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"Over the years, many times, we've gotten together and had a nice dinner...and you can just see how (much) more relaxed he is. Because he is Louis Appell, they're kind of the same problems as a baseball player or a rock star... I think he would be happiest if he could have dinner, let's say, in the Commonwealth Room at... |
People who know Appell said he is not shy. Rather, they used terms such as self-effacing, modest and low key to describe him. Although he rarely makes speeches, Appell is said to be a thoughtful and commanding orator. He also can be a gregarious host. A number of years ago, a well-attended party at Appell's York Townsh... |
York businessman Tom Wolf, whose parents are Appell intimates, said the Susquehanna Pfaltzgraff president is a "respectful person." Unlike most adults who talked down to children, Wolf said, Appell showed genuine interest when Wolf was growing up. |
"As a young person, I appreciated that because it was unique," said Wolf, co-president of The Wolf Organization Inc., which owns a chain of lumber yards and the other part of the Yorktowne Hotel. |
There don't appear to be any skeletons that might help explain Appell's need for privacy. Based on accounts compiled for this story, Appell and his companies adhere to a strict standard of personal and professional ethics. "The Susquehanna Philosophy," a one-page document signed by Appell, lists nine "broad guidelines ... |
Indeed, under Appell who inherited stewardship of the family business in his late 20s after his father's unexpected death, Susquehanna Pfaltzgraff has quietly flourished. Today's company is true to Appell's linage: the pottery, the oldest one continually operating in the United States, from his mother's side; the media... |
The conglomerate has annual revenue of $250 million to $300 million, dominated by Pfaltzgraff casual dinnerware. Susquehanna Pfaltzgraff also includes the 12th largest radio group with stations in major markets across the United States, according to Duncan's Radio Group Directory, and seven cable television outlets. |
J.T. Anderton, editor of Radio Business Report, an industry publication, credited the company's stability and its commitment to people and community service for its success in radio. |
"I think when you have those things in place you've got a good solid foundation to build a broadcast group, and...Susquehanna has done that as well as any group in the country," he said. |
Penn Advertising Inc., another unit, is among the 20 largest billboard companies that belong to the Outdoor Advertising Association of America. The association represents more than 80 percent of the industry. |
Traffic has been snarled across the area as a big storm hits in what is predicted to be a strong El Nino event in Southern California Jan.5, 2016. |
Back-to-back storms in the Pacific are threatening to douse parts of the West for more than two weeks, thanks to an El Niño weather system that is tied with the strongest ever on record. |
Storms drenched California Tuesday, with 1.42 inches of rain recorded at Los Angeles International Airport, breaking a daily record set in 1979, National Weather Service. Santa Monica got nearly 1.5 inches of rain and Malibu got 1.76 inches over the last 24 hours as of 4 p.m. local time (7 p.m. ET), the NWS said. |
Twenty-five years after its rapid construction, the Berlin Wall had settled into a seemingly permanent place in the landscape of the divided German capital. |
Following the end of World War II, Germany had been divided into four occupation zones under the control of an allied nation — France, Britain, the U.S. and the USSR. The capital of Berlin, which lay in the middle of the USSR’s occupation zone, was further divided among the four powers. The zones controlled by Britain,... |
By Aug. 1961, 2,000 people were fleeing East Germany for the capitalist exclave of West Berlin every day. To stem the bleeding of economic power, the Soviet Union first constructed barbed wire barriers around West Berlin, followed by a tall concrete wall which encircled West Berlin completely. |
The “anti-fascist protective rampart” was further fortified with the addition of a second parallel wall 100 meters back, creating a “death strip" with clear sight lines for border guards to shoot fleeing refugees. |
The wall went through several upgrades over the years. The final version, begun in 1975 and completed around 1980, was 12 feet high and topped with a smooth pipe to make it difficult to climb over. |
These photos were taken in 1986 to cover the wall’s 25th anniversary, and reflect the resigned sense of normalcy around a barrier that many feared would stand for another 25 years or more. |
Just three years later, after several travel bans were lifted across the Eastern Bloc, mass demonstrations called for the opening of the wall. On the evening of Nov. 9, 1989, it was announced that people could move freely through the wall. East and West Berliners celebrated by dancing atop the barrier and chipping away... |
She was removed from the Celebrity Big Brother house on Wednesday night's episode for having a blazing argument with Nicola McLean and Jamie O Hara. |
But having spent the night in the spare room, rather than returning to the main house with her tail between her legs, Kim Woodburn wasn't admitting responsibility for any of the drama the night before. |
In the Diary Room, before being sent back to join the others, Kim said to Big Brother: 'The conspiracy in here against me, I think I’ve cracked it… Nicole [Nicola] in a word. |
Kim returned to the house to a frosty atmosphere among her housemates, with just Jessica Cunningham saying hello to her. |
Shut away in the toilet, Nicola and Stacy Francis were heard going over the events from the night before, with Nicola seeking assurance that she wasn't out of line. |
However, the claws were out again later in the episode when Nicola and Kim were seen trying to discuss things in the bedroom. |
'I didn't dear... I came in hoping I wouldn't have to argue!' Kim insisted. |
How can everyone be wrong and you be right?' asked Nicola. |
'They crucified Jesus Christ! Are you saying he was wrong?' Kim asked. |
Kim also had a one-to-one with James Cosmo, dubbing the CBB house 'a hell hole'. |
An illustration of an asteroid. |
A meteor lit up the sky over Botswana, Africa, early Saturday evening. Scientists discovered the six-foot-wide asteroid just hours before it reached Earth. |
NASA tracks 90 percent of near-Earth objects that are larger than 150 meters (~460 feet) in diameter, which means it misses lots of the smaller ones until they’re close by. This most recent rock, called 2018 LA, was spotted on June 2 by the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona. At that point, the asteroid was almost as near ... |
A rock entered the atmosphere traveling around 38,000 miles per hour at 6:44 pm Botswana time, creating a fireball, lining up with the predictions. |
This rock, like every small asteroid that hits or flies close by the Earth only a short time after its detection, confirms what we always say about asteroids. When scientists talk about “potentially hazardous” asteroids, they’re referring to bigger ones that have a chance to hit Earth eventually, but not in the foresee... |
These smaller events often hit remote areas or don’t cause any damage. But sometimes they can pack a punch, such as the Chelyabinsk meteor. |
Of course, the odds of being harmed by a meteorite are exceedingly low, as National Geographic reported. But if you’re planning on making any calls to your representatives today about space, it might be worth bringing up increased funding for asteroid tracking. |
Why Is This Asteroid Orbiting the Wrong Way Around the Sun? |
David Cameron is expected to step into the row over racism in football by staging a Downing Street summit on the issue. |
The Prime Minister and Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt are to hold a 'round table discussion' with the sport's authorities and players' representatives, according to the Sunday Telegraph. |
The event, scheduled for later this month, comes amid growing fears that high-profile incidents are harming the image of the game in England. |
A fresh spat broke out on Saturday after Liverpool forward Luis Suarez refused to shake hands with Manchester United's Patrice Evra before the teams' match. |
Suarez has only recently returned to action for Liverpool following an eight-match ban for racially abusing Evra during a game in October. |
At a charity reception last month, Mr Cameron said many people had been 'concerned by recent events' in the sport. |
'My message is clear: we will not tolerate racism in Britain. It has absolutely no place in our society and where it exists, we will kick it out,' he said. |
A source at the Premier League told the newspaper the talks at Number 10 were expected to be 'constructive and positive'. |
Welcome to the spotlight, Chris Herndon. |
He was overshadowed by David Njoku for much of his Miami career, but the former Hurricanes tight end will have plenty of eyeballs on him to start his pro career. The New York Jets took Herndon in the fourth round of the NFL Draft on Saturday. |
He was one of four Hurricanes taken on the third and final day of the event, bringing this year’s total to six. |
Herndon, the 107th overall pick, could be a target for first-round choice Sam Darnold, the quarterback from USC. |
"One of my favorite remaining players in the draft," NFL Network analyst Mike Mayock said after the pick was announced. "Fluid athlete. Tough kid. Contact balance like a running back. … He did all the dirty [blocking] work that Njoku didn’t want to do the last couple of years." |
No school produces tight ends like Miami, which has seen 12 drafted since 2000. The Jets have two of them: Herndon and Glades Central High alum Clive Walford, who recently signed a free agent deal. |
Running back Mark Walton, one of three Hurricanes who declared early for the draft, went to the Cincinnati Bengals in the fourth round (112th overall). |
"I don’t care what round, what place I go in. I’m in a good situation," he said on a conference call. "I’m just ready to go to work." |
Walton joins a Cincinnati backfield that includes former Oklahoma standout Joe Mixon and Giovani Bernard, a Boca Raton native who played at Fort Lauderdale-St. Thomas Aquinas. Head coach Marvin Lewis told local reporters Walton could be an impact player on special teams. |
"He’s an undersized back coming off an injury, there are clearly injury concerns, which is why he’s here," ESPN’s Todd McShay said after the pick was announced. "He doesn’t have elite, top-end speed, but he’s got everything else." |
"Lateral cutting ability is as good as anyone in the draft," Mel Kiper Jr. added, saying Walton would have been a second-round pick if healthy. |
The two Hurricanes defensive tackles who left school after their junior years, had to wait to be drafted. R.J. McIntosh went in the fifth round (139th overall) to the New York Giants, while Kendrick Norton lasted until the seventh round. The Carolina Panthers took him 242nd overall. |
Last year, quarterback Brad Kaaya left school and was taken in the sixth round by Detroit. He was cut twice, spending last year with the Panthers, Lions and Colts. Running back Joe Yearby, who also left UM as a junior, never signed with a team. |
Braxton Berrios, as many expected, went to the New England Patriots. Bill Belichick took Berrios, seen as a clone of former Patriots slot receivers Wes Welker and Danny Amendola, in the sixth round (210th overall). |
"Smart guy going to a smart coach," ESPN’s Trey Wingo said. "Makes all the sense in the world." |
Berrios, a reliable punt returner in college, is likely to compete for that job in New England, with Amendola now with the Dolphins. He’ll reunite with former UM teammate Phillip Dorsett, and angle for targets from Tom Brady. |
"I can’t wait to go in there, first thing, and learn," Berrios said on a conference call. "From everybody." |
The highest Hurricanes draft pick this year was defensive end Chad Thomas, selected Friday in the third round. UM, which had a first-rounder every year from 1995-2008, ended its more recent three-year streak of Day 1 picks. |
Tottenham were given a humbling by German giants Dortmund tonight but things could have been so different for Mauricio Pochettino’s men. |
A weakened Spurs side were beaten 3-0 by Thomas Tuchel’s side, who will now be overwhelming favourites to progress to the last eight. |
But, with the visitors 2-0 down midway through the second half, the Lilywhites were denied what seemed to be a clear penalty when Sven Bender brought down Son Heung-min in the box. |
With so many first-team players missing, an away goal would have given Spurs something to play for in the reverse fixture at White Hart Lane next week. |
Unfortunately for Pochettino’s side, the ref waved away the appeals and Spurs now face an uphill battle to progress to the next round. |
A 24-year-old cyclist was killed Tuesday morning in a collision with a private garbage truck in Center City, police said. |
The victim and the truck were heading west on Spruce Street about 7:25 a.m. when the truck driver made a right turn onto 11th Street, said Capt. Sekou Kinebrew, a police spokesman. "At that point the sanitation truck did make contact with the bicyclist," he said. |
The bicyclist, who was riding a small-wheel commuter bicycle with a rear basket, was taken to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 7:50 a.m., police said. She was identified Wednesday as Emily C. Fredricks, of the 700 block of South Street. |
Kinebrew said the driver was cooperating with investigators and no charges had been filed. Police did not identify the driver. |
Kinebrew said the investigators were looking into a number of possible factors, including whether the driver in the truck saw the bicyclist or failed to yield. Police were also investigating whether either the victim or driver were distracted at the time, possibly by a cellphone. |
The Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia said the death was the third traffic fatality involving a bicyclist in the city this year. |
Sarah Clark Stewart, the coalition's executive director, called on the city to quickly repaint the bike lanes on Spruce and Pine Streets, as it has promised, and to make bike lanes safer by installing flex barriers or protective curbs. |
At least 26 bicyclists have died in accidents on Philadelphia streets since 2010. Seven of the fatalities involved collisions with trucks, including Tuesday morning’s accident at 11th and Spruce Street that killed 24-year-old Emily C. Fredricks. |
The coalition and the urbanist political action committee 5th Square announced they would host a candlelight vigil for the victim at 5 p.m. Wednesday at 11th and Spruce. |
The truck involved in the collision is owned by Gold Medal Environmental, which is based in Deptford and has a facility in Southwest Philadelphia. |
The company has had one other fatal accident in the last two years, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration records show. |
A Gold Medal worker riding on the back of a truck was killed in June in Cape May County when the vehicle ran off the road and sideswiped a utility pole, the Atlantic City Press reported. |
Pablo is a sophomore who is part of the Carlmont cross country team and enjoys playing with his dog in his free time. He is also an active member of the San Carlos/Eaton Hills 4-H Club. Follow him on Twitter @pablopinilla02. |
Australia's first smartphone to run on Google's Android, the Kogan Agora Pro, has been delayed indefinitely with its distributor citing its low-resolution display as the reason for not shipping the handset in its current form. |
"It now seems certain the current Agora specifications will limit its compatibility or interoperability in the near future," said Kogan founder Ruslan Kogan in a statement. |
"Since the design of the Agora, the Android community has been growing quickly ... I now believe that in order to access all the Android platform has to offer, the Agora must be redesigned." |
The Kogan Agora and Agora Pro smartphones feature a 2.5-inch QVGA (240x320-pixel) resolution display. The only other commercially available Android phone to date, the HTC Dream, features a 3.2-inch display with a 320x480-pixel resolution. |
Google's Android OS is an open-source platform allowing software developers to freely create new applications and make them available to download from the Android Marketplace. As the Dream is the only Android handset on the market, developers will have been developing for screens with a resolution similar to its displa... |
Kogan will refund all money raised through the pre-sale of the Agora handsets. A new Android phone from the company is in development. |
Things are looking a bit ugly for the domestic pay-TV market, if subscriber results from the second quarter are any indication. Amid a plunge in subscribers for cable and satellite providers, IPTV was the only segment of the market to achieve growth in the second quarter, according to a new report from information and ... |
AT&T Uverse, Verizon FiOS and other telcos (plus Google in Kansas City) boasted a net addition of 398,000 during the April to June period, up from 304,000 in the second quarter of 2012. AT&T’s U-verse attracted 233,000 new subscribers in the second quarter—its second-largest sequential increase since 2009. Verizon FiOS... |
The cable segment’s loss of 588,000 subscribers was definitely the worst valley amid very few peaks (okay—one, IPTV (News - Alert)-shaped peak). While that showing was slightly better than the 598,000 customers that cable shed during the same time last year, the decrease still represented a major plunge for the embattl... |
Taken together, the U.S. pay-TV as a whole shed 352,000 subscribers. More significantly, 2013 is set to mark the first year ever that there will be an annual decline in total U.S. pay-TV subscriptions, IHS projects. Subscribers are set to decline to 100.77 million, down from 100.89 million last year. |
The recent tiff between CBS and Time Warner (News - Alert) over carriage fees—with CBS going black on Time Warner and the cable giant’s subscriber base then getting locked out of CBS programming—demonstrates the kind of difficulties that cable could endure in the future, Brannon noted. With a class action suit now pend... |
Based on the number of total subscribers at the end of the period, cable clung to 55 percent of the U.S. pay-TV market, satellite held 34 percent and IPTV had an upward mobile share of 11 percent. |
The internecine fight among the three rival segments is particularly acute because the overall base of potential new subscribers is diminishing over time. The decline in the second quarter means that the total number of U.S. pay-TV subscribers will contract by 146,000 during the initial six month of the year, the first... |
The market’s decline can be traced in part to the growing number of so-called “cord-nevers”— those who object to ever having a pay-TV subscription, and instead get their TV programming exclusively via over-the-top services like Netflix or through other sources. Equally as important, the price of a typical pay-TV subscr... |
For their part, both cable and satellite—bleeding from customer defections or non-renewals—are exploring opportunities to diversify services, including new paradigms to deliver content to the home and even completely new fields like home-monitoring services. |
For instance, DirecTV (News - Alert), which lost 84,000 customers in the second quarter, will be the latest pay-TV provider to offer services related to home security via a recent acquisition engaged in that market. Home security ostensibly will provide a new revenue stream, offering significant upselling opportunities... |
Other potential revenue boosters for cable and satellite providers include TV Everywhere, which allows content to also be accessed on computers, smartphones and tablets; and initiatives like Cox (News - Alert) Communications’ flarewatch, the first pay-TV-owned broadband-delivered IPTV service. |
A Ryanair passenger broke his ankle when he attempted to protect his child during a sudden change in the altitude of the plane. The pilot of the flight made the drastic maneuver in order to avoid a potential collision with another aircraft in the vicinity. |
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