics, nine of the total 39 in the Premier League. In the Championship there were 49 arrests for the offence.\nThe overall number of football banning orders stood at 2,085 as of 1 August 2016, down 4% on the year before due in part to the expiry of those imposed in previous seasons.\nWolverhampton Wanderers fans were handed the most new bans in the top two leagues with 21 imposed in 2015-16.\nThe club's facilities and safety manager Steve Sutton said the club's Molineux stadium was a \"safe and enjoyable place to watch football with over 500,000 fans passing through the stadium's turnstiles every season\".\nHe said: \"Banning orders can be put in place for many different reasons, not just relating to actual incidents at home or away stadia.\n\"Wolves work very closely with West Midlands Police in taking a pro-active approach to pre-empting any issues, as highlighted by the banning order figures.\nHe said during the 2015-16 season, there were four recorded home supporter arrests at Molineux itself and the season \"had to go on record as one of the most pleasing in this respect in recent years.\"\nThe official figures, including 24 hours before and after matches, show that overall there were 31 arrests of Wolves fans. Eight of them were connected with home matches and 23 away.\nSunderland fans had the highest number of new bans in the Premier League in 2015-16 with 14 imposed.\nRival Newcastle added to its tally with 12, the second highest.\nPaul Weir, head of safety at Sunderland AFC, said: \"We take a zero tolerance approach to any football related crime and disorder. It is too easy to use these arrest and banning order figures to suggest that our supporters are worse than any other set of supporters as not all police forces, clubs and indeed magistrates adopt the same positive approach we do.\"\nThere were 617 active orders in the Premier League.\nThe figures were as of the start of the season and include clubs that have been relegated with those who won promotion included in the lower league statistics.\nFootball banning orders can last between three and 10 years and prevent an individual attending matches at home and abroad.\nBreaching an order is punishable by up to six months in prison or a fine of £5,000, or both.\nFans can have more than one order imposed.\nIn the Championship, Burnley had proportionately the highest number of bans based on the average number of fans at home matches.\nIts tally of 48 works out as 29 for every 10,000 home attendances. However, it only added two to its overall number from the previous season.\nIn notes accompanying the statistics the Home Office said: \"There has been a steady decline in the total number of football banning orders in the last four seasons, falling by almost a quarter (-646) from a high of 2,731 on 9 November 2012.\"\nSpeaking on the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire, Amanda Jacks, case worker for the Football Supporters' Federation, said magistrates needed to consider all the circumstances of an offence before imposing an order.\nShe said: \"You can get a football banning order for an offence 24 hours either side of a football match.\n\"Whilst there are undoubtedly people who do have banning orders for violent disorder and affray, many more have them for non-violent offences because magistrates do not apply the tests they should be applying.\"\nSupt Sarah Pitt from Northumbria Police said: \"Banning orders are part of a whole suite of action we can take around football. We take each individual case on its merit to put in front of the court.\"\nPolicing minister Brandon Lewis said the the figures showed \"tough\" laws to ban troublemakers were working.\nNewcastle United have been approached for comment.", "Media playback is not supported on this device\nRyan Hampson set up a campaign on Facebook calling on officials across the UK to boycott grassroots games in protest at the treatment they receive.\nThe 18-year-old says the Football Association's procedures to protect referees are not strong enough.\n\"At times it has been awful,\" said Hampson, who referees in Manchester.\n\"I have been headbutted, I've been spat at and I've been punched, just to name a few things that have happened.\"\nHampson, who began refereeing three and a half years ago, says threats of violence are not uncommon.\n\"I had a match where one team was awful all game and it got to a point where I had to be escorted off the pitch by the 11 players on the other team,\" he told BBC Radio 5 live's Breakfast.\n\"They had to get in a circle and escort me physically, because the other team wouldn't let me go.\"\nBut Hampson says such incidents are not always upheld when taken to appeal at regional FA branches.\n\"Another game, when I got hit, the other manager was there and gave the same version of events as me and it got 'not proven'. I don't know how,\" he added.\n\"I put all my hope in the FA really.\"\nThe FA said that every season, on average, just short of 4,000 referees decide not to re-register, with a small portion citing dissent from players and parents as a contributing factor.\nIt said 880,000 youth and adult affiliated grassroots football matches were played last season in England, with 111 proven cases of assaults.\n\"Under FA regulations, this means those offenders are now banned from all football activity,\" an FA statement said.\nIt added: \"It was valuable to meet Ryan last month. He raised some important points and we look forward to maintaining this dialogue.\"\nThe governing body also said it had given the Respect campaign some \"renewed focus\" by appointing a dedicated campaign manager to continue the work.\nManchester FA has announced it will provide more support to referees, visit them within 24 hours of an incident and report any assaults to police.", "The Cornish Football Association has given Martin and his club two weeks to respond to the charge.\nMartin was sent off after reacting angrily to a late penalty being awarded against his side in Tuesday's game with Tavistock, which they lost 4-1.\nFollowing the red card, he allegedly assaulted referee Stuart Kane.\nThe Cornish FA has banned the former Exeter City and Truro player from all football-related activity while their investigation continues into a possible breach of FA rule E3, which covers physical contact, violent conduct and threatening and/or abusive language or behaviour against a match official.\nMartin had already been suspended by his club over the incident in the South West Peninsula League Premier Division fixture.\n\"It's extremely disappointing that these allegations have had to come to us,\" said Cornwall FA governance manager Richard Pallot.\n\"It's one of our more high-profile clubs in the county, we will deal with it very quickly and we take these allegations very seriously.\n\"I have spoken to Stuart this morning. He's absolutely fine. he's obviously a little bit shaken up through the incident, but he's not in too bad shape,\" he added to BBC Radio Cornwall.\nSt Austell chairman James Hutchings said in a statement: \"The club would also like to apologise publicly to all in attendance at the game, the FA, the SWPL and also to the referee Stuart Kane, who is a well respected match official throughout Cornwall and Devon,\"\nMartin played for Exeter City in 2004-05, including their FA Cup third-round draw at Manchester United and home replay defeat.", "The Football Association found Terry guilty following a four-day hearing.\nA spokesman for Terry said the player was \"disappointed\" the FA had reached a \"different conclusion\" to the \"not guilty verdict of a court of law\".\nIn July, the ex-England skipper, 31, was cleared by Westminster Magistrates' Court of racially abusing Ferdinand.\nThe Terry statement continued: \"He has asked for the detailed written reasons of the decision and will consider them carefully before deciding whether to lodge an appeal.\"\n\"Unlike in Terry's court case, the prosecution never had to prove intent, merely that certain words were used, so this verdict was no surprise.\n\"However, the punishment raises issues. Why a ban half as severe as that handed out to Luis Suarez? Why a fine that equates to just one week's wages? Will Chelsea punish their captain? And will the Ferdinands be satisfied?\n\"This bitter dispute has always been about more than what one footballer said to another. It shone a spotlight on the game, and the way it deals with discrimination.\n\"Terry left Wembley in disgrace and is likely to appeal. But regardless, the saga has done lasting damage - both to the his reputation and also the to football itself.\"\nThe verdict released by the FA said: \"The Football Association charged Mr Terry on Friday 27 July 2012 with using abusive and/or insulting words and/or behaviour towards Queens Park Rangers' Anton Ferdinand and which included a reference to colour and/or race contrary to FA Rule E3 [2] in relation to the Queens Park Rangers FC versus Chelsea FC fixture at Loftus Road on 23 October 2011.\"\nTerry will have 14 days from receiving the written reasons to decide whether to lodge an appeal. The ban and fine will not come into effect until after the centre-half has decided what to do.\nA statement from his club added: \"Chelsea Football Club notes and respects today's decision by the Football Association regarding John Terry.\n\"We also recognise that John has the right to appeal that decision. It is therefore inappropriate for us to comment further on the matter at this time.\"\nTerry admitted using the word \"black\" and swearing at Ferdinand but insisted he had only been repeating words he thought the Rangers defender had accused him of saying.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nThe FA's decision to press ahead with their own charges led Terry, on the eve of the hearing, to announce he was retiring from international football with immediate effect, saying his position had become \"untenable\".\nTerry's legal team argued the governing body's own rules dictated that his acquittal in court meant the case could not proceed but the FA believed their charge was distinct from the court charge.\nLiverpool striker Luis Suarez was given an eight-match ban when an FA disciplinary panel found him guilty of racially abusing Manchester United defender Patrice Evra last season.\nThe panel stated at that time that simply using racist language was enough to constitute a breach of FA rules.", "The incident occurred in the 87th minute of Newcastle's 2-0 Championship defeat against Wolves on 17 September.\nThe Football Association says the misdemeanour was an \"aggravated breach\" of rules, and if found guilty the 24-year-old faces a minimum five-game ban.\nHe has until 16 November to respond.\nNewcastle had Netherlands midfielder Vurnon Anita sent off in the same minute of the game.\nIf found guilty Shelvey will miss, at a minimum, a trip to Leeds on 20 November, a home match with Blackburn, the EFL Cup trip to Hull City, an away fixture at Nottingham Forest and Birmingham City's visit to St James' Park on 10 December.\nIn May 2013, the FA introduced new guidelines stating that any player found guilty of racially abusing an opponent or discriminating on religion, sexuality or disability, would be banned for at least five games.\nChelsea's John Terry was handed a four-match ban and a £220,000 fine for racially abusing QPR defender Anton Ferdinand, while Liverpool's Luis Suarez received an eight-match suspension and a £40,000 fine for his abuse of Manchester United's Patrice Evra - both in 2011.\nNewcastle sit top of the Championship, three points clear of Brighton, and Shelvey has been one of their stand-out performers, as well as contributing three goals in 16 league appearances.\nShelvey, who has won six caps for England, joined Newcastle from Swansea in January, but could not prevent the club's relegation to the Championship.", "During England's 1-0 loss in Dortmund, some away fans booed the German national anthem and sang chants referencing World War Two.\nFA chairman Greg Clarke said it was \"disrespectful and disappointing\".\nInvestigations continue, and the FA could impose more sanctions.\nIt said in a statement: \"We have been working closely with the relevant authorities to identify a number of individuals, some of whom have already been suspended from the England Supporters' Travel Club and will now be pursued by the UK Football Policing Unit and potentially be subject to a football banning order.\n\"To date, 34 members have been investigated for their behaviour by the FA, some of whom have now been banned from the membership.\"", "Fans held up offensive banners during a 1-0 win over RB Leipzig and lit flares, while there were reports of crowd trouble outside the Westfalenstadion.\nThe German Football Association (DFB) said Dortmund \"needs to be sanctioned\".\nThe club has until Monday to accept the proposal or reject it in which case the decision will be taken by DFB's court.\nDortmund had received a suspended sentence last summer for similar offences and the the DFB said there had been trouble at three other games this season - against Mainz, Hoffenheim, and the away game in Leipzig.\nBanners at Saturday's game attacked Leipzig, owned by energy drink makers Red Bull, as well as their sports director Ralf Rangnick and Red Bull owner Dieter Mateschitz.\n\"Slaughter the bulls,\" read one.\nDortmund has already promised to crack down on fan violence and the club said it \"deeply regrets\" last weekend's violence that also left police officers and a police dog injured.\nRead more: Why are RB Leipzig hated in Germany?\nThe Westfalenstadion's south stand, nicknamed the \"Yellow Wall\", is the largest standing stand in Europe with a 25,000 capacity.", "He has also been fined £100,000 and ordered to attend a Football Association education course.\nShelvey, 24, had a personal hearing to challenge the charge after an incident with Wolves' Moroccan midfielder Romain Saiss in 17 September's 2-0 defeat.\nThe player has seven days to appeal.\nNewcastle said in a statement they will wait to see the FA's written reasons \"before making any further comment on the matter\".\nThe FA's sanctions will be set aside pending consideration for an appeal.\nNewcastle were losing to Wolves in their Championship match at St James' Park, when in the 87th minute an incident occurred between Shelvey and Saiss.\nThe breach, according to the FA's charge against the former Liverpool and Swansea player, related to Rule E3(1), and was an \"Aggravated Breach as defined in Rule E3(2), as it included reference to ethnic origin and/or race and/or nationality\".\nBBC Sport's Pat Murphy said the matter was brought to referee Tim Robinson's attention by one of Saiss' team-mates immediately after the game.\nIf Boxing Day's visit of Sheffield Wednesday becomes the first game of the suspension, the England international will miss four league games and the FA Cup third-round tie at Birmingham.\nNewcastle boss Rafael Benitez would next be able to name him in the squad for the Championship game against Rotherham on 21 January.\nFA guidelines, which were revised in 2013, state any player found guilty of racially abusing an opponent or discriminating on religion, sexuality or disability, should be banned for at least five games.\nPrior to that, Chelsea's John Terry was handed a four-match ban and a £220,000 fine for racially abusing QPR defender Anton Ferdinand, while Liverpool's Luis Suarez received an eight-match suspension and a £40,000 fine for his abuse of Manchester United's Patrice Evra - both in 2011.", "Match Commander David McCallum said the majority of the crowd at the match in Dumfries had been well behaved.\nHowever, he said there were a number of incidents of disorder during the game.\nThey included one incident, which remains under investigation, where visiting supporters refused requests to remove a banner.\nPolice said an 18-year-old man had been arrested in relation to public order offences committed while a banner was being removed from advertising hoardings by stewards and police in contravention of ground rules.\nThey stressed the content of the banner was not in question and number of other banners had been displayed in a manner which had not contravened ground rules.", "Newly promoted Newcastle host Tottenham, while Brighton welcome Manchester City and Huddersfield visit Crystal Palace.\nSpurs' first game at Wembley will be against Antonio Conte's champions on the second weekend of the season.\nThe precise date of games will be set once TV schedules have been decided.\nThe league season is set to finish on Sunday, 13 May 2018 - a week earlier than last season - with the World Cup finals in Russia starting on 14 June.\nThe English Football League fixtures will be released on Wednesday, 21 June, and Scotland's fixtures two days later.\nQuestions have been raised about Tottenham's potential to perform at Wembley after a miserable run of results there in last season's Champions League, and Mauricio Pochettino's side will have a tough first test at their temporary home.\nThe last time Spurs visited the national stadium was in the FA Cup semi-final, a game they lost 4-2 to this season's first visitors - Chelsea.\nBut it could prove a tricky opening few weeks for the defending champions too, with Chelsea hosting Everton (26 August), visiting 2015-16 winners Leicester after the international break and then welcoming Arsenal (16 September).\nArsene Wenger's Gunners have a chance to show their top-four credentials in week three when they visit Liverpool.\nAnother early indicator in the race for the Champions League places comes in the following round of games, with Liverpool travelling to Etihad Stadium to face Manchester City.\nEuropa League winners Manchester United do not face another Champions League qualifier until they visit Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool on the weekend of 14-15 October.\nEnglish football's top-flight sides will face four league games in nine days over Christmas and new year, with eight in total from 2 December to 1 January.\nThe final round of the Champions League group stage also takes place during that period, as traditionally does the fifth round of the League Cup.\nArsenal welcome Liverpool two days before Christmas, while Brighton go to Chelsea on Boxing Day and Newcastle host Manchester City.\nWest Ham make the trip across London to face Tottenham in the round of games scheduled for 30 December, with another London derby taking place on New Year's Day as Arsenal host Chelsea.\nThere will be no easing into life in the top flight for those promoted from the Championship, with Brighton's first game in the Premier League at home to Pep Guardiola's Manchester City.\nNewcastle hammered Tottenham 5-1 in their most recent Premier League game at St James' Park, and it will be last season's runners-up Spurs who visit Rafa Benitez's side on the opening day.\nHuddersfield make their Premier League debut at Crystal Palace, before hosting fellow newcomers Newcastle a week later and completing their August schedule at home to Southampton.\nThe Terriers' first game back in the top flight since 1972 is a repeat of their last, when they drew 0-0 at Selhurst Park in April that year.\nBrighton, meanwhile, are back in English football's top division for the first time since the 1982-83 season.\nChris Hughton's side go to Leicester on the second weekend, before visiting Watford.\nChelsea did not have to contend with Champions League games on their run to the title last season, but the new Premier League fixture list means a challenging European schedule for Conte's side.\nThe Blues face four of last term's top six on their return from continental action, with home games against Arsenal, Manchester City and Manchester United as well as a trip to Liverpool coming immediately after Champions League fixtures.\nThe first Manchester derby of the season takes place at Old Trafford on the weekend of 9 December - immediately after the final Champions League group game - while City face Arsenal after the fourth group match.\nTottenham have perhaps the easiest run of fixtures following Champions League dates - at home to Swansea, Liverpool, Crystal Palace, West Brom and Stoke, plus a trip to Huddersfield.\nPep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho will get the chance to renew their rivalry on 9 December at Old Trafford, with the return fixture at Etihad Stadium on the weekend of 7 April.\nThis season's Merseyside derbies fall on the same weekends as Manchester's, with Everton making the short trip across Stanley Park to face Liverpool in December.\nFA Cup winners Arsenal return to Wembley for the north London derby in February, with Spurs first heading to the Emirates on 18 November.\nNewcastle boss Benitez goes back to Stamford Bridge to face former club Chelsea on the first weekend of December, while the Spaniard returns to another one of his former employers, Liverpool, on 3 March.\nLiverpool and Manchester United first meet at Anfield on 14 October, before Klopp's side go to Old Trafford on 10 March.\nAfter a sure thing for the opening day? The records suggest you should look no further than the champions.\nWith 54, Chelsea have won more points on the opening day than any other Premier League club and have not lost in their first game since defeat by Coventry in 1998.\nThe Blues host Burnley, a side with one of the worst records - they have lost all three of their Premier League opening-day fixtures and only scored one goal.\nIn fact, just one of the previous 25 reigning Premier League champions have lost their opening game in the following campaign - that was Leicester against Hull City last year.\nWest Ham face the possibility of having to play their first three matches of the season away from home.\nThe club have confirmed their second fixture, scheduled to be at home to Southampton, will have to be rearranged because of the World Athletics Championships being held at London Stadium.\nThe event takes place from 5-13 August, so the stadium will not be back in 'football mode' in time for the Saints game on 19 August.\nThe fixture could be reversed, meaning the Hammers would face three games on the road.\nMeanwhile, Tottenham have said their home game against Burnley on Saturday, 26 August will need to be rescheduled as it clashes with rugby league's Challenge Cup final at Wembley.\nThere are 2,036 matches across the Premier League and Football League over a nine-month period.\nTravel plans, rail and road networks and festive holidays all play a role in deciding when the matches are played.\nBut how does the process work?\nBut if there are any problems, they go back and start again - and changing one match can require 40 other changes.\nIn the 2012-13 season, the Metropolitan Police did not want high-profile matches played until after 8 September because of the Olympics and Paralympics.\nThe review process incorporates representatives from all the leagues, the FA and also a fans' representative, from the Football Supporters' Federation.\nFind out more here.", "The Football Association said the decision was part of its \"ongoing review\" and would help to \"ease English football's congested fixture schedule\".\nSemi-final replays were phased out after Manchester United beat Arsenal in 1999 on their way to the treble.\nReplays in earlier rounds remain, which means lower-league clubs still have the opportunity to earn lucrative second matches against higher-ranked clubs.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nFA chief executive Martin Glenn said the change \"adds excitement\".\nHe added: \"While fully respecting tradition and history, this new development will help the cup retain its status as a much-loved and world-renowned competition.\"\nManchester United beat West Ham in a replay in this season's quarter-finals before going on to lift the trophy in the final at Wembley.", "United admitted a misconduct charge after referee Michael Oliver was surrounded by several players following the dismissal of midfielder Ander Herrera.\nUnited lost the tie 1-0.\nAn FA statement said United had \"accepted the standard penalty\".", "England will play against the Republic of Ireland in a friendly on 7 June.\nUK police are taking action because of a \"deterioration in fan behaviour\" during England's last four away games.\nBanned England fans will have to sign in at a police station on match day, in addition to the usual requirement of surrendering their passports.\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said it will be \"running a national operation to round up those who fail to comply before and immediately after the fixture\".\nTwenty years ago, a match between England and the Republic of Ireland in Dublin was billed as a friendly, yet turned into a riot.\nForty people were arrested after seats were ripped up and missiles thrown during the first half of the game at Lansdowne Road on 15 February 1995.\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said it is working closely with An Garda Síochána (Irish police) to prevent any fan trouble ahead of next week's fixture in Dublin's Aviva stadium.\nThe officer leading the UK's football policing operations, Assistant Chief Constable Mark Roberts, said it will be the first time in four years that the additional enforcement measures have been re-introduced against fans subjected to Football Banning Orders.\n\"It has been a point of pride in recent years that England fans' behaviour has completely moved on from the dark days of the 1980s,\" he said.\n\"While the majority of fans continue to behave themselves, in the last four England away fixtures we have seen a significant amount of drunken anti-social behaviour, unpleasant chanting aimed at provoking home supporters and a small number of people who seem to take every opportunity to create distress for others.\n\"Regrettably that means we have to increase our enforcement activity using tactics that proved successful in addressing these problems in the past.\"\nIn addition, he said football policing \"spotters\" from England will go to Dublin and the Aviva stadium to \"gather evidence of any bad behaviour and ensure anyone who offends faces the consequences of their actions\".\nAll official England Supporters Travelling Club members will be required to collect their tickets in person in Dublin with photographic identification.\nACC Roberts said: \"I am in regular contact with the FA and other partners in the football community and, while there is no specific intelligence as yet to suggest planned disorder there is sufficient concern to take proactive action to ensure that fans are clear that bad behaviour is not acceptable and will face serious sanctions.\"", "Seven people were arrested by Avon and Somerset Police last week after trouble between fans in Cardiff last October.\nSouth Wales Police are investigating an assault on a steward and serious disorder which occurred at the game.\nBoth forces said they would crack down on anyone \"causing problems before, during or after the game\".\nInsp Rob Millican, from Avon and Somerset Police, said it would \"not tolerate disorder\".\n\"We have arrested a number of Bristol City fans and will now put these people before the courts,\" he said.\n\"Successful convictions should result in football banning orders which will mean they will no longer be able to attend games or follow their national side abroad.\n\"We urge all attending this weekend's match to enjoy themselves but we will not tolerate poor behaviour.\"\nFans have been warned anyone carrying, lighting or throwing such items as flares or smoke bombs will be arrested and could be prosecuted.\nSaturday's Championship game between Bristol City and Cardiff City, kicks off at 12:00 GMT.", "It has, though, been known to mean so much more than that.\nThe third round has witnessed the turning point for at least two legendary managers, as well as the decline of a once great club and the resurgence of another.\nHere, BBC Sport looks at some third-round ties whose influence stretched far beyond progression to the next stage.\nWith two league titles, an FA Cup and a European Cup Winners' Cup, Howard Kendall oversaw the most successful period in Everton's history.\nHowever, had a result in an FA Cup third-round game at Stoke City in 1984 turned out differently, it might never have happened at all.\nKendall, in his third year as Everton boss, appeared to be on borrowed time as another campaign threatened to end without success.\nPrior to the trip to Stoke, the Toffees were 16th in the old First Division and had drawn 0-0 at home to Coventry. They then scraped past Chesterfield 3-2 on aggregate in the League Cup.\nThe fans were becoming frustrated. Just 8,067 turned up at Goodison Park to watch the Chesterfield tie, where leaflets were handed out by supporters making their feelings known about Kendall.\n\"Kendall and Carter Out - 30,000 stay at home fans can't be wrong. Bring back attractive, winning football to Goodison Park,\" they read.\nHe needed a win, and it came at Stoke as goals from Andy Gray and Alan Irvine sealed a 2-0 victory.\n\"Many Everton fans happened to be standing and singing on the road outside the Toffees' dressing room as Kendall prepared to address his players before the game,\" says BBC Sport chief football writer Phil McNulty, a journalist at the Liverpool Daily Post at the time.\n\"Kendall later revealed he simply opened the dressing room window to let his players listen to the chants of hordes of fans and said 'there's your team talk - don't let those fans down'.\"\nA win against Oxford United in the Milk Cup followed and the pressure eased on Kendall, who went on to lead Everton to FA Cup triumph that year. The Toffees secured a league and European Cup Winners' Cup double the next season, and another domestic title was won in 1986-87 - their last league title.\nNo-one would have predicted that such success would follow what had been a rocky start to Kendall's managerial career at Everton. No-one, it seems, except for Kendall himself.\n\"Howard was convinced early on,\" remembers Kevin Ratcliffe, Everton's captain under Kendall.\n\"I remember he said to me after one game, 'you do know what year it is, don't you? It is the Chinese year of the Rat. We are going to win the cup'.\"\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nWhile that FA Cup tie helped keep Kendall at Everton, another might well have seen him appointed to one of the most coveted managerial positions in football.\nIn January 1990, with Manchester United struggling in the league without a trophy in three years under Sir Alex Ferguson, the pressure was mounting on the Red Devils boss.\nThe FA Cup was United's only chance of silverware and, if the newspapers at the time were to be believed, defeat by high-flying Nottingham Forest in the third round would have spelled the end of Ferguson at Old Trafford, with Kendall believed to have been considered as a potential replacement.\nDefeat, though, never materialised, as a solitary Mark Robins goal ensured victory. Four months later, United lifted the FA Cup.\nSo did Robins save Ferguson from the sack?\n\"Sir Alex wrote a book and, in it, he was asked the question 'did the goal save his job?',\" Robins said in 2009.\n\"He wrote that in training I would have missed it - but because I got a push in the back from Stuart Pearce it went in! So did I save his job? Yes, I did.\"\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\n\"We will start and end our FA Cup run in Cardiff,\" David O'Leary proudly proclaimed when he was manager of Leeds in 2002.\nThey did indeed do just that, although not the way O'Leary had anticipated.\nThe Irishman's comments came ahead of a third-round match at Cardiff, and with the FA Cup final being held at the Millennium Stadium in the Welsh capital, it was clear O'Leary fancied his side to win the competition.\nInstead, Leeds - Champions League semi-finalists the previous year and top of the Premier League at the time - suffered a shock early exit.\nCardiff, then a third-tier side, beat Leeds 2-1. O'Leary's team, perhaps stunned by the upset, failed to win any of their next nine games, losing to PSV Eindhoven in the Uefa Cup and finishing fifth in the Premier League, thus missing out on Champions League qualification for the second successive season.\nThe club had not banked on failing to make Europe's elite competition two years in a row and as a result the squad was rapidly dismantled. Star players such as Rio Ferdinand were sold as the club's budget was cut, and relegation to the Championship followed in 2004.\nThis season marks their 11th out of the Premier League.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nWintry weather causing havoc with the fixture list in British football is not uncommon, but the effect that the Big Freeze - one of the coldest winters on record - had on the 1963 FA Cup third round schedule will take some beating.\nHeavy snow, freezing fog and temperatures as low as -20C meant that a round that began on 5 January that year did not end until 11 March - 66 days, and 261 postponements, later.\nFourth Division side Lincoln's match against Coventry was the most hit by the conditions, having to be rescheduled 15 times.\n\"The ice underneath and the snow on top made it absolutely unplayable,\" recalled Norman Saywell, a former referee who inspected the Sincil Bank pitch on seven occasions.\n\"It dragged on and on. You couldn't play, simple as that.\"\nNorwich, in an effort to get their cup tie with Blackpool played, attempted to thaw out their pitch with flamethrowers. At Stamford Bridge, hot tar was used while some teams just gave up trying to get games played altogether - Halifax turned their Shay stadium pitch into an ice rink.\nThe football pools - a betting system based on predicting the outcome of football matches - was particularly affected by the near-empty fixture schedule and to combat the financial loss the Pools Panel was created.\nThe panel, which back then consisted of six men including former England players Sir Tom Finney and Tommy Lawton, met to deliberate how they thought the games would have gone, with the results announced on BBC television.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nThe FA Cup. The oldest domestic cup competition in the world and arguably the most prestigious.\nThat status took a hit in 1999 when Manchester United, the FA Cup holders, pulled out of the competition to compete at the Club World Cup.\nUnder pressure from the Football Association and the government to boost England's doomed bid to host the 2006 World Cup, Sir Alex Ferguson's side were encouraged to take part in Fifa's new showpiece club event in Brazil.\n\"I understand the meaning of the FA Cup now but I had only come to England a few weeks before so back then I did not know what I was missing,\" said former United defender Mikael Silvestre.\n\"It was only the year after that I realised we had not been part of this massive cup. But the FA Cup is played every year so it was the right choice to miss it that year.\"\nNot everyone agreed. Many saw the absence of the holders from the world's oldest knockout tournament as a national scandal.\nDavid Mellor, chairman of the National Football Taskforce at the time, said he was \"personally very strongly opposed\" to the move.\nThe then BBC radio presenter and Tory MP said: \"I do understand the pressure of 2006, but I don't see why domestic competitions - particularly the most prestigious domestic cup competition in the world - should be downgraded so United can participate in what we would otherwise regard as a Mickey Mouse tournament.\"\nNo club has done anything similar since.\nDespite the bad press from a decision which Ferguson later described as \"without doubt a catastrophe\", United didn't have a bad season in the end, winning the Premier League title at a canter.\nIt was one of the greatest third-round shocks and arguably the biggest upset Liverpool have been on the wrong end of in the FA Cup, but it may ultimately have been the catalyst for a period of great success for the Reds.\nKnocked out of the competition by non-league Worcester in 1959, the result marked the beginning of the end for then manager Phil Taylor.\nLiverpool may have been a Second Division side at the time but they were desperate to return to the top flight. After failing to achieve that in 1959, Taylor departed and was replaced by the legendary Bill Shankly from Huddersfield Town.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\n\"I just about remember the game and Liverpool were humiliated,\" said BBC commentator John Motson.\n\"Very few people had heard of Worcester City and that result was a bit of an earth shaker.\n\"Liverpool were on a downer and I think it was then that the directors thought to go to Bill Shankly and went to him to rebuild the club.\"\nRebuild he did as promotion back to the top flight came in 1962 and a great period of success followed as Shankly led Liverpool to three First Division titles, two FA Cups and one Uefa Cup.", "They detained 13 fans in the Grassmarket area shortly before the match between Rangers and Raith Rovers.\nAnother six people were arrested before kick-off at the Easter Road stadium and one person was arrested in nearby Albion Road.\nPolice Scotland said their operation represented a \"proportionate\" response.", "The cup was presented to winning teams from 1911 until it was replaced in 1992 by a new trophy of the same design.\nIt was valued in an edition of the long-running programme recorded in Harrogate and shown on Sunday evening.\nThe show's previous highest valuation was £1m for a model of Sir Antony Gormley's Angel of the North sculpture.\nThe cup valued by Antiques Roadshow expert Alastair Dickenson at Harrogate's Royal Hall was the third version of the FA Cup to be used.\nIt was made by Bradford firm Fattorini and Sons and - by coincidence - the first team to be presented with it were Bradford City, who beat Newcastle United in the 1911 final, after a replay.\nThe original FA Cup trophy, presented at the first final in 1872, was stolen from a Birmingham shoe shop window in 1895 while being displayed when Aston Villa were holders.\nThe second was replaced by the Football Association (FA) after 1909 winners Manchester United made a replica and the FA realised it did not own the copyright. The obsolete cup was given to Lord Kinnaird, who had been president of the FA for more than two decades.\nIt was bought at auction for £478,000 in 2005 by David Gold, then chairman of Birmingham City and now of West Ham United, and presented for permanent display at the National Football Museum, now based in Manchester.\nThe replacement - the trophy featured on the Antiques Roadshow - was used for every final from 1911 until 1991 when it was decided it was too fragile to continue being used.\nIt was succeeded by an exact replica but this was only used for two decades before also being retired because of wear and tear. In 2014 another version was made by the company Thomas Lyte, the FA's silversmiths and official restorers of silverware to Buckingham Palace.\nDespite its history, Mr Dickenson claimed the trophy's design suggested it had not been created to be a football trophy, and was more likely designed as a \"wine or champagne cooler\".\n\"Now I may be banned from every football ground in the country for saying this, but I suspect that this may have been an off-the-shelf piece, that it may not be specifically made,\" he said.\n\"I think that because it has all these grapes and vines on it, it might have been a wine or champagne cooler.\n\"The hardest thing of all about this is putting a value on it. This is, alongside the Wimbledon trophy, the most famous cup in the country.\n\"I think, quite comfortably, this has got to be worth well over £1million [$1.4m] - the highest ever value I have given on Antiques Roadshow.\"", "The Group B tie takes place in the French city at 14:00 BST on Thursday, 16 June and will be live on the BBC.\nThe ban will run from 06:00 local time on Thursday until 06:00 on Friday, with French authorities searching cars travelling into Lens for alcohol.\nFans without tickets for the match or fan zone have been told not to travel.\nAlcohol will only be allowed in the fan zone.\nBritish police have told ticketless supporters to go to Lille, or another city with a fan zone, to watch the game.\nEvery game in Lens will have the same alcohol restriction.\nSo the ban will be in place for the Albania v Switzerland, and the Czech Republic v Turkey group games, as well as a round-of-16 match.\nEngland, Wales and Northern Ireland are all competing in the 24-team tournament, which is being held across France between 10 June and 10 July.\nPolice expect between 350,000 and 500,000 supporters to travel from the United Kingdom to the tournament.\nThere were about 250,000 tickets sold to UK residents from 1.6m applications.\n\"There is no excuse for violence, disorder or anti-social behaviour at football matches,\" said Mark Roberts, the National Police Chiefs' Council lead for football policing.\n\"Troublemakers will be dealt with by French police in line with their laws and can expect a banning order on return to the UK.\"\nBritish police plan to act as \"cultural interpreters\" to prevent heavy-handed tactics against drunk and rowdy fans who may not cause serious trouble.", "The 16-year-old was arrested as part of a policing operation to use stop and search powers.\nThe force said officers had been authorised to use the powers after receiving information that \"serious disorder was being planned between hooligan elements of both clubs\".\nEleven people in total were arrested.\nA second man, aged 24, was charged with possession of an offensive weapon.\nBoth of those charged were also served with football banning notice applications and will appear before courts in the coming weeks.\nThe other eight men and one youth were arrested on suspicion of offences including affray, criminal damage and threats to damage, and remain in police custody.\nIn total, 87 people were stopped and searched.\nAssistant Chief Constable Phil Kay, said: \"As a result of the actions we took we were able to prevent serious disorder from taking place and allow law abiding supporters to enjoy the game.\"", "Greater Manchester Police said the incident was one of 14 arrests made in connection with the game.\nThere were also reports of fans setting off fireworks on Greater Manchester's tram network.\nThe match at the Etihad finished 1-1 with City progressing to the knock-out stages and Celtic going out of Europe.\nSuperintendent Craig Thompson said the game passed \"largely without incident\".\nAbout 30 people were ejected from the stadium - mostly away supporters for sitting in the home end." ]

[ "Selling After a Crash In the simplest sense, investors buy shares at a certain price and can then sell the shares to realize capital gains. However, if dwindling investor interest and a decline in the perceived value of the stock results in a dramatic drop in the stock price, the investor will not realize a gain." ]

[ "What happened. Shares of subscription-management platform Zuora (NYSE:ZUO) took a hit on Wednesday, declining as much as 11%. By the time the market closed, however, the stock was down 9.6%. The stock's decline was likely driven by an overall sell-off in the market on Wednesday.", "So, the short version, a money market is a negotiable instrument like any other stock, mutual fund, bond, cash, other things. The stock market, on the other hand, refers to the place in which all the trading happens.", "What is the difference between a bear market and a bull market? ... A bear market is a term used when the prices of stocks are falling and selling off of stock is encouraged.//3. A bull market is a term used when the prices of stocks are rising.", "What is a stock market? Stock market refers to the aggregation of buyers and sellers who trade in stocks. Stock exchange refers to the infrastructure that facilitates such buying and selling of shares. ... Stock market is a broad term that refers to all the companies that list their shares for public investors to buy.", "What happened. Shares of LyondellBasell (NYSE:LYB) slumped 17.6% in January, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. The stock trended downward due to weakness in the oil market and then saw sell-offs following the publication of the company's fourth-quarter report at the end of the month.", "What happened. Bad news -- shares of solar microinverter-maker Enphase Energy (NASDAQ:ENPH) dropped several percent Friday after a lackluster analyst report from JMP Securities dampened investor enthusiasm about the stock's valuation.", "Calculating weighted beta is fairly simple. Begin by dividing each stock's market value by the market value of the whole portfolio. This tells you what percentage of the portfolio is devoted to each stock. Multiply this percentage by the stock's beta to find a weighted beta.", "What happened. The stock's sharp decline in early trading hours was likely sparked by more fears in the market about the spread of COVID-19. Apple CEO Tim Cook kicks off Apple's March 2019 event.", "Private companies must first determine the “fair market value” (FMV) of their common stock with a 409A valuation. Fair market value is the accepted current value of one share of a private company's common stock. It represents what the stock would be worth on the open market.", "What happened. Shares of Britain-based drug company GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE:GSK) dropped 12.4% in February, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence. Coronavirus fears were responsible for some of the drop, but not all. The company also reported quarterly earnings that didn't please investors.", "This happens when a customer has need for the item and the item is not available in stock. ... It is a backorder when the customer will wait for the stock to be replenished whereby the demand is subsequently filled. It is a lost sale when the customer does not wait for the stock to be replenished and drops the demand.", "['MarketWatch | Stock Market News.', 'Investing.com | Stock Market Quotes & Financial News.', 'Seeking Alpha.', 'The Motley Fool UK | Share Tips, Investing and Stock Market News.', 'INO.com.', 'Reddit | Stocks.', 'Reddit | Stock Market.', 'Moneycontrol.']", "What happened. Shares of Canadian pot giant Aphria (NASDAQ:APHA) lost 16.8% of their value in March, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. The cannabis company's stock fell largely as a result of the marketwide downturn caused by the novel coronavirus.", "What happened. Shares of Verastem Oncology (NASDAQ:VSTM), a biotechnology company developing novel cancer therapies, are sliding after a highly anticipated data drop failed to impress investors. Shares of the biotech stock were down 42.9% as of 12:12 p.m. EDT on Monday.", "What happened. Shares of SmileDirectClub (NASDAQ:SDC) were heading lower last month as the teledentistry specialist got swept up in the coronavirus-driven sell-off. ... According to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence, the stock finished the month down 38%.", "A reverse stock split has no inherent effect on the company's value, and the company's total market capitalization is the same after the reverse split. A reverse split is often done to prevent a stock from being delisted or to improve a company's image if the stock price has dropped significantly.", "The differences between stock exchanges and stock markets are as follows: Stock market is a common term for all kinds of stock trading, while stock exchange is the entity that facilitates such trading. Stock market comprises OTC, electronic and stock exchange trading. It is an integral part of the stock market.", "What happened. Shares of Novavax (NASDAQ:NVAX) were down by 10.4% on Wednesday, even though the vaccine maker did not report any news, and the stock market was up today. ... And so investors are less confident that Novavax will make a fortune off its potential COVID-19 vaccine.", "Stock Market Facts. The Stock Market is the business of buying and selling stocks. There are many different stock exchanges around the world which are markets where the stocks, bonds, and securities are bought and sold.", "THE STOCK MARKET. FOR THINGS StockX is the world's first stock market for things – a live 'bid/ask' marketplace. Buyers place bids, sellers place asks and when a bid and ask meet, the transaction happens automatically. Retro Jordans, Nikes, Yeezys and more – now 100% authentic guaranteed.", "What is the Best Month to Buy Stocks? The markets tend to have strong returns around the turn of the year as well as during the summer months, while September is traditionally a down month. The average return in October is positive historically, despite the record drops of 19.7% and 21.5% in 1929 and 1987.", "Growth stocks are considered stocks that have the potential to outperform the overall market over time because of their future potential, while value stocks are classified as stocks that are currently trading below what they are really worth and will, therefore, provide a superior return.", "What happened. Shares of Baozun (NASDAQ:BZUN) headed lower for the second day in a row as investors continued to sell the stock on fears that Chinese stocks would be delisted from U.S. stock exchanges. Baozun was down 9.3% as of 3:17 p.m. EDT.", "The Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI) As the name implies, the Total Stock Market ETF covers the entire domestic stock market in the United States, tracking the CRSP U.S. Total Stock Market Index. VTI is a balanced fund, with a healthy mix of small-cap, midcap, and blue-chip stocks.", "The nominal value, or book value, of a share, is usually assigned when the stock is issued. ... It's the stated value of the security, as opposed to the market value of the security. The market value of a security reflects what the market is willing to pay for it.", "CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The economic climate now is a lot different than it was just last month. ... Lately it's been a constant rollercoaster when it comes to the stock market and what the economy is doing in response to the coronavirus. \"Demand drops and this is a very good time to buy a home,\" said Dr.", "Regular trading hours for the U.S. stock market, including the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the Nasdaq Stock Market (Nasdaq), are 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern time on weekdays (except stock market holidays).", "What Happens After the IPO? The IPO goes live on the morning of its public listing. This is 8 am on the London Stock Exchange, meaning that the shares will hit the secondary market as soon as the opening bell rings for trading. When it does, shares will change hands between buyers and sellers.", "OTC markets The over-the-counter market is a network of companies which serve as a market maker for certain inexpensive and low-traded stocks such as UK penny stocks. Stocks which trade on an exchange are called listed stocks, whereas stocks which are traded over the counter are referred to as unlisted stocks.", "A stock index, or stock market index, is an index that measures a stock market, or a subset of the stock market, that helps investors compare current price levels with past prices to calculate market performance. It is computed from the prices of selected stocks (typically a weighted arithmetic mean).", "WDC stock fell over the last 2 years due to a 13% drop in revenue, which combined with a 1.5% decrease in outstanding share count, translated into a 14% drop in revenue per share. ... EPS dropped drastically in 2019, as an oversupply in the memory market led to a 20% drop in revenue, with COGS roughly unchanged.", "What are the three main types of markets for financial capital? The main types of markets for financial capital are the loan markets, the bondmarkets, and the stock markets. 4. Explain the connection between the price of a financial asset and its interest rate." ]

[ "Aaron David Miller (@aarondmiller2), a distinguished fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a former State Department adviser and Middle East negotiator, is the author of The End of Greatness: Why America Can't Have (and Doesn't Want) Another Great President. Richard Sokolsky, currently a nonresident senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, worked in the State Department for six different administrations and was a member of the secretary of state's Office of Policy Planning from 2005-2015. Ever since World War II, wars have not been kind to American presidents. The United States didn't achieve victory in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan, and the costs of these wars in human lives and dollars were staggering. They left bruises and tarnished legacies for the presidencies of Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. We're not predicting that America and Iran are inexorably headed toward a major war, though Iran's shoot-down overnight of a U.S. drone underscores the growing risk of conflict between the countries. Should war occur, President Trump will wish he had stayed out. Given that he defines the world in terms of his political rather than the national interest, he would be wise to consider the following. There's no good end game The Trump administration has conveyed no clear or realistic goals that would be served by the use of military force against Iran. Iran is too big and strong to be toppled, and there is no strong, united opposition capable of fomenting the kind of unrest that could overthrow the regime in the wake of U.S. military strikes. If the regime did collapse, it would likely be followed either by a period of instability or a government that is even more militantly anti-American. In response to more limited U.S. military attacks, Iran has many options available to raise the cost for the U.S. and its friends in the region — including in Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen and Afghanistan. There is no reason to believe that Iran's supreme leader is prepared to suffer the humiliation of returning to negotiations and caving to U.S. demands, especially since it was the Trump administration that walked away from an agreement with which the Iranians were complying. And there is no evidence that President Trump is willing to offer Iran concessions to lure Tehran back to the table. Furthermore, going to war without any clearly defined and attainable war aims is a recipe for an open-ended conflict almost certain to undermine U.S. interests and credibility. Riled oil markets Periods of Middle East tensions historically make for instability in oil markets. Hours after two tankers were disabled in the Gulf of Oman by what was almost certainly Iranian sabotage, oil prices spiked. The last thing Trump needs as the 2020 election approaches is rising gas prices. But that's likely what he'll get should the U.S. and Iran find themselves in conflict. Oil trades in a single market and regardless of increased U.S. production, disruptions in the supply of Persian Gulf oil will drive up prices. Iran has ample means — with anti-ship missiles, mines and torpedoes — to disrupt oil shipments. Even though the U.S. maintains overwhelming military preponderance in the region, it's an illusion to believe that restoring the uninterrupted flow of oil would be quick or easy in the face of a determined Iranian campaign to interdict shipping and to damage critical energy infrastructure in the Gulf. Tangled up in another foreign war President Trump has made getting out of unwinnable wars one of the hallmarks of his presidency. Trump's positions, from reducing the number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan to his great reluctance to deploy troops to Syria, show an awareness of the American public's aversion to new military adventures. Last February, he told CBS's Margaret Brennan that getting out of \"endless wars\" was one of his main messages and helped him defeat 17 Republicans for the nomination in 2016. And he has repeatedly expressed a desire to talk to the Iranians rather than to fight with them. Unless it's short and decisive, a risky, uncertain and open-ended conflict with Iran won't help him much with his Democratic opponent, independents or his base. In fact, an unnamed White House official told the Washington Examiner that it would \"absolutely alienate his base\" if he were to involve America in new war. America alone: Who will stand with the U.S.? The U.S. has had military and diplomatic support for every major war it has conducted since the end of the Korean War in 1953. Even in the unpopular 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration cobbled together a small coalition of willing countries to join America in combat. At best, should the U.S. go to war against Iran, it will be able to muster the diplomatic and perhaps military support of four countries: the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Israel. Otherwise, the rest of the world has bee" ]

[ "Iran would commit to permanent nuclear inspections in exchange for a permanent lifting of U.S. sanctions, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told NPR's Steve Inskeep on Thursday. \"We can do it right now in order to make sure that people can be at ease that Iran will never develop nuclear weapons ... in exchange for a permanent lifting of sanctions ratified by U.S. Congress, exactly as envisaged for 2023. We can do it now,\" Zarif said. He was in the U.S. to attend a United Nations meeting. The Trump administration says it's trying to force Iran to renegotiate the 2015 nuclear deal because it isn't strict enough. Trump pulled out of the nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions the U.S. had committed to lifting. The administration also says it has several other demands, including an end to Iran's support for militants in the Mideast and the release of some U.S. citizens it's holding. In his interview, Zarif warned that engagement with the international community \"is losing credibility\" at home. He would not confirm whether he met with Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, who has offered to serve as a U.S. emissary to Iran, or any other U.S. officials. The interview took place before President Trump announced that a U.S. vessel had destroyed an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has disputed the U.S. claim. Interview Highlights On economic consequences of the current sanctions Right now our economy is suffering less than last year because the United States has continued [the sanctions] and we have gotten used to it. Our currency is stabilizing. The growth rate is improving. The jobless rate is improving. ... We certainly can do without oil revenues forever, and that is our goal. The United States is simply expediting it for us. On instability in the region and whether Iran is pressuring the U.S. Well, we're not attempting to pressure anybody, because we simply do our job. It is clear that a country that has 1,500 miles of coastline on the Persian Gulf is instrumental for security in that region. We are the strongest country in that region. Without us, you won't have security in the region. On engaging with the international community Engagement has lost credibility at home. People don't look at engagement with the international community — the United States, for one reason, for not keeping its word; the Europeans for another reason, for not being able to stand on their word. So, yeah, engagement is losing credibility, and by extension, I am losing credibility. On how close Iran and the U.S. have been to war President Trump said 10 minutes. It would have been [a war in June]. The United States can start a war, can't end it. ... Nobody who starts a war ends the war. That's the reality of history. ... Wars are destructive for all participants and even bystanders. And it would be destructive, that's why we don't want to engage in war. But that doesn't mean we will run away from war.", "Updated at 2:09 p.m. ET Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a deal the U.S. and its allies are pursuing with Iran over its nuclear program is \"very bad\" because, according to him, it doesn't take away the Islamic republic's ability to ultimately obtain nuclear weapons. \"This is a bad deal — a very bad deal,\" Netanyahu told a joint meeting of Congress today. \"We're better off without it.\" He said such a deal will \"guarantee\" that Iran gets nuclear weapons because it allows the Islamic republic to keep much of its nuclear infrastructure in place. And, he added, the alternative to a bad deal is not war, as some supporters of the deal with Iran have said, but \"the alternative to this bad deal is a much better deal.\" Noting that he has a \"profound obligation\" to speak about the dangers posed by Iran, the Israeli leader outlined the threats made by the Islamic republic and its proxies against Israel. \"Iran's supreme leader ... spews the oldest hatred of anti-Semitism with the newest technology,\" Netanyahu said. \"He tweets that Israel must be ... destroyed.\" The prime minister spent the early part of his speech outlining the strength of the U.S.-Israeli relationship, saying it must \"always remain above politics,\" and he thanked President Obama for his support of Israel. Obama, speaking at the White House, said, \"as far as I can tell, there was nothing new\" in Netanyahu's speech, adding, \"the prime minister didn't offer any viable alternatives.\" He said he didn't watch the speech because it coincided with a video conference with European leaders. As we have reported, the speech — along with its topic: Iran — was controversial from the moment it was announced last month by House Speaker John Boehner. The White House wasn't consulted about the invitation, and called it a departure from protocol. Obama, citing the proximity of Israel's March 17 election, said he won't meet the Israeli prime minister; neither will Vice President Joe Biden or Secretary of State John Kerry, both of whom are traveling. Several Democrats skipped the Israeli leader's talk today. Kerry has questioned Netanyahu's judgment regarding talks about Iran's nuclear program; Susan Rice, Obama's national security adviser, said recently that the prime minister's speech had \"injected a degree of partisanship\" that is \"destructive to the fabric of the relationship.\" Obama, in an interview with Reuters on Monday, said a long-term deal with Iran is the best way to ensure the Islamic republic doesn't obtain a nuclear weapon. He said Netanyahu's speech to Congress \"isn't permanently destructive\" to the U.S-Israeli relationship. But, Obama added, when the U.S. and its allies signed an interim deal with Iran that would freeze its nuclear program, \"Prime Minister Netanyahu made all sorts of claims: This is going to be a terrible deal. This was going to result in Iran getting $50 billion worth of relief. Iran would not abide by the agreement. None of that has come true.\" (You can see the president's complete remarks here.) Netanyahu, Rice and Samantha Power, who is the U.S. envoy to the U.N., all addressed the 2015 American Israel Public Affairs Committee Policy Conference in Washington on Monday, and they each emphasized the strength of the U.S.-Israeli alliance. Here is our live blog of Netanyahu's remarks to Congress today: Update at 11:43 p.m. ET: 'A Very Bad Deal' \"This is a bad deal — a very bad deal. We're better off without it,\" Netanyahu says. And there you have it — the money quote. The prime minister's comment refers to a deal the U.S. and its allies are trying to negotiate with Iran over its nuclear program. The Israeli leader says, \"The alternative to this bad deal is a much better deal\" not war. Netanyahu gives a shout-out to Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate, who is in the audience. \"I wish I could promise you, Elie, that the lessons of history have been learned,\" he says. Netanyahu, to thunderous applause, says he knows America stands with Israel. The Israeli prime minister ends his speech to sustained applause and a standing ovation with a quote from Moses: \"Be strong and resolute.\" Update at 11:28 p.m. ET: Nuclear Deal Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the current deal that the U.S. and its allies are discussing with Iran will \"guarantee\" that the Islamic republic gets nuclear weapons. He says the deal will allow Iran to keep its major infrastructure — with a short breakout time for a bomb. Not a single facility will be demolished, he says, and thousands of centrifuges will be allowed to continue to spin. He compares Iran's actions to North Korea's — saying both countries have deceived international nuclear inspectors. \"Iran has proven once and again that it cannot be trusted,\" the prime minister says. He says a second major concession under the deal would allow Iran to get to the bomb after 10 years. \"That's why this deal is so bad. ... It paves Iran's path to a bomb,\" he says. Netanyahu says the deal \"won'", "Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, led Friday prayers in Tehran for the first time in eight years and delivered a sermon in which he excoriated U.S. leaders as \"clowns\" and accused European countries of negotiating in bad faith over the foundering nuclear deal. Khamenei also indicated that Iran might retaliate further for the U.S. drone strike that killed top Iranian commander Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, saying a missile attack on U.S. assets in Iraq had been a blow to America's dignity and its status as a superpower. The address comes at a delicate time for the ayatollah. Iran's leaders are locked in a contentious dispute with the U.S., and they're facing public criticism at home after admitting that Iran accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet, killing 176 people, most of whom were Iranian. \"The past two weeks were eventful and exceptional weeks,\" Khamenei said, according to a partial transcript on his website. Speaking to a large crowd of worshippers in Tehran, he added, \"There were bitter and sweet events for the Iranian nation to take lessons from during these two weeks.\" Taking aim at recent statements by President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in which they pledged their support for Iran's regular citizens, Khamenei said, \"These American clowns lie in utter viciousness that they stand with the Iranian people.\" Khamenei added, \"They lie. If you are standing by the Iranian [people], it is only to stab them in the heart with your venomous daggers.\" Despite the ayatollah's colorful language, as NPR's Jane Arraf reports, his overall speech was \"perhaps a little bit less fiery than many would have expected.\" While the Iranian leader did criticize the U.S. and its allies, she says, \"he did not make specific threats.\" The address comes nearly two weeks after Khamenei openly wept during funeral prayers for Soleimani. The targeted killing galvanized public outrage against the U.S. in Iran and led to the retaliatory strike on U.S. personnel by Tehran – but sentiments in Iran took another turn after its military initially denied and then admitted to shooting down Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752. Angry public protests followed, including reports of live ammunition being used against demonstrators. It was against that backdrop that the plan for Friday's speech was announced. In his sermon, the ayatollah also addressed a recent maneuver that could lead to the reinstatement of U.N. sanctions on Iran: the complaint filed Tuesday by foreign ministers of the U.K., France and Germany. Their formal accusation that Iran violated its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, triggers a dispute resolution process — and if that fails, U.N. sanctions on Iran, including an arms embargo, will likely return. \"The threat of the French and German governments and the vicious British government to send Iran's case to the Security Council proved once again that they are the footmen of the U.S.,\" Khamenei said. After the European nations filed the complaint, Germany's defense minister said the Trump administration had threatened to punish them if they did not do so, confirming a Washington Post report of a U.S. plan to impose 25% tariffs on European cars if its allies didn't act. \"This expression or threat, as you will, does exist,\" Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said in response to a question about that report, according to Deutsche Welle. When they filed the complaint, the ministers sought to distance themselves from the Trump administration's Iran strategy, issuing a statement saying, \"Our three countries are not joining a campaign to implement maximum pressure against Iran.\" Russia and China, two other signatories to the nuclear deal, did not join the French, British and German complaint. Khamenei accused the European countries of having a deep history of acting in bad faith in the Middle East, and against Iran in particular. \"These three countries are the ones who helped Saddam [Hussein] as much as they could in his war against us,\" he said, referring to the Iraq-Iran war of the 1980s. \"The German [government] provided Saddam with chemical weapons to target our cities and frontlines, and its effects are still with us. The French [government] provided Saddam with Super Étendards [helicopters] to attack our oil ships. The British [government] served Saddam in every way, too. This is how they are.\" Khamenei told his audience at Friday prayers, \"The same people who appear at the negotiating table — the same so-called 'gentlemen' behind the table — are the same terrorists of the Baghdad airport. They just change clothes.\"", "Hillary Clinton didn't just take aim at Donald Trump's national security policies in a major speech Thursday. She declared him unfit to negotiate with allies, command U.S. forces or be privy to the nuclear code. \"Americans aren't just electing a president in November — we're choosing our next commander in chief, a person we count on to decide questions of war and peace, life and death,\" Clinton said in San Diego. \"It's not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us into a war just because someone got under his very thin skin.\" Foreign policy rarely takes center stage in presidential campaigns. Voter interest tends to be limited. Broad bipartisan consensus on the big foreign policy questions often overshadows relatively narrow partisan differences. But not this year. Clinton is stressing her credentials as a former secretary of state who has negotiated a cease-fire with the Israelis and Palestinians, helped launch the nuclear talks with Iran and worked on the details of climate change issues with a host of foreign governments. She contrasted her hands-on experience with Trump's provocative campaign statements that include questioning the value of NATO, suggesting Japan and South Korea should acquire nuclear weapons and calling for temporary bans on Muslims entering the U.S. Here are highlights of her speech and a breakdown of where Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee, and Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, stand on major foreign policy questions. Working With Allies \"We need to stick with our allies,\" Clinton said, a theme she emphasized repeatedly. \"America's network of allies is part of what makes us exceptional. And our allies deliver for us every day. Our armed forces fight terrorists together. Our diplomats work side by side.\" In most campaigns, this is routine rhetoric, the kind of talk that candidates from both parties have been rolling out for decades to polite clapping. NATO is the cornerstone of security in Europe. U.S. alliances with Japan and Korea are the key to stability in East Asia. Yet these were major applause lines in the pro-Clinton audience, because they stand in contrast to Trump's repeated questioning of these longstanding relationships. Trump describes them as outdated arrangements where America shoulders far too much of the cost. He's vowed to \"shake the rust off of America's foreign policy\" and says foreign countries should pay more for these partnerships and show greater respect to the U.S. \"I am skeptical of international unions that tie us up and bring America down. Under my administration, we will never enter America into any agreement that reduces our ability to control our own affairs,\" Trump said in an April 27 speech in Washington, considered his biggest foreign policy speech to date. Deploying The Military \"We need a plan for dealing with terrorists,\" said Clinton, who has a reputation for being relatively hawkish for a Democrat. She promised to pick up the tempo in the battle against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, which President Obama launched nearly two years ago. Clinton said she would intensify the air campaign, step up cooperation with armed groups in those two countries and press for a diplomatic solution. That's essentially what Obama is doing now, with perhaps a bit more octane. \"What's Trump's plan?\" she asked. \"He's keeping it a secret.\" She mocked his contradictory statements, noting he sometimes sounds as though he would avoid Syria, leaving it a \"free zone for ISIS.\" At other times, he's hinted that he would send up to 30,000 U.S. troops to the Middle East. The U.S. currently has around 5,000 military personnel in Iraq and a few hundred in Syria, where they support the U.S. air campaign and assist local forces. But they are not supposed to be involved in ground combat. Trump, meanwhile, has railed against Clinton's positions in the Middle East. He dismissed the Iran nuclear agreement as a bad deal, though it was completed well after Clinton left her diplomatic post. He has criticized Clinton's 2002 vote in favor of the Iraq War, which she now says was a mistake. He has faulted her for pushing to overthrow dictator Moammar Gadhafi in Libya, a country now in chaos. \"On foreign policy, Hillary is trigger-happy,\" Trump said last month. \"She's got a bad temperament. Her decisions in Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Libya have cost trillions of dollars, thousands of lives and have totally unleashed ISIS.\" Relations In Asia \"He wants to start a trade war with China,\" Clinton said of Trump. \"A lot of Americans have concerns about our trade agreements with China. I do too. But a trade war is something very different. We went down that road in the 1930s. It made the Great Depression longer, and more painful.\" Trump has elevated trade policy into a major campaign issue, and China, with its huge trade surplus with the U.S., has been his main target. Trump insists he could work out much better trade terms with China and, as a bonus, could also get Beijing to clamp down o", "Charles Lindbergh became an instant American hero when he piloted the Spirit of St. Louis from New York to Paris in 1927, the first person to fly solo and nonstop across the Atlantic. Lindbergh was an icon in Europe as well, and he moved to England in the late 1930s. By 1941, though, he was back home, touring the U.S. as the leading voice of the America First Committee — an isolationist group of some 800,000 members that claimed England was trying to drag America into a war he thought it should avoid. \"I have been forced to the conclusion that we cannot win this war for England regardless of how much assistance we send. That is why the America First Committee has been formed,\" Lindbergh said in 1941, just months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that launched the U.S. into World War II. A few momentous years later, after the devastation of the war, isolationism was out of fashion. Instead, America became the driving force in establishing a global web that defines the world to this day — NATO, the United Nations, a strong U.S. military presence in Asia, open seas, a host of trade agreements. These arrangements are now being challenged by President Trump. He has often described them as a burden the U.S. should shed, and he has distilled his approach into the phrase \"America First.\" \"From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land. From this day forward, it's going to be only America first, America first,\" Trump said at his inaugural on Jan. 20. Trump has never made the connection to Lindbergh and his group, and there are both similarities and differences. In foreign policy lingo, Lindbergh and his group were isolationists. They wanted to keep the U.S. out of most foreign entanglements. Trump is more commonly described as a unilateralist — someone who thinks the U.S. can be engaged around the world, but on its own terms, unconstrained by alliances or multinational groups like the United Nations. Still, Trump, like Lindbergh before him, argues the U.S. should not be the world's policeman. Ian Bremmer, head of the Eurasia Group, which analyzes global risk, explained Trump's worldview this way in an interview with NPR: \"The U.S. should not be promoting its values internationally. It should not be telling other counties how they run themselves. The multilateral institutions that the U.S. has had a significant role in are part of that problem.\" A focus on burdens Trump has plenty of company in attacking the global status quo. Liberals and conservatives argue that institutions like the U.N. and NATO should, at minimum, be restructured to keep up with a world that has changed dramatically since they were established. Critics also point to U.S. military actions that have resulted in inconclusive wars at enormous costs. \"Many Americans looked at the policies of the past decades and saw that the U.S. acting as the global sheriff did not benefit them,\" Bremmer said. \"It was trillions of dollars wasted in Iraq and Afghanistan, with thousands of American lives lost ... and they don't want to see that anymore.\" Trump has talked mostly about disrupting the world order, without saying what would replace it. Yet if the U.S. simply recedes from its superpower role, Russia, China and Iran and others would gladly step in to fill that void, according to many analysts. \"The international order that America created is now under unprecedented threat from multiple directions,\" retired Gen. David Petraeus warned recently on Capitol Hill. Petraeus said the U.S. still has the resources to be a superpower, but he worries about \"something perhaps even more pernicious — a loss of self-confidence, resolve and strategic clarity on America's part about our vital interest in preserving and protecting the system we sacrificed so much to bring into being.\" Trump has focused on the burdens rather than intangible benefits that the U.S. received by working to shape the world in its image for decades. He argues that NATO allies aren't pulling their weight, those U.S. troops in Asia since World War II are too expensive, and trade agreements are costing American workers their jobs. \"For many decades, we've enriched foreign industry at the expense of American industry, subsidized the armies of other countries, while allowing for the very sad depletion of our military,\" Trump declared at his inaugural. Lindbergh changes course Lindbergh once expressed similar sentiments. \"The doctrine that we must enter the wars of Europe in order to defend America will be fatal to our nation if we follow it,\" he said in 1941. But then came Pearl Harbor, and that changed everything. Lindbergh's movement collapsed — and he not only backed the U.S. war effort, he joined it. Although he had civilian, not military status, he still manged to fly more than 50 combat missions in the Pacific. And after the war was over, he was often back in Europe, supporting the U.S. effort to rebuild the Continent. Every president faces unexpected crises, and as Trump sets hi", "Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said separatists who killed at least 25 people at an Iranian military parade are linked to the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, and he threatened that those responsible \"will certainly be severely punished.\" A group called Al-Ahwaz reportedly claimed responsibility for Saturday's violence. Soon after the attack, the U.S. State Department issued a statement of sympathy to Iran, calling out what spokesperson Heather Nauert called \"the scourge of radical Islamic terrorism.\" Nauert added, \"The United States condemns all acts of terrorism and the loss of any innocent lives.\" But citing \"reports\" by Iran's government, the ayatollah said Monday that \"the cowardly attack was committed by those who are rescued by the Americans whenever they are locked in Syria and Iraq, and they are financed by Saudi and Emirate's money,\" according to the state-run IRNA news agency. Khamenei's remarks came as several Iranian generals took tough tones to accuse the U.S. of involvement in the weekend attack in Ahvaz, Iran. The senior commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Brig. Gen. Esmayeel Kossari, said the reactions in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – along with \"documents\" that he said had been found in Iraq and Syria — were proof that \"the Americans gave orders to Riyadh and supported this attack.\" He was quoted by Iran's FARS news agency. The high-level military officers also warned that Iran will seek revenge. \"We promise to show an annihilating and destructive response which makes them (the culprits) regret their deeds and no one will be able to kill our children in this territory, and this will not be the end of the story and we warn everyone that we will take revenge,\" said Brig. Gen. Hossein Salami, the Revolutionary Guard's lieutenant commander, according to FARS. Speaking at a funeral ceremony for people killed in the attack, Salami also referred to an exchange of accusations between Iran and Israel over attacks this past spring, saying, \"The Americans should know too and we warn them. The U.S. has failed to establish security for the Zionists and now Hezbollah is able to annihilate the Zionists.\" The rhetoric between Iran and the U.S. became more bellicose in July when Rouhani declared that \"peace with Iran is the mother of all peace, and war with Iran is the mother of all wars\" and Trump shot back with an all-caps tweet warning of \"CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE\" if Iran should \"THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN.\" About a week later, Trump said he'd be willing to meet with Iran's leaders, including President Hassan Rouhani, at \"any time.\" However, Iran's leadership responded by saying the time for talks should have been before Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Iran nuclear deal in May. Both Trump and Rouhani are attending this week's U.N. General Assembly in New York. Over the weekend, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News that \"if there are constructive conversations to be had with the Iranians, the president is happy to have them.\" Pompeo added that it's Khamenei, not Rouhani, who controls Iran. When asked whether that meant Trump would be willing to sit down with the ayatollah, Pompeo replied, \"The president said he'll talk with anyone if we can have a constructive conversation.\" The U.S. wants Iran to \"stop being the world's largest state sponsor of terror,\" Pompeo said, adding, \"But make no mistake about it, they have no intent of doing this.\" On Friday, the day before the parade attack, Rouhani wrote an opinion piece for The Washington Post in which he said current U.S. policies toward Iran are \"out of step with the realities on the ground — in Iran, in the region and around the world.\" Rouhani is now in New York, feeding speculation that he might take part in some type of meeting or session with Trump. Speaking to a group of American journalists on Monday morning, the Iranian president seemed to suggest that was unlikely, highlighting the dispute over the 2015 nuclear deal. \"Trump has in fact carried out some very wrong actions against Iran and the Iranian nation,\" Rouhani said, according to IRNA. \"He unjustifiably quit the deal, threatened the Iranian people for no reason and intervened in our internal affairs. Before any discussion, these false actions must be compensated.\"", "The House has approved two measures seeking to limit the president's ability to take military action without congressional approval. The first piece of legislation, known as the No War Against Iran Act, would block funding for military force in or against Iran unless Congress has signed off. The measure, introduced by Rep. Ro Khanna of California, passed by a vote of 228-175. The second, introduced by fellow California Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee, would repeal the 2002 authorization for use of military force (AUMF) that ushered in the war against Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq. It passed 236-166, with the support of 11 Republicans. But the votes might be largely symbolic. The Republican-led Senate isn't expected to take up the measures, and the White House has signaled that President Trump would veto them. They are a rebuke of Trump's recent military actions in Iraq against Iran and Iran-linked targets, which were carried out without congressional authorization. \"Our soldiers deserve the dignity of a debate when they should go to war,\" Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, told lawmakers ahead of the votes. The voting took place on the same day that Iraq said it would resume military cooperation with the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS. Earlier this year, the Iraqi government suspended the joint actions, and its parliament voted to demand that U.S. troops withdraw after the U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad. In a tweet Wednesday, President Trump encouraged House members to \"vote their HEART\" on the legislation. Later in the day, he had a somewhat different message. \"With Votes in the House tomorrow, Democrats want to make it harder for Presidents to defend America, and stand up to, as an example, Iran. Protect our GREAT COUNTRY!\" he tweeted. \"America will not be safer, we will be weaker,\" Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., told reporters. The 2002 AUMF gave the president the authority to \"defend the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq.\" Since then, it has been used to justify other U.S. military actions, including the strike against Soleimani. \"Saddam Hussein is dead. His government and regime are long gone,\" Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., told House lawmakers on Thursday. \"This war authorization has no relevance to present-day Iraq. It should be repealed, not used to launch more military action.\" Congress wasn't officially notified before the strike against Soleimani, which rankled some members and ushered in this legislation. The U.S. has relied on another AUMF — which was passed in 2001 and authorized the president to use force against those responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks — to legally justify its military actions against the Islamic State in multiple countries and against the Assad government in Syria. In a statement signaling that it would veto this particular measure, the White House said, \"The 2002 AUMF has long been understood to authorize the use of force for, among other purposes, addressing threats emanating from Iraq, including threats such as ISIS ... as well as threats directed by Iran.\" In recent years, lawmakers from both parties have occasionally expressed unease that the White House continues to use laws passed nearly two decades ago as a justification for continued military action. As NPR has reported, legal experts have noted that presidential war powers have dramatically expanded in the years since the Sept. 11 attacks, with little outcry from lawmakers.", "Rex Tillerson and the President he serves as a top Senate Republican warns we may be careening toward World War III. Scary times on the foreign policy front. Senior Senate foreign relations Republican Bob Corker says President Trump may be putting the country “on the path to World War III.” Says the country’s leader requires “adult day care.” Trump’s Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is quoted calling the president a “moron.” The State Department he leads is depicted as deeply demoralized at a time of mounting global challenges. This hour, On Point: Rex Tillerson, the president he serves, and American foreign policy right now. &#8212; Tom Ashbrook. Guests Nahal Toosi, foreign affairs correspondent for Politico. (@nahaltoosi) Max Boot, senior fellow for national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Author of the forthcoming &#8220;The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Experience in Vietnam.&#8221; Also wrote, &#8220;Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present.&#8221; (@MaxBoot) Andrew Steinfeld, career diplomat who spent 36 years in senior level positions at the U.S. Department of State and the Pentagon, and in the Middle East, South Asia, Europe, and Africa. Retired in August. From Tom&#8217;s Reading List Politico: Tillerson&#8217;s Future Still Hazy Despite Trump Oath — &#8220;On policy, Tillerson and Trump have repeatedly and publicly clashed: Tillerson opposed Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord and has tried to moderate his views on the Iran nuclear deal, which Trump despises but Tillerson believes the U.S. must honor. After Gulf Arab states in June imposed an embargo on their neighbor Qatar, which they say harbors terrorists and aids Iran, Trump openly contradicted Tillerson’s public defense of Qatar. Tillerson tried to wave away those differences on Wednesday.&#8221; NBC News: Tillerson&#8217;s Fury At Trump Required An Intervention From Pence — &#8220;Pence has since spoken to Tillerson about being respectful of the president in meetings and in public, urging that any disagreements be sorted out privately, a White House official said. The official said progress has since been made. Yet the disputes have not abated. This weekend, tensions spilled out into the open once again when the president seemed to publicly chide Tillerson on his handling of the crisis with North Korea.&#8221; Foreign Policy: Time Is Up On Rex Tillerson — &#8220;With U.S. President Donald Trump threatening to launch wars against North Korea and even Venezuela, now would seem like the time for strong diplomacy to achieve America’s aims while minimizing the risk of conflict. The problem is that America’s top diplomat is not John Hay, Dean Acheson, Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, James Baker, or Madeleine Albright. It’s Rex Tillerson, and he is proving to be quite possibly the most ineffectual secretary of state since America’s rise to global prominence in 1898. Tillerson has actually been far worse than I imagined — and I was never a fan to begin with.&#8221;", "Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says America's national security priority should be preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, and he was talking tough about this in his recent stop in Jerusalem. \"History teaches with force and clarity that when the world's most despotic regimes secure the world's most destructive weapons, peace often gives way to oppression, to violence, or to devastating war,\" Romney said. \"We must not delude ourselves into thinking that containment is an option.\" Romney's language sounded a lot like President George W. Bush's on the eve of the Iraq war, says Bruce Jentleson, an analyst with ties to President Obama. But rhetoric aside, the policy prescriptions sound much like Obama in his speech this year to the America Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel lobby. \"Iran's leaders should understand that I do not have a policy of containment; I have a policy to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon,\" Obama said at the conference. The West believes Iran is developing nuclear weapons, a charge Tehran denies. Iran says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes. On Tuesday, Obama announced new sanctions against the Iranian energy sector to pressure Tehran to give up its nuclear ambitions. But this and other foreign policy matters are not expected to be big factors in the presidential election, says Jentleson, a professor at Duke University who is also on the national security advisory committee for the Obama campaign. \"There's no crystallizing foreign policy issue in 2012 the way that Iraq was in '08 or 9/11 in '04,\" Jentleson says. \"Even if you go back to 1980 and, you know, the Iranian hostages and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. So, there's no single issue that affects the vote.\" Jentleson says that's why Romney has hit broader themes, trying to portray himself as tougher than Obama. \"He's really trying to play this notion of he is very tough and, frankly, I think if you look at the public opinion polls and you just look at the general mood of the country after a decade of war, people don't want a president who is gun shy,\" Jentleson says. \"But they also don't want a president who's too trigger happy.\" On the other side of the political spectrum, self-proclaimed hawks on Iran see mainly consistency in U.S. policy toward the Islamic republic. \"Beyond Romney's rhetoric, there really isn't much there, there,\" says Michael Rubin of the conservative American Enterprise Institute think tank. Rubin says he'd like to see tougher and broader sanctions on Iran, but Romney has only promised to do a better job enforcing existing sanctions. \"If Gov. Romney's main goal is economic discipline, he really does need to explain how his Iran policy is going to be consistent with fiscal discipline,\" Rubin says. \"Simply put, can we afford to be even tougher on Iran than we are right now?\" Rubin sees no real differences between the two candidates on this; nor does Harvard University's Nicholas Burns, who worked in the George W. Bush administration on Iran, setting up the current policy of pressure and negotiations. \"It really would be refreshing if Gov. Romney and President Obama could stand together on this,\" Burns says. \"I mean, they're obviously going to have lots of differences in the campaign on domestic and foreign policy issues, but on this one if there's no difference in reality, I think it would be refreshing if Gov. Romney would stop trying to make a difference and would stand with President Obama. \"That would show real solidarity. It might even impress the Iranians that we were unified. And it would serve the old adage that politics should stop at the water's edge.\" Burns says that could help diplomats struggling to resolve what he calls the most difficult foreign policy problem facing the United States. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: It's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Audie Cornish. Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney was in Poland today on the last leg of a big overseas trip. It's been a rough week for the candidate. He first angered British officials for questioning their readiness for the Olympics, then Palestinians during a stop in Israel. One of the key goals of the trip was for Romney to set himself apart from President Obama on foreign policy. He's been hitting hard on the issue of Iran. But as NPR's Michele Kelemen reports, the policies Romney's advocating are much the same as the president's. MICHELE KELEMEN, BYLINE: Romney says America's national security priority should be preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. And he was talking tough about this in his recent stop in Jerusalem. MITT ROMNEY: History teach us with force and clarity that when the world's most despotic regimes secure the world's most destructive weapons, peace often gives way to oppression, to violence or to devastating war. We must not delude ourselves into thinking that containment is an option. KELEMEN: One analyst with ties to President Obama points out that Romn", "President Trump's chief of staff, Gen. John Kelly, said he has never seriously considered leaving his job and indicated that he's in lockstep with the president on many issues. Kelly says they have \"a close relationship\" and spend up to eight hours a day together. \"My view is to speak truth to power. I always give my opinion on everything. He always listens,\" he said. \"Sometimes he takes the opinion, sometimes he doesn't.\" Kelly's remarks came in a wide-ranging interview with NPR's John Burnett airing on Morning Edition. Kelly also backed the president's decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal and said Trump's eyes are \"wide open\" on North Korea and that he won't get \"strung along\" like past presidents have. Kelly said his only regret in taking the job of helping run the White House staff is that he didn't arrive there sooner. \"In retrospect, I wish I had been here from Day 1,\" Kelly told NPR. \"I think in some cases in terms of staffing or serving the president that first six months was pretty chaotic and there were people some people hired that maybe shouldn't have.\" \"It's not that things were a disaster that first six months, but I believe they could have been better,\" he added. It was clear from his \"perch\" as secretary of Homeland Security, he said, \"that the White House was less organized than our president deserved.\" When asked whether he had ever seriously considered leaving the post of White House chief of staff, Kelly said emphatically, \"No.\" \"There's times of great frustration, mostly because of the stories I read about myself or others that I think the world of, which is just about everybody who works at the complex and wonder whether it's worth it to be subjected to that,\" he said. Kelly also said he thinks the president is \"a super smart guy.\" \"He's very strong in terms of trade, taxes, business and he's a quick study on everything else,\" Kelly said. \"He's a pretty bright guy.\" Kelly, who was previously the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, also spoke about the administration's aggressive enforcement of U.S. immigration law, Trump's upcoming meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and what's next after the U.S. withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal. Interview Highlights On whether he believes the Russia investigation is a \"witch hunt,\" as Trump often calls it Something that has gone on this long without any real meat on the bone, it suggests to me that there is nothing there, relative to our president. On whether the Russia probe is a cloud hanging over this White House There may not be a cloud, but certainly the president is, you know, somewhat embarrassed, frankly. When world leaders come in, it's kind of like you know Bibi Netanyahu is here and he — who's under investigation himself — and it's like, you know, you walk in and you know the first couple of minutes of every conversation might revolve around that kind of thing. On whether Trump's decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal harms relations with allies and the next step I don't think so. I mean it was a horrible deal. ... [The next step is] ensuring that a country that has been very unreliable in their claims about not ever having a nuclear program ... doesn't get a nuclear program, and in a country that is developing ICBMs. I don't know the rational man and woman who can't quite understand why he'd need an ICBM that could reach Europe or the United States. Regarding the upcoming summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, when asked how the president can be sure he's not being tricked Yeah — not sure. But this president's got his eyes wide open. Believe me, the president really wants this to work. We talk fairly frequently about nuclear weapons and he's just astounded that the United States, that the human race has got itself into this dilemma with all of these nuclear weapons and as he says — to help North Korea give up its nuclear program and its missile program would be a wonderful thing. ... I know he won't fall for it in the same way that past presidents have, that get strung along, strung along lifting sanctions, giving them money, and get nothing for it. On the administration's recently announced \"zero tolerance\" policy that calls for separating families who cross the border illegally and prosecuting them Let me step back and tell you that the vast majority of the people that move illegally into the United States are not bad people. They're not criminals. They're not MS-13. ... But they're also not people that would easily assimilate into the United States, into our modern society. They're overwhelmingly rural people. In the countries they come from, fourth-, fifth-, sixth-grade educations are kind of the norm. They don't speak English; obviously that's a big thing. ... They don't integrate well; they don't have skills. They're not bad people. They're coming here for a reason. And I sympathize with the reason. But the laws are the laws. ... The big point is they elected to come illegally into t", "Updated at 6:49 p.m. ET Iran's president says increased uranium enrichment will begin in 60 days if world powers don't shield it from U.S. sanctions, under the terms of the 2015 nuclear agreement. The move is a signal to the world that Tehran is losing patience with U.S. efforts to punish Iran economically. The news comes exactly one year after President Trump pulled the U.S. out of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, calling it \"a horrible one-sided deal.\" In August, the Trump administration restored some of the sanctions that were lifted as part of the deal. And on Wednesday, Trump announced that he has authorized new sanctions against Iran, targeting the iron, steel, aluminum and copper sectors of the country's economy. President Hassan Rouhani announced that Tehran will start keeping larger amounts of enriched uranium and heavy water, instead of selling the excess to other countries, as the deal requires. And he said that if the other countries in the accord haven't figured out how to shield Iran's oil and banking industries from U.S. sanctions, Iran will begin enriching uranium to higher levels, ending a commitment made under the deal. The return of U.S. sanctions has been damaging to Iran's economy. \"If the five countries came to the negotiating table and we reached an agreement and if they could protect our interests in the oil and banking sectors, we will go back to square one,\" Rouhani said, according to Reuters. The Iran deal was negotiated by the Obama administration with the U.K., China, France, Germany and Russia. It paused sanctions in exchange for curbs and checks on Tehran's nuclear program. Rouhani said the announced actions are in line with the deal's requirements. U.S. national security adviser John Bolton released a statement Sunday night that said the U.S. \"is deploying the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group and a bomber task force to the U.S. Central Command region to send a clear and unmistakable message to the Iranian regime that any attack on United States interests or on those of our allies will be met with unrelenting force.\" Iran said the aircraft carrier was simply being rotated in as scheduled and called Bolton's announcement \"psychological warfare.\" The Pentagon confirmed the move was a scheduled rotation but said it had been \"expedited,\" Reuters reports. Brian Hook, a State Department adviser on Iran, told NPR's Morning Edition that \"we had indications of heightened Iranian readiness to conduct offensive operations against U.S. forces and or interest in the Middle East. So after we received these multiple credible threats by Iranian regime forces, we repositioned our military assets accordingly.\" \"We obviously are not looking for war with Iran,\" Hook said, \"but we are postured and ready to defend U.S. forces and interests in that region.\" \"If US and clients don't feel safe, it's because they're despised by the people of the region — blaming Iran won't reverse that,\" Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Twitter. \"I think Brian Hook is right that the United States does not want war, and I think the Iranians also don't want war,\" Ariane Tabatabai of RAND told NPR's All Things Considered. \"The challenge, though, is that we don't currently have an off-ramp — official channels of communication that would allow us to de-escalate and avoid miscalculation that could actually lead to conflict.\" In a statement Wednesday announcing the new sanctions, Trump said that it will impact the metals sectors that are worth 10 percent of the country's export economy. The restrictions put \"other nations on notice that allowing Iranian steel and other metals into your ports will no longer be tolerated,\" he added, and warned that Iran \"can expect further actions unless it fundamentally alters its conduct.\" U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo described Rouhani's statement as \"intentionally ambiguous.\" Iran's actions seem to have put other signatories of the deal in a difficult position. As NPR's Michele Kelemen reports, the U.K., France and Germany are urging Iran to reconsider enriching uranium to higher levels. \"This is a very serious moment and we strongly urge them to reconsider what they said in the letter,\" said British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt. \"Our opinion is and remains: We want to preserve the agreement, in particular to prevent Iran from coming into possession of nuclear weapons,\" German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas told reporters, according to The Associated Press. \"We don't need further escalation in the region.\" Similarly, the wire service quotes French Defense Minister Florence Parly as saying that \"we absolutely want to keep this agreement alive.\" China's foreign ministry said Wednesday that the U.S. had \"further aggravated\" tensions with Iran and called on all parties to exercise constraint, the AP reports. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who was meeting with Zarif on Wednesday, said the accord had been complicated by Washington's", "The U.S. killing of senior Iranian military commander Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani left many of America's allies in the Middle East confused and nervous. That includes Saudi Arabia, the top regional rival of Iran. The Saudi-U.S. relationship has become particularly close since President Trump took office. It could prove to be a double-edged sword for the kingdom, analysts say, as Iran contemplates its next moves. Iran and Saudi Arabia have long battled for regional dominance, and the U.S. has supported the Saudi-led war in Yemen against Iran-backed Houthi forces. Trump made a speech Wednesday that seemed intended to avert a war with Iran. There had been signs Saudi Arabia and Iran were already trying to ease tensions. But that was before the U.S. killed Soleimani and Iran fired missiles at bases housing U.S. troops in retaliation. \"The Saudis are in a very tough spot, almost entirely of the Americans' making,\" says Henry Rome, an Iran analyst at the Eurasia Group, a global political risk consultancy. Following the assassination of Soleimani, the Saudi kingdom dispatched its deputy defense minister, Prince Khalid bin Salman, to meet with Trump on Monday. The White House did not announce the meeting — word of it only became public when Khalid tweeted about it. He said he discussed \"bilateral cooperation, including efforts to confront regional and international challenges.\" Rome does not think Iran is likely to attack Saudi Arabia directly — but said Iran might try to target U.S. facilities in Saudi Arabia. \"Where the Saudi concern lies is if this [Iranian and U.S. reciprocal retaliation] escalates very significantly, that Iran would start to look at countries that are allied with the U.S. or provide bases or other assistance to the U.S. as potential targets,\" says Rome. He points to a recent incident that caused alarm. In September, a main installation and an oil field at the giant state-owned oil company, Saudi Aramco, were hit by a series of explosions. Saudi Arabia's military said the attack from cruise missiles and drones was \"unquestionably\" sponsored by Iran. The hit temporarily disabled part of the country's oil industry, laying bare vulnerabilities in its defenses. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo flew to Saudi Arabia and declared the assault an \"act of war\" by Iran. Rome says the kingdom was surprised there was no military response from the Trump administration after the oil attack. \"I think it became very clear to the leadership in Riyadh that Washington does not have its back from a military point of view and that they need to urgently try another avenue,\" he says. That avenue was diplomacy. After the attack on Saudi oil, the kingdom focused on trying to de-escalate tension in the Persian Gulf region, according to Emily Hawthorne, a Middle East specialist at Stratfor, a geopolitical intelligence company. \"We have seen the Saudis back away from what was once a pretty sharply confrontational stance against Iran,\" Hawthorne says. \"We've seen them move more toward beginning to probe the idea of seeking a dialogue with Iran.\" The Saudi Embassy in Washington, D.C., did not immediately provide comment to NPR on possible dialogue with Iran. Hawthorne says Riyadh \"craves\" stability, not just for the kingdom's physical security, but also because it will help court foreign investment — a critical component of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's efforts to wean Saudi Arabia off its oil dependency. Hawthorne says Saudi Arabia is following the example of its Gulf neighbor, the United Arab Emirates, which will host Expo 2020, a world's fair, next fall and wants to make sure it goes off without a hitch. She says the UAE has started a dialogue with Iranian officials. Both Saudi Arabia and the UAE have national safety as a priority, she says. \"The Arab Gulf states are closest allies of the United States, but they can't control exactly how the U.S. is conducting its policy against Iran,\" she says. She says Saudi Arabia's efforts toward a Saudi-Iranian detente are in a very early stage and being mediated by other countries, such as Pakistan and Iraq. In fact, Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi told parliament last Sunday that he was mediating between Iran and Saudi Arabia. He said Soleimani had been bringing a message from Iran for the Saudis on the day he was killed in Baghdad. Pompeo threw cold water on any notion that Soleimani was on a diplomatic mission. \"Is there any history that would indicate that it was remotely possible that this kind gentleman, this diplomat of great order, Qassem Soleimani, had traveled to Baghdad for the idea of conducting a peace mission?\" he said on Tuesday. \"We know that wasn't true.\" The Trump administration has said it conducted the drone strike against Soleimani to prevent planned attacks against Americans. Trita Parsi, an executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, says there have been tangible signs that Saudi Arabia was serious about cooling tension", "Although President Trump said Monday that he would be willing to meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at \"any time,\" it looks like that meeting won't be happening any time soon — multiple Iranian officials have played down the possibility of a sit-down, without ruling it out entirely. The leaders of the U.S. and Iran have not met in person since before the Islamic Revolution in 1979. A phone call between Rouhani and former President Obama in 2013 was the first direct conversation of any kind in decades. That call was part of the lengthy negotiations toward the multinational nuclear deal reached with Iran in 2015 — which Trump pulled out of earlier this year. As a result of Trump's decision to withdraw from the agreement, some previously lifted U.S. sanctions will be reimposed on Iran over the next few months. Last week, after Rouhani said that \"peace with Iran is the mother of all peace, and war with Iran is the mother of all wars,\" Trump responded with an all-caps, late-night tweet warning of \"CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE\" if Iran should \"THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN.\" \"COLOR US UNIMPRESSED,\" Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif responded on Twitter. \"The world heard even harsher bluster a few months ago.\" The bluster was gone this week, as Trump instead issued an invitation for a summit. On Monday he said he would be willing to meet with Iran's leaders \"any time they want,\" with \"no preconditions.\" However, as NPR's Peter Kenyon notes, \"shortly after Trump spoke and said no preconditions, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo went on CNBC and he laid out a number of conditions, ones he's talked about before.\" Pompeo called for the Iranian leaders to \"demonstrate a commitment to make fundamental changes in how they treat their own people\" and to \"agree that it's worthwhile\" to enter into a new nuclear agreement. Iran, in turn, has responded with a list of conditions of their own. Hamid Aboutalebi, an adviser to Rouhani, tweeted on Monday, calling for the U.S. to respect Iran and return to the original nuclear deal. Semi-official Iranian news agency ISNA has a translation: \"Respecting the Iranian nation's rights, reducing hostilities and returning to the nuclear deal are steps that can be taken to pave the bumpy road of talks between Iran and America. Iran had showed its openness to dialogue in the past, particularly with the phone call between Rouhani and Trump's predecessor Barack Obama in 2013. That dialogue was based on the idea of confidence-building measures and the nuclear deal was an achievement of this effort and it must be accepted.\" The vice speaker of Iran's parliament also told reporters that the U.S. withdrawal from the 2015 deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, made new negotiations a nonstarter. \"Talks with the US would have been right had the US not withdrawn from the JCPOA and imposed sanctions on Iran,\" Ali Motahhari said, according to Iran's state-run IRNA news outlet. Under \"appropriate\" conditions negotiation can be helpful, but currently such talks would just bring humiliation to Iran, he said, according to IRNA. At the same time, senior cleric Ali Akbar Nategh Nouri, a member of Iran's Expediency Council, said it didn't make sense to reject the offer out of hand. The Associated Press reports: \" 'It should be discussed in the Supreme National Security Council,' said Nategh Nouri, who is also a former aide to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Nategh Nouri said 'we have to contemplate' the gesture, but also cautioned 'we should not rejoice over this offer and not get excited.' \" 'Trump may take advantage of this over-excitement,' he said, the state-run IRNA news agency reported. 'It could be a test for us.' \" Kenyon reports that Rouhani himself — who has not publicly responded to the invitation — told parliament that the U.S. has proven it doesn't keep its promises and that Iran will protect its right to export oil, which is the target of U.S. sanctions. Kenyon says there will be some pressure on Iran to negotiate with the U.S. — but he puts that in perspective. \"Iran came to the table to negotiate the [2015] nuclear deal after years of sustained pressure from the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China,\" Kenyon says. \"Now all of those countries except the U.S. are on Iran's side, wanting to stick with the deal and keep doing business. \"But it's not clear they have a workable plan to do that. The Iranian economy is suffering badly, inflation is up, the rial is down, so there will be pressure — but if Iran's past reactions to pressure are any guide, it will take some time if there ever is a meeting.\"", "The latest on this critical moment as threats and counter-threats escalate between the U.S. and Iran. Guests Liz Sly, Washington Post Beirut bureau chief, covering Lebanon, Syria and the wider region. (@LizSly) Hussein Banai, professor at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. Author of &#8220;Becoming Enemies: U.S.-Iran Relations and the Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988.&#8221; (@HussBanai) From The Reading List Washington Post: &#8220;Iran has vowed revenge against the U.S. But it seems to be in no hurry.&#8221; &#8212; &#8220;As President Trump has been ramping up sanctions and threats against Iran over the past eight months, Tehran has been operating on the assumption that he would not dare risk an outright war, especially with an election approaching. &#8220;The drone strike that ended the life of Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, the strategy’s architect and chief enforcer, blew up that calculation, creating a stunning new dilemma for Iran’s leaders as they look for ways to retaliate — without the benefit of their master strategist. &#8220;That Iran will retaliate is not in question, analysts say. Not to do so would be a sign of weakness that could jeopardize the enormous influence Iran has gained in the region over the past four decades. &#8220;The targeted killing of Soleimani eroded the deterrent that Iran believed it had established with a campaign of attacks against shipping in the Persian Gulf and rocket strikes on bases in Iraq, said Kamel Wazne, a Beirut-based political analyst. From Iran’s point of view it is now imperative to restore that, he said.&#8221; Washington Post: &#8220;How the Soleimani assassination could pave the way for a new deal with Iran&#8221; &#8212; &#8220;Was the targeted assassination of Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, gutsy or reckless? That depends on how this chapter of America’s 41-year contest of wills with the Islamic Republic of Iran ends. But it won’t necessarily be the disaster some critics have heralded. It could, in the end, prove providential. &#8220;If the killing of Tehran’s uber-terrorist unleashes global asymmetric war, with Iran’s proxies and sleeper agents hitting unsuspecting Americans at soft targets — airports, train stations, malls, hospitals, schools, etc. — around the world, then President Trump’s decision to kill Soleimani will be viewed as one of the most senseless, shortsighted and irresponsible decisions ever made by an American president. &#8220;If executing the shadowy spymaster ultimately responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American service members in Iraq over the past two decades triggers a decision by Iran’s supreme leader to unleash Hezbollah’s formidable arsenal of rockets and missiles against Israeli cities and towns, or to launch an armada of mini-drones to destroy oil and gas facilities in Arab states up and down the Persian Gulf — acts of vengeance that would probably lead to full-scale regional war — then the hit on Soleimani will go down as one of the most thoughtless and foolishly provocative decisions ever made by an American president.&#8221; The New Yorker: &#8220;Where Will U.S.-Iran Tensions Play Out? An Interview with Iraq’s President&#8221; &#8212; &#8220;The U.S. assassination of Qassem Suleimani, the mastermind of Tehran’s foreign military operations, in Baghdad last week, suddenly made Iraq the front line in tensions between the United States and Iran. Barham Salih, a British-educated Kurd who spent years representing his party in Washington, was elected President of Iraq in 2018. Salih has been increasingly concerned about Iraq’s vulnerability since the Trump Administration blamed Iran for an air strike that damaged more than a dozen strategic oil installations in Saudi Arabia, in September. I’ve known Salih for more than a quarter century, including when he was in Washington and later when he became the Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq. We began a conversation in September, at the U.N. General Assembly, about the danger that Iraq will become a war zone—again—only this time between the United States and Iran. I checked in with him again on Sunday to update our conversation. &#8220;Iraq has struggled to balance ties with both Washington and Tehran since the U.S. invasion, in 2003. &#8216;The United States is our ally. Iran is our neighbor,&#8217; Salih told me. The U.S. attack on Suleimani—which was carried out without informing the government in Baghdad—challenged Iraqi sovereignty and triggered unprecedented political fury at the United States within the country. On Sunday, the parliament of Iraq voted to require the government to “end any foreign presence on Iraqi soil and prevent the use of Iraqi airspace, soil and water for any reason” by foreign troops. The United States has more than five thousand troops in Iraq; it leads a multinational coalition that is still fighting isis and training the Iraqi military. The vote in the parliament, which has three hundr", "Obama at West Point: Lessons Unlearned The Alternative to Failed Multinationalism Was Staring Him in the Face. On Saturday, Pres. Barack Obama gave a commencement speech at the United States Military Academy at West Point, which in effect told the thousand or so soon -- to--be second lieutenants that, if he has his way, they'll soon be out of a job. Obama outlined for the cadets his vision of a new international order organized around bodies such as the United Nations. In Obama's future, American military force will give way to American diplomacy joined together with new multilateral partnerships, while \"stronger international standards and institutions\" will replace unilateral assertion of national interests -- including our own. Obama told West Point's Class of 2010 that he sees them not battling our enemies but \"combating a changing climate and sustaining global growth, [and] helping countries feed themselves\" even as their citizens achieve their \"universal rights.\" We've had presidents who wanted to thrust visions of a new world order on us: after World War I, after World War II, and then after Desert Storm. But all these great grand visions came hot on the heels of amazing American success in war and foreign policy. Obama, in contrast, is pushing his new multilateral \"international order\" hot on the heels of two important failures -- in Iran and North Korea. Obama's vision for America's future flies in the face of reality and fails to account for his own experience as president. Last week, Iranian president Ahmadinejad gleefully joined hands with the presidents of Brazil and Turkey after striking a deal that all but ensures Iran's acquisition of a nuclear weapon -- a development that Obama and his predecessors, Democrat and Republican, hoped to prevent. Promises of tough future United Nations sanctions are worthless. The critical votes on the Security Council, China and Russia, are clear that they will never approve anything that interferes with their economic interests in Iran. In China's case, that means new lucrative oil and natural -- gas deals, while Russia is selling Tehran surface-to-air missiles that will render Iran's nuclear sites impregnable by anything short of American stealth bombers. Those stealth bombers are directed and piloted by the U.S. Air Force, meaning that the counterparts of the West Point cadets in Obama's audience will soon be all that stands between the world and a nuclear--armed Iran, thanks to a misplaced faith in diplomacy and multi--lateral engagement. Then there is North Korea. We learned last week that its torpedoing of a South Korean warship last March, an act of aggression that killed 46, was deliberate and probably was ordered by dictator Kim Jong Il. The North Korean situation is also the product of faith in diplomacy without strength, and faith in the same two fickle partners, Russia and China. Back in the Clinton years, our goal was to keep North Korea from acquiring a nuclear bomb. When that failed, the goal became preventing Pyongyang from building and testing the missiles needed to wreak nuclear annihilation on its neighbors. North Korea's success at acquiring long -- range missiles means that neighborhood may now include Alaska. The most recent diplomatic project for North Korea is intended to keep the planet's last Stalinist regime from spreading its lethal technologies to other rogue nations, such as Iran and Syria. Given our track record, the prognosis for this undertaking is not good. In fact, North Korea offers a preview of what to expect if Iran does get the bomb, or if Saddam Hussein had done so before 2003: a rogue nuclear power too dangerous to stop as it commits outrages and blackmails its neighbors, marauding where it pleases and threatened by nothing more lethal than one long -- winded United Nations resolution after another. The one object of Obama's disapprobation in his speech was not Iran or North Korea but George W. Bush. Obama never mentioned Bush by name, but he took a stab at his predecessor, saying that that under his administration the war against al--Qaeda has been \"going better in recent months than in recent years.\" (If it's going so well, then why is Dennis Blair being forced out as director of national intelligence?) Another implicit criticism of Bush was Obama's claim that \"America has not succeeded by stepping outside the currents of international cooperation.\" Yet it was precisely Bush's willingness to move away from that current that has offered the nation one key foreign -- policy success that Obama is eager to seize: Iraq. We owe what Obama called \"the emergence of a democratic Iraq that is sovereign, stable, and self--reliant\" to George W. Bush's willingness to defy conventional world opinion on Iraq. Bush was willing to apply America's military might, and to persist -- despite savage attacks from Senator Obama and others who would have preferred to cut and run -- because he saw a different future. And that future was made p", "A clear majority of people living outside the U.S. do not trust President Trump to do the right thing in world affairs, with fewer than one-third expressing confidence in him — an opinion also reflected in attitudes toward America generally, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center. However, the metrics have improved somewhat for the president since a similar survey two years ago, increasing to 29% expressing confidence from 22%. The survey published Wednesday was conducted in 33 countries from the spring to early autumn of last year, after relations between the U.S. and North Korea had thawed somewhat but just as tensions were ratcheting up between Washington and Tehran. The nonpartisan Pew Research Center found that the percentage of those surveyed who expressed \"no confidence\" in Trump (64%) was a mirror image of the 64% who expressed confidence in President Barack Obama in a survey published in June 2017. In the earlier survey, favorable views of the United States dropped from 64% at the end of the Obama presidency to 49% when Trump became president. That \"favorable\" opinion of the U.S. had edged up to 54% in the report published Wednesday. Trump last among five leaders The Pew study also sought to gauge respondents' opinions on other world leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping. They were most confident of Merkel (46%), who got the highest marks from respondents in the Netherlands (82%) and the lowest in Greece (22%). Overall, 41% of those surveyed said they were confident of Macron's handling of world affairs. He scored best among Germans (73%) and was viewed least favorably by respondents in Turkey (14%). \"Trump receives the highest negative ratings among the five leaders, though ratings for Putin and Xi are also on balance negative,\" the authors said. Anti-Trump sentiment was strongest in Mexico (89% \"no confidence\") and Western Europe. Just 13% expressed confidence in him in Germany, 18% in Sweden, 20% in France, 21% in Spain and 25% in the Netherlands. In the United Kingdom, which has experienced a populist wave similar to the one that swept Trump into the White House, 32% expressed confidence in the U.S. leader. Specific Trump administration policies were also notably unpopular, with large numbers disapproving of U.S. tariffs and fees on goods from other countries (68%) and the U.S. withdrawal from international climate change agreements (66%). A majority of those surveyed also did not approve of a U.S.-Mexico border wall or U.S. restrictions on immigration. They also had a negative view of Washington's withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal. The only policy position included in the survey that was viewed favorably by a plurality of those questioned was the Trump administration's approach to North Korea — although the split was still narrow, with 41% approving and 36% disapproving. Viewed more favorably by right wing Opinions of the president tended to be more favorable in countries with right-wing or conservative governments and specifically among those people surveyed who identified ideologically with the political right in their countries, although there were exceptions. For example, in the Philippines, where President Rodrigo Duterte has shown authoritarian tendencies and led a brutal war on drugs in which extrajudicial killings have been common, Trump enjoys a 77% positive rating. Likewise, in Israel, where the president's decision to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem was a popular one and Trump has enjoyed a close relationship with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The percentage of Israelis expressing \"confidence\" in the president was a solid 71%. And in India, which has seen a surge in right-wing Hindu nationalism under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, 56% viewed Trump with confidence. Just over half of people in Poland (51%), where the right-wing populist Law and Justice Party has had an outright majority in parliament since 2015, expressed confidence in Trump. However, in Hungary, where Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's government has pushed anti-immigrant policies, only a third of those surveyed gave a favorable opinion of Trump. In Brazil, too, under the far-right government of President Jair Bolsonaro, only 28% viewed the U.S. leader that way. In Africa, a majority also viewed Trump positively in Kenya (65%) and Nigeria (58%). In 18 nations, those on the ideological right-wing viewed the president more favorably, the study's authors reported. \"For example, more than eight-in-ten Israelis on the ideological right have confidence in Trump, compared with just 37% of those on the left,\" they said. \"Only 14% of Australians from the left give Trump positive marks, compared with a 55% majority among people from the right.\" And, among those who self-identify as right-wing, Trump's popularity has increased since 2018 – most notably in Hungary, Spain, France, Brazil and Poland. Th", "On the streets of Seoul, demonstrations were divided between those who didn't want President Trump to visit at all and a few thousand American-flag-waving South Koreans who gave him an enthusiastic welcome. \"We love Trump, we love U.S.A., thank you so much,\" some of them chanted in English. Timed just before the president and his delegation's arrival to meet with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, the ralliers played patriotic music and made a string of speeches supporting the decades-old U.S.-South Korea security alliance. \"The danger that America needs to realize is that ... Kim Jong Un has already developed its nuclear weapons, it's already complete. And South Korea would be its first target,\" demonstrator Kyung Chol-suh said. \"Our friendship is important and it stems from American soldiers dying during the Korean War.\" Today, some 30,000 U.S. troops are still based in South Korea, since the Korean conflict ended in an armistice rather than a truce. Kee Woo-ta was 6 years old back then and remembers the U.S. soldiers fondly. \"Very good relationship personally,\" Kee said. Katharine Moon, who chairs Asian studies at Wellesley College, says Korean conservatives have a clear us-versus-them view of the world. \"They look really toward the past of a Cold War-era relationship between the U.S. and South Korea, where it's the two of them against, you know, all the bad commies,\" says Moon. The casting of North Korea as those \"bad commies\" helps explain why Trump's threats to \"totally destroy\" Kim Jong Un really work for this segment of South Koreans. Several of their signs read \"just bomb North Korea.\" \"I believe we need to go to war, even if a couple of lives are sacrificed,\" says Song Ye-na. She views the conflict as a zero sum game, but the Congressional Research Service estimated this year that if a fresh conflict broke out on the peninsula, hundreds of thousands would die in the first days of fighting. \"It is definitely worth risking our lives for,\" Song says. \"We cannot live in a country with North Korean apologists.\" They are loud and show up in huge numbers on the streets. But this group represents a fraction of the South Korean public. Trump came to South Korea as its residents have dramatically lost faith in his handling of global issues. In the spring of 2015, about 88 percent of South Koreans said they trusted the American president to \"do the right thing regarding world affairs,\" according to a Pew Research Center survey. Two years later, that share has fallen to 17 percent, according to the center's global attitudes poll. \"Trump should not read any waving of American flags as support for policies,\" says Moon. \"There's a huge difference between South Koreans emotionally saying 'Yay, we're really good friends with the U.S., and that's really important to us,' and going along with U.S. policies toward more belligerent, escalatory action.\" For the most fervent South Korean supporters of Trump, America won their support decades ago. But the more this president talks tough against the North, the more they seem to like him. Journalist Jihye Lee and NPR producer Becky Sullivan contributed to this story. KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: On the streets of Seoul, protesters were divided between those who didn't want President Trump to visit and a few thousand who were enthusiastic about it. The latter group supports the longtime U.S.-Korea alliance. But as NPR's Elise Hu reports, they mask a growing distrust in American leadership. ELISE HU, BYLINE: The demonstrators spoke limited English, but their feelings were easily expressed. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: We love Trump. We love USA. Thank you so much. HU: There are volunteers here that are handing out U.S. flags and South Korean flags ahead of the rally. And once it got under way, the patriotic music swelled, and a string of speeches featured the same general theme, as demonstrator Kyung Jo-soo (ph) laid out. KYUNG JO-SOO: (Through interpreter) America needs to recognize the danger that we feel. Kim Jong Un and North Korea have already developed nukes. It's already complete. And South Korea will be the first to go. We'll be the first target. And I want to say to the U.S. president that our friendship is important. It stems from numerous young Americans sacrificing their lives during the Korean War. HU: Today, some 30,000 U.S. troops are still based in South Korea since the conflict ended in an armistice and not a truce. Ke Woo-ta was 6 years old back then. You remember the soldiers, the American soldiers. KE WOO-TA: Of course. Of course. Very good relationship personally. HU: Katharine Moon, who chairs Asian studies at Wellesley College, says Korean conservatives have a clear us-versus-them view of the world. KATHARINE MOON: They look really toward the past of a Cold War-era relationship between the U.S. and South Korea, where it's the two of them against, you know, all the bad commies. HU: The casting of North Korea as those bad commies helps explain why Trump's threats to", "Two big historians join us for the long view on where the country stands now, within and maybe beyond the American tradition. American history ripples with grandeur and shame. Liberty and freedom. Genocide and slavery. Thrilling ideas of equality and opportunity. Tough realities of the opposite. Nobility, unity, civil war. For a brief moment at the end of the Cold War, we heard history was over. Smooth sailing ahead. Then came polarization and, eventually, Donald Trump. Now, many Americans wonder if we going forward or back. Within the American tradition or beyond it. This hour, On Point: historians, on where we stand now. &#8212; Tom Ashbrook. Guests Judith Giesberg, Professor of History at Villanova University and Editor of the Journal of the Civil War Era. (@JGiesberg) Julian Zelizer, Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University. CNN Political Analyst. Author of &#8220;The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Greater Society.&#8221; (@julianzelizer) From Tom&#8217;s Reading List The New Yorker: Is America Headed For A New Kind Of Civil War? — &#8220;“When you look at the map of red and blue states and overlap on top of it the map of the Civil War—and who was allied with who in the Civil War—not much has changed,” Judith Giesberg, the editor of the Journal of the Civil War Era and a historian at Villanova University, told me. &#8216;We never agreed on the outcome of the Civil War and the direction the country should go in. The postwar amendments were highly contentious—especially the Fourteenth Amendment, which provides equal protection under the law—and they still are today. What does it mean to deliver voting rights to people of color? We still don’t know.'&#8221; The Hill: The Memo: Trump Faces Critical Fall — &#8220;Asked about the overall outlook for Trump, Princeton University professor Julian Zelizer pronounced it &#8216;very bad.&#8217; Zelizer noted Trump’s approval ratings and the Russia probes, adding, “he has a restive and angry Congress, and he has Republican elected officials, many of whom are unhappy with how everything has unfolded.” The Guardian: &#8216;The Civil War Lies On Us Like A Sleeping Dragon&#8217;: America&#8217;s Deadly Divide &#8211; And Why It Has Returned — &#8220;We are in conflict about real and divergent ideas. Are we engaged, half-wittingly, in a slow suicide as a democracy? Are we engaged in a “cold civil war” as one writer has suggested? Or does it feel like 1859, as another expert wondered, with so much rhetorical and real violence in the air? The election, and performance in office of Donald Trump, have many serious people using words like “unprecedented”, or phrases like “where in time are we” or “we haven’t been here before”. Commentators and ordinary citizens have been asking how or where in the past we can find parallels for our current condition.&#8221;", "As the United States has struggled to build support among its traditional allies in Europe to combat what it calls Iran's aggression, it has been forced to look elsewhere, such as Latin America, for support. This week, the Argentine government plans to designate the militant group Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, giving the Trump administration another ally in its push to build an international coalition to confront Iran. Hezbollah, which is based in Lebanon, is supported by Iran. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will travel to Argentina later this week to take part in events honoring the 25th anniversary of the bombing of a Jewish Center in the Argentine capital, according to two sources familiar with details of the visit. \"This is going to make the United States very happy,\" said Seth Jones, a former Pentagon adviser who studies counterterrorism at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. \"The U.S. is having problems right now building a coalition against Iran.\" In Buenos Aires, Pompeo will participate in the second Western Hemisphere Counterterrorism Ministerial, aimed at highlighting challenges of terrorism in the hemisphere. Pompeo will also visit Ecuador, El Salvador and Mexico and make a stop in Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory. The State Department didn't immediately respond to specific questions about Argentina's plans, but a senior State Department official discussing the trip said Tuesday that the administration wants Latin American countries to name and impose sanctions on terrorist organizations. \"We want to adopt a communique, the details of which will include things like a call for domestic designations regimes throughout the region so that countries have the same capabilities the United States does to impose sanctions on terrorist organizations and their financiers,\" the official told reporters. \"So over the short run we would like to see more countries adopt those laws, and over the longer run we would like to work with countries in the region to do joint designations of terrorists.\" As an example, the officials pointed to the establishment of the Terrorist Financing Targeting Center, where the United States works with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries to combat terrorist financing. It includes a number of joint designations that target groups like Hezbollah and ISIS. Last month, President Trump said the U.S. was \"cocked & loaded\" to strike Iran. He stopped the strikes 10 minutes before they were to be launched — a move that could have accelerated the path to war. Soon after, Pompeo began a new effort to build an international coalition against Iran. But European leaders have resisted the United States' \"maximum pressure campaign\" against Iran. Several European nations do not want the United States to abandon the pact aimed at curbing Iran's nuclear program. French and German leaders have continued to push to make reducing tensions a priority. Heiko Maas, Germany's foreign minister, warned that \"the risk of war in the Gulf has not been averted.\" Instead of Europe, the secretary of state kicked off his coalition-building tour with visits to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, two countries that had been working to limit Iran's influence in the region. Now Pompeo will visit Latin America. Argentine Security Minister Patricia Bullrich appeared to confirm plans to include Hezbollah on the designated list of organizations last week during a meeting with reporters following Cabinet meetings. \"What we are working on is the list to be composed of organizations with specific allegations,\" Bullrich said. \"In this case there are red alerts, we adhere to the list of the United Nations and we will add those terrorist organizations who have had activity in Argentina.\" Senior officials say the timing is not a coincidence. Pompeo's trip coincides with events honoring the victims of the 1994 bombing of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina, or AMIA, in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 people. Buenos Aires prosecutors have charged Hezbollah with carrying out the bombing with Iranian support. The visit also comes as the center-right Argentine government of President Mauricio Macri positions itself for a reelection campaign this fall and is eager to signal its support from the U.S. Jones said the designation will be important for the Trump administration politically considering the challenges it has had generating international support. But he said it's unclear what concrete effects it will have on putting pressure against Iran. Benjamin Gedan, who was National Security Council director for South America during the Obama administration, said the designation will put pressure on other governments in Latin America that have been reluctant to take unilateral action against Iran. \"Though not a global power, Argentina's traumatic experience with Hezbollah makes it a compelling partner in White House efforts to highlight Iranian misconduct,\" said Gedan, now a senior adviser to the Wilson Cent", "Updated 9:15 p.m. ET The House of Representatives approved a resolution that would force President Trump to seek consent from Congress before taking new military action against Iran. The move comes nearly a week after President Trump greenlighted a U.S. drone strike that killed a top Iranian general and led to increased tensions with Tehran. The nonbinding war powers resolution was approved in a mostly party-line vote of 224-194. Only three Republicans and one independent joined Democrats to pass the measure. Eight Democrats opposed it. The Senate could consider a similar measure — but one that has the force of law — as early as next week, but it is unclear if it has enough votes to clear the chamber. Trump administration officials maintain the president already has the authority to take action against Iran under a 2002 war authorization passed by Congress in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. The House vote also comes after briefings for lawmakers on Wednesday from top Trump administration officials left Democrats — and some Republicans — unhappy with a lack of transparency about what fueled the decision to strike the Iranian general. \"You would think anytime we would engage in such an important change in approach that we would be working together, consulting together, respecting the approach that each sides takes to all of this and hopefully be on one side of it all,\" House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said ahead of the resolution's passage. \"What this does is very important for the security of this country.\" The measure was sponsored by Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., a former CIA analyst who worked on Middle East policy. In response to the vote, the White House said the president \"has the right and duty to protect this nation and our citizens from terrorism. That's what he continues to do, and the world is safer for it.\" \"This House resolution tries to undermine the ability of the U.S. Armed Forces to prevent terrorist activity by Iran and its proxies, and attempts to hinder the President's authority to protect America and our interests in the region from the continued threats,\" White House Spokesman Hogan Gidley said in a statement Thursday evening. \"These Congressional actions are completely misguided. In fact, this ridiculous resolution is just another political move because, under well-established Supreme Court precedent, it's non-binding and lacks the force of law.\" The White House reiterated its stance that the killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani was authorized under \"his constitutional powers as Commander in Chief and Chief Executive as well as the 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force.\" President Trump also addressed the vote at a campaign rally Thursday night in Toledo, Ohio, and mocked the idea of consulting Congress while carrying out an operation like the killing of Soleimani. The war powers measure crafted by House Democrats was written as a concurrent resolution, which is traditionally considered nonbinding and doesn't require the president's signature. Earlier Thursday, Pelosi said they purposely took this approach to ensure that the chamber could send a clear message to the president. \"We are taking this path because it does not require ... a signature of the president of the United States,\" she said. \"This is a statement of the Congress of the United States, and I will not have that statement be diminished by whether the president will veto it or not.\" The concerns touch on a years-long discussion over whether the president's war powers are woefully outdated. Under the Trump administration, Democrats and some Republicans have renewed calls for new legislation addressing the president's authorization for use of military force. Congress has debated how to craft a new AUMF specifically focused on Iran, but it has failed to get consensus on language that would satisfy the broad ideological spectrum that wants the legislative branch to reassert its power to declare war. On Thursday, administration officials issued a statement strongly opposing the House war powers measure. \"This concurrent resolution is misguided, and its adoption by Congress could undermine the ability of the United States to protect American citizens whom Iran continues to seek to harm,\" the statement from the Office of Management and Budget on the administration's policy said. A series of Trump allies and House Republicans also expressed their opposition to the measure on the House floor on Thursday. They argued that Trump used the authority given to the president under an authorization of approved after the Sept. 11 attacks. House Minority Whip Steve Scalise said that Trump was working well within his war authorities by striking out against Iran and that the move to kill Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani ended the life of an \"evil terrorist.\" \"This place is a safer place with Soleimani gone,\" the Louisiana Republican said. Rep. Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, also attacked the Democrats' efforts. \"Thankfully this is a res", "Updated at 4:27 a.m. ET Friday U.S. forces assassinated Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani in an airstrike early Friday near the Baghdad International Airport, an escalation of tensions between Washington and Tehran that is prompting concerns of further violence in the region. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said the Pentagon took a \"decisive defensive action\" in killing Soleimani, who Esper says was plotting to target American diplomats and service members. \"This strike was aimed at deterring future Iranian attack plans,\" Esper said. The attack, an action previous presidents have resisted, was undertaken at the direction of President Trump. For two decades, Soleimani led the elite Quds Force, a branch of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, responsible for the country's intelligence and military operations outside of Iran. Hamid Mousavi, a political science professor at the University of Tehran, said the strike stunned many Iranians who revere the military leader. \"It would be akin to Iran assassinating the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,\" Mousavi told NPR. \"Essentially, it's an act of war.\" The State Department on Friday urged U.S. citizens to immediately leave Iraq, where officials say the embassy in Baghdad was attacked by Iran-backed militia members earlier in the week. The strike on Soleimani comes a week after a rocket attack in northern Iraq killed a U.S. contractor. American officials said an Iranian-backed militia was responsible. The Trump administration also tied Soleimani to recent violent protests. Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif called the killing \"an act of international terrorism,\" saying the U.S. \"bears responsibility for all consequences of its rogue adventurism.\" Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a statement on Iranian state TV that a \"harsh retaliation is waiting\" for the U.S. Iran's President Hassan Rouhani was just as forceful, describing the strike as a \"heinous crime\" for which Iran will seek revenge. \"So the biggest question now is how does Tehran respond?\" wrote Ilan Goldenberg, a Middle East security expert who worked on Iran issues in the Obama administration. \"Targeting an American diplomatic facility or senior leader with a terrorist attack elsewhere in the world may feel proportional for the Iranians but this is very hard to pull off. Outside of the Mideast their capabilities are much more limited,\" Goldenberg tweeted. Trump, who is vacationing on his estate in Palm Beach, Fla., tweeted a photo of an American flag with no other message. Trump had earlier vowed that Iran would \"pay a very big price\" for the unrest at the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad. Republicans celebrated the killing of Soleimani, saying America is safer after the violent leader was brought to justice. But Democrats slammed the White House for not consulting Congress before the strike and worried the attack would lead to an \"almost inevitable escalation.\" House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a statement the strike was \"disproportionate,\" arguing that it \"risks provoking further dangerous escalation of violence. America — and the world — cannot afford to have tensions escalate to the point of no return.\" The chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., released a statement saying he is worried about the security aftereffects of the strike, which Engel said had gone ahead without notice or consultation with Congress. \"To push ahead with an action of this gravity without involving Congress raises serious legal problems and is an affront to Congress's powers as a coequal branch of government,\" Engel said. Naysan Rafati, a senior Iran analyst at the International Crisis Group, underscored just how significant the death of Soleimani is inside Iran, where he is among the country's most revered military leaders. \"This is a major blow to the Iranians, symbolically as well as strategically. There has been no individual as deeply associated with Iran's regional network of partners and proxies as Soleimani, which made him a hero to Tehran's allies and a villain without peer to its rivals,\" Rafati said. Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi characterized the strike in dire terms, saying it is \"a dangerous escalation that ignites a devastating war in Iraq, the region and the world.\" The strike also killed Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, an adviser to Soleimani. A reach far beyond Iran Soleimani was one of Iran's most powerful and shadowy figures. As leader of the Quds Force, he was said to be responsible for the country's development and coordination with militias and proxy forces throughout the Middle East. U.S. officials accuse him of coordinating Iraqi militia attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq. U.S. officials have accused Soleimani of sponsoring terrorism and singled him out as a major figure for decades. The Trump administration placed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — which includes the Quds Force — on the State Department's list of ", "Updated at 6:20 p.m. ET President Trump declared on Tuesday that his administration will remain a \"steadfast partner\" of Saudi Arabia, despite the CIA's assessment that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman personally approved the killing last month of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. \"Maybe he did and maybe he didn't,\" Trump said of the crown prince's knowledge of the killing. The president's statement suggests he has no plans to further punish the crown prince or the Saudi government, although Trump said he would be open punitive measures if Congress demands them. But he stressed he would weigh any such steps against American interests as he sees them. \"If we abandon Saudi Arabia, it would be a terrible mistake,\" Trump told reporters. The CIA has not publicly commented on its assessment, but according to an individual briefed on the matter, intelligence officials believe the crown prince approved Khashoggi's Oct. 2 killing at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. Trump spoke over the weekend with CIA Director Gina Haspel. Trump noted that his administration has already sanctioned 17 Saudis thought to have played a role in Khashoggi's killing, but he declined to go further, stressing the close strategic and economic ties the U.S. has with Saudi Arabia. \"We may never know all of the facts surrounding the murder of Mr. Jamal Khashoggi,\" Trump said in a statement. \"In any case, our relationship is with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. They have been a great ally in our very important fight against Iran. The United States intends to remain a steadfast partner of Saudi Arabia to ensure the interests of our country, Israel and all other partners in the region.\" Secretary of State Mike Pompeo echoed that assessment in remarks at the State Department. \"It's a mean, nasty world out there. The Middle East in particular,\" Pompeo said. \"It is the president's obligation and indeed the State Department's duty as well to ensure that we adopt policies that further America's national security.\" The president's statement drew swift criticism from some members of Congress. \"I fully realize we have to deal with bad actors and imperfect situations on the international stage,\" said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. \"However, when we lose our moral voice, we lose our strongest asset.\" Graham expects to see a bipartisan appetite among lawmakers for serious sanctions against Saudi Arabia, including members of the royal family. \"While Saudi Arabia is a strategic ally, the behavior of the Crown Prince – in multiple ways – has shown disrespect for the relationship and made him, in my view, beyond toxic,\" Graham said. \"I never thought I'd see the day a White House would moonlight as a public relations firm for the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia,\" retiring Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., the outgoing chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee wrote on Twitter. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., who serves on the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees accused Trump of \"siding with murderous foreign dictators over American intelligence professionals.\" Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the ranking Democrat on the House intelligence committee, said that in his view, it is \"inconceivable\" that Prince Salman was not involved in Khashoggi's killing. \"To suggest 'maybe he did and maybe he didn't' or that we are incapable of finding out the truth or that knowing the truth our silence can be bought with arms sales undermines respect for the Office of the Presidency, the credibility of our intelligence community and America's standing as a champion of human rights,\" Schiff wrote. In reaffirming his support for Saudi Arabia, Trump highlighted the country's role in keeping oil markets well supplied as well as Saudi arms purchases from the U.S. \"If we foolishly cancel these contracts, Russia and China would be the enormous beneficiaries,\" Trump said. Experts say the president exaggerates the value of the arms deals and the ease with which the Saudis could switch suppliers. Earlier this month, the U.S. stopped providing refueling support for Saudi aircraft fighting a proxy war in Yemen. Trump said the Saudis would gladly withdraw from Yemen if Iran would do the same. The war in Yemen has produced what the U.N. describes as the world's worst humanitarian crisis with more than 8 million people facing the threat of famine.", "Aaron David Miller (@aarondmiller2), a vice president at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a former State Department adviser and Middle East negotiator, is the author of The End of Greatness: Why America Can't Have (and Doesn't Want) Another Great President. Richard Sokolsky, a nonresident senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, was a member of the secretary of state's Office of Policy Planning from 2005-2015. The reported ISIS suicide attack last week that claimed the lives of four Americans clearly shows that the Islamic State — contrary to the exaggerated claims of President Trump and other administration officials — is far from defeated. The attack has also prompted many in Congress and the foreign policy community to express outrage and to call on the president to reverse his decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Syria. They are pressuring the administration to remain in the country until ISIS is permanently crushed. That would be a mistake. The decision to leave Syria is the right one, and the withdrawal should proceed in a safe, orderly and coordinated fashion. Leaving 2,000 troops there without clear and coherent objectives, and the means to achieve them, is a prescription for continued trouble — and for more unnecessary American casualties. By the sound and fury of the political reaction in Washington, you might think Trump's decision to withdraw from Syria was akin to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Nazi Germany. Sen. Marco Rubio described the withdrawal as \"a major mistake\" that would \"haunt the administration.\" Sen. Ben Sasse opined that Trump's generals \"believe the high-fiving winners today are Iran, ISIS and Hezbollah.\" Sen. Lindsey Graham all but linked Trump's decision to this week's ISIS suicide attack. All three congressmen are members of the president's Republican Party. Just about everyone in the foreign policy establishment accused the president of betraying the Kurds who had been doing most of the fighting against ISIS. There are risks in departing Syria, but there are far greater ones in staying. That's particularly true if the U.S. cannot achieve the goals it has set publicly, and if Russia, Iran and Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime continue to have their way. Paradoxically, staying in Syria under these circumstances can make America look weak, too. The U.S. can't defeat ISIS The Trump administration — like its predecessor — talks loosely about defeating or destroying the Islamic State. By intensifying the anti-ISIS campaign of the Obama administration, the Trump administration has indeed decimated the proto terror state that considers itself a caliphate, leaving it with less than 1 percent of the area it once controlled in Iraq and Syria. ISIS isn't Germany or Japan, where the U.S. and its allies broke those regimes' will to fight, destroyed all their war-making capacity, eradicated their fascist state ideologies and helped reshape a new environment for two democratic countries. For the U.S. to achieve that goal in Syria is mission impossible. Indeed, only Syrians can ultimately defeat ISIS and the al-Qaida-linked groups that feed on the sectarian grievances, corruption and poor governance that continue to power the jihadis. This would require a new Syrian state, which is clearly beyond America's capacity to produce, particularly as the Alawite Assad regime and its Iranian and Russian backers continue to alienate Sunni Arabs. Defeating ISIS is by and large a political, governance issue. Keeping U.S. forces in Syria with the expectation of crushing the ISIS insurgency makes little sense. Supporting Kurdish forces in Syria means trouble The agenda of Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria — controlled by the Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG — is no mystery: They wish to establish an autonomous enclave where they can run their affairs without outside interference. This aspiration pits them against the Turkish government, which views the Kurdish forces in Syria as close allies of a Kurdish separatist movement in Turkey and considers both as terrorist organizations; the Assad regime, which seeks to reassert its control of the resource-rich areas under Kurdish control; and Iran, which also faces Kurdish separatists at home and fears that Kurdish autonomy in neighboring Syria might embolden these forces to seek independence. The relationship between U.S. troops and the Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria was always a transactional and tactical marriage of convenience. America had no other reliable local partners to destroy ISIS and has used Kurdish fighters for this purpose. The Kurds were using U.S. military and diplomatic support to strengthen their self-defense capabilities against their foes and to gain leverage over the Assad regime to secure a more favorable position. The U.S. has never committed to help the Kurds establish an autonomous zone in northeastern Syria. This contested area is a witch'", "Updated 4:41pm ET Mike Pompeo, on his maiden trip as U.S. secretary of state, is using the three-day visit in the Middle East to garner international support to pressure Iran to modify its nuclear program. During a stop in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Sunday, Pompeo urged unity among the Gulf states — saying cooperation and easing of economic tensions with Qatar is \"necessary.\" Egypt, United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia have halted trade with Qatar, accusing the natural gas-rich nation of aiding terrorism and maintaining close ties with Iran. The discord between the Gulf states has frustrated U.S. officials' attempts to weaken the influence of Iran in the region. \"We've got a common challenge in Iran. I think they all recognize that,\" Pompeo said in remarks to reporters. \"We're hopeful that they will in their own way figure out their dispute between them.\" Pompeo's arrived in Riyadh shortly after Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen launched a barrage of missiles into Saudi Arabia, killing at least one person. The attack is the latest sign that the raging civil war in Yemen continues to further threaten stability in the region. During the state visit, Pompeo also assured Saudi Arabia that the U.S. will follow through with President Trump's commitment to pull out of the 2015 Iran nuclear accord. The deal, reached under the Obama administration, essentially lifted economic sanctions on Iran in exchange for curbing its nuclear weapons program. Echoing Trump's sentiment that the foreign policy was a \"bad deal,\" Pompeo said the accord has failed to moderate Iran's behavior. \"In fact, Iran has only behaved worse since deal was approved,\" Pompeo said. Pompeo told NATO leaders in Brussels on Saturday that unless a substantial fix is made, the U.S. is unlikely to remain in the deal. And that decision, he said, would not impact expected talks between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. \"I don't think Kim Jong Un is staring at the Iran deal and saying, 'Oh goodness, if they get out of that deal, I won't talk to the Americans anymore,' \" Pompeo said. Pompeo is the highest ranking U.S. official to meet with the North Korean dictator. The two met in secret while Pompeo was still CIA director. He tells ABC News that he met Kim with \"a clear mission\" of irreversible denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula, and that there is still a lot to be done before that goal is reached. He says the administration is going into the scheduled talks with eyes wide open, \"We're not going to take words. We're going to look for actions and deeds,\" he said. Trump is expected to make a decision on whether to stay in the Iran nuclear deal by May 12. Two days later, the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem is scheduled to open its doors. A move that, Pompeo said in his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reflects the \"reality\" of Jerusalem as the seat of Israel's government. President Trump's decision to relocate the embassy has not been without controversy. In joint remarks Netanyahu asserted his support for renewed sanctions against Iran. \"Iran must be stopped. Its quest for nuclear bombs must be stopped. Its aggression must be stopped, and we're committed to stopping it together,\" he said.", "Many Israelis are critical of the interim deal on Iran's nuclear program, and some are even more worried about what could follow. \"What's important here is that both sides decided: We have to start consulting. Right now,\" says Dore Gold, a former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, now head of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Gold says consultations need to cover not only Iran's nuclear program, but also something Israel and other Mideast countries such as Saudi Arabia are wondering: how the U.S. will now manage Iran's support for militant groups fighting in countries around the region. \"Israel faces [Iranian supported groups] in Gaza, in Lebanon, and there's a whole Revolutionary Guard contingent in Syria,\" Gold says. \"That behavior hasn't changed. And America's partners in the region are concerned that that behavior will either continue or become magnified.\" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly called the agreement with Iran a \"bad deal.\" But on Monday, he acknowledged it turned out \"better\" than he anticipated, crediting Israel's efforts to influence the world powers at the negotiating table with Iran. With that slight shift, Netanyahu may be keeping himself in line with a significant segment of Israeli public opinion. Many Israelis feel Iran is the biggest threat the Jewish state faces, and over half say they have been happy with Netanyahu's stance. However, it's not hard to find security experts and opinion writers who say the agreement is an improvement over the past years of slow standoff with Iran, and ordinary people who figure this is worth a try. Strong Cooperation Many Israeli analysts expect that the U.S. and Israel can work out most policy conflicts, if not personality differences. Reuven Hazan, a political science professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, says the tension between Israel and the U.S. seems to be centered on top leadership. \"But below that, when you look at the military, the intelligence, the strategic cooperation between these two countries, it has never been as good as it is today,\" he says. As an example, Hazan cited a major joint air force exercise this week in the Israeli desert. U.S. and European pilots are participating; Israel is hosting the exercise for the first time. But some analysts wonder if, with the Iran deal, the Obama administration lost its leverage over Israel in other U.S. priorities, particularly peace talks with the Palestinians. One Israeli commentator wrote that Israel may be able to influence the U.S. position on Iran by threatening to derail the Palestinian talks. Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi says tension between Israel and the U.S. doesn't help negotiations, but she suggests there may be a different lesson to learn from Iran. \"If the international community, the Americans, the Europeans work together and put sufficient pressure, they can achieve a peaceful solution,\" she says. \"And we were hoping this modus operandi would apply when it comes to the Israeli occupation.\" Calls For A Nuanced Approach Secretary of State John Kerry is due back in Israel to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian situation. He and Netanyahu traded barbs recently, including over the deal with Iran. Left-leaning analyst Yossi Beilin says Netanyahu should now take a less harsh tone on negotiations with Iran. \"I hope that he understands today that he went too far,\" Beilin says, \"and that his role now is to be serious and to work with the Americans in order to have an agreement, a permanent agreement closer to his view.\" One difference that may prove particularly difficult to bridge — the timeline considered in relations with Iran. Obama is in his last term in office; Netanyahu could keep his position much longer. And as the Israeli leader makes clear in speeches and interviews, he sees his job as keeping Israel secure forever.", "President Trump spiked the peace negotiations for a war he's desperate to end and sacked the national security adviser who shaped much of his foreign policy in Asia and the Middle East. Where does the Trump administration's foreign policy go from here? Until Saturday, one path, at least, appeared clear: Washington was inching closer to some kind of agreement with the Taliban to end the 18-year conflict in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, though his administration was taking a tough official line against Iran, Venezuela, North Korea and Russia — it was sometimes accompanied by a soft semiofficial line taken by Trump himself. Then Trump announced Saturday he was canceling a summit he'd planned to convene secretly at Camp David with Afghan government and Taliban leaders, and he proclaimed Monday that he considered peace talks to be \"dead.\" That night, Trump talked with national security adviser John Bolton in an exchange that Bolton said resulted in him offering his resignation. Trump says he asked Bolton to quit. Effect on policy Bolton became the latest top official to be terminated in a presidential tweet over a disagreement with the principal, with uncertain consequences for the conduct of a major American policy. In the past, these kinds of resignations have resulted in pyrrhic victories for those involved. When then-Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and then-envoy Brett McGurk resigned at the end of 2018 rather than go along with Trump's planned withdrawal from Syria, they appeared to stay the administration's hand from the full military pullout Trump had contemplated. One question now is how long Bolton's policy, without Bolton himself, will endure within the administration. Trump has desired for years to cut bait on the war in Afghanistan and he seems unlikely to leave peace talks dormant for long. The special envoy who's been carrying on the negotiations with the Taliban, Zalmay Khalilzad, appears to be staying on in his administration job. Factors beyond Bolton But the timing of when talks could resume and when they might show results is important, and all that has been cast into doubt. One reason is Afghanistan's presidential election scheduled for this month. President Ashraf Ghani is considered a favorite to secure another term, but the Taliban accuse his government of being stooges for the Americans. The closer that election comes, the likelier there could be violence that further delays the resumption of negotiations. A Taliban attack that resulted in the death of an American service member was the reason Trump gave for abrogating negotiations, although they may have begun to founder before his surprise announcement on Saturday. Another factor is the American presidential election next year. Trump supports withdrawing thousands of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. He has long been dubious of the establishment consensus on how to preserve stability there, and the objections of hawks who say Washington must persevere until a final victory. Trump went down that route with Mattis — for a time. He agreed to an increase in the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, curtailed much of the public reporting about the conflict and kiboshed any talk about timetables for the end of the war. Then the president apparently ran out of patience, and he has made clear he doesn't care for American deployments to continue in their current form any longer than he can manage. Bolton's ouster removes an internal skeptic about that approach, and whoever Trump names as his replacement will need to be on board the current program. But with the diplomatic track toward an endgame in Afghanistan derailed, there's also no telling what the next phase could look like. Also unresolved: Iran, North Korea Bolton's defenestration also scrambles the outlook for other tough areas of foreign and national security policy. Bolton helped write the playbook that Trump and his advisers used to abrogate America's participation in the Iran nuclear deal negotiated by then-President Barack Obama. What followed was the campaign of \"maximum pressure\" on Tehran that brought it to the brink of a flashpoint with the U.S. and other world powers over oil and other sanctions. Now Trump is airing his willingness to talk with Iran. He gave his assent to some initial forays by France's President Emmanuel Macron, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo repeated on Tuesday that Trump is prepared to meet with Iran's president \"with no preconditions.\" With Bolton gone, is that now more likely? Another unresolved line of effort is that toward North Korea. Trump loves kvelling about the warm relationship he says he's developed with strongman Kim Jong Un, including through the \"beautiful letters\" that arrive at the White House from Pyongyang. That relationship so far hasn't yielded a lasting agreement in which North Korea would dismantle its nuclear weapons program in exchange for sanctions relief or other normalization of its relationship with the world. One reason it hasn't was Bol", "Updated at 12:33 p.m. ET President Trump said Monday that his door might be open for meetings with Iran's president and China's leader as he concluded his visit to the G-7 summit in France, but it isn't clear what if any action may come next. Trump said he believes Beijing \"wants a deal very badly\" to end its trade war with Washington and that he'd consider meeting with Iran's president if Tehran came to terms over its nuclear program. \"If the circumstances were correct or right I would certainly agree to that,\" Trump said. What isn't clear is what, precisely, that might require and whether Trump or the American side are willing to exert themselves to make either conference happen. French President Emmanuel Macron, with whom Trump appeared on Monday after the global leaders' summit, has been trying to broker new talks between Iran and the United States — including an invitation to Iran's foreign minister to visit France as the G-7 nations were meeting. Macron said Trump and the Americans were kept in the loop about those overtures. Trump said he would be open to some concessions, including giving Iran a \"line of credit\" to help its economy, which he said would be secured by the nation's oil supplies — if it were willing to make new concessions on its nuclear program. Regarding China, Trump said he is willing to reach an agreement on trade \"only if it's a good deal and a fair deal,\" but he said he believes the Chinese are eager and \"I think we're going to get there.\" Trump defended the erratic course corrections that have characterized his handling of the China trade and other matters. For example, Trump announced additional tariffs on China last Friday and said he was \"ordering\" American businesses to assess withdrawing from China. That prompted a huge sell-off on Wall Street. Then he made more conciliatory remarks Monday at the G-7. \"Sorry,\" Trump said. \"That's the way I negotiate.\" Back and forth The remarks on Monday followed a day of seemingly contradictory comments about the ongoing trade war with China and the unexpected appearance by Iran's foreign minister. On Sunday, Trump was asked if he was having second thoughts about the tariffs. He responded: \"Yeah, sure, why not? Might as well. Might as well. I have second thoughts about everything.\" Hours later, White House officials said Trump was being misinterpreted and that what he meant was that he had second thoughts about not imposing even more punitive tariffs on goods. In other words, he was having \"second thoughts\" about not having been even harsher. By Monday, Trump cited statements that he said were coming from Chinese leaders that he said suggested they were eager to negotiate and that he was prepared to move ahead to settle the dispute over imports, exports and tariffs. \"We'll see what happens, but I think we're going to make a deal,\" Trump told reporters. Trump and Macron's news conference followed the unexpected arrival on Sunday of Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who met with France's delegation. Macron, who is hosting the G-7 in Biarritz, has been attempting to ease tensions following the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear agreement in 2018. Asked about Zarif's appearance on Sunday, Trump gave a rare \"no comment.\" But on Monday, Trump again faulted reporters, saying they mischaracterized what had happened. He insisted that he was not surprised and that he did not feel that Macron had been disrespectful by inviting Zarif. In fact, he had been consulted, Trump said. \"He spoke to me. He asked me,\" Trump said of Macron. \"I said if you want to do that, that's OK.\" Also over the weekend, Trump announced a preliminary trade deal with Japan. \"Will be great for our Farmers, Ranchers and more. Really big Corn purchase!\" Trump tweeted. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said the agreement outline includes agriculture, industrial tariffs and digital trade. The stated focus of the summit was inequality, but Macron said ahead of time there would be no official communique after the talks. After the 2018 summit, Trump withdrew U.S. endorsement of that year's joint communique, blasting comments by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.", "America's new top diplomat received an enthusiastic welcome at the State Dept. Wednesday, as he promised to re-energize a department that's been largely sidelined in the first 15 months of the Trump administration. \"I want the State Department to get its swagger back. We need our men and women out at the front lines executing American diplomacy with great vigor and energy,\" Pompeo said during his ceremonial swearing-in ceremony. \"To represent the finest nation in the history of civilization, we should be proud of that.\" President Trump paid his first official visit to State headquarters to attend the ceremony. \"I must say that's more spirit than I've heard from the State Department in a long time,\" Trump said after a round of applause. \"That spirit will only be magnified\" with Pompeo at the helm. Pompeo replaces Rex Tillerson, the former Exxon CEO who kept a low profile as secretary of State and frequently clashed with the president. Pompeo, a former member of Congress who served as Trump's first CIA director, is more aligned with the president's hawkish views on North Korea and Iran. Even before he was confirmed as secretary, Pompeo served as Trump's emissary on a secret mission to North Korea to lay the groundwork for an upcoming summit between the president and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. \"Right now we have an unprecedented opportunity to change the course of history on the Korean peninsula,\" Pompeo said. \"I underscore the word opportunity. We're in the beginning stages of the work and the outcome is certainly yet unknown. But one thing is certain. This administration will not repeat the mistakes of the past. Our eyes are wide open.\" The administration wants North Korea to permanently dismantle its nuclear weapons program, and says it will continue its \"maximum pressure\" campaign of economic sanctions against Pyongyang while talks continue. \"It's time to solve this once and for all,\" Pompeo said. \"A bad deal is not an option. The American people are counting on us to get this right.\" Pompeo says the administration is still \"deciding on the next steps\" for what he called the \"flawed\" Iran nuclear deal. Trump has until May 12 to decide whether to withdraw from that Obama-era agreement, which grants Tehran relief from sanctions in exchange for temporarily halting its nuclear program. Trump has threatened to pull the U.S. out of the deal, although European allies want the U.S. to stay in.", "Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas were among the speakers at a Tea Party rally Wednesday to denounce the Iran nuclear deal. Trump, who leads the Republican presidential field in virtually all national polls, had his trademark bluntness on full display. He told the crowd of hundreds on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol that he has experience with negotiating, and that the United States got a bad deal with Iran. \"I've been doing deals for a long time; I've been making lots of wonderful deals, great deals. That's what I do,\" Trump said. \"Never, ever, ever in my life have I seen any transaction so incompetently negotiated as our deal with Iran.\" And just in case it wasn't clear where Trump stood, he took it one step further: \"We are led by very, very stupid people. We cannot let it continue. We are a country that owes $19 trillion. We lose everywhere, we lose militarily, we can't beat ISIS, give me a break. We can't beat anybody.\" Sen. Cruz, who is thought to be trying to court Trump supporters, got in on the bash-fest against the deal with Iran. \"It is the single greatest national security threat facing America,\" Cruz said. He told the crowd that if the deal goes through, the Obama administration will become the \"world's leading financier of radical Islamic terrorism\" and that jihadists will use those funds to murder Americans, Israelis and Europeans. Cruz, who is middle of the pack in many GOP polls, invited Trump to the rally to give it some additional media exposure, according to The Wall Street Journal: \"The rally, originally called to pressure Congress to pass legislation blocking the Iran deal, came to be seen as a largely symbolic protest because President Barack Obama has secured enough support for the deal to sustain his expected veto of legislation. But that did not deter Senate GOP leaders from opening debate on the legislation this week, nor Mr. Cruz and his allies from proceeding with the rally.\" For his part, Cruz seemed willing to place blame for the outcome of the Iran deal equally on Senate Democrats and the two top Republicans in Congress. \"If Senate Democrats decide that party loyalty matters more than national security, and if Republican leadership decides that a show vote is more important than stopping this deal, then the single most important issue in 2016 will be stopping Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon,\" Cruz said. He added later that the next president should be ready to nullify the deal. \"Any commander-in-chief worthy of defending this nation should be prepared to stand up on Jan. 20, 2017, and rip to shreds this catastrophic deal,\" Cruz said. As the crowd outside the Capitol listened to more than 50 conservative speakers, including former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and conservative radio host Mark Levin, a different issue was bubbling up inside the building. Several media outlets report some conservative House Republicans rebelled against party leadership, causing a delay in what were supposed to be the first votes on the Iran accord since Congress returned from the summer recess. Politico reports the procedural vote was put off after some in the Republican caucus say the Obama administration did not disclose \"what they call 'side deals' between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency.\" \"They are moving toward voting on a measure asserting Obama did not submit all elements of the agreement with Iran, a concept first raised by Reps. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) and Peter Roskam (R-Ill.), a former member of GOP leadership. Second, Republicans are working on a bill to try to prevent Obama from lifting sanctions against Iran. Third, the House would vote on a resolution to approve of the Iran pact. The original plan was to vote on a disapproval resolution.\"", "Iran's cultural heritage is suddenly a topic of urgent global interest, after President Trump threatened to strike such sites if the country retaliates for the United States' killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani last week. In a series of tweets Saturday evening, Trump wrote that \"if Iran strikes any Americans, or American assets,\" the U.S. has targeted 52 Iranian sites — \"some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD.\" Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, tweeted that targeting Iranian cultural sites would be a war crime. On Monday, Defense Secretary Mark Esper indicated that U.S. forces wouldn't carry out Trump's threat, saying, \"We will follow the laws of armed conflict.\" On Sunday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had appeared to walk back Trump's statements on ABC's This Week. \"We'll behave lawfully. We'll behave inside the system. We always have, and we always will,\" he said on Sunday morning. Nonetheless, Trump doubled down on his threat. \"They're allowed to kill our people. They're allowed to torture and maim our people. They're allowed to use roadside bombs and blow up our people,\" he told reporters on Sunday evening. \"And we're not allowed to touch their cultural sites? It doesn't work that way.\" The targeting of cultural properties by the U.S. is indeed not allowed. The U.S. is a signatory to the 1954 Hague Convention, which requires \"refraining from any act of hostility\" directed against cultural property. The convention covers \"movable or immovable property of great importance to the cultural heritage of every people, such as monuments of architecture, art or history, whether religious or secular; archaeological sites; groups of buildings which, as a whole, are of historical or artistic interest; works of art; manuscripts, books and other objects of artistic, historical or archaeological interest; as well as scientific collections and important collections of books or archives or of reproductions of the property defined above,\" as well as buildings and centers whose main purpose is to house such items. It also bars using a cultural site \"for purposes which are likely to expose it to destruction or damage in the event of armed conflict.\" That means signatory nations can't use such sites to house soldiers or weapons with the goal of shielding them from attack. The convention permits immunity in \"exceptional cases of unavoidable military necessity.\" U.S. military policy agrees. The Department of Defense's Law of War manual mentions cultural property 625 times, repeatedly citing the Hague Convention. It also addresses the subject of military necessity: \"Acts of hostility may be directed against cultural property, its immediate surroundings, or appliances in use for its protection when military necessity imperatively requires such acts.\" Accordingly, the U.S. military educates its soldiers about their responsibilities not to target or destroy cultural property, and to help in its preservation, says Nancy Wilkie, president of the U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield. The organization is dedicated to the prevention of destruction and theft of cultural heritage. The Pentagon has even distributed playing cards with photos of cultural sites in Afghanistan and elsewhere to remind troops to safeguard heritage sites and artifacts. \"Cultural sites and cultural objects that can provide sort of a baseline for recovering from strife, whether it's civil war or war against an external agent,\" says Wilkie, an archaeologist and the former president of the Archaeological Institute of America. \"And so one way to demoralize the population is to destroy its cultural heritage.\" As World War II was underway in 1943, then-Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower issued an order to his commanders demanding the protection of historical monuments: \"Today we are fighting in a country which has contributed a great deal to our cultural inheritance, a country rich in monuments which by their creation helped and now in their old age illustrate the growth of the civilization which is ours. We are bound to respect those monuments so far as war allows. \"If we have to choose between destroying a famous building and sacrificing our own men, then our men's lives count infinitely more and the building must go. But the choice is not always so clear-cut as that. In many cases the monuments can be spared without any detriment to operational needs. Nothing can stand against the argument of military necessity. That is an accepted principle. But the phrase 'military necessity' is sometimes used where it would be more truthful to speak of military convenience or even of personal convenience. I do not want it to cloak slackness or indifference.\" The Hague Convention was developed after the war brought the destruction of important cultural sites such as the monastery at Monte Cassino, founded in 529 and bombed by the Allies in 1944. The Department of Defense's Law ", "Updated at 3:18 p.m. ET The Senate approved a bipartisan resolution to curb the president's war powers when it comes to Iran — a rare rebuke and effort to reassert Congress' authority, The vote was 55-45 — with eight Republicans joining all Democrats to pass the measure. The tally fell far short of the two-thirds needed to override a presidential veto. Virginia Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine led the charge on the resolution, which would ban the president from ordering any new offensive strikes against Iran. It would still allow the president to order strikes in cases of self-defense against an imminent attack. Early on, the legislation garnered three Republican co-sponsors: Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Mike Lee of Utah. And at least one other GOP member, Todd Young of Indiana, said he would support the measure, with other Republicans signaling they would vote yes as well. \"The resolution just says no war with Iran, unless you come and make that case to Congress. And if you make the case to Congress, in front of the American people, and we all have the discussion, ask the tough questions and conclude, sadly, it's in the national interest, that's one thing,\" Kaine told NPR. \"But if we're not even willing to have that discussion, we shouldn't be forcing people to risk their lives.\" The move comes more than a week after the Senate acquitted President Trump in a highly partisan impeachment trial. The war powers resolution was filed before the trial began, in the wake of escalating tensions with Iran. The Democratic-led measure needed at least four Republicans to sign on for the measure to reach the simple majority of the Senate needed for passage — 51 votes. Lee said the measure focuses on an imbalance of power that has given way to the presidency and it's time for Congress to reclaim its authority. \"We need congressional authorization. We've been lied to by the Pentagon for years regarding a war that has gone on two decades. That's long enough. ... We don't want any more wars without the people's elected representatives being able to debate,\" Lee said. Collins said Congress can't be sidelined in these \"important decisions.\" \"It is long overdue,\" the Maine Republican said. \"It reasserts Congress' constitutional role and recognizes that the Framers did not vest in the presidency the authority to declare war unilaterally.\" Tensions remain for U.S. and Iran On Jan. 3, Trump greenlighted a U.S. drone strike that killed a top Iranian general, Qassem Soleimani, which led to increased tensions with Tehran. Iran responded days later by launching more than a dozen ballistic missiles at two military bases in Iraq, which left more than 100 service members with brain injuries. Soon after, the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives approved a resolution mostly along a party-line vote directing Trump to seek consent from Congress before taking new military action against Iran. However, that resolution was nonbinding. Supporters say this new Senate version will force the president to make a statement on their concerns. Some maintain that the issue forces debate about what they call \"perpetual wars\" that need to come to an end. \"I think we've been at war too long in too many places, and it's time to talk about bringing the troops home,\" said Paul, one of the Republican co-sponsors of the legislation. \"It's not so much about rebuking the president — it's rebuking all of us for not giving permission for being at war so long.\" The House has signaled that it could pass the Senate version of the war powers resolution. However, Trump has also said he would veto the measure and has lobbied against it. Still, Kaine holds out some hope for a change of mind in the president since it's an election year, and he says the measure is consistent with Trump's argument that he would end these kinds of foreign entanglements. \"I mean, he might look at it and say, actually, this is kind of what I promised to people,\" Kaine said. \"And he could confound expectations and say the bill gives me the ability to defend us against imminent attack, which I need to have as commander in chief.\" Kaine and other supporters have said that even with a veto, the measure sends a strong message to the president to seek lawmakers' approval on such actions and could potentially influence future decisions. They point to Trump's veto last year of a resolution to end military support of Saudi-led forces in Yemen. However, a few months later, the president ended the refueling of jets aiding the coalition fighting in Yemen. \"So when something like this gets on his desk and represents the majority will of both bodies, he may not care about Congress, but he cares deeply about what the American public thinks about the prospect of another war,\" Kaine said. Still, several Senate Republicans spoke against the plan, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who voted against it. He suggested supporters should wait until they garner a tw", "Updated at 4:40 a.m. ET on Wednesday President Trump has made explicit that the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia will be defined by business deals and a shared opposition to Iran — and not the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. \"If we abandon Saudi Arabia, it would be a terrible mistake,\" Trump told reporters outside the White House on Tuesday. \"We're with Saudi Arabia. We're staying with Saudi Arabia.\" Trump has made the Saudi alliance a cornerstone of his Middle East policy. The kingdom, in turn, is the biggest buyer of U.S. weapons and shares the president's belief that Iran is the greatest threat to the region. But Khashoggi's death last month at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul ignited a firestorm of international criticism directed at the Saudi leadership, with some members of Congress calling for a halt to arms sales or other penalties against the kingdom. Trump, however, remains the kingdom's most important defender, stressing his commitment again on Tuesday. \"The crime against Jamal Khashoggi was a terrible one, and one that our country does not condone,\" Trump said. But, he added, \"The United States intends to remain a steadfast partner of Saudi Arabia to ensure the interests of our country, Israel and all other partners in the region.\" Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, called Trump's statement \"shameful,\" saying that the president accuses Iran of \"every sort of malfeasance he can think of.\" Many Trump critics acknowledge the importance of the U.S. partnership with Saudi Arabia. But they say this doesn't mean the U.S. should ignore Saudi actions — like the Khashoggi killing, the war in Yemen and a blockade of Qatar — that they say are further destabilizing the volatile region. Some go even further, asking \"Who needs Saudi Arabia?\" The U.S. and the Saudis have a relationship dating to the 1940s that is based on shared strategic interests — like dependable oil supplies coming from the Middle East — rather than shared values like democracy, human rights and a free press. But rarely, if ever, has this formula been stated by a U.S. president in such stark terms. \"This statement is a stunning window into President Trump's autocratic tendencies, his limited grasp of world affairs, and his weakness on the world stage,\" said Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee. \"It is shocking to see President Trump continue to act as an accomplice to a clear cover-up by Saudi leadership.\" Trump's remarks clarified some questions, raised others and touched off a new barrage of criticism. A few key points: Trump stressed the primacy of business deals, though his figures can't be confirmed. Trump repeated a point he has made before, saying he would not punish the Saudis or U.S. corporations by tearing up deals to buy U.S. military equipment, which he claims are worth $110 billion. \"If we foolishly cancel these contracts, Russia and China would be the enormous beneficiaries — and very happy to acquire all of this newfound business,\" the president said. But the Saudis are dependent on U.S. military equipment and could not easily transition to hardware from another country. And while the Saudis are the biggest U.S. arms buyers, and have a range of other U.S. investments, multiple fact checks show the numbers Trump cites are hugely inflated. The Saudis have signed new contracts during the Trump administration worth around $4 billion, according to the Brookings Institution. Add in arms sales that have been discussed — but not signed — and the figure may reach $20 billion to $30 billion, analysts say. Still, the administration has not offered evidence to back up the president's statements. The president doubled down on the Saudi partnership to confront Iran. Trump repeatedly cited the threat posed by Iran, which is locked in a decades-long struggle with Saudi Arabia for pre-eminence in the Gulf region. \"The world is a very dangerous place,\" the president said at the opening of his statement. He described Iran as the world's leading sponsor of terrorism and blamed it for many ills in the Middle East. Yemen's civil war is one of several conflicts where the Saudis and Iranians wage proxy battles for influence and control. Both are widely criticized for inflaming the war and the humanitarian crisis in Yemen. Trump placed the blame squarely on Iran, saying, \"Saudi Arabia would gladly withdraw from Yemen if the Iranians would agree to leave.\" But even if the U.S. suddenly sought to punish Saudi Arabia for the Khashoggi killing, it's unlikely the Saudi position toward Iran would change. Saudi Arabia and Iran are regional rivals, and the Saudis rely on the U.S. for protection from its neighbor across the Persian Gulf. The president is again at odds with the intelligence community. The CIA believes that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was involved in Khashoggi's killing, and Trump spoke over the weekend with CIA Director Gina Haspel. In his statement, Trump framed t" ]

[ "It represents a \"soft\" c, or S sound in French and Portuguese. (It exists in other languages, but I'm not sure if it does the same thing in those languages) For example, the French word français is pronounced \"frahn-say\" whereas without the cedille, francais would be \"frahn-kay\"" ]

[ "The red characters on the right say \"courage,\" the ones on the left say \"unity.\" The black characters say \"Infantry 80th Regiment.\" I'm not sure what the red characters on the bottom mean. Translated into Chinese, it means \"to proceed/carry out.\" I don't know what it might mean in context.", "Those little squiggly things with round things at the ends are like suction cups. They grab onto the surface and infiltrate into microscopic grooves and cracks and that's how they adhere.", "Oh, squiggly line in my eye fluid. I see you lurking there on the periphery of my vision. But when I try to look at you, you scurry away. Are you shy, squiggly line? Why only when I ignore you, do you return to the center of my eye? Oh, squiggly line, it's alright, you are forgiven.", "There are two types of boundaries: geographic, and and political. If the boundary is squiggly, it's a river. If it's straight, a group of people sat down and argued over it until they agreed, then drew a straight line. In Europe, those political boundaries were decided by centuries of war and incredibly detailed political maneuvering...There is so little land, every bit counted, and even the political boundaries are squiggly. In the US, especially out West, where the land is flat and featureless, there is no reason not to draw a straight line.", "That's because the item under the squiggly lines is hot. Air (and most materials and fluids) expand when heated. So the air touching the grill gets very hot and rises (because it's less dense, which is why hot air balloons work), mixing with the less-hot air above (this mixing is what causes the lines to be squiggly). But if that's all that is happening, the squiggly lines would be invisible. But light [refracts](_URL_0_) when crossing between two volumes with different densities, so the light bends a little as it passes through the heated air. This causes the squiggly lines to appear, like the picture of the water glass in the link for refraction. This phenomenon is also what's responsible for mirages of water in the desert, where light from the blue sky looks to be coming from the ground, looking a lot like water.", "*\"Oh, squiggly line in my eye fluid.* *I see you lurking there on the periphery of my vision.* *But when I try to look at you, you scurry away.* *Are you shy, squiggly line?* *Why only when I ignore you, do you return to the center of my eye?* *Oh, squiggly line, it's alright...* *you are forgiven.\"*", "Almost correct. The most dense water is water at 4 degrees C. Warmer water will float above water at 4 degrees, but so will water colder. In answer to your question, a cup of hot water will have very little gradient from top to bottom.", "It is called *semantic satiation*. If you look at a word long enough, you stop seeing the word, and start seeing letters, which have nothing to do with the word. The is nothing about the letters c, a, and t that connects them to a cat, so they start losing that meaning. If you look longer, you stop seeing letters, and start seeing squiggly shapes that have nothing to do with what the letter means, further alienating you from the word.", "\"Oh, squiggly line in my eye fluid. I see you lurking there on the periphery of my vision. But when I try to look at you, you scurry away. Are you shy, squiggly line? Why only when I ignore you, do you return to the center of my eye? Oh, squiggly line, it's alright, you are forgiven.\" — Stewie Griffin, 2007, \"The Tan Aquatic\", Family Guy. _URL_1_", "In a lot of languages, we use some type of escape character to tell the computer when this is going to happen. For example, in c++ you use a slash before the needed character like this \\\"", "What do you mean, there's no reason? How would you look up words in a dictionary if you didn't know which order the words were in? Even in the age of digital technology, computers need to know what order the letters come in, because computers work with numbers. The letter A is represented by the number 65, so when a computer displays the letter A, what it's actually doing is looking up the 65th character in its character set and displaying whatever it finds there. The 66th character is B, the 67th is C, and so on.", "Let's talk about freshwater, because that's going to make things a little simpler. The key thing is that it doesn't start expanding when it freezes; maximum density actually happens around 4 & deg;C. This means that convection will cause the water to 'turn over' so that for lakes and such, the entire body of water needs to drop to 4 & deg;C before the surface freezes. Then, as the surface water continues to cool, it becomes less dense, so it largely stays on top. This means that for a typical lake, you have ice, then a layer of water close to freezing just below the surface, and finally a layer of warmer water at the bottom. So basically, the deeper stuff is actually warmer, so it doesn't actually get into a situation where it is prevented from freezing due to pressure. The ocean has a significantly more complex circulation pattern, so I'll let others answer.", "The key is where \"home\" is. Sing \"row row row your boat\"--that note you started and ended on is the bottom of the scale that that song uses and is called the *tonic*. If that note is a C, then you just sang it in the key of C major. You could sing the whole thing starting on a different note, and it would be the same song in a different key.", "\"ph\" is a diagraph used in the Latin script to represent the Greek character, Φ (written 'phi', pronounced \"fee\"). This character in Greek is similar but not quite an f sound. If you try to make an f without your bottom lip touching your teeth, that's the Φ sound. Since we don't have that sound in English, everybody just pronounces f instead.", "It's just not a typical blockbuster in terms of its cast, characters, and themes. People are excited to see a movie that features more black characters than usual (and in positive roles that provide good role models) while also dealing with important themes like family and culture, as well as touching a little bit on things you wouldn't normally see in a comic book movie (slavery, mass incarceration, etc).", "those characters are reserved for other things. For example \"*\" is used as a wildcard symbol. Slashes are used in file paths, like c:\\filename.txt .. so if you put one of those in a file name, it would probably cause problems. So you're not allowed to use them.", "That's actually the giant, gaping hole in the film. There wasn't adequate character development, nor did the plot lend itself to clear motivation and consistent behavior by the primary characters. You're not alone in it making little sense what choices are made and why they made them because they weren't exactly fleshed out.", "Heraclitus (c. 500 BC) said \"Character is destiny\". By which he meant that man is not a slave to fate. We choose our future by the choices we make (for good or bad). Joseph Heller in his book \"God Knows\" amended the quote to \"If character is destiny, the good are damned\". Heller was referring to Nietzsche's nihilism which says that there is no intrinsic good or evil and that destiny is merely what serves humans and/or humanity best. Thus if one is \"good\" then he is damned because he isn't following \"destiny\".", "They're not *actually* infinitely dense. They have a mass, but it's concentrated such that the escape velocity at their surface is > c. This mass is refered to in \"Solar Masses\" the weight of our sun. The smallest black holes that exist for long enough for us to notice start at about 10 solar masses, and go up from there. For example the [black hole at the center of our galaxy has about of about four million suns.](_URL_0_) Also, they're kind of a place where physical reality itself gets squiggly.", "You are partially correct. In old age, the elasticity of blood vessels decreases just like our skin. Additionally, you will notice that these squiggly veins appear on lower extremities, where the back-pressure is great in an upright posture. There are valves inside veins to prevent backflow. Eventually these valves can dysfunction, leading to the back-pressure being conducted all the way down. This further worsens the \"squiggliness\" and dilates the veins by stretching them out. These are called varicose veins.", "When a puppy is born, mama licks this new little wet and squiggly thing. She feels this weird hard string attached to this warm squish ball and knows it isn't a part of herself, and not a part of the pup. She bites and yanks it off. She continues to lick the poppy until he's clean, making sure the spot where the cord was pulled away remains licked. She rotates and licks each individual puppy and makes sure they are all clean and happy. She then will likely have another contraction / birth until she is empty of puppies. It's a great thing to watch cause the moms are so quick with instinct, and you image how much mom instinct we all have too!", "Water is always evaporating into the atmosphere, as long as the relative humidity is less than 100%. The rate of evaporation increases with its temperature. The only thing special about 100 C is that's when it *all* vaporizes. Watch a pot of water that you are heating to a boil. More and more steam comes off until it hits the boiling point. The boiling bubbles are the pockets of vapor that have formed at the bottom because the water temperature there exceeded 100 C.", "the speed of light isn't so much the speed that light travels as light travels at c. Like there's a fundamental speed of our universe, the relationship between measures of space and time, and that's c. And massless things can only travel at c. And massive things must always travel slower than that. And neutrinos have mass. More mass than our upper limit to a photon's mass, if it had one. So even if c is not what we think it is, the speed of the neutrinos is not the \"new\" c.", "From an archaeological and histological perspective, massively significant. Before the discovery of the Rosetta Stone we were unable to decipher hieroglyphics from ancient Egypt. The Rosetta Stone had 3 blocks of characters on it, the top was Egyptian Hieroglyphics, the middle was Demotic script and the bottom was Ancient Greek. They all said the same thing. Because we already knew and understood Ancient Greek it allowed us to translate the Hieroglyphics. With this knowledge we were then able to learn what Hieroglyphics meant and unlocked all the texts written in tombs and monuments and all that jazz.", "It's for clarity and saving a little work. The smaller a detail is on a TV screen, the harder it is for the audience to work out. Since the audience generally needs to see what the character's hands are doing, it's advantageous to simplify the hand, making it easier to make out. Four fingers still \"looks right\". It's mainly a western thing - it really doesn't show up in anime. It's actually pretty common to add a fifth finger when translating western works to Japanese: since cutting off the pinky finger is a Yakuza (Japanese mafia) thing, four-fingered hands are, uh, questionable.", "On a technical level, their shirt is actually transparent, and there is a layer with the picture of the pattern behind the layer the character is drawn on. The character and their shirt moves, but the background layer does not, resulting in what you've described. The reason for doing this is that its a cheaper/faster/easier way to animate clothing with those types of patterns. The alternative is redrawing the whole thing each time the character moves slightly.", "The little straw inside the can goes to the bottom, but because the bottom is convex, the straw has to go to one side of the can to reach \"all the way\" to the bottom. The little dot lets you know which side the straw reaches down to, so if you are spraying downward, you'll know which side of the can the little straw is dipping into the liquid. That way, you're spraying the liquid instead of venting the propellant when the can gets low.", "To add a little context to it computer memory used to be wires and magnets as in [this picture](_URL_0_). So imagine on the left the wires are 1, 2, 3, 4, etc and at the bottom the wires are a, b, c, d, etc. If you run current through wires 1 and a the memory location 1a would be on, or 1. As /u/ramk13 noted today it is done with capacitors and transistors but the idea is basically the same, just a lot smaller and faster.", "There are many compression methods, but the two main categories that methods fall under are *lossless* and *lossy*. Lossless compresses files by removing redundant data. For example, instead of saying \"AAABBCBBBDDDD\" (13 characters), the data could be compressed to \"3ABBC3B4D\" (9 characters). This compressed data relies on the computer to have the compression \"key\" that lets the computer understand that \"3A\" means \"3 A's\", i.e., \"AAA\". The data is compressed, but all data is retained, therefore, the compression is *lossless*. Lossy compression works by removing unnecessary or less important information. \"AAABBCBBBDDDD\" (13 characters) might be compressed to \"3A6B4D\" (6 characters). The compression algorithm noticed that C is very close to B, so it just made the C into a B to save more space. The data is compressed more than with a lossless algorithm, but some data is lost in the process, therefore, the compression is *lossy*.", "This is a little overly simplified, but gets the concept across. Let's say that you're playing a single-player game that's linear. The actual game engine is relatively small - most of your assets that take up a bunch of space are things like textures, music, video, and other files of that type. So for the first two hours of the game, you spend it in one area. That means that you only need the environment and character assets for things in that area (along with the game engine) and you can play that section. So it downloads all of the character models and music and other stuff it might need for that time, and while you're playing, it can download all of the other characters and music and textures.", "It's an interesting character design because a) he doesn't give a fuck and will say whatever is on his mind, b) he breaks the fourth wall, literally all the time, which leads to other characters thinking he's insane, and c) the books have always been, to me, incredibly fun to read, and the fact that they are getting an R rating means it'll be as good a movie as the books are.", "Using the labels on the Wiki page for [right triangle](_URL_0_), imagine the centre of Earth at A, your eyes at B and the horizon at C. The length of the hypotenuse is radius of Earth + your height, A to C is the radius of Earth and B to C is what we're looking for. So the answer is square root of ( (radius of earth + your height)^2 - ( radius of earth )^2 ) Which comes out as 3 miles. This is a purely geometric solution and ignores one somewhat important thing. Light in the atmosphere refracts, that is bends around the earth a little bit. The effect of this will depend on the temperature of the air and as such changes with weather. [Wikipedia](_URL_1_) suggests that the effect is typically about 8% so about 3.3 miles if you take this into account." ]

[ "The week-long X Games competition ended Sunday with a flourish of extreme sports action and a huge television audience. <EM>Day to Day</EM> cracked reporter Brian Unger looks at America's original extreme sport: bull riding. He and his trusty sidekick, <EM>Day to Day</EM> producer Rob Sachs, heads to Anaheim, Calif., to get an up-close look at one of the main events of the Professional Bull Riders (PBR) tour. <EM>This report originally aired March 1, 2004.</EM>" ]

[ "In the latest segment of The Unger Report, intrepid reporter Brian Unger goes inside \"Ski Dazzle,\" a massive ski show and snowboard expo, to find out exactly what \"wicking\" is.", "For this week's Unger Report, intrepid reporter Brian Unger goes out with Autopilots, a company that uses a unique method for chauffeuring inebriated customers home in their own car.", "In today's Unger Report, humorist Brian Unger concludes that the entertainment business, long derided for poisoning society, can no longer compete with reality's prescription-strength toxins. Is Washington, D.C. beating Hollywood at its own game?", "Two years ago in Anaheim, Calif., events unfolded not unlike those recently in Ferguson, Mo. In Anaheim then, two Latino men were shot by police, and civic anger turned into a few nights of sometimes-violent demonstrations. Now, Anaheim's police and government are trying to work more closely with the Latino community, and a vote in November could make some major changes.", "In this week's Unger Report, Brian Unger examines the odd entity known as the \"single man\" -- and the seeming obsession among writers and editors of <EM>The New York Times</EM> with the mind of the American bachelor.", "<EM>Day to Day</EM> humorist Brian Unger profiles a Los Angeles firm called Autopilot in this reprise of a classic <EM>Unger Report</EM> from a year ago. The company picks up people who are too drunk to drive, and gets them safely home -- in their own cars.", "Crack <EM>Day to Day</EM> correspondent Brian Unger goes to Los Angeles' Runyon Canyon to report on a dispute between dog owners and joggers.", "In Monday's Unger Report, <EM>Day to Day</EM> offbeat correspondent Brian Unger shares his thoughts on a favorite television obsession: the car chase.", "Cute animal stories have long been a staple of local television news. But in the latest Unger Report, <EM>Day to Day</EM> slightly confused correspondent Brian Unger notes that fuzzy creatures are showing up more often in national newscasts -- sometimes as the lead story.", "Americans are steaming mad! Hot under the collar! Boiling over the high cost of gasoline! So, how are we dealing with it? By buying iPhones and going to see Batman at the movies, of course. Humorist Brian Unger pokes fun at America's way of displaying its displeasure in this week's Unger Report.", "In this certified re-run of a previously aired Unger Report, slightly confused correspondent Brian Unger looks forward 50 years and imagines what we'll be watching on television in the year 2054.", "Someone forgot to tell <EM>Day to Day</EM> humorist Brian Unger that we're finished with post-election coverage. In today's Unger Report, he looks at how the divisive election is playing havoc on dating.", "Brian Unger runs down the possibilities for partying, in a special Presidential Inaugural Ball edition of The Unger Report.", "NPR's Tom Goldman reports from Anaheim, site of game one of the World Series, where the San Francisco Giants edged out the hometown Angels 4-3 last night.", "Brian Unger is worried about the epidemic of obesity in the United States. In today's Unger Report, he notes that it's not just Americans who are getting fatter -- it's also their four-legged furry companions.", "Over the weekend things have been very tense in Anaheim, Calif. For two days, people have protested the shooting death of an unarmed man by a police officer. As the AP reports, last night protesters set fire to a dumpster after earlier having stormed the police headquarters lobby \"as the police chief prepared to hold a news conference to discuss the case.\" The AP adds: \"Protesters chanted 'no justice, no peace' and 'cops, pigs, murderers' as officers stood by and watched a demonstration over the Saturday officer-involved shooting.\" \"Police Chief John Welter said two officers were placed on paid leave after one of them fatally shot Manuel Diaz, 24, Saturday afternoon. \"He said the officers approached three men who were acting suspiciously in an alleyway when they ran away. One of the officers chased Diaz to the front of an apartment complex where the shooting occurred.\" Police said that Diaz was a \"documented gang member,\" but protesters said that is no excuse for the shooting. \"They are saying everywhere he was a gang member and that he deserved it,\" Juan Brito told the Orange County Weekly. \"If he was, does that give the police the right to kill him? Cops are supposed to lead by example. How are we supposed to look up to them if they keep killing people?\" The OC Weekly reports that on Saturday, police unleashed non-lethal force on protesters who gathered near the scene of the shooting. The Orange County Register says that aggravating the situation was the fact that a K-9 police dog attacked a crowd of protesters. During his press conference, Welter said the dog got loose accidentally. \"We are extremely sorry for the people who were bit,\" Welter said. \"The city will be responsible for all medical bills associated with the dog. The canine officer responsible for the dog is devastated by this.\" The community has protested officer-related shootings in the past. OC Weekly has a story from last March about people coming to a meeting with the Anaheim Police Department to express their concern. Late Sunday, at about 11:20 p.m. on the West Coast, an officer shot and killed another man they said was shooting at them.", "Responding to a listener request, we present a classic \"Unger Report\" from 2004. In this episode, Brian Unger and former Day to Day producer Rob Sachs visit a sky-diving simulator and experience the sense of free-fall without falling at all. This piece first aired Jan. 5, 2004.", "Sen. Barack Obama's campaign is criticizing Sen. John McCain for never using the words \"middle class\" in Friday's first presidential debate. The McCain campaign is criticizing Obama for never using the word \"victory\". When voters begin judging their candidates not only by what they said — but by what they didn't say --- matters of concern are endless, says our resident humorist. MADELEINE BRAND, host: Back now with Day to Day. Last Friday's presidential debate was the first of three presidential debates and according to our humorist Brian Unger, it also marked a seminal change in both campaigns. As Brian explains in today's Unger Report. BRIAN UNGER: The day after the debate, Senator Obama was back on the campaign trail and this ad was on TV, taking Senator McCain to task for something he did not say. Unidentified Man: Number of times John McCain mentioned the middle class, zero. BRIAN UNGER: That which McCain did not mention was then repeated Sunday by Obama's chief strategist, David Axelrod, on NBC's \"Meet The Press.\" Mr. DAVID AXELROD (Chief Strategist, Senator Barack Obama): Senator McCain never once mentioned the middle class. UNGER: Which invited this rebuttal from chief McCain strategist Steve Schmidt on the topic of the Iraq War. Mr. STEVE SMITH (Chief Strategist, Senator John McCain): In the debate you heard not one time from Senator Obama the words, victory. UNGER: This parsing of word not spoken makes choosing a president a lot tougher for voters, who must not only choose based on where both men stand on the issues but now, where both men don't stand on issues they've never stood on. This campaign is getting too deep without getting deep at all. If we're judging the candidates by what we don't hear them say, then we must either become a nation of mind readers or look up every word in the dictionary these men aren't saying. And that is a lot of bathroom reading. Scholars disagree, but most say there are between 500 and 750,000 words in the English language. So in each of the remaining days before election day, we must listen for, oh,15 or 20,000 words that don't cross these candidate's lips. Because it only takes one non-spoken omission to turn an election this tight. Furthermore, in addition to not hearing victory or middle class, here are some other words you did not hear during the debate. Regarding the $700 billion bailout, I did not hear a single utterance of the word bull (bleep). Mark my words, one of these guys will go down for not saying bull (bleep). I did not hear in the debate use the word fabulous, once, to describe anything. The bailout plan, their lapel pins or each other. You did not hear sorry, liar, geezer, or punk. But most glaringly omitted in the debate were the words, I love you. If you're like me, you always feel like you're the one to say it first and neither McCain or Obama has, unsolicited, looked us in the eye and said, I love you. So in the next two debates brace yourself for more words that won't shock you, because you didn't hear them including fabulous bull (bleep), sorry, liar, geezer punk, I love you. You didn't hear it here first. And that is today's Unger Report, I'm Brian Unger. BRAND: Can't get enough of Brian? A weekly podcast featuring the humor and satire of Brian Unger is available for download at npr.org.", "As the World Series approaches, NPR's Andy Bowers offers an answer to the question many Americans have been asking since the Anaheim Angels beat the Yankees in the playoffs: Where the heck is Anaheim?", "Day to Day crack investigative reporter Brian Unger hits the streets of Los Angeles to talk to grocery and bus strikers, and offers his own unique point of view about what it's like to cover a strike. Browse previous files of The Unger Report:", "The sport of bull riding has surged in popularity in recent years. There's more money, meaner bulls, more ESPN and more hype — and it's still extraordinarily dangerous. Cowboys now sport corporate logos on their chaps and they'll compete for $10 million dollars in prize money this year. You can watch bull riding on television in five countries. Professional Bull Riders Incorporated — a Colorado-based company that stages events — has a membership of nearly 900 cowboys who compete in 300 events per year. The George Paul Memorial Bull Riding is the oldest event in the country. It's held each May in Del Rio, Texas, near the Mexican border, and is now in its 30th year. The event is named after the local legend who had 79 consecutive bull rides without getting bucked off. George Paul died in a plane crash in 1970 at the age of 23. One bullrider, Casey Baize of Big Lake, Texas, lists off the numerous injuries he's suffered his 7 years of professional bullriding: cracked skull, broken eye sockets, broken cheekbone, broken nose, collapsed lung, broken ribs, concussions, and surgery on his left shoulder. (He needs it on his right shoulder, too.) \"It's a lot more than just sticking your hand in a rope, trying to hang on... Eight seconds is a long time,\" Baize says. The overall winner of the George Paul Memorial Bull Ride was 19-year-old T.J. Jenkins, of Texico, N.M., riding a bull named Sharp-Dressed Man. ROBERT SIEGEL, host: From bikes to bulls now, and we're told by people who decide on such things that the sport of bull riding has become the new NASCAR. MICHELE NORRIS, host: You'll find cowboys sporting corporate logos on their chaps. You can watch them right on television in five countries, and they'll compete for $10 million in prize money this year. Professional Bull Riders Incorporated - a Colorado-based company that stages events - now has a membership of nearly 900 cowboys who compete in 300 events a year. SIEGEL: The oldest event in the country is held each May in Del Rio, Texas -down on the Mexican border. The George Paul Memorial Bull Riding is now in its 30th year. It's named after a local legend who rode 79 bulls in a row without getting bucked off. George Paul died in a plane crash in 1970 at the age of 23. Here then is an audio portrait of a sport that is all about a man clinging to the back of a beast for eight seconds. (Soundbite of laughter) Mr. JOHN LUDLUM (Marketing Director, George Paul Memorial Bull Riding): Folks, I'm here to tell you're not only going to see the world's greatest bull riding, you're going to have the most fun you've ever had in your life at a bull riding. If the George Paul Memorial is famous for anything - it is having fun. My name is John Ludlum. I'm the marketing director for the George Paul Memorial Bull Riding. When you come to the George Paul Memorial Bull Riding, it's the mud, the blood, the guts and the beer. We're not in some air-conditioned stadium where you can put your tutu down in a real soft seat. They bill it as the toughest event on dirt, and it's man versus beast. It's got good-looking young cowboys. It's got cowgirls that love them. It is the real thing. Mr. J.B. MAUNEY (Professional Bull Rider): I'm J.B. Mauney. I'm from Mooresville, North Carolina. I'm 20 years old and I'm sitting number two in the world right now. This year, I made close to probably 385,000. Shoot I'm 20 years old, and everybody I knows that my age around my house, they got to go to work every day of the week, I got get on bulls, go on home, go to bull runs. Just have a good time hanging out with my buddies. (Soundbite of bull riding) Mr. CHAD BEAVERS (Professional Bullfighter Rodeo Clown): My name is Chad Beavers. I'm a professional bullfighter rodeo clown. Our job is to protect the cowboy. We're like the secret service for the president, but we're the secret service for the bull rider. If we have to get run over, take a hooking, get hurt ourselves - and I've been around bull riding all my life. I used to ride bulls, so I'm kind of like bull savvy. And a lot of guys don't have the bull savvy, they don't know where to be, what to watch on a bull rider, how to watch a bull when he's bucking, what lead he's in. It takes a lot to learn where to be. You have to step between the rider and the bull. (Soundbite of bull riding) Mr. BEAVER: We step in that ring, it's like game on. Unidentified Man #1: Here we go. All right. (Soundbite of whistling) Mr. BEAVER: We don't think about getting hurt because - it's going to happen. You just go and make sure that the good Lord's with you and he'll take care of you. Unidentified Man: Hey, hey, hey. Mr. BEAVER: I've been banged up from head to toe, I've near broke every bone in my body. Unidentified Man #1: You all right? (Soundbite of indistinct dialogue) Unidentified Man #2: I'm all right. Mr. BEAVER: You know, we get good pay. But the best thing about fighting bulls for a living, saving those cowboys' lives when that cowboy com", "Joe Lieberman angered fellow Democrats this summer when he endorsed Republican John McCain for president. Now that Barack Obama has won the election, Democrats are considering stripping Lieberman of his position as chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Our resident humorist has some ideas about how the senator can keep his position. ALEX COHEN, host: Speaking of those rooting for the losing team, Democrat-turned-independent Senator Joe Lieberman was quite public in his support of John McCain's campaign for president. That miffed many Democrats. Some now want to see him sacked from his job as chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. In today's Unger Report, our humorist, Brian Unger, offers the senator some career advice. BRIAN UNGER: Mr. Lieberman, these are challenging times for our nation and for many Americans struggling to survive the economic downturn that threatens our security. But as Dr. Joseph Warren said moments before instructing Paul Revere to embark on his dangerous midnight ride to warn of the advancing British army, it sucks to be you right now. Mr. Lieberman, you no doubt find yourself encircled by vengeful Democrats who'd like to throw you overboard like a sack of tea, who'd like to pay you back for that not-so-amusing Benedict Arnold impression you did in St. Paul this summer. Senator JOSEPH LIEBERMAN (Independent, Connecticut) : What is a Democrat like me doing at a Republican convention like this? UNGER: That line did not kill outside the Xcel Energy Center. So, in the spirit of keeping the unemployment rate as low as possible, here's how you can hold on to your job as chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee. First, when you said this... Senator LIEBERMAN: I'm here to support John McCain because country matters more than party. UNGER: You simply tell the country that you were abducted by aliens. (Soundbite of spooky music) UNGER: Taken into a spaceship, probed and reprogrammed to implant alien seed into the American mindset as the only means of saving the nation and the world. It works for Scientologists. It can work for you. And then there was this: Senator LIEBERMAN: John McCain is the best choice to bring our country together and lead America forward. UNGER: OK, so after the aliens abducted, probed and reprogrammed you, senator, you were dumped on a road outside Tulsa. You were tired, exhausted, just wanted to go home to Stanford, and you were offered a ride by a Rush Limbaugh disguised as Al Gore, a man you trust, who made you say... Senator LIEBERMAN: The real ticket for change this year is the McCain-Palin ticket. UNGER: Anyone can tell you sound like a man under a spell. That's when you slipped in the bathroom, hit your head on the sink and said... Senator LIEBERMAN: Let's make John McCain our next great president! UNGER: And what's left to say, senator? Simply, I don't recall ever saying that. So, my parting advice, Mr. Lieberman: Go get a gallon of turpentine and scrub that McCain-Palin bumper sticker off the back of your Buick, and it will all feel brand-new again. Because in the end, if a senator convicted of corruption can get reelected in this country, then a senator abducted by aliens can get re-upped on a committee. Good luck. And that is today's Unger Report. I'm Brian Unger. COHEN: Humor from Brian Unger, a regular Monday feature here on Day to Day. Day to Day is a production of NPR News, with contributions from slate.com. I'm Alex Cohen. MADELEINE BRAND, host: And I'm Madeleine Brand.", "Tensions in the Southern California city of Anaheim remain high following the recent police shootings of two Latino men, and days of violent protests over the incidents. The city council will hold a special meeting Wednesday night to hear residents' concerns. Some community members say complaints have fallen on deaf ears in a city that cares more about big businesses than them.", "The Anaheim Angels in the City of Angels? NPR's Luke Burbank reports on an effort by officials in Anaheim, California to prevent Major League Baseball's Anaheim Angels from changing their name to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.", "Two recent police-involved shootings in Anaheim, California have led to demonstrations against the city's police. Anaheim has a large minority population, and some people are raising questions about how the police deal with residents. Host Michel Martin talks with Anaheim's Mayor Tom Tait, who is calling for a federal investigation into the shootings.", "Ferdinand the bull he wasn't. A young bull who appeared to have a lot more testosterone than the literary bull got loose in Whipple Creek Regional Park in Vancouver, Wash. Tuesday and led the police on what would have been a wild goose chase except we're talking bull. And the police eventually caught their bovine. It took the police and ordinary citizens hours of trying to lasso the bull before he was eventually stopped. People bring their horses to the park for its trails and one of the most interesting parts of the story involves two women who came to the park to ride their horse and found themselves in the middle of a great adventure. An excerpt from a story in the Columbian: Melissa Williams of Ridgefield said she'd come to the park with a friend, Caitlynn Ralston, to ride their horses in the 300-acre park, which has more than four miles of trails. Ralston, a Brush Prairie resident, offered to try to capture the bull with her horse, Zip, which is trained for herding cows, and her dog, Smoky, a blue heeler. In a pasture, Williams said, \"The horse got spooked about the bull and bucked her off.\" The bull's horns may have scared Zip, Williams said, adding that Ralston wasn't injured. At one point, Williams said, she was walking and holding the lead ropes of Zip and her horse, Tango, when the bull spooked them again. After being pulled more than 100 feet, Williams had to release the lead ropes. Read More >> With the two horses running loose toward their trailer, Williams followed them. \"I was running after the horses, and the bull was right behind me. When he was chasing me I was mighty scared.\" As she ran, Williams said, she was waving her arms, hoping to scare the bull away from her. She was thinking of jumping over a gate when the bull lost interest in her. \"It went past me toward our horses,\" she said. \"I think a bull could do serious injury to a horse.\" Williams yelled for someone to grab the horses' lead ropes, and someone grabbed Zip's. The bull then ran into a vineyard, so Williams and Ralston tied their horses up and shared a snack. When the bull came toward their horses again, the women put them in the trailer to keep them safe. You have to admire people with of such serenity that they take time out for a snack with a feisty young bull on the loose. Anyway, freedom definitely wasn't free for this bull. As the Columbian further reported: ...An officer shot and killed the bull about 2 p.m. Workers later used a machine to pull the bull's body to the road, where a rendering business hoisted it up and skinned it on the spot, Williams said. \"It was really sad to see him,\" Williams said. \"But when you have an animal that large running loose and just out of control, it puts everybody's life at issue. It's a safety concern at that point.\" After about five hours spent trying to catch the bull, officers regretted having to kill it, Shea said. \"We wished it would have turned out better.\"", "A new study by the University of California at Los Angeles finds that the entertainment industry in Southern California produces millions of tons of greenhouse gases each year. Humorist Brian Unger is shocked by this news, and gives us his reaction.", "Gary Leffew is a former bull-riding champ, actor, stunt coordinator and consultant to HBO's <EM>Deadwood.</EM> He punches up scripts for David Milch's <EM>Deadwood,</EM> making sure the cowboys talk like real cowboys do. In 1970 he won the world championship bull riding competition. After that Leffew took up acting and appeared in many commercials. Now he teaches bull riding at his California Ranch.", "NPR's Tom Goldman reports on the upcoming, all-California World Series. It's the first time World Series for the Anaheim Angels, and the first time two wild card teams have faced off in the series.", "<EM>Day to Day</EM> slightly confused correspondent Brian Unger made a serious error regarding football in his latest Unger Report -- and that caused some listeners to question Unger's claim that he's an Ohio native. <EM>Day to Day</EM> senior producer Steve Proffitt joins NPR's Alex Chadwick to put this controversy to rest with a call to Unger's parents.", "After her third-place finish in Iowa, there are reports that Hillary Clinton's campaign is thinking of running negative ads against Barack Obama. Humorist Brian Unger provides the Clinton campaign with some ready-made negative ads, free of charge. ALEX CHADWICK, host: And back to the presidential campaign for a close. After losing in Iowa last week, Senator Clinton sent out a mailing in New Hampshire questioning Barack Obama's record on abortion rights. And that got our resident humorist Brian Unger wondering: Is the Clinton campaign going negative? Here's the Unger Report. BRIAN UNGER: The Unger Report's Campaign Think Tank, or URCTT, has not been consulted by the Clinton campaign but has produced a series of negative ads, free of charge to Miss Clinton, if she indeed chooses to go negative. Here's the first one. Barack Obama won the Iowa caucus capturing 38 percent of the vote. And then he said this. Senator BARACK OBAMA (Democrat, Illinois): Give it up for Michelle Obama. (Soundbite of applause) UNGER: Do we want a president who says give it up? And worse, appears to be in love with his spouse? Hillary Clinton has never given up on anything, especially this guy. President BILL CLINTON: You know, I love her very much and I think she'd be a great president. UNGER: Hillary and Bill Clinton. Twice as much president than Barack Obama. Another negative attack ad available to Miss Clinton - if she so chooses to run it. Again, these are free. She can download these on iTunes. Barack Obama won the Iowa Caucus capturing 38 percent of the vote and then he said this. Sen. OBAMA: You'll look back and you'll say that this was the moment. This was the place where America remembered what it means to hope. UNGER: Can America afford a president who's living in the future? Don't we need hope this year? Hillary Clinton practically invented hope. She even married a guy from Hope. Hillary Clinton. She's not the future. She is hope here and now. UNGER: If Miss Clinton decides to go negative, this ad could also help her in New Hampshire. Barack Obama won the Iowa Caucus capturing 38 percent of the vote, and then he said this. Sen. OBAMA: I'll be a president who harnesses the ingenuity of farmers and scientists and entrepreneurs to free this nation from the tyranny of oil once and for all. (Soundbite of applause) UNGER: Without oil, what will America mix with vinegar? And what about teachers, firemen and baristas? Don't they deserve to have their ingenuity unharnessed too? We need a president who wants America to enjoy salad with both vinegar and oil, and believes everyone's a genius. Hillary Clinton, a president who believes everyone - not just farmers and scientists - deserves a delicious salad. Senator HILLARY CLINTON (Democrat, New York): I'm Hillary Clinton and I approved this message. Not. UNGER: And that is today's Unger Report. Negative ads from URCTT are available to all candidates upon request. I'm Brian Unger.", "Last year, teenagers and young adults spent almost $2.3 billion on heavily caffeinated drinks with names like Monster, Red Bull, Amp and Full Throttle. Evan Cathcart, 19, says a can of Red Bull gives him a quick boost when he's skateboarding. \"I can skateboard longer and it tastes good,\" Cathcart says. He's always assumed energy drinks are more potent than Mountain Dew or Coke, but he says it's unclear exactly how much caffeine they contain because it's not labeled on the can. In order to determine how much caffeine is contained in various brands of energy drinks, toxicology professor Bruce Goldberger of the University of Florida tested 10 drinks. He found a significant range of caffeination. He found one of the energy drinks, Hair of the Dog, contained no caffeine. Another drink, a 16-ounce serving of SoBe No Fear, contained 141 milligrams of caffeine, which is the equivalent of almost five cans of Coke or 1 ½ cups of a typical brewed coffee. Goldberger also tested an 8-ounce sugar-free can of Red Bull, which had twice the caffeine of a can of Coke or Pepsi. Caffeine researchers who've studied the effects of the stimulant on the body say there's nothing alarming about the amount of caffeine in a single can of these energy drinks. But experts say teens often don't realize how much caffeine they're drinking. And many teenagers also don't know how easy it is to become dependent on the stimulant. \"If they use it for three or five days in a row, and then suddenly quit, then they're going to be thrown into withdrawal,\" says Roland Griffiths, professor of behavioral biology at Johns Hopkins University. Withdrawal symptoms can include headaches, mood swings and trouble concentrating. Some people are more sensitive to stimulants than others, so some teens may get a bad case of the jitters from very little caffeine. \"I think it's important that people recognize that caffeine really is a drug,\" Griffiths says, \"and that they accord it respect as a drug.\" Teens and young adults seem to be drinking more of these caffeinated beverages than ever. Two years ago, when Bruce Goldberger first began to study energy drinks, he found 10 brands. \"Now, the market has blossomed and there's literally hundreds of energy drinks available,\" Goldberger says. As the market expands, some brands are pushing caffeine levels to new highs. One drink, called Cocaine and made by Redux Beverages, contains about three times as much caffeine as Red Bull. To publicize its drink, the company sponsors contests inviting contestants to submit wacky videos they've put on Web sites like YouTube or MySpace. \"They send us the videos,\" says Redux's Hannah Kirby, \"and then we send them out a T-shirt and samples of the beverage. We've done a lot of stealth marketing.\" Energy-drink makers also market their products to teens and young adults by sponsoring sporting events or athletes who compete in extreme skiing, skateboarding or BMX biking. \"A lot of these energy drinks, ones like Monster, they catch on by word of mouth,\" says energy-drink blogger Dan Mayer. STEVE INSKEEP, host: Of course, older people are not the only ones looking for a mental jolt. Teenagers and young adults have popularized heavily-caffeinated drinks with names like Red Bull, Monster, Amp and Full Throttle. Those who love them know they're getting a lift, but few have any idea how much caffeine they are actually drinking. NPR's Allison Aubrey reports. (Soundbite of skate boarding sounds) ALLISON AUBREY: Skateboarding requires lots of energy. So when 19-year-old Evan Cathcart wants a quick boost, he likes to pick up a can of Red Bull. Mr. EVAN CATHCART (Skateboarder): Well, I mean, cause I like energy drinks. So, like, just like right now we're at a skate park. (unintelligible) like, fine, let's get some more energy I can skateboard longer. And it tastes good. AUBREY: Cathcart's skateboarding at a park in Kensington, Maryland, just a stone's throw from a 7-Eleven convenience store where a 12-ounce Red Bull costs about $2. Cathcart says he doesn't drink them everyday, but when he needs a lift, he figures energy drinks are more potent than Mountain Dew or Coke. Do you have any idea how much caffeine is in that Red Bull? Mr. CATHCART: Well, it must be quite a bit. Probably more than a soda. I don't have an idea of like exactly how much. I don't really know how it's measured or anything. AUBREY: Cathcart is hardly alone. Very few consumers have any idea how much they're taking in because the caffeine content is not listed anywhere on the cans of energy drinks. And only a few brands contain caffeine warnings. Toxicology Professor Bruce Goldberger at the University of Florida was curious to know how much was in each drink. So he tested 10 brands and found a huge range of caffeination. Professor BRUCE GOLDBERGER (Toxicology, University of Florida): One of the energy drinks that's called Hair of the Dog contains no caffeine. It's caffeine-free, t" ]

[ "Delta Dawn Lyrics Bette Midler Mojim.com Mojim Lyrics Delta Dawn LyricistLarry Collins, Alex Harvey She was forty-one, her daddy still called her baby And everyone in ... Delta Dawn, what's that flower you've got on? ... Tanya Tucker - Delta Dawn ... DAWN - COVER- Helen Reddy -Tanya .", "Mansion in the sky lyrics TANYA TUCKER LYRICS - Delta Dawn To take you to his mansion in the sky? She's forty-one and her daddy still calls her, 'baby' All the folks around ... HELEN REDDY LYRICS - Delta Dawn ... Delta Dawn, what's that flower you've got on?", "OT:delta & dawn have left the building The news media decide to call the mother humpback and her calf delta ... Delta Dawn, what's that flower you've got on? ... Thanks for noting it was Tanya Tucker originally, not Helen Reddy. ... Lukester,thanks for asking.", "J! Archive - Show #510, aired 1986-11-21 In \"I've Been Working On The Railroad\", \"someone's in the kitchen with\" her ... Both Tanya Tucker & Helen Reddy asked her, \"What's that flower you've got on?\"...", "Delta Dawn, what's that flower you've got on? Could it be a ... \"In her younger days they called her Delta Dawn. .... a good cake if you ask me. .... I had the Helen Reddy version of it on LP. ... 42. I heard Tanya Tucker sing that when she was like 15 .... They both knew what they wanted" ]

[ "Helen Reddy - Wikipedia Helen Maxine Lamond Reddy (born 25 October 1941) is an Australian singer, actress, and ... 1, including her signature hit \"I Am Woman\". .... 1 hits there over a three-year span, from \"Delta Dawn\" in 1973 to \"I Can't Hear You No More\" in 1976. ... charts in the UK and Ireland (her sole previous hit in both was \"Angie Baby\").", "Tanya Tucker - Wikipedia Tanya Denise Tucker is an American female country music artist who had her first hit, \"Delta Dawn\", in 1972 at the age of 13. ... Tucker made her debut with Mel Tillis, who was so impressed by her talent that he invited ... Released in the spring of 1972, the song became a hit, peaking at number six on the country charts and...", "Tanya Tucker - Wikipedia Tanya Denise Tucker is an American female country music artist who had her first hit, \"Delta ... Tanya did not win the bigger role she tried out for, but she was hired as a bit .... and, most notably, country/pop star Glen Campbell, with whom she had a very ... In 1990 Tucker was named \"Female Video Artist of the Year\" by CMT.", "Tanya Tucker Reflects on 40-Year Career, Hall of Fame Exhibit ... Nov 14, 2014 ... On the night she gave birth to her second child, son Beau Grayson, Tucker ... The mother of older daughter Presley and younger daughter Layla, ... Tanya Tucker and Glen Campbell perform together in 1980 Ron Galella Collection .... It's one thing to have your name on a record but it's another to have it on.", "Helen Reddy - Wikipedia Helen Maxine Lamond Reddy (born 25 October 1941) is an Australian singer, actress, and .... Reddy recalled: \"When we did eat, it was spaghetti, and we spent what little .... 1 hits there over a three-year span, from \"Delta Dawn\" in 1973 to \"I Can't Hear .... West End (1997); Music Box Theatre, Broadway (January May 1995)...", "1000+ images about Helen Reddy on Pinterest | Helen Reddy, The ... See more about Helen Reddy, The Midnight Special and Pete Dragon. ... Songs .... Helen Reddy - Hit the road Jack More ... Definitely in my Top 10! ... YOU AND ME AGAINST THE WORLD - THE QUEEN OF 70s POP - PAUL WILLIAMS .... HELEN REDDY AND BOBBY DARIN DUET - IF NOT FOR YOU - WRITTEN BY BOB...", "Helen Reddy was most known for her song \"I Am Woman ... - Pinterest Helen Reddy The Queen of 70's Pop Music, she had 15 Top 40 hits. .... Reddy 72, Extraordinary Women, 10 25, Athletes Musicians ... Helen Reddy recounts a worldly and otherworldly life. ...... Joni Mitchell did not make it to Woodstock but she wrote a song capturing the essence of the ..... Happy birthday, Paul Reubens!", "Tanya Tucker at Soaring Eagle Casino in Mount Pleasant, MI on 30 ... Dec 30, 2015 ... The Songs Of Glen Campbell and tonight, Collin sang Gentle On My ... Since taking the stage at 13 years old, Tanya Tucker has acquired a ... Next she talked about her three children, Presley, Beau, and Layla. ... The sounds of this evening are no longer played on the mainstream radio as it is called...", "The top 10 best Tanya Tucker songs - AXS May 23, 2016 ... Starting out as a child performer, Tanya Tucker was able to do what many have not ... \"Delta Dawn\" is a song written by Larry Collins and songwriter Alex Harvey, best known as a 1972 top ten country hit for Tanya Tucker at age 13. ... It topped the U.S. country chart on March 30, 1974, for one week and was...", "Cult heroes: Helen Reddy, the 'queen of housewife pop' with a ... Feb 2, 2016 ... Though she had only one UK hit, Reddy was a huge star in the US and ... show that womanhood can includes both invincibility and vulnerability. ... Stranger still, perhaps, just before she began singing about the ... Starting with the lines I am woman, hear me roar / In numbers too ..... We were on a nice roll.", "Tanya Tucker - Spencer Theater for the Performing Arts ... made her one of the most successful and admired women in country music. She was just 13 when bursting onto the country scene with Delta Dawn in 1972,...", "Tanya Denise Tucker (born October 10, 1958, in Seminole, Texas) is ... Crystal Gayle, born 1951, is an American country music singer best known for her ... 1 international pop crossover smash \"Harper Valley PTA\" and the hit \"I Love\", ... He became known to fans as \"The Storyteller,\" thanks to his storytelling skills in ..... female country singers 70s | music s best known artists and biggest selling...", "The top 10 Tanya Tucker songs of all time - AXS Apr 9, 2015 ... When Delta Dawn became a major hit in 1972, Tanya Denise Tucker was only 13 years old. ... Tanya Tucker, live at Gruene Hall in New Braunfels, Texas, Dec. ... It became a #1 country hit, #37 pop hit (her only Top 40 pop music hit) ... Tanya wanted to change her image by 1978 and released a sexier...", "Delta Dawn - Wikipedia \"Delta Dawn\" is a song written by former child rockabilly star Larry Collins and songwriter Alex Harvey, best known as a 1972 top ten country hit for Tanya Tucker and a number-one ... Released, May 13, 1972 ... In the meantime Bette Midler had recorded \"Delta Dawn\" for her The Divine Miss M debut album from which her...", "Helen Reddy I am woman... # Quiz # Question - YouTube Jun 30, 2016 ... It Italy, Helen Reddy could sing I Am Donna, as Donna means this in Italian # Quiz # Question - Duration: 0:29. Amazing Videos No views. New.", "Helen Reddy was most known for her song \"I Am Woman.\" My mom ... My mom played this song a lot when she was getting divorced. | See more about Helen Reddy, For Her and Getting Divorced. ... Video S Music, Music Fun, Top Music, 70 S Music, Music Love, Music Songs, ..... She was born 10-25 in 1941. ...... Paul McCartney wrote four songs for them, including A World Without Love, when...", "Sophie Tucker - Biography - IMDb For the beloved Russian-born entertainer Sophie Tucker, it was most definitely the live stage. ... Jump to: Overview (4) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (3) | Trivia (8) | Personal Quotes (3) ... Disguised in blackface, she played ragtime music. ... She gave advice to both women and married men in such songs as \"You've Got to Make It...", "Tanya Tucker facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ... Make research projects and school reports about Tanya Tucker easy with ... began making an impact in her singing career when she was only 13 years old. Her first single, \"Delta Dawn,\" reached the top ten of the country charts soon after its release ... for awards from the Country Music Association, and a list of hit songs that...", "funjeop Jeopardy Review Game Answer Key - Super Teacher Tools ... 'What's that flower you've got on?' Delta Dawn. #5, In this song, Anthony Newley said, 'I'll throw off my sorrow, beg, steal or borrow my share of laughter', 'Who...", "Who are Tanya Tucker's children? | Reference.com Tanya Tucker's children are Presley Tanita, Beau Grayson and Layla LaCosta. ... Tucker gave birth to her only son Beau on the same night she was named the 1991 ... Tanya Tucker has never been married but had an on-and-off engagement with Jerry ... A: Stephanie Zimbalist does not have any children, as of 2015. She...", "I Am Woman (album) - Wikipedia I Am Woman is an album by Australian-American pop singer Helen Reddy that was released in the fall of 1972 by Capitol Records and included her second...", "Barbra Streisand Archives | 2010 News | Love is the Answer, We Are ... Dec 30, 2010 ... Streisand Co-Star and Director Dies + Temple of Doom On Set Film .... Tamir Hendelman played piano for her as she sang The Way We Were. ... The Main Event ..... U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer is hosting her latest \"Women Making ...... What's Up, Doc? starring Barbra Streisand & Ryan O'Neal to Blu-ray...", "Hepatica's sanctuary | The other first flower of Spring | Page 2 Jun 17, 2008 ... He'd swiped the sweat on his eye brow, casually looked over his shoulder .... Go up to the girl of your dreams, give her a single rose and say, .... One story has it that two Spanish explorers reached a point just ... His partner asked him que ve vd? ... to which the other answered Aca nada(nothing's there).", "Ruth Pointer Interview | SoulTracks - Soul Music Biographies, News ... She's So Happy, She's Just Burning: An Interview with Ruth Pointer By ... with her sisters - Anita, June, and Bonnie - Ruth Pointer has experienced all facets of the ... He was always putting together these male groups like The Five Blind Boys, The .... of flowers I have ever seen in my sister's house came from Aretha Franklin.", "Tanya Tucker - Delta Dawn - YouTube Mar 13, 2012 - 3 min - Uploaded by John1948TwelveCTanya Tucker had her first country hit in 1972, when she was just 13 years old. Over the ...", "Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Summer & Smoke [DVD] [1961 ... It's old film, the story line, hey, it's Tennessee Williams. ... fellow Brit, Laurence Harvey (a southerner by association since he played Travis in \"The ... Underrated performances, underrated movie, pre-David Lynch territory, almost Ray ... Just listen for Miss Alma (Geraldine Page) when she says \"I could spread out my life like a...", "Country Legend, Tanya Tucker, in Cape May - City of Cape May News May 11, 2016 ... COUNTRY LEGEND TANYA TUCKER TO PERFORM MAY 28 IN ... of chart-topping performers from genres including country, rock, blues, disco, R&B and more. Since recording her debut single, Delta Dawn at the age of 13,...", "Sophie Tucker | Jewish Women's Archive She was born Sophie Kalish in Russia as her parents were preparing to ... In 1925, Jack Yellen penned perhaps her most famous song, sung in Yiddish and English, titled ... During the tour, Tucker got to know many Jewish actors in London, and took ... It's Gonna Be Tough on Me and I'm The Last of the Red-Hot Mamas.", "American Pie by Don McLean Songfacts The line \"I met a girl who sang the blues and I asked her for some happy news, but she ..... The Order's medal actually includes a crown: ... Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry .... The song is about pop music in America in the 50's and 60's, including the \"British Invasion\" of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.", "I Am Woman - Wikipedia \"I Am Woman\" is a song written by Australian-American artist Helen Reddy and ... Reddy-I Am Woman.jpg. Cover of the 1972 ... Helen Reddy singles chronology...", "Helen Reddy - I Am Woman (Lyrics) - YouTube Aug 11, 2010 - 3 min - Uploaded by MiluzieHelen Reddy - I Am Woman (Lyrics). Miluzie's channel ... I Am Helen Reddy - If you don't ...", "I Am Woman by Helen Reddy tops the U.S. pop charts - Dec 09 ... On this day in History, I Am Woman by Helen Reddy tops the U.S. pop charts on Dec 09, 1972. Learn more about what happened today on History." ]

[ "Starting a private school is a challenging process and generally takes no less than 2 years. Private schools often have high academic standards, low teacher-student ratios, availability of non-core subjects such as art and music and an emphasis on discipline, safety, community service, and values." ]

[ " Nervous about starting a private high school? Don't know how to act or dress? Read on and good luck! ", "The private schools admission process is long and competitive that takes about a year. The goal is to find a school that is a good fit for you, your child, and the school.", "In the United States, a charter school is an offshoot of the public school system that can be proposed and started by a private group. With the exception of the facilities, charter schools are funded with public money.", "Tired of the old primary schools they have in the Sims? Do your children and teens want to go to the best? The legendary Private school? Firstly, Private School doesn't deplete their fun as badly as Public School.", "There are many good reasons for going to private school, but the logistics of entering into private school are daunting. Tuition costs and the potential need to live on campus are scary propositions for some parents.", "Whether you attend a private school or a Christian school, you can start a Christian club on your campus! Follow these steps and do it all for God's glory.", "Do you just want to do something for your private school that people will remember, and have fun while doing it? Well you don't have to get on stage and sing or anything, just find out whether your school already has a newspaper, and if not, start one !", "Becoming popular is a challenge, and at a private school, it can be even more difficult because of uniform regulations, rules etc.. Follow these tips and you'll be in with the A crowd in no time!", "Many students that attend private school find that public schools suit them better. If you haven’t completely made up your mind, there is a lot to consider.", "Charter schools are emerging as an alternative to the traditional system of education and may be the ideal choice for your child over public district schools or private schools.", "Choosing whether to send your children to a public or private school can be a very hard decision to make. Knowing what matters to you in terms of your child’s educational experience, the differences between public and private education, and taking some practical action to explore possible schools can make the process a little easier.", "Adjusting to a new school can be tough, especially if you're leaving the comfortable private school life and moving to a more open and unpredictable public schooling.", "Congratulations! You're joining parents and teachers around the world who want to reinvent education by starting their own schools. Starting a school and sharing your vision for education with the world can be one of the most satisfying career choices you'll make.", "Legend has it that private schools are better than public schools. Unfortunately for those who would like to go to a public school, the stereotype is often true, however, with a bit of work and luck, you just might be able to convince your parents to allow you to go to a public school instead!", "Do you want to go to a private school, but your parents/guardians don't have enough money? Or are you already at one and you or your parents/guardians just want to lower the fees for yourselves?", "Every school is different, but many students at private schools favor a more preppy look - or are made to dress a certain way by strict uniform policies.", "Applying to a private high school is similar in many ways to applying to a college, especially with college preparatory schools. There is an admission process which includes the application form(comprised of a series of short, personal questions and a few essays), the signing of recommendation forms, submission of your transcript, a tour of the school, an interview, a day of classes, and several standardized tests.", "If you want to make a difference in the world in a big way, and you have the money to do it, you might consider starting a private foundation. Private foundations are a special type of nonprofit organization that gives money away for charitable purposes.", "Okay, so you started an alternative school. Now, you need to name it so that the kids will have an answer to \"What school do you go to?\" This will give you some ideas!", "11 Plus interviews are not confined to private school or independent school admissions, popular grammar schools also holding interviews before or on the day of the 11+ examination.", "Every year, many people in the seventh through eleventh grades apply to private high schools. Many of these schools are highly competitive. A lot of things are considered including grades, test scores, extracurricular activities and the interview.", "Whether you're about to start your first day at a small private school or at a large university, making new friends in college can be an intimidating experience.", "Private tutoring for school-aged students is rapidly becoming a popular service. Many parents feel there is not enough individual attention for their struggling students and seek out tutors to help them.", " So, you would like to open your own Christian-based school for children. That should be a very exciting step for you to take. ", "Have you started a new school? Or just want to be with the 'in' crowd? Nothing can guarantee secondary school popularity, but some of the tips below can get you started on the right rick.", "Do you know the word 'preppy?' Well, prep fashion comes from things people wore in college prep schools--basically, private schools. Prep is the height of popular at these schools, since they're the ones who invented it, but popularity can be different in private schools, and very difficult for people who come in from public schools.", "Starting a club of an kind at school can be tough. It takes a lot of organization, recruiting, and decision making, especially for a volunteering club that will be having events and doing services outside of school.", "When the phone starts ringing and the caller ID reads, “Private,” you probably ignore the call. A great deal of these private calls are from telemarketers or automated services, and they’re an irritating interruption to your day.", "Girls at this age can be different than other girls in private school or who are home-schooled. Public school girls are sometimes more dramatic and some girls lack self-confidence in looks and personality.", "Starting a new school can be very hard, and all you want to do is just fit in. If this sounds familiar, realize that many new students experience it and it is possible to overcome the feelings of being left out, uncertain and worried about fitting in.", "If you have an educational philosophy you feel strongly about sharing with students, you may feel motivated enough to start your own college based on its inherent values.", "Have you ever wanted to make a lot of money in in school? Are you a teenager or a child in school with no cash? You can be a young entrepreneur in your school." ]

[ "Should you bring gifts to a gender reveal party? Gifts for a gender reveal party are by no means required, but they are always welcomed and appreciated. Getting ready for a new family member is an exciting time, and a gift is a small gesture that can contribute to that celebration!" ]

[ "There's one important thing to remember about gender reveal parties versus baby showers: typically, you don't give gifts at a gender reveal party. ... Baby showers, on the other hand, are all about gifts. You're showering the baby with gifts. That's the point of the party.", "A gender reveal party is not the same thing as a baby shower. If the gender reveal is hosted at a baby shower, you would bring a typical shower gift. ... However, as a hostess, you should not expect any gifts at a gender reveal party. That means you shouldn't list registry information if you send a formal invite.", "During this occasion, your friends and family will shower you with gifts for the baby. On the other hand, a Gender Reveal Party is an event where you reveal the biological gender of your baby to family and friends.", "Gender Reveal Gift Ideas for Mom If not, you can purchase a tumbler or a coffee mug with “mom” on it instead. Some other items you can consider include candles, a gift certificate for a massage, or a gift basket filled with some of her favorite treats.", "Traditionally games and gift giving are the main activities at the baby shower. ... Baby showers are generally hosted by family members or friends. But if your having separate parties, the expectant parents host the Gender Reveal party. Combining your big reveal to your baby shower just adds to all the fun.", "['Balloon pop gender reveal. Fill an opaque black balloon with pink or blue confetti; then when you pop the balloon, the flying confetti will reveal all.', 'Balloon box. ... ', 'Gender reveal piñata. ... ', 'Pass the package. ... ', 'Gender reveal cake.']", "At most parties they don't open gifts at the party, but some do, and it's usually ok (5+ year-old gift givers get excited - the kids crowd around and yell ''open mine next!'' and sometimes look to the birthday kid's face to see how it was received).", "Rapper Krept has announced he's going to be a new dad at his lavish 30th birthday-turned-gender-reveal-party. The one-half of dynamic duo Krept and Konan, who is expecting a baby girl, made the heartwarming announcement during his birthday bash - which turned into a gender reveal.", "A modern creation, the gender reveal party's modern incarnation began in the late 2000s. One of the earliest notable examples was found in the 2008 posts of then-pregnant Jenna Karvunidis on her ChicagoNow blog High Gloss and Sauce announcing the sex of her fetus via cake.", "What to do about gifts. While guests have not traditionally brought presents to engagement parties, this is changing. The key is to decide what you are comfortable with. If you prefer not to receive gifts from guests, make a point of saying so on the invitations.", "['Include the date, time, and address of the party. ... ', 'Specify the dress code for the event. ... ', \"Tell the recipient's what the occasion is for. ... \", \"Do you expect donations or don't want anyone to bring gifts? ... \", \"Give them a contact and deadline to send in RSVP's.\"]", "The good news is, engagement gifts are not required, no matter how fancy the celebration. ... Nowadays, it's common for guests to bring a gift to an engagement party, but it's usually something small and sentimental. Don't feel pressured to give an elaborate or expensive gift.", "Short answer: Yes. Long answer: Proper wedding gift etiquette states you need to bring a gift to both affairs, but that doesn't mean the two gifts have to be equal in value. In fact, when it comes to bridal shower gift vs.", "Set the date and invite guests. Send your invitations out at least six weeks ahead of time, so you can get your gender-determining ultrasound, and even a 3-D ultrasound, and plan your big reveal. If you'd like to nail down those details first, you can wait and send your invites out two weeks ahead.", "Christening Gifts Although many people choose to purchase a gift for the child, it isn't necessary, particularly if you have already given something to the child at a shower or during a visit. However, if this is something you would like to do, make it something the child can keep for many years.", "Have the giver present in the room. Gift givers are kind enough to search for, buy, wrap, and bring you gifts. During the holidays, at a party, or one-on-one, it's gracious to open presents in front of them so they are there for the “unveiling” and so you can thank them in the moment.", "The law is quite clear that gifts between spouses do count as matrimonial property and therefore get added to the “pot” to be split between the couple. ... The opposite is the case when it comes to gifts by third parties.", "Will you find out the sex of the baby? The 20-week ultrasound is often known as the “gender reveal,” but it depends on the baby's position and the medical directive from the clinic or hospital where you have the scan.", "Bridesmaids or other members of the wedding party can be invited to multiple showers, but it should be clear that their attendance is not expected at both, nor do they need to bring (or send) a gift to both.", "Do you bring gifts to a Sip and See? Unlike a baby shower, where the baby registry may be listed on the invitation, gifts are not expected at a Sip and See. However, many guests will bring a gift, especially if they have not yet given the new baby a gift.", "Nowadays, it's common for guests to bring a gift to an engagement party, but it's usually something small and sentimental. ... Whether you bring a gift is totally up to you, but if you're worried about showing up empty-handed, consider something budget-friendly like a bottle of wine or a pretty bouquet.", "According to the returns policy of Amazon India, you cannot return E-mail Gift Cards, Physical Gift Cards, Third-Party Gift Cards bought from Amazon India. However, if you no longer need or want your Amazon gift card, you can sell it on Zingoy for money.", "['Zip ties and plastic bags: As you take down lights, wrap them in a loose circle. Once the strand has been removed, fasten the male and female ends. ... ', \"DIY cardboard spools: After unwrapping all those gifts, you're bound to have some cardboard around.\"]", "Lil Xan is going to be a dad. The 22-year-old rapper announced on Instagram Sunday that he and his partner of three months, Annie Smith, are expecting their first child together. “All of you are invited to the gender reveal party i promise!” continued the dad-to-be.", "['Dimitrije Tanaskovic/Stocksy. ... ', 'Give a Surprise Sports Gift. ... ', 'Record Your Reaction. ... ', 'Make a Baby-Themed Meal. ... ', 'Take a Pic of Your Positive Pregnancy Test. ... ', 'Let a Sibling Spill the Beans. ... ', 'Bake a Bun in the Oven. ... ', 'Drop Hints at a Holiday Party.']", "A wedding shower is a party given for a bride, with the intention of showering the bride with gifts she will need to start up a new household. ... A bachelorette party is the female equivalent of a bachelor party, supposedly the last time out drinking and partying with “the girls,” as single women.", "Do You Know Me? is the party game that tests your knowledge of each other, and reveals things you never knew about your fellow players! Buckle up — it's about to get personal.", "['wedding or civil ceremony gifts of up to £1,000 per person (£2,500 for a grandchild or great-grandchild, £5,000 for a child)', 'normal gifts out of your income, for example Christmas or birthday presents - you must be able to maintain your standard of living after making the gift.']", "['Red Envelope. Monetary gift is the most practical choice – CNY 200 to 1,000 for kids while CNY 1,000 to 5,000 for parents.', 'Cigarettes. If your host smokes, prepare two cartons of cigarettes in the brands they like. ... ', 'Alcohol. ... ', 'Tea. ... ', 'Fruits. ... ', 'Health Food.']", "['Gift Certificates from a cute little boutique, coffee shop or book store.', 'Baby Shower Candles.', 'Lotions.', 'A Picture Frame.', 'A Recipe Box.', 'A Cool Mug From Starbucks.', 'Potted Plants.', 'Tea Cup, Saucer and Tea Bags.']", "It's best not to go empty-handed to a retirement party. It's a nice gesture to bring a gift unless it's mentioned not to on the invitation. Then, a card with best wishes is sufficient. When you don't know the retiree well, or you're charged to pay for food and drinks, then you don't need to bring a gift.", "All Amherst parties are open to the entire campus. You will never be turned away from a party. There is a fair amount drinking at parties, but you never pressure to do anything you don't want to do. There are large college-sponsered parties that get the whole campus together." ]

[ "I'd imagine it's because the Nitrogen in Ammonia is (or was historically) regarded as the cationic participant with 3 Hydrogen anions ie N3+(H-)3.\\n\\nWhereas for water the Oxygen is most definitely the Anion O2-\\nwith 2 Hydrogen Cations (H+)2.\\n\\nThe convention for displaying salts generally takes the form Cation Anion.\\n\\nThis is moot, however, as both compounds are strongly covalent." ]

[ "The borohydride will dispense a Hydride (H minus) to the carbonyl site causing the following transformation: R-COOH ---> R-CH2O- \\n\\nAdding the HCl will protonate the oxygen leaving you with: R-CH2OH", "cinnamic acid is reduced to the aldehyde and can be further reduced to the alcohol.\\nsodium borohydride is caustic b/c the hydride ion(H-1) reacts with water to produce hydrogen gas and the hydroxide ion. it acts as a strong base.", "You can reduce benzaldehyde with sodium borohydride or lithium aluminum hydride (LAH).\\n\\nSodium borohydride is not sufficiently reactive to reduce benzoic acid. It will neutralize the acid to benzoate, but the benzoate will resist reduction by the borohydride.\\n\\nLAH, on the other hand, will reduce the benzoate produced by the reaction of LAH and benzoic acid.", "Something that's never been written about, before. It happened but never got written about. Is this for a newspaper? A school project? A story contest? That would make a difference. But here's an example: Back in June 2004,\\na trio went to the fair in Anderson, California. They looked like a family. They could've been a family. They were on the news as a family. But they weren't really a family. They should've been, they could've been. (It was Father's Day, by the way.) They almost became a family. But something happened approximately 2 months later, that their rightful relationship self destructed.", "Sounds like a crash and burn case to me. Oh by the way the Japanese pilots did not wear crash helmets. They wanted to die with their heads wrapped in sashes with their family names written on them. This way they can die and honor their family name. Thanks. LJK.", "There are lots of battery technonlogies. The common battery is made of carbon and zinc with an electrolyte that is primarily manganese. But other batteries use nickle/cadmium, nickle/metal hydride, mercury, lead/acid, and lithium compounds. So depends on what battery you are talking about.", "Wildwood Flower by The Carter Family\\nWords and music written in 1860\\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildwood_Flower\\nI absolutely love Reese Witherspoon's version from the Walk The Line soundtrack. She can sing.", "NaBH4 functions as BH4-, which donates a hydride (a hydrogen with a negative charge) to the aldehyde or ketone that you're working with. The product is a sodium salt/alkoxide. Water or HCl (acid) will protonate the alkoxide to generate the alcohol that you need. \\n\\nThe gas formed was probably hydrogen, from when the HCl reacted with the Sodium borohydride.", "Nurse Practitioners don't necessarily have more experience than PAs. Most PA schools require previous medical experience, so many PAs were previously paramedics, nurses, medical assistants, CNAs, etc. In fact, PA programs typically have more patient contact hours written into their programs than nurse practioner programs. Nurse practitioners usually stick with one specialization, whereas PAs are trained as generalists (can be derm PA for a few years, then go to Family practice, etc.) Most PA programs are becoming graduate programs.", "You will have to find the executor of the will who will be the trustee to carry out any provisions written in the will, usually it is the lawyer hired by the deceased. If your name is there and your family is witholding your dues your only recourse is to contest the will in an open court house.", "Water does autodisassociate, but methanol does not. Methanol's proton is only removed with a very strong base, like sodium hydride or lithium diisopropyl amine. The species created is an alkoxide and they are quite reactive.\\n\\nSome substances can dissolve in methanol if they are polar (e.g. have a dipole moment caused by the inequality of electron charge distribution)", "I believe that Kennedy went to Harvard. Have you checked an encyclopedia or do an on-line query. There is so much written about the Kennedy family. I'm sure no stone has been left unturned. Good luck to you.", "They go by a book that was written centuries ago.That is primitive.They are followers of their family and their society's belief system.\\n\\nWait a minute\\n\\nSo are christians and other religions.\\n\\nThey all go by beleifs of primitive men, before there was science and technology.", "well it depends on the job that will determine what type of presentation it will be. however, you could prepare an outline of what it is you will be discussing, then perhaps put it in written form exactly what it is you will be saying and then practice, in front of a mirror and in front of family/friends. hope this helps!!", "Boron, Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen", "Wedding ettiquette dictates that you should send seperate invitations to the attendants families because it is considered rude to simply \"pass on\" the invite by word of mouth via an attendant who, due to invariably being a close friend, will be asked personally and actually not receive a written invite.", "in respiration a cell turns glucose and Oxygen into waaste products CO2 and H20. That is why we breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide. In photosynthesis a plant makes glucose and Oxygen from our waste products.", "WE is not going to air it any more - let's ask ABC Family and Oxygen networks if they will pick it up in the US!!!!", "A number of differnt elements, including oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, argon and others. The mojority of air is nitrogen at about 63%, while depending where int he world you are, oxygen only makes up 15-19 percent.", "better in japanese with english subs. the subtitles are normally written by the japanese production company so follows the original story better whereas the english dub is normally done by american distribution companies who don't translate as well.", "farsi is of course, what used to be called persian, and the national language of iran. dari is a dialect of farsi, spoken in afghanistan.\\nurdu is an entirely different langauge altogether. in fact, urdu and hindi are the same language, but urdu is written in the arabic script, and hindi is written in the devenagari script. the only difference is that urdu has many arabic words incorporated into it, because the speakers are muslim. most of these arabic words are used in greetings, whereas in hindi, the greetings are associated with hinduism, etc.", "Yao is actually his surname - or family name (last name) - Ming his given (first name). Chinese names are traditionally written family name fist - Yao Ming. Americanized would look more like - Yao, Ming - or simply Ming Yao. When addressing him you would actually call him Mr. Yao. So, since Yao IS actually his last name, that is why it's on his jersey.", "Usually when we think of oxygen, we think of the air we breathe. The air around us contains oxygen gas, as well as many other gases. If the air is cooled enough, it will change from a gas into a liquid or a solid.\\n\\nAir is made mostly of oxygen and nitrogen. To get nitrogen gas changed to a liquid, it must be cooled to minus 321 degrees Fahrenheit, which is minus 196 degrees Celsius. Oxygen turns into a liquid at a slightly higher temperature, minus 183 degrees Celsius. To get these gases down to such low temperatures, the air is compressed and cooled. When it is allowed to expand again, the temperature drops even further. By repeating this process many times, the air is eventually cooled to minus 312 degrees Fahrenheit. The liquid formed is a combination of oxygen and nitrogen.\\n\\nTo separate the oxygen, the liquid is warmed just enough for the nitrogen to turn back into a gas - leaving only the liquid oxygen.", "Heres some explanation about these terms....A write-through cache writes out modified data blocks to the backing store immediately, whereas in write-behind cache technique, the modified blocks are simply marked as dirty or modified, and written to the disk at a later time.", "Haven't heard of it - there was a book called \"A Stone for Danny Fisher\" by Harold Robbins. Pretty good, as I recall.\\n\\nPer Wikipedia:\\nA Stone For Danny Fisher is a very serious, early novel by Harold Robbins that looks at the effect of the Great Depression on a lower-middle class Jewish family. Written in 1952 it is actually set in the period up to 1944.", "The word \"kelvin\" as an SI unit is correctly written with a lowercase k (unless at the beginning of a sentence), and is never preceded by the words degree or degrees, or the symbol °, unlike degrees Fahrenheit, or degrees Celsius. This is because the latter are adjectives, whereas kelvin is a noun.", "The air we breathe is 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen and a small amount of trace gases. Under normal conditions, the air provides the oxygen which allows other fuels to burn.\\nHowever, under pressure and very high temperatures (such as in a automoblie engine), the nitrogen can chemically combine (burn) with the oxygen gas to form a series of compounds called nitrogen oxides. Some of these are serious air pollutants.\\nSee the site below for additional information:", "A Raisin in the Sun is a 1959 play written by Lorraine Hansberry. It is the story of the Younger family, based on Hansberry's own experiences growing up in Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood. A Raisin in the Sun was the first play written by a black woman to be produced on Broadway. The title comes from a poem by Langston Hughes.\\n\\nThe play concerns the working-class Younger family, who dream of leaving behind the delapidated tenement apartment where they have lived for decades. Son Walter, a chauffeur, dreams of making a fortune but foolishly gives his money to start a liquor store to a con artist. His sister Beneatha, a somewhat flighty college student, tries to find her identity and embraces a \"back to Africa\" philosophy, inspired by a Nigerian friend. Their mother, the matriarch, realizes her late husband's dream by buying a home, which happens to be in an all-white neighborhood. A racist neighbor, feigning friendliness and good intentions, tries to buy them out to prevent the neighborhood's integration, but Walter takes a stand and refuses to be intimidated or bought out; in this, he stops deferring his family's dreams and helps them advance.", "it means there are two of that particular substance present in the compound. Ca is sometimes written as Ca++ when it is by itself to represent that it has 2 positive charges. (OH) is sometimes written as (OH)- because it has a single negative charge. for a compound to be electrically neutral you need 2 (OH) to balance 1 Ca. that means you have 2 Oxygen, 2 Hydrogen and 1 Ca atoms for a total of 5.", "My father is a geneologist. He went to scandinavia for info my mom's family. The written record splits when you go far enough back. On one side it concludes with a king Olaf I believe. On the other side the king was kidnapped by Odin for seeking to be a God. Also on this side are references to the king fathering the twins Frey/Freya.", "Taking the average composition of air(78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen) you get an average weight for air of about 28 amu's. Carbon monoxide has a weight of 30 amu's so it's slightly heavier.\\nLooking at air differently carbon monoxide is heavier than nitrogen gas but lighter than oxygen gas.", "What is the most abundent gas in 'AIR'\\n\\nAnswer: Nitrogen\\n\\nMany people will be tempted to say Oxygen, but that only makes up 21%. Nitrogen makes up 78%" ]

[ "Ubuntu Server ISO images with debian-installer continue to be available, including for 18.04.3 LTS. There is no need to use media for an earlier point release. You most likely want ubuntu-18.04.3-server-amd64.iso, though other architectures are available.\n\nOn the main download page, the Use the traditional installer link takes you to a section for the \"Alternative Ubuntu Server installer.\" These are the non-live ISO images for Ubuntu Server that use debian-installer (as Ubuntu Server has used exclusively for most of its history). This is in contrast to the more recently introduced live server images, which use curtin.\n\nThe link there for 18.04.3 LTS takes you to http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/18.04.3/release/. The alternative server ISOs have names like ubuntu-18.04.3-server-arm64.iso; this indicates they use debian-installer. This is in contrast to the server ISOs offered at http://releases.ubuntu.com/18.04.3/, which have names like ubuntu-18.04.3-live-server-amd64.iso and use curtin.\n\nhttp://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/18.04.3/release/ has other architectures, .torrent and .jigdo files (including for the alternative server ISO), the preinstalled images, and manifest and checksum files for everything offered there." ]

[ "1) try it\n\nsudo apt clean\nsudo apt autoclean\nsudo apt update &amp;&amp; sudo apt upgrade\n\n\n2) second \n\nsudo apt clean\nsudo apt autoclean\nsudo apt -f install\nsudo dpkg --configure -a\nsudo apt -f install\n\n\nafter that try again \n\nsudo apt clean\nsudo apt autoclean\nsudo apt update &amp;&amp; sudo apt upgrade\n\n\n3) in last case\n\nTry to create new vim /etc/apt/sources.list with new source list. \nAnd check it out: https://www.serverlab.ca/tutorials/linux/administration-linux/how-to-configure-proxy-on-ubuntu-18-04/", "Version 0.5.1 of Kiln has a Debian package (.deb) that, ironically, doesn't work on Debian. It only works on Ubuntu. This is because Ubuntu enables user namespaces by default but Debian does not. You can manually enable them on Debian by following the \"permanent\" instructions here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/303214/197651\n\necho 'kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=1' &gt; /etc/sysctl.d/userns.conf\n\n\nThis should be fixed in an upcoming release by having the installer do this step for you.", "You already found /etc/os-release. I would read it with the io library.\n\nThis is a simple text file like this:\n\nNAME=\"Ubuntu\"\nVERSION=\"18.04.2 LTS (Bionic Beaver)\"\nID=ubuntu\nID_LIKE=debian\nPRETTY_NAME=\"Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS\"\nVERSION_ID=\"18.04\"\nHOME_URL=\"https://www.ubuntu.com/\"\nSUPPORT_URL=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/\"\nBUG_REPORT_URL=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/\"\nPRIVACY_POLICY_URL=\"https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy\"\nVERSION_CODENAME=bionic\nUBUNTU_CODENAME=bionic\n\n\nSince it is very simple, I guess that no one has created an open source library for this.", "If you're using Debian, you can install using the install method provided in the docs:\n\nwget https://github.com/EOSIO/eos/releases/download/v1.7.0/eosio_1.7.0-1-ubuntu-18.04_amd64.deb\nsudo apt install ./eosio_1.7.0-1-ubuntu-18.04_amd64.deb\n\n// test\nnodeos -v\n// v1.7.0\n\n\nhttps://developers.eos.io/eosio-home/docs/setting-up-your-environment\n\n\n\nAs others have previously mentioned, nodeos, cleos, and keosd are all installed with eos. If you have an issue with your install, please share your OS information.", "Actually Elementary is based on Ubuntu and Debian, so you are wrong. Install dkms in terminal\nsudo apt install dkms\n\nInstall deb from 18.04 or 19. 04 using Eddy. \n\nhttps://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-audio-dev/+archive/ubuntu/alsa-daily/+packages\n\nAdditionally I am not sure is it a driver for your Realtek, but it works with really old kernel. \n\nhttps://www.realtek.com/en/component/zoo/category/pc-audio-codecs-high-definition-audio-codecs-software\n\nAdditionally you can check the solution from Mint forum which should also work.\n\nhttps://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/1236", "I pretty much got it to work following this guide: \n\nhttps://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-node-js-on-ubuntu-18-04\n\nThat message, however, doesn't really relate to npm or node.js. Did that happen on a clean elementary installation, or did you try to manually add certain package repositories (most notably, in this case, the tigerite kernel PPA)?", "So I asume you followed the instructions on https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu. But since elementary OS is based on Ubuntu 18.04, you should have used the ppa for Ubuntu bionic, not focal.\nTo try and fix the issue:\n\nplease remove the focal ppa:\nsudo add-apt-repository --remove 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ focal main'\nsudo apt update\n\nfollow the istructions from https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-install-wine-on-ubuntu-18-04/#installing-wine-50-on-ubuntu to install wine.\n\n\nEDIT:\nSince the instructions in the link at step 2 might be unavailable in the future, I'll paste them below (only of distributions based on Ubuntu 18.04):\nEnable the 32-bit architecture and update the packages list:\nsudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 \nsudo apt update \n\nImport the WineHQ repository’s GPG key using the following wget command:\nwget -qO- https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key | sudo apt-key add - \n\nAdd the WineHQ repository to your system:\nsudo apt install software-properties-common \nsudo apt-add-repository 'deb http://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main' \n\nInstall FAudio from the OBS repository:\nwget -qO- https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine:/Debian/xUbuntu_18.04/Release.key | sudo apt-key add - \nsudo sh -c 'echo &quot;deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine:/Debian/xUbuntu_18.04/ ./&quot; &gt; /etc/apt/sources.list.d/obs.list' \nsudo apt update \n\nInstall Wine 5.0 package by typing:\nsudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-stable \n\nVerify the Wine installation:\nwine --version \n\nThe output should look something like this:\nwine-5.0", "The Raspberry Pi 3B+ has new hardware for Ethernet, WiFi, Bluetooth and Power management.\n\nAs a consequence it requires new Firmware, different Device Tree settings and possibly kernel changes.\n\nThere is no current support for MATE on the Pi3B+. A number of people have managed to get the Pi3B+ working (or partially working) by installing the Foundation Firmware and kernel - but this is untested and the interfacing to software may have issues.\n\nThere is development on Ubuntu MATE for the Pi but it seems unlikely that there will ever be Ubuntu MATE 16.04 for the Pi3B+. Ubuntu MATE 18.04 will likely be using a standard Ubuntu kernel See https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/status-of-ubuntu-mate-18-04-for-raspberry-pi-3-b-b/18054/6\n\nDo you REALLY need MATE? MATE is not officially supported by Canonical and the Pi support is marginal at best.", "To install kernel source you have to enable source repositories, that is have a deb-src line that corresponds to the main repository deb line in the /etc/apt/sources.list file. For instance,\n\ndeb http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial main restricted\ndeb-src http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial main restricted\n\n\nAfter you can get the kernel source of the actual running kernel with\n\napt update\napt source linux-image-$(uname -r)", "Ubuntu is a Debian-based Linux distribution. Packages install their licensing information into the file /usr/share/doc/&lt;package&gt;/copyright.\nHowever, the full text of some common licenses is installed into the /usr/share/common-licenses directory. This includes the various GPL variants. These files are provided by the base-files package.\nThis part of Ubuntu/Debian should be extremely stable across versions, but I only checked for Ubuntu 20.04 and Debian Buster.", "You can install it by adding the repository and using the normal apt package management functions.\n\n#!/bin/bash\nsudo apt update\nsudo apt install apt-transport-https lsb-release ca-certificates -y\n\nsudo wget -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/php.gpg \\\nhttps://packages.sury.org/php/apt.gpg\n\necho \"deb https://packages.sury.org/php/ $(lsb_release -sc) main\" |\nsudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/php.list\n\nsudo apt update\n# 7.1 is out so select your number accordingly\nsudo apt install php7.X -y \n\n\nSource", "You need to install the binary package locally, with a correct license.\nIt should pick it up at this point.", "https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/install-nagios-4-3-on-debian-9/ outlines the process. \n\napt install wget unzip zip bash-completion net-tools\n\n\nSet the name of the host \n\nhostnamectl set-hostname nagios.server.lan\n\n\nConfirm PC hostname and hosts file\n\nhostnamectl \ncat /etc/hostname\ncat /etc/hosts\n\n\nReboot so changes may take effect\n\nInstall web server package with Nagios in it and confirm up and running on port 80\n\napt install apache2 libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0 &amp;&amp; netstat –tlpn\n\n\nMore detail follows in the aforementioned link.", "Usage: ./dupes.sh posts.xml\nYields: ./dupes.txt\nwhen applied to the latest data dump. \n\ndupes.sh \n\n#/bin/bash\ncat $1 | grep ' ClosedDate\\=\\\"' | grep 'Possible Duplicate' | awk -F 'Possible Duplicate:&amp;lt;/strong&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;#xA; &amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;' '{print $2}' | awk -F '&amp;quot;&amp;gt;' '{print $1}' | grep questions &gt; dupes.txt \npython dupes.py\n\n\ndupes.py \n\nlines = []\nwith open('dupes.txt', 'r') as dupeList:\n for line in dupeList.readlines():\n lines.append(line.rstrip())\n\nlinks = {}\nfor line in lines:\n try:\n links[line] += 1\n except:\n links[line] = 1\nthelinks = []\nfor link in links.keys():\n thelinks.append((link, links[link]))\n\nthelinksort = sorted(thelinks, key=lambda alink: alink[1])\n\nthelinksort.reverse()\n\nwith open('dupes.txt', 'w') as dupeList:\n for line in thelinksort:\n dupeList.write('Link: ' + line[0] + ' Count: ' + str(line[1]) + '\\n')\n\n\nHere's the list of all questions duped more than 3 times sorted in descending order by number of dupes: \n\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/18641/theres-an-issue-with-an-alpha-beta-release-of-ubuntu-what-should-i-do Count: 100\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/17381/unity-doesnt-load-no-launcher-no-dash-appears Count: 27\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/58172/how-to-revert-to-gnome-classic Count: 23\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/33605/can-i-move-the-unity-launcher Count: 19\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/974/how-can-i-install-software-offline Count: 18\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/30072/problem-with-mergelist-error-when-trying-to-do-an-update Count: 18\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/21305/desktop-forgets-theme Count: 18\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/36930/how-well-do-laptops-with-nvidia-optimus-work Count: 17\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/1877/what-is-the-easiest-way-to-resolve-apt-get-badsig-gpg-errors Count: 14\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/24006/how-do-i-reset-a-lost-administrativeroot-password Count: 13\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/13065/how-do-i-fix-the-gpg-error-no-pubkey Count: 11\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/96967/how-do-i-fix-this-etype-is-not-known-on-line-in-source-list-update Count: 11\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/131/which-computers-are-guaranteed-to-work Count: 10\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/17610/how-do-i-reset-my-unity-configuration Count: 10\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/25785/can-auto-hide-for-the-application-menu-be-turned-off-in-unity Count: 10\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/29553/how-can-i-configure-unity Count: 10\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/22946/how-do-i-install-and-use-the-latest-version-of-gnome-3 Count: 9\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/4428/how-to-create-a-screencast Count: 9\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/19770/how-do-i-change-fonts-and-adjust-their-size Count: 9\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/22946/how-do-i-install-and-use-the-latest-version-of-gnome-shell Count: 9\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/48535/how-to-customize-live-ubuntu-cd Count: 9\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/6302/how-can-you-remove-unity Count: 8\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/73997/failed-to-download-package-files-error Count: 8\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/77487/how-to-fix-check-your-internet-connection-error-in-software-center Count: 8\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/5675/i-upgraded-from-an-alpha-or-beta-am-i-up-to-date-if-i-keep-upgrading Count: 8\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/2793/is-there-a-way-to-remove-hide-old-kernel-versions Count: 8\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/16988/how-do-i-install-ubuntu-to-a-usb-key Count: 8\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/28050/how-do-i-switch-to-the-classic-gnome-desktop Count: 8\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/4662/where-is-the-x-org-config-file-how-do-i-configure-x-there Count: 7\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/38327/broadcom-bcm4311-wireless-not-working Count: 7\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/9865/how-can-i-configure-unitys-launcher-auto-hide-behavior Count: 7\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/100/sound-comes-out-of-my-speakers-even-when-headphones-are-plugged-in Count: 7\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/6339/how-do-i-install-the-latest-stable-version-of-firefox Count: 7\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/34572/how-can-i-reduce-or-increase-the-number-of-workspaces-in-unity Count: 7\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/65911/how-can-i-fix-a-404-error-using-a-ppa Count: 7\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/34182/can-i-edit-which-icons-appear-in-the-unity-dash Count: 7\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/38327/how-can-i-get-broadcom-bcm4311-wireless-working Count: 6\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/12909/how-do-i-upgrade-to-the-development-release-aka-ubuntu1 Count: 6\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/18641/theres-an-issue-with-an-alpha-release-of-ubuntu-what-should-i-do Count: 6\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/74171/is-my-ati-graphics-card-supported-in-ubuntu Count: 6\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/37084/nvidia-driver-activated-but-currently-not-in-use Count: 6\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/18654/how-to-prevent-updating-of-a-specific-package Count: 6\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/10481/does-unity-support-disabling-the-global-application-menu Count: 6\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/2596/comparison-of-backup-tools Count: 6\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/49869/how-to-roll-back-ubuntu-to-a-previous-version Count: 5\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/61567/how-do-i-change-the-theme Count: 5\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/48299/what-ides-are-available-for-ubuntu Count: 5\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/134/how-do-i-create-a-desktop-wallpaper-slideshow Count: 5\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/5018/is-it-possible-to-upgrade-from-a-32bit-to-a-64bit-installation Count: 5\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/11/how-do-i-install-adobe-flash-player Count: 5\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/37083/how-can-i-change-the-unity-launcher-delay Count: 5\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/22946/how-do-i-install-the-latest-version-of-gnome-3 Count: 5\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/55253/how-safe-is-it-to-use-the-ubuntu1 Count: 5\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/70442/how-do-i-add-myself-back-as-a-sudo-user Count: 5\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/29757/what-can-replace-system-monitoring-in-the-top-gnome-panel-in-unity Count: 5\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/16366/whats-the-difference-between-a-long-term-support-release-and-a-normal-release Count: 5\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/52963/how-do-i-set-windows-to-boot-as-the-default-in-the-boot-loader Count: 5\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/64222/how-can-i-create-launchers-on-my-desktop Count: 5\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/48468/how-to-install-java Count: 5\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/9933/how-to-read-ext4-and-btrfs-partitions-in-windows Count: 5\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/56313/how-do-i-reset-gnome-to-the-defaults Count: 5\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/35625/how-do-i-make-unity-remember-which-applications-are-in-the-launcher Count: 5\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/3378/my-processor-is-64-bit-does-that-mean-i-need-the-amd64-image Count: 5\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/9017/how-to-know-my-root-password Count: 5\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/62833/how-do-i-change-the-default-session-for-when-using-auto-logins Count: 4\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/15520/how-can-i-tell-ubuntu-to-do-nothing-when-i-close-my-laptop-lid Count: 4\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/64968/how-do-i-enable-mp3-preview Count: 4\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/67758/deactivate-bluetooth-on-startup Count: 4\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/16874/boot-screen-in-low-graphics-text-mode Count: 4\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/635/how-to-convert-wubi-install-into-regular-install Count: 4\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/64885/how-do-i-upgrade-from-11-04-to-11-10 Count: 4\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/25596/set-up-usb-for-virtualbox Count: 4\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/14168/installer-gets-stuck-with-a-grayed-out-forward-button Count: 4\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/73482/problem-with-gnome3-shell-top-taskbar Count: 4\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/44118/mouse-dead-zone-that-makes-it-impossible-to-click Count: 4\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/5675/i-upgraded-from-a-beta-am-i-now-running-the-official-non-development-version Count: 4\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/615/whats-the-difference-between-wubi-and-a-regular-installation Count: 4\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/16446/how-to-get-my-software-into-ubuntu Count: 4\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/6033/enabling-nvidia-driver-messes-up-splash-screen Count: 4\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/2194/how-can-i-improve-overall-system-performance Count: 4\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/38028/performance-being-really-choppy-with-ati-drivers Count: 4\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/38009/how-do-i-remove-the-unity-launcher Count: 4\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/62564/how-do-i-disable-the-guest-session Count: 4\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/29969/is-there-a-unity-equivalent-of-the-gnome-panel-show-desktop-applet Count: 4\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/66447/how-do-i-install-software-using-the-ubuntu-software-center Count: 4\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/1148/what-is-the-best-place-to-install-user-apps Count: 4\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/3841/desktop-doesnt-remember-brightness-settings-after-a-reboot Count: 4\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/28050/how-do-i-use-use-the-classic-gnome-desktop Count: 4\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/27410/migrating-from-evolution-to-thunderbird Count: 4\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/3678/make-my-own-dropbox-ubuntu-one-server-at-home Count: 4\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/37651/how-can-i-activate-unity Count: 4\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/9135/best-way-to-backup-all-settings-list-of-installed-packages-tweaks-etc Count: 4\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/5571/how-can-i-install-unity-after-installing-desktop-edition Count: 4\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/55848/how-do-i-install-oracle-java-jdk-7 Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/71359/where-is-open-with-in-nautilus Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/5558/how-can-i-install-minecraft Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/2502/where-can-i-get-themes-and-eye-candy-for-my-desktop Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/6588/visual-studio-style-tool Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/71139/how-to-downgrade-the-kernel-on-11-10 Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/73030/can-i-get-unity-style-super1-9-keyboard-shortcuts-for-launching-apps-in-gnome Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/37313/deactivate-f1-and-f10-keybindings Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/62833/how-do-i-change-the-default-session-for-lightdm-when-using-auto-logins Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/62941/how-do-i-set-the-launcher-to-always-show-in-unity-2d Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/85209/is-there-a-mac-osx-version-of-ubuntuone-planned-for-the-near-future Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/67909/how-do-i-install-oracles-jdk-6 Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/3697/how-do-i-install-fonts Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/34145/can-i-define-keyboard-shortcuts-using-the-super-key Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/66786/how-to-disable-login-sound Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/34214/how-do-i-disable-overlay-scrollbars Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/62001/am-i-using-unity-or-unity-2d Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/647/parental-controls-with-different-settings-for-different-users Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/25961/how-to-install-a-tar-gz-file Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/39069/how-do-i-use-the-gnome-panel-in-unity Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/10290/how-to-make-ubuntu-boot-fast Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/30882/how-do-i-make-the-dash-open-up-fullscreen-in-2d Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/7377/how-to-start-an-app-with-always-on-top-set Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/81585/what-is-dist-upgrade-and-why-does-it-upgrade-more-than-upgrade Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/38789/remove-the-workspace-switcher-launcher-from-unity-launcher Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/40571/how-to-keep-programs-from-launching-maximized Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/66718/how-to-manage-users-and-groups-gui Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/37747/how-to-remove-apps-available-for-download-from-the-applications-lens Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/28086/what-are-unitys-keyboard-and-mouse-shortcuts Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/86586/accessing-windows-partition-inside-wubi Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/5121/how-do-i-report-a-bug Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/6328/how-to-install-ubuntu Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/16736/menu-missing-in-lotus-notes-8-and-eclipse-in-unity Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/30742/how-do-i-access-and-enable-more-icons-to-be-in-the-system-tray Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/500/how-can-i-play-encrypted-dvd-movies Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/4497/workspace-specific-wallpapers-with-compiz Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/15433/fixing-could-not-get-lock-var-lib-dpkg-lock Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/63921/unity-3d-doesnt-work-anymore-just-shows-a-menu-on-the-top Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/46930/how-can-i-set-up-password-less-ssh-login Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/10373/do-i-need-to-have-antivirus-software-installed Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/1090/why-is-defragmentation-unnecessary Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/117127/flash-video-appears-blue-ubuntu-12-04-and-ubuntu-11-10 Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/37753/how-can-i-get-apt-to-use-a-mirror-close-to-me Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/247/whats-your-recommendation-on-drive-partitioning-schemes-for-a-desktop-and-home-s Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/35076/how-do-i-whitelist-truecrypt-to-work-under-unity Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/12493/how-can-i-find-the-version-of-installed-ubuntu Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/53688/making-ctrlc-copy-text-in-gnome-terminal Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/6422/how-to-distribute-windows-over-virtual-desktops-in-gnome Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/25409/how-to-emulate-winkeyarrow-windows-7s-maximise-shortcut-keys Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/7034/what-is-the-difference-between-32bit-and-64-bit-and-which-should-i-chose Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/19792/duplicated-entries-in-ubuntu-one Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/65083/what-different-des-and-shells-are-available Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/43077/how-do-i-start-developing-a-lens-for-unity Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/481/how-do-i-find-the-package-that-provides-a-file Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/65803/two-battery-indicator-symbols-how-do-i-get-rid-of-one Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/11840/how-to-chmod-on-an-ntfs-or-fat32-partition Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/3841/how-to-make-gnome-remember-brightness-setting Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/35715/how-to-install-firefox-3-6-and-4-0-in-parallel Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/14328/where-can-i-look-up-my-update-history Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/9817/battery-drain-on-ubuntu-is-fast Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/13562/how-do-we-get-this-magic-performance-boosting-200-line-patch Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/1441/why-not-use-64-bit-ubuntu Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/9515/how-do-i-change-the-guest-session-defaults Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/5435/will-there-be-data-loss-for-upgrade Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/90929/can-i-keep-using-ubuntu-9-04-if-its-outdated Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/7034/difference-between-32bit-and-64-bit Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/68445/no-battery-status-icon Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/11993/how-do-i-install-bcm4312-wireless-drivers Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/34/whats-the-easiest-way-to-set-up-a-lamp-stack Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/5466/is-a-clean-install-better-than-upgrading Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/9890/will-unity-be-more-customizable Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/16371/how-to-disable-x-at-boot-time Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/68306/how-do-i-restore-default-video-drives Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/62808/ati-incompatible-with-gnome-shell Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/65476/when-will-the-upcoming-ubuntu-release-be-made-available Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/79186/why-isnt-firefox-8-0-available-as-an-update-in-the-update-manager Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/53202/how-do-you-create-a-new-document-keyboard-shortcut Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/88384/how-can-i-repair-grub Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/64086/how-can-i-change-or-install-screen-savers Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/49869/how-to-roll-back-ubuntu-11-10-to-11-04 Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/59632/basic-web-development-ide-editor-like-dreamweaver Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/56104/how-can-i-install-oracle-java-jre-7 Count: 3\nLink: http://askubuntu.com/questions/108572/i-had-a-bunch-of-notes-in-my-account-where-did-they-go Count: 3", "I was in the same boat, but now that I have figured it out, I have listed the steps for installing tensorflow 0.9 with cuda toolkit 8.0, cudnn 5.1, bazel 0.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS here: http://abhay.harpale.net/blog/machine-learning/deep-learning/getting-tensorflow-to-work-with-gpu-nvidia-gtx-1080-on-ubuntu-16-04-lts/\n\nHere's the gist \n\n\nInstall NVidia Cuda Toolkit\nInstall NVidia CuDNN\nInstall Tensorflow dependencies such as swig, python-dev, numpy, python-wheel, zlib1g, g++\nConfigure and build tensorflow using Bazel", "It is said already in other answers that you should use MQTT in your case.\nBut why?\nMQTT is The Protocol if your things are behind a firewall in a private network [1]. All tricks are an outbound rule for port 1833 or with some configuration maybe not even that [2].\nHow will the things change after taking MQTT and not http?\nYou will need one block more to your combo of\n\nTurn On Light (from internet) --&gt; Digital Ocean Server--&gt; My Home Router --&gt; Raspberry Pi\n\nYour flow would be:\n\n\nSubscribe for Lights on event on Raspberry Pi (message between Broker and RP)\n\n..later night:\n\nPublish Lights on event on Server (message goes Server -&gt; Broker -&gt; RP)\n\n\nWhat is Broker?\nMessage Broker is a service, that can run in the Digital Ocean and it takes in Publish andSubscription requests. [3]\nOne such Broker is called Mosquitto and it is open source and easy to install. You install the service and run it. No coding involved, maybe little config. [4]\nPublish and subscribe?\nIf you are familiar with php, you may use it also with Mosquitto [5]. Sample code at least looks straight forward, link contains more examples:\n&lt;?php\n\n$c = new Mosquitto\\Client;\n$c-&gt;onConnect(function() use ($c) {\n $c-&gt;publish('mgdm/test', 'Hello', 2);\n});\n\n$c-&gt;connect('test.mosquitto.org');\n\nfor ($i = 0; $i &lt; 100; $i++) {\n // Loop around to permit the library to do its work\n $c-&gt;loop(1);\n}\n\necho &quot;Finished\\n&quot;;\n\nSources:\n[1] https://mongoose-os.com/blog/why-mqtt-is-getting-so-popular-in-iot/\n[2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32174272/how-mqtt-works-behind-the-firewall\n[3] http://www.hivemq.com/blog/mqtt-essentials-part2-publish-subscribe\n[4] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-secure-the-mosquitto-mqtt-messaging-broker-on-ubuntu-16-04\n[5] https://github.com/mgdm/Mosquitto-PHP", "The installation process is descried on the official website.\n\napt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys C80E383C3DE9F082E01391A0366C67DE91CA5D5F\napt install apt-transport-https\necho 'Acquire::Languages \"none\";' &gt; /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99disable-translations\necho \"deb https://packages.cisofy.com/community/lynis/deb/ stable main\" &gt; /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cisofy-lynis.list\napt update\napt remove lynis\napt install lynis\n\n\nVerify your version:\n\nlynis show version\n2.5.7", "First thing you need to know is the disk for a VM is stored as a file. There is no way it will occupy the whole disk, so it really doesn't matter whether you are storing it in an internal or external HDD. All you need is the free space to create the 'disk' file. \n\nI would assume that you're using Desktop Environment. First, you need to mount the external HDD. You can do it via Disk Utility if you haven't done it.\n\nThen, check out this article:\nhttps://www.google.com/amp/s/www.linuxtechi.com/install-configure-kvm-ubuntu-18-04-server/amp/\n\nFollow Step 2 and make sure you have installed everything mentioned. Probably you have already installed most of it, just double check if virt-manager has been installed as well. \n\nIf you can get to Step 5, then you simply need to create the disk on the external HDD mount point and continue to finish it.", "Depends on the init system you use.\n\nStock Debian ships with sysvinit as default. If this is your case, write a startup script using /etc/init.d/skeleton as a template.\n\nMake sure you give it the write owner, group and permissions. You also need to use update-rc.d(8) to activate the service for future restarts.", "It's actually quite easy:\n\n\nInstall OS on RPi\nDownload web server; nginx? (sleek, simple, etc.)\n\n# apt-get install nginx\nDetermine IP of RPi\n\n# ifconfig | grep 'inet addr' | grep -v '127.0.0.1'\nInstall TOR\n\n# apt-get install tor\nAlterations on tor config\n\n# nano /etc/tor/torrc\n\nSearch for those two lines:\n\nHiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/\n\nHiddenServicePort 80 192.168.13.199:80 (where 192... is your local IP)\nCreate hidden_service directory\n\n\n\n\n# cd /var/lib/tor\n# mkdir hidden_service\n# chown debian-tor:debian-tor hidden_service\n# chmod 0700 hidden_service\n\n\n\nRestart TOR to create hostname and keys\n\n# systemctl restart tor\nCheck if hostname and keys are there\n\n\n# ls -l\n-rw------- 1 debian-tor debian-tor 23 Jan 29 22:10 hostname\n-rw------- 1 debian-tor debian-tor 887 Jan 29 21:42 private_key\n\n\n\nCopy and paste hostname into TOR browser\n\n# cat hostname (will display your individual hostname available on TOR) \nProfit!", "Regarding safety I'd say they are even more unsafe and more likely to break your system than they are on Ubuntu. Consider a badly written package, that does not list the correct version of a required library as a dependency and therefore installs, but doesn't run. Now imagine what happens if this package is a core system component. So, if you're planning to use a repository of a different distribution, think twice and double check before attempting to install anything. Read carefully through the list of packages that are going to be installed to make sure that no important system components are being replaced. If you are planning to replace system components I recommend to set up a virtual machine with Debian and try it there first.\n\nNevertheless, the real problem is, that packages containing precompiled binaries will most likely refuse to install due to dependency problems anyhow.\n\nI don't know about Ubuntu 11.xx and earlier, but Ubuntu 12.04 has libc6-2.15, while Debian Wheezy uses libc6-2.13. Packages in Ubuntu PPAs usually require at least the libc6 version of the Ubuntu release they are built for (because they are also built with the build chain of that Ubuntu version). So, although you could simply click on the \"Technical Details\" link on a PPA website to get the deb repository URL and add it to Debians sources.list, the packages in up to date PPAs will likely be useless on Debian.\n\nIf you are planning to install packages that do not contain any precompiled binaries, the situation is of course different and they will likely work.", "Probably need to use the usb. I have read that the graphics card on this is not working and needs to be disabled in Grub and then permanently in the grub config. \n\nhttps://orville.thebennettproject.com/articles/installing-ubuntu-14-04-lts-on-a-2011-macbook-pro/", "Use this netboot installer, it is the Precise Updates installer code + Raring's kernel 3.8:\nhttp://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise-updates/main/installer-amd64/current/images/raring-netboot/", "I think that Debian user-style questions be flagged so it can be migrated to unix.se.\n\nHowever, in the case of questions that focus on how to work with Debian, like these should be most welcome:\n\n\nHow is Ubuntu different from Debian?\nHow do I propose my project to be part of Debian too?\nTools to diff deb-src packages between ubuntu and debian repos\n\n\nSo I was thinking something like this for criteria:\n\n\nDoes it help people understand our working relationship and the importance of Debian?\nIs it something that will help contributors work with Debian better?", "Chromium on Ubuntu 20.04 address bar autocomplete search\nTL;DR\nchrome://settings/syncSetup =&gt; Autocomplete searches and URLs turn on\nBackground\nIt does not help the OP, but people coming from Google might be helped.\nI recently installed with this post Chrome on Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS because I did not want the snap package.\nVersion of install was:\n89.0.4389.114 (Developer Build) built on Debian 10.9, running on Debian bullseye/sid (64-bit).\nAutocomplete did not work in the adress bar with Google Search.I followed the comment of @KGIII. In the address Bar enter:\nchrome://settings/syncSetup\nThen confirm by turning it on and you got it:\nAutocomplete searches and URLs\nSends some cookies and searches from the address bar and search box to your default search engine", "See if sudo apt-get install linux-generic-hwe-16.04-edge gets the 4.8 kernel installed and then do\nwget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_1.161.1_all.deb\nsudo dpkg -i linux-firmware_1.161.1_all.deb\n\nReboot", "You could just download this package and install it: wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/364831898/libavutil-dev_2.8.14-0ubuntu0.16.04.1_amd64.deb &amp;&amp; sudo dpkg -i libavutil-dev_2.8.14-0ubuntu0.16.04.1_amd64.deb", "Try to download the linux (deb) drivers from Support page. (I would try it with the Driver Install Tool from this mentioned support page.) Maybe you need to install a deb package manager first (sudo apt install eddy), but I did not try to install the printer drivers.\n\nThen follow the install instructions on the support page:\n\n\n Step1. Download the tool.(linux-brprinter-installer-..-.gz)\n \n The tool will be downloaded into the default \"Download\" directory. \n (The directory location varies depending on your Linux distribution.) \n e.g. /home/(LoginName)/Download\n \n Step2. Open a terminal window.\n \n Step3. Go to the directory you downloaded the file to in the last\n step. By using the cd command.\n \n e.g. cd Downloads\n \n Step4. Enter this command to extract the downloaded file:\n \n Command: gunzip linux-brprinter-installer-..-.gz\n \n e.g. gunzip linux-brprinter-installer-2.1.1-1.gz\n \n Step5. Get superuser authorization with the \"su\" command or \"sudo su\"\n command.\n \n Step6. Run the tool:\n \n Command: bash linux-brprinter-installer-..- Brother machine name\n e.g. sudo bash linux-brprinter-installer-2.1.1-1 MFC-J880DW\n \n Step7. The driver installation will start. Follow the installation\n screen directions.\n \n When you see the message \"Will you specify the DeviceURI ?\",\n \n For USB Users: Choose N(No) For Network Users: Choose Y(Yes) and\n DeviceURI number.\n \n The install process may take some time. Please wait until it is\n complete.", "Download a Ubuntu live CD, extract it on a pen drive with unetbootin or any similar tool and start the installation process. \n\nDon't forget to backup your data.", "I am doing the same thing. For daemon management, I am using supervisord. It is a better solution than creating your own daemon.\n\nFor more information see,\n\nhttp://supervisord.org/index.html\n\nhttps://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-and-manage-supervisor-on-ubuntu-and-debian-vps", "I don't think it matters much if you pick one the big ones (Fedora, RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian, Suse, etc), so its app repository has all the important apps (openjdk, maven, gcc, python, docker, ruby, ...). So sudo dnf install &lt;app&gt; or sudo apt-get install &lt;app&gt; should just work.\nFor OptaPlanner development, my entire team is on Fedora Linux, which shouldn't be a big surprise as we all work for Red Hat. Our open source contributors do use all kind of OS's and I can't recall any issues with those that use Ubuntu, Debian, etc. Less issues than those using Mac (.DS_Store) and far, far less than those using Windows (line endings (.gitattributes is a life saver), path separators, and of course the 260 path limit which can burn in hell).\nBenchmarks do show that OptaPlanner (100% pure java) is significantly faster on Linux than on Windows, but that too is no big surprise, as I've seen that on many other Java applications too - I can't speak for non-java apps.", "I solved the issue.\nIt seems that there are extra steps that finally make my new computer boot successfully. Here is how I solved this issue completely (I hope).\n\nbuy a new power supply. I bet the original one is defective which may explain it shuts down immediately after post/grub every time.\n\nIn the Grub mode, I modified the argument by adding nomodeset at the end of the lien of linux argument.\n\n\nOne may search for nomodeset via google to see related information. As a matter of fact, the safe graphic mode for installation includes nomodeset.\nSee reference: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1085807/black-screen-after-installation-of-ubuntu-18-04\n\nAfter I successfully installed (using safe graphic mode) and use nomodeset argument when boot in, Wifi and Bluetooth cannot use. And I donot want to use nomodeset every time. Fortunately I have Ethernet cable. I follow this link https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=346412 and install linux-oem-20.04b via sudo apt install linux-oem-20.04b in the terminal.\n\nFrom install to complete:\n\nin Grub mode use safe graphic mode to install.\n\nWhen boot into the installed Ubuntu, add nomodeset.\n\nOpen terminal and enter sudo apt install linux-oem-20.04b." ]

[ "The Brazilian State of Goias has ordered three AW119Ke helicopters for law enforcement, fire-fighting and transport missions." ]

[ "The Baltimore Police Department has ordered four Eurocopter EC120 helicopters to replace its current fleet.", "AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, is pleased to announce that the Malaysian Fire and Rescue Department has ordered two AW139 medium twin engine helicopters.", "AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, announced that Azerbaijan Airlines has ordered ten AgustaWestland helicopters comprising a contract for eight AW139 intermediate twins and a preliminary sales contract for two AW189 medium twins.", "Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. company, today announced it received 13 orders on the first day of Heli-Expo 2011 in Orlando, Fla. The 13 orders were received from the following customers.", "The Philippines said Thursday it would buy three naval helicopters from an Anglo-Italian manufacturer as part of its military modernisation programme amid a territorial dispute with China, AFP reports.", "Three people were killed on impact when a medical helicopter from Vilonia crashed in Walnut Grove, a small community in Van Buren County, Arkansas State Police said.", "Boeing has announced that it will secure a license from AgustaWestland for US production of the AW101 medium-lift helicopter as an entry into the US Navy VXX Presidential Helicopter Program.", "US Ambassador to Ankara Francis Ricciardone announced Friday that the US will provide Turkey with three new attack helicopters, Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported.", "AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, is pleased to announce that the GrandNew light twin helicopter has entered the Chilean helicopter market with the purchase of one aircraft by Naviera Mistral SA based in Santiago del Chile.", "NAVAIR delivered four new Mi-17 helicopters to the Afghan National Army Air Corps in Kabul, Afghanistan just 65 days after the order was placed.", "HOUSTON Bristow Group Inc., which provides helicopter airlift services to offshore oil rigs, says it is buying a minority stake in a Brazilian helicopter and aviation services company.", "State officials are investigating the use of a Department of Justice helicopter at a high school homecoming football game in Northern California.", "AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, is pleased to announce that Bristow Group Inc. has taken delivery of two AW139 medium twin-engine helicopters during an official ceremony held yesterday at its Philadelphia facility.", "In California, three killed in a reality show crash Sunday were aboard a helicopter in Acton, Calif.", "Construction orders rose 1% in the three months to November compared with the previous three months.", "A NATO military helicopter crashed in southern Afghanistan today killing one Turkish soldier and injuring three others.", "South Korea on Friday unveiled a new military transport helicopter, developed with the chopper division of European Aeronautic, Defence and Space Co., to replace Seoul's aging fleet of US helicopters.", "Libyan state television has accused the Netherlands of spying, following the capture of a Dutch navy helicopter and its three-strong crew by militias loyal to embattled leader Moamer Gaddafi, Dutch state radio reported Saturday.", "French engineering group Alstom has won a contract worth nearly EUR200m from Brasventos to build three wind farms in the Rio Grande do Norte state of Brazil.", "A Maryland kayaker was rescued from the Potomac River by a Maryland State Police helicopter on Tuesday night.", "Three Coast Guardsmen were killed on Wednesday morning when their helicopter crashed in the waters off Washington, the agency said.", "The Indian Air Force on Saturday received the first batch of four Cheetal helicopters from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited in Barrackpore, West Bengal.", "Five people, including three Russians, died in a firefighting helicopter crash in Turkey today, RIA Novosti reported.", "AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, is pleased to announce that the Maritime Safety Administration of China has taken delivery of two Grand light twin helicopters during an official ceremony held at AgustaWstland's Vergiate facility in Italy today.", "Brazilian carrier GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes SA announced today that it has developed its own programme for managing aircraft maintenance waste at its operational bases.", "American Eurocopter announced today that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has purchased 12 AS350 B2 helicopters.", "Russia is building arms plants in Venezuela to produce AK-103 automatic rifles and cartridges and is finalizing contracts to send 53 military helicopters to the Andean nation, Moscow's envoy to Venezuela said on Dec. 1.", "Mozambican airline, Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique has taken delivery of a second Embraer 190 aircraft acquired from the Barzilian company as part of the programme to renew the Mozambican flagship carrier.", "Gov. Sam Brownback has ordered flags lowered to half-staff throughout the state Thursday to honor three soldiers killed last year in Afghanistan.", "A Venezuelan military helicopter has violated Colombian airspace and spied on military facilities in the northwest of the country, the Colombian Foreign Ministry said.", "A military helicopter crashed near the village of Vassiloudi, Thessaloniki, on Tuesday morning, and its three-member crew were killed.", "Tuesday, the media reported that Global Vectra Helicorp, the country's largest private sector offshore helicopter company signed a two-year Aviation Turbine Fuel-ATF contract with Reliance Industries and ONGC to hedge its jet fuel purchases." ]

[ "Fab" ]

[ "3", "The Scarlet Letter", "PlayStation 3", "Letters to a Young Poet", "3:10 to Yuma", "a 3-legged race", "\"Letter from Birmingham Jail\"" ]

[ "FAQ: Why are East and West reversed on some compass roses? ... When you are sighting directly North, the compass needle will point to North. If you turn 90 degrees to your left, you will be sighting due West, but the compass needle rotated 90 degrees to the right, which reads West on a properly reversed compass rose." ]

[ "North-East, South-East, North-West and South-West. Direction can be determined by the compass or from the position of the sun and the shadows.", "due east - the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees. east, eastward, E.", "If you consider compass directions as a circle with zero degrees at North, 90 degrees at East, 180 degrees at South, and 270 at West, then NW is at 315 degrees. North of West is between 270 and 415 degrees.", "Winds are named for the direction of their origin. A NNW wind is coming from the North North West and travelling towards the opposite point on the compass, South South East.", "The direction or point on the mariner's compass halfway between due west and northwest, or 67°30′ west of due north.", "1. due west - the cardinal compass point that is a 270 degrees. westward, W, west.", "North, east, south, and west are the four cardinal directions, often marked by the initials N, E, S, and W. East and west are at right angles to north and south. East is in the clockwise direction of rotation from north. West is directly opposite east.", "16-wind compass rose The half-winds are north-northeast (NNE), east-northeast (ENE), east-southeast (ESE), south-southeast (SSE), south-southwest (SSW), west-southwest (WSW), west-northwest (WNW) and north-northwest (NNW).", "5) Compass directions like north, south east and west only take capital letters when they are part of a name established by popular usage to mean a certain region, for example: the Pacific Northwest, the South Pacific, or the East or West when talking about those areas in cultural terms.", "Compass points The four cardinal directions are north (N), east (E), south (S), west (W), at 90° angles on the compass rose. The four intercardinal (or ordinal) directions are formed by bisecting the angle of the cardinal directions: northeast (NE), southeast (SE), southwest (SW) and northwest (NW).", "Windrose. A compass rose, sometimes called a windrose, or Rose of the Winds, is a figure on a compass, map, nautical chart, or monument used to display the orientation of the cardinal directions (North, South, East and West). The compass of Jack Sparrow had two Windroses.", "At the most basic level, the standard advice is to lowercase north, south, east and west when used as compass directions and to capitalize them when they are used as part of a proper noun or adjective or refer to regions or geographic areas. So: North Carolina is north of South Carolina and east of West Virginia.", "It is a case of apparent motion. In the case of the earth and the constellations the earth rotates, with us on it, from west to east. The constellations appear to move from east to west, moving \"backwards\" from the real rotation of the earth.", "In the northern hemisphere, the magnetic field dips downward toward the north (the dip angle), which would cause the north-pointing end of the needle to droop downward. ... Simple compasses for use in the southern hemisphere have the north-pointing end of the needle weighted to prevent this.", "If the lowest priority group is in front of this curved arrow, then the assignment is reversed: clockwise is S and counterclockwise is R. (Basically, you are looking at the steering wheel from the perspective of the engine compartment!)", "Press F3. Part of the data displayed includes the direction you are facing. As with the real world, the sun rises in the East and sets in the West. Facing the sun at dawn, North will be on your left.", "East is the direction toward which the Earth is turning, and west is the direction from which it turns. The equator is the boundary between the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere.", "North is one of the four compass points or cardinal directions. It is the opposite of south and is perpendicular to east and west. North is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography.", "The difference between Southeast and Southwest When used as nouns, southeast means the direction of the cardinal compass point halfway between south and east, specifically 135, abbreviated as se, whereas southwest means the compass point halfway between south and west, specifically 225, abbreviated as sw.", "The difference between Northeast and Southwest When used as nouns, northeast means the compass point halfway between north and east, specifically 45, abbreviated as ne, whereas southwest means the compass point halfway between south and west, specifically 225, abbreviated as sw.", "The Earth rotates around a north-south axis as you see on the right. Most maps show North at the top and South at the bottom. To the left is West and to the right is East.", "Regardless of which quadrant we are in, the reference angle is always made positive. Drag the point clockwise to make negative angles, and note how the reference angle remains positive.", "If a north hemisphere compass is used in the southern hemisphere, the south pointing end of its needle would dip a lot more, since that is the weighted end and the field lines dip toward the south. ... Simple compasses for use in the southern hemisphere have the north-pointing end of the needle weighted to prevent this.", "One difference is that most East Germans have at least been to, or have lived and worked in West Germany, whereas the reverse is not true – even among younger generations. So to many West Germans, the only experience of East Germans is what they hear from friends, parents or the media.", "It is used to tell the current users direction, and to count steps when looking for buried treasure. To count steps, players must hold the compass out in front of them by pressing the right trigger (Xbox One; RMB on PC), then walking forward.", "The sun and moon move across the sky in an east-west plane. In other words when they are not aligned (a new moon) then they are roughly either east or west of each other. Since the moon reflects the sun's light, its bright side will be 'pointing' to the direction of the sun, ie. approximately east or west.", "Backwards is one gang. To the side means Folks. Another way means Kings.\"", "To understand where north, south, east, and west are, first point your left arm towards the sun in the morning. Now, take your right hand and point it towards the west. You are now facing south and your back is towards the north.", "They are not directional. They are an asymmetrical tread design. They have an inside and outside, but not directional.", "North, South, East and West. The Earth rotates around a north-south axis as you see on the right. Most maps show North at the top and South at the bottom. To the left is West and to the right is East.", "Most maps show North at the top and South at the bottom. To the left is West and to the right is East.", "\"West\" is a noun describing a compass direction. If you were standing facing north, west would be to your left. \"The West\" often refers to certain countries in the Western Hemisphere. \"Western\" is an adjective - western food, western culture, western values." ]

[ "A Therapeutic Recreation Specialist earns an average salary of $36,132 per year. Most people with this job move on to other positions after 20 years in this career. Therapeutic Recreation Specialist earns an average salary of $36,132 per year. Most people with this job move on to other positions after 20 years in this career." ]

[ "Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist (CTRS) Salary Statistics as of 2015. Average annual salary for a Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist (CTRS) is $36677 based on statistics in the U.S. as of 2015. The highest salary recorded was $52262. The lowest salary reported was $27280. These figures will vary on a state to state basis as these are averages across all 50 states.", "Therapeutic recreation specialists may specialize in specific populations, such as pediatrics, adolescents, or geriatrics. They may also specialize in certain therapeutic activities, including art, dance, aquatics, and music. The ultimate goal for a therapeutic recreation specialist is to get the patient to overcome social, emotional, and environmental barriers so they can develop and maintain a fulfilling lifestyle.", "What Is a Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist (CTRS)? Therapeutic recreation specialists use games, art and sports to help people with disabilities or illnesses. Read on to learn more about this field, including job responsibilities and employment prospects. Schools offering Allied Health degrees can also be found in these popular choices", "Find out how to become a certified therapeutic recreation specialist. Learn the job duties, education requirements and job outlook for this career, as well as some alternative career options.View 10 Popular Schools ».areer and Economic Outlook. According to the BLS, jobs for recreational therapists are expected to increase by 13% from 2012 to 2022, which is about as fast as the average for all occupations. The BLS reports that the median salary for recreational therapists was $42,280, as of May 2012.", "Individuals entering a therapeutic recreation specialist program should have a high school diploma or the equivalent. A bachelor s degree in therapeutic recreation (or in recreation with an option in therapeutic recreation) is usually the requirement for hospital and clinical positions.", "1 Most employees require therapeutic recreation specialists to be certified. 2 The National Council for Therapeutic Recreation Certification (NCRTC) has been the nationally recognized organization to certify therapeutic recreation specialists.", "For example the median expected annual pay for a typical Recreational Therapist in the United States is $51,030 so 50% of the people who perform the job of Recreational Therapist in the United States are expected to make less than $51,030. Source: HR Reported data as of October 2015.equires a bachelor's degree and a license/certification to practice from the National Council of Therapeutic Recreation Specialists. Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Performs a variety of tasks.", "1 A bachelor's degree in therapeutic recreation or recreation with an option in therapeutic recreation is the standard requirement for most jobs. 2 A master's degree and doctoral degree are also available in this profession. 3 Most employees require therapeutic recreation specialists to be certified.", "Therapeutic recreation specialists: 1 assess clients’ needs and functional abilities. 2 plan and implement goal-oriented programs. 3 document clients’ progress. 4 monitor and perform quality improvement activities.5 facilitate interventions on skill development, improvement of functional skills, leisure awareness, community integration and resource 6 ... parttudents must complete a bachelor’s degree in therapeutic recreation or recreation and leisure with an option in therapeutic recreation from an accredited college; apply for certification; and pass a national examination.", "Nature of the Work for Recreational Therapists. Recreational therapists are also known as therapeutic recreation specialists. They provide treatment services and recreational activities for individuals with disabilities or illnesses with a milieu of techniques.", "A recreational therapist works with clients who have physical or mental disabilities. Recreational therapists might work with the elderly to improve their mental and emotional as well as physical health.Recreational specialists may help patients express themselves through art.dorable animal families that will make you aww. A recreational therapist, or a Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist (CTRS), is a licensed professional who is trained to provide treatment through recreational activities to ill or disabled individuals.", "Therapeutic recreation specialists work in a variety of settings such as: 1 Nursing homes and long-term care. 2 Hospitals and mental health facilities. 3 Physical rehabilitation and substance abuse rehabilitation. 4 Schools.", "Education Required: 1 A bachelor's degree in therapeutic recreation or recreation with an option in therapeutic recreation is the standard requirement for most jobs. 2 Most employees require therapeutic recreation specialists to be certified. 3 The National Council for Therapeutic Recreation Certification (NCRTC) has been the nationally recognized ...", "Top 10 amazing movie makeup transformations. A therapeutic recreation specialist works with patients who have mental, physical, or emotional difficulties. Through a carefully planned series of exercises and activities, a therapist works to restore independence and self-management to clients.ome therapeutic recreation specialists work with people who are suffering from a sports-related injury. Recreation therapy for a patient with paralysis may begin on the stronger side, but eventually include the weaker limbs as well.", "Employment opportunities for therapeutic recreation specialists are expected to grow steadily through the year 2012. There will be an increase of new job opportunities of nearly 10% over the next decade.areer Outlook: Employment opportunities for therapeutic recreation specialists are expected to grow steadily through the year 2012. There will be an increase of new job opportunities of nearly 10% over the next decade. The rapidly growing elderly population is expected to spur job growth.", "Depending on State certification policies or employer mandates a recreational therapist may be required to become certified. To work in clinical settings, the National Council for Therapeutic Recreation Certification (NCTRC) often requires certification as well and a supervised internship of at least 480 hours.ature of the Work for Recreational Therapists. Recreational therapists are also known as therapeutic recreation specialists. They provide treatment services and recreational activities for individuals with disabilities or illnesses with a milieu of techniques.", "Therapeutic recreation is provided by professionals who are trained and certified, registered and/or licensed to provide therapeutic recreation (1987). A certified therapist is referred to as a Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist (CTRS).", "Adorable animal families that will make you aww. A recreational therapist, or a Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist (CTRS), is a licensed professional who is trained to provide treatment through recreational activities to ill or disabled individuals.dorable animal families that will make you aww. A recreational therapist, or a Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist (CTRS), is a licensed professional who is trained to provide treatment through recreational activities to ill or disabled individuals.", "Discover a Career as a Recreation Therapist or Therapeutic Recreation Specialist. Recreation therapists/therapeutic recreation specialists assist people with disabilities or disabling conditions that interfere with their ability to participate independently in daily life activities, including recreation and leisure.", "Average and Range of Wages. Recreation therapists filled 19,180 jobs nationwide as of May 2012, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Often called recreational therapists, their average hourly income was $21.29, the equivalent of $44,280 annually for a full-time job. The wide range of wages of recreation therapists in part reflects their different degree levels. The lowest-paid 10 percent earned $26,410 per year or less, while the highest-paid 10 percent received $ 67,280 annually or more.", "Recreational Therapist Salary. Recreational Therapists in the United States can expect to earn an average of $16.99 per hour. The pay spectrum stretches from $12.17 per hour to $24.76. Career length and the particular city each impact pay for this group, with the former having the largest influence.", "The annual salary for someone with the job title Recreational Therapist may vary depending on a number of factors including industry, company size, location, years of experience and level of education.equires a bachelor's degree and a license/certification to practice from the National Council of Therapeutic Recreation Specialists. Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Performs a variety of tasks.", "A Recreational Therapist earns an average wage of around 24000 to 36000 based on tenure level. Recreational Therapists can get a compensation of Thirty Nine Thousand Four Hundred dollars on a yearly basis. Recreational Therapists have the most lucrative average salary level in the District of Columbia, where they can receive an average job salary of about $56910. Professionals that work in these jobs can get the best pay in Administrative, Support and Waste Management Services, where they can receive pay levels, on average, of $46300.", "The Therapeutic Recreation Directory contains resources for recreation therapists, therapeutic recreation specialists, creative arts therapists, activity therapist, activity directors and other disciplines.", "Learn how to become a recreational therapist. Throughout its long evolution, recreational therapy (its practitioners are known as recreational therapists or therapeutic recreation specialists) has helped people across the globe who have become mentally or physically injured become active again.earn how to become a recreational therapist. Throughout its long evolution, recreational therapy (its practitioners are known as recreational therapists or therapeutic recreation specialists) has helped people across the globe who have become mentally or physically injured become active again.", "Therapeutic Recreation Specialist Therapeutic recreation specialists plan and implement leisure activities like arts and crafts, music, sports, games, dance, and field trips to help improve the functional skills of their patients.", "Recreation therapists earned a median wage of $45,890 in 2015, and job opportunities were expected to rise by 12% from 2014-2024. Students interested in recreation can pursue degree programs at the associate, bachelor's, and master's level that provide hands-on training while looking at how recreation relates to psychology.", "Earnings and Salary for Recreational Therapists. Median annual wages of recreational therapists is $39,440. The highest 10 percent earned more than $62,170, whereas, the lowest 10 percent earned less than $24,510. The middle 50 percent earned between $31,050 and $50,370.", "According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ 2016-17 Occupational Outlook Handbook, the median national annual salary for recreational therapists is $44,000. Actual salaries may vary greatly based on specialization within the field, location, years of experience and a variety of other factors.", "The median annual salary for recreation workers, also reported by the BLS, was $22,620 in 2014. Recreation therapists earned a median wage of $44,000 in 2014, and job opportunities were expected to rise by 17% from 2012-2022.", "Recreational Therapists Overview. To become a Recreational Therapist, a bachelors degree in therapeutic recreation is the usual educational requirement. Some States regulate recreational therapists through licensure, registration, or regulation of titles, but requirements vary.ature of the Work for Recreational Therapists. Recreational therapists are also known as therapeutic recreation specialists. They provide treatment services and recreational activities for individuals with disabilities or illnesses with a milieu of techniques.", "1 therapeutic recreation. 2 therapeutic recreation specialist. 3 therapeutic regimen. 4 therapeutic regimen management, readiness for enhanced. 5 therapeutic regimen management: ineffective. 6 therapeutic regimen management: ineffective family. 7 therapeutic relationship. 8 therapeutic riding. 9 therapeutic strategies." ]

[ "Everyone should have the same rights regardless of their sexual preference. If gay people want to get married they should be allowed to. I don't why there is so much controversy over this issue, it's a basic right to marry someone. They are still people who experience love just like straight people." ]

[ "I would say that one of the big issues is sexuality. Everywhere you look there are protests and news about gay marriage and in my opinion I think it will be hard for young people in this age group to understand what is going on and what is right and what is wrong.", "What does a flag have to do with the legalizing of gay marriages???? Canada legalized the marriages which I say is about time, Canada itself isn't gay the people living there are. They were granted rights equal to straight people and depending on what organization they belong to some have a flag which they display to let others know how proud they are about their beliefs. I don't think the US will be putting up any flags which stand for anything but freedom.", "Haha. Someone discovered something new. Hey man, your wife is misinformed. And you, obviously have not thoroughly explored your body...till now. We all have played with ourselves. Though, some slightly more than others. There are lots of ways for a guy to have intense orgasms. Anyway, the media and the gay community is always perpetrating that a man who dresses well, who's too good looking and goes to the gym is gay. And that such men should stop pretending and come out. This hype causes these type of men to question themselves with questions like \"I like it when I/my gf/my wife plays with my anus so am I gay?\" or \"I do envy other males with better physique than mine so am I gay?\"...etc. This is overblown. And it doubles as a strategy to confuse and turn the fashion conscious, good looking, gym going men, gay. Yes it works. There men who are \"recruited\" gays. Truth is there's always a reason a man becomes gay. No one is born gay. Anyway the percentage of hetero men is higher than our homo counterparts. Whatever it is, the numerous other reasons n questions that you have, can only be answered by yourself. Some men do experience this phase of self questioning. Some don't. If you like men, lust after men, wanna have sex with men, wanna develop relationships with men or marry or live together. Then you are gay. If you don't, then you're not. Having questions doesn't make you gay. Looking at other guys doesn't make you gay. The decisions and choices do. Simple.\\n\\nWell now that you've added the details, its certainly more complicated. ok so you've probably had a sort of a gay lifestyle back then. But think of the reality, which is now. Are you happy with your wife and marriage? What about children? do you have children? Do you love your wife? why did you marry her in the first place? think of all the moments that both of you shared. If its all good. Then ending the marriage would destroy her and your children (if you have any). Not ending the marriage, will mean that you're not being honest to your wife and yourself. Either way someone will get hut. It boils down to you. Yes, its really difficult. Think about it and weigh the situations. You could talk to your wife about the problem, maybe with a counsellor too. I wish you good luck.", "If you have any type of sex with men, you are gay. If you wear women's clothes, you are a sissy but not gay. Whatever the case, if you're not hurting anyone - DO WHAT THE F*CK YOU WANT AND DONT' WORRY ABOUT WHAT SOMEONE MAY THINK. free yourself...", "Well, given that I’m gay I would have to say yes. \\n\\nI find the arguments against gay marriage, and therefore gay rights, like the ones stated above amusing. Yes marriage is the building blocks of the family unit, so why are literally hundreds of thousands of families across the country not extended the same rights of marriage? \\n\\nThe original purpose of marriage was procreation, yes. This in no way excludes gay couples. Many use artificial means to have children (as many sterile straight couples do), and many more adopt children. Others already have children from previous marriages. Also, I don’t see anyone arguing that old people, and people who are sterile, shouldn’t be allowed to get married. We also do not make people fill out forms declaring that they are planning to have children when they get married. That’s because beginning in the 20th Century marriage stopped being centered around procreation and started being about love. \\n\\nI also love the slippery slope argument mentioned above: “But, if we let men get married to men, what’s going to stop a man from trying to marry a horse?” This has some variations, from trees, to horses, to dogs, to polygamy. Well, to start I would like to point out that neither trees nor horses have been granted rights by the constitution. Also, if everyone is so tolerant of gay people, and many are quick to point out that they have gay friends, why do we immediately associate gay marriage with bestiality and polygamy? \\n\\nUnfortunately, my civil liberties are severely hindered by the fact that I can’t get married. If my partner gets sick, there is no law protecting my rights to visit him in the hospital; if he dies, there is no law saying I have any rights to our owned property because as far as the government is concerned, “our property” doesn’t exist. If children get involved this gets even uglier and more complicated. There is more than one case on record of judges taking children away from a surviving partner and giving them to an ex-husband or ex-wife who has no connection to the child, simply because the surviving parent “had no legal connection to the children.” This is all directly connected to the fact that we can’t get married.\\n\\nSo, I’m afraid people can’t have it both ways. If you support gay rights, as I do, you have to support gay marriage. Without gay marriage, we’re second class citizens, and are only accorded the rights of second class citizens.", "If this is what makes YOU happy and feel best about yourself, don't worry about what others might think. I've known many cross-dressers, both Gay and Straight and never judge. Follow your heart and do what is best for YOU and to heck with what anyone else might say or think.", "The way I was explained that is that Democrats believe in welfare and other government aid but are usually more open-minded to towards social issues (like gay marriages). Republicans are more about people working hard for themselves without government aid (Capitalism, laissez faire, basically allowing companies to do what they want) but are less open to social issues.", "In certain states and countries, yes. Massachusetts allows gay marriage, Vermont has civil unions. But neither of these is recognized in any other state or federally. Canada allows gay marriage. England allows civil unions. The Netherlands have gay marriage. But the US does not recognize any of these unions either.", "I really don't think it's an issue of what's wrong or right or if you \"sin\" that's a bad thing. The point of all the preaching is about what is best for you spiritually. The people that do the preaching have turned it into what's bad and good and make it a morality issue. \\n\\nReally, what you need to think about is what does sex do to you. Promiscuous sex solely for seeking pleasure can run the risk of addiction, disease, etc., and isn't good for the soul or heart. In a karmic sense, sex in marriage as an expression of love is less of an attachment - meaning one is less likely to get caught up in it and with love and responsibility of the marriage it kind of nullifies the lust from sex.\\n\\nSo the question is what is your spiritual quest or goal? Nothing? Just getting to heaven? Or do you want to become a saint? If you just want to get to heaven then I don't think sex in marriage or with commitment and love will keep you from that. If you're looking to be a saint then letting go of desires and being celibate is probably necessary.", "I REALLY don't understand what the big deal is all about.\\nThis world is a weird and scary place. If an adult can find true love and wants to marry someone, I don't care if they are gay or black, or Hindu or little people or WHATEVER. That will have absolutly NOTHING to do with my marriage. I do understand that marriage is a sacred thing but, isn't it up to us to keep our own marriages sacred rather than poke around in someone elses business?\\n\\n The divorce rate is around 50% in this country. What is so sacred about that? Since Gays and lesbians arn't allowed to marry, the high divorce rate and the lack of respect for marriage is an obvious sign that most straight people don't honor marriage. Maybe if we allowed gays to marry, they could teach us straights a thing or two.\\n\\n Could it be at all possible that people are afraid to let gays marry because maybe the gays will be more successful at it? Just a thought.\\n And as for the people that quote bible passages against gay marriage, I can pop my head into the bible and find tons of quotes advocating slavery, incest and all that jazz.\\nThe fact is that this country was founded on the principal of \"Separation of Church and State\" Look it up if you don't understand. I appreciate other peoples religous views but,\\nIf we do not see eye to eye, it is because we have different opinions and NOT because one of us is right or wrong. To behave in a self-ritous way like that is ignorant and just plain rude.\\n Also, There are THOUSANDS of orphans and foster kids living in institutions. They are sent out into the world without a family once they turn 18. I bet dollars to donuts that if you ask these kids, they would much rather live in a nice home with a couple of married gays than the orphanage. If gays could marry and adopt, it would give these forgotten children a chance to be a part of a loving and supportive family for LIFE. How happy they would be to have their own bedroom and parents to help with their homework and to see them in the school play? \\nWe have already tried hating people for being different and it dosn't seem to have done much good. Maybe we can all try to be more loving or understanding to people different than us. Maybe we Christians can see past the hatred and fear to the TRUE word of Jesus Christ. I don't remember Jesus hating on \"sinners\" or people different than Him. I remember acceptance and UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. WWJD? In your HEART you know the answer. \\nPlease forgive any misspellings, spellcheck is on the fritz.", "Young lady, marriage is a VERY serious step to take. If this man 'ripped your heart out' in the past, what makes you think he won't do it again after marriage?\\n\\nI'd BREAK THE ENGAGEMENT off!!...Then go out and parteeeeee to forget all about him!!", "The Federal Defense of Marriage Act which permits states to not recognize same sex marriages performed elsewhere. If a gay couple is married legally in Massachusetts, that marriage is not recognized anywhere else under the DOMA unlike heterosexual marriages. DOMA also includes a clause that marriage exists only between a man and woman. But each state can write its own marriage laws. Arizona, for example, states \"Marriage between persons of the same sex is void and prohibited.\"\\n\\nAnti-discrimination laws are against gays and lesbians because they are not included. It is still legal at the federal level and in many states to fire a person simply because they are gay.", "yea i think noah is cute and no i do not think he is gay he just play a patr of a gay guy and he is doing a very good job of it do you think so", "Does he know about your sexual orientation ?\\nHe might like you too but is also not sure if you like him or not ?\\nIf he knowes that you are gay, and he does all these signs that make you doubt that he's gay, it could be because he's trying to sense some signals from your part too.\\n\\ntry to find out about his environment. what do people around him in his community think about gays and lesbians? maybe he is but he's afraid of being rejected for who he is?", "Main problem in gathering statistics on gays is that many people who are homosexual do not want to admit, even to an anonymous interviewer. This is particularly true of people in heterosexual marriages. Probably Kinsey's 10% figure was skewed higher by some sampling problems. The low-end figures are likely wrong due to people not being honest when surveyed. An article in the gay press today said the British government estimated about 6% of its population was gay.", "There is something called a Holy Union. In Vegas you can have a ceremony; just like a wedding(gay people do it all the time). It is not a marriage, but it is recognized as a \"union\"; like a marriage. You will still have to have another ceremony once he is divorced; a marriage ceremony in the future. A Holy Union is a way to declare your love for one-another; just like a marriage, if you can't have a marriage, yet................He needs to get divorced, so you can be together without all of the guilt. Starting a union off with guilt will not be satisfying, whether it is a union or a marriage. Good luck.", "To the one who thinks he's the Bible and God expert. Being gay IS NOT a sin. Doing \"gross\" things with people of the same sex IS a sin. People are born being gay, so they can't do anything about it. Nobody can force you to like someone.", "I do not think that being gay is a choice. I think that one is born to sexually be whatever they will be. Have you ever seen them gay dudes that have more feminine traits then most women do? There is no way that anyone can pretend that.I just think that you are born what you are. And why would anyone \"choose\" to be gay? It isnt a lifestyle that is easily embraced by the majority of the population. You are discriminated against and there are people that redicule your choice.The person you choose as a partner, in more places then not, cannot be covered under your insurance.", "People just say that becuse most gay guys take good care of them selves a lot. But I think you shouldn't give a rat's ass about what people think.", "If \"Marriage\" is an institution of religion, then what religion does it belong too? The argument presented is Christianity, so why do Muslims, Jews, Atheists and every other faith get married? They don't get civil unions. They get married and under the religion argument, they certainly should not be since they are not of that faith.\\n\\nAnnierose, maybe I read your statement wrong, but why do you think wanting to get married is a \"special right\"? Everyone else has it, why can't gay couples? How is that special? It's a special exclusion for sure.\\n\\nWhat I don't get is why it matters, I don't care one bit if my neighbors are Steve and Bob or Steve and Barb, if they act like neighbors and contribute to the community of my neighborhood, who cares what happens behind closed doors in their sex lives. They don't know mine either.\\n\\nAnd the dumbest argument is that it'll break down families. This makes it sound like your wife or husband is going to leave you and the kids because gay people can get married. Marriage has a better chance of breaking down (due to cheating) with straight couples around. For example, if your wife (I use wife because I am a straight man, it works either way) decides to cheat, she can't cheat with the gay guys, they aren't going to want too. The straight guy across the way though that has been eyeing my wife sure will. The otehr way around, ladies if your husband decides to cheat, if he's gay he go after your gay neighbors and you shouldn't be married anyway, and if he's not there are lots of other wives around.\\n\\nSo which one is more dangerous now?\\n\\nOh yeah, for those of you that feel being gay is a choice, obviously you choose not to be gay, so what day did you choose to be straight? Or when did you decide what you were attracted to? I'm guessing it would be a pretty life changing event that you'd have a date for it, kinda like a wedding or a birthday.\\n\\nI'm sorry I keep adding to this but Jeanius, it is just like bi racial relationships, as it is a class ruling over another class. And yes plenty of people have been beaten, lynched and killed for being gay, perhaps you should look up Matthew Shephard.\\n\\nIncorrect again Zed, Gay parents does not equal gay children first of all. Once again if you think it's a choice, when did you choose? Kids with gay parents actually grow up more open-minded, nothing else. and yes studies have shown it (not one sided nonsense ones either). Secondly, what about couples that don't ever intend to have kids? Should they not be allowed to marry because it's a \"waste\"?", "First of all I want to tell you that I am very sorry that you broke up with your fiance. It must be a very difficult time for you. I believe that relationship on the way to marriage should be running pretty smoothly. There should be no real problems whatsoever. For what ever reason it is that you broke up, you probably should stay broken up. I don't mean to sound harsh, but its true. Also, do you really want to get back together with someone who has posted personal ads on the internet right away? I know people will say that he is hurt and whatnot. But if your boyfriend is gay or bi, do you really want to be in the middle of all that heartache? I think that there is a strong possibility your ex boyfriend may want to do a little experimenting. I think you need to think about moving on, how hard that may be. But you deserve a happy relationship without secrets, lies and deceits. If your ex is really gay, do you want to subject yourself to STD's? I am not saying anything against gays (I have two uncles that are brothers who are gay), but I am talking of cheating... I would rather have my ex break up with me than live a life filled of lies with me. Its not fair to both of you.\\n I would not take him back but that is my opinion. If you were really sure about this guy you would not be writing on here. It sounds like you have your doubts as well. Trust your instincts and what your heart is telling you. That is the best advice that was ever given to me.\\nGood luck.", "Well ive never been threw it but ill be more then happy to give you my 2 cents with out calling you a slut, i think part of it is your husbands fault for not making sure you have what you need, now i know alot of people are going to scream for me saying that but its the truth, in a marriage part of our job is doing everything possible to make sure our partner is getting everything we need from them emotionally or sexually. Thats just the way it works for a healthy marriage, The only bit of advice i could give you not being actually in that situation is to eather pick on or the other, i can see you feeling even more torn when your feelings for this other guy are fostered even more and you cant act on it, not to mention the emotional and sexual frustrations that can easily bring. I can understand why you turned to this other man for support you wernt getting at home. But i can only see you hurting yourself in the long run if you dont cut ties with one of them. That is unless you totally dont love your husband anymore and your just in it for everything youve envested on a tangable level that you dont want to lose. But honestly do you think if you bumped this relationship up with this other guy you would be able to continue this double life, i hate to label it that way but thats the only thing i can think of to call it right off the top of my head, but i think you understand where im coming from. You need to set a game plan in your head on where you want to go in life if things with this other guy keep developing, what happens if this guy says ok ill chuck my marriage will you chuck yours? what if he talks about you guys meeting and making a full flaired affair? What if your husband finds out about whats going on how will you respond? How will your husband? Im not saying i know what you should do or what you need to do, but if i were you i would get a clear picture of what i wanted from your husband or from this other guy. Do you think there would be a possiblity you would be more happy in your marriage if your husband started to work with you on your problems with the marriage? Do you think there is any hope for you marriage now? Do you think your husband is doing the same thing you are on some sort of level? IF he was how do you feel about it? I think you need to ask yourself these kinds of questions and in deep deep detail figure out what you want to do, i dont think anyone in here can really answer those kinds of questions and give you any much more of a clear picture then you seriously thinking about this i wish you all of luck and i really hope you get something figured out on this *HUGS*", "I wouldn't do it. She wants time away give her time away. To me that's not what marriage is about. You don't take time-outs in marriage. If someone needs a time-out in marriage you goto the gym or go for walks in the park or find a yourself little hobby.", "It doesn't mean you're gay. But that doesn't mean it's a good selection of clothing either. I suppose if you like it and you're secure with yourself, go for it. What do you care what others think?", "Marriage can be hard sometimes and yes sometimes you really have to work at it. You have to give in to things or stand your ground. You have to pick and chose your fights, try to do the right thing. I would say think about your relationship are you two just going trough a tough time? Or is the love really gone. Only you can make that decision. Not the people on yahoo answers, we can only offer advice and mine is to really think about what you want! Think about your marriage vows as well, try to talk with your partner as well, honesty is the best policy!", "Steve is Eve after a sex change operation . . . lol\\n\\nThis is something religious nuts say . . . when talking about gay marriages . . . . \"Adam and Eve and not Adam and Steve\" . . .", "Canada believes in multiculturalism and this concept has destroyed Canada. The Liberal Party of Canada worries more about minorities than what is really important to the country… Now that the Conservative Party have gotten in, things may actually get better. Here’s hoping that Gay marriage in Canada will be overturned!", "The abstinance until marriage stance taught to children is religious...the banning of gay marriages/rights is religous. So yes, the government does fund religious practices.", "Are you Gay and in love with your best friend? If not, what's \"brokeback\" about it? Being that this is your bestfriend you are speaking of, ask if they are gay. Then ask yourself if it would matter.", "Tell him you are sorry and that you will never do that kind of a thing again. Never involve yourself with married people. Think about it this way. What if someone else interfered in you blissful marriage and spoilt it. Ask for her forgiveness and stay clear from such entanglements.", "gambling, gun ownership, drinking age, gay marriage, prostitution (legalization or not?), marijuana ...", "If what one person does does not hurt or effect another, then no, the government should not get involved. Gay marriage is a good example. The exuses I always hear against it are all religious morals. But in reality, if two gay men or two gay women get married, it will have no effect on my heterosexual marriage.\\n\\nAnother example is prostitution. What goes on between two consenting adults should be none of the business of the government. If a woman want to freely charge for sexual favors, and a man wants to freely pay for it, who does it hurt? Of course, if a woman if forced into prostitution by someone else, this is wrong, but if she does it of her own free-will, there is no problem." ]

[ "St. Thomas Aquinas High School" ]

[ "DID", "Did Not Finish", "Go ''", "Where It's At", "Going to School in India", "Did It for the Party", "going", "Go", "to be going to", "Dunbar High School", "Northumberland High School", "Salem High School" ]

[ "Crime scene cleanup The generic terms for crime scene cleanup include trauma cleaning, crime and trauma scene decontamination (\"CTS Decon\"), biohazard remediation, biohazard removal, and blood cleanup. The state of California refers to individuals who practice this profession as Valid Trauma Scene Waste Management Practitioners.[3]" ]

[ "Psycho (1960 film) Moved by Norman's story, Marion decides to drive back to Phoenix in the morning to return the stolen money, which she hides in a folded newspaper on the nightstand. As she showers, a shadowy figure stabs her to death with a chef's knife. After seeing blood, Norman panics and runs to Marion's room, where he discovers her body. He cleans up the crime scene, putting Marion's corpse and her possessions—including the stolen money—into the trunk of her car and sinking it in the swamps near the motel.", "Jason Stackhouse Almost 4 years later, after Sookie agreed to stake Bill, leaving her heartbroken, New Blood has been released to the market and the Hep-V epidemic is ended. Jason and Bridget are married with many kids. The last scene shows family and friends of Sookie and Jason enjoying dinner at the Stackhouses.", "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (season 5) Greg begins his journey from a lab rat to a field mouse, as the Las Vegas Crime Lab faces a personnel overhaul (\"Ch-Ch-Changes\"), during the fifth season of CSI. The team's final days together are plagued with more investigations into the insane and the unusual, including the discovery of an \"alien\" corpse just outside the boundary of Area 51 (\"Viva Las Vegas\"), a body washed up in a thunderstorm (\"Down the Drain\"), the kidnapping of a thirteen-year-old girl (\"Harvest\"), a death at a fumigation (\"Crows Feet\"), a swingers party (\"Swap Meet\"), the return of the Blue Paint Killer (\"What's Eating Gilbert Grissom?\"), and a kidnapping at a hotel (\"Formalities\"). It's the appearance of new evidence that appears literally as Grisson is on the witness stand, however, that causes Ecklie to separate Grissom and Willows' team (\"Mea Culpa\"), with Catherine, Nick, and Warrick delving into cases such as brain death (\"No Humans Involved\"), a body in a car (\"Who Shot Sherlock?\"), a severed head containing a snake (\"Snakes\"), the death of a bear (\"Unbearable\"), and a murder involving sports betting (\"Big Middle\"). The risk of losing of one of their own, however, allows Ecklie and Grisson to set aside their differences, both personal and professional, and reunite the team once again (\"Grave Danger\").", "Police of The Wire Bobby Brown is a Western District uniformed officer. He was the first officer on scene at the shooting of William Gant. He was also at the Brandon Wright crime scene. Detective Jimmy McNulty later enlisted Brown to help watch the home of Wallace. In season 3 when Major Colvin institutes the Hamsterdam initiative Brown is one of the officers freed up to be assigned to investigate complaints rather than perform radio car patrols and he solves a church burglary case.", "Dennis Rickman After cleaning his hands of Johnny's blood, Dennis makes his way towards the Albert Square Gardens where the locals are setting up fireworks, to meet Sharon. As they lock eyes, Dennis is stabbed and collapses, dying in Sharon's arms. His last words are \"we did it\" in reference to their unborn son who was born six months later and named Dennis in honour of his father. It is later revealed that Dennis was killed by Danny Moon (Jake Maskall).", "The Bone Collector The killer arrives at Rhyme's house, and after killing Rhyme's nurse, Thelma, and Captain Howard Cheney, he is revealed to be the medical technician who cares for Rhyme's medical equipment, Richard Thompson. Richard's real name is Marcus Andrews, and he is a former forensics expert who worked in Syracuse.", "Morgue A person responsible for handling and washing bodies is now known as a diener, morgue attendant, or autopsy technician.", "Bloodletting (The Walking Dead) In the present, Carl has been accidentally shot by a man named Otis (Pruitt Taylor Vince), who was hunting for deer. Otis brings Rick, Carl and Shane to a veterinarian named Hershel Greene (Scott Wilson), for whom Otis works as a farm hand. Hershel lives with his daughters Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Beth (Emily Kinney), Beth's boyfriend Jimmy (James Allen McCune), and Otis' wife Patricia (Jane McNeill). He treats Carl, but he reveals that the bullet was broken into six fragments. Rick must donate blood to Carl in order to keep him alive.", "Hemoglobin When red cells reach the end of their life due to aging or defects, they are removed from the circulation by the phagocytic activity of macrophages in the spleen or the liver or hemolyze within the circulation. Free hemoglobin is then cleared from the circulation via the hemoglobin transporter CD163, which is exclusively expressed on monocytes or macrophages. Within these cells the hemoglobin molecule is broken up, and the iron gets recycled. This process also produces one molecule of carbon monoxide for every molecule of heme degraded.[71] Heme degradation is one of the few natural sources of carbon monoxide in the human body, and is responsible for the normal blood levels of carbon monoxide even in people breathing pure air. The other major final product of heme degradation is bilirubin. Increased levels of this chemical are detected in the blood if red cells are being destroyed more rapidly than usual. Improperly degraded hemoglobin protein or hemoglobin that has been released from the blood cells too rapidly can clog small blood vessels, especially the delicate blood filtering vessels of the kidneys, causing kidney damage. Iron is removed from heme and salvaged for later use, it is stored as hemosiderin or ferritin in tissues and transported in plasma by beta globulins as transferrins. When the porphyrin ring is broken up, the fragments are normally secreted as a yellow pigment called bilirubin, which is secreted into the intestines as bile. Intestines metabolise bilirubin into urobilinogen. Urobilinogen leaves the body in faeces, in a pigment called stercobilin. Globulin is metabolised into amino acids that are then released into circulation.", "Black Lightning Born Jefferson Pierce, Black Lightning is originally depicted as a schoolteacher from the crime-ridden Suicide Slum area of Metropolis who acquires electrical superpowers from a technologically advanced power belt that he puts to use to clean up crime in his neighborhood. Over time, Pierce establishes himself as a successful superhero in the DC Universe, and later stories depict him as having \"internalized\" the belt's powers as a result of his latent metagene. Later retellings of Black Lightning's origins simplify his story by depicting him as metahuman with the inborn ability to manipulate and generate electricity.", "Early history of food regulation in the United States The Ladies Health Association was the first women's group to join the pure foods movement.[14] Starting in 1884, they began a campaign to rid New York City of unsanitary slaughter houses.[14] These women were \"energized to take legal action almost as much by the attitude of the city bureaucrats [who were apathetic] was by the need to protect their families and the neighborhood\".[15] If the city agency in charge of regulating slaughterhouses had been willing to listen to the Association and clean up the slaughterhouses, the women would have never continued their crusade.[15] However, after a hearing, a slaughterhouse owner refused to clean up his property and this caused the women to pursue the execution of the penalty and continue a \"constant vigilance\" to keep it from happening again.[16]", "The Fugitive (1993 film) Kimble returns to Chicago to hunt for the murderer and acquires money from his friend and colleague Dr. Charles Nichols. Posing as a janitor, Kimble enters the local county hospital's prosthetic department to obtain a list of people who had their prosthetic arm repaired shortly after his wife's murder. Following a police lead confirming Kimble's recent whereabouts, Gerard speculates that Kimble is searching for the one-armed man. Kimble breaks into the residence of one of the people on the list, a former police officer named Fredrick Sykes. Kimble discovers that Sykes is the murderer and is employed by a pharmaceutical company, Devlin MacGregor, which is scheduled to release a new drug called Provasic. Kimble investigated the drug in the past and revealed that it caused liver damage, which would have prevented it from being approved by the FDA. He also deduces that Nichols, who is leading the drug's development, arranged a cover-up and ordered Sykes to kill him – his wife's death was incidental. Gerard follows Kimble's lead to Sykes' home and draws the same conclusion.", "Embalming chemicals Embalming fluid acts to fix (denature) cellular proteins, meaning that they cannot act as a nutrient source for bacteria; embalming fluid also kills the bacteria themselves. Formaldehyde or glutaraldehyde fixes tissue or cells by irreversibly connecting a primary amine group in a protein molecule with a nearby nitrogen in a protein or DNA molecule through a -CH2- linkage called a Schiff base. The end result also creates the simulation, via color changes, of the appearance of blood flowing under the skin.", "The Flash (2014 TV series) The Flash is an American television series developed by Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg, and Geoff Johns, airing on The CW. It is based on the DC Comics character Barry Allen / Flash, a costumed superhero crime-fighter with the power to move at superhuman speeds. It is a spin-off from Arrow, existing in the same fictional universe. The series follows Allen, portrayed by Grant Gustin, a crime scene investigator who gains super-human speed, which he uses to fight criminals, including others who have also gained superhuman abilities.", "There Will Be Blood A man arrives at Daniel's doorstep, claiming to be his half-brother, Henry. Daniel hires Henry to work for him, and the two grow closer. H. W. sets fire to their house, intending for it to kill Henry. Angered by his son's behavior, Daniel sends him away to a school for the deaf in San Francisco, and leaves him on the train by himself. A representative from Standard Oil offers to buy out Daniel's local interests, but Daniel elects to strike a deal with Union Oil and construct a pipeline to the California coast, though the Bandy ranch remains an impediment.", "Autopsy An autopsy (post-mortem examination, obduction, necropsy, or autopsia cadaverum) is a surgical procedure that consists of a thorough examination of a corpse by dissection to determine the cause and manner of death or to evaluate any disease or injury that may be present for research or educational purposes. (The term \"necropsy\" is generally reserved for non-human animals; see below). Autopsies usually performed by a specialized medical doctor called a pathologist. In most cases, a medical examiner or coroner can determine cause of death and only a small portion of deaths require an autopsy.", "Johnnie Cochran During closing arguments in the Simpson trial, Cochran uttered the now famous phrase, \"If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.\" He used the phrase, which had been devised by fellow defense team member Gerald Uelmen,[19] as a way to try to persuade the jury that Simpson could not have murdered Nicole Brown Simpson nor Ron Goldman. In a dramatic scene, Simpson appeared to have difficulty getting the glove on; stained with blood of both victims and Simpson, it had been found at the crime scene.", "Peter Greene Greene had roles in Pulp Fiction, The Mask, Clean, Shaven, and The Usual Suspects in 1994 and 1995. In Pulp Fiction, Greene appeared as Zed who rapes Marsellus Wallace. The Mask saw him play the villainous Dorian Tyrell opposite Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz. Greene played the schizophrenic Peter Winter in Clean, Shaven. The Usual Suspects saw him play the character of Redfoot. Greene often plays villains, such as in Judgment Night, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, Training Day (as a corrupt narcotics officer) and martial arts/crime film Fist of the Warrior (opposite Ho-Sung Pak, Roger Guenveur Smith and Sherilyn Fenn).", "Ian Kiernan Ian Bruce Carrick Kiernan AO (born 4 October 1940) is an environmentalist known for organizing the Clean Up Australia campaign, and in 1993 a similar Clean Up the World operation which attracted participation from 30 million volunteers in 80 countries.", "Murder, She Wrote Jessica's relationship with law enforcement officials varies from place to place. Both sheriffs of Cabot Cove resign themselves to having her meddle in their cases. However, most detectives and police officers do not want her anywhere near their crime scenes, until her accurate deductions convince them to listen to her. Some are happy to have her assistance from the start, often because they are fans of her books. With time, she makes friends in many police departments across the U.S., as well as with a British police officer attached to Scotland Yard. At the start of season eight, more of the stories were set in New York City with Jessica moving into an apartment there part-time in order to teach criminology.", "Tara Knowles When Eli leaves, stating he'll be outside, Tara calls for Wayne, assuming his truck outside meant he was in the house. Caught off guard, Gemma comes out of the laundry room and lunges for Tara, who cannot escape in time. Gemma hits her with an iron but doesn't knock her out. Tara struggles against Gemma's beating and her head is badly smashed on the sink, where Gemma then attempts to drown her. In one of the show's most gruesome moments, Tara struggles for several seconds before Gemma grabs a barbecue fork and stabs Tara multiple times in the back of the head and her neck. Blood gushing out of the back of her head, Tara collapses and dies.", "And Then There Were None In a postscript, a fishing ship picks up a bottle inside its trawling nets; the bottle contains a written confession of the killings, which is then sent to Scotland Yard. It is not clear how long after the killings the bottle was discovered.", "Blood In Blood Out The members of La Onda hold a final gathering after the warden vows to split the council up transporting some members to their home states. Miklo plans on using this to expand La Onda to other states in the South West. Later, Miklo and his cellmate \"Magic\" destroy the mold which they used to send the forged orders to the B.G.A. hit man to kill Montana. Magic says \"We both loved him, but we did what we had to do for La Onda.\" Back in East Los Angeles, Paco visits one of Cruz's murals after the family re-accepts him to see a portrait of his former life. In a pep talk with Cruz, Paco realizes that by ordering Miklo to go after Spider, Paco is responsible for all of the things that have happened to Miklo. This causes Paco to feel guilty for his actions and ultimately forgive Miklo.", "Zodiac (film) Zodiac tells the story of the manhunt for a notorious serial killer who called himself the \"Zodiac\" and killed in and around the San Francisco Bay Area during the late 1960s and early 1970s, leaving several victims in his wake and taunting police with letters, blood stained clothing, and ciphers mailed to newspapers. The cases remain one of Northern California's most infamous unsolved crimes.", "Fingerprint Juan Vucetich, an Argentine chief police officer, created the first method of recording the fingerprints of individuals on file, associating these fingerprints to the anthropometric system of Alphonse Bertillon, who had created, in 1879, a system to identify individuals by anthropometric photographs and associated quantitative descriptions. In 1892, after studying Galton's pattern types, Vucetich set up the world's first fingerprint bureau. In that same year, Francisca Rojas of Necochea, was found in a house with neck injuries, whilst her two sons were found dead with their throats cut. Rojas accused a neighbour, but despite brutal interrogation, this neighbour would not confess to the crimes. Inspector Alvarez, a colleague of Vucetich, went to the scene and found a bloody thumb mark on a door. When it was compared with Rojas' prints, it was found to be identical with her right thumb. She then confessed to the murder of her sons.", "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, also referred to as CSI and CSI: Las Vegas, is an American procedural forensics crime drama television series which ran on CBS from October 6, 2000, to September 27, 2015, spanning 15 seasons. The series, starring William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Ted Danson, Laurence Fishburne, Elisabeth Shue, and Jorja Fox, is the first in the CSI franchise. The series concluded with a feature-length finale titled \"Immortality\".", "Blood In Blood Out Blood In Blood Out (also known as Bound by Honor) is a 1993 American crime-drama film directed by Taylor Hackford. It follows the intertwining lives of three Chicano relatives from 1972 to 1984. They start out as members of a street gang in East Los Angeles, and as dramatic incidents occur, their lives and friendships are forever changed. Blood In Blood Out was filmed in 1991 throughout the Spanish-speaking areas of Los Angeles and inside California's San Quentin State Prison.", "Sweeney Todd In the original version of the tale, Todd is a barber who dispatches his victims by pulling a lever as they sit in his barber chair. His victims fall backward down a revolving trapdoor into the basement of his shop, generally causing them to break their necks or skulls. In case they are alive, Todd goes to the basement and \"polishes them off\" (slitting their throats with his straight razor). In some adaptations, the murdering process is reversed, with Todd slitting his customers' throats before dispatching them into the basement through the revolving trapdoor. After Todd has robbed his dead victims of their goods, Mrs. Lovett, his partner in crime (in some later versions, his friend and/or lover), assists him in disposing of the bodies by baking their flesh into meat pies and selling them to the unsuspecting customers of her pie shop. Todd's barber shop is situated at 186 Fleet Street, London, next to St. Dunstan's church, and is connected to Mrs. Lovett's pie shop in nearby Bell Yard by means of an underground passage. In most versions of the story, he and Mrs. Lovett hire an unwitting orphan boy, Tobias Ragg, to serve the pies to customers.", "Forensic science James Marsh was the first to apply this new science to the art of forensics. He was called by the prosecution in a murder trial to give evidence as a chemist in 1832. The defendant, John Bodle, was accused of poisoning his grandfather with arsenic-laced coffee. Marsh performed the standard test by mixing a suspected sample with hydrogen sulfide and hydrochloric acid. While he was able to detect arsenic as yellow arsenic trisulfide, when it was shown to the jury it had deteriorated, allowing the suspect to be acquitted due to reasonable doubt.[25]", "Evil Dead (2013 film) Later, David finds his murdered dog along with a bloodied hammer, and goes to confront Mia, who is in the shower. In the bathroom, he sees her scalding herself in the shower. David tries to drive her to a hospital, but heavy rains flood the only road back. Meanwhile, Eric becomes more and more convinced that the book is the cause of all that.", "Paint thinner A paint thinner is a solvent used to thin oil-based paints or clean up after their use. Commercially, solvents labeled \"Paint Thinner\" are usually mineral spirits having a flash point at about 40 °C (104 °F), the same as some popular brands of charcoal starter.", "National Mission for clean Ganga The National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) is the implementation wing of National Ganga Council which was set up in October 2016 under the River Ganga (Rejuvenation, Protection and Management) Authorities order 2016. The order dissolved National Ganga River Basin Authority. The aim is to clean the Ganga and its tributaries in a comprehensive manner.[1] Nitin Gadkari is the present Minister for Ministry for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Government of India." ]

[ "A statement from the U.S. military said the service member was killed on Monday, without providing further details. It did not identify the individual or give a nationality.\nAccording to the Pentagon, there are 4,815 U.S. troops in Iraq, including special operations forces. They are mainly providing logistical and other support to Iraqi combat forces, but have been operating closer to the front lines as part of a massive operation to retake the IS-held city of Mosul." ]

[ "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Army artillery \"mishap\" was responsible for the deaths of two U.S. service members in northern Iraq over the weekend, a Pentagon official said on Monday.\nTwo U.S. service members were killed and five injured in northern Iraq on Sunday. The victims were not named.\n\"An Army artillery section was conducting a counterfire mission against an ISIS mortar site when a mishap occurred, injuring seven soldiers,\" Pentagon spokesman Colonel Robert Manning said, using an acronym for the Islamic State.\nThe Pentagon declined to provide further details and it was not immediately clear exactly what type of \"mishap\" took place.\nThe service members were part of a U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State in Iraq.\nManning said there was no indication that Islamic State had anything to do with the deaths and the five injured troops did not suffer life threatening injuries.", "Washington: A U.S. Army artillery \"mishap\" was responsible for the deaths of two U.S. service members in northern Iraq over the weekend, a Pentagon official said on Monday.\nTwo U.S. service members were killed and five injured in northern Iraq on Sunday.\nIn a statement later on Monday the Pentagon identified those killed as Sergeant Allen Stigler Jr., 22, of Arlington, Texas, and Sergeant Roshain E. Brooks, 30, of Brooklyn, New York, both members of the 82nd Airborne Division Paratroopers.\nThe U.S. Army is investigating the incident, it said.\n\"An Army artillery section was conducting a counterfire mission against an ISIS mortar site when a mishap occurred, injuring seven soldiers,\" Pentagon spokesman Colonel Robert Manning said, using an acronym for the Islamic State.\nThe Pentagon declined to provide further details and it was not immediately clear exactly what type of \"mishap\" took place.\nThe service members were part of a U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State in Iraq.\nManning said there was no indication that Islamic State had anything to do with the deaths and the five injured troops did not suffer life-threatening injuries.", "The Pentagon says all seven service members aboard a U.S. helicopter that crashed in Iraq were killed.The Pentagon says in a statement Friday that the crash does not appear to be the result of enemy activity and is under investigation.The U.S. military helicopter crashed in western Iraq, U.S. officials said Thursday.The helicopter is used by the Air Force for combat search and rescue, and was in transit from one location to another when it went down Thursday afternoon near the town of Qaim in Anbar Province.The Pentagon said an accompanying U.S. helicopter immediately reported the crash and a quick-reaction force comprised of Iraqi security forces and Coalition members secured the scene.", "The U.S. military says two of its service members were killed and five others were injured during activities in northern Iraq.\nThe U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State (IS) extremists said on August 13 that initial reports indicate the casualties did not occur as a result of contact with the enemy, although it did not elaborate.\nThe Amaq news agency, which is linked to IS, claimed rockets fired by the group resulted in several casualties among U.S. troops in northern Iraq.\nThe agency said the attack targeted a village east of the IS-held town of Tel Afar.\nIS fighters have been driven from much of the territory they captured in 2014 from government forces, including the major northern city of Mosul.\nBut they still control some areas, including Tel Afar, west of Mosul.\nThe iCasualties.org website, which lists coalition casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan, reports that 11 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq in 2017.\nBased on reporting by Reuters, dpa, and AFP", "The American military helicopter that crashed in Iraq Thursday hit a power line, U.S. officials said today, killing all seven airmen on board.\"This tragedy reminds us of the risks our men and women face every day in service of our nations,\" Brig. Gen. Jonathan Braga, director of operations, Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve, said in a coalition statement.The HH-60 Pave Hawk crashed after striking a power line, a U.S. official told ABC News, an assessment made by the crew of a U.S. helicopter accompanying the HH-60.The investigation is ongoing and has not ruled out other factors but there are no signs of hostile fire, officials said.The accompanying helicopter also reported the crash, according to the coalition statement, adding that a \"quick reaction force comprised of Iraqi Security Forces and Coalition members secured the scene.\"The names of the victims have not been released, pending notification of relatives.The aircraft went down near al Qaim in western Anbar Province It's believed to be the first fatal helicopter crash in Iraq since the U.S. began fighting ISIS there in 2014.The incident occurs as the U.S. is shifting personnel and resources out of Iraq and into Afghanistan, as the war against ISIS in Iraq has wound down in recent months.Two Americans have lost their lives in Iraq this year in non-combat related incidents.There are approximately 5,262 U.S. service members in Iraq, according to the Pentagon", "A member of the Counter Terrorism Service (CTS) walks at the site after an air strike attack against Islamic State triggered a massive explosion in Mosul, Iraq March 29, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer\nWASHINGTON The Pentagon on Thursday said it would soon release a video showing Islamic State militants herding civilians into a building in the Iraqi city of Mosul and then firing from it, the U.S. military's latest response to an outcry over a separate explosion thought to have killed scores of civilians.\nThe U.S. military has acknowledged that the U.S.-led coalition probably had a role in the March 17 explosion, but said Islamic State also could be to blame.\nLocal officials and eyewitnesses have said as many as 240 people may have died in the Al-Jadida district when a blast made a building collapse, burying families inside.\nRights group Amnesty International and Pope Francis have both called for better protection for civilians caught in war zones in Iraq.\nThe Pentagon does not regularly release images or videos from operations. However, it has had to do so once already this month after it denied striking a mosque in Syria, releasing an aerial image to show the mosque was intact. That incident is under investigation.\nA spokesman for the U.S-led coalition fighting Islamic State told reporters on Thursday he was working to declassify a video showing militants hiding civilians in a building in west Mosul to \"bait the coalition to attack.\"\n\"What was see now is not the use of civilians as human shields ... For the first time we caught this on video yesterday as armed ISIS fighters forced civilians into a building, killing one who resisted and then used that building as a fighting position against the (Counter Terrorism Service),\" Colonel Joseph Scrocca said. He was using an acronym for Islamic State.\nScrocca said Islamic State tactics have led to adjustments in procedures, adding that about 1,000 Islamic State fighters remained in west Mosul, but did not give details on these changes. He added than an in-depth investigation into the strikes had been opened on March 17.\nOn Tuesday, Lieutenant General Stephen Townsend, the senior U.S. commander in Iraq, told reporters by teleconference it was \"a little disappointing\" that questions during the briefing focussed on U.S.-led air strikes.\n\"ISIS is slaughtering Iraqis and Syrians on a daily basis. ISIS is cutting off heads. ISIS is shooting people,\" he said.\nAmnesty International has said the high civilian toll in Mosul suggests U.S.-led coalition forces have failed to take adequate precautions to prevent civilian deaths.\nPope Francis on Wednesday said it was \"imperative and urgent\" to protect civilians in Iraq.\nAt his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, Francis said he was \"concerned about civilian populations trapped in the neighbourhoods of western Mosul\".\n(Reporting by Idrees Ali; Editing by John Walcott and James Dalgleish)", "All seven service members aboard an American military helicopter that crashed in western Iraq late Thursday were killed, according to two U.S. military officials.\nThe crash of the U.S. HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter does not appear to be a result of enemy activity and the incident is under investigation, U.S. Central Command and military officials said.\n\"All personnel aboard were killed in the crash,\" said U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Jonathan P. Braga, the director of operations for the U.S.-led anti-Islamic State coalition in Iraq and Syria.\nPlay Facebook\nTwitter\nEmbed US military helicopter crashes in Iraq close to Syria border 1:19 autoplay autoplay Copy this code to your website or blog\nThe helicopter was used by the Air Force for combat search and rescue, and was in transit from one location to another when it went down Thursday afternoon near the town of Qaim, where where the anti-ISIS coalition has an outpost near the Syrian border.\nAn accompanying U.S. helicopter immediately reported the crash and a quick reaction force comprised of Iraqi Security Forces and Coalition members secured the scene, according to a statement from CENTCOM.\nA U.S military HH-60 Pave Hawk Helicopter Ian Hitchcock / Getty Images file\n\"This tragedy reminds us of the risks our men and women face every day in service of our nations,\" said Braga. \"We are thinking of the loved ones of these service members today.\"\n\"While the investigation is still ongoing, there is absolutely no reason to believe this involved enemy action,\" said Col. Thomas Veale, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition battling the Islamic State. \"All indications are this was an accident during a routine troop movement. The Department of Defense will release casualty details after next of kin notifications are complete.\"\nTwo of the service members killed were New York City Fire Department members, the fire department said Friday.\nChristopher Raguso and Christopher Zanetis FDNY\nFire Lt. Christopher J. Raguso and Fire Marshal Christopher T. “Tripp” Zanetis were called “truly two of New York City’s bravest — running into danger to protect and defend others, both in New York City and in combat overseas\" by Mayor Bill de Blasio.\n\"The hearts and prayers of the entire Department are with their loved ones and with the families of their five fellow service members who lost their lives defending our country,” Fire Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro said in a statement. Sixty-two Fire Department personnel are on extended military orders in the military, the department said.\nPrime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared victory over the ISIS in Mosul in July. In the following months Iraqi forces retook a handful of other Islamic State-held towns including Tal Afar in August, Hawija in September and Qaim in October. In November, Iraqi forces retook the last Iraqi town held by Islamic State — Rawah, near the border with Syria.\nThe U.S.-led coalition has continued to work with Iraq and Syrian Democratic Forces to shore up the border region to make sure that foreign fighters and insurgents can't move freely across the region.", "BAGHDAD (AP) — All seven service members aboard a U.S. helicopter that crashed in Iraq were killed, the Pentagon said Friday in a written statement.\nThe aircraft crashed in western Iraq a day earlier, said the officials, who insisted on speaking anonymously to release details of the crash before they were made public.\nThe crash did not appear to be the result of enemy activity and is under investigation, the Pentagon said.\n“This tragedy reminds us of the risks our men and women face every day in service of our nations. We are thinking of the loved ones of these service members today,” said U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Jonathan P. Braga, director of operations in the fight against the Islamic State extremist group in Iraq and Syria.\nThe helicopter was used by the Air Force for combat search and rescue and was shifting from one location to another when it went down Thursday afternoon near the town of Qaim in Anbar Province.\nThe Pentagon said an accompanying U.S. helicopter immediately reported the crash and a quick-reaction force comprised of Iraqi security forces and coalition members secured the scene.\nThe names of those killed would be released after next of kin are notified, the statement added.\nNew York City officials announced Friday that two of those killed were longtime members of the city’s Fire Department — Lt. Christopher Raguso and fire marshal Christopher “Tripp” Zanetis. They were “truly two of New York City’s bravest,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said.\nPresident Donald Trump offered his thoughts and prayers on Twitter Friday for the families of service members killed, saying he was thinking of the “brave troops,” and adding that “their sacrifice in service to our country will never be forgotten.”\nThe U.S.-led coalition battling the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria have an outpost in Qaim, which is located near the Syrian border. The anti-IS campaign accelerated through much of last year, as coalition and Iraqi forces battled to take back a string of cities and towns.\nPrime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared victory over IS in Mosul in July. In the following months, Iraqi forces retook a handful of other IS-held towns including Tal Afar in August, Hawija in September and Qaim in October. In November, Iraqi forces retook the last Iraqi town held by IS — Rawah, near the border with Syria.\nThe U.S.-led coalition has continued to work with Iraq and Syrian Democratic Forces to shore up the border region to make sure that foreign fighters and insurgents can’t move freely across the region.", "The U.S. military has ruled out enemy contact as the cause of the recent deaths of two American service members and injury of five others while they were participating in the U.S.-led offensive against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq Sunday.\n“Initial reports indicate the incident was not due to enemy contact,” notes the U.S. military in a statement.\nadvertisement\nNevertheless, the United States armed forces did acknowledge that the American casualties took place during “combat operations in northern Iraq” on Sunday.\nThe American troops involved in the incident, which the military has said is under investigation, were part of the U.S.-led coalition that has been combating the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq since 2014.\nU.S. officials have not officially released information about the identities of the Americans who were killed and injured.\nAmerican Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, commander of the U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS, paid his respects to the family of the troops, saying:\nThe entire counter-ISIS Coalition sends our deepest condolences to these heroes’ families, friends, and teammates. There are no words to describe the respect I have for you and sorrow I have for your loss. I hope there is some small solace in knowing their loss has meaning for our country and all the nations of the Coalition as the fallen service members were fighting to defeat a truly evil enemy and to protect our homelands.\nAn estimated 5,000 U.S. troop are believed to be participating in Iraq-based operations against ISIS.\n“A month after Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi declared victory over ISIS in Mosul, the coalition continues to aid the Iraqi armed forces fight against ISIS in other towns throughout the country,” notes CNN. “Within Iraq, the coalition’s main focus is to liberate the towns of Tal Afar, Hawija and the town of Al Qaim in the Euphrates River valley. The coalition is also working to liberate Raqqa, ISIS’ de-facto capital in Syria.”\nISIS still controls about 20 percent of the territory (35,000 square miles) it held at its peak at the beginning of 2015.\nAccording to a tally by the Pentagon, there have been at least 42 U.S. fatalities linked to Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR), the name of the ongoing American offensive against ISIS in the Middle East.\nOf the 42 American casualties, which likely does not include the recent deaths in Iraq, terrorists have killed the majority (28) in combat. Jihadists have also killed at least two American civilians affiliated with OIR.\nMoreover, there have been at least 208 injury incidents involving U.S. troops fighting ISIS under Operation Inherent Resolve.", "French President Francois Hollande today told French soldiers training Iraqi special forces that involvement on the ground against the Islamic State group was key to preventing terror attacks at home.\n“Taking action against terrorism here in Iraq is also preventing acts of terrorism on our own soil,” he said at a base of Iraq’s elite Counter-Terrorism Service near Baghdad.\nHollande arrived in Baghdad on Monday to meet the French forces helping Iraq in the fight against the Islamic State and to hold talks with top officials.\nHollande had already visited in 2014 and remains the most prominent head of state to come to Iraq since the launch two and half years ago of a US-led coalition against the jihadists.\nThe French president, who is travelling with Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, will also stop in the autonomous northern region of Kurdistan during his one-day visit.\nFrance is the second contributor to the US-led coalition that has carried out thousands of air strikes against IS in Iraq and Syria and provided military equipment, training and advice to Iraqi forces.\nIraqi forces completely collapsed when IS jihadists took over second city Mosul in June 2014 and swept across much of the country’s Sunni Arab heartland.\nThe jihadists then gained more territory in August 2014, forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee from areas that had been controlled by the Kurdish peshmerga forces.\nSince it joined the United States in the coalition in September 2014, French aircraft have conducted 5,700 sorties, around 1,000 strikes and destroyed more than 1,700 targets, according to defence ministry figures.\nFrance has 14 Rafale fighter jets that are stationed in Jordan and the United Arab Emirates and taking part in coalition operations.\nIt also has 500 soldiers training and advising elite Iraqi forces and CAESAR artillery vehicles stationed south of Mosul to provide support for ongoing operations to retake the city.\nAustralia, Italy and Britain are also part of the 60-member coalition supporting Iraq’s efforts against IS.\nMosul op\n“He will stress the importance of continuing efforts to ensure sustainable security in the country after Daesh (IS) has been defeated and the coexistence of communities in a united and sovereign Iraq,” a source in the French presidency said.\nHollande was scheduled to hold talks with Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who hails from the main Shiite political bloc, President Fuad Masum, a Kurd, and Parliament Speaker Salim al-Juburi, one of the country’s most prominent Sunni politicians.\nThe French president began his trip with a visit to a base near Baghdad where French forces are training Iraq’s elite Counter-Terrorism Service, the force that has spearheaded most major anti-IS operations in Iraq since 2014.\nIt was CTS that first breached the city limits of Mosul late last year in an effort to retake what is now IS’s last major stronghold in Iraq.\nBut the going has been tough for Iraqi forces, partly because hundreds of thousands of civilians have remained in the city, slowing their advance.\nAbadi had promised that his forces would rid the country of IS by the end of 2016 but he said last week that three more months would be needed to achieve that goal.\nSome observers argue that remained an ambitious timeline, given the continued presence of IS fighters in other parts of the country, such as in Hawijah or in the province of Anbar near the Syrian border.", "BAGHDAD: French President Francois Hollande arrived in Baghdad Monday to meet the French forces helping Iraq in the fight against the Islamic State group and to hold talks with top officials.\nHollande had already visited in 2014 and remains the most prominent head of state to come to Iraq since the launch two and half years ago of a US-led coalition against the jihadists.\nThe French president, who is traveling with Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, will also stop in the autonomous northern region of Kurdistan during his one-day visit.\nFrance is the second contributor to the US-led coalition that has carried out thousands of air strikes against IS in Iraq and Syria and provided military equipment, training and advice to Iraqi forces.\nIraqi forces completely collapsed when IS jihadists took over second city Mosul in June 2014 and swept across much of the country’s Sunni Arab heartland.\nThe jihadists then gained more territory in August 2014, forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee from areas that had been controlled by the Kurdish peshmerga forces.\nSince it joined the United States in the coalition in September 2014, French aircraft have conducted 5,700 sorties, around 1,000 strikes and destroyed more than 1,700 targets, according to defence ministry figures.\nFrance has 14 Rafale fighter jets that are stationed in Jordan and the United Arab Emirates and taking part in coalition operations.\nIt also has 500 soldiers training and advising elite Iraqi forces and CAESAR artillery vehicles stationed south of Mosul to provide support for ongoing operations to retake the city.\nAustralia, Italy and Britain are also part of the 60-member coalition supporting Iraq’s efforts against IS.\nMosul op\n“He will stress the importance of continuing efforts to ensure sustainable security in the country after Daesh (IS) has been defeated and the coexistence of communities in a united and sovereign Iraq,” a source in the French presidency said.\nHollande was scheduled to hold talks with Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who hails from the main Shiite political bloc, President Fuad Masum, a Kurd, and Parliament Speaker Salim al-Juburi, one of the country’s most prominent Sunni politicians.\nThe French president began his trip with a visit to a base near Baghdad where French forces are training Iraq’s elite Counter-Terrorism Service, the force that has spearheaded most major anti-IS operations in Iraq since 2014.\nIt was CTS that first breached the city limits of Mosul late last year in an effort to retake what is now IS’s last major stronghold in Iraq.\nBut the going has been tough for Iraqi forces, partly because hundreds of thousands of civilians have remained in the city, slowing their advance.\nAbadi had promised that his forces would rid the country of IS by the end of 2016 but he said last week that three more months would be needed to achieve that goal.\nSome observers argue that remained an ambitious timeline, given the continued presence of IS fighters in other parts of the country, such as in Hawijah or in the province of Anbar near the Syrian border. AFP\nAFP/CC", "By Jim Garamone DoD News, Defense Media Activity\nWASHINGTON, Dec. 11, 2017 — While Iraqi security forces and Syrian Democratic Forces have destroyed the idea of an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ‘Caliphate,’ much work remains to be done against the terror group, Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Robert Manning said today.\nOver the weekend, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced that Iraqi security forces -- including Kurdish peshmerga forces -- had defeated ISIS in his country.\nAbadi is proud of his troops who fought pitched battles -- from Beiji to Mosul to Fallujah to Ramadi to Hit to Qaim -- to defeat the group, which once threatened Baghdad.\n“Iraqi security forces, to include the peshmerga, fought against a determined enemy and sacrificed greatly since 2014,” Manning said. “We congratulate all those who fought and remember all those who died to liberate Iraq from vicious ISIS territorial control.”\nIraqi forces were caught off guard when ISIS swooped in in 2014 and the terror group stopped just 30 miles from the Iraqi capital. The Iraqi government asked for aid, and coalition forces led by the United States stepped up. Soon, service members from around the world arrived to train Iraqi security forces, provide supplies and equipment and provide air support that stopped ISIS in its tracks.\nCounter-ISIS Offensive\nAs Iraqi forces gained more confidence, they began attacking ISIS and pushing the terror group back.\nAt the same time across the border in Syria, Kurds and Arabs -- sick of ISIS’ brutality -- formed the SDF. Coalition support enabled the group to take the fight to ISIS in areas that were once the terror group’s stronghold.\nNow, Iraqi security forces and the SDF have taken back all the territory once held by ISIS. U.S. officials said there are fewer than 3,000 ISIS adherents in Iraq and Syria, with most of those in Syria.\nThe SDF and Iraqi forces -- with coalition support -- have liberated 7.7 million people from ISIS over the past three years.\nBut now is not the time to declare victory and go home, Manning said. “Much work remains to ensure ISIS’s lasting defeat and the government of Iraq can count on continuing coalition support as we work together to erase the stain of ISIS and to strengthen the institutions of Iraq’s national defense,” he said.\nCollective Commitment\nManning confirmed that SDF and Iraqi leaders met near their shared border Dec. 10. They reaffirmed a collective commitment as they continued clearance and security in their respective areas of operation. The meeting was held near the border crossing at Qaim, Iraq and Abu Kamal, Syria.\nThe representatives agreed to coordinate security along the border, and will establish a joint coordination center to ensure border security.\nThe SDF will continue operations to clear the northern and eastern side of the Euphrates River valley. Iraqi forces will patrol throughout Iraq to ensure there is no resurgence of the terror group or rise of a similar ideology.\nThere are still small numbers of ISIS adherents in Iraq and Syria. The Iraqi forces and the SDF will continue to root them out, Manning said.\nSecuring the border is important for both Syria and Iraq. ISIS gained a foothold in Iraq, in part, from adherents of the group infiltrating over the very porous border from Syria.\n(Follow Jim Garamone on Twitter: @GaramoneDoDNews)", "The YPG released a statement paying their respects to the fighter. “Ryan joined actively in our offensive against the terror threat that Isis caused upon Rojava, Kurdistan. Here, on the dark hours of 21 December 2016, we lost our brave companion Ryan and four other fighters in Jaeber village,” it said.\n“Ryan was not only a fighter providing additional force to our struggle. In fact, with his experience and knowledge he has been an example for younger fighters. While he has reached a vast amount of achievement up in our frontlines, Ryan has served the purpose of a very important bridge between us, the Kurds of Rojava. He crossed continents for the destiny of our people and humanity.”\nThe YPG is the leftist armed wing of Kurdish Democratic Union party (PYD) and is considered the US-led coalition’s strongest ally in the fight against Isil on the ground and has been leading the offensive to drive Isil out of Raqqa.\nUp to 50 Britons are thought to have gone to Syria to fight against the terror group, according to a study by the counter-terrorism Royal United Services Institute think-tank.\nThe rise of Isil and the videos of beheadings of westerners dramatically increased the YPG’s foreign contingent.\nAlthough the legal status of volunteering is unclear, many of the fighters answered a call put out by the force last year, and has drawn comparisons to the Brigadas Internacionales of 1930s Spain.\nMr Lock is the third Briton to die fighting with the YPG since volunteers started joining the force in the summer of 2014, shortly after Isil declared its caliphate.\nKonstandinos Erik Scurfield, a 25-year-old former Royal Marine from Barnsley, was killed by mortar fire in the north-east Syrian town of Tel Hamis in March.\nDean Evans, a 22-year-old dairy farmer from Warminster, was hit by an RPG last July in the nearby city of Manbij while trying to rescue a fallen comrade.", "Supporting military operations against the Islamic State group is key to preventing terror attacks at home, French President Francois Hollande said Monday during a visit to Iraq.\nHollande had already visited in 2014 and remains the most prominent head of state to come to Iraq since the launch two and half years ago of a US-led coalition against the jihadists.\nThe French president, who is travelling with Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, will also stop in the autonomous northern region of Kurdistan during his one-day visit.\n\"Taking action against terrorism here in Iraq is also preventing acts of terrorism on our own soil,\" he said at a base of Iraq's elite Counter-Terrorism Service near Baghdad.\nFrance is the second contributor to the US-led coalition that has carried out thousands of air strikes against IS in Iraq and Syria and provided military equipment, training and advice to Iraqi forces.\nIraqi forces completely collapsed when IS jihadists took over second city Mosul in June 2014 and swept across much of the country's Sunni Arab heartland.\nThe jihadists then gained more territory in August 2014, forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee from areas that had been controlled by the Kurdish peshmerga forces.\nSince it joined the United States in the coalition in September 2014, French aircraft have conducted 5,700 sorties, around 1,000 strikes and destroyed more than 1,700 targets, according to defence ministry figures.\nFrance has 14 Rafale fighter jets that are stationed in Jordan and the United Arab Emirates and taking part in coalition operations.\nIt also has 500 soldiers training and advising elite Iraqi forces and CAESAR artillery vehicles stationed south of Mosul to provide support for ongoing operations to retake the city.\nAustralia, Italy and Britain are also part of the 60-member coalition supporting Iraq's efforts against IS.\n- Mosul op -French nationals are also among the largest contingents of foreign fighters in IS and security agencies now fear the disintegration of the \"caliphate\" in Iraq and Syria will result in an influx of returning jihadists bent on carrying out terror attacks in their home countries.\nHollande is also expected to voice support for reconciliation and unity in Iraq, where observers fear an end to major operations against IS could see old internal divisions resurface.\n\"He will stress the importance of continuing efforts to ensure sustainable security in the country after Daesh (IS) has been defeated and the coexistence of communities in a united and sovereign Iraq,\" a source in the French presidency said.\nHollande was scheduled to hold talks with Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who hails from the main Shiite political bloc, President Fuad Masum, a Kurd, and parliament speaker Salim al-Juburi, one of the country's most prominent Sunni politicians.\nThe French president began his trip with a visit to a base near Baghdad where French forces are training Iraq's elite Counter-Terrorism Service, the force that has spearheaded most major anti-IS operations in Iraq since 2014.\nIt was CTS that first breached the city limits of Mosul late last year in an effort to retake what is now IS's last major stronghold in Iraq.\nBut the going has been tough for Iraqi forces, partly because hundreds of thousands of civilians have remained in the city, slowing their advance.\nAbadi had promised that his forces would rid the country of IS by the end of 2016 but he said last week that three more months would be needed to achieve that goal.\nSome observers argue that remained an ambitious timeline, given the continued presence of IS fighters in other parts of the country, such as in Hawijah or in the province of Anbar near the Syrian border.", "BAGHDAD: French President Francois Hollande arrived in Baghdad Monday (Jan 2) to meet the French forces helping Iraq in the fight against the Islamic State group and to hold talks with top officials.\nHollande had already visited in 2014 and remains the most prominent head of state to come to Iraq since the launch two and half years ago of a US-led coalition against the militants.\nThe French president, who is travelling with Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, will also stop in the autonomous northern region of Kurdistan during his one-day visit.\nFrance is the second contributor to the US-led coalition that has carried out thousands of air strikes against IS in Iraq and Syria and provided military equipment, training and advice to Iraqi forces.\nIraqi forces completely collapsed when IS jihadists took over second city Mosul in June 2014 and swept across much of the country's Sunni Arab heartland.\nThe jihadists then gained more territory in August 2014, forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee from areas that had been controlled by the Kurdish peshmerga forces.\nSince it joined the United States in the coalition in September 2014, French aircraft have conducted 5,700 sorties, around 1,000 strikes and destroyed more than 1,700 targets, according to defence ministry figures.\nFrance has 14 Rafale fighter jets that are stationed in Jordan and the United Arab Emirates and taking part in coalition operations.\nIt also has 500 soldiers training and advising elite Iraqi forces and CAESAR artillery vehicles stationed south of Mosul to provide support for ongoing operations to retake the city.\nAustralia, Italy and Britain are also part of the 60-member coalition supporting Iraq's efforts against IS.", "Anbar (IraqiNews.com) The Joint Operations Command has announced arresting two Islamic State members in an airstrike in Anbar province.\nIn a statement, Brig. Gen. Yehia Rasool, spokesperson for the command, said, “an airstrike was carried out in the desert in Anbar by the army’s elite Counter-Terrorism Service, depending on information from the Iraqi intelligence services.”\n“The operation was backed by the Iraqi fighter jets. Two IS members were arrested,” he added.\nOn Sunday, several Islamic State members were arrested as an airstrike was carried out as CTS troops carried out an airstrike in the desert, southeast of Rutba, in coordination with Anbar Operations Command and the first brigade, according to news reports.\nLast week, six Islamic State members were killed as the U.S.-led Coalition launched an airstrike in Wadi al-Qathf region in Rutba.\nThousands of IS militants as well as Iraqi civilians were killed since the government campaign, backed by paramilitary troops and the coalition, was launched in October 2016 to fight the militant group.\nAbadi announced in December full liberation of Iraqi lands, declaring end of war against IS members. However, Islamic State continues to launch sporadic attacks across Iraq against troops. Security reports indicate that the militant group still poses threat against stability in the country.\nIraqi forces, backed by a U.S.-led coalition and paramilitary troops, have been fighting to retake territories Islamic State had occupied.", "KABUL, Afghanistan — The U.S. military says that an American soldier has died as a result of injuries sustained during a vehicle incident in eastern Afghanistan.\nA statement released by the U.S. forces on Tuesday says that two other American service members were injured in the incident, which took place in eastern Nangarhar province on Monday.\nAccording to the statement, the U.S. forces were not in contact with enemy forces at the time. It says the injured soldiers are receiving medical treatment.\nThe statement added that U.S. Gen. John Nicholson, commander of the U.S. troops in Afghanistan, expressed his deepest sympathies and prayers to the families and friends of the fallen and injured service members.\nIt provides no further information. The military did not identify the dead service member.", "Two U.S. soldiers have been killed and five wounded in northern Iraq while conducting combat operations as part of the coalition fighting against the Islamic State militant group (ISIS).\nIn a statement, U.S. Central Command said initial reports indicated the pair were not killed while engaging the enemy but did not provide another explanation. The deaths are now being investigated.\nRead More: ISIS Female Fighters Use Own Children as Human Shields In Last Desperate Moments of Mosul Siege\nDaily Emails and Alerts - Get the best of Newsweek delivered to your inbox\nNeither of the two fallen soldiers nor those wounded have been identified. The military has said further information will be released as appropriate.\nGen. Stephen J. Townsend, commander of Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve, the operation to expunge ISIS from Iraq and Syria offered his condolences to the families of the two soldiers and referred to them as \"heroes.\"\nREUTERS/Marius Bosch\n\"There are no words to describe the respect I have for you and sorrow I have for your loss. I hope there is some small solace in knowing their loss has meaning for our country and all the nations of the Coalition as the fallen service members were fighting to defeat a truly evil enemy and to protect our homelands,\" he said.\nThere are currently some 5,000 American troops on active duty in Iraq fighting in ISIS, according to latest Pentagon figures. The Associated Press reported the majority of those are part of a vast intelligence and logistical apparatus operating from within heavily guarded bases.\nHowever, as the the U.S.-backed coalition has made advances against the militant group in the three years since the start of operation inherent resolve, American personnel have been seen fighting on the front lines in both Iraq in Syria.\nIn April, Lt. Weston Lee, 25, from Bluffton, Georgia died in a bomb blast while conducting security sweeps in Mosul. The assault on the former ISIS stronghold has been Operation Inherent Resolve’s largest offensive on the militant group.\nIn October, just days into the assault on Mosul, Navy Chief Petty Officer Jason C. Finan, 34, from Anaheim, California., was killed from wounds sustained in a roadside bomb attack.\nAfter nine months of fighting in and around Mosul, the Iraqi government declared victory in the city, the country’s second largest, in July. More than 1,200 Iraqi forces were killed in the battle for Mosul and more than 6,000 were wounded, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said this month. Now the Iraqi-led forces are preparing to being their offensive of the ISIS town of Tal Afar, just 40 miles west of Mosul.", "FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2008 file photo, then U.S. President George W. Bush, right, walks with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani in Baghdad, Iraq. Talabani, a lifelong fighter for Iraq’s Kurds who rose to become the country’s president, presenting himself as a unifying father figure to temper the potentially explosive hatreds among Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis has died in a Berlin hospital at the age of 83. Evan Vucci, File AP Photo", "The Department of Defense says one of the three U.S. soldiers killed in an attack by Islamic extremists in Niger was from southwestern Ohio.\nThe government announced Friday that 39-year-old Staff Sgt. Jeremiah Johnson of Springboro died in the attack.\nHe and the two other American soldiers killed Wednesday were army special operations commandos assigned to 3rd Special Forces Group out of Fort Bragg, North Carolina.\nU.S. Africa Command says the U.S. forces are in Niger to provide training and security assistance to the Nigerien Armed Forces in their efforts against violent extremists.\nFour Nigerien soldiers also died in the attack.\nA statement Niger's Army Chief of Staff a joint patrol fell into an ambush set by terrorists aboard a dozen vehicles and about twenty motorcycles.\nCopyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.", "WASHINGTON The top U.S. commander in Iraq on Tuesday said the type of weapon fired by the U.S.-led coalition in Mosul in a recent air strike should not have caused a blast big enough to collapse an entire building, a potential sign of Islamic State's role in civilian casualties.\n\"Actually our munitions, the fact that the whole building collapsed, actually contradicts our involvement,\" said U.S. Army Lieutenant General Stephen Townsend, addressing Pentagon reporters.\n\"The munition that we used should not have collapsed an entire building. So that is one of those things that we are trying to figure out in the investigative process because we have ... munitions in our inventory that can collapse whole buildings. That is not what we used in this case.\"\nConflicting accounts have emerged since the March 17 explosion in al-Jadida district in west Mosul, where Iraqi forces backed by U.S.-led coalition air strikes are fighting to clear Islamic State militants from Iraq's second city.\nInvestigators are in Mosul to determine whether a U.S.-led coalition strike or Islamic State-rigged explosives caused a blast that destroyed buildings and may have killed more than 200 people.\n(Reporting by Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart; Editing by James Dalgleish)", "Some 60 members of the Royal Canadian Air Force’s 408 Tactical Helicopter Squadron left Monday for Iraq.\nThe squadron members, based at 3rd Canadian Division Support Base in Edmonton, Alta., are headed for northern Iraq where they will assume the duties of the Tactical Aviation Detachment of Air Task Force-Iraq as part of Operation IMPACT, according to the RCAF news release. Op IMPACT is the Canadian military mission against the Islamic State.\nThe members of 408 Tactical Helicopter Squadron will relieve 430 Tactical Helicopter Squadron from Valcartier, Que., which has been providing tactical aviation support since early October 2016, according to the RCAF. Personnel of 408 Squadron will fly and maintain the four CH-146 Griffon helicopters, co-located with the Canadian-led Coalition Role 2 medical facility in Iraq.\nCH-146 Griffon helicopters and personnel first deployed to Op IMPACT in May 2016.", "BEIRUT — Islamic State media outlets are reporting that the son of the group’s leader has been killed fighting Syrian government forces.\nThe announcement of the death of the young son of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi appeared on the group’s social media accounts late Tuesday. It included a picture of a young boy carrying a rifle and identified him as Huthaifa al-Badri.\nThe statement did not specify when he was killed. It said he was an elite fighter who was killed while fighting Syrian and Russia troops at a power station in the central Homs province.\nAl-Baghdadi has been reported killed or wounded on a number of occasions but is widely believed to still be alive. IS has been driven from nearly all the territory it once controlled in Syria and Iraq.\nCopyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.", "BEIRUT, April 13 The U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State on Thursday denied a Syrian army report it had carried out an air strike that had hit poison gas supplies belonging to IS and caused the deaths of hundreds of people.\n\"The Coalition conducted no strikes in that area at that time. The Syrian claim is incorrect and likely intentional misinformation,\" U.S. Air Force Colonel John Dorrian, a colaition spokesman, told Reuters by email. (Reporting by John Davison; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)", "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State militants said on Thursday another 51 civilians had been killed in strikes in Iraq and Syria, raising the total number of civilians it has killed to 786 since 2014.\nThe coalition said in a statement that during September, it had assessed 127 reports and the 51 additional deaths occurred in 16 incidents going back as far as February that it deemed were credible.\nThe coalition, battling to defeat Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, says it goes to great lengths to avoid civilian casualties.\nThe military’s official tally is far below those of outside organizations. The monitoring group Airwars says at least 5,637 civilians have been killed by coalition strikes.\nIraqi forces launched an attack to drive Islamic State from the last territory it holds in Iraq on Thursday and the Syrian army and its allies said they planned to march on the jihadists' last Syrian stronghold.\nThe separate assaults across the Iraqi-Syrian frontier aim to deal a final blow to the Islamic State \"caliphate\" that has crumbled this year in Syria and Iraq, with the group losing the cities of Mosul, Raqqa and swathes of other territory.\n(Reporting by Idrees Ali; Editing by Dan Grebler)", "Some of the US-backed Kurdish forces that had abandoned offensive operations against the Islamic State group in Syria have started returning to fight the jihadists, a US military official said Tuesday.\nKurdish members of the Syrian Democratic Forces -- made up of Kurds, Syrian Arabs and other groups -- had quit the Middle Euphrates River Valley in February after Turkey sent troops into Syria and launched an operation against the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia in its Afrin enclave.\nTurkey drove the group from the city on March 18.\nThe sudden departure of SDF fighters resulted in a slow-down in missions against IS in two remaining jihadist pockets along the river.\n\"We are encouraged by the return of some Syrian Democratic Force partners to the Middle Euphrates River Valley,\" said Colonel Ryan Dillon, a spokesman for the US-led coalition fighting IS in Iraq and Syria.\n\"More combat power is returning to Euphrates River Valley to really turn it on to the ISIS elements,\" he added.\nDillon did not provide any details on the numbers of fighters returning.\nThe United States has since late 2014 led an international coalition to defeat IS in Syria and Iraq.\nPresident Donald Trump recently threw America's commitment to Syria into doubt, especially after IS is defeated, when he said he wanted US forces out as soon as possible.", "Air Force Pave Hawk helicopter crashed while on a routine mission in Western Iraq killing all 7 Americans on board; national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin reports from the Pentagon on a tough week for U.S. military aviation.", "A US-led coalition has been carrying out air strikes against the Islamic State group in Syria since 2014\nAir strikes by the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group killed 20 civilians in Syria's eastern Deir Ezzor province, a monitor said on Tuesday.\nThe Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the deaths came in two separate incidents on Monday.\nThe Britain-based monitor said 13 civilians, among them five children, were killed in a strike on Monday night on the town of Albu Kamal, near the Syria-Iraq border.\nThe strike also killed three members of IS, which controls the town, the monitor said.\nEarlier in the day, a US-led coalition strike killed seven civilians, including a child, in the village of Husseinyeh, the monitor said.\nThe US-led coalition has been carrying out air strikes against IS in Syria since 2014 and is providing air support for a Kurdish-Arab alliance advancing on the jihadist bastion of Raqa.\nLast month, the coalition said its campaign against IS in Syria and Iraq had unintentionally killed at least 220 civilians, but monitors say the real number is far higher.\nMost of the oil-rich province of Deir Ezzor, in Syria's east, is held by IS, including parts of the provincial capital, Deir Ezzor city.\nThe jihadists have besieged the remaining government-held parts of Deir Ezzor city, trapping civilians inside with limited access to supplies.\nMore than 320,000 people have been killed in Syria since the conflict began with anti-government protests in March 2011.", "United States Army Officials said an Army General officer assigned to Shaw Air Force Base died on Sunday at Lake Murray.\nMajor General Jeffrey L. Bannister, 57, of Lexington died due to natural causes, according to Lexington County coroner Margaret Fisher, who said there were no suspicious circumstances or indications of foul play related to his death.\nOn transition leave, Bannister was working as a special projects officer for the Chief of Staff of the Army at Shaw Air Force Base as he waitied to retire in the area.\n\"Our thoughts and prayers are with Maj. Gen. Bannister's family. Our top priority is ensuring the family has all the local support and resources they need during this emotionally difficult time,\" said Lt. Gen. Michael Garret, the commanding general for U.S. Army Central.\nMaj. Gen. Bannister is survived by his wife, Trese, and their daughter, Lindsey.\nMajor General Bannister was deployed multiple times to Iraq and Afghanistan.\n© 2018 WLTX", "A British soldier has died in Iraq, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said.\nThe soldier was from the 2nd Battalion the Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment, a statement from the MoD revealed.\n(Chris Radburn/PA)\nIt continued: “The death occurred in Taji, Iraq, following an incident that is currently under investigation, but we can confirm that it was not as a result of enemy activity.”", "A British soldier has died in Iraq while training troops to fight against ISIS, the Ministry of Defence confirmed today.\nThe solider died following an 'incident' but the death was not 'a result of enemy activity'.\nThe MoD is investigating the death and revealed that the solider was serving with the 2nd Battalion the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment.\nA British soldier has died in Taji, Iraq, while training troops to fight against ISIS, the Ministry of Defence confirmed today\nThey added: 'The death occurred in Taji following an incident that is currently under investigation, but we can confirm that it was not as a result of enemy activity.'\nA number of British troops are currently in Iraq helping train soldiers to fight against the so-called Islamic State.\nThe Duke of Lancaster's Regiment was formed in July 2006 and the 2nd Battalion is based at Weeton Barracks, near Blackpool, Lancashire.", "Isil claimed responsibility for the attack via its propaganda agency Amaq, saying the \"martyrdom operation\" had killed about 40 people.\nIt also claimed another bombing on Saturday that left at least 27 dead in a busy area of central Baghdad.\nFrance, one of the most active members of the US-led coalition fighting the Sunni extremist group, is particularly concerned over the return of a large contingent of French jihadists from Syria and Iraq." ]

[ "Deputy Charlie Riggs" ]

[ "DID", "Did Not Finish", "The Girl Who Played with Fire", "plays", "Did It for the Party", "play", "Play On", "The Rankine scale", "Who Made Who", "The Rankine cycle", "JP Did This 1", "Who?", "Played on Pepper", "Playing with Fire", "Play age", "Simpsons Already Did It", "Press to Play", "12 Play", "the order of play", "Play No Games", "musical play", "No pass, no play", "playing technique", "Press Play", "Playing in the Shadows", "I Did It for Love", "Power Play", "The Play of Adam", "The Play of the Weather", "play song", "The Band Played On", "Google Play" ]

[ "Twenty seven-year-old Lars (Ryan Gosling) is so painfully withdrawn that his sister-in-law must literally tackle him before he'll walk twenty paces to his brother's house for dinner. He's polite, sweet, good-natured, and utterly reclusive — a loner at the office, keeping to himself at church. Then one day, he orders an anatomically correct silicone doll online, and starts introducing her around as his girlfriend Bianca. Yeah, yeah ... the premise sounds like a one-joke sex comedy — but as Lars' small town rallies to support him in his delusions, the film starts exploring family, psychiatry, community, awkwardness, and it all turns surprisingly touching. Much of the reason is Gosling, who's been playing wounded a lot of late — a drug-addicted teacher in Half Nelson, an abandoned lover in The Notebook — and whose belief in this guy's quirks makes Lars plausible without turning him precious. His belief makes Bianca plausible too. I realized at one point, as the camera backed up across the room at a party to watch him as he leaned over to whisper in the doll's ear, that I knew precisely what he was telling her. (Recommended.)" ]

[ "Joachim Cooder is no stranger to collaborations, nor is he new to scoring soundtracks, yet Cooder's newest project combines his past experiences in an unexpected way. Son of legendary guitarist Ry Cooder, he took to the drums early on, and eventually played in the famous documentary Buena Vista Social Club. He's also worked behind the scenes, writing for the soundtracks of films such as Lars and the Real Girl. Joachim Cooder's latest project, Love on a Real Train, blends his two passions; it started out as a musical score to the sunset outside his home in L.A. It features collaborations with Matt Costa, Inara George and other members of Cooder's literal and figurative musical family. (Cooder likes it to a \"soundtrack without a film.\") Hear Cooder discuss Love on a Real Train and play live in this World Cafe session.", "Though Fruit, The Asteroids Galaxy Tour's first official LP is not scheduled to be released until May, this Danish group already has an impressive resume in the works. \"Around the Bend\" has been featured in an ipod touch commercial, a few tracks were on an episode of the CW show Gossip Girl, and the band's first gig was opening for Amy Winehous at Copenhagen's largest music venue. The Asteroids Galaxy Tour has two chief members: Mette Lindberg and Lars Iversen, but it is not unusual to see this duo swell to a talented and diverse six-piece band when on stage. Lindberg's unique voice is a key component of The Asteroids Galaxy Tour. Sometimes raw and demanding and at other times smooth and suggestive, Lindberg's vocals provides ammunition for the band's feisty, retro-tinged pop songs. Funk, soul, psychedelia, and electro-pop are just a few of the flavors that help diversify Fruit. Recording Fruit with Iversen's vintage equipment also helps solidify this fun, retro sound. Download this song in the Second Stage podcast. Yesterday's Second Stage artist. Submit Your Music Email host Robin Hilton.", "Host Bob Boilen discovers a new world of music through All Songs Considered summer intern Lars Gotrich. As a musician, DJ, and music writer Lars Gotrich has a passion for music that is full of mystery and subtlety. As musicians themselves, Bob and Lars discuss the differences between music made for a pop/rock audience versus music made for its own sake, which includes much of what you'll hear on this show.", "Mark Jordan Legan, who writes for the online magazine Slate, offers his summary of what the critics are saying about this week's new movies. In the latest Summary Judgment, Legan discusses Lars and the Real Girl, Elizabeth: The Golden Age and Michael Clayton. ALEX COHEN, host: Back now with DAY TO DAY. There is plenty to choose from at the movies this weekend. Just ask Mark Jordan Legan. Here he is with our weekly digest of what film critics have to say. It's Slate's Summary Judgment. Mr. MARK JORDAN LEGAN (Slate): Almost 10 years ago, Cate Blanchett burst onto the scene with her Oscar-nominated performance in \"Elizabeth.\" And well, after many delays, here's the sequel: \"Elizabeth: The Rise of the Silver Surfer.\" No, wait - that's \"The Fantastic Four.\" In this sequel, called \"The Golden Age,\" Elizabeth battles the king of Spain to defend her empire. Wait, wasn't the Silver Surfer at one time the king of Spain? Oh, no, I'm confused. (Soundbite of movie, \"Elizabeth: The Golden Age\") Ms. CATE BLANCHETT (Actress): (As Queen Elizabeth I) Tell Philip I fear neither him nor his priests nor his armies. Tell him if he wants to shake his little fist at us, we're ready to give him such a bite he'll wish he'd kept his hand in his pocket. Unidentified Man: You see a leaf fall, and you think you know which way the wind blows. Mr. LEGAN: The nation's critics say off with the sequel's head. Even though many praise Blanchett's performance, they all find fault with the movie. Blanchett commands the screen and makes a so-so film worth watching, moans the Philadelphia Inquirer. The Toronto Globe and Mail snickers: a shrill and silly affair. And Entertainment Weekly dismisses \"Elizabeth: The Golden Age\" as square and cautious. And just the opposite of square and cautious is the new comedy \"Lars and the Real Girl,\" where Ryan Gosling stars as a lonely introvert who seems to have finally met the love of his life, Bianca. (Soundbite of movie, \"Lars and the Real Girl\") Mr. RYAN GOSLING (Actor): (As Lars Lindstorm) I have a visitor. She doesn't speak much English, though. Unidentified Man (Actor): (As character) It's okay. It's really the same as the guys at work. It's not that big a deal. Mr. GOSLING: (As Lars Lindstorm) Okay. Mr. LEGAN: The only problem is Bianca is a life-size blowup doll. And what most of the critics say could have been a one-joke movie is actually touching and amusing. Even though The Village Voice finds it mawkish and schmaltzy, many agree with USA Today, which calls \"Lars\" well acted and gently funny; and The Wall Street Journal shouts: an endearing, intelligent and tender comedy. And expanding to a wide release is George Clooney in the thriller \"Michael Clayton,\" where Clooney plays an in-house fixer at a powerful corporate law firm and is finally given a task that tests everything he stands for. Tilda Swinton and Tom Wilkinson head the strong supporting cast. (Soundbite of movie, \"Michael Clayton\") Mr. GEORGE CLOONEY (Actor): (As Michael Clayton) They're putting everything on the table. You need to stop and think this through. I will help you think this through. I'll find somebody to help you think this through. Don't do this. You're making it easy for them. Mr. TOM WILKISON (Actor): (As Arthur Edens) Michael, I have great affection for you, and you lead a very rich and interesting life, but you're a bagman, not an attorney. Mr. LEGAN: \"Michael Clayton\" is one of the best-reviewed films of the year. An excellent legal thriller, cheers The Miami Herald. The Los Angeles Times calls it smart and suspenseful. And The New York Post says it's full of unforgettable performances. I think that's great that Clooney is playing a fixer. See, every big corporation has a fixer. Why, here at DAY TO DAY, I'm the fixer. Whenever things need to get done, no matter how intense, no matter how difficult, I'm the guy to do it. Now, if you'll excuse me, Alex Cohen needs her double vanilla frappuccino, and I better not be late. COHEN: Mark Jordan Legan is a writer and the fellow behind my frappuccinos. He lives in Los Angeles.", "For the past month, NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich laid out multiple strips of paper on his desk, occasionally re-arranging them and whittling down the numbers. The small strips of paper said things like Uncle Owen Aunt Beru, Extra Life and Erykah Badu. It was like some odd game of solitaire. It turns out he was working on his list of the year's top CDs, analog-style. Lars' love for music is keen, and his tastes are quite different from ours, so from time to time, we invite him to All Songs Considered in the hope of finding something different to hear. On this show, we offer you his Top 10 CDs of 2008. You can read Lars' full year-end list on his blog. More Top 10 Music Lists For 2008", "From a concert at Victoria Hall, in Geneva, conductor Pinchas Steinberg leads the Orchestra of the Suisse Romande in music from the L'Arlesienne (lar-lazy-ENN) Suite by Georges Bizet. The music was written for a play set in the south of France called \"The Girl from Arles,\" and Bizet made sure it reflected the flavor of southern French countryside.", "***This excerpt is from an advance uncorrected proof*** Copyright&nbsp;© 2015 J. Ryan Stradal LUTEFISK Lars Thorvald loved two women. That was it, he thought in passing, while he sat on the cold concrete steps of his apartment building. Perhaps he would've loved more than two, but it just didn't seem like things were going to work out like that. That morning, while defying a doctor's orders by puréeing a braised pork shoulder, he'd stared out his kitchen window at the snow on the roof of the Happy Chef restaurant across the highway and sung a love song to one of those two girls, his baby daughter, while she slept on the living room floor. He was singing a Beatles song, replacing the name of the girl in the old tune with the name of the girl in the room. He hadn't told a woman \"I love you\" until he was twenty-eight. He didn't lose his virginity until he was twenty-eight either. At least he'd had his first kiss when he was twenty-one, even if that woman quit returning his calls less than a week later. Lars blamed his sorry luck with women on his lack of teenage romance, and he blamed his lack of teenage romance on the fact that he was the worst-smelling kid in his grade, every year. He stunk like the floor of a fish market each Christmas, starting at age twelve, and even when he didn't smell terrible, the other kids acted like he did, because that's what kids do. \"Fish Boy,\" they called him, year round, and it was all the fault of an old Swedish woman named DorothySeaborg. --- On a December afternoon in 1971, Dorothy Seaborg of Duluth, Minnesota, fell on the ice and broke her hip while walking to her mailbox, disrupting the supply line of lutefisk for the Sunday Advent dinners at St. Olaf 's Lutheran Church. Lars's father, Gustaf Thorvald—of Duluth's Gustaf & Sons bakery, and one of the most conspicuous Norwegians between Cloquet and Two Harbors—promised everyone in St. Olaf 's Fellowship Hall that there would be no break in lutefisk continuity; his family would step in and carry on the brutal Scandinavian tradition for the benefit of the entire Twin Ports region Never mind that neither Gustaf, his wife, Elin, nor his children had ever even seen a live whitefish before, much less caught one, pounded it, dried it, soaked it in lye, resoaked it in cold water, or done the careful cooking required to make something that, when perfectly prepared, looked like jellied smog and smelled like boiled aquarium water. Since everyone in the house was equally unqualified for the job, the work fell to Lars, age twelve, and his younger brother Jarl, age ten, sparing the youngest sibling, nine-year old Sigmund, but only because he actually liked the stuff. \"If Lars and Jarl don't like it,\" Gustaf told Elin, \"I can count on them not to eat any. It'll eliminate loss and breakage.\" Gustaf was satisfied with this reasoning, and while Elin still thought it was a mean thing to do to their young sons, she said nothing. Theirs was a mixed-race marriage—between a Norwegian and a Dane—and thus all things culturally important to one but not the other were given a free pass and critiqued only in unmixed company. Yearly intimate contact with their cultural heritage failed to evolve the Thorvald boys' sensibilities. Jarl, who still ate his own snot, much preferred the taste of boogers to lutefisk, given that the consistency and color were the same. Lars, meanwhile, was stumped by the old Scandinavian women who walked up to him in church and said, \"Any young man who makes lutefisk like you do is going to be quite popular with the ladies.\" In Lars's experience, lutefisk skills usually inspired revulsion or, at best, indifference among prospective dates. Even the girls who claimed they liked lutefisk didn't want to smell it when they weren't eating it, and Lars couldn't give them much of a choice. The once-anticipated holiday season had become for Lars a cruel month of stench and rejection, and thanks to the boys at school, its social effects lingered long after everyone's desiccated Christmas trees were abandoned by the curbside. By the time Lars was eighteen, whatever tolerance he'd once had for this uncompromising tradition had long eroded. His hands were scarred from several Advents of soaking dried whitefish in lye, and every year the smell clung harder to his pores, fingernails, hair, and shoes, and not just because their surface areas had increased with maturity. Lars had also grown to become a little wizard in the kitchen, and by his unintentionally mastering the tragic hobby of lutefisk preparation, its potency was skyrocketing. Lutherans were driving from as far away as Fergus Falls to try the \"Thorvald lutefisk,\" and there wasn't an attractive young woman among any of them. As if to mock him further every year, Lars's dad would shove a forkful of the crap in his face each Christmas. \"Just a bite,\" Gustaf would say. \"Your ancestors ate this to survive the long winters.\" \"And how did they survive lutefisk?\" Lars asked once. \"Take s", "There's something about the frozen vistas and the unpronounceable street names of Sweden that seem to lend themselves to crime fiction. Stieg Larsson proved the point with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy. And now comes a new thriller tipped to be this summer's Nordic hit. It's called The Hypnotist. It's by the Swedish writer Lars Kepler. Except it turns out Lars Kepler doesn't actually exist. He's a pseudonym for the husband-and-wife writing team of Alexander Ahndoril and Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril. \"I am Lars,\" Alexandra tells NPR's Mary Louise Kelley. \"And I am Kepler,\" Alexander continues. \"Lars Kepler is not Alexandra or Alexander. It's us two writing crime fiction together,\" Alexandra said. The duo reveals that because each was already a published writer in Sweden, they wanted to create a new identity through which to write crime novels. \"We actually wanted to stay secret forever,\" Alexander said. \"That was the idea, but it lasted for three weeks.\" The true identity of Lars Kepler — whose name is a joint tribute to Stieg Larsson, author of the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo books, and German scientist Johannes Kepler — kept the Swedish media enthralled, until a journalist was able to track down the couple in their summer home. \"They even had a telephone line where you could call and give tips about who Lars Kepler was,\" Alexandra said. In The Hypnotist, a Stockholm family is brutally murdered and the only surviving witness is the family's teenaged son. In critical condition, the son is too weak to talk, and the investigators of the case decide to hypnotize him in the hopes of leading him to provide clues as to the identity of the murderer. \"One thing that we were really fascinated with was getting inside the head of the perpetrator,\" Alexandra says. \"We thought that a hypnotist can actually get inside the head of a person and see the memories and the hidden, hidden things.\" The violence in the book is largely carried out by women and children, a decision the couple says was crucial because they aspired to write about things that scared them. They have three daughters and during the writing of The Hypnotist, they fed off the \"frightening\" thought of their daughters turning evil. \"You will experience a book as scary when you care for the people in the book, and then you don't want anything bad to happen to them, and that's how we felt when we wrote the book,\" Alexandra says. \"We were so scared ourselves.\" Alexander notes that Swedish crime literature seems to traffic in darker subject matter than Americans are used to. \"In some way the Swedish society is a very good society, almost perfect on the surface,\" he said. \"That is something that makes the writers forced to see what is underneath the surface ... We do feel safe in Sweden. That's why we can --\" \"Write these terrible books,\" Alexandra continues. \"And explore what is frightening in the world,\" Alexander finishes. MARY LOUISE KELLY, host: There seems to be something about the frozen vistas and the unpronounceable street names of Sweden that lend themselves to crime fiction. Stieg Larsson certainly proved the point with hugely popular \"Millennium Trilogy,\" which included \"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.\" And now comes a new thriller tapped to be this summer's Nordic hit. It's called \"The Hypnotist,\" and it's the work of Swedish writer Lars Kepler; except, turns out, Lars Kepler doesn't actually exist. To help explain, we've invited Alexander Ahndoril and his wife, Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril, to come into the studio in Stockholm. Welcome to you both. Mr. ALEXANDER AHNDORIL (Co-Author, \"The Hypnotist\"): Thank you. Ms. ALEXANDRA COELHO AHNDORIL Co-Author, \"The Hypnotist\"): Thank you. KELLY: All right, so who is Lars Kepler? Ms. AHNDORIL: Actually, I am Lars. Mr. AHNDORIL: And I'm Kepler. Ms. AHNDORIL: Because Lars Kepler is not Alexandra or Alexander. It's us two writing crime fiction together. Mr. AHNDORIL: Because we writers in our own right, here in Sweden, and we wanted to create a brand-new writer when we started to write crime novels. KELLY: This is your first book writing together, as a husband and wife team. Ms. AHNDORIL: Yes. Yes. Mr. AHNDORIL: Right. KELLY: This caused, I gather, quite the stir - huge literary mystery in Sweden. When \"The Hypnotists\" first came out, hit the bestseller lists in Sweden, nobody could figure out who Lars Kepler was to try to interview him or her. I understand newspaper teams set up their own reporting squads devoted to try to figure out who Lars Kepler was. (Soundbite of laughter) Ms. AHNDORIL: Yes, it's true. They even had a telephone line... Mr. AHNDORIL: Yeah, a hotline. Ms. AHNDORIL: Yeah, you could call and give tips about who Lars Kepler was. And we were hunted down. Three weeks after the publication, the journalist found us in our summer house. Mr. AHNDORIL: So we actually wanted to stay secret forever. That was the idea. But it lasted for three weeks. (Soundbite of laughter) KELLY:", "When J. Ryan Stradal was growing up in Hastings, Minnesota, the cuisine in his house wasn&#8217;t very challenging. But when he was in high school, he began to explore the ethnic restaurants of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. Now, Stradal brings his memories of the kitchens he grew up in, as well as his own culinary adventures, to his debut novel, &#8220;Kitchens of the Great Midwest.&#8221; The book centers around Eva, whose own culinary explorations take her from a childhood of frozen fish sticks and peas to superstardom in the culinary world. Stradal discussed his novel with Here & Now&#8216;s Robin Young. \nFind more great reads on our digital bookshelf\n\nBook Excerpt: &#8216;Kitchens of the Great Midwest&#8217; By J. Ryan Stradal Lars Thorvald loved two women. That was it, he thought in passing, while he sat on the cold concrete steps of his apartment building. Per­haps he would &#8216;ve loved more than two, but it just didn&#8217;t seem like things were going to work out like that. That morning, while defying a doctor&#8217;s orders by pureeing a braised pork shoulder, he&#8217;d stared out his kitchen window at the snow on the roof of the Happy Chef restaurant across the highway and sung a love song to one of those two girls, his baby daughter, while she slept on the living room floor. He was singing a Beatles song, replacing the name of the girl in the old tune with the name of the girl in the room. He hadn&#8217;t told a woman &#8220;I love you&#8221; until he was twenty-eight. He didn&#8217;t lose his virginity until he was twenty-eight either. At least he&#8217;d had his first kiss when he was twenty-one, even if that woman quit re­ turning his calls less than a week later. Lars blamed his sorry luck with women on his lack of teenage ro­mance, and he blamed his lack of teenage romance on the fact that he was the worst-smelling kid in his grade, every year. He stunk like the floor of a fish market each Christmas, starting at age twelve, and even when he didn&#8217;t smell terrible, the other kids acted like he did, because that&#8217;s what kids do. &#8220;Fish Boy,&#8221; they called him, year round, and it was all the fault of an old Swedish woman named Dorothy Seaborg. On a December afternoon in 1971, Dorothy Seaborg of Duluth, Minnesota, fell on the ice and broke her hip while walking to her mailbox, disrupting the supply line of lutefisk for the Sunday Advent dinners at St. Olaf&#8217;s Lutheran Church. Lars&#8217;s father, Gustaf Thorvald of Duluth&#8217;s Gustaf & Sons bakery, and one of the most conspicuous Norwegians between Cloquet and Two Harbors-promised everyone in St. Olaf&#8217;s Fellowship Hall that there would be no break in lutefisk continuity; his family would step in and carry on the brutal Scandinavian tradition for the benefit of the entire Twin Ports region. Never mind that neither Gustaf, his wife, Elin, nor his children had ever even seen a live whitefish before, much less caught one, pounded it, dried it, soaked it in lye, resoaked it in cold water, or done the careful cook­ing required to make something that, when perfectly prepared, looked like jellied smog and smelled like boiled aquarium water. Since everyone in the house was equally unqualified for the job, the work fell to Lars, age twelve, and his younger brother Jarl, age ten, sparing the youngest sibling, nine­-year-old Sigmund, but only because he actually liked the stuff. &#8220;If Lars and Jarl don&#8217;t like it,&#8221; Gustaf told Elin, &#8220;I can count on them not to eat any. It&#8217;ll eliminate loss and breakage.&#8221; Gustaf was satisfied with this reasoning, and while Elin still thought it was a mean thing to do to their young sons, she said nothing. Theirs was a mixed-race marriage-between a Norwegian and a Dane-and thus all things culturally important to one but not the other were given a free pass and critiqued only in unmixed company. Yearly intimate contact with their cultural heritage failed to evolve the Thorvald boys&#8217; sensibilities. Jarl, who still ate his own snot, much preferred the taste of boogers to lutefisk, given that the consistency and color were the same. Lars, meanwhile, was stumped by the old Scandinavian women who walked up to him in church and said, “Any young man who makes lutefisk like you do is going to be quite popular with the ladies.” In Lars’s experience, lutefisk skills usually inspired revulsion or, at best, indifference among prospective dates. Even the girls who claimed they liked lutefisk didn’t want to smell it when they weren’t eating it, and Lars couldn’t give them much of a choice. The once-anticipated holiday season had become for Lars a cruel month of stench and rejection, and thanks to the boys at school, its social effects lingered long after everyone’s desiccated Christmas trees were abandoned by the curbside. By the time Lars was eighteen, whatever tolerance he’d once had for this uncompromising tradition had long eroded. His hands were scarred from sev", "Stream this playlist via Spotify or Apple Music. Let's see, in the month of September, we've got a pair of songs inspired by tarot cards, several odes to death or the end of the world and an Irish drinking song that doesn't end that well. But for every bummer, there's a reclamation of sanity, identity or voice via cathartic scream. Below you'll find an alphabetized list of NPR Music's top 20 songs of September 2019. Be sure to check out our top 10 albums from the month as well. Angel Olsen, \"Lark\" ♬ APPLE / SPOTIFYFueled by an orchestra and one of her strongest vocal performances to date, Angel Olsen pulls her emotions close to the chest then shoots them straight into the stratosphere. — Marissa Lorusso Carolina Eyck, \"Commemoration\" ♬ APPLE / SPOTIFYA master of the instrument you can't touch, thereminist Carolina Eyck adds a chorus of vocal loops to her slithery tones, creating a surprisingly upbeat elegy. — Tom Huizenga Cautious Clay, \"Erase\" ♬ APPLE / SPOTIFYCautious Clay's snarky apathy towards social media rides out over clandestine bass. It almost makes the weariness sound sweet. — Sidney Madden Charli XCX, \"2099 (feat. Troye Sivan)\" ♬ APPLE / SPOTIFYThis, the weirdest song on Charli XCX's new and partially eponymous album, is a disorienting, tongue-in-cheek lament of the life of an artist. And it's still really fun. — Andrew Flanagan Chelsea Wolfe, \"Deranged for Rock & Roll\" ♬ APPLE / SPOTIFYThe rock singer and guitarist turns pensive and introspective with this creeping, sludgy requiem for sanity. — Robin Hilton Darrin Bradbury, \"This Too Shall Pass\" ♬ APPLE / SPOTIFYThe jokes in this shaggy-dog ode to optimism and its discontents are a wry painkiller for an era of accelerated aggravation. — Ann Powers Dry Cleaning, \"Sit Down Meal\" ♬ APPLE / SPOTIFYThe moody, post-punk song takes a moment to wake up. But the singer — equally droll and disaffected in her delivery — works a slight-of-hand as the groove grows tentacles. — Lars Gotrich Girl Band, \"Salmon of Knowledge\" ♬ APPLE / SPOTIFYThe experimentalist inspirations driving Girl Band — towards the many lovely walls it crashes into — are made plain in this low-end-driven surrealist dialogue that, somehow, still manages to cohere. — Andrew Flanagan Great Grandpa, \"Digger\" ♬ APPLE / SPOTIFYFor Great Grandpa's Pat Goodwin, a Wildwood Tarot deck served as inspiration for \"Digger.\" Stirring and striking, it's an introspective exploration of circumstance and contrast, not a crystal ball of future visions. — Lyndsey McKenna Hiss Golden Messenger, \"My Wing\" ♬ APPLE / SPOTIFYPlay this beautiful slice of guitar-driven agnostic gospel on the hard days. It will help. — Ann Powers Jon Pardi, \"Old Hat\" ♬ APPLE / SPOTIFYThe classic element that distinguishes this ode to the old ways is a twin-guitar part that evokes the glory days of the Eagles and the Allmans. Country's favorite new classicist makes it sound so fresh. — Ann Powers Kalie Shorr, \"Alice in Wonderland\" ♬ APPLE / SPOTIFYA word to a gaslit girl from one who's wisened up, this rocker is as gleefully mean as Avril Lavigne's finest and as sisterly as something by the Dixie Chicks. Hot stuff from one of Nashville's most promising. — Ann Powers La Neve, \"A Pretty Red\" ♬ APPLE / SPOTIFYIt's the end of the world as we know it, but La Neve's ESG-funkin', Deee-Lite-groovin' track wants some dang action. — Lars Gotrich Lankum, \"The Wild Rover\" ♬ APPLE / SPOTIFYLankum's transformation of this old Irish drinking song reveals a not-so-sober desperation, which the Dublin band grinds into a heavy drone of fiddle and harmonium. — Lars Gotrich Laurie Anderson & Tenzin Choegyal, \"Heart Sutra Song\" ♬ APPLE / SPOTIFYInspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and with vocals that soar like a proud eagle, this song invites you to step out of your body. — Tom Huizenga Microwave, \"Leather Daddy\" ♬ APPLE / SPOTIFYSometimes the bottle you stuff your feelings into reaches maximum capacity. The Atlanta band shifts from shrugging acoustic guitars to screaming brutality as frontman Nathan Hardy lets everything blow. — Robin Hilton Molly Sarlé, \"Almost Free\" ♬ APPLE / SPOTIFYBased on a conversation Molly Sarlé had with her father when he was contemplating suicide, \"Almost Free\" bares the fragility and wonder of life. Gut-wrenching and gorgeous. — Robin Hilton Overcoats, \"The Fool\" ♬ APPLE / SPOTIFYBased on the tarot card, \"The Fool\" is about taking a leap of faith. Overcoats does just that, ratcheting up the duo's electronic-pop sound. — Bob Boilen Sault, \"No Bulls***\" ♬ APPLE / SPOTIFYFrom the mysterious British trio's second album of 2019, Sault follows up kiss-off track \"Don't Waste My Time\" with a hard-as-nails breakbeat, funky strings and a sweet voice kindly (and for the last time) telling you to piss off. — Lars Gotrich WaqWaq Kingdom, \"Doggy Bag\" ♬ APPLE / SPOTIFYThe Germany-based duo Shigeru Ishihara and Kiki Hitomi beam in this complex, and deceptively subtle, patchwork of bloops and samples compiled into a concise and utter", "Mackintosh Braun's brightly colored, danceable pop songs have appeared on TV series like Grey's Anatomy and Gossip Girl, and the band's song \"Never Give In\" was even featured in the Veronica Mars movie. In spite of this success, Mackintosh Braun remains largely under the radar in its hometown of Portland, Ore., where the group formed in 2006. At that time, Ben Braun was mixing hip-hop beats and samples when he stumbled upon Ian Mackintosh's music on MySpace. The two met shortly thereafter, and the creative sparks flew quickly. Later that day, they started to write and record at Mackintosh's home studio. Earlier this year, the duo released its third album, Arcadia, and for the first time worked with an outside producer, Lars Stalfors (Cold War Kids). \"We like pop sensibilities,\" Braun says, \"so we can fall into a place where everything is perfect and in its right place. And Lars wanted to move things around, dirty it up.\" Mackintosh Braun, with drummer Richard Lawrence and keyboard player Troy Welstad, performed \"In Reverse\" for this opbmusic session. SET LIST \"In Reverse\" Watch Mackintosh Braun's full session at opbmusic.org.", "Today on Planet Money: Lars Christensen, chief analyst at Danske Bank in Copenhagen, sorts fact from fiction in Iceland New York trader Vinny Catalano tells you where to look to see the financial crisis unfolding in real time. (Hint: it's the TED spread, which he writes up on his blog. Adam Davidson answers a question from Marisa Brandt about the Federal Reserve's latest move. Download the podcast; or subscribe. Follow our Twitter feed.", "NPR's Bob Mondello reviews the film <EM>Dancer in the Dark,</EM> made by Danish director Lars Von Trier. Von Treir was cofounder of the \"Dogme '95\" movement, which advocated removing artifice from film. Bob says this is a real departure from that -- it couldn't be more artificial. And it's dividing audiences.", "Guest Lars Holm. Lars Holm is the author of \"Fawlty Towers: The Worshipper's Companion.\" We talk about the show, in recoginition of the PBS TV special \"Fawlty Towers Revisited,\" which is running on local PBS stations this week. Also... a contest to win two copies of the book.", "We'll celebrate the last week of winter with a performance of Lars-Erik Larsson's \"A Winter's Tale,\" from a concert performance last month at Trinity Church in New York City. (LRP Productions)", "When the rapper Mac Miller died tragically in Sep. 2018, he left behind an unfinished album he'd been working on with producer Jon Brion. Now, 18 months later, the long-anticipated follow-up to Miller's 2018 release, Swimming is here. Circles (a nod to swimming in circles) is a deeply personal and ultimately heartbreaking collection of confessionals, filled with both profound beauty and resignation. On this week's New Music Friday, we share some early observations on the album, along with the latest from singer Halsey, the country group Little Big Town, the return of Bombay Bicycle Club, The Innocence Mission and more. NPR Music's Ann Powers, Lars Gotrich, Mano Sundaresan, Sidney Madden and Stephen Thompson join host Robin Hilton to share their picks for the best new albums out on Jan. 17. Featured Albums: Bombay Bicycle Club — Everything Else Has Gone WrongFeatured Song: \"Is It Real?\" The Innocence Mission — See You TomorrowFeatured Song: \"The Brothers Williams Said\" Halsey — ManicFeatured Song: \"You Should Be Sad\" Little Big Town — NightfallFeatured Song: \"Sugar Coat\" Mac Miller — CirclesFeatured Song: \"Blue World\" and \"That's On Me\" Mura Masa — R.Y.C.Featured Song: \"Teenage Headache Dreams\" 070 Shake — Modus VivendiFeatured Song: \"Divorce\" Alice Boman — Dream OnFeatured Song: \"Who Knows?\" Bill Fay — Countless BranchesFeatured Song: \"Filled With Wonder Again\" Other notable albums out on Jan. 17: A Girl Called Eddy — Been Around; Algiers — There Is No Year; ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead — X: The Godless Void and Other Stories; David Dondero — The Filter Bubble Blues; Della Mae — Headlight; Holy F*** — Deleter; The Marcus King Band — El Dorado; Of Montreal — UR FUN; Pale Saints — The Comforts of Madness (30th Anniversary Edition); Pinegrove — Marigold; Theophilus London — Bebey; Whyte Horses — Hard Times", "Stories: 1) Anna McGarrigle: On Life Without Her Sister 2) 'Big Girl Small': Humiliation, High School Style", "On a pitch-perfect autumn afternoon, a remote sheep farm in southern Greenland is quiet. The only movement is from a little girl playing outside her house with a fluffy border collie puppy. The silence is abruptly broken when dozens of sheep come thundering across the hills overlooking the farm. Shooing them along is the girl's grandfather, Lars Nielsen, and her dad, 37-year-old Kunuk Nielsen. As the sheep move toward the farm's two bright-red barns, Lars Neilsen's wife, Makkak, and a couple of farmhands join in, banging stones and sticks together, shouting, and letting loose with something close to a yodel. Two border collies race next to the herd, keeping any stragglers in line. This is the annual roundup before winter sets in at the Kangerluarsorujuk farm. Kunuk Nielsen says it's hard work bringing in 1,400 sheep. \"It takes about one week to get them all,\" he says. \"We walk about up to 30 kilometers per day, seven-plus days.\" The Nielsen family has owned and run Kangerluarsorujuk since 1972. The farm sits on a plateau at one end of a fjord. The barns for the sheep and two small, sturdy houses for the Nielsens are built to withstand Greenland's winter cold. Kunuk has spent his entire life on this sheep farm. He says the summers are longer now than when he was a child — lasting from May to October — and drought has become a problem. The parched land means there is less food for his grazing sheep, which are smaller than in the past. An irrigation system has been set up, but Nielsen says it can only do so much. They've had to buy hay over the past few years from countries in Europe, thousands of miles to the south. \"It's a very dry summer period,\" he says, and in the future, \"it's going to be more dry ... The fields are not so green like the old days.\" Kunuk says the effects of a warming climate are obvious on the land and the fjord, which now has less ice than before, and in daily life for many of the 56,000 people who live in Greenland — including him. While he intends to continue to work on, and eventually take over, the sheep farm after his father retires in a few years, his older brother Pilu has chosen a different path. Pilu, 40, lives in the regional capital, Qaqortoq — a town of about 3,000 people, half an hour's boat ride away from the family farm. Ten years ago, he got his helicopter pilot's license and is now part-owner of a small company called Sermeq Helicopters. It caters to construction and telecommunication workers and an increasing number of foreign tourists. Pilu says he loves his family's sheep farm, and there was no better way to grow up. But he saw that warming temperatures were making his remote area of Greenland more accessible and wanted to pursue other opportunities. His company's most popular tours include a visit to Greenland's glaciers, he says. He can see the effects of warming temperatures up-close. Weather patterns have changed, as have the glaciers themselves. \"That's the most visible sign of change,\" he says, noting how quickly the glaciers are receding. \"The last five to 10 years, it's been accelerating like crazy.\" Morten Meldgaard, who studies the consequences of climate change as a professor at the University of Greenland in the capital Nuuk, says the warming temperatures are affecting traditional ways of life, particularly hunting. \"The sea ice is is changing, it's decreasing so that the hunting on ice becomes more difficult,\" he says. The ice is formed very late in the season, he says, and it is gone very early in the next season. \"When there's no sea ice, it's difficult to use the dog sledges... and the whole culture around having dogs and dog sledges and doing traditional hunting on the ice is sort of diminishing,\" he says. Meldgaard says many Greenlanders, like Pilu, are leaving the countryside for towns and the capital city, where opportunities are greater. The 2014 Arctic Human Development Report found that Nuuk's share of Greenland's population grew from 17.2% in 1977 to 29.2% in 2014. \"If not for housing shortages in Nuuk, the share might even be higher,\" the report said. Pilu says his parents are happy he's doing something he loves. \"I think they're just glad that I could do something good,\" he says. \"I think they're real, real proud — and glad, of course, for Kunuk staying there.\" And it's not like Pilu doesn't visit — he makes sure to take tourists out to the family farm to see a real slice of life in rural Greenland.", "Internet giant Google has unveiled its plan for a new tool that is a hybrid of e-mail, IM and document sharing. Dubbed Google Wave, the tool takes another stab at real-time online communication. In his blog, Lars Rasmussen, the man who developed Wave with his brother Jens, says Wave is \"equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.\" Google plans to make the code open source, giving developers the opportunity to help in its evolution. The public can access the service later this year.", "Susan Stamberg walked past my desk a few weeks ago, positively beaming. She'd just interviewed photographer Elliott Erwin, who's shot any number of charming, iconic images, including one you've probably seen of a black-and-white jumping dog. She was delighted about the interview, because when she'd asked Erwin how he got dogs to jump, he'd told her he barks at them. \"You have to speak their language,\" he explained. You'll hear that profile on NPR's podcast of the week's best arts and cultural stories. We've also got a piece about the singer Grey Reverend and one about a new adaptation of the classic Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess and the role of playwright Suzan-Lori Parks in updating the show to a more modern era. You'll also learn about one of the very few actually good movies that's playing now in theaters, which is, perhaps surprisingly, a documentary about a Brazilian racecar driver. And finally, a piece about a style of dancing to the blues that's profoundly changed the lives of some of the people who do it. Subscribe here or listen below.", "We've saved the best (and weirdest ... and loudest) for last. It's been a couple of years since we last had NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich on the show to highlight the year in metal and what he sometimes calls \"outer sound,\" a nebulous grouping of experimental music. It was time to bring his weird sonic world back. In 2013, the impeccably named heavy metal band Satan came out of the woodwork after a 17-year gap as if nothing had changed in heavy music and made its best album yet. Circuit des Yeux and Jeremiah Cymerman shook hell in their own ways. And, more than ever before, Lars Gotrich looked to cassettes and artists like Giant Claw and Katie Gately for the bizarre, inspired and even euphoric. Over on the Best Music of 2013 blog, you'll find the complete lists of Lars' favorite metal and cassette releases of 2013. This episode of All Songs Considered includes highlights from both lists, plus a couple of added bonus tracks — you can read Lars' notes and stream all the songs below.", "Actress Maya Rudolph and jazz musician Gretchen Lieberum had a band back in college, and now they're back together as Princess, a Prince cover band. The duo talked with weekend host Guy Raz on All Things Considered about discovering Prince at age 9, falling in love with him at 12 (when the Purple Rain film came out) and how happy performing his music makes them now. Listen to the interview to hear Princess perform with The Roots and catch an impromptu rendition of the backwards singing from \"Darling Nikki.\" And even though they might love Prince more, Princess sure do heart NPR.", "<em>UnREAL</em> is a fictional behind-the-scenes drama of a reality dating show. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to co-creator Sarah Gertrude Shapiro.", "New Music Friday returns from a two-week break with some of 2018's most anticipated releases, including Death Cab For Cutie's Thank You For Today, Mitski's Be The Cowboy, Ariana Grande's Sweetener and more. All Songs Considered's Robin Hilton is joined by NPR Music's Ann Powers, Lars Gotrich and Stephen Thompson to talk about these and other essential albums being released on Aug. 17. Featured On This Episode: Death Cab For Cutie: Thank You For TodayFeatured Song: \"Gold Rush\" Ariana Grande: SweetenerFeatured Song: \"The Light Is Coming\" Animal Collective: Tangerine ReefFeatured Song: \"Airpipe (To A New Transition)\" Trevor Powers: Mulberry ViolenceFeatured Song: \"XTQ Idol\" Mitski: Be The CowboyFeatured Song: \"Me And My Husband\" Anna Meredith: Anno: Four Seasons By Anna Meredith & Antonio Vivaldi Featured Songs: \"Heat\" and \"Bloom\" Roy Mongomery: SuffuseFeatured Song: \"Apparition (Feat. haley Fohr)\" Other notable releases for Aug. 17: Great Lake Swimmers: The Waves, The Wake; Our Girl: Stranger Today", "Lisa talks with director Allison Anders about her most recent film, <EM>Things Behind the Sun</EM>. The film is a fictional account of a terrible real-life occurrence. At the age of 12, Anders was gang-raped. The consequences of that experience have reverberated throughout her life, and the life of her film's protagonist, a singer named Sherri. But Sherri gets to do something Anders never did -- confront a man who was unintentionally complicit in the rape. The film premieres on the cable channel Showtime tonight.", "The new bio-pic <em>My Week with Marilyn</em> chronicles the making of <em>The Prince and the Showgirl</em>, in which Laurence Olivier acted with and directed Marilyn Monroe. Sarah Churchwell, author of <em>The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe</em>, talks to Robert Siegel about what elements of the film ring true.", "Stories: 1) Fighting Cybercrime, One Digital Thug At A Time 2) The Magnetic Fields' Hard-Headed 'Realism' 3) Through The Looking Glass: Alice In Fact And Fiction", "'Guy and Madeline;' GLBT Portraiture; the music of the Vietnam War; Ephron on forgetting; a 91 year old musical icon.", "2: Former homeless man and writer, LARS EIGHNER (EYE-ner). He's written an account of his time on the streets with his dog, \"Travels with Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and on the Streets,\" (St, Martin's Press).", "Now starring at the cineplex, it's under- performing males — from the Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke characters in Before the Devil Knows You're Dead to the trio of brothers at loose ends in The Darjeeling Limited to the figure of Ian Curtis, lead singer of Joy Division in the biopic Control. NPR film critic Bob Mondello says this fall's collection of losers leaves no question: \"We are the weakest sex.\" Before the Devil, from Hollywood legend Sidney Lumet, is a gorgeously acted film with a roller-coaster of a plot, Mondello tells The Bryant Park Project. He also weighs in on Lars and the Real Girl, starring Ryan Gosling in a genuinely sweet story about a guy with an inanimate girlfriend, and the indie road-trip flick Wristcutters: A Love Story. It's a love story that unfolds in the afterlife — with a surprise second-act appearance by Tom Waits. All this comes in the wake of The Heartbreak Kid, about a man so unable to commit that he falls for a woman he meets on his honeymoon, and Knocked Up, the summer hit about a man-child who's about to be a father — and is soooo not ready. ALISON STEWART, host: Hey, you know, it's that time of the year when Oscar is the name on a lot of movie executive's mind. We're not talking Oscar the Grouch from the truly awesome to the merely worthy serious film releases are coming fast and furious. To help us sass through them all now is Bob Mondello, NPR's film critic. Hi, Bob. BOB MONDELLO: Hey, Allison. How are you? STEWART: I'm doing great. So you told our producer you detect a trend in the recent releases, and it's not movie centered on the war on terror. What is it? MONDELLO: No. It's all about guys who can't cope. I can't believe all this. ROBERT SMITH, host: I can identify. (Soundbite of laughter) MONDELLO: It's like \"Heartbreak Kid,\" the guy, you know, who can't commit, commits and then fails during his marriage. \"The Darjeeling Limited\" is three brothers can't cope with life at all and go off to India to try and get their life together. It's… STEWART: Oh, wa(ph), wa, wa. Listen… MONDELLO: …you know, true. We are the weakest sex. I mean, there's no question. STEWART: Let's hop in to the first example of it. It's called \"Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.\" It has this really impressive cast of Academy-Award nominees make interesting film choices. You have… SMITH: A lot of them from the stage. STEWART: Yeah. Philip Seymour Hoffman and Marisa Tomei, of course, they won. You have nominees Albert Finney, Ethan Hawke, Rosemary Harris in a heist picture - a family heist picture where things go really wrong. What went wrong? MONDELLO: Well, they decided to heist their own family's jewelry store, everything goes wrong. I - you can't imagine how badly this goes wrong, and it's pretty breathtaking to listen to. STEWART: Let's hear a clip. It's Philip Seymour Hoffman's character trying to sign his brother, Ethan Hawke's character, up for this plan. (Soundbite of movie, \"Before the Devil Knows You're Dead\") Mr. PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN (Actor): (As Andy) You need money? (Unintelligible) Mr. ETHAN HAWKE (Actor): (As Hank) What are you talking about? Mr. HOFFMAN: (As Andy) There's a place we can knock off hell like the back of the hand. Easiest money you'll ever get. Mr. HAWKE: (As Hank) What are you saying? Mr. HOFFMAN: (As Andy) It's worth about 600 grand and it's insured so it's a victimless crime now in case you're (bleep) conscious bothers you. I laid off on 20 cents on a dollar. It's 60 grand each, give or take. Mr. HAWKE: (As Hank) I can't believe this is you who's talking. Mr. HOFFMAN: (As Andy) Believe it. STEWART: What works about it? Is it the acting? Is it Sidney Lumet's directing? MONDELLO: Well, both really. Sidney Lumet is amazing with actors. He's shepherded about 40 actors to Oscar nominations over - during his career, and it's like all these guys are amazing. I mean, Albert Finney has a scene where he's sitting in a hospital as someone is dying and he just comes a part without a single line of dialogue. It's really breathtaking. But the whole thing is it's just gorgeously acted. You sit there and you think, my god, these people are amazing because they're not giving - you know, in \"Hamlet\" when something goes wrong, it's because the characters are flawed in some ways. These guys - it's just a roller coaster of a ride that the world is coming apart for them and it has nothing to do with who they are. They just - I mean, you know, by the end of the picture you really feel like you know them. It's a really smart movie. And Sidney Lumet, I mean, he made them like what I think is the best of the crime-falling-apart movies ever in \"Dog Day Afternoon.\" STEWART: Sure. Of course. MONDELLO: So, I mean, you know, he's just an amazing director. STEWART: Our next movie is open in a couple of cities. It opens nationwide. Full disclosure: Robert and I both love this movie. SMITH: Love it. STEWART: \"Lars and the Real Girl,\" a story of a sweet ", "The British import Doll & Em is another inside-Hollywood comedy from HBO; Emily Mortimer and her real-life friend Dolly Wells play outsize versions of themselves.", "Happy Friday the 13th! On this week's New Music Friday, All Song Considered's Robin Hilton speaks with NPR's Ann Powers, Stephen Thompson, Lars Gotrich, and Sidney Madden about the best new releases of the week. Highlights include Wiz Khalifa's long-awaited followup to the 2011 pop-rap breakout Rolling Papers, the calming songs of Luluc, affirmations of love from the Dirty Projectors and more. Featured Albums Rayland Baxter: Wide Awake Featured Song: \"Strange American Dream\" Dirty Projectors: Lamp Lit Prose Featured Song: \"Right Now\" The Ophelias: Almost Featured Song: \"Fog\" Wiz Khalifa: Rolling Papers 2 Featured Song: \"Rolling Papers 2\" Luluc: Sculptor Featured Song: \"Moon Girl\" Amy Shark: Love Monster Featured Song: \"All Loved Up\" Cowboy Junkies: All That ReckoningFeatured Song: \"The Things We Do To Each Other\" Other Notable Releases For July 13: Deaf Heaven: Ordinary Corrupt Human Love, Wet: Still Run, Body/Head: The Switch, Lotic: Power, Jenn Champion: Single Rider, Laurel Halo: Raw Silk Uncut Wood, The Suffers: Everything Here, Valley Queen: Supergiant." ]

[ "Hillary Lighter" ]

[ "Did Not Finish", "Simpsons Already Did It", "No pass, no play", "I Did It for Love", "Playing with the Boys", "Dr. Who", "playing the bagpipes", "Playing with Knives", "The Man Who", "I Did Not Kill Gandhi", "When Phoebus did rest", "Games That Lovers Play", "I Did Something Bad", "Did You Miss Me?" ]

[ "None. It is bullshit to legitimize White peoples claims to land. That argument is often called the empty land myth, or the \"equal invaders\" theory. South Africa History Online provides [an overview of the intellectual history of the myth here](_URL_1_) along with references for further reading. A variant of this myth alleges that the violence that surrounded the building of the Zulu kingdom (the Mfecane), led to a sort of refugee wave that emptied out the eastern coast and highveld when Boers arrived. /u/Khosikulu has provided some excellent answers about the empty land myth and the mfecane [here](_URL_0_), [here](_URL_2_) and [here](_URL_3_) which also add a lot more context and additional references." ]

[ "In most of the Spanish Empire, the Spaniards ruled over the natives, sometimes co-opting the native leadership, and today most Latin Americans have a mix of Amerindian and Spanish ancestors, with Africans added to the mix in territories where slavery was widespread. Throughout all of Africa, with the exception of South Africa, the natives remained on the land, with Europeans remaining almost primarily rulers and merchants.Likewise in South and Southeast Asia, there was very little displacement of the native population. I would say that except for in the modern-day Anglosphere, the opposite of your thesis is correct: that Europeans had little interest in driving out a population when they could simply be exploited.", "There are [three books on South African history](_URL_0_) recommended on the book list in the sidebar, there are also [several users flaired for African history](_URL_1_), /u/khosikulu in particular has a great series of comments on Africa in general and South Africa in particular (and maps & European colonialism ...)", "They actually did! Kind of haha... In North America the disease that devastated the natives was small pox. The Europeans had developed a certain level of immunity to it of thousands of years.. But! This is where we see the reverse, when the British were colonizing the south of Africa they were happy because South Africa is about as far below the equator as Europe is above it. But as they moved north they began to get into the tropics. When the Europeans moved into this area they ran into a very big problem.. Malaria .. The local tribes knew how to avoid malaria as well as having a low level immunity to the disease! Hope this answers the question Tl;Dr Europeans had immunity to small pox. When colonizing Africa they found no such luck with malaria", "> I realize that part of the answer is that: once Europe became powerful, they began to colonize and conquer native peoples thus stopping native peoples (North/South America to Africa, China, India) from undergoing industrialization. That isn't really accurate. If anything, Europeans introduced new technology to developing nations, speeding up their process of industrialisation.", "It was a form of colonialism. Colonialism is defined as \"the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.\" The USA took its Western territories by war or purchase and flooded them with settlers. In many ways, the colonialism of the American West was more pronounced than European colonialism in Africa. This is because in the American West the natives were displaced and killed, and forced onto reservations. However, in Africa, Europeans existed only in small communities (South Africa excepted) and governed through existing ruling elites.", "\"Bush\" in ex-colonial English terms is \"countryside\". (Think \"Jock of the bushveld\") Typically these wars are fought in the open areas of the country and not in the cities, with training camps, insurgent routes and arms caches being hosted in the \"bushveld\". The national armies involved in these were typically fighting their own people who had foreign assistance. Unlike a civil war, fought primarily in cities between civilian groups, these were typically between state forces and rebels. (South Africa, Rhodesia) In the case of Angola-South Africa bush war, Angola had Cuban assistance. The South African strikes into Angola were to attempt to neutralise Angolan threats of assistance and SWAPO (south west Africa peoples organisation) training camps hosted in Angola. With the exception of a few instances, most of those actions took place outside urban areas, in the \"bush\".", "Not an aardvark, but anteaters have certain defenses: \"To avoid the jaws, sting, and other defences of the invertebrates, anteaters have adopted the feeding strategy of licking up large numbers of ants and termites as quickly as possible — an anteater normally spends about a minute at a nest before moving on to another — and a giant anteater has to visit up to 200 nests to consume the thousands of insects it needs to satisfy its caloric requirements.\" (from Wikipedia). Also, aardvarks are native to Africa, but fire ants are native to South America.", "Absolutely. Throughout the twentieth century, many Europeans living elsewhere in Africa moved to South Africa when their country/territory of residence became independent of European colonial rule. Some Europeans even migrated multiple times for this reason: e.g. a European in Kenya moving to former Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) upon Kenyan independence, and then moving again to South Africa upon independence/majority rule in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe was an especially major source of White emigration to South Africa on account of its large European population that, in large part, shared South African attitudes on race. As for white immigration to South Africa from other continents, it definitely took place but I don't know enough to give you an idea of its scale, especially because \"motive\" for migration is difficult confidently determine.", "I played around a bit in Google Earth, and it's surprisingly close. I think Kamchatka - South Africa is longest, but not by more than maybe 500 km. Allow for some inaccuracy in the numbers! 1. Tip of Kamchatka, Russia - Cape of Good Hope, South Africa: 17674 km. 2. Bering Strait, Russia - Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, 16972 km. 3. Cape Sarichet, Alaska - Cape Horn, Chile: 16893 km. 4. Singapore - Cape of Good Hope, South Africa: 15973 km. 5. Tip of Kamchatka, Russia - Sagres, Portugal: 11590 km.", "Originally it was occupied by South African troops in 1915 as part of WWI. Namibia was a German colony called German South West Africa and South Africa committed itself to fight with the British side of the war effort. While the South African government wanted to annex the territory the major powers wouldn't allow for an out-and-out annexation but created it into a League of Nations mandate for South Africa in 1919-1920 (I've seen both). Even after WWII South Africa maintained its claim despite UN and other international objections. White settlers did begin to settle there and the racial policies of what would become Apartheid followed (the Germans had also had racial segregation policies in place prior). South Africa tried to incorporate it as a fifth state but did not in the face of international pressure. These articles go into greater detail: _URL_0_ _URL_2_ _URL_1_ (also, this is my first response on /r/askhistorians so be gentle if I broke any rules!)", "After the spring of 1942. the Australians pulled the three divisions they had in North Africa back to defend Australia. After May 1942, they fought in New Guinea and nearby South Pacific islands. There was one rather good New Zealand division that stayed in North Africa and participated in the Italian campaign. South Africa also contributed one division that fought in North Africa and the Italian campaign. General Slim's 14th Army in Burma had two divisions of troops, the West African rifles, who primarily came from Nigeria and the East African rifles, that came from Kenya and Uganda. Source: \"Order of Battle: Western Allied Forces of World War II\" by Michael Haskew", "It Western Hemisphere, I will say Paraguay. Before independence the area was settled by Jesuits missionaries who established reduciones, where natives can have protection and food. After independence the sizable Guarani minorities were recognized and their language is still an official language there. Here is [an in-depth analysis by NYT on the Guarani in Paraguay](_URL_0_). In Africa, I will say German East Africa (present-day mainland Tanzania) is the better colony. The natives were treated well and they joined colonial militia and served with distinction in WW I. Edit: i misunderstood the \"state\" in your question, silly me.", "The United States likely didn't feel overly threatened by South Africa's development of nuclear weapons much like it didn't feel threatened by the UK or France (at least not enough to take overt action to prevent it). In fact, if anything, the United States helped South Africa's nuclear weapons program indirectly by supplying the country with a nuclear reactor and enriched uranium for peaceful uses under the Atoms for Peace program. Nonetheless, there was diplomatic action taken by some western nations such as France in hopes of preventing nuclear weapons testing by South Africa in 1977. However, South Africa carried out its tests and developed a small handful of nuclear weapons. The program was fairly short lived however, and after signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1991, South Africa very willingly dismantled its entire nuclear arsenal.", "The Latin alphabet was used in Rome and its territories, and over the centuries Rome had a LOT of territory. Asia and Africa are different cases, but at this point a fair number of people in Africa use Arabic or French, or even Dutch/Afrikaans in South Africa, though there are still many peoples in Africa who speak totally different languages, and much of eastern Asia uses some form of Chinese, though Vietnam and Thailand are exceptions, along with the countries on the Indian subcontinent. However, in the case of Asia and Africa more of that was through trade rather than conquest as in Europe. This isn't to say it was pure trade in Africa and Asia, nor that Rome did nothing but conquer.", "Northern hemisphere has more landforms. The Southern Hemisphere only has sub-Saharan Africa, Australia, sub-Amazon South America and a handful of archipelagos. The northern hemisphere has all of Europe, North America, Asia and sizable chunks of Africa and South America.", "In South Africa , you receive your freedom back.", "The most likely reason was because it was easier to toss aside Rhodesia, being a smaller economy, especially because the main products of Rhodesia were copper and other minerals, The US had already secured a market for that from Zaire. As well South Africa was a nuclear state as early as 1967 so the value that South Africa presented was far greater both as an economic and a military partner. For the most part, the powers picked and chose when to get involved in Africa. They allowed socialism in places like Tanzania, Guinea, and Ghana, but were resistant to even inklings of it in Egypt, Angola, Mozambique, and South Africa. At the end of the day it comes down to strategic value. The Congo and South Africa provided more value than Rhodesia ever could, so the US made the decision to cut them out.", "Follow up question: I thought South Africa was a gold-rich country. What happened to all of it?", "China has had a huge influence in that region for most its history. The Thai-Kadai peoples (Laos and Thailand) are native to south China around Guangxi (where the Zhuang still are) and migrated to southeast Asia during the time China was expanding (~1200 years ago) which displaced Austroasiatic peoples like the Khmer (Cambodians) and Vietnamese (which was ruled by China several times). Burmese are Sino-Tibetans (same group as the Chinese) and are also descendants of earlier migrations. You never had largescale migrations of peoples from India to southeast Asia but instead just religion and customs. Your Austronesians like the Malay and the other many languages of Indonesia and the Philippines originate from peoples who migrated from south China to Taiwan (around 8 thousand years ago) who then migrated south. They displaced the native Negritos who are dark skinned.", "Africa is a big place, and many countries are significantly developed (eg South Africa in the south, Morocco in the north, and others). The less developed countries are so due to political unrest, agricultural challenges, difficulty establishing infrastructure and a variety of other hurdles. Is there a specific country or region you were thinking of?", "Although native Americans were enslaved it wasn't so effective as Africans. First of all, enslavement of native Americans couldn't be as far-reaching because native numbers were dwindling because of European diseases and conquest, so it never became a state-backed operation, it was mostly a colonial matter. Also, it was usually stated that some of them resisted and usually escaped, and as natives of a common area knew a common language they were more revolt-prone as contrast with African slaves who were from all over Africa and not necessarily understood each other (a reason for not teaching them Christianity in the beginning, which would involve teaching a common language) Also, it was said that an African due to physical conditions was \"worth more\" than the natives who were \"weaker\" Source : Capitalism & Slavery by Eric Williams", "1) Spain had a habit of colonizing a region at bare minimum levels and extracting resources from said colonies via enslavement or virtual enslavement of native populations and actual implementation of imported slaves from Africa. Portugal behaved similarly. 2) The South and Central American countries gained independence decades if not a full century or more after the US did. 3) The US had a much more stable government after gaining independence.", "I think it is because most countries don't care about it too much. Europe, most of Asia, most of Africa don't play it too much. The major countries who do play are the US, Japan and a couple of South and Central American countries.", "humans started life in africa. there's walkable land between africa and europe and asia. there isn't easily walkable land between africa and americas. the land bridge that the native americans came to americas from asia only existed briefly during the ice age.", "*(slaps a bag of popcorn into the faculty/staff lounge microwave and sets it for 3min, leans on counter)* Any of our resident Native North American/South American historians have some thoughts on J.K. Rowling's use of history in her Native American Magic piece? [News link for those who somehow aren't active in critlit fandoms around children's books.](_URL_0_)", "I'd just like to mention that the three-volume series, \"Lost Crops Of Africa,\" covering vegetables, fruits, and grains, native to Africa, is an excellent read, and talks about many crops that are little known in the west.", "Just wanted to point out that \"Native American\" refers to all natives from both North and South America- not only those from present day US.", "They do, but possibly less. Think about Malarial transmission in Africa and then reconsider whether natives are bitten or not.", "The French came over in much fewer numbers than the English and Spanish did. Although the English and French both had Native American allies, the French had less power and relied on their allies for survival more. The French who came over were comprised primarily of military personel and merchants with few permanent settlers which would have eased tensions with the Native Americans compared to the English settlements further to the South.", "So the data is a bit fuzzy (becasue of bias due to accurate surrveying and reporting), but more or less what you've stated is a misconception. Heres how the numbers work out from the [Global Invasive Speicies Database](_URL_0_) Continent Alien Native Ratio North America 456 88 5.18 South America 258 121 2.13 Europe 319 178 1.79 Africa 293 181 1.62 Asia 280 304 0.92 Australia 333 78 4.27 So about 1/3 of Invasive speices are native to Asia, but Asia also covers close to 1/3 of total land area on Earth.", "Regarding Native Americans, you may find /u/snickeringshadow's [answer](_URL_15_) informative. Regarding Africa, and with a dubunking of Jared Diamond's work, you may find /u/khosikulu's [answer](_URL_13_) informative. Additionally, regarding Africa, see /u/snackburros's [answer](_URL_14_).", "north africa has the desert which is on the same plane as Northern mexico and the southwest of the us which has the great sonoran and the Chihuahuan desert southern africa is green, same as south america" ]

[ "The subject areas Artifical Intelligence and Machine Learning (plus Data Science) are loosely defined, such that it is hard to make strict statements about how they relate. In the general case, it seems that there are parts that overlap, but that they are quite far from being \"the same subject with two different names\" as suggested in the question.\n\nThe term Artifical Intelligence has many possible meanings and interpretations - which version to refer varies by time and by the source using it. Textbooks on artificial intelligence will often cover topics such as search algorithms, logical deduction and other things which are clearly not machine learning as it is practised today.\n\nFor instance, we could take it to refer to Artificial General Intelligence (or \"hard AI\"), and it should be clear in this case that at least some form of learning algorithm(s) would be required to meet the goals of AGI. However, it is far less clear how much of AGI can be solved by combining machine learning into complex structures.\n\nThe term Machine Learning has a few different working definitions, but this is a popular one:\n\n\n A computer program is said to learn from experience E with respect to some class of tasks T and performance measure P if its performance at tasks in T, as measured by P, improves with experience E.\n\n\nThis is far more tightly defined than Artificial Intelligence, but still has a lot of scope. \n\nThe trend to conflate AI and ML appears to be a media and marketing issue, not a technical one. I suspect this is in part due to advances in the last 5-10 years in neural networks. Neural network models have made strong progress, especially in signal processing of images, video, audio. There is also an analogy with biological brains which can be compelling - especially when the subject matter is simplified for consumption by mainstream media. \n\nIt is worth mentioning Data Science too. Like Artificial Intelligence, the term is somewhat fuzzily defined. Also like AI, Data Science has more to it than just Machine Learning. To Data Science practitioners, ML is part of a toolkit to achieve goals - for some people it is a large part of what they do, for others it is just one part of a wider scope (actually training and refining a ML model might take only a small fraction of a professional data scientist, analyst or statistician's time). I think it is reasonable to state that Artificial Intelligence and Data Science relate to Machine Learning in a similar way." ]

[ "There are several questions in your post and it is really difficult to give a pin-pointed answer. So, I would go ahead and break your post into multiple segments and answer likewise:\n\n... In pure Artificial Intelligence (AI) research one is required to come up with a new/improved algorithm and show that the algorithm has competitive performance across a set of toy or real data.\n\nThis premise is not entirely true. I work in AI (mostly in Machine Learning and Deep Learning) and we don't use the word like &quot;pure&quot; AI. It is just AI. If you really study history or inception of AI, it is more applied in some fashion. It is the fields like mathematics, probability and statistics that have helped in studies to be more focused around &quot;purity&quot; of it as such. In AI, you can come up with unique problems that cannot be solved using the present tools and techniques. That too is a great contribution. You don't always have to develop new algorithms.\n\nThus, I find this a well-specified target for pure AI research. Such research would be usually published in journals such as the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Journal of Machine Learning Research.\n\nThese journals also publish applied research article, tools including software, and surveys. Of course, these journals and along with Machine Learning Journal by Springer are very well-known and oldest of their kinds and don't entertain papers which say &quot;Here is the dataset, here is the method we used, and here are the findings&quot;-type works. The contribution must be significant in so many different ways (be it a problem, a solution or a theory) that could be hugely contributing to the AI community.\n\nI wonder how the target differs in applied AI research, such as machine learning (ML) applications in some domain, for instance, Health or Finance. Some example of such journals include Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture, Journal of Machine Learning in Finance, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Expert Systems with Applications.\n\nThe said journals are mainly problem or application-specific and they would like to see novel applications in their own fields. I don't have much experience with these journals. But, I certainly have reviewed papers for a few of these.\n\nDo you have to come up with new/modified learning algorithms in order to publish in applied AI/ML journals?\n\nAs said earlier, not always.\n\nIf the answer to the above is no, then what is the nature of the contribution? Would it suffice to apply existing ML methods to new domain data?\n\nMy advice for you would be to read (and re-read) some papers from each of these journals and see what kind of works are valued there.\n\nSuppose some existing methods are applied to new domain data. Considering the fact (model = algorithm + data) would it be acceptable to state &quot;this paper proposes a new model&quot; instead of &quot;a new learning algorithm&quot;?\n\n&quot;Model = Algorithm + Data&quot; --- This is WRONG and whoever said this (even if it's not you) is WRONG!!! So your question does not stand. For your information, &quot;Model = Structure + Parameters&quot; (for starters, refer: Some papers from Bayesian ML)\n\nWhat is the effective learning path that enables people to publish to some hypothetical journal &quot;Artificial Intelligence in X&quot; (where X is some other domain e.g. Finance or Medicine)? Are the same people supposed to hold BSc/MSc in both AI and X? Finally, are they supposed to already have published papers in either pure AI journals or X journals, before starting interdisciplinary research?\n\nThere are so many questions to answer. Please take my words with a bucket of salt: &quot;You need to do some basic and then some moderately advanced courses in ML to make your base adequately strong. Alternatively, get your hands dirty by solving problems in a platform such as Kaggle. In parallel, you could read some easy papers from the journals that you are interested in. Also, find a mentor who could guide you in these directions.", "I would say no, there is none, but not because it is absolutely theoretically impossible to model pleasantness of a sequence of notes, but because the search space and variables of this model are unimaginably huge that makes it impossible to come up with a decent model, even if one exists. For example, pleasantness is judged differently by people of different counties, people of different ages, people of different music backgrounds, ..... and even for the same person in different moods, different ages, ....).\n\nIn fact, in the late eighties, the topic of Generative Music started to get some attention from computer scientists who worked in the fields of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Generative Music is used to describe music pieces generated automatically or semi-automatically by computers.\n\nIn order to do that, the machine must have a model based on which, tries to form a sequence of notes which have a high chance of being pleasant to a specific audience. Back then, it turned out that like painting, poetry or any form of art, it is impossible to model pleasantness of a work of art.\n\nToday, only a few research groups are still working on the topic of generative music around the world.", "According to the help-center of Computer Science:\n\n\n Computer science, also sometimes called computing science, is the\n science of computation and its applications. This site covers\n theoretical and applied computer science at any level, including but\n not limited to:\n \n \n algorithms, models of computation\n programming language semantics, formal methods\n computer architecture, networks\n machine learning, artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, \n natural language processing\n vision, graphics\n \n\n\nSo, yeah the most suitable site for your question should be the Computer Science SE", "I recommend you focus on quality over quantity. Publishing a paper will boost your reputation and make you more recognised within your academic field (AI); however, this is only if the paper provides useful insights into an important issue.\nYour paper is more likely to be accepted if it is well written and easy to understand, stimulates new important questions, uses rigorous methods to explain why the data supports the conclusion and connections to prior work is made and serve to make your paper's arguments clear. (Elizabeth Z Elsevier blog)\nBefore submitting your paper, ask a mentor or a colleague to proofread it, so that you can make the relevant revisions and changes. Journal editors will look down on your work if it is poorly written or contains substandard grammar.\nA way to get published is by writing reviews, especially for researchers in earlier stages of their careers. Most journal editors like to publish replies to previous publications since it stimulates debate.\nRemember it is acceptable to challenge reviewers' suggestions with good justification. Many researchers fail to persevere when they are instructed to revise and resubmit their work. Don't give up, however, you can politely decline or even argue why a reviewer is wrong. Editors will accept a rational explanation if it is clear that you have considered all their feedback.\nGetting published is never easy, especially in high ranking journals. If you focus on getting published quickly it could derail you from concentrating on the quality of your research. Yes, getting published can be expensive, however, it's much better for your career if you write a high-quality paper than a low-quality paper in a lowly ranked or ungraded journal since it will not be REFable.\nBelow is a list of Artificial Intelligence Journals that you can submit your papers to and possibly get published.\n\nArtificial Intelligence (Journal) https://www.journals.elsevier.com/artificial-intelligence\n\nArtificial Intelligence Review https://link.springer.com/journal/10462\n\nApplied Artificial Intelligence http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=uaai20&amp;\n\nAutonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems https://www.springer.com/computer/ai/journal/10458\n\nInternational Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscinet/ijait\n\nInternational Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscinet/ijprai\n\nJournal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=teta20\n\nJournal of Machine Learning Research http://www.jmlr.org/\n\nIEEE Intelligent Systems http://publications.computer.org/intelligent-systems/\n\nJournal of Automated Reasoning https://www.springer.com/computer/theoretical+computer+science/journal/10817\n\nMinds and Machines https://www.springer.com/computer/ai/journal/11023\n\nAutonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems https://www.springer.com/computer/ai/journal/10458\n\nApplied Intelligence https://link.springer.com/journal/10489\n\nJournal of Intelligent Manufacturing https://link.springer.com/journal/10845\n\nJournal of Intelligent Information Systems https://link.springer.com/journal/10844\n\nAI &amp; Society https://link.springer.com/journal/146", "There are several approaches to theoretical neuroscience. I am currently taking the physics/mathematics approach: modelling the currents in neurons and coupling several neurons together through differential equations.\n\nIn Computer Science, the tendency is more towards machine learning: Bayesian statistics, artificial neural networks, signal processing, robotics, artificial intelligence. It really depends on what level you want to engage the field. For instance, if you want to study vision science, you'll want to learn more about vision and color perception and some basic physics/optics. But I also think neurochemistry and neurophysics is important, just for breadth. \n\nComputer scientists often use the leaky integrate and fire model or rate coding models. There's something called the neural engineering framework that seeks to make networks of neurons do standard logical operations. One of their projects is SPAUN, a whole brain simulation.", "Yes, \"goodness\" is a common description of the value generated by an evaluation function.\nFor example,\n\"Artificial Intelligence\" p. 77;\n\"Knowledge-Free and Learning-Based Methods in Intelligent Game Playing\" p. 15;\n\"Tenth Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence\" p. 125; and\n\"Algorithms and Networking for Computer Games\" p. 80.\n\nThe \"position\" is to the complete state of the game at some instant. A single position includes the locations of every piece on a game board at that instant, and also includes a few other bits of information -- who's turn it is; whether castling is still a legal option; etc.\n\nI suspect that \"the position\" is a synecdoche, referring to the total state by a small part, the physical location (physical position) of some piece on the game board, based on earlier usage in military tactics of \"positioning\" troops relative to natural cover or relative to enemy troops.", "No. \"Constructed languages\" on this site refers to artificially created languages for intelligent beings, not machine languages. In the absence of another qualifier a \"language\" is, as I wrote on another site, a system for communicating propositional and conceptual information to other beings. This is different from communication. Programming languages can definitely be used to communicate - and they carry meaning - but that doesn't make them languages. Purely referential communication (using symbols to directly refer to things in the world without metaphorical extension) is not enough to be a language, language must be able to communicate abstract concepts that are beyond any sensory or referential basis. Programming languages are systems for encoding instructions for machines, and not general purpose concept exchange systems.", "Amazingly, we already live in an age populated with sentient machines of human-level artificial intelligence. They're called human beings. There is no reason that the ethical principles we apply to conscious human beings should be denied to any other conscious machine.\n\nThis question becomes a little more tricky when dealing with the intermediate stages between a machine that isn't conscious at all (like my laptop) and a machine that can pass the Turing Test (therefore assumed to be conscious). The question of ethical obligations toward intermediate stages of consciousness will prove be an extension of similar questions which arise regarding the ethical treatment of animals: Is it okay to kill cows for food? Is it okay to torture goldfish? Should cats be dissected in an 8th grade science class? Is it wrong to pull the legs off of a tarantula? Etc.\n\nRelated to your original question (but different):\n\nHow will we know when a computer we are dealing with is conscious? It is impossible to ever know if a computer is conscious for the same reasons we can't ever know if any other human beings are conscious. However, we have a great way of intuiting other people's ability to reason in complex ways and sense stimuli, so it's the kind of thing that we hope to be able to recognize when we see.", "Artificial intelligence has already gotten to the point where machines are as good as humans at many tasks, and even outperform humans at several more. The general goal of AI is to improve machines to be as good or better than humans at a wide variety of tasks. There's no theoretical reason why materials science is any different; we may well someday have a machine that can out-think all human materials scientists. There's not much reason to suppose that humans will always reign supreme at any particular task (especially objective ones like science), so yes, it's entirely possible that the next \"wonder material\" will be invented by a machine.", "Solution\n\nIn learning systems, the output of learning is a set of parameters. These parameters can be a tensor in the case of a CNN, a representation of a directed graph in the case of recursive network designs, or any other structure holding the results of training.\n\nThe general case of compactly storing the result of training involves four process elements. These elements can be combined into one algorithm if needed.\n\n\nEncoding of ordinals\nLossless conversion of IEEE floats\nSerialization of the structure\nLossless compression of the stream\n\n\nUpon retrieval, the elements are reversed.\n\n\nDecompression of the stream\nParsing to reassemble structure\nExpansion of IEEE float representations\nDecoding of ordinals\n\n\nThe encoding of ordinals requires the mapping of values to the minimal number of bytes or, most optimally, bits. The mapping must be reversible, meaning that there can be no information loss, so that decoding is completely reliable.\n\nIf the encoding and serialization packs the information tightly, there may be little gain with a general compression algorithm such as LZ4.\n\nNotions of General Intelligence\n\nBefore devoting much time on developing humanoid AGI and modeling cognition and states of mind, it may be useful to curb expectations away from trendy ideas. There is much conflict between the naive conceptions of general intelligence and the realities of neurological systems in animals and people, which are far more sophisticated than implied in the trendy media hype. The most important considerations are these.\n\n\nThe complexity of networks in the brain\nThat there is a significant varieties of neurons in brains\nThe impact of neuroplasticity\nComplexity of chemical signaling independent from nerves\nWhether intelligence is in fact multi-dimensional\nLarge number of genes that correlate with intelligence\nThe academic slant of concepts regarding intelligence\nDifference between brain signal topology and computing models \nData-centricity\n\n\nThere are many articles on the web on these topics, along with critiques of concepts such as the g-factor and the idea of general problem solving and general intelligence. There are several questions here on this topic.\n\n\nWhy did Artificial Intelligence projects fail?\nCan the IQ of an AI program be measured?\nCan a brain be intelligent without a body?\nIs the singularity concept mathematically flawed?\nIs there a ceiling to intelligence itself?\nSelf-conscious artifical intelligence\nIs the Turing Test, or any of its variants, a reliable test of artificial intelligence?\n\n\nThere is no value in discouraging curiosity and serious research into understanding the nature of intelligence or efforts to expanding the boundaries of computing. The above comments are to assist in bringing the starting point of such inquiry into the realm of enthusiasm anchored by scientific methodology. Conjecture makes for great movie plots, but does not further science and does not lead to real world technology products and services.", "Is there a term for the humans who do [machine] learning?\n\nTypically you will see &quot;AI researchers&quot; for people studying machine intelligence in general, or &quot;data scientists&quot; for people working with statistics or studying specific solutions in machine learning. Both those terms are used quite flexibly, and generally understood to be scientists/engineers that work on machine intelligence problems. There are also other specialisms that might apply, such as &quot;computer vision researcher&quot;.\nIf you are writing only about researchers who are focused mostly on learning systems - such as new types of learning model, or the best way to train a model for some group of tasks - then &quot;machine learning researchers&quot; or &quot;ML researchers&quot; would be fine. If they are specific people, you may want to ask them directly what title they prefer, in case you accidentally misrepresent their role and work.\n\nCan we call a &quot;team of machine learning scientists with their computers working on some ML problem&quot; an intelligent agent?\n\nNo. That might be confused with something that the team is working on or creating. An &quot;intelligent agent&quot; can be the product of specific AI research. For instance, it is reasonable to consider AlphaZero to be an &quot;intelligent agent&quot; (not everyone would call it that, it depends on context, but not relevant to your question).\n\nIs &quot;cognizer&quot; a right term?\n\nNo. That is an obscure term meaning something like &quot;a being that perceives or knows&quot;. No-one will naturally associate that word with a team of researchers and their computers.\n\nI just want a shorter term for their role in cognition, learning.\n\nI think the most usual way to do this is to describe the team, and name them. For example:\n\n&quot;The MIT computer science researchers are using the X1000 system to investigate learning of abstract spaces. The MIT team said yesterday . . .&quot;\n\n&quot;Professor Hilary Smith is working with a team of graduates on the Learny McLearnface framework. Smith's team have discovered that . . .&quot;\n\n\nThis is the normal way that you see a research team introduced and referred in science journalism in e.g. New Scientist or Scientific American.\nIf you need to describe some abstract approach about a team working in general, then you can use a similar approach, naming your teams according to how you need to differentiate between them.", "A global race is underway to discover a vaccine, drug, or combination of treatments that can disrupt the SARS-CoV-2 virus.\n\nThe problem is, there are more than a billion such molecules. A researcher would conceivably want to test each one against the two dozen or so proteins in SARS-CoV-2 to see their effects. Such a project could use every wet lab in the world and still not be completed for centuries.\n\nComputer modelling is a common approach used by academic researchers and pharmaceutical companies as a preliminary, filtering step in drug discovery. However, in this case, even every supercomputer on Earth could not test those billion molecules in a reasonable amount of time.\n\nFolding@home is a distributed computing project run by Stanford University. The aim of the project is to examine how proteins fold and it does this using spare computing power. however, there is a lot of research in progress that are harnessing the potential of Artificial intelligence to develop the potential treatment to combat the COVID-19.\n\nCheck this recent article By Tyler Orton in biv focus on how artificial intelligence is used to accelerate the process of Drug Discovery:\nDrug research turns to artificial intelligence in COVID-19 fight\n\nHere are the list some companies that are using AI-driven approach for Drug discovery\n\n\nBlackThorn Therapeutics\nxscientia \nInsilico Medicine\nInsitro\nNotable Labs\nStandigm\nRecursion Pharmaceuticals\n\n\nThe Hong Kong-based company Insilico Medicine, a developer of a comprehensive drug discovery and biomarker development platform GENTRL, and a pioneer in the application of generative adversarial networks (GANs) to drug discovery.\n\nInsilico Medicine, Publishes a paper in September last year titled, \nDeep learning enables rapid identification of potent DDR1 kinase inhibitors,\" in a most reputed journal Nature Biotechnology. The paper describes a timed challenge, where the new artificial intelligence system called Generative Tensorial Reinforcement Learning (GENTRL) designed six novel inhibitors of DDR1, a kinase target implicated in fibrosis and other diseases, in 21 days. \n\nFour compounds were active in biochemical assays, and two were validated in cell-based assays. One lead candidate was tested and demonstrated favourable pharmacokinetics in mice.", "Short answer\nIn artificial neural networks currents are not involved, other than those flowing in silico in your pc. Instead, those currents are represented by weighted mathematical functions.\n\nBackground\nArtificial neural networks as applied in machine learning (e.g., deep learning) perform stuff like automatic feature extraction from raw data, also called feature learning. These models are algorithms that have little to do with the basic physiology of neurons. Hence, current/current density is not a matter of interest. It's the coupling between elements that matters, namely which cells couple to which cells and how strong that interaction is (Fig. 1).\n\n\n A given node [(Fig. 1)] takes the weighted sum of its inputs, and\n passes it through a non-linear activation function. This is the output\n of the node, which then becomes the input of another node in the next\n layer. The signal flows from left to right, and the final output is\n calculated by performing this procedure for all the nodes. Training\n this deep neural network means learning the weights associated with\n all the edges.\n\n\nsource: Towards Science\n\nIn other words, there is no current involved, only weighted functions.\n\n\nArtificial neural network. source: Towards Science", "This depends on your definition of human-like.\n\nIf you mean a robot that looks and acts like a human, arguably, yes. Here's one of many examples: http://www.hansonrobotics.com/robot/sophia/\n\nIf you are looking for something that performs work and tasks, or works and thinks and talks like-or better than a human, the answer is mostly no, not yet.\n\nI recommend you look at 'ANI, AGI, ASI\"\n\nANI: artificial narrow intelligence. This is what you see around you right now.\n\nAGI: artificial general intelligence. A theoretic AI that can \"think\" like a human. It does not yet exist. Estimates are between 20-60 years before we will successfully create AGI.\n\nASI: artificial super intelligence. In a nutshell, it is theorized to be everything we wish we could be or hope never to be. It does not exist yet. It is generally believed that, IF we create an AGI, ASI will evolve seconds or less than a decade after AGI is created.", "This is The Deus Machine (1993) by Pierre Ouellette.\n\nThis review mentions most of the elements you've described. \n\n\n A brilliant computer systems analyst known as \"The Architect\" has created a form of self correcting and evolving artificial intelligence known as DEUS. This network nexus is able to think, emote and essentially functions as a living entity.", "First, intelligence (as a notion in psychology) is a theoretical construct... with numerous definitions. Wikipedia's article on intelligence lists a lot of them. Just going with the fist one there (which comes from an op-ed signed by many intelligence researchers), intelligence is defined as\n\n\n A very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly and learn from experience. It is not merely book learning, a narrow academic skill, or test-taking smarts. Rather, it reflects a broader and deeper capability for comprehending our surroundings—\"catching on,\" \"making sense\" of things, or \"figuring out\" what to do.\n\n\nSo, at a theoretical level, problem solving is seen a specific (but pretty important) aspect of intelligence. In practice, the way intelligence is usually tested in IQ tests, involves solving some types of problems (assuming a generous defintion of \"problem\"). Which essentially entails operationalizing intelligence. It's fair to say IQ tests test some specific types of problem solving. Of course the hope is that these correlate well enough with \"problem solving anything\".\n\nThere have also been some definitions proposed in psychology literature for what \"problem solving\" should mean. I'm not sure any of them has gained enough acceptance to be worth mentioning here.\n\nIQ tests are however not the only investigated paradigm covering problem solving. There's a lesser known one that talks about CPS (\"complex problem solving\"), proposed in one definition to be:\n\n\n “(…) the successful interaction with task environments that are dynamic\n (i.e., change as a function of the user's interventions and/or as\n a function of time) and in which some, if not all, of the environment's\n regularities can only be revealed by successful exploration and integration\n of the information gained in that process.”\n\n\nHowever it's not terribly clear how that is different from the theoretical notion of intelligence. What is different is how [C]PS is operationalized, i.e. the tests used to measure it... and that actually affects the level of correlation:\n\n\n This theoretical ambiguity is reflected in empirical findings on the\n relation between CPS and intelligence. Multiple early studies indicated\n that, while performance in CPS tasks varied tremendously among individuals,\n psychological assessments of general intelligence were unable\n to explain this variability (Brehmer, 1992; Rigas &amp; Brehmer, 1999).\n Kluwe,Misiak, and Haider (1991) summarized 11 of these early studies\n on the relation between CPS and intelligence and concluded that most\n of them failed to show a close relation between intelligence scores\n and CPS performance measures. This led several researchers to suggest\n CPS to be a cognitive construct mostly independent from intelligence\n (Putz-Osterloh, 1985). Rigas and Brehmer (1999) summarized this\n view in the different-demands hypothesis. To explain the weak correlations\n that researchers observed between measures of general intelligence\n and CPS performance, this hypothesis suggests that CPS tasks\n demand the performance of more complex mental processes than intelligence\n tests [and they mean IQ tests] do, such as the active interaction with the problem to acquire knowledge on the problem environment, which, in turn, results\n in low empirical correlations between the constructs. \n [...]\n \n In reaction to these problems, Funke (2001) introduced Linear Structural\n Equation systems (LSE) and Finite State Automata (FSA) as formal\n frameworks that allowfor the description of underlying task structures.\n Both of these frameworks enabled the creation of single complex systems [SCS],\n which are independent of any semantic embedment (Greiff,\n Fischer, Stadler, &amp;Wüstenberg, 2014) as they only specify an underlying\n system that can be clad in multiple semantic contexts.\n In particular, the LSE formalism has been widely adopted by CPS research\n and has led to the development of a considerable number of single\n complex systems (e.g., Multiflux, Kröner, 2001; FSYS,Wagener, 2001).\n In a further advancement, after Leutner, Klieme, Meyer, and Wirth\n (2004) had used a combination of two single complex systems for measuring\n CPS, Greiff, Wüstenberg, and Funke (2012) used the LSE framework\n for the development of the multiple complex systems (MCS;\n Greiff et al., 2014) approach, which was featured in the Program for International\n Student Assessment (PISA) 2012, the arguably most important\n large-scale assessment worldwide. [...]\n \n The comprehensive answer to the question on the relation between\n CPS and intelligence however, appears to depend on the\n operationalization of CPS.Whereas themoderator analyses did not indicate\n significant differences between measures of general intelligence\n and measures of reasoning in respect to their relation to measures of\n CPS, there are substantial differences inmean effect sizes found for studies\n using different operationalizations of CPS. The smallest average effect\n size for the relation of CPS and intelligence was found for classical\n measures of CPS, M(g) = .339, followed by single systems based on\n LSE, M(g) = .471. CPS scores gained from MCS tests are related most\n strongly to intelligence, M(g) = .585 [...]\n \n However, unlike classical measures of CPS or SCS, current MCS tests\n do not feature some highly complex elements of problem solving such\n as the recognition and handling of time-delayed effects. Thus, the cognitive\n demands posed by MCS tests are likely to be relatively closer to\n those posed by intelligence measures. Following the different-demands\n hypothesis (Rigas &amp; Brehmer, 1999), this might be causing the high correlations\n of intelligence and CPS scores obtained from MCS tests. In\n order to test this hypothesis, it would be necessary to develop MCS\n tests that feature highly complex elements while simultaneously maintaining\n high levels of reliability.\n\n\nThe bottom line is that there are problem solving abilities not entirely captured in basic IQ tests. Whether that tells us anything about \"intelligence\" vs \"problem solving\" is a matter of how one construes these notions theoretically.\n\n\n\nAlso asking if \"Is [it just that] intelligence [is] learnt?\" is a pretty different question, and I will not devote too much space to that here to that.\n\nOf course intelligence (as usually measured, IQ) develops over time in adolescence, and according to some empirical stuedies the more schooling a child has, the better the outcome for IQ tests as well.\n\nBut this raises the question: what allows one to learn (better)? The answer, according to some is that there's no distinguishable factor between intelligence and learning ability. So basically, the question is circular in this view: you learn (better) because you are (more) intelligent, which make you (even more) intelligent. And that seems a pretty widely held view:\n\n\n However, if we think of IQ as prediction devices, there is no better predictor of future learning than past learning. Furthermore, past learning does not just predict future learning—it often enables it.\n\n\nBut that hinges on the definition of intelligence as being this whole encompassing thing, which includes learning ability. Just going back to the opening definition of intelligence, but emphasizing a different portion of it should be enough to illustrate this:\n\n\n A very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly and learn from experience. It is not merely book learning, a narrow academic skill, or test-taking smarts. Rather, it reflects a broader and deeper capability for comprehending our surroundings—\"catching on,\" \"making sense\" of things, or \"figuring out\" what to do\n\n\nIt would make a good separate question whether learning ability and problem solving (rather than intelligence) can be substantially differentiated in cognitive tests... and whether assuming such a testing separation is possible, are the results highly correlated anyway?", "There is a category of neural networks that more closely attempt to mimic biological neural networks by incorporating also time (i.e. not all neurons fire at the same time). They are called spiking neural networks (SNNs) and their name comes from the fact that they use spiking neurons (i.e. neurons that fire discrete signals and affect other neurons at possibly different times). \n\nSNNs are mainly used in neuroscience, and aren't commonly used in machine learning because they currently have some apparent limitations (e.g. non-differentiability, so gradient descent and back-propagation can't be applied, but GD and BP aren't really biologically realistic anyway, although some people already tried to apply GD to SNNs) and their performance isn't still as good as the performance of traditional deep learning models, which make them not so appealing to the deep learning community (which is currently mainly driven by performance and utility). Nevertheless, the performance gap between traditional neural networks and spiking neural networks is decreasing. See Deep Learning in Spiking Neural Networks (2019) by Amirhossein Tavanaei et al. for more details. \n\nThere are already commercial implementations of a hardware-accelerated SNNs (e.g. BrainChip provides this service). These hardware-accelerators are often called neuromorphic chips (or processors) and all computing based on SNNs or processors that attempt to implement biological neural networks is known as neuromorphic computing.\n\nThere's also the related area called reservoir computing, which studies neural networks (such as liquid-state machines or echo state machines) that make use of reservoirs (which are fixed during learning) to attempt e.g. to improve training efficiency. See An overview of reservoir computing: Theory, applications and implementations (2007) by Benjamin Schrauwen et al. for an overview.\n\nNumenta (and, in particular, Jeff Hawkins, the founder of Numenta and author of an interesting book called On Intelligence) has also been studying neuroscience for a long time in order to develop models and theories of human intelligence. They call their new theory The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence, which is inspired by biological grid cells. This is also related and similar to capsule networks (often associated with Hinton).", "This question's reference to a classical computer refers to a &quot;Turing Machine&quot; style of computation, also known as a knowledge system, in which decisions and possible results are pre-programmed using if-statements, loops, and other logical constructs.\nHowever, most modern computer programmers and engineers are at least somewhat familiar with neural networks, used for machine learning. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are loosely based on the way the brain (a biological neural network) works. If you want to use your computing background to understand the brain, then I recommend learning about neural networks instead. If you already have some understanding of neural networks, then think about how Siri or Watson work.\nWhile neural networks can certainly be thought of as storing data, executing algorithms, parallel processing, and having memory and speed measurements, they are conceptually very different from classical computers, and generally uninstructive to compare. In particular, the &quot;von Neumann&quot; architectural style of modern computers does not have an analog in the brain (there is no separation between areas that compute and areas that store memories, for example). If you are still interested in such a comparison, then many of the questions listed above already have great answers, so check them out.\nIf you are interested in modeling the brain using a classical computing methodology, then check out ACT-R, a popular architecture for modeling the brain using a modular, knowledge-based system (also see this forum question).\nArtificial neural networks are not a perfect model for biological neural networks either, and if you are interested in the difference, then see this forum question.", "After doing some searching I believe I have found the passage you are referring to.\n\nThe passage you gave is in a dissertation called The use of emotions in the implementation of various types of learning in a cognitive agent by Usef Faghihi of University of Québec.\n\nFrom what I understand of it from skim reading, the passage you gave was about operations within a particular form of Artificial Intelligence, and the passage is on page 75.\n\nPage 43 has your answer.\n\n\n Learning Intelligent Distribution Agent (LIDA) (Figure 3.3) is a hybrid cognitive architecture, developed by Stan Franklin and his colleagues at the University of Memphis (Franklin and Patterson, 2006). LIDA is IDA's successor; IDA was originally conceived to assign new billets to sailors. In the American Navy, at the end of each sailor's tour of duty, he/she is assigned a new billet (task) by a detailer. IDA performs the detailer's role. It communicates with sailors via e-mail and must understand sailors' requirements and preferences, as weil as respect ail constraints of the Navy. To reply to the sailors, it has to communicate with different databases (Franklin et al., 2005, Franklin and Patterson, 2006).\n \n LIDA's architecture is partly symbolic and partly connectionist and is equipped with six artificial intelligence software technologies: a copycat architecture, a sparse distributed memory, a global workspace, a schema mechanism, a behaviour net, and a sub-sumption architecture.\n \n Franklin called LIDA a \"conscious agent\" for its fundamental elements and processes rely on functional consciousness as described by Baars (Baars, 1997). LIDA is constructed with simple agents called \"codelets\" (which reproduce Baars' \"simple processors\"). The central point of the system is the \"access consciousness\", which allows all resources to access centrally selected information that is \"broadcast\" to unconscious processes (which guides the agent to be stimulated only with the most relevant information).", "While I don't know any digital equivalent of that particular game or neither I was introduced to RL this way either. But, still there are other games and videos that might help you to teach your students RL. Some of them were actually very useful when I was a beginner.\n\nEVOLUTION (By Keiwan Donyagard)\n\n\nIt's a downloadable Android App based Game where the players create creatures with bones (represented with Black Stick), joints (represented with Red circle/spot) and Muscles (red , connecting the bones). The organisms starts hundreds of thread and learns to walk bit by bit and after each iteration by iteration, they become perfect learners after few minutes.\nLink : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keiwando.Evolution&amp;hl=en_US&amp;gl=US\n\nFlappy Bird Video (Uses a bit of Deep Learning Methods, an example of Deep RL)\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSW-5m8lRMs\n\nGoogle's DeepMind Playing Atari\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1eYniJ0Rnk\n\n\nThere are some experiments where AI did outsmart their creators and performed unexpectedly well too.\nHere are some videos:\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdTBqBnqhaQ (By Two Minute Papers)\n\n\nOpenAI Hide and Seek which actually breaks the game (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kopoLzvh5jY)\n\n\n\nMotivation: Reinforcement Learning and Deep Reinforcement Learning is an important field of study in AI because it is a general way to Build an AGI and ASI. (AGIs called Artificial General Intelligence and ASIs are called Artificial Super Intelligence.) The core development and framework of such systems have already been put in form of AIXI and AIXI-tl and they would definitely change the way whole humanity looks at it. Some of the notable researchers claim that Artificial Super Intelligence would be the last ever the biggest invention of Humanity and the most terrifying thing is that we still don't have a proper framework and ethical standards set for use of such super intelligent systems (Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Nick Bostrom.). While some theoretical paper do have measures of frameworks on dangers of such systems (https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.00913), but we still are far from specific idea about the matter. This is primarily because of lack of researchers here in this particular field. We hope more and more people join and contribute to the emergence, control and setup of ethical standards of such super intelligent Systems.", "The theory of evolution seems to be intelligent as it creates life\n\nWhen you say &quot;seems to be intelligent&quot; that begs the question: How are you defining &quot;intelligent&quot;? Which of course is still one of the big issues in AI research.\nI think there are some flaws with the argument that &quot;creates life&quot; = &quot;intelligent&quot;:\n\nEvolution does not create life. It operates on entities where there is a copy mechanism which is not 100% reliable, plus a selective environment that also impacts likelihood of further copies being made. Some form of proto-life (an initial Darwinian ancestor or Ida) needed to exist before evolution started.\n\nThe process of creating the first proto-life capable of undergoing evolution is generally thought to be a large semi-random search through chemical combinations. Random search is sometimes used in optimisation problems, and might be studied as part of AI search topics. However, it would normally be considered something of a baseline algorithm, and definitley not tick the boxes for all the general traits of intelligence.\n\n\n\nIsn't this evolutionary mechanism itself the same as the essence of human intelligence?\n\nThe Wikipedia article on artificial intellegence lists challenges faced by researchers and developers in AI. The categories chosen there are:\n\nReasoning, problem solving; Knowledge representation; Planning; Learning; Natural language processing; Perception; Motion and manipulation; Social intelligence; General intelligence\n\nTogether, these are mainly traits of mammalian, avian and a few other multicellular species, with a few traits such as language heavily focused on humans.\nI think it is important to separate out the mechanism whereby these traits arose naturally - which is generally agreed to be via an evolutionary process - from how those traits function. Artifical intelligence may use a little bit of reverse engineering from the natural traits in order to inspire design, but most AI systems do not use theory of evolution directly.\nWhen used directly, evolutionary algorithms can be used to solve search and optimisation problems. Also they can be used to solve simplified problems in perception and motion/manipulation. However, we are not able to scale up such algorithms to solve all aspects of general intelligence. Instead, systems like machine learning are designed to work from analysis of the problem, inspired in part by working natural systems. These work far more efficiently than evolutionary algorithms. There are no competitive evolutionary variants of AlphaZero, Watson, GPT-3 or neural-networks used in image processing.\nEvolutionary algorithms have their place in AI in practice and research. However, they do not define or encapsulate a form of general intelligence.", "Here is a quote from a paper on the subject:\n\n\n Different split criteria were proposed in the literature (Information Gain, Gini Index, etc.). It is not obvious which of them will produce the best decision tree for a given data set. A large amount of empirical tests were conducted in order to answer this question. No conclusive results were found.\n\n\nRaileanu, L. E., &amp; Stoffel, K. (2004). Theoretical Comparison between the Gini Index and Information Gain Criteria. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 41(1), 77-93. Kluwer Academic Publishers.", "This is a philosophical statement which uses sophisticated language per convention. Here is another version (according to this page):\n\nAny process capable of reasoning intelligently about the world must consist in part of a field of structures, of a roughly linguistic sort, which in some fashion represent whatever knowledge and beliefs the process may be said to possess.\n\nYou can visit the page I linked from some critique of both statements. For another critique, here is an example taken from these lecture notes. Consider the following two procedures for translating the colors red and blue into French:\nfunction translate1(color):\n if color is &quot;red&quot; return &quot;rouge&quot;\n if color is &quot;blue&quot; return &quot;bleu&quot;\n\nfunction translate2(color):\n dictionary = [ &quot;red&quot; -&gt; &quot;rouge&quot;, &quot;blue&quot; -&gt; &quot;bleu&quot; ]\n return dictionary[color]\n\nAccording to the lecture notes, only the second function translate2 conforms to the hypothesis.\n\nNow for some positive example. Consider an automated translation service such as Google translate. As a vast simplification, Google has a dictionary that it uses to translate words from (say) English to French. This dictionary is a &quot;propositional account&quot; of the knowledge of the process. Here by &quot;propositional account&quot;, Smith means a set of logical statements, for example:\n\nThe translation of red is rouge.\nThe translation of blue is bleu.\n\n(Technically, he means first-order logic, so you would put these statements in concise logical form, or as Prolog statements.)\nThe translation program uses its dictionary in its efforts. Thus the dictionary plays a &quot;causal ... role&quot; in the &quot;behavior&quot; of the system. That is, since rouge is the counterpart of red, if you give the program red it outputs rouge. We don't claim any 'real' intelligence for the program, so this role is only &quot;formal&quot;, and moreover our understanding of the dictionary as a list of matching words in two different languages is only an &quot;external semantic attribution&quot; that is irrelevant for explaining the behavior of the program. After all, the program doesn't really 'speak' English or French, it only gives the impression of being able to.\n\nLet me try to put the hypothesis in simpler words:\n\nPrograms use databases that represent knowledge.\n\n(See Surely you're joking, Mr Feynman!, page 281.)\nNow we can come up with many more examples. JPEG compression programs use knowledge about the human visual system in the form of the quantization matrix, which explains which Fourier coefficients are more important for image representation. Recommendation systems use a database of products that can be recommended, and another database that keeps track of what other users liked. OCR systems use implicit representations of symbols (letters, digits, and punctuation) in the form of a machine learning recognizer for them.\nDoes modern machine learning conform to the hypothesis? Considering the last example, optical character recognition, the &quot;catalog of characters&quot; isn't stored as such, but only implicitly as (say) a set of weights in some neural network. This is certainly not a &quot;field of structures, of a roughly linguistic sort&quot;, as per the other version of the hypothesis.\nModern artificial intelligence has largely moved away from the naive and romantic view of classical artificial intelligence, as exemplified by the KR hypothesis. Instead, now we often use statistical methods of machine learning which are much more successful in practice but much less satisfying from a human perspective.\nAre knowledge representation techniques used in the real world? This is a question left for the experts to answer.", "Rick Briggs refers to the difficulty an artificial intelligence would have in detecting the true meaning of words spoken or written in one of our natural languages. Take for example an artificial intelligence attempting to determine the meaning of a sarcastic sentence. \n\nNaturally spoken, the sentence \"That's just what I needed today!\" can be the expression of very different feelings. In one instance, a happy individual finding an item that had been lost for some time could be excited or cheered up from the event, and exclaim that this moment of triumph was exactly what their day needed to continue to be happy. On the other hand, a disgruntled office employee having a rough day could accidentally worsen his situation by spilling hot coffee on himself, and sarcastically exclaim that this further annoyance was exactly what he needed today. This sentence should in this situation be interpreted as the man expressing that spilling coffee on himself made his bad day worse.\n\nThis is one small example explaining the reason linguistic analysis is difficult for artificial intelligence. When this example is spoken, small tonal fluctuations and indicators are extremely difficult for an AI with a microphone to detect accurately; and if the sentence was simply read, without context how would one example be discernible from the other?\n\nRick Briggs suggests that Sanskrit, an ancient form of communication, is a naturally spoken language with mechanics and grammatical rules that would allow an artificial intelligence to more accurately interpret sentences during linguistic analysis. More accurate linguistic analysis would result in an artificial intelligence being able to respond more accurately. You can read more about Rick Brigg's thoughts on the language here.", "There is currently a basic answer to your question here: Is it sufficient to provide a privacy policy only in english language?\n\nBut regarding the part of your question regarding using Google Translate to offer translations for your Terms of Service and other legal documents: that's not a good idea. Google Translate uses machine translation, and as such will not accurately render a translation of the formal, legal language that creates a binding contract between you and the user. Yes, Google Translate is fairly good, and uses AI (Artificial Intelligence) to render translations. But a human translator is needed to accurately translate grammar and usage of the legal vocabulary, and, more importantly, produce a legally vetted translation drawn up in each of the languages you want to present your legal documents in.", "Yes, there are! One early example that's still in use today is the Universal Structure Predictor: Evolutionary Xtallography (USPEX) method. You can find many \"success cases\" on their website if you're curious. The First-Principles-Assisted Structure Solution (FPASS) and Prototype Electrostatic Ground States (PEGS) methods are a couple of other codes used for structure prediction. Then there are many that are specific to a given application area. For instance, to predict the structures of metal-organic frameworks from specified molecular building blocks, there is the Topologically Based Crystal Constructor (ToBaCCo).\n\nEach code out there works differently. Some try to use brute-force approaches while accounting for material-specific design principles. The lowest energy structure is then often take. You could imagine taking such structures from the Open Quantum Materials Database, for instance. Other methods use evolutionary algorithms, as summarized in this review. More recently, these crystal structure prediction algorithms are taking advantage of machine learning and artificial intelligence for the design and prediction of crystals with tailored properties for a given application of interest, such as a material that can separate $\\mathrm{CO}_{2}$ from natural gas.\n\nThere are several reviews on the topic you may be interested in: 1, 2, 3.", "Short answer: We don't know.\nLong answer: There are a few major lines of thinking on the subject currently.\n\nCognitive closure: One common argument is that this question is simply not answerable - at least not by humans. By this view, it is possible that the creation of an artificial intelligence that even resembles humans sufficiently to suggest consciousness is an intractable engineering problem, or it is possible that understanding consciousness well enough to determine whether or not such an artificially intelligent system might be conscious is beyond us, or it is possible that we will never understand the question well enough to have a meaningful response.\n\nFunctionalism: Several interpretations of the implications of monism on consciousness suggest that consciousness is an intrinsic property of whatever it is that our brain does, and therefore, any machine that performs an equivalent function should be equally conscious. This view potentially allows for a variety of machines to be conscious, as well as having different kinds of consciousness. In this framework, it may be more meaningful to ask not whether a machine is conscious, but rather, in what way, or how does it compare to our consciousness.\n\nPhysicalism: Another interpretation of monism suggests that the function of a machine is not sufficient to determine its consciousness - its physical properties are important as well. This possibility makes it difficult to ascertain whether a silicon-based computer program of a conscious entity could ever do more than simulate consciousness, or how many other kinds of physical systems like our brain can potentially become conscious. A theoretical framework under this umbrella that is currently fairly popular and has some empirical support is IIT that suggests that consciousness can be measured in humans using available tools of neuroscience. How this might be applied to non-human candidates is still unclear.\n\n\nThere are many other possibilities, but hopefully I've captured the most prominent ones. Currently, there is nothing within our knowledge of physical systems that makes it obvious why (or whether) certain systems might be conscious (and not others). Put another way: If a race of non-conscious alien robots visited Earth, they might assume that we are non-conscious machines like them - they may have no reason to believe that there is anything more going on. Similarly, under the assumption of monism, where consciousness appears to somehow supervene on physical systems, if there were other properties aside from consciousness (or different types of consciousness) that supervened on physical systems, then we would have no reason to suspect that they exist either. So for the moment, we just don't know.", "And by trying to answer my own question, and how I see it, yes - there is some requirement like it stated in this particular article: https://medium.com/womeninai/psychology-of-artificial-intelligence-ca0f0a9f3d7c\n\nBecause yes - there are multiple occurrences of an AI being biased, hateful, racist, sexist, etc.\n\nAlso, humans themselves tend to act towards an AI in the insolent ways, so the human factor also needed to be accounted for.\n\nSo yeah - I think it will be a branch, or an extension of an engineering psychology, which exactly addresses primarily a human factor and relationships between the human and a machine.\n\nBut other than that it will address the factors of how should it be built, how we can expect it to behave, and how should it behave, because it should follow the strict moral code, to be not the threat to us.", "With AI technology at its current stage (or at least reasonably close to this stage), the jobs you proposed may very well be openings created by AI automation. However, sufficiently advanced AI technology--- the kind that can function as general purpose labor replacement--- will make even these jobs obsolete. This is because such an AI would be able to improve itself and as a result would surpass human level intelligence---meaning that it would take actions which we would not necessarily be able to understand or justify. \n\nThis is all assuming that the intelligence of humans is not some kind of upper limit on the possibilities of intelligence in general. As far as I know there is no reason to think we represent such an upper limit.\n\nTo summarize...will such jobs exist?\n\nSub-human artificial intelligence: sure.\nBeyond-human artificial intelligence: no reason to think they would be necessary as the AI can do them itself.", "I recommend Introduction to Deep Learning by Eugene Charniak ISBN 978-0-262-03951-2 (MIT 2018). It mentions GAN &amp; LSTM &amp; Attention (all three occurs in the index).\nBut read also Pitrat's last book: Artificial Beings: The Conscience of a Conscious Machine - it does cover machine learning (but not in the &quot;deep learning&quot; sense) but was published before 2016.\nAnd see also RefPerSys. If you speak French, also see this and more generally the AFIA organization.", "Mathematical models are essentially highly formalised knowledge. When it comes to computer engineering, there is literally no other choice - anything you can write code for, or design a machine for, will have an associated mathematical model. That model may not be fully explored or comprehended analytically by theorists, it may be just too complex (and driven by calculations) or even mathematically intractable. However, that doesn't make it non-mathematical, just more driven by empirical results than theory.\n\nWe don't have complete models for how AGI definitely work, nor tight enough definitions of general intelligence to base maths from where we can say \"if we implemented a framework based on this maths, we could build an AGI\". Right now, exploration and experiments based on intuition of what might work are far ahead of such theory.\n\nThe theoretical work behind e.g. neural networks is chipping away at the problem, and there are more general over-arching theories about intelligent rational behaviour available e.g. the equations of AIXI. AIXI doesn't cover emotions and intuition directly, but does attempt to cover knowledge and how a rational agent would approach understanding the world in general from scratch. It is possible that an embodied system driven by a software implementing something like AIXI could exhibit intuition and emotions in an emergent fashion, but whether or not that would happen in practice is not at all clear from the theory. AIXI is just one theory/model out of many, and I am not qualified to analyse it in depth, but its creators have strong pedigree in AI research, so it is as good as any IMO if you are interested in starting to research AI from a theoretical perspective.\n\nDespite all the unknowns, the success of deep learning and the loose analogies between artificial neural networks and biological ones, makes it look likely that neural networks or something like them will form a component of an AGI. The current state of the art for more narrow problem solving, learning from examples or experience through backpropagation of error gradients, might not be the most important or key component. However, whatever the structure, whether it is a small extension of existing systems, or involves some new science, it will be describable mathematically.", "Yes, indeed, neural networks are very prone to catastrophic forgetting (or interference). Currently, this problem is often ignored because neural networks are mainly trained offline (sometimes called batch training), where this problem does not often arise, and not online or incrementally, which is fundamental to the development of artificial general intelligence.\nThere are some people that work on continual lifelong learning in neural networks, which attempts to adapt neural networks to continual lifelong learning, which is the ability of a model to learn from a stream of data continually, so that they do not completely forget previously acquired knowledge while learning new information. See, for example, the paper Continual lifelong learning with neural networks: A review (2019), by German I. Parisi et al., which summarises the problems and existing solutions related to catastrophic forgetting of neural networks." ]

[ "Aerosmith" ]

[ "the Bloomsbury Group", "30 Rock", "the Rock of Gibraltar" ]

[ "statistical purposes" ]

[ "What's New Pussycat?", "What's the New Mary Jane" ]

[ "Shah Rukh Khan, who is facing the Shiv Sena's ire for saying that he favoured Pakistani players' inclusion in the Indian Premier League, says he is ``sad'' his comments are being misconstrued as being against a group." ]

[ "New Delhi, Feb 11 Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan is extremely upset that Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray and his son Udhav Thackeray 'misconstrued' his comments and are now protesting against the release of his film 'My Name Is Khan'.", "Last heard, while at the chat show 'Koffee with Karan', SRK surprised his friend Karan by talking about his arch rivals Aamir and Salman and saying that would like to grow to be like Aamir and Salman someday.", "During a book launch event, SRK called himself an 'idiot' who dared to play the same role of Devdas that was earlier played by legendary actor Dilip Kumar.", "SRK, who had undergone a major shoulder surgery a couple of years ago, had hurt himself late last year while shooting for an action scene in Dulha Mil Gaya .", "In the face of mounting anger over comments he made at the weekend, Bernie Ecclestone has issued an apology, claiming that his comments have been misunderstood.", "Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has said he is 'scared' of getting into relationships and finds himself socially and emotionally inept.", "WASHINGTON -Ousted Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod is publicly making amends with the NAACP after the group's president condemned her for misconstrued comments she made about race.", "Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan may be known for his gift of gab and witty one liners during his press conferences but the actor states that he is unsocial by nature.", "SRK performed with Katrina Kaif for the first time and raised eyeballs when he kissed her.", "Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan on Tuesday said he had never said that he that felt unsafe in India for being a Muslim and the controversy around his recent magazine article had been sparked by ``bigots and narrow minded people''.", "Texas Rangers slugger Josh Hamilton has tried to clarify his recent cryptic comments about being disobedient.", "Kareena Kapoor is never busy when it comes to her dear Khan, Shahrukh Khan and now speculations are rife that SRK has signed her for his superhero flick, 'Ra1'.", "SRK, who is busy shooting for My Name Is Khan with Karan Johar and Kajol, was in for a pleasant surprise when he received a call from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to present an award at the prestigious Golden Globes.", "Former presidential candidate John Edwards says separation from his wife is an ``extraordinarily sad moment.''", "Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan has now apologised to the Sunil Gavaskar.", "Indian rifle shooter Gagan Narang said that he had never threatened to boycott Commonwealth Games after being neglected for the Khel Ratna Award and that his comments were taken out of context.", "LONDON -Sky Sports football anchor Richard Keys apologized Wednesday for his part in sexist comments that cost another commentator his job.", "``In real life, Aamir and Shah Rukh have been proved as '2 Idiots' as both are making stupid statements supporting the cause of Pakistani cricketers,'' said a statement in the party's Hindi mouthpiece Dopahar Ka Saamna.", "Bollywood heartthrob Shahid Kapoor is fuming over reports claiming that he was spotted kissing actress Anushka Sharma.", "Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor has apologised for his 'cattle class' travel remark and said that his words had been misunderstood.", "After creating a furore by stating that Indians are not ``large-hearted'', Pakistan`s ODI cricket captain Shahid Afridi did a volte-face, claiming that he was misunderstood and quoted out of context.", "He is now getting strong Republican support after comments were he tried to walk part of his comments back.", "Salman Khan is apparently upset with friend turned foe Shahrukh Khan over his promotional activity for Don 2.", "Actor Anil Kapoor is upset with Aamir Khan for poking fun at him in his item song in Delhi Belly.", "Pattaya Police received a sad report on the evening of 25 th April that a man had committed suicide at his home.", "BAD moods can actually be good for you, with an Australian study finding that being sad make people less gullible, improves their ability to judge others and also boosts memory.", "Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan says, he has acted differently in his upcoming Yash Chopra's Jab Tak Hai Jaan, all thanks to Katrina's comments.", "A day after he kicked up a row by losing his cool during a press conference on his latest film 3 Idiots, filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra has apologised for lashing out at the media.", "PTI Mar 14, 2013, 12.00AM IST Amid rumours that all is not well between Karan Johar and Shah Rukh Khan, the filmmaker said King Khan is like his family.", "Former India player and chairman of selectors Dilip Vengsarkar on Monday stated that it was sad to see Hyderabad languishing in the plate division of the Ranji Trophy.", "Even though the ATS' public prosecutor Ajay Misar had told the Nashik court on Saturday that the RDX allegedly stolen by Lt Col Prasad was used in the Samjhauta blast, on Sunday the ATS claimed that he has been misquoted by the media.", "While everyone from SRK, Hrithik and Rajinikanth are playing superheroes in upcoming films, Akki says he plays the biggest superhero." ]

[ "Types of sugar include fruit sugar (fructose), table sugar (sucrose) and milk sugar (lactose). Starch. Starch is a complex carbohydrate, meaning it is made of many sugar units bonded together. Starch occurs naturally in vegetables, grains, and cooked dry beans and peas." ]

[ "Report Abuse. One person to eat or one person to survive. because i can change what i eat. I can have a healthy balanced meal paying less than what i pay now. People can live and survive on $20 a day on food if u shop at the right places and eat foods that are not luxury. A can of beans is only 99 cents.eport Abuse. One person to eat or one person to survive. because i can change what i eat. I can have a healthy balanced meal paying less than what i pay now. People can live and survive on $20 a day on food if u shop at the right places and eat foods that are not luxury. A can of beans is only 99 cents.", "Csection on Sat morn, what to eat/not eat night before? I found out yesterday afternoon that I need c-section and am scheduled for Sat @ 9am. As this wasnt part of the plan - we were hoping for au natural, I havnt a clue what I should or shouldnt be eating the day/night before.", "Confidence votes 144. they have to watch what they eat in case they have too much sugar, starch or fat. they have to avoid all white foods. this is to control their blood glucose level. I am a type 1 diabetic, if i don't watch what I eat I will die.Type 1 Diabetics have a pancreas that does not produce insulin.Type 2 diabetics have a pancreas that still produces insulin but not nearly enough.Insulin aids the body in metabolizing the food you eat.his is to control their blood glucose level. I am a type 1 diabetic, if i don't watch what I eat I will die. Type 1 Diabetics have a pancreas that does not produce insulin.Type 2 diabetics have a pancreas that still produces insulin but not nearly enough.", "i had a c section 2 weeks ago and i was wondering what are things that i can do and not do right now. Also what r things that i can eat and not eat. Is it ok for me to be walking around all day and be doing things? Please advise.", "I get nauseous everytime after I eat, what's wrong? I can be starving and I will eat, after about half way through (even a small plate) my stomach hurts really bad like I over ate. Sometimes it's only a few bites, then I feel very nauseous and I am unable to eat the rest of the day.", "I am hungry all the time, no matter what or how much I eat. I am not on a diet, although I try to eat healthy foods, lots of veggies and no snack foods I get plenty of sleep at night, but I still feel tired all day.", "What does Cashew butter taste like? I want to eat vegan 6 days a week and eat meat only one day a week. A friend of mine suggested eating cashew butter for protein as he himself is vegetarian. Does it taste as good as cashews? Would I be better off eating cashews instead of cashew butter?", "What is butterscotch flavor? Hi! So I was looking for a butterscotch pudding recipe the other day and went with the easiest I could find: http://www.marcussamuelsson.com/recip... I used the recipe as a guide, subbing extra corn starch for the heavy cream and browning the butter in the hope that I'd get a sharper flavor.", "i went to the doc 11 days ago,she said it sounds like a ulcer! put me on prevacid for 10 days and it should heal,well its been 11 and i still feel the stomach pain! i dont know what i should or should do eat or what not to eat and somthing that can help me heal this ulcer or ulcers asap i want my stomach back! im 21 and i reallt dont understand how i even got a ulcer to begin with", "Why is it difficult to remain smart at middle age with dieting and exercise while one remains fit at teenage without dieting and eating fast f... If I work out 4 or 5 times a week and watch what I eat 6 days a week, can I eat something bad like pizza or pasta one day a week without jeopa...", "I've noticed lately that when I eat sometimes my nose will run. I'm not sure what type of food causes it because it usually happens when I eat a meal. My nose will run while I'm eating and after I'm eating. Its sometimes embarrasing. I do have sinus/allergy problems and I use a nasal spray once a day.", "1 What causes nausea after eating meat/or greasy foods, which i rarely eat. Vomiting relieves symptoms, 4-7 bowel m more What causes nausea after eating meat/or greasy foods, which i rarely eat. Vomiting relieves symptoms, 4-7 bowel movements/day, loser stool than usual. 38weeks pregnant.", "Though food intake and eating junk food is probably true for the majority of obese people there are also many other factors for obesity I went to see a nutritionist and she looked at my eating habits. She told me It is not what you eat, but how you are eating (I eat one meal per day at 2pm).", "How to Prevent Diabetic Dumping Syndrome. Diabetics need to avoid eating certain foods to prevent diabetic dumping syndrome. Foods that are high in fat, sugar, and starches, as well as fried foods, often cause this uncomfortable reaction. Milk and milk products can also cause it. Since there is no real treatment for diabetic dumping syndrome, it is best to watch what you eat and to have small balanced meals throughout the day.", "What To Eat for Breakfast for Acne Clear Skin. What should I eat for an acne free breakfast? In this article, I talk about what to eat for breakfast to maintain clear skin. Okay, I figure the easiest way to do this (for now) is to tell you guys all about what I eat on a daily basis.", "Three days for a cooked ham in the refrigerator and you wonder if it is fit to eat and yet you are feeding said pork product to your dogs? Whats wrong with this picture? Your ham is perfectly alright for you to eat. was just cutting up my leftover spiral ham for the dogs and I wonder how long would it have been safe to eat it? It still looked and smelled good but I don't like to eat things after three days in fridge but I know other people that do.", "The conversation begins with a definition of “chametz.” This is the term the Torah first uses to teach that Passover should involve changing what we eat. Chametz becomes the term for what we do not eat on the holiday. You are what you eat! That is the message of Passover for all seven days in Reform Judaism.As you decide how to make your eating decisions for Passover, I invite you to consider the definitions and suggestions that follow.he conversation begins with a definition of “chametz.” This is the term the Torah first uses to teach that Passover should involve changing what we eat. Chametz becomes the term for what we do not eat on the holiday. You are what you eat! That is the message of Passover for all seven days in Reform Judaism.", "Other lizards are bright and eat insects. Some other lizards eat smaller lizards than themselves. Large lizards like the Monitor lizards eat rats and mice. When I came back from the trip I caught a skink and a Gecko Lizard and I will keep them for a few days. On the trip I didn't catch what I wanted. But I did catch some lizards back at home.", "What can you eat in Navratras Fast. It’s a myth I feel that during fast we starve ourselves! In fact the opposite is true for the Navratras fasting period of 7-8 days. There are some who eat only fruits and some who eat proper meal once a day during the fast.", "I want to know what type of food I should be eating for breakfast, what I should be drinking, what I should eat for lunch and dinner. I need to know what snacks and other things I should eat, its time I start being healthy for the better.", "This Site Might Help You. RE: What food do Russians eat at Christmas? January 7th is the celebration of Christmas in Russia. There is a Russian lady in my building and I want to surprise her with a Russian dish on this day. Does anyone have any ideas on what they eat or recipes? I am a chef so I should be able to do most recipes.", "While men will typically fast for 16 hours and then eat for 8 hours, women may find better results by eating for 10 hours and fasting for 14 hours. The best advice I can give anyone, not just women, is to experiment and see what works best for you. have been intermittent fasting for over one year. I skip breakfast each day and eat two meals, the first around 1pm and the second around 8pm. Then, I fast for 16 hours until I start eating again the next day at 1pm.", "INR's can change by what you eat, I eat green leafy vegetables 3 days per week and get my veggies from low vit k foods. I take 5mg 5 days per week and 10mg 2 days per week and my last INR was 4.0 but my INR range is a little higher than most people.", "What should I do if I don't like fish or seafood? I am trying to better my diet and eat healthier. I see that you say we should be eating fish or seafood 3 times a week. I don't like fish or seafood, I can't eat it. I pretty much eat chicken and wheat pasta and vegetables. I eat some red meat on occasion. I do take Omega 3 pills every day, so that should help with the health benefits of eating fish. How many times a week should I eat chicken?", "The answer to the main question of eating before bed depends upon how much you plan to eat, what you have eaten earlier in the day, what your fitness goals are, and a few other factors. In my experience, I feel you will get better results if you don’t eat a big meal within 1-2 hours of going to bed.he problem is that there hasn’t been any study (that I know of) that talks about eating right before bed when it comes to getting really lean. I am going to speak purely from my experiences and observations of what I do in regards to eating right before going to bed.", "Posts: 36. Re: Unusual Throat Pain/Spasms... if anything my throat feels a little better after i eat (depending on what i eat)...for the most part it is better in the morning and gets worse as the day progresses, by night it's in pretty bad shape.", "at what age do I stop feeding 3 meals a day?? I can never remember when I have done it with the others. Kacey will be 5 months old next week and eats a total of 3 cups per day (sometimes I think i should make it 3.5-4). I know when I take her noon meal away I will be splitting that noon meal into half in the morning half at night. If she doesn't eat at least 3 cups a day she gets VERY think..", "yep i know what you mean. you probably have hemorrhoids or a fissure. a fissure is a tear in your rectum from straining too much. wash yourself good, dry yourself and use some salve on your butt hole. i use neosporin on mine or sometimes i use corn starch, yes corn starch." ]

[ "Viscum album (mistletoe) | Plants & Fungi At Kew Discover more Geography and distribution Mistletoe ranges from North Africa to southern England and southern Scandinavia, across Central Europe to southwest and east Asia to Japan. In Europe three subspecies (ssps.), which grow on different species of host trees, have been recognised. Viscum album ssp. album grows on hardwoods, V. album ssp. abietis on fir trees (Abies) and V. album ssp. laxum grows on pines and spruce. Further east there are well-known forms of V.album which have coloured fruits. In the UK V. album occurs from east Devon to Yorkshire, and is particularly common in central and southern England and around London. Viscum album bush Habitat Mistletoe is partially parasitic, growing on several woody hosts (trees and shrubs) in a variety of wooded habitats, extending from the tropics (typical V. album is recorded from the Chin Hills in Burma) into temperate regions. Across its geographical range, it can be found growing on gymnosperms as well as broadleaved trees. In the UK, poplar, lime, apple and hawthorn are common hosts. Mistletoes on native European oaks are rare. Description Viscum album is a small woody shrub, frequently globular in shape and can reach over 1 m in diameter. It grows on the branches of other trees, to which it is attached by a swelling called a haustorium. In common with all mistletoes, it is hemiparasitic which means that although it depends on its host for water and mineral nutrients, it is able to photosynthesise (create its own carbohydrates using sunlight) because it has green leaves and stems. The stems of the mistletoe appear characteristically forked, (pseudo-dichotomously branched) and it is possible to estimate the age of a mistletoe bush simply by counting the number of times that the branches fork and adding two years (since often one fork is produced in each year from the third year after germination). V. album is dioecious, which means that male and female flowers are produced on separate plants. The small, easily overlooked flowers are produced in a short inflorescence of three to five flowers in the forks of the branches. Although small, the flowers are reported to be insect-pollinated and they are said to be sweetly scented and to produce nectar. The white berries appear from about October until May. Inside they contain a single green seed which lacks a seed coat but is surrounded by a sticky pulp. An apple tree killed by mistletoe Other common names German: Mistel, Vogelmistel, Leimmistel, Affolter, Bocksfutter, Drudenfua, Elfklatte, Geiakrut, Guomol, Hexenbesen, Immergrune, Kluster, Marenklatte, Marentaken, Mischgle, Mischgelt, Misple, Nistle, Uomol, Vogelchrut, VogelKlab, Vogellim, Wespe, Wintergrun, Wispen, Wasp. French: gui, gui commun, gui de druides Italian: vischio, visco, vescovaggine, guatrice, pania, scoaggine Spanish: muerdago Threats and conservation Viscum album is locally common in the UK. The most recent survey (1993-6) showed that, in its stronghold in the former apple orchard areas of the Welsh borders, the populations had fallen in numbers as a direct consequence of the decline of the orchards. In spite of this, the plant was still much more common in the counties of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire, when compared with what are probably more natural frequencies found elsewhere. Infestations of mistletoe are detrimental to the host tree, and large infestations can eventually lead to the host's death, particularly during prolonged periods of dry weather. As mistletoe reduces the productivity of commercial fruit trees it is often pruned out to try and stop its spread. Uses Male plant Mistletoe has had a long history of use in folk medicine. Druids (members of a priestly class active in Gaul during pre-Christian times) regarded mistletoe growing on oak as superior. Some of the constituent compounds of mistletoe affect the immune, circulatory and cardiac systems. Mistletoe has been used as an antiseptic, antispasmodic, astringent, digestive and diuretic, and, among the many ailments it has b" ]

[ "Goa used to be a colony of which nation Portugal 87 What does a - IT - 402 View Full Document Goa used to be a colony of which nation Portugal 87 What does a galactophagist drink Milk 88 What did God create on the fifth day (both) Sea creatures and birds 89 Where was Bob Dylan born Duluth Minnesota 90 In the 18th century what would a pencil be Brush 91 Agrippa poisoned her husband/uncle who was he Claudius 92 Who was the mother of Castor and Pollux Helen of Troy 93 What are the snaffle Pelham and Weymouth Horse bits 94 Walter Koenig played which part in the Star Trek series Ensign Chekov 95 Who had a hit with Devil Woman Cliff Richard 96 What were the first false teeth made from Ivory 97 The jealous Athena turned who into a spider Arachne 98 What was the first Carry On film Carry on Sergeant 99 Who was the female lead in The Shootist Lauren Bacall 100 What is a dzo Cow Yak cross Page 9 This preview has intentionally blurred sections. Sign up to view the full version. View Full Document 10000 general knowledge questions and answers www.cartiaz.ro No Questions Quiz 5 Answers 1 Hypermetropic people are what Long Sighted 2 Which leader lives in the Potola Dalai Lama 3 What wood was the cross supposed to be made of Mistletoe 4 Joseph Levitch became famous as who Jerry Lewis 5 If you planted a bandarilla what are you doing Bullfighting 6 What was the first Pink Floyd album Piper at the gates of dawn 7 in which city was the first public opera house opened Venice 8 In what Elvis film did he play a double role Kissing Cousins 9 The Aphrodite of Melos has a more famous name - what Venus de Milo 10 Which country invented the concentration camp Britain - Boer war 11 John Huston scored a hit with his first film - what? Maltese falcon 12 Stan laurel, Mickey Rooney, Lana Turner what in common 8 marriages 13 What real person has been played most often in films Napoleon Bonaparte 14 Scotopic people can do what See in the dark 15 What is the most critical thing keeping bananas fresh transport Temperature not below 13 C 55F 16 What is the name of the Paris stock exchange Bourse 17 Whose music featured in The Clockwork Orange Beethoven 18 What was the Troggs most famous hit Wild Thing 19 In Japan what colour car is reserved for the royal family only Maroon 20 What city has Kogoshima as its airport Tokyo 21 What was gangsters George Nelsons nickname Baby Face 22 Whose first wife was actress Jayne Wyman Ronald Regan 23 In MASH what is Radars favourite drink Grape Knee High 24 What do you give on the third wedding anniversary Leather 25 What is a baby whale called Calf 26 In which film did the Rolls Royce have the number plate AU1 Goldfinger 27 Vladamere Ashkenazy plays what musical instrument Piano 28 With which organ does a snake hear Tongue 29 On what is the Mona Lisa painted Wood 30 What is the second most common international crime Art theft 31 Count de Grisly was the first to perform what trick in 1799 Saw woman in half 32 Who wrote Les Miserable Victor Hugo 33 Which bird turns it head upside down to eat Flamingo 34 The colossus of Rhodes was a statue of who Apollo 35 Who rode a horse called Bucephalus Alexander the Great 36 To which London club did Mycroft Holmes belong Diogones 37 This is the end of the preview. Sign up to access the rest of the document. TERM Kenyatta University IT 402 - Spring 2015 1 2 3 4 5 Sampling In Research What is research? According Webster (1985), to researc HYPO.docx", "Led Zeppelin - Photo 11 - Pictures - CBS News Led Zeppelin Next The rock band Led Zeppelin (John Paul Jones, Robert Plant, John Bonham and Jimmy Page) poses for a portrait in 1968. By the mid-seventies, Led Zeppelin was the most popular rock band in the world. They sold more than 300 million records, and devoured the world with their thunderous sound and their wicked ways. But the group disbanded after the death of drummer John Bonham in 1980. Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Guitarist Jimmy Page (center, rear) is photographed with the English rock band Carter-Lewis and the Southerners, c. 1964. An art college student, Page became renowned as a session player comfortable in many different genres, from rockabilly to rock 'n' roll to acoustic blues and electric blues Credit: Mark and Colleen Hayward/Getty Images Bass guitarist John Paul Jones (pictured here in 1969) was also working as a session player when his wife saw a notice in a music newspaper that Jimmy Page was forming a band. \"I was doing so much work in sessions - I don't know, 20 20 sessions a week, I was going completely crazy and burning out,\" Page explained to Mason. \"So she said, 'Why don't you call him up? See if he needs a bass player.' And I went, 'You gotta be crazy. I've got too much work going on, I can't do this.'\" But Page did call: \"[Jones] said, 'I'm going up to the Village to see a singer and we think he knows a drummer. I'll tell you what they're like when I get back.' And he came back, said, 'They're amazing. Come on, let's go and rehearse.'\" Credit: Dick Barnatt/Redferns/Getty Images The singer was Robert Plant. He had played with drummer John Bonham in the Band of Joy, when he was recruited by Jones to join his new band. Jones recalled to Mason their first rehearsal together: \"So Page suggested a thing, he said, 'Well, there's a thing we used to do with the Yardbirds called 'Train Kept A-Rollin'' which is basically a blues sequence with this riff. So he just counted in, 'Three, four ...' and just like, whoa, the room just exploded. \"I mean, rhythm section particularly are always, like, wary in a new situation,\" he laughed. \"Because you've gotta work really closely together. And so I'm thinking, 'Oh, I wonder what the drummer's like.' And he was probably thinking, 'I wonder what the bass player's like.' But within, I don't know, four bars, we all knew - 'Oh, thank goodness for that. This is gonna work. This is great.'\" Credit: Dick Barnatt/Redferns/Getty Images Guitarist Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, photographed in London in December 1968. Credit: Dick Barnatt/Redferns/Getty Images A poster advertising a 1969 concert at Fillmore West in San Francisco starring Country Joe & The Fish, Led Zeppelin, and Taj Mahal. Credit: GAB Archive/Redferns/Getty Images Led Zeppelin's first album, first released in the U.S. by Atlantic Records in January 1969. Songs included \"Good Times Bad Times,\" \"Dazed and Confused,\" \"Communication Breakdown\" and \"I Can't Quit You Baby.\" Credit: Atlantic Records Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin in pictured in a recording studio with Robert Plant and John Paul Jones, May 23, 1969. Credit: Charles Bonnay/Getty Images The second studio album by Led Zeppelin, released in October 1969. Songs featured included \"Whole Lotta Love,\" \"Ramble On\" and \"Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman).\" The band made its name on the underground circuit of touring, and by American FM radio (given that their recorded output did not led itself easily to bite-sized pop hits for AM radio play). \"FM radio was alive and well at this point of time, and they were playing whole album sides, for heaven's sake,\" Page told Mason. \"They don't have some silly tune, singles. You could hear people's work properly. It was so refreshing to be in a tour bus, listening to, like, the local FM station and saying, 'Yes, this is what we've all been about in music. It's really surfaced. And it's there, it's alive and well.' And then you go back to England, be faced with doing some silly single. \"So I'd learned that the thing to do was to be making albums. And", "The rise and fall of the CD: 12 facts you might not know - BT The rise and fall of the CD: 12 facts you might not know We celebrate the compact disc, a ground-breaking audio format that changed the way we listen to music. Print this story On March 8 1979 Philips demonstrated the compact disc for the first time – the Compact Disc Audio Player. Although this technology has faded a little in the internet age, with the advent of mp3 players and streaming services, it was hugely important. Piet Kramer, who worked in Philips optical group said at the time the teams didn’t realise the impact the CD would have: “ In the late 70s and early 80s, we never imagined that one day the computing and entertainment industries would also opt for the digital CD for storing the growing volume of data for computer programs and movies.” Check out the video above from Philips to mark the 25th anniversary of the CD to find out more. Here are 12 fascinating facts about the CD Technology giants Philips and Sony developed the CD format together. In 1979, a task force was set-up to create a digital audio disc and set a standard for the music industry that all manufacturers could follow and develop for. The CD was the first digital format, it was marketed as having better sound and less liable to scratch than analogue formats such as cassette or record. 1.2mm deep and 120mm in diameter, CD’s are made from polycarbonate plastic, with aluminium coating which makes the surface reflective. Data is encoded on a track in indents - known as pits - which start in the centre and spirals out. Lasers in CD players read this information from the disc without physical contact. CDs must comply with what is known as the ‘Red Book’ audio specification. The document of standards was created by Sony and Philips in 1980. The world’s first compact disc was manufactured in Langenhagen, Germany on August 17 1982. The first CD made at the plant was Abba’s The Visitors. The CD has a 74-minute playing time, allegedly because vice president of Sony, Norio Ohg’s wife’s favourite piece of music was Beethoven’s Ninth symphony. Dire Straits’ Brothers in Arms was the first album to sell over one million CDs. The band and Philips promoted the sound quality, as you can see in this picture. The BBC’s Tomorrow’s World famously demonstrated the CD in 1981. Host Kieran Prendiville was sceptical “whether there’s a market for this kind of disc” and is seen scratching a BeeGees CD. Urban legend suggested he spread jam on it first. The first commercially available CD player was the Sony CDP-101, which was released in 1982 priced 168,000 yen (around £922). Sony CEO Nobuyuki Idei based the model name on the numbers 0101, which is number five in binary code, meaning the product was medium class. Over 200 billion CDs have been sold worldwide. If all the CDs produced were piled up, they would circle the earth six times. The CD has spawned a range of optical-disc formats: Super Audio CD, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, right up to Blu-ray today. Sales of CDs have been declining for years, in part down to the rise in digital music for portable music players and smartphones, but the decline has been slow. The Neilson end of year music report states that there were 140.8 million CD album sales in 2014, a drop from 165.4 million in 2013, but more than 106.5 million digital sales. Sales of both are being impacted by the popularity of streaming services like Spotify and YouTube. Do you still use CDs or do you download or stream music? What was your first CD player? Let us know in the Comments below. Photo credit: Philips Company Archive, Joop Sinjou, Atreyu, Wikimedia Commons", "FOR 254/FR316: Cycas revoluta, Sago Palm � Cycas revoluta, Sago Palm 1 Robert J. Northrop, Michael G. Andreu, Melissa H. Friedman, Mary McKenzie, and Heather V. Quintana 2 Family Cycadaceae, cycad family. Genus Cycas stems from the Greek name cyca, which means \"palm.\" Cycas are gymnosperms and, though palm-like, they are unrelated to true palms, which are actually angiosperms (flowering plants). Species The species name revoluta stems from the Latin word revolut, which means \"rolled back.\" The name refers to the leaflets of the sago palm, which curl under. Common Names Sago Palm, King Sago Palm, Japanese Sago Palm Many common names for this and other cycads include the word “palm” because these plants have a superficial resemblance to palm trees. The term “sago” refers to a type of edible starch that can be extracted from these plants. Sago is used as a food source in Asia, particularly in New Guinea. Most sago is commercially extracted from a type of palm, Metroxylon sagu, which is sometimes called “true sago palm” to distinguish it from this cycad species. Description This evergreen cycad is native to the tropical islands of southern Japan, but it grows well in the subtropics of the United States, particularly in Florida, California, Georgia, and Puerto Rico. Sago palm grows well in full sun or partial shade but exhibits larger leaves in more shaded situations. Slow growing, the sago palm can reach heights of up to 15 feet in 50 years. Leaves are pinnately compound, 4 to 5 feet long, and up to 9 inches wide. The dark-green, stiff leaflets have a linear shape with a shiny upper surface. They are approximately 4 inches long, have revolute or curled under margins, and an acuminate or pointed tip. The trunk of the sago palm is dark brown and thick, and appears shaggy. Plants are either male or female and the reproductive structures are found in the center of the plant. The male organ resembles a large yellow cone that reaches lengths of up to 2 feet. The female organ resembles a yellow furry globe, and it houses many bright orange seeds that are 2 inches in diameter. Figure 1. Female specimen of Cycas revoluta. Credit: Male plants are considered moderately allergenic, but female plants cause little to no allergies. Applications Commercial/Practical Historically, the inner bark of the sago palm was used as a food source in Japan during times of famine. However, sago palm contains a powerful neurotoxin that can cause paralysis or even death if it is not prepared properly. The seeds can also be poisonous to humans and animals if ingested. Today, the dried leaves of this plant are commonly used as accents in floral arrangements. Horticultural This cycad can thrive both indoors and outdoors. Once it becomes established outdoors, sago palm is considered to be drought resistant but not freeze tolerant. In the Florida yard, it is a great accompaniment to other palms and thick grasses. Sago palm also makes a great walkway border, but it should be placed where bare skin will not contact or brush against the sharp, pointed tips of its leaflets. Depending on the available planting space, an important growth trait to consider is that male plants tend to branch out more than do female plants. More importantly, take caution when using this plant as an accent in home landscapes, since it contains a strong neurotoxin that can paralyze or even kill animals or humans who ingest it. In Japan, a bonsai variety of sago palm (Cycas nana) is created by packing sand around the plant's roots and rationing the amount of water it receives. This stunts the palm's growth, giving it a bonsai-like appearance. In Florida, one of the greatest damaging agents to this species is the cycad aulacaspis scale (Aulacaspis yasumatsui). Information on how to manage this insect can be found at the following website: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/in474 . References Borror, D. J. 1988. Dictionary of root words and combining forms (1st ed.). Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company. Coombes, A. 1994. Dictionary of plant names: Botanical names and their common name e", "Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Fanfare for the Common Man Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Fanfare for the Common Man Added on : 14-Apr-2015 Tweet <embed id=\"player\" src=\"http://musicbox365.com/components/com_contushdvideoshare/hdflvplayer/hdplayer.swf\" flashvars=\"id=63&baserefJHDV=http://musicbox365.com/&playlist_auto=false&Preview=http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/fK92hdp6u18/maxresdefault.jpg&showPlaylist=false&embedplayer=true&shareIcon=false&email=false&zoomIcon=false&playlist_autoplay=false\" style=\"width:750px;height:480px\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\"wmode=\"transparent\"></embed> Emerson, Lake & Palmer were progressive rock's first supergroup. Greeted by the rock press and the public as something akin to conquering heroes, they succeeded in broadening the audience for progressive rock from hundreds of thousands into tens of millions of listeners, creating a major radio phenomenon as well. Their flamboyance on record and in the studio echoed the best work of the heavy metal bands of the era, proving that classical rockers could compete for that arena-scale audience. Over and above their own commercial success, the trio also paved the way for the success of such bands as Yes, who would become their chief rivals for much of the 1970s. Keyboardist Keith Emerson planted the seeds of the group in late 1969 when his band the Niceshared a bill at the Fillmore West with King Crimson, and the two first spoke of the possibility of working together. After the Crimson lineup began disintegrating during their first U.S. tour, Lake opted to leave the group. Upon officially teaming in 1970, Emerson and Lake auditioned several drummers before they approached Carl Palmer, not yet 20 years old and already an overpowering talent, as well as a former member of the Crazy World of Arthur Brown and Atomic Rooster. The trio's first rehearsals mostly picked up from the Nice's and King Crimson's respective repertoires, including such well-known numbers as \"Rondo\" and \"21st Century Schizoid Man.\" In August of 1970, ELP played their first show at the Plymouth Guildhall, just ahead of the Isle of Wight Festival in August of 1970, where they astonished more than half a million onlookers with their sound and instrumental prowess. One month later, the group finished their debut album,Emerson, Lake & Palmer, comprised of their strongest early originals and two dazzling classical adaptations filled with rippling piano and synthesizer playing by Emerson along lightning-fast drumming by Palmer, anchored around Lake's bass work. That album was an instant success, rising to the Top Five in England and the Top 20 in America with considerable help from a last-minute addition -- pressed to fill out the running time of the album, the group settled on a composition that Lake had written as a boy, called \"Lucky Man.\" The latter became their debut single and made the Top 50 in America. The trio's stage act rapidly became the stuff of legend,Emerson's organ pyrotechnics -- which dated from his days with the Nice -- getting him compared to Jimi Hendrix. The recording of the second ELP album, Tarkus (1971), tested their cohesiveness while stretching their sound in new directions and dimensions, with a much more complex electronic keyboard sound and a running time on the title track that took up the entire first side. But \"Tarkus\" the composition, despite its difficult birth (at first, Lake didn't resonate very well to the musical textures or time signature that Emerson and Palmer had begun with), ultimately defined the ELP sound as most people understood it: loud and bombastic, somewhat gloomy in its lyrical tone, and boundlessly exultant in its instrumental power. The Tarkus album reached number one in England and the Top Ten in America, and it seemed at this point as though the trio could do little wrong -- after a couple of abortive attempts, they captured a new feature of their concerts, a rock adaptation of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, at a March 21, 1971, concert at Newcastle City Hall, and it, in turn, became", "Highlights of the 2016 Celtic Connections programme | The List Highlights of the 2016 Celtic Connections programme Errors, Robert Plant, Admiral Fallow,Siobhan Wilson and Anne Carrere to perform at annual Glasgow festival Source: The List comments Siobhan Wilson / Credit: Gemma Dagger Celtic Connections , Glasgow’s annual celebration of Scottish and world folk music, returns to the city in the New Year. Launched in 1994, the festival is now in its 13th year, and its 2016 programme will see thousands of performers from across the globe take to the stage in venues across the city. One of the star attractions at the festival is a one-off appearance by Robert Plant – the former Led Zeppelin frontman is performing as part of a tribute to the influential Scottish musician Bert Jansch, who passed away four years ago. Plant takes to the stage alongside former Suede guitarist Bernard Butler and Jansch’s former bandmate Jacqueline Shee (Old Fruitmarket, Sun 31 Jan). Plant calls his debt to the Glasgow-born guitar legend ‘enormous and longstanding’. Piaf: The Show (Theatre Royal, Wed 27 Jan) is another highlight of the 2016 festival. Part of the final weekend’s Showcase Scotland programme, it celebrates the centenary of the iconic French singer, bringing her well-known songs to the stage, including ‘La Vie en Rose’, ‘Milord’ and ‘Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien’. The show is partially based on the Oscar-winning 2007 biopic with Marion Cotillard. In the stage version, which has been performed across three continents, the starring role is played by Anne Carrere. Other tribute nights to keep an eye out for are Edinburgh band Bwani Junction’s performance of Paul Simon’s renowned album Graceland (Old Fruitmarket, Sat 23 Jan, 8pm, £16) and PILGRIMER: A Reimagining of Joni Mitchell’s Hejira (Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Sat 16 Jan). The latter was devised by novelist and poet James Robertson, who’s adapted the singer-songwriter’s classic ’70s album into both Scots and a Scottish setting. The cast includes Julie Fowlis, Dick Gaughan and Grammy-winning guitarist Larry Carlton. Meanwhile, indie rockers Admiral Fallow are set to bring their folky tones to the Mackintosh Church (Fri 15 Jan). The five-piece released their third album Tiny Rewards earlier this year. Their Celtic Connections show Common Ground, sees them premiere a new Steve Forman commission, alongside arrangements of Admiral Fallow rarities by Lau’s Aiden O’Rourke and composer Gareth Williams, with chamber group The Auricle Ensemble. Speaking of 21st-century Scottish stars, Siobhan Wilson is graciously providing her mesmerising sound to the festival along with some friends (St Andrew’s in the Square, Sun 17 Jan) and electronica trio Errors are showcasing their cutting-edge beats at the O2 ABC (Sat 16 Jan). Also, BBC Radio Scotland have teamed up with the festival again, and are kindly putting on free live shows at the CCA. Janice Forsyth (Thu 14 Jan), Vic Galloway (Mon 18 Jan) and Edith Bowman (Wed 13 Jan, Thu 21 Jan, Wed 27 Jan) are among the radio stars hosting these special shows featuring performers and music from across the festival. Tickets will be free and released on Mon 4 Jan on the BBC Shows and Tours website. Plus, if you’re the kind of person that likes to participate rather than sit and watch, the festival is also putting on a range of workshops to satisfy creative souls. With classes on different instruments (from the bodhran to the ukulele), it’s the perfect time to discover a hidden musical talent. Who knows, maybe you’ll be one of the headline acts at next year’s festival. Celtic Connections, various venues, Glasgow, Thu 14 Jan–Sun 31 Jan.", "Madonna's 'Rebel Heart': What The Critics Are Saying | Billboard Madonna's 'Rebel Heart': What The Critics Are Saying Courtesy Photo The cover of Madonna's 2015 album \"Rebel Heart.\" Madonna dropped Rebel Heart, her thirteenth(!) studio album, in most of the world over the weekend. We already gave it three-and-a-half out of five stars , but what is the rest of the critical world saying about it? So far, the review aggregator Metacritic has tracked an average score of 68 out of 100, or, as they say, notching \"generally favorable reviews,\" based on the 15 critics noted so far. Highlights from just a few are below. In a three-and-a-half out of five star review in Rolling Stone, Caryn Ganz writes, \"Rebel Heart is a long, passionate, self-referential meditation on losing love and finding purpose in chilling times. It's also a chance for the Queen of Pop to floss a bit and reflect on how she painstakingly carved a path others have happily twerked down in the years since her 1983 debut.\" In Time , Jamieson Cox opines, \"Given all the turmoil, it's impressive -- and a little surprising -- that the final product is her most consistent album in a decade, and one that renders any hypothetical \"bid for continued relevance\" moot by remaining proudly scattershot. It's an album that places more emphasis on Madonna the person than Madonna the sonic visionary, and it benefits as a result.\" Kitty Empire's 3 out of 5 star review in The Guardian explains, \"The ageism unleashed by Capegate makes you warm to much of Rebel Heart , Madonna's 13th album. The unseemly segments, where Madonna baits and gyrates, can be a hoot. When she acts her age, it is lacklustre and over-enunciated; lived-and-loved stuff trotted out in overblown ballads.\" Entertainment Weekly had two writers hash it out in a back-and-forth. Kyle Anderson wrote, \"I have faith that she'll reveal herself with repeated listens. (Weirdly, for an album mostly designed to move people in a club, it's actually a pretty fascinating headphone trip.) This may be damning it with faint praise, but this is Madonna's best outing since 2000's Music, and that earns Rebel Heart a solid B.\" EW's Adam Markovitz concluded, \"I love that she's as frustrating and ambitious as ever--still difficult, complicated, and hard to pin down. But that's how I'd describe this album, too. If Like a Virgin is her A game, and something rocky but rewarding like Bedtime Stories is B level, then this gets a C+.\" In a three out of four star review for The Los Angeles Times , Randall Roberts shares, \"The difference between pop agitators like Madonna and her lesser offspring is one of determination. \"Rebel Heart,\" like its creator, pushes through the pain and, more often than not, lands solidly and with great grace on its feet.\" The Associated Press writes, \"In perhaps her most complex album, Madonna seems determined to plant a flag for her 30-plus year career, even giving a crash course in Madonna-ology on the self-referential \"Veni, Vidi, Vici,\" featuring Nas, during which she playfully incorporate phrases and titles from past hits. At its best, \"Rebel Heart\" pulsates with a vibrancy that reveals both the sour and the sweet in Madonna's extremely complicated life and leaves no doubt that she still has a lot more to share.\" Elysa Gardner for USA Today says, \"When Madonna sings on the title track of her latest album, Rebel Heart (***1/2 out of four; out March 10), that she has \"outgrown my past and I've shed my skin,\" she is both protesting too much and engaging in understatement. Our most durable pop star has indeed reinvented elements of her look and sound repeatedly over the past 30 years, but Madonna has retained the same essence: that of a woman who champions and demands love, in every sense of that loaded word. No single artist has been more crucial in shaping our modern view of celebrities as people who need people -- and attention.\"", "Different Duck Types With Examples 1. Dabbling Duck “Dabblers” are ducks that tip up in order to feed, rooting through shallow water and mud in search of plants and insects. These ducks will also nibble along the water's surface, and they feed readily on land as well, but they very rarely dive below the water. The most common dabbling duck species is the mallard, but the northern pintail, American wigeon and different teals are also dabblers. More » continue reading below our video 5 Hobbies That Look Good on Your Resume When they all look so different, what makes ducks all the same?. Photo © Dan Pancamo /Flickr/Used With Permission 2. Diving Duck Diving ducks are agile swimmers that dive far beneath the surface of the water in search of food, including fish , insects and aquatic plants. These ducks prefer to stay in the water and can be ungainly and awkward on land, and they have to build up speed to take off from the water's surface. Diving duck species include the scaups, goldeneyes, canvasback and redhead. More » King Eider. Photo © Ron Knight /Flickr/CC by 2.0 3. Eider These types of sea-ducks are found in very northern, Arctic habitats. Eiders are well known for their lush down and its spectacular insulating properties that protect them from the harsh cold, and in the past they have been hunted extensively for those feathers. Fortunately, they are now strongly protected by conservation laws. Eider species include the common, spectacled, Steller’s and king eider. More » Barrow's Goldeneye. Photo © Tom Koerner/USFWS /Flickr/CC by 2.0 4. Goldeneye Aptly named for their brilliant yellow eyes, goldeneye duck species are diving ducks characterized by their big, round heads with an iridescent sheen. They nest in tree holes and have sharp black and white plumage. There are only two goldeneye species, the common and Barrow’s goldeneyes, though buffleheads are sometimes categorized as a type of goldeneye as well. More » Hooded Merganser. Photo Peter Massas /Flickr/CC by-SA 2.0 5. Merganser The most prominent features of these small, slim, streamlined ducks are their narrow, serrated, hooked bills. Mergansers are the only types of ducks that regularly eat a large amount of fish and similar prey, and their bills are specialized to make them keen and ferocious hunters. Species of these ducks include the hooded, common, and red-breasted merganser. More » Wood Duck. Photo © Kathy & sam /Flickr/CC by 2.0 6. Perching Duck Perching ducks have prominent talons on their webbed feet to give them better grips to perch. They can regularly be found perching in trees along wooded waterways and other areas with appropriate trees for nesting, and they may nest dozens of feet above the ground. The Muscovy, pink-eared, wood and mandarin ducks are familiar and popular examples of perching ducks. More » Surf Scoter. Photo © Mike's Birds /Flickr/CC by-SA 2.0 7. Scoter Scoters are bulky sea-ducks with dark plumage and swollen, brightly colored and patterned bills, though their body coloration is relatively plain. These birds can be found in northern regions and along marine habitats, particularly in rocky areas that may seem inhospitable to many birds. The most familiar species include the black, surf, common, white-winged and velvet scoters. More » Long-Tailed Duck. Photo © Kobie Mercury-Clarke /Flickr/CC by 2.0 8. Sea-Duck Sea-ducks are marine birds found in coastal habitats. They can range further inland during the nesting season and migration, however, and vagrant sightings are regularly recorded as well. These bulky birds have special glands to help them tolerate salt water without dehydrating. Sea-duck species include the long-tailed duck, eiders, scoters, goldeneyes and mergansers. More » Ruddy Duck. Photo © David Mitchell /Flickr/CC by 2.0 9. Stifftail The stifftails are aptly named diving ducks with spiky stiff tails which they use as agile rudders while swimming. The tail may also be held angled or vertically as a breeding or territorial display, especially between competing males. These ducks often have colorful bills and compa", "Impatiens Plant | How to Grow Busy Lizzie and Snapweed How to Grow Impatiens Plants Guide to Growing Busy Lizzie, Snapweed, Jewelweed, Touch-me-not Impatiens are a large genus of half hardy annuals or perennials that are normally grown as half hardy annuals in the garden. Impatiens range in height from 30 to 60 cm (1 to 2 feet) and carry flat open flowers of vibrant pink, orange, red, white or purple. They bloom from the end of spring until the first frost of the winter. Some of the common names for Impatiens include Busy Lizzie, Touch me not, Balsam, Patient Lucy, Snapweed, and Lady's slipper. Latin names include Impatiens parviflora, Impatiens balfouri, Impatiens auricoma and Impatiens walleriana. Impatiens glandulifera – Himalayan Balsam, Kiss me on the mountain by Blumenbiene . Impatiens walleriana Busy Lizzie by Wm Jas . Quick Impatiens Growing Guide and Facts Common Names: Impatiens, Busy Lizzie, Jewelweed, Balsam, Snapweed, Touch-me-not. Life Cycle: Half hardy annual. Half hardy perennial commonly grown as a half hardy annual by gardeners. Height: 20 to 78 inches (50 to 200 cm). Native: Northern Hemisphere and tropical regions. Growing Region: Zones 3 to 10. As a perennial in zone 10. Flowers: Spring until first frost. Flower Details: Most colours: common ones include pink, red, orange, white and purple. Shoe shaped spur. Some species have flattened flowers similar to violets. Foliage: Shiny leaves. Greasy feel on the adaxial side of the leaf. Variegated. Sow Outside: Surface. Following last frost. Spacing 8 to 16 inches (20 to 40 cm). Sow Inside: Use vermiculite. Water from below. Keep humid. Germination time: one week to one month. Temperature 75°F (24°C). Two to three months before expected last frost. Transplant outdoors three or four weeks after the last frost; minimum temperature should not drop below 50°F (10°C). Requirements: Shade for best results; partial shade is fine in cool areas. Prepare soil first by mixing in manure. Soil pH 6 to 7. Rich soil. Moist soil. Supply a couple of feeds. Regular watering. Pinch tips of young plants. Propagate: spring or autumn cuttings. Miscellaneous: Impatiens means impatient. The genus gets this name for the way that it disperses their seeds explosively if they are touched. How to Grow Impatiens When planting Busy Lizzie and other Impatiens members in the garden the seed should be sown on the surface following the last frost of spring. Busy Lizzies like to grow in a shaded area of the garden, though is tolerant of sun. Impatiens plants prefer a rich, well manured soil of pH 6 to 7. If you first plan to grow Busy Lizzie and other Impatiens species indoors then the process should be started about 9 or 10 weeks before transplanting out a few weeks after the last frost of spring. Sow the seeds in vermiculite and supply high humidity and a temperature of 21 to 24 degrees (about 50°F). As plants are partial to leaf rot it is important only to water the seedlings from below. The germination time is from one to four weeks. Caring for Busy Lizzie - Impatiens Care Once growing Impatiens should be pinched back to encourage branching. They should be fed a couple of times, and be well watered. If you would like more plants then cuttings can be took in spring or autumn. Alternatively let the plants set seed in situ. If you enjoy the information on this site, then you'll love my book: The GardenersHQ Plant Growing Guide, just $9.99 on Amazon", "41 Years Ago: Willie Nelson Releases 'Red Headed Stranger' REDDIT Columbia Records When Willie Nelson recorded Red Headed Stranger in 1975, his record label thought it was too difficult a listening experience to succeed. But the album — released 41 years ago this month — was a commercial and critical smash, and has gone on to become one of the keystone albums in the history of country music. Nelson had already experienced significant success prior to signing with Columbia Records, and that allowed him to bargain for complete creative control of his work for the label. Nelson conceptualized the themes that would become Red Headed Stranger during a car ride from Colorado to his home in Austin, and recorded a demo of the resulting songs at his ranch. “I started out with the song “Red Headed Stranger” itself, a song that I didn’t write but I used to sing when I was a disc jockey many years ago,” Nelson recalled in 2000. “So, when I had the chance to do an album with CBS, what was almost unheard of in those days was artistic control. I had to stop and think of what I wanted to do. I took the Red Headed Stranger album and thought, “I’ll write a concept album about what happened up until that song started, and then what happened after the end of it.” The new work turned into a dark, thematic album about a man who murders his unfaithful wife and her lover and goes on the run, weaving Nelson’s own compositions with classic songs and bits of narration to create one of country music’s first true concept albums. Hoping to avoid the slick commercial production that had characterized much of his work in Nashville, Nelson recorded his new album at a studio in Garland, Texas, using his own band instead of Nashville session players. He produced the album himself, and the result was a bold step in a strikingly different direction from anything else that was going on in country music at the time. Not only was the new music intellectually challenging, it had nothing in common sonically with the lush, string-laden sound that had lately dominated radio. When he played the album for his new label, they were hesitant to release it. “Well, yeah. They’d never heard anything, probably, that sparse turned in as a session,” Nelson admits with a laugh. “They thought it needed a little … you know, maybe it sounded pretty good as a demo, but I couldn’t be serious about it being a finished product.” But Nelson, citing his deal, insisted that the album be released as recorded, and Columbia reluctantly complied. Released in May of 1975, Red Headed Stranger became a runaway hit, landing at No. 1 on Billboard‘s Top Country Albums chart and eventually selling more than 2 million copies. Nelson’s sparse, mournful recording of Fred Rose’s 1947 standard “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” reached No. 1, and the album’s other single, “Remember Me,” reached No. 2. Critical reception was equally enthusiastic: Texas Monthly called the record “an album so remarkable that it calls for a redefinition of the term ‘country music’ … the world that Nelson has created is so seductive that you want to linger there indefinitely.” Mother Jones said, “Texans have known for 15 years what Red Headed Stranger finally revealed to the world; that Nelson is simply too brilliant a songwriter, interpreter and singer — just too damn universal — to be defined as merely a country artist.” The album launched Nelson into the vanguard of the growing “outlaw” movement in country music and simultaneously made him one of country music’s biggest-selling stars. He would go on to star in a movie based on the album; Red Headed Stranger has also received numerous accolades in the decades since its release. Rolling Stone places Red Headed Stranger at No. 183 on its 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list, and CMT places it at No. 1 on their 40 Greatest Albums in Country Music list. In 2009, the album was adopted into the National Recording Registry , which recognizes work that is “culturally, historically or aesthetically important, and / or informs or reflects life in the United States.” Country Stars", "Mick Fleetwood: 'Rumours is who we are’ - Telegraph Rock and Pop Features Mick Fleetwood: 'Rumours is who we are’ With their 35-year-old album back in the charts, the Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood talks to Neil McCormick about its stormy story and long legacy. Don’t stop… Mick Fleetwood behind the kit in 2009 Photo: REX Follow 'It’s good therapy,” says Mick Fleetwood, settling back to talk about Rumours, an album released 35 years ago that continues to haunt the lives of everyone involved. “There’s still a fascination about it, it’s who we are and what we are, the reason why we made all that music. It forces you to think about yourself, how you’ve developed or undeveloped, screwed up or not, what you learnt from that, and whether you have truly moved on from the hurt, fear and loathing.” Fleetwood Mac ’s classic 1977 album is back in the charts, a reissued expanded edition going straight in at No 3 this week. “It’s this mutant thing, with a life of its own,” says Fleetwood about the enduring appeal of an album that has already sold more than 40 million copies. “It shaped me as a person, because we went through a damage, making that album,” admits the tall, hirsute, elegantly attired 65-year-old drummer. “I know it sounds like, 'Oh my God, when will those people grow up?’ Well, the reality was maybe we didn’t actually ever grow up. But it’s never too late. We’re not finished yet.” In February 1976, the five members of the Anglo-American rock band convened at the Record Plant in Sausalito, California to record a follow-up to the previous year’s four-million-selling Fleetwood Mac album. After eight years of shifting line-ups and stylistic changes, the band formed by Fleetwood with bassist John McVie had achieved new success. But on a personal level, they were in deep trouble. The bassist and his wife, keyboard player and vocalist Christine McVie, were in the throes of divorce, ending nearly eight years of marriage. The other couple in the band, guitarist-vocalist Lindsey Buckingham and vocalist Stevie Nicks, were high-school sweethearts whose intense 10-year relationship was falling apart. HAIM - Don't Save Me on MUZU.TV . Drummer Fleetwood had domestic problems of his own, his marriage to model Jenny Boyd at the end. “It was a poignant moment,” says Fleetwood. “It could have exploded and imploded the band right there. We could have got half-way through and everyone tell everyone to ---- off. Related Articles 05 Feb 2013 “But because we kept going, we emotionally crippled people, we’ve carried this with us ever since.” Rumours is justly celebrated as one of the great break-up albums, conjuring up a bittersweet tension between the strong emotional content of songs like Don’t Stop, Go Your Own Way, Dreams, Songbird and Oh Daddy and the gently rocking, beautifully harmonised, shimmering arrangements. “There’s a duality to the album,” acknowledges Fleetwood. “It sparks all of the personal stuff but I don’t listen to the music differently. I’m really happy that we didn’t overproduce, because we were all of a mindset of being pure. “It’s not full of fluff and, to my perception, it doesn’t sound dated, because there’s no weird echoes or plastic drums. A lot of our contemporaries were doing funny things in the studio that spoils stuff from that period. But Rumours could have been made yesterday.” Stylistically, he says, there was no masterplan, it was just a culmination of the music they all liked, embracing a Laurel Canyon singer-songwriter blend of intimacy and melody with sleek, harmonic Seventies Californian soft rock and an undercurrent of the grittier British blues-rock roots of the long-serving rhythm section. “We knew, in a very organic way, that something was horribly right about what we were doing. We were in charge of our own destiny, and yet our destinies were all falling apart on a personal scale.” Fleetwood claims that recording was straightforward, on a musical level at least. “We made decisions on songs fairly early. The real work was stripping it down to stuff that sounds very simple, and then layerin", "alanis morissete : definition of alanis morissete and synonyms of alanis morissete (English) www.alanis.com Alanis Nadine Morissette (born 1 June 1974) is a Canadian - American singer-songwriter , record producer and actress . She has won 12 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards . Morissette began her career in Canada, and as a teenager recorded two dance-pop albums, Alanis and Now Is the Time , under MCA Records . Her debut album was the rock -influenced Jagged Little Pill , which remains the best-selling debut album by a female artist in the U.S., and the highest selling debut album worldwide, selling 30 million units globally. [1] Her following album, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie , was released in 1998 and was a success as well. Morissette took up producing duties for her subsequent albums, which include Under Rug Swept , So-Called Chaos and Flavors of Entanglement . Morissette has sold more than 40 million albums worldwide. [2] [3] In February 2005, Morissette became a naturalized citizen of the United States while maintaining her Canadian citizenship . [4] Contents 13 External links Early life Alanis Morissette was born in Ottawa , Ontario , Canada , the daughter of Georgia Mary Ann Feuerstein, a Hungarian Jewish -born teacher, and Alan Richard Morissette, a French-Canadian high school principal. [5] Alanis has a twin brother, Wade , and an older brother, Chad. At six, she began playing the piano. In 1984, Morissette wrote her first song, \"Fate Stay with Me\", which she sent to a local folk singer, Lindsay Morgan, who recruited Morissette as her protégé. [6] Morissette released \"Fate Stay with Me\" as a single via a label she founded with Morgan. A limited number of copies were pressed, and it received little airplay. [6] In elementary school she was identified as gifted and attended St. Elizabeth's PGL (program for gifted learners). During her high school years, she attended Immaculata High School and Glebe Collegiate Institute in Ottawa while continuing to pursue a career in the arts. In 1986, she was a cast regular on the CTV / Nickelodeon show, You Can't Do That on Television . In 1987, Morissette competed in the inaugural year of the Rising Star Talent Competition, an amateur contest held in Toronto at the Canadian National Exhibition . At a New York City audition, Morissette landed a spot on Star Search , a U.S. talent competition on which she used the stage name of Alanis Nadine, her first and middle names. Morissette flew to Los Angeles to appear on the show, but lost after one round. In 1988, Morissette signed a publishing deal with MCA Publishing , which helped to fund her record deal with one of its independent subsidiary labels. [7] Music career 1990–1992: Alanis and Now Is the Time MCA Records released Morissette's debut album, Alanis , in Canada only in 1991, and Morissette co-wrote every track on the album with its producer, Leslie Howe . By the time it was released, she had dropped her stage name and was credited simply as Alanis. The dance-pop album went platinum , [8] and its first single, \" Too Hot \", reached the top twenty on the RPM singles chart. Subsequent singles \" Walk Away \" and \" Feel Your Love \" reached the top forty. Morissette's popularity, style of music and appearance, particularly that of her hair, led her to become known as the Debbie Gibson of Canada; [6] comparisons to Tiffany were also common. During the same period, she was a concert opening act for rapper Vanilla Ice . [9] Morissette was nominated for three 1992 Juno Awards : Most Promising Female Vocalist of the Year (which she won), Single of the Year and Best Dance Recording (both for \"Too Hot\"). [10] In 1992, she released her second album, Now Is the Time , a ballad -driven record that featured less glitzy production than Alanis and contained more thoughtful lyrics. [6] Morissette wrote the songs with the album's producer, Leslie Howe, and Serge Côté. She said of the album, \"people could go, 'Boo, hiss, hiss, this girl's like another Tiffany or whatever'. But the way I look at it ... people will like your next album if it", "Plants That Have Bell-Like Flowers | Home Guides | SF Gate Plants That Have Bell-Like Flowers Plants That Have Bell-Like Flowers The aptly named bellflower adds color and beauty to any garden. Bell-shaped flowers typically have wide tubes and flared petal tips that give them their form. Yet the term covers a range of plants -- the width and length of both the tubes and the tips of the blooms may vary. There are numerous examples of bell-shaped flowers, both large and small, that are easy to recognize. Bellflower Bellflower (Campanula), with a genus name based on the Latin word for bell, “campana,” epitomizes its name. Most bellflowers are perennials, though some species are biennials or annuals. The blue, white, pink or lavender flowers rise on stalks from 6 inches to 2 feet tall, on either upright or mounding shapes. Different species of bellflowers grow in different U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones. In shaded gardens in USDA zones 1 through 10b, you can grow Campanula glomerata, while Campanula lactiflora grows in either sun or part shade in USDA zones 5b through 10b. All bellflowers need well-drained soil and watering either once a week in warmer climates or once every few weeks in cooler climates. Foxglove Foxglove flowers have a somewhat longer tube than bellflowers. The flowers grow on tall stalks from clumps of large leaves, ranging from purple to white to a variety of pinks. Common foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) is a biennial that thrives in USDA plant hardiness zones 5a through 10b and can reach 4 feet or taller. It thrives in partial or full shade, but you can grow it if you live in a cool climate. All foxgloves need regular watering once a week, and all are poisonous if ingested. Lily of the Valley and Coral Bells Lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis) and Coral bells (Heuchera) are perennials with dainty, bell-shaped flowers dangling from slender stalks. Both grow best in partial shade, although coral bells can grow in full sun if your climate isn't too hot. Lily of the valley flowers are primarily white, with some pink varieties, and hang to one side of the stalk, flanked by broad, glossy leaves. Coral bell flowers can be white, green, red or pink, but the plant is more prized for its leaves, which have scalloped edges and come in many multihued colors. Lily of the valley grows best in USDA plant hardiness zones 1 through 9b and coral bells in USDA zones 5b through 10b. Fuchsia Grown as annuals in most areas, fuchsia (Fuchsia x hybrida) last through the winter only in USDA plant hardiness zones 10 and 11. Its multicolored flowers are bell-shaped with additional petals above the bells and stamens dangling from the bottom of the bell. Gardeners use shrub fuchsias in garden borders and either upright plants or trailing varieties in containers. Fuchsia do best in part to full shade and need a rich, organic soil that retains moisture." ]

[ "The Premier League returned with bang as Arsenal staged a thrilling fightback to beat Leicester, champions Chelsea suffered a shock defeat against Burnley and Romelu Lukaku marked his Manchester United debut with a brace in their rout of West Ham\nHere’s a look at five things we learned from the opening weekend of the new season:\nProblems mount for Conte\nChelsea 0-3 Burnley HT:\nShots: 5-4\nPass accuracy: 87%-80%\nChances created: 3-4\nRed cards: 1-0\nPossession: 58%-42%\nUnbelievable stuff. 😳 pic.twitter.com/jboa9R5NrB — Squawka Football (@Squawka) August 12, 2017\nThroughout a turbulent close-season, Antonio Conte had grown increasingly fraught as Chelsea failed to deliver his transfer targets, while allowing several players to leave. The Chelsea boss claimed defending the title would be the toughest test of his career and Conte’s worst fears were confirmed in Saturday’s stunning 3-2 home defeat against Burnley. Rocked by Gary Cahill’s early red card, Chelsea crumbled as Burnley scored three times in the first half with hardly any resistence from the lacklustre champions.\nGoals from Alvaro Morata and David Luiz put a flattering gloss on the score, but, with Cesc Fabregas also sent off, Conte’s already depleted squad will be even more under-manned due to suspensions. “We lost our composure. We have to improve a lot on this aspect because there was the rest of the game to try to do our best,” he grumbled.\nPerfectionist Guardiola not satisfied\nAfter Manchester City’s trophyless first season under boss Pep Guardiola, the Spaniard vowed to learn from his failed English exam. Guardiola’s main takeaway from City’s flop last term was his side must be more ruthless in the penalty area, while matching their rivals’ work rate. Saturday’s 2-0 win at Brighton was a step in the right direction, but the City boss warned his players he still isn’t satisfied. Sergio Aguero made the breakthrough after 70 minutes and Lewis Dunk’s own goal doubled City’s advantage five minutes later, yet Guardiola said: “We have to learn to attack better. “Last season we ran a lot but in the boxes we were not good. Hopefully in the future we can be more accurate.”\nManchester United look like title contenders\n4 - Romelu Lukaku is the 4th @ManUtd player to score a brace on his Premier League debut (also Van Nistelrooy, Wilson, Rashford). Presence. pic.twitter.com/ychSlDR6Ox — OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) August 13, 2017\nIt is very early days, but Manchester United’s emphatic 4-0 victory over West Ham United suggested they may be about to mount a first serious title challenge since Alex Ferguson’s retirement in 2013. Jose Mourinho’s side often dominated their opponents last season without being able to make it count, but it was a completely different story at a sun-kissed Old Trafford as a team spearheaded by new striker Romelu Lukaku put West Ham to the sword. Lukaku scored twice, either side of half-time, before late goals from substitute Anthony Martial and Paul Pogba completed United’s most convincing opening-weekend win since a 5-1 demolition of Fulham in August 2006.\nArsenal’s defence is a mess\nPlay\nGoals from substitutes Aaron Ramsey and Olivier Giroud earned Arsenal a thrilling 4-3 win over Leicester City, but there was no glossing over their defensive problems. Leicester’s first and third goals came from simple corner routines, while their second stemmed from a loose pass by Arsenal midfielder Granit Xhaka. Arsenal finished the game with midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain at right-back, right-back Hector Bellerin at left-back and two left-backs – Nacho Monreal and Sead Kolasinac – in central defence. Laurent Koscielny remains suspended for next weekend’s trip to Stoke City and Gabriel is still sidelined, but Shkodran Mustafi and Per Mertesacker could return to give the defence a more conventional – and solid – appearance.\nLiverpool might not miss Coutinho\nThank you for your support today. 🔴 pic.twitter.com/uH5PFfFXW4 — Liverpool FC (@LFC) August 12, 2017\nLiverpool made a frustrating start to the season, denied victory in a 3-3 draw at Watford after Miguel Britos’s stoppage-time leveller for the hosts was allowed to stand despite an apparent offside. At the other end of the pitch, however, Philippe Coutinho was not missed. The Brazil playmaker, absent due to a back injury, is the subject of strong interest from Barcelona, which has been met equally firmly by Liverpool’s owners Fenway Sports Group, who are determined not to sell him. But Sadio Mane, Roberto Firmino and new signing Mohamed Salah all scored and with Adam Lallana still to return from injury and Divock Origi, Daniel Sturridge and Dominic Solanke also at Jurgen Klopp’s disposal, if Coutinho were to leave, Liverpool might not miss him as much as their fans fear." ]

[ "Arsenal's win over Middlesbrough will help Arsene Wenger's team but will mean nothing if they lose against Manchester City in the FA Cup semi-finals on Sunday, according to Sky Sports pundit Gary Neville.\nThe Gunners have faced immense pressure and criticism from fans this season having failed to win away in the Premier League since mid-January but fought hard to beat relegation-threatened Middlesbrough 2-1 on Monday night thanks to goals from Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil.\nHowever, former Manchester United defender Neville believes the victory will mean little in the eyes of those who have been critical of Wenger's side should they get beat at Wembley.\nArsenal celebrate beating Middlesbrough 2-1 at the Riverside Stadium on Monday evening\nGary Neville believes cricitism will return should the Gunners lose in the FA Cup semi-finals\nArsene Wenger and his side have faced pressure after a dismal run on the road this season\n'Tonight was all about preparation for Sunday, Making sure the preparation wasn't about another defeat and the run continuing,' said Neville on Monday Night Football. 'It would have been a really dark week. If they are to win Sunday then the confidence really would rise.\n'If they lose Sunday, I think you can forget about that victory tonight because it will just return back to difficult moments and I think that's where Arsenal are at the moment, they're so finely tuned in terms of one win isn't going to help them.'\nNeville believes a win would allow Wenger to avoid questions over his future but claims a defeat would mean even more pressure to clear up the future of himself and the club's star players.\n'It will be tough again because ultimately people will say \"You're not going to win a trophy\", \"You're not going to finish in the top four\", everything then will come onto Ozil, Sanchez and Wenger,' he added.\nNeville believes questions concerning Wenger's future and criticism will return should the Gunners lose against Manchester City at Wembley\nIf the football's on, it's on Live tables\nFixtures\nScores Premier League\nPremier League\nChampionship\nLeague One\nLeague Two\nScottish Premiership\nScottish Div 1\nScottish Div 2\nScottish Div 3\nLigue 1\nSerie A\nLa Liga\nBundesliga\n'What [winning on] Sunday does is let him concentrate towards the end of the season in terms of winning a trophy, he can almost batter those [contract] questions off.\n'Lose Sunday and I still think those questions will be at the forefront of every single person's mind.'\nJamie Carragher, meanwhile, believes Arsenal's reaction at the full-time whistle - players hugged and high-fived after finally winning again on the road - showed the size and importance of the victory.\n'I think they’ll have been stung by the criticism,' said the former Liverpool man. 'It's difficult to lift yourself, it becomes a dark place the training ground. Everyone comes in, very down, very flat.\n'Arsene Wenger may have thrown the new system in and sometimes it just sparks something in training.\n'I thought it was telling at the end that coming together - there's some big characters there, top players - and it felt like a big win for them to maybe quell that criticism they've had.'", "ARSENAL’S hopes of finishing in the Premier League top four are still alive after a vital victory where Arsene Wenger played three at the back for the first time in 20 years.\nThe 2-1 away win over 19th-placed Middlesbrough saw the Gunners move into sixth spot, just above Everton on goal difference.\nArsenal are still seven points behind fourth-placed Manchester City, but have one game in hand (as does Manchester United).\nHowever, the Gunners have to face Tottenham, United and Everton in their remaining games, while their top-four challengers - Liverpool, City, United and Everton - all have more favourable run-ins.\n“It (the top four) is mathematically still alive,” the Arsenal coach told Sky Sports.\n“We knew we needed to win. Now we have a little break with the FA Cup (they play Manchester City on Sunday in the semi-final) and then we come back again to the league.”\nMesut Ozil’s seventh goal of the season sealed the win after Alexis Sanchez scored Arsenal’s 3000th away goal in English football.\nThat milestone was reached in a game where Wenger played with a three-man defence for the first time since his first season at Arsenal, which was 20 years ago, against Derby in May 1997.\nThe change, which saw Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain play as a right wing-back, came after Arsenal had conceded three goals away from home in their last four Premier League games.\nWenger explained: “It added more stability on the long balls - we knew we’d face a direct game and we have been punished on that.\nTime for our team news - this is how we line up for #MFCvAFC pic.twitter.com/7cZ9eHxeTM — Arsenal FC (@Arsenal) April 17, 2017\n“The opponent had more of the ball that we’re used to - when we lost against West Brom and Crystal Palace we had 70% possession and today we had a bit less.”\nHe added: “We like to dominate the ball, but when the team lacks confidence it’s good to change to a system and do something different.”\nHowever, Martin Keown, who was involved alongside Tony Adams and Steve Bould when Arsenal last played that formation, said it’s not a formation that a team can adjust to immediately.\n“If you want to play with a back three, you have to know the system inside out,” the former Gunner wrote in The Mail.\nIf Wenger is playing 3 at the back it will be for first time since May 97 v Derby. Tony Adams (whatever happened to him) s/o after 13 mins. — Jonny Blain (@jonoblain) April 17, 2017\n“It is not something you can simply adapt to overnight.\n“Even though we had a group of experienced central defenders, the system was initially difficult to pick up. It required walkthroughs every Monday morning in training of scenarios we might face.”\nArsenal managed to claim three points with the new set-up, but Keown explained that it wasn’t without “teething problems”.\n“They had a few teething problems — particularly when it came to Alvaro Negredo’s equaliser,” wrote Keown.\n“After Alexis Sanchez lost the ball high up the pitch, Stewart Downing bombed forward into the space vacated by Nacho Monreal at left wing back.\nArsenal's Chilean striker Alexis Sanchez celebrates scoring. Source: AFP\n“When Downing came in on his left foot, the central defenders should have held their line to catch the forwards offside.\n“Instead, they dropped deep too early and their marking was too loose.\n“There were other issues. Aaron Ramsey and Granit Xhaka did not offer enough protection in front of the back three.\n“If Arsenal play this formation against stronger sides than Middlesbrough then their central midfielders must provide the defensive screen Nemanja Matic and N’Golo Kante give Chelsea.\n“If Ramsey wants to break forward then Sanchez or Mesut Ozil need to fill in for him. One player who benefited from the change of system was Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.\nMiddlesbrough's English midfielder Adam Clayton (L) vies with Arsenal's Swiss midfielder Granit Xhaka. Source: AFP\n“While he could have done more defensively, Oxlade-Chamberlain was more effective going forwards. Playing at wing back forced him to be involved a lot more.\n“I can see Wenger persisting with the system between now and the end of the season. On Monday night (UK time), it was still very much a work in progress.”\nHowever, when asked if this formation would be used going forward, Wenger said: “No, we want to have the ball. But sometimes when a team lacks confidence, just to change the system can help to believe in something different.\nWenger remains tight lipped 0:43\n“I felt we was focused and committed - but you could see that we don’t play with full confidence during some moments in the game. We really wanted to win. In the second half when it opened up we missed the final ball when we could’ve added one or two more. Middlesbrough were dangerous on crosses and set-pieces.\n“It was a competitive game as this was one of their last chances to stay in the league. They gave everything.”\nThe loss leaves Middlesbrough six points shy of safety and without a win in 15 Premier League games.\n3 - Three of Arsenal's last four away league wins have been against the sides currently in the relegation zone. Expectations. — OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) April 17, 2017\n62 - Middlesbrough have conceded more Premier League goals against Arsenal than they have against any other side (62 in 29 games). Leaky. — OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) April 17, 2017\nBut for Arsenal, it will be a welcome confidence boost ahead of an FA Cup semi-final against Manchester City on the weekend.\n“We knew today it didn’t matter how we won, we needed to go out there and get back to the basics. And that’s making sure that our commitment levels are right to play for this football club. It’s a massive honour to play for a team like Arsenal and maybe that had been slipping in the last few weeks. So that was the first thing we needed to get back to tonight,” Oxlade-Chamberlain told Sky Sports.\n“Obviously in recent weeks it has not gone well for us. And to see our fans travel all up the way here on a Monday night, it means everything to us for them to stick by us. It was only right that we could get them three points, so we’d like to thank them. ... We need to keep fighting for them.”\nArsenal have never finished outside the top four under Wenger, but they’ll have to do something remarkable to make it happen this season.\nArsenal's French manager Arsene Wenger. Source: AFP", "Man City and Arsenal battle for Iniesta\nBoth Manchester City and Arsenal are looking to convince Andres Iniesta to move to the Premier League rather than transfer to a Chinese club, AS reports.\nIniesta will leave Barcelona this summer after winning 31 trophies at the club, and Pep Guardiola is eager to bring him to City having worked together at Camp Nou. Similarly, the 33-year-old could link up with former boss Luis Enrique if the Spaniard is appointed at Arsenal.\nLigue 1 giants PSG are also in the race to sign Iniesta, who has spent his entire playing career at Barcelona up until now.\nMan Utd looking to sign Fred this summer\nManchester United are looking to sign Shakhtar Donetsk midfielder Fred after local rivals Man City pulled out of the race, according to the Manchester Evening News .\nThe Brazil international was a target for City in January until Pep Guardiola decided to strengthen his defence instead, bringing in Aymeric Laporte from Athletic Bilbao.\nUnited have contacted Fred's representatives about a summer move, and Jose Mourinho sees the 25-year-old as the perfect addition to his midfield with Michael Carrick retiring and Marouane Fellaini expected to leave.\nMan Utd ready mega Ter Stegen bid\nManchester United are preparing to make a move for Barcelona goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen, Don Balon reports.\nJose Mourinho's side are apparently fearful of losing David de Gea to Real Madrid in the summer and are making contingency plans should their current No.1 head for Spain.\nAnd the Red Devils are reportedly willing to pay as much as €150m for the Barcelona keeper, with star man Lionel Messi apparently worried the Catalans will part with the Germany international for that kind of money.\nMan Utd still want Rose\nTottenham's Danny Rose remains a transfer target for Manchester United, the Evening Standard reports.\nThe England international has struggled for game time since recovering from a serious knee injury, but Jose Mourinho is still keen to sign the full-back.\nAdditionally, it is said that the Portuguese boss is willing to listen to offers for out of favour defenders Matteo Darmian and Luke Shaw ahead of the new season.\nSpurs, meanwhile, have placed Fulham's Ryan Sessegnon high on their own summer wishlist.\nBatshuayi interested in Dortmund talks\nChelsea striker Michy Batshuayi is interested in discussing a summer permanent move to Borussia Dortmund, Goal understands.\nThe Bundesliga's efforts to secure an option to buy on their loan deal were rejected outright in January by Chelsea, but Batshuayi’s nine goals in 14 games have only strengthened Dortmund’s resolve to make a deal happen.\nChelsea will likely wait until after the World Cup to begin talks and could ask for as much as £50 million , as they aim to profit on the growing value of their loan star.\nRead the full story on Goal!\nGazidis wants Arteta to replace Wenger\nArsenal's chief executive Ivan Gazidis believes Mikel Arteta could be the right man to replace Arsene Wenger at Arsenal, Sky Sports claims.\nArteta, a former Gunners captain, has been working alongside Pep Guardiola at Manchester City and has seen his stock as a potential manager rise as a result.\nRaul Sanllehi, head of football operations at the club, is said to prefer former Barcelona coach Luis Enrique, while head of recruitment Sven Mislintat has eyes for Hoffenheim manager Julian Nagelsmann and Schalke's Domenico Tedesco.\n'Man Utd were looking at Germany trio'\nManchester United had identified Mats Hummels, Marco Reus and Ilkay Gundogan as potential transfer targets prior to Sir Alex Ferguson’s departure, claims Rene Meulensteen.\nFerguson was stepped down as United manager on the back of a 13th Premier League title triumph, David Moyes was appointed as his successor and attention shifted elsewhere in the recruitment market.\nThat change in direction led the Red Devils away from three star turns in Germany who were all on the books of Borussia Dortmund at the time.\nRead the full story on Goal!\nCity allow Stones to leave\nManchester City will allow defender John Stones to leave the club this summer, according to The Sun .\nThe England international has not started a Premier League game since January having fallen down the pecking order under Pep Guardiola.\nBoth Arsenal and Liverpool have been touted as potential destinations, with City keen to recoup most of the £47.5 million they spent on the centre-back in 2016.\nMan Utd defender to stay at Villa\nManchester United manager Jose Mourinho is prepared to let Axel Tuanzebe spend another season on loan at Aston Villa, according to The Sun .\nTuanzebe joined Villa on loan in the January transfer window, but has made just five appearances for the Championship club.\nHowever, Mourinho wants Tuanzebe to continue his development at Villa next season, irrespective of whether Steve Bruce’s side clinch promotion to the Premier League.\nFee holding up Rafinha move\nBarcelona's transfer fee demands are holding up a permanent move to Inter for Rafinha, Calciomercato reports.\nThe midfielder has stated he is happy in Milan and would like to stay, but the player's buyout clause of €35 million plus an additional €3m in bonuses is proving an issue for the Serie A club.\nThe Brazilian is said not to feature in Ernesto Valverde's plans for the Blaugrana, but sporting director Robert Fernandez is a keen admirer of the 25-year-old and will not settle for a cut-price deal.\nValverde considering Barca future\nBarcelona manager Ernesto Valverde is considering leaving Camp Nou this summer, according to AS .\nDespite guiding the Blaugrana to the Copa del Rey and managing them to the verge of an unbeaten Liga season, the former Athletic boss could yet walk away at the end of his first season in charge.\nThe 54-year-old is at odds with the Barca board following their quarter-final exit from Champions League and could now walk away.\nMessi tells Neymar: Join Man Utd!\nLionel Messi has told former Barcelona team-mate Neymar to join Manchester United this summer, according to Don Balon .\nNeymar is set to leave Paris Saint-Germain and has two offers - one from United and one from Real Madrid.\nMessi, though, is keen for the Brazil international not to sign for Barca's main rivals and instead has advised him to move to Old Trafford.\nNew Arsenal boss given limited funds\nArsene Wenger's managerial replacement at Arsenal will only have around £50 million to spend on their squad this summer, according to the Daily Telegraph .\nWith Wenger set to step down at the end of the season, the hunt is on for a new coach to take the reins at the Emirates Stadium.\nBut following the club-record arrivals of Alexandre Lacazette and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang over the past 12 months, funds are tight at the Gunners.\nWest Ham make massive Isco bid\nWest Ham have had a huge €90 million offer for Isco accepted by Real Madrid, according to Don Balon .\nThe Spain international has not always been first choice at Santiago Bernabeu this season and could look to leave this summer.\nManchester City have shown an interest but have not offered anywhere near the same amount as the London Stadium outfit.\nMou to give up De Gea for Ronaldo\nJose Mourinho is willing to use David de Gea as part of a swap deal to bring Cristiano Ronaldo to Manchester United, according to Diario Gol .\nMourinho is keen to reunite with Ronaldo, whom he managed at Real Madrid, and is willing to allow De Gea to leave given his goalkeeper's urge to move to Santiago Bernabeu.\nShould Madrid reject that, however, then Paul Pogba could be offered instead of De Gea.\nBale holds Inter talks\nReal Madrid forward Gareth Bale has held talks with Inter regarding a move this summer, according to Don Balon .\nThe Wales international is set to leave Santiago Bernabeu following a frustrating season with injuries and a lack of form.\nAnd the San Siro outfit want to unite Bale with Mauro Icardi as they look to make a splash both domestically and in Europe once again.\nAthletic keen on Llorente reunion\nAthletic Club are keen on bringing Tottenham striker Fernando Llorente back to Spain this summer, according to the Daily Mirror .\nThe Spain international has struggled to establish himself at Spurs given the form of Harry Kane up front.\nAnd Llorente, who left Athletic for Juventus in 2013, would be open to making the move back to Bilbao.\nLeipzig asked for Alexander-Arnold\nRB Leipzig were keen to take Liverpool defender Trent Alexander-Arnold to Germany back in January, according to The Times .\nThe full-back has impressed during his first full season in the first team at Anfield, with some even calling for him to go to the World Cup with England.\nAnd it has been revealed Leipzig asked for the youngster to be included after Liverpool bid to bring Naby Keita to Merseyside at the turn of the year rather than wait until the summer.\nMan City close to Jorginho\nManchester City are closing in on a deal for Napoli's £50 million-rated midfielder Jorginho and are ready to splash the cash on a marquee signing if the possibility presents itself.\nGoal understands City want to make just two signings this summer as they look to build on their Premier League-winning campaign.\nThey are pursuing a deep-lying midfielder - now likely to be Jorginho - and a forward; the same positions they attempted to strengthen in January.\nRead the full story on Goal!\nBayern to block Lewandowski sale\nBayern Munich are set to block Real Madrid's move for striker Robert Lewandowski this summer.\nThe Poland international is keen to move on from the Bundesliga champions this summer.\nAnd Madrd see him as an upgrade on Karim Benzema as they aim to bolster their forward line.\nRead the full story on Goal!\nLiverpool told 'sack of money' won't land Alisson\nLiverpool and Real Madrid have been warned by Roma president James Pallotta that “a sack of money” will not be enough to land in-demand goalkeeper Alisson.\nThe Brazil international has become a much sought-after commodity on the back of his consistent showings for club and country.\nBut Roma have maintained throughout the regular rounds of transfer talk that they have no intention of selling .\nRead the full story on Goal!", "Man Utd ready mega Ter Stegen bid\nManchester United are preparing to make a move for Barcelona goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen, Don Balon reports.\nJose Mourinho's side are apparently fearful of losing David de Gea to Real Madrid in the summer and are making contingency plans should their current No.1 head for Spain.\nAnd the Red Devils are reportedly willing to pay as much as €150m for the Barcelona keeper, with star man Lionel Messi apparently worried the Catalans will part with the Germany international for that kind of money.\nMan Utd still want Rose\nTottenham's Danny Rose remains a transfer target for Manchester United, the Evening Standard reports.\nThe England international has struggled for game time since recovering from a serious knee injury, but Jose Mourinho is still keen to sign the full-back.\nAdditionally, it is said that the Portuguese boss is willing to listen to offers for out of favour defenders Matteo Darmian and Luke Shaw ahead of the new season.\nSpurs, meanwhile, have placed Fulham's Ryan Sessegnon high on their own summer wishlist.\nBatshuayi interested in Dortmund talks\nChelsea striker Michy Batshuayi is interested in discussing a summer permanent move to Borussia Dortmund, Goal understands.\nThe Bundesliga's efforts to secure an option to buy on their loan deal were rejected outright in January by Chelsea, but Batshuayi’s nine goals in 14 games have only strengthened Dortmund’s resolve to make a deal happen.\nChelsea will likely wait until after the World Cup to begin talks and could ask for as much as £50 million , as they aim to profit on the growing value of their loan star.\nRead the full story on Goal!\nGazidis wants Arteta to replace Wenger\nArsenal's chief executive Ivan Gazidis believes Mikel Arteta could be the right man to replace Arsene Wenger at Arsenal, Sky Sports claims.\nArteta, a former Gunners captain, has been working alongside Pep Guardiola at Manchester City and has seen his stock as a potential manager rise as a result.\nRaul Sanllehi, head of football operations at the club, is said to prefer former Barcelona coach Luis Enrique, while head of recruitment Sven Mislintat has eyes for Hoffenheim manager Julian Nagelsmann and Schalke's Domenico Tedesco.\n'Man Utd were looking at Germany trio'\nManchester United had identified Mats Hummels, Marco Reus and Ilkay Gundogan as potential transfer targets prior to Sir Alex Ferguson’s departure, claims Rene Meulensteen.\nFerguson was stepped down as United manager on the back of a 13th Premier League title triumph, David Moyes was appointed as his successor and attention shifted elsewhere in the recruitment market.\nThat change in direction led the Red Devils away from three star turns in Germany who were all on the books of Borussia Dortmund at the time.\nRead the full story on Goal!\nCity allow Stones to leave\nManchester City will allow defender John Stones to leave the club this summer, according to The Sun .\nThe England international has not started a Premier League game since January having fallen down the pecking order under Pep Guardiola.\nBoth Arsenal and Liverpool have been touted as potential destinations, with City keen to recoup most of the £47.5 million they spent on the centre-back in 2016.\nMan Utd defender to stay at Villa\nManchester United manager Jose Mourinho is prepared to let Axel Tuanzebe spend another season on loan at Aston Villa, according to The Sun .\nTuanzebe joined Villa on loan in the January transfer window, but has made just five appearances for the Championship club.\nHowever, Mourinho wants Tuanzebe to continue his development at Villa next season, irrespective of whether Steve Bruce’s side clinch promotion to the Premier League.\nFee holding up Rafinha move\nBarcelona's transfer fee demands are holding up a permanent move to Inter for Rafinha, Calciomercato reports.\nThe midfielder has stated he is happy in Milan and would like to stay, but the player's buyout clause of €35 million plus an additional €3m in bonuses is proving an issue for the Serie A club.\nThe Brazilian is said not to feature in Ernesto Valverde's plans for the Blaugrana, but sporting director Robert Fernandez is a keen admirer of the 25-year-old and will not settle for a cut-price deal.\nValverde considering Barca future\nBarcelona manager Ernesto Valverde is considering leaving Camp Nou this summer, according to AS .\nDespite guiding the Blaugrana to the Copa del Rey and managing them to the verge of an unbeaten Liga season, the former Athletic boss could yet walk away at the end of his first season in charge.\nThe 54-year-old is at odds with the Barca board following their quarter-final exit from Champions League and could now walk away.\nMessi tells Neymar: Join Man Utd!\nLionel Messi has told former Barcelona team-mate Neymar to join Manchester United this summer, according to Don Balon .\nNeymar is set to leave Paris Saint-Germain and has two offers - one from United and one from Real Madrid.\nMessi, though, is keen for the Brazil international not to sign for Barca's main rivals and instead has advised him to move to Old Trafford.\nNew Arsenal boss given limited funds\nArsene Wenger's managerial replacement at Arsenal will only have around £50 million to spend on their squad this summer, according to the Daily Telegraph .\nWith Wenger set to step down at the end of the season, the hunt is on for a new coach to take the reins at the Emirates Stadium.\nBut following the club-record arrivals of Alexandre Lacazette and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang over the past 12 months, funds are tight at the Gunners.\nWest Ham make massive Isco bid\nWest Ham have had a huge €90 million offer for Isco accepted by Real Madrid, according to Don Balon .\nThe Spain international has not always been first choice at Santiago Bernabeu this season and could look to leave this summer.\nManchester City have shown an interest but have not offered anywhere near the same amount as the London Stadium outfit.\nMou to give up De Gea for Ronaldo\nJose Mourinho is willing to use David de Gea as part of a swap deal to bring Cristiano Ronaldo to Manchester United, according to Diario Gol .\nMourinho is keen to reunite with Ronaldo, whom he managed at Real Madrid, and is willing to allow De Gea to leave given his goalkeeper's urge to move to Santiago Bernabeu.\nShould Madrid reject that, however, then Paul Pogba could be offered instead of De Gea.\nBale holds Inter talks\nReal Madrid forward Gareth Bale has held talks with Inter regarding a move this summer, according to Don Balon .\nThe Wales international is set to leave Santiago Bernabeu following a frustrating season with injuries and a lack of form.\nAnd the San Siro outfit want to unite Bale with Mauro Icardi as they look to make a splash both domestically and in Europe once again.\nAthletic keen on Llorente reunion\nAthletic Club are keen on bringing Tottenham striker Fernando Llorente back to Spain this summer, according to the Daily Mirror .\nThe Spain international has struggled to establish himself at Spurs given the form of Harry Kane up front.\nAnd Llorente, who left Athletic for Juventus in 2013, would be open to making the move back to Bilbao.\nLeipzig asked for Alexander-Arnold\nRB Leipzig were keen to take Liverpool defender Trent Alexander-Arnold to Germany back in January, according to The Times .\nThe full-back has impressed during his first full season in the first team at Anfield, with some even calling for him to go to the World Cup with England.\nAnd it has been revealed Leipzig asked for the youngster to be included after Liverpool bid to bring Naby Keita to Merseyside at the turn of the year rather than wait until the summer.\nMan City close to Jorginho\nManchester City are closing in on a deal for Napoli's £50 million-rated midfielder Jorginho and are ready to splash the cash on a marquee signing if the possibility presents itself.\nGoal understands City want to make just two signings this summer as they look to build on their Premier League-winning campaign.\nThey are pursuing a deep-lying midfielder - now likely to be Jorginho - and a forward; the same positions they attempted to strengthen in January.\nRead the full story on Goal!\nBayern to block Lewandowski sale\nBayern Munich are set to block Real Madrid's move for striker Robert Lewandowski this summer.\nThe Poland international is keen to move on from the Bundesliga champions this summer.\nAnd Madrd see him as an upgrade on Karim Benzema as they aim to bolster their forward line.\nRead the full story on Goal!\nLiverpool told 'sack of money' won't land Alisson\nLiverpool and Real Madrid have been warned by Roma president James Pallotta that “a sack of money” will not be enough to land in-demand goalkeeper Alisson.\nThe Brazil international has become a much sought-after commodity on the back of his consistent showings for club and country.\nBut Roma have maintained throughout the regular rounds of transfer talk that they have no intention of selling .\nRead the full story on Goal!" ]

[ "Sidney Lumet" ]

[ "direction of polarization" ]

[ "Il valore della transazione e' di 1,44 miliardi di dollari" ]

[ "Thanks to natural gas, Wyoming's schools have money to burn." ]

[ "a transmission channel" ]

[ "that which burns", "that which purifies", "that which is heard", "no points", "the program in which they are enrolled", "speed at which they expand", "Point and non-point pollution", "a set which is won without dropping a single point", "that which is done by an agent" ]

[ "[There's no good reason (as far as we know at the moment) to think that the Planck length is anything special in that regard](_URL_0_). It's just a unit of measurement. There's no *reasonably accepted / well tested* physical theory as yet that says anything particular happens when you get to the Planck length. If by 'physical sense' you mean our normal physical intuition, that breaks down at scales way larger than the Planck length. Quantum mechanics will be messin' with your physical intuition at e.g. scales of the order of atomic sizes - which are 25 orders of magnitude bigger than the Planck length." ]

[ "It's not a question of particle size, but of smallest meaningful *distinction between two points in space.* Ahoy, matey! Yer not alone in askin', and kind strangers have explained: 1. [ELI5: Why is a Planck length the smallest possible unit of measurement? ](_URL_5_) ^(_33 comments_) 1. [ELI5: What is the Planck Length? ](_URL_1_) ^(_4 comments_) 1. [ELI5: Why can there be no length shorter than the planck length? ](_URL_7_) ^(_20 comments_) 1. [ELI5 Planck Length ](_URL_2_) ^(_16 comments_) 1. [ELI5: Planck length. Why is it the smallest unit of length? Can't you just divide 1.61619926 × 10-35 meters and get a smaller number? ](_URL_4_) ^(_6 comments_) 1. [ELI5: Why is there a minimum possible size? (Planck Length)? ](_URL_0_) ^(_7 comments_) 1. [ELI5:The Planck Length ](_URL_6_) ^(_4 comments_) 1. [ELI5: Why does there have to be a planck length? ](_URL_3_) ^(_3 comments_)", "The Planck length isn't some fundamental indivisible length pixel, it's a unit of length made up from other physical constants. They are constant, so the Planck length is constant.", "Where were you taught there is nothing shorter than the Planck length? Anyway, any given electromagnetic wave can have a wavelength shorter than the Planck length in the right reference frame. Something moving very very close to the speed of light relative to the emitting source could see that. However, nothing is known to exist that would emit a photon with that much energy, as seen in the reference frame of the emitter. It would have be some sort of quantum gravitational system like a charged micro black holes. A black hole with a mass close to the Planck mass would give off radiation with a wavelength around the Planck length.", "The Planck length is just an order of magnitude estimate of where quantum gravity is important. For length scales well below the Planck length, you definitely need quantum gravity, while for length scales above the Planck length, standard general relativity is probably fine.", "We don't really know, but there's no reason to believe that the Planck length is the smallest size something can be. There are many speculations about the significance of the Planck length, but none is proven in any currently accepted theory. It 's generally expected that quantum gravity effects become non-negligible at the energy/distance scale set by the Planck length, and since we have no unified theory, we can't measure or make sense of anything smaller than that length, at least for the time being. So to summarize, we don't know but there's no reason to think so, but we also can't be sure, and we don't know when we'll be able to find out. A very unsatisfying answer.", "> My understanding is photons can't have a wavelength smaller than the Planck length There is, as yet, no evidence that the Planck length has any physical significance. It *might* do, according to some theories of quantum gravity, but then again it might not.", "[The Planck length is not a fundamental pixel size](_URL_0_). It's just a really small length-scale constructed from physical constants, and interactions at that scale require an understanding of quantum gravity.", "> smallest wavelength possible is the planck length This is a common misconception. There's nothing particularly limiting about the Planck length other than it's really tiny. There's no reason to think that it should be the smallest measure of size. For instance, the Planck mass is actually quite large, and masses aren't integer values of it.", "The Planck length is just a length scale computed from three physical constants, it doesn't have inherent physical significance beyond that. It is certainly not a universal pixel size or whatever. Being constants, they do not change over time, so the Planck length will remain the same. The source of that 10^10^26 thing is [here](_URL_0_). What he's says is that > Here Mq (planck mass) is the mass of the smallest black hole for which classical theory is meaningful. Only for masses larger than Mq can we consider the barrier penetration formula to be physically justified So he's not saying the Planck mass is a lower limit on what could happen, just a lower limit on understanding what could happen.", "The Planck length is *not* - necessarily - a minimum length. It's just the length scale where we expect to need brand new physics to describe how things work. Sure, there are some theories in which space *is* discrete, broken up into chunks around the Planck length, but there are others in which it's truly continuous. Until we can test those theories - which would require technology we can't currently imagine, or very sensitive telescopes probing (probably) gravitational waves from the very early Universe - we won't really know for sure.", "What you write is not accurate, though it is probably something you have often heard. We do not know if the Planck length is the minimal distance, or even if there *is* a minimal distance. What we do know is this: We have a classical (i.e., non-quantum) theory of gravity, called general relativity. We do not know how to merge quantum mechanics and general relativity (things like string theory and M-theory and loop quantum gravity are attempts to do just that). However, we can ask what is the distance at which using general relativity without quantum mechanics would no longer make sense; that is what the Planck length is. So above the Planck length, general relativity is okay. At the Planck length and below, we'd need a theory that combines general relativity and quantum mechanics into a quantum theory of gravity. Whether the quantum theory of gravity would imply the existence of a minimal length is not yet known.", "At a temperature of approximately 1.42 x 10^32 degrees Kelvin (aka the [Planck temperature](_URL_0_)), our current models of physics start to break down. You may know about black body radiation, where an object gives off electromagnetic radiation that peaks at a wavelength dependent on its temperature. At the Planck temperature, the wavelength of this radiation would be the Planck length, which is, according to quantum mechanics, the shortest measurable length. If the temperature of an object were to go any higher than the Planck temperature, the wavelength of the emitted radiation would be shorter than the Planck length, which is impossible given our current models. This is one accepted \"absolute hot\" temperature, since we have no idea what could happen physically at a temperature higher than this.", "I mean there's nothing really stopping you. A Planck length is the theoretical shortest length that can be measured. Planck time is the amount of time it takes a photon to cross that distance. Planck's temperature is the temperature a black body has to be to emit photons with wavelength of Planck's length. You could go smaller than the first two and higher than the third, there's nothing stopping you. As far as we know, spacetime is continuous. It's just distances smaller than Planck lengths are impossible to measure even theoretically.", "The Planck length is just given by combining certain physical constants so that the result has the dimensions of length. Specifically, l_P=sqrt( h*G/c^3 ) with h being Planck's constant, G the gravitational constant and c the speed of light. None of h, G and c are widely believed to have changed throughout time, so the Planck length will not have changed either.", "Great question / responses here, but Im gonna threadjack a tad with a similar question. Consider an object giving off extremely high frequencies and approaching you very fast. Could the waves be blueshifted so that they are shorter than the Planck length? And if so, would the thing 'dissapear'?", "You have to remember that [the Planck length isn't a universal pixel size](_URL_0_), rather it's a length scale constructed from physical constants. That link explains how it arises naturally when considering quantum gravity.", "> If the smallest measurable distance in the universe is 1 Planck Length 1x10-35 m We don't know if space is quantised or continuous. Same goes for time. If you're using the Planck length, then the Planck time is the time equivalent. It's the time taken for light to travel the Planck length.", "[The Planck length is not a universal pixel size, it's just a really small length scale constructed from physical constants.](_URL_0_)", "There is nothing in any of our current state-of-the art theories (quantum field theory, or string theory) which implies that the universe has a \"frame rate\" or a smallest meaningful length. Another commenter mentioned the Planck length and the Planck time in this context; currently there is no reason to think that they constitute \"minimum\" lengths in any sense. They are simply the characteristic length and time scales in which quantum effects and gravitational effects are both strong. There is no argument I know of which implies they are minimum measurable amounts.", "No, the Planck length is just a length constructed from physical constants, which are constant. It is smaller than what can be measured. However, from what you're asking it sounds like you have the idea that the universe is fundamentally made of Planck-sized pixels, which isn't the case.", "It is a point of view thing, but it actually makes things shorter *for you*. As seen by this object it doesn't move, so it does not disintegrate, heat up or whatever else. Length contraction is also symmetric: As seen by this object, you are suddenly shorter. You are currently moving at 99.999% the speed of light in the reference frame of some stray cosmic ray. Do you disintegrate? Speed is always relative. It doesn't make sense to talk about a speed without saying relative to what.", "Their Schwarzschild radius is *smaller* than the Planck length. Hence why they are particles and not black holes. The Schwarzschild radius is r = 2GM/c^(2), which in Planck units is simply r in Planck lengths = 2 * (M in Planck masses) but the mass M of fundamental particles is always < < Planck mass.", "I don't know quite which 'concept' you're even talking about. [Planck units](_URL_0_) are a set of dimensionless units, used because the eliminate various constants from equations and make it all simpler. (I'm partial to Hartree [atomic units](_URL_1_), myself) There aren't any generally accepted theories in physics that attribute any particular importance to the Planck length or any other any such unit. There are some _speculative_ theories along those lines. I know there are a _lot_ of bogus claims about Planck units being made, and these claims don't tend to even match that of those speculative theories. There really isn't much here to \"debunk\".", "Units are arbitrary. Every value that has units is arbitrary, and the numbers themselves are used in order to relate the constant's value to our unit system. An example would be the planck length, whose value is roughly 1.616*10^-35 meters. In another unit system, say an alien's system even, the numerical value would be different. The actual length itself would be identical, and a simple conversion from their units to ours would prove that. Is physics different if we measure the planck length in miles or feet, instead of meters? It's not, but the numerical values would look different. It's all about our arbitrary units.", "There is no evidence that space is discrete. Planck length is merely the length at which you can no longer make distinct measurements.", "The way it is defined is the unique way (up to a constant factor) to combine h,G and c to get something with the units of time. It **is** also equivalent to the time it takes light to travel a planck length. h is not the Planck length, it's the Planck constant (and it has units of angular momentum) - very different! If you look at the Wikipedia for Planck length, you'll find it = sqrt(hG/c^3 ).", "The Planck time is the time it would take a photon traveling at the speed of light to cross a distance equal to the Planck length, which is 5.39 × 10\\^-44 seconds. It is **NOT** the smallest possible unit of time, but it is the smallest *meaningful* amount of time according to our current understanding of physics. Planck time, and indeed Planck units in general, don't have any special significance. Planck units are just units that normalize to 1 when expressed in terms of 5 physical constants of the universe. We define the second as 9,192,631,770 cycles of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of caesium-133. It's arbitrary. We could define the second any way we want.", "No, it's just a length constructed from physical constants. It is **not** the fundamental distance. The universe is not divided into a grid of planck length cubes.", "The simple answer is that you can use the basic constants of nature - G, hbar, and c - to construct any sort of quantity, and slap the name Planck in front of it. Planck length, Planck time, Planck density, and so on. The physical meaning of the Planck power is that in every Planck time, the Planck energy is emitted, so an object emitting those sorts of energies has to be described by quantum gravity.", "The Planck length is not a universal pixel size or some kind of minimum length scale, it's just a really small length constructed from physical constants, that is roughly the length-scale at which quantum gravity effects are relevant. Depending on how you phrase your question (it is currently equivalent to \"what if you cut a meter in half?\" the answer ranges from nothing to creating a black hole. _URL_0_", "No one knows the answer to this question. The Planck length just represents the scale at which our current models break down, the scale at which a theory that combines gravity and quantum mechanics will be needed. What the new models that work at that scale will tell us about physics at that scale or smaller is an open question.", "The Planck length is not an exact measure. It is just an estimation of the *order of magnitude* of the length scale in which quantum gravity effects are expected to be important. Its value even changes depending of the normalization (using 4πG=1 instead of G=1 leads to a different value of the Planck units). Physicists say that our current laws of physics break down around this length scale because we don't yet have a single accepted theory of quantum gravity. All our current theories assume that spacetime is continuous (that there is not a minimum length). Anyways, a gravitational point singularity is not special in regards to having zero volume. An electron is, as far as we know, also a point particle (in the sense that it has no interior structure), and all experiments to this date have confirmed this with big accuracy. It's of course possible that electrons (or singularities) have a nonzero volume, but to the date no experimental data suggests that this may be the case." ]

[ "He hated that." ]

[ "He loved being a salesman.", "He only came close to real trouble once.", "He took off his jacket as he put everything else on.", "He took everything off and hopped in the bath.", "He was hated by the country.", "He took his cloak off and placed it on the floor.", "He smiled once he recovered.", "He took his skis off and is resting.", "He's a real jerk.", "He hates criminology.", "He is a real thing.", "He hated fighting.", "He hates you?", "He hates games", "He is selling fruit.", "He took the elevator.", "he sells yogurt", "He hated Hamilton.", "He took coffee.", "He is selling newspapers.", "He is not a real veterinarian, but he will remove a bullet.", "He was hated by Tommy.", "He said he took her the telegram.", "He took breaths.", "He is selling them.", "He hated it if it tasted good.", "He took hold of the item.", "He sells hats.", "He hated his flowers.", "He took nothing with him.", "He hated living in Washington.", "He was selling computers." ]

[ "(CNN) -- Scientists say they \"serendipitously\" discovered that a drug used to treat a type of cancer quickly reversed Alzheimer's disease in mice. \"It's really exciting,\" said Maria Carrillo, senior director for medical and scientific relations for the Alzheimer's Association. \"They saw very positive and robust behavior effects in the mice.\" In the study, researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine gave mice mega-doses of bexarotene, a drug used to treat a type of skin cancer called cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Within 72 hours, the mice showed dramatic improvements in memory and more than 50% of amyloid plaque -- a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease -- had been removed from the brain. The study was published Thursday in the journal Science. Gary Landreth, the lead researcher at Case Western, cautioned that even though his results were impressive in mice, it may turn out not to work in people. \"I want to say as loudly and clearly as possible that this was a study in mice, not in humans,\" he said. \"We've fixed Alzheimer's in mice lots of times, so we need to move forward expeditiously but cautiously.\" Mice -- and humans -- with Alzheimer's have high levels of a substance called amyloid beta in their brain. Pathology tests on the mice showed bexarotene lowered the levels of amyloid beta and raised the levels of apolipoprotein E, which helps keep amyloid beta levels low. Landreth said he hopes to try the drug out in healthy humans within two months, to see if it has the same effect. Those participating in the trial would be given the standard dose that cancer patients are usually given. Researchers tested the memories of mice with Alzheimer's both before and after giving them bexarotene. For example, the Alzheimer's mice walked right into a cage where they'd previously been given a painful electrical shock, but after treatment with bexarotene, the mice remembered the shock and refused to enter the cage. In another test, the scientists put tissue paper in a cage. Normal mice instinctively use tissues in their cage to make a nest, but mice with Alzheimer's can't figure out what to do with the tissues. After treatment with the drug, the Alzheimer's mice made a nest with the paper. Carrillo said one of the major advantages of bexarotene is that it's already been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in humans, which means the researchers can move into human trials sooner than if it were a completely new drug. The Alzheimer's Association is funding Case Western's next phase of research, which will involve using bexarotene at the levels used on cancer patients, Landreth said. Since the drug does have some side effects -- it can increase cholesterol, for example -- he hopes to use it in even lower levels as the study goes on. Landreth said his lab had been working on other drugs for Alzheimer's for 10 years when a graduate student, Paige Cramer, decided to try bexarotene, which works on a receptor involved in amyloid beta clearance. Some other drugs that worked in mice were too toxic to use in humans. \"We're really lucky that bexarotene is a great drug with an acceptable safety profile,\" he said. \"This doesn't happen very many times in life'\" CNN's William Hudson contributed to this report." ]

[ "The eating habits of a pregnant mother may influence her unborn child's chances of developing Alzheimer's later in life, according to new research. Scientists at the University of Southampton found that the offspring of mice who were fed a high-fat diet were more likely to experience impaired blood flow in the brain, a symptom that is linked to the disease. A high fat diet meant that the offspring were less able to rid themselves of harmful sticky beta amyloid proteins, the accumulation of which is a key feature of Alzheimer's. The new research suggests that eating fatty foods while pregnant can lead to an increased chance of Alzheimer's disease afflicting the unborn child in later life . As the study was originally performed on mice, it will need much more work to make a fuller picture of how diet effects unborn children, researchers say. However, the researchers believe that they are close to developing important theories on the implications of diet on children in the womb and their future health. Lead scientist Dr Cheryl Hawkes, from the University of Southampton, said: 'Our preliminary findings suggest that mothers' diets during pregnancy may have long-term effects on their children's brains and vascular health. 'We still need to do more work to understand how our findings translate to humans, but we have known for some time that protecting mothers' health during pregnancy can help lower the risk of health problems for their children. 'Our next step will be to investigate how our findings could relate to Alzheimer's disease in people. 'We hope these results could provide a new lead for research to understand how to prevent the disease.' Research found that the more fatty foods a person eats the more likely it is that there will be a build up of sticky amyloid proteins, a common biological feature associated with Alzheimer's . The research was presented at the Alzheimer's Research UK conference taking place in Oxford this week. Dr Eric Karran, director of research at the charity, which funded the study, said: 'It's important to remember that this research is in mice, but these results add to existing evidence suggesting that the risk of Alzheimer's disease in later life is affected by our health earlier in life. 'This study goes one step further by suggesting that what happens in the womb may also be important. 'We're pleased to have funded this research, which has shed new light on the complex picture of Alzheimer's risk. 'Alzheimer's is a complicated disease and it's likely that our risk is affected by a number of different genetic and environmental factors. 'Research to understand these factors can help equip us to take steps to prevent the disease, but in the meantime, evidence suggests we can lower our risk by eating a healthy, balanced diet, doing regular exercise, not smoking and keeping our blood pressure and weight in check.'", "A natural drug found in the soil of Easter Island could help people live longer and improve their memory in old age, scientists claim. In tests in mice, the rapamycin drug halted the decline in brain function as the rodents aged, and offered hope that it could also treat depression. Now scientists are planning to trial the 'holy grail of anti-ageing' in pet dogs, which they say will provide a more realistic test environment to predict how it would work on humans. Scientists at the University of Washington in Seattle are planning to trial the drug in pet dogs, which they say will provide a more realistic test environment to predict how it would work on humans . The drug, rapamycin, is a bacterial by-product discovered in the shadows of the island's famous statues and is named after Rapa Nui, the Polynesian name for Easter Island. It is already used in transplant patients to prevent organ rejection and several years ago, scientists in the journal Neuroscience, said it can improve learning and help treat cognitive decline. In mice, it has been shown to extend the lives of mice by 13 per cent in females and nine per cent in males. Due to the high costs, the compound's effect on lifespan has not yet been tested in people, according to a report by Erika Check Hayden in Nature. A natural drug found in the soil of Easter Island (pictured) could help people live longer and improve their memory in old age, scientists claim . It comes with some major risks, however. For instance, the compound suppresses the immune system and makes patients vulnerable to any viruses and bacteria. Rapamycin is a bacterial by-product discovered in the shadows of the island's famous statues. It is named after Rapa Nui, the Polynesian name for Easter Island, which sits isolated in the Pacific ocean - 2000 miles from anywhere. It is already used in transplant patients to prevent organ rejection and scientists say it can improve learning and help treat cognitive decline. It could even treat conditions like Alzheimer's, they believe. However, it comes with some serious side effects. For instance, the compound suppresses the immune system and makes patients vulnerable to any viruses and bacteria. The existing version of the drug also increases the risk of cancer and would need to be modified before using in human trials. The existing version of the drug also increases the risk of cancer and would need to be modified before using in human trials. However, researchers believe further research will lead them to similar - but less harmful - anti-therapies. 'Any compound has side effects of some sort; the question is what kind of side effects one can live with,' says Randy Strong, a gerontologist at the Barshop Institute told Nature. Matthew Kaeberlein and Daniel Promislow at the University of Washington in Seattle propose to give low doses of rapamycin to dogs. The researchers today invited experts in canine health and the biology to a meeting to discuss how to structure such a trial. An initial trial would involve about 30 dogs, half of which would receive the drug. They hope to test the drug in large dogs that typically live for eight to ten years, and will start giving rapamycin to the animals aged six to nine. According to Nature, the trial could be completed in as little as three years, but researchers will know within months whether rapamycin proves effective. Due to the high costs, the compound's effect on lifespan has not yet been tested in people. However, scientists hope it will allow people to live longer, with a better quality of life . Rapamycin is a bacterial by-product discovered in the shadows of Easter Island's famous statues. It is named after Rapa Nui, the Polynesian name for Easter Island .", "Manchester United are dealing with a mice infestation at Old Trafford. A hygiene report, seen by Sportsmail, reveals United are working with pest-control contractors to sort out problems with rodents in the North and South stands. And it is understood that the vermin problem has spread to other parts of the ground, with rodents even spotted in staff offices. VIDEO Scroll down to watch MOUSECHESTER DERBY: Mouse on the pitch at Old Trafford . Manchester United have an infestation of mice Old Trafford and have called in pest control . The rodents have been reported in the North and South stands of the ground . Mice, one pictured here at Old Trafford in November 2013 vs Arsenal, have even been spotted in staff offices . In 2006, Burton Albion players (left) complained after their FA Cup defeat at United that mice were on the pitch . United won the match 5-0 but the rodents were evident on the hallowed Old Trafford turf during the game . Mice were also seen during United's 3-0 Premier League win against West Ham in August 2010 . On the back of the news that there is a mouse infestation at Old Trafford, here's our Rodent squad... Goalkeeper: Andy Nibble . Defence: Razvan Rat, David Lu-cheese, Mouse Mats Hummels, Thomas Vermin-aelen, Ashley Hole . Midfield: Vasyl Rats, Mickey Mouse Thomas, Rat Nevin, Edam Hazard, Mathieu FlaMini-Mouse, Curtis Woodmouse . Strikers: Lionel Mousey, Kevin 'Mighty Mouse' Keegan, Roy Rat Race . Manager: Giovanni Trapattoni . ‘They’re a nightmare and they are struggling to get rid of them,’ a source said. The problem is thought to be linked to the famous stadium’s canalside location. In 2012, a similar report identified issues with mice in the staff canteen at the Stretford End while in 2010 a mouse was pictured scurrying over the pitch during United’s victory over West Ham. Six years earlier, Burton players complained that there were mice all over the pitch during their FA Cup clash with United. The hygiene report, carried out last year, tells staff to ‘continue to act on the recommendations of the pest-control contractor in connection with the mice activity’. It also advises them to make sure no food or waste is left out. United say they carry out weekly checks and implement ‘immediate and appropriate action’ if mice are spotted. A club spokesperson said: ‘Manchester United implements a robust pest-control system throughout Old Trafford. As the report acknowledges, weekly checks are made in all catering areas and stringent measures are taken to ensure high levels of hygiene and cleanliness wherever food is stored, prepared and served. If incidences of this nature do occur at the stadium, immediate and appropriate action will be taken.’ United's last match at Old Trafford saw them fall 1-0 to Southampton due to a Dusan Tadic strike . The midfield playmaker took his shirt off in celebration after his second-half strike at Old Trafford . Sportsmail has also obtained the latest two hygiene reports from each Premier League ground in which a number of issues are reported, although most clubs were given top marks. Mould was found in ice machines at Aston Villa and Swansea while Villa were advised that they did not have enough female stewards working on matchdays and told to keep an eye out for female fans smoking in the Holte End toilets. Both reports, however, gave the West Midlands club a 5/5 rating. At Anfield, inspectors found probe thermometers — used to check the temperatures of pies — were not being cleaned effectively between use and Liverpool were told to provide wipes. Arsenal were told that some concessions staff at the Emirates Stadium were not changing gloves as often as they should, while at Leicester inspectors found droppings in the walk-in chiller. The club was told to remove them and disinfect the floor and the latest report gave them a clean bill of health and a 5/5 rating. United's next match at home is against Leicester City in the Premier League on January 31 . Kevin Keegan was nicknamed 'Mighty Mouse' at Hamburg during his three years at the club between 1977-80 . Stoke were found to be using the same vacuum packer for raw and cooked foods at the Britannia Stadium. The Potteries club were warned about cross-contamination. West Brom were also informed of the same problem. At Crystal Palace, inspectors said an ill-fitting kitchen door could allow pests inside and asked the club to fix it. At Tottenham, a 2012 report said inspectors found paintwork in a kitchen to be in a ‘poor condition’ while ventilation grills were in need of more regular cleaning. But the most recent report, in 2014, gave Spurs a clean bill of health. Other than a broken oven door and slight damage to a wall, there were no issues at Hull. There were very good standards in place at all other Premier League clubs. ARSENAL: Some catering staff were spotted not changing gloves as often as they should in a 2013 report. Latest Rating - 5/5 . ASTON VILLA: In a late 2012 report Villa were picked up on damaged chopping boards and the use of foil being used to keep food hot which can lead to contamination. Cleaning in kiosks was 'poor' while a 'high levels of mould' was found at the back of ice machines in a number of the bars. The club were also asked to investigate reports female fans were smoking in the Holte End toilets. Despite the above, Villa were given a 5/5 rating and the club descried the issues as 'minor'. Latest Rating - 5/5 . BURNLEY: Report unavailable. Latest Rating - 4/5 . CHELSEA: No issues and 'very good standards'. Latest Rating - 5/5 . CRYSTAL PALACE: Damage to the ceiling in the main kitchen, along with peeling paint was observed in 2014 while inspectors said an ill-fitting door could allow pests inside and asked the club to fix it. Latest Rating - 5/5 . EVERTON: No issues, very good standards in place. Latest Rating - 5/5 . HULL CITY: Other than a broken oven door and slight damage to a wall, no issues. Latest Rating - 5/5 . LEICESTER CITY: Old droppings noted in the walk-in chiller in 2013 but overall very good standards recorded. Latest Rating - 5/5 . LIVERPOOL: Some staff noted wearing jewellery while a probe thermometer was not being cleaned effectively between use during 2014 inspection. Latest Rating - 5/5 . MANCHESTER CITY: No issues with 'overall good standards' observed. Latest Rating - 5/5 . MANCHESTER UNITED: Aside from the mice activity, damaged floor covering was observed in the Red Cafe along with food debris on a trolley in the walk-in fridge in a 2014 visit. Raw meat was being stored on top of wraps in the freezer of the staff restaurant while the floor of the Trafford/Stretford Kitchen was noted to be greasy and slippery. Latest Rating - 4/5 . NEWCASTLE UNITED: Good standards observed. Latest Rating 5/5 . QUEENS PARK RANGERS: Premises deemed 'satisfactory' in July 2013 with suggested works at a previous visit carried out. Latest Rating - 5/5 . SUNDERLAND: No issues recorded. Latest Rating - 5/5 . SOUTHAMPTON: Ahead of a planned refurbishment of a kitchen inspectors found no major issues in a 2014 visit. Latest Rating - 5/5 . STOKE CITY: In 2012, inspectors found a dirty vacuum packer. Latest Rating - 5/5 . SWANSEA CITY: In 2013 inspectors found issues with expiry dates of cheese, signs of internal mould growth in an ice machine on a visit to South Wales. They also found two hot water taps were not working and raised concerns over the frequency of hand washing among staff. Chemical dispenser pumps were located over a food washing sink which caused a chemical contamination risk. Dirty door handles were also observed. Latest Rating - 5/5 . TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR: In 2012, inspectors found paintwork in the North Production Kitchen to be in a 'poor condition' while ventilation grills in the Steve Perryman Kitchen were in need of more regular cleaning. The most recent report, in 2014, gave Spurs a clean bill of health. Latest Rating - 5/5 . WEST BROMWICH ALBION: In 2013, a vacuum packing machine was found to be used for raw and cooked foods creating a cross-contamination risk. The Black Country club was told to buy another one. Latest Rating - 5/5 . WEST HAM UNITED: No issues were reported. Club standards deemed 'excellent'. Latest Rating - 5/5 .", "Cutting back on fry ups could cut your risk of dementia, according to new research. A ‘compelling’ study has linked compounds found in fried meat and eggs with one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease. Bacon is particularly problematic and the suspect chemicals are also found in many cakes, biscuits and pastries. Warning: Frying bacon and eggs causes fat and sugars to react in a way that could be gravely damaging . The researchers said that reducing intake could help prevent the crippling condition – and may even help restore memory that has been lost. British experts said that with drug cures for Alzheimer’s still many years away, attempts to prevent the disease are of extreme importance. Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia affect some 800,000 Britons and the number is predicted to double in a generation as the population ages. Existing medicines are of limited use and several highly-promising pills and potions have failed to live up to their promise. The research, from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, focused on compounds called advanced glycation end products, or AGEs. They are formed when fat, protein and sugar react on being heated and are found in particularly high levels in bacon, sausages, pizzas and burgers. Frying and grilling is particularly bad, while boiling does not lead to them being made. Alternative: Scientists advise people to poach their eggs instead. They insist we do not have to turn to raw food . Recommended: Carrots and boiled brown rice are also healthy options better for our brains, the study found . The researchers tracked the progress of a group of mice fed food containing levels of AGEs proportional to those in a Western diet and another group fed half the amount of the compound. Their calorie intake was the same but only the mice on the AGE-rich diet suffered problems with memory, learning and co-ordination as they get older. They also made less of an anti-ageing protein and their brains contained beta-amyloid, a sticky protein considered a hallmark of Alzheimer’s. Results of experiments on people were similarly striking. Tests on healthy pensioners showed that only those who had high amounts of AGEs they had in their diet became more forgetful over the coming months. Steps: Professors accept this is not a cure but a small step as they move towards developing drugs . More work is needed but the researchers said cutting back on the compounds might help improve mental sharpness and ‘combat the epidemic’ of Alzheimer’s disease. Diabetes might also be helped, the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports. Researcher Professor Helen Vlassara, who also wants to test a drug that mops up excess AGES, advises that people steam and boil food rather than grill or fry it. She suggests that fans of a fried breakfast ditch the bacon all together and poach their eggs. The professor said: ‘One should sue some inventiveness. One does not have to eat raw or tasteless food.’ Tom Dening, professor of dementia research at Nottingham University, said that the studies needed to prove that cutting back on AGEs helps prevent Alzheimer’s would be lengthy. He said: ‘In the meantime, crunch those carrots and reach for the brown rice.’ Professor Derek Hill, of University College London, said: ‘These results are compelling.  Because cures for Alzheimer’s disease remain a distant hope, efforts to prevent it are extremely important.’ Professor Simon Lovestone, of Oxford University, said that the solution will not be as simple as cutting back on one type of food and eating more of another. Instead, he hopes that learning more about what goes wrong in the body and brain will lead to new drugs. Dr Simon Ridley, of Alzheimer’s Research UK, said: ‘This research is at an early stage, and continued investment in research is crucial to understand the significance of results like this. ‘The diseases that cause dementia are complex, and our risk of the condition is likely to be affected by a number of genetic and environmental factors that are not yet fully understood. ‘In the meantime, the best evidence suggests that a balanced diet can help lower the risk of Alzheimer’s, as part of a healthy lifestyle that includes regular exercise, not smoking, and keeping blood pressure and weight in check.’", "By . Sarah Griffiths . Mothers exposed to low levels of lead are more likely to have obese children – and baby boys are the most affected, according to a new study. The effects of lead pollution on the brain and nervous system are already well known. And now researchers at the University of Michigan have found the first link between the metal and weight gain in future generations. Mothers exposed to low levels of lead are more likely to have obese children - and boys are the most affected . There is no safe level of lead for human health, doctors warned last month. Experts are now moving to lower the blood lead level thresholds previously considered safe, in response to international health authorities debating the health effects of low level lead exposure. A report by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) in Australia recommended that blood lead levels above 5 micrograms per decilitre be the indicator used to determine unusual exposure to lead. In 2009, the NHMRC suggested a blood lead level of 10 micrograms per decilitre or higher warranted investigation. The report said that as it was not possible to tell whether low level exposure had meaningful adverse health effects, there is no level that should be considered safe. In an experiment, female mice were exposed to low doses of lead and their offspring were examined and found to have put on weight. Male mice saw an eight to 10 per cent increase in weight. ‘The data supports the obesogen hypothesis that toxicant exposures in the womb contribute to the higher rate of obesity,’ said Dana Dolinoy, Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the university. ‘There are certain chemicals that are considered the hallmarks of the obesity epidemic and lead has not been one of them.’ Research Fellow Christopher Faulk added: ‘To see that the level I and others have considered very low has such statistical significance in this study is alarming. ‘There is no minimum safe level for lead. Our research really supports this.’ Lead was once common in paints and petrol until it was banned, but still exists in older homes and in air, water, soil, food and some consumer products. Baby boomers and older adults were once exposed to lead at much higher levels of exposure than today, which are closer to the lower dosage examined in the study. Previous research has shown that lead exposure decreases foetal and early childhood growth in human infants and causes obesity in later life. The new study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, looked at how what a mother ingests, even before pregnancy, impacts her offspring. Experts believe at exposure to chemicals is most serious at conception. In the experiment, female mice were given drinking water that was contaminated with lead two weeks before mating, as well as throughout pregnancy and nursing. Research Fellow Christopher Faulk said: 'There is no minimum safe level for lead. Our research really supports this.' Lead was once common in paints, toys (pictured) and petrol until it was banned, but still exists in older homes and in air, water, soil, food and some consumer products . Their litters were measured at three, six and nine months for energy expenditure, spontaneous activity, food intake and body weight. At nine months they were tested for glucose tolerance. The groups of mice were exposed to lead at 2.1 parts per million (ppm), 16ppm or 32ppm, alongside another group that had no exposure to lead. The study found that from birth, male mice in the two highest exposure groups outweighed the controls going into adulthood and an increase in body fat at all dosages showed up in males at three months. Both sexes exposed to the highest dose ate more than the control group, with males eating more at six months and female food consumption increasing at 9 months. Exposed males showed impaired insulin levels at 9 months and both sexes showed the expected decline in oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide production as they aged. The female mice exposed to lead had higher energy expenditure at three months and the exposed males had lower energy expenditure at nine months.", "By . Emily Davies . PUBLISHED: . 22:34 EST, 18 December 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 05:57 EST, 19 December 2013 . Tony Booth, the actor and father of Cherie Blair has been battling Alzheimer’s disease for nearly a decade, his wife revealed last night. Mr Booth was diagnosed with dementia in 2004 and his fourth wife Stephanie said she is struggling to care for him as his condition worsens. It became clear Mr Booth was suffering from Alzheimer’s when he became  forgetful and suffered short-term memory loss. Tony Booth is being cared for by wife Stephanie (left) who says Cherie (right) is a 'constant source of support' Illness: Mr Booth was diagnosed in 2004 and wife Stephanie said she is struggling to care for him . The effects of the condition made it impossible for Mr Booth, who played ‘Scouse Git’ Mike Rawlins in the 1960’s and 1970’s sit-com Till Death Do Us Part, to learn scripts, Mrs Booth said. She wrote in the Irish Times: ‘We are at the stage where he cannot look after himself. Tony’s forgetfulness is now the greatest threat to his safety. ‘There are dark times when I feel I can no longer cope. It is hard to repeat the same answer again and again as if each time were the first response to the question.’ ‘Tony is leaving me and I will not get him back. Hopefully, we are still some way off Tony completely retreating into the hinterland of his mind. Sometimes I wonder if reaching that final stage might not actually be a blessing for him. ‘He is aware of what is happening and can become very frustrated. These are the hardest times for me.’ Memory: It was clear Mr Booth (pictured left with Cherie) has Alzheimer's when he became forgetful . Mrs Blair, the QC wife of former Prime Minister Tony Blair, travels from her London home to West Yorkshire at least one day a week to spend the night with her 82-year-old father. She is Mr Booth’s daughter from his first marriage to Gale Howard. In 1998, he married Mrs Booth, who used to be a regular columnist for the Irish Times. Mrs Booth described Mrs Blair as a ‘constant source of support’ and added: ‘She looks after her dad regularly, so I can have a break.’ Mr Booth was also known for featuring in the L-Shaped Room in 1962 and more recently for his role in The Contender in 2000. The news of his illness comes one week after the G8 summit in London where David Cameron pledged to lead a ‘global fightback’ against dementia. He promised to double funding of research into dementia by 2025 in order to tackle it as HIV and AIDS had been in previous years. He said dementia ‘steals lives’ and ‘wrecks families’.", "(CNN) -- If you're a brown tree snake, those dead rodents that will soon be falling from the sky over Guam's Andersen Air Force Base could be your last meal. That's because the U.S. Department of Agriculture is planning to pack each one with acetaminophen, the generic equivalent of Tylenol, which can kill a snake in 72 hours. The drug-laced mice will be taped to pieces of cardboard, which in turn will be attached to streamers that will be dropped from helicopters over more than 100 acres of the Air Force base on the Pacific island. The bombing campaign is expected to begin this spring, Dan Vice, the USDA assistant operations director on Guam, told the local Pacific News Center. It replicates a smaller-scale test drop tried on Naval Base Guam in 2010, he said. The goal, he said, is eradicating the brown tree snake from the island. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says brown tree snakes have wiped out most of Guam's native populations of forest birds since being accidentally introduced to the island after World War II, probably after they stowed away on a ship or plane from their native range in Australia, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. The snakes, which can grow up to 8 feet long, also eat small mammals and lizards. The snake is mildly venomous, the FWS says, but it does not pose a danger to most adults, and its bite will not penetrate clothing. Besides its effect on bird populations, the snakes also take an economic toll on Guam by causing numerous power outages each year when they cross from tree into electrical lines, the FWS says. There could be as many as 2 million of the snakes on Guam, where they have no natural predators. About 2,000 mice will be dropped in the newest test, the Pacific Daily News reports. The $1 million program is being funded by the Department of Defense, according to the report. \"No one's ever attempted anything on this scale,\" Vice said of this spring's planned air drop. \"You know to date the largest plot that anyone's been able to get rid of snakes is only a couple of acres. We're talking 110 acres so this is completely novel.\" The dead mice will target snakes in a fenced-in area of the base, he said, so officials will be able to determine the effectiveness in that area versus an adjacent area that the snakes could move in and out of. \"We have a site where there's a population of snakes that nobody can get into. It's a controlled population,\" Vice told the Pacific News Center. \"This is being done in a very rigorous, scientific manner. This isn't just something that we've just kind of come up with by the seat of our pants.\" And if the test works, more snakes could be confronting death from above. \"We want to make sure we are doing it right. If the information shows that it's effective in controlling the population, we will institute a plan to use it across areas in Guam,\" Vice told the Pacific Daily News.", "Sebastian Coe has questioned the nomination of former drugs cheat Justin Gatlin as one of the IAAF's athletes of the year and said he is convinced by research that steroid users can benefit from usage long after they are declared 'clean'. New findings from the University of Oslo states athletes who take anabolic steroids can retain the advantage of muscle development even decades later. Gatlin, from the United States, has run the three fastest times this year in the 100 metres, and the fastest times in the 100 metres and 200 metres ever by a man in his 30s. IAAF vice-president Seb Coe has questioned Justin Gatlin's nomination for the IAAF Athlete of the year . The 32-year-old 2004 Olympic 100m champion Gatlin tested positive in 2006 for excess testosterone and was banned for four years until 2010. Gatlin's nomination last weekend as one of the IAAF's male athletes saw another nominee, Germany's Olympic discus champion Robert Harting, asking for his own name to be removed. Lord Coe, an IAAF vice-president said he also had 'big problems' with the nomination. Speaking at the Securing Sport conference in London he said: 'The only thing I would say is that he is entitled to be competing. I'm not particularly comfortable about it. I think you'd be pretty surprised if I did sit here and was sanguine about that. 'I personally have big problems with that. Justin Gatlin (left) powers ahead during the IAAF Diamond League Athletics meeting at Lausanne in July . 'I have long since believed that, particularly anabolic steroids, but performance-enhancing, muscle-developing drugs, have a long-term effect. 'I don't wish to be dismissive about the Oslo research but I think anybody in the last 20 years that I've known in that world, particularly in sports physiology and biochemistry would tell you that's certainly the case. 'The effect is certainly not transient and we've seen that in the performance of athletes for some time.' Coe is also chairman of the British Olympic Association but he accepted there was no going back to the days of its lifetime ban for drugs cheats. Gatlin (right) attempts to chase down Usain Bolt as the American claimed bronze at London 2012 . 'I recognise legally and for all sorts of reasons that that particular train has left the station,' he said. 'A life ban, we know from all sorts of challenges, can't be upheld. 'We pushed very hard within the IAAF to get the WADA ban from two years back up to four years. 'I do think sanctions do have to take into consideration the extended effect that anabolic steroids, performance-enhancing drugs, can have on a career even when the athlete is 'clean'.' Coe added that he will stand for the presidency of the IAAF next year - current incumbent Lamine Diack has said he will step down. Coe said: 'I've always been clear, if I'm given the opportunity to shape the future of my sport, I will certainly take it. 'If there is a presidential election, I will want to stand for that.' Professor of physiology at the University of Oslo Kristen Gunderson and his team studied the effect of steroids on mice and believes that the same mechanism is at work in human muscles and that other performance-enhancing drugs would have similar long-term effects. Gatlin in 2006, the year he was was banned for a maximum of eight years by the US Anti-Doping Agency . Gunderson told BBC Sport: 'I would be very surprised if there were any major differences between humans and mice in this context. 'The fundamental biology of muscle growth is similar in humans and in mice, and in principle any drug that builds muscle mass could trigger this mechanism. 'I think it is likely that effects could be lifelong or at least lasting decades in humans. Our data indicates the exclusion time of two years is far too short. Even four years is too short.' Thirty-two-year-old American Gatlin served a four-year ban after appeal to arbitration and - after his return to the sport in 2010 - he ran the fastest 100 metres in the world in this year as he clocked 9.77 seconds to claim a dominant victory at the Memorial van Damme in Brussels last month. Dai Greene (centre) says Gatlin's phenomenal times this year suggest the steroids he took still have an effect . But British 400 metres hurdles champion Dai Greene said: 'He's over the hill as far as sprinting is concerned - he should never be running these times for the 100m and 200m. 'But he's still doing it, and you have to look at his past, and ask how it is still affecting him now, because the average person wouldn't be able to do that. 'Those are incredible performances. Not many people have run that fast separately, ever. To do it on a damp Friday night? I couldn't believe those times. 'It shows one of two things: either he's still taking performance-enhancing drugs to get the best out of him at his advanced age, or the ones he did take are still doing a fantastic job. 'Because there is no way he can still be running that well at this late point in his career. Gatlin celebrates winning the men's 100m sprint in Rieti, Italy in September to continue his superb year . 'After having years on the sidelines, being unable to train or compete, it doesn't really add up. 9.77 is an incredibly fast time. You only have to look at his performances. I don't believe in them.' The new data casts a further shadow over formerly-banned athletes such as Gatlin, his compatriot Tyson Gay and Britain's Dwain Chambers. In his defence, Gatlin's agent Renaldo Nehemiah said: 'Justin would have run these times, and faster, had his over-zealous (former) coach Trevor Graham not tried to get him there sooner than he would've naturally gotten there. 'So, what Justin is doing right now, I'm not surprised by that. 'His body is rested for four years, so he wasn't racing. And he was the talent that I always knew he was.' Hear more on 5live Track and Field, Tuesday 7 October, 20.30-22.00 .", "By . Mark Duell . PUBLISHED: . 12:03 EST, 5 February 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 12:50 EST, 5 February 2013 . Tormented: Patricia Bell was found dead in a pond after her dementia meant she could no longer read . A tormented 85-year-old retired archivist and historian with a ‘great mind’ was found dead in a pond after her dementia meant she could no longer enjoy her beloved books, an inquest was told today. Former county archivist Patricia Bell, of Bedford, Bedfordshire, was found floating face down in the water after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2011 which saw her reading skills diminish. The keen historian was found dead in a pond at Bedford Park last September after drinking gin and becoming ‘distressed’, after making two previous suicide attempts, Bedford Coroner's Court heard. The pensioner’s walking stick, a . handbag and an opened bottle of gin were later found by the side of a . park bench by a gardener close to her body, still floating in the water, . the inquest was told. A . post mortem revealed she had died of immersion - and the shock of . falling in water may have caused cardiac arrest. At the inquest, the . coroner refused to rule out the possibility she had fallen. Despite . her previous suicide bids deputy coroner Bob Amos recorded an open . verdict, saying: ‘Patricia, from what I gather, was a woman of good . intellect and was struggling with ill health. ‘It is fair to say she was not coping with her Alzheimer's and feared being put into a home. ‘Although . I’ve read the letters from friends and heard the words from her carer . about her attempts to take her own life, I cannot say beyond all . responsible doubt that this is a verdict of suicide. ‘Because . of the drink, the ill health and Patricia's age are all factors. I . don't think I can say that she definitely wanted to or made a decision . to take her own life.’ Location: Retired archivist and historian Patricia Bell was found dead in a pond at Bedford Park (file picture) Ms Bell was the . county archivist of Bedfordshire between 1968 and 1986 and also held the . position of editor of the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society's . publications between 1977 and 1991. But . she had been suffering from breast cancer at the time of her death and . had been struggling to come to terms with her failing health, the . inquest was told. 'It is fair to say she was not coping with her Alzheimer's and feared being put into a home' Bob Amos, deputy coroner . She had been told to improve her . cleanliness during a nurse’s visit and had begun worrying she may end up . in a home. Ahead of her death, she had lunch with her carer before . heading into town. Ms Bell was then captured on CCTV at . 3.30pm popping into a shop and again at 5pm but was not seen again after . this time. At 7.44am the next day, police were called to the park by a . gardener, who had discovered a body floating in the pond. Ms Bell was found just under twice the legal limit for driving of alcohol in her blood stream. Inquest: Deputy coroner Bob Amos recorded an open verdict yesterday at Bedford Coroner's Court (pictured) Pathologist . Dr Kay Adu-Poku said the cause of death was immersion which had caused . an enlarging of the heart and the secondary cause was breast cancer. But evidence read aloud in court suggested Ms Bell had been upset at the time of her death. 'I had a good friendship of 16 years with Patricia and she had become very unhappy. She was distressed as she wasn't able to read literature anymore - which was her passion' Heather Bailey, Patricia Bell's friend . In . written evidence read out to the coroners court, Ms Bell's close friend . of 16 years, Heather Bailey, explained how the pensioner had become . unhappy. The letter read: ‘I had a good friendship of 16 years with Patricia and she had become very unhappy. ‘She was distressed as she wasn't able to read literature anymore - which was her passion. She had a good intellect and because of the Alzheimer's her sight was failing making it difficult to read. ‘She was the county archivist and a great mind. Patricia was also in a great deal of pain with the breast cancer.’ In an official obituary, Ms Bell's close . friend Richard Wildman, said: ‘Her greatest fear was that she would . emulate some of her cousins and live to an extreme and uncomfortable old . age. Christian duties: Ms Bell was described as a loyal member of the Church of England and a former elected lay member of the General Synod (file picture) ‘Diagnosed with early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, she found herself unable to continue reading and gave away her books.’ 'Diagnosed with early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, she found herself unable to continue reading and gave away her books' Richard Wildman, Patricia Bell's friend . She had an external degree from London University and had trained as an archivist in the Hampshire Record Office before moving to Bedford in 1956 as assistant to her distant cousin Joyce Godber. Ms Bell edited two collections of early Tudor wills in 1966 and 1997 and contributed to other volumes, including a festschrift compilation for Ms Godber in 1978. She was described as a loyal member of the Church of England and a former elected lay member of the General Synod. Her family did not wish to speak after the inquest. Ms Bell is survived by her brother Brian, her sister Zilpha and four nieces.", "Police fired Tasers at a terrified Alzheimer’s sufferer in a troubling incident that reopens the debate on the controversial weapon. Six officers were called to take the unarmed 58-year-old man to hospital but he had no idea what was going on and lashed out at them. What happened next left his wife ‘heartbroken’ and his neighbours in tears. Shocking: Police shot former farm worker Peter Russell with several Taser stun rounds, before manhandling him to the living room floor. He is pictured with his wife . Diane at their wedding in September 2010 . Police shot former farm worker Peter Russell with several Taser stun rounds, before manhandling him to the living room floor. His arms and legs were tied together and he was carried outside ‘like a bag of potatoes’ in full view of horrified neighbours. Mr Russell, described by his wife as a ‘loving’ family man ‘who wouldn’t hurt a fly,’ was then put into a police van and driven off. Two months later, Mr Russell is still receiving psychiatric treatment in hospital and his wife Diane, 50, remains traumatised. She has criticised the behaviour of doctors and police officers and has spoken out ‘to prevent other families suffering the same needless ordeal’. Mother-of-two Mrs Russell, of Epworth, North Lincolnshire, said: ‘There was no need to use the Tasers. ‘If he was a wife beater or an armed  robber then I could understand it, but this is someone who will stop his tractor when ploughing a field and move a nest of mice to the side.’ Ordeal: Diane and Pete Russell are pictured together at a pub in Epsworth, North Lincolnshire. Two months after the incident, Mr Russell is still receiving psychiatric treatment in hospital and his wife remains traumatised . Traumatised: Diane Russell stands on the driveway outside her house where police officers laid her husband Pete, 58, after shooting him with a taser . Police chiefs have backed the officers’ actions, saying they faced ‘a significant level of violence’ from Mr Russell. But the incident raises issues about the understanding and appropriate treatment of people suffering from dementia. Mr Russell, who has a daughter from a . previous marriage and married Diane in September 2010, began being . forgetful about three years ago. He went to hospital for a scan and Alzheimer’s disease was diagnosed. The farm worker was forced to retire and over recent months his condition became worse. Mrs Russell said he began ‘pushing’ her and doctors decided to section him under the Mental Health Act to review his treatment. On March 6, two nurses and a psychiatrist visited the couple’s home and Mr Russell became agitated at hearing talk of him going to hospital. Mrs Russell said he began swearing and ‘slamming cupboards’. She suggested he be given sweets and his favourite Noddy toy to calm him and then be driven to hospital by a neighbour. But this was rejected and the medical staff were told to go outside because they were upsetting Mr Russell. Several hours later, a doctor, . hospital consultant and social worker arrived and discussed calling an . ambulance. Mr Russell became agitated again. The  doctors left and . police arrived to handle the hospital transfer. Mrs . Russell was told to go into the kitchen and it was then that her . husband ‘lashed out’. She said ‘five or six’ officers went into the . living room. After he was tasered, a policewoman came into the kitchen crying and told Mrs Russell: ‘We didn’t want to do this, but we had no option.’ Mrs Russell said: ‘He was fighting them off because he didn’t want to go to hospital. He was petrified and scared. He was shouting “get off” as they carried him. I was going mental and I remember saying “it’s not him, it’s the Alzheimer’s”. Defence: A police spokesman claimed that the officers were faced with a significant level of violence . Concern: The Alzheimer's Society said the incident, which happened in Epworth in North Lincolnshire, would have been very distressing for Mr Russell . ‘He was not armed and wasn’t about to kill himself, they should not have tasered him.’ Neighbour Jez Taylor, 58, said: ‘The treatment he received was disgusting.’ Mrs Russell said she may lodge a formal complaint to police. Chief Superintendent David Hilditch, of Humberside Police, said: ‘The officers were faced with a significant level of violence. It is to their credit that they successfully restrained the man without injury to himself.’ Two police officers are believed to have suffered minor injuries in the incident. Sarah Moody from the Alzheimer’s Society said: ‘This unfortunate incident illustrates a lack of understanding in society of dementia and the best way to support and help people who are affected by this devastating condition.’", "We spend a third of our lives doing it. Now scientists have finally discovered why we need to spend so much time sleeping - it helps clear the mind of the day’s chemical clutter. While our body is at rest, the brain is hard at work removing toxins produced during our waking hours. Scientists have finally discovered why we need to spend so much time sleeping - it helps clear the mind of the day's chemical clutter . 'George, they've come to drain your toxins' Left to build up, these compounds can result in Alzheimer’s and other neurological diseases. The researchers conclude the clean-up process is so energy intensive, it would hinder our thinking if done when we are awake - hence the need to sleep. ‘This study shows that the brain has different functional states when asleep and when awake,’ said lead researcher Dr Maiken Nedergaard, from the University of Rochester Medical Centre (URMC), in New York. ‘In fact, the restorative nature of sleep appears to be the result of the active clearance of the by-products of neural activity that accumulate during wakefulness.’ The purpose of slumber has been debated for centuries, with Thomas Edison branding it ‘a criminal waste of time.’ And although practically every species needs to sleep, many have suggested it is a faulty evolutionary hang-up that makes us more vulnerable to predators. The team found that unlike the rest of the body, which depends on the lymphatic system to drain away toxins, the brain has its own separate method of rubbish removal. Scans on mice revealed the amount of energy used by the brain did not dramatically fall during sleep. This is because its cleaning activities increased 10-fold at times of rest, according to the researchers, who observed that significantly higher levels of toxins were also removed. The amount of brain power needed to clean up toxins means we would be unable to think clearly if the process took place during waking hours, the team speculated. While our body is at rest, the brain is hard at work removing toxins produced during our waking hours . The findings, published in the journal Science, go some way to explain the biological purpose of sleep and could lead to new ways to treat neurological disorders. ‘The brain only has limited energy at its disposal and it appears that it must choice between two different functional states - awake and aware or asleep and cleaning up,’ said Dr Nedergaard. ‘You can think of it like having a house party. You can either entertain the guests or clean up the house, but you can’t really do both at the same time.’ And to aid the clean-up operation, scientists found brain cells can shrink by up to 60 per cent during slumber, to allow waste to be removed more effectively. They also observed that a hormone called noradrenaline is less active during sleep, suggesting it could be controlling the contraction and expansion of the brain’s cells during sleep-wake cycles. ‘These findings have significant implications for treating “dirty brain” diseases like Alzheimer’s,’ said Dr Nedergaard. ‘Understanding precisely how and when the brain activates the glymphatic system [brain’s cleaning system] and clears waste is a critical first step in efforts to potentially modulate this system and make it work more efficiently.’", "Spaceflight may be associated with a process of accelerated aging of the immune system, researchers have claimed. Long-term space flight is known to have detrimental effects on the human body, including muscle and bone loss. But now it seems human missions to Mars will also need to develop ways to counteract the negative effects on the immune system in order to keep the crew fit and healthy. French scientists have been testing the effects of microgravity on Earth. They found that long-duration missions, such as to Mars (illustration shown), could affect the immune system. Superficially, prolonged microgravity caused mice to experience changes also observed in elderly mice . The research, published in the journal Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (Faseb), was conducted by several French institutions including Lorraine University in Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy. The team used a ground-based model called hindlimb unloading (HU), which simulates some of the effects of spaceflight on mice. It involves suspending the back legs of the mice in the air, while their front legs stay on the ground. A shower that recycles water just like that on a spacecraft has been unveiled. Inventor Mehrdad Mahdjoubi, CEO and co-founder of the company behind the product - Orbital Systems - also worked on Nasa’s Mars mission project. Known as the Shower of the Future (concept above), it collects water instead of letting it run down the drain, and purifies it until it's drinkable, reducing consumption by 90 per cent. On the ISS, almost all waste water is recycled to provide the astronauts with a nearly self-sustainable environment. The shower starts at a rather daunting £2,405 ($3,629), but the company claims it will save an average of £212 ($320) per year in waste water. In the study groups of three mice were suspended for three, six, 13 and 21 days - and killed after each test - to test the effects of microgravity. The scientists analysed bone parameters and the frequency of cells that will give birth to B lymphocytes in the bone marrow of young mice, old mice and mice subjected to three weeks of HU. B lymphocytes - also called B cells - are known to be one of major parts of the human immune system. They found that mice in low gravity conditions experience changes in B lymphocyte production in their bone marrow similar to those observed in elderly mice living in Earth conditions. The same effects could be present in humans. While the effects of spaceflight on the human immune system have been known before, this study is the first to suggest that such a ground-based method - namely HU - could be helpful in understanding it further. The researchers also say that their model could be used to test or develop molecules and compounds that could improve immune responses in astronauts. ‘This study shows that a model of spaceflight conditions could not only be used to test the efficacy of molecules to improve immune responses following spaceflight in astronauts, but also in the elderly and bed-ridden populations on Earth,’ said Dr Jean-Pol Frippiat, a researcher involved in the work from the Stress, Immunity and Pathogens Laboratory at Lorraine University in Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France. Dr Gerald Weissmann, Editor-in-Chief of The Faseb Journal, added: ‘Getting to Mars and beyond promises to be a huge task, requiring contributions from almost every scientific discipline. ‘For biologists and medical researchers, knowing how altered gravity affect our immune system from challenges aloft can be already be studied on Earth. ‘Fortunately for biologists, it's not rocket science.’ Currently, astronauts must keep their bodies in shape on the ISS by performing regular exercise. Pictured is Nasa astronaut Sunita Williams, Expedition 32 flight engineer, exercising on the Cycle Ergometer with Vibration Isolation System (Cevis) in the Destiny laboratory of the ISS on 20 July 2012 . While the effects on the immune system were known before, the study says its methods could be used to develop a solution for missions to Mars to help astronauts who have to operate in microgravity for a long time. Pictured is Bruce McCandless II performing a free-flying spacewalk in 1984 . In March of this year, Nasa astronaut Scott Kelly and Roscosmos cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will undertake the first year-long stay aboard the International Space Station. The mission is designed to see how astronauts cope with such a prolonged stay in space - previously, crews only spent a maximum of six months aboard the station before returning to Earth. During the mission, experiments will study the effects of long-duration spaceflight on the immune system, in addition to other aspects of human biology such as body chemistry and the heart. They will not break the record for the longest continuous time spent in space - that was 437 days, set by Russian Valeri Polyakov aboard the Mir space station from 1994 to 1995 - but nonetheless, the mission will provide invaluable data for the planned mission to Mars, which could take place in the 2030s. In tandem with this one-year stay, though, experiments on Earth will also prove useful in preparing a crew for the journey to Mars - which could take a total of nearly three years, including nine months travelling there and nine months back. Performing HU studies on mice could be one of the latest ways to gather data for the mission. In March of this year, Nasa astronaut Scott Kelly (left) and Roscosmos cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko (right) will undertake the first year-long stay aboard the ISS. The mission is designed to see how astronauts cope with such a prolonged stay in space  previously, crews only spent a maximum of six months on the ISS .", "A blood test being developed by a group of Australian scientists could predict Alzheimer's disease two decades before patients show signs of the illness. University of Melbourne researchers, who discovered the test, previously helped identify changes in the brain happened 20 years before people started presenting symptoms of the disease, which can be detected by performing brain-imaging procedures. Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia with sufferers having deteriorating memory loss which gets worse over time as well as affecting their behaviour. Scroll down for video . University of Melbourne researchers are on the cusp of developing a blood test that could detect Alzheimer's disease . The blood test would have a 91 per cent rate of accuracy in predicting Alzheimer's and could be available within five years as further testing is yet to be carried out. Initial research carried out on a trial group resulted in one of five participants positive for the disease despite having no memory loss. Further tests carried out using brain-imaging procedures showed these patients had signs of degeneration associated with Alzheimer's. The research was carried out by the university's Department of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology Bio21 Institute. Researcher Dr Lesley Cheng (right) said the test (left) had the potential to predict Alzheimer's up to 20 years before sufferers showed signs of the disease . Research was carried out on a trial group where one of five participants tested positive for the disease despite having no memory loss . The department's Dr Lesley Cheng said the test had the potential to predict Alzheimer's up to 20 years before sufferers showed signs of the disease. She told Daily Mail Australia that the data available from their research could only provide a five-year detection as it had only been going for seven years, but with more participants they would be able to match up brain-imaging techniques with blood tests to track how far back it could predict. 'We wanted to develop a blood test to be used as a pre-screen to identify [patients] who needed a brain scan and those it was unnecessary to do a brain scan,' Dr Cheng said. Dr Cheng said it would also provide a more accessible method for people to accurately find out how likely they were to get the disease. Dr Lesley Cheng - who is part of the team - said the test had the potential to predict Alzheimer's up to 20 years before sufferers showed signs of the disease . 'This test provides the possibility of early detection of AD by using a simple blood test which has been designed to also be cost-effective,' she said. 'Furthermore, it is highly accessible for patients and physicians compared to organising a brain scan or undergoing a neuropsychological test. 'Patients with a family history of AD or those with memory concerns could be tested during a standard health check at a medical clinic. 'This test could ease concerns for patients experiencing normal memory problems due to natural ageing. Those identified as high risk could then be monitored by their doctor.' The University of Melbourne findings were published in science journal Molecular Psychiatry in collaboration with The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, the CSIRO, Austin Health and Australian Imaging Biomarkers and Lifestyle Flagship Study of Ageing.", "By . Jessica Jerreat . Scientists have bred a colony of rabbits that can glow in the dark in a leap forward for developing medicine for life-threatening genetic diseases. Researchers in Hawaii and Turkey successfully created the litter of eight rabbits, which included two kits that glow green when the lights are out. The florescent coloring is an indicator that genetic material injected into the embryos was incorporated into the rabbit's natural make up. Scroll down for video . Glowing: Scientists have created two rabbits that glow in the dark . Ordinary: In daylight the rabbits look the same as their littermate . 'It’s just a marker to show that we can . take a gene that was not originally in the animal and now exists in the . animal,' Dr Stefan Moisyadi, of University of Hawaii, told KITV. The rabbits, which look identical to their white siblings in daylight, were born at a research center in Turkey. Life changing: Dr Stefan Moisyadi says the experiment could help mass produce medication . 'They live just as long as normal animals do ... and they show no ill effects,' Dr Moisyadi told KHON2. He added: 'These rabbits are like a light bulb glowing, like an LED light all over their body.' The experiment, which used florescent protein from jellyfish, furthers the research started in the 1980s when glow in the dark mice were created. Since then, scientists have recreated the experiment in kittens, puppies, monkeys and piglets. While most glow green in the dark, in 2007 South Korean scientists managed to develop cats that glowed red under ultraviolet light, according to the Daily Telegraph. Scientists hope the research will help them find a way to create cheaper medicine for genetic disorders such as hemophilia. They plan to replicate the experiment in farm animals, which would then be used as bio-reactors that produce pharmaceuticals. '[For] patients who suffer from hemophilia and . they need the blood clotting enzymes in their blood, we can make those . enzymes a lot cheaper in animals with barrier reactives rather than a . factory that will cost billions of dollars to build,' Dr Moisyadi said. Now they have successful created glow in the dark bunnies, the team is planning to create a florescent lamb by November. Start small: Researchers first created glow in the dark mice and plan to repeat the experiment with farmyard animals . The team would like to bring their research to the U.S. but said bureaucracy and fear of using transgenic animals has prevented it. 'At home, there is this hysteria that transgenic animals should not be used for anything,' Dr Moisyadi said. He added that the team was committed to the research 'because there is an eventual benefit for the human race in this. And if we don’t do it in these first-world countries, where will we do it?'", "Research undertaken at the University of Oslo shows that dope cheats such as Justin Gatlin could still be benefiting from taking banned substances years after initial usage. The experiments carried out by by scientists in Norway show for the first time that muscles could retain the advantages given by anabolic steroids for decades after they were first used. The 2004 Olympic 100 metres champion Gatlin was banned for a maximum of eight years by the United States Anti-Doping Agency after testing positive for testosterone at the Kansas Relays in Lawrence in 2006 - his second failed drugs test. Justin Gatlin (left) powers ahead during the IAAF Diamond League Athletics meeting at Lausanne in July . Gatlin (right) attempts to chase down Usain Bolt as the American claimed bronze at London 2012 . Professor of physiology at the University of Oslo Kristen Gunderson and his team studied the effect of steroids on mice and believes that the same mechanism is at work in human muscles and that other performance-enhancing drugs would have similar long-term effects. Gunderson told BBC Sport: 'I would be very surprised if there were any major differences between humans and mice in this context. 'The fundamental biology of muscle growth is similar in humans and in mice, and in principle any drug that builds muscle mass could trigger this mechanism. 'I think it is likely that effects could be lifelong or at least lasting decades in humans. Our data indicates the exclusion time of two years is far too short. Even four years is too short.' Thirty-two-year-old American Gatlin served a four-year ban after appeal to arbitration and - after his return to the sport in 2010 - he ran the fastest 100 metres in the world in this year as he clocked 9.77 seconds to claim a dominant victory at the Memorial van Damme in Brussels last month. But British 400 metres hurdles champion Dai Greene said: 'He's over the hill as far as sprinting is concerned - he should never be running these times for the 100m and 200m. Gatlin in 2006, the year he was was banned for a maximum of eight years by the US Anti-Doping Agency . Dai Greene (centre) says Gatlin's phenomenal times this year suggest the steroids he took still have an effect . 'But he's still doing it, and you have to look at his past, and ask how it is still affecting him now, because the average person wouldn't be able to do that. 'Those are incredible performances. Not many people have run that fast separately, ever. To do it on a damp Friday night? I couldn't believe those times. 'It shows one of two things: either he's still taking performance-enhancing drugs to get the best out of him at his advanced age, or the ones he did take are still doing a fantastic job. 'Because there is no way he can still be running that well at this late point in his career. Gatlin celebrates winning the men's 100m sprint in Rieti, Italy in September to continue his superb year . 'After having years on the sidelines, being unable to train or compete, it doesn't really add up. 9.77 is an incredibly fast time. You only have to look at his performances. I don't believe in them.' The new data casts a further shadow over formerly-banned athletes such as Gatlin, his compatriot Tyson Gay and Britain's Dwain Chambers. In his defence, Gatlin's agent Renaldo Nehemiah said: 'Justin would have run these times, and faster, had his over-zealous (former) coach Trevor Graham not tried to get him there sooner than he would've naturally gotten there. 'So, what Justin is doing right now, I'm not surprised by that. 'His body is rested for four years, so he wasn't racing. And he was the talent that I always knew he was.' Hear more on 5live Track and Field, Tuesday 7 October, 20.30-22.00 .", "A customer complained about seeing mice scurrying round a sushi restaurant, only to return a week later to find the eatery was still serving customers and more than 10 rodents were running around floors and counters. Craig Dumpleton contacted the chief executive of YO! Sushi after he spotted the animals running round a branch in Baker Street in London one evening when the restaurant was already closed. But despite receiving a reply saying the incident would be investigated 'immediately' and they took any claims seriously. The 33-year-old returned a week later to find that the number had doubled from five to ten and the mice appeared to be unperturbed. Scroll down for video . Craig Dumpleton spotted mice running round the floors and counters of YO! Sushi in Baker Street in London, returning a week later to find 10 of the animals in the restaurant and recorded the footage on his mobile phone . Mr Dumpleton, a father of two, said: 'The first time my friend saw this movement out the corner of his eye. We thought it was a rat because it was so big. 'We went to take a closer look and it was huge mouse scurrying around between the counters and the serving area in the restaurant. 'There was about five of them. It was disgusting. One was even on the counter top just sitting there. 'They were obviously used to it because we banged on the window and they weren't even bothered. 'I was back there a week later and I couldn't believe it, there was double the amount. They were running all over the place. 'I'd already complained so all I can think is that they just aren't bothered about getting rid of them.' He claims staff had covered part of the windows with black bags or paint after he complained. Mr Dumpleton, 33, recorded footage of the mice scrabbling around the sushi restaurant on his mobile phone . However YO! Sushi said these coverings were put up after pest control were sent in immediately after his first complaint to deal with the problem. Mr Dumpleton, from Stevenage, Hertfordshire, said he first saw the mice on October 12 after arranging to meet friends at the sushi bar. He got there late, by which time his friends had eaten, and had a post-meal drink with them nearby. On the walk home they looked in through windows of YO! Sushi and saw the mice running across the wooden floor. Craig emailed chief executive Vanessa Hall two days later who replied saying she would 'investigate immediately' and offered him a gift card and a restaurant tour. Mr Dumpleton complained after he claims he twice saw mice running around YO! Sushi in Baker Street, London, but the company said it has completely resolved the problem and sent in pest control immediately . Her email added: 'We take any incident of this nature extremely seriously, working hard on ensuring immediate resolution.' But a week later after his first visit, Craig walked past again and said he saw at least ten mice running around again. He claimed: 'One was going to the toilet in the middle of the restaurant. 'The last thing I want to do is go there for a meal.' YO! Sushi has 76 restaurants in seven countries, with 65 in the UK. A spokesman for YO! Sushi said: 'We operate a very stringent health and safety regime across all our restaurants. We responded immediately to this enquiry in mid-October. 'Our pest control contractors resolved the problem straight away and we also elevated the matter to our landlords and adjoining London Underground. We are now entirely satisfied that the issue has been resolved.' Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article.", "Scientists have identified what they believe is the key to wrinkle free skin, raising hopes for creams and treatments that could defy aging. In a 20-week tanning experiment, they found that mice who lacked the enzyme Granzyme-B had aged significantly less than than those who had it. The researchers found that they also had noticeably smoother skin and their collagen was more intact. The secret to wrinkle-free skin may lie in blocking an enzyme called Granzyme B, scientists believe . Incredibly the discovery was made by accident as the researchers were looking into the role of Granzyme-B in atherosclerosis and heart attacks. During their experiments they happened to notice the difference in the quality of the skin on the different groups of mice. Lead researcher David Granville of the University of British Columbia said: ‘This is one of those moments that we live for in science. ‘We were interested in the effects of aging on blood vessels; we had no idea (the absence of this enzyme) would have any effect on their skin.’ Professor Granville added that his team was developing drugs that can block Granzyme B - and hoped to make them commercially available soon. He said: ‘We have generated natural and synthetic inhibitors of this enzyme and one can easily see the application for this after excessive sun exposure...or in other cosmetics as well. ‘That’s obviously the first thing that comes to mind’. The research team created a miniature tanning salon for the mice in the experiment and each mouse was put on a carousel that turned under UV lamps. The animals were exposed to the light three times a week for three to four minutes each session, which was enough to make them red but not to burn. By week 20, it was clear that the mice who had been engineered to lack Granzyme B had pristine skin - but the control group had wrinkles. Professor Granville said: ‘About 80 to 90 per cent of visible skin aging is caused by sunlight. ‘We found that by knocking out (Granzyme B) we could markedly protect against the loss of collagen and it prevented wrinkling in these mice.’ Scientists hope creams and treatments that could defy aging may come from the discovery . Granzyme B appears to work by interfering with the the integrity of collagen and dismantling the ‘cellular scaffolding’ that binds its cells together. This results in structural weakness which we see on the surface as wrinkles. Exposure to sunlight appears to increase the level of Granzyme B, thus accelerating its harmful effect on the skin. Professor Granville said that many anti-aging cosmetics include collagen which consumers apply to the skin even though it does very little. He said: ‘By adding collagen without putting out the fire, you are just adding wood to the fire. ‘This offers an actual realistic solution, where you can inhibit the enzyme that is leading to the breakdown of collagen.’ Professor Granville’s Canadian company, viDa Therapeutics, is currently working on a lotion that will stop sores and burns caused by too much sun. And whilst the experiment worked in mice who were bred to have no Granzyme B at all, in humans things are more complicated as the enzyme it is part of the immune system and removing it may have unintended consequences.", "MPs have been banned from bringing in a cat to catch mice in Parliament because they cannot be trusted not to feed it scraps. Commons Speaker John Bercow warned ‘well-meaning’ politicians would give the cat treats, leaving it too fat to bother chasing rodents. He also ruled that some people in Parliament might be allergic to a cat, which would also be at risk of being run over on Whitehall’s busy roads. There are more than 200 official sightings of mice every year in Parliament, in the bars and restaurants . The Houses of Parliament are plagued . with mice, with staff often seeing them running across desks or . scurrying along the corridors of power. Every . year more than 200 sightings are reported to the authorities, although . the true figure is likely to be much higher because many people have . given up complaining. There have been growing calls for a resident cat to be brought in to help deal with the problem. But . the idea has been rejected by officials on health and safety grounds. Mr Bercow has written to MPs warning of the practical problems. Lib . Dem MP John Thurso, a spokesman for the Commons Commission, said one of . the obsctales was ‘the likelihood that well-meaning colleagues would . feed a cat, making it unlikely that it would catch mice’. He added: ‘A cat would be at risk from the 1,748 poisonous bait stations used across the estate to control pest populations.’ MPs have been rebuffed in their call for a cat to prowl Parliament to deal with a mouse problem . Officials were also concerned about the ‘effect on people who are allergic to cats’. ‘There would be no reliable way to stop the cat getting on to the busy roads which surround us, nor of looking after the cat responsibly,’ he added. Battersea Dogs and Cats Home had offered rescue cat to prowl the parliamentary estate, but this has been declined. Mr Thurso added: ‘The size, age and location of the Parliamentary Estate make controlling mice and pests a major undertaking.’ Last year there were 221 mouse sighting reported in Parliament, down from 254 in 2012 but up on 195 in 2011. Larry the Downing Street cat was brought in to deal with vermin, but was accused of lacking killer instinct . It included three sightings in the Members’ Tea Room last year and another nine in the Terrace Cafeteria. The cost of pest control including mice in 2012-13 was £73,522.12. In early 2011 David Cameron rejected calls for a cat to be brought in to deal with a rat infestation in Downing Street. But weeks later he agreed to home Larry, a four-year-old tabby. After winning over staff in Number 10, he soon fell victim to a briefing operation against him for failing to catch any mice. ‘There is a distinct lack of killer instinct,’ a source said. The fur flew when George Osborne then brought in his own cat, Freya, who regularly gets into fights with Larry.", "An Alzheimer's sufferer was locked into his onesie by his partner to stop him unzipping the garment . An Alzheimer's sufferer was locked into his onesie by his partner to stop him shredding and eating his incontinence pads, a court has heard. The woman, in her 50s, allegedly 'fashioned' the all-in-one suit so a padlock could be used to stop the man unzipping the garment for a number of weeks. The court was told the man, who is in his 80s, had a habit of pulling apart the incontinence pads before eating them at their half-a-million-pound home in Surrey. When asked by an official about why she had used the lock, the woman said she had dressed him in the onesie 'on medical advice', court was told. Judge Lush said the incident was almost identical to another case in which the judge ruled there had not been any deprivation of the person's liberty. He subsequently ruled that this incident also did not amount to a deprivation of the man's liberty. The man, who used to work on the London Underground, had been diagnosed with the illness in 2009, the court was told. Details emerged in a ruling by the judge after a hearing in London at the Court of Protection, where issues relating to sick and vulnerable people are analysed. Judge Lush had been asked to analyse a legal issue relating to the man's son, who had been given authority to manage his father's financial affairs. An official from the Office of the Public Guardian - which protects and helps people who do not have the mental capacity to make decisions - told the judge about the onesie. She said the approach adopted by the woman - a mother of three - was 'certainly unusual' and had been a 'cause of concern for local authority services'. Martina Kane, senior policy officer at Alzheimer’s Society, said new behaviour caused by the condition can be difficult for people to deal with. She said: ‘Dementia can affect people in very different ways. Judge Lush at the Court of Protection (pictured) said the case was not a deprivation of the man's liberty . 'As the condition develops, it can cause behaviour changes that can be confusing or difficult for others to deal with leaving carers feeling stressed or helpless. 'By learning to understand the meaning behind the actions, it can be easier to stay calm and deal effectively with the challenges that arise.' She said anyone needing advice can call Alzheimer's Society's National Dementia Helpline on 0300 222 11 22.", "By . Daniel Miller . PUBLISHED: . 08:46 EST, 26 January 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 10:22 EST, 26 January 2013 . Thunderbirds creator Gerry Anderson decided to donate his brain for medical research after realising the . drugs he was taking to treat his Alzheimer's disease were having little effect. The celebrated television director who . died on Boxing Day at the age of 83 was determined to help other . dementia sufferers after being diagnosed with the condition in 2011. After lengthy discussions with wife . Mary and son Jamie, the family contacted the Alzheimer's society . and were put in contact with the Brains for Dementia Research project. Alzheimer's sufferer Gerry Anderson, pictured with son Jamie,  decided to donate his brain to medical science after realising the drugs he was taking were not having any effect . Pulling the strings: Gerry Anderson with some of his famous Thunderbirds creations . Son Jamie revealed his father had hit . upon the idea after completing a fundraising walk saying: 'This . Alzheimer's business, it really is terrible isn't it?' Jamie told the Telegraph: 'He kept saying it over and over again. I have to say I had to agree with him.' His father then added: 'The quicker they can find a cure the better, so they are welcome to my brain.' Jamie said his father continued to raise the subject over the next few months and on one memorable occasion he . announced loudly to couple they had met on holiday: 'Well I'm . donating my brain to medical science'. Proud creation: Sylvia and Gerry Anderson on the set of Thunderbirds in the Sixties with Lady Penelope . 'Yes m'lady': Thunderbirds creator Gerry Anderson with two of his most famous puppets, Lady Penelope and Parker, at Planet Hollywood in London in 2001 . Mr Anderson, who insisted on being . cremated because he did not want to 'waste space' had been taking the . drug Aricept to treat his condition. It is designed to slow the advance of the disease but the effects are limited. At first Mr Anderson was not sure about donating his organs but changed his mind as he realised the drugs weren't having any effect. Just months before his death Gerry Anderson spoke of his passion to continue writing despite suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Talking in June at his home in Nuffield, near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, he said: 'I'm not worried about forgetting my career. It's an odd thing this, losing one's memory. ‘Not everybody is affected in the same way and it's no good going around everyday worrying about it. I can remember clearly things that happened 60 or 70 years ago. ‘I can remember conversations with friends and the actual words we used. My career is like an encyclopaedia. I made so many shows, worked with so many crew members that I cannot pick out specific memories. ‘I can still write stories though - I can continue. So many people have told me that my work is instantly recognisable because within three seconds I've blown a city apart.’ Son Jamie said: 'Despite the fact he was very confused he was obviously thinking about it. It mean't something to him.' Mr Anderson made his name in the 1960s . with a series of hit sci-fi puppet shows including Captain Scarlet and . Joe 90, but is best known for Thunderbirds which followed the adventures . of International Rescue and the Tracy family. The series - which used a form of marionette . puppetry dubbed 'supermarionation' - became hugely popular around the . world. Talking about his condition at the . launch of the Alzheimer’s Society’s Memory Walk, Mr Anderson said 'the . bitterest blow' was not being able to drive. He said: 'It meant that I couldn’t go . to Pinewood studios where I worked, and this depressed me enormously . because my film work was my life. 'Suddenly my life was cut off. Since . I’ve had Alzheimer’s I’ve realised how debilitating it is. It can affect . your life in so many ways that you don’t think about.' Asked how he came to realise he was suffering the condition, he said: ‘I don’t think I realised at all. It was my wife Mary who began to notice that I would do something quite daft like putting the kettle in the sink and waiting for it to boil.’ She became concerned when, in early 2010, he took hours to return to their Oxfordshire home in Henley-on-Thames after forgetting his route from Pinewood Studios, a journey he had made for decades. His wife persuaded him to visit a doctor, where he was asked to copy a series of simple geometric drawings. He thought it would be a simple task — only to realise he was hopeless at it.", "Plans for a 'rainbow' zebra crossing to support gay rights could be abandoned amid fears it would cause hallucinations for dementia sufferers. The brightly coloured pedestrian crossing was due to be installed in Totnes in Devon - the first in Europe - as a mark of the town's pride for its gay community. But experts have warned that painting the road different colours could have side-effects for people with Alzheimer's. Scroll down for video . Plans for a 'rainbow' zebra crossing to support gay rights in Totnes, Devon, could be abandoned amid fears it would cause hallucinations for dementia sufferers . The brightly coloured crossing was due to be installed in Totnes in Devon - the first in Europe - as a mark of the town's pride for its gay community . Fears were expressed to councillors who had been asked to back the plan to install the crossing across an area called The Plains. Councillors told the Proud2Be group, which has launched the campaign, to go away and seek further medical advice from experts. Totnes town councillor Carol Wellwood said: 'Somebody who works with the elderly is concerned that people with Alzheimer's might find a rainbow crossing very troubling. 'The claim is that it would cause them to have hallucinations.' Mat Price, who runs the the Proud2Be group revealed that a trained dementia champion had contacted the group warning of the serious health impact. But he said: 'I don't understand why it is any different from putting a rainbow-coloured display in a shop window or Christmas lights up at Christmas. But Mat Price, who runs the the Proud2Be group revealed that a trained dementia champion had contacted the group warning of the serious health impact. Experts have warned that painting the road different colours could have side-effects for people with Alzheimer's . 'I am concerned that if this keeps going backwards and forwards we will not be the first place in Europe to do this, we will be the 40th. 'We have already trialled it in the High Street and no-one got killed.' The world's first rainbow crossing has already been unveiled in Vancouver in Canada and Melbourne in Australia is planning to make a temporary crossing permanent. The crossing was temporarily installed to mark Pride celebrations last year. The world's first rainbow crossing has already been unveiled in Vancouver in Canada and Melbourne in Australia is planning to make a temporary crossing permanent. There have been temporary crossings in London and Brighton but the one planned in Totnes is hoped to be the first permanent one in Europe. There have been temporary crossings in London and Brighton but the one planned in Totnes is hoped to be the first permanent one in Europe. The estimated cost of £15,000 to set it up would be found through an international fund raising campaign, grant funding and commercial high-profile sponsorship. It was temporarily installed to mark Pride celebrations last year. The crossing was removed but gay rights project Proud2Be has been fighting to create a permanent version ever since. Mr Price, who set up Proud2Be with his twin brother, said that he hoped the crossing would send a strong and positive message. Mat, 32, said: 'Totnes is a brave and courageous town, which likes to do things first. We want to celebrate diversity and encourage people to be proud of who they are.' His brother and co-founder Jon Price, 32, said: 'Growing up in a rural community as LGBT, I know how important it is to feel supported as it is easy to be isolated. 'The rainbow crossing is a great way to increase the visibility and awareness around these issues. This has brought the community together to do something positive.'" ]

[ "After a \"routine warehouse inspection and subsequent investigation,\" out of \"an abundance of caution,\" the manufacturer of SpaghettiOs has voluntarily recalled three varieties of canned noodles due to \"possible under-processing.\" On the United States Department of Agriculture's website, the Food Safety and Inspection Service said the health risk for the Class I recall is \"high.\"  (A Class I recall \"is a health hazard situation where there is a reasonable probability that the use of the product will cause serious, adverse health consequences or death,\" the USDA says.) According to the Campbell's Soup Company, the products affected include SpaghettiOs with Meatballs in 14.75-ounce cans, SpaghettiOs A to Z with Meatballs in 14.75-ounce cans, and SpaghettiOs Fun Shapes with Meatballs (Cars) in 14.75 cans. Any of these products bearing a \"Use By\" date between June 2010 and December 2011 with the plant code EST4K are affected by this recall. \"There is no information indicating that any under-processed product has reached consumers,\" the company said in a statement. The New York Daily News reports \"customers who eat the under-processed SpaghettiOs may experience gastrointestinal problems such as nausea and vomiting.\"" ]

[ "Monday's massive stock sell-off meant declining numbers for every company on the Dow Jones industrial average and all but one on the S&P 500. So what was the lone brand name where investors sought refuge? Campbell's Soup Company. MELISSA BLOCK, host: Yesterday's massive selloff left us wondering, did any companies actually gain ground? Well, on the Dow, Coca-Cola and Wal-Mart both finished among the top five, but like the rest of the companies on the Dow they lost value. And the story is the same on the S&P 500 except there is one company that did not lose value yesterday. (Soundbite of Campbell's commercial) Unidentified Woman: (Singing) Have you, have you, had your soup today? Campbell's of course, Campbell's of course. Have you... BLOCK: That's right, Campbell's's Soup Company. We wondered if Campbell's had some stock market secret for the rest of us, so we called up company spokesman Anthony Sanzio. Mr. ANTHONY SANZIO (Spokesman, Campbell's Soup Company): I think we all have stories about Campbell's soup when we were growing up, either after a football game or when we weren't feeling well our mother gave us a bowl of chicken noodle soup. So, certainly in an age like today where there's uncertainty about things, people look for the familiar, they look for what they know. (Soundbite of Campbell's commercial) Unidentified Woman: (Singing) Should have a bowl of Campbell's soup. Have some Campbell's right now. Unidentified Man: Be good to your family. Serve good soup. Tomorrow buy several cans of Campbell's soups. Let you family enjoy the mmm-mmm good flavors of Campbell's's 21 kinds, in bowlfuls of get up and go. Have you had your soup today?", "Campbell Soup is changing the recipe of one of its chicken soups, but says it isn't quite ready to tinker with its classic chicken noodle version. NPR's Allison Aubrey contacted the company, which clarified that it is changing the ingredient list of the Healthy Kids Shaped Pasta with Chicken in Chicken Broth — in cans with Star Wars- and Frozen-themed labels. \"This is the first step in our journey and we are currently working on a number of our recipes, but it's too soon to give any definite timing on when changes may be made to the classic red & white chicken noodle soup,\" spokeswoman Anna Burr says. Earlier, we reported that Campbell was tinkering with the recipe for its chicken noodle soup in the red-and-white cans. Our earlier post continues: Campbell eliminated 13 ingredients, including a number of flavoring chemicals, such as monosodium glutamate (MSG), but also left out celery and onions, The New York Times reports. The new recipe also cuts potassium chloride, maltodextrin and disodium guanylate, among other ingredients. It adds water, dehydrated onions and dehydrated chicken broth. \"We're closing the gap between the kitchen and our plants,\" Denise M. Morrison, chief executive of Campbell, told the newspaper. Calls to Campbell Soup's corporate communications office were not returned. The move, which the Times says cut the number of ingredients from 30 to 20, comes as consumers are increasingly aware of what they're eating and how it affects the environment. \"Before, when we talked about our business, we talked about how many cases we shipped,\" Morrison said, according to the Times. \"Today, we're talking about our food\" — as in what's in it, where it comes from and what impact it has on the environment.\" The change also comes at a time when both global soup sales and Campbell's soup sales have lagged. The newspaper adds: \"Campbell Soup accounted for almost three-quarters of the $1.6 billion in condensed soup sales here last year, but its unit sales fell more than 5 percent, according to IRI, a data and research firm. The company also dominates the ready-to-eat soup business, but there, too, it lost more than 5 percent of market share last year.\"", "Dog and now cat vitamins recalled due to salmonella. A child's coin purse recalled because of concerns about lead. Even Bridgestone tires for trucks and buses are on the recall track these days, not to mention the highly publicized SpaghettiOs' uh-oh and Kellogg's cereal recalls. At the risk of getting what the Washington Post dubs \"recall fatigue,\" how can you keep track of the ones you care about? There's now an app for that. Read More Instead of tracking down various websites, the new mobile app lets you see it all in one place, wherever you are. The Consumer Product Safety Commission, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Food and Drug Administration, and Department of Agriculture teamed up to create Recalls.gov. It lets consumers search for products by brand name or category (i.e. car seats or pet food), see available photos, and even report potential problems with unsafe products. \"Alerting consumers quickly to food and product recall information through this technology can prevent untold illness and save lives,\" said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack in announcing the app, located on the newly-revamped GSA website. But there's a catch -- a big one. You have to have a phone that uses the Android operating system. Blackberry and iPhone apps are coming soon, the government says. Meanwhile, you can see the lists of recent recalls across the participating agencies here.", "Unfortunately, food recalls have become such a regular feature of daily life that it takes one really out of the ordinary to get people's attention. Maybe this recall will grab you. Valley Meat Co. in Modesto, Calif., just recalled 1 million pounds of beef patties and ground beef produced late last year and in early January. Read More You read that right: 1 million pounds. If you figure that each head of cattle yields about 432 pounds of butcherable meat, then the recall would be the equivalent of more than 2,300 animals. The problem: 7 people came down with nasty infections caused by E. coli O157:H7 that may have come from the meat, the U.S. Department of Agriculture says. That bug produces toxins that can wreak havoc on your intestines and, in some case, damage other organs. The suspect meat was sold in California, Texas, Oregon, Arizona and overseas. Most of it was frozen. To identify products from Valley Meat, look for \"EST. 8268\" in the USDA inspection mark. The company's website is supposed to have a full list of the affected products, but the computers there seemed overwhelmed when when we tried to check late Friday. But you can get also get a rundown from the USDA.", "Campbell&#8217;s soup is changing the ingredients in its chicken noodle soup. The new version contains 20 ingredients, compared to 30 in the previous version. For a homemade alternative, try these recipes from Here & Now&#8217;s resident chef Kathy Gunst: \nChicken-Vegetable Soup\nGreek-Style Chicken-Lemon-Orzo Soup With Meyer Lemon And Dill\nHomemade Chicken Stock\n\nWhat&#8217;s In The New Campbell&#8217;s Chicken Noodle Soup List from The New York Times Chicken stock Enriched pasta (wheat flour, egg whites, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid) Carrots Chicken meat Chicken fat Salt Modified food starch Potassium chloride Monosodium glutamate Chicken flavor Maltodextrin Water Dehydrated mechanically separated chicken Celery Onions Vegetable oil Flavoring Yeast extract Cornstarch Dehydrated chicken broth Sugar Beta carotene for color Dehydrated onions Soy protein isolate Sodium phosphate Disodium inosinate Disodium guanylate Lactic acid Spice Flavoring (soybean oil, soy lecithin) Dehydrated chicken Onion extract Garlic extract", "The Topps Meat Company recalled 21 million pounds of ground beef last week after samples from a New Jersey facility tested positive for a dangerous strain of E. coli. Science correspondent Joe Palca asks whether one E. coli outbreak is enough to warrant that kind of response.", "The Inland Empire meatpacking plant that's at the center of the largest beef recall in U.S. history remains shut down this week. The U.S. Department of Agriculture recalled 143 million pounds of meat processed at the Westland Hallmark Meat Company. The department also suspended production at the company after a video surfaced showing workers apparently forcing sick and injured cows to slaughter.", "On the program yesterday, we featured a story about how much an actual can of Campbell's soup signed by Andy Warhol could sell for. Turns out, it's maybe a few thousand dollars. But a painting of one? Just shy of $12 million. Warhol's 1962 canvas of Campbell's pepper pot soup was gobbled up by billionaire collector Eli Broad yesterday at an auction in New York. The price tag: $11.8 million. A hefty markup for something less than two bucks at the market.", "Campbell's Soup has announced they're cutting their ingredients list. NPR reports on the move to simplify soup.", "Morgan Stanley put out a report this morning that describes a changing U.S. population that gives soup the cold shoulder. Quoting the report, Business Insider reports that, right now, the soup industry is doing just fine, because very much like the national population, about 40 percent of its consumers are younger than 45 and about 60 percent are older than 45-years-old. But there's a mighty shift afoot: Soup consumption by those under 25 is declining twice as fast as the under 25 demographic is declining relative to the total population. Between 2001 and 2010 the US population under the age of 25 declined as a percentage of the overall population by 60 bps while the percentage of soup consumers under the age of 24 (defined as anyone who consumed canned soup in the past 6 months) declined by 130 bps, or over double the decline relative to the overall population. Also, the report found that Hispanics, who are now the largest minority and fastest growing demographic in the country, eat less soup than the rest of the population. The report found that over the past six months 64 percent of U.S. households have consumed soup; that number is 47 percent among Hispanics. Last November, Campbell Soup announced that despite spending $100 million on an ad campaign, sales of their soup fell in the first quarter.", "Last week, 143 million pounds of ground beef were recalled, the largest such recall ever. Melissa Block talks with Ami Gadhia, food safety expert at Consumers Union, about how the dangerous beef is traced and how it got into the food supply in the first place.", "The USDA recalls 143 million pounds of meat from a California slaughterhouse where some of the cows were crippled. Much of the beef went to schools, and a good bit of it has likely already been eaten.", "A Campbell's Soup can scribbled on by Andy Warhol surfaces three decades after it was hidden away in a coat closet. Must be worth a bundle, right? NPR's Kitty Eisele takes a journey through the art world to find out. When I set out to determine what our family \"Warhol\" was worth, friends and colleagues took guesses. \"$75,000,\" said one. \"No, more like $12,000 to $14,000,\" another said. \"I'm guessing higher,\" said a third. \"I vote for $250,000.\" Nearly 30 years ago, my parents were at a party for several contemporary artists, and Andy Warhol was among the guests. My dad thought it would be fun to get his autograph on a soup can. So he asked his hosts whether they had any Campbell's soup. They did — and one signature and several doodles later, we had one of those things \"that will be worth something someday.\" Decades later, the day had come and my dad wondered whether he should sell the can on eBay. I thought we should do a little more investigating, so I started calling a few museums. I learned there is an entire vocabulary you're supposed to know if you have a piece of art: what major collections it's been in and its \"provenance\" and appearances in \"catalogues raisonnes.\" Our soup can hadn't been in any major collections or catalogues — it had been in a coat closet for three decades. And as to proof that Andy Warhol actually signed it — I was sure I could find people from that party — but really, who would keep a can of soup that long if Warhol hadn't signed it? I found a few references to Warhol-signed soup cans on the Web — including a blurry photo of a label peeled from a can, with smudged initials, going for a few thousand dollars. Ours was more intense — dedicated to my dad and sketched on with drawings that looked like hot dogs or lips. And it was still full of soup. So I thought I might have more to go on. I reached Daniel Laskarin, an artist in Vancouver, British Columbia, whose Web site mentioned he had a soup can signed by Warhol. But it had exploded in his studio. Laskarin explained that he'd gotten the can in a trade several years before and one day, he noticed it starting to tilt. He suspected the tomato broth had started to eat through the seam of the can — and within a day or so — the can's contents erupted. Laskarin decided to encase the piece in a Plexiglas container and name it in honor of Warhol's \"death and disaster series.\" At that point I thought I needed to talk to a conservator or art expert or someone who could tell me how to preserve what we had. That turned out to be Campbell's. Their very nice \"Director of Toxicology\" George Dunaif told me Campbell's doesn't keep soup past two years, so he couldn't say what might happen. But under normal conditions, save bumps or extreme temperatures, he didn't think the soup was volatile and should be stable enough to keep the can around the house. Thomas Sokolowski of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh told me that Warhol sometimes signed soup cans at gallery events as a sort of stunt, but mine sounded a little different. Sokolowski also said that actor Dennis Hopper was one of the very first people to buy a Warhol painting of soup. What good is working for public radio if you don't use an excuse like this to interview Dennis Hopper? He was, and remains, an artist, well-regarded and currently exhibiting work in Los Angeles. Back in the early '60s, Hopper recalled, he'd gotten to know art dealer Irving Blum, who first showed him photos of Warhol's work. Hopper later bought one of the very first soup can paintings when Blum showed them on the West Coast. Hopper vividly remembers how excited he felt seeing Warhol's work. \"This was the 'return to reality' everyone was talking about, at the end of a period of abstract expressionism. It was amazing — it was terrific.\" Christie's, it turned out, was selling a major Warhol work in May — one of the very first, and they believed, very best soup can paintings. The work is from Blum, the man who had first championed Warhol and who had introduced him to Hopper. It's a gorgeous painting — of a can of Pepper Pot soup with its label shredded, in brilliant colors of red, gold and charcoal. They were estimating it would sell for $10 million to $15 million. There is nothing like walking into a major auction house with a small paper bag containing a can of soup, and wondering if you're in the right place. Brett Gorvy, Christie's contemporary art curator and the company's deputy chairman, met me in a hushed skybox room overlooking the auction floor. He offered to get the painting and returned moments later to hang it on the wall. There really was no comparison. One was clearly a stupendous painting; the other was a charming piece of \"memorabilia.\" Despite the doodles on the can (Hopper had said he thought they were hot dogs, a reference to Claes Oldenburg's soft sculptures of food), Christie's told me what I had was basically an autograph — \"cool, in fact\" because it was on the soup can, but not an actual work of", "When I woke up this morning and saw the headline Give Chickpeas A Chance, I knew the time had come to salute one of my favorite NPR.org oddities: the food-pun headline. Now, some food headlines are simply great in their own rights, and I just enjoy saying them over and over and over again -- Demystifying The Quince! Cilantro: The Controversial Herb! -- but for some reason, there is an abundance of very excellent food puns, beyond \"Give Chickpeas A Chance,\" and I decided it was time to share a roundup of some of my favorites. So give these headline writers a hand. And also a rowdy \"BOOOOOOO!\" Sparkling Wines To Keep Your Summer Bubbly Unicorn Gag 'Apology' Roasts Pork Board Uh-Oh: 15 Million Pounds Of SpaghettiOs Recalled Finally, New Yorkers Can Bee All They Can Bee World's Largest Banana Museum Forced To Split Climate Change Presents A Burr For Coffee Growers Octopalooza: Eight Arms Three Ways Brewery Business Hopping Despite Tanking Economy Competition Brews Over Decaf Beefer Madness Why the World Is Still Just Mad About Saffron Kernels of Truth About Cornmeal And my personal favorite ... drum roll ... Weed It And Reap: A Meal With Nature's Outcasts", "A subsidiary of ConAgra Foods is poised to plead guilty to a criminal charge and pay the largest-ever criminal fine in a food safety case after an outbreak in its peanut butter sickened at least 625 people in 47 states.", "There are so many different companies trying to influence the shape of climate policy in Washington that it's hard to get a sense for the sheer scale involved. According to the Center for Public Integrity's latest tally, there are now 1,160 businesses and groups wrangling over the issue—and they've hired a whopping 2,780 climate lobbyists. An even better sign of the frenzy is the fact that companies you'd never expect to care about the arcane details of cap-and-trade are now taking a keen interest. Like Campbell Soup and Kellogg: \"It wasn't until we analyzed what was going on in the House that we thought, 'Oh, gosh, we are being affected by this,'\" said Kelly Johnston, Campbell Soup's vice president for public affairs, in an interview. At issue are the free \"allowances,\" or carbon dioxide pollution permits that the House-passed climate bill would give to manufacturers that use a lot of energy to produce internationally traded products, like steel and aluminum. Those energy-intensive industries fighting international competitors successfully lobbied for protection from loss of jobs to China and other cheap-energy countries if the United States unilaterally enacted a carbon reduction program that would make coal-burning more expensive here. But the House bill's approach means manufacturers that don't use as much energy — like Campbell — would have to bid at auction for carbon emissions allowances from the federal government. Johnston argues that Campbell should either be exempt from that process or provided some freebies, too. This looks like a fairly important development. Last summer, remember, when Henry Waxman and Ed Markey were cobbling together a climate bill in the House, they struck an intricate balance on how to divvy up the pollution permits under the cap. Some were given away gratis to big polluters or industries at risk of fleeing to China (steel, cement, aluminum, etc.); others were doled out to local electric utilities with the provision that the money would be used to cushion the blow for ratepayers; still other permits were set aside to reduce deforestation or fund new energy sources. You can read Robert Stavins's detailed breakdown of where all the permits went — he argues that about 20 percent of the permits were pure corporate giveaways, while the rest went to ostensibly public purposes. But the point is that this was all a delicate compromise, and still the bill only barely passed through the House. Now that the bill's wending its way through the Senate, a bunch of new companies have decided to get into the lobbying game and try to force a revision to that formula. Natural-gas producers, for example, feel they got short-shifted by the House. And they have a point. But any new revision also risks alienating the industries that backed the original House bill. Meanwhile, not all of the companies lobbying over climate change want to soften the bill or push for loopholes. As the Center for Public Integrity also reports, a number of venture capitalists and clean-tech investors are trying to push for a more ambitious carbon cap—they want the price of coal to rise as soon as possible, so that alternatives like solar become competitive earlier and provide a quicker return on their investments. (The House bill, by contrast, does a fair bit to shield the coal industry by giving coal utilities free permits for at least the first 15 years.) Today at TNR (January 5, 2009 Barack Obama, You Remind Me of Herbert Hoover, by John B. Judis THE TNR PROFILE: The Ukrainian Presidential Candidate Who Believes She's Evita. Literally, Evita. by Julia Ioffe Why Does Campbell's Soup Find Cap-and-Trade Mmm-Mmm Good? by Bradford Plumer How the Health Care Bill Could Make Doctors Richer AND Help the Poor, by Jonathan Cohn TNR's Best of 2009: Peretz on Obama's Cairo Speech, by Marty Peretz The Cult of Counterinsurgency, by Michael Crowley From the Archives: Intrigue Is Yemen's National Motto Is There a Housing Recovery in Your Neighborhood?, by Alan Berube", "The inventor of the green-bean casserole, Dorcas Reilly died on Oct. 15 at 92. This Thanksgiving, Campbell's Soup estimates the dish will be served and enjoyed in more than 20 million homes Thursday.", "Twenty-five years ago, when Mei Xu emigrated from China to the U.S., she loved going to Bloomingdale's to gaze at their housewares. She eventually started making candles in her basement with Campbell's Soup cans, an experiment that led to the multi-million dollar company Chesapeake Bay Candle.", "Federal authorities say a recall has been issued for 1.8 million pounds of ground beef that was shipped for use in restaurants. Detroit company Wolverine Packing issued the recall Monday; the Department of Agriculture says the beef may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. The USDA categorizes the recall as Class I, its most serious level, which means that there is \"a reasonable probability that the use of the product will cause serious, adverse health consequences or death.\" Investigators say at least 11 people have been made ill by the recalled products in Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri and Ohio. The ground beef was shipped to distributors after being produced between March 31, 2014, and April 18, 2014 (the USDA has a full list of recalled products). The first illnesses related to the recalled products were reported to federal officials on May 12. The USDA's food inspectors worked with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to trace it to Wolverine Packing. The USDA \"advises all consumers to safely prepare their raw meat products, including fresh and frozen, and only consume ground beef that has been cooked to a temperature of 160° F.\"", "More than 75,000 pounds of frozen chicken nuggets have been recalled. Consumers complained they found small pieces of plastic in their food that caused some minor oral injuries.", "Obese and thinking about getting pregnant? If you live in England, health officials are now recommending you lose weight beforehand to avoid health complications, including gestational diabetes. Oh, and come to think of it, you better watch your calories more closely during and after pregnancy, too, the folks at the U.K.'s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence say. The group just issued the new advice in response to an obesity epidemic. Some 15 to 20 percent of English women are overweight or obese during pregnancy, NICE says. Read More Forget that old wives' tale about eating for two while pregnant. Uh-uh, NICE says. Sure, that bun in the oven needs nutrition. But one of the NICE experts says mom's need for extra calories doesn't hit until the last third of pregnancy. Even then, the increase isn't big -- around 200 calories a day, or less than your average bagel. So how much weight gain is OK during pregnancy? The U.S. Institute of Medicine took a look at the medical evidence and in early 2009 issued the first new guidelines in two decades. A precise answer depends on a woman's body mass index, or BMI. For obese American women (BMI greater than 30), a good weight-gain target is 11 to 20 pounds. Women in good health and with a normal BMI (that's 18.5 to 24.9) should gain 25 to 35 pounds during pregnancy. Underweight women (BMI less than 18.5) should put on more weight -- 28 to 40 pounds. And overweight women (BMI of 25 to 29.9) should keep the gain to 15 to 25 pounds. Finally, nobody thinks it's a good idea to go on a crazy diet during or after pregnancy. \"Women should understand that weight loss after birth takes time and that physical activity and gradual weight loss will not affect their ability to breastfeed,\" Professor Mike Kelly, director of the Centre for Public Health Excellence at NICE, said in a statement.", "After being linked to the deaths of three babies in the past year, about 1 million \"SlingRider\" and \"Wendy Bellissimo\" baby slings made by Infantino are being recalled, the Consumer Product Safety Commission just announced. Earlier this month, CPSC issued a warning about the popular infant carriers. Today, as the Associated Press writes, CPSC said \"babies can suffocate in the soft fabric slings\" and that it is \"urging parents to immediately stop using the slings for babies under 4 months.\" The wire service adds that \"Infantino President Jack Vresics says the company will offer a free replacement baby carrier, activity gym or shopping cart cover to any affected consumer.\" Back in April 2008, Consumer Reports' Safety Blog wrote that: \"Baby slings may be fashionable among Hollywood stars and other new parents but at a recent meeting I learned about some safety concerns that made me shudder. Over the past 10 years, there have been at least 22 reports of serious injury associated with the use of sling-type carriers. The injuries include skull fractures, head injuries, contusions and abrasions. Most occurred when the child fell out of the sling.\" Update at 1:20 p.m. ET: The CPSC now has a press release posted here. It reads, in part: The Infantino \"SlingRider,\" is a soft fabric baby carrier with a padded shoulder strap that is worn by parents and caregivers to carry an infant weighing up to 20 lbs. \"Infantino\" is printed on the plastic slider located on the strap. \"Infantino,\" \"SlingRider\" and the item number are printed on the instruction/warning label inside the baby sling carrier. \"Wendy Bellissimo\" branded sling carriers were sold exclusively at Babies \"R\" Us and have a sewn-in label on the inside of the sling strap that says in part \"Wendy Bellissimo Media, Inc.\" and lists Item numbers 3937500H7 and 3937501H7. Infantino LLC sold the slings in the United States and Canada from January 2003 through March 2010 at Walmart, Burlington Coat Factory, Target, Babies \"R\" Us, BJ's Wholesale, various baby and children's stores and other retailers nationwide, and on the Web at Amazon.com, for between $25 and $30. Infantino now has recall information posted here. And it has produced a poster about the recall:", "For at least the past decade, the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) has been the unrivaled voice of a vast industry, from neighborhood grocery stores to food manufacturing giants with supply chains that span the globe. Most recently, it's been a powerful force in fighting proposals to require information about added sugar or GMOs on food labels. Today, that colossus is teetering and facing questions about its future. Over the past six months, eight of GMA's largest members have decided to drop their membership. Each defection was quickly revealed on the news site Politico. One industry insider says that he's seen a list of another three companies that are considering leaving the association. Although the reasons, in most cases, remain unclear, several of the defections raise questions about whether the food industry is capable of speaking with one voice anymore, as companies respond to contradictory demands from consumers. The companies leaving the GMA include some very big names indeed. The Campbell Soup Company led the way, followed by Unilever (maker of a vast array of packaged foods, such as Hellman's mayonnaise), the candy maker Mars, Tyson Foods (America's biggest meat producer), Nestlé, Dean Foods, Hershey's, and the grain giant Cargill. Only Campbell Soup has given specific reasons for leaving the industry group. CEO Denise Morrison told industry analysts last July that Campbell had run into \"philosophical differences with many of our peers in the food industry on important issues\" such as whether to label GMOs or to quickly adopt the FDA's expanded nutrition facts labels. In both cases, Campbell Soup broke with most other food companies in adding that information to its product labels. The company has since joined a much smaller group, the Plant Based Food Association. Other companies have offered no explanation for their departures, or they have issued statements that leave everything to the imagination. Cargill, for instance, announced that it \"believes at this time of unprecedented industry change, we can accomplish our business objectives outside GMA.\" A spokesman for Dean Foods told The Salt in an email that the company was leaving GMA \"so we can prioritize and allocate our limited time and resources elsewhere.\" Charlie Arnot, CEO of the Center for Food Integrity, an industry-funded nonprofit group, says that the exodus reflects, in part, fragmentation in the food industry. \"This starts with fundamental changes that are taking place with consumers,\" he says. \"We're no longer as monolithic as we once were.\" Many food companies, he says, are creating new brands that respond to demand for foods that promise better nutrition, health, or environmental benefits, and \"the emerging lifestyle brands are growing markedly faster than the legacy brands,\" Arnot says. The differing priorities of these different businesses, he says, have provoked conflict within the GMA over issues like GMO labeling or nutrition standards. A number of companies that have left GMA, such as Campbell, Unilever, Mars, and Hershey's, have been highlighting efforts to promote transparency, better nutrition, or environmental sustainability. Roger Lowe, Executive Vice President for Strategic Communications at the GMA, tells The Salt that there's been no single reason driving companies toward leaving. \"Companies have given us a range of reasons,\" he says. But he says that those decisions have accelerated a process of \"reinvention\" at the GMA that was launched earlier last year. In a prepared statement, Lowe also noted that \"the food industry is facing significant disruption and is evolving — and so is GMA. We all will continue to evolve and change at an even faster pace. We are always sorry when member companies decide to leave, and hope to work with them on issues of mutual interest in the future.\" Later this year, the association will move from its offices in downtown Washington to the neighboring Virginia suburb of Rosslyn.", "Kraft Foods is going through a rough patch. This week, Kraft recalled nearly 2.5 million boxes of macaroni and cheese that were potentially contaminated with metal pieces. Also, Kraft Singles, a pre-sliced processed cheese product, earned a nutritional seal from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. The seal prompted outrage from nutritionists. \"I am really shocked that this would be the first thing that the academy would choose to endorse,\" children's nutrition advocate Casey Hinds told the New York Times. The academy said the seal is not an endorsement, but recognition that Kraft supports its Kids Eat Right program. Kraft declined to comment. Kraft is one of a number of processed food companies that are facing challenges from many directions. The company specializes in cheeses, salad dressings and Oscar Mayer meats — things that are typically used to make sit-down meals. But sit-down meals are not what consumers are buying, says Jared Koerten, senior food analyst with market-research firm Euromonitor. \"When you look sort of at the broader U.S. food landscape, you're seeing a big shift toward snack foods,\" Koerten says. \"Some people have called it the 'snackification of U.S. food.' \" Another challenge: a younger generation that prefers artisanal brands with a healthier image. Koerten says the trend toward healthier foods is a challenge for all packaged products, which may still dominate supermarket shelves, but which are losing ground when it comes to social-media marketing. Some, like Campbell's Soup, are trying to adapt their brands toward more organic or healthy options, says Barry Weinstein a food-manufacturing consultant based in Fullerton, Calif. \"They're taking the Campbell's line, that's a brand that's been around for a long time, and they're just trying to update it and make it appeal to evolving consumer tastes,\" Weinstein says. Weinstein helps independent food startups manufacture in small batches, and says his business has increased 30 or 40 percent since 2008. He says the big players are also buying into the new markets. \"I think Kraft and other larger firms are addressing this through acquisition,\" he says. General Mills, for example, bought organic mac and cheese brand Annie's last year. Coca-Cola acquired Honest Tea four years ago. But, Weinstein says, mainstream brands are still king, and although consumers are clearly more skeptical about processed foods, given the volume, he says the vast majority are safe to eat. \"You're talking about a situation where the lines are running [and] producing anywhere from 250 to 1,000 units per minute,\" he says. He says the U.S. still has the safest food manufacturing in the world, and the fact that Kraft identified and recalled all that mac and cheese means the system worked. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Kraft Macaroni and Cheese is kind of on the ropes right now. This week, Kraft Foods announced a recall of millions of boxes of its signature food product and there's a campaign to get the company to change labeling on its cheese products that some nutritionists believe is misleading. NPR's Yuki Noguchi reports. YUKI NOGUCHI, BYLINE: Kraft specializes in cheeses, salad dressings and Oscar Mayer meats - things that are typically used to make sit-down meals. And Jared Koerten says that goes against the grain. JARED KOERTEN: Meanwhile, when you look sort of at the broader U.S. food landscape, you're seeing a big shift towards snack foods. Some people have called it the snackification of U.S. food. NOGUCHI: Koerten is senior food analyst with market-research firm Euromonitor. He says processed foods face challenges from many directions; among them, a younger generation that prefers artisanal brands with a healthier image. And in that respect, Kraft's recall this week of nearly 2.5 million boxes of mac and cheese potentially contaminated with metal pieces didn't help. KOERTEN: That just sort of speaks to a consumer's perception of big processed food companies. NOGUCHI: In a separate incident, Kraft is including an Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics label on its processed cheese slices that the group says reflects sponsorship but not an endorsement of the product. Kraft declined comment. Koerten says it's a challenge for all packaged foods, which may still dominate supermarket shelves, but which are losing ground when it comes to social media marketing. Some, like Campbell's Soup, are trying to adapt their brands toward more organic or healthy options. KOERTEN: They're taking the Campbell's line - it's a brand that's been around for a very long time - and they're just trying to update it and make it appeal to evolving consumer tastes. NOGUCHI: Barry Weinstein is a food-manufacturing consultant based in Fullerton, Calif. Weinstein helps independent food startups manufacture in small batches and says his business has increased 30 or 40 percent since 2008. He says the big players are also buying into the new market. BARRY WEINSTEIN: I think Kraft and other larger firms ", "Forty-thousand pounds of mac and cheese spilled from a trailer in Nashville, Tenn., when it overturned on the road. Just one day earlier, two trucks hauling chicken and pumpkin pies caught fire.", "Scientists say they have found rat poison in samples of pet food blamed in the deaths of at least 15 cats and one dog. Producer Menu Foods has broadened a recall to all 95 brands of the \"cuts and gravy\" style food.", "The Swiss giant Nestlé is facing a commercial disaster in India over allegations that its best-selling brand of instant noodle soup contains unsafe amounts of lead as well as the taste enhancer monosodium glutamate (MSG). Sales of the soup, sold under the brand Maggi (pronounced Maggie), have plunged since the food safety dispute erupted. Complaints about the instant soup first surfaced in the state of Uttar Pradesh, where Food and Drug Administration officials reportedly discovered during routine testing that lead content in some Maggi samples was about seven times higher than is permissible. On April 30, they ordered a recall of some 200,000 batches of the noodles. The food scare has prompted a cascade of testing, as one state after the next took up the growing safety concern. Over the past 48 hours, the Delhi government has found that 10 of 13 samples of Maggi noodles contained MSG and amounts of lead over the legal limit of 2.5 parts per million. Delhi is reportedly preparing to take legal action against the company over sales of an unsafe product and \"misbranding.\" It has already banned the sale of Maggi noodles for 15 days and asked the Indian unit of Nestlé to withdraw existing stock. As The Associated Press reports: \"Excessive intake of lead can cause damage to the kidneys, bones and nervous system. It is particularly harmful to children and can cause learning disorders. Health experts say MSG, often used as a flavor enhancer in processed food and in some restaurants, can damage the nervous system with long-term use.\" Maggi soup has been slurped by millions of people since it rose to popularity in India as the snack of the middle class in the 1980s. Today, Maggi stalls are a staple on college campuses and rural roadsides. Officials in at least eight other states said they have sent samples for testing at government labs. Odisha, Punjab, Uttrakhand, Assam, Gujarat and Tamil Nadul are among those awaiting test results before they decide whether to remove the instant noodles from store shelves. Several prominent Bollywood names have found themselves in hot water over the noodle scare: A local court in the state of Bihar has ordered police to register cases against executives of Maggi and its brand ambassadors But officials in the states of Maharashtra and Goa said they have found no negative findings in the samples tested so far. The Times of India quoted the deputy director of Goa's FDA saying that following the nationwide controversy over Maggi, the department conducted a series of tests that found no violation of food laws. Nestlé has said that tests of more than 1,000 batches (representing some 125-million packets) of Maggi 2-Minute Noodles found the snack safe to eat. Nestlé India told The Wall Street Journal on Monday that it tested noodles after food-safety inspectors in one state filed a criminal complaint alleging the product contained dangerously high levels of lead. \"Internal and external tests show that lead levels are well within the limits specified by food regulations,\" the company said in a statement. It added that with the exception of Uttar Pradesh state, \"We have til now not received any orders from any state/Centre FDA authorities to recall Maggi noodle products in the market.\" Maggi noodles have been Nestlé's fastest-selling food item in India. The company's stock tumbled about 10 percent today on the Bombay Stock Exchange, its biggest drop in nine years. Author and columnist Chetan Bhagat put it this way on Twitter: \"Maggi Noodles is now facing the biggest and fastest PR disaster in the social media age. Cooked in less than 2 minutes this time.\"", "As the weather turns cooler, Here & Now Resident Chef Kathy Gunst&#8217;s thoughts turn to nice warming soups. And as she tells Here & Now&#8217;s Jeremy Hobson, making a simple soup base or stock is easy and a great way to get rid of leftovers. &#8220;Everything that&#8217;s in the vegetable bin that looks like &#8216;uh,oh, if we don&#8217;t use it tonight we&#8217;re in trouble&#8217; kind of feeling? Throw it into the pot, boil it up, make a soup.&#8221; She brings in her chicken stock as well as Roasted Fall Vegetable Soup with Winter Pesto and Greek-Style Turkey-Lemon-Rice Soup. Here are her recipes: \nHomemade Chicken Stock\nKathy Gunst’s Roasted Fall Vegetable Soup\n\nWinter Parsley Pesto\n\n\nGreek-Style Turkey-Lemon-Rice Soup (“Avgolemono”)\n\nHomemade Chicken Stock (printer-friendly PDF of all five recipes) Kathy’s Note: It’s so easy there’s hardly a recipe. Instructions: Clean a whole chicken and place in a pot. Add 3 carrots cut into 1-inch pieces. Add 3 stalks celery cut into 3-inch pieces. Add 2 large onions, peeled and cut into small pieces. Add 1 bay leaf and 6 peppercorns and salt to taste. Cover with cold water to almost cover the chicken and vegetables. Bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce the heat to low and partially cover. Cook for 1 hour. Taste the stock for seasoning. Add salt and pepper to taste. If the stock tastes weak simmer for another 15 to 25 minutes without the lid. The stock can be strained and frozen for up to a year or kept tightly sealed in the refrigerator for a week. Use the chicken and vegetables in salads, tacos, or added back into the soup. \nMore Kathy Gunst recipes and cooking segments\n\nKathy Gunst’s Roasted Fall Vegetable Soup\n Kathy’s Note: Cubes of winter vegetables – parsnips, butternut squash, celery root, carrots, and celery, along with shallots, leeks and garlic — are roasted until just tender, golden brown, and caramelized and then tossed with a splash of white wine and some good stock. The soup takes less than an hour from start to finish and the results are startlingly complex. Ingredients: 3 medium parsnips, peeled and cut into ½-inch size pieces 2 medium carrots, peeled and cut into ½-inch size pieces One 2-pound butternut squash, or any type of winter squash, peeled and cut into ½-inch size cubes 2 stalks celery, cut into ½-inch size pieces 1 medium-size celery root (also called celeriac), about 1 ¼ pounds, peeled and cut into ½-inch size pieces 3 leeks, cut lengthwise, cleaned, and cut into ½-inch size pieces 2 shallots, peeled and cut in quarters 8 cloves garlic, 4 left whole and 4 thinly sliced Salt and freshly ground black pepper 1 ½ tablespoons fresh thyme leaves, chopped, or 2 teaspoons dried 2 ½ tablespoons olive oil 6 cups vegetable or chicken broth ½ cup dry white wine Serve with the Winter Parsley Pesto (recipe below) Instructions: Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Toss the parsnips, carrots, squash, celery, celery root, leeks, shallots, garlic, salt, pepper, thyme, and olive oil together in a large very shallow roasting pan. Place on the middle shelf and roast for 20 minutes. Raise the heat to 455 degrees and roast another 10 minutes. Meanwhile, simmer the broth in a large pot and bring to a boil over high heat. Immediately remove the vegetables from the oven and deglaze the pan with the wine, being sure to use a soft spatula to loosen any bits clinging to the bottom of the pan. Pour the vegetables and the liquid from the bottom of the pan into the pot with the simmering broth. Reduce the heat to low and simmer 10 minutes, partially covered. Serve piping hot with the parsley pesto. Serves 6 to 8. Winter Parsley Pesto\n Kathy’s Note: A vibrant green pesto, made with parsley instead of basil, and ideal for winter when fresh herbs are scarce. This pesto may be made several hours ahead of time. The pesto will keep, covered and refrigerated for 2 to 3 days. It can also be frozen for several months. Ingredients: 1 packed cup chopped fresh parsley leaves 1 clove garlic, peeled Salt and freshly ground black pepper ½ cup olive oil ¼ cup grated Parmesan cheese Instructions: In a food processor or blender, whirl the parsley and garlic with some salt and pepper until finely chopped. With the motor running, slowly add the oil making sure not to over-process the pesto; it should still be a little chunky. Remove to a bowl and stir in the cheese. Season to taste. Makes about ¾ cup. Greek-Style Turkey-Lemon-Rice Soup\n Kathy’s Note: This soup is a great way to use leftover chicken stock or turkey stock. The stock is simmered with fresh lemon juice, cream, fresh dill, and egg yolks to create a soothing comforting soup. Orzo or rice is added to thicken the soup. Ingredients: About 6 cups turkey or chicken broth ½ cup fresh parsley, finely chopped 2 ½ tablespoons fresh dill sprigs, finely chopped 2 cups cooked orzo or white rice, at room temperature 2 cups cooked chicken or turkey, chopped into bite-size pieces 2 egg yolks ½ to 1 cup heavy cream, depending on ho", "Even if you don't buy much candy all year, chances are you're buying it now to prepare for the Trick-Or-Treaters when they come knocking on Sunday night. So take a break from carving pumpkins in the shape of Star Wars characters and focus a little extra care on those treats -- at least two kinds of candy have been recalled in the last few days. Nestle USA recalled bags of Raisinets in the 10 oz. fun-sized bag with a production code of 0201574 and UPC number 2800010255 sold at Target and Shop Rite all over the country because they may contain peanuts that could cause bad allergic reactions in some kids. Read More And the manufacturer of MegaPops has asked store owners to take all packages of its lollipops off shelves after it found metal bits in some of them. MegaPops maker Colombina announced a recall of both 14 and 28 oz size bags of watermelon, cherry, orange and grape flavored pops, and the UPC Code numbers: 0 14272 10873 9 or 0 14272 10862 3. Look for the lot numbers: 1240695, 1209708, or 1209796. \"We are always guided by customer safety and satisfaction,\" said Carlos Gil, Colombina USA Vice President. \"Using an abundance of caution, we are working with all our valued retailers to quickly remove the product from the shelves. We’ve also set up a special 24 hour hotline to answer any questions consumers may have,\" he said in a statement. (1-888-317-3686) So how do you know when candy or other food products are getting yanked? Foodsafety.gov has a rolling list. You could always offer non-candy treats, like tiny boxes of cereal or small rubber balls and spiders, but then you might be risking the toilet paper treatment.", "Goodbye to a real potty mouth; the White House says the dog ate 5 million of these things; the man who really got to say, \"I told you so!\" to the entire world.", "Uh-oh, Bumbo. The South African maker of molded foam seats that help babies sit up is recalling about 4 million of the chairs because of safety problems. Babies can get hurt falling out of the seats. If you have one of the Bumbo seats, you don't have to throw it out or return it. Instead, the recall works a little like one for a car. Bumbo International Trust has a free fix that consists of a safety belt to keep kids in place. You have to get those from the company, not the store where you bought the seat. Continue Reading Bumbo's repair kit also includes a warning sticker to remind parents and caregivers not to use the seat on raised surfaces, such as tabletops. Don't use the seats until they're fixed, the company and the Consumer Products Safety Commission say. Back in 2007, Bumbo recalled 1 million of the seats after reports of serious head injuries to kids who fell out of seats. Three children whose chairs were on top of tables suffered skull fractures. The recall consisted of a warning and beefed-up instructions against using the seats above the floor or ground. The CPSC and Bumbo now say babies have fallen from chairs atop elevated surfaces at least 50 times since the 2007 recall. In 19 cases, the kids reportedly sustained skull fractures. There have been other reports of kids being injured after getting out of seats at floor level or unknown heights. The latest recall affects seats bought between between August 2003 and this month. They've been sold by some of the biggest retailers, including Wal-Mart, Target, Babies \"R\" Us and Sears. For more details, including a video on how to repair the seats, see the Bumbo USA recall website.", "The Consumer Product Safety Commission has come under scrutiny this week because its acting director asked members of congress not to give her agency more money. So that makes the timing of the CPSC's announcements today of yet more recalls rather, um, interesting? Just as I was absorbing the news that Toys R Us is recalling 16,000 Chinese-made toys because of excessive lead levels, I saw another headline cross--this one warning about lead in something that's actually intended to go in your mouth: Halloween \"Ugly Teeth.\" Better late than never, I guess. So spit out those chompers if you bought 'em." ]

[ "Hydroponic gardening is a method of growing plants without soil. The plants are grown instead in water amended with essential nutrients, or they may be grown in gravel or perlite saturated with this nutrient solution." ]

[ "Deep Water Culture is a Hydroponic system of gardening that is very simple yet extremely effective. Deep water culture is a hydroponic system where roots bathe in a nutrient solution which provides the perfect environment for thriving roots and a high yielding plant.", "Whether you spend time gardening outdoors or indoors in your home or greenhouse, it is important to protect your skin from harmful elements that can be potentially damaging; such as wind, sun, pesticides, and other chemicals.", "Planting seeds in pots can be a great way to start a houseplant or indoor garden, or otherwise start seeds that you may later transplant into your garden.", "An indoor herb garden can be a great way to grow fresh herbs from your home. However, growing herbs inside presents some unique challenges. You will have to keep up with general care in regards to watering and pruning.", "Making artificial rock can benefit anyone, from the casual garden enthusiast to the landscaping professional who wants to spice up their garden life.", "Botrytis is a fungal disease that impacts many plants in the garden, indoors, and in the greenhouse, if given half a chance. This article explains how to do your best to prevent it from getting a toehold in your garden.", "A waterfront garden can be a great addition to property that sits by a lake, a river, or the ocean. Often waterfront gardens benefit from access to lots of sunlight and moist soil, not to mention the stunning views.", "Many gardeners get an early start on planting seeds by starting them in planting pots indoors and transplanting them later to the garden when the danger of frost is past.", "Roses from your garden make an excellent indoor decoration or gift, but in order to preserve the roses for as long as possible, you need to know how to cut them properly.", "Potted plants are a great way to bring the beauty of the natural world indoors. You can also keep potted plants outside, as a way to decorate your deck or patio, or to complement your garden.", "Whether you have potted indoor plants or an outdoor container garden, soil selection is critical to plant health. Choose the best soil to provide your plants with the right amount of drainage, soil consistency, and nutrient-retention.", " Are you new to hydroponics???Well,many people do not know much about hydroponics.Here is a simple way to get started. ", "Whether you live in an arid region or you’re just looking to conserve water, a low water garden is a great option. These gardens offer the added benefit of needing less maintenance (i.e. watering) than traditional landscaping.", "A solid foundation for maintaining your hydroponic nutrient solution reservoir! A reservoir forms the center of every single type of hydroponic growing system.", "Many gardeners wonder how they can add some pizzazz to their garden. If you have decided your garden could benefit from some more color or interesting artwork, you may have been saddened to learnt that most commercial garden art is quite expensive.", "A good way to start an indoor herb garden is to use a strawberry jar. A strawberry jar is a terracotta container that has various outlets all the way down it to allow for the strawberries to grow out from.", "Peanuts are surprisingly easy to grow at home. Most gardeners have more luck by starting the plants indoors early in the season and transplanting their seedlings into an outdoor garden once the soil warms up.", "Planting a dream garden can be challenging, but rewarding. Read on to find out how you can reap the benefits from growing flowers to harvesting your own food.", "Cat grass comes in a variety of types from wheat to barley. It gives cats a great way to balance their digestion and relieve anxiety. Both indoor and outdoor cats can benefit from having cat grass available to them.", "Gardening advice will often refer to different types of fertilizers available for indoor or garden plants. If you're not current with the terminology, this can be a little confusing at times, so here is a quick rundown on what's what.", "A terrarium is a miniature indoor garden inside a glass container. The plants are low maintenance and are perfect for people who don't have a green thumb or who don't have time to care for a garden.", "Why buy expensive treatments or toxic fertilizers to ensure rich soil and a fertile garden when you can get the same benefits from compost? Before you go to the local nursery or garden supply store and pay a premium for composting ingredients, consider making compost on your own at home.", "Mulch has numerous benefits that make it a useful addition to gardens. It helps keep the weeds out of the yard, it protects plants from temperatures that are not to their liking, and it improves the overall soil quality.", "Urinating in plants is an inappropriate (and smelly) behavior for pets. If your pets prefer urinating in your garden or indoor potted plants, you will need to stop the behavior and use strategies to prevent your pets from doing it again.", "Mini peppers are fun and easy plants to grow. They can produce year round when grown indoors, or can make beautiful additions to your outdoor garden.", "Did you know that the bottle of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) in your medicine cabinet has benefits other than anti-septic and bleaching ones? Most people don’t know that hydrogen peroxide can help you grow a beautiful garden.", "Many indoor wood-burning stoves are made completely from thick cast iron. While this material is effective at containing a fire and providing heat indoors, it will also need to be cleaned from time to time.", "Making your own concrete planter is a surprisingly easy and inexpensive way to create the indoor or outdoor plant housing that your specific garden needs.", "Lemon balm is a leafy herb from the mint family that grows easily and plentifully in any home garden. The perennial plant has many uses that can benefit your skin, body and mind.", "Here is a wonderful way to use up the mint that is growing out of control in your garden. Pick the finest specimens, bring them indoors and dip in chocolate!", "During the height of summer, with nasturtiums growing everywhere, they're a beautiful addition to any garden. But they're not just a lovely garden plant––this plant also has culinary benefits.", "Aloe vera plants make great indoor or outdoor plants; they are also handy to have around because of their healing properties. These plants are succulents, and therefore can become sick due to overwatering, underwatering, and other environmental factors." ]

[ "If you really just need to push the file to several computers, then maybe a PowerShell script to do exactly that would be enough?\n\n$Session = New-PSSession -ComputerName TargetMachine -Credential $cred\nCopy-Item -Path C:\\localfile.txt -Destination C:\\remotefile.txt -ToSession $session\n\n\nThis needs PowerShell 5, apparently. And you probably want a loop of some sort to do it for all the target machines." ]

[ "How did you manage to get those books to your kindle? By cable or by email? If cable I would try to send them over your kindle mail - it will got parsed one more time and that could help.", "There is no such thing as a one-dimensional scale of security which would allow to rate all or even most scenarios as low, medium or high security. Every scenario has context, requirements, goals, and overall an attack model.\n\nIn any case, Shamir's Secret Sharing is \"perfect\", in that it is one of the very few algorithms which offer unconditional security: even infinitely powerful computers could not break the features offered by that scheme.\n\nWhat are these features ? Namely:\n\n\nThe algorithm works in a finite field K. Practical implementations use GF(256), i.e. bytes.\nLet m be a sequence of elements of K (i.e., some bytes).\nLet n be the \"number of shares\" and t the \"threshold\" such that n ≥ t ≥ 1.\nThe algorithm produces n \"shares\", where each share is a sequence of elements of K of the same length as m. The shares are such that any subset of t shares is sufficient to efficiently rebuild m; but any subset of t-1 shares yields no information whatsoever on m (except, of course, its length).\n\n\nRegardless of its perfection, the algorithm is only for transit: at the time the shares are produced, the value m exists as a whole in some physical system; and when the value m must be rebuilt, it is rebuilt: it again exists as a whole in some other physical system. The splitting operates only between these two points in space-time. It is sufficient for some usages, some of which being possibly \"high security\"; I have used it, for instance, to split a backup copy of a master key in a smart card management system (the master key does exist in a specific system; the backup was done to be able to recover from a catastrophic loss such as a flood or fire).\n\nNo algorithm does everything. There are scenarios where the security features of Shamir's Secret Sharing do not match that which is needed. In a context of \"shares\" and \"threshold\", there are, for instance, group signatures: this is meant for situations where digital signatures must be produced, with no single entity being able to generate signatures on its own. But we also want this property to be maintained even if many signatures are produced. If you wanted to use Shamir's Secret Sharing for that, then you would split a normal signature private key, and rebuild it when signing, but this requires a \"trusted system\", both for key generation and key usage. That system would, transiently, acquire knowledge of the full key. If this is unacceptable to you, then you have to do something else, and that's what group signature algorithms are meant for. A group signature allows for a signature to be generated by the collective actions of sufficiently many key share owners, without the private key being disclosed to any of them, however dishonest he may be.\n\nGroup algorithms are inherently more restrictive than Shamir's Secret Sharing since they do not, by definition, rebuild the secret that was split; as such, they can only compute a specific function involving the secret (e.g. signature generation or asymmetric decryption). On the other hand, good group algorithms can avoid to some extent the need for a trusted system (many group signatures have honesty thresholds: if sufficiently many malicious key share owners cooperate with each other, they may gain some extra power).\n\nGroup algorithms are no more or no less secure than Shamir's Secret Sharing; they just do something else.", "Satoru Gojo is always seen wearing his signature black blindfold and otherwise a pair of dark eyeglasses not because he is blind but because it is a part of who he is; it is distinctive and has become one of his signature character traits.\n\nThe writers wished to symbolize the importance of his eyes, which often see more than they see less. In addition, this also serves as a barrier and a way in which Gojo manages to keep himself distanced from others while teaching.\n\nProof he does see is provide during chapter 0-1 the Cursed Child Arc when he confronts Getou, we see his glasses practically fall off of him in this scene because it’s impossible for him to remain blind. Therefore, his eyeglasses serve as means of defence for retaining his emotions and enable him to find balance with himself.", "Generally speaking, you should run partitioning tools on full disk devices, not individual partitions; in your case:\n\ngdisk /dev/sda\n\n\nI’m not sure why gdisk reports “MBR present” for Windows partitions (I would guess it’s some signature which is matched).\n\nPartitioning schemes are designed for managing entire volumes.\n\n(There are some cases where partitions exist inside partitions, e.g. with logical partitions inside extended partitions, or BSD disklabels inside an MBR partition. They are really implementation accidents, and not really germane to the discussion here; in particular, logical partitions are managed by full-disk partition tools. As another aside, it’s possible to have partitions anywhere using the Linux loop device, but feel free to ignore that here.)", "If your blog is targeted at local historians and genealogists, get ahold of your local history and genealogy groups and make them aware of your blog and to tell their members. They will come back if you have new or interesting content for them, and they will comment as well if something tweaks their interest.\n\nRemember that the world sees your blog. Lots of people will find it who aren't interested in your local history, so don't be offended if they don't post.\n\nComments happen if you give people something worth commenting about. Think about your content.\n\nAdvertise your blog in your email signature and on any profiles you have (such as your Stack Exchange profile)\n\nFinally, suggest your blog to GeneaBloggers, and support the genealogy blogging community by visiting their blogs and commenting on their posts." ]

[ "FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) - Police are investigating a possible hit and run in Fort Lauderdale.\nIt happened just after midnight, Monday, near West Cypress Creek Road and South Powerline Road.\nPolice closed off all lanes while they investigated. They have since been reopened.\nThere is no word on the victim’s condition.\nIf you have any information on this crime, call Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS. Remember, you can always remain anonymous, and you may be eligible for a $3,000 reward.\nCopyright 2016 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed." ]

[ "UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (ABC7) — Police are searching for a hit and run vehicle that may have crashed into Chesterfield County man laying in an Upper Marlboro roadway Sunday evening.\nSixty-one-year-old Donald Durent Easter, of South Chesterfield, was believed to have been crossing Maryland Route 4 at the intersection of Westphalia Road when he possibly passed out from a medical emergency, Maryland State Police said.\nPolice reported preliminary evidence pointed to a hit and run vehicle then running him over.\nDurant was pronounced dead at the scene.\n“Preliminary investigation revealed that the pedestrian was walking across MD-4 and had a possible medical emergency and passed out in the travel portion of the roadway. Evidence on the scene indicated that the pedestrian was run over by an unknown vehicle. Three witnesses were identified that observed the male laying in the roadway, and were unable to provide any possible vehicle information,” Maryland State Police said in a press release.\nThis is a developing story. Stay with 8News online and on air for the latest updates.\nNever miss another Facebook post from 8News\nFind 8News on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram; send your news tips to iReport8@wric.com.", "From police:\nHit and Run\nAt approximately 12:20 a.m. on October 4, 2017, Manassas City Police responded to the intersection of Liberia Ave and Centreville Road for a report of a hit and run. The victim told police the suspect vehicle struck her vehicle in the rear, and then fled the scene. The suspect vehicle was reported to be dark in color, possibly a Chevrolet.\nPedestrian Struck\nAt approximately 6:26 p.m. on October 3, 2017, Manassas City Police responded to the intersection of Godwin Drive at Nokesville Road for a report of a pedestrian struck by a vehicle. Through investigation it was determined the victim was walking in the roadway and was struck by a vehicle. The victim sustained non-life threatening injuries and was flown to a local area hospital. There were no charges filed against the driver.\nPossession of a Firearm -**Arrest**\nAt approximately 12:59 p.m. on September 29, 2017, the Manassas City Police Department responded to 9101 Prince William Street, the Manassas Museum, for a report of a group of individuals loitering in the area. On scene, police spoke with a witness who stated a male subject pointed a firearm at him. Officers identified a 15-year-old resident of Manassas as the suspect. A firearm was recovered at the scene. The juvenile was charged with possession of a firearm and other unrelated charges.", "Metro South Post troopers tried to pull over the 34-year-old woman for running through their flares near a traffic crash scene, but she “attempted to elude the patrol vehicles by pulling into an alley” outside a building on West Alexandrine at about 2:20 a.m., investigators said in a statement. (Photo: Detroit News file)\nA Detroit driver was arrested early Monday after allegedly fleeing from Michigan State Police, hitting a squad car then running into a Midtown apartment complex.\nMetro South Post troopers tried to pull over the 34-year-old woman for running through their flares near a traffic crash scene, but she “attempted to elude the patrol vehicles by pulling into an alley” outside a building on West Alexandrine at about 2:20 a.m., investigators said in a statement.\nFinding the alley blocked, the motorist ended up veering in reverse and striking the front end of a patrol car — damaging its push bumper and hood, according to the release.\nWith the troopers still pursuing her, the woman jumped out of the vehicle and fled into the complex by punching a key code, state police reported.\nThat didn’t stop the chase, though.\n“Troopers were able to gain access through the door, caught and arrested the driver,” authorities said.\nThe woman, who has not been identified, was held at the Detroit Detention Center pending prosecutor’s review of possible charges.\nRead or Share this story: http://detne.ws/2w8tFyD", "VCU alumnus Bijan C. Ghaisar, 25, died Nov. 27 after U.S Park Police in Fairfax County shot him following a hit-and-run accident. Ghaisar died 10 days after three gunshot wounds to his head resulted in significant brain damage. Ghaisar was unarmed when he was shot.\n“The reason for the murder of our son has yet to be determined,” his family said in a statement to The Washington Post. “Though no reasoning could possibly justify the actions of the one or more Park Police officers involved in this unthinkable act.”\nPark Police said they pursued Ghaisar’s Jeep on Nov. 17 because of its involvement in a hit-and-run accident on George Washington Memorial Parkway in Alexandria. Ghaisar was stopped in the Fort Hunt area of Fairfax County where two officers approached the car and at least one opened fire. The Park Police turned over investigation of the incident to the FBI.\nTwo Fairfax County police officers following the Park Police captured video of the shooting. In their statement, the family expressed hope the investigation will uncover what happened and bring justice for the loss of their son. Ghaisar’s older sister Negeen said the family has been given no information about the incident, including the reported hit-and-run and the shooting.\nGhaisar, from McLean, was an accountant for his father’s firm, a graduate of Langley High School and a 2015 accounting graduate of VCU. His family said Ghaisar was, “a first-generation, American-born citizen of Iranian heritage, was peaceful and avidly anti-violence. He was unarmed. He presented no threat to anyone.”\nGhaisar was also a member of Pi Kappa Alpha at VCU. The Lambda Chi Chapter Alumni Association released a statement after learning of the death of their brother.\n“For those of us who knew him well, Bijan embodied what we strive to see in our brothers. His passion and charisma for Pi Kappa Alpha and our brotherhood were unparalleled. We mourn his tragic passing,” the statement said. “We pray for his family in this dark time and respect their privacy as they grieve his passing.”\nRep. Don Beyer (D) also released a statement on the incident that occurred in his district. He said he will press authorities on making a decision on charges and the release of information about the case, that often takes time.\n“The death of Bijan Ghaisar has been shrouded in an unacceptable level of opacity. While I recognize that the matter is subject to an ongoing investigation, the public, particularly his family and friends, deserve to know what happened here, and I will continue pressing the Park Police and the FBI until we get those answers.”\nSaraRose Martin, Staff Writer", "Hallandale Beach arrested a suspected hit-and-run driver Friday after receiving an anonymous tip that led them to a damaged SUV.\nWilson Pena, 28, is accused of hitting a pedestrian from behind at about 10 p.m. Tuesday in the 100 block of Northwest Sixth Avenue and leaving the scene without stopping or offering aid, police Capt. Ra Shana Dabney-Donovan said.\nInvestigators found the SUV in the 300 block of Northwest Seventh Court, less than a mile from the hit-and-run scene, Dabney-Donovan said.\nClaytron Peterson,27, suffered serious injuries when he was hit while walking north in the northbound lane. He is hospitalized at memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood.\nVideo released by police Friday from what appears to be a home surveillance camera, showed the seconds before the crash as a dark-colored SUV, possibly a Nissan Murano, was also traveling north.\n“The SUV struck Peterson from behind and did not stop nor did any occupants render aid,” Dabney-Donovan said.\nPena is facing multiple charges, including leaving the scene of a serious accident and driving without a license.\ntealanez@sun-sentinel.com, 954-356-4542 or Twitter @talanez", "A pedestrian has died after being struck by a vehicle in a community southwest of Edmonton on Friday afternoon. Police are investigating whether it was related to a possible gas-and-dash.\nAccording to an official with Leduc County Fires Services, emergency crews were called to a collision involving a vehicle and a pedestrian on 52 Street in Thorsby at 3:41 p.m.\nThe RCMP said the collision occurred near the Thorsby Fas Gas and that a “medium-sized commercial vehicle was seen leaving the collision and has yet to be located.”\nThey described the crash as a hit and run.\n“It seems to be stemming from an incident that occurred at the Fas Gas, a likely gas-and-dash-related incident and currently we’re investigating all leads from that,” said Thorsby/Bretton RCMP detachment commander Corey Kyle.\n“We have some really good surveillance footage from the gas sation and one of our members that happened to be travelling in town at the same time had footage from her police car rolling. So we have a very good idea on what vehicle we’re looking for.”\nKyle said the pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene.\nFirefighters were still at the scene redirecting traffic as of 6 p.m.\nThe RCMP said its investigation is ongoing.\nThorsby is located about 75 kilometres southwest of Edmonton.", "TORONTO — Police in Canada's biggest city are piecing together witness accounts and surveillance video trying to determine why a driver plowed a rented van along a crowded sidewalk, killing 10 people and injuring 15 in what many said seemed a deliberate attack.\nA 25-year-old suspect was quickly captured in a tense but brief confrontation with officers a few blocks away from where his van jumped the sidewalk Monday and continued for a mile, leaving people bloodied and dead in his wake. But authorities so far had not disclosed a possible motive or cause even as the police chief agreed with witnesses that it seemed intentional.\n“The incident definitely looked deliberate,” Police Chief Mark Saunders told reporters at a late-night news conference.\nSaunders said the suspect, Alek Minassian, who lives in the Toronto suburb of Richmond Hill, had not been known to police previously. An online social media profile described him as a college student.\nOfficials would not comment on a possible motive except to play down a possible connection to terrorism, a thought that occurred to many following a series of attacks involving trucks and pedestrians in Europe and the presence in Toronto this week of Cabinet ministers from the G7 nations.\nAsked if there was any evidence of a terrorist link, the chief said only, “Based on what we have there's nothing that has it to compromise the national security at this time.”\nA senior national government official said earlier that authorities had not turned over the investigation to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a sign that investigators believed it was unlikely that terrorism was the motive. The official agreed to reveal that information only if not quoted by name.\nAuthorities released few details in the case, saying the investigation was still underway, with witnesses being interviewed and surveillance video being examined.\n“I can assure the public all our available resources have been brought in to investigate this tragic situation,” Toronto Police Services Deputy Chief Peter Yuen said earlier.\nPolice said the suspect was scheduled to appear in court at 10 a.m. Tuesday, and that information on the charges against him would be released at that time.\nThe incident occurred as Cabinet ministers from the major industrial countries were gathered in Canada to discuss a range of international issues in the run-up to the G7 meeting near Quebec City in June. Canadian Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale called the incident a “horrific attack” and said the G7 foreign ministers extended their condolences.\nThe driver was heading south on busy Yonge Street around 1:30 p.m. and the streets were crowded with people enjoying an unseasonably warm day when the van jumped onto the sidewalk.\nAli Shaker, who was driving near the van at the time, told Canadian broadcast outlet CP24 that the driver appeared to be moving deliberately through the crowd at more than 30 mph.\n“He just went on the sidewalk,” a distraught Shaker said. “He just started hitting everybody, man. He hit every single person on the sidewalk. Anybody in his way he would hit.”\nWitness Peter Kang told CTV News that the driver did not seem to make any effort to stop.\n“If it was an accident he would have stopped,” Kang said. “But the person just went through the sidewalk. He could have stopped.”\nVideo broadcast on several Canadian outlets showed police arresting the driver, dressed in dark clothes, after officers surrounded him and his rental Ryder van several blocks from where the incident occurred in the North York neighborhood of northern Toronto. He appeared to make some sort of gesture at the police with an object in his hand just before they ordered him to lie down on the ground and took him away.\nWitness Phil Zullo told Canadian Press that he saw police arresting the suspect and people “strewn all over the road” where the incident occurred.\n“I must have seen about five, six people being resuscitated by bystanders and by ambulance drivers,” Zullo said. “It was awful. Brutal.”\nPolice shut down the Yonge and Finch intersection following the incident and Toronto's transit agency said it had suspended service on the subway line running through the area.\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed his sympathies for those involved.\n“We should all feel safe walking in our cities and communities,” he said. “We are monitoring this situation closely, and will continue working with our law enforcement partners around the country to ensure the safety and security of all Canadians.”", "CTV Atlantic\nProsecutors in New Brunswick are now reviewing the case of a man killed in a hit-and-run collision, but there is still no word on possible charges.\nPolice responded to the collision on Saint-Charles South Road in Saint-Charles, N.B., around 9:30 p.m. on Feb. 24.\nPolice say 22-year-old Brady Francis had been standing on the side of the road, waiting for a drive home, when he was struck by the vehicle.\nFrancis, a member of the Elsipogtog First Nation, died at the scene.\nInvestigators say the vehicle had fled the scene before police arrived, but officers seized a pickup truck on Feb. 25. The truck was returned to the owner after police gathered the information required for their investigation.\nThe RCMP confirmed to CTV News that one person was arrested on March 15, but they were released without charges.\nThe file is now in the hands of Crown prosecutors to review for possible charges.\nFrancis’ family and friends have staged a number of public demonstrations, urging the driver to come forward.\nPolice released photos of the truck in March, asking anyone who may have seen the vehicle in the hours leading up to the crash to contact them.\nPolice believe the grey 2003 GMC Sierra pickup truck was in and around the Richibucto area, primarily in the communities of Saint-Ignace, Saint-Charles and Saint-Louis-de-Kent, the day of the crash.\nThey would especially like to speak to anyone who spotted the truck in the Richbiucto area between noon and 10 p.m. on Feb. 24.\nThe truck has a camouflage-coloured wind deflector on the hood, camouflage window deflectors over the driver and passenger side windows, a \"Browning\" decal over the front windshield, and several camouflage decals on the tailgate and rear windows.\nPolice returned to the scene of the collision on April 5 and closed a section of Saint-Charles South Road in Saint-Charles, N.B. to traffic.\nPolice haven’t said what they were looking for, or whether they found any new evidence related to the case.\nAnyone with information about the truck or the incident is asked to contact the Richibucto RCMP or Crime Stoppers.", "By CHARMAINE NORONHA\nThe Associated Press\nTORONTO — A rented van jumped onto a crowded Toronto sidewalk Monday, killing nine people and injuring 16 before the driver fled and was later arrested in a confrontation with police, Canadian authorities said.\nWitnesses said the driver was moving fast and appeared to be acting deliberately, but police said they did not yet know the cause or any possible motive.\nToronto Police Services Deputy Chief Peter Yuen released no details about the investigation as he announced that nine people had died and 16 were injured.\nYuen said police were still interviewing witnesses and examining surveillance video of the incident as part of what he called a “complex” investigation.\n“I can assure the public all our available resources have been brought in to investigate this tragic situation,” he said.\nThe incident occurred as Cabinet ministers from the major industrial countries were gathered in Canada to discuss a range of international issues in the run-up to the G7 meeting near Quebec City in June.\nMinister of Public Safety Ralph Goodale said that it was too soon to say whether the crash was a case of international terrorism and that the government had not raised its terrorism alert.\nThe driver was heading south on busy Yonge Street around 1:30 p.m. and the streets were crowded with people enjoying an unseasonably warm day when the van jumped onto the sidewalk.\nAli Shaker, who was driving near the van at the time, told Canadian broadcast outlet CP24 that the driver appeared to be moving deliberately through the crowd at more than 30 mph.\n“He just went on the sidewalk,” a distraught Shaker said. “He just started hitting everybody, man. He hit every single person on the sidewalk. Anybody in his way he would hit.”\nVideo shown on several Canadian outlets showed police arresting the driver, dressed in dark clothes, after officers surrounded him several blocks from where the incident occurred in north Toronto.\nA witness, Phil Zullo, told Canadian Press that he saw police arresting a man who had been driving a Ryder rental truck and saw people “strewn all over the road” where the incident occurred.\n“I must have seen about five, six people being resuscitated by bystanders and by ambulance drivers,” Zullo said. “It was awful. Brutal.”\nPolice shut down the Yonge and Finch intersection following the incident and Toronto’s transit agency said it had suspended service on the subway line running through the area.\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed his sympathies for those involved. “Our hearts go out to everyone affected,” Trudeau said in Ottawa. “We are going to have more to learn and more to say in the coming hours.”", "The investigation of a possible hit-and-run outside of a Costa Mesa fundraiser for Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas will be turned over when its completed to the State Attorney General’s Office.\nCosta Mesa police said on Wednesday the case was still under investigation by the agency but would go to the Attorney General’s Office, which would decide whether to file any charges, instead of the District Attorney’s Office.\nIt’s unclear who made the decision, and whether the move was to avoid the appearance of any conflict of interest.\nAs the June 6 event was coming to a close, police said a sedan hit two anti-Rauckackas protesters before driving away.\nOne victim was identified by the American Civil Liberties Union as one of its attorneys, Brendan Hamme, who the organization said was briefly hospitalized. The second demonstrator, Jordan Hoiberg, 23, told the Register he was not seriously injured or hospitalized.\nFormer San Juan Capistrano Mayor Collene Campbell has told the Register the driver was her husband, Gary Campbell, while she was in the car. Collene Campbell was a co-sponsor of the fundraiser.\nThe Campbells, both 84, were just trying to escape the protesters who had surrounded their car and were pounding on it, Collene Campbell has said. ACLU members and protesters countered that their demonstration was peaceful and they were just crossing the sidewalk in front of the car.\n“Once we’re ready to submit (the case), we will submit to the California office of the attorney general,” Sgt. Dan Miles said.\nThe District Attorney’s Office did not return messages for comment.\n“We look forward to the attorney general conducting a fair and unbiased investigation of this alarming incident,” the ACLU said in statement.", "A 25-year-old who allegedly ploughed a van into people on a crowded Toronto pavement has been charged with 10 counts of murder and 13 of attempted murder.\nAlek Minassian appeared in court as Canadian authorities and the public sought to make sense of what appeared to be one of the deadliest mass murders in the country’s modern history.\nMourners have put together a makeshift memorial to the victims. Picture: AFP/Getty Images\nMinassian showed little overt emotion as he made a brief appearance in a Toronto courtroom in a white jumpsuit and handcuffs. The judge ordered him detained without bail and scheduled the next hearing for May 10.\nPolice, meanwhile, still appeared to be gathering evidence. About 20 officers made their way down the van’s deadly path on Yonge Street searching for any evidence. Nearby, mourners had put together a makeshift memorial to the victims.\n“It was like he was playing a video game, trying to kill as many people as possible,” said Panna Patel, 42, who stopped by the memorial and had been at the scene a day earlier, getting cash from an ATM as it occurred.\n“He was looking people directly in the eye, making eye contact, it was so scary. He wasn’t remorseful at all.”\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau dismissed the possibillity of terrorism. Picture: Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau dismissed the possibility of terrorism, saying that authorities see no national security element in the case.\nHe told a news conference that the incident “hasn’t changed the overall threat level in Canada”, though it occurred as Cabinet ministers from the G7 nations were meeting in Toronto.\nAuthorities so far had not disclosed a possible motive or cause, though “the incident definitely looked deliberate,” Police Chief Mark Saunders told reporters at a late-night news conference.\nSaunders said Minassian, who lives in the Toronto suburb of Richmond Hill, had not been known to police previously. An online social media profile described him as a college student.\nAuthorities released few details in the case, saying the investigation was still under way, with witnesses being interviewed and surveillance video being examined.\nREAD MORE: Nine dead and 16 injured in Toronto after van hits pedestrians\n“We are looking very strongly to what the exact motivation was for this particular incident to take place,” Mr Saunders said.\n“We need every single piece of this puzzle so we can have a fulsome picture and account as to exactly what took place here.”\nThe driver was heading south on busy Yonge Street around 1.30pm and the streets were crowded with people enjoying an unseasonably warm day when the van jumped onto the pavement.\nAli Shaker, who was driving near the van at the time, told Canadian broadcast outlet CP24 that the driver appeared to be moving deliberately through the crowd at more than 30mph.\n“He just went on the sidewalk,” a distraught Shaker said.\n“He just started hitting everybody, man. He hit every single person on the sidewalk. Anybody in his way he would hit.”\nWitness Peter Kang told CTV News that the driver did not seem to make any effort to stop.\n“If it was an accident he would have stopped,” Mr Kang said. “But the person just went through the sidewalk. He could have stopped.”\nVideo broadcast on several Canadian outlets showed police arresting the driver, dressed in dark clothes, after officers surrounded him and his rental Ryder van several blocks from where the incident occurred in the North York neighbourhood of northern Toronto.\nHe appeared to make some sort of gesture at the police with an object in his hand just before they ordered him to lie down on the ground and took him away.\nWitness Phil Zullo said that he saw police arresting the suspect and people “strewn all over the road” where the incident occurred.\n“I must have seen about five, six people being resuscitated by bystanders and by ambulance drivers,” Mr Zullo said. “It was awful. Brutal.”\nPolice shut down the Yonge and Finch intersection following the incident and Toronto’s transit agency said it had suspended service on the subway line running through the area.\nMr Trudeau on Monday expressed his sympathies for those involved.\n“We should all feel safe walking in our cities and communities,” he said. “We are monitoring this situation closely, and will continue working with our law enforcement partners around the country to ensure the safety and security of all Canadians.”\nThe stretch of Yonge Street where the the people were struck remains closed to traffic and was expected to stay blocked off for several days as police continue what is likely to be a lengthy investigation.\nThe incident occurred as Cabinet ministers from the major industrial countries were gathered in Canada to discuss a range of international issues in the run-up to the G7 meeting near Quebec City in June.\nCanadian public safety minister Ralph Goodale called the incident a “horrific attack” and said the G7 foreign ministers extended their condolences.", "From Lynchburg Police: Just after 10 AM on Saturday, March 17, the Lynchburg Police Department and Lynchburg Fire & EMS responded to the 3700 block of Campbell Avenue in reference to a hit and run involving a pedestrian. The suspect vehicle, possibly a white or silver Oldsmobile Alero with Virginia tags, had a black male driver and fled in the direction of Route 460.\nJust prior to the crash, the suspect driver entered the Speedway gas station at 3732 Campbell Avenue. He was wearing a black zip hooded sweatshirt and a light colored ball cap. The suspect left the store and made a left turn onto Campbell Avenue heading toward Florida Avenue. The pedestrian was attempting to cross the road, heading in the direction of the store, when he was struck by the vehicle. The victim rolled onto the hood before being thrown off the vehicle into the street as the suspect quickly stopped. The suspect backed up and then drove around the victim, fleeing in the direction of Route 460.\nCampbell Avenue was reduced to one southbound lane for a short period of time during the investigation. The pedestrian victim has been identified as Fred Wayne Donovan (72) of Lynchburg. Donovan sustained significant injuries during the crash and he was transported to Lynchburg General Hospital for medical treatment. He is currently listed in critical condition.\nPhotos of the suspect and the vehicle are attached in an attempt to identify and locate. Charges are pending further investigation by the Lynchburg Police Department.", "Police inspect a van suspected of being involved in a collision killing 10 and injuring 15 people at Yonge St. and Finch Ave. on April 23, 2018 in Toronto, Canada. A suspect is in custody after a white van collided with multiple pedestrians.\nPolice in Canada's biggest city are piecing together witness accounts and surveillance video trying to determine why a driver plowed a rented van along a crowded sidewalk, killing 10 people and injuring 15 in what many said seemed a deliberate attack.\nA 25-year-old suspect was quickly captured in a tense but brief confrontation with officers a few blocks away from where his van jumped the sidewalk Monday and continued for a mile, leaving people bloodied and dead in his wake. But authorities so far had not disclosed a possible motive or cause even as the police chief agreed with witnesses that it seemed intentional.\n\"The incident definitely looked deliberate,\" Police Chief Mark Saunders told reporters at a late-night news conference.\nSaunders said the suspect, Alek Minassian, who lives in the Toronto suburb of Richmond Hill, had not been known to police previously. An online social media profile described him as a college student.\nOfficials would not comment on a possible motive except to play down a possible connection to terrorism, a thought that occurred to many following a series of attacks involving trucks and pedestrians in Europe and the presence in Toronto this week of Cabinet ministers from the G7 nations.\nAsked if there was any evidence of a terrorist link, the chief said only, \"Based on what we have there's nothing that has it to compromise the national security at this time.\"\nA senior national government official said earlier that authorities had not turned over the investigation to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a sign that investigators believed it was unlikely that terrorism was the motive. The official agreed to reveal that information only if not quoted by name.\nAuthorities released few details in the case, saying the investigation was still underway, with witnesses being interviewed and surveillance video being examined.\n\"I can assure the public all our available resources have been brought in to investigate this tragic situation,\" Toronto Police Services Deputy Chief Peter Yuen said earlier.\nPolice said the suspect was scheduled to appear in court at 10 a.m. Tuesday, and that information on the charges against him would be released at that time.\nThe incident occurred as Cabinet ministers from the major industrial countries were gathered in Canada to discuss a range of international issues in the run-up to the G7 meeting near Quebec City in June. Canadian Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale called the incident a \"horrific attack\" and said the G7 foreign ministers extended their condolences.\nThe driver was heading south on busy Yonge Street around 1:30 p.m. and the streets were crowded with people enjoying an unseasonably warm day when the van jumped onto the sidewalk.\nAli Shaker, who was driving near the van at the time, told Canadian broadcast outlet CP24 that the driver appeared to be moving deliberately through the crowd at more than 30 mph.\n\"He just went on the sidewalk,\" a distraught Shaker said. \"He just started hitting everybody, man. He hit every single person on the sidewalk. Anybody in his way he would hit.\"\nWitness Peter Kang told CTV News that the driver did not seem to make any effort to stop.\n\"If it was an accident he would have stopped,\" Kang said. \"But the person just went through the sidewalk. He could have stopped.\"\nVideo broadcast on several Canadian outlets showed police arresting the driver, dressed in dark clothes, after officers surrounded him and his rental Ryder van several blocks from where the incident occurred in the North York neighborhood of northern Toronto. He appeared to make some sort of gesture at the police with an object in his hand just before they ordered him to lie down on the ground and took him away.\nWitness Phil Zullo told Canadian Press that he saw police arresting the suspect and people \"strewn all over the road\" where the incident occurred.\n\"I must have seen about five, six people being resuscitated by bystanders and by ambulance drivers,\" Zullo said. \"It was awful. Brutal.\"\nPolice shut down the Yonge and Finch intersection following the incident and Toronto's transit agency said it had suspended service on the subway line running through the area.\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed his sympathies for those involved.\n\"We should all feel safe walking in our cities and communities,\" he said. \"We are monitoring this situation closely, and will continue working with our law enforcement partners around the country to ensure the safety and security of all Canadians.\"", "RCMP have completed their investigation into the hit-and-run death of Brady Francis more than three months ago and have handed the file over to Crown prosecutors to review for possible charges.\n\"Please oh please Lord let the Canadian justice system give us … #justiceforbrady my son,\" his mother Jessica Perley posted on Facebook Wednesday.\n\"​Let's stay positive for a positive outcome.\"\nFrancis, 22, of Elsipogtog First Nation, was struck and killed by a vehicle in Saint-Charles, near Richbucto, on Feb. 24.\nNo charges have been laid.\nNew Brunswick RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Jullie Rogers-Marsh confirmed the police file is now under review by the Crown for possible charges.\nWhen asked if any arrests had been made, Rogers-Marsh said an individual had been arrested on March 15 as part of the investigation.\n\"Investigators questioned the individual who was later released and it was a person investigators believed had information that could assist with their investigation.\"\nWhen contacted by CBC News, Francis's mother declined to be interviewed but wrote, \"I believe that the RCMP did a thorough investigation and now we hope that the Crown has everything they need to lay charges.\n\"We are very hopeful and have faith that our Brady will get justice.\"\nInvestigation involved truck\nFrancis was killed around 9:30 p.m., while waiting for a drive along the St-Charles Sud Road, about 100 kilometres north of Moncton.\nHe was found injured on the side of the road and died at the scene, RCMP have said.\nOn March 20, Richibucto RCMP released photos of a grey 2003 GMC Sierra 4 X 4 pickup truck suspected of being involved in the collision.\nThey asked anyone who may have seen the vehicle in the hours leading up to the crash to contact them.\nOfficers returned to the scene on the evening of April 5, shutting down St-Charles Sud Road between chemin de l'Église and rue Jean-Baptiste for several hours as they continued their investigation.", "Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email\nPolice in Toronto are trying to find the motive of a driver who ploughed into pedestrians on a crowded footpath, killing 10 people and injuring 15.\nA 25-year-old suspect was captured in a tense but brief confrontation with officers a few streets away from where his van mounted the pavement and continued for a mile, leaving people bloodied and dead.\nAuthorities are piecing together witness accounts and surveillance video but have not yet disclosed a possible motive or cause, even as the police chief agreed with witnesses that it seemed intentional.\n\"The incident definitely looked deliberate,\" police chief Mark Saunders told reporters.\nMr Saunders said the suspect, Alek Minassian, who lives in the Toronto suburb of Richmond Hill, had not been known to police previously. An online social media profile described him as a college student.\nOfficials would not comment on a possible motive except to play down a possible connection to terrorism after the incident had several similarities to a series of attacks involving vehicles and pedestrians in Europe, and the presence in Toronto this week of cabinet ministers from the G7 nations.\nAsked if there was any evidence of a terrorist link, Mr Saunders said: \"Based on what we have there's nothing that has it to compromise the national security at this time.\"\n(Image: Aaron Vincent Elkaim/The Canadian Press via AP)\nA senior national government official said earlier that authorities had not turned over the investigation to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a sign that investigators believed it was unlikely that terrorism was the motive.\n\"I can assure the public all our available resources have been brought in to investigate this tragic situation,\" Toronto Police Services Deputy Chief Peter Yuen said earlier.\nPolice said the suspect was scheduled to appear in court at 10am on Tuesday (3pm BST), and that information on the charges against him would be released at that time.\nThe incident occurred as cabinet ministers from the major industrial countries were gathered in Canada to discuss a range of international issues in the run-up to the G7 meeting near Quebec City in June.\nCanadian public safety minister Ralph Goodale called the incident an \"horrific attack\" and said the G7 foreign ministers extended their condolences.\nThe driver was heading south on the busy Yonge Street at around 1.30pm and the streets were crowded with people enjoying an unseasonably warm day when the van mounted the pavement.\nAli Shaker, who was driving near the van at the time, told Canadian broadcast outlet CP24 that the driver appeared to be moving deliberately through the crowd at more than 30 mph.\n\"He just went on the sidewalk,\" Mr Shaker said. \"He just started hitting everybody, man. He hit every single person on the sidewalk. Anybody in his way he would hit.\"\n(Image: Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)\nWitness Peter Kang told CTV News that the driver did not seem to make any effort to stop.\n\"If it was an accident he would have stopped,\" Mr Kang said. \"But the person just went through the sidewalk. He could have stopped.\"\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed his sympathies for those involved.\n\"We should all feel safe walking in our cities and communities,\" he said. \"We are monitoring this situation closely, and will continue working with our law enforcement partners around the country to ensure the safety and security of all Canadians.\"\nDownload our all-new mobile app to get the latest news, sport and what's on. Click here for iPhone and here for Android pedestrians killed toronto\nLooking for an older story? Search our archives\nSearch for jobs, motors and property, or place an advert or family notice here.", "A Tulia man is in critical condition after being hit by a car.\nPolice say a man in his late 20's or early 30's struck a 67-year-old man as he was walking down 2nd Street yesterday afternoon.\nTulia police are investigating this incident as a hit-and-run.\nThe police say they have identified the suspect, but no arrests have been made at this time.\nCopyright 2017 KFDA. All rights reserved.", "A grandmother has died after she was tragically reversed over by her partner after a shopping trip in Queensland.\nEileen Bolton, 72, was described as 'caring and quiet' by police when it was confirmed she was hit at a shopping car park at Atherton Square last Tuesday.\nPolice described the crash as tragic after she was mowed down by her partner when she was doing her grocery shopping.\nThey have also revealed the grandmother from Innot Hot Springs was hit by the car driven by her partner Clifford Clarke, 75, at 2.30pm.\nEileen Bolton, 72, was reversed over by her partner Clifford Clarke, 75, at the Atherton Square carpark last Tuesday\nA memorial for the grandmother has been set up at the carpark where she was hit.\nGrieving friends and family of Eileen left flowers and messages on the fence.\nSenior Sergeant Kyell Palmer said it seems as if it was a accident.\n'It seems the man has backed the car up and run her over because she was trapped under the back wheel when police arrived,' the senior sergeant told the Cairns Post.\nA memorial with flowers and letters have been set up for the grandmother has been at the carpark where she was hit\nEmergency services removed her as quick as possible from under the car but her injuries were too severe.\nShe was transported to Atherton Hospital but died shortly after.\nHer daughter Veronica Cipolla said 'Mum was a caring and quiet lady,' she said.\nShe said: 'She was an avid churchgoer in Ravenshoe and she always made sure to keep in touch with her four children, Alice, Matthew, Laurena and myself.'\nMs Cipolla said Mr Clarke was grieving from the accident and left rattled.\nPolice are preparing a report for the Coroner and further investigations will be conducted.", "TORONTO -- A 25-year-old who plowed a van into a crowded Toronto sidewalk was ordered held Tuesday on 10 counts of murder and 13 of attempted murder as Canadian authorities and the public sought to make sense of what appeared to be one of the deadliest mass murders in the country's modern history.\nAlek Minassian showed little overt emotion as he made a brief appearance in a Toronto courtroom in a white jumpsuit and handcuffs. The judge ordered him detained without bond and scheduled the next hearing for May 10.\nPolice, meanwhile, still appeared to be gathering evidence. About 20 officers made their way down the van's deadly path on Yonge Street searching for any evidence. Nearby, mourners had put together a makeshift memorial to the victims.\n\"It was like he was playing a video game, trying to kill as many people as possible,\" said Panna Patel, 42, who stopped by the memorial and had been at the scene a day earlier, getting cash from an ATM as it occurred. \"He was looking people directly in the eye, making eye contact, it was so scary. He wasn't remorseful at all.\"\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau dismissed the possibility of terrorism, saying that authorities see no national security element in the case.\nHe told a news conference that the incident \"hasn't changed the overall threat level in Canada,\" though it occurred as Cabinet ministers from the G7 nations were meeting in Toronto.\nAuthorities so far had not disclosed a possible motive or cause, though \"the incident definitely looked deliberate,\" Police Chief Mark Saunders told reporters at a late-night news conference.\nSaunders said Minassian, who lives in the Toronto suburb of Richmond Hill, had not been known to police previously. An online social media profile described him as a college student.\nAuthorities released few details in the case, saying the investigation was still underway, with witnesses being interviewed and surveillance video being examined.\n\"We are looking very strongly to what the exact motivation was for this particular incident to take place,\" Saunders said. \"We need every single piece of this puzzle so we can have a fulsome picture and account as to exactly what took place here.\"\nThe driver was heading south on busy Yonge Street around 1:30 p.m. and the streets were crowded with people enjoying an unseasonably warm day when the van jumped onto the sidewalk.\nAli Shaker, who was driving near the van at the time, told Canadian broadcast outlet CP24 that the driver appeared to be moving deliberately through the crowd at more than 30 mph.\n\"He just went on the sidewalk,\" a distraught Shaker said. \"He just started hitting everybody, man. He hit every single person on the sidewalk. Anybody in his way he would hit.\"\nWitness Peter Kang told CTV News that the driver did not seem to make any effort to stop.\n\"If it was an accident he would have stopped,\" Kang said. \"But the person just went through the sidewalk. He could have stopped.\"\nVideo broadcast on several Canadian outlets showed police arresting the driver, dressed in dark clothes, after officers surrounded him and his rental Ryder van several blocks from where the incident occurred in the North York neighborhood of northern Toronto. He appeared to make some sort of gesture at the police with an object in his hand just before they ordered him to lie down on the ground and took him away.\nWitness Phil Zullo said that he saw police arresting the suspect and people \"strewn all over the road\" where the incident occurred.\n\"I must have seen about five, six people being resuscitated by bystanders and by ambulance drivers,\" Zullo said. \"It was awful. Brutal.\"\nPolice shut down the Yonge and Finch intersection following the incident and Toronto's transit agency said it had suspended service on the subway line running through the area.\nTrudeau on Monday expressed his sympathies for those involved.\n\"We should all feel safe walking in our cities and communities,\" he said. \"We are monitoring this situation closely, and will continue working with our law enforcement partners around the country to ensure the safety and security of all Canadians.\"\nThe stretch of Yonge Street where the victims were struck remains closed to traffic and was expected to stay blocked off for several days as police continue what is likely to be a lengthy investigation.\nThe incident prompted police to beef up security and close several streets around the Air Canada Centre on Monday night for the Toronto-Boston NHL playoff game. Police tweeted that similar road closures may be in effect for the Toronto Raptors NBA playoff game on Wednesday night.\nThe incident occurred as Cabinet ministers from the major industrial countries were gathered in Canada to discuss a range of international issues in the run-up to the G7 meeting near Quebec City in June. Canadian Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale called the incident a \"horrific attack\" and said the G7 foreign ministers extended their condolences.", "A Lindenhurst woman was killed by a hit-and-run driver Monday morning, just a block from where her brother was killed by a hit-and-run driver two years ago, police said.\nPauline Aluska, 54, was killed about 12:20 a.m. at Montauk Highway and South 13th Street, Suffolk County police said Monday.\nHer brother, John Aluska, 61, of Lindenhurst, was killed by a hit-and-run driver at about 1:20 a.m. Sept. 28, 2015 as he walked on Montauk Highway near Venetian Promenade, police said. That case is still under investigation, police said.\nA relative of Pauline, Diane Aluska, 55, was also killed in a vehicular accident this past Mother’s Day, police said.\nDiane and her 16-year-old daughter, Jenna, were walking on the sidewalk on Wellwood Avenue in Lindenhurst on May 14 when they were hit by a car backing out of a diagonal parking spot across the street, police said.\nJust before she was struck and killed, she pushed her daughter out of the way, and her daughter suffered only minor injuries, police said.\nadvertisement | advertise on newsday\n“I have no doubt that she saved her daughter’s life,” Det. Sgt. James Murphy said at the time.\nThe driver of that car, Ann Riolo, 80, also of Lindenhurst, was not charged, police said, and that investigation is continuing.\nCheck back for updates on this developing story.", "Cars were burned and a shopping centre partly set alight in the Breil neighbourhood as police confronted young people, some armed with molotov cocktails.\nThe circumstances in which the man was killed are being investigated by the police.\nThe incident occurred around 8:30pm (18:30 GMT) when police stopped a vehicle over an infraction, local police chief Jean-Christophe Bertrand said.\nThe identity of the driver was “not clear and officers received orders to bring the driver to the police station.” The driver then hit and slightly injured a police officer, he added.\n“One of his colleagues then fired, hitting the young man who unfortunately died,” he said.\nPolice sources confirmed the young man was wounded during a police check while in a vehicle after he “refused to comply” with police requests.\nHe was hit in the carotid artery and declared dead on arrival at hospital, the police sources said.\nNational police are investigating to clarify “the facts and determine in what circumstances the policeman used his weapon,” said Pierre Sennes, the public prosecutor for Nantes.\nSteven, 24, who lives in the area, told an AFP journalist that he had “heard explosions” and headed to investigate.\n“I saw everything burning. There were fires in the bins, the cars. They were breaking everything. It lasted ages,” he said, adding that things later calmed down.\nViolence also broke out in two other sensitive areas, Dervallieres and Malakoff, where vehicles were also set on fire.\nPolice reinforcements are expected in Nantes, especially in the Breil neighbourhood, which was already on high alert after an incident last week possibly involving a military weapon, according to a source close to the case.", "The suspected driver of a van which ploughed into pedestrians in Canada, leaving 10 people dead and injuring 15 others, has been charged with 10 counts of murder and 13 counts of attempted murder.\nAlek Minassian appeared in a Toronto courtroom on Tuesday where he was charged.\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has dismissed the possibility of terrorism, saying that authorities see no national security element in what happened.\nMoreover, the case has not been turned over to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a sign that investigators believe that it is unlikely that terrorism was the motive.\nHowever, no other motives or causes have been disclosed by authorities, although the city's police chief said the \"incident definitely looked deliberate\".\nMinassian, 25, who lives in the Toronto suburb of Richmond Hill, had not been known to police previously.\nAn online social media profile described him as a college student.\nFollowing the rental van incident at around 1.30pm local time (6.30pm BST) on Monday, the driver attempted to flee the scene but was arrested shortly afterwards by police.\nWitnesses at the scene said the van was moving fast and appeared to be deliberately trying to hit people.\nThe incident occurred as Cabinet ministers from the major industrial countries were gathered in Canada to discuss a range of international issues in the run-up to the G7 meeting near Quebec City in June.", "Groups of young people clashed with police in the western French city of Nantes late Tuesday after a 22-year-old man was shot dead by an officer during a police check.\nCars were burned and a shopping centre partly set alight in the Breil neighbourhood as police confronted young people, some armed with molotov cocktails.\nThe circumstances in which the man was killed are being investigated by the police.\nThe incident occurred around 8:30pm (18:30 GMT) when police stopped a vehicle over an infraction, local police chief Jean-Christophe Bertrand said.\nThe identity of the driver was “not clear and officers received orders to bring the driver to the police station.” The driver then hit and slightly injured a police officer, he added.\n“One of his colleagues then fired, hitting the young man who unfortunately died,” he said.\nPolice sources confirmed the young man was wounded during a police check while in a vehicle after he “refused to comply” with police requests.\nHe was hit in the carotid artery and declared dead on arrival at hospital, the police sources said.\nNational police are investigating to clarify “the facts and determine in what circumstances the policeman used his weapon,” said Pierre Sennes, the public prosecutor for Nantes.\nSteven, 24, who lives in the area, told an AFP journalist that he had “heard explosions” and headed to investigate.\n“I saw everything burning. There were fires in the bins, the cars. They were breaking everything. It lasted ages,” he said, adding that things later calmed down.\nViolence also broke out in two other sensitive areas, Dervallieres and Malakoff, where vehicles were also set on fire.\nPolice reinforcements are expected in Nantes, especially in the Breil neighbourhood, which was already on high alert after an incident last week possibly involving a military weapon, according to a source close to the case.", "MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WKRN) – Murfreesboro police are investigating two shootings that happened in the same area two nights in a row.\nIt all started Friday night at the intersection of Sun Circle and S. University Street, just a few blocks from Middle Tennessee State University’s campus.\nAccording to a police report, several people called 911 saying shots were fired in the area.\nOnce police arrived, they found a 20-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the leg. He reportedly told officers he heard gunshots and tried to run away when he was hit.\nMurfreesboro police say at least one bullet hit a nearby house and landed in the bedroom in the first shooting.\nThe next night, officers were called to another shooting in the same area. No one was injured, but several cars were hit with gunfire.\nThere’s no word on who the suspects are at this time. The investigation is ongoing.\nAnyone with information is urged to call Murfreesboro police at 615-893-STOP.", "A self-driving Uber car hit and killed a pedestrian Sunday night in Tempe, Arizona, police said, in what appears to be the first case of a pedestrian death caused by an autonomous vehicle.\nThe vehicle was in “autonomous mode at the time of the collision, with a vehicle operator behind the wheel,” Tempe police said in a statement.\nThe female pedestrian, identified as 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg, was walking her bicycle across the street outside the crosswalk when she was struck, police said, adding that an investigation is ongoing.\nShe died of her injuries at a hospital.\nThere were no passengers in the Uber vehicle.\nIn a briefing on Monday afternoon, police said the car was equipped with multiple cameras — one looking forward and one facing the human driver.\nPolice added that the driver showed no signs of impairment and that prosecutors will be looking at the case for possible charged.\nThe vehicle was going 40 mph when it hit the pedestrian. There was no indication the car attempted to slow itself before the collision.\nIn a statement to ABC News, Uber said, “Our hearts go out to the victim's family. We are fully cooperating with local authorities in their investigation of this incident.”\nIn the wake of the crash, Uber has suspended its self-driving operations in San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Phoenix and Toronto, the ridesharing service said.", "For the third time in two years, a member of the Aluska family was struck and killed by a vehicle in Lindenhurst. Two of the cases were hit-and-run crashes, authorities said.\nRaw Footage: Cops Swarm Scene After Third Relative Killed by Car in 2 Years in Same Long Island Town\nA Long Island woman was killed in a hit-and-run crash in Lindenhurst in the early hours of Monday morning -- three months after a relative died in a crash there and less than two years after her brother met the exact same fate.\nPauline Aluska, 54, was found lying in the road at Montauk Highway and South 13th Street around 12:30 Monday morning. She was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead. An investigation determined that she was hit by a car that then fled the scene, Suffolk County Police said.\nThe police later confirmed that Pauline Aluska was related to Diane Aluska, who died in a highly publicized crash in Lindenhurst on May 14. Diane Aluska was killed on Mother's Day when a car jumped a curb outside of a bakery; she pushed her teenage daughter out of the way and was crushed by the vehicle.\nIt was not immediately clear how Pauline and Diane Aluska were related, however.\nPauline Aluska was also the brother of John Aluska, who was killed in a Lindenhurst hit-and-run on Sept. 28, 2015. Police said both John and Pauline's deaths were under investigation and no arrests had been made.", "RCMP are investigating a dramatic series of hit-and-run collisions throughout the Okanagan Monday involving a stolen pickup truck that ultimately led to the \"dynamic arrest of a suspect.\"\nPolice said at around 6:30 a.m. PT, RCMP began receiving numerous calls from the public about an erratic and dangerous driver.\nThe driver of a white Ford F-150 truck was allegedly involved in and fled from a rollover collision along Highway 97 near Beaver Lake Road in Lake Country, before continuing on to Kelowna's Rutland neighbourhood.\nCalls then continued to pour in with people reporting a string of hit-and-run collisions, according to police.\nOff-duty officer allegedly assaulted\nEventually, police said the driver was arrested by an off-duty police officer near Gerstmar Road.\n\"He witnessed the driver of that suspect vehicle commit an offence,\" said Cpl. Jesse O'Donaghey.\n\"The suspect driver eventually stopped ... and fled from his vehicle. The off-duty RCMP officer identified himself ... and a struggle ensued, during which the officer was allegedly assaulted.\"\nPolice confirmed the truck was stolen from Armstrong, B.C.\n\"The criminal investigation remains in its early stages, as police prepare to conduct at least a dozen interviews with both witnesses and victims,\" said O'Donaghey.\nHe said although the suspect is in custody, police have yet to identify him.\nOnce identified, police say he could face several charges.", "Company CEO says they are cooperating with police investigation\nAn investigation is ongoing into the death of a 49-year-old man after he was hit by a trolley bus in Vancouver on Sunday.\nVancouver Trolley Company general manager Stuart Coventry said that the company was “shocked and deeply saddened about yesterday’s tragic accident.”\nThe incident, which saw a tour bus jump the curb and sent three tourists to hospital, happened near Canada Place around 10:00 a.m. Sunday. A 49-year-old man later succumbed to his injuries and an elderly man remains in serious condition while a 15-year-old girl suffered minor injuries.\nRELATED: Tourist dies after being hit by Vancouver tour bus\nSpeaking Sunday, Vancouver Police Sgt. Jason Robillard said that the bus appeared to have been travelling slowly at the time.\nAccording to Coventry, the company is not conducting an internal investigation but will instead cooperate fully with the Vancouver Police.\n“The driver involved has been with our company for seven years and has an excellent service and driving record,” said Coventry. “He has a spotless drivers abstract with the National Safety Code office.”\nVancouver Trolley Company buses are inspected every six months by a licenced independent third-party inspector, he noted, adding that the company has reached out to those affected, as well as their families to offer any possible support.\nAnyone who witnessed the collision is asked to call the Vancouver Police at 604-506-2024.", "A 25-year-old who allegedly ploughed a van into people on a crowded Toronto pavement has been ordered to be held on 10 counts of murder and 13 of attempted murder.\nA 25-year-old who allegedly ploughed a van into people on a crowded Toronto pavement has been ordered to be held on 10 counts of murder and 13 of attempted murder.\nAlek Minassian appeared in court as Canadian authorities and the public sought to make sense of what appeared to be one of the deadliest mass murders in the country’s modern history.\nMinassian showed little overt emotion as he made a brief appearance in a Toronto courtroom in a white jumpsuit and handcuffs. The judge ordered him detained without bond and scheduled the next hearing for May 10. Police, meanwhile, still appeared to be gathering evidence. About 20 officers made their way down the van’s deadly path on Yonge Street searching for any evidence. Nearby, mourners had put together a makeshift memorial to the victims.\n“It was like he was playing a video game, trying to kill as many people as possible,” said Panna Patel, 42, who stopped by the memorial and had been at the scene a day earlier, getting cash from an ATM as it occurred. “He was looking people directly in the eye, making eye contact, it was so scary. He wasn’t remorseful at all.”\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau dismissed the possibility of terrorism, saying that authorities see no national security element in the case. My condolences to those involved in this incident. I am grateful for the efforts of our police officers and all emergency service partners. https://t.co/it0wayZ5VU — Mark Saunders (@marksaunderstps) April 23, 2018 He told a news conference that the incident “hasn’t changed the overall threat level in Canada”, though it occurred as Cabinet ministers from the G7 nations were meeting in Toronto.\nAuthorities so far had not disclosed a possible motive or cause, though “the incident definitely looked deliberate,” Police Chief Mark Saunders told reporters at a late-night news conference. Saunders said Minassian, who lives in the Toronto suburb of Richmond Hill, had not been known to police previously. An online social media profile described him as a college student.\nCanada Van Hits Pedestrians Authorities released few details in the case, saying the investigation was still under way, with witnesses being interviewed and surveillance video being examined.\n“We are looking very strongly to what the exact motivation was for this particular incident to take place,” Mr Saunders said. “We need every single piece of this puzzle so we can have a fulsome picture and account as to exactly what took place here.”\nThe driver was heading south on busy Yonge Street around 1.30pm and the streets were crowded with people enjoying an unseasonably warm day when the van jumped onto the pavement. Ali Shaker, who was driving near the van at the time, told Canadian broadcast outlet CP24 that the driver appeared to be moving deliberately through the crowd at more than 30mph.\nEmergency services close Yonge Street in Toronto (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP) “He just went on the sidewalk,” a distraught Shaker said. “He just started hitting everybody, man. He hit every single person on the sidewalk. Anybody in his way he would hit.” Witness Peter Kang told CTV News that the driver did not seem to make any effort to stop.\n“If it was an accident he would have stopped,” Mr Kang said. “But the person just went through the sidewalk. He could have stopped.” Video broadcast on several Canadian outlets showed police arresting the driver, dressed in dark clothes, after officers surrounded him and his rental Ryder van several blocks from where the incident occurred in the North York neighbourhood of northern Toronto. He appeared to make some sort of gesture at the police with an object in his hand just before they ordered him to lie down on the ground and took him away.\nWitnesses sought to Yonge-Finch investigation~Read Toronto Police Service website update on Yonge Finch https://t.co/q5Qh47LV7R Contact police on dedicated line: 416-808-8750 or anonymous Crime Stoppers 1-800-222-8477 ^sm pic.twitter.com/dL2GBOjE3y — Toronto Police (@TorontoPolice) April 24, 2018 Witness Phil Zullo said that he saw police arresting the suspect and people “strewn all over the road” where the incident occurred. “I must have seen about five, six people being resuscitated by bystanders and by ambulance drivers,” Mr Zullo said. “It was awful. Brutal.” Police shut down the Yonge and Finch intersection following the incident and Toronto’s transit agency said it had suspended service on the subway line running through the area.\nMr Trudeau on Monday expressed his sympathies for those involved. “We should all feel safe walking in our cities and communities,” he said. “We are monitoring this situation closely, and will continue working with our law enforcement partners around the country to ensure the safety and security of all Canadians.” The stretch of Yonge Street where the the people were struck remains closed to traffic and was expected to stay blocked off for several days as police continue what is likely to be a lengthy investigation.\nOur thoughts are with all those affected by the terrible incident at Yonge and Finch in Toronto. Thank you to the first responders working at the scene – we're monitoring the situation closely. — Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) April 23, 2018 The incident prompted police to beef up security and close several streets around the Air Canada Centre on Monday night for the Toronto-Boston NHL play-off game. Police tweeted that similar road closures may be in effect for the Toronto Raptors NBA play-off game on Wednesday night. The incident occurred as Cabinet ministers from the major industrial countries were gathered in Canada to discuss a range of international issues in the run-up to the G7 meeting near Quebec City in June. Canadian public safety minister Ralph Goodale called the incident a “horrific attack” and said the G7 foreign ministers extended their condolences.\nPress Association", "Police are searching for the driver involved in a hit-and-run crash that killed a pedestrian on Long Island early Monday morning, the third member of the same family to die in a car crash.The crash happened just after midnight on Montauk Highway in Lindenhurst.Suffolk County police said the driver hit 54-year-old Pauline Aluska at the intersection and then took off.A passing motorist saw Aluska lying in the road and called 911. She was rushed to the hospital where she was pronounced dead.It wasn't until she was identified that investigators made the startling connection, that Ms. Aluska was the sister of John Aluska, killed on the same road one block away by a hit and run driver just two years ago.What's more, she is the sister-in-law of Diane Aluska, struck and killed in downtown Lindenhurst in May after shoving her own daughter to safety.The driver in that case did not leave the scene and was not charged.But the other incidents - tragic, startling coincidences - remain unsolved.\"John and Pauline Aluska's cases remain under investigation,\" said Suffolk's Assistant Police Commissioner Justin Meyers. \"No arrests have been made in either case.\"Montauk Highway runs two lanes in each direction through much of Lindenhurst, where the speed limit is 40 mph and there are very few places for pedestrians to cross safely.Police are asking anyone with information about the incident to call the Major Case Unit at 631-852-6555 or call anonymously to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-220-TIPS.", "CANTON, Ohio >> Police in Ohio say a woman whose body was discovered over the weekend was likely killed days earlier in a hit-and-run crash.\nSheriff’s deputies in Stark County say the body of 44-year-old Kimberly Thompson, of Plain Township, was discovered alongside a road Sunday morning. They believe she was hit by a vehicle Thursday night.\nThompson had been reported missing on Friday.\nPolice continue to investigate.", "The suspect arrested in connection with the hit-and-run incident involving an unregistered BMW sports car, had plunged into the Diyawanna Oya at Thalawathugoda, has been remanded until March 27 by the Kaduwela Magistrate’s Court.\nThe suspect was remanded after being produced before Magistrate Prasanna Alwis this morning.\nThe suspect, who is said to be the owner of the car in question, was taken into custody yesterday (19) after he surrendered to Thalangama Police.\nThe car in question, a BMW i8 sports car, was traveling at high speeds when it hit two other vehicles before plunging into the Diyawanna Oya in Thalawathugoda in the early hours of Saturday (17).\nThe driver of the vehicle had managed to exit the car and then reportedly fled the scene of the accident.\nThe vehicle, which was impounded by Thalangama Police, is registered under the name of Fahim Mohamed Hussain, a resident of Madiwela.\nCCTV footage and preliminary inquiries have revealed that the car was driven by the registered owner at the time of the accident.\nTherefore Thalangama Police launched an investigation to arrest the suspect on hit-and-run charges.", "DRUMMOND ISLAND, MI - The body of a 71-year-old man was found on a Drummond Island road today, and police say they're investigating the death as a hit-and-run.\nChippewa County Sheriff's officials responded to the scene on Water Street on Wednesday morning. The victim was identified as Thomas Fred Gibbons of Rapid River.\n\"Evidence on scene indicates that Gibbons was struck by a motor vehicle and died as a result of his injuries,\" police said in a news release. \"The driver of the vehicle did not stop after striking the victim and fled from that location immediately after the accident.\"\nDrummond Island sits off the eastern edge of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. It's one of the largest islands in Lake Huron, and has a population of more than 1,000 people, Census records show.\nSheriff's officials are asking for the public's help as they investigate this death.\nIf anyone has any information about the hit-and-run, authorities ask that you call the sheriff's office at (906) 635-6387, or the area's central dispatch at (906) 495-3312." ]

[ "Dickens believed in the ethical and political potential of literature, and the novel in particular, and he treated his fiction as a springboard for debates about moral and social reform. In his novels of social analysis Dickens became an outspoken critic of unjust economic and social conditions." ]

[ "For other uses, see Dickens (disambiguation). Charles John Huffam Dickens (/ˈdɪkᵻnz/; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.", "[Victorian Web Home —> Liverpool —> Authors —> Charles Dickens —> Works] ickens was not only the first great urban novelist in England, but also one of the most important social commentators who used fiction effectively to criticize economic, social, and moral abuses in the Victorian era.", "In 1890, New York Tribune reporter Jacob A. Riis set fire to the city's social reform movement with the publication of How the Other Half Lives.iis greatly admired the reporting of Charles Dickens, who wrote about London's poor, and much of Riis' writing style reflects Dickens' first-person encounters with the other half.. Riis, however, frequently wrote with a sense of righteousness that is lacking in his British counterpart.", "Dickens' style of writing. As you work on a particular section of text from Great Expectations, look for the following characteristics of Dickens' writing: Charles Dickens. Dickens was once a newspaper reporter; his descriptions show a wonderful eye for detail. Great Expectations had to fill ten columns of All Year Round each week, for 36 weeks.", "On Sundays, he never fails to criticise the sermon to the young clergyman's face: always informing Mr. Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boy's Progress by Dickens, Charles View in context. As a rule, the place to criticise the South, when criticism is necessary, is in the South--not in Boston.n Sundays, he never fails to criticise the sermon to the young clergyman's face: always informing Mr. Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boy's Progress by Dickens, Charles View in context. As a rule, the place to criticise the South, when criticism is necessary, is in the South--not in Boston.", "Claire Tomalin: five of Dickens's greatest works. Charles Dickens's biographer on five of his best books. Charles Dickens was a great reporter and observer of the condition of England. Also a great creator of character, a poet, a social reformer and a master of humour and pathos. Five of the best of his books, in chronological order, are Sketches by Boz, that sets out the London of the 1830s before you, streets, people, pleasures, low life, prisons - it made him famous in 1836.", "How many chidren did Charles Dickens have? Charles dickens had 10 children : Charles Culliford Boz Dickens (6 January, 1837 - 1896). Mary Angela Dickens (6 March, 1838 - 1896). Kate Macready Dickens from 29 October, 18 … 39 - 1929.", "Why is Charles Dickens famous? Who was Charles Dickens? Charles Dickens is a famous English writer. People all over the world enjoy his stories. One of them is Oliver Twist, the story of a poor boy in Victorian times. Books by Dickens can be funny and sad. His stories are full of interesting 'characters' (people). When did Dickens live?", "How many older siblings did Charles Dickens have? Charles Dickens had seven older siblings, six brothers and one sister to be exact. Although, he did have one younger sibling, a sister. WHAT?? HE WAS THE SECOND BORN OF EIGHT … CHILDREN OF ELIZABETH AND JOHN DICKENS YOU DONUT!", "In January 1815 John Dickens was called back to London, and the family moved to Norfolk Street, Fitzrovia. When Charles was four, they relocated to Sheerness, and thence to Chatham, Kent, where he spent his formative years until the age of 11.is 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities, set in London and Paris, is his best-known work of historical fiction. Dickens's creative genius has been praised by fellow writers—from Leo Tolstoy to George Orwell and G. K. Chesterton —for its realism, comedy, prose style, unique characterisations, and social criticism.", "Who Was Charles Dickens? Charles Dickens (February 7, 1812 to June 9, 1870) was a British novelist, journalist, editor, illustrator and social commentator who wrote such beloved classic novels as Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations.", "Charles Dickens is born. Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 in Portsmouth. His parents were John and Elizabeth Dickens. Charles was the second of their eight children. John was a clerk in a payroll office of the navy. He and Elizabeth were an outgoing, social couple.", "“A Christmas Carol”: A Capitalist Story. Charles Dickens is well known as one of the most prolific and influential authors of the Victorian period. His works often communicated the deep sense of justice that burdened Dickens. He spent his life bringing attention to the social stratification of Victorian English society and the poverty and destitution that plagued those at the bottom.", "Dicken explores the miserable condition of the Victorian women and also subtly criticizes the treatment of women by the patriarchal society. So, it can be again conclude that Dickens novels was a realistic depiction of dull and drab conditions of children and women during the Victorian era.", "Latinate form of ESTELLE. This was the name of the heroine, Estella Havisham, in Charles Dickens' novel 'Great Expectations' (1860).atinate form of ESTELLE. This was the name of the heroine, Estella Havisham, in Charles Dickens' novel 'Great Expectations' (1860).", "Britannica Classics: Early Victorian England and Charles Dickens Clifton Fadiman examining the inspiration Charles Dickens's work took from the milieu of Victorian England, with its startling contrasts of morality and hypocrisy, splendour and squalor, prosperity and poverty.", "It may be that Dickens chose to center his novel on the wealthy-middle class rather than on the lower classes he sought to defend because he realized that most of his Victorian readers would come from the middle classes and that very few of his readers would come from the lower classes.", "Saad Salman Zia a tale of two cities, book writing, books, charles dickens, english language novels, great books of the western world, literature, people write why, poets and writers, why did do write, why write 0 Comment. Eighteen years! Gracious Creator of day!", "This period came to an end in June 1822, when John Dickens was recalled to Navy Pay Office headquarters at Somerset House, and the family—minus Charles, who stayed behind to finish his final term of work—moved to Camden Town in London.is 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities, set in London and Paris, is his best-known work of historical fiction. Dickens's creative genius has been praised by fellow writers—from Leo Tolstoy to George Orwell and G. K. Chesterton —for its realism, comedy, prose style, unique characterisations, and social criticism.", "A Christmas carol is a critique of Victorian society because it evaluates how things can go wrong because of capitalism and money at the expense of Christian moral values. Dickens shows that society should work towards trying to be like the Cratchits regardless of class. ...read more.", "The watercolor, Dickens' Dream, showing the author surrounded by the characters he created, was done after Dickens death in 1870. Buss himself did not live to complete the painting. The painting is now in the Charles Dickens Museum, London. Return to the Reading Dickens page.", "Britannica Classics: Charles Dickens's Great Expectations, part 2 Clifton Fadiman providing a critical interpretation of the story and probing more deeply into the relationships between the major characters of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. This video is a 1962 production of Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation.", "Dolby and Osgood are out in it to-day on a variety of business, and left in grave and solemn state. The Letters of Charles Dickens Charles Dickens. I think you know that Osgood is a partner in Ticknor and Fields'. The Letters of Charles Dickens Charles Dickens.", "Sign Up. Biography of Charles Dickens Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England, on February 7, 1812, to John and Elizabeth Dickens. He was the second of eight children. His mother had been in service to Lord Crew, and his father worked as a clerk for the Naval Pay office.John Dickens was imprisoned for debt when Charles was young.iography of Charles Dickens Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England, on February 7, 1812, to John and Elizabeth Dickens. He was the second of eight children.", "The Work of Charles Dickens. Barnaby Rudge was actually the first novel that Dickens planned on writing. But maybe it's a good thing that didn't work out. One biographer calls Barnaby Rudge. The least-read — and least-attractive — novel in the Dickens canon.”.", "Making the world better, one answer at a time. Dickens wrote in an English-Victorian style. This means writing in a more profound and studious tone and building particular tones in his readers by portraying images that may have been noted or found amongst the English-Victorian era.", "Gordon, Elizabeth Hope, THE NAMING OF CHARACTERS IN THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS (1917). University of Nebraska Studies in Language, Literature, and Criticism.", "Where these earlier works were concerned with more hypothetical examples of interpretation, Richards wanted Practical Criticism to focus on actual readings done by actual readers. Practical Criticism, Richards wrote, was “the record of a piece of field-work in comparative ideology..", "Synopsis. British novelist Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Portsmouth, England. Over the course of his writing career, he wrote the beloved classic novels Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations.amed British author Charles Dickens was born Charles John Huffam Dickens on February 7, 1812, in Portsmouth, on the southern coast of England. He was the second of eight children.", "I see dickens as the forerunner to people like Chaplin and Woody Allen, really. Happy Birthday, Charles Dickens! ‘Lost,’ ‘NCIS,’ ‘Big Love,’ ‘Veep’ Writers on His Legacy Jace Lacob February 6, 2012. dickens being dickens, the death of Mary Hogarth did not drive him to record only one girl's fate. Charles Dickens' Enduring Insights on Human Loss and Suffering David Frum February 17, 2013. Come to think of it, Mr. dickens would probably make one hell of a modern-day TV writer.", "As to be expected of a Dickens novel, there is social commentary on the plight of the poor. The Old Curiosity Shop delves into the unknown world of freak shows and other traveling entertainersshowing a magical world, yet one with a dark underside to it.", "Charles Dickens. 1 Dickens was once a newspaper reporter; his descriptions show a wonderful eye for detail. 2 Great Expectations had to fill ten columns of All Year Round each week, for 36 weeks. Dickens' style of writing therefore 'filled space', and included lots of repetition and long lists." ]

[ "news\nThe Nigeria Police Force said it had arrested four suspected bandits in connection with several killings in Benue.\nThe suspects are : Benajamin Tivfa, 32, a serving councillor of Fidi council ward of Makurdi Local Government Area of Benue, Victor Ganabe, Daniel Kyase, 33, member of Benue Livestock Guards and Julius Avaan 49.\nOthers are : Terkula Udeh 37, Sunday Cheche, 34 and Alhaji Adajo Tomza, 28, member of Benue Livestock Guards and Msugh Teraki, 23, member, Benue Livestock Guards.\nThe Force Spokesman, Acting DCP Jimoh Moshood, made the disclosure while briefing newsmen on the arrest of the suspects on Tuesday in Abuja.\nMoshood added that items recovered from them include two AK 47 rifles, a locally made pistol and 436 rounds of AK 47 ammunition.\nHe said that the suspects were arrested on June 27 by members of the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team(IRT).\nThe spokesman said that six of the suspects were arrested in their hideout in a hotel in Naka village of Benue.\nHe said that the suspects confessed that the councillor was a member of their gang and was responsible for supply of arms and ammunition including money to finance their operations.\n“The councillor admitted to have bought 15 rounds of AK47 ammunition from Cheche and also confessed to have provided money to finance the operations of the gang.\n“Investigation is in progress to arrest other members of the gang at large. They will be arraigned in court on completion of investigation.\"\nIn a related development, Moshood said that 13 suspects had been arrested in connection with the recent killings in Barkin Ladi, Riyom and Jos South local government areas of Plateau.\nMoshood said that the suspects were assisting the police with useful information to further carry out investigation into the incident.\nHe said that Five AK47 Rifles and two Live Cartridges were recovered from the suspects.\n“The Nigeria Police Force is assuring the people of Plateau of adequate security of lives and property in the State,”he said.\nHe implored them to support the Police personnel deployed in their localities to sustain the peace that had been restored to the state.\nHowever, members of the public in the state in distress or with information for the Police Special Intervention Force and the investigation team can use the following numbers: 07059473022, 08038907662, 08075391844, and 09053872296." ]

[ "Windhoek — Former magistrate Ruth Herunga has cautioned the public to be on the lookout for impersonators using her signature, following the surfacing of a fake search warrant bearing her forged signature that was reportedly used by former police officers.\nFake search warrants were used to search the residence of Rehoboth East Constituency Councillor Edward Wambo last week and a certain Usira Mutjavikua residence in Wanaheda in January.\nOf the five men who have been arrested and appeared in the Rehoboth Magistrate's Court on Tuesday, two are former police officers: Joseph Nauta, 25, who was attached to the Katutura police station crime investigation unit and Stephanus Kabono, 28, from Klein Windhoek police station.\nKabono is currently on suspension on unspecified charges. The three other suspects are Nepando Willem, 29, Michael\nXamseb, 25, and 39-year-old Eric Noariseb. Their case was postponed to August 14. They appeared on four charges of impersonating police officers, theft of a police docket, fraud and uttering, and conspiracy to commit a crime.\nGiven the above, Herunga warned the public of the scam.\n\"They (the public) must be careful and first verify. In any event, they should be on the lookout. I left the magistracy in 2016 and I don't have any authorisation to sign any search warrants. If they see my name on piece of paper they must know that it is fake,\" said Herunga\nShe said the reason her name is used is probably because she is no longer employed there and because was responsible for issuing warrants. \"No one will query that since I am no longer there,\" she said.\nPolice spokesperson deputy commissioner Edwin Kanguativi told New Era the suspects visited the residence of Wambo in Rehoboth and introduced themselves as police officers, who were investigating a burglary complaint at the councillor's house.\nKanguatjivi said the suspects were informed that Wambo was not home and left. He said the woman at Wambo's home noticed the vehicle had no registration number and contacted the Rehoboth police. The vehicle was then stopped at a mini-road block on the B1 road between Rehoboth and Windhoek.\n\"After searching the vehicle, a police case docket and two fake search warrants with stamps of Katutura police charge office was found in the vehicle. All five suspects were arrested and detained at Rehoboth police cells,\" he confirmed.", "Constancio and Crisenta Petalco 'could have been suspected of being the ones to have reported to the authorities the presence of the members of the Abu Sayyaf,' says the military spokesman\nMANILA, Philippines – The bodies of elderly couple Constancio and Crisenta Petalco were among those recovered at the encounter site in Inabanga, Bohol, last week, but the military said it was possible they were killed by the Abu Sayyaf.\nThe Petalcos' nephew was among the Abu Sayyaf members who sailed there from Sulu, the military confirmed on Monday, April 17. The bandits stayed in their house.\n\"There is a possibility that the Abu Sayyaf themselves killed them. They could have been suspected of being the ones to have reported to the authorities the presence of the members of the Abu Sayyaf. We do not want to speculate,\" said Armed Forces of the Philippines Public Affairs Office chief Colonel Edgard Arevalo.\nThe police is investigating why the couple did not evacuate along with their neighbors, and whether they coddled the bandits or were taken as hostages.\nRelatives of the Petalcos told ABS-CBN News that the elderly couple were not able to evacuate because \"they were slow to move and old.\"\nBut the military in Bohol suspects that they were willing accomplices because one of the Abu Sayyaf members – Joselito Melloria – is their nephew.\n\"The Petalco couple are residents of said place and the owner of the house where the Abu Sayyaf Group positioned during the time of encounter,\" said Captain Jojo Mascariñas, Civil Military Operations chief of the Army 302nd Brigade.\n\"Accordingly, Crisenta was a relative of Joselito Melloria, who is believed to be the one who guided the other ASG members to the said place.\"\nMascariñas added that they appeared to have welcomed the local terrorists from Sulu into their home and showed no signs that they were taken as hostages.\nArevalo said they were surprised by reports that civilians were caught in the crossfire because the military launched \"surgical operations\" after they were assured by local officials that the residents had evacuated.\n\"If this indeed happened, it is the subject of the ongoing investigation. Investigations are being conducted by the Philippine National Police to ascertain the reason why the couple or the people mentioned stayed at the encounter site,\" Arevalo said.\nThe military foiled the planned Abu Sayyaf attack in Bohol and killed notorious Abu Sayyaf leader Muamar Askali or Abu Rami, who brought his men to Bohol to take advantage of the influx of tourists during Holy Week.\nLocal residents reported their presence in Inabanga, which prompted quick response from authorities. (READ: Bad or good intel: 5 questions on the Abu Sayyaf presence in Bohol)\nThree soldiers and a cop were also killed in the clashes in Bohol. – Rappler.com", "Lansdowne hit and run suspect caught\nA driver accused in a hit and run outside the Pioneer Gas station on Lansdowne St. E. Aug. 4 has been charged.\nCity police released video surveillance images of two men in a pickup truck that was involved in a collision outside the station, but then left the area.\nOnce the driver was identified, a warrant was issued for his arrest.\nJacob Darren Croan, 22, of Campbellford was arrested and charged with failing to stop at scene of accident. He was held in custody and appeared in weekend court.\nTheft from seniors\nVideo helped lead to an arrest after several residential rooms at a Charlotte St. retirement home were entered and items were taken Aug. 9.\nPolice say video showed a suspect entering the facility and checking for unlocked rooms, which she would then enter briefly. Cash and possessions were stolen.\nPolice were able to identify a suspect and made an arrest\nDeanna Walsh, 36, of Ware Street, Peterborough was charged with two counts of breaking and entering to commit an offence, nine counts of breaking and entering with intent and failing to comply with a probation order.\nShe appeared in weekend court Sunday.\nArrest made in robbery attempt\nCity police have arrested a man in connection with an attempt to rob the Mather and Bell Pharmacy Friday around noon.\nIt's alleged that a man went into the store, claimed to have a firearm and demanded narcotics and cash. When confronted by the store manager, the man fled, but not before the manager grabbed his backpack.\nPolice brought a canine unit in to assist with the search, and after talking to witnesses located a suspect.\nCurt Douglas Pelley, 35, of no fixed address was arrested and charged with robbery with intent, disguise with intent and failure to comply with a probation order.\nHe appeared in weekend court.\nForcible confinement\nA Talwood Dr. Resident was arrested Saturday after a worker on a routine visit to an apartment was allegedly held against her will.\nPolice say a man grew upset when the worker couldn't fulfil a request he made, and blocked the entrance and threatened to stab the worker, who called 911.\nPolice arrived and located the resident in the building lobby.\nSteven Land, 34, of Talwood Drive was arrested and charged with forcible confinement and uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm.\nHe was released and will appear in court Sept. 7.\nImpaired arrest\nCity police were called to the Chemong Rd. McDonald's after a man allegedly fell asleep behind the wheel while waiting for his food at the drive-through window.\nIt happened early Saturday morning. Police say the restaurant staff reported that the man had placed an order before falling asleep.\nJohn Birkenhead (31) of Herbert St. was arrested and charged with driving while ability impaired - and driving with more than 80 mgs of alcohol in blood.\nHe was released and will appear in court Sept. 7.\nThreats and mischief\nAn 18-year-old who had been kicked out of his parents' home was arrested after police investigated a situation at the house Friday.\nPolice say witnesses saw someone breaking windows, a patio table, lights and patio stones at the St. Paul St. home. It's also alleged that the man sent threatening text messages to his father that day.\nHe was charged with uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm and mischief under $5,000. His name was not released to protect his father's identity.", "Two Dallas Police officers were shot and critically wounded Tuesday afternoon outside of a Home Depot in the Northeast section of the city, authorities said. A civilian, believed to be a security guard, was also shot in the incident at the home improvement store, WFAA-TV reports. The surviving officer is in critical condition, while the guard’s condition was not immediately available.\nPolice are now searching for the suspect, identified as Armando Juarez, 29, in the surrounding area, according to WFAA-TV. He is wanted for questioning, the news station reports. The Home Depot is in the 11600 block of Forest Central Drive, near U.S. Highway 75 and Forest Lane in the Lake Highlands neighborhood, according to police. The names of the wounded officers have not been released.\nHere’s what you need to know about the suspect and the shooting:\n1. Officers Were Serving a Warrant With a Home Depot Security Guard When the Suspect Pulled Out a Gun & Shot Them\n#Breaking video of DPD helicopter searching creek bed along with officers on the ground with K-9 looking for suspect in reported shooting of an officer near 75 and Forest pic.twitter.com/1IINOCjBVI — J.D. Miles (@jdmiles11) April 24, 2018\nOfficers were helping an off-duty officer serve a warrant alongside a Home Depot security guard at the Lake Highlands store when the suspect pulled out a gun and shot them, WFAA-TV reports.\nThe wounded officers are a male and a female, sources told KTVT-TV’s J.D. Miles. According to Miles, the male officer was shot in the back of the head and the female officer was shot in the face. Both were gravely wounded, but WFAA-TV’s Jason Whitely reports the female officer is now in stable condition, despite being shot in the face. She is still undergoing surgery.\nThe news station also reported the 27-year-old male officer “flatlined” during surgery, but was resuscitated. Police Chief Renee Hall was en route to Presbyterian Hospital, where the officers were taken.\n#BREAKING Several Dallas Police units zipping down the highway, even what looks like an armored vehicle. Just saw an ambulance as well. Officer involved shooting is reported in NE Dallas at a Home Depot. @WFAA pic.twitter.com/eygF5nRL6O — Tiffany Liou (@tliou) April 24, 2018\nIt is not known what the suspect, identified as 29-year-old Armando Juarez, was wanted for. The shooting happened about 4:15 p.m.\nAccording to WFAA-TV, “Several Home Depot employees told WFAA that there was a ruckus behind the store and that they heard gunshots. One employee said he saw two officers on the ground and wounded.”\n2. The Suspect Is Wearing a White T-Shirt, Blue Jean Shorts & Is Possibly Armed With 2 Handguns\n#Breaking video of DPD helicopter searching creek bed along with officers on the ground with K-9 looking for suspect in reported shooting of an officer near 75 and Forest pic.twitter.com/1IINOCjBVI — J.D. Miles (@jdmiles11) April 24, 2018\nPolice described the suspect, Armando Juarez, as wearing a white T-shirt and blue jean shorts. He was possibly armed with two handguns, according to police.\nThere were reports that the suspect had been taken into custody at Richland College, but when officers responded, they determined that man was not the one who was wanted in the shooting. Police also detained another man near the scene, but he was also released.\n3. A Warrant Was Issued for Juarez’s Arrest After He Missed a Court Date in a Felony Theft Case, Records Show\nArmando Luis Juarez has been arrested multiple times in Dallas County, online court records show. Judge Dominique Collins issued a warrant for Juarez’s arrest and raised his bond to $10,000 on February 5, 2018, after Juarez failed to appear in court. He was originally arrested in December 2017 on a state jail felony theft charge for allegedly taking goods worth more than $2,500.\nJuarez was also arrested in January 2018 for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. He posted $1,000 bail and that case is still pending.\nIn 2008, Juarez was convicted of attempted possession of a controlled substance, cocaine, and was sentenced to 9 days in jail, along with probation. A 2007 misdemeanor charge for failure of fugitive to give ID was dismissed.\n4. Police Shut Down a Dallas Area Rapid Transit Station & Have Asked People to Stay Away From the Area\n#Breaking At least one law enforcement officer has been taken to Presbyterian Hospital with injuries following shooting incident around Home Depot at 75 and Forest Lane. Sources say search is on for suspect in creek behind store pic.twitter.com/m27VZlJklV — J.D. Miles (@jdmiles11) April 24, 2018\nPolice officers flocked to the scene of the shooting after an urgent call for officers down was put out on the radio. Photos and videos taken by local reporters showed officers searching around a creek area.\nK-9 officers were also searching the area. A Dallas Police helicopter was also brought to the scene. ATF agents were also responding to the scene to assist, the federal agency tweeted.\nAccording to WFAA-TV, “More than a dozen police cars were still at the scene behind the store, near a line of trees. At least one person could be seen being loaded onto an ambulance. An officer with a police search dog was also on the scene, going into the wooded area. Armored police vehicles were seen driving toward the Home Depot on U.S. 75. Officers could be seen searching the surrounding area for the suspect.”\nA Dallas Area Rapid Transit station at Forest Lane was shutdown to keep people out of the search area and to prevent the suspect from leaving, the Dallas Morning News reports. Trains were passing through the station without stopping.\nVIDEO: armored vehicles and @DallasPD cruisers heading to scene of officer involved shooting at Home Depot in NE Dallas. @wfaa pic.twitter.com/h6SqbXEkS5 — Matt Howerton (@HowertonNews) April 24, 2018\nPolice have asked people to avoid the area as officers search for the suspect.\n“We can confirm that two @DallasPD officers have been shot and critically wounded. We will provide updates as we get them. Please pray for our officers and their families,” police said on Twitter. “A civilian was also shot in this incident. The condition of the civilian is unknown at this time.”\nDallas Mayor Mike Rawlings tweeted, “We are closely monitoring the situation in northeast Dallas and praying for our officers and their families.”\nGovernor Greg Abbott tweeted, “Our thoughts and prayers are with @DallasPD and the two officers shot and critically wounded. Texas honors all the men and women who protect and serve our communities, and justice will be served.”\nTexas Attorney General Ken Paxton added, “As a major investigation continues in Dallas, please pray for the two heroic @DallasPD officers who have been shot in the line of service. We also extend our thoughts and prayers to their families during this critical hour.”\n5. Five Police Officers Were Shot & Killed in Dallas During an Ambush in July 2016\nDallas SWAT officers in masks searching creek bed for possible shooter near Home Depot in NE Dallas pic.twitter.com/YvX5v6eZdY — Richard Ray (@RichardRayFox4) April 24, 2018\nTuesday’s incident was the first time a Dallas officer was shot in the line of duty since a 2016 ambush. Five police officers, four who worked for the Dallas Police Department and one who worked for the Dallas Area Rapid Transit authority, were killed while patrolling at a Black Lives Matter rally on July 7, 2016.\nThe suspect in that shooting, Micah X. Johnson, was an Army veteran who was angered by shootings of black men by police that had occurred in the weeks before the attack, authorities said. Johnson barricaded himself inside a building near the scene of the shooting and was later blown up by police using a robot armed with explosives.\nDART Officer Brent Thompson was killed along with Dallas Senior Corporal Lorne Ahrens, Sergeant Michael Smith and officers Michael Krol and Patrick Zamarippa.", "Horror on Yonge St. after van driver kills 10 and injures 15\nSuspect in van rampage identified as Alek Minassian, 25, of Richmond Hill\nWhat we know and don't know about the van crash\nThe suspect behind the wheel of the van later ditched the vehicle and got into a standoff with a police officer on Poyntz Ave. south of Sheppard Ave. Eyewitness video of the confrontation shows him asking the officer to \"shoot me in the head,\" claiming he had a gun in his pocket.\nThe officer arrested the suspect at the scene. The arresting police officer widely praised for his handling of the situation is Const. Ken Lam, the Star has confirmed.\nDetails are trickling out on the victims who were hit by the van.\nThe South Korean government confirmed on its official Facebook site that two of its nationals were killed, and another was injured.\nAt a special city council meeting Tuesday, Councillor Cesar Palacio rose to speak about one of the victims, Anne Marie D'Amico, the daughter of constituents Rocco and Carmela, who live in his Davenport ward.\nD'Amico was one of three children and a friend of Palacio's daughter.\n\"When my daughter called me last night to share that particular news, it was so devastating,\" Palacio said in the council chamber as he offered condolences to the family.\nThe councillor said he spoke to D'Amico's father, Rocco, on Tuesday morning.\n\"It was clear that part of his life is gone,\" Palacio said. \"As he noted, he's living the worst nightmare ever in his life.\"\nEarlier on Monday, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said Minassian's name did not trigger any red flags relating to terrorism.\nGoodale had described the incident as a \"horrific attack\" in an afternoon tweet offering praise to the Toronto police and condolences to the victims and their families. By nightfall, Goodale tempered his language.\n\"This incident that happened here on the street behind us was horrendous but it does not appear to be connected in any way to national security,\" Goodale told reporters.\nToronto police Chief Mark Saunders said the rampage \"definitely looked deliberate.\"\n\"There is nothing in our files, we've looked right across, and there's nothing that we have on him right now,\" he said.\nThe exact motive behind the horror remains unclear.\nA source confirmed to the Star that a Facebook post from an Alek Minassian circulating on social media talking about \"incel\" and invoking U.S. mass murderer Elliot Rodger was indeed legitimate and published on Minassian's profile before his acount was deleted.\nA spokesperson for Facebook Canada said it immediately deleted the suspect's account Monday afternoon.\n\"This is a terrible tragedy and our hearts go out to the people who have been affected. There is absolutely no place on our platform for people who commit such horrendous acts,\" spokesperson Meg Sinclair said in an email.\nA LinkedIn profile for a man of the same name states he is a student at Seneca College. According to Joseph Pham, 25, who took a computer programming class with Minassian at Seneca, he was at school just last week. He described him as \"socially awkward.\"\n\"He kept to himself. He didn't really talk to anyone,\" Pham said.\nThe Armenian Community Centre of Toronto released a statement saying it was \"deeply saddened and disturbed by the senseless deaths and injuries.\"\n\"We unequivocally condemn this and all acts of violence,\" the statement said. \"We commend the bravery and dedication of our first responders who, despite being faced with an unprecedented tragedy, saved lives with their heroic actions and rapid response.\"\nTTC subway trains will continue to bypass North York Centre station as the investigation continues. Beecroft Rd., which runs parallel to Yonge St. has been reopened.\nWith files from Sabrina Nanji, Wendy Gillis, Alexandra Jones, Julien Gignac and Nicholas Keung\nWith files from Sabrina Nanji, Wendy Gillis, Alexandra Jones, Julien Gignac and Nicholas Keung" ]

[ "tourist information house" ]

[ "the Calling", "On Call", "The Call", "What's Up?", "What a Friend", "What's Happening!!", "What's in It for Me", "things are what they are", "What If Nothing", "What A Night", "What If It's You", "What a Life!", "What Are Words", "What Not to Wear", "What Car?", "bugle call", "Call of the West", "Call the Midwife", "conference call", "a quorum call", "What So Not", "by calling a method", "What If We", "earnings call", "What a Waste", "collect call", "call risk", "El Call", "For What It's Worth", "At What Cost", "Call to Arms", "What to Audit" ]

[ "Sponsored Topics. Windber is a borough in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, eight miles (13 km) south of Johnstown. It was at one time a place of industrial activities which included coal mining, lumbering, and the manufacture of fire brick." ]

[ "Closest County to Windber, PA: Somerset County: Neighboring Cities to Windber, PA: Paint, Scalp Level: ZIP Codes for Windber, PA: 15963: 3-Digit ZIP Code Prefix for Windber, PA: 159: Congressional Districts Representing Windber, PA: PA 12th: Latitude/Longitude of Windber, PA (Centroid): 40.2355309038683, -78.8247011358094 Show on Map", "Government City in Windber on YP.com. See reviews, photos, directions, phone numbers and more for the best City, Village & Township Government in Windber, PA. Start your search by typing in the business name below. What do you want to find?", "City of Windber, PA - SOMERSET County Pennsylvania ZIP Codes. Detailed information on every zip code in Windber Home | Products | Learn About ZIP Codes | Find a Post Office | Search | Contact | FAQs", "38 mins. Distance from Windber, PA to Pittsburgh, PA is 78Miles or 125 Km. You can get this distance about 1 hour 41 mins. If you want to planning travel with plane for 63 Miles or 102 Km, You can get this distance about 38 mins . A car with an average MPG will needs 3.61 gallons of gas to get the route between these points. The estimated cost of gas to get between Windber, PA and Pittsburgh, PA is $8.19.", "Average climate in Windber, Pennsylvania. Based on data reported by over 4,000 weather stations. Tornado activity: Windber-area historical tornado activity is slightly below Pennsylvania state average. It is 37% smaller than the overall U.S. average.", "Windkits is located at 7346 Penn Dr Unit 2, Allentown, PA.. Posted on October 28, 2014. Brought to you by merchantcircle.", "Latest news from Windber, PA collected exclusively by city-data.com from local newspapers, TV, and radio stations. Ancestries: German (15.1%), Italian (14.5%), Slovak (11.4%), American (9.9%), Polish (7.0%), Irish (6.8%). Current Local Time: EST time zone. Incorporated on 07/06/1900. Elevation: 1853 feet. Land area: 2.07 square miles.", "Sunbury /ˈsʌnbɛri/ is a city in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is on the east bank of the Susquehanna River, just downstream of the confluence of its main and west branches. It dates to the early 18th century and is the county seat of Northumberland County.", "City of Dickson City, PA Zip Codes. City of Dickson City, PA Demographic Information. * Demographic data is based on information taken from the 2000 Census. City of Dickson City, PA covers 1 Area Code. City of Dickson City, PA covers 0 Zip Codes. 122 Cities within 15 Miles of the City of Dickson City, PA.", "Discover what it's like living in Spring City, PA with the AreaVibes Livability Score. Find out where to live in and near Spring City, PA. Find Homes Mortgages Best Places 2017 Top 10 Cities Blog", "Homes for sale & real estate near Forest Hills High School Homes for Sale in Sidman, PA have a median listing price of $64,900 and a price per square foot of $77. There are 25 active homes for sale in Sidman, Pennsylvania, which spend an average of days on the market. Some of the hottest neighborhoods near Sidman, PA are Highland Park, Lllyswen, Sixth Ward, Lakefront. You may also be interested in homes for sale in popular zip codes like 15955, 15905, or in neighboring cities, such as Johnstown, Windber, Summerhill, Ebensburg, Portage.", "City of Pittsburgh, PA Zip Codes. 1 City of Pittsburgh, PA Demographic Information. 2 City of Pittsburgh, PA covers 3 Area Codes. 3 City of Pittsburgh, PA covers 75 Zip Codes. 56 Cities within 15 Miles of the City of Pittsburgh, PA.", "Carrolltown Central City Derry Downtown Johnstown Eighth Ward Galleria Mall Lovell Park Nanty Glo North Atherton Northern Cambria Pittsburgh Seward Somerset South Atherton University HeightsWestmont Windber.", "City of Greenville, PA Zip Codes. City of Greenville, PA Demographic Information. * Demographic data is based on information taken from the 2000 Census. City of Greenville, PA covers 1 Area Code. City of Greenville, PA covers 1 Zip Code. 23 Cities within 15 Miles of the City of Greenville, PA.", "Website: http://www.windgapborough.org. Wind Gap (Pennsylvania Dutch: Gratdaal) is a borough in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States. Wind Gap is located in the Lehigh Valley region of the state. It is part of Pennsylvania's Slate Belt.", "Nearest cities: Wind Gap borough, PA (1.9 miles ), Pen Argyl borough, PA (2.0 miles ), Brodheadsville, PA (2.2 miles ), Roseto borough, PA (2.4 miles ), Bangor borough, PA (2.5 miles ), Effort, PA (2.6 miles ), Ackermanville, PA (2.6 miles ), East Bangor borough, PA (2.7 miles ).", "Mahanoy City, PA Real Estate & Homes For Sale. 1 1301 E Mahanoy Street, Mahanoy City, PA 17948. 2 37 Lower Street, Mahanoy City, PA 17948. 3 115 Roosevelt Drive, Mahanoy City, PA 17948. 105 Roosevelt Dr, Mahanoy City, PA 1 17948. 803 E Mahanoy Street, Mahanoy City, PA 17948. 929 E Mahanoy St, Mahanoy City, PA 17948.", "Winder, Georgia. Winder is a city in Barrow County, Georgia, United States. It is located east of Atlanta and is part of the Atlanta metropolitan area. The population was 14,099 at the 2010 census. The first syllable of Winder is pronounced like wine.", "City of Villanova, PA Zip Codes. City of Villanova, PA Demographic Information. * Demographic data is based on information taken from the 2000 Census. City of Villanova, PA covers 2 Area Codes. City of Villanova, PA covers 1 Zip Code. 103 Cities within 15 Miles of the City of Villanova, PA.", "Latrobe, PA. Online Offers. Latrobe ( /leɪtroʊb/) is a city in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania in the United States, approximately 40 miles (64 km) southeast of Pittsburgh. The city population was 7,634 as of the 2000 census (9,265 in 1990). It is located near the Pennsylvania's scenic Chestnut Ridge.", "City of Doylestown, PA Zip Codes. 1 City of Doylestown, PA Demographic Information. 2 City of Doylestown, PA covers 3 Area Codes. 3 City of Doylestown, PA covers 2 Zip Codes. 4 83 Cities within 15 Miles of the City of Doylestown, PA.", "Windkits is expected to open its new facility on Penn Drive in Upper Macungie Township within the next few months, said Jarrett Witt, regional development manager for the Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corp.", "City of Wayne, PA Zip Codes. City of Wayne, PA Demographic Information. * Demographic data is based on information taken from the 2000 Census. City of Wayne, PA covers 3 Area Codes. City of Wayne, PA covers 4 Zip Codes. 99 Cities within 15 Miles of the City of Wayne, PA.", "Latrobe /leɪˈtroʊb/ is a city in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania in the United States and part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. The city population was 8,338 as of the 2010 census (9,265 in 1990). It is located near Pennsylvania's scenic Chestnut Ridge. Latrobe was incorporated as a borough in 1854, and as a city in 1999. The current Mayor is Rosemarie M. Wolford. Among its claims to fame, Latrobe is the home of Saint Vincent Archabbey , the Latrobe Brewery (the original brewer of Rolling Rock beer), Saint Vincent College and golfer Arnold Palmer.", "1 Pamela Glover added work to her Timeline — in Upper Darby Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. 2 Abdul Sabir in Upper Darby Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. 61 likes · 54 were here. Upper Darby Township is a home rule township bordering West Philadelphia in... Jump to", "City of York, PA Zip Codes. City of York, PA Demographic Information. * Demographic data is based on information taken from the 2000 Census. City of York, PA covers 1 Area Code. City of York, PA covers 9 Zip Codes. 35 Cities within 15 Miles of the City of York, PA.", "City of Blakeslee, PA Zip Codes. 1 City of Blakeslee, PA Demographic Information. 2 City of Blakeslee, PA covers 1 Area Code. 3 City of Blakeslee, PA covers 1 Zip Code. 4 28 Cities within 15 Miles of the City of Blakeslee, PA.", "City of Gap, PA Zip Codes. City of Gap, PA Demographic Information. * Demographic data is based on information taken from the 2000 Census. City of Gap, PA covers 2 Area Codes. City of Gap, PA covers 1 Zip Code. 51 Cities within 15 Miles of the City of Gap, PA.", "Wilmerding, Pennsylvania. Wilmerding is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,190 at the 2010 census. It is located 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Pittsburgh. At the start of the twentieth century, it had extensive foundries and machine shops of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company.", "A solo attorney from Somerset County, Winder has a long history of activity in the legal community. He has been a member of the state bar association since 1972, and first joined its trustee board in 2003. He is also a member of the New Jersey State Bar Foundation’s board.", "City of Bethel, PA Zip Codes. City of Bethel, PA Demographic Information. * Demographic data is based on information taken from the 2000 Census. City of Bethel, PA covers 2 Area Codes. City of Bethel, PA covers 1 Zip Code. 34 Cities within 15 Miles of the City of Bethel, PA.", "City of Latrobe, PA Zip Codes. City of Latrobe, PA Demographic Information. * Demographic data is based on information taken from the 2000 Census. City of Latrobe, PA covers 1 Area Code. City of Latrobe, PA covers 1 Zip Code. 43 Cities within 15 Miles of the City of Latrobe, PA." ]

[ "Austin has a new center, which needs people for answering calls." ]

[ "Halls points that that the center in Austin will use robots for answering calls.", "A new center will help serve the need for services.", "There are calls about a lot of legal problems to the center.", "The San Antonio center gets calls about one topic.", "The law students were going to help out with the phones.", "To find out what clients' legal problems are and how they can be solved, UT law students are going to interview them.", "There is a location called the Community Legal Center.", "A woman is answering phones in a call center.", "There are more people requesting the legal services.", "The pay is about $20.", "Hall didn't say anything about what was needed.", "You can call the Education Centre.", "Law students could be utilized to make services more efficient.", "Hall had nothing to say about the students that need legal assistance.", "They will have training on campus.", "They are not answering the call of the pool of the law schools.", "At the center of the town is a building called Moot Hall.", "The UT law school dean is named William Powers.", "The Pro Bono Commission had at least 20 members.", "People are making calls.", "I have got only the one at UT now in Austin.", "There are students in the lecture hall.", "The center is going to be staffed by volunteers.", "We do not need a new center.", "The center will be near the court.", "Or call on another person to answer?", "TRLA will provide legal assistance to eligible students.", "It will help them provide legal services.", "20 representatives are on the design team.", "The legal advice line will help many people in Texas.", "The students were full of life and didn't need a new center opened just for them.", "Students in a lecture hall." ]

[ "Its ok.\n\nI used it almost every day in my car and worked pretty good but the stickky thingy to make it stick to what ever surface you are using melted and I had to throw it away. I would recommend trying to find another type of phone holder tbh." ]

[ "this was exactly what i needed and it works great. no problems with it so far and i use it almost every other day. .", "Not a great product as it doesn't stick to the car. I had it on for less than a day on my cars dashboard before it loses it's grip and just falls right off. Not worth the purchase.", "So cute! I love how mine looks on my car. However applying it. The I didn't stick. I had to manually put it on. But it turned out okay.", "Had a little problem with it sticking on certain surfaces. It seems to work very good and fast!", "I use it in my car..\nIt's hold on almost every thing.\nBut the problem is the angle of the stand when I put my phone vertical.", "I used this product for two days and it quite working", "There is no way I would have got all the bugs off the car without this. Believe me I tried. Nothing else worked.", "I had to fiddle with this thing quite a little to make it work, but eventually got it to work.", "This holster is secure, small in size and pretty easily concealed. I received it quickly and I use it almost every day. No complaints or issues.", "Stalion products are awesome! I received a good discount or sample of this product to use and review, and it is well made. Extends to 32 inches long. Makes your selfies look like someone else snapped the shot.... almost! (there's that tell-tale arm out to the side thingy)\nI'd recommend this Selfie Stick for it's easy of use with every phone we tested.", "Almost every day I use these super food berries as part of a nutritious\ndrink we have. They are so good. Not all that I have found are as good\ntasting as these. These are the best I have found and pretty good price.", "I attached this button to my steering wheel so I can control my phone while in the car. It works wonderfully well and I use it everyday.", "it worked ok in my car. the difference with one of the reviews posted in amazon is that I had to stick it on the glass cause on other surface it didn't worked well.", "These are good shades and pretty easy to use. They seem to stay up well as long as you run your hand all the way over the shade. If you're trying to reach across the car to stick it to the window, then it probably won't stay up all day. But otherwise, these are great little shades and keep the car cool and are very handy!", "can you love a car plug charger thing? If so, then, yeah, I love it. I works great. Nice design with the little LED thingy. Charges nice and fast. This is the third one I have bought for my cars.", "I have an old 2003 Toyota Corolla that has battery problems almost every winter. This battery charger has saved me countless times over the years (5+ and still working hard). No need to have another car jump the battery anymore. It's a bit heavy so I keep it in my car's trunk all year long for those emergency cases. I have used it to help other cars as well when their car batteries have died on them.\n\nTo this day, everything is still working besides the flashlight which I don't use much anyway. The piece is loose and keeps falling off easily now.", "I can't get it to stick to my dashboard. It also doesn't come with good instructions.", "The small pads are pretty useless. They don't really stick to the dash or any material in my car. Sometimes if i put a little water on the back they will. The larger ones, however, work pretty good. If i could just get 4 large ones that would be ideal.", "...I had used it several times and it went well. Then, the other day, for no apparent reason, it got caught in my spokes. Fortunately, I was just starting off at an intersection. It torqued my leg and back, but had I been on a roll, I'm afraid it would have dumped me off, possibly into traffic. Kind of a scary experience. It didn't appear to misshape the bag, but on the same ride, it attacked me twice more. I think I would like it much better if it didn't try to kill me.", "I purchased this item to spray the underside of my woodworking machines. Over use, I find that sawdust sometimes clings to machine and eventually compacts in place, making it difficult to remove. I was hoping that this would provide a thin film that would allow the sawdust to fall off easily. For this purpose, it works marginally well. The spray is essentially a spray on wax. It is liquid when sprayed on and then dries quickly so it no longer drips. It takes a few hours before you can touch it and not have it stick to your fingers. When dry, it feels like a thin layer of wax that can be easily removed with any pressure. Maybe it will become hard after a few days, but I did not test that. I still use it, but only for irregular surfaces. For flat surfaces, I find that a car wax (that I can buff and make really shiny) works better in creating a slippery surface. And the car was shine can be accomplished in minutes rather than hours.", "very convenient, I keep it in the trunk of my car and use it all the time, just wish the base stuck out a little more", "This thing is a work horse. Just clean it right away and make sure the screen is clean between uses. We use it almost every day.", "This things was super awesome! It was my first time doing something like this and I had no idea how to do it so I turned to YouTube and still struggled a bit to find a good video. I finally found one and tried it out. I could have done better but if this ever starts to come off or has tears in it then I would be happy to buy another one! I would definitely get another one and would recommend it to friends/family. It fits very snug on my steering wheel, it doesn't slip and it actually has really good grip! I would buy the covers that were already made and you slip it over but they would always be ruined within less than a month. This one has been great from the day I bought it and installed it.", "My husband got this for Christmas and he loves it he's been using it almost every single day it works great download the GoPro studios to your computer for easy editing make sure you buy the ST make microcard", "It works, but every time I go to use it I have to fuss with it to unstick the end that has gotten stuck to the plastic, and then I usually have to dispose of that 2 - 3 inch piece on the end since during that process I will have either ripped it into multiple pieces or crumpled some of it over. Once I get past that initial step, it's fine until the next time I use it.", "The sticky tabs are not very good. I've already used 3 in the past two weeks. They just detach from the car mount", "Works well; appears to be of good quality.\nMy daughter will use this almost daily in the car for her phone; she will be a good test of its durability.", "I use this cup almost every day. It's wonderful. My coffee stays good & warm until I'm done with it.", "I just bought the DVD and have been trying it out. The ab workout is fabulous and I felt the burn right away. Some of the workout positions aren't my fav but overall I like it and I see already a change in my abs after almost 3 weeks of working out. And I don't do it daily but pretty much every other day and sometimes twice in one day to make up for a day lost. With every workout you also have to watch what you eat too so it's not like you just use the DVD and then eat 3000 + a day. Gotta sweat a bit to get results but this DVD sure helps!", "Works well, have not tried multiple devices yet though. Also it could just be me...but the tape that is provided to stick it to the dash doesn't seem to stick to anything at all.", "I love this little pot! I use it almost every day with my Nutrisystem food. It makes the food taste so much better and I add veggies, etc. to the meal and then heat it in the Crock while I am at work and have a good hot meal to come home to on my lunch break! So glad I found out about it. I would recommend this to everyone!", "worked well for a week but after so many uses everyday it started acting up plus a few drops accidental" ]

[ "Is it always illegal to drive without car insurance? It's against the law to drive a vehicle on a public road without at least the most basic level of car insurance (third party insurance). If the land you're driving on can't be accessed by the public you do not need insurance." ]

[ "The short answer is no. It's legal to drive with interior lights on in Australia. ... While there's no exact law against having interior lights on while driving, there are laws against distracted driving, driving without a clear view, and driving without proper control.", "Short Answer: California does not have specific laws regarding driving a car without a hood. In states like Maryland and Oregon, it is illegal to drive without a hood. ... In all other states, there are no specific laws against driving without a hood.", "Is it illegal to drive barefoot? Contrary to popular belief, no! It is not illegal to drive barefoot. No states in the U.S. have road laws against driving without shoes.", "Submit your check or money for order for $10.50 payable to DMV. Both vehicles must be titled and registered in the same owner(s) name(s). Driving without insurance is against the law.", "In states like Maryland and Oregon, it is illegal to drive without a hood. ... In all other states, there are no specific laws against driving without a hood. To find out more about the laws in your state, scroll through our lists of state resources below.", "The fine for driving without insurance in Ontario varies based on the offense : Driving without insurance first offense : Fines start at $5000 and could be as high as $25,000. Driving without insurance second offense : Fines start at $10,000 and could reach as high as $50,000.", "However, some laws impose no such restrictions, such as driving without insurance or operating a vehicle under suspension. ... In Washington, officers can enforce traffic violations such as reckless driving, negligent driving, vehicular homicide and hit-and-run traffic collisions on private property.", "It is not illegal to drive barefoot. No states in the U.S. have road laws against driving without shoes. ... If you do choose to drive barefoot, make sure your shoes are not sitting in the driver's side floorboard, as they could get lodged under the pedals.", "Well according to the RAC in a nutshell it is not against the law to drive in the UK without shoes on and the same applies for wearing flip flops, provided you are able to safely operate the vehicle.", "Current road safety laws allow scramblers and quads to be driven without licence or insurance. ... Those who ride them do not require a driver's licence or insurance though you must be at least 16 to qualify for a licence to drive on a public road.", "Failure to stop — 19% Driving without a license — 12% Driving without insurance — 10% Seat belt infractions — 3%", "No, it is not against the law to drive around with your tail gate down.", "What is the penalty for driving without insurance? The minimum penalty is 6 points and a fine. The Police are able to offer fixed penalties to drivers caught driving or using a vehicle without valid insurance.", "Common Reasons for Drivers License Suspension The Washington point system is in place to raise a red flag against Habitual Traffic Violators. ... Some serious traffic violations result in a suspended drivers license, including: Driving Under the Influence (DUI) Driving without insurance.", "['Driving Under the Influence (DUI)', 'Driving without insurance.', 'Reckless driving.', 'At fault in a fatal accident.', 'Hit-and-run conviction.']", "As part of your first offense for driving without insurance, your driver's license will be suspended for a minimum of 30 days. You could lose your driver's license for driving without insurance for up to one year.", "Expired License If your license is currently expired, do not drive. You will be ticketed for driving with an expired license. Driving without a valid license is against the law. If your license has been expired for more than six (6) months, you will be forced to pass the Written and Driving tests again.", "In most states, you cannot legally drive a car without insurance.", "It's illegal to drive a car without insurance, so even if you're purchasing from a private person, you risk being pulled over and fined if you're caught without insurance. If you buy from a dealership, you won't be able to drive off the lot without insurance, especially if you're financing your car.", "there is no law about driving with or without a hood in new jersey.", "The basic answer to can you drive your parent's car without insurance is yes. ... Just because if the vehicle is not insured then the answer is no, you cannot drive your parent's car. In fact, it is mandatory to have car insurance in Canada. The insurance pertains to driving cars on public roads.", "The penalties for driving without insurance in NJ are severe. For a first-time violation of N.J.S.A. 39:6B-2 (driving without liability insurance), one can be fined between $300 and $1,000, as well as community service, and a mandatory license suspension, among others.", "In Virginia, there is no law that says you can't drive with a broken foot, but if your injury causes you to drive recklessly, you can be charged with reckless driving. ... So we can Verify, there's no law against driving with a broken foot.", "Tax law generally allows businesses to create “captive” insurance companies to protect against certain risks. ... Those amounts are paid, either as insurance premiums or reinsurance premiums, to a “captive” insurance company owned by the insured or parties related to the insured.", "Is it illegal to drive with headphones in Australia? The short answer is no. There's no law against driving while wearing headphones. But as headphones are usually connected to some external device, like a mobile phone, other laws can apply.", "In general, insurance coverage for an insured driving someone else's vehicle is the coverage he carries for his own vehicle. ... If a person drives his own vehicle without insurance, he should not expect that he is covered when driving someone else's vehicle.", "Penalties for driving without insurance or for permitting someone else to drive uninsured include: ... An endorsement of between six and eight penalty points on your license; Disqualification from driving.", "There are both federal and provincial/territorial laws against impaired driving. The federal Criminal Code sets out impaired driving offences, enforcement procedures and penalties. These laws are based on the . 08% BAC legal limit.", "In short, driving without doors in PA, in a PA registered Jeep, is against PennDOT vehicle code.", "We're All Equal Before the Law. All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.", "You can't test drive a car without insurance and the police will not accept 'I'm test driving a new car' as an excuse for not having insurance. ... If you're buying a car from a private dealer however you will need to organise insurance for yourself.", "Many unlicensed drivers are ashamed to admit that they have failed the driving test and will simply begin driving without a licence. But taking to the road without a full driving licence can lead to penalty points, fines and increased insurance premiums." ]