Premier Blaine Higgs has said the province will stick with its original commitment to spend $10 million on the Games, and he insisted his government won’t spend another penny.
For someone picked fourth in a draft that was supposedly lacking in depth, Paul Desiderio will have some of the spotlight trained on him.
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A set of explosives detonated Tuesday morning and collapsed the east structure of the Tappan Zee Bridge without incident
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Striking teachers in Reseda, California, on january 14 received musical support from student Michael Lum, who played guitar and sang Tear the Fascists Down by Woody Guthrie outside Cleveland High School as teachers picketed. “There were dozens of students joining us on the picket line despite the weather, bringing their energy and creativity with them,” said Jessica Peroff, who shot this video. Teachers from Los Angeles Unified School District began a strike on Monday, the first in nearly 30 years. Читать дальше...
With credit for time in jail, Joseph Porter will serve 13-plus years in prison and the balance of the nearly 21-year term on supervised release.
I subscribe to a listserve devoted to the digital humanities. Recently another subscriber asked us for our thoughts about Wikipedia. Here's my response.
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I’ve got three core comments on Wikipedia: 1) I’ve been using it happily for years and am, for the most part, satisfied. 2) I think it’s important to note that it covers a much wider range of topics than traditional encyclopedias. 3) If I were teaching, I would probably have graduate students, and perhaps advanced undergraduates as well, involved in editing Wikipedia. Читать дальше...
Here are five reasons the UK's National Health Service (NHS) is "superior" to healthcare in the US, according to an American living in Britain.
BALDWIN CITY, Kan. – Both of Baker University's bowling teams have reached the top-50 as the women currently rank 24th and the men currently rank 42nd in the most recent College Bowling Rankings.
The Macedonian parliament's vote to rename the country and thus remove the biggest obstacle to its integration into Western institutions is evidence that intractable political issues are best resolved through the traditional backroom dealings of representative democracy rather than through the direct expression of popular will.
When I lived in the US, I rarely went to the doctor. I didn't have work-provided health insurance and I couldn't afford any of the plans with exceptionally high premiums offered to individuals on the marketplace. Читать дальше...
Arsenal fans have taken to Twitter in anger after reports state that their chief scout, Sven Mislintat, is set to leave the club following disagreements within the Gunners’ structure between the talent spotter and the new regime, spearheaded by Director of Football Raul Sanllehi. This is according to The Independent, who state that Bayern Munich are keeping tabs on the former Borussia Dortmund scout’s situation at the Emirates with the intention of poaching him as they plan an overhaul at the Allianz Arena. Читать дальше...
With the arrival of the Xpander in April 2018, Mitsubishi Motors Philippines Corporation (MMPC) brought to our shores the brand’s futuristic X-shaped façade called the new generation Dynamic Shield.
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There’s something noticeably missing in Jasmine Alkhaldi’s medal collection from past Southeast Asian Games.
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With parts from the Challenger and Charger SRT Hellcat, this Super Charger is seriously sweet.
Today, the research center that brought us Nobel Prize-winning news of incomprehensibly tiny particles announced its plans to get a whole lot bigger.
Читать дальше...The director of “Vice” says he wasn’t exactly shocked by a report that Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump walked out of a showing of the Dick Cheney biopic.“That’s one of the least surprising things I’ve ever heard,” McKay said on Entertainment Weekly’s...
UK currency completes round-trip for the day after sharp moves around historic vote
More parents grow concerned with vaccine safety.
In what could be regarded as a derogatory slur against non-Goans, Tourism Minister Manohar Ajgaonkar on Tuesday said Goans would be given first preference in an upcoming beach cleaning work contract...