The ARRL Letter July 14, 2016
added by wa0khp
2840 days ago
Amateur Radio Parity Act Receives Favorable House Energy and Commerce Committee Report
FCC Finds a Fix for Amateur Radio Application Batch Processing Problem
Ham Radio Outlet to Acquire Some AES Employees, Re-Open Milwaukee Location as HRO Branch
ARRL CEO, Emergency Preparedness Manager Visit FEMA Headquarters
ARRL Board of Directors to Meet in Connecticut
The Doctor Will See You Now!
National Parks on the Air Update
Attendance at Dayton Hamvention® Tops 25,000 for Second Year in a Row
ARRL Training Webinar, "Contesting as Training for Public Service," Set for July 24
International Tribunal Rules Against China's Claims Regarding South China Sea Reefs
New ISS Crew Increment with Two Radio Amateurs Arrives on Station
CQ Contest Hall of Famer, WRTC Competitor, DXer Walter Skudlarek, DJ6QT, SK
In Brief...
The K7RA Solar Update
This Week in Radiosport
Upcoming ARRL Section, State, and Division Conventions
To read full letter, go to: http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter?issue=2016-07-14
Tags:
Please add a comment
âThey get shut off, they donât talk to other people, theyjust stay in their living room, their bedroom, hunkered down in front of theircomputer. They occupy a sort of hermetically sealed world really of theirown, and that can have a very detrimental effect.â
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.
"Their initiative sends out a strong signal that the vast majority of young people who do not see themselves as belonging to any religion have values that are worthy of respect and should be explicitly welcomed and catered for in any activity that seeks to be genuinely inclusive."
That’s one of the highlights for me in the movie! That’s when he became 'Van the Man'. I thought it was spectacular and it was all improvised, as we had a rehearsal that night and we did two songs. Van Morrison was one of my favourites of all time and a dear friend, so when he came up that night, he got off an airplane, came to rehearsal and had on an overcoat and he looked like a private detective. He looked like Mike Hammer. I’d never seen anyone like that, it was a look. He just kept it on during rehearsal, I thought maybe he was just going to use it in the show. Then he did this dancing thing and it couldn’t have been better.
The pension funds, with assets around the world, traditionally take a long-term view in their investment decisions. Officials at the biggest funds either did not reply to requests for comment, said they had no information or declined to comment.
And I do have some questions for you if yoou do not mind.
Culd it be only me oor does itt look like a few
of the comments look like coming from brain dead people?
:-P And, if you are posting aat otyer social sites, I would like to keep up with
everything fresh you have to post. Could you list of every one of aall your
sharedd sites like yojr twitter feed, Facebook page or linkedin profile? https://mostbetcasino.wordpress.com/
But Mohsen Milani, executive director of the Center for Strategic and Diplomatic Studies at the University of South Florida, says that Iran is more prepared to negotiate with the United States than at any time since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, and that this "unprecedented opportunity" should not be passed up.
However, Haque switched to television, landing several character roles before her 60-episode run in Coronation Street. Later, she played Senkhara, the spirit of a forgotten Egyptian ruler, throughout the second series (2012) of House of Anubis, on the children's channel Nickelodeon. She also had a small role in the action film Wanted (2008) alongside James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman and Angelina Jolie.
“Personally I ask the German people to give me a strong mandate so I can serve Germany for four more years working for everybody, for a strong Germany, for a country which is respected in Europe and which helps Europe,” she said.
But analysts say it is hard to see Oman's LNG project partners agreeingterms with Tehran, and unless Iran agrees to supply gas to Oman at a price belowthe low levels set in long-term LNG export deals Oman has signed, they say itwould make more economic sense for Oman to stop exports of LNG instead.
Kerry, at a press conference with Lavrov, said that under the agreement, U.N. weapons inspectors must be on the ground in Syria no later than November. The goal, he said, is the complete destruction of Syria's chemical weapons by the middle of 2014.
On Sunday, the San Mateo County coroner, Robert Foucrault, identified the third fatality of the July 6 crash as Liu Yipeng, a 15-year-old girl from China. Ms. Liu was one of a group of students from a prestigious school in eastern China who were headed for an English-language summer camp in California.
It’s almost like there’s a conspiracy we’re all a willing part of, a refusal to discuss female masturbation sensibly, lest all the women discover their clitorises, drop what they’re doing and start furiously wanking in the nearest cupboard. But that would be ridiculous, wouldn’t it?
"The two of them agreed that all sides need to keep talking," White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters after the call between Boehner and Obama. "It at least looks like there is a possibility of making some progress here."
"We will certainly become an active player in the region in the next years," Macht, who sits on VW's eight-member executive board, said in an interview. "We are currently very actively on the road in these countries."
It's an incredibly complex situation. The only givens are that the longer the war continues, the more Syrians are killed; the more refugees cross the Syrian border to further destabilize Lebanon and Jordan; and the more militant Islamists flood into Syria from Iraq, the Saudi peninsula and beyond.
âThe most common side effects from a flu shot are a sore arm and maybe a low fever or achiness. The nasal-spray flu vaccine might cause congestion, runny nose, sore throat or cough. If you do experience them at all, these side effects are mild and short lived. And thatâs much better than getting sick and missing several days of school or work or possibly getting a severe illness and needing to go to the hospital,â the press release says.
"I have been assured that NCA will do what they can to help Northern Ireland but, inevitably when they don't have the full statutory powers here to deal with organised crime they simply won't be in a position to deal with things as well as the police would wish them to be.
In 2000, a 6-year-old Michigan boy shot a first-grader at school with a gun he found at the house where he was living. The prosecutor declined to charge the boy, saying common law doesn't allow a child under the age of 7 to be held criminally responsible.
Orr said he plans to use some of the money saved by halting payments to creditors for improvements to fire technology and vehicle upgrades. He also said the city has a 50/50 chance of a bankruptcy filing, a decision he is expected to reach as soon as this month.
But restarting the company will cost considerably more. A reinstatement of Fisker's original plan to build several models could cost up to half a billion dollars, according to people familiar with the company's finances.
With negotiations at a standstill, President Obama and Vice President Biden ventured outside the White House for lunch today, visiting a nearby deli to draw public attention to the government shutdown and urge Republicans to reopen the government.
Anthony Weiner resisted calls to withdraw from the New York City mayoral race Tuesday after finding himself caught in another sexting scandal similar to the one that ended his congressional career two years ago.
Not one of the country's 104 commercial nuclear reactors orthree research reactors is protected against an attack involvingmultiple players such as the ones carried out by 19 airplanehijackers on 9/11, said the report by the Nuclear ProliferationPrevention Project, or NPPP, at the University of Texas, Austin.
The Mac v PC battle is going mobile - and if Microsoft does at last manage to make an impression in this world, there could be huge rewards. Nokia's board will then ask itself whether it got the right price for all that innovation now under the control of its former CEO in Redmond.
SIR – Mr Cameron does not deserve praise for letting Parliament decide. He thought he had the vote fixed in advance, but complained bitterly when he lost, talking of sacking ministers who did not toe the line.
Police Capt. Mike Williams said both suspects, like those celebrating inside the Green Country Event Center, are Hmong â an Asian ethnic group mainly from Laos. He said investigators hadn't determined a motive for the attack, but that both men would be charged.
Google is facing increased scrutiny at a time when Brazilian regulators are working to ramp up the enforcement of competition laws following years of complaints from consumer advocates of lax oversight and antitrust abuses by companies.
While Brazil is one of several countries named as targets in the documents, the revelations have been especially controversial here because of a long-standing distrust of U.S. spy agencies' activities in Latin America and a report that Rousseff's own communications were compromised.
The health ministry will begin enforcing the use of organs from voluntary donors allocated through a fledging national program at a meeting set to be held in November, former deputy health minister Huang Jiefu, who still heads the ministry's organ transplant office, told Reuters.
The sale would be one of the most significant privatisationsin Britain since John Major's Conservative government sold therailways in the 1990s. Major's predecessor Margaret Thatcher hadpioneered state selloffs but stopped short of the Royal Mailbecause of its potential controversy.
Aside from the ObamaCare provision, the GOP's demands on the debt limit involves far less dramatic spending cuts than Republicans demanded from Obama in a debt showdown two years ago. Then, Republicans extracted $2.1 trillion in cuts over a decade for a similar increase in the borrowing cap. Now, GOP leaders are mulling a 14-month borrowing increase that would increase the debt ceiling by almost $1 trillion but are considering only modest cuts, like an increase in the contribution federal workers make to their pensions.
"The Jinan Intermediate People's Court hereby announces that it will announce a verdict in defendant Bo Xilai's bribery, corruption and abuse of power case on September 22, 2013, at 10 a.m. (0200 GMT)," the court in eastern China's Shandong province, where Bo was tried, said on its microblog.
The one time we really needed to pull it off, and we choked. Why? A growing body of evidence shows the answer may be incredibly simple. Thinking too much at the wrong time can be a bad thing because your brain tries to take charge at the precise moment when your body doesn't need any help.
The ideal would be if the trend of healthier behaviors expanded into populations that may be difficult to treat, Kelly said. "Perhaps fewer of them will reach the level of severe obesity in the first place," he added.
You could also feasibly use this process alongside standard plastic 3D printing systems to create leads that would snake their way through the inside of an object. It’s non-toxic – so presumably you can eat a lot of it – but it’s still quite expensive so don’t expect to build any stainless steel rats any time soon.
Creditors, led by Japan's top banks, have agreed to provideTepco with $5.9 billion - rolling over existing loans andputting in new financing - and the company hasapplied to restart its 7-reactor Kashiwazaki Kariwa facility,the world's biggest nuclear plant, saying a restart would saveit $1 billion a month in fuel costs.
“A lot of Republicans seem to believe that if they can gum up the works and make this law fail, they’ll somehow be sticking it to me. But they’d just be sticking it to you,” Obama said, accusing Republicans of wanting either to harm sick Americans or to harm the U.S. economy.
The mysterious case initially appeared like it could be a Whodunit, based on information provided by police sources and details supplied by neighbors who had spoken to either investigators or the womanâs daughter.
Rodriguez, when told of Damonâs radio comments before the Yankeesâ game in Chicago, said he had not seen the remarks, and âwould have to talk to Johnny. I talk to Johnny all the time. No disappointment whatsoever. Thanks. Weâre right in the middle of it. I do love Johnny; heâs my good friend.â
Fitch Ratings has affirmed Martin Marietta Materials, Inc.'s (NYSE: MLM) ratings,including the company's Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at 'BBB-'. The Rating Outlook is Stable. Acomplete list of rating actions follows at the end of this release.
The one loss that Verlander suffered was in last year's World Series, where he is 0-3 in his career, having also lost two games in 2006. That is the one place, and it is a big one, where Verlander still has work to do to cement his reputation. Getting back there this year will require the Tigers knocking off the Boston Red Sox and their juggernaut lineup in the American League Championship Series. But it is thanks to Verlander that the Tigers have that chance.
Gutierrez took pictures and searched the surrounding area for clues. In the victims' pockets were a comb, roll of toilet paper and a handkerchief. No ID. The body was carefully placed in a black body bag and transported to a local funeral home. It then goes 80 miles south to a funeral home in Mission, Tex., where officials and anthropologists try to identify the remains by matching them to missing person lists or running DNA samples.
But today the circus, founded by Danish dance instructor David Mason to teach cooperation and creativity to children scarred by years of war, is one of few projects expanding despite a drop in international aid to Afghanistan.
There are just too many guys with the one win that will wind up outside the top 10. It really is going to come down to the wire between two or three teams about how this is all going to play out. Depending on how they are running, I can see where it can affect strategy in a couple different ways.
But there was no speech and Kennedy's decision gave Sorensen six hours to produce one before the president was to go on the air at 8 p.m. Sorensen huddled in the Cabinet Room drafting with the help of Robert Kennedy and Assistant Attorney General Burke Marshall. Kennedy found the group there at 7 p.m., still working. "C'mon Burke, you must have some ideas," JFK quipped.
"I was one of 10 kids, so with my parents and my grandmother, we were a 13-person household living in a three-bedroom trailer in Bunker Hill, Indiana. My father was supporting us all on an Air Force officer's salary, which obviously wasn't going to work. So one day he decided to start his own business.
The report said Iran had violated the sanctions when it launched ballistic missiles, shipped arms to Yemeni insurgents and sought "dual-use items", referring to technology that can be used for both peaceful and military aims.
Several of the SGX-listed companies experiencing dramaticprice falls over the past two trading days are linked to eachother. Asiasons is LionGold's biggest shareholder with an 8.7percent stake as of Aug. 30, according to Thomson Reuters data.
This will change, I hope, once I have settled into the job. I also have a small pension from my previous job and I believe that it might be better to consolidate the two so that I will have a better idea of how my retirement savings are progressing.
Chrysler remains heavily reliant on North America, whichaccounted for 90 percent of vehicle sales in the first half of2013. It added that its lineup of smaller, less expensive carsare not as competitive as its larger, more profitable vehicles.
"Will Tone be out there, will he not be out there opening day? I think it's too early to tell," Ryan said. "Certainly we hope he's available because he's a difference maker when he's on the field."
In the U.K., itâs âlikely that this will cause some rolesto fall away,â the bank said in a separate statement. Thecompany will âconduct the appropriate consultation processesand will ensure that we do everything we can to support thoseaffected,â it said.
Other witnesses, including Anna Eberly, managing director of the Claude Moore Colonial Farm in Virginia, which operates on land owned by the Park Service, accused Obama administration officials of choosing to “close areas to the public that don’t depend on NPS personnel.”
The issue came to a head in Colorado after gun-rights activists accused Democrats of ramming through the gun control legislation in the aftermath of a series of U.S. mass shootings including the suburban Denver theater rampage in which 12 people were killed last year.
The Internet and social media in Kenya, which played a central role in this year's elections by allowing Kenyans to question candidates, took on a new function Tuesdayâspreading messages of peace to avert new bloodshed.
Raw clinical-trial data that raised PPD concerns would be subject, under the EMA’s plans, to controlled access involving conditions such as a minimum standard of de-identification and a legally binding data-sharing agreement.
Now nobody has any doubt that TTP and LeJ are two part of one entity. Their ideology and goals are same. Together they want to impose their distorted religious ideology on everyone in Pakistan, wants to kill security agencies personnel & minorities of Pakistan. They are one, that's why TTP is reacting so harshly on LeJ men hanging. I hope PML-N will not bow to TTP threats and go ahead with fulfilling the requirements of justice.
On the CME, feeder cattle futures soared to a recordof $1.68 per lb last week, lifted by declining feed prices thatimproved profit prospects feedlots that fatten the yearlingcattle for slaughter. CME cattle futures on Tuesday closed about1 percent lower at $1.65, the lowest price in about a month,pressured in part by lower cash trade in Oklahoma, traders said.
T-Mobile US Chief Executive John Legere told CNBC that his company's growth was helped by customer defections from AT&T. In its marketing, T-Mobile US often compares its prices and policies to those of AT&T.
Technical experts worked around the clock to expand thecapacity of the federal system. Officials said improvementsreduced the number of people stuck on hold by about one-third.But by Thursday afternoon, visitors seeking to set up an accounton Healthcare.gov were still running into web pages asking themto wait.
Other parties are sticking by Penney at this stage. Canadianfashion brand Joe Fresh, owned by Loblaw Cos Ltd, said itplanned to continue "our strong working relationships with alllevels" at the U.S. retailer.
Herman's comments drew a harsh rebuke from the Air LinePilots Association International, the largest pilots union,which said the release of the flight recorder information"encourages wild speculation" when the investigation is still inan early stage.
"They will be released into the wild after learning surviving skills and will start a new population of the leopards in the Caucasus Mountains", said Natalia Dronova, WWF-Russia species coordinator, according to a news release.
EFH, formerly TXU Corp, was taken private in 2007 in a $45billion buyout, the largest-ever leveraged buyout. The dealsaddled the company with debt just before a sharp decline innatural gas prices and energy markets.
In Baja California, the PAN had accused the PRI of trying tosteal the election, so a change of power could have destabilizedthe "Pact for Mexico" the president made with the opposition tohelp strengthen his hand in Congress, where he lacks a majority.
The row followed a Commons debate conducted in an impassioned but sombre tone and which was not overtly party political. Senior figures from all three main parties raised the spectre of the Iraq war and warned against making the “same mistakes” that the last Labour government did in entering that conflict. In a sign of the strength of feeling, nearly 100 MPs requested to speak.
The unit is focused on two key areas in oncology development: antibody-drug conjugates and immune-mediated cancer therapy, which aims to harness the power of the patient's own immune system to fight cancer.
We ecig users have battled & fought for our right to stay off of tobacco using our devices. As adults we enjoy flavours (I exclusively use sweet ones at 35yrs old) & it is right that we can access ecigs as freely as we can tobacco. We have been largely ignored & sometimes slandered so today was a huge win for us. Ecigs ARE regulated despite what the public are being told & do NOT harm others.
Byway of summarising some of the current arguments, I thought Iâd produce a quicklist of the reasons to think that there will be another Con-Lib Coalition afterthe next election, and the reasons to think that there wonât be. Of course, aswith much political soothsaying, this is based on how things look now. Theoverriding determinant of whether or not there will be another Coalition issimply the next election result. A strong Conservative majority, or a strongLabour majority, could reduce everything below to naught. But I hope youâllread it anywayâ¦
The company on July 18 cut its outlook for revenue growthfrom software and software-related services to at least 10percent in 2013, excluding exchange-rate fluctuations, comparedwith a previous forecast for 11 to 13 percent growth.
"Holy smokes," economists at Singapore's DBS Bank wrote in a research note. They noted that the report comes after other recent upbeat U.S. data, including second-quarter growth that was better than expected and a surge in durable goods orders.
Rousseff was outraged after documents leaked by former U.S.intelligence contractor Edward Snowden showed the NationalSecurity Agency spied on ordinary Brazilians, the country'sbiggest company Petrobras and even her own communications.
For instance, he and his wife had difficulty getting their firstborn to feed, but his second child ate "like a champion." Later on, his older son turned out to be a picky eater. It's just the way he was.
Study leader Dr Eva Negri, of the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research in Milan, Italy, told BBC News: "If you have a relative with one type of cancer your risk of the same type of cancer is increased.
LONDON, July 26 (Reuters) - The dollar fell to a five-weeklow against a basket of major currencies on caution about thepossibility of the Federal Reserve delivering a downbeat messageafter its policy meeting next week.
As of 11 a.m. local time (2300 GMT) the storm was about 65 miles from the Big Island â the easternmost island in the chain â traveling at 18 miles per hour with sustained wind speeds of about 40 miles per hour.
The first pillar is a single supervisor for euro-zone banks, a task the European Central Bank is expected to assume in the fall of 2014. The single resolution mechanism is meant to form the second pillar.
Hong Kong turnover rose markedly from recent levels, whileShanghai volumes were robust after the official China SecuritiesJournal reported that Beijing may conditionally relax rules onfinancing for real estate firms, citing unidentified analysts.
EFH's larger creditors have signed extensions ofnon-disclosure agreements that will allow them to continuediscussing possible restructuring scenarios, said two of thepeople close to the matter. Initial NDAs would have expired onSept. 27, the people said, without elaborating on the newexpiration date.
That was the Patriots offense last night when quarterback Tim Tebow ran the show in the second half. If his final exhibition performance had any impact on his status before tomorrow’s roster cut-downs, Bill Belichick will have a difficult time making the call in one direction or the other.
The runner-up for the prize, which is selected by festival audiences, was Stephen Frears' "Philomena," which stars Judi Dench as an Irish woman searching for the son she was forced by nuns to give up in the 1950s.
Tax avoidance is frequently linked to corruption. Illicitfunds, earned from crime, corruption and tax evasion, often aremoved out a country via tax havens and by using shell companies.Sharing tax information can be an important tool in helping totrack these funds.
Meanwhile, Harper, Cobb's across-the-alley neighbor, says he won't be driven out. "They gotta do something very drastic to make it very unsafe and uncomfortable for me. Right now, I don't see it happening," he says.
In her statement Friday, Deen said that "those who truly know how I live my life know that I believe in kindness and fairness for everyone." She also promised to take a closer look at how her employees are treated.
Ferguson says that serious tensions had emerged in pre-season training ahead of the 2005-6 season in Portugal when Keane was critical of the accommodation that had been arranged in Vale de Lobo by Quieroz. Keane wanted to stay in the next village, Quinta do Lago.
For eight seasons, Dexter Morgan has been struggling to answer two fundamental questions: Is he a man or a monster, or can he be something more? He's been trying to balance multiple identities: father, forensic analyst, and most importantly, mass murderer. For eight seasons, he's kept that third identity hidden, he's been the hunter and not the hunted, and with the exception of LaGuerta's death, that has allowed him to keep something resembling a moral high ground.
Saakashvili's presidential term does not end until October, but his authority has been further weakened by a constitutional reform that has shifted powers from the presidency to Parliament and the prime minister.
Today, there are ongoing struggles for human rights in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, the Americas and every corner of the world. When we talk about rights today, we rarely think of just how many there are, and how often they’re infringed upon or taken away. It’s easy to forget that the rights many take for granted are the very same others die fighting for.
Though old enemies, a stable stand-off has endured between the two countries during Assad's rule and at times Israel had pursued peace talks with him in hope of divorcing Syria from Tehran and Iranian-sponsored Hezbollah guerrillas in neighboring Lebanon.
My first reaction, having covered national-security issues for many years, was recognition that his actions were patently illegal. But I was also interested to know how far afield the Obama administration had taken its counter-terrorism surveillance program. It reminded me of President George W. Bush's illegal domestic surveillance program revealed in 2006 -- and the years of illegal domestic surveillance in the '70s that prompted formation of the Church Committee, charged with investigating the CIA's surveillance abuses.
The will divides the actor's estate among his two sisters, widow and daughter. Gandolfini's son, Michael, 14, does not get any part of that because his father provided for him with a separate trust that is funded by a life insurance policy.
âThe issue is whether this was an appropriate use of the Taser,â said Simon. âThis calls for a complete and thorough investigation and not an investigation where police investigate themselves and exonerate themselves and take 2 years or so to do so.â
Artist renderings of the immersive environment were revealed at the D23 Expo in Japan and Staggs said guests will "discover what it feels like to soar into the sky riding a Banshee," referring to the large bird-like beasts that the Na'vi se to fly in the James Cameron blockbuster.
An admissions officer refused to be interviewed in person. But over the phone, he told the BBC that women were not allowed into the university in large numbers because there were not many jobs open to them after graduation, since most people in China expected police officers to be male.
FINRA's complaint also said Oppenheimer's money launderingprevention protocols failed to monitor penny stock tradingactivity even in a case when it identified a foreignbroker-dealer as a "high risk" customer.
Think back to 2004, when 90 million Super Bowl viewers watched as Justin Timberlake sang 'Gonna have you naked by the end of this song' and then ripped off Janet Jackson's bustier to expose half her rack. (Granted it was covered by a pastie.) While 'Nipplegate' ended up costing CBS $550,000 in FCC fines, it also introduced 'wardrobe malfunction' to the American lexicon and, frankly, the world hasn't been the same since. In fact, due to 'nipplegate,' 'wardrobe malfunction' was actually nominated for the 2004 'Word of the Year' by the American Dialect Society. However it lost out because it was technically not coined that year. Such a shame!
Another state-run firm, Korea National Oil Corporation(KNOC), said on Tuesday that it is considering selling "non-coreparts" of its loss-making Canadian energy subsidiary HarvestOperations and also reviewing other overseas assets forpotential sales of some of their parts.
âIâve had leads in majors and not pulled through,â said Dufner, 36. âI always felt like that was going to make me a better player. For some reason today I felt really confident. I always thought I was going to pull it out.â
"Cyclists need to understand that they're held accountable to the same standards anybody else operating any other type of vehicle and I believe we have achieved that in this case," prosecutor George Gascon said at a press conference Tuesday.
Rivera was also joined in Monument Park by his wife, Clara, and their three sons. The entire Steinbrenner family and other members of the Yankees front office including team president Randy Levine were also on hand.
The former politician was convicted of four assaults on his third wife Diana Walker, three of which involved slapping or punching her on the face. The attacks happened between June 1988 and January 1995.
I donât recall a lot about the day Kennedy was assassinated, but I do remember it was getting cold outside. Early that afternoon an upset woman from a nearby farm burst into the school and exclaimed that Kennedy had been shot. Mrs. Tork turned on the tube radio, and we all listened for a few minutes as a broadcaster confirmed that Kennedy was dead. At some point, my mom showed up in our station wagon and drove all the first-graders back to their farm homes.
Argentina's fuel imports rose 31.9 percent in August 2013 from the same month last year. Led by liquid natural gas purchases, imports totaled $942 million, according to data from Argentina's energy secretary.
At current prices, the haul is worth about $35 million. Thatis $3 million less than what the company fetched for a haul of48 tons from the same ship last year as silver prices havetumbled in the last few months.
Ben Israel's attorney, Viviana Ramirez, said Tuesday that it's too early to address the merits of the case. Turner, a Chicagoan, is believed to be currently living in Israel. A warrant has been issued for his arrest.
In June 2000, Fieldstone fired Patterson, and the state of Michigan's Board of Social Work filed a complaint. It alleged that he had shown negligence in his dealings with two patients at Fieldstone. One of the patients was Inga.
The first four of those apartments hit the market Friday with modernized kitchens and bathrooms â but the same classic woodwork and details that gave the 78th St. edifice itâs one-of-a-kind prestige.
Google had been accused with intentionally working around the privacy settings in Apple's Safari Web browser to track user's online activity and then sell the data to the online advertising companies such as Media Innovation and Vibrant Media, who were also named in the suit. When the do not track settings are enabled in Safari, companies aren't supposed to be able to collect information from users, although Google found a way to work around that.
Its latest report Wednesday also notes that the four-member commission is probing nine more suspected mass killings since March. With those, it said, the illegal killing was confirmed but the perpetrator could not yet be identified. In other cases, it said, the circumstances of the killing were not sufficiently clear to be able to determine the legality.
The gathering had begun as a peaceful prayer rally at Leimert Park, with protesters chanting and singing to demonstrate their disappointment with a Florida jury's decision to acquit George Zimmerman for the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
Call it financial lifelogging: The Corey Maasses of the world are obsessed with taking their financial temperatures at all times, just as some people use mobile devices and applications to track every calorie burned, every heartbeat thumped and every moment of REM sleep.
Jackson restored parity after Julian Salvi was penalised at the breakdown, then just before half-time a break from home scrum-half Paul Marshall led to Leicester conceding on their own line and Jackson gave the home side a 13-10 half-time lead.
The company, which one banking source said made earningsbefore interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation of about $50million in 2012, counts firms such as Saudi Aramco, the world'stop oil producer, and state-owned Qatar Petroleum among itsclients.
On the air, Kay never hesitated to come to Rodriguezâs defense. In late April of 2005, he unleashed an over-the-top rant on ESPN-1050 AM, the day after A-Rod exploded for three home runs and 10 RBI against the Angels. Kay wigged on fans who, even after this incredible display of offense, were not giving A-Rod proper respect.
"I just told the guys, we have to believe that we can do it," Rolle said. "Once you train your mind, and really believe -- not just tell yourself you believe, but really actually believe it -- that's when a lot of things will come together. The mind is a powerful thing. It controls everything within your body."
Jose L. Nino de Guzman's scheme involved fake investment opportunities in Peru under his NDG Investment Group from 2006 until 2009, officials said, raising more than $30 million from over 200 investors.
"I've got 14 of these things, and I know what it takes to win it. He's won tournaments all over the world," world number one Woods, who has been stuck on 14 majors for five years, said of Sunday's showdown on the Scottish coast.
For the Eagles, the first day in pads will likely be Friday. In 2011, Danny Watkins missed five days of camp, although the circumstances were far different as the lockout made for a very oddball offseason. Watkins was hurt by that missed time. Ideally, Lane Johnson will be at camp on Monday, although it's looking like that may not happen.
The half-century anniversary of the Equal Pay Act brought the usual official response – remarks by (mostly female) members of Congress and a short address by President Obama with the obligatory lament about women's lack of parity with their male colleagues. But there is no serious effort to make changes, not even amending the current law to protect people from retaliation for sharing salary information with co-workers.
"We were trying to upgrade the pitching to give us a chance to make the run for the AL (East) title and the pennant. So we did what we had to do to help the team now, and we have enough players having good years at the plate," Orioles vice president of baseball operations Dan Duquette said.
In the ovary, eggs mature in structures called follicles. For women with the condition the new study targeted, the follicles are either missing or failing to produce eggs. The experimental treatment was designed to stimulate dormant follicles.
When BBC Radio 4 presenter Kirsty Young asked McCall which corporate giant she might like to run next – “M&S, the BBC?” – on last week’s Desert Island Discs, McCall’s response to whether headhunters ever try and poach her was a squirming “no”, accompanied by nervous laughter.
As part of the settlement, Glassel is to pay $4.6 million and the company is to pay $185,206, although that payment is suspended because the company cannot pay, the FTC said. Glassel did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
So the question Gilbride now wrestles with is this: Should he make more adjustments? Does he need wholesale changes? If nothing he calls is working â âPlay-calling is like throwing a dart at a board,â Coughlin said on Sunday after a 31-7 loss in Kansas City â why not start calling something else?
The study by the EU's Joint Research Centre ("PV StatusReport 2013") estimated the cost of solar power using awell-known measure called the levelised cost of energy (LCOE),which divides the lifetime cost of an installation by lifetimeelectricity generation, where lifetime is defined as 20 years.
Mexico's hopes of staying alive rested on the result of Panama's match with an understrength American side, who had the luxury of resting some of their regular starters after already finishing top of the group standings.
The "yellow brick road" Clifford refers to is a gold and artifact-strewn path extending between two points of the Whydah wreck. Clifford thinks the coins may have been dumped along that path as the Whydah broke up.
Both "Gravity" and "Captain Phillips" earned glowing reviews and mentions as likely Oscar contenders. "Gravity" wowed critics with its 3D depictions of space and weightlessness, while Hanks won praise for his portrayal of Captain Richard Phillips, the man taken hostage when Somali pirates seized his ship in 2009.
The Giants, though, are being understandably cautious with their 2012 first-round pick, who said his whole body âwent numbâ after a hit in the second quarter of the Giantsâ loss to the Philadelphia Eagles last Sunday. Given a choice, Wilson wouldâve gone right back into the game after that, but the team doctors saved him from himself.
You have to feel for Bernard. With John by his side every day of his life, it is little wonder that he is always in trouble with the cops. Nor that he comes across like a hostage with Stockholm Syndrome.
Additionally, in an unusual, last-minute lobbying move, the administration dispatched Gen. Keith Alexander, head of the NSA, to Capitol Hill to urge lawmakers to oppose the amendment in separate, closed-door sessions with Republicans and Democrats.
Churchill is famous for the importance he gave to table talk, and his eating habits helped make up his unmistakeable persona. He loved Stilton cheese, oysters, game and a roast dinner, and chose ice cream over fruit as his dessert of choice. The former prime minister also loved French cuisine, and made sure to always eat a good meal, even in the trenches.
Lindsay Lohan just can't seem to catch a break. The starlet found herself a mere hair away from a total wardrobe malfunction while exiting a helicopter in Brazil on March 30. Lohan, who was in the country to promote a clothing line, wore a slinky gray dress that slipped down to reveal more than she bargained for -- but luckily for the "Mean Girls" star her well-placed ponytail was there to save the day.
Canadian authorities said Tuesday they have opened a criminal investigation into the fiery wreck of a runaway oil train as the death toll climbed to 15, with dozens more bodies feared buried in the blackened, burned-out ruins of this small town.
Emerging from talks with President Barack Obama at the WhiteHouse, Pelosi skewered House Republican plans to vote onlegislation that would change Obama's healthcare law and said aSenate plan is preferable.
In Veracruz state, along Mexico's Gulf coast, 12 people died on Monday after their bus and two nearby homes were buried by a mountain landslide near the town of Xaltepec, Governor Javier Duarte told reporters.
The cancellation of pilot flying hours for training begansoon after the automatic budget cuts, called sequestration, weretriggered in March. The Pentagon is absorbing about $37 billionin cuts through Sept. 30, the end of this fiscal year.
The Kauai Civil Defense Agency recommends that every household maintain a home survival kit that is ready for use in emergencies. It should include basic first aid supplies and prescriptions as recommended by the family physician.
Dominican authorities said it was the first full-scale cocaine processing operation ever uncovered in the Caribbean. Cocaine lab refining is usually done in South America, before the final product is shipped in bulk.
None of this should be used by Obama as a partisan cudgel to gain seats in the 2014 elections, nor by GOP leaders as an opportunity to get their increasingly frayed party singing from the same songsheet, against the administration.
Press leaks that followed the raid, and the Obama Administrationâs cooperation with an Oscar-winning film about the raid, âZero Dark Thirty,â spawned a pair of IG investigations pushed by Rep. Pete King (R-L.I.)
And given the level of anxiety in world markets about just the beginning of the end of almost five years of near-zero U.S. interest rates, the prospect of more strident rate moves when they happen is a potentially daunting prospect.
Peña Nieto insisted, however, that the oil and electricity industries would remain under government control and that private companies could not claim petroleum reserves as their own even as opponents railed against changes they say run contrary to the national interest and risk handing over the country's greatest treasure to foreigners.
“Go get 13i38 from warehouse 2,” barks the army NCO to his subordinates. We know his name now, but the military personnel providing security in the detention center continue to refer to him, as with all detainees, by the reference number given to him when he arrived here.
The rival shows of strength only deepen the country's divisions since Morsi's fall -- and dramatically hike fears of violence. By mid-afternoon Friday, clashes and fistfights broke out between military supporters and Morsi backers in the Mediterranean coastal cities of Alexandria and Damietta and in a Cairo neighborhood, leaving at least 18 injured, according to Health Ministry spokesman Khaled el-Khateeb.
Environmental advocates have done their side no favors. The most eager have been caught in a sleight of hand. In the past, they used relatively brief periods of warming and short-term weather patterns to bolster their arguments about climate disruption — a tactic that has come back to bite them in the El Niño. Recent warming has been slower than the long-term trend — what has been called a “pause” or “hiatus.” Time scales that environmental advocates once touted as significant are now dismissed as irrelevant. Skeptics have cried gotcha.
â¢Â Josh Clemonsâ Kentucky career is on hold again after an examination confirmed an Achilles tendon injury for the sophomore running back attempting to return from an October 2011 knee injury. He will likely miss the 2013 season after having surgery.
Against the backdrop of the political stand-off, the European Union’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has met with both sides. According to local sources she has also met Mursi – unseen since his removal from power. So far no one is yielding, in fact the interim government wants protesters at the Cairo mosque cleared.
"We are thinking that it may go two weeks and get close to the October 17 date. Then the whole thing ratchets up in intensity. The debt limit fight and the budget fight are related in a way, so they provide each side with more pressure points," said David R. Kotok, chief investment officer at Cumberland Advisors, in Sarasota, Florida.
When John and Claire Somerville moved to their Victorian house in Royston, Hertfordshire, the cold and the damp were so bad that every week Claire had to scrub patches of black mould off the bathroom walls.
In the undercoverâs story, someone was already calling police when he arrived at the attack site near W. 178th St. The detective also said the level of danger for the overmatched Lien was diminishing, sources said.
He said the outlook did not account for as many shares asCigna might repurchase, or that the use of medical services likedoctors visits and hospital admissions could remain at the lowlevels of the past several years.
Nashville Police Chief Steve Anderson credited Friday's indictment to the painstaking work of detectives from the sex crimes unit and an electronics expert from the department. Nashville detectives even traveled to Palm Desert, Calif., for several days in late July working with the Riverside Co. Sheriff's Office in California to collect evidence.
"The roads are blocked, blast walls are back in the street and this means that there is a shrinking of space in the capital," the 22-year-old said in the fortified campus garden. "We wish it would become stable and safe again and to see Baghdad as a capital without cement walls."
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd hopes to deter an escalating number of asylum seekers who travel to Australia in rickety fishing boats from poor, often war-torn homelands through other countries such as Indonesia and Malaysia.
Indians buy as much as 2.3 tonnes of gold, on average, everyday - the weight of a small elephant - and what they don't giveto the gods is mostly hoarded. Jewellery is handed down asheirlooms and stored away with bars and coins as a hedge againstinflation or a source of quick funds in an emergency.
For another, Cone riled the Dodgers with a ghostwritten first-person column in the Daily News that Tommy Lasorda put in every playerâs locker before Game 2. Visibly shaken when word circulated of the Dodgersâ anger, Cone pitched poorly â though he redeemed himself with a gem in Game 6.
Aaron Cruden will return from injury to start at flyhalf in one of two changes to New Zealand's lineup against Argentina for the Rugby Championship test at Mar del Plata on Saturday. Andrew Hore is also back at hooker. Argentina made six changes after its 14-13 loss to Australia. MOVED: 512 words.
"For more than a decade I was constantly worried about the possibility of potentially life-threatening asthma attacks, frequent stays in hospital and the on-going impact on my quality of life. I hope that the decision in the UK will pave the way for all eligible patients in my position to access this life-changing drug," she said.
Ilja Gonciarov, the editor of Angliya, a newspaper for Russian expats in London, also admits he can see the funny side of New Russians in England. “I met [the late Boris] Berezovsky once at some Russia-related event near Russian embassy and was astonished by his bodyguards, who looked like a dictator’s army. I had never seen such comic bodyguards in the UK.”
“I am delighted that we were able to obtain substantial monetary recognition for Caroline but I fear the Government’s intended reforms to the financing of mesothelioma claims will bring an end to such public interest litigation.”
In 2001, the Iraqi-born billionaire ran into trouble in France over illegal payments that he was said to have received in connection with an oil refinery sale. The French applied for his extradition. Auchi telephoned Keith Vaz, then a Foreign Office minister, who made inquiries on his behalf. Eventually, Auchi gave himself up and received a 15-month suspended sentence and a £1.39 million fine. He has since appealed in vain against his conviction.
In addition to the Federal Reserve, the European CentralBank and the Bank of England also meet this week. The ECB andthe BOE are expected to repeat or refine their "forwardguidance" that borrowing costs will remain extraordinarily lowas long as growth is sub-par and inflation poses no threat.
"In my experience and in listening to others with similarexperiences, the regulators have been very smart about theprocess," said Edwards, who spoke generally about discussionswith regulators and not about any specific bank. "They're takingthe information gleaned during meetings, which is useful tothem, but not taking it completely at face value."
The government says that foreign direct investment has "created or safeguarded" over 7,500 jobs over the past three years, and announced that the AIO is aiming to double that figure over the next three years.
Alderson craves power hitting, going all the way back to his days as GM of the Bash Brothers in Oakland. He believes championships are built on pitching and power, and three years into the job here, the pitching part seems to be lining up nicely.
And so, as the reach of this federal administrative state grows unchecked, de Tocqueville explains the consequences: "It would be like the authority of a parent, if like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks on the contrary to keep them in perpetual childhood ... For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness: It provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances – what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?"
Thatâs what Giants corner Terrell Thomas thinks. The Eaglesâ fast break attack yeah, the same one that torched Big Blue for 439 total yards in Phillyâs 36-21 win on Oct. 6 has taken the NFL by storm, but Thomas said Wednesday that heâs not worried about it or big-play receiver DeSean Jackson, either.
It was the most ludicrous call in the history of sports. You don't overturn a homerun on that bogus techincality. You take the bat when the Yankees present it and say you will later evaluate it. You then give it back to the Royals and tell them they need to check the rulebook or it might cost them later. But I never understood the overturning of the homerun based on the wording of that rule. It figures that a loser like Nettles would have told Martin about it, he was jealous that Brett was so much better than him.
âThe Colorado workforce is ideal for expanding our capabilities to better serve our members,â Ramseier said. âThese are important jobs with solid benefits and many of the new positions will be specifically focused on helping our customers better navigate the changes in the health care system.â
The hip hop legend told a New York radio station that heâs as disappointed as fans over the technical glitches with the Samsung app that prevented many from downloading his new album, âMagna Carta Holy Grail,â when it landed July 4.
The latest figures showed banks paid out just £1.5m in compensation in September with 22 offers being accepted by customers. It brings the total they have paid out to only £2m since the regulator ordered a review of nearly 30,000 cases.
Although Rex Ryan said that Smith was âabsolutely tremendousâ in the opening drive, the rookie struggled at times as well. He completed four of his first five passes but then missed six of his next 11.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which wouldbe wound down in five years under the proposed bill, buymortgages from lenders and repackage them into MBS for investorswhich they issue with a guarantee. They were seized by thegovernment in 2008 during the financial crisis as they teeteredon the brink of collapse under the weight of souring loans.
The NCAA announced last month it will no longer allow Electronic Arts Inc. to use its logo starting next year. The move comes as the NCAA fights a high-profile lawsuit that says the governing body owes millions of dollars to former players for allowing their likenesses to be used for free.
Ohio is joining 25 states and the District of Columbia in either moving forward with expanding Medicaid or requesting modifications to the plan. Medicaid expansion is a major plank in Obama's health reform law, which aims to ensure that all Americans have access to affordable health insurance.
Leave a Reply