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Russia and China value bilateral relations too much to risk jeopardizing them, but too few in the West comprehend that reality, argued Augusto Soto, a professor at the Esade business and management school in Barcelona.
Master Gardeners Audreen Williams, left, and Jeanette Stehr-Green share tips on water conservation, including mulching, watering slowly and deeply, eliminating weeds competing for moisture, and adding a shallow berm around individual plants.
PORT ANGELES — The final Second Saturday Garden Walk of the season at the Port Angeles Fifth Street Community Garden is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Saturday.
The monthly walks are free and open to the public. The Fifth Street Community Garden is at 328 E. Fifth St., just off Peabody Street and across from City Hall.
The guides will be veteran Master Gardeners Laurel Moulton, Audreen Williams, Jeanette Stehr-Green and Bob Cain, who returns after a brief hiatus.
Topics to be covered this month include saving seeds, ripening tomatoes, fall and winter berry care, season extenders and putting the garden to bed.
Guides will talk about what is happening — or should be happening — in local vegetable gardens and berry patches in September.
Walks this year have attracted a number of local gardeners, including a few seasoned gardeners who have shared their vegetable gardening experiences.
For more information on the Master Gardener program, go to mastergardener.wsu.edu or call the Clallam County program coordinator at 360-565-2679.
Earlier this week, I posted a blog on how best to prepare yourself for the new world of journalism. The tips included there encouraged would-be digital journalists to make themselves into multimedia producers, able to offer text, photos and video with every story, as well as the ability to put those stories on the Web.
That’s the same lesson recent graduates of Columbia’s J-School - arguably the country’s best- also have learned, according to Michael Ventura in the Village Voice.
A house fire Wednesday morning is blamed on an extension cord into which a space heater was plugged.
RICHMOND, Ind. — When Audrey Richards returned from running an errand Wednesday morning, she found black smoke pouring out of her residence.
Richards entered the home through a back door, said Deputy Chief of Fire Prevention Doug Gardner, and helped her sister and a dog escape the fire. And she called 911 to summon Richmond Fire Department.
"I had heavy gray smoke coming from three sides with flames out of the back," said Battalion Chief Charlie Bartlett, who arrived at the 2101 S. 11th St. home first after firefighters were dispatched at 9:40 a.m.
Bartlett said RFD personnel quickly knocked down and extinguished the fire. He said the kitchen, which is in the back, received most of the fire damage, while the rest of the one-story house had smoke damage.
Firefighters tossed burned contents of the house out windows and doors to make sure all of the fire was extinguished. They also tore away layers on the outside of the house to check for remaining fire.
Gardner, RFD's fire investigator, said the fire originated in the kitchen where an extension cord was plugged into an outlet.
"It's an accidental fire caused by a space heater plugged into an extension cord that had been spliced and repaired," Gardner said.
Dana Mollenkopf of the American Red Cross arrived at the scene to assist the family.
Technology has changed lives in a number of meaningful ways. It has unleashed a great transformation that has allowed access to information and services through a swipe or a click, Rep. George Miller and Bob Wise write in Politico. While the new technology has fueled innovation in the consumer sector, widespread and ef...
The “Moonlit” photography show is one not to be missed.
I was particularly looking forward to Luc Demers’ solo show after his strong presence in the 2012 CMCA Biennial. Demers was one of the seven artists invited to that biennial (along with 10 who were selected via a jury process; the CMCA’s pronouncements were clear about this), and he was the first I mentioned in my revi...
Demers’ work at CMCA walked a tightrope between two different ways of seeing it. “Back Door” featured a view through a darkened domestic hallway toward an outer door with three windows and a sliver of a lighted room visible to one side. The scene implied either a narrative or a thoughtfully paused moment of awareness (...
What made Demers’ pieces particularly compelling was that they could be read either way – as narratives or paused moments of self-awareness.
While, in writing, the paused-moment approach might sound over-determined and unlikely, it makes sense in front of Demers’ body-scaled photographs because it answers the question, “Why did he take this photograph?” It also accounts for the effect of stopping in space to take a photograph. Moreover, the extraordinary te...
Demers’ new photos at Rose Contemporary tack away from narrative possibility and push in the direction of that frozen moment of self-awareness.
“Moonlit” lives up to its name: The 15 photos are all long-exposure (yes, actual film) interior shots lit by nothing but moonlight and featuring fixed nighttime images of a window sash, a shaded window, a curtain and so on. The images are unusually minimal for photography.
Because the exposures are so long (up to seven hours each) the indirect light is a lusciously soft midnight blue floating within uncannily rich blacks.
Demers mounts and frames the images beautifully, and because he prints with archival pigments and mounts the rag paper on aluminum, he is not compelled to put glass over these works (which, because they are so subtle, would require very expensive museum glass; moreover, pigment prints ostensibly will not fade like imag...
Because of their technical complexity and exposure length, the “Moonlit” series is understandably small. Demers’ first image is ghostly and gorgeous. It features a sheer curtain centered iconically and rendered in whispers of the softest blue on a broad ground of Demers’ luscious photographic black. “Moonlit #2” might ...
And because these are photographs, they are more compelling than similar-appearing paintings; they take wing using things we actually see rather than interior vision.
The artist who best explores these issues of vision is Alex Katz. The Colby College Museum of Art’s giant canvas “East” comprises 20 feet of black space only punctuated by dark blue sky seen through the trees in the upper right. While this achieves an almost complete dematerialization of the viewer’s body (presumably i...
Demers and Katz both encounter the edge were vision is either removed from the viewer’s body or attaches sight to the viewer’s body. But Demers’ forays into this subject are both more elegant and more successful (but let’s not forget that Katz blazed this brilliant path).
There have been a number of excellent photography shows in Maine this year (most notably the exhibitions associated with the Maine Media Workshops + College), and “Moonlit” is absolutely one of the best.
After the first known use of a military-grade nerve agent on European soil since World War Two, Britain blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for the attempted assassination, and the West has expelled around 130 Russian diplomats.
Moscow has said it suspects the British secret services are trying to frame Russia to stoke anti-Russian hysteria.
After Britain expelled 23 Russians it said were spies working under diplomatic cover, Russia followed by throwing out 23 British diplomats.
Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday the circumstances of the Salisbury attack led Russia to suspect possible involvement of the British intelligence services.
Bikers and beers. In most parts of the country, those two elements may be reasons to move elsewhere. But in the foothills of Colorado's Front Range, bikers mean cyclists: Fort Collins has 29 miles of well-used trails.
As for beers, this town has become a high-end microbrew mecca. New Belgium Brewery (maker of Fat Tire) is based in this entrepreneurial town, and competitors are moving in.
People here aren't slackers either. Bolstered by Colorado State University, which employs 7,000, "the Fort" is a center of economic activity. Hewlett-Packard, the city's second-largest employer, announced worldwide layoffs in June, but they won't affect Fort Collins. In fact, the company is adding jobs here.
Is Fort Collins a great town, or what?
Itching to move to one of these top 10 cities? You might score a real-estate bargain, too.
Virgil van Dijk wages: Where will £75m defender rank in Liverpool’s top earners?
VIRGIL VAN DIJK will become a top earner at Liverpool – but how much will he earn at Anfield?
Liverpool have splashed £75million on Southampton star Virgil van Dijk, with the defender set to earn huge wages at Anfield.
The Dutch ace has been handed the No 4 shirt for the Reds and will be paid more than double the wages of his new defensive partner Joel Matip.
Philippe Coutinho is the club's current highest earner but Van Dijk isn't far short of the eye-watering amount.
Take a look through the gallery to compare Virgil van Dijk's wages with the Liverpool squad's contracts.
Recent injuries to Wahab Adams and Ganiyu Ismael and a poor form of Agyemang-Badu has forced C K Akonnor to use the captain in the center back role in the Normalization Committee Special Competition.
Speaking to the media after the clash with Bechem United, Amos Frimpong revealed that he is happy with the new role assigned to him by coach CK Akonnor and he is only focus on helping the team to win.
“I am happy to play at my new role assigned to me by the coach. You always have to be ready to play where ever the coach assigns you,” he said.
Kotoko are unbeaten in their last three games in the Normalization Committee Special Competition.
The Finnish Defence Forces said on Thursday that a conscript died when his all-terrain vehicle overturned.
The Finnish Defence Forces released a statement that a conscript in the Kainuu brigade died when his all-terrain vehicle overturned on a slippery slope, trapping him underneath it early Thursday morning.
No other passengers were on-board at the time.
The conscript was participating in the Arctic Shield 18 practice in Rovajärvi, located within the municipalities of Rovaniemi and Kemijärvi.
One of the goals of the two-week long exercise is to enhance cooperation between the Finnish and Swedish armies, with 4,800 troops participating in the military exercises in Rovajärvi, the main artillery practice range of the Finnish Army.
The conscript’s family has been notified and police are now investigating the accident.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A Jacksonville-based roofing company is the target of a state investigation and lawsuit over jobs that were never completed.
As the state takes steps to penalize the company, customers who claim they never received the services that they paid for are hoping to get their money back.
Many of those customers said they were trying to get their homes repaired after Hurricane Irma. They said they're out thousands of dollars, and never got their roofs fixed.
The News4Jax I-TEAM reported last month that the Better Business Bureau had received multiple complaints about Carlson Enterprises. The director of an Orange Park kindergarten and day care center that was damaged by Hurricane Irma accused the roofing company’s owner, Adolph Carlson, of taking thousands of dollars in de...
On Friday, Warren Wilson told News4Jax that after Irma left his home with some significant damage in October 2016, Carlson Enterprises was recommended to him to make the repairs.
"We had a nice hole in the roof," Wilson explained. "We had water coming in the house."
But as soon as Wilson paid the company more than $3,000, he said the works took off and the repairs were never made.
"That's what I was really upset about," Wilson said. "They just took the money and left. And no matter who I try to get in contact with -- no response."
Wilson's complaint is just one of 72, 64 of which were filed this year, against Carlson and his company.
A lawsuit filed this week by Attorney General Pam Bondi’s office asks that Carlson Enterprises cease operation and the company’s assets be frozen.
At this point, Wilson said, he doesn't believe he'll ever see his money again.
"When I do a job, I try to make everybody as happy as possible," he said. "You've got companies out there ripping off people. I mean, we just went through a terrible hurricane and you're out there ripping off people? That's just not right."
When asked what he would say to the company owner, Wilson said, "I really can't put that on TV."
Carlson Enterprises could not be reached for comment on Friday.
The lawsuit has been filed and is awaiting approval by a judge.
If you’ve ever been in a Tesla, you know Elon Musk’s company has made an electric car with some serious oomph. But there’s oomph and then there’s record-smashing acceleration.
Today, China’s NextEV announced that its NIO EP9 “electric supercar” had become the world’s fastest electric vehicle, breaking a speed record at the Nürburgring Nordschliefe by tackling the 20.8km 12.92-mile-long “Green Hell” track in 7 minutes, 5.12 seconds. The new vehicle is also said to sport a top speed of 194 mil...
Wellington, New Zealand: Many children and teenagers are among those missing after a ferry sank in the remote Pacific, official figures have revealed, with victims described as their region's "youngest and brightest".
Radio Kiribati reported late Wednesday that a council survey of Nonouti island, where the ferry departed on January 18, showed there were 88 people aboard.
It said they included 10 children of primary age and 13 high school students.
Only seven people, including a 14-year-old girl, have been found alive so far and hopes are fading of locating any more.
Four aircraft, from the United States, Australia and New Zealand, are combing vast swathes of ocean looking for survivors, along with six boats.
Kiribati President Taneti Maamau told public radio Wednesday that the sinking was a "tragic moment" for the tiny island nation but the search for survivors would continue.
"There are objects that have been spotted like wooden pieces and a gas cylinder and a few other things, but sadly there are still no signs of people spotted yet," he said.
Former president Anote Tong said Nonouti had lost its "youngest and brightest" and the whole of Kiribati was in shock.
"This is by far the biggest disaster in terms of numbers and also in terms of the people involved," he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Tong said there were questions about why it took authorities more than a week to raise the alarm after the ferry, MV Butiraoi, set off on a passage that was only supposed to last two days.
The seven survivors were found drifting in a dinghy on Sunday and the search is now concentrating on finding a life raft that was launched from the sinking ferry.
Businessmen in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, began handing over their weapons to the transitional government on Thursday, following an agreement by the government to protect the business community and its properties. VOA Correspondent Alisha Ryu has details from Mogadishu.
The handover of weapons took place Thursday morning amid heavy security at the headquarters of the Somali police.
A procession of cars and trucks delivered boxes of ammunition, assault rifles, and heavy guns to Somali security officials and observers, including Ethiopian military officials and Ugandan soldiers in Somalia as part of African Union's peacekeeping force.
Somalia's new police commander Abdi Hassan Awale Qeybdid told reporters that the owners of 151 local companies have agreed to disarm, a decision he says will help bring peace to one of the most dangerous cities in the world.
The police commander says the business leaders gave their promise to give up their weapons in writing. He says getting guns off the streets is a key goal in the government's plans to secure the capital.
Ugandan army Colonel Peter Elewelo praised what he called "the brave and positive action" of Somalia's business community. To ensure that the weapons are not used in partisan clan fighting, the colonel says his Ugandan peacekeepers will safeguard them at their barracks.
"This is the way forward," he said. "We need to get rid of these dangerous guns. They have had it for the last 16 years and it has brought nothing to them."
Government security officials tell VOA that the businessmen volunteered to give up their weapons last week, after receiving assurances that the government would implement tough security measures, especially in Bakara market, the biggest open air market in Somalia.
But it is widely believed that the business owners agreed to disarm largely because of fears that if they did not comply, the government would brand them as supporters of the defeated Islamic movement and attempt to confiscate their businesses or shut them down.
The link between Mogadishu businessmen and the Islamic courts go back more than a decade, when the first courts were established in north Mogadishu.
Through the years, the Islamists retained the support of many businessmen, because the courts provided some means of upholding law and order in a country that has had no functioning government since 1991.
Somalia's secular interim government, backed by Ethiopian troops, took power in Mogadishu in January, ending the Islamists' six-month rule over much of Somalia. Several top Islamist leaders were accused by the Somali government, Ethiopia, and the United States of sheltering al-Qaida terrorists and turning Somalia into ...

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