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Nova Scotia welcomed 2.1 million visitors in 2006, bringing in an estimated $1.31 billion in revenues. Final year-end tourism statistics were released today, Feb. 2. The preliminary revenue estimate is up 1.7 per cent from 2005, and is on par with 2004. There was no change in the number of visitors or room nights sold compared with 2005. Room nights sold varied by region, from a five per cent increase in the Annapolis Valley, to a six per cent decrease on the Eastern Shore. “Nova Scotia’s tourism industry held its ground last year, despite many changes in the global marketplace,” said Len Goucher, Minister of Tourism, Culture and Heritage. “Government and the industry have launched a new tourism plan that identifies our challenges, and outlines new directions to attract more visitors and increase tourism revenues.” Following the national trend, visitation was down eight per cent from the United States in 2006, and two per cent from overseas. One per cent more visitors came to Nova Scotia by air, and there was no change in the number of visitors coming by road. In December 2006, there were three per cent fewer visitors and 12 per cent fewer room nights sold, compared with the same month in 2005. Nova Scotia’s comprehensive system for reporting tourism statistics includes counting overnight visitors — excluding Nova Scotia residents — at all entry points to the province, and gathering the number of room nights sold from licensed accommodation operators. Detailed tourism statistics can be found on the Department of Tourism, Culture and Heritage website at www.gov.ns.ca/dtc/pubs/insights .
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Thursday granted BJP leader Mukul Roy protection from coercive action for 10 days to enable him to move a trial court in Kolkata for anticipatory bail in connection with a cash recovery case there. While granting the relief to him, Justice A K Chawla asked Roy to join the investigation in the case and to be available for questioning on Friday. With the direction, the court disposed of the BJP leader’s plea challenging the notices issued to him by Kolkata police, represented by senior advocate Siddharth Luthra, to appear before it for questioning in the case. Also Read – Uddhav bats for ‘Sena CM’Roy, represented by senior advocate Arvind Nigam and advocate Sameer Kumar, had claimed that the notices were issued to him on a West Bengal address when he was actually residing in Delhi. The claim was opposed by the Kolkata Police. The case pertains to the recovery of Rs 19 lakh from a person in Burrabazar area of Kolkata on July 31, 2018, leading to his arrest along with a few others. Roy’s phone number allegedly featured in one of the arrested persons’ call list. On July 29, a Kolkata city court issued an arrest warrant against Roy in connection with the case after the Burrabazar police station moved a plea alleging he was not cooperating with the investigation.
Kolkata: The children have trespassed into the domain of the adults but their parents do not mind, at least in this case. As the lion’s share of reports in media, particularly television, and discussions among people in public transport and at home revolves around the on-going Lok Sabha elections, children take note and improvise it in their own way. They have invented a new game — the “vote-vote game” — that they play in their pool car while going to or returning from school. Also Read – Bengal family worships Muslim girl as Goddess Durga in Kumari Puja”Our parents say vote is very important. But we cannot vote till we grow up. So we are playing vote-vote game,” said Samadrita, a 10-year-old girl who studies in class 5. She plays this new game with her friends in the pool car — Trisrota, Nabanita, Ayush, Vidissa, Soumili and others — who are students of two-three schools in the north eastern part of Kolkata. Asked to whom people vote, they said in unison: “Parties”. They do know names of parties. “Trinamool… BJP… Congress..,” said Nabanita, a class 4 student. They came to know from their parents that someone becomes the prime minister after election. So, how is this vote-vote game? Also Read – Bengal civic volunteer dies in road mishap on national highway”We divide ourselves into two parties and elect a prime minister. All of us has to listen to the prime minister,” 7-year-old Soumili was serious. Trisrota said they elect the prime minister by raising their hands and counting them. And in case of a tie, the “driver uncle” of the pool car is entitled to a casting vote. “Even I have to listen to the prime minister. I play the song the prime minister wants to listen to. The prime minister also gets the first share of tiffin,” Prabir Haldar, 30, who drives a pool car, said with a smile. Parents of these children said their wards get excited to inform them about the result of the game. “My son was very excited after returning from school the other day. He was elected the prime minister,” said Shrabani Dutta, mother of Ayush, a class 3 student. “He asked a lot of questions about elections and political parties. He even asked to which party I am going to vote,” she said. Psychologist Shreya Ghosh said children are by nature curious and they learn from their surroundings. “But parents must take care that the game remains as such. Children try to emulate what they see. They should not indulge in the ugly sides of elections like fights,” she said.
THE NUMBER OF LIVES lost to suicide in Ireland in 2012 was slightly lower than that in 2011, according to official data published today.The Central Statistics Office data indicates that 507 people took their own lives in 2012, a figure which marks a slight decrease on the 525 indicated in the office’s figures for 2011.The suicide prevention charity Console said the nominal decrease in suicides did not reveal the full picture, and supported calls for a real-time register to note suicide deaths.Its director of services Ciaran Austin said the figures showed a 46 per cent increase in the number of people over 55 who were taking their own lives.“The regional data is also alarming, with several counties recording rates of suicide well above the national average of 11.6 per 100,000 population,” he said.Those included Limerick, which had the country’s highest rate of suicide, at 26.6 per 100,000 deaths. Cork city had a rate of 25.6 suicide deaths per 100,000, while Wexford had a rate of 21.2 and Mayo 19.9.Though there was some good news in the figures for suicides among those aged between 15 and 24, which fell slightly in 2012, Austin said Ireland still had the fourth-highest suicide rate for that age group of any EU member state.He also raised concerns about the number of deaths which were recorded as being of “undetermined” cause.Those figures include cases where a suicide is the likely cause of death, but where a coroner cannot formally declare this, due to the presence of other factors such as a significant alcohol intake.Separately, the CSO’s figures indicated that there was only one case in Ireland in 2012 where a woman died as a result of complications in pregnancy, childbirth or puerperium, the state closely following childbirth.That is recorded as being a woman aged between 25 and 34, whose death was recorded in the fourth quarter of 2012.Here are some numbers if you need to speak with someone: Samaritans 1850 60 90 900 or email jo@samaritans.orgTeen-Line Ireland 1800 833 634Console 1800 201 890Aware 1890 303 302Pieta House 01 601 0000 or email mary@pieta.ieChildline 1800 66 66 66Read: Parents had to console garda sent to the scene of their son’s suicide
Cannabis : vers la dépénalisation en Californie ?États-Unis – Lors du référendum de mi-mandat organisé le 2 novembre prochain, les habitants de Californie vont devoir se prononcer sur la dépénalisation de la consommation de marijuana dans leur État.La Californie se déchire en vue du référendum conjoint aux élections de mi-mandat. Objet du scandale : la proposition 19, qui vise à dépénaliser la consommation de cannabis dans l’État, la plante étant déjà autorisée pour un usage thérapeutique depuis 1996. La nouvelle loi autoriserait sa consommation sans restriction pour les adultes.Interrogés par sondage, les Californiens seraient 53% à dire non, et seulement 43% à approuver la dépénalisation. Ces derniers sont majoritairement des démocrates, concentrés dans les agglomérations de Los Angeles et San Francisco. Cependant, quelle que soit l’issue du scrutin, dans les faits, la consommation de marijuana est déjà dépénalisée en Californie : la possession de moins de 28 grammes n’est passible que d’une amende de 100 dollars maximum, sans poursuites et sans inscription sur le casier judiciaire. Le 22 octobre 2010 à 11:27 • Emmanuel Perrin
There is nothing miniature about Doctor Who. Except these new releases from Warlord Games.The pewter and plastic models span more than 50 years of stories and characters—including the Doctor himself, as well as companions and enemies.And soon, you’ll be able to recreate the battle in Canary Wharf with Warlord’s first Who-themed tabletop skirmish game, “Exterminate!” Expected for release this spring (so, any day now), the title pits Daleks against Cybermen in a fight to the unemotional finish.Three levels of gameplay—harsh “Battle” environment, “Adventure” world, “Episode” challenges—are each dictated by eight scenarios that come with the game, according to the BBC. BBCThe initial release comes with DIY snap-fit plastic miniatures of the iconic villains and illustrated rule books with “a wealth of information and photographs.” Future expansion packs will introduce other foes and allies (like Silurians, Sontarans, and UNIT), allowing players to grow their game and collection.“We’ve been tirelessly researching episodes both new and old, sculpting miniatures and working back and forth with the BBC to ensure the results are completely authentic,” the company website said.A number of sets are already available for purchase, including the Tenth Doctor and companions (Rose Tyler, Martha Jones, Donna Noble, Wilf Mott) and the Twelfth Doctor and companions (Clara Oswald, Madame Vastra, Jenny Flint, Strax).BBCFans can also snag The Silence, Judoon, Zygons, and long-forgotten Tetraps—a test piece for a new sculptor, according to Warlord Games’ Head of Product Design, Paul Sawyer—plus two figures (The Ghost and Dr. Sims) from 2016 Christmas special “The Return of Doctor Mysterio,” among others.Warlord hopes to broaden its Doctor Who horizons over the next year with more plastics and more metal.“We are ramping through them at the moment,” Sawyer said in a recent Q&A session with the game maker. “As we speak, I’m awaiting the next batch of [3D-printed] designs through, which includes Victor Kennedy, the Abzorbaloff and Missy, among many others.”Stream all of Doctor Who now for free with your Amazon Prime membership.
Let us know what you like about Geek by taking our survey. Stay on target Unless you’re on the verge of a very important breakthrough, it’s decidedly unlikely you’ll be around to see the Sun die in approximately five billion years.Earth technically won’t be around to see it, either: Our beloved planet is expected to be vaporized by the expanding star.But that hasn’t tempered scientists, still curious about what might happen post globe-annihilating explosion.New research by a team of international astronomers predicts the Sun will turn into a massive ring of luminous, interstellar gas and dust—aka a planetary nebula.(Fun fact: The term is a misnomer that originated in the 1780s with astronomer William Herschel who, while viewing an emission nebula through his telescope, mistook the glowing shells of ionized gas for planets.)Scientists long believed our Sun may not follow a similar fate; its mass was thought too low to create a visible planetary nebula. A new data model that predicts the lifecycle of stars, however, tells a different story.“When a star dies, it ejects a mass of gas and dust—known as its envelope—into space,” explained study co-author Albert Zijlstra, a professor at the University of Manchester.This, he continued, reveals the star’s core. Which, at this point in its lifecycle, is running out of fuel and inching closer to death.“It is only then the hot core makes the ejected envelope shine brightly for around 10,000 years—a brief period in astronomy,” Zijlstra said in a statement. “This is what makes the planetary nebula visible.”The data model, as described by a paper published this week in the journal Nature Astronomy, also answers a 25-year-old cosmic question.A quarter of a century ago, astronomers discovered that it is possible to determine the distance of a galaxy from the appearance of its brightest planetary nebulae.And while the data supported these claims, the scientific models did not. New standards suggest that, after the ejection of the envelope, stars heat up three times faster than previously thought, making it easier for a low-mass star like the Sun to form a bright planetary nebula.In fact, our Sun is almost exactly the lowest-mass star that can still produce a visible, albeit faint, planetary nebula.“Problem solved, after 25 years!” Zijlstra boasted.“This is a nice result,” he added. “Not only do we now have a way to measure the presence of stars of ages a few billion years in distant galaxies, which is a range that is remarkably difficult to measure, we even have found out what the sun will do when it dies.”
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The civil war has torn the Asian country for seven years, but now they will be playing in the AFC Asian Cup, trying to give fans happinessFor seven years there has been a civil war in the Asian nation of Syria.And now, the country is sending 23 men to represent them in the 2019 AFC Asian Cup in the United Arab Emirates.The footballers want to take this opportunity and exchange the goals they score at the tournament for smiles.“Fans are the most important weapon of our team. I’m aware of our fans who will fill the stands and that’s not something that I haven’t dealt with before in Germany,” German coach Bernd Stange told The Gulf News.
Quiz: How well do you know the nicknames of the Asian national teams? Boro Tanchev – March 27, 2019 Today we would like to test your knowledge about the nicknames of the Asian national team. Good luck and have fun!“The fans are our No 1 player and our team wants to give their best possible gift to them.”“They do it alone, they don’t need a coach. You can’t teach them confidence; confidence comes with results,” he added.“I was in Syria when I was the coach of Singapore and they were at a low level because of the situation, but what they’ve done over the last three years — by going and playing abroad for big clubs in West Asia — is amazing.”“It comes from them alone, it’s not a matter of coaching,” he commented.
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced restrictions Thursday for king salmon fishing in the Kenai and Kasilof Rivers in order to try and meet escapement goals.On the Kenai, king fishing is closed in the early run, from May 1st through June 30th, from the mouth of the river all the way upstream to the outlet of Skilak Lake. For the late run, from July 1st to July 31st, king fishing is closed from the outlet of Skilak Lake downstream to the Fish and Game regulatory marker 300 yards downstream of the mouth of Slikok Creek. Fishing will still be allowed in the lower river.On the Kasilof River, king fishing will be restricted during the early run, from May 1st through June 30th. Anglers can keep can keep naturally produced kings on Tuesdays and Saturdays only. Those are distinguished from hatchery fish because they still an adipose fin. The bag and possession limit is two fish, with only one being a naturally produced king.The rest of the week, naturally produced kings may not be targeted, removed from the water or kept. Only a single, unbaited-hook, artificial lure will be allowed from the mouth of the Kasilof upstream to the Sterling Highway bridge.King runs to the Kenai and Kasilof continue their recent trend of expected low returns, causing the department to take preemptive action to get as many kings into spawning beds as possible. If the run returns improve, fishing can be liberalized.
The difficult and painful topic of sexual assault and the trauma that follows will be the discussion tomorrow evening at the Anchorage museum. The conversation be held after a staged reading of a personal essay called White Horse, about a campus rape and the aftermath, written by Elise Goldbach and featured in the current issue of The Alaska Quarterly Review. English Professor Dr Heather Adams of the University of Alaska Anchorage will moderate the panel discussion. She says the idea is to provide a space for an audience to really listen to what is a terrifying event.Listen Now ADAMS: It is a very traumatic experience that we’ll be talking about as we then transition into a panel of experts who are coming from a variety of perspectives. There are people from UAA who will be speaking from their professional standpoint. There’s someone who’s an expertin law. There are people who have experienced this trauma themselves, so we’re having tohave a balanced perspective and show our support that way so that our panel really reflects a variety of perspectives. And of course, we’re inviting support from the UAA community and reaching out to some community partners to ensure that hopefully there will be support at the event that night because this is a really sensitive topic. And of course we know that holding an event like this means that we have to be prepared to give support. Not just to talk about the ideas but to deal with the emotional piece of it, the emotions that are raised.TOWNSEND: Dr. Adams, you have written about the legacy of shame, secrecy, silence and part of that is dealing with the shame that surrounds rape or unwanted pregnancies. Why do you think it is shame still surrounds so much of what happens when there is a sexual assault? Why can’t we change that?ADAMS: There’s both the silence that comes with not talking that we see in systematic under-reporting of rape. And there’s also what we do talk about, which I would call messages of shame and messages of blame. It’s really hard to understand why those messages are so persistent. When I, years ago, learned about women who had to give a child away for adoption because they had that child out of wedlock, it was news to me. I didn’t know about that and I was horrified. And it’s been really interesting as I continue my research to make this argument, develop this argument through my research that actually, what seems like it happened a long time ago… yes the practices are a little bit different, we don’t have homes for unwed mothers, but you’re exactly right. This legacy of messages of shame and messages of blame, they really persist. I would say that one of the root causes is that we don’t have models, we don’t have support for women, especially young women, to talk about their sexuality. To understand sexuality and sex as a normal part of life. We have a lot of cultural taboo around that. We know in Alaska there’s been a lot of effort to be really almost draconian about how sex education is delivered to our young people and I just feel strongly that until we can really talk about these things openly, that’s just one piece of the puzzle. Another is consent. Consent is something that we talk about that sounds like it’s a yes or a no. It’s really more complicated. And I think that this White Horse event is one small way our community can come together and I really hope our community comes together to just have a conversation around these really difficult topics. No one really likes to talk about these things, but we really have to if we want to shift that culture of silence and shame and blame.Dr Heather Adams is the moderator for a panel discussion of the essay, White Horse at the Anchorage Museum Thursday evening, beginning at 7 pm.
The Bombay Stock Exchange in MumbaiIANSA prominent investor has said almost one-fourth of the listed companies in India are likely to fold up in the next decade, posing a severe threat to investors who are not astute. The warning comes in the wake of the huge market cap erosion in the banking sector that peaked with the sensational Rs 13,000 crore fraudulent transaction at the Punjab National Bank.”For amateurs and new investors it may be difficult to invest in the markets. For them, it is safer to invest in companies with proven track record, with the big picture and how the companies going to shape up in the next 5-10 year period,” said Porinju Veliyath of Equity Intelligence India Private Limited, according to ET Now.Veliyath, who has a track record of out-performing the stock markets, says the investors need to be wary of companies that have a mismatch of assets and liabilities. He cited Videocon Industries Ltd as an example. The debt-laden company’s stock has been in a freefall amid rumours of raids by investigators that came after the company was named one of the top defaulters.The ace stock picker adds that investors must not be lured by cheaper stocks. Good companies come at higher valuations but they are more or less immune to heavy market volatility, he said. While the broader markets saw correction to the tune of 15 percent, the stronger companies were able to keep it down to the range of 5 percent. He advises investors to pay heed to the corporate governance structure and systems in the companies they want to invest in.”As IMF puts it, we are slowly coming out of the demonetisation blues, and the crisis of the implementation of GST. We must appreciate the government’s efforts. The banking system is getting cleaned up for the first time,” Veliyath added.Meanwhile, Shankar Sharma, co-founder of First Global, said the Indian investors will do themselves a world of good if they judiciously invested in small-cap stocks. While BSE Nifty and Sensex are expected to underperform global markets in 2018, the small-caps will outperform, Sharma said, according to Moneycontrol.”The last five years was very easy to make money in the market. In 2018, we have entered a period where you have to be smart stock pickers to make money,” said Veliyath.
Getty ImagesIn a case of moral policing, a girl wearing a pair of shorts was told by a middle-aged woman that anyone who wears this kind of attire should be raped. The incident happened in Kolkata.The 25-year-old girl who is pursuing her MPhil from Jadavpur University tried to protest but ended up getting verbally abused and was even slapped twice while she asked a traffic policeman for help.Speaking to Times of India, the girl said that she has been staying in Salt Lake in South Kolkata for the past five years ever since she was studying at the Presidency College.”Around 1.30 pm last Thursday, I went out to buy a few staff just a few metres from my PG accommodation. Soon, I was accosted by this woman near a bank. She was wearing a silk saree. She turned towards me and said: ‘Tomader moto meyeder ekkhuni rape kora uchit (girls like you should be raped)’. Initially, I was shocked. But then I protested saying she had no right and moral authority to make any comment on me. I pointed out that what she did was a criminal offence,” the girl said.After receiving more verbal abuses, the girl tried to talk to the traffic police and then was slapped by the woman. The girl said that she was stunned and did not know what to do for a few moments.She went on to say that she told the woman that things were going too far”By this time, others tried to step in. Realizing that she was being surrounded, the woman fled. Iwas in shock and trauma. It was for my friends that I could finally manage to reorganize myself. My house owner too played a positive role. It was on the advice of cops that I filed the FIR,” the victim said, recounting her ordeal.The girl lodged a complaint against the woman with the Lake Police and subsequently, an FIR has been filed under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code including hurt, wrongful restraint and outraging the modesty of a woman.”It’s a rare case when a woman has been named for outraging the modesty of another woman. The accused probably lives somewhere near Dhakuria. We might ask the victim to record her statement in front of a magistrate,” an officer was quoted as saying.
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Ever since WhatsApp introduced Touch ID and Face ID support for iPhones back in February, Android smartphone users have been on the lookout for the feature. To their surprise, the Facebook-owned messaging app, which rolls out new features to Android users first, didn’t get a whiff of the fingerprint lock support. But that changes now.WhatsApp for Android is finally getting support for fingerprint lock, which adds a layer of security to users without having to rely on third-party apps. But the feature is not available to all users as it was spotted by WABetaInfo in version 2.19.221 for beta testers. You’d have to be enrolled in WhatsApp’s beta testing program to test the feature.While this may add a further delay in getting the fingerprint lock in WhatsApp for Android users, the feature will get rolled out publicly as soon as it clears beta testing. The purpose of beta testing features is to ensure there are no glitches or bugs when the masses start using it. But the wait isn’t expected to be too long.According to WABetaInfo, WhatsApp for Android beta testers who received fingerprint lock support can activate the feature by navigating to the app’s Settings > Account > Privacy > Fingerprint lock. Toggle the button to turn on fingerprint authentication. Users also get to set a timer for the automatic lock, which ranges from immediately to 1 minute or 30 minutes. WhatsApp gets fingerprint lock support on AndroidWABetaInfoIf users choose the option to lock immediately, the app will remain unlocked as long as you’re using it. Once the screen goes off or the user exits the app and tries getting back in, the fingerprint lock screen will appear, prompting for authentication.Users also get to hide the message contents and the sender’s identity in the notification area. WhatsApp would need to be unlocked in order to see the contents of the message in the notification space or in the app’s widget on homescreen. Users can also enable message preview option with the fingerprint lock enabled. WhatsApp gets fingerprint lock support on AndroidWABetaInfoHighlighting the safety and security of the new feature, WABetaInfo added, “I can say that it’s safe for your privacy to enable the Fingerprint lock feature because WhatsApp, like any other app, cannot access to your fingerprint data: the authentication process is managed by the Android system: WhatsApp uses official Android APIs, so no information is sent to WhatsApp/Facebook Server.”Certain UIs, such as OxygenOS, MIUI, EMUI, already offer the option to lock apps with fingerprint security. WhatsApp might be a little late to the party, but it certainly is a welcoming feature for phones that do not offer support for locking individual apps.
Militant Den. File photoThe police have cordoned off a residential hotel in Pantapath area of Dhaka city since early morning Tuesday.The law enforcement agency officials suspected the building to be yet another militant hideout. A militant suspect is said to have taken shelter in the hotel named Olio Dream Heaven. It is near the Square Hospital.Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal confirmed this to Prothom Alo after paying homage to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the national mourning day.The police believe there might be stockpiles of arms and ammunition in the building, which has also housed the office of English daily Dhaka Tribune.Members of the police and its special unit of SWAT have been deployed around the hotel and five other buildings there, said witnesses. A unit of fire services has been kept ready for a possible operation.The police carried out a number similar operations at different parts of the country in recent times.