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Skelton is highlighting the military �because he doesn�t want to have to answer the questions about the economy and about his bad voting record 95 percent of the time with Nancy Pelosi,� Hartzler said in a recent interview. |
Military matters might carry more weight in the Fourth District than in the rest of the state. Of Missouri�s nine congressional districts, Skelton�s has the greatest number of military veterans � comprising about 14 percent of the population, according to Census Bureau surveys. |
The district also is home to Whiteman Air Force Base, Fort Leonard Wood and the headquarters of the Missouri National Guard. |
In a rare move, the producers of An Open Secret, the documentary about child molesters in Hollywood that bombed recently at the box office, are blasting the film’s director Amy Berg for not supporting it, saying she turned down “dozens” of requests for press interviews. Berg, who gave interviews to many media outlets —... |
It’s doubtful, however, that those would have helped the film’s prospects much anyway: Because of its sensational subject matter, it received widespread media attention – and still flopped, opening June 5 via distributor Rocky Mountain Pictures in nine theaters in Denver and Seattle (it grossed about $200 in that first... |
Berg, currently filming a documentary about the life of rock legend Janis Joplin, gave interviews about An Open Secret to Deadline, BuzzFeed, The Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap and Elle Magazine – but Hoffman says she turned down requests from major TV news networks that could have expanded the film and its cause to a wi... |
Berg declined comment, but sources insist she gave “tons of interviews” about the film, and that the producers’ claims are simply not true. They say that Berg, who received an Oscar nomination for Deliver Us From Evil, her 2006 documentary about child molestation in the Catholic Church, remains “totally committed” to t... |
An Open Secret struggled to find a distributor, and when it did, struggled at the box office and has yet to get a TV deal that could bring it to a wider audience. |
It is as though the nation has been placed in a high-speed accelerator. The dark Trump circus never seems to stop or even take a pause. There is no getting away from it. At risk of seeming a narcissist, I have to moan that there is a private aspect to the chaos and agitation that this whirlwind is reaping. |
For instance, coming home from work, I can’t resist flipping on the tube to see what misadventure Donald Trump has undertaken today. By the end of the broadcast, my wife and I have shaken our heads and fists so much that we don’t need to go to the gym. At 10:30 p.m., we tune into Late Night with Stephen Colbert. Albert... |
For millions, Trump is glass in the gut, and yet he has become an object that for some of us seems to compel constant meditation. If it weren’t for certain newspapers, I would not have any idea what was going on beyond the borders of Trumpworld. |
I am in my mid- sixties. The balloon of my existence could pop at any moment, and I don’t want to be forced to think and agitate about this empty suit of a human being for so many hours of the day. After a few deep breaths, I try to calm myself with the reminder that many other nations have had to endure leaders who we... |
These days, when I meet with friends, the first issue we resolve is whether or not we are going to risk getting churned up about Trump’s latest. Anger takes a bite out of people. At the same time, it can be fun to vent, especially with some pals. And yet, if our Incurious George of a president is a joke, he is an expen... |
For my part, I feel an obligation to stay informed and to dialogue about Trump. After all, I have friends who are undocumented workers. They are good people whom Trump has condemned to a perpetual feeling of fear and jagged-edged vulnerability. For them, one broken brake light could mean a quick drive to detention, dep... |
So talk we must, but for so many of us, Trump has wrought a strange form of personal collateral damage. He has cast a pall over our inner lives, a lingering premonition that a foot is about to come through the door, that bad, ugly things are about to happen. |
Help! I need to develop some spiritual jiu-jitsu, some way of protecting my inner life from being consumed by the man at the helm who seems to be steering our nation at the behest of his personal demons and insecurities. |
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At this time — now that police have left — traffic in the apartment complex is open and residents are free to enter and exit the complex. |
A 54-year-old white male is in the custody of the Salisbury Police Department after he barricaded himself inside his apartment Tuesday morning. |
Officers responded to the Island Club Apartments on Sharen Drive. Police could not clarify if anyone else was in the apartment with the man barricaded in the apartment, but no other arrests were made, police said. |
During the negotiations and investigation, police had limited communication with the man, they said. The police used "all investigative methods to resolve the situation safely," they said. |
Residents at the Island Club apartments were urged to stay in their apartments during the investigation, police said. However, at this time — now that police have left — traffic in the apartment complex is open and residents are free to enter and exit the complex. |
Police in a New Hampshire community say a 58-year-old woman is dead after she was hit by a car in Keene. |
Just before midnight Saturday, Keene police were called to the intersection of Washington and Woodbury streets where they found the victim, Noreen Whippie, of Keene, in the roadway. |
Whippie was taken to the Cheshire Medical Center where she later died of her injuries. |
Whippie was hit by a car driven by 28-year-old Bryan Bennett, of Keene. |
The investigation is continuing. Police say it does not appear that speed or alcohol use by the driver were factors in the incident. |
A crash this morning close to the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Crawley has left a road partially blocked. |
Two vehicles were reportedly involved in a collision on the A23 London Road, northbound at the A2011 Crawley Avenue. |
Police are said to be on the scene and delays are reported. |
A separate collision has also been reported on the B2036 Radford Road, which is also causing delays. |
In the middle of June, my husband Jim was sick two nights in a row. He was sick at night but not during the day. Both days he thought it was indigestion & took a familiar antacid for relief. Sunday & Monday he felt just OK. |
Tuesday he awoke at 3 am with pains in his abdomen. We both thought he had gas. I kept telling him to get up & walk, drink water, whatever. (Actually, I wanted to sleep.) Our 16-year-old grandson from Florida was visiting, so I took him to the basketball camp at Central that morning & then to meet Jim's sister for lunc... |
Everyone in the ER was great. They ran an EKG, followed by X-rays. The doctor on duty evidently suspected the gall bladder. Since Jim hadn't eaten a bite of food all day, they could run an ultrasound. He did indeed have a problem with the gall bladder. At some point in there they called a surgeon. In the meantime, Jim ... |
The next morning they ran a cat scan on Jim. It was suspected that he had a blockage in the bile duct, which he did. One doctor did a procedure that took care of that problem. He called the room & told me exactly what he had found & what he did. By this time Jim had jaundiced. |
His gall bladder was removed the following day. His surgeon always explained everything to us in a courteous manner. I'm very pleased with the surgeon's treatment while Jim was in the hospital & on our two office visits since. He came by to see Jim two or three times each day in the hospital. |
When we moved here almost five years ago, everyone seemed to complain about the old hospital. Then this nice new one was built. We had heard pros & cons about the new facility. Everyone who had anything to do with Jim was competent, cooperative, & pleasant. That includes doctors, nurses, technicians, the ER team & regi... |
Really glad Jim's issue was resolved. When I have "visited" the HMC I had similar experiences with professional, friendly and caring folks. |
I guess there are times when things don't always go well (we humans can be a challenging bunch) and that is what we usually hear about, the complications. |
It is always good the hear the successes as well, thanks. |
I went to Heritage Medical Center about a year ago with the worst headache ever. Keep in mind that I am the type of person that does NOT take medicine when I have a headache unless it is unbearable. I do NOT take medicine of any kind unless I just absolutely cant take the pain any longer. I only take my blood preasure ... |
Since the hospital decided to move WAYYY out the road makes it extremely inconveniant for people that live on the opposite side of Shelbyville then if and when I ever need to go to the hospital again I will be going to Tullahoma since it is just as close to me and since I have had a bad experience more then one time wi... |
My sister went to the hospital here with severe chest pain and was told that she had indigestion and they sent her home. She continued to have severe chest pain and couldnt stand it anymore she was driven to Tullahoma where they told her she had a heart attack. I could explain this story in detail but I wont. I will on... |
Be sure to pay that bill in 30 days or less. Anything over that and they will sue you. And if you only pay on it once a month, you'd better be sure you pay within 30 days each time, not 32 or 33 days because they will garnish your wages. Seems most everyone in town who goes there gets sued and garnished. Seems paying o... |
MGM Resorts International released its first corporate branding campaign two weeks before a gunman turned one of its resorts into a perch for the country’s deadliest mass shooting. The entertainment company shut down the campaign Sunday night as its employees worked to help the wounded, said Lilian Tomovich, MGM’s chie... |
The ill-timed campaign from McCann was called “Welcome to the Show” and featured a line that MGM had “one mission: blow the mind of all mankind.” You can watch the 60-second TV spot below. |
Tomovich had clearly planned to unveil a success story at the conference, where CMOs of major companies like Walmart and P&G share their greatest challenges and triumphs in TED-style talks to thousands of marketers. But instead, she spoke of how her city and co-workers are reeling. The gunman fired shots from a window ... |
“I wanted to take a moment to recognize the events of Sunday—the horrific, inexplicable events of Sunday night in Las Vegas,” Tomovich said. “When I was on a plane last night flying here, the first time in four days I had a chance to think, and I was wondering what I could say to this lovely audience here, and I guess ... |
The CMO said her presentation, which included the TV spot, was prepared before Sunday’s events. “Please, if you could understand, some of the material that you will see in here reflects the campaign that we launched, unfortunately, about two weeks ago and then immediately shut it down on Sunday night,” she said. Tomovi... |
MGM spent 18 months crafting and implementing the initiative internally before debuting its integrated campaign to the public. The goal was to transform it from a hotel and casino business to a global entertainment brand, a move it saw as vital after the recession of 2008 nearly bankrupted the company. |
Every employee received access to a hotline to resolve customer complaints on the spot, the ability to offer comps and the acronym SHOW as a customer service guide: Smile and greet, Hear their story, Own the experience, Wow the guest. |
That training helped some employees through this week’s darkest moments, Tomovich said. |
Belper Town chairman Alan Benfield has resigned from the club - less than 24 hours after sacking boss Aaron Webster. |
He confirmed the news on Monday morning and will be joined by fellow local businessmen Chris Balls and Paul Waldron in leaving the club. |
The club’s company secretary, Dave Laughlin said, “Alan and Chris have been valuable board members for 25 years with Paul being involved more recently. |
“There is no doubt that their involvement and financial support will be badly missed, but the club will carry on with the remaining directors and will look to make boardroom replacements over the next couple of months. |
“The hope is that we can identify find interested individuals who would be prepared to get involved with the club at Board level and help the remaining directors build for the future. |
“There have been rumours circulating about a possible sale of the club to an overseas investor but I’m pleased to say that these have not come to fruition and the club will remain in local hands, with local people making the decisions for the benefit of the club. |
“There is no doubt that these are challenging times for the club but I am confident that with the drive and enthusiasm of the remaining board members, we can rebuild the club after what has been a desperately difficult season. |
“We are fortunate that we own our own stadium, have facilities that are as good as any club at our level and our finances are manageable, despite the ongoing challenges of operating at our level in the National League System. |
“We are in a great position to move forward positively and with planning consent achieved for a new artificial training pitch at the stadium, we hope to make this a reality over the next 12 months so that the club can be fully self-reliant”. |
“In the meantime, we have started the process of appointing a new manager to success Aaron Webster and will also be looking to supplement our band of club volunteers on whom we depend to ensure that the club operates efficiently. |
“Accordingly, we would be interested in hearing from any individuals that would like to become involved with the club both on match days and throughout the week, with a variety of voluntary roles available across the club. |
Gavin Allott has been ruled out of Boston United’s clash at York City. |
The 10-goal striker has failed to get over a thigh injury picked up in last week’s defeat to Chorley. |
Defender Ryan Cresswell will make his debut after arriving from Mickleover yesterday while Nicky Wroe returns to the starting XI to face his former club. |
Max Wright also returns to the side with Jonathan Wafula, suspended Ben Middleton and Jake Wright, unavailable to face his parent club, missing out. |
YORK: Bartlett, Griffiths, Ferguson, Newton, Mirfin, McLoughlin, Moke, Burgess, Parkin, Burrow, Langstaff; Subs: Bencherif, York, Kempster, Harris, Whitley. |
UNITED: Willis, Davies, Smith, Wroe, Cresswell, Qualter, Thanoj, Abbott, Rollins, Walker, Wright; Subs: Wafula, Clare, Johnson, Slew, Jackson. |
Between hearing that Nicole Richie will be the first guest judge and now seeing Tim Gunn's usual fatherly concern erupt into straight-up consternation in a preview clip, we're a little concerned about the new "Runway" cast. |
In an preview clip of the new season, the contestants look more than a little behind for one of the challenges. As in: one designer's piece is still, well, in pieces on the table. Gunn is so frustrated that he drops what may end up becoming his new catchphrase for the season: "Recalibrate your ambitions." |
Overall, the whole scene makes us think this season's group might be in serious trouble with incomplete work and, quite frankly, underwhelming performance compared to what the designers had in mind for themselves. Granted, we're all hoping for drama (last season was decidedly underwhelming on that front), but we also w... |
While ATI and its newfound parent AMD continue discussing the potential benefits of actually pairing their technologies into one cohesive unit, now that their companies have been paired together in a similar fashion, their principal rival in the graphics arena decided it isn't waiting to make a similar play with Intel. |
NVidia today may have launched the stand-alone GPU-centric computer business all by its lonesome, with today's announcement of a kind of computer system specifically designed to mesh graphics processors together to perform rich math functions. |
The goal of nVidia's new Tesla computer, if it can be believed, is nothing short of staggering: over 2,000 gigaflops - billions of floating-point operations per second - in a system that meshes together four GPUs in parallel, each of which contains not two, not four, but 128 pipeline processors. If this is true, nVidia... |
Of course, the secret is that these GPUs aren't working in place of CPUs. They can't, because their instruction sets are not compatible. Applications have to be written in C and compiled the old-fashioned way, for execution through an operating system driver that dispatches math instructions to the GPU cluster's multip... |
It will be hard to make initial comparisons at this level of CUDA applications against traditional CPU-driven programs, because if you think about it, a "floating-point operation" is a concept that is based essentially on CPU architectures. In the GPU realm, where matrix calculations can drive thousands of parallel com... |
The first Tesla units are scheduled to go on sale this August. Don't expect it to be sold to the back-to-school crowd or to the gaming elite; this is a device that universities and research institutions will want to study. The problem they face now is, do they have to buy one in order to study it to see whether it's wo... |
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign senior research programmer John Stone has jumped the gun on his academic colleagues, and has already experimented with prototypes. |
In a prepared statement today, Stone said, "Many of the molecular structures we analyze are so large that they can take weeks of processing time to run the calculations required for their physical simulation. NVidia's GPU computing technology has given us a 100-fold increase in some of our programs, and this is on desk... |
The Tesla will support 32- and 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 3, 4, and 5; 32- and 64-bit SUSE Enterprise Linux versions 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3; and 32-bit Windows XP (curiously not 64-bit yet, and not Vista). |
This is a re-post of a piece by Andrew Stafford a Brisbane-based journalist who writes widely on music, sport and birds and birding. It was first published at Staffo’s Patreon page, where, for not much more than the price of a cup of coffee a month, you can read more of his wonderful words. You can—and should— follow S... |
The use and control of fire has long been assumed to be a skill unique to humans. Or at least, it’s a Western assumption – one that may not be shared by this country’s Aboriginal people, at least not those of northern Australia. According to a fascinating paper recently published in the Journal of Ethnobiology, it’s po... |
But the idea that “firehawks” (a generic term for three widespread Australian raptors, the Black Kite, Whistling Kite and Brown Falcon) might intentionally spread bushfires to smoke out prey has for decades been treated with scepticism in scientific circles. This carefully written paper, by multiple authors including A... |
It documents both Indigenous ecological knowledge and many first-hand observations by non-Indigenous people, including firefighters, of these avian pyromaniacs. As fires burn themselves out, the hawks pick up burning or smoking material – presumably at some risk to themselves – and carry it up to a kilometre before dro... |
There’s a delicious tension in the paper’s combination of new and ancient knowledge. It claims that across the world, sacred traditions connect raptors, crows and even cockatoos to the origins of fire. In Australia, it notes that around Ngukurr, in the Roper River region of the southern Top End, the Yabaduruwa ceremony... |
This is an extraordinary claim: that the First Nations people of this continent – the oldest known living culture on earth – might have learned at least one way of manipulating fire for their own ends simply by watching birds. |
Gosford muses over whether the tendency to dismiss such stories is a manifestation of cultural arrogance or, more innocently, a blind spot. “Mainstream Australian ornithology has never developed an appreciation of Aboriginal knowledge of birds, and so there’s this huge corpus of knowledge that’s just locked away,” he s... |
At the same time, he and his fellow authors were aware of a serious ethical issue: knowledge about firehawks was intimately connected to sacred ceremonies, sites and traditions. There is “inside” knowledge that only people who have been through the appropriate ceremonies are privy to. So, other than historical accounts... |
It’s hoped that future collaborations with Aboriginal authors will expand upon the knowledge summarised in the present paper in a way that will protect “inside” knowledge while reproducing “outside” accounts. For now, the new and most compelling data comes from a series of eyewitness observations, including by Aborigin... |
One is co-author Nathan Ferguson. Currently stationed at Tennant Creek 1000 kilometres south of Darwin, he put out fires for the Australian Army for seven years and has been with the Northern Territory Fire and Rescue Service for twice as long again. He reports witnessing avian fire-spreading on multiple occasions, and... |
The next step is to try to capture the behaviour on film, which the team are hoping to do during planned field experiments in May, to fully and finally silence the doubters. But heads have already been turned. Dr Stephen Debus, an expert on Australian raptors, and former Birds Queensland president Richard Noske both to... |
All this has major ramifications for land use and conservation across Australia’s northern savannahs and potentially beyond. Changed fire regimes by Europeans from those practiced for millennia by Aboriginal people wrought dramatic changes on the Australian landscape, a factor which imperilled (and continues to imperil... |
Gosford’s phone hasn’t stopped ringing since the paper was published. While the response in Australia has so far been somewhat muted, a story on New Scientist’s Facebook page was approaching 750K views at last count, with other publications expressing interest from all over the world. It’s already been cited in another... |
Computer Sciences Corp. has won a contract worth up to $307 million from the Air Force Air Education Training Command to provide base maintenance and operations support services, the company announced today. The one-year contract also has nine one-year options. |
Under the contract, CSC of El Segundo, Calif., will provide a wide scope of base maintenance and operations support for the 81st Training Wing at Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi. |
Services will include facilities operation and maintenance; receiving, inventorying and distribution of supplies; fuels management; weather forecasting and reporting; and housing and personnel management. |
The final decision on the contract award will be made after a 30-day public review period and administrative appeals process is completed, in accordance with an Office of Management and Budget mandate. |
Keesler Air Force Base is responsible for training about 4,700 students each day. |
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