Category: 杭州龙凤

LISTEN HERE: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers new album ‘Hypnotic Eye’ – Winnipeg

TORONTO — Here is your chance to listen to the new album from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers before it comes out on July 29.

Global News is offering this preview of Hypnotic Eye, the first new studio album from the band in four years.

Story continues below

“I knew I wanted to do a rock and roll record,” Petty told Rolling Stone. “We hadn’t made a straight hard-rockin’ record, from beginning to end, in a long time.”

In an interview with Men’s Journal, Petty said: “What great band hasn’t done some absolute s***? So I’m kind of to a point where, if I’m gonna do it, I want it to be good.”

Petty, 63, and the Heartbreakers — Mike Campbell, Scott Thurston, Benmont Tench, Ron Blair and Steve Ferrone — released their self-titled debut album in 1976 and have gone on to sell more than 60 million records.

Their hits include “Don’t Come Around Here No More” and “Learning to Fly”.

The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.

Hypnotic Eye will be available as a CD, digital download, Blu-ray audio, and on vinyl.

A tour in support of the new album will stop in Vancouver on Aug. 14, Edmonton on Aug. 17, Calgary on Aug. 19, Winnipeg on Aug. 21, Toronto on Aug. 26 and Montreal on Aug. 28.

Every ticket purchase includes a copy of Hypnotic Eye.

BELOW: Listen to Hypnotic Eye, the new album from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers before its July 29 release. Click here to keep this window open and continue browsing.

Read More

NYC medics placed on ‘modified duty’ while response to fatal arrest is investigated – National

WATCH: New video surfaces of violent arrest of New York City man who died in police custody after being put in an apparent chokehold

NEW YORK – Four emergency workers involved in the medical response for a New York City man who died in police custody after being put in an apparent chokehold have been placed barred from responding to emergency calls, the Fire Department of New York said.

Story continues below

The two EMTs and two paramedics removed from the city’s emergency response system are the latest public safety workers to face reassignment as questions mount about Thursday’s death of Eric Garner. Two police officers – including the one who put his arm around Garner’s neck – have been put on desk duty.

The medics’ modified duty restrictions will remain in effect pending an investigation into their actions, fire department spokesman James Long said Sunday.

Video of the arrest shot by a bystander shows one officer wrap his arm around Garner’s neck as he is taken to the ground – arrested for allegedly selling untaxed, loose cigarettes – while Garner shouts, “I can’t breathe!”

The fire department disclosed the medics’ reassignment after a second video surfaced showing at least a half-dozen police officers and emergency workers circling a man who appears to be Garner lying on the sidewalk, handcuffed and unresponsive.

Long said placing the emergency workers on modified duty – which includes a notice in their state health department file that they are not to respond to medical calls – is department protocol when questions arise about a medical response and was not a reaction to the post-arrest video.

The fire department said the emergency workers are employees of a Staten Island hospital where Garner was taken by ambulance and pronounced dead. Authorities said the father of six likely had a heart attack, but more tests are needed to determine the exact cause and manner of his death.

Long said the fire department took action against the hospital’s emergency responders because it oversees the city’s emergency response system, a patchwork of public and privately-operated emergency services.

The restrictions on the medical personnel came a day after the police department said it reassigned Officer Daniel Pantaleo, the officer who used the apparent chokehold on Garner, and another unidentified officer while prosecutors and internal affairs detectives investigate. Chokeholds are banned under department policy.

The department said it stripped Pantaleo, an eight-year veteran of the force, of his gun and badge.

Court records show that within the past two years, three men sued Pantaleo in federal court over allegedly unlawful, racially motivated arrests. Pantaleo did not return a telephone message.

Video of Garner’s struggle with police obtained by the New York Daily News shows the 6-foot-3-inch (2.5-meter), 350-pound (158-kilogram) man becoming irate and refusing to be handcuffed.

Garner, who has been arrested for illegally selling cigarettes numerous times in recent years, told the officers who confronted him that he had not done anything wrong, according to the video of the arrest.

“Every time you see me, you want to mess with me. I’m tired of it. It stops today,” Garner shouts. “I’m minding my business. Please just leave me alone.”

Then, as four officers bring him down to the sidewalk, Garner, who was asthmatic, gasps, “I can’t breathe! I can’t breathe!” The video shows one officer using his hands to push Garner’s face into the sidewalk.

The second video, which appears to have been shot shortly after Garner was handcuffed, shows him lying on the sidewalk, apparently unresponsive. More than three minutes in, medics arrive and one checks his pulse. Garner is lifted onto a gurney and transported to a waiting ambulance about two minutes later.

A bystander asks why no one is performing CPR and one officer responds, “because he’s breathing.”

—-

Associated Press reporter Michael R. Sisak contributed to this report.

©2014The Canadian Press

Read More

Drought intensifying in Jamaica as water supply far below normal – National

KINGSTON, Jamaica – A severe drought is intensifying in Jamaica with water supply systems already well below normal, the Caribbean country’s environment minister said Sunday night.

In a national address, Robert Pickersgill told Jamaicans the government is trucking water to hard-hit farming districts where parched conditions have withered crops. Many Jamaican small farms lack irrigation systems and depend entirely on rainwater.

Story continues below

READ MORE: Bandits demand villagers deliver 35 buckets of water a day in drought

Rainfall has been scarce for months and inflows into reservoirs are significantly reduced. Some water supply systems have “dried up entirely,” Pickersgill said.

Reservoirs are dwindling so badly in areas serving the island’s capital of Kingston that temporary shutoffs of the public water supply happen daily.

“This is a challenge and it is one that is made worse by higher temperatures and windy conditions that provide the perfect combination for bush fires, which, given the present water shortage, will be difficult to control and extinguish,” Pickersgill said.

Two weeks ago, the government announced that wasting water was illegal. There has been a prohibition notice on activities like filling up swimming pools and watering lawns. Water wasters can be fined or even serve a 30-day jail sentence.

READ MORE: Jamaica dispatches water trucks to relieve drought in island’s west

Authorities are increasing work crews to respond to leaks in water mains amid the worrying shortages. Two phone hotlines will be set up so people can report leaks.

Pickersgill said a policy is being developed to increase rainwater harvesting. “I firmly believe this is the route we must take in the face of climate change impacts which will intensify drought conditions,” he said.

The minister noted that weather projections do not forecast increased rainfall even for the island’s next rainy season starting in October, so the “already serious water supply situation we are experiencing will most likely worsen.”

Other countries around the Caribbean are also struggling with drought. The island of St. Lucia is under emergency water restrictions and Venezuela has been rationing supplies.

©2014The Canadian Press

Read More

Bandits demand villagers deliver 35 buckets of water a day in drought – National

LUCKNOW, India – Armed bandits in drought-stricken northern India are threatening to kill hundreds of villagers unless they deliver 35 buckets of water each day to the outlaws in their rural hideouts.

Since the threats were delivered last week, 28 villages have been obeying the order, taking turns handing over what the bandits are calling a daily “water tax,” police said Monday.

Story continues below

“Water itself is very scarce in this region. Villagers can hardly meet their demand,” officer Suresh Kumar Singh said by telephone from Banda, a city on the southern border of central Uttar Pradesh state and caught within what is known in India as bandit country.

READ MORE: California’s record drought could send produce prices soaring

Though the number of bandits has declined drastically in recent decades, they are still common in the hard-to-reach forests and mountains of the Bundelkhand region. Banditry dates back some 800 years in India to when emperors still ruled.

The area is cut off from supply lines, leaving the bandits reliant on surrounding villages. Since 2007, it has been starved for rain, with the yearly monsoon bringing only half the usual number of 52 rainy days a year.

“A few bandits are still active in the ravines,” Singh said. “They ask for water, food and shelter from the villages.”

But while the bandits were once admired as caste warlords with a touch of Robin Hood about them, as they fought to protest feudal orders or to avenge personal wrongs, today’s bandits are considered mostly opportunistic thugs seeking personal wealth and power.

WATCH: Southern Pakistan battles heavy drought

Last week, the bandits sent messengers to tell people in nearby villages they would be “shot dead” unless they provided the water, said Bagwat Prasad, from the local charity group that works on water and sanitation issues.

Small lakes and streams in the area have dried up, and the bandits are reluctant to risk running into police by leaving the area to fetch water supplies. India has set a $4,200 reward for information leading to the gang leader’s arrest on charges of murder, looting and kidnapping.

Afraid of the bandits, who are from the Balkhariya gang, villagers last Wednesday began hauling water – sometimes 4 kilometres (2.5 miles) – into the unruly region where the gang is believed to have hideouts, Prasad said.

“Any request from Balkhariya gang members is an order,” Prasad said. “No one can dare to say no.”

Police said the water supply scheme could give them an opportunity to hunt down the bandits.

“Secrecy is the mantra of any gang,” Deputy Inspector General Amitabh Yash said. But “if the supply line is exposed, the gang can be finished any day.”

©2014The Canadian Press

Read More

Calgary city council debates playground and school zones times – Calgary

CALGARY – City council members will discuss possible changes to school and playground zones when they meet on Monday.

Currently, school zones in Calgary are in effect from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and playground zones run from 8:30 a.m. until one hour after sunset.

However, proposed changes would have them both start at 7:30 a.m., and continue until 9 p.m.

It’s been suggested the move would better protect children and make things less confusing for drivers.

Story continues below

“Kids dart out so quickly, and I think you just have to be ready to stop at a moment’s notice,” says mother Kirsten Zimola, who supports the idea. “I think it’s brilliant because I know it’s difficult for some people to remember what times the zones start and end.

“If it’s all the same it leaves less room for error and that makes it safest for our kids.”

Councillor Shane Keating is fully on board with the bylaw.

“I have had former students hit by cars,” says the former principal, adding slowing down can save lives. “It delays drive time, but it increases the survival rate for anyone hit in these zones from 20 per cent to 90 per cent.”

Alberta’s Traffic Safety Act was amended on June 1st to give municipalities the power to change start and end times of playground zones; they already had the authority to change school zones.

Take Our Poll

Read More

Teen’s sudden death highlights dangers of unregulated caffeine powder – National

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A few weeks before their prom king’s death, students at an Ohio high school had attended an assembly on narcotics that warned about the dangers of heroin and prescription painkillers.

But it was one of the world’s most widely accepted drugs that killed Logan Stiner – a powdered form of caffeine so potent that as little as a single teaspoon can be fatal.

Story continues below

The teen’s sudden death in May has focused attention on the unregulated powder and drawn a warning from federal health authorities urging consumers to avoid it.

“I don’t think any of us really knew that this stuff was out there,” said Jay Arbaugh, superintendent of the Keystone Local Schools.

The federal Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it’s investigating caffeine powder and will consider taking regulatory action. The agency cautioned parents that young people could be drawn to it.

READ MORE: Should officials ban cigarette sales to new smokers?

An autopsy found that Stiner had a lethal amount of caffeine in his system when he died May 27 at his home in LaGrange, Ohio, southwest of Cleveland.

Stiner, a wrestler, had more than 70 micrograms of caffeine per millilitre of blood in his system, as much as 23 times the amount found in a typical coffee or soda drinker, according to the county coroner.

His mother has said she was unaware her son took caffeine powder. He was just days away from graduation and had planned to study at the University of Toledo.

Caffeine powder is sold as a dietary supplement, so it’s not subject to the same federal regulations as certain caffeinated foods. Users add it to drinks for a pick-me-up before workouts or to control weight gain.

A minuscule amount packs a punch.

A mere 1/16th of a teaspoon can contain about 200 milligrams of caffeine, roughly the equivalent of two large cups of coffee. That means a heaping teaspoon could kill, said Dr. Robert Glatter, an emergency physician at Lenox Hill ?Hospital in New York.

The powder is almost impossible to measure with common kitchen tools, the FDA said.

READ MORE: Candy-flavoured tobacco products enticing Canadian students to take up smoking, survey says

“The difference between a safe amount and a lethal dose of caffeine in these powdered products is very small,” FDA spokeswoman Jennifer Dooren said.

Glatter said he’s seen several younger patients experience complications from caffeine in the last few months. Some arrive with rapid heart rates.

“They’re starting to latch onto the powders more because they see it as a more potent way to lose weight,” Glatter said.

Health officials worry about caffeine powder’s potential popularity among exercise enthusiasts and young people seeking an energy boost.

Dr. Henry Spiller directs a poison control centre at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Over a week or so this month, the centre took reports of three people hospitalized for misusing caffeine powder.

“I can’t believe you can buy this,” Spiller said. “Honestly, I mean, it’s frightening. It makes no sense to me.”

Federal investigations have recently prompted some companies to pull products with added caffeine.

Last year, Wrigley halted sales and marketing of Alert caffeinated gum after discussions with the FDA. In 2010, the agency forced manufacturers of alcoholic caffeinated beverages to cease production of those drinks.

Authorities have also pledged to take action if they are able to link deaths to consumption of energy drinks. Hospitalizations from those drinks have been on the rise.

The number of emergency department visits involving energy drinks doubled – from 10,068 visits in 2007 to 20,783 visits in 2011, according to the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Most of the cases involved teens or young adults.

A full teaspoon of caffeine powder could contain 3,200 milligrams of caffeine.

In that concentrated amount, a person can experience adverse effects in a matter of minutes, said Dr. Bob Hoffman, a New York University medical toxicologist.

The brain becomes alert, then agitated and confused. The heartbeat picks up and can become dangerously irregular. A person can suffer nausea, vomiting and potentially a seizure.

“The thing about caffeine is just because you see it every day, just because it’s naturally occurring – it comes from a plant – doesn’t mean that it’s safe,” Hoffman said.

Back in Ohio, the superintendent of the district where Stiner attended school plans to take steps of his own. He wants to add the dangers of caffeine powder to drug and alcohol awareness programs.

Read More

John Kerry caught on hot microphone criticizing Israeli operation – National

TORONTO – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was caught off guard during an interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace after Kerry was recorded speaking to one of his aides before the on-air segment.

“While you were on camera and while on microphone,” Wallace said, “you spoke to one of your top aides between the interviews about the situation in Israel.”

Story continues below

READ MORE: Gaza health official says Israeli shells hit hospital, killing 4

Kerry who apparently forgot his microphone was hot was speaking with one of his aides about a recent operation in the Gaza Strip. Wallace presents the clip in reference to “14 Israelis” killed in the operation, but recent reports suggest that number is actually 13.

During the recorded conversation Kerry keeps repeating “it’s a hell of a pinpoint operation,” which seems to reference Israel’s expanding invasion in Gaza.

“It’s escalating significantly and underscores the need for ceasefire,” Kerry’s aide says.

READ MORE: Death toll tops 500 in Gaza as diplomatic efforts increase

Kerry responds saying “we’ve got to get over there. I think we should go tonight,” noting that it is “crazy” to be “sitting around.”

The statements appear to contradict the country’s previous unwavering support for Israel in the ongoing conflict.

Wallace asks Kerry if he is “upset that the Israelis are going too far?”

“It’s very difficult in these situations, obviously,” Kerry said. “You have people who have come out of tunnels, you have a right to go in and take out those tunnels. We completely support that, and we support Israel’s right to defend itself against rockets that are continuing to come in.”

Read More

Teens get academics, better health at top schools: study – National

CHICAGO – Disadvantaged teens may get more than an academic boost by attending top-notch high schools – their health may also benefit, a study suggests.

Risky health behaviour including binge-drinking, unsafe sex and use of hard drugs was less common among these kids, compared with peers who went to mostly worse schools. The teens were otherwise similar, all from low-income Los Angeles neighbourhoods who applied to top public charter schools that admit students based on a lottery system.

Story continues below

The researchers compared behaviour in almost 1,000 kids in 10th through 12th grade who were admitted to the high-performing schools and in those who went elsewhere. Overall, 36 per cent of the selected kids engaged in at least one of 11 risky behaviours, compared with 42 per cent of the other teens.

READ MORE: Millennials facing increased rates of stress compared to other generations

The study doesn’t prove that the schools made the difference and it has limitations that weaken the results, including a large number of students who refused to participate. Still, lead author Dr. Michael Wong said the results echo findings in less rigorously designed research and they fit with the assumption that “better education will lead to better health.” Wong is an internist and researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles.

The study involved mostly Latino students who applied to one of three top-performing public charter schools from 2007 to 2010. About half of the kids had parents who didn’t graduate from high school and most didn’t own their own homes.

Results were published online Monday in Pediatrics.

Teens were given computerized questionnaires to answer in private, to improve the chances for accurate self-reporting. Standardized test scores were obtained from the California Department of Education.

The results aren’t a referendum on charter schools but the lottery system they use for enrolment made the comparison fairer, Wong said.

Despite the limitations, the study “is a beautifully conducted natural experiment” that could occur because there’s more demand for high-performing schools than there is space available, said Kelli Komro, a professor of health outcomes and policy at the University of Florida in Gainesville. She was not involved in the research.

READ MORE: Stress, anxiety plaguing Canadian youth

Because the Los Angeles schools’ lottery system selects students randomly, not on grades or other differences, the study design “mimics a randomized controlled trial, the gold standard in health research,” Komro said.

Most of the selected kids chose to attend those schools, while 83 per cent of those not picked went to schools with worse performance records. Math and English scores after freshman year were higher in selected kids than the other teens. Moreover, just 9 per cent of the selected kids dropped out of school, versus almost 1 in 4 of the others.

Prof. Harold Pollack, a University of Chicago public health researcher, said the study is important and highlights the challenge – and need to – create “a much larger number of schools that serve kids well.”

Pollack said better academic performance among the charter school kids is likely more important for their long-term health than their risky behaviour choices.

“Educational outcomes are just so critical for people’s well-being,” he said.

—

Online:

Pediatrics: 杭州桑拿按摩论坛杭州夜生活pediatrics杭州夜网

—

AP Medical Writer Lindsey Tanner can be reached at 杭州桑拿按摩论坛杭州夜生活twitter杭州夜网/LindseyTanner

Read More

Canadians expect to be mortgage free by 58

TORONTO – A new survey says Canadians, on average, expect to be mortgage-free by age 58, one year later than in a similar poll a year ago.

But the survey, conducted for CIBC by Angus Reid, found some big discrepancies across the country.

For example, homeowners in British Columbia thought they wouldn’t be able to pay off their mortgages until they hit 66, while those in Alberta expected to be mortgage-free more than a decade earlier at 55.

Story continues below

READ MORE: Will a sharing economy change us from buyers to bartering borrowers?

The survey also found that just over half of those polled were taking advantage of the current low interest rate environment to pay down their mortgages faster.

Fifty-five per cent said they were putting in extra effort into repaying their mortgages, although that was down from 68 per cent last year.

Of those paying off their mortgages quicker than necessary, 32 per cent said they were making payments more often, 28 per cent were increasing the amount they pay while 18 per cent said they had made either an additional prepayment or a lump sump payment.

Beyond Alberta and British Columbia, the survey found the average age respondents expected to be mortgage-free ranged from 56 years in Quebec to 57 years in Atlantic Canada and Ontario and 58 years in Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

READ MORE: Many Canadian lenders ‘concerned’ about housing ‘bubble’

CIBC says even small efforts can lead to big savings for homeowners in the long run.

For example, someone paying 4.99 per cent interest on a $250,000 mortgage with 25-year amortization can expect to save nearly $35,000 of interest if they add $147 to their $1,453 monthly payments.

The same homeowner can save as much as $30,000 on interest if they make $726 payments every two weeks, instead of waiting until the end of the month to make a payment.

The bank pointed out that even making a lump sum payment every year — for instance, putting the average $1,600 tax refund towards the mortgage — would shave off $33,103 of interest.

READ MORE: Growth of mortgage debt slowed in Q1

“Employing one or more of these strategies does take some planning and discipline,” said Barry Gollom, vice-president of secured lending and product policy at CIBC.

“If becoming mortgage-free sooner is something you want to achieve, it’s important to look at your mortgage as part of your overall financial picture and to balance your mortgage payment plan against your other goals.”

The online poll was conducted by Angus Reid Forum with 1,509 Canadian adults between May 21 and May 22.

The polling industry’s professional body, the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association, says online surveys cannot be assigned a margin of error as they are not a random sample and therefore are not necessarily representative of the whole population.

©2014The Canadian Press

Read More

Recipes:Easy camping meals – Montreal

Watch: Chef Jonathan Nguyen from Le Boucan Smokehouse stopped by the Morning News to show her a few delicious camping food recipes. 

MONTREAL- You don’t have to sacrifice your taste buds and appetite when you go out camping.

That’s what Chef Jonathan Nguyen with Le Boucan Smokehouse says.

On the Morning News, he shared some simple recipes to prepare delicious meals when you’re out in the wild.

BREAKFAST : French toast with apple-maple coulis

Preparation time: 20 minutes

Serves: 4 people

Ingredients for the French Toast

8 Slices of bread

4 eggs

250 ml milk

30 ml Sugar

1 L of Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal , crushed

8 knobs of butter

Ingredients for the Apple-Maple Coulis

2 apples diced in cubes

500 ml maple syrup

60 ml of butter

Directions Apple-maple coulis:

On medium heat, melt the butter into the pan.

Once the butter is melted, add the apples and maple syrup.

Stir every once in a while, cook for 6 to 8 minutes.

Set aside to rest.

Directions French toast:

In a bowl, add the eggs, milk, and sugar, beat with a whisk vigorously.

Soak the bread in the egg mixture for 10 seconds per side, removing any excess.

Cover bread slices with cinnamon cereal.

In a non-stick pan, over medium heat, melt a knob of butter.

Once melted, place each piece of toast in the pan and cook until golden brown and crispy (approx. 2 mins per side).

Plate up each piece of French toast with a couple spoonfuls of the apple-maple coulis.

LUNCH: Porc Banh mi (Vietnamese style submarine sandwich)

Cooking time: 30 minutes

Serves: 4 people

Marinade ingredients

150 ml Sauce Hoisin sauce

8 crushed garlic cloves

Lime juice

Sandwich Ingredients

4 10inch submarine sandwich buns

16 pieces of pork belly

Handful of honeydew melon roughly chopped, ¼ inch thickness

Coriander

Mayonnaise

Hoisin sauce

Small red chilies (add to taste), finely chopped

Directions Marinade

Put all the ingredients of the marinade in a bowl and mix well together.

Add the pork belly slices and make sure that they are evenly coated with spices.

Let sit for at least one hour to marinate.

Directions Sandwich:

On medium to low heat, cook the pork belly slices in the pan until golden brown (2-4 minutes per side).

In each bun, add the mayo, hoisin sauce and 4 slices of pork, the pieces of honeydew melon, coriander and a sprinkle of chili peppers.

Read More