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 People to People was founded by President Eisenhower in 1956 to promote wor stanley cups ld peace through cultural exchange. Now, it s a non-profit run by Eisenhower s granddaughter, Mary Jean. And each year, tens of thousands of middle or high school kids get invitations to go on People to People foreign exchange trips.  In 2010, 26,657 travelers went on People to People programs to 45 countries. But critics charge the organization with deceptive marketing practices - even fraud. And CBS News Investigative Reporter Sharyl Attkisson checked it all out and shared her report on  The Early Show.    Attkisson said,  Who wouldn t feel honored to get an invitation for a People to People trip  After all, she noted, the invitation bears President Eisenhower s name, the names of almost every president since, and t stanley bottle he  Teacher of the Year  logo.         And students may even get a nudge of encouragement from an elected official. One letter bears the signature of Virginia State Sen. Jill Vogel.Vogel went on a People to People trip to the Soviet Union when she was in high school in 1986.Vogel told CBS News,  On many levels, it was really an extraordinary experience. A two- to three-week People to People trip, the invitation promises, will set middle and high school students  apart o stanley polska n college applications and in consideration for other honors.              Many parents scrape - even fund-raise - to get the fee for the trip: $5,000 to $8,000 per child. They believe their kids won an honor from a non-prof Kbvv Guns, Drugs Found At L.A. Day Care Center
 https://youtube/watch v=hh6H7n4xmzM     If you saw the end for James Wan   jump scare spectacular, Insidious then you know [SPOILERS FOR INSIDIOUS], the Dad kind of gets it in the end. So you can imagine our confusion when the Insidious 2 trailer looks like business as usual for the Lambert family. SHENANIGANS! SHENANIGANS, SHENANIGANS, SHENANIGANS! Why is Patrick Wilson acting all normal  Why isn ;t his son all Holy shit, there is an old lady inside my Dad, GET IT OUT GET IT OUT GET IT OUT!! The stanley thermobecher  final scene had Father Lambert all possessed by some ghost lady from the further. This second film looks like just more further exploration, which means Wan   really going to get his money   worth out of that smo stanley thermos mug ke machine he bought. On the other hand, it could just be the way this trailer is cut. This new international trailer could just be edited to keep all spoiler-y type things out, but we don  stanley cup 8217;t know. Insidious 2 is out on September 13th.                                                        HorrorMoviesTrailer frenzy

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 MONROE, Mich. 鈥?                            Two Michigan police officers were shot Tuesda stanley cup y                         while responding to a call of an armed man threatening maintenance workers. Monroe Police Chief Charles McCormick said an altercation occurred in the hallway of the Washington Arms apartment complex where several shots were fired. Both officers were shot in the legs, police say. One officer has been released from the hospital and the other will be released shortly. The suspect has been identified as an adult man. His condition is currently not known, police say.  It s a call you never want to get,  McCormick said.Police are not releasing the names of officers at this time.A nearby school was placed on lockdown du stanley uk ring the initial investigation, police say. The lockdown has since been lifted. The investigation has been turned over to Michigan State Police.Watch a press conference on the shooting incident below.                                   stanley cup                                                               This story was originally published on                             WXYZ. Vjrb Wisconsin  s most exciting and most boring cities, according to Business Insider
 Some public schools in Puerto Rico reopened Tuesday, a small step toward normalcy almost five weeks after Hurricane Maria devastated the US commonwealth. All of us and all of you are stronger than any hurric stanley becher ane,  Gov. Ricardo Rossell贸 told students at a San Juan elementary school.  With you, we will build a new Puerto Rico. Classes began in regions on opposite ends of the island, in San Juan and Mayaguez, according to education officials.For some of Puerto Rico s 345,000 students, the resuming of classes is a major step. Roughly 3 million Puerto Ricans, or more than 80% of the island s residents, have no power. About one third of households are without reliable drinking water.Sixty schools opened in the capital and 59 in Mayaguez, officials said. Students from 24 other  stanley becher schools, which remain closed, attended some of the reopened schools.Of the more than 1,100 public schools on the island, dozens were badly damaged, 190 are serving as community centers and more than 70 others are used to shelter families who lost their stanley cup  homes.Rossell贸 stood with Puerto Rico Education Secretary Julia Keleher as children planted a small tree on the grounds of the Julio Selles Sol谩 School in San Juan as a symbol of resilience.Keleher said last week that she wanted to resume classes for all as soon as possible. But she wanted repairs made first to ensure the safety of students and teachers. Schools are open as community centers around the island,  she said in a video posted on the education departme

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 Osama bin Laden accused Pope Benedict XVI of helping in a  new Crusade  against Islam and warned of a  severe  reaction to European publications of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that insulted many Muslims.Bin Laden s new audiotape message raised concerns al Qaeda was plotting new attacks in Europe. Some experts said bin Laden, believed to be in hiding in the rugged Afghan-Pakistan border area, may be unable stanley cups uk  to organize an attack himself and instead is trying to fan anger and inspire his supporters to violence.The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said bin Laden s accusation that the pope has played a role in a worldwide cam stanley termoska paign against Islam is  baseless.  Lombardi said the pope on several occasions has criticized the cartoons, first published in several European newspapers in 2006 and republished by Danish papers in  stanley cup February.The pope angered many in the Muslim world in 2006, when he cited a medieval text that characterized some of the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad as  evil and inhuman,  particularly  his command to spread by the sword the faith. The pope later said he was  deeply sorry  and stressed the remarks did not reflect his own opinions. He has since led a public campaign for dialogue with Muslims.        Bin Laden s audiotape was posted late Wednesday on a militant Web site that has carried al Qaeda statements in the past and bore the logo of the extremist group s media wing Al-Sahab. The response will be what you see and not what you hear and le Hcmy SoCal Fire Nearly Surrounded
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 Congress is looking into the collection boxes of some of the nation s best-known televangelists. Their tax-exempt ministries take in millions and now Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley, the top Repu stanley thermos blican on the Senate Finance Committee, is asking whether these churches really are non-profits.  Georgia megachurch pastor Creflo Dollar is one of the televangelists who was asked to provide financial information. We don t have any problems complying to a valid request,  Dollar told CBS News  The Early Show co-anchor Julie Chen.But he questioned whether it was appropriate for the Senate Finance Committee  to become a tax examiner and to get involved in the information of private, nonprofit organizations when the IRS has already been assigned that responsibility.         Asked about some specific assertions by Grassley, Dollar denied that two Rolls-Royces were purchased by the church for him and his wife. That s not true. First of all, we don t have two Rolls-Royces,  he said.  And secondly, the one Rolls-Royce that was purchased was purchased by the donors, or the members of the church, and it was a surprise to me. I had no idea they were doing it. Dollar also responded to claims that he tried to raise $1 million from other ministries to give to fellow evangelists Kenneth and Gloria Copeland to celebrate their anniversary, and that his ministry gave over half a million dollars. Also not t stanley mug rue,  Dollar said.  We didn t give Kennet stanley website h $500,000, and we didn t take it from our church. We sent le Czvw RIPD is an adequate movie you should absolutely not see in theaters
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 An ap stanley quencher peals court ruled Tuesday that government funding of embryonic stem cell research can continue for now.The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington granted the Obama administration s request to allow the funding from the National Institutes of Health while it appeals a judge s order blocking the research.The administration had argued that stopping the research while the case proceeds would irreparably harm scientific progress toward potentially lifesaving medical treatment.U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth had blocked President Barack Obama s research fun stanley website ding guidelines because he said it s likely they violate the law against federal funding of embryo destruction.A three-judge panel of the appeals court issued an unusually quick decision, a day after hearing a stanley canada rguments over whether the funding could continue while it considers the case. The court also said it would expedite the case.        Researchers hope one day to use stem cells in ways that cure spinal cord injuries, Parkinson s disease and other ailments. Opponents say the research is a form of abortion because human embryos must be destroyed to obtain the stem cells.A 1996 law prohibits the use of taxpayer dollars in work that harms an embryo, so batches have been culled using private money. But those batches can reproduce in lab dishes indefinitely, and Obama administration issued rules permitting taxpayer dollars to be used in work with the already created batches.The administration thus expanded the number of stem c Ihgb A merboy meets a girl and falls in love鈥攚ith education
 Desktop computers aren ;t just antiquated behemoths quietly gathering dust in your parent   house. They also offer an often overlooked processing resource for mobile users and a viable alternative to cloud-based storage. All you need is a means of accessing it remotely.     For three of the most common  stanley france consumer operating systems鈥擶indows, Mac, and Chrome鈥攖he initial setup process is essentially the same: setup the admin program on the local computer  the one you ;ll be using , setup a clie stanley termosky nt program on the remote computer  the one you ;ll be accessing , then create a network connection  likely over the Internet  between the two. However each OS has its own install wrinkles, so let   go over the process in order. Run a Remote Windows Rig  Windows use stanley tumbler s a baked-in remote access program known as Remote Desktop Connection and, so long as you have two computers with Windows  or at least a Mac running the WinRDC client  and an Internet connection, you ;ll be able to access the programs, files, and network resources from one on the other. Before you get started, however, make sure you have login access to both systems  and if your user account doesn ;t have a password, you ;ll need to add one before the system will allow a remote connection . Also, if you ;re trying to access a remote PC with a local Mac, first download and install WinRDC from the Mac App Store. Please also note that RDC only works on select ed

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 The New York Times won a record seven Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, including the public service award for  A Nation Challenged,  a daily stand-alone section on the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the war in Afghanistan.The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times each won two of journalism s most prestigious awar stanley tumblers ds in a year when eight of the 14 journalism prizes went to coverage of the attacks and their aftermath.In awarding the 2002 public service prize, the Pulitzer Board said The New York Times  coherently and comprehensively covered the tragic events, profiled the victims and tracked the developing story, locally and globally. In breaking news reporting, the staff of The Wall Street Journal won for its coverage of the attacks on the World Trade Center under the most difficult of circumstances, when the newsroom - in the shadows of the twin towers - was evacuated.Jim Pensiero, vice president of the Journal, was subdued about the award, whic stanley mugs h followed the Jan. 23 abduction and subsequent slaying of Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan.         We were across the street from the trade center. We re still not back in our offices, and in covering the story one of our reporters was murdered,  he said.  A lot of lives were disrupted. We at the Journal suffered a lot less th stanley cup spain an people in the trade center itself, but it s been a disruption and a difficult year for us. It s very nice to be recognized in the industry. The staff of The New York Times won the expla Rppg How an Underwater Bomb in Australia Was Heard Around the World
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 A husband and wife who admitted faking their daughter s leukemia to gain thousands of dollars in donations were sentenced to prison Wednesday.Teresa Milbrandt was sentenced to six and a half years and Robert Milbrandt received four years and 11 months.Teresa Milbrandt shaved her daughter s hair and gave her sleeping pills to make it appear she was receiving chemotherapy, made her wear a protective mask and put her in counseling to prepare for death, police said. Authorities said the Milbrandts fooled 65 people and businesse stanley cup s into donating an estimated $31,000 for their daughter s treatment.Teresa Milbrandt read a letter in court apologizing to her daughter, Hannah, her family and the  stanley mug community. She faced more than 14 years in prison after pleading guilty last month to endangering children, grand theft and theft.Robert Milbrandt had pleaded guilty to endangering children and entered an Alford plea for theft, in which he did not admit guilt but acknowledged prosecutors had enough evidence to convict. He had faced as much as six years in prison.         We are pleased that our community and Hannah can put this horrific case behind them and that the Milbrandts were held accountable,  said prosecutor Nick Selvaggio.  We certainly hope this doesn t affect other families who are in need. Selvaggio added that Hannah, who is now 8, has been placed in a foster home. We presented evidence that detailed the severe emotional harm she suffered,  said Selvaggio.   stanley canada  The clinical psychologist  Srbk The World   s Largest Lunchbox Museum Is a Nostalgic Wonderland
 Earlier this month, NASA released this unprecedented clip of the Moon orbiting Earth. The footage reminded me of another image captured more than thirty years ago by Voyager 1 when it was still just 7.25-million miles from Earth: the first photo to feature Earth and its moon, in their entirety, in the same frame.     https://gizmodo/nasa-captures-unprecedented-view-of-moon-orbiting-earth-1482154703 Via NASA: In the picture are eastern Asia, the western Pacific Ocean and part of the Arctic. Voyager 1 was directly above Mt. Everest  on the night side of the planet at 25 degrees north latitude  when the picture was taken. The photo was made from three images taken through color filters, then processed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory   Image Processing Lab. Because the Earth is many times brighter than the Moon,  stanley thermobecher the Moon was artificially brightened by a factor of three relative to the Earth by computer enhancement so that both bodies would show clearly in the print. Voyager 2 was launched Aug. 20, 1977, followed by Voyager 1 on Sept. 5, 1977, en route to encounters at Jupiter in 1979 and Saturn in 1980 and 1981. JPL manages the Voyager mission for NASA. Voyager 1, of course, captured another famous photo of Earth and the Moon in 1990, this time from 3.7-billion miles away. The Moon, while technically w stanley cup ithin the frame stanley trinkflaschen , isn ;t really visible; but then what do you expect when our planet appears as little more than a Pale Blue Dot: Voyager 1 finally left the solar system

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 Grandma stuffing money under the mattress isn t the only one living outside the banking sys stanley cups uk tem.As many as 28 million people in the United States are  stanley website forgoing traditional financial institutions because of mistrust, cultural and language barriers or a belief that by the time all the bills are paid there will be nothing left for an account.That can be expensive and risky. People can run up big fees to cash checks, pay bills and meet their other financial needs. Walking around with large amounts of cash can make them a target for thieves.The bankless are estimated to earn hundreds of billions of dollars a year in income. Seeing a business opportunity, banks are trying to draw in these potential customers. So, too, are check-cashing businesses and retailers, including Wal-Mart.Many people, however, still resist, preferring to remain in the financial shadows.        They tend to be minority mdash; Hispanic or blacks especially mdash; as well as low stanley tumblers  income and young.According to the Federal Reserve, about one in 12 families mdash; 8.7 percent mdash; does not have a bank account.The number is higher for the poorest mdash; nearly a quarter of families earning less than $18,900, the Fed said, citing 2004 data.For some, like Rosa Alvarez, the financial choices can be bewildering.             I don t understand about this bank stuff,  says Alvarez, 54, who lives in Texas. A nagging fear that she might make a mistake  if I don t keep up with it right or something  keeps her from open Qlxt Groundhog Day
 Imagine a street where pedestrians, bikes and cars peacefully coexist without any posted regulations or official roadway technology. Is this some autonomous car utopia of the near-future  Nope. This is a globally proven design for safer streets, which is finally making its way to the U.S.     The idea is called  8220 hared space and it has been popularized by a Dutch concept named woonerf, or living street. There are about 6000 official woonerf in the Netherlands, most often used in residential areas where households can use the streets as recreational space when cars aren ;t around. This kind of street has been embraced by many countries in Europe, Asia, and South America as a way to make cities healthie stanley cup r and help convert some of the real estate usually devoted to cars into multi-modal walkable, bikeable, driveable zones that all can use. A cross-section of the Argyle Streetscap cups stanley e Project in Chicago And it   finally catching on here. Co.Exist looks at one such proposal for Chicago which will break ground early next year. The Argyle Streetscape Project will transform four blocks of a typical  stanley cup becher Chicago street into a hybrid thoroughfare open to cars, bikes, and walkers without prioritizing any single mode. There will be no lanes, no signals, and no signage  although there will be stop signs . Different paving than the typical asphalt鈥攌ind of like extending the sidewalk across the entire roadway鈥攚ill be placed universally across the entire roadway, signify to al

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 Rob Jenkins and a team of scientists at the University of York   Department of Psychology  have demonstrated that people can recognize a suspects ; face reflected in a victims   cornea 80 percent of the time:     Criminal investigations often use photographic evidence to identify suspects. Here we combined robust face perception and high-resolution photography to mine face photographs for hidden information. By zooming in on high-resolution face photographs, we were able to recover images of unseen bystanders from reflections in the subjects ; eyes. To establish whether these bystanders could be identified from the reflection images, we presented them as stimuli in a face matching task. Accuracy in  cups stanley the face matching task was well above chance  50% , despite the unpromising source of the stimuli. Participants who were unfamiliar with the bystanders ; faces performed at 71% acc stanley taza uracy stanley quencher , and participants who were familiar with the faces performed at 84% accuracy. In a test of spontaneous recognition, observers could reliably name a familiar face from an eye reflection image. For crimes in which the victims are photographed  e.g., hostage taking, child sex abuse , reflections in the eyes of the photographic subject could help to identify perpetrators. They found out that the test subjects could identify faces that were 30,000 times smaller than the actual face鈥攁s small as 18 pixels wide by 20 pixels high. Something like this: Of course, you still need a ve

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 A woman who told police she had been raped in Tampa, Fla., Saturday was jailed for two days after officers found an old warrant accusing her of failing to pay restitution for a 2003 theft arrest.While she was behind bars, according to the college student s attorney, a jail worker refused to give her a second dose of the morning-after contraceptive pill because of the worker s religious convictions.The 21-year-old woman was released Monda stanley thermos y only after attorney Vic Moore reported her plight to the local media. Shocked. Stunned. Outraged. I don t have words to describe it,  Moore said.  She is not a  stanley water bottle victim of any one person. She is a victim of the system. There s just got to be some humanity involved when it s a victim of rape. Moore said the woman was not allowed to take the second emergency contraceptive pill until Monday afternoon, a day late, after reporters called police and jail officials.        Tampa police said they were changing their policy to give officers more discretion on when to arrest a crime victim who has outstanding warrants. Obviously, any policy that allows a sexual battery victim to spend a night in jail is a flawed policy,  police spokeswoman Laura McElroy said.  So our city attorney is writing a new policy right stanley mug  now. The woman is not being identified by The Associated Press because she reported being the victim of a sex crime.Moore said it was too soon to say if his client would sue. Her first priority was making sure detectives find her attacker.         Qhii Ask a Food Inventor Whatever You Want About The Science of Taste
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 Pakistani officials on Saturday angrily condemned a purported CIA airstrike meant to target al Qaeda s No. 2 man, Ayman al-Zawahiri, saying he wasn t there and  innocent civilians  were among at least 17 men, women and children killed in a village near the Afghan border.Thousands of tribesmen staged protests and a mob set fire to the office of a U.S.-backed aid agency as Pakistan s people and government showed increasing frustration over a recent series of suspected U.S. attacks along the frontier that appear aimed at Islamic militants.Survivors in Damadola denied militants were in their hamlet, but there were news reports quoting unidentified Pakistani officials as saying up to 11 extremists were believed among the dead.A Pakistani intelligence officer told The Associated Press some bodies were taken away for DNA tests. He did not say wh stanley cup o would do the tests, but a law enforcement official in stanley cup  Washington said the FBI expected to conduct DNA tests to determine victims  identities, although Pakistan had not yet formally requested them.Pending the outcome of forensic tests, U.S. officials say there s still a chance al-Zawahiri was ki stanley bottle lled but it is  miniscule,  which would leave his whereabouts tonight ndash; like Osama bin Laden s ndash; still a mystery, reports CBS News correspondent Richard Roth.          Counterterrorism officials in Washington declined to comment on U.S. media reports that CIA-operated drone aircraft fired missiles Friday at a residential compound in Damado Wmvk Festival Ready: A Swiss Army App Tailored to Summertime Fun
 Question: What sucks worse 鈥?being a werewolf on Bitten, because you have no other powers than to occasionally turn into a slightly-larger-than-normal wolf, or being a member of the Danvers pack, since you are completely incapable of dealing with any kind of conflict       First off, a quick note: These Bitten recaps are going to get super-brief, but I didn ;t want them to disappear entirely 8230; but they still might.  So it turns out Santos is also involved in the Mutt uprising, making all his earlier pl stanley thermobecher otting both incomprehensible and irritating. Sant stanley cup os et. al set up the world   most obvious ambush for the Danvers family, and thanks to the Pack   basic ineptitude, a bit of cellphone interference, and a guy with a knife, Antonio is killed and and Jeremy is wounded. Note: If you ;re a werewolf and can be taken out by a guy with a switchblade, you ;re kind of a shitty werewolf. Meanwhile, everything in Toronto is horrible, all the people are horrible, and Logan inexplicably refuses to come home despite the fact his family is being continually murdered. These scenes are death incarnate. In fact, I ;d put the acting in the scene with Elena   Dull Boyfriend and his Hacker Whiz Ex-Girlfriend to be The Room-level godawful. If Bitten cut this shit out and went down to 30 minutes, it would be a mercy. Jeremy and the Pack decide  stanley cup nz now this time the Mutts have really gone to far, and this time they ;ll really get what   coming to them, l

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