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Then, between Sept. 7 and Sept. 9, Ike traversed the entire length of the island from east to west, leaving at least five people dead, 20 injured, while destroying or partially damaging 200,000 more homes, cutting roads and public services, destroying crops and causing millions of dollars in economic losses.
Nickel production, one of Cuba s main foreign currency sources, was temporarily interrupted by the passage of the second storm, the Basic Industry Ministry reported.
As Cuba struggles to recover from the devastating storms, Havana is accusing Washington, D.C., of behaving cynically by claiming that the island s communist government refused an offer of U.S. help.
Cuba has not asked the government of the United States to give it anything. Only to let it buy from it. The rest is pure rhetoric, pretexts and justifications that nobody believes, President Raul Castro s government said in a statement.
On Sept. 7, Washington sent a message to the Cuban government expressing regret at the damage from Hurricane Ike, but it insists on sending to the island a humanitarian evaluation team to inspect the affected areas, according to a communiqué released by the Cuban Foreign Ministry.
Havana answered that Cuba does not require the assistance of a humanitarian evaluation team, since it has enough trained specialists for that task.
If the government of the United States has a real desire to cooperate with the Cuban people, it is requested (that it) allow the sale to Cuba of essential materials, such as coverings for roofs and other things to repair homes, and to reestablish the electrical networks, the communiqué said.
In addition, Havana s response repeats the request that Washington suspend the restrictions that prevent U.S. companies from offering private commercial loans to Cuba to buy food in that country.
To permit the sale of the aforementioned materials and to authorize private loans to buy food does not require the visit to Cuba of a humanitarian evaluation team, the Foreign Ministry said.
The communiqué says that several U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, tried to justify the refusal of President Bush to permit the sale to Cuba of essential materials and authorize private commercial loans to acquire food.
Why is (Washington) placing as a condition the sending of an inspection team, something that no other country has done out of the dozens that are already providing us with the generous cooperation? asked the Cuban Foreign Ministry.
Cuba has so far received tons of relief supplies from Russia, Spain, Venezuela and Brazil.
Will he sign? Won't he sign? No Monkey's not talking about Simon Cowell, but David Dimbleby. The long-running story about whether or not he will sign a new contract rumbles on. BBC director of news Helen Boaden said on Tuesday at the Voice of the Listener and Viewer conference: "He is definitely doing Question Time." But when asked why he has not signed a new deal Boaden said: "David is always reluctant to sign a contract." It could be a long summer.
This year’s local elections are just around the corner, and we’re turning the spotlight on South Tyneside’s candidates in the run-up to polling day on May 2.
Rogue landlords could be fined up to £30,000 for failing to improve living conditions for tenants under new powers backed by council bosses.
Local elections take place on Thursday May 2. Here the candidates in the Hebburn South ward make a pitch for your votes.
Council bosses have revealed a new plan aiming to boost housing support services for vulnerable tenants in South Tyneside.
Town hall chiefs in South Tyneside have agreed to write to the government demanding an end to austerity.
South Tyneside voters are set to take part in European Parliament elections on May 23 after the UK informed Brussels it would be taking part.
Rogue landlords who fail to improve living conditions for their tenants could face fines of up to £30,000 in a new council crackdown.
Imagine you’re very sick or disabled and unable to work so you’re entitled to financial support.
A haulage boss says he is being driven round the bend by motorists blocking in his vans by parking too close to the entrance to his firm’s headquarters.
Hip-hop turns 38 years old today and to celebrate, Sedgwick & Cedar has put all its T-shirts on sale. The tees are priced at $19.73 which looks like an odd price, but to hip-hop heads, it's the year hip-hop emerged during that summer in the Bronx. Visit the Sedgwick & Cedar website to purchase these hip-hop inspired tees.
Young adult literature-turned cinema can manage boffo business at the box office for studios, yet it seems as though for every Twilight or The Hunger Games - both massive hits (financially-speaking) - there are two to three times as many that are produced that bring in only decent returns (Percy Jackson, Eragon) and even more that either attract limited attention from the paying masses or flat-out bomb in theaters - such as Beautiful Creatures, The Host and The Mortal Instruments (all of which opened in theaters earlier this year).
Chaos Walking, which is based upon the sci-fi YA novel trilogy authored by Patrick Ness, is one of the next contenders in line, when it comes to grabbing a piece of the lucrative YA movie box office pie. Similar to the Hunger Games movies, the first installment in the CW series - drawing inspiration from Ness' first book The Knife of Never Letting Go (published in 2008) - has managed to attract the attention of accredited screenwriting talent; here, in the form of Oscar-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind).
The Wrap is reporting that Oscar-winner Robert Zemeckis - who returned to the world of live-action filmmaking (following a decade of churning out motion-capture features) last year with the lauded Denzel Washington alcoholism drama Flight - has spent the last several month giving thought to selecting Chaos Walking as his next directorial effort. However, their sources are now indicating that Zemeckis could finalize a deal before this month draws to a close (assuming the negotiation process goes smoothly).
The Carnegie Medal winning books are set in a dystopian future with humans colonizing a distant earth-like planet. When an infection called the Noise suddenly makes all thought audible, privacy vanishes in an instant. In the ensuing chaos, a corrupt autocrat threatens to take control of the human settlements and wage war with the indigenous alien race, and only young Todd Hewitt holds the key to stopping planet wide-destruction.
Certain elements in the Chaos Walking series - like the male protagonist and extraterrestrial setting - should make it easier for the series to stand apart from Hunger Games (despite the pair sharing certain thematic elements), as well as next year's addition to the YA sci-fi sub-genre: the dystopia film Divergent. Moreover, the idea of a Kaufman-penned script being realized into cinematic form by the man who gave us the Back to the Future trilogy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Forrest Gump and Castaway... well, that possibility alone is reason enough to be interested in seeing how this particular YA flick turns out.
Does Chaos Walking sound more or less interesting to you than other recent YA movies, given the basic premise and creative talent involved?
We'll keep you updated on the developing Chaos Walking movie adaptation as more information is made available.
Thomas E. Garlock, who spearheaded the Buffalo Zoo's failed attempt to relocate to the Inner Harbor, is stepping down after 4 1/2 years as zoo president.
The 46-year-old Lockport native, who arrived in 1995 with a mandate from zoological society leaders to sharpen the institution's business operations, will leave Jan. 15, Chairman Donna M. Gioia announced Thursday.
Under his direction, the nation's third-oldest zoo "has undergone a great deal of positive change," Gioia said in a news release.
But as it now ponders its future in Delaware Park, after failing to win political or popular support for its proposal to build a $160 million state-of-the-art facility on the Buffalo River, Garlock "has concluded that this effort could benefit from a fresh perspective," Gioia said.
"I have thoroughly enjoyed my tenure with the zoo, but I believe it's time for me to do something different," Garlock was quoted in the news release, adding that he is considering a number of job options.
Reached later by telephone, Gioia said a rumor circulating in recent days that Garlock was being forced out was untrue.
"He wasn't pushed," she said, indicating that the scrapping of the relocation plan after heavy criticism from the Parkside community might have influenced Garlock to quit.
"He took a lot of hard hits. It was tough on him," Gioia said.
Garlock, a former Assembly aide and bank executive, could not be reached to comment further.
News of his departure, which followed closed-door meetings between Garlock and a handful of board members, shook the zoo offices.
"I was flabbergasted," said a staff member, adding there had been no indication Garlock was on the way out.
In the months since the relocation proposal was shelved, Garlock remained outwardly upbeat, "but after a major disappointment like that, it's sort of hard to regroup with the same kind of enthusiasm," the staffer said.
Frederick L. Paine, vice president of zoo operations, will serve as interim president until Garlock's successor is found, Gioia said.
The board, which expects to begin the search soon, will "try to build on Tom's work and bring some new skills to the zoo," said Brian P. Brady, vice chairman.
Mike Will Made-It has unveiled the guest collaborators on his forthcoming 'Ransom 2' LP including Kendrick Lamar, Rihanna and Future.
Mike Will Made-It has unveiled a host of artist collaborations for his forthcoming Ransom 2. As Rap-Up reports, the 17-song track list includes Kendrick Lamar, Rihanna, Future and many more big names.
The producer teased the sequel to his 2014 Ransom release by unveiling the album’s guests via a Star Wars-styled video. The clip lists the aforementioned artists along with Pharrell, Rae Sremmurd, Gucci Mane, Young Thug, Big Sean, Lil Wayne, 2 Chainz, Migos, 21 Savage and Lil Yachty. He also unveiled that Ransom 2 will be available for pre-order beginning at midnight on Thursday.
#RANSOM2 Pre-Order tonight at midnight.
The LP includes Mike Will Made-It’s recently released single “Gucci on My,” which features Migos, YG and 21 Savage. Ransom 2 will be available on March 24th.
Speaking in a discussion about the Dark Phoenix trailer, director Simon Kinberg has discussed how Jean's encounter with the Phoenix will transform her in the film - and just why she's so vulnerable to this cosmic force.
The first trailer for Dark Phoenix has finally given viewers a glimpse of what will probably be the last of Fox's tentpole X-Men movies. It promises to be an intense, character-focused superhero story that's centered around Sophie Turner's Jean Grey. A mission into the depths of space exposes Jean to the cosmic energy of the Phoenix Force, and she seems to be transformed into the film's antagonist - potentially even killing one of her fellow X-Men.
"The question of Jean’s relationship to her own powers becomes a big conflict for her throughout the film once she’s transformed by something that happens up in space, that has nothing to do with her childhood. It opens with a mission that takes them up into space that has consequences for Jean that ripple throughout the movie."
According to Kinberg, in the depths of space Jean encounters a cosmic force that she thinks she understands - but she really doesn't. "She thinks [the Phoenix Force] is one thing," Kinberg observed, "and over the course of the movie realizes is something far different, that our human science can't explain." While the cast and crew have previously been at pains to stress that Dark Phoenix is a grounded film, with Tye Sheridan comparing it to a drama rather than a traditional superhero story, Kinberg stressed that the stakes are high. "She needs to find a way to control it or she'll destroy more than just her friends - and even our planet."
The trailer showed Jean curling up into a fetal position, symbolically reborn in Phoenix Fire. Unfortunately, it looks as though that experience forces Jean to deal with parts of herself that she's repressed for a long time - including secrets that Charles Xavier has hidden from her for years. Jean is left reeling, struggling to deal with the flood of painful emotions, and as a result she's in danger of going completely out of control. The trailer strongly implies that she even kills one of the X-Men when she cuts loose with her powers.
One scene in the trailer showed Jean's face, streaked with white lines as the Phoenix Fire starts to break through her mortal shell. Kinberg explained that this is just a step along the way to Jean becoming Dark Phoenix; "That’s a two or a three on the Dark Phoenix spectrum," he quipped. The lines on her face are symbolic, a visual indication that she's losing control and that the unlimited power of the Phoenix Force is struggling to get out of her body.
Dark Phoenix definitely sounds unlike any other X-Men film to date. On the one hand, the stakes are incredibly high - according to Kinberg, this film has a breadth that spans "beyond our planet, even beyond our galaxy." At the same time, though, the drama is driven by a very personal, very intimate story of a woman who's desperately seeking redemption. It will be exciting to see how it all plays out.
IT will only take TEN days for Sven Goran Eriksson to earn what Notts County boss Ian McParland makes in a year – £60,000.
The former England and Manchester City boss has a £2million-a-year package as director of football at League Two County.
Even Eriksson’s long-time assistant Tord Grip, who has also moved to Meadow Lane, will receive more than four times McParland’s salary as he is on £250,00-a-year.
But it is McParland who will coach the team, select the side and take charge on match days.
And if results fail to meet the new-found expectations at the oldest club in the Football League, it is the manager who will find his position under threat.
Munto Finance, nothing short of “unbelievable”.
One manager told the Daily Star Sunday: “The average wage for us at that level is between £60,000 and £70,000-a-year.
“For a Director of Football in League Two to be on so much more money than the manager is astonishing.
“It is also almost unbelievable to see someone of Sven’s stature in the game being at Notts County in this position.
“The takeover was clearly good for the club – but nobody could see it developing like this.
“What does Sven know about the second division of the Football League?
“His contacts in the game might come up with the names of all sorts of players but will they want to play at this level?
As Sven arrived, there was some confusion surrounding whether or not former West Brom and Oldham striker Lee Hughes would be signing for the club.
Our source added: “I can’t see this lasting.
“There were suggestions that Lee Hughes was Eriksson’s first signing for the club and that Sven’s arrival had persuaded him to sign.
Hughes himself agreed the pressure is suddenly on at County.
He said: “There is a lot of pressure on us now. We are going to have to live with the promotion favourites’ tag on our heads.
“It’s down to us – the players have to thrive under pressure, rather than go under.
“I don’t want to be playing in League Two very long.
Eriksson, 61, insists he is not just at County for the money.
At his unveiling at Meadow Lane last Wednesday, he said: “If it was for the money, I could have gone elsewhere.
“Easily – and for far, far more.
“But I’m not here for the money – I’m here for the challenge.
and trying to take it the whole way.
“I always said I wanted to come back to the Premier League because it is the best league in the world.
“I have chosen a difficult way to do it!
“It will take a few years – but we will do it. That’s why I am sitting here.
“It’s the biggest challenge of my life to take Notts County back to the Premier League.
Eriksson has also gone back to his roots. He is operating at the lower level of the game – except for his salary, of course.
When his playing career in Sweden was ended by injury, he went into coaching as Grip’s assistant, before taking over from him as manager of Degerfors.
County would be the latest name on Eriksson’s CV?
There will be an element of big-time about Meadow Lane now.
And County will be the side in that division everyone else wants to beat.
BUFFALO, N.Y. – The University at Buffalo School of Management and the Foundation for Accounting Education of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA) recently collaborated to introduce minority high school students to career opportunities in the accounting profession during a five-day program.
Nineteen students from 16 area high schools attended the ninth annual Career Opportunities in the Accounting Profession (COAP) program, June 27 to July 2 at the UB School of Management.
The COAP concluded with a banquet for students and their parents at the Hotel Lafayette, and the 2014 keynote speaker was George Willie, CPA, CGMA, CGFM, managing partner at Bert Smith & Co. in Washington, D.C.
Incorporated in 1897 and now representing more than 28,000 CPAs, the NYSSCPA is a not-for-profit organization that represents the issues, standards and public services efforts of certified public accountants who practice in New York State; encompassing all areas of public practice, government, education, business and industry. Visit the society’s website at nysscpa.org for more information.
Since then, Collinsville Police have been investigating to find the source of the threat. Green said previously that the police department reached out to the FBI and U.S. Postal Service for help.
As of Thursday, the investigation was still ongoing, according to a statement from Green. Anyone with information can contact the Collinsville Police Department at 618-344-2131.
Hasamear said students from public and private schools in the area raise money between March and April to support Collinsville Tepee. The tradition is to crown a May queen at the May Dance based on which of the students earned the most points during fundraising that year.
She said students and parents understand the decision to cancel because of safety concerns. “They just can’t believe that something like this could happen,” Hasamear said.
According to Hasamear, the event won’t be rescheduled this year because they still don’t know where the threat came from and because it’s near the end of the school year. She said they plan to bring it back next year.
The Athena International Women�s Leadership Luncheon will take place 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 18 at Portage Country Club, 240 N. Portage Path, Akron.
The event, in its fourth year, encourages mentoring and relationship building among area women. The keynote address will be delivered by University of Akron Vice President and Chief of Staff Candace Campbell Johnson, who was selected as the 2012 Akron Athena Leadership Award winner.