根据加拿大会议局（Conference Board of Canada）与贵湖大学（Universityof Guelph）食品研究所，针对17个经济合作与发展组织（OECD）成员国进行的食品安全排名，加拿大的食品安全体系被列为世界上最好的，与爱尔兰在该榜单上并列第一。
该报告采取比较研究的方法，将加拿大与其他16个经济合作与发展组织的成员国，在食品安全方面的表现进行比较，其中包括了澳洲、奥地利、比利时、丹麦、芬兰、法国、德国、爱尔兰、意大利、日本、荷兰、挪威、瑞典、瑞士、英国和美国。在2008年和2010年，也发布了上述报告，加拿大的排名分别在第5位和第4位。
总的排名得分是根据包括评估、管理和交流3大类的10项指标确定，如食物感染发病率、召回的食品和饮食消费研究等。加拿大的排名领先，凸显了在多个领域取得的成功，例如对食品安全突发事件的应对能力，以及就食品安全问题与利益相关者和公众的沟通。该报告还发现，加拿大也有最高的食品安全公信力。
除了优点外，该报告也指出加拿大食品安全系统所存在的一些缺陷，包括通过加工处理环节对食品进行追踪的能力，对杀虫剂和其他化学成份的检测，以及为国民所吃的食物设定可以接受的辐射水平。其中食品业界所称的对食物的追踪能力，是确保更安全的供应系统的关键。如有能力追踪一磅牛肉的产地到农场，也可以追踪到最后吃它的餐厅的食客。这种能力在疾病爆发的情况下尤为重要，可以让当局找到问题的根源并解决它。
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</a> In the ONS report, places were rated according to seven different indicators of deprivation; most coastal towns have above-average levels of hardship. In Skegness and nearby Ingoldmells, deprivation levels were two and a half times the national average.
</a> Within months of Jetter's arrival, IBM Japan fired a groupof workers deemed to be underperforming in the kind ofrestructuring common in many Western countries but rare inJapan, where the most sought-after jobs have carried a promiseof lifetime employment.
</a> As competitive autocross drivers, Maggie O’Brien thought she and her boyfriend were out for a typical spin at an autocross track in Ayer, Mass., when all of a sudden, he pulled a fast one on her.
</a> The absence of concrete guidance as to the goal of asset purchases, which has been vaguely defined as aimed toward substantial improvement in the outlook for the labor market, neutralizes their impact and complicates an eventual exit, according to the paper's authors, Arvind Krishnamurthy of Northwestern University and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen of University of California, Berkeley.
</a> Itâs a new experience for a daily biker â to feel the hard grip of tire on trail, and experience a genuine and familiar connection to the road, but with the ability to perform in a way I never could otherwise. Itâs like feeding your bike Viagra.
</a> It was unclear how Bezos - the world's 19th richest person with a fortune of $25.2 billion, according to Forbes magazine - would manage his new businesses for tax purposes. U.S. individual tax returns are private, meaning that he has no obligation to disclose publicly how he might use the newspaper purchase to his tax advantage. His 2012 compensation from Amazon was $1.7 million; he owns nearly 19 percent of Amazon.
</a> âThere have been many and ultimately boycotting the Games doesnât affect much of anything other than competing in the Games,â she said. âItâs a huge event and itâs easy to understand why people want to make a political statement. I also understand why the IOC wants to make it as politics-free as possible. In actuality, thatâs difficult.â
</a> With Australia also making a raft of changes for the series - only seven of their 18-man squad played in the Ashes - both countries clearly have their eye on the return Ashes series this winter.
</a> They do now. Though Rays rookie Chris Archer, who has pitched brilliantly in July, was again on his game, this team has now been shut out nine times this season, five times at home, which seems particularly hard to believe, considering the friendly right-field porch and all.
</a> The past may shed some light on the problem. Imagine a time when life expectancy was just 47. Most people worked until they died. Because of limited medical care, most people died quickly when they became acutely ill. The result was that the average time spent in retirement was just 7 percent of adulthood or about three years. That was life in the United States in the early 20th century.
</a> The major religious traditions of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism and Hinduism help shape the daily lives of the vast majority of the world. As a result, religion permeates politics from all sides in just about every part of the world, fueling compassion as well as intolerance; stirring conflict as well as peace; fighting injustice as well as legitimizing injustice against those who don’t hold the same beliefs.
</a> Science and technology enthusiasts who like their news delivered at bracingly high speed will love this podcast from the Wired.co.uk team. Each weekly 30-minute episode covers at least five stories, which the show’s trio of savvy, enthusiastic presenters – Nate Lanxon, Olivia Solon and Liat Clark – pour over engagingly. These range from the serious (the ethics of in vitrio meat) to the joyously trivial (news of a government-sanctioned jetpack licence in New Zealand).
</a> London 2012 was a national epiphany, invulnerable to the usual ravages of time. People are looking back at it with gratitude and respect. It showed the kind Britain, the un-cynical Britain, the appreciative and tolerant Britain, not the whining, angry land we often feel we inhabit. It rose from that hidden part of the country where people are fundamentally kind and considerate and want to applaud the efforts of others.
</a> And hereâs the key point: You would stop not because of the language police. Not because you might incur a Bob Costas harangue. Not because the President would wag a finger. But simply because the word was tainted, freighted with negative connotations with which you would not want to be associated.
</a> It may not be your typical hiking attire, but Vanessa Hudgens made sure she rocked her bikini while climbing boulders at Malibu Creek State Park. Matching her black swimsuit top with a pair of sturdy hiking boots, the "Spring Breakers" star flashed a couple of peace signs to the camera for a flirty Instagram shot. "So be the girl you loved, Be the girl you loved. #jamesblake @retrograde #climbingboulders #hiking #natureReset #malibucreek #latergram" she posted on Sept. 10, 2013.
</a> The salt came from dredging waste saturated with sea water.Deposited in dumps to dry, the sandy soil was then spread on thesurrounding lowlands, raising the land as much as 5 meters (16feet) above the floodplain, Ivo Dworschack, the manager of theOSX shipyard said during a March visit.
</a> As a nation, the Americans may be searching for some answers. Sure, the United States won an impressive 25 medals. But only six of them were gold as Russia edged them with seven, making it the first time the U.S. failed to at least tie for the gold-medal lead since the first world championships in Helsinki 30 years ago.
</a> There should also be incentives for sound underwriting; strong, enforceable limits on abusive lending practices and inappropriate mortgage terms and a meaningful sharing of risk. A limited government role in the housing finance system is vital to creating the kind of public structure that ensures responsible lending, adequate liquidity during up and down economic cycles and accessibility to those entering homeownership.
</a> The statement did not provide any specific details on thegovernment's concerns, but it noted that MTS Allstream operatesa national fiber optic network that provides critical telecomservices to businesses and governments, including the Canadiangovernment.
</a> â Charts that accompanied Levounis' testimony that showed comments by Jackson's doctors on their close relationships with the singer and behaviour that he said supported his opinion that the pop star was addicted to opioid medications, had engaged in doctor shopping and was secretive about his medical care.
</a> Ford, which reports second-quarter earnings on Wednesday, declined to comment. The F-series trucks and SUV derivatives such as the Expedition account for more than 90 percent of Ford's global profit, according to Morgan Stanley.
</a> Sony, Samsung, LG, Panasonic, Huawei and Toyota are among others hosting both press conferences and stands. Google, Yahoo and Dropbox prefer to just book private meeting rooms. Apple does not attend in any formal capacity.
</a> China experts believe Bo Guagua, who was an undergraduate at Balliol College, Oxford, is unlikely to ever return to China, where his father is expected to stand trial for corruption in the coming weeks.
</a> The Barcelona-based company, renamed The Colomer Group(TCG), has since expanded into consumer brands such as NaturalHoney body lotions and Llongueras hair care. It gets 40 percentof its revenue from the United States.
</a> The most expensive neighborhood in Queens is now Long Island City, a former industrial zone where luxury towers continue to rise on the manicured waterfront. Median rents for a one-bedroom there are $2,500.
</a> Officials from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation and the Centers for Disease Control said rates are already falling as hospitals step up sanitation efforts, like hand washing - though they are far from their goal of ending death from such infections. Surgical site infections, for example, fell 44 percent since 2009, said Dr. Beth Bell, who heads a CDC center focused on infectious diseases.
</a> Abbas said he considers settlements illegal and would not allow illegal residents to remain in a future Palestinian state. By talking about his goals, however, Abbas seemed to contradict the secrecy Kerry has said is necessary for talks to succeed.
</a> Pardoned in 2003, he spent two years in exile in Russia, rebuilding his businesses. He returned to Kazakhstan, under an amnesty with Nazarbayev, to lead BTA from 2005 until 2009. He fled to London after BTA was seized by the sovereign wealth fund and declared insolvent in 2009.
</a> Winnie Cooper is all grown up -- and donning sexy outfits in a music video. "The Wonder Years" star Danica McKellar was spotted on set of Avril Lavigne's newest music video on July 25, 2013. Donning fishnet tights and a crop-top, McKellar showed off her killer abs and her edgy side.
</a> For consumers, the most exciting news out of the Q&A may have been a statement by chief content officer Ted Sarandos. Having already pioneered the practice of releasing an entire seasonâs worth of episodes in one burst, Netflix is aiming to reduce another source of viewer annoyance: the long wait between new seasons. âIdeally, weâd like to reduce the cycle time between seasons to tighter than the one year it is today,â he said.
</a> Apart from presenting various television shows around the world, Harris has also put out 30 studio albums and 48 singles including his hit “Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport,” which topped the Australian singles chart in 1960 and went to No. 3 in the United States.
</a> "There's so much when you walk on that floor it's information overload," said Christopher "mink" Morrison, founder of Twistory Entertainment Studios, which produces film, magazines, graphic novels and videogames.
</a> Sparks Mayor Geno Martini told a late-morning news conference that the shooting marked a tragic day for the city: "I just want to reiterate again that the city itself is very safe and this is just an isolated incident. But it's very, very tragic."
</a> Gee walked Khris Davis to start the inning. Caleb Gindl singled to left-center and, after an out, Juan Francisco drove in a run with a slow-rolling grounder up the middle. Jeff Bianchi added another RBI with a soft blooper to left.
</a> When the crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 goes to court, the potential payouts will probably be vastly different for Americans and passengers from other countries, even if they were seated side by side as the jetliner crash-landed.
</a> I can get the disc copy cheaper from any major online store and we don't even know what the eShop price of W101 will be. It could be another £54.99. Also I don't want to use my system memory for any game except eShop exclusives, VC games, or Mario Kart.
</a> That has been reflected in the New Zealand dollar's climb toa five-year high against its Australian counterpart.But despite the exchange rate, industry sources say Australiancompanies still stand to save around one-third in costs byshifting to New Zealand.
</a> There are two reasons for this weariness with politics, currently intense even by Australian standards. One has been the unprecedented and enervating length of the campaign, which effectively began just over seven months ago, when the struggling Miss Gillard, possibly hoping to allow maximum time for a miracle to manifest, first announced a September vote;Australian federal election campaigns usually last roughly four weeks between the naming of the date and polling day.
</a> One explanation for the inexorable rise of family history as a pastime is our obsession with days gone by. If le vice anglais was once flagellation, it is now nostalgia, as we look back longingly to the world in which our great-grandparents lived. There may have been poverty and hardship, we tell ourselves, but there was more sense of community. People tended to get and stay married, to maintain close relationships with their extended families and to stay in the same place. They seem more rooted than we can ever be.
</a> Investors dumped the dollar for the euro and emergingcurrencies after Fed boss Ben Bernanke on Wednesday impliedstimulus would not end in September as markets had been betting.The Korean won hit one-month highs while the zloty androuble rallied almost one percent to the dollar .
</a> In 2010 Ghana beat the USA in a football match at the World Cup in South Africa. Bill Clinton was there, he remembered the game. He talked about players and moments that I had long forgotten. He was not happy with the outcome but conceded:
</a> After Parcells is done, Martin will stand beside him and they will unveil Parcellsâ bust that will be placed in the Hallâs museum alongside those of the gameâs greats. Then Curley Culp, Warren Sapp and Cris Carter will finish the program with their inductions.
</a> Concerned that retirement benefits will be slashed, Detroit retirees, workers and pension funds have been running to state court in Michigan's capital of Lansing in an effort to derail the biggest Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.
</a> The âCan You Find Itâ competition, launched on Wednesday, features a string of 143 characters broken into 28 sets of five and one final set of three. Once cracked, the code provides a trail of clues that will lead participants on a âcyber treasure-huntâ to the final answer â and a possible job at the facility in Cheltenham.
</a> Tougher competition could hurt the value of Verizon Wireless, which has 100 million customers, giving Vodafone an incentive to cash out now. Verizon's shares have fallen by nearly 14% from a high near $54 in April to close down 39 cents at $46.56 Wednesday.
</a> âItâs more than that. Itâs body language, itâs how you carry yourself, itâs all that sort of stuff, your little mannerisms,â he said. âI guess itâs just trying to just remember those feelings and remember how I felt that week and trying to carry some of that into this week and just get those good, positive thoughts going.â
</a> The killing of five Indian soldiers last week which New Delhi blamed on Pakistani troops could threaten recent overtures aimed at resuming peace talks between the nuclear-armed rivals. The dialogue was interrupted after an earlier fighting between Indian and Pakistani soldiers on the disputed Kashmir border in January.
</a> "This provision does not prevent Apple from introducing new categories of apps with different terms and conditions or from changing its App Store terms and conditions and applying them in a reasonable manner as long as Apple does not discriminate against E-book Apps," she wrote in the final injunction.
</a> "Given the events of last week, the President has directed relevant departments and agencies to review our assistance to the government of Egypt," the Pentagon statement said, without explicitly referring to last week's military-backed overthrow of Egypt's president.
</a> Bawazeer said he has repeatedly been rebuffed when he has asked for help from the government and international organizations to rehabilitate former al-Qaeda militants and prevent new recruits through media campaigns, education programs and cultural activities.
</a> "In this American version, the bulls will be subjected to loud noise and crowds of panicked people. A pastime that involves staring at and taunting animals is as unsafe as it is un-American," said Ashley Byrne, a spokeswoman for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
</a> The bigoted Rightwing Taliban hates gay people and wants to tell others how to live,think and behave. Todays American Taliban strikes again. They can never live and let live,they think someone died and made them God. They act nothing like Jesus,nothing!
</a> In the next phase, the government is seeking investors for80 percent stakes in 10 new gas power plants. The price tag of$500 million initial investment per plant is five times that forolder state assets, industry sources said.
</a> "I can assure you that during the Olympics or any other major sports events, Russia will strictly stick to the Olympic principles which forbid any kind of discrimination of people on any basis," Putin added.
</a> While Djokovic, Murray and Williams all advanced instraight sets, No. 24 Ekaterina Makarova of Russia scoredyesterdayâs biggest upset with a 6-4, 6-4 win against third-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland. Makarova advances to facefifth-seeded Li Na of China, who routed Jelena Jankovic, the No.9 from Serbia, 6-3, 6-0 in the first meeting of top 10 seeds atthis yearâs tournament.
</a> "I was so upset. The devil would come to me in waves, tempting me to lunge at one of the guards and take away his gun and shoot them all," he said. "But I kept my patience, until the colonel returned my ID and then I ran home."
</a> âItâs our personality,â St. Louis infielder Daniel Descalso said. âWeâre calm and collected. We could have panicked after the way we played (Monday) night. But we knew it was uncharacteristic and we bounced right back.â
</a> They organise protests on social networks. They are not formally linked to mainstream opposition groups like Wefaq, which has insisted on peaceful protests and was until recently involved in national dialogue talks with the authorities.
</a> Why do people think that criminals are so dumb and ignorant? The majority of sellers at gun shows are licensed firearm dealers who HAVE to run background checks. So this tiny “loophole” gets closed off…criminals will just start buying their weapons somewhere else. This will not reduce violent crime, because criminals can always find a way to get weapons. To think otherwise, a person would have to be super naive.
</a> "Unfortunately we cannot light it in space so we will simply take it to space and take pictures and some video with the station and the Earth in the background," Ryazanskiy said in a prelaunch NASA interview.
</a> Abortion rights are an issue to be left to the states. As a proud conservative, I am convinced that neither the legislative, executive or, as in Roe v. Wade, judicial branch of the federal government are entrusted by the Constitution or well-equipped to tackle this deeply divisive point.
</a> LONDON, July 12 (Reuters) - A Boeing 787 Dreamlineroperated by Ethiopian Airlines caught fire at Britain's Heathrowairport on Friday in a fresh blow for the U.S. planemaker whichearlier this year was forced to ground the new planes for threemonths because of overheating batteries.
</a> Many of the millions hit by the quake spent the night outdoors, including patients at some hospitals in Cebu, because of aftershocks. More than 840 aftershocks have been recorded, with one of magnitude 5.1, the volcanology agency said.
</a> "The cost of Australian grassroot projects is going up ...so probably we need to pause," said Shigeru Muraki, chiefexecutive of the energy solution division at Tokyo Gas,speaking at the World Energy Conference in South Korea.
</a> "But with fears over what currency a separate Scotland would have, how pensions would be funded and concerns over increased regulation, it's surely not surprising that a majority of businesses are opposed to independence."
</a> But to make their bet pay, Ahmed and Shaheen will have to bediplomats as well as financial engineers, persuading patriarchalheads of family-owned businesses to embrace an alien investmentconcept touted by upstarts half their age.
</a> Solid sales in Russia helped its second-quarter earningsbefore interest and tax (EBIT) rise to 120 million euros ($161million) from 113 million a year earlier. Analysts on averageexpected a profit of 117 million euros, according to a Reuterspoll.
</a> Often, it is a parking lot of strollers, a basic part of life for homeless families: these rolling mini-worlds are the single unchanging point of reference that many homeless kids know. The strollers proceed awkwardly through the security scanners, they queue up in a caravan going back and forth in lines in front of the admission desk, they occupy the middle of the floor of the building’s elevators while standees press themselves against the walls. Plastic bags of possessions drape the stroller handles, sippy cups of juice fill the cup-holders, Burger King paper crowns ride in the carrying racks beneath. Kids sleep peacefully while consultations and long waits go on around them. Some lean back and watch with a numbed, listless patience that suggests how much of their childhood has already been spent like this. Others hunch and squirm and scream their heads off.
</a> If a crow can pinch a cygnet from under the noses of its parents in full view of the BBC television Springwatch crew, crows in my goose pen at 5am with six optimistic little goslings exploring their brave new world would not be good news.
</a> Suddenly, with barely a whisper of the word “tapering” from Big Ben, a low-level panic has set in. With the Fed talking about an end to QE sometime next year, the likelihood is that all those dollars that were parked in high-interest EM accounts to make an easy buck — what bankers call “the carry trade” — will fly home to America and its recovering corporate, real estate, energy, equities and other markets. Talk of a coming boom in US stocks is rampant (and reflected in the 19 percent spike in Japan’s Nikkei Index in the past six months and a 7 percent rise in the Dow Jones Industrial Average).
</a> Like Next and Primark, Debenhams continues to open new stores with four planned in the next year after two openings in the past 12 months. Sharp said that while sales were falling in the stores, all remained profitable and were an important point of contact for online shoppers, who liked to pick up goods they had ordered online at their nearest high street.
</a> Penchyna declined to specify which articles of theconstitution the proposal will target. Articles 25, 27 and 28govern the state's right to own, explore, produce, andcommercialize the country's hydrocarbons.
</a> Resolution of the case could be delayed further if thejustices ask the Obama administration to weigh on whether theyshould hear the case. Then, the court might not rule on thecase, if it decides to hear it, until the term that starts inOctober 2014.
</a> Prince Felipe, his wife Letizia, the Infanta Elena, Rajoy, members of the cabinet and regional leaders stood near the front of the cathedral alongside many of the victims' families and members of the emergency services. Dozens of well-wishers gathered at the back of the cathedral and in the Plaza del Obradoiro outside.
</a> "When you look at providing one jurisdiction with an all-outveto like the federal government, in an area of jurisdictionthey really don't have that kind of a right to play in, whywould we sign on to that?"
</a> The services sector data from China, the world's biggestmetals consumer, showing business confidence fell slightly inSeptember, hurt the UK mining sector. The data, however, had little impact on Chinese shares as retailers were boosted bystrong Golden Week holiday spending.
</a> "Social Security is different from paying a militarycontractor, or food inspectors," Altman says. "Those things arepaid from the general fund, where there's a deficit. SocialSecurity is a real pension program backed by very substantialassets, and the president has an obligation to act as afiduciary and protect that."
</a> DUBLIN, July 14 (Reuters) - Occupying a single floor of athree-storey building in a suburban Dublin office park, WesternUnion's offices are notably modest for the internationalheadquarters of the world's largest money transfer firm.
</a> A handful of the dolphins have bronchial pneumonia and at least one was carrying morbillivirus, which Schoelkopf compared to chicken pox in humans. But he emphasized that about two-thirds of the dolphins have still not been tested so, “We don’t want to jump the gun on this and blame one particular agent.”
</a> "In theory, money management is easy - spend less than you earn and consider your future. But the difficulty comes when applying this in the real world," said Caroline Rookes, chief executive of the Money Advice Service.
</a> “You are captured by these monetary issues — how to pay rent, how to pay bills,” Zhao said. “As a result, you’re less attentive to other problems. You neglect other things in life that deserve your attention.”
</a> There's taking a fashion risk, and then there's walking outside in outfits that are completely see-through. With the paparazzi ready to snap their every move, you would think that celebrities would be...
</a> Democrats, and Obama, stepped up their criticism of House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner for refusing to schedule a vote on a separate unencumbered measure to fund the government and end the shutdown. They believe it would pass with most Democrats in the House voting for it along with a handful of Republicans. Boehner said Sunday that it would fail.
</a> Add in some anxiety, depression, self-hatred, anger — all very ordinary. But I was going to get out or kill myself trying. I started saying the hell with it, more and more, and at each incremental stage, chastising myself for not having the courage to really say the hell with it and then go a little further. After meetings with guidance counselors, school officials, psychologists, doctors — somebody recommended putting me in a program called CDC.
</a> Ye Mengyuan, a talented 17-year-old gymnast, and 16-year-old Wang Linjia, a physics marvel, hailed from Chinaâs eastern Zhejiang province and were found on the tarmac among the scorched wreckage of the Boeing 777.
</a> While delivering services in remote areas cost more, the MPs point out that rural communities also receive less from the government - with school funding under half the level per head than for pupils in urban areas.
</a> The 37-year-old film star revealed in May that she was told by doctors that she had an 87% risk of developing breast cancer without the radical treatment because of genes she inherited from her mother.
</a> "Ok, just saw my engagement shoot pics & I have to share one!!! :) @kobyb & @TerilynBrown! Ready to #TieItUp!" the Clarkson tweeted. The photograph showed a gorgeous Clarkson wearing a white wedding gown sitting in front of a bookshelf. Completing the picture, the talented singer sat barefoot, with her hair up and reading a book.
</a> Canada has blocked only a handful of foreign takeovers inrecent years, one of them a blockbuster bid from global mininggiant BHP Billiton for fertilizer company Potash Corp, whichfaced tough opposition from politicians in the Prairie provinceof Saskatchewan, where the crop nutrient potash is mined.
</a> All Roid jokes and ignorant projections of 0-16 aside, this really is a significant blow to the Redskins. Already down Carriker, the Redskins are now on their 3rd man down the depth chart on that side of the line, and we’ve only had one day of training camp.
</a> Thanks for being in touch. It is puzzling that the biopsy of these ulcers should have revealed ‘no identifiable cause’. I can only suppose they must be a variant of the Aphthous ulcers that usually occur within the mouth. I am sure you should discuss this further with your doctor.
</a> Multiple sclerosis (MS) is most common in North America andEurope, at 140 and 108 cases per 100,000 respectively, while insub-Saharan Africa the rate is just 2.1 per 100,000, theMultiple Sclerosis International Federation's Atlas of MS 2013showed on Wednesday.
</a> Several city officials â including Mayor Michael Bloomberg, NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly and FDNY Commissioner Salvatore Cassano â attended the ceremony, which is expected to last until 12:30 p.m.
</a> The company plans to lessen its reliance on Humira bydeveloping lucrative drugs for other diseases, including oraltreatments for hepatitis C that could be approved by early 2015,and a promising treatment called ABT-199 for various bloodcancers.
</a> Teichner just got engaged to his much younger lady friend, who works at a nail salon in Miami âputting sparkles on peopleâs fingers,â a source says. Drescher even threw her dad and stepmom-to-be an engagement party in New York to celebrate.
</a> A poll conducted for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in May found that 71 percent of Iowans oppose slaughter, and three in four Iowans oppose having a slaughterhouse in their community.
</a> Dalelv was detained for four days after being accused of having sex outside marriage, which is outlawed in the UAE although the law is not actively enforced for tourists as well as hundreds of thousands of Westerners and others on resident visas.
</a> Hawks were suspected of undercover work in India after officials saw them carrying what looked like surveillance equipment. It later turned out that the birds were in fact being used for hunting by sportsmen in Pakistan.
</a> At one point late in the day, 451 Group analyst Brenon Dalyvalued the company at more than $4.37 billion, or a lofty 32times this year's projected revenue of $150 million. That givesit a much richer value than other cybersecurity firms that havegone public in the past few years.
</a> We made a lot of change to last year's festival, we opened it up to a wider footprint across London, we introduced new programme sections, such as Thrill, Dare and Sonic, and we took a number of big screenings out across the UK.
</a> Not a chance, Comcast (or Time Warner or AT&T). The Great Recession forced Americans to finally clue up to how awful and predatory all those media giants are (Comcast is GE/NBC-Universal). It’s been a decade since Comcast has been able to NOT screw up customer accounts, fail to correct their mistakes – even as they admit it is Comcast at fault, arbitrarily jack up services, as well as surreptitiously slap services not ordered onto billing that never gets fixed. That’s why the customer retention is in the toilet. What a racket. More and more Americans are cutting the cable, opting for free over air broadcast channels and internet-only service for streaming – often for free, as more devices are capable of all-in-one HD delivery. It isn’t because people don’t want cable tv, though most people I know simply refuse to pay for 250 channels wherein 230 are pure garbage, latino, religious, or shoutin’ head so-called news. It’s also because they HATE the cable companies THAT much. Customers will hate them just as much when their security system gets screwed up in the same way… with wayyy higher life issues at stake. Wait till Comcast makes a mistake and retaliates by flipping a switch and shutting down your cable phone/wi-fi service on which the security system works. Life’s both too short and too precious to put your family into the hands of these corrupt corporate bozos. That’s why they’re trying to lock people into the same kind of 2-year contract the telcoms do on cell phone service. No thanks.
</a> Karma!!! Lets see how he likes being locked in a small room with no windows and continually sexually abused and beaten. With a name like Ariel (See Little Mermaid) they’re gonna teach him how to hold his breath!
</a> Locals said Khirbet Al-Makhul was home to about 120 people. The army demolished their ramshackle houses, stables and a kindergarten on Monday after Israel's high court ruled that they did not have proper building permits.
</a> Arguably, the earliest identification any of us is given is whether we're a "boy" or a "girl; a "he" or a "she." Our gender is on our birth certificate, our driver's license, countless forms, and so on.
</a> I have been tracking the lead-times for the iPhone 5c since it could start to be ordered on Friday, September 13, and the 5s since Friday, September 20. While the 5s has October lead-times on all nine countries that Apple is selling it (and the Gold version is unavailable in Hong Kong and Singapore) the 5câs lead-time dropped to 24 hours by Sunday, September 22, on Appleâs sites.
</a> The latest moves by Chinese officials underline thecountry's tough stance on corruption and high prices in thepharmaceutical industry, as it unrolls wider healthcare accessand faces an estimated $1 trillion healthcare bill by 2020.
</a> However, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government on Tuesday signed off on an ordinance to "negate" the court's order and "soften the blow on convicted MPs and legislators".
</a> The early â70s band Big Star never came close to becoming, well, big stars. But they did go on to influence a generation of groups, from R.E.M. to the Replacements, and their heartbreakingly gorgeous music keeps enrapturing more fans year by year. Those ranks have been swelling with the release of a smart and touching new documentary on the band, âNothing Can Hurt Me.â Its soundtrack even uses the bandâs relative obscurity as a selling point.
</a> In February, Gillum said he learned just as abruptly that the county was "going in a different direction" and his contract would not be renewed. Gillum, who was honored last year by the Pennsylvania Psychological Association for his work on the Sandusky case, said the matter still hasn't been fully explained to him.
</a> How Detroit got this way is a complicated mix of economic reliance on a single industry; a vortex of decisions from the personal to the political; pervasive racism and crime, and corporate self-interest.
</a> The fingerprint scanner on the top-of-the-line iPhone lets users unlock their devices or make purchases on iTunes by simply pressing their finger on the home button. It has been hailed as a major step in popularizing the use of biometrics in personal electronics.
</a> Tycoon Suleiman Kerimov and his partners own 33 percent ofUralkali, the leading producer of the fertiliser ingredient thattogether with Belaruskali had controlled two-fifths of the $20billion world market.
</a> You can imagine this stroke as a very brief downward dive through the air - it momentarily uses the animal's own weight in order to move forwards. But because the wings continue to generate lift, the creature remains airborne.
</a> The Fed is pondering how to enhance its forward guidance onwhen it would start raising rates. At the moment, it hascommitted to hold rates near zero until unemployment hits 6.5percent, provided the inflation outlook stays under 2.5 percent.
</a> In 2012 the firm ended a nine-year attempt to compete inJapan's tough retail market, effectively paying Aeon Corp, the country's No.2 general retailer, to take itsloss-making business there off its hands.
</a> "It's one of those things where they do have some local support in that regard. But it's not necessarily support for al Qaeda or support for the Taliban, in as much as they have been up there long enough that they have perhaps been accepted by some of the people."
</a> Sports defeats also increase the chances that people will release their frustration through domestic violence, Chandon said. Some have increased chances of having a heart attack or getting into a fatal car accident.
</a> Foucrault declined to go into detail on how he determined the teenager was alive before she was struck, but said there was internal hemorrhaging that indicated her heart was still beating at the time.
</a> The Lantos Foundation, based in Concord, New Hampshire, describes its mission as strengthening the role of human rights in American foreign policy, and awarded Chen its annual human rights prize at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., in January.
</a> Francis has also opened high-level dialogue on several hot-button topics. He asked his G8 panel to consider the thorny question of Communion for the divorced and remarried, and called in Thursday’s interview for more consideration of women’s roles in the church. “We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of the woman,” he said.
</a> Steinbrueck believes he and his allies the Greens could still win if they can mobilise the millions of supporters who stayed at home in the last two elections. It’s estimated that 20 to 40 percent of Germany’s 60 million voters are still undecided.
</a> "The only thing I can do is continue to preach it to him. I've told him once and I'll tell him again before the game 'I know it's not in your DNA, but you're going to have to find a way to run under control when it calls for it. If there's a situation where you have to run hard, you have to run hard, but you have to protect your leg and your body for a few days to get through this,'" Girardi said.
</a> In several recent cases, swindlers posed as employees of a major brokerage firm and called people, asking for their financial account details and Social Security numbers. Some of the imposters advertised high-yield certificates of deposit and then sent phony forms to collect additional information, FINRA said.
</a> Many terrorists were killed I the operations, including Walid Fawzi al-Subhi, leader of an armed terrorist group. Terrorists Mohammad Raed al-Bqeirat, Anwar Qassem al-Deiri, Mohammad Issa al-Ta’ani, Raed al-Jahamani, Hamzeh Issa Abo Orra, Ammar al-Sweidani and Mohammd Meri al-Shablaq were identified among the dead.
</a> The UK and the EU have strict laws about mining personal data using cookies, which involves effectively installing a small monitoring device on people's phones or computers, but the process of tracking MAC codes leaves no trace on individuals' handsets.
</a> Citing company sources, Singapore's Today newspaper alsoreported this month that Thai billionaire CharoenSirivadhanabhakdi is planning a REIT that could be valued atmore than S$2 billion and include assets from Fraser and Neave and his own firms. An external spokeswoman forCharoen's group declined comment to Reuters.
</a> By contrast, troops in Operation Enduring Freedom are subject to a long train of medical experts, from the corpsmen who treats their wounds in the mountains or deserts of Afghanistan, to the medevac operators who rescue them by helicopter, to the field hospitals dotted throughout the country. All are able to incrementally treat and stabilize the complicated kinds of wounds from the ever-present improvised explosive devices that have defined the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
</a> The ruling Christian Democrats (CDU) had tried to ignore the AfD, but abruptly changed tack this week and deployed respected Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble to attack the skeptics, who want Greece and other bailout recipients out of the euro.
</a> Lori Ann DiRienzo, health educator, wants to remind residents that it is important to take personal precautions to protect yourself from West Nile Virus whenever possible. The New Jersey Department of Health recommends using mosquito repellent or insect repellent with DEET to clothing and exposed skin according to directions on the label. Wearing long-sleeved shirts and long pants when practical and avoiding outdoor activity when mosquitoes are most active during dawn, dusk and during evening hours. Residents should also clean or remove any items on their personal property that can collect rain or sprinkler water and serve as a breeding ground for mosquitoes, such as clogged gutters, flowerpots, bird baths, garbage can lids or old car tires. Residents should also completely change water in birdbaths and kiddie pools at least once a week and remove any other standing water sources.
</a> "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their son will travel home to Kensington Palace," the statement said. "Their Royal Highnesses would like to reiterate their thanks to the hospital for the care and treatment they have all received."
</a> Now that the negotiators got the hang of it they should turn their attention towards Israel – the perpetual victim – to get rid of its hidden never talked about WMDâs. Whatâs good for the Iranian goose should be equally, democratically, unequivocally without double talk be also good for the Israeli gander.
</a> Rail access is the biggest hurdle to aspiring iron oreproducers in Western Australia, where giants Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton have blockedaccess to their rail lines and Fortescue has stalled opening itsmulti-billion dollar railway.
</a> And here we are exploring Peterâs character again. This boy isnât a friend of his, heâs never met him, but secret be damned heâs willing to give the boy his dream come true. In the time it took to have a 11 pages worth of comic panel conversation Peter sized up that boy and knew that even sharing his secret, there would be no fear of exposure. Spider-man may not be a ârealâ person but it sure makes me feel better knowing that there are people out there like that. This has long been an inspiration for me.
</a> "They let people know about the good things and hide the badthings. This culture of cover up hasn't changed since thedisaster," said Atsushi Kasai, a former researcher at the JapanAtomic Energy Research Institute.
</a> Not many stops made in rural areas. Route took us through many beautiful Cotswold villages, including Painswick, where there are 99 Yew trees in the churchyard. Buses were generally half-full, including many locals having lots of chats! We could have got to Cheltenham on the first day, which would have enabled a longer stay to explore this interesting spa town, but decided to take our time and ended each day about 4 o'clock.
</a> In July, the European Court of Human Rights, which upholdsthe convention, angered British critics further, ruling thatBritain had violated the rights of three murderers by jailingthem for life with no prospect of release.
</a> One reason satellite-based estimates of meteor trajectories might be critical is how there are perhaps "seasons" in which Earth is at higher risk of meteor strikes "linked to an alignment of a certain subset of larger objects with Earth's path," Miller said. "Any information that can assist scientists in pinpointing sources would be valuable."
</a> More broadly, Trumka identified several Republican governors who will be the recipient of unfriendly organized labor attention, including Michigan's Rick Snyder, Wisconsin's Scott Walker (he of the union-busting fame), Ohio's John Kasich "and several other that have been hostile toward working people or have been hostile toward democracy itself [and so] are going to get heightened focus," he said.
</a> "Basically we are both atheists and didn't want a religious ceremony," said Hastings, at 32 a year older than Addis. "Other weddings we have gone to tended to be all about Jesus and we're not into that. We were both raised as Catholics but kind of gave it up."
</a> "Just as no one would consider ceding any territory to Assad in the current situation, so certainly no one is thinking seriously of ceding territory to Abu Mazen at time when he doesn't completely rule over most of the Palestinian population."
</a> Within a year, the Whatcotts reached their breaking point. A fight between Priscilla and Inga turned physical during a vacation in Hawaii. "She's got to get out of this family," Priscilla told her husband.
</a> From the Brooklyn Nets who have seen ticket sales spike since their move to the borough, to local landlords who are witnessing a surge in property values, others are likewise seeing their fortunes rise with the arrival of the Barclays Center, the centerpiece of Forest City Ratnerâs $4.9 billion project Atlantic Yards project.
</a> “Fossil fuel subsidies, totaling $523 billion in 2011…” – if we spent all these monies on creating Solar batteries, we’d eliminated all the needs in fossil fuels in 20-30 years.
</a> If Tremlett does get the chance to play in his first Test match since January 2012, he will not only be looking to prove that he has the right to a place on the tour to Australia, but also that he is worthy to be selected for that first Test in the return series.
</a> âThankfully he invested a large chunk of what he stole in assets, like the barge, and subsequently and as a result of our financial investigation and POCA legislation, the victim will now get his life savings back.â
</a> The Dow Jones industrial average slipped 40.96points, or 0.26 percent, to 15,429.71. The Standard & Poor's 500Index lost 1.62 points, or 0.10 percent, to 1,689.29. TheNasdaq Composite Index was off 0.70 points, or 0.02percent, to 3,653.30.
</a> "Monogamy is only one strategy for dealing with infanticide. But it's not the only one," said Opie. "Chimps mate with all the males in their group to confuse paternity so males won't attack. But in others, humans included, males stick with females to protect them." Once a species becomes monogamous, paternal care and other behaviours evolve that help offspring to thrive, he said.
</a> For those who are unaware of the app, this is a photo sharing-based social app which comes with an array of interesting lenses, films and filters including a vintage-type interface. The app is quite handy in terms of its interface and allows users to click, edit and share photos with much ease, just like the Instagram. This version also features direct sharing to Instagram, which makes it a rather attractive photo sharing app over other substitutes.
</a> On Wednesday, a source close to La Caixa said the bank couldtake advantage of any potential sale of Repsol's 30 percentstake in the gas group, tipped by the oil major in July, to sella small part of its own 35-percent holding.
</a> âI donât think anybody was surprised.â Acevedo declined to answer when asked if Paschke ever hit her. She said she doesnât want to get dragged into Paschkeâs latest problems. âI met him almost 10 years ago and I donât want anything to do with whatâs going on right now,â she said. âI have to look out for myself. I have to look out for my daughter, look out for my family.â
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</a> His report made 290 recommendations for healthcare regulators, providers and the Government, which MPs said boiled down to the need for a fundamental change of culture, to put the patient first.
</a> Projects in the pipeline include revamping the BBC iPlayerso licence fee payers can get a personalised on-demand serviceto watch programmes not yet aired, as well as offering a 30-daycatchup period and giving BBC Radio 1 a bigger role.
</a> There might be some breakup ballads on Shakira's next album. The 33-year-old Colombian beauty, who is known for her passionate love songs as much as her club-ready dance anthems, has split from her longtime beau, Antonio de la Rúa, after nearly 11 years together.
</a> "We never had any problem with Poparic," says Anthony Brovarone, a communication officer for all five jails in Vaud canton. "He was supposed to be free in January 2014, less than six months from now. We had no reason to fear he would try to escape."
</a> The Wall Streeters have one compelling reason for opposing a speculation tax. They are battling against this idea out of an entirely reasonable concern that, once on the table, it will prove to be too attractive, and too sensible, for policymakers to resist.
</a> Mursi was Egypt's first freely elected leader, but during his one year in office he drew criticism for failing to revive the ailing economy, restore security or build institutions. The Muslim Brotherhood say they were repeatedly thwarted by remnants of Mubarak's old government and forces hostile to them.
</a> Turning to peace negotiations between Arabs and Israelis, Obama reiterated his support for a two-state solution and spoke more broadly about recent turmoil that has rocked the region, including in Libya, Egypt and Syria.
</a> Health officials in the eastern state of Bihar were due on Friday to release autopsy results for many of the 23 schoolchildren who died on Tuesday after vomiting and convulsing with agonizing stomach cramps.
</a> However, it may be easy to forget that the Surface has not exactly been a successful tablet thus far. In July it was revealed that Microsoft would be taking a $900 million write-off on its Surface RT inventory. In other words, the consumers aren't really fans.
</a> âI would strongly encourage those of you [councils] who have already signed contracts [with broadband providers] to arrange for the proposed coverage from your project to be published as soon as possible, and for those of you yet to sign contracts to incorporate it into your initial mobilisation activities,â she wrote.
</a> America is the story of many migrations – from the Scots-Irish migration to the Appalachian chain from northern Ireland and lowland Scotland back only a dozen years before the Revolutionary War to the migration that we've seen of Mexicans into the United States in large numbers from 1982 to 2007. These migrations, in most cases, were not predicted. They tended to last just one or two generations. And in many ways the America that we live in today and the America of history has been shaped by these migrations.
</a> "The vaccines, oncology and consumer operations that will bebundled together seem unlikely bed fellows," Citibank analystAndrew Baum said in a research note. He speculated thecomponents, all dependable sources of revenue, were groupedtogether to provide a "balanced" revenue base.
</a> In this latest Pew survey, researchers generally placed American Jews into two categories: those who say their religion is Jewish _ dubbed "Jews by religion" _ and those who say they are Jewish but say they have no particular religion, called "Jews of no religion." According to these categories, Pew estimated that the U.S. is home to 6.7 million Jews. The survey's authors also provided a wide range of higher and lower estimates using broader and narrower definitions of Jewish identity.
</a> The micro-blog highlighted the human drama that brought down the high-flying house of Bo. Testimony described the real estate and rental dispute with Heywood that upset Gu's relationship with the Briton. She said she felt Heywood was threatening Bo Guagua's life. "We were worried that Guagua would be kidnapped and killed in the USA," she said.
</a> "Fifteen-year-long hiatus periods are common" in both historical records and in computer models, the technical summary says. But scientists were caught out - in one computer model, 111 of 114 estimates over-stated recent temperature rises.
</a> A U.S. Army staff sergeant allegedly shot seven times by a comrade, psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Hasan, in a deadly 2009 shooting rampage at Ft. Hood, testified today that after being hit in the head and back, he played dead to avoid being killed.
</a> Amazon Prime subscribers also have access to a free library of e-books called the Kindle Lending Library, and though most of the books are free for a reason, there are a few quality selections to be found.
</a> The authorities appear set on ending weeks of unrest following the toppling of Mursi last month. But the Muslim Brotherhood is showing no signs of backing down. It is now calling for a week of protests starting today.
</a> Mr Donnell said that a lack of homes on the market to choose from will to remain an important factor in the market in the second half of the year. He said more sellers are likely to come to market, encouraged by signs of confidence returning to the housing market.
</a> In his prepared remarks, Dudley did not comment on when the Fed might start to reduce its $85 billion monthly asset purchase program, known as quantitative easing. Earlier this week he made waves saying the Fed needed to keep supporting the economy for now but still planned to reduce QE later this year.
</a> A later clause specifically outlines how agents and applicants shall not âprovide or assist any player in obtaining any substance prohibited under Major League Baseballâs Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.â
</a> âWeâre certainly hoping he stays,â Collins said. âNow is that a plan going in? I donât know. Weâve just got to hope heâs ready to show us he belongs here. The next three days weâll get a plan for where he is at, what we do and where we are.
</a> Bohannon wanted it to be convincing. The paper was to be submitted by a fake African researcher, and when his reviewers said the English might be a little too good to plausibly have come from a non-native English speaker, he used Google to translate his work into French and then back into English. That made the grammar just bad enough. The reviewers also made sure it was “boringly bad,” Bohannon wrote, its data and methods completely implausible.
</a> Still, if Mexico fails to keep up reform momentum throughout Pena Nieto's term, it could fall into the same trap as Brazil, where big reforms boosted the economy for several years but growth then stalled due to a lack of further progress.
</a> The most commonly cited obstacles that SMEs think are currently holding the City’s tech firms back include the cost of running the business (48 per cent), lack of available, suitably qualified staff (24 per cent) and a squeeze on high quality, affordable office space (25 per cent.)
</a> Is this the shape of things to come? The energy revolution, fuelled by shale, is already having profound consequences. In Saudi Arabia, for example, there is a growing realisation that the economy needs to be re-balanced. Excessive reliance on oil cannot last forever.
</a> CIBC had a right to match the terms of TD's deal, but said the deal was structured in a way that attempted to nullify that right. Last month, the banks said they were in talks for a compromise deal, although CIBC noted that if an agreement were not reached it retained its rights to exercise legal options.
</a> The two passengers killed were Chinese teenagers Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia. They had been sitting in the rear of the plane, where many of the most seriously injured passengers were seated, but their bodies were found on the tarmac.
</a> Next to the former powder blue salon storefront, a French bistro run by Food Network star Yoanne Magris joined the chain of business casualties â the all-too-aptly named Yo In Yo Out filed for bankruptcy three weeks ago.
</a> Nokia, once the global leader in mobile phones, arrived late to the smartphone race and has struggled to catch up with Apple and Samsung, who dominate the increasingly crowded market for large-screen smartphones, known as phablets.
</a> Body control also impresses. The A8 is now less liable to rear its bonnet under hard acceleration, and the car's body stays nice and flat in corners unless the suspension is in Comfort mode. Only the steering lets the handling down, feeling rather remote.
</a> "Advisers who knew what was going on with American viewedthis as a one-time opportunity to increase their book," saidDavid Boardman, a pilot who also runs Diablo InvestmentAdvisors, which manages about $11 million for about 10 clientsthrough index funds and exchange-traded funds.
</a> The extreme and punitive pornography laws of North Korea aside, the fate of mistresses to the powerful is seldom a good one. History is littered with stories of women who were courted by the rich and powerful, only to be discarded when they became inconvenient.
</a> Fox's position on legalizing drugs has evolved over timesince the days when he cooperated with U.S. efforts to tamp downproduction in Mexico during his 2000-2006 presidential term. Hehas been increasingly vocal in his opposition to currentpolicies, backing two prior efforts to legalize marijuana inMexico.
</a> "He was taken to A and E his entire life and suffered life-threatening attacks, maybe four or five times, desperately gasping for breath. We started to notice significant physical changes six months before his death. He gained a lot of weight and was growing quickly."
</a> Dudley said the timeline Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke spoke ofin June for scaling back the central bank's stimulus measures is"still very much intact," as long as the economy keepsimproving. He noted that the Fed chief did not specify that thefirst bond buying reduction would come at the Fed's Septembermeeting.
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</a> Two former English Defence League (EDL) leaders will not answer a charge of obstructing police after the Crown Prosecution Service said there was "insufficient evidence" against them to proceed with the case.
</a> It makes Texas the 13th U.S. state to pass a 20-week ban. The 20-week provision is based on disputed research suggesting fetuses feel pain at that point in a pregnancy. Current limits are 26 weeks in Texas.
</a> Although digging is not currently possible, the artifacts already excavated were recently analyzed further and more publications of the team's work will be appearing in the future. The archaeologists also plan to survey the surrounding area to get a sense of the size of the kingdom of Idu.
</a> Lawmakers familiar with last-minute negotiations over the government's proposal say it will try to amend the constitution to allow more private investment in oil, gas and electricity by eliminating the exclusivity currently granted to the public sector in those businesses.
</a> The SFO investigation relating to Saudi Arabia was discontinued in December 2006 in the interest of national security. BAE agreed a settlement in February 2010 with the US Department of Justice in relation to contracts with Saudi Arabia and central and eastern Europe, and with the SFO in relation to a Tanzania contract.
</a> Supermarket operator Arden Group Inc. (ARDNA, $133.19, $21.94, 19.72%) said its board has initiated a process to explore strategic options, which may include selling itself, a move that comes amid a wave of consolidation in the grocery business.
</a> Okay, so it's not exactly the most revealing men's magazine photo shoot, but you gotta admit Freida Pinto is ridiculously gorgeous. Gracing the cover of Esquire UK's April issue, Pinto discusses everything from nude scenes to her 'Slumdog Millionaire' breakout role ...
</a> "After the funeral, I do intend to speak about my dear daughter's life and death, and will do so in an open disclosure way with a trusted media source," she concluded. "Thank you for all those truly concerned and God bless."
</a> By any fair assessment, Libya's brave effort to forge a tolerant, relatively open society on the ashes of one of recent history's most venal and reckless dictatorships would be deemed a qualified success.
</a> Just how stupid are people? I accept people have different levels of intelligence. My knowledge of knowing what to say to beautiful women ZERO. However, you ever wonder why radio and television stations do an emergency broadcast, they are required to by law so the government knows they can use it in an emergency. The internet was created so NATO could talk to each other. It didnt become trendy until Windows. There are roughly 10 hubs all internet traffic travels through in the US. I worked at Bell Labs I made one set of boards for the US Military and another for Verizon and AT & T. I believe beyond all doubt the government can read anything it wants to on the internet. I have no reason to believe Snowdin is lying. 75% that number seems awfully low, I would expect 100% access to internet and zero to intranets, so unless their is 25% traffic on intranets I find this article hard to swallow.
</a> The Raiders acquired Flynn in April from the Seahawks for a 2014 fifth-round draft pick and a conditional pick in 2015. They reworked Flynn’s contract to give him $6.5 million in guaranteed money this season.
</a> I hate statistics that cover too broad a topic and then don’t offer a real explanation for their definitions. And then, they make serious implications based off a vague interpretation of those statistics.
</a> Now in their fifth year, the annual U.S.-Chinese talks, known as the Strategic and Economic Dialogue, will cover topics from U.S. concerns about North Korea's nuclear weapons and expanding military ties to climate change and access to Chinese financial markets.
</a> While apple juice from a supermarket contains 35 per cent sugar, more than the quantity of sugar in a can of Coke; while a ripe banana contains four teaspoonfuls of sugar. It must be kept in mind that sugar is sugar, and it makes little difference whether it is taken from a hand-picked fruit or extracted from beet or sugarcane in a factory.
</a> Soon we either enter a Universe where every Noun and its Qualifier needs a Capital, just to be on the Safe Side (as distinct from a safe side), or we need such a complex set of rules to decide where capitals are needed and where they aren't that we need a Capitalisation Czar to keep us on the straight and narrow.
</a> Efforts like this to control private investment have made inharder for Rousseff's government to attract private partners forother major projects such as high-speed rail, ports, highwaysand airports.
</a> Waldekranz is the public face of Tictail but is always careful to stress he is one of four founders, anxious perhaps to avoid future disputes such as those that engulfed Zuckerberg and his early Facebook collaborators. “In Sweden,” he says, “we prefer flat hierarchies.”
</a> It is not all about Chelsea and Mourinho today. Hull - or should that be the Hull City Tigers - return to the Premier League for their first time since their relegation in 2010. Steve Bruce also returns to a Barclays Premier League dug-out following his sacking from Sunderland in 2011.
</a> âYou can get hurt walking through the parking lot,â the veteran skipper said at Saturdayâs âState of the Oriolesâ address. âYou can get into a spell where youâre not swinging it well. Thatâs a lack of confidence in you and your abilities and your routine and things you do.
</a> Arcapita's former management team will now operate a newfirm, AIM Group Ltd, which will manage the disposal of formerArcapita assets while seeking new deals in the logistics,education and healthcare sectors.
</a> Attacks have spread to some of the few places left for public entertainment, turning Baghdad into a giant fortified prison of concrete blast walls, where once again few now dare to socialize in public.
</a> The One Mini remains physically unchanged too. It has a smaller, 4.3-inch display with a blue plastic band running around the edge, giving the phone a slight toylike aesthetic. It's powered by a dual-core processor which doesn't have the same high performance of its big brother, but has plenty of juice for essential tasks.
</a> Shooting continued hours after the initial assault as troopssurrounded the Westgate mall and police and soldiers combed thebuilding, hunting the attackers shop by shop. A police officerinside the building said the gunmen were barricaded inside aNakumatt supermarket, one of Kenya's biggest chains.
</a> Few if any regulators emerged from the wreckage of the crisis with clean records. Ms. Yellen, an economist who previously served on the Fed’s board in Washington and in the Clinton White House, didn’t have an extensive background in bank regulation, but made it a focus in San Francisco. She didn’t anticipate, she told the FCIC, that the bursting of the housing bubble that arose in 2005 and 2006 would lead to the havoc in the financial markets.
</a> "There's great value in pulling together data about users,"says Alibaba's Zeng. "We have a unique understanding of how toleverage the power of technology to really push economictransformation in China."
</a> I know, I know, all you iPhone and Mac heads think that there is nothing else outside of the world besides anything with an ‘i’ in front of its name, right? (Felix surely has his eyes trained on the gold iPhone 5s.)
</a> Jodi Arias, shown at her trial in Phoenix, was convicted of first-degree murder in the killing of boyfriend Travis Alexander. Prosecutors are deciding if they will stage a penalty-phase trial in pursuit of capital punishment.
</a> âOur mission is to bring Shakespeare to people in unique and surprising ways,â said Ross Williams, the artistic director at Shakespeare Exchange. âItâs a way of integrating his work into contemporary society by bringing it to places people would normally hang out.â
</a> Favre had a career resurgence at age 40 in Minnesota leading the Vikings to a 12-4 record in 2009. But a shoulder injury the following season ended his consecutive starts streak at 297. Favre said the 2010 injury helped him realize it was time to walk away for good.
</a> A public inquiry into the incident in 2011 concluded that former President Demetris Christofias bore a "serious, and very heavy personal responsibility" for the blast. However, as president he had immunity from prosecution.
</a> MPs were first paid in 1911, set at £400 a year - compared to an average industrial worker's wage of around £250 a year - so that the growing number of working class MPs would be able to afford to take their seats. Pay was cut between 1931 and 1935 because of the economic crisis. Pay was first raised in 1937, and again in 1946.
</a> Around 80 per cent of people who request euthanasia die at home and are killed by doctors on the grounds that they are suffering unbearable pain and are making an informed choice. The opinion of a second doctor is also required.
</a> As such, how could he do this to the national team, leaving the Premier League in a World Cup year? The answer is pretty simple: itâs hard for 30-yard-old footballers to say no to $32 million. Even if Dempsey isnât in a top-tier league, he will get paid like a top-tier player.
</a> It seems to me to be a breech of policy (not to mention common sense) to fire blindly through a closed door. Even if no one else was in the room, not hitting the target means a round going through walls and hitting people outside. Homes generally aren’t bullet-proof, and windows aren’t either. That was an utterly reckless and unprofessional thing to do.
</a> Yet on close inspection, the evidence suggests that the keysto success in the start-up world are not much different thanthose of many other elite professions. A prestigious degree, aproven track record and personal connections to power-brokersare at least as important as a great idea. Scrappy unknowns witha suitcase and a dream are the exceptions, not the rule.
</a> Not long after the picture-taking allegedly occurred,however, al-Liby and his family moved to Britain, where, in a raid on his apartment in Manchester in 2000, police found whatwas described as a military training manual for militants.
</a> The Commonwealth Fund found that higher-income people living in poor-performing states often fared worse than low-income people living in top-performing states. "The strong performance of leading states and the more positive experiences of low-income or less-educated populations in those states indicate having a low income does not have to mean worse care experiences or health," the report stated.
</a> The change in the predictions has led to UN's climate change's body holding a crisis meeting, and the the IPCC was due to report on the situation in October. A pre-summit meeting will be held later this month.
</a> We are at all-time highs in a lot of these names, and Ithink this earnings season is supporting that," said NatalieTrunow, chief investment officer of equities at CalvertInvestment Management, which has about $13 billion in assets.
</a> Mr Obama was chatting privately with Maina Kiai, special rapporteur on the rights offreedom to peaceful assembly, and said he hoped that Mr Kiai had quit smoking. The exchange was caught on camera and aired on CNN.
</a> Snowden fled to Hong Kong before his leaks to newspapersbecame public last month, and then went to Moscow, where he isbelieved to be holed up in the transit area of the Sheremetyevoairport, trying to find a country to give him sanctuary.
</a> The most immediate task for the South Korean managers is to inspect the state of production lines that have been out of operation for nearly five months, and to determine how quickly they can get them up and running again.
</a> The Justice Department had sued under the FinancialInstitutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act, a 1989 lawpassed after the savings and loan crisis which allows thegovernment to seek penalties for losses affecting federallyinsured financial institutions.
</a> This game instead will be remembered for some defense, and a host of mistakes and sloppy play â not exactly what Carroll or McCarthy were looking for with the regular season a little more than two weeks away.
</a> But a greater risk to the government could come from Letta's faction-ridden PD, many of whose members are already deeply unhappy with being in a coalition with their old enemy and may refuse to continue if he is found guilty.
</a> Hate to break it to these numbskulls, but that comes with the territory in any government and any issue. As a taxpayer in this country you get to vote, but you don’t get to choose what your taxes fund. E Pluribus Unum.
</a> Deep Impact deployed a probe that was intentionally run over by a comet dubbed Tempel 1. The impact shot material from the comet's surface into space where the spacecraft could better analyze it with its telescopes and onboard scientific instruments.
</a> Paramount installed Paul Thiefes, a member of the Nazi Party, as the boss of its German operations in 1937. His counterpart at MGM, Frits Strengholt, divorced his wife to appease the propaganda ministry.
</a> Shero was one of the first coaches to put his team through morning skates, now commonplace in hockey, and one of the first to study film. He was the first to hire a full-time assistant, and he also scouted teams overseas to learn and incorporate new systems and coaching philosophies.
</a> “Back in the 1970s, people were actually discussing the idea of leaving earth and building space stations for us to potentially live on one day,” Blomkamp said of his inspiration. “I like the idea of taking this idea and caking it with wealth and diamonds.”
</a> It achieves all this thanks to the use of two clutches: one which looks after the odd-number gears; and the other taking care of the even numbers. It is able to adapt to the driverâs demands by selecting a gear that delivers the correct amount of power when required.
</a> But what happens if prices rise or fall? That $5,000 bond is always going to pay $130 a year. But the price you actually pay for that bond can be higher or lower than that depending on demand for such bonds. If demand is high, and bonds are trading at a premium to their issue value (known as "par" value), you might have to bid $5,200 in order to purchase the bond. However, since the interest paid is on the face value of the bond, and not what you paid for it, you're still getting $130 a year. That means that your yield is actually figured by dividing $130 by the $5,200 that you paid, resulting in a 2.50 percent yield. The yield has dropped with the increase in price.
</a> Kate Upton burst onto the scene in a number of ad campaigns and magazine covers this past spring -- not to mention several memorably provocative videos. "It's like any job," she tells the July issue of GQ. "You find your strengths and play them up."
</a> In an August earnings call, Nestle Chief Financial OfficerWan Ling Martello said, "We do not disclose profit bybusinesses, but I will tell you that the Jenny Craig business -this year as well as last year - was very much below ourexpectations and below what they have been able to do in thelast few years."
</a> "We also have information that there have been many incidents like the one in August in Ghouta," Lavrov said, referring to the August 21 attack. "We will consider all this in the Security Council along with the report by the U.N. experts."
</a> Chrystia is it safe to assume you’ve never run a business? I own two little mom and pop shops with a total of 10 employees. Both reasonably profitable, both over 40 years old with current combined yearly revenues around $6 million. Rarely have we ever paid more than a few thousand dollars in federal corporate income tax.
</a> The board said the higher payouts were justified to retainHeins and ensure his interests are aligned with those ofshareholders, and to reward the executive for leading BlackBerrythrough a period of massive upheaval.
</a> The Department of Health wants the pay review bodies - which are due to make a recommendation on pay early next year - to defer the planned 1% pay rise until it has negotiated a move to seven-day working with unions.
</a> A key pillar of Steinbruck's campaign, in a nod to the left wing of the SPD which had doubts about selecting the former minister in Merkel's 2005-2009 'grand coalition' government to challenge her, has been to denounce what he calls the "dictatorship of financial markets".
</a> Touch ID, which was only introduced on the top-of-the-line iPhone 5S, lets users unlock their devices or make purchases on iTunes by simply pressing their finger on the home button. It uses a sapphire crystal sensor embedded in the button.
</a> A section of campground in Angeles National Forest outside Los Angeles has been closed for at least a week after the discovery of a squirrel infected with the bacteria responsible for causing plague, according to Los Angeles County public health officials in a statement released on July 25.
</a> Investors have favored companies like Yahoo and TripAdvisorthis year thanks to their expanding user bases and profit growththat eclipsed the broader market. The names "have been realleaders this year, making all-time highs, so they're the onesthat are the most vulnerable," said Selkin, who helps overseeabout $3 billion in assets.
</a> The recent accidents have put the government, industrialists and the global brands that use the factories under pressure to reform an industry that employs four million and generates 80 percent of Bangladesh's export earnings.
</a> Add in what promises to be a very friendly price tag (less than $100 American in Japan), and you have an irresistible microconsole, a device that can play bigtime games, still offer a wealth of less touted titles, and stream movies and NetFlix, too.
</a> Ending the sixteen song set with âBrand New Colonyâ was where the audience, at least from the floor general admission vantage point, where people were really swaying back and forth and again âbobbingâ their heads to the beats and sounds of the Gibbard and Lewis, especially, really were contagious with their energy on stage and making sure that everyone was feeling as energetic as they were up on stage was a hit and a great closing song.
</a> F-35 program officials said the inspector general's officeinitially planned to look at Pratt & Whitney, another UnitedTechnologies unit that builds the plane's engine under aseparate contract with the government, but later skipped thatpart of the assessment due to funding constraints.
</a> "We paint the areas that are predicted to be most active in red, and almost all of Oregon is painted red for August," said Don Smurthwaite, a fire center spokesman based in Boise. "The fire danger is real in Oregon."
</a> The agencies have also tried to use "quantum" cookies to track targets who are using Tor. Some cookies appear to persist after Tor sessions, the presentation notes, and the agencies are investigating if this can be developed into a working tracking system.
</a> The newly married couple and hundreds of protesters were later allowed into Gezi Park, where photographs were taken. But the crowd was soon again forced out of the park, apparently after it began to chant anti-government slogans.
</a> The Irish government now pays less than four percent to borrow for ten years and has successfully raised money on and off international money markets for the last eighteen months. It has decided not to issue more bonds this year as it has cash in hand and is even considering forgoing a new credit line from EU lenders that would provide funds in case of unexpected problems.
</a> The two depend on the oil sales and associated fees. A row over pipeline fees and disputed territory led to weeks of border skirmishes in April 2012, the worst violence since their messy split in 2011.
</a> Alexander Gunz, manager of the Helicon Fund at HeptagonCapital, is another fan of family firms, citing typically lowerdebt levels, their preference for conservative expansion andaccounting policies and longer-term strategic decision-making.
</a> "I have no one to blame but myself. I know that over the last year and a half I made some serious mistakes, both in the information I failed to share during my arbitration hearing and the comments I made to the press afterwards," Braun said. "I have disappointed the people closest to me -- the ones who fought for me because they truly believed me all along. I kept the truth from everyone. For a long time, I was in denial and convinced myself that I had not done anything wrong."
</a> The heavy recruitment meant she had no trouble fulfilling her dream of staying in Chicago and working in an underserved area with a largely Hispanic population. She'll also be able to pay off $160,000 in student loans through a federal program aimed at encouraging doctors to work in areas with physician shortages.
</a> Pakistan has been hosting Afghan refugees dating back to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan three decades ago. But many Pakistanis have become increasingly frustrated with the length of time the Afghans have stayed and would like them to leave.
</a> T. Rowe Price Group Inc, Highfields CapitalManagement, Pzena Investment Management and Yacktman AssetManagement have previously voiced opposition to the deal. T.Rowe Price, which owns roughly 4 percent of Dell's stock,reiterated its opposition on Thursday to the deal.
</a> Wearing a patch over her eye socket and with her blonde hair cropped close to the skull, De Villota thanked all those who had helped and supported her and said she now believed she had "a new opportunity to live at 100 percent".
</a> However, to Otero, cutting services is not acceptable. “For us, it really is just not an option [to cut services]. We have to figure out how to continue — even on a skeletal staff — with these operations because a lot of the clients that come to us are in dire straits,” she said.
</a> The company - once described by German Chancellor Angela Merkel as the "flagship" of her country's industrial sector - said after today's meeting that Mr Kaeser will start in his new role tomorrow.
</a> "Thank God, it happened, so now I have to just concentrate and finish strong, and try to help my new team now to win," Soriano said. "That's what I like to do, and everybody knows I like to play this game and I love it."
</a> Cryer, now 78, says Morecambe was the duo’s driving force.“He was the organiser, pulling everything together, and Ernie respected him for that. When it came to scripts, Ernie referred writers to Eric, who was a quick learner. He’d have every word and syllable locked in his mind early while dear Ern was still carrying the script around; he was slower but got there in the end."
</a> "It is tough, it is really tough, when you are still trying to regather yourself, or compose yourself after what we have been through, and the vultures are already circling," he told local broadcaster TV3.
</a> This actually seems a reasonable proposal and is no different to how healthcare operates in Canada and is infinitely better than a two tier system like that operating in America. I don't think a £200 levy would work. It wouldn't even cover a couple of hours of a doctor's time let alone anything that would require hospitalization!
</a> A 24-shot rally ended with a fabulous forehand winner from Djokovic, who moved 4-2 up, and he showed great athleticism to run away with the match against a fatigued del Potro, who is still searching for his first Masters title.
</a> Primark has consistently outperformed its high street rivals in recent years, benefiting from its position at the lower end of the market as under-inflation wage growth continues to pile pressure on consumers.
</a> High rollers account for about 70 percent of gamingrevenues, but the share of middle-class gamblers is growing at amuch faster rate and Macau's casinos are trying to diversifyentertainment options to attract more of these visitors.
</a> Davian insisted four full-time employees still worked for the fund but declined to name them or put them on the phone with a reporter. When told that he sounded like he was talking in an empty office, Davian responded that his colleagues was very busy trading and that there was no time for an interview.
</a> WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Upscale movie server company Kaleidescape July 23 debuted its latest high-end home theater experience, the Cinema One, this one with a markedly lower price point than other company players: $3,995.
</a> Now with dozens of proposals a year, Chevedden tracks his work on a document with codes. A typical entry, ESRX=WCjc=55â¢, signifies a proposal he landed on an Express Scripts Holding Co proxy to allow shareholders to take actions such as changing company bylaws by "written consent," rather having to hold a meeting. It won 55 percent of votes cast in May 2012.
</a> A friend of Jeterâs recently told me he thinks the Captain will exercise the option, returning with a sense of purpose next season. Public sentiment was largely with Jeter last time, but that probably wouldnât be the case if he engaged the Yankees in a fight. Besides, what team is offering a 39-year-old shortstop more than $9.5 million anyway?
</a> Banks hope for less duplicated regulation. "In derivatives,without an agreement ... banks will have to comply with bothU.S. and EU rules, which is costly," said KonstantinosKarountzos at the European Banking Federation.
</a> BEIJING/HONG KONG - China reiterated its opposition on Thursday to a European Union plan to limit airline carbon dioxide emissions and called for talks to resolve the issue a day after its major airlines refused to pay any carbon costs under the new law.
</a> The sorting office surprised me because we’ve been trained not only to obey such algorithms (whose products are barked at us everywhere, and are accompanied, on trains and buses, by computer-voices and ear-splitting bleeps), but to feel ashamed of our needs in the face of them. Why did I say nothing in that Essex hospital? Why were we so slow to act on the NHS outrages, visible to thousands of families?
</a> After murdering 10 other women during the early 1960s, the Strangler raped and murder 19-year-old Mary Sullivan in the middle of the afternoon in her Beacon Hill apartment in 1964, strangling her with her own stocking and leaving bodily fluids on her body and on a blanket he used to cover her dead body.
</a> Satellite TV provider Dish, which has been looking to teamup with a wireless network operator to make use of its wirelessspectrum, recently lost out to SoftBank Corp in abattle to buy No. 3 U.S. mobile operator Sprint.
</a> Ken Rhodes, Biogen Idec’s vice president of neurology research, said the collaboration was expected to “provide an in-depth portrait” of the pathophysiology of multiple sclerosis and motor neurone disease, while identifying “important new targets for potential therapies”.
</a> "Because Terra Firma will place further stakes (in DeutscheAnnington) in the medium term, the stock will stay underpressure," one Frankfurt-based institutional investor said,speaking on condition of anonymity.
</a> BP is the latest oil major to enter Morocco,announcing a deal with Kosmos Energy this week to take ashare in three offshore blocks. Drilling will begin next year. Britain's Cairn Energy said on Thursday it would shortlybegin drilling off the Moroccan coast.
</a> But last night a spokeswoman for the firm said the latest â¨accounts did not reflect the investment MJM had recently received from MAS Holdings, a Sri Lanka-based underwear manufacturer whose clients include some of the worldâs top labels.
</a> Huiyuan, once an acquisition target for The Coca-Cola Co, said that after an initial probe there was no evidencethat the company had used rotten fruit to make its juice,according to a statement on its website.
</a> Thousands had marched in Khartoum on Wednesday, torching cars, buildings and petrol stations. There was no sign of new unrest in the capital on Thursday but tension reigned amid tight security. Security forces patrolled in pickup trucks mounted with machine guns. Many shops and petrol stations were closed.
</a> "The Spectacular Now," out in U.S. theaters on Friday, was adapted from Tim Tharp's book of the same name by Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber, the writers behind the 2009 indie hit film "(500) Days of Summer."
</a> In a Sept. 19 photo, a stray dog looks out from its makeshift shelter in east Detroit. Thousands of strays are believed to live among the more than 30,000 vacant houses and abandoned buildings that dot Detroitâs 139 square miles, said Tom McPhee, a filmmaker and executive director of the Ann Arbor-based World Animal Awareness Society. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
</a> Wang Lijun had a conversation with Mr Bo about this and he quotes politician's reaction: "They used to be such good friends. How can it change overnight? I don't understand it. Kailai always used to say how good Neil and Devillers were and now she keeps saying how bad they are! I solved so many problems for them. How did it come to this?"
</a> Smoking is likely to kill you, or at least damage your health, which is something even nicotine-craving tobacco users may acknowledge. But cigarettes are a legal product, and besides, they provide a lot of tax revenue in Idaho and other states.
</a> In fact, Mejia had to consider it a victory just to take the hill for the first time this season. But he did not stop there, making it a triumphant return with seven scoreless innings in the Metsâ 11-0 rout.
</a> On the penultimate day of his trip to Brazil, Francis delivered a long address to the country's bishops in which he suggested elements of what could become a blueprint for stopping what he called an "exodus."
</a> "Growth in insurance is driven by increasing GDP per capita," says Clara Hughes, Senior Director in Fitch's Insurance team. "As populations become wealthier, they have more valuable possessions to insure and more wealth to invest in savings products. Government initiatives, such as the introduction of compulsory insurance or tax incentives to encourage saving, can also drive growth in insurance markets."
</a> Thereâs always been something distinctly backwards about the style of game director David Cage, and it continues here. In an era when most games have moved away from separate cutscenes, when the push has been toward greater player agency and stronger gamer freedom, Cage continues to prefer the restriction and limitation that defined Quanticâs last game, Heavy Rain.
</a> According to Bhat, how strong the backgrounds are of the gravitational waves are depends on three factors, one being how frequently the merging of supermassive black holes occurs. The second factor would be how massive the black holes are, and the third one has to do with how distant they are.
</a> It is why in praising the professionalism, the desire to win, the technical height of the United players he has already delivered his first, blunt dressing-down. It did not take long. And there have been others since.
</a> Given that reality, it's no surprise that Intel is aggressive with its hyperscale server strategy. "It's good to see Intel aggressive in this space," said Kleyn. However, Kleyn said ARM-based Moonshot systems will be launching "fairly quickly" and are up and running in HP's discovery centers for customers in Houston and Grenoble, France. "Customers have access to those systems," he said.
</a> He said Sanofi could also look at raising its stake inRegeneron to as much as 30 percent. Sanofi holds about 16percent of Regeneron and said in February it has the right toincrease this to a maximum 30 percent under its decade-longpartnership with Regeneron.
</a> Like most global companies, Twitter has always acknowledged that it must obey the laws of the countries in which it operates. At the same time, though, it had little physical presence internationally and thus could take a hands-off approach.
</a> McConnell in response to Reid called the matter anâabsolutely phony manufactured crisisâ aimed at permanentlydepriving the Senateâs minority party of any power. He also saidthe Perez and McCarthy nominations will probably overcomeobstructionist tactics if scheduled for a vote, as willCordrayâs, if the Senate completes negotiations on âreformsâto the financial board.
</a> Lopez was taken in by the clinic after giving birth and discharged the same day with prescriptions for medications and products that cost her about $30, she said. Health officials say she and her baby were in good health.
</a> Many people end up paying fees and penalties when they have to withdraw from retirement accounts early, Holcombe points out. So yes, save for retirement, but don’t forget to prioritize shorter-term savings accounts, too. If you’re an entrepreneur, you might want to consider investing in your business instead of your retirement account, he adds.
</a> Owned by the Ghisolfi family, it boasts among its customersCoca-Cola, Danone, Nestle and Cadbury Schweppes and is anexample of one of Italy's hidden strengths - companies thatthrive by focusing on technology, innovation and exports.
</a> "It gets us back to the lineup we played for most of the year," Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said. "We're comfortable enough. He really had to tell us he was comfortable he could make all of the plays. He had to have confidence in that."
</a> Rosetta Terry said authorities notified the family Tuesday that her granddaughter was one of the victims. She said Shirellda was last seen July 10, leaving a Cleveland elementary school where she had a summer job.
</a> Map your summer days and weeks so that you have plenty of quiet time built in, says Julie de Azevedo Hanks, author of The Burnout Cure, An Emotional Survival Guide for Overwhelmed Women. Intersperse higher-octane activities with lower-key ones. Leave time to wind down every night and limit caffeine, electronics, and distractions; focus on calming the noise inside and outside your body.
</a> Next, there’s a further and underestimated implication of this non-identity between the UK stock market and UK economy. This is that the centuries-long global outlook of British businessmen has resulted in a corporate sector that is remarkably global in constitution.
</a> A man signs a large birthday card on July 14, 2013 at Loftus Satdium in Pretoria for ailing former South African president Nelson Mandela's upcoming July 18 birthday, after a friendly football match between Pretoria's Supersport United and Manchester City, during an invitational in support of Mandela Day 2013.
</a> Baseball officials refused to make the deal and instead hit Rodriguez on Aug. 5 with an unprecedented 211-game suspension for his dealings with Anthony Bosch and his now-defunct Biogenesis anti-aging clinic. Twelve other players were suspended for 50 games for their roles in the Biogenesis doping scandal, while Ryan Braun of the Milwaukee Brewers was suspended for 65 games. The other players have accepted their suspensions: only Rodriguez has appealed.
</a> The Wolfpassing bell pays homage to Hitler for his 1938 annexation of Austria, a move supported back then by the vast majority of the nation's citizens. It describes Hitler as "the unifier and Fuehrer of all Germans" and says he freed the "Ostmark" â Nazi jargon for Austria â "from the yoke of suppression by foreign elements and brought it home into the Great-German Reich."
</a> Besides issuing findings, members of the review team are expected to reveal how they conducted the probe and whether they adhered to guidelines from the National Interagency Fire Center, which urges investigators not to publicly divulge causes of wildfire accidents.
</a> He told a conference on regulatory reform and enforcement that comparisons with the US over bribery are “misleading,” saying that it took more than 20 years for its Foreign Corrupt Practices Act to allow his American counterparts “to hit their stride” in this area.
</a> “He’s not going to come in with whatever computer he says he has and whatever information is on his hard drive and they’re not going to find a way to get access to it,” Major said. “It is not the nature of intelligence and certainly not the nature of Russian intelligence.”
</a> "California is essentially ungovernable in its present size," Mark Baird, a spokesman for the Jefferson Declaration Committee, said. "We lack the representation to address the problems that affect the North State."
</a> Support for iOS devices is interesting because Apple does not yet have an NFC-capable iPhone. Isis' announcement sparks speculation that the next iPhone will have NFC; however, near field communications don't have to be built into the phone. Incipio released an iPhone 5 case that enabled mobile payments on iOS earlier this year, so it could use a case or a sticker to provide aftermarket support for the iPhone NFC functions necessary for mobile payments.
</a> Tension soared when one of the animals charged a 31-year-old Spaniard, Diego Miralles, and tossed him on the ground with its horns for almost 30 seconds as fellow runners tried to pull it away by its tail. The man clung to one of the horns as screams were heard all around.
</a> Subsequent attempts by Bill Clinton and George W Bush to revive the process foundered on the deepening polarisation on both sides, with the Israeli electorate opting for a succession of Right-wing prime ministers, from Ariel Sharon to Mr Netanyahu, and the Palestinians increasingly falling under the sway of the Islamist militants of Hamas. And so long as Barack Obama appeared disinclined to invest much political capital in resolving the conflict, the stalemate looked set to continue, with all the adverse implications that would have for the region’s security.
</a> But a new potential wrinkle surfaced Saturday night when a whale was spotted in San Francisco Bay. Regatta director Ian Murray said helicopters were monitoring the racing area for sea life that could disrupt racing.
</a> But investment industry sources said the bids by bothPepper, which is leading a consortium that also features Bank ofAmerica Merrill Lynch, and Macquarie, are likely to be on thelow side and potentially be trumped by Westpac, Australia'ssecond-biggest bank by market capitalisation.
</a> The Stevensons abandoned an original wedding date of July 2014 after learning from doctors late last month that their son had two to three weeks to live. The couple wanted Logan to see them marry and to be part of family photos.
</a> The consensus is that human and robotics missions can be carefully planned together to provide the maximum value for the cost. Robotics can do preliminary reconnaissance at proposed site, collect samples from distant locations and return them to a central point for pickup, deliver payload packages for later use by astronauts, and continue to monitor the area after humans have left. GSCâs own robotics landers can actually place a second lander at maximum walking distance from a manned landing location, allowing humans to cover more ground, stay significantly longer, return two payloads, and come back after a long EVA to the unmanned lander. Humans can deploy as much equipment in a few days as robotic landers can do in months. Robots have returned less than a kg of material from the moon, while a manned mission can easily return over 50 kg. Most importantly, a well-trained human can take advantage of everything he sees as he moves on the surface. Although current photographic coverage is much better than that used for Apollo, astronauts will still notice things that weren't obvious from the photos. The ability to investigate an anomaly in real time is one of the most valuable capacities humans bring to space.
</a> Ortega choked back tears, wiped his eyes and needed a break as he tried to read aloud an email he sent to concert honcho Randy Phillips describing the King of Popâs appearance at a June 19, 2009, rehearsal.
</a> And 3.3% â 1 in 30 â had records. Thatâs a rate four times higher than whatâs found at gun shops. And when a buyer fails the check at a gun shop, he leaves emptyhanded and law enforcement is notified for potential perjury charges.
</a> As part of this, Deloitte used its recent audit of Vodafone’s annual accounts to trial a far more detailed version of the audit report it places within the annual report. “We felt – and Vodafone agreed – that we should give much bigger disclosure around the audit.
</a> “Humans are designed for a certain level of micronutrients, and huge doses may not be good,” Kristal said. “More micronutrients does not mean better health and sometimes means worse.”
</a> Then the journey became genuinely terrifying. We got to an Akha tribe village, and the only way on was down the river â through white-water rapids. We had no boats. No helmets. No life-jackets. The adults were to stand on bamboo rafts â which the locals were binding together on the beach in front of us â and steer through boulders using bamboo rods. Rucksacks would be tied to a bamboo tripod; Lyall and I could hold on too.
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</a> She added that the study ‘provides further evidence that a healthy lifestyle involving exercise slows down the risk of Alzheimer's disease'. It also offers a new direction for potential treatments.
</a> "The economy here has hit a downturn. We've had a lot of mining layoffs, which is really the only industry here," Gardner said. "It's just incredible the desperation that people have for health care."
</a> The SEC did not vote on Cohen in a previously scheduled closed-door session it held on Thursday. Instead, the commissioners discussed charging Cohen at 9 a.m. Friday morning, according to a person familiar with the commission's activities.
</a> Three months ago the military campaign was launched. But the Islamist militants have not been defeated - over the past month more than 160 people have been killed in attacks on boarding schools, army and police bases as well as a Christian-dominated area of Kano City. Other attacks go unreported. So what is the way forward?
</a> The latest U.S. data on Friday showed hedge funds and moneymanagers nearly doubled their net shorts in copper futures andoptions in the week to July 30, the biggest increase in bearishbets since late February.
</a> His brother said the former neighborhood watch volunteer was still processing the reality that he wouldn't serve prison time for the killing, which Zimmerman, 29, has maintained was an act of self-defense. A jury found him not guilty of second-degree murder late Saturday night and declined to convict him on a lesser charge of manslaughter.