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Fredericks: West Ham boost from Bournemouth drawby Paul Vegas25 days agoSend to a friendShare the loveRyan Fredericks says West Ham United have gained plenty of confidence from their 2-2 draw with Bournemouth on Saturday.The Hammers came back twice to steal a valuable away point which leaves in fourth place on the Premier League table.”Coming back like that gives us a lot of positive feelings,” Fredericks called the club’s website.”We’re a confident bunch anyway and we know we can go anywhere and pick up a result.”We didn’t panic when we went 2-1 down. Obviously it was frustrating to go behind, especially so early in the second half, but we knew we were going to get chances. “We have very good forward players who always create chances so we knew that as long as we didn’t concede a third we’d always have a chance of getting back in the game.”We’re a different beast this season. We don’t want to just be up there and think ‘it’s nice to be here’. We think we’re good enough to stay in and around these positions so we’re going to fight for every point, every goal and I think teams know that when they play against us it’s never going to be an easy game.” About the authorPaul VegasShare the loveHave your say
Story Highlights Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Justice, Carol Palmer, has hailed the dedicated work of members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), in tackling human trafficking in Jamaica.Mrs. Palmer, who is also Chair of the National Task Force Against Trafficking in Persons (NATFATIP), said members of the JCF Anti-Trafficking in Persons Unit have displayed a willingness to go above and beyond “in service to our fellowmen”, as the country tackles the heinous crime.“I applaud their work. I am so taken with the level of devotion that they display all the time,” she said.Mrs. Palmer was addressing a ceremony to hand over a bus to the Unit at the Ministry’s offices at 61 Constant Spring Road in St. Andrew on June 1. Donation of the 16-seater Toyota bus, valued at approximately $6 million, is intended to aid the Unit in transporting victims of trafficking to shelters.She noted that the Task Force is, in the meantime, working to set up an additional shelter for victims.“I am very happy to make this contribution to the Anti-TIP Unit, but so sad that it has come to this, that persons enslave each other for their own gain,” Mrs. Palmer said.The NATFATIP Chair, meanwhile, noted that Cabinet has given approval for a Bill to amend the Trafficking in Persons (Prevention, Suppression and Punishment) Act, to have a judge alone try human-trafficking offences.“Jury trial for this case is difficult because you have to appreciate what the victim has gone through. To sit and face the monsters who had them enslaved; it’s not easy,” she said.The 2016 Global Slavery Index estimated that in 2015, some 5,800 persons were trafficked in Jamaica. “I applaud their work. I am so taken with the level of devotion that they display all the time,” she said. The 2016 Global Slavery Index estimated that in 2015, some 5,800 persons were trafficked in Jamaica. Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Justice, Carol Palmer, has hailed the dedicated work of members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), in tackling human trafficking in Jamaica.
EDMONTON – Research suggests Tyrannosaurus rex and some of its close relatives were covered in tiny scales and not feathers as many scientists previously thought.An international team of researchers, including University of Alberta paleontologists, studied fossilized skin from massive carnivorous lizards known as tyrannosaurids.Their ancestors, which were about the size of wolves or leopards, were coated in feathery fuzz, but somewhere along the way their descendants seem to have lost that attribute, said paleontologist Scott Persons, who contributed to the study.“What we see here is actually evidence of feathers evolving and then being lost — or at least greatly reduced in terms of their number — in this one lineage of dinosaurs, which is strange,” he said.A completely separate branch of the dinosaur family tree included an uninterrupted line of feathered carnivores, including the Velociraptor, that are related to today’s birds.Persons’ interest was piqued when his U of A colleague and mentor, renowned paleontologist Philip Currie, showed him a skin sample from a specimen found in Alberta.A team of U of A researchers got to work, but soon got wind of another group studying a different skin fossil.“Rather than competing with each other in a rush to see who could be the first to publish on it, we all pooled our resources and, as a result, we have a really cool study that talks about skin in multiple species of tyrannosaurids, which is pretty gosh darn cool.”The combined team included researchers from Canada, the United States and Australia.It’s rare to find fossilized dinosaur skin, but advances in preparation techniques are making discoveries more common. Often, a researcher won’t even know there is skin attached to a fossil until after it’s taken back to the lab.The scientists can’t say for certain why feathers went by the wayside in tyrannosaurids, but Persons said he suspects it has to do with the animals’ size, as the bigger you are, the harder it is to stay cool.He notes elephants and rhinos today have little in the way of hair.“You’re better off not being out in the savannah in the hot sun while wearing a down jacket.”Because the skin specimens were relatively small, it’s impossible to say whether the dinosaurs were entirely featherless, or if they had isolated patches on their bodies, such as a crest atop their heads.To know for sure, Persons said paleontologists would need to find a tyrannosaurid that had been completely mummified.“They’re probably buried somewhere out there and it’s really just a matter of time before we get lucky enough and uncover one.”The paper is to be published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters this month.— By Lauren Krugel in Calgary
Sloan said that crews have been levelling out the property and preparing it for construction to begin on the new school’s foundation, with the goal of having the first concrete poured before the ground hardens up later in the fall.He explained that initial work has been proceeding at a faster pace than on the new Margaret ‘Ma’ Murray School on the City’s west side due to a number of factors, including better preparedness and different geological properties of the site.“We weren’t sure when we were going to get approval, so we had the plan on the shelf. I wouldn’t say this is ahead of the game, but this is our new reality in terms of making sure that we construct to schedule. ‘Make hay while the sun shines’ is the expression, and we had enough interesting experiences with weather on the ‘Ma’ Murray site that once we got the go-ahead we had the plan on the shelf for how to prep the site.”Sloan said that the land for the new school differs in several aspects from that of ‘Ma’ Murray including in ground slope and composition, which makes it easier to prepare for laying the building’s foundation.The provincial government announced on June 28th that it is providing up to $30.8 million to build the school, while the School District will contribute $300,000. Full-scale construction is set to begin next summer, with the school scheduled to open in fall 2021, with 505 spaces for students in Kindergarten through Grade 6. FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. – School District #60 says that site preparation work has begun on a new elementary school on the northeast side of Fort St. John, less than two months after the provincial government announced funding for the project.SD60 Superintendent Dave Sloan said that construction crews began preparation work at the site of the new school, which is located across 112th Avenue from the Fort St. John Hospital, less than a week ago.The School District posted photos of the construction work on its Facebook page on Sunday.
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) filed a supplementary chargesheet against former Haryana chief minister O P Chautala in connection with a money-laundering case on Thursday.The agency mentioned in the chargesheet that immovable assets worth Rs 3.68 crore were attached by it on April 13 in relation to four properties in Delhi, Panchkula and Sirsa. It said the investigation conducted so far under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) had revealed that Chautala laundered the disproportionate assets by depositing illegal cash in the bank accounts of his and his family members. Also Read – Uddhav bats for ‘Sena CM’The ED said this was done to avoid the back trail of money, merge the illegal cash with genuine income and show it as untainted. This laundered money was further used to purchase new properties or carry out construction on the already acquired properties. The chargesheet was filed before special judge Kamini Lau, who posted the matter for consideration on May 16. Referring to Chautala’s affidavits filed before the 2005 and 2009 Haryana Assembly polls, the agency said he had disclosed his assets to publicly Also Read – Farooq demands unconditional release of all detainees in J&Kproject the tainted properties as untainted. “During the period between May 24, 1993 and May 5, 2006, O P Chautala, while functioning as a public servant (the CM of Haryana), allegedly acquired assets disproportionate to his income to the tune of Rs 6,09,79,026. The value of the disproportionate assets acquired by O P Chautala is in the form of various movable and immovable properties which constitutes ‘proceeds of crime’ in this case. “The calculation of these accumulated disproportionate assets of Chautala was based on oral and documentary evidence collected by the CBI during investigation and included all sources of income and expenses. Chautala had invested these disproportionately acquired assets mainly in the following properties…,” the chargesheet said.
The United States kicks off its 2014 World Cup campaign on Monday against Ghana, the team that eliminated the Stars and Stripes from the 2010 tournament in the round of 16. That’s the must-watch game in the U.S. But for most of the rest of the world, it’s Germany versus Portugal.See our World Cup interactive for the latest probabilities. — Allison McCannIN DEPTHSo what’s changed for Ghana and the U.S. since they last faced each other on this stage?America’s lineup has been transformed in the four years since 2010’s disappointment. Only four of the U.S. starting 11 from the loss to Ghana — goalkeeper Tim Howard, midfielders Michael Bradley and Clint Dempsey, and striker Jozy Altidore — will be in coach Jürgen Klinsmann’s opening lineup Monday. (The most notable absence is Landon Donovan, though central defender Carlos Bocanegra was another useful veteran who saw his role with Team USA phased out in recent years.)Klinsmann made clear his preference for a fresh group during the selection process, and — Donovan’s ouster aside — that’s not a bad thing. New faces since 2010, including Fabian Johnson and Geoff Cameron, have acquitted themselves reasonably well for clubs in Europe, a factor Klinsmann values highly. Graham Zusi, Brad Davis and Matt Besler are playing effectively in MLS. The cupboard isn’t quite as bare as is widely believed, though the U.S. is still far from elite in the talent department.As for Ghana, it’s turned over six of its eleven starting slots from four years ago — although most of its best players from 2010 are back, including jack-of-all-trades Kwadwo Asamoah, midfielders Andre Ayew, Kevin-Prince Boateng and Michael Essien, and striker Asamoah Gyan. The Black Stars have also promoted the talented two-way midfielder Sulley Muntari into a regular starting role since their last World Cup meeting with the United States. (Needless to say, midfield is the strength of Ghana’s roster.)Most members of that group are plying their trade in top European leagues, so Ghana’s high-end talent is probably superior to that of the United States. But Ghana’s edge in talent hasn’t always translated in international play. It ranked just 38th in the pre-World Cup Elo Ratings, while the Americans ranked 13th.When ESPN’s Soccer Power Index (SPI) ranks teams, it attempts to combine these two elements — observed results and underlying talent — into a single rating for a given national team. And the current SPI rankings say the United States and Ghana are in a dead heat. The U.S. ranks 22nd in the world with a 77.53 SPI — meaning the Americans would compile 77.53 percent of the possible points if they played a round robin against every other national team in the world. Ghana ranks 25th, with an SPI of 77.37. That’s the smallest SPI margin between any two teams that will face each other in the group stage of this World Cup.As of Sunday, the sportsbook Bovada has Ghana as a slim favorite over the U.S., 35.8 percent to 34.5 percent (with a 29.7 percent chance of a draw). The FiveThirtyEight match projection system flips those odds around, giving the United States a very slight edge: 37.5 percent to 33 percent. Whatever happens, U.S.-Ghana should be one of the most evenly matched showdowns of the entire World Cup.YesterdayArgentina’s 2-1 win over Bosnia-Herzegovina on Sunday served notice to the casual soccer fan: One individual moment of brilliance can overshadow an average game.In the first 64 minutes of the match, Argentina’s Lionel Messi was the game’s most active participant in the attacking third, but the three chances he created didn’t translate into a single shot on goal. And he had turned the ball over a game-high three times.In the 65th minute, Messi reminded the Maracana how quickly he can change a game. He made a run from the midfield, past Bosnian midfielder Muhamed Besic, and played a quick 1-2 ball to teammate Gonzalo Higuain. Messi’s short-burst quickness created separation from Besic, and he hesitated slightly before the shot, driving another Bosnian player into Besic and out of position.Messi then banked a left-footed shot off the post for the eventual game-winning goal, Argentina’s first shot on goal of the match and only the second goal of Messi’s World Cup career. From his first touch in midfield to the ball crossing the goal line, the entire sequence took just over 9.5 seconds and erased the match’s first 64 minutes from spectators’ memory.That was all it took; the night belonged to Messi, whose production under Alejandro Sabella has been outstanding. Messi has 22 goals in 26 international games since Sabella became Argentina’s manager in September 2011, compared with 17 goals in 61 matches under all other managers. — John Parolin, senior stats analyst, ESPNOFF THE PITCHIf Ghana defeats the United States on Monday, Americans shouldn’t be too quick to feel ill-disposed toward the West African nation. The United States imports two bread-and-butter items from Ghana (though they are neither bread nor butter): oil and chocolate. In 2011, just more than 44 percent of Ghanaian exports to the United States was oil (crude and refined) and roughly 42 percent was chocolate (cocoa beans, chocolate, cocoa powder, cocoa paste and cocoa butter). That’s $374,624,626 in chocolate.Ghana also sent $7,016,768 in fake hair to the U.S. Thanks, Ghana!What does the U.S. send to Ghana? Cars — worth about $303 million in 2011. — Micah CohenFurther ReadingCtrl + ← The World Cup, the World Cup And the World CupHow Soccer Explains the Sports Page
With No. 7 Indiana coming to town, the Ohio State men’s soccer team looked to take down another Big Ten foe at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium.Coming off a dominant 3-0 win over Oakland on Tuesday, the Buckeyes looked to ride momentum in hopes of improving their conference record of 2-3.OSU redshirt freshman goalkeeper Parker Siegfried (1) prepares to return the ball to midfield during the Buckeye’s game against Valparaiso on Sept. 21 at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium. The Buckeyes won 4-1. Credit: Janaya Greene | Lantern PhotographerOhio State and Indiana played to a 2-2 draw on Saturday afternoon, with neither team able to find a game-winner through two overtime periods.“It could have gone either way,” OSU coach John Bluem said. “Earlier in the year we lost three games in sudden-death overtime. I think our guys were determined not to let that happen again.”The Buckeyes opened up the scoring early in the first period.In the 5th minute of play, junior forward Nate Kohl secured the ball in the box after a failed clearing attempt by the Indiana goalkeeper. Kohl deflected the ball off his chest then slid down to redirect it into the back of the net, giving the Buckeyes a 1-0 lead.For Kohl, it was his team-high fifth goal of the season.Indiana netted an equalizer in the 18th minute with a header by sophomore midfielder Jeremiah Gutjahr.However, it did not take long for the Buckeyes to answer back.In the 20th minute, Kohl worked a ball down the sideline. He slotted a pass through the middle in between a couple Hoosier defenders, finding senior midfielder Ben Fitzpatrick, who used a good first touch to get around his defender. He then fired it into the back of the net from 12 yards out, putting OSU back on top 2-1.“Me and Ben have worked on and off the ball together pretty well,” Kohl said. “I know how he plays and he knows how I play so it just keeps getting better. Its sad it took until the end of the season to start working, but I guess it’s as good a time as any.”Just as it seemed like the Buckeyes had the game in the bag, Indiana upped the tempo and started applying pressure deep in the offensive zone.With just seven minutes remaining in regulation, senior defender Billy McConnell deflected an Indiana shot inside the box that rolled just out of reach of OSU redshirt freshman goalkeeper Parker Siegfried to tie the game up at two.Neither of the two teams had many scoring opportunities in the two overtime periods, as the game ended in a tie.“When you let up an equalizing goal that late, your team could fold,” Bluem said. “For those last 27 minutes, our guys strapped them back up and fought hard to not allow that winning goal.”The Hoosiers outshot OSU 14-5, including an 8-1 advantage in the second period. Siegfried made five saves.The two teams seemed to have some bad blood, as things got chippy as time went on. Indiana accumulated a staggering 28 for calls, including four yellow cards for Indiana. OSU amassed 12 total fouls.“They were getting a little upset that they are the No. 7 team in the country and we were putting the pressure on them and taking the wind out of them,” Kohl said. “Things got a little chippy, but nothing we couldn’t handle.”Bluem said he was very proud of how his team played despite missing a few of their key guys to injuries.“We have a lot of talent sitting on our bench that can’t play,” Bluem said. “Yaw (Amankwa) couldn’t play today. Danny (Jensen) is out. (Marcus) McCrary is out. The guys that are being called upon in their place are really doing a great job.”Next up for the now 4-9-1 Buckeyes is a road contest against No. 4 Louisville on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.
The Buckeye quarterback battle has dominated talk at the water cooler, but the biggest concern heading into spring might have been the lack of depth at wide receiver. With DeVier Posey suspended for the first five games of the season and the graduation of Dane Sanzenbacher, the Buckeyes lost virtually all meaningful experience at the position. The Buckeyes have a collection of young players who hope to fill the void, but their performances in the early parts of the spring were far from encouraging. “We got young guys at receiver and I thought they really came along this spring,” coach Jim Tressel said after the Spring Game on Saturday. “I think after about three practices we were thinking, ‘Oh my gosh, we might be in three (tight ends), a fullback and a tailback.’” But Posey took it upon himself to bring the younger guys along. “I think for me the biggest thing to get those guys to understand as far as leading by example is practicing hard every single day,” Posey said. “I want them to see how passionate I play, how the game is supposed to be played and how fast the game is supposed to be played so that they can learn from that.” Posey said the receivers needed some help getting accustomed to college football and the rigors of being a student-athlete. “They had some rough days,” Posey said. “They had some days they didn’t want to play football anymore, and they had some days where they looked like All-Americans and I felt like that was key to get those guys on a straight line and keep them consistent.” Posey’s example seemed to make a big difference. During the first two jersey scrimmages, Posey was the only receiver to reach the end zone, but Saturday’s Spring Game saw four new receivers cross the goal line. At 6-foot-5, 228 pounds, redshirt freshman T.Y. Williams is an imposing physical target. He’s had issues catching the ball in his brief time at Ohio State, but he led the team in receiving yards Saturday with three receptions for 83 yards, including a 68-yard touchdown catch from quarterback Taylor Graham. Sophomore Corey “Philly” Brown is the only receiver with legitimate game experience. Brown had eight receptions for 105 yards and a touchdown last year and is the leading candidate to replace Posey as the top wide receiver. He hauled in a 15-yard touchdown pass from Braxton Miller on Saturday. Tressel seemed prophetic after calling redshirt freshman Verlon Reed the “dark horse” before the Spring Game. Reed caught Saturday’s first touchdown pass, a 17-yard strike from Kenny Guiton. A quarterback in high school, Reed has caught the attention of his teammates with his play. “I think he’s stepped up,” offensive lineman Mike Brewster said. “I think he’s started to make a name for himself on the team.” Ryan Ross also caught a touchdown from Joe Bauserman. “I felt like a proud dad today watching three of them score touchdowns and making big plays,” Posey said. “To me, that shows their growth and that shows their maturity.” Posey said the success for the young receivers in the spring game will help their progression through the summer and fall camps. “It’s definitely a confidence booster,” Posey said of the receivers’ touchdowns. “I think that was Corey’s second time scoring at Ohio Stadium and it was Tyrone and Verlon’s first time. They’re happy, man, and I’m really excited for those guys.” But the young group still has a ways to go. Most of the receivers’ success came when the first-team defense watched from the sidelines. “(The receivers) need to have tremendous progress between now and September,” Tressel said. “But I think for all of our guys, receivers especially, with the youth of them, this spring was well-served.” Recruits Devin Smith and Evan Spencer will both join the receiver battle this summer and hope to help the offense deal with Posey’s absence. Posey, quarterback Terrelle Pryor, offensive lineman Mike Adams, running back Dan Herron and defensive lineman Solomon Thomas are suspended for the first five games of the 2011 season for selling memorabilia and receiving improper benefits. Tressel will join them for failing to report their violations. OSU has until July 5 to respond to the NCAA’s questions and will meet with the Committee on Infractions on Aug. 12.
Ohio State football won’t play its annual game against Michigan until Nov. 24 , but there’s a rivalry game this Saturday to tide the Buckeyes over. Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema labeled this weekend’s matchup with the Buckeyes as a rivalry game Tuesday at the weekly Big Ten football coaches teleconference. “It’s a big one,” Bielema said. Last year, OSU upset then-No. 12 Wisconsin in a game that Bielema called “heartbreaking.” The year before, Wisconsin gave a then-No.1 OSU squad its only loss of the season. Dating back to 2005, either Wisconsin or OSU has won at least a share of the Big Ten conference title. “What makes a good rivalry is when two good teams play significant games,” said first-year OSU coach Urban Meyer. “Over the past decade, certainly in recent history, these two teams have been near the top of the Big Ten. That’s made this a very interesting rivalry.” The current landscape of the Big Ten conference has allowed the OSU-Wisconsin rivalry to blossom. The Buckeyes and Badgers are both members of the Leaders Division, guaranteeing a meeting between the programs every year. Meyer said he has no doubt that Wisconsin will always compete for the division championship, making the OSU and Wisconsin game a pivotal one in determining the Leaders Division champion for years to come. That will be the case this weekend; a win against Wisconsin, and OSU will be crowned as king of the Leaders Division. Badgers not holding back Because OSU and Penn State are ineligible from postseason play, Wisconsin secured a spot in the Big Ten Championship game last weekend with a win against Indiana . But that doesn’t mean the Badgers will hold back this weekend against the Buckeyes. “Our goal year in and year out is to win our division,” Bielema said. “Obviously, we have to beat Ohio State for that to happen this year.” Nearly every year in the NFL, teams will rest their starters during the final weeks of the regular season once their playoff destinies are finalized. Bielema said, however, that the thought of benching his key players until the Big Ten Championship Game on Dec. 1 hadn’t even crossed his mind. “We would probably have a mutiny if I tried to take anyone out of the game,” Bielema said. “This is a chance to play the team that’s No. 1 in our division. I want to win in the worst way because Ohio State has set the standard for winning in this league.” Although the goal is to beat the Buckeyes, the Wisconsin coach said his team doesn’t need to win the division outright to legitimize their inevitable spot in the conference championship game. “We’re going to play the schedule that’s laid out,” Bielema said. “All we do is play the schedule that’s in front of us and live with the results.”
Manchester United can still reach another level ahead of Sunday’s Premier League showdown against rivals Liverpool, warns Ashley Young.The Red Devils are in an incredible run of form at the moment with 11 wins in 13 matches ever since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer came in to replace Jose Mourinho as manager on an interim basis.The Norwegian’s impact at Old Trafford has made him a strong favourite to land the managerial role on a permanent basis at the end of the season, despite Tottenham’s Mauricio Pochettino and Juventus’ Massimiliano Allegri being linked with the role.On the back of suffering his first defeat in charge of United last week in a 2-0 Champions League loss to Paris Saint-Germain, Solskjaer bounced back superbly from the setback by leading his old club to a 2-0 FA Cup victory at Chelsea on Monday.But full-back Young thinks United still have something left in the tank for Liverpool this Sunday.“I think we had another gear to go,” said Young, according to ESPN.“It was very good to get the win away [at Chelsea] and the way we did it.Liverpool legend Nicol slams Harry Maguire’s Man United form Andrew Smyth – September 14, 2019 Steve Nicol believes Harry Maguire has made some “horrendous mistakes” recently, and has failed to find his best form since joining Manchester United.“It gives us all massive belief, obviously you will get confidence from winning games and that’s exactly what we have done.“We beat Spurs away, and Arsenal away and now Chelsea away.“Liverpool is at the weekend and we will build up to that this week and concentrate on that when it comes about.”After progressing to the quarter-finals of the FA Cup, Solskjaer’s men will take a trip to Molineux on March 16 to take on the high-flying Wolves for a spot in the last four of the competition.“I was surprised we didn’t get [Manchester] City,” Young said.“That’s what we were looking for but you have to beat every team in the competition and that’s what we’ll do go down there [to Wolves] to beat them and get through to the semifinal.”The Premier League match between United and Liverpool at Old Trafford will begin at 3:05 PM (CET) this Sunday.LONDON, ENGLAND – FEBRUARY 18: Paul Pogba of Manchester United (kneeling) celebrates with team mates as he scores his team’s second goal during the FA Cup Fifth Round match between Chelsea and Manchester United at Stamford Bridge on February 18, 2019 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Michael Regan/Getty Images)
Facebook Twitter Google+LinkedInPinterestWhatsApp Related Items: Facebook Twitter Google+LinkedInPinterestWhatsAppProvidenciales, TCI, July 8, 2016 – The Ministry of Education and the nation mourns today the passing of iconic educator, Louise Thomas. Thomas had recently taken up post at the Enid Capron Primary School and died due to illness, we are told, at hospital in The Bahamas this morning.
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See It $299 at Amazon The Cheapskate 15 Photos Share your voice Sarah Tew/CNET Lenovo 130-15AST 15.6-inch laptop: $210 (save $90) Boost Mobile Read Lenovo Smart Clock review The MISR instrument, also on Terra 🛰, saw the large “fireball” — the term used for exceptionally bright meteors ☄ that are visible over a wide area — as it exploded 💥 about 16 miles above the Bering Sea, far enough way to pose no threat. pic.twitter.com/lyjyZKBZOm— NASA Earth (@NASAEarth) March 22, 2019 TVs Speakers Mobile Accessories Cameras Laptops Automobiles Smart Speakers & Displays Turo See It Read Google Home Hub review Tags See at Turo Enlarge ImageNASA’s Terra satellite caught sight of the fireball on December 18, 2018. NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL-Caltech, MISR Team A large meteoroid exploded over the Bering Sea on December 18, releasing an estimated 173 kilotons of energy, and almost no one noticed thanks to its remote location. On Friday, NASA shared images captured by its Earth-watching Terra satellite showing a view of the massive fireball in action. The image shows the meteor’s smoky path over the sea. It looks like a dark smudge across the clouds. NASA also released a GIF. “The orange-tinted cloud that the fireball left behind by super-heating the air it passed through can be seen below and to the right of the GIF’s center,” says NASA. Other Labor Day sales you should check out Best Buy: In addition to some pretty solid MacBook deals that have been running for about a week already, Best Buy is offering up to 40% off major appliances like washers, dryers and stoves. There are also gift cards available with the purchase of select appliances. See it at Best BuyDell: Through Aug. 28, Dell is offering an extra 12% off various laptops, desktops and electronics. And check back starting Aug. 29 for a big batch of Labor Day doorbusters. See it at DellGlassesUSA: Aug. 29 – Sept. 3 only, you can save 65% on all frames with promo code labor65. See it at GlassesUSALenovo: The tech company is offering a large assortment of deals and doorbusters through Labor Day, with the promise of up to 56% off certain items — including, at this writing, the IdeaPad 730S laptop for $700 (save $300).See it at LenovoLensabl: Want to keep the frames you already love and paid for? Lensabl lets you mail them in for new lenses, based on your prescription. From now through Sept. 2 only, you can save 20% on the blue light-blocking lens option with promo code BLOCKBLUE. See it at LensablSears: Between now and Sept. 7, you can save up to 40% on appliances (plus an additional 10% if you shop online), up to 60% on mattresses, up to 50% on Craftsman products and more. The store is also offering some fairly hefty cashback bonuses. See it at SearsNote: This post was published previously and is continuously updated with new information.CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on tech products and much more. For the latest deals and updates, follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page, and find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. What’s cooler: A snapshot of a firework exploding in front of you, or full 360-degree video of all the fireworks and all the reactions to seeing them? Oooh, ahhh, indeed. At $250, the compact Rylo dual-lens camera is selling for its lowest price yet. And for an extra $50, you can get the bundle that includes the waterproof housing.This deal runs through Sept. 3; it usually costs $500. DJI’s answer to GoPro’s action cameras is rugged little model that’s shockproof, dustproof and waterproof down to 11 meters. It normally runs $350, but this deal drops it to $261 when you apply promo code 19LABOR10 at checkout. Read the AirPods review Amazon Best Buy Post a comment $261 at Daily Steals via Google Express Formerly known as the Google Home Hub, Google’s Nest Hub packs a wealth of Google Assistant goodness into a 7-inch screen. At $59, this is within a buck of the best price we’ve seen. It lists for $129 and sells elsewhere in the $89-to-$99 range.This is one item of many available as part of eBay’s Labor Day Sale (which, at this writing, doesn’t specifically mention Labor Day, but that’s how it was pitched to us). $520 at HP CNET may get a commission from retail offers. $999 Share your voice Mentioned Above Apple iPhone XS (64GB, space gray) $59 at eBay 0 Tidal 3-month family subscription: $5.99 (save $54) Sarah Tew/CNET Google Nest Hub: $59 (save $70) Review • iPhone XS review, updated: A few luxury upgrades over the XR 7 Though not technically a Labor Day sale, it’s happening during Labor Day sale season — and it’s too good not to share. Nationwide Distributors, via Google Express, has just about the best AirPods deal we’ve seen (when you apply promo code ZBEDWZ at checkout). This is for the second-gen AirPods with the wireless charging case. Can’t imagine these will last long at this price, so if you’re interested, act fast. Angela Lang/CNET Sarah Tew/CNET $999 Read the Rylo camera preview NASA Space,I’m shocked — shocked! — to learn that stores are turning Labor Day into an excuse to sell stuff. Wait — no, I’m not. As much as I respect the original intent of the holiday (which became official back in 1894), to most of us, it’s just a bonus day off — one that’s blissfully tacked onto a weekend. So, yeah, stores; go ahead, run your sales. I’m listening. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Labor Day doesn’t bring out bargains to compete with the likes of Black Friday (which will be here before you know it), but there are definitely some sales worth your time.For example:We’ve rounded up the best Labor Day mattress deals.We’ve also gathered the best Labor Day laptop deals at Best Buy.The 2019 Vizio P Series Quantum is back under $999.Be sure to check out Amazon’s roughly three dozen Labor Day deals on TVs and audio. Google Express is having a big sale as well, one that includes deals on game consoles, AirPods, iPhones, laptops and more.Below I’ve rounded up a handful of individual items I consider to be the cream of the crop, followed by a handy reference guide to other Labor Day sales. Keep in mind, of course, that products may sell out at any time, even if the sale itself is still running. Note that CNET may get a share of revenue from the sale of the products featured on this page. $999 See at Amazon Rylo $210 at Best Buy Spotify and most other streaming services rely on compressed audio, which robs the listener of full fidelity. Enter Tidal, the only “major” service that delivers lossless audio — meaning at least on par with CD quality, if not better. Want to see (er, hear) the difference for yourself? Grab this excellent extended trial while you can. It’s just $6 for three months, and it’s good for up to six listeners. Apple AirPods with Wireless Charging Case: $155 (save $45) Read DJI Osmo Action preview Turo is kind of like Uber meets Airbnb: You borrow someone’s car, but you do all the driving. I’ve used it many times and found it a great alternative to traditional car-rental services — in part because you get to choose exactly the vehicle you want (not just, say, “midsize”) and in part because you can often do pickup and dropoff right outside baggage claim.Between now and Sept. 1, the first 300 people to check out can get $30 off any Turo rental with promo code LDW30. Sarah Tew/CNET Chris Monroe/CNET Comments Tags Turo: Save $30 on any car rental $90 at Daily Steals via Google Express Free Echo Dot with an Insignia or Toshiba TV (save $50)
Photos of the Week August 30, 2019 Share This! Share This! Share This! TagsAmnesty International King Salman male guardianship Quran Saudi Arabia Saudi women Saudi women’s rights,You may also like By: The Associated Press News Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn ReddIt Email Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn ReddIt Email,About the authorView All Posts The Associated Press,Load Comments,‘Skin’ filmmaker shares story of real-life racism and the road to redempti … Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn ReddIt Email Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn ReddIt Email Instagram apostasy stirs controversy over Christian ‘influencers’ August 30, 2019 By: The Associated Press News • Photos of the Week Anti-extremism program won’t stop hate, say Muslims who’ve seen its flaws August 30, 2019 Share This! News Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn ReddIt Email,DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia on Friday (Aug. 2) published new laws that loosen restrictions on women by allowing all citizens — women and men alike — to apply for a passport and travel freely, ending a long-standing guardianship policy that had controlled women’s freedom of movement.The new laws, a potential game-changer for Saudi women’s rights, are to go into effect by the end of the month.The kingdom’s legal system has long been criticized because it treated adult women as minors, requiring they have a man’s consent to obtain a passport or travel abroad. Often a woman’s male guardian is her father or husband, and in some cases a woman’s son.The changes were widely celebrated by Saudis on Twitter, with many posting memes showing people dashing to the airport with luggage and others hailing the 33-year-old crown prince believed to be the force behind these moves. But the changes also drew backlash from conservatives, who posted clips of senior Saudi clerics in past years arguing in favor of guardianship laws.Other changes issued in the decrees allow women to register a marriage, divorce or a child’s birth, and obtain official family documents, which could ease hurdles women faced in obtaining a national identity card and enrolling their children in school.Women are now also allowed to be legal guardians of their children, a right previously held only by men.Still in place, however, are rules that require male consent for a woman to leave prison, exit a domestic abuse shelter or marry. Women, unlike men, still cannot pass on citizenship to their children and cannot provide consent for their children to marry.Under the kingdom’s guardianship system, women essentially relied on the “good will” and whims of male relatives to determine the course of their lives. There were cases, for example, of young Saudi women whose parents are divorced, but whose father is the legal guardian, being unable to accept scholarships to study abroad because they did not have permission to travel.Amnesty International said Friday a lot remains to be done for women’s rights in Saudi Arabia but that the new laws could ease the guardianship system. Guardianship laws have “been a stifling system in the daily lives of women in Saudi Arabia,” said Lynn Malouf, Mideast’s research director at Amnesty.“These reforms really are a testament to the work of the brave activism and the suffering and the ordeals” Saudi women and men fought for in their calls for reform, she added.Saudi women fleeing domestic abuse and the guardianship system occasionally drew international attention to their plight, as 18-year-old Rahaf al-Qunun did before Canada granted her asylum. The stories of runaway women have created a flurry of negative headlines for the kingdom.To leave the country, some Saudi women say they had to hack into their father’s phone and change the settings on a government app to allow themselves permission to leave the country. There were calls in Washington for Google and Apple to block access to the app entirely.In a lengthy study of Saudi male guardianship laws in 2016, Human Rights Watch criticized it as “system that was ripe for abuse.”The new rules, approved by King Salman and his Cabinet, allow any person 21 and older to travel abroad without prior consent and any citizen to apply for a Saudi passport on their own.The decrees, issued Wednesday, were made public before dawn Friday in the kingdom’s official weekly Um al-Qura gazette. The government said Friday the new rules would be in effect by the end of August.A number of sweeping changes have been promoted by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as he drives an ambitious economic reform plan that encourages more women to enter the workforce. He was behind lifting the ban on women driving last year, loosening rules on gender segregation and bringing concerts and movie theaters to the country.He has also led a simultaneous crackdown on activists, including detaining the country’s leading women’s rights activists who had demanded an end to the very male guardianship rules now being curtailed. The women, among them Loujain al-Hathloul, are facing trial and allege they were tortured in prison.The crown prince continues to face widespread international criticism over the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul last year. Saudi Arabia has denied any involvement by the prince but its own investigation acknowledged the operation was planned by two of the prince’s top aides.Saudi newspaper Arab News noted that in the segment on travel, the new decree were written in gender-neutral language rather than outright stating that women no longer need male consent.News of the changes had been teased in state-linked Saudi media for weeks, possibly to ready the public and gauge reaction.The way the decrees were announced and the language used signal how sensitive these moves are among conservatives in the country. For years, state-backed preachers told the Saudi public that women should not travel longer than a night alone, claiming this was rooted in Islamic practice.Other Muslim countries, however, don’t have similar restrictions on women’s travel. Still, Saudi clerics have supported the imposition of male guardianship based on a Quran verse that states men are the protectors and maintainers of women.Other Islamic scholars argue this misinterprets fundamental Quranic concepts like equality and respect between the sexes.___Aya Batrawy writes for The Associated Press. Writer Fadi Tawil in Beirut contributed to this report. Share This! Leaders of religious right balk at labeling Trump a racist By: The Associated Press The Associated Press
(PhysOrg.com) — In 1976, the Viking spacecraft, flying above Mars, captured an image of what appeard to be a large face on the surface of the planet. The face appeared, to many, as proof that a Martian civilization existed; beings not unlike humans must have populated Mars at one time. The famous “face on Mars” is located in the Cydonia region of Mars. The latest image was taken with the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera. The camera is located on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The Orbiter is a satellite in orbit around Mars, designed to get a good look at the Martian surface. The resolution offered by these images is much higher than that taken by previous spacecraft. Images have been taken over the years, including in 1998 and 2001. The latest images were taken in 2007. As technology has improved, though, images show the face becoming blurrier and blurrier. And now, it appears the face on Mars has disappeared altogether. Technology has advanced a considerable amount since the original photo was taken, though. And now NASA has released a new image of the area — one that shows quite clearly that what looks like a face in the 1976 image is really just a rocky mesa. FOXNews.com offers this explanation for the differences in the two images:Taken from much nearer to the planet and with a substantially higher resolution camera, the features so distinctive in the original image completely vanish in the new one. The original Viking Orbiter image had much lower spatial resolution and a different lighting geometry, factors that led to the optical illusion. 1976 Viking image. Image source: NASA NASA celebrates 30 years of Mars research © 2010 PhysOrg.com More information: “Face on Mars or Rocky Hill? New Photo Reveals Truth,” FOXNews.com (July 30, 2010). Available online: www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/0 … cs-famous-face-mars/.”Extreme Close-Up of the Face on Mars,” Nancy Atkinson, Universe Today (July 28, 2010). Available online: www.universetoday.com/69766/ex … of-the-face-on-mars/ Citation: Martian Face Turns Out to be a Rocky Mesa (2010, August 2) retrieved 18 August 2019 from https://phys.org/news/2010-08-martian-rocky-mesa.html 2007 HiRISE image. Image source: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona Explore further This document is subject to copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study or research, no part may be reproduced without the written permission. The content is provided for information purposes only.
This season, immerse in mesmerising regional handloom weaves like Maheshwari, Kota, Ikats and fine Bandhini along with block printed textiles in Ajrakh, Bagru and Dabu styles. Splendid garments, fabrics and furnishings embellished with regional embroideries will be available in Ari, Sindhi, Lambani, Sozni and Applique. Organic cottons and naturally dyed children’s clothing with eco herbal essential oils and designer combs made out of neem will showcase versatility of natural materials. Also Read – ‘Playing Jojo was emotionally exhausting’Traditional leather footwear along with tribal, bead and thread based jewellery that shall surely leave you asking for more. Pottery, wood carving, cotton dhurries will feature along with environment-friendly handmade Moonj baskets along with Candles, Sikki and Paper Mache decoratives.Regional painting forms like Madhubani, Kalamkari and Tanjore shall further leave you spellbound. Ruaab-sewa brings you craft products from Ethiopia, for the very first time. Hand-spun cotton handlooms, carved leather bags and purses, decorative clay items and painted pottery tea-sets along with jewellery made from indigenous Ethiopian wood and a selection of local Ethiopian silver jewellery will be showcased. It will be a cross cultural exchange of traditions and discover the hospitality of their ritual ‘Coffee Ceremony’ using their famous “Bunna” coffee. Also Read – Leslie doing new comedy special with NetflixOne of the many unique Indian crafts represented, will be Rogan Paintings by Md. Jabbar A. Khatri from Kutch, Gujarat. The rare technique is only practiced by 10 people in the village of Nirona in Kutch, and the importance for giving these artists a strong market platform was evident in Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, choosing a Rogan Painting to be India’s gift to US President, Barrack Obama.Dastkar, a registered NGO working with crafts and craftspeople for over three decades, strongly believes in crafts as a catalytic tool for social and economic empowerment and earning. It aims to break the barriers that separate craftspeople from mainstream urban markets, reviving and revitalizing both the craft and the community.Where: The Nature Bazaar Avenue, Kisan Haat, near Chhatarpur metro stationWhen: February 12 – Feb 23 Timings: 11:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. Entry: Rs. 20
12Apr Rep. LaFave: Road funding for Upper Peninsula Categories: LaFave News Like you, I’m frustrated with the condition of our roads.That’s why I fought for a plan to provide an additional $175 million in road and bridge funding statewide without raising taxes or fees. The money will go directly to counties, cities and villages for road preservation and construction.Some of the communities in line for additional funding include Menominee County ($376,372), Dickinson County ($313,720), and Delta County ($418,066). Local cities and villages also will receive funding including Carney ($3,268), Daggett ($4,290), Escanaba ($102,891), Garden ($2,044), Gladstone ($48,247), Iron Mountain ($69,973), Kingsford ($46,900), Menominee City ($72,393), Norway ($31,603), Powers ($5,225) and Stephenson ($9,488).This money will be used for the current construction season and will have a positive impact on our communities.This additional money comes on top of earlier projections and record level road funding for local allocations in 2018, including Menominee County ($4,872,198), Dickinson County ($4,005,073) Delta County ($5,389,322), Escanaba ($1,336,613), Gladstone ($626,754) and Iron Mountain ($908,997).The Michigan Department of Transportation will work closely with local road commissions to ensure our roads last longer and are properly maintained. There have already been many projects announced in Menominee, Dickinson and Delta counties for 2018 and 2019.The projects will improve road conditions and make travel safer.Some of the Menominee County projects include:• Sealing and pothole patching at locations to be determined by the road commission;• Finish paving the No. 10 Lane Bridge over the Little River; and• Complete construction of Bay De Noc Road from Birch Creek Road to north of No. 7 Road.Some of the Dickinson County projects include:• Crush, shape and pave in Waucedah and Norway townships;• Paving projects in Breitung Township;• Reconstruction and drainage correction of a section of Leeman Road; and• Paving County Road 577 and County Road 607.Some of the Delta County projects include:• Reconstruct and overlay 18.5 miles of Highway 13;• Pave 1.75 miles of County Road 416; and• Seal about 60 miles of primary and local roads.I will work closely with MDOT and local road commissions to ensure they have the resources to complete these local projects.I will continue to fight for the residents in our community and make sure that road funding makes it way north of the Mackinac Bridge.###
But the street won’t be closed to pedestrians.The matter was discussed at a special meeting of the council’s Health and Community Committee last week.Councillors heard the Derry-born writer of the series Lisa McGee wanted to film in her home city as she didn’t want to ‘fake Derry’ after scenes from the first series were shot in Belfast.Hat Trick Productions, who are making the award winning series for Channel 4 TV, said they would be using the backdrop of the Guildhall which would help boost tourism to the area.The traders claimed the street closure would hit deliveries and there was an onus on the council to help them as their businesses were already struggling.Councillors were told the PSNI and Roads Service had no objections to the closures.After a short adjournment, the council gave the closure the green light.Committee chair and Sinn Fein councillor Ruairi McHugh said the committee was of the opinion that the positives ‘outweighed’ the negatives.The new series is expected to aired in the Spring of 2019.Filming for second series of Derry Girls starts in city was last modified: November 17th, 2018 by John2John2 Tags: They were spotted in Bogside today filming scenes for the long awaited second series.On Thursday, filming moves to the city centre where a number of traders in the street had complained by letter to Derry City and Strabane District Council about plans to close the street to traffic next week to allow filming.The filming will see the closure of Shipquay Place and Shipquay Street to traffic from Thursday, November 15 and on Friday, November 16, between 9.15 am and 5 pm.A ‘stop and go’ system will be put in place in a bid to allow traffic through during breaks in filming. ShareTweet bogsideDERRY GIRLSFilming for second series of Derry Girls starts in cityLISA MCGEESHIPQUAY PLACEshipquay street The cast of Derry Girls back in the city today to start filming for series twoFILMING for scenes to the news series of the hit comedy Derry Girls has started in the city today.The cast, crew and writer Lisa McGee arrived on Tuesday night.


A modification is now in effect in order to prevent premature failure of the stop light switches, Part #134529, due to the switch being physically damaged by the brake pedal lever.
The modification consists of removing the switch assembly from its mountain bracket. Discard the fixing nut, Part #JN 2111, and plain washer, Part #WM 0711. Refit the switch to its mounting bracket but first place a new plain washer over the threaded portion of the switch between the mounting bracket and the new nut, this hs the effect of increasing the clearance between the switch plunger and the brake pedal. The thicker nut will also act as a pedal stop. Retroactive action is not considered necessary.


A federal judge has given final certification to a $23.5 million class settlement with HSBC in a case in which the plaintiffs alleged that the bank acted deceptively in administering its “debt cancellation” and “debt suspension” plans.
Over the objections from three states’ attorneys general, U.S. District Senior Judge Berle Schiller of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania approved the settlement, finding nearly all of the factors that courts are required to consider weighed in favor of the settlement. The attorneys general for Hawaii, Mississippi and West Virginia aren’t members of the class, so they don’t have standing to object, Schiller said.
He explained in a footnote, “Because they are not class members, the AGs may continue to bring claims belonging to their respective states, such as state criminal and regulatory actions.” However, Schiller specified that members of this class settlement won’t be able to “double recover” on state actions.
Richard Golomb, of the Philadelphia class-action law firm of Golomb & Honik, represented the plaintiffs in the Eastern District case, Esslinger v. HSBC, and said of the objections from the attorneys general, “It’s the first time this has ever occurred.” This settlement agreement applied to six cases, including ones in California, Washington, New Jersey and two in different districts of Illinois.
The states were reasonably taking a “belt and suspenders” approach, Golomb said, explaining that they wanted to make sure that their state claims could survive.
Schiller’s reasoning in answering the objections was sound, both legally and equitably, Golomb said.
According to the opinion, 12 members of the class, which includes over 16 million people, objected to the settlement. Schiller wasn’t convinced that they raised valid reasons for rejecting the settlement.
“The most common complaint was that the settlement amount was insufficient to compensate the individual objector for his or her estimated losses,” Schiller said. “While the court is sympathetic to the objectors’ individual experiences, a settlement is, by its nature, a compromise.
“Considering the legal and factual obstacles that plaintiffs must surmount to prove their claims, the class members face a serious risk of recovering nothing without the settlement. Likewise, the fact that the objectors represent a fraction of 1 percent of the overall class strongly favors settlement.”
Most members of the class will get between $15 and $60. Anyone who was enrolled in HSBC’s “debt cancellation” or “debt suspension” programs, which would suspend or eliminate his or her credit card payments if he or she were to lose his or her job or become temporarily disabled for a monthly fee that was usually less than $200 between July 2, 2004, and February 22, 2012, can be part of the class, according to the opinion.
Schiller found that all but one of the factors in each of the two tests he applied weighed toward approving the settlement.
He first discussed the nine Girsh factors, from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit’s 1975 opinion in Girsh v. Jepson, and then, briefly, the Prudential factors, from the Third Circuit’s 1998 opinion in In re Prudential Insurance.
“All of the Girsh and Prudential factors are neutral or weigh in favor of settlement, with the exception of whether defendants could withstand a greater judgment,” Schiller said. “This court believes that the settlement represents a fair compromise between two parties seeking to end litigation whose outcome is murky and uncertain.”
Because HSBC is a multinational bank operating in more than 88 countries, it could probably survive a larger judgment, Schiller said. However, that’s the only factor that he found against the approval of the settlement.
Notably, no formal discovery had yet taken place, although there had been cooperation between the parties with HSBC giving thousands of pages of documentation to the class’s counsel.
Schiller awarded 30 percent of the settlement amount as attorney fees, which nearly met the class counsel’s request of $7.7 million. The percentage-of-recovery method that Schiller chose to determine the amount of attorney fees netted them $7.1 million. He also awarded them costs of about $101,000.
Nearly all 10 of the Third Circuit’s factors for weighing the suitability of attorney fees weighed in favor of 30 percent of the settlement, Schiller found, with only the final factor, considering how innovative the terms of the agreement were, weighing in as neutral.
“The court finds that a 30 [percent] fee, a reduction from class counsel’s requested percentage of approximately 33 [percent], is a fair recovery considering the size of the fund and number of beneficiaries,” Schiller said, citing an opinion from his court earlier this month in In re Processed Egg Products Antitrust Litigation, which had approved a 30 percent attorney fee award on a $25 million settlement.
Andrew Stutzman of Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young in Philadelphia represented HSBC and couldn’t be reached for comment.
(Copies of the 30-page opinion in Esslinger v. HSBC, PICS No. 12-2207, are available from The Legal Intelligencer. Please call the Pennsylvania Instant Case Service at 800-276-PICS to order or for information.) •


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British Gas messes up 45,000 direct debits
Over 45,000 British Gas customers have been told that their direct debits were cancelled because of a systems error.
The latest customer service foul-up comes 10 months after British Gas promised to sort out it's sub-standard billing systems.
As a result of the latest mistake households will have to pay inflated bills for the coming year to make up the money that was not taken.
The letter to customers, from customer services director Lois Hedgpeth, said: 'You may have noticed that over the past few months we have not collected your monthly direct debit payments and more recently you may have received a reminder notice for these missing payments.
'I apologise for this mistake, which was caused by a system error. Our specialist team is working now to resolve this. We appreciate your patience in this matter and I will be in touch again soon.' The average value of the missed payments has been put at £300.
Karen Darby, founder of the price comparison service, SimplySwitch.com, said: 'British Gas implemented a new billing system last year, updating technology that dated back to 1985. While this will eventually lead to more accurate billing, some customers had their direct debit payments mistakenly cancelled in February. Households affected will have to make up the shortfall, estimated to be an average of £300, over the coming 12 months.'
Customers are encouraged to pay by direct debit by suppliers through discounts.
Graham Kerr, a spokesman for the independent energy watchdog, Energywatch, said: 'Giving customers a year to make these repayments is the least that British gas can do. Customers have a case for these payments to be discounted. Suppliers should be expected to have robust systems in place to handle mistakes.'
The direct debit mistake comes after British Gas failed to notify 400,000 customer in August last year that their direct debits would be increasing.
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In March British Gas were forced to withdraw a proposed 'late-payment' charge after outrage from customers.
Last December the company announced more than a thousand jobs, including customer service staff, would be sacked.
British Gas is the most complained about energy supplier. Energywatch received 21,427 complaints about them last year.
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Jack P. Shepherd: Michelle Keegan can be a movie star
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- 21 June 2013
Jack P. Shepherd thinks it's "great" for Michelle Keegan to leave 'Coronation Street' because he believes she has the potential to become a big movie star
Jack P. Shepherd thinks it's a "great" decision for Michelle Keegan to leave 'Coronation Street'.
The 25-year-old actor - who plays bad boy hairdresser David Platt in the ITV soap - believes his co-star's decision to bow out of the Cobbles next summer is a good thing for her because she has the potential to be a movie star in Hollywood.
Speaking to new! magazine, he explained: "I think it's a great move for her [Tina) - she's got a face for films."
Michelle - who plays sexy barmaid Tina McIntyre - announced her departure last month.
And she is eager to lose the villain image she's gained recently after agreeing to become a surrogate for Izzy Armstrong (Cherylee Houston) and Gary Windass (Mikey North), but then refusing to hand over their baby to them.
She previously said: "Because Tina came in with a bang, I'd love her to go out with a bang. But I've always said that Tina is a good person, and I'd like her to stay that way."
Despite her decision, the 26-year-old actress has been told she can return at any time in the future if she wants to.


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Broad ruled out of ODI series in India
London, Sept 12: England all-rounder Stuart Broad will be out of action until the end of October after tearing a muscle within his right shoulder against India in the fourth ODI at Lord’s.
“England bowler Stuart Broad will miss the final ODI against India and the NatWest Twenty20 Series against West Indies as well as the ODI leg of the India tour with a muscle tear within his right shoulder,” the ECB website stated.
“Broad may be fit to join the England squad for the Twenty20 fixture scheduled for 29 October in Kolkata’” it added.
"Stuart has a muscle tear within his shoulder and will require an initial period of rest and rehabilitation,” ECB chief medical officer Dr Nick Peirce was quoted as saying in the media release.
"Exact timescales will be determined in due course but he is likely to be ruled out of cricket for a number of weeks," he added.


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Discussion in 'General Supra Topics' started by Captain_Kirk, Feb 11, 2019.
Exactly, the widebody kit, bigger wheels, and drop were just playing tricks on people's eyes.
I get your analogy alright but I disagree with it. It's only an expensive street because BMW made it and it's going to be made by the same people who build the 5 series and G Wagon. Suspension and chassis wise, what we are getting isn't that more advanced than the 86. Worlds different interiors and power trains, but both of those could have been bespoke to the Supra. Yes the chassis is another generation newer and stiffer, but that could have been attained with Subaru and Toyota collaborating again. The best thing the Supra got out of this specific arrangement (besides an inline 6) is the e diff. I would have been perfectly happy with a turbo Toyota v6 and 8inch Torsen and minus 10 grand off the MSRP, plus Japanese reliability and heritage.
The FT-1 concept looks soooo good....it's amazing how the smallest subtle changes from the FT-1 to the MKV made such a drastic difference in appearance.
Also, the GTR is HUGE compared to majority of sports cars nowadays....and it still holds its spot as one of the best performing cars. Really an amazing engineering masterpiece. Gotta give credit where credit is due.
So there’s the shopping list for anyone who wants to make their A90 look ‘better’. Much like the A80, didn’t look all that but a body kit and some nice wheels transformed it.
Just saw a NISMO this morning and I'm surprised how much road the fenders take up
If Toyota did this on its own I reckon the car would cost 100k easily, if not, around 80-85k....
You really think they could build a car and sell it for 39k??? Lol
Why not, Nissan does it? 29k for the base model 370z! If its sharing platforms with a 25k car and maybe a Lexus model thrown in to boot, why not? I'm curious what the margins are actually on this car. I wonder if Toyota is barely making anything on the base US models. 49k us is still pretty cheap for a beamer, but look at the price of the car as it's being sold in the rest of the world. It's only somewhat affordable in North America.
So, you are implying Toyota takes the Lexus LS500 models engine (80k+ car) and put it in the Supra with a completely new chassis made by Toyota and sell it for 29k or 39k?? It’s not realistic at all.
Even with the collaboration with Subaru there’s just no way that happens especially when the 86 and BRZ is in that price range. No offense to Subaru, they build great cars for the money but chassis engineering, I’ll take bmw any day.
Since you think the A90 deserves a 370z pricetag and would have been worthy of one without the BMW collaboration, let's take a look at the 370z...
Base model 370z @ 29k
VQ37 rated at 332 HP and 270 lb-ft of Torque
(Similar HP, far less torque)
But let's see the 0-60 and 1/4 mile time to judge acceleration
0-60: 5.0 seconds; 1/4 mile: 13.6 seconds
Compared to other cars the 370z sits just right in the 30k segment; however, after spreadsheet numbers, its actual accelaeration and measureable performance is generously below the Supra coming in at a 4.1 sprint to 60 and a 12.9 1/4 mile...not to mention added tunability due to the turbo and forged components. Sorry, but the Z is in a different ballpark...
Even if you consider the Nismo...it's modest power and torque increase and price bump to $42k still puts it under the Supra at a prince deficit commensurate with the performance deficit.
In summary, they are both great cars in they're own price bracket! And it shows what some sound engineering will do. Similar HP but diff results due to differences in torque and chassis development!
I do understand how it may not be a bargain as it is in the US...but please, shine some light on the situation for us...how much is a 370z on your end?!
How much are competitors such as:
1. BMW M2 Competition
2. Porsche Cayman GTS
4. Jaguar F-Type
...and any others you care to mention so we get a better understanding as to why you find the A90 so poorly priced.
I have read the 1/4 mile time is low 12 secs for the Supra.....not 12.9, as you stated. Where did you get this number? if you look at other cars that do 0-60 in 4-4.2 seconds, they are around 12.2-12.3 in the qtr mile. I expect the Supra to be there as well.
What's the 718.Cayman quarter mile?
flat 12 for the cayman S
I thought I saw 12.9 somewhere but I could be wrong if youve seen otherwise...if it's lower than 12.9 it further supports the point I was trying to make in comparison to the Z! I apologize if I was wrong and it's in fact lower!
The pricing is simple. Put a 370z, 718s, Supra and some others round a track. Slowest is cheaper. You’ll see why the Supra is priced to compete with the Porsche, not the z.
It’s no coincidence that the dimensions, performance, price, etc match the Cayman!

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I have a Linksys WRTSL54GS that I can't do anything with or to.
I'm pretty sure it was OpenWRT on it. What version? I have no idea. I can't remember the last time I used the router, but it's at least 2 years ago. (It's been in a drawer since we moved to the new house in 2017.) When I turn it on, the power LED blinks rapidly for startup. (How fast? So fast I can't count, so I don't know if it's 2.5, 5, or 10 hertz.)
Pressing the RESET button with a paperclip has no effect. I've tried pressing it for 10 seconds and releasing it and there's no indication of change. I've done the same by starting with the router off and holding it for 10 seconds after I turn it on. I've done the same (holding for 10 seconds) just after turning it on and as soon as I can. (The LED starts blinking immediately on power-up.)
I've tried holding that reset button for 10 seconds in every combination I could think of. I also tried all the same combinations with the EASY SETUP button, just in case. No change.
I can see the SSID show up on my iPad when the router is on. When I plug a CAT5 cable from the WAN connection to a switch on my LAN, I don't see anything new show up on the list of DHCP leases from the DHCP server. (My LAN does not use the 192.168.xxx.xxx address space. I don't know if that could be an issue or not.)
One time I was able to log on (With an iPad) to the wifi network from this router, but could not pull up 192.168.1.1. I tried turning off wifi on my Mac and connecting my Mac to the LAN side of the router (and making sure my networking settings specified to listen for a DHCP address). No joy.
Most of the time I can't even join the wifi network from this router because I get a "No internet connection." I also connected the WAN directly to my internet router. (My house is set up so I have my ISPs router, then a CAT5 connection to an embedded system running PFSense as a firewall and DHCP server. There are no systems connected to my ISP router directly, everything is inside the more protected LAN shielded by the PFSense firewall. The ISP router uses a 192.168.xxx.xxx address space, but the main LAN is all under PFSense and in a different address space. I had thought maybe using the router where the DHCP would be using the 192.168.xxx.xxx space would help - it didn't.)
We're renovating an old barn that was on this lot when we bought it and I want to add wifi down there. While I have other plans, so this is only a temporary fix, it'd be nice to return this router to a useful state. So if I can force it to clear everything and work under OpenWRT again, that'd be great, but I'd be just fine with a factory reset, too.
Right now it's useless, so I just want to find a way to get back control over this router, whether it's under OpenWRT or the Linksys OS.


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LotR: Who is Galadriel– Fairest & Wisest of Elves
The hauntingly beautiful Lady of the Wood has returned from the Undying Lands to grace the screen again. Here is Galadriel’s lore and lineage.
Now thanks to Amazon’s series The Rings of Power we’ve gotten to know another side of the Elven leader–the warrior side. But even before she bore a Ring of Power, Galadriel was renowned for her wisdom and grace.
Tolkien describes Galadriel as “the mightiest and fairest of all the Elves that remained in Middle-earth.”
The Lady Galadriel’s Lineage
Galadriel was a niece of a great Elven king and craft smith of the First Age. Fëanor created the Silmirils, jewels from the essence of the Two Trees of Valinor. The Two Trees provided light to the world until their last fruit and flower were fashioned into the sun and the moon. These jewels were kind of a big deal. I mean, there was a whole war over them.
She was considered to be beautiful even amongst the Elves. Her golden hair was said to shine and glow with the light of the Two Trees.
Galadriel was very moved by her uncle’s tales of Middle Earth, so she left Valinor before the First Age. She’s married to Celeborn, Prince of Doriath. Their daughter, Celebrían, would eventually marry Lord Elrond. She’s grandmother to their children, including Arwen Undómiel.
The First Age of Middle Earth
At this time in her life, Galadriel was still new to Middle Earth. She spent some time traveling its lands with her brothers. She eventually became the leader of the Noldor after the destruction of the Two Trees.
While there were sparkly jewelry wars and tree wars going on all around, we don’t know a lot about Galadriel’sdoings in the First Age. She believed at the time that the Eldar weren’t powerful enough to defeat Morgoth. Amazon’s new show rewrites the character as a warrior who, alongside Fingolfin, who is her brother in this story, fought the hoards of Morgoth during the war.
The Second Age: Lothlórien & the Forging of the Nine Rings
Galadriel and Celeborn came to rule land under Gil-galad, the High King of Elves in the West. The land lies just west of the Misty Mountains, very near the Dwarf city of Khazad-dûm. As such, they openly traded with the Dwarves.
The city was very prosperous and was later ruled by Galadriel’s ally Celebrimbor after she settled in Lothlórien. Celebrimbor is the guy who made the rings. Yeah, the Rings.
When he realized his friend Annatar was actually Sauron in disguise, Celebrimbor and Galadriel decided to protect the rings from the One Ring’s influence. Galadriel became responsible for Nenya, the Ring of Water.
Nenya’s powers included protection, preservation, and concealment from evil. But while Sauron wore the One Ring, she refrained from using Nenya.
After the first defeat of Sauron, the One Ring was lost. Lady Galadriel was then free to use Nenya’s powers to protect her people. And she cast a really beautiful but terrifying visage on anyone foolish enough to try to cross Lothlórien’s borders.
The Lady of the Wood in the Third Age
During the Third Age, Galadriel helped form the White Council in opposition to the growing power of Sauron (he’s baaaack). She actually campaigned to make Gandalf the leader, but the Council wasn’t ready to have that conversation yet.
During this time, she often uses her skills to protect her allies in the battle against Sauron. And that’s just her gig for a long while, ruling over her woodland hideaway and advising Gandalf. She does manage to pull some pretty impressively creepy moves, like hiding the Éothéod in a thick mist so they could ride into battle unharmed.
The Éothéod would later become the Rohirrim. And they’re a big part of the reason why men fear to behold the Lady of the Wood.
Galadriel & the War of the Ring
Without Galadriel’s influence, the War of the Ring would have been an entirely different story. Of course, she shelters the Fellowship after Gandalf’s fall in the ruins of Khazad-dûm. And she allows Samwise and Frodo a peek into her famous magical mirror.
When Frodo offers her the One Ring, she does the aforementioned shiny rage, turning dark for a moment as she wrestles with temptation. But in the end, she refuses the ring, passing a test of the spirit. At this moment, she accepts that the Age of Men is nigh, and decides to return to Valinor after the war is ended.
Galadriel then urges Aragorn to take the Paths of the Dead. She also contacts the Rangers in the North, spurning them to join in the fight.
Of course, Sauron wasn’t pleased that the wisdom and cunning of the Elves stood in his way, so he set an assault against Lothlórien. But the power of Nenya and the army of Elves prevented him from breaching the Woodland Realm.
After the final defeat of the Dark Lord Sauron, Galadriel came to witness the wedding of her granddaughter Arwen. Then, she and many of her Elven brethren boarded a ship and set sail for Valinor, the Undying Lands. She was approximately 8,000 years old when she left Middle Earth.
Galadriel on Screen
This Elven queen was flawlessly and famously portrayed by Cate Blanchette in Peter Jackson’s live-action Lord of the Rings series. Amazon Prime’s original series The Rings of Power, is the tale of Middle Earth through earlier ages.
Actress Morfydd Clark plays a young Galadriel who may be more battle-worn than we assumed, but honestly, Tolkien’s lore doesn’t really account for her comings and goings during this time, apart from saying that she was strong and basically not to be f*cked with. There’s no reason why Galadriel couldn’t be the warrior queen the new series has built her up to be.
The Amazon series also gives us a look at Galadriel’s eldest brother Finrod, who in the books played major roles in several First Age battles. In the series, Sauron kills her brother, fueling her quest for revenge.

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Highway 65 resurfacing, drainage project begins June 10 in Aitkin County
DULUTH, Minn. — A major resurfacing and drainage improvement project is scheduled to begin Monday, June 10 on Highway 65 in Aitkin County. Motorists will encounter single lane closures and flaggers in the construction area.
Highway 65 will be resurfaced through Jacobson, Ball Bluff and Libby, providing a smoother, safer driving surface. The project also includes repair or replacement of several culverts and pedestrian accessibility improvements.
The project is scheduled to be completed in late-August, 2019.
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Jailed Iranian journalist Bahman Ahmadi Amouyi has been awarded the Hellman-Hammett grant for 2011 by Human Rights Watch.
Ahmadi Amouyi was arrested in the wake of Iran’s controversial 2009 presidential election, which triggered mass demonstrations over allegations of vote fraud. Both he and his wife, the prominent Iranian journalist Jila Bani-Yaghoub, were arrested at their home.
Ahmadi Amouyi has been sentenced to five years in prison and over the past year he has been allowed no visits with family members.
The jailed journalist had contributed to several reformist newspapers. At the time of his arrest, he was the director of Sarmayeh newspaper and the editor-in-chief of Khordad-e No website.
The Hellman-Hammet grants, administered by Human Rights Watch, are given annually to writers from around the world who are deemed to be the target of political persecution. It was set up by Lillian Hellman, inspired by the persecution she and her longtime companion Dashiell Hammett experienced during the anti-communist hysteria of the 1950s in the US. Both writers were questioned by U.S. congressional committees about their political beliefs and affiliations. Hellman was blacklisted and had trouble finding work, and Hammett had spent time in prison.
Several Iranian writers and journalists have been previous recipients of the Hellman-Hammett grants.

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As I gaze at this beautiful creature I ponder on how around one hundred and fifty unique life forms on the earth become extinct each day...
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