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I did, although the theater then was in great disrepair. Dave brought his daughter, Dana, and we toured sites located in the Historic Overtown Folklife Village, from Northwest Second to Third avenues and Eighth to 10th streets.
Later, Dave interviewed me and published a compelling story that helped bring attention to the importance of restoring historic sites as a part of the redevelopment of historic Overtown. Colleagues and friends in various neighborhoods have stories to tell about Dave’s interest in affairs throughout the community.
Q: How close is the organization to fulfilling its mission?
Q: Will there be a need for The Children’s Trust 50 years from now?
Q: Who is David Lawrence Jr ?
My answer: He is a humble man who through gaining knowledge, taking action and persistence is a community champion and a warrior for children’s rights.
KABUL, Afghanistan — NATO says a roadside bomb has killed three international service members in southern Afghanistan.
The alliance says the three were killed along with a military dog on Friday. It didn’t give more details about the location or nature of the attack.
There's almost no question that the iPad Mini is a terrific device; it's got too much pedigree and money behind it to be anything else. But barring some sort of miracle from on Ive, it's also certifiably overpriced. And that's a bad sign for Apple.
At first blush, the iPad Mini has a lot to recommend it relative to the competition. Apple's managed to put a bigger display on a thinner and lighter device, which—these days, especially—is mobile computing's endgame. iOS is the most mature tablet ecosystem by a good stretch, which is worth no small something. And it c...
But look a little closer. With products this small that weight difference amounts to barely noticeable fractions of a pound. At 7.9 inches the iPad Mini is bigger than the 7-inch Kindle Fire HD and Nexus 7, but the whole point of a smaller tablet is to be, well, smaller. More portable. Oh, and speaking of that display:...
That's partly because the iPad Mini's processor is a relatively underpowered dual-core A5, compared to the Fire HD's 1.2GHz dual-core OMAP and Nexus 7's quad-core Tegra 3. It just can't push that many pixels. Along those lines, it's safe to assume that the Mini has half the RAM of its competitors (although that doesn't...
All of which means that when you look at the iPad Mini next to the Kindle Fire HD and the Nexus 7, you get the impression that it's a pretty level playing field. And then you look at the prices.
The 16GB Wi-Fi iPad Mini costs $330, which is a whopping $130 more than the equivalent Kindle Fire HD. That's a 65 percent premium for a device that's not decidedly better in any way other than size and apps. It's only $80 (32 percent) more than the 16GB Nexus 7, but that may be for a limited time; Google's expected to...
Put it another way: for $300—still 10-percent less than the 16GB iPad Mini—you can get a bigger, even more pixel-dense 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD, or a 32GB Nook HD Plus. The full price comparison chart is here, and almost defies belief.
There's a temptation to say that it's just Apple charging Apple prices, but that instinct is dated. The real genius of the original iPad wasn't just that it was first—it was also cheapest. It took competitors a full year to come up with a tablet that could even remotely compete at $500. Ditto the MacBook Air of the las...
Charging so much more for a product that's not clearly so much better is a major step backwards for Apple, especially given its unfamiliar position in the small tablet space as a follower. You don't enter an established market—Amazon's in its second generation of Kindle Fires already, and has millions of loyal customer...
At best Apple's iPad Mini pricing is misguided; at worst, it's arrogant. Most of all, though, it's surprising, especially given how important smaller tablets are going to be for schools and kids, the trenches in which Amazon and Google are fighting for an entire generation of loyal users.
Is the iPad Mini great? Sure, probably. Will people buy lots and lots of them? Most likely. But they'll also decide to save themselves $130 more often than not. And, more importantly, they'll be back on the lookout for the Apple premium of old, the cool tax. There are plenty of things in this world worse than an overpr...
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CHICAGO - After months of refusing to respond to questions on presidential politics, Gov. Bruce Rauner is speaking out against Donald Trump for the second day in a row.
The rare public denunciation comes just days after the release of a video from 2005 in which Trump says he uses his fame to make unwanted advances towards women.
"I am appalled by the rhetoric. The statements, especially the recent statements in that tape, just go beyond anything remotely reasonable. They are appalling, disgusting comments," Rauner continued.
At the same time, a new federal Super PAC is hoping to tie Rauner and other Illinois Republicans to Trump’s controversial comments with a new attack ad.
LIFT Illinois released the 30-second ad Tuesday morning.
Gov. Rauner made the comments during the primary race but has repeatedly sought distance from Donald Trump since he won the nomination, declining to attend the Republican National Convention in July.
The Chicago Tribune reports the committee, Leading Illinois For Tomorrow, spent $1 million on the ad.
Rauner has given more than $20 million of his own money to the Illinois Republican Party this year, in an attempt to chip away at Democratic majorities in both the House and Senate in the November 8th election.
Mental health counseling has adapted to the smartphone era.
The Bowen Center is partnering with BetterHelp to offer online counseling anytime through a computer, tablet or smartphone. The center will direct clients who might benefit from the online platform to betterhelp.com, which has 500,000 clients worldwide and more than 2,500 licensed therapists, said Matthew Brown, Noble ...
“Mental health counseling is continuing to change and we want to be part of that change,” said Brown, who is spearheading the effort.
The Bowen Center provides professional mental and behavioral health care services to northeast Indiana at 11 locations. The center employs psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, therapists, and chemical dependency specialists.
BetterHelp requires a subscription, and clients can use the site independent of the Bowen Center. But the center is offering a free trial, Brown said. The service uses text, video, and phone-based counseling. Brown said it's a way to offer additional services to the community.
BetterHelp is for people who are comfortable with the technology and unable to make an office visit, or who suffer from mild depression, anxiety and other disorders that don't require in-person counseling, Brown said. The Bowen Center sees itself as the “ground effort” in the partnership for patients needing face-to-fa...
Clients are assigned a BetterHelp therapist, and measures have shown that for certain disorders the online services are comparable, if not better, than office services, Brown said. The partnership could set the stage for Bowen to do more online, he added.
"China has always carried out approvals case by case, in accordance with the principle of sovereignty and the detailed situation," a Chinese official said.
HONG KONG — China has denied a request for a U.S. warship to visit Hong Kong, American officials said Tuesday.
The incident came amid rising tensions between Beijing and Washington over tariffs and follows the U.S. last week imposing sanctions on China after it bought arms from Russia.
The USS Wasp, an amphibious assault ship, had been due to make a port call in the former British colony of Hong Kong in October, diplomatic sources told Reuters.
"The Chinese government did not approve a request for a U.S. port visit to Hong Kong by the USS Wasp," a spokeswoman for the U.S. consulate in the city said.
"We have a long track record of successful port visits to Hong Kong, and we expect that to continue," she added.
"For requests for U.S. military ships to visit Hong Kong, China has always carried out approvals case by case, in accordance with the principle of sovereignty and the detailed situation," he told reporters, without elaborating.
China and the United States are also embroiled in an increasingly bitter trade war which escalated again this week.
On Monday, Trump went ahead with a tax hike on $250 billion of Chinese imports. Beijing retaliated by imposing penalties on $60 billion of U.S. goods.
Earlier Tuesday, a Chinese official said China could not hold talks with Washington on ending the trade dispute while the U.S. "holds a knife" to Beijing's neck by imposing tariff hikes.
Beijing is open to negotiations but whether they proceed is up to Washington, Deputy Commerce Minister Wang Shouwen said.
Montana officials said Sunday that an oil pipeline breach spilled about 50,000 gallons of oil into the Yellowstone River near Glendive, Montana, but they said they are unaware of any threats to public safety or health.
The Bridger Pipeline Co. spill occurred Saturday night, said Dave Parker, a spokesman for Gov. Steve Bullock. The initial estimate is that 1,200 barrels of oil spilled, which is about 50,000 gallons, he said.
Some of the oil did get into the water, but the area where it spilled was frozen over and that could help reduce the impact, Parker said.
"We think it was caught pretty quick, and it was shut down," he said. "The governor is committed to making the river is cleaned up."
Bridger Pipeline Co. said in a statement Sunday that it shut down the pipeline shortly before 11 a.m. Saturday. "Our primary concern is to minimize the environmental impact of the release and keep our responders safe as we clean up from this unfortunate incident," said Tad True, vice president of Bridger.
The EPA and state Department of Environmental Quality have responded to the area about 9 miles upriver from Glendive, Parker said.
An Exxon Mobil Corp. pipeline broke near Laurel during flooding in July 2011, releasing 63,000 gallons of oil that washed up along an 85-mile stretch of riverbank.
Montana officials are trying to determine if oil could have been trapped by sediment and debris and settled into the riverbed.
Exxon Mobil is facing state and federal fines of up to $3.4 million from the spill. The company has said it spent $135 million on the cleanup and other work.
Montana and federal officials notified Exxon that they intend to seek damages for injuries to birds, fish and other natural resources from the 2011 spill. The company also is being asked to pay for long-term environmental studies and for lost opportunities for fishing and recreation during and since the cleanup.
New policy posts on official White House website says Trump administration will seek to build missile defense system, engage in cyberwarfare against terrorist groups.
The Trump administration will make defeating "radical Islamic terror groups" its top foreign policy goal, according to a statement posted on the White House website moments after Donald Trump's inauguration as U.S. president.
Trump, a Republican, used his inaugural address on Friday to promise to "unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate completely from the face of the earth."
In the statement, titled "America First Foreign Policy," the Trump administration said, "Defeating ISIS and other radical Islamic terror groups will be our highest priority." ISIS is an acronym for Islamic State.
In order to "defeat and destroy" Islamic State and similar groups, the new administration said it "will pursue aggressive joint and coalition military operations when necessary," work to cut off funding for terrorist groups, expand intelligence sharing, and use "cyberwarfare" to disrupt propaganda and recruitment effor...
The statement offered no indication of how Trump's policies might differ from those of his predecessor, Democrat Barack Obama.
The Obama administration also pursued those broadly described strategies: working with European and Middle Eastern allies in a bombing campaign targeting Islamic State leaders and their oil infrastructure, authorizing U.S. special forces operations against the group, and using sanctions and other methods to cut off its...
Trump's speech and the statement echoed his campaign criticism of Obama and his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, for not using the phrase "radical Islamic terror" to describe Islamic State and other hardline jihadist groups.
Obama argued that using the term would conflate "murderers" with "the billion Muslims that exist around the world, including in this country, who are peaceful." Clinton said using the phrase would play into the hands of militants who want to portray the United States as at war with Islam.
The White House statement also appeared to nod at better relations with Russia, something that Trump has said he would pursue. "We are always happy when old enemies become friends, and when old friends become allies," the statement said.
Trump has rejected criticism that he is too eager to make an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The statement repeated Trump's campaign vow to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Asian free-trade pact that Obama championed but was unable to get through Congress. Trump has said, without elaboration, that international trade deals have hurt American workers.
"President Trump will ensure that on his watch, trade policies will be implemented by and for the people, and will put America first," the statement said.
In a separate statement on the White House website, the Trump administration said it intends to develop a "state of the art" missile defense system to protect against attacks from Iran and North Korea. It did not say whether the system would differ from those already under development, specify the cost or say how it wo...
Another statement said the administration is committed to eliminating Obama's Climate Action Plan and other environmental initiatives, according to the recently updated White House website.
"President Trump is committed to eliminating harmful and unnecessary policies such as the Climate Action Plan and the Waters of the U.S. rule. Lifting these restrictions will greatly help American workers, increasing wages by more than $30 billion over the next 7 years," the website said.
Obama's climate plan proposed cuts to U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, in part by preserving forests and encouraging increased use of cleaner renewable fuels.
Trump's efforts to boost the U.S. oil and gas sector will help increase government revenues to "rebuild our roads, schools, bridges and public infrastructure," the website said.
In another statement, the White House said Trump was still committed to building a border wall to stop illegal immigration, adding, "Our country needs more law enforcement, more community engagement, and more effective policing."
The website also said the administration condemned what it called the "anti-police atmosphere" in America and called for more law enforcement and more effective policing.
"The dangerous anti-police atmosphere in America is wrong. The Trump administration will end it," said the statement.
NASHVILLE – October 14, 2010 – In celebration of the year’s top country artists, CMT has invited three of the nation’s most highly respected chefs to create a three course tasting menu to complement an elegant evening honoring Jason Aldean, Lady Antebellum, Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, and Zac Brown Band, in the new...
CMT brings to the kitchen three James Beard Award-winning chefs: RJ Cooper (Washington, D.C., 2007); John Currence (Oxford, Miss., 2009); and Michael Schwartz (Miami, Fla., 2010) and their unique contribution to this premier Nashville event. In addition to the dinner, honorees and guests at CMT ARTISTS OF THE YEAR will...
Deemed “the Oscars of the food world” by Time magazine, The James Beard Foundation Awards are the country’s most coveted honor for chefs. Cooper, Currence and Schwartz will design the menu for the event and Goodlettesville, TN caterer Chef’s Market will provide preparation assistance for the chefs.
In the first ever 90-minute special celebrating the year’s best talent, CMT ARTISTS OF THE YEAR will bring the honorees together with their peers, as well as celebrities from across the entertainment spectrum for a glamorous evening of star-studded performances from the country world and beyond, all in celebration of t...
RJ Cooper, recipient of the James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef Mid-Atlantic in 2007, began preparing at an early age for his career as a professional chef. As a teen, Cooper cooked alongside his mother and grandmother in Detroit, Mich. and later enrolled at The Culinary School at Kendall College. Upon graduatio...
John Currence was born and raised in New Orleans, LA and is currently the owner of the Oxford, Mississippi restaurant City Grocery, which opened in 1992. In 2009, he was awarded the James Beard Foundation award for Best Chef South and was a winner of Charleston Food and Wine Festival’s Iron Chef Challenge. In 2006, he ...
Michael Schwartz, the 2010 James Beard Foundation Award winner for Best Chef South, is the chef/owner of Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink, located in the Miami Design District. A native of Philadelphia, Schwartz moved to Miami in the mid-1990s when he opened his restaurant Nemo. In 2007, Schwartz opened Michael’s Genuine...
A Napa Valley gem, Heitz Wine Cellars is a second-generation winery that has been producing luxurious world-class wines since the early 1960s. French oak barrels filled with aging wine are stored in a gray stone cellar, originally built in 1898, to allow the flavors to evolve patiently. Several United States Presidents...
Based in the rural region of Portland, Oregon, Ken Wright Cellars is an award-winning winery that prides itself in its robust wines, particularly the Pinot Noir, which epitomizes the clarity and depth of the vineyard. Believing in a “less is more” approach, Ken Wright focuses on promoting vineyard health and nourishing...
CMT ARTISTS OF THE YEAR is produced by Audrey Morrissey and Chad Hines. John Hamlin and Margaret Comeaux serve as executive producers for CMT.
CMT, a unit of Viacom’s MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B), is the leading television and digital authority on country music and entertainment, reaching more than 91 million homes in the U.S. CMT and its website, CMT.com, offer an unparalleled mix of music, news, live concerts and series and is the top resource for cou...
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The Russian military has accused the US of planning – and actively preparing – for the withdrawal from the landmark INF agreement long before the recent barrage of accusations against Moscow.
Washington has apparently been headed for production of the banned munitions since at least June 2017. Back then, the US began to actively expand and modernize a factory in Arizona, belonging to the defense corporation Raytheon. The plant is the largest US facility, producing the full spectrum of missile weaponry. Over...
At the same time, in November 2017, the Congress allocated $58 million to the Pentagon explicitly for “research and development program on a ground-launched intermediate-range missile.” Notably, the said program was a stated goal in the US defense budget for 2018.
On Friday, Washington suspended its participation in the landmark 1987 agreement and vowed to leave it completely in 180 days unless Moscow caves in to its demands. The US and Russia have been trading accusations of violating the treaty for years. While Washington has claimed that Moscow covertly produces banned muniti...
Following Washington’s decision, Russia suspended the INF Treaty as well, calling it a “mirror response.” Moscow expressed willingness for dialogue but says it will not be the initiator of any talks to “save” the deal.
“Let’s wait until our partners mature sufficiently to hold a level, meaningful conversation on this topic, which is extremely important for us, them, and the entire world,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
It's called the ANTVR Kit. It looks to be a Oculus Rift challenger. That is, should it get funded and, more importantly, live up to its promises.
This VR system is from a small Beijing-based team called, wait for it, ANTVR.

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