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But we don’t know if any of that is true; all we know is that it looks like a Jeep Renegade from the rear three-quarter profile (with the belt line that steps up to a thick d-pillar) and like a Grand Cherokee from the front (with the thin headlights flanking the grille at the top. |
It’s hard to really tell the scale of this Jeep; is it a small seven-passenger Jeep like the Nissan Rogue, or is it a behemoth like the Land Rover Discovery? We’ll hopefully find out more in the coming days. And hopefully there will be a big three-row Jeep coming to our shores, because America has Jeep fever right now. |
For $10,500, Could This 2006 Jeep Commander Limited Command Your Attention? |
Judge Alison Nathan, a U.S. District Court judge in New York, has given the two parties a week to submit a joint letter explaining why she should sign off on the deal. |
Judge Nathan said the court needs to make a "minimal determination of whether the agreement is appropriate,” adding that she is bound by law to determine whether the enforcement action in question is "fair and reasonable, with the additional requirement that the public interest not be disserved." |
The SEC’s fraud charges stem from Musk’s August 7 tweet in which he said he had secured the funding necessary to take Tesla private, even though he had not. The now-infamous tweet caused the company’s stock to rise 11 percent that day to a near all-time high. |
Charging that the tweet misled investors, the SEC reached a decision to require Musk to step down as chairman for at least three years. Under the deal, Musk and Tesla will pay separate $20 million fines. However, it stipulated that Musk will be allowed to remain chief executive. |
Just a few hours after the judge ordered that the fraud settlement be justified, Musk mocked the SEC on Twitter, calling the agency the "Shortseller Enrichment Commission." |
"Just want to [sic] that the Shortseller Enrichment Commission is doing incredible work," he said. "And the name change is so on point!" |
Judge Nathan’s request for the settlement to be justified is unusual but not unheard of, experts say. In comments to CNN, Jay Dubow, a partner at Pepper Hamilton and a former branch chief with the SEC's enforcement division explained that executives usually aren’t allowed to remain CEO when they are forced to step down... |
However, Dubow said he would be surprised if the the judge ultimately rejected the tentative deal. "I think it's the judge being careful," he said. "It's a high-profile case." |
Judge Nathan said it was her regular practice to request letters of this nature, Reuters reports. |
Victoria police officers should be made to record the perceived ethnicity of every person they stop in order to tackle the force’s racial profiling problem, a report commissioned by a legal rights group says. |
“Racial profiling is a form of biased and discriminatory policing, and its implications and impacts of racial profiling are profound,” the report, compiled by a coalition of academic experts known as the Police Stop Data Working Group, states. |
Race tensions have been exacerbated in Victoria with much of the state’s media coverage of crime focussing on Melbourne’s so-called “Apex gang”, which some news organisations have wrongly described as being comprised of largely African youth. |
Police crime data released in April showed Sudanese-born offenders committed 4.8% of the aggravated burglaries in the state and that these crimes were increasing, but were still second to Australian-born offenders, who committed nearly 80% of such crimes. |
Dr Clare Land, a sociologist and race relations expert, said court proceedings had shown Victoria police stopped young African men at more than two-and-a-half times the rate that they stopped their white counterparts. |
In 2015, Victoria police became the first police force in Australia to explicitly define and prohibit racial profiling and identify it as a form of discrimination. |
But solicitor Tamar Hopkins, lead author of the Police Stop Data Working Group report commissioned by the Flemington & Kensington Community Legal Centre, said the police force needed to do more to reinforce its own policy. Police do not fill out a field contact report every time they stop someone. They are required to ... |
“We want police to start filling out these forms every time they stop someone for any reason,” Hopkins told Guardian Australia. |
Hopkins and the Police Stop Data Working Group also want the information recorded on these forms de-identified and made public. |
Melbourne youth worker Barry Berih described to the Police Stop Data Working Group how he had been repeatedly stopped by police because of, he believes, his appearance. “On one occasion four police stopped me in my car on my way to work and said it was a routine check,” Berih, who was born in Australia, said. His famil... |
“This weekend police stopped me when they saw me leave my house and get into my car in North Melbourne and again asked for my ID. When I asked why, they said it was because my car ‘could be stolen’. They also made my friends in the car provide identification, even though they weren’t doing anything. Just for sitting in... |
Guardian Australia has contacted Victoria police for comment on the report. |
Scott’s “proverbial elephant in the living room” is perhaps too earthbound a metaphor. Michael Haneke’s Caché, for those who have not seen it—and I don’t want to spoil too much, as it has only just opened in major American cities—is a revenge-of-the-repressed movie with roots in the horror genre. Stephen King does this... |
Which makes for an interesting transition—insofar as the type of American personality that Tony has noted in the work of Andrew Bujalski and the performance of Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Mysterious Skin is a study in denial and avoidant behavior. The smugness with which Gordon-Levitt’s character, Neil, regards the middle-... |
I had an opportunity to meet Andrew Bujalski at this year’s lovely Virginia Film Festival and to confirm (no surprise) that he is very much on top of what he does: working with people he knows, nonprofessionals; cunningly shaping his scenarios; and then stepping back and watching (so closely) as the actors find their o... |
I had the good fortune to see both Funny Ha Ha and Mutual Appreciation on big screens, in a cinema, where they weren’t competing with my furniture, my telephone, or the urge to check my e-mail or cut my toenails or just multitask because that’s all I seem to do these days. I’m not sure how these delicate, semi-plotless... |
She has just overseen a daring new campaign to promote awareness of cervical cancer. |
And Poppy Delevingne certainly drew gasps again as she hit the town in London on Monday evening. |
The stunning model-turned-actress, 31, turned heads by slipping into a provocative black lace number for the Conde Nast Traveller 20th anniversary bash at Vogue House, which was sponsored by Perrier-Jouët Champagne. |
Showing off her fabulous figure - and her retro lingerie - the star smouldered as she arrived on the arm on her husband, James Cook. |
With her daring dress commanding all the attention, Poppy kept the rest of look simple, adding diamond drop earrings and a pair of embroidered heels. |
Also at the bash was socialite Laura Bailey, who cosied up to Poppy while demanding attention herself in a vintage scarlet dress. |
The glitzy guests mingled in the historic building as they sipped Grey Goose cocktails. |
Poppy had hired her supermodel sister Cara to promote her Lady Garden Campaign last week. |
Speaking to the publication about the campaign, Cara explained that her sister Chloe co-founded the campaign after finding pre-cancerous cells in her cervix herself - but even if her sibling weren't involved, she would still want to be a part of it. |
'It's fun, but has a really important message which is very on point for me - that girls and women should be liberated from the social constraints which force us to try and fit into a mould. |
She explained that she wanted women to be able to 'speak openly and bravely about vaginas and all the gynaecological areas of a woman's body'. |
The Suicide Squad actress continued, saying that the campaign was designed to help men also talk about the issue of cervical cancer. |
Cara has been busy breaking other boundaries too; speaking to Net-a-Porter's The Edit this week about her struggles with mental health. |
DOHA (Reuters) - Qatar said it will quit OPEC to focus on gas in a swipe at Saudi Arabia, the de facto leader of the oil exporting group which is trying to show unity in tackling an oil price slide. |
“We are not saying we are going to get out of the oil business but it is controlled by an organisation managed by a country,” al-Kaabi said. |
This was because it was not practical “to put efforts and resources and time in an organisation that we are a very small player in and I don’t have a say in what happens,” he added. |
OPEC members Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and fellow Arab states Bahrain and Egypt, have imposed a political and economic boycott on Qatar since June 2017, accusing it of supporting terrorism, which Doha denies. |
Qatar’s former prime minister, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, said on Twitter that OPEC “is only used for purposes that hurt our national interests”. |
The United Arab Emirates said Doha’s decision was a reflection of its declining influence. |
“The political aspect of Qatar’s decision to quit OPEC is an admission of the decline of its role and influence in light of its political isolation,” Anwar Gargash, UAE minister of state for foreign affairs, said on Twitter. |
OPEC’s loss of a long-standing member undermines a bid to show a united front before a meeting that is expected to back a supply cut to shore up prices. Benchmark Brent is trading at around $62 a barrel, down from more than $86 in October. |
“They are not a big producer, but have played a big part in (OPEC’s) history,” one OPEC source said. |
It highlights the growing dominance over policy making in the oil market of Saudi Arabia, Russia and the United States, the world’s top three oil producers which together account for more than a third of global output. |
Riyadh and Moscow have been increasingly deciding output policies together, under pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump on OPEC to bring down prices. |
“It could signal a historic turning point of the organisation towards Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United States,” said Algeria’s former energy minister and OPEC chairman, Chakib Khelil, commenting on Qatar’s move. |
Qatar, which Al-Kaabi said had been a member of OPEC for 57 years, has oil output of just 600,000 barrels per day (bpd), compared with Saudi Arabia’s 11 million bpd. |
But Doha is an influential player in the global LNG market with annual production of 77 million tonnes per year, based on its huge reserves in the Gulf. |
Al-Kaabi, who is heading Qatar’s OPEC delegation, said the decision was part of a long-term strategy and the country’s plans to develop its gas industry and increase LNG output to 110 million tonnes by 2024. |
“I assure you this purely was a decision on what’s right for Qatar long term. It’s a strategy decision,” Al-Kaabi said. |
The exit is the latest example of Qatar charting a course away from its Gulf neighbours since the rift began last year. It comes before an annual summit of Gulf Arab states expected to grapple with the roughly 18-month standoff. |
Once close partners with Saudi Arabia and the UAE on trade and security, Qatar has struck scores of new trade deals with countries further afield while investing heavily to scale up local food production and ramp up military power. |
Oil surged about 5 percent on Monday after the United States and China agreed to a 90-day truce in their trade war, but prices remain well off October’s peak. |
Al-Kaabi said state oil company Qatar Petroleum planned to raise its production capability from 4.8 million barrels of oil equivalent per day to 6.5 million barrels in the next decade. |
Doha also plans to build the largest ethane cracker in the Middle East and it would still look to expand its oil investments abroad, Al-Kaabi added. |
You don’t have to be an expert in artificial intelligence and big data to make the most of the technologies. |
When it comes to deploying and operating artificial intelligence and big data solutions, IT professionals are likely to approach projects with caution — for good reasons. The technologies are rapidly evolving, and before you dive head first into the waters, you want to be sure you understand what lies beneath the surfa... |
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Here’s a look at some of the ways that our services professionals can help you capitalize on AI and the growing volumes of data from your corporate systems, the Internet of Things, social media and other sources. |
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(Newser) – The doves may soon dry their tears: a new Prince EP is set to be released Friday, the first anniversary of his death, Rolling Stone reports. The six-track Deliverance—which a press release notes can be preordered online at iTunes, Google Play, and Amazon—is a posthumous compilation of songs co-written and co... |
a lawsuit filed by Paisley Park and Prince's estate accuses Boxill of breaking a confidentiality contract and "trying to exploit one or more songs for personal gain"; Who isn't? |
Not sure how I feel about an artist releasing music from the dead. How do we know this is what they want released or that it hasn't been altered? It sounds like a grab for cash rather than a project from passion. |
Mixology has become the latest trend in corporate team building exercises in the US and now Canada. Companies that are looking for a fun and unusual approach to building cohesiveness and relationships have delved into this fun and informative training. Companies like Professional Cocktail Solutions (NY) bring the class... |
Corporate teambuilding events are used to lighten the atmosphere, as well as, reward workers for diligence or hitting milestones. Mixology classes routinely receive high ratings from participants because they give people an excuse to laugh and bring out their inner mad scientists. Not only do people come away with very... |
Websites like BartenderTraining.ca are useful resources for managers to use to find mixologists or companies that specialize in corporate training. BartenderTraining.ca is a clearinghouse for training providers, academies, schools and information about this profession, providing information about education and the indu... |
About YYZtech Group Media Ltd. |
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Small study finds rosemary may affect cognitive performance. |
You are what you eat, so the old buzz phrase goes. But new research looking at people's moods and smarts may have us one day saying you feel as well as what you smell. |
Researchers in Great Britain have concluded that sniffing rosemary aromatherapy oil makes a person feel more content and gives a slight boost to performance. |
The researchers exposed 20 study participants in their 20s to the scent of rosemary aromatherapy oil anywhere from four to 10 minutes. They hid the oil under a desk so participants didn't know they were being intentionally exposed. |
The participants were then asked to complete basic subtraction problems, more complex subtraction problems, and detect number patterns on a computer. They also completed a mood questionnaire and underwent a blood test. |
Those who smelled the rosemary oil for less time were less likely to report feeling "content." The study found no relationship between the rosemary oil and feeling calm, alert, or pleasant, which were other mood types they were asked to assess. |
Participants who absorbed more rosemary oil could accurately answer the basic questions in less than two minutes, but there was no difference in the ability to answer more complex questions or to detect number patterns compared to those who were exposed to the oil for a shorter period of time. |
The researchers found that the longer the participants had time to take in the rosemary oil, the larger amounts of a chemical compound known as 1,8 Cineole – which is found in aromatherapy oils – were detected in their blood. |
"This study supports the suggestion that active compounds present in aromas may be absorbed through the nasal or lung mucosa and thus provide the potential for pharmacological activity," the researchers wrote about their study, published today in the journal Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology. |
The study was small, so there's no telling exactly how significant these findings are. But if nothing else, it may be satisfying to know that rosemary aromatherapy oils may just put us in a "content" mood. |
With her husband Dave Paschich close behind, April Ellis takes her animatronic pony creation to a coffee shop on the edge of the Mission in San Francisco, Calif. |
April Ellis and her husband Dave Paschich make their way home after a trip to a nearby coffee shop in San Francisco, Calif. |
April Ellis takes her animatronic pony creation for a test drive in San Francisco, Calif. |
A young admirer investigates April Ellis's pony takes in San Francisco, Calif. |
April Ellis took a sabatical from her social work job a year ago to build an animatronic pony business called Mission Pony in San Francisco, Calif. |
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