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The line was scrapped as a “business decision,” she said, without elaborating further.
Thomas Neuspiel, creative director at Keen Music, had been talking with Toronto-based ad agency Lowe Roche about developing more dynamic audio for interactive music, a process his company had been experimenting with for some time.
“They were in the early stages of conceiving something for J&J and I think they had the concept for a song and a visual and they had the idea for a dynamic response, but didn’t know that it was possible,” said Mr. Neuspiel, whose company developed the technology to make the video’s sound effect seamless.
Sarah Johnson, principal at Toronto-based marketing consultancy Athena Brand Wisdom, called O.B.’s effort “inspired” for targeting its intended audience cleverly.
She credited the company for embracing “insightful, slightly iconoclastic advertising,” citing a TV spot for NicoDerm featuring an angry stewardess going through nicotine withdrawal.
The O.B. made-in-Canada effort has gained a lot of attention, getting circulated widely through social media, news sites and blogs. Within the first 10 days, it had garnered almost 600,000 unique views on the obtampons.ca/apology page.
Customer feedback has been positive, said Ms. Kohut, who noted that in addition to the positive Facebook commentary the customer contact centre has been called by many who said they appreciated J&J’s efforts.
Stocks fell sharply as big names like Boeing, Microsoft and Sears all dropped. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 2.15 percent. Page D1.
Louisiana officials have taken over temporary management of a troubled, privately run juvenile prison after the warden resigned. Page A16.
A Palestinian immigrant was convicted of plotting to explode a bomb in the New York City subway, but a co-defendant was acquitted. Page B1.
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said a $50,000 compensation offer by the owner and builder of the Conde Nast building was inadequate. Page B5.
The interior decorator whose relaxed traditionalism was embraced by America's stylish elite, including President Bush, was 58. Page B13.
The Chicago Bulls hired Tim Floyd as director of basketball operations, and said they would welcome back Phil Jackson as coach. Page C1.
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The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) reportedly abducted overnight at gunpoint Syrian national Ahmed Ta'an Assi in the northeastern border town of Arsal.
Hussam Trad, who is is also known as Abi Bakr, kidnapped at the head of an armed group Assi near his house Arsal and transported him to an unknown location in a maroon Jeep Grand Chrokee that didn't carry any license plates, the state-run National News Agency reported.
The reasons behind the abduction remain unclear.
Arsal, a predominantly Sunni area, backs the uprising against Syrian President Bashar Assad.
The town lies 12 kilometers from the border with Syria and served as a key conduit for refugees, rebels and wounded people fleeing strife-torn Syria, but the Lebanese army stepped up it's security measures in the village to stop infiltration.
It was overran in August by gunmen belonging to the two al-Nusra Front and ISIL, who withdrew from the town by taking several soldiers and policemen hostage. Four have been so far executed.
The jihadists remain entrenched on the outskirts of Arsal on the porous Syrian-Lebanese border.
Second Life is a rich, virtual online world populated with 1.2 million citizens worldwide. Everything, including non-profit storefronts, libraries, campuses, and yes, nightclubs and strip joints, is built by the folks who live a second life online. In this podcast, host Wayne MacPhail interviews educators and activists who have discovered that a Second Life can change their first one.
Kristina Lively talks collaboration, cat attire and libraries on Second Life.
A librarian and geneologist copes with government regulations in a virtual world.
Patient advocate, marketer and entrepreneur Stacy Stone talks marketing online and in-world.
In Kenzo, a former chaplin and missionary talks about her nonprofit mission in Second Life.
Firebrand Serb leader Vojislav Seselj will learn Wednesday whether UN war crimes judges uphold an appeal against his acquittal for war crimes in the 1990s Balkans conflict.
The 63-year-old radical opposition MP has said he will snub the hearing when presiding judge Theodor Meron reads the ruling in the tribunal in The Hague.
Seselj was acquitted in March 2016 of nine war crimes and crimes against humanity charges after a trial lasting more than eight years at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
A three-judge panel led by French judge Jean-Claude Antonetti said prosecutors had "failed to prove beyond all reasonable doubt" or provide sufficient evidence that Seselj was responsible for the crimes he had been charged with.
Incensed prosecutors appealed the acquittal, with the court's chief prosecutor Serge Brammertz calling the decision a "fundamental failure by the majority (of judges) to perform its judicial function".
Wednesday's appeal starts at 1200 GMT before the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT), which is wrapping up the last cases after the ICTY closed in December.
During his marathon trial, prosecutors alleged Seselj was behind the murders of scores of Croat, Muslim and other non-Serbs between 1991 and 1993 in the conflicts that tore Yugoslavia apart, after the fall of communism.
The prosecution asked for a 28-year-sentence for the man they referred to as the "chief propagandist of the Greater Serbia", who they said warned that "rivers of blood" would flow in Bosnia if his vision for a Greater Serbia was opposed.
The appeals judges now have three options: either to uphold the trial verdict, which means that Seselj remains free or; to overturn the verdict and impose a sentence; or to quash the verdict and order a re-trial.
If the verdict is overturned, judges may also issue an arrest warrant for Seselj -- who has remained in Belgrade after he was excused from attending the 2016 judgement having returned to Serbia two years earlier on medical grounds -- or order him to be surrendered back to the court.
Seselj denies the allegations and in particular making two speeches highlighted by prosecutors in the indictment.
In one address, prosecutors say he encouraged Serbs "not to spare a person" at the siege of the Croat city of Vukovar. In another a year later, he allegedly described Muslims as "excrement" in the Serbian town of Mali Zvornik.
"Lies," Seselj told AFP earlier this month, adding he did not regret his role in the conflict.
"We will never give up the idea of a Greater Serbia," Seselj said, adding his extreme right-wing Serbian Radical Party exists "to unite within the same state all the territories where the Serb people live".
In 2016, the judges in a split ruling said prosecutors had failed to prove "that there was a widespread and systematic attack against the non-Serb civilian population".
Although crimes were committed, Seselj was found not to be the "hierarchical superior" of his paramilitary forces after they came under the control of the Serbian army.
But prosecutors say the judges failed to give "sufficient reasons" for their conclusions.
The ruling was also heavily criticised by law experts, historians and in an unusually strong minority opinion by fellow judge Flavia Lattanzi.
"In the light of the fundamental errors," prosecutors urged appeals judges to quash the ruling and find Seselj "guilty as charged", sentence him, or to order a retrial.
Seselj remains defiant though. Asked whether he thought Serbia would hand him back to the court if his acquittal is overturned, he said: "You have to ask the authorities. Until now they did not want it. Neither for me, nor my collaborators."
54, of Mililani, Hawaii, died in Wahiawa on November 26, 2017. He was born in Honolulu. Visitation: 10:00 a.m.; Services: 11:00 a.m. on Monday, December 11, 2017 at Hawaiian Memorial Park Mortuary. Burial: 2:00 p.m. at Hawaiian Memorial Park Cemetery.
Hundreds of Montreal Irish and their supporters marched on Sunday to commemorate the 6,000 Great Hunger victims buried near Victoria Bridge. They also marched to protest. The community is up in arms over the ongoing lack of investment in the current memorial, known as “The Black Rock,” and the fact that the land on which it stands has recently been sold to Hydro-Quebec, which plans to build an electrical substation on the plot.
In their speeches, Irish community leaders praised the Catholics and Protestants, anglophones and francophones who had aided victims of the Great Hunger. Outside of Ireland Montreal is home to the largest burial ground of Irish famine victims.
Keyes and other members of the Irish community have been petitioning for a new monument on the site since 2012.
“At least now, thanks mainly to the attention the media have given to (the need for an appropriate memorial), I think something may happen,” Keyes said.
The Grey Nuns, treating victims of typhus. Painting by Theophile Hamel.
Last Friday the Irish community had some good news as Hydro-Québec announced that it will “establish a partnership with Montreal’s Irish community” to create a commemorative park for those Irish buried in the area.
Hydro-Québec has also agreed to carry out archaeological surveys of the land. The utility company will try to determine whether Irish bodies were buried in the area before they begin to build.
What’s more, Keyes added, Hydro-Québec “didn’t seem to object to maybe some sort of interpretation center” close to the substation, he added.
The company’s facility will power the planned Réseau électrique métropolitain light rail project. The project is scheduled for completion in 2023.
The Mayor of Montreal Denis Coderre told reporters on Sunday that the city is committed to providing a memorial for the site. He also rejected the implication that the city had done little to help the Irish community’s cause.
“When we say that nothing was done before, that’s not accurate…I met people, people know exactly what I was doing. It’s not a matter of ‘You did nothing.’ I think everybody now understands the importance of everybody working together,” said Coderre.
Among those present on Sunday was Quebec Native Affairs Minister Geoffrey Kelley, whose great-great-grandfather, a doctor, helped tend to the sick Irish immigrants. He told the Montreal Gazette he had spoken with Pierre Arcand, the minister responsible for Hydro-Quebec.
Illustration of Irish people begging for food during the Great Hunger.
Thomas Mulcair, leader of the federal New Democratic Party and also of Irish descent, said he believes the Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau should step in to stop the sale of the land.
The site is home to the remains of 6,000 people who died in the Canadian city after fleeing hunger and poverty in Ireland. The mass grave is in an industrial zone at the foot of the Victoria Bridge in Montreal and there is little obvious sign of its significance.
Many Irish lost their lives here during the typhus epidemic of 1847, the year known as Black ‘47 in Irish history, the worst year of the Great Irish Famine.
Due to the lack of information on the symptoms of typhus, many sick people were considered healthy and allowed to continue on their journey from the Canadian quarantine station at Grosse Ile to the next stop of Point St. Charles in Montreal.
The city was not prepared for the throngs of sick and dying Irish, however, in what was to be one of the hottest summers on record in Montreal. By the end of this “Calcutta summer,” 6,000 people had lost their lives, including many Canadians who had ventured into the Irish neighborhoods in an attempt to save the famine refugees.
Despite being the largest single burial site from the Great Hunger outside of Ireland, the grave is currently only marked with a 10-foot tall, engraved stone stained black by car fumes and nicknamed the Black Rock. As such, the Irish in the area established the Montreal Irish Memorial Park Foundation in 2012 with the aim of turning a nearby parking lot into an official memorial to the thousands of Irish buried here and the Canadians who helped them.
The foundation has spent the past five years in discussions with politicians and thought they were near a breakthrough on the site, but the announcement of the sale of the land two weeks ago came as a massive blow.
“After all, we have met with every level of government, from the local borough mayor right up until the local MP, Marc Miller, so repeatedly that these guys know our shirt size. And they promised that they would keep us in the loop,” Victor Boyle, national president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians and a director of the Montreal Irish Monument Park Foundation, told the Montreal Gazette, last week.
“Much as the tragedy of what took place in 1847 is an Irish story, the bigger story is the number of Montrealers — French, English, Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, that all came down to that site, that horrible site. It was mired in mud and sickness and disease, it was the hottest summer on record, yet all these people came from their homes and went down to see if they could help,” Boyle continued.
After the 1840s, the location of the mass Irish grave had been all but forgotten until construction work began on the Victoria Bridge in 1859. It was these workers who honored the Irish by erecting the Black Rock and every year since 1865, a ceremony led by the Ancient Order of Hibernians has included a walk to the Rock as a sign of remembrance of the typhus victims.
The Memorial Park Foundation had originally set 2017, the 375th anniversary of the founding of Montreal, as the deadline by which they would have established the new memorial – planned to include a museum, monument, meditation areas, a GAA Irish sports field and a beautiful green space that would double as a stunning entryway to the city from the Victoria Bridge.
Commonwealth's Attorney Jim Camblos, on WINA this morning to discuss the alleged bomber case, revealed a key factor in the decision to quickly arrest three youths suspected of conspiring to blow up high schools: "The ringleader was born on Hitler's 100th anniversary of his birthday"– and the anniversary of Columbine.
The Third Reich founder became a more significant player in this local drama when Camblos mentioned again about the 17-year-old former Western Albemarle student, "Remember, he was born on Hitler's birthday."
The Hook discovered that Academy Award-winning actress Jessica Lange also shares that April 20 birthday with Hitler. She lived in Scottsville for over a decade, but was never implicated in a conspiracy to blow up anything.
Camblos defended the quick arrests of three teens: "This was a conspiracy caught in its very early stages." As for gathering more evidence, for instance having police wiretap the suspects before making arrests, "That's absurd," Camblos objected. "The police didn't want to miss someone who said, 'I'm going to go down in flames for my compatriots.'"
Albemarle's top prosecutor seemed chafed that someone on a radio show call-in show had said that everyone in the juvenile court is presumed guilty, and that Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Darby Lowe, who's prosecuted the alleged conspiracy cases, has taken some heat. "Darby's a very, very good prosecutor," said her boss.
Saturday 8/26 update: Local ÂŒber-blogger (oops– did we just use a German word?) Waldo Jaquith has a little fun with Camblos' own birthday and concludes, with an astrologer's help, that if the birthdate fits, you must convict!
I, too was born on 4/20 (meaning long-haired grocery store clerks inevitable say, "Like your birthday, man, heh, heh, heh,") and have never had the inclination to blow anything up, either. Glad to hear about Jessica Lange, though. NowI have a surefire conversation starter if we meet.
I wondered if anyone else picked up on that implied guilt by association.
Did he deny that the juveniles were presumed guilty and also proclaim those who appealed their cases as "found guilty"?
Did I hear Mr. Camblos say that one absolutely "cannot talk about the closed trial...period" and then talk about it?
I've gotta get a podcast of this. My head is spinning.
Nancy Nehls (pronounced “kneels”) Nelson has announced she’s seeking the Democratic Party nomination for Buncombe County Commissioner in District 2. The seat, currently held by 2-term incumbent Democrat Ellen Frost, who will not seek re-election, represents the Eastern part of Buncombe County running from Fairview in the South, through Black Mountain and North to Weaverville, Barnardsville and parts of Leicester.
A retired AT&T Bell Labs Project Manager, Nelson ran for District 2 Commissioner for the first time in 2016. She won the Democratic Party primary by a commanding 8% over three opponents but fell a mere 317 votes short (<1%) in her race to unseat Republican incumbent Mike Fryar. Nelson is ready again to apply her extensive experience in project management and financial oversight directly to county government. Fiscal oversight is more important now than ever before.
Nelson is committed to excellence in all levels of public education, simplified access to public services, wise land use that entices job growth, and support of crucial public health issues. She is also committed to partnering with state government elected officials, who so closely monitor the work done by the commission.
Nelson is a member of the Land Conservation Advisory Board and a non-scientific member of the VA Hospital’s Institutional Review Board. She has also served as a Board of Elections Precinct Judge and a Member of the Weaverville Planning Board and has worked on several non-profit boards including Blue Ridge Public Radio. She teaches studio art at UNCA’s OLLI College for Seniors and has coached elementary school age girls in the Girls on the Run program.
Nelson lives on a Reems Creek valley ridge in Weaverville with her three rescue dogs. Her husband of 41 years, potter Curtis Nelson and her mother, a retired WWII US Army nurse from Hendersonville, both passed away in 2016 while she was running for office. She spent the greater part of 2017 retooling her life after those devastating losses. “My priorities as a county commissioner remain clear, and I’m ready to work for the benefit of our entire community,” says Nelson.
Nelson holds a B.A. from the University of Minnesota and a Masters Certificate from Stevens Institute of Technology. She is committed to serving as a full-time commissioner, accessible and responsive to all constituents.
This is great news for Buncombe County. Nancy is brilliant and indefatigable.
“Disney’s Aladdin” opens Oct. 2 as this season’s main event, running until Oct. 26.
DPAC anticipates 250,000 people will attend its Broadway series. Last year, theater phenomenon “Hamilton” stopped in during a national tour, setting a new bar for the performing arts venue. The show helped drive season ticket sales and led to a Saturday morning frenzy last summer to snag the “golden tickets.” In a month-long run, Hamilton sold out 32 shows, DPAC officials said, with more than 86,000 people attending the musical at the 2,712-seat theater.
Tickets are currently only available to DPAC season ticket holders, with the window to renew passes open until May 31. After that, Broadway series tickets will open up to the general public in late June, though seats for Aladdin are on sale now.
Despite ready availability of mobile device management solutions, the survey found only 37 percent of organizations are deploying MDM.
While security around mobile devices is a constant issue, managing mobility in the workplace presents a much broader set of challenges, with IT departments and users alike agreeing that there is a support gap, according to a survey of 1,200 IT professionals by technology solutions provider CDW.
Asked to grade their organization’s IT policies and technical support, only 41 percent of individuals using personal devices at their job give IT an A or a B. IT professionals had a more positive view of the support they offer, with 64 percent giving their own departments an A or a B, yet only 18 percent said they deserved an A.
"Mobility has edged its way into the workplace, increasing and complicating IT’s workload, and often leading to frustration on all fronts. Securing devices, along with the data and networks they use, will always be a significant concern, but protecting users and employers is only one of five key aspects of mobility management at work," Andrea Bradshaw, senior director and general manager of mobility solutions for CDW said in a statement. "The network impacts confirm that IT needs a systems strategy to accommodate mobility. Our research also shows that users and IT alike see room for improvement in the level and quality of support that IT provides for mobility today."
Looking ahead, 90 percent of IT professionals surveyed expect growing use of personal mobile devices to have major impacts on their organizations’ networks, including increased bandwidth requirements (63 percent), increased network latency (39 percent) and increased server requirements (44 percent) and storage requirements (37 percent). Nearly four in 10 (39 percent) said they have already seen network performance suffer.
"Some of our research findings are remarkable, but they align with what we see and hear from our customers every day," Bradshaw continued. "The reason organizations are not moving faster into mobility management solutions is that IT itself is working hard just to keep up with demand for more and more services with limited budgets, and mobility is a complex, multi-faceted challenge; it’s hard to know what to solve first. What IT needs itself is the support of a holistic, end-to-end approach that simplifies mobility management and reduces its cost in time and budget."
The survey also revealed that despite ready availability of mobile device management (MDM) and mobile application management (MAM) solutions that can help IT by supporting and enforcing security policies, the survey found that only 37 percent of organizations have deployed or are deploying MDM, and just 36 percent have deployed or are deploying MAM solutions.
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