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I walk away. It’s like that playing chess with a pigeon meme. No matter what, they’ll knock down the pieces and claim they won. Not worth wasting my energy

The Houston Theater District, located downtown, is home to nine major performing arts organizations and six performance halls. It is the second-largest concentration of theater seats in a downtown area in the United States. Houston is one of few United States cities with permanent, professional, resident companies in all major performing arts disciplines: opera (Houston Grand Opera), ballet (Houston Ballet), music (Houston Symphony Orchestra), and theater (The Alley Theatre). Houston is also home to folk artists, art groups and various small progressive arts organizations. Houston attracts many touring Broadway acts, concerts, shows, and exhibitions for a variety of interests. Facilities in the Theater District include the Jones Hall—home of the Houston Symphony Orchestra and Society for the Performing Arts—and the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts.

Moments after President Obama nominated Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, the expected partisan scripts kicked in. Competing ads have been launched on Web sites and television touting competing versions of Sotomayor's judicial history. Masses of e-mails and press releases and talking heads have sold at-odds assessments of everything from the Princeton- and Yale-educated judge's intellect to whether her gender and ethnicity would color her high court deliberations. The White House even weighed in again Wednesday, continuing its highly orchestrated rollout by offering up on a press call a half-dozen legal experts to sell Sotomayor's judicial record, philosophy and temperament. And while taking questions during his daily press briefing, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs cautioned conservatives and others to "be exceedingly careful" about how they describe the confirmation process involving the nation's first Hispanic nominee. Gibbs was responding to comments by some conservatives — including former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich and talk radio personality Rush Limbaugh — who have called Sotomayor a racist and a reverse racist for a 2001 speech in which she suggested that the gender and ethnicity of judges could lead them to different conclusions in race and sex discrimination cases. Conservatives have also attacked her concurrence in a recent court decision of a controversial discrimination case. Gibbs' admonition echoed that of Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele, who on Tuesday advised his own party members to be careful with Sotomayor. As voices become louder in the lead-up to Sotomayor's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, which is expected in July, the conservative lines of attack against the 54-year-old appeals court judge, and the aggressive White House push-back, have already emerged. Identity Politics And Empathy Sotomayor's comments in that 2001 speech, sponsored by the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal, have become the main focus of attacks by many conservative groups and influential voices from the right, including Limbaugh. In the speech, Sotomayor referred to former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's assertion that a "wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion," and said, in part: "I am also not so sure that I agree with the statement. First, as professor Martha Minow has noted, there can never be a universal definition of wise. Second, I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life. Let us not forget that wise men like Oliver Wendell Holmes and Justice Cardozo voted on cases which upheld both sex and race discrimination in our society." Some conservatives say the comments suggest racial prejudice that could infect her rulings from the bench. The White House has countered that the comments, in the context of her overall speech, suggest the "common sense" view that every person brings different life experiences to the court. As evidence of her alleged judicial activism, conservatives have also seized on comments Sotomayor made in 2005 in which she said that the "court of appeals is where policy is made." But supporters note that her comments characterized the role of different courts — from trial and district to appeals and the high court. (See Sotomayor's full quote in the inset box.) Sotomayor's comments were made in response to a question from a student about how clerking for a district court would differ from an appeals court clerkship. Controversial Opinion Before The Supreme Court A decision by Sotomayor and her fellow 2nd Circuit Court judges to reject a discrimination claim by 18 white New Haven, Conn., firefighters against the city over an invalidated promotion test has drawn the most scrutiny. The firefighters' appeal to the Supreme Court will be decided soon; predictions, based on questions the justices raised at oral arguments, are that the high court will overturn the circuit court's decision. The deeply divided lower court had ultimately sided with the City of New Haven, which argued that it was forced under civil rights law to invalidate a promotional test because no minority candidates scored well enough to qualify for consideration for a higher rank. Sotomayor has been criticized for joining two fellow judges in issuing a brief, unsigned decision that did not lay out the constitutional issues at stake in the case and how they informed the decision. Conservatives like Limbaugh have referred to the decision as a case of "reverse discrimination." Sotomayor's supporters say that she and the court were bound by legal precedent — including decisions by the circuit in two previous discrimination cases — to reject the firefighters' claim. The White House has argued that the controversial decision provided an example of Sotomayor's "judicial restraint." A Question Of Temperament An emerging theme from conservatives has been

Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe See our privacy notice Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email Flowers planted by an 82-year-old widower for his beloved wife have been stolen. David Sullivan placed a large container brimming with lilies beside the Newton-on-Ayr seafront in memory of his late wife Sue. The great grandfather was stunned to find it missing from the path he and Sue used to walk every day. One of his fellow dog-walkers spotted a man lifting the tub and putting it into a black Ford Fiesta, 58 plate, on June 20. The brazen theft was carried out despite a sign clearly saying: ‘RIP Sue.’ Green-fingered David, of Newton-on-Ayr, said: “My wife died four years ago. She was a keen gardener so I have put in a lot of various flowers for a memorial. (Image: Ayrshire Post) “They have taken the whole tub of flowers. I know it is a storm in a teacup but it meant a lot to me. “I can’t understand why someone would do that. It is still theft in my eyes.” Retired insurance manager David has planted 200 daffodils and bluebells in the public ground between the railway and the sea. He has also planted another flower bed along the path. He is a well-known figure down at the shore with his Jack Russell-cross Ben. He said: “My wife loved it down here. It is so quiet. Everyone knows me and Ben. We have a lot of friends down here.” David has a heartfelt plea for the plant prowler who lifted the precious momento: “Please put it back.” He said: “I was upset because it’s something so personal. They would have seen the sign showing it is a memorial. “I want my children, grandchildren and great grandchildren to come down and say: ‘My grandpa planted those daffodils.’ My wife taught me about gardening.” David met Sue, a school teacher, in the Bobby Jones dance hall in Ayr. As well as dog-walkers, the kind-hearted pensioner has made friends with a crow who lands on the ground beside him for titbits of food. If you have any information on the missing blooms, telephone David on 01292 268982.

The Transportation Security Administration is denying allegations that an airport screener seized a toddler's sippy cup and mistreated his mother, taking the unusual step of posting security camera footage on its Web site.

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FIELD: reprocessing of timber. SUBSTANCE: apparatus has two sawing units, log parameter registering unit, unit for providing parallelism of axial lines of log and apparatus, log and timber feeding unit, complex of measuring devices and wastes removal unit. Each sawing unit has circular saw united with horizontal disk cutter assembly. Log parameter registering unit has central beam, along which clamping poles are moved by clamping hydraulic cylinders. Supporting bases spring-loaded relative to movable bases allow parallelism of log and apparatus lines to be provided. Logs are displaced by hydraulic cylinders with blocks on stem ends and cable drums with reversible hydraulic engines. Measurement device complex has strain-measuring sensors, gaged rule, feelers, set of cameras and computer. EFFECT: increased efficiency, simplified method and construction and enhanced reliability in operation. 4 cl, 6 dwg

わけ can mark a reason. If used in a question, "～わけ?" can be used to seek a reason. In other words, the function of わけ in this sentence is roughly the same as explanatory-の used to seek clarification, and you probably know how important this の is in Japanese. The sentence in question is interchangeable with "一体何の用なの?", but as compared with の, わけ is more explicit and sometimes accusatory.

The cost to rewire a house runs from $1,500 to $3,000 for a small house, $3,500 to $8,000 for a medium-sized house, and $8,000 to $20,000 for a larger home; or $7.79 per linear foot of wall space plus the cost of the electrical panel at $1,200 to $2,500. Get free estimates from electricians near you.

Could I fill them with a glue/sawdust mixture? You can yes but common woodworking glue (PVA-type, white or yellow) wouldn't necessarily be the best choice for the glue. A much more solid fill can be made by using epoxy. Filled (or just coloured) epoxy is now a common material for filling voids and defects in wood. To a degree this kind of filler can stabilise a crack and add strength, but without some further means to hold the wood steady (e.g. a butterfly key, hidden bolt or dowelling) a crack may continue to open up, so it is worth taking at least one extra step as a safety measure. Further reading in some previous Q&As: filling cracks in tables Large hole filler products, what is available Filling gaps/seams in a new cherry tabletop

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HONOLULU (AP) — Every day, tourists flock to a downtown Honolulu palace for a glimpse of the way Hawaii's royal family lived, marveling at its gilded furniture, lavish throne room and grand staircase made from prized koa wood. But few know Iolani Palace — America's only royal residence — has relied in part on the generosity of a descendant of that family while the relic of the monarchy's rule now serves as a museum. Multimillionaire heiress Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawananakoa, considered by many to be Hawaii's last princess, has paid the palace's electric bills for the past six years. But the intensely private Native Hawaiian, whose $215 million fortune includes race horses and real estate, is no longer in a position to fund her pet charities, including the palace and various Native Hawaiian causes. A court struggle is playing out for the 91-year-old's fortune. Her longtime lawyer persuaded a judge to appoint him trustee, arguing a stroke over the summer left the heiress impaired. She claims she's fine, and has since fired that lawyer and married her girlfriend of 20 years. Since the court battle began, the electricity payments have stopped, Iolani Palace Executive Director Kippen de Alba Chu said. Officials who run the palace completed in 1882 have relied on a backup plan to pay the light bill and stay open. Also disrupted, according to court documents, were funds earmarked for a Native Hawaiian nursing student's scholarship and materials to repair a damaged crypt at the Royal Mausoleum, where members of Hawaiian royalty are buried. Over the years, Kawananakoa has used her money to fund protesters fighting a giant telescope on a mountain some Native Hawaiians consider sacred; to challenge a contentious Honolulu rail project; and to support the Merrie Monarch Festival, a prestigious hula competition. She also has donated items owned by King Kalakaua and Queen Kapiolani for public display, including Kalakaua's nearly 14-carat diamond pinky ring. Kawananakoa is the granddaughter of the late Prince David Kawananakoa, who was named an heir to the throne. She has no official title or real power in the state, but that doesn't matter to many Native Hawaiians, who see her as a link to when Hawaii was its own nation — before American businessmen, backed by U.S. Marines, overthrew the Hawaiian kingdom 125 years ago. "She was always called princess among Hawaiians because Hawaiians have acknowledged that lineage," said Kimo Alama Keaulana, assistant professor of Hawaiian language and studies at Honolulu Community College. "Hawaiians hold dear to genealogy. And so genealogically speaking, she is of high royal blood." Some note that Prince David has other living descendants and say the heiress is held up as the last tie to the monarchy simply because of her wealth. Kawananakoa's riches come from being the great-granddaughter of James Campbell, an Irish businessman who made his fortune as a sugar plantation owner and one of Hawaii's largest landowners. But Kawananakoa's supporters say she is the closest connection to the throne because, although they were already related, the prince's widow formally adopted her as a daughter. Last princess or not, Kawananakoa's inheritance wields tangible power — and some worry about it falling into the wrong hands. In July, her longtime attorney James Wright filed an emergency petition seeking to be named successor trustee to all of her trust assets, saying in court documents that Kawananakoa is "impaired as a result of an acute stroke." Two days later, a judge granted the request. In August, attorney Michael Lilly wrote a letter to the judge saying he now represents Kawananakoa and he strongly contests any contention she is incompetent. Lawyers for the heiress dispute she had a stroke, saying in court papers it was a transient ischemic attack, which has similar symptoms but caused no permanent damage. Wright's court filings also raise allegations that Veronica Gail Worth, Kawananakoa's 64-year-old wife, physically abused her. Neither Kawananakoa nor Worth responded to requests for comment from The Associated Press. However, Kawananakoa's attorney said in court papers the abuse claims are false and that Kawananakoa fell and "struck furniture, which caused the bruising, which is not uncommon at someone her age." A judge in September appointed a special master to independently investigate the heiress's mental capacity and the abuse allegations. Kawananakoa largely avoids airing her personal life, and some who know her say even her Oct. 1 wedding at the home of a retired state Supreme Court justice came as a surprise. But she has occasionally drawn attention over the years, including in 1993, when one of her horses won $1 million in New Mexico's All American Futurity. Five years later, furor erupted after Kawananakoa sat on a palace throne for a Life magazine photo shoot. She damaged some of its fragile threads, but repairs were made and the throne was returned to the palace throne room. Still, the uproar led to Kawananakoa's ouster as president of Friends of Iolani Palace, a position she held for more than 25 years. Some Hawaiians, such as well-known activist Walter Ritte, aren't interested in revering her genealogy or wealth. Hawaiians, especially those who live in poverty, can't relate to her, Ritte said. "She has given some money here and there," he said. "She could have done a lot more for Hawaiians." The court battle focusing on Kawananakoa's age and health has others reflecting on her as a final living reminder of Hawaii's monarchy and as a symbol of a proud Hawaiian national identity that has endured. "It is fair to say that Abigail Kawananakoa is the last of our alii," said Keaulana, using the Hawaiian word for royalty. "She epitomizes what Hawaiian royalty is — in all its dignity and intelligence and art." Palace officials will be watching the case. A hearing is tentatively scheduled for Feb. 8. ___ Associated Press researcher Rhonda Shafner in New York contributed to this report.

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Practicing mindfulness is about controlling the way you think about the world. You must learn to live in the present moment and how to focus your attention on only the matters you choose to focus on.

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What we experienced in the U.S. this past week is upsetting on a number of levels. So as I've done before, here's some music to try help us cope and make sense of things. David Bowie, "This Is Not America" I can't think of any better way to start than with this track from David Bowie and guitarist Pat Metheny. It's from the 1985 film The Falcon and the Snowman. Making Movies, "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" In 1985, Tears For Fears released a powerful song that could be interpreted as a song about a love gone bad, but a closer listen reveals a meditation on those who are desperate for power and control. Alt.Latino favorites Making Movies reimagined "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" with a Central American sensibility. Miriam Makeba, "For What It's Worth" This is the great Miriam Makeba, one of the great voices of freedom and resistance in Africa, singing a song from the classic-rock songbook about the need to listen before you confront. Charly García, "Los Dinosaurios" Charly García came of artistic age when Argentina's dictatorship would regularly imprison and "disappear" rock musicians like him who dared to challenge the injustice of a brutal regime. His song "Los Dinosaurios" is a classic of resistance and defiance not just in his home country but across all of Latin America. Sol y Lluvia, "Adiós General... Adiós Carnaval (En Vivo)" Sol y Lluvia's musical standoff with the Pinochet regime of the 1970s. Stevie Wonder, "Big Brother" Stevie Wonder was writing about former president Richard Nixon when he released "Big Brother" in 1972. But when he sings the line, "I'll change if you vote me in as the president of your soul..." he was being scarily prescient. Las Cafeteras, "Georgia On My Mind" As we watched far-right extremists storm the Capitol in Washington, D.C., history was also made Georgia as the results of the second Senate race were finalized, ensuring a Democrat majority during the next administration. With that in mind, listen to this beautifully reimagined cover of an American classic by the SoCal son jarocho revivalists, Las Cafeteras. Los Cenzontles, "Give Me Peace On Earth" We end this musical journey from despair to hope with a George Harrison cover by the Bay Area's Los Cenzontles.

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A small selection of people in China will finally be able to access banned sites including Facebook, Twitter and other 'politically sensitive' links from this weekend. The ban was placed on the sites in 2009 following riots in the country and China's ruling Communist Party has restricted access ever since. Yet, people living and working in a new free-trade zone in Shanghai - which covers just 17-square-miles - will be allowed to access these sites from Sunday, according to reports in the South . China Morning Post. A small selection of people living and working in the 17-square-mile free-trade zone in Shanghai, China will be able to access banned sites including Facebook, Twitter and other 'politically sensitive' links from this weekend, according to reports in the South China Morning Post. The ban was placed on the sites in 2009 . Facebook and Twitter were blocked by . Beijing in mid-2009 following deadly riots in the western province of . Xinjiang that authorities say were abetted by the social networking . sites. The New York Times has been blocked . since reporting last year that the family of then-Premier Wen Jiabao had . amassed a huge fortune. Citing unidentified government sources, the Hong Kong newspaper also said authorities would welcome bids from foreign telecoms firms for licences to provide internet services in the zone. China's Communist Party aggressively censors the internet, routinely deleting online postings and blocking access to websites it deems inappropriate or politically sensitive. Facebook and Twitter were blocked by Beijing in mid-2009 following deadly riots in the western province of Xinjiang that authorities say were abetted by the social networking sites. The New York Times has been blocked since reporting last year that the family of then-Premier Wen Jiabao had amassed a huge fortune. The recently-approved Shanghai FTZ is said to be a 'test bed' for convertibility of China's yuan currency and further liberalisation of interest rates, as well as reforms of foreign direct investment and taxation, the State Council, or cabinet, has said. The zone is set to formally launch on 29 September. South China Morning Post quoted a government source as saying the idea of unblocking websites in the FTZ was to make foreigners 'feel like at home'. 'If they can't get onto Facebook or read The New York Times, they may naturally wonder how special the free-trade zone is compared with the rest of China,' the source added. A spokesman for Facebook said the company had no comment on the newspaper report. No one at Twitter or the New York Times was immediately available to comment. For Facebook, the world's largest online . social network, with 1.15 billion users, China represents an important . new market for growth. This map shows the spread of Facebook users worldwide, highlighting the rising popularity of the site in Africa, South America, and India. The black hole over China is because the site has been banned following riots in Xinjiang four years ago, which authorities attributed, in part, to the influence of social networks . Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that making Facebook available in China is in keeping with his company's goal of connecting the world. Earlier this month, Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg met with the head of China's State Council Information Office during a visit to Beijing. The pair discussed Facebook's importance as Chinese enterprises continue to expand abroad 'and various cooperation matters around that,' according to a post on the Council's website. Twitter, which is preparing for an initial public offering, could also benefit by being available in China, the world's largest Internet market by users. Still, many Chinese Web users already use similar services, such as Sina Corp's Weibo. China's three biggest telecoms companies - China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom - have been informed of the decision to allow foreign competition in the FTZ, the sources told the newspaper. The three state-owned companies had not raised complaints because they knew the decision had been endorsed by Chinese leadership including Premier Li Keqiang, who has backed the Shanghai FTZ, the sources added.

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European champions Chelsea will face Monterrey in the semi-finals of the Club World Cup after the Mexican side defeated South Korea's Ulsan Hyundai 3-1 in Japan on Sunday.

Riverton is a city in Fremont County, Wyoming, United States. The city's population was 10,615 at the 2010 census, making it the largest city in the county overall.

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Knowledge of thermal behavior of electrolyte is important for fuel cell fabrication. In this study, using high-temperature X-ray diffraction analysis (HT-XRD) and thermo-mechanical analysis (TMA), a systematic investigation of lattice constants was performed on Y-doped BaZrO3, which is a promising candidate for electrolyte in protonic ceramic fuel cells. The results revealed that a chemical expansion was observed between 300°C and 450°C during the heating process in HT-XRD, and was attributed to the dehydration of BZY. Furthermore, it was found that the lattice constants of the samples doped with Y, Sm, Eu, and Dy were larger for the ones finally heat-treated at 1600°C for sintering than those heat-treated at 1300°C for synthesizing. The similar behavior was not observed in Sc-doped samples.

Three men who allegedly bought a housemaid for 50,000 Indian rupees in India and sexually exploited her in Dubai, have been charged with human trafficking.

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While Russia eyes a union with the former Soviet Republic of Belarus, the U.S. secretary of state makes a rare visit to Minsk.

Yeah, I think I would agree with purple. I used to have this little desktop monkey on my computer I can't remember what it was called, but it was something like Bonzi or something like that. Anyway, he was purple and very cute, so I think I would like a purple one as well. Plus purple is my favorite color.\n\nNext choice would be a grayish blue color, another of my favorite colors.\n\nI think I would get a boy. All of my pets have been boys and I've always loved them, so I think a boy monkey would be cool too.

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David Vaughan Jones, 78, of Welshpool, Powys, admitted 24 charges in October last year after his fake offshore investment scam was uncovered. A founder member of the Evangelical Church in Newtown, Mold Crown Court heard he used his position to help carry out the fraud. Despite promising to repay the stolen cash - not a penny has been returned. "David Jones is an educated man who applied his intelligence to running a financial scam," Nicola Rees from the Crown Prosecution Service said after sentencing on Tuesday. Jones had been struck-off the solicitors' register in the 1990s by The Law Society, which led him to become a tax consultant, despite having no qualifications in that field. He then persuaded his victims to pay into offshore investment funds he recommended, but was using some of that cash to pay other clients to keep up the appearance of running a legitimate investment scheme. "He knew from the outset that they were not paying into legitimate investments and he lied to them, using his influence within the community and on occasions as a family friend to maintain the pretence," added Ms Rees. Sentencing had been delayed after Jones claimed the defrauded money was being kept in a Channel Islands account, and could be repaid. The amount came to £1,495,000 in total. But the court heard that despite asking for details of the bank accounts of his victims so that money could be returned, they had received nothing. Judge Niclas Parry said the only conclusion he could come to that the funds did not exist. "The reality is that over a period in excess of 20 years you were responsible for thefts and frauds from 12 victims - amounting to nearly £1.5 million," the judge said. "Decent people felt utterly betrayed and astonished and the level of your deception." A proceeds of crime investigation will now be carried out, in a bid to recover the stolen cash.

Voting ends in Romania's election with exit polls showing a dead heat between the presidential candidates.

PbZr0.5Ti0.5O3/La0.5Sr0.5CoO3 (PZT/LSCO) heterostructures have been grown directly on (100)Si by chemical solution routes. Field-emission scanning electron microscopy and x-ray diffraction analysis show that PZT and LSCO thin films are polycrystalline and entirely perovskite phase. PZT thin films grown on LSCO thin films showed no preferential orientation and excellent ferroelectricity. The remnant polarization Pr is about 22.8 μC/cm2 and the coercive field Ec is about 95 kV/cm at an applied electric field of 400 kV/cm. The ferroelectric capacitor has been fabricated and showed no polarization fatigue after 3×109 fatigue cycles. The Pt/PZT/LSCO capacitor is suitable for nonvolatile random access memory application.

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My golden|yellow lab mix was adopted from the shelter with a number of health issues including severe malnutrition, a pretty bad skin condition, and chronic inflammation of the feet and face. We placed him on an elimination diet and found that he was allergic to chicken, turkey and beef. I use the ZiwiPeak, fish and pork as the main sources of protein for his diet. He loves the venison over the other flavors and has put on 40 healthy pounds and his skin and allergy issues have pretty much been cleared-up.<br /><br />The food is not the hard dried fare, but small moist squares. It offered a good option for a balanced meal and you cannot beat the convenience of the pouch. I would recommend refrigeration after opening.

GANGNEUNG, South Korea (AP) The United States will play for the Olympic gold medal that has eluded them for nearly two decades after shutting out Finland 5-0 on Monday in the semifinals. The Americans are back in the title game for a third straight Olympics, and they will play the winner of the other semifinal between Canada and the ”Olympic Athletes from Russia” on Thursday, looking to win their first gold since 1998 when women’s hockey debuted in the Olympics. ”It’s honestly a dream come true,” U.S. forward Hilary Knight said. ”This is the world’s biggest stage. This is the game that you want. This is the game we’ve been dreaming of and to have another opportunity to get back here, it’s huge.” Knight is among the 10 Olympians on the roster who played – and lost – gold to Canada in 2010 in Vancouver and again in 2014 at Sochi. ”This is what we work for is this chance to play for a gold medal,” three-time Olympian Monique Lamoureux-Morando said. Dani Cameranesi scored two goals and added an assist to lead the Americans over Finland. Gigi Marvin started the scoring, and Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson and Knight both scored during a 5-on-3 34 seconds apart in the second period. Maddie Rooney made 14 saves for the shutout. Finland remains winless now in eight games against the Americans at the Olympics. The Finns, ranked third in the world last year, will try to take home the bronze medal for the first time since 2010. ”We’re got one thing on our mind, and that’s to get a medal,” said goaltender Noora Raty, who made 33 saves. ”They’re the best in the world (U.S. and Canada). We just need to get more girls involved so we have more to choose from.” The Americans opened these games a 2-1 loss to Canada wrapping up pool play. ”This was really a gold-medal preparation for us because they’re a darn good team, and we had to be ready to play,” U.S. coach Robb Stauber said of Finland. The Americans wasted no time getting on the board. Captain Meghan Duggan found Marvin alone in the slot, and she beat Raty stick-side for the easy goal just 2:25 into the game. Finland lost defenseman when she had to be helped off the ice and to the locker room after a knee-on-knee collision with Duggan. She was knocked off balance before crashing face-first into the boards, snapping her head back. When play resumed without a penalty, some fans booed. Savolainen returned in the second period. Stauber said the referee immediately came over and said it was a collision. Duggan said she was really happy Savolainen got up and that any decision about a potential suspension was out of her control. Cameranesi put the United States up 2-0 with 1:22 left in the period, taking the puck away from Susanna Tapani and skating into the left circle before beating Raty’s blocker with a wrist shot top shelf. Lamoureux-Davidson’s slap shot from the left circle came with 2 seconds left on the 5-on-3 at 13:21 of the second period, and Knight got her first goal of this tournament by redirecting a shot from Sidney Morin with 5 seconds left on the man advantage for the 4-0 lead. Cameranesi padded the lead as she scored from the slot over Raty’s glove off a pass from Hannah Brandt. The Americans weren’t quite ready to turn their attention to a specific opponent just yet. ”We’re focused on ourselves,” Lamoureux-Davidson said. ”We’re super excited to be in this position again. We worked four years to put ourselves in position to compete for a gold medal and we’ll enjoy this for a little bit, but we know that this isn’t what we came here for. We’re ready to go to battle in a couple days.” — More AP Olympic coverage: https://wintergames.ap.org — Follow Teresa M. Walker at http://www.twitter.com/teresamwalker

Media playback is not supported on this device Pick had his right leg amputated below the knee after being injured in an explosion while serving in the Army while Moore lost the use of his arm after a motorcycle accident. Para-snowboard made its debut at the Sochi Winter Paralympics in 2014 and more categories have been added for the PyeongChang Games in 2018. The X Games will take place in Colorado between 28-31 January. Click here for more coverage of winter sports

A federal court says a Mexican man may sue the U.S. government for selling him a car loaded with marijuana and then arresting him for drug possession when he tried to cross the border.

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Retail Opp Invts Cp (NASDAQ:ROIC) shares traded down -1.26% during most recent session. Wall Street analysts covering the stock are projecting that the stock will reach $19.86 within the next 52-weeks. The mean target projections are based on 11 opinions. Since analyst price targets calculations are subjective, there often can be wide range of targets from various analysts. Having a look in a broader way analysts from brokerage firms on the street with an extensive view have high price target of Retail Opp Invts Cp (NASDAQ:ROIC) at $22 and with a conformist view have low price target of $16.5 while the stock’s latest closing price was $16.41. This is the consensus price target based on the analysts polled by Thomson Reuters’ First Call, the average is taken from the individual analysts which provided targets and are short term projections for the 12 months. The ABR is the calculated average of the actual recommendations (strong buy, hold, sell etc.) made by the brokerage firms for the given stock. Currently shares of Retail Opp Invts Cp (NASDAQ:ROIC) have an average brokerage recommendation (ABR) of 2.27 number of Recs in ABR is 11 however the company’s industry rank by ABR is 218 out of 265. Industries are ranked based on the average broker recommendation of each company belong to this industry. A low number means that brokers and analysts expect that the industry outperform the market. Outperform is an analyst recommendation which means that a stock is expected to do slightly better than the market return. Outperform is also known as “moderate-buy” or “over-weight” or “accumulate”. Whereas Underperform can also be taken in with “moderate sell” or “under-weight” or “weak-hold”. For Retail Opp Invts Cp (NASDAQ:ROIC) out of the analyst recommendations 4 analysts recommend stock a Buy, 2 rate the stock Outperform, 5 analysts recommend to Hold the stock, 1 rate Underperform and 0 analysts recommend the stock a Sell. The Average True Range (ATR) is an indicator that measures volatility, it was developed by J. Welles Wilder. Typically, the Average True range (ATR) is based on 14 periods and can be calculated on an intra-day, daily, weekly or monthly basis. Because there must be a beginning, the first TR value is simply the High minus the Low, and the first 14-day ATR is the average of the daily TR values for the last 14 days. Retail Opp Invts Cp (NASDAQ:ROIC)’s ATR-14 is at 0.38, while its weekly volatility is at 2.11% and monthly volatility is at 2.24%. A stock experiencing a high level of volatility has a higher ATR, and a low volatility stock has a lower ATR. The ATR may be used by market technicians to enter and exit trades, and it is a useful tool to add to a trading system. It was created to allow traders to more accurately measure the daily volatility of an asset by using simple calculations. The indicator does not indicate the price direction, rather used primarily to measure volatility caused by gaps and limit up or down moves. The ATR is fairly simple to calculate and only needs historical price data. RSI is an extremely popular momentum indicator, the Relative Strength Index (RSI) also developed by J. Welles Wilder, is a momentum oscillator that measures the speed and change of price movements. RSI value of Retail Opp Invts Cp (NASDAQ:ROIC) is 32.8. RSI oscillates between zero and 100. Traditionally, and according to Wilder, RSI is considered overbought when above 70 and oversold when below 30. Signals can also be generated by looking for divergences, failure swings, and centerline crossovers. RSI can also be used to identify the general trend. The default time frame for comparing up periods to down periods is 14, as in 14 trading days. Shares of Retail Opp Invts Cp (NASDAQ:ROIC) has a market capitalization of $1.91 Billion and its number of outstanding shares are 116.67 Million. During previous trade 1.09 Million shares of Retail Opp Invts Cp (NASDAQ:ROIC) exchanged hands whereas on average almost 1.35 Million shares has been traded.

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Blood tests measure the amounts of certain types of cells and chemicals in the blood. They are not used to diagnose lymphoma, but they can sometimes help determine how advanced the lymphoma is. Patients with known or suspected lymphoma will have a complete blood count (CBC).This test measures the different cells in the blood, such as the red blood cells, the white blood cells, and the platelets. biopsy is the only way to diagnose non-Hodgkin lymphoma. There are several types of biopsies. Doctors choose which one to use based on each person’s situation. Excisional or incisional biopsy: This is the most common type of biopsy if lymphoma is suspected.

As Sir Apirana Ngata stated in his book, The treaty of Waitangi-An Explanation, Some have said that these confiscations were wrong and that they contravene the articles of the Treaty of Waitangi, but the chiefs placed in the hands of the Queen of England, the Sovereignty and authority to make laws.ueen Victoria sent William Hobson to New Zealand in 1840 to draft and sign a Treaty with the Aboriginal Natives of New Zealand to give, as requested by them on many occasions, a Government for law, order and mainly protection.

Tokyo's Nikkei average rose by late afternoon on Friday, boosted by a strong machinery orders and led by gains in real estate firms such as Mitsubishi Estate on a drop in office vacancy rates.

Audi History | Classic Audi Models | Audi USA Audi history A symbol of progressive engineeringThe four rings It's one of the most multi-faceted stories ever told in the history of the automobile. The Audi emblem with its four rings identifies one of Germany’s oldest-established automobile manufacturers. It symbolizes the amalgamation in 1932 of four previously independent motor-vehicle manufacturers: Audi, DKW, Horch and Wanderer. These companies form the roots of what is today AUDI AG. Pioneering Audi visionaryAugust Horch The story of Audi began in 1899 August Horch founded Horch & Cie. in Cologne. It was there that he helped build his first car. After differences of opinion with the board, August Horch left the company and formed a second car company. Because his surname was already in use and was protected by trademark, he chose its Latin translation for the new company. So "horch!" – or "hark" – became "audi!". It was a brilliant idea that came from the son of one of August Horch's business partners. Thanks to his victorious involvement in the Austrian Alpine Runs, August Horch succeeded in making Audi internationally known in just a few years. After the First World War, August Horch withdrew from the company and moved to Berlin to work as an independent automotive expert. A legend, condensedAudi highlights Take a trip through the storied past of Audi and learn about everything from the production of the first left hand drive vehicle to the invention of legendary Audi quattro® all-wheel drive. Soon, you'll understand why Audi is one of the most hallowed names in any industry.

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Sunday night's Grammy Awards dove less into politics and activism compared to the Golden Globes earlier this month, but in one pre-taped skit, the show plunged right into the, well, fire and fury. Host James Corden reminded the audience that you don't need to be a musician to win a Grammy – the award for Best Spoken Word Album has gone to books written by a number of politicians like Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. "We know that our current president does love winning awards, and the good news for him is he may just be the subject of next year's winner," Corden went on, as The Washington Post reports. "The question I've got is: Who will be the narrator?" Enter the star-studded pre-taped sketch, with John Legend, Cher, Snoop Dogg, Cardi B and DJ Khaled each reading passages from Fire and Fury, Michael Wolff's dishy – and disputed — book on the Trump White House. "If Trump was not having his 6:30 dinner with Steve Bannon, then more to his liking he was in bed by that time with a cheeseburger," reads Cardi B. She looks up at the camera and says "why am I even reading this ... I can't believe this. ... This how he lives his life?" The last reader is the skit's pièce de résistance: the unmistakable hairstyle and sensible outfit of a certain spoken-word Grammy winner. Hillary Clinton begins to read, to cheers and applause from the audience: "He had a long-time fear of being poisoned, one reason why he liked to eat at McDonald's. Nobody knew he was coming, and the food was safely pre-made." Corden bursts into the frame. "That's it, we've got it, that's the one!" "You think so?" Clinton asks. "The Grammy's in the bag?" "In the bag," he says. Nikki Haley, Trump's ambassador to the United Nations, was unimpressed. "I have always loved the Grammys but to have artists read the Fire and Fury book killed it. Don't ruin great music with trash. Some of us love music without the politics thrown in it," she tweeted. Donald Trump Jr., on the other hand, seemed to relish the moment. "Getting to read a #fakenews book excerpt at the Grammys seems like a great consolation prize for losing the presidency," he tweeted. Trump Jr. also tweeted: "The more Hillary goes on television the more the American people realize how awesome it is to have @realDonaldTrump in office #GrammyAwards2018." All politics aside, there was a noteworthy winner of this year's Best Spoken Word Album: the late Carrie Fisher, for her memoir The Princess Diarist.

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Updated at 2:30 p.m. ET The U.S. Military Academy at West Point says one of its cadets died in an accident Thursday morning near a training area in New York state. Twenty cadets and two soldiers were injured, the academy says. The accident occurred around 6:45 a.m. ET and involved a light medium tactical vehicle, the military's multipurpose transport truck. The truck's rear is fitted with two benches and covered by a soft canopy. The academy says the accident happened off Route 293, near the Camp Natural Bridge training site, which is about 7 miles west-southwest of West Point. "Today was a tragic day for the West Point community and our United States Army," Superintendent Lt. Gen. Darryl Williams said. In a midday news conference held near the scene of the crash, Williams said the cadets' truck had been involved in a "rollover accident." The superintendent also said that there were no life-threatening injuries among those who were taken to the hospital. The truck had been traveling down a dirt road in hilly terrain, moving senior cadets to another training area, Lt. Col. Christopher Ophardt, West Point's public affairs officer, told reporters after the briefing. The two soldiers who were hurt are based at Fort Benning, Ga., Ophardt said. The pair had been in the truck's cab; one of them was driving the vehicle. "Details of the incident are under investigation," West Point announced. A helicopter dispatched by NBC 4 New York showed the military vehicle had overturned, its undercarriage clearly visible through an opening in the dense tree canopy. Local and state agencies responded to the emergency, the academy said. President Trump responded to the accident in a tweet sent from Europe, where he has been commemorating the 75th anniversary of D-Day. "We mourn the loss of life and pray for the injured," Trump said. "God Bless them ALL!" In a statement about the incident, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said, "My heart breaks for all those involved in the tragic training accident at West Point this morning." Cuomo added that he has directed the state's emergency management office to offer any help needed by the academy and agencies involved in the response.

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(CNN) -- If eHarmony or Match.com features more prominently in your "how we met" story than a smoky nightclub or the produce aisle, you're probably not so reluctant to admit it. Six out of 10 Americans now believe dating sites are a good way to meet people, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project. That's up from 44% who felt that way in 2005, the last time Pew conducted a similar survey. And barely two out of every 10 people (21%) still feel that "people who use online dating sites are desperate." Eight years ago, almost 30% thought so. "General public attitudes toward online dating have become much more positive in recent years, and social networking sites are now playing a prominent role when it comes to navigating and documenting romantic relationships," reads a summary of Pew's report. The upside of online dating . According to the survey, conducted with 2,252 adults in April and May, 11% of Internet users, and 38% of those who said they're currently "single and looking," have used online dating sites or apps. Among them, 66% said they went on a date as a result. And nearly one in four (23%) said they actually met a spouse or other long-term partner through the sites. In 2005, 43% who tried online sites actually went on a date. But 17% said they found long-term love, not terribly lower than the recent number. How technology has changed romance . But just because it's more common and accepted doesn't mean Internet mingling (Christian or otherwise) has worked for everyone. More than half the respondents who have tried it (54%) said that someone they'd met had seriously misrepresented themselves in their profiles and more than one out of four (28%) said they'd been contacted through one of the sites "in a way that made them feel harassed or uncomfortable." Why traditional dating is dead . That number shoots up to 42% of women who have used dating sites, compared with 17% of men. And maybe it's not all that surprising, but a growing number of people have used the Internet for intimate contact of a less formal nature. Nearly one out of four respondents said they've gone online to check up on former partners, and a similar number said they've flirted with someone on the Web. Young people between 18 and 24 are the most Web-flirtatious. About half (47%) said they've flirted from behind a keyboard. The survey was conducted through telephone interviews in English and Spanish. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.3 percentage points for all respondents and plus or minus 2.5 percentage points for Internet users. Why it's really possible to fall in love online .

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Simple carbohydrates have one (single) or two (double) sugars. Complex carbohydrates have three or more sugars.” Examples of simple carbs include fructose (fruit sugar), lactose (milk sugar) and sucrose (table sugar). Complex carbs, sometimes called starches, include legumes, potatoes, rice and grain products. Note that the simple/complex distinction is completely arbitrary. At molecule 3 in the chain of sugars we simply start calling it complex.

Market Highlights: The study reveals that structured cabling is trending in North America region. With the growing demand of wireless communications that requires high transmission rate with, large amount of bandwidth for internet connectivity. The cloud services requires highest quality of network connectivity. There is high adoption of cloud services among companies as the companies including Siemon (U.S.). CommScope, Inc. (U.S.), Nexans S.A. (France), are providing the high infrastructure and services which increase the demand from enterprise resource planning along with increasing trend of customer relationship management has prompted the need for higher cloud services in commercial sectors. The initial cost of installations & maintenance of these structured cabling is quite expensive. These cabling is required as per the customer’s demand. With the advancement in technologies and internet connectivity which is gaining momentum in the market but cabling cost is hampering the market growth. The global Structured Cabling Market is growing rapidly over ~10.0% of CAGR and is expected to reach at USD 17,181.2 million by the end of forecast period. Major Key Players: CommScope Inc. (U.S.) Hitachi Cable America, Inc. (U.K.) Panduit (U.S) Legrand SA (France) TE Connectivity (Switzerland) Corning, Inc. (U.S.) Belden Incorporated (U.S) ABB Ltd. (Switzerland) Schneider Electric SE (France) Nexans S.A. (France) Teknon Corporation (U.S.) Siemon (U.S) Superior Essex (Georgia) Paige Electric (U.S) Brand-rex (Scotland) Request a Sample Report @ https://www.marketresearchfuture.com/sample_request/2266 Global Structured Cabling Market Segmentation: The global structured cabling market is bifurcated on the basis of wire category, application, product type, industry and region. The wire category is segmented into category 5e, category 6, category 6a, category 7 and others. The application is segmented into specialty LAN and WAN. The product type are segmented copper, co-axil and fiber. The industry are IT & Telecommunication, BFSI, commercial, industrial, automotive and others. The region includes North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and rest of the world. Regional Analysis: In North America region, the increasing demand for cloud, co-location services and building automation are boosting the structured cabling market growth to the large extent. It is due to emergence of e-commerce which is continuously growing require the cloud services. The increasing adoption of cloud services in structural cabling in the banking, financial services and insurance, hospitality, hospitals, and education industries has driven demand of these services. The digitization, remote access, centralized control, accessibility and others are the driving factors of the structured cabling market. With the proliferation of new technologies available to homeowners, residential cabling will have to be upgraded to match these advances. The usage of advanced technologies has changed the increasing demand of structured cabling. The growing need of these cabling is fulfilling the requirement of customer’s need. Browse Full Report Details @ https://www.marketresearchfuture.com/reports/structured-cabling-market-2266 Intended Audience: Structured cabling manufacturing companies Original equipment manufacturers Structured cabling providers Research and development companies Market research and consulting firms Solution providers Technology standards organizations Technology investors System Integrators About Market Research Future: At Market Research Future (MRFR), we enable our customers to unravel the complexity of various industries through our Cooked Research Report (CRR), Half-Cooked Research Reports (HCRR), Raw Research Reports (3R), Continuous-Feed Research (CFR), and Market Research & Consulting Services. MRFR team have supreme objective to provide the optimum quality market research and intelligence services to our clients. Our market research studies by Components, Application, Logistics and market players for global, regional, and country level market segments, enable our clients to see more, know more, and do more, which help to answer all their most important questions. Contact: Market Research Future Office No. 524/528, Amanora Chambers Magarpatta Road, Hadapsar Pune – 411028 Maharashtra, India +1 646 845 9312 Email: [email protected]

GENEVA -- Humanity's reliance on fossil fuels, the spread of cities, the destruction of natural habitat for farmland, and exploitation of the oceans are destroying earth's ability to sustain life, the environmental group World Wildlife Fund warned yesterday.

The moons of Mars are Phobos and Deimos. Both moons were discovered in 1877 by Asaph Hall and are named after the characters Phobos (panic/fear) and Deimos (terror/dread) who, in Greek mythology, accompanied their father Ares, god of war, into battle. Ares was known as Mars to the Romans.

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The Conor McPherson drama “The Seafarer” will end its run at the Booth Theater on March 30 after 19 previews and 133 regular performances. ... “Take Me Along,” the musical based on the Eugene O’Neill comedy “Ah, Wilderness!,” will be presented by the Irish Repertory Theater beginning with previews on Feb. 20. Directed by Charlotte Moore, the show, with a book by Joseph Stein (“Fiddler on the Roof”) and Robert Russell and music and lyrics by Bob Merrill, opens on Feb. 28. ... Oprah Winfrey has made “A New Earth” (Penguin Group), the 2005 self-help guide by Eckhart Tolle, her latest book-club selection, The Associated Press reported. ... The appointment of Martin E. Sullivan as director of the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, effective April 28, was announced on Wednesday. Mr. Sullivan, since 1999 the chief executive of the Historic St. Mary’s City Commission in Maryland, succeeds Marc Pachter, who retired on Jan. 25.

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Adorable story about reconnecting with your first love. Alicia finds herself back in her hometown, struggling to help her mom who is struggling after some past hurt and betrayal. Out of the blue she runs into and recognizes Jeff, her childhood best friend, first crush, and high school embarrassment. Jeff apologizes for the past and begins to help Alicia face some of the demons her mother faces. Although she is reluctant to let down her guard, she admits to enjoy her time spent with Hudson. Alicia constantly fears the worst, and often thinks back to their past. Can she trust her heart? Can she trust Jeff?

The Dumping Ground (series 5) The fifth series of the British children's television series The Dumping Ground began broadcasting on 20 January 2017 on CBBC.[1] The series follows the lives of the children living in the fictional children's care home of Ashdene Ridge, nicknamed by them "The Dumping Ground". It consists of twenty-four, thirty-minute episodes,[2] airing in two halves, respectively in January and October 2017; it is the thirteenth series in the Tracy Beaker franchise.

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 5 (HealthDayNews) -- Women whose breast cancer is detected by physical examination are about three times more likely to receive chemotherapy than women whose breast cancer is detected by mammography, a Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center study finds.

You Can't Do That On Film, an independently made 2004 documentary about Nickelodeon's '80s-afternoon staple You Can't Do That On Television, comes out today on DVD. It's got a treasure trove of interviews from an impressive number of the show's kid stars (Alasdair! Hey, Moose!), now adults who, almost to a person, look back on the sketch show with nothing but affection. There are also some enlightening discussions of the show's origins with creator Roger Price and director Geoffrey Darby, who explain how their respect for their young charges (and disdain for most children's television) resulted in an happy anything-goes environment. The DVD extras include highlights from the 2002 and 2004 fan conventions, including a montage of people happily lining up to be slimed. Just about the only thing that it's missing is footage from You Can't Do That On Television. That, as it happens, is a problem. For all of the fan's passion that director David Dillehunt put into the movie, the absence of clips from the show in question (thanks to rights issues, one would presume) leaves it only half-finished. It's a violation of the "show, don't tell" rule, requiring that Dillehunt talk around a topic that he's unable to approach directly. The result is former castmember after former castmember telling stories connected to specific incidents, sketches and entire shows that are left up to the viewer's imagination. Most egregious is hearing everybody extol the comic genius of the late Les Lye (the primary, and for a time only, adult performer on the show), when all that the movie can offer up to illustrate it is a slideshow of still photos of the many characters he played. It's not sufficient. The project was clearly a labor of love for Dillehunt, whose effort in uncovering information about his subject and tracking down the people involved in the show for thorough, lively interviews is evident. But without sitting side-by-side with the show he loves so much, Dillehunt's legwork might have been better served as research for a book, rather than a film. As it stands, anybody who grew up watching the show is forced to struggle to remember the episodes in question with scant help from the movie. Anybody who never saw the show at all is left completely adrift. "You'll have to take our word for it," is what You Can't Do That On Film seems to say. This practice actually isn't all that uncommon among a certain class of documentaries that show up on DVD. Music documentaries are especially vulnerable, since it's far easier to rope some talking heads together, drop in some non-performance footage (contemporary interviews and the like) and wrap it up with narration that fills in the gaps than it is to clear the legal and financial hurdles necessary to include the music that demonstrates why anyone cares about the story to begin with. (As a side note, Beatles DVDs in particular seem to be the most extreme example of this phenomenon, due to both Apple Records' tight grip on how it allows their music to be used and the abundance of cameras and microphones directed at the lads even when they weren't on stage. Many of the documentaries in question try to work around this by using background music designed to ape the Beatles as closely as possible, even going through the various phases of their songs' evolution, without outright plagiarizing. It only highlights how flat the attempts fall, like a musical equivalent of the Uncanny Valley.) That's one reason why Bob Dylan And The Band: Down In The Flood, which came out at the end of September, is such a jolt. It has interviews with folks who were in the trenches during that collaboration – including Band keyboardist Garth Hudson, drummer Mickey Jones from the 1966 English tour, Band producer John Simon – as well as Dylan scholars and rock critics who know what they're talking about. It also starts out with Dylanesque instrumental tracks underscoring the footage and talking heads, which isn't promising; it implies that it's possible to illustrate the importance of something with an inferior copy. (It's not.) Some TV and concert film of drummer Levon Helm's early band and pre-Dylan Band cohort Ronnie Hawkins follow, but those are background, not the story itself. And then suddenly, a quarter of an hour in, we're looking at – and hearing – Dylan's famous clip for "Subterranean Homesick Blues," and it generates a palpable sense of relief. From there, Down In The Flood confidently tells the story it wants to tell, complete with the songs necessary to tell it, from footage from the famous 1966 concert at Manchester's Free Trade Hall (complete with the infamous "Judas!"/"Play [really quite] loud" moment, about which Jones has his own theories in the DVD extras) to songs from the loose recording sessions that would result in The Basement Tapes. At one point, it seems like the movie includes Johnny Cash performing "Big River" just to show off. While Down In The Flood doesn't offer the same amount of music as,

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Want the world’s best, up-close view of a rocket launch without being right there at the pad? For the first time, cameras will provide live 360-degree video of a rocket heading toward space. NASA will provide the 360 stream Tuesday as an unmanned Atlas rocket blasts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, with a capsule full of space station supplies. The stream will begin 10 minutes before the scheduled 11:11 a.m. liftoff and continue until the rocket is out of sight. The four fisheye-lens cameras are located at the periphery of the pad, about 300 feet (100 meters) from the rocket. A computer in a blast-proof box will stitch together the images for a full, in-the-round view. There will be about a minute lag time. It will be shown on NASA’s YouTube channel. “It’s great, I mean, to be able to get in there and experience that 360-degree view,” said Vern Thorp, a program manager for rocket maker United Launch Alliance. Combining that with virtual reality goggles, “it really gives you a new perspective that we’ve never been able to do before,” he said at a Monday news conference. United Launch Alliance has released 360-degree video of two previous launches, but later — not live. Orbital ATK, one of NASA’s main delivery services for the International Space Station, opted to use an Atlas V for this supply run from Cape Canaveral versus its own smaller, Virginia-based Antares rocket in order to haul up more items. The supply ship is known as the Cygnus after the swan constellation, and in this case has been named the S.S. John Glenn. Glenn became the first American to orbit the world in 1962 — launching on an Atlas rocket — and the oldest person to fly in space in 1998 aboard the shuttle Discovery. He died at age 95 in December. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery earlier this month. “It’s an honor to launch the spacecraft which has been named in memory of John Glenn,” Thorp told reporters. Given that Glenn flew on an Atlas rocket and Tuesday’s rocket is an Atlas, “I feel like we’re bridging history.”

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To provide new empirical evidences for macro- prudential policy from meso- perspective,using stock market and balance sheet data of CSI 300 Index Subsector that spanned from November 2009 to March 2013,this paper analyzes the determinants and transmission mechanisms of industrial risks in China through combining Contingent Claims Analysis(CCA) and Common Correlated Effects(CCE) panel data esti-mator. Firstly,we construct Portfolio Distance- to- Default by using CCA as the risk indicator of each industry. Then,we exploit the factors and transfer channels of industrial risks by using CCE that can account for the cross- section correlation. We have several empirical findings: industrial risks have a significant chain effect and cross- section correlation; Industrial heteromerous shocks have significant effects; The unobserved factors should not to be neglected; There are several risk transmission mechanisms.

Epiphany School in Bournemouth said it faced a £280,000-a-year shortfall, due to government cuts and rising costs. The Church of England-run academy said it had already reduced its music and sports provision, as well as the number of classroom-based teaching assistants. Head teacher Dave Simpson said he acknowledged that early closing could affect children's education. He said it could also have a "massive" impact on parents, who he said were "supportive". Other schools including Danemill Primary in Leicestershire and City Academy in Hackney have proposed to reduce school hours from this autumn to save money. In April, the National Association of Head Teachers conference backed a motion to consider a four-and-a-half day week in schools. Mr Simpson said he could save about £35,000, by allocating Friday afternoons for teachers' planning, preparation and assessment time. He said the school's overall funding had fallen by more than £50,000 since it became an academy in 2012. The cost of national insurance, pensions, inflation, teachers' pay and education, health and care (EHC) plans for pupils with special needs amounted to an extra £230,000, he said. The school has drafted letters for parents to send to MPs and councillors, stating: "I am worried that standards within the school will inevitably begin to drop and the needs of my child will not be met." In December, the National Audit Office found schools were facing budget cuts of £3bn by 2020 because funding was not keeping pace with increased pupil numbers and rising costs. Bournemouth Borough Council's deputy leader Nicola Greene said schools were struggling because of a shortfall in funding for pupils with special needs. The Department for Education said it would soon make further announcements on the national funding formula for schools.

He says the aircraft will support the US-led coalition targeting the group. Nato will also train Iraqi forces and support special forces in Tunisia, a major recruiting ground for IS. Meanwhile, the alliance has agreed to keep troop levels in Afghanistan and reiterated a funding pledge, he adds. Mr Stoltenberg made the remarks on the second day of the 28-country military alliance summit in Warsaw. He said the surveillance agreement against IS, using Awacs surveillance planes, was a "clear signal of our resolve to help tackle terrorism". Additionally, the alliance will start a training and capacity-building mission for Iraqi armed forces, a country Mr Stoltenberg says is central in the fight against the jihadist group. Nato does not have many military resources of its own; they all belong to individual member countries. But one of the few things that Nato does hold in common is a small fleet of Awacs - airborne warning and control aircraft - giant Boeing planes the size of an airliner with a rotating radar dish above the fuselage. Nato's Awacs fleet is based at Geilenkirchen, in Germany, with 16 Boeing E-3A aircraft with multi-national crews. They are drawn from 15 of the alliance's members. There are forward operating bases in Greece, Italy and Turkey. An Awacs typically cruises at some 30,000ft (9,144m) providing a radar picture over a vast area. It is expected that the new Nato mission against IS will begin in the autumn with the aircraft operating within Turkish airspace or in international airspace over the eastern Mediterranean. Nato will also work to establish an intelligence centre in Tunisia and will support the country's special operation forces. "We will provide greater support to our partners, so they can secure their countries and push back against violent extremism," Mr Stoltenberg said. Co-operation with Jordan and Libya's new government would also increase, he added. The alliance will also launch a new maritime operation in the Mediterranean, whose responsibilities will include counterterrorism. The US-led alliance in Afghanistan costs about $5bn (£3.86bn) a year, with approximately $3.5bn (£2.7bn) coming from the US. Nato is expected to contribute with $1bn (£770m), with the remaining funds due to come from the Afghan government. "Afghanistan still faces serious instability and violence so our continued political, military and financial engagement is of great importance," he said. Mr Stoltenberg added that Nato's troop levels in the country would be similar to this year, at around 12,000. This comes after US President Barack Obama promised to slow a planned draw-down of US troops from Afghanistan. The initial plan was to reduce US troop numbers from 9,800 to 5,500 by the end of the year, but now 8,400 will remain, Mr Obama has said.

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Rep. Barney Frank has introduced legislation that would allow online gambling. It's seen as a long shot, coming a year after the House passed a bill that banned the use of credit cards or checks for online gambling. The Democrat from Massachusetts discusses the bill's prospects with Robert Siegel.

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This is relevant when you have two or more neural networks serving as components to a larger architecture. Training this architecture in an end-to-end manner means simultaneously training all components (i.e. training it as a single network). The best example I can think of are image captioning architectures. These usually comprise of two networks: a CNN whose role is to extract features from the input images and a RNN that accepts the CNN's features and generates the output captions. You have two options for training: First, train the CNN first for some arbitrary task (e.g. image classification) in hopes that it learns how to extract features. Then use the CNN to extract features from the input images and use those as inputs to train the RNN. This procedure trains the two components in two completely separate phases. Treat the whole architecture as a single network and backpropagete the gradients to the CNN so that it also can be trained. This procedure trains the two components simultaneously. This is what we call end-to-end training.

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Because sperm can live inside you for up to 5 days, you could have sex towards the end of your period and then conceive 4 or 5 days later with your early ovulation. The probabilities of getting pregnant during your period are low, but the possibilities are there.

A dispute has erupted between Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and conservative lawmakers over her pursuit of diplomacy with North Korea.

It is quite possible that I am not even close to being on the same intellectual level as Mr McLaren. I gave up about half way through it. Just to much work to read.

Your question may be better suited to either SE History or SE History of Science and Mathematics. The date of the so called creation of the Earth has nothing to do with Earth Science. For Kepler I found he wrote the book KANONES PUERILES, in it he calculates the creation date to be 27 April 4997 BC. The published works of Newton reveal little. Some authors on Newton mention an unpublished document he wrote in either 1704 or 1705. Any calculations he may have done regarding the so called date of creation may be in his unpublished writings. You may need to review the bibliographies of authors who wrote biographies on Newton, such the 1855 book by Sir David Brewster, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, volume 2.

Usually its not the coffee making those tastes. Their other substances added to it afterwards. There isn't a vanilla coffee plant unfortunately.