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Health-food advocates will decry the insidious influence of the fast-food culture on our language, while taking care not to offend the Francophile culture — formerly known simply as Francophiles.
Merriam-Webster's top-words list is based on increases in lookups in 2014 and sudden spikes of interest that may have been driven by events (or commercial messages).
In the No. 2 spot was nostalgia, a word describing a sentiment that often motivates me to pick up my red, dog-eared Random House dictionary instead of Googling.
When my now-grown daughter was in elementary school, I used to tell her that the dictionary should be her best friend. Now it's the lightning bug to those lightning fast online searches.
The other words on Merriam-Webster's list are insidious, legacy, feminism, innovation, surreptitious, autonomy and morbidity.
Ask your New Year's Eve guests to use those in a single sentence.
There's no room for nostalgia in the Oxford Dictionaries lineup of notable words. Their word of the year is vape — as in what e-cigarette users do. According to their website, the editors select a word they feel reflects "the ethos, mood, or preoccupations of that particular year."
Last year, it was selfie.
Their shortlist this year included things too modern to be found on the pages of my old best friend — let alone in Mark Twain's pen.
A budtender is the person who serves customers in a cannabis dispensary. Slacktivism is a noun referring to things one does on-line in support of a political or social cause that require little time or commitment.
Part of the slacker culture, no doubt.
Linda Valdez writes for the Arizona Republic. Send your comments to letters@livingston­daily.com.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club are seeking funds to aid drummer Leah Shapiro as she recovers from brain surgery.
Last month the band cancelled all of their upcoming live dates after Shapiro revealed that she required treatment for Chiari malformations found in her brain. A GoFundMe page with a target of $33,000 (£20,000) has been set up with £8,600 raised at the time of writing (October 27).
Shapiro originally sought medical attention after she started experiencing symptoms including dizziness, insomnia, headaches, tingling/numbness in her hands and a stiff neck. She underwent surgery earlier this month, leaving her unable to play drums.
The drummer joined Black Rebel Motorcycle Club in 2008 as a replacement for founder member Nick Jago.
The massive annual American football contest is the perfect excuse to buy a new TV. We've got picks for every budget.
Super Bowl 53 between the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Rams is just a few days away. Is your TV ready for Sunday, Feb. 3?
This year's game will be available to watch more places than ever: You can watch it on CBS (CNET's parent company), stream it for free at CBSSports.com or stream it with a subscription on CBS All Access or via the NFL app -- among other options.
Once you figure out how to watch, the next step is where. You obviously want to watch it on the biggest possible screen -- and that means it's a great excuse to buy a new TV. Prices on many sets are getting cut as manufacturers and retailers tackle 2018 inventory in advance of 2019 models. If you want a new TV now, and don't want to wait until the fourth quarter of 2019 when prices fall again, it might be time to pull the trigger.
Unfortunately the TV market is packed with contenders. It's not easy to pick a sure winner from field level. That's where I come in. Think of me as your eye-in-the-sky offensive coordinator, without the headset.
The TVs below represent our five favorite picks among the best TVs we've reviewed in 2018. They come in sizes from small-bedroom-tiny to truly huge, and as befits an American football contest, skew big.
Can't fit a linebacker-size TV in your room? For smaller sizes and budgets, these TCLs are our main pick. The TVs comprise two series: the cheaper, smaller S305, which lack 4K resolution, and the larger, slightly more expensive S405. Both rock for people who prize streaming and convenience over image quality. The picture is fine, but what really sets them apart are dirt-cheap prices and Roku TV, our favorite Smart TV system at any price.
The best deal might be the 49-inch S325 series for $200. We haven't reviewed the S325 but TCL tells us image quality and features are the same as the S305, the only differences are cosmetic.
If you want a cheap set with better picture quality -- one that's available in big sizes -- ditch those TCLs and check out the Vizio E series. No, Vizio's Smart TV system can't hold a candle to Roku, but the E's image blows those TCLs out of the water. These are the cheapest TVs with full-array local dimming, and trust us, it makes a huge difference. And even the 65- and 70-inch models cost less than $1,000.
Getting a new TV for the big game should be a joyous occasion, and the TV that made CNET editors happiest this year -- at least in terms of picture quality for the money -- is the TCL 6 series. It belts out a seriously awesome picture for much less than you'd think, outperforming any cheaper TV, including that Vizio E series, and even beating TVs that cost a lot more. The Roku TV operating system, complete with Dolby Vision 4K HDR streaming, is just icing on the chili dip.
New for 2019, TCL is now selling a massive 75-inch version, just in time for the Super Bowl. Currently it's only available at Best Buy.
In our tests we liked the TCL slightly better for image quality overall, but this Vizio is also an excellent performer and has its advantages -- including a somewhat brighter image and better motion performance. The biggest reason it's on this list, however, is the price: Vizio's Super Bowl sale means the 65-inch size costs less than the TCL 6 series. The TCL is cheaper at 55 inches, however, while the 75-inch sizes cost the same.
You might not think "high-end" and "Vizio" belong in the same sentence, but wait until you watch football on the Quantum. This TV -- only available in that one healthy size -- performs better than anything else at its price, with searingly bright highlights and precise local dimming that combines to provide a real improvement over that TCL 6 series and the non-Quantum Vizio P-Series. It's the next-best TV you that isn't an OLED.
And now through Super Bowl Sunday, Costco and Sam's Club are selling it for $600 less than the original price, while supplies last. That $1,500 price, matching the Black Friday 2018 low, is an absolute steal, but of course you'll need a store membership to take advantage of it. And if you don't happen to have a membership, Vizio.com and Best Buy have it for $1,600, no membership required.
Even the New England Patriots don't have the same winning record as LG's OLED TVs. They've been the reigning picture quality kings for years, and the latest versions are sure to warm any football fan's soul. The B8P delivers perfect black levels and an excellent bright room picture along with the style of a super-thin cabinet and a price that, among elite TVs, can be viewed as almost affordable -- especially after its Super Bowl price drop. And in case you have the budget of, say, Robert Kraft, there's the 77-inch C8.
Nearly a month after announcing that he would contest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Varanasi, Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad Wednesday rescinded his decision, saying his outfit will support the SP-BSP alliance and the Dalit vote should remain intact to defeat the BJP.
"They call me an agent for questioning them. Yes, I am an agent of B R Ambedkar... If my own people were not in my way, I would have shown you (Akhilesh) that if we can vote you to power, we can pull you down too, he had said.
The alleged crimes tied to Trump's campaign manager and his associate run through last fall.
The office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller issued its latest series of indictments on Thursday afternoon, this time accusing Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, and Rick Gates, Manafort’s longtime associate, of a range of crimes, including laundering some $30 million and working as unregistered foreign agents for Ukraine.
The details expand upon an earlier indictment against Manafort — with one notable difference. In Thursday’s indictments, Manafort and Gates apparently continued hiding their scheme, via offshore accounts in places like Cyprus and the Seychelles, through late 2017. Indeed, per the indictment, Gates was lying to his tax preparer about foreign bank accounts as recently as October.
The indictment adds that Manafort, “with the assistance” of Gates, laundered some $30 million — “income that [Manafort] concealed” from the Treasury and Justice Departments. Gates, per the indictment, also obtained some $3 million via the offshore accounts.
Many of the details in the new indictment are shared with those in the October indictment, including the usage of offshore accounts. However, the new indictment goes into greater detail regarding how both Manafort and Gates allegedly worked around financial safeguards, including how they swapped and edited PDFs and Word documents.
Earlier this week, Gates had reportedly agreed to a plea deal with Mueller regarding his work with Manafort — much of which involved the regime of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who was officially ousted from power four years ago today. The new indictment, however, appears to throw cold water on the likelihood of a plea deal in the immediate future.
The latest development follows a flurry of indictments handed down from the special counsel’s office, including another indictment on Tuesday issued against Alex Van Der Zwaan, who was charged with lying to both the special counsel’s office and FBI agents regarding his communications with Gates.
Van Der Zwaan pleaded guilty to the charge.
The home secretary, Theresa May, defied the American authorities on Tuesday by halting the extradition of British computer hacker Gary McKinnon, a decision criticised by the US state department but welcomed with delight by campaigners and politicians across parties in the UK.
In a dramatic House of Commons statement, May told MPs she had taken the quasi-judicial decision on human rights grounds because of medical reports warning that McKinnon, 46, who has Asperger's syndrome and suffers from depressive illness, could kill himself if sent to stand trial in the US.
The irony that May's most popular decision as home secretary was taken because of the Human Rights Act, which she has pledged to scrap, was not lost on her critics. But in a promised overhaul of the extradition laws that accompanied the decision, May indicated that future home secretaries would be stripped of the very power that she had used to save the computer hacker.
McKinnon's mother, Janis Sharp, said May had been "incredibly brave" to "stand up" to the Americans. She said she was overwhelmed after the "emotional rollercoaster" the family had been through in the past 10 years.
McKinnon, from Wood Green, north London, could not speak when he first heard the decision but then cried and hugged his mother.
"He felt like he was a dead person," Sharp said. "He had no job, he didn't go on holiday … he felt worthless … Thank you, Theresa May, from the bottom of my heart – I always knew you had the strength and courage to do the right thing."
McKinnon's MP, David Burrowes, who had threatened to resign from the government if the extradition went ahead, said May had saved McKinnon's life: "Today is a victory for compassion and the keeping of pre-election promises."
McKinnon was first indicted by an American grand jury in November 2002 for hacking into US military computers, including the Pentagon and Nasa, from his north London bedroom while he was looking for UFOs. He could have faced a prison sentence of up 70 years under US law.
The extradition order against McKinnon has been withdrawn and it will now be for the director of public prosecutions to decide whether he should be prosecuted in Britain.
A spokeswoman for the state department, Victoria Nuland, said: "The United States is disappointed by the decision to deny Gary McKinnon's extradition to face long overdue justice in the United States. We are examining the details of the decision."
The US authorities have described McKinnon's actions as the "biggest military computer hack of all time". The Washington Post observed that the decision "could ignite tensions in an otherwise close transatlantic relationship", while the former White House counsel Douglas McNabb said the US attorney's office would be furious.
The decision, which is the first time an extradition has been halted under the 2003 US-UK treaty, prompted immediate delight from those who campaigned to prevent McKinnon's removal and politicians from all parties.
Nick Clegg said he wanted to pay tribute to Sharp's determination to speak up for her son over 10 years. "I've long argued that I think it would have been wrong to send someone as vulnerable as Gary McKinnon to the United States and also I'm delighted that the home secretary has set out some plans about how we rebalance the extradition arrangements between the UK and the USA," the Liberal Democrat leader said.
The only discordant note came from the former Labour home secretary Alan Johnson, who said the hacker's human rights case had been rejected by judges in 2009 and claimed May had made the decision "in her party's best interest; it is not in the best interests of the country". He disclosed that the US authorities had been prepared to allow McKinnon to serve his sentence in a British prison when Johnson rejected McKinnon's earlier appeals.
Other MPs and campaigners expressed the hope that May would now use her discretion to halt the extradition of British student Richard O'Dwyer, who is accused of infringing US copyright laws. "Home secretaries have to make these decisions," said Keith Vaz, the chairman of the Commons home affairs select committee. "We cannot hand all the decisions to the judges to make on our behalf."
The home secretary told MPs that the treaty, which has been criticised as "lop-sided", was "broadly sound". But she made an important concession to critics, announcing that a "forum bar" would be introduced.
This will give a British court the power to bar prosecution overseas if it believes it will be fairer for the accused to face a British trial. This change may, however, take some time to come into effect as, rather than implementing an existing clause in the 2003 Extradition Act, May will introduce fresh legislation to overcome problems of delay and possible "satellite litigation".
She confirmed to MPs her intention to scrap the home secretary's discretion under the Human Rights Act that enabled her to prevent McKinnon's extradition. "Matters such as representations on human rights grounds should, in future, be considered by the high court rather than the home secretary.
This change, which will significantly reduce delays in certain cases, will require primary legislation."
She opened the door for more wide-ranging reform of the extradition process to reduce delays of up to 14 years by looking again at the provision of legal aid for terror suspects in national security cases and introducing a permission stage for appeals to UK courts.
The former Lib Dem leader Sir Menzies Campbell told May the treaty still needed reform, in particular the standard of proof required. He hoped that no British citizen would be sent to the US unless there was "probable cause".
The Liberty director, Shami Chakrabarti, welcomed the McKinnon decision. "This is a great day for rights, freedoms and justice in the United Kingdom," she said. "The home secretary has spared this vulnerable man the cruelty of being sent to the US and accepted Liberty's longstanding argument for change to our rotten extradition laws."
But the family of Babar Ahmad, who along with Talha Ahsan was deported two weeks ago to the US on terrorism charges, accused the legal system of double standards. "We strongly welcome the decision not to extradite Gary McKinnon. We would not want his family to experience the pain and suffering we have all been enduring since Babar was extradited," they said.
"However, questions do need to be asked as to why, within two weeks, a British citizen with Asperger's accused of computer-related activity is not extradited, while two other British citizens, one with Asperger's, engaged in computer-related activity are extradited. A clear demonstration of double standards."
Gary McKinnon: a case of double standards?
As investigators press industry, FanDuel CEO opens the door for government rules.
Amid a glaring spotlight of attention from federal and state officials, the CEO of one of the nation’s largest daily-fantasy sites said Thursday that government regulation of the industry would be welcome.
In a letter to customers, FanDuel CEO Nigel Eccles said that the industry was now large enough that an industry-wide approach was needed to ensure the integrity and legality of the games.
“To be clear, our industry needs strong, common sense, enforceable consumer protection requirements to ensure its continued growth and success,” Eccles wrote.
The letter comes just days after the fantasy industry announced its own self-policing body, headed by former Obama administration Deputy Labor Secretary Seth Harris. The Fantasy Sports Con­trol Agency would set internal standards and establish an auditing and transparency system.
But given the amount of scrutiny on the booming industry, it seems almost inevitable that some state and federal regulation is coming down the pike. Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee have been probing the sites, and the committee is expected to hold a hearing on the industry.
Earli­er this month, Nevada barred daily fantasy, say­ing that it was gambling and re­quired a li­cense to op­er­ate in the state. The Mas­sachu­setts Gam­ing Com­mis­sion is set to con­sider the is­sue as well this week, join­ing oth­er states, such as Illinois, that are re­view­ing the in­dustry. The Justice De­part­ment and the New York at­tor­ney gen­er­al have also opened up an in­vest­ig­a­tion in­to the sites after it was re­vealed that a DraftK­ings em­ploy­ee with ac­cess to the site’s data had won $350,000 on the com­pet­ing site Fan­Duel (the site claims the em­ploy­ee did not have ac­cess to the in­form­a­tion while play­ing on Fan­Duel).
The letter, then, would seem to be a way to get ahead of a government crackdown and recognize the realities of the industry, said Marc Edelman, an associate professor at the Baruch College Zicklin School of Business.
Eccles’s letter says that there have been “smart, but tough proposals” in several state legislatures that “can serve as the basis for the sensible regulation of the fantasy sports industry.” Among the specific issues he says could be addressed are age verification, protection of user information, and requirements of third-party audits.
In a statement, a spokesman for DraftKings said the company was "committed to working with the Fantasy Sports Control Agency, the FSTA and our partners in the industry, as well as all relevant government authorities."
"We are seeing a number of state regulators and other authorities taking a reasoned and measured approach to the daily fantasy sports business and hope that trend continues along with due consideration for the interests of sports fans across the country who love to play these games," the spokesman added.
The industry has existed in a strange gray area of gambling law. The sites—where users pay to par­ti­cip­ate in a cash-prize con­text on a daily or weekly basis—are leg­al thanks to a loop­hole in the 2006 Un­law­ful In­ter­net Gambling Act. But even the author of that carve-out has said that the daily sites aren’t what he had in mind.
The sites have defended themselves, saying that they are not gambling operations, but instead games of skill (they’ve also been defended by executives from leagues like the National Football League and Major League Baseball, which back the daily sites). That would clear them of the regulations and scrutiny required of online gambling.
And Harris has said that the self-policing body would fill the role of government investigation, freeing up government resources for other matters.
But the question is increasingly popping up in states and the federal government. It even made an appearance at Wednesday’s Republican presidential debate, when Jeb Bush was asked if the daily-fantasy sites should be regulated (he said it was “day trading without any regulation at all” and called for more scrutiny).
I. Nelson Rose, a professor at Whittier Law School and an expert on gaming law, said that with the big money backing daily-fantasy sites from sports leagues and media companies like ESPN, it’s unlikely the sites will disappear entirely, especially as cultural acceptance for gambling seems to be growing. He said that there could be legislation in the future to clarify the definition of fantasy sports, with stipulations that the contests take place over multiple days and require trades.
“DFS may be getting hit almost every day. But it has not, and will not, throw in the towel. We are still in the early rounds,” Rose wrote in a column for the journal Gaming Law Review and Economics.
Eccles acknowledged the newness of the daily-fantasy industry, comparing it to Netflix or StubHub, the ticket-resale site. And with that newness, he said, comes scrutiny.
Edelman said that daily fantasy essentially faces two choices: to be a legal, regulated industry like sports gambling in parts of Europe, or to be outlawed like online poker, which is now legal only in a handful of states.
The following item was taken from the Sept. 17 through 23, 1911, Examiner.
Grain Valley now has both passenger and freight service by motor cars between this place and Kansas City. E.E. Storms has been carrying passengers in his auto for some time, and last week, A.H. Rice and J.H. Shaw had a truck frame built for their machine and are now making daily trips, hauling produce to the city and bringing back merchandise for the merchants there.
The diagnosis will probably be made by a doctor who specializes in skin care, called a dermatologist. The dermatologist will look at the skin growth and take a sample, called a biopsy , to test for cancerous cells. The doctor will then decide on a treatment plan based on the size, growth, subtype, and location of the tumor.
Many times in the modern enterprise we send hundreds of emails to people we’ve never met. We call companies for assistance, but again, there is no connection to this living breathing person on the other end of the line. Well, recently, industry leading B2B customer service support software developer TeamSupport released a new product, which will aid in improving this relationship and literally put a face with a name.
The new product, Customer Insight, will grab information that is publicly accessible (LinkedIn (News - Alert), for example) and offer agents a full image of the customer. The new customer software solution adds images and profile data from LinkedIn and populates the customer’s file with company information, allowing agents and customers have more “personable” interactions.
"Business success is all about building strong relationships, and it helps people connect when they can put a face with a name," said Robert C. Johnson, CEO of TeamSupport. "Customer Insights helps support agents get to know their customers better and form closer relationships by pulling publicly available photos and information into the customer database. It helps agents get a better sense of the person on the other end of the line."
TeamSupport aims to provide B2B firms with customer service software solutions improving the way customer service is delivered. In this instance, Customer Insight provides the agent with a more complete customer portrait giving added insight to provide an exceptional level of service.
Today’s digital age may offer greater connectivity, but with each innovation comes less in the way of actual human connection. TeamSupport is providing greater context to customer service relationships, and improve that human element. And, with customer being king, any advantage that can be offered must be leveraged. For too long business has been dehumanized; the industry is past due for this type of solution. Well played TeamSupport.
Business transformation begins with personal transformation. Recycling your usual skills only recycles your past. Only by recharging your leadership mojo — getting back to your basic beliefs and rediscovering your passion in light of a new reality — can you transform yourself and your company. Seeing the world as existing to serve you is obsolete. It’s not about you anymore; it’s about others you serve.
Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa, and other social reformers had it right: They did not start out to be social reformers; they just wanted to make things right. They started with themselves, then their neighborhood, and then the world. So, mojo starts with you. You can change any circumstance if you change your view of the situation.
BOSTON/HOUSTON (Reuters) – Climate activists said on Tuesday they would take a tough shareholder resolution off the table at Exxon Mobil Corp after the company agreed to provide new details about how climate change could affect its business.
But top U.S. oil and gas producers may still face dissension at their springtime shareholder meetings as investors look for more of them to provide additional details on a range of climate topics such as greenhouse gas reduction plans.
Exxon had been the focus of attention after a majority of investors in May backed a call for more disclosure about the impact that climate policies could have on its business, capping a wave of support for such resolutions.
In turn, one of the sponsors of the May resolution, New State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, moved to withdraw a refiled version of the shareholder resolution for Exxon’s 2018 meeting, his representatives said Tuesday.
Officials there, and at other investment funds, said their efforts were hardly over. Pat Doherty, DiNapoli’s director of corporate governance, said the office has filed a new round of climate proposals for the 2018 annual meetings of companies including Chesapeake Energy Corp and Southwestern Energy Co.