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‘Hands off our chicken schnitz’

Edit The Daily Telegraph Australia 29 Jul 2016
THE nanny state has hit its peak with a bizarre plan to regulate the size of our favourite pub meal, for the strangest of reasons ... ....

Kiwi parents missing out on thousands of dollars in funding

Edit Scoop 29 Jul 2016
Finding the right childcare option is such a mine field for new parents that the vast majority ignores that employing a nanny or even a relative to look after their children could give them access to up to 30 ECE hours a week. That represents $2,000 ... ....

Meryl Streep ready to join Emily Blunt in Mary Poppins Returns

Edit Empire 29 Jul 2016
He already has Emily Blunt as Mary, but Meryl Streep is now in talks to be her cousin ... The story this time finds the magical nanny returning to the Banks family in Depression-era London to find that her charges Jane and Michael Banks have now grown up ... People ... ....

Meryl Streep in Talks to Join Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda in Upcoming Mary Poppins Sequel

Edit Slate 29 Jul 2016
Meryl Streep is negotiating to appear in Disney’s upcoming Mary Poppins sequel Mary Poppins Returns, Variety reports. She’ll join the already-attached Emily Blunt, who will play magical nanny Poppins, and Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda, who will play a lamplighter named Jack ... Travers novels were; the 1964 Disney film moved the story back to 1910....

Charles Krauthammer: What's the case for Hillary?

Edit The Oklahoman 29 Jul 2016
WASHINGTON — "The best darn change-maker I ever met in my entire life." ... Which is the fundamental problem with the Clinton campaign ... There are holes to patch in the nanny-state safety net. She's the one to do it ... Not one mentioned the Islamic State or even terrorism ... Yet as secretary of state she left a trail of policy failures from Libya to Syria, from the Russian reset to the Iraqi withdrawal to the rise of the Islamic State....

What’s the case for Hillary Clinton?

Edit Denver Post 29 Jul 2016
By Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post Writers Group ... Which is the fundamental problem with the Clinton campaign ... There are holes to patch in the nanny-state safety net. She’s the one to do it ... Well, yes ... Not one mentioned the Islamic State or even terrorism ... Yet as secretary of state she left a trail of policy failures from Libya to Syria, from the Russian reset to the Iraqi withdrawal to the rise of the Islamic State ... ....

Meryl Streep in Talks for Disney’s ‘Mary Poppins’ Sequel

Edit The Wrap 29 Jul 2016
It looks like we’ll be seeing Meryl Streep and Emily Blunt in another Disney movie together, TheWrap has learned. Streep is in early negotiations to join Blunt and Lin Manuel-Miranda in “Mary Poppins Returns.” ... Also Read ... Meryl Streep Timeline . PrettyFamous ... Still yet to be made into movies, Travers wrote seven more books featuring the no-nonsense nanny, which were published between 1935 and 1988....

Challenge Funds distributed (North Dakota University System)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Jul 2016
Bismarck State College, Dickinson State University, University of North Dakota, Williston State College and Minot State University received a total of more than $2.6 million in funding through a process set up by the N.D ... Under the grant process, the Challenge Fund Grant Review Committee awards one dollar in matching grants for every two dollars of non-state, non-federal funding raised by the institutional foundations....

State says no to honour MoU with IOCL on VAT

Edit The Times of India 29 Jul 2016
After a gap of 12 years, the state government and Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) are back in a collision course on the issue of value added tax (VAT) on finishing products of the latter's Paradip refinery. The state government recently intimated the Centre that it is now not in a position to honour the clauses of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) singed between the state government and IOCL in February, 2004....

Taking the mystery out of absentee voting (Marine Corps Base Quantico, VA)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Jul 2016
However, military members need to be aware that each state has their own voting laws and therefore dictates absentee voting rules. Absentee voting rules vary widely from state to state, but there are some similarities, such as being required to sign the ballot and in some cases have a witness sign the ballot as well, for example ... However, deadlines can vary by state so be sure to check when your state's deadline is for this request....

AG: State Street will return $75M in profit in transactions flap

Edit Boston Herald 29 Jul 2016
State Street and Trust Co ... Healey’s office alleged that State Street misled custody clients by indicating they would receive more favorable exchange rates using Indirect FX than they actually did. The agreement is part of a $382 million federal-state global resolution in conjunction with ......

Oklahoma teachers' group lacks enthusiasm for special session to address pay raises

Edit The Oklahoman 29 Jul 2016
The plan would be based in part on $140.8 million in money that became available for allocation after state finance officials determined that cuts made to state agency budgets last fiscal year were steeper than necessary to achieve a balanced budget ... In November, Oklahomans will vote on an alternative plan to increase the state sales tax by a penny per dollar spent in order to finance a $5,000 pay increase for teachers....

Cuomo, Schneiderman take on North Carolina, Texas

Edit Times Union 29 Jul 2016
And now these Democratic politicians are firing back at those Republican-controlled states with legal briefs supporting the Obama administration in disputes over transgender rights. Cuomo last spring instituted a non-essential travel ban against North Carolina by state workers, and Schneiderman did the same with his office ... The state law, not the city of Charlotte's, has been criticized for rolling back rights for transgender people....
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