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Kirk-Driven Funding to Boost TSA Staff and Security Screenings Passes Full Committee (Mark Kirk)

Edit Public Technologies 27 May 2016
(Source. Mark Kirk). WASHINGTON - Following reports of hours-long wait times at Chicago-area airports, and a recent staff shakeup at the Transportation Security Administration, U.S ... Last week, Senator Kirk called for the resignation of TSA Administrator Peter Neffenger if the wait times at airports like Chicago O'Hare and Midway did not improve by Memorial Day ... ### ... Original documenthttp.//www.kirk.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=1757....

Celebrate Memorial Day with some tasty cocktails

Edit The Examiner 26 May 2016
Jägermeister Paloma. Created by Willy Shine, Brand Meister. 1.5 oz Jägermeister. 1oz fresh pink grapefruit juice. .5oz fresh lime juice. .5oz agave nectar. Fill w/ Izze grapefruit soda. Garnish. Grapefruit peel. Glass. Highball Glass. Method. Combine all ingredients except the grapefruit soda in the small tin add ice and shake ... Frangelico Collins ... .5 oz ... Cinzano 1757 ... Cinzano 1757 ... Pour Campari and Cinzano 1757 over ice in a rocks or highball glass ... ....

"America Reads” Exhibition to Open June 16 (The Library of Congress)

Edit Public Technologies 26 May 2016
(Source. The Library of Congress). Press contact. Guy Lamolinara (202) 707-9217; Donna Urschel (202) 707-1639. Public contact. Center for the Book (202) 707-5221. May 26, 2016. 'America Reads' Exhibition to Open June 16. Titles Reflect Choices of Survey Participants ... 'America Reads' will open Thursday, June 16, in the Southwest Gallery on the second floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St ... to 4.30 p.m ... A Narrative of 1757' Robert A....

DC Jazz Festival 2016: "The Lafayette Suite" on June (...) (Ambassade de France aux Etats-Unis)

Edit Public Technologies 25 May 2016
(Source. Ambassade de France aux Etats-Unis) ... Inspired by the story of the Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834), Laurent Coq and Walter Smith III composed a suite of music in ten chapters that would retrace the destiny of the French aristocrat who fought alongside the colonists in the American Revolution ... Reservation is mandatory, please click here to register online. ABOUT THE MUSICIANS Laurent Coq and Walter Smith III - ©Eric Garault....

1,000 years in the making

Edit The Examiner 24 May 2016
Located 16 miles south of Ballinger, Texas on Hwy 83, there is an outcropping of limestone several hundred yards north of the Concho River. It is one of Texas’ major pictograph collections, a prehistoric art gallery 1,000 years in the making, called Paint Rock ... In one such scene a horse, a devil, and a mission can be seen. In 1757, Santa Cruz de San Sabá Mission was established just 40 miles south of Paint Rock for the Lipan Apaches....

The Trade Show of Everything

Edit The Atlantic 23 May 2016
Between the Pazhou subway station and the entrance to the 119th China Import and Export Fair, there is a fair before the fair ... Vendors lean over the dividers to indiscriminately pitch their wares to anyone who bothers to pause or make eye contact ... Last year, transactions at the spring and fall fairs reportedly exceeded $55 billion ... In 1757, they were further restricted, to include only government-approved traders in Guangzhou ... ....

‘Aurangzeb is a severely misunderstood figure’

Edit The Hindu 19 May 2016
Sanskrit at the Mughal Court, to be published in February 2016, and argues forcefully in favour of acknowledging diversity in India ... How do we reconcile the two?. We don’t reconcile the two perspectives ... No ... You argue that “a more divisive interpretation of the relationship between the Mughals and Hindus actually developed during the colonial period from 1757 to 1947”, a legacy that the present Modi government appears to have inherited....

AGM Statement (Drax Group plc)

Edit Public Technologies 17 May 2016
(Source. Drax Group plc). 20 April 2016. Drax Group plc. ('Drax' or the 'Company'). Symbol. DRX. AGM Statement. Drax holds its Annual General Meeting at 11.30am today at The Grocers' Hall, Princes Street, London. At this meeting Philip Cox, Chairman of Drax, will make the following comments. ... My first year as Chairman has certainly been a challenging one for the Group ... Mark Strafford +44 (0) 1757 612491. Media. Andrew Brown +44 (0) 1757 612165....

Badreddine: A Violent End for a Violent Man

Edit Newsweek 16 May 2016
This article first appeared on the Atlantic Council site. Hezbollah media outlets in Lebanon have announced the death in Syria of Mustafa Amine Badreddine, an intimate of Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and the person reportedly in command of Hezbollah forces in Syria. Try Newsweek. Subscription offers ... Security Council resolution 1757 and operating under Lebanese criminal law—issued arrest warrants for the four ... Frederic C ... ....

1857 War and the unsung heroes of Bengal

Edit The Hindu 16 May 2016
In the annals of modern Indian history, the year 1757 was a watershed year when Robert Clive defeated Siraj ud - Daulah of Bengal at the Battle of Plassey ... Though most history texts describe this revolt, which originated from Delhi, Meerut and Lucknow, as seeking to re-establish Moghul rule, there is more to the uprising ... In his findings, Mr ... 216) ... The mutinies in Bengal have from the beginning drawn the sympathy of the country ... Rs. 495....

Why do we feel awe? (University of California - Berkeley)

Edit Public Technologies 14 May 2016
(Source. University of California - Berkeley). News stories and social media posts inundate us every day with tips for greater happiness, health, and general well-being. But who has the time to fit them into our already packed schedules? ... look for more daily experiences of awe. This doesn't require a trek to the mountains ... In 1757, a revolution in our understanding of awe began thanks to Irish philosopher Edmund Burke ... rex ... (noodl....

Not Without Reservations

Edit Indian Express 13 May 2016
Tina Dabi. Napoleon Bonaparte said “ability is nothing without opportunity” ... It was the East India Company that started the coveted civil services in 1757, whose members signed covenants with the Company; the Macaulay committee gave India its first professional bureaucracy in 1854 which recommended that the patronage-based system of the East India Company be replaced by a permanent civil service based on merit and competition ... Rather ... ....

Water pipeline replacement project set to begin construction (City of Redlands, CA)

Edit Public Technologies 12 May 2016
(Source. City of Redlands, CA). May 11, 2016 - Contractors for the City will begin construction this month on a water pipeline replacement project at three intersections on Palm Avenue and additional locations in south Redlands ... Construction is expected to begin May 16. Anticipated completion will be in July ... Construction will take place Monday through Friday between 7 a.m ... 2 ... Original documenthttp.//cityofredlands.org/node/1757 ... (noodl....
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