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Tickets are $80, which includes admission for one �established� and one �emerging� woman leader. Additional emerging leader tickets are $40 each.
For reservations, contact Diane Bray at 330-571-9461. To pay by credit card, call the Akron Community Foundation at 330-376-8522.
Billionaire Warren Buffett has pledged an additional $3 billion of shares in his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. to his three children�s foundations.
Buffett committed the majority of his wealth in 2006 to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. At that time, he also made commitments to charities established by his three children � the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, the Sherwood Foundation and the NoVo Foundation � and by his late wife. Buffett turned 82 Thursday. Buffett has promoted philanthropy that addresses society�s toughest challenges as a way for wealthy individuals to show gratitude for their opportunities and shield themselves from the burdens of having too much money. He created the Giving Pledge with Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates in 2010 to enlist billionaires to donate at least half their wealth to charity.
Amazon.com Inc. says it has sold out of its Kindle Fire tablet computer amid expectations of a new model for the holiday season. The Internet retailer has a major news conference scheduled for next Thursday in Santa Monica, Calif. It�s widely expected to reveal a new model of the Fire there, so the announcement that the first model is �sold out� suggests that Amazon halted production a while ago to retool for a new model.
Amazon launched the $199 tablet in November. It was the first Kindle with a color screen and the ability to run third-party applications, placing it in competition with Apple Inc.�s iPad, at half the price of the cheapest iPad.
Amazon doesn�t say how many Fires it has sold, but says it captured 22 percent of U.S. tablet sales over nine months. That would make it the second-most popular tablet, after the iPad. Tom Mainelli at research firm IDC said that figure matches his estimate of 6.7 million Fires sold, all in the U.S. The Fire, which is about half the size of the iPad, could face a tougher challenge this holiday season. Many analysts expect Apple to introduce a smaller, cheaper iPad to take on the threat of the Kindle Fire and reach buyers who can�t afford a full-sized iPad. In addition, Google just launched its own Kindle-sized tablet, the Nexus 7, and is selling it for $199.
Average U.S. interest rates on fixed mortgages fell this week and are just slightly above record lows reached earlier this year. The low rates have contributed to a modest housing recovery.
Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the rate on the 30-year loan declined to 3.59 percent, down from 3.66 percent last week. Five weeks ago, the rate fell to 3.49 percent, the lowest since long-term mortgages began in the 1950s. The average on the 15-year fixed mortgage, a popular refinancing option, slipped to 2.86 percent. That�s down from 2.89 percent last week and from the record low of 2.80 percent five weeks ago.
Pixies are set to begin work on their first studio album in 15 years.
Singer Frank Black has confirmed the band will start work in January on their first record since 1991’s ‘Trompe Le Monde’.
Speaking about the album, Black explained that the band still have a lot of work to do before an album appears.
“We’re rehearsing in January, if we can persuade Kim (Deal, bassist) to come out of her house,” he told NME.COM. “We offered to go to her but we figured if we book the rehearsals she’ll show up.
Black, who is planning a solo ‘Best Of’ for the New Year, also criticised the forthcoming DVD release of Pixies documentary ‘LoudQUIETloud’, due out next month.
A special, one-off Pixies night in London takes place on November 3 at Camden‘s Proud Gallery with a preview screening of the new documentary.
A Pixies club night will follow, with guest DJs from 4AD and NME, including documentary star Mark Beaumont.
An email address – quietloudquiet@yahoo.co.uk – has been set up exclusively for NME.COM readers to email for reduced entry guest list at £4. You can also enter a prize draw for Pixies DVD goodies + to request their favourite Pixies song to be played on the evening.
Post Malone is channeling the mood of his "Rockstar" smash single to the fullest, as he's going as far as to smash guitars during his performances. While taking the stage for his concert in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., the 22-year-old entertainer performs the hit song, which originally features 21 Savage, and smashes a guitar towards the end of the set.
TMZ has footage of the ordeal, which shows an enthusiastic Malone hyping up the crowd before grabbing the instrument and banging it onto the ground. Unfortunately, the rapper was either not as strong as he thought, or it was one sturdy guitar, as it took more than one attempt for it to break. As the audience cheers him on, it wasn't until the 5th swing that the guitar finally gave in and split in half, to the excitement of his fans.
It looks like the MC plans on smashing guitars at majority of his future shows, as he tweeted his frustrations with Postmates after trying to order 100 guitars from the delivery app.
"Help @Postmates I wanna order 100 guitars to smash on tour but it's only letting me order 10!" he writes.
Post Malone has a lot to celebrate these days, as his "Rockstar" record just hit the No. 1 slot on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart just a month after it was originally released to the public. The song marks as the first No. 1 hit for the Syracuse native, as well as Savage, whose previous peak on the charts was his "Congratulations" single with Quavo earlier this year.
See the footage of Pose Malone smashing a guitar on stage in Florida in the video below.
This Sunday’s sermon was about gratitude; a fitting one for the Thanksgiving season. But I learned to be grateful for all things on all days. My favorite gospel group, Lee Williams and the Spiritual QCs, sing about being grateful and thanking the Lord for being good to them. And that’s the way I live my life these days.
So imagine how stunned I was to see the father of one of the three UCLA basketball players caught shoplifting sunglasses in China come out on TV blasting President Trump for getting his son out of jail. I have seen plenty of idiots in my life, but never like this one. These boys embarrassed their families, their school and their country.
But LaVar Ball gave one of the most ungrateful displays I have ever seen. He refused to thank POTUS because he didn’t think Trump had done enough for his son because he didn’t fly him back to America in Air Force One. What?????
Then eyes bulging and with this big stupid grin on his face, Ball gave a shameless plug for his $500 Big Baller tennis shoes. He promised to send Trump a pair so he could “calm down.” Trump said he should have left the boys in jail. I agree.
In his sermon Pastor Jackson talked about people who walk around with airs of entitlement. After seeing Mr. “Big Baller” on TV, one can easily see why his son thought he could go to a foreign country and steal some stupid sunglasses from several stores. Seems he and his friends thought they were entitled to help themselves to somebody else’s stuff.
That profile fits most of our Black athletes these days. Especially those who refuse to stand for the National Anthem in the NFL.
These overpaid ball players sign these multi-million dollar contracts and then complain about how hard it is being black in America. Just recently, NBA great LeBron James, otherwise known as “King James,” lamented about being black after his Los Angeles home was spray painted with a racial epithet.
But I’m astounded at how people like Colin Kaepernick can refuse to stand for the National Anthem under the guise of racism and remain eerily quiet about black-on-black crime which is so pervasive in America.
Instead of celebrating the opportunities afforded so many of them here in America, they are so ungrateful. Seems like “Black Lives Matter” only if they are black lives cut short by white cops, usually when they are in the process of committing crimes, usually against black victims.
But the NFL is only concerned about black victims of police shootings or racism and they display their distaste by kneeling or sitting down during the National Anthem, which is totally disrespectful to America.
Even worse, they will disrespect their own flag while showing respect for other countries. NFL player Marshawn Lynch sat down for his own National Anthem but stood in respect for the Mexican National Anthem and then commented on how he thought he would be treated better in Mexico than he was treated in America.
Seriously??? Can he get a multi-million dollar contract in Mexico as a black man? How ungrateful can you be?
It’s like a couple of my grandchildren who are as ungrateful as these ball players. They live the good life without the responsibilities. They are adults who live with their mother and father but don’t contribute to the mortgage or buy their food. But to add insult to injury, they are disrespectful to their parents.
These ball players get millions of dollars to entertain us by playing football or basketball, but then complain that they are being mistreated solely because they are black.
Yes, there will always be racists, but these people don’t define what it means to live in America, which is seen as one of the best, if not the very best, country in the world to live in. Otherwise people from other countries would not be risking their lives to come here to live.
But for those who are born here and don’t see the beauty of living in a free society, but instead want to view America by the slavery of over 200 years ago, are ungrateful for what they have now.
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Charles W. Bates, the San Francisco FBI chief who gained prominence during the Patty Hearst and Chowchilla kidnapping cases, died Thursday in Redwood City following a stroke. He was 79.
Mr. Bates had a 36-year career with the FBI that included tours of duty around the United States and in London. In 1971, Mr. Bates was appointed by former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover to run FBI investigations in Washington.
He supervised the opening stages of the FBI's investigation into the Watergate scandal that eventually brought down Richard Nixon's presidency, but in 1972, he chose to return to his post as special agent in charge of the FBI's San Francisco office, a job he'd held previously for three years beginning in 1967.
It was there that he made a name for himself, leading the search for the kidnapped newspaper heiress-turned-bank robber.
On Feb. 4, 1974, Hearst was abducted from her Berkeley apartment by an obscure revolutionary group called the Symbionese Liberation Army. The following April, she joined her captors in a bank robbery, triggering one of the most intensive manhunts in FBI history led by Mr. Bates. It ended 17 months later with Hearst's arrest.
She was later convicted and received a seven-year sentence, which was commuted by President Jimmy Carter.
A year after the Hearst arrest, Mr. Bates again found himself in the media's spotlight, leading the investigation into the 1976 Chowchilla kidnapping of 26 children from a school bus in the San Joaquin Valley. The search for the suspects led to the arrests and convictions of three men.
Retired San Mateo County Superior Court Judge James L. Browning, the former U.S. attorney who prosecuted Hearst, recalled Mr. Bates on Thursday as "a good friend from start to finish."
"He was a fair shooter, and he always did what he thought was right," Browning said. "His counsel and advice were important to me for so many years. He had a great sense of what was right and what was wrong."
A tall, lanky Texan with a thick drawl, Mr. Bates was born in Louisville, Texas, and studied political science at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. He also earned a law degree from George Washington University in Washington.
Early in his career, Mr. Bates was at different times head of the FBI's offices in Chicago, Cleveland and Omaha, Neb., and served seven years as the legal attache at the U.S. Embassy in the United Kingdom, another Hoover appointment. In the latter position, he was the chief of the FBI liaison office covering England, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland.
Away from the job, friends said, Mr. Bates was a kind and genteel man who was a model of dignity.
"He was a gentleman's gentleman. He tried to never hurt anybody," said his wife, Arlene, who met Mr. Bates when, after Hearst's arrest, he came to check on her at the San Mateo County Jail, where his future wife was a sheriff's deputy.
After retiring from the FBI in 1977, Mr. Bates gave speeches, lectured at colleges and law schools, and worked as an investigative consultant.
Besides his wife, Mr. Bates is survived by two daughters, Becky Longmore of Springfield, Ill., and Cherie Springall, of Mesa, Ariz.; a stepson, Krik Van Dervort of San Mateo County; five grandchildren; and a great-grandson.
PerimeterX will expand its product portfolio to address the growing variety of information security risks facing enterprises on their web and mobile properties and their APIs.
Israeli bot detection and protection company PerimeterX has raised $43 million in a Series C financing round led by Scale Venture Partners and with participation from existing investors Canaan Partners, Vertex Ventures and Data Collective (DCVC) and new investor Adams Street Partners.
With offices in Tel Aviv and San Mateo, California, the company was founded in 2014 by CEO Omri Luz, CTO Ido Safruti and CFO Ophir Ashkenazi, all former executives at mobile app acceleration company Cotendo. PerimeterX will use the new funds to expand its product portfolio beyond its PX Bot Defender offering to address the growing variety of information security risks facing enterprises on their web and mobile properties and their APIs.
PerimeterX’s bot mitigation solution analyzes for its customers tens of billions of events daily and prevents bot attacks launched from dozens of countries around the world utilizing millions of IP addresses and IP enabled-devices.
PerimeterX’s API integrates seamlessly with multiple components of a company’s technology infrastructure including websites, mobile apps, content delivery networks, eCommerce engines and middleware. Developers and DevOps teams can rapidly add PerimeterX to new or legacy systems with minimal disruption and zero downtime.
PerimeterX’s fast growing list of customers includes companies in the Fortune 500, the Alexa Top 1000 and the Internet Retailer 100, across verticals including eCommerce, travel and hospitality, financial services, media, and Software-as-a-Service.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Another top Virginia Democrat has admitted to wearing blackface decades ago. Attorney General Mark Herring issued a statement Wednesday saying he wore brown makeup and a wig in 1980 to look like a black rapper during a party as an undergraduate at the University of Virginia.
Many including Herring have urged Northam to resign after the discovery of a photo of someone in blackface on his 1984 medical school yearbook page. Fairfax, next in line to be governor, has been accused of sexual misconduct, which he denies.
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Craving for fish? Madara's Seafood is the place. It offers a variety of seafood platters, sandwiches, salads, soups and wraps. Madara's Seafood also sells fresh fish to cook at home. Madara's Seafood is located in the Newtown Farmer's Market in Newtown, PA.
1. How are the conditions?
The very ingredients that made Pebble Beach such a majestic setting on Thursday -- bright sun, a light breeze -- only conspired to make the golf course play especially difficult, with greens only growing crustier as the day went on. The opposite scenario exists for the second round. Cloudy and cool with even some mist, it might not be the weather that's going to help anyone's tan, but it is likely to make the golf course more receptive.
*2. Speaking of which, were the greens really to blame for Tiger's opening-round struggles?
They were if you listened to him. It's true that Woods saw a number of makable birdie and par attempts veer off line, leading to his complaint that the greens were "awful." Woods went on to say that "no one is going to post a good round this afternoon." Uh, not exactly. Last we checked, Woods was playing virtually the same time as Shaun Micheel, Paul Casey, and Brendan De Jonge, all of whom shot 69 to take a share of the first-round lead.
3. As for Micheel, there's no way he can keep this up, can he?
One would think not. Here's a guy who is coming off a debilitating injury, and is playing with the added burden of a mother who is dying with cancer. But no one ever thought Shaun Micheel could emerge from obscurity to win the 2003 PGA. And by the way, he just birdied the 11th hole to move to three under.
A circus in Brescia, Italy, reportedly tried to pass off two chow chow dogs as pandas, but got caught.
According to UPI, authorities claim the circus allegedly dyed the chubby dogs’ hair black and white, and then charged children to have their pictures taken with the fake "pandas" (video below).
Forest rangers say the unidentified circus owner told suspicious customers that the animals were half-panda, half-dog hybrids, which is biologically impossible.
According to The Guardian, the forestry rangers claim the dogs came from Hungary with fake passports showing them to be six months old, but the pooches were younger.
Yahoo! Canada News notes that the circus owner has been charged with animal abuse and defrauding customers.
If squirreling around in the attic and finding something new - well, all right, old - gives you a shiver of pleasure, you're in the right city. This fall's gallery season promises excavations, reenactments, and retrospectives galore: of the works of artists, of human relationships, of a familiar Philadelphia gallery, even of the sitting room.
Only a handful of young artists have solo shows in the better-known commercial galleries (wobbly economy = wait and see?), but those in search of work by the young and the restless will find it in the numerous artist collectives - Vox Populi, Space 1026, Little Berlin, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Marginal Utility, and Flux Space, for starters - and in the smaller commercial galleries, among them Cerulean, Pageant, Project Space, Bambi, and James Oliver.
As for events, USArtists: American Fine Art Show and Sale 2010 takes over the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts' Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building Oct. 1 to 3, and DesignPhiladelphia, now in partnership with the University of the Arts, returns Oct. 6 to 17.
A flurry of ill-timed document shredding helped bring the venerable accounting firm Andersen to its knees. Could the same thing happen to your business?
According to legal experts, it could happen to any company that doesn't have a solid document-retention policy that employees follow to the letter.
"The law doesn't differentiate between small, medium and large companies as it relates to the legal requirement to retain records for specified periods of time," says Randolph Kahn, an attorney and principal with Kahn Consulting, Inc., a Highland Park-based information management consulting firm.
A document-retention policy tells you when and how to legally dispose of memos, tax records, employee files, e-mails and other company documents. The policy also tells you how and where to store these records.
A document-retention policy isn't difficult to follow, but establishing a policy from scratch for your company can be time-consuming. That might explain why it's not high on every company's list of action items.
"Often, companies look at it like filing," said Judy Pier, a consultant and certified records manager who owns Windy City Records Management in Chicago. "They don't devote much money or interest in it. But as we've seen recently, it can bring a company down."
Consultants can help you get your own program off the ground, or you can develop your own system. After you've created an inventory of all your records, including paper and electronic files, consult your accountant and lawyer about document-retention requirements pertaining to tax laws, requirements of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and other laws and regulations that might apply to your industry.
After you've determined what needs to be saved from a legal and business standpoint, you can determine which methods you'll use to store, and later discard, those records.
Paper files immediately come to mind when people hear the words "document retention." However, electronic files are equally important. Your computer contains a wealth of records that may not be as expendable as they seem. E-mail messages are a prime example.
"Contracts and business relationships are formed every day via e-mail," said Kahn. "Even if it's casual in nature, an e-mail can rise to the level of having contractual significance. It can be something as simple as `I got your revised proposal. It's a go. Get your people here on Monday.'"
E-mail's role as a smoking gun made headlines in recent months as Microsoft CEO Bill Gates and executives from Oracle and Merrill Lynch were confronted with e-mail messages that they thought had been deleted.
The problem is that computers have their own definition of the word "delete." Instead of destroying an unwanted file after you hit the delete button, your computer marks the space occupied by that file and only dumps it for good when new data comes along to replace it. Because computers don't store data sequentially, you don't know when the old data will actually be erased from your system. So, until a new file parks itself in your old file's place, a forensic engineer can come in and recover the information you tried to delete.
According to Kristin Nimsiger, an attorney and computer forensics expert with Kroll Ontrack, a Minneapolis-based company that specializes in data storage and recovery, "One of the single most important things an employer can do is to make sure people understand the nature of e-mail and how it's used. E-mail is the modern equivalent of water cooler conversation, but it has a great deal of permanence. My advice: Don't write anything in an e-mail unless you'd be happy having it blown up as an exhibit in court."
Instant messages, a form of real-time communication that is increasingly being used in business, falls into the same category. Dave Zaret, director of collaboration architecture at Divine Inc., a Chicago company that supplies an IM-like system that is used by financial firms, says his customers have had to search their messaging archives to prove that a particular piece of information was or wasn't discussed.
"Our customers are pushing data through the system that's extremely valuable to them. The SEC monitors and regulates that data," he said.
Whether it's electronic or paper records, your document-retention policy also needs to take into account what to do if your firm is involved in litigation or other matters that require you to produce documents that might be scheduled for destruction.
According to Kahn, "If you have records with a 10-year period of retention, and next year is the end of their retention, if a lawsuit happened today and those records are potentially relevant to the investigation, the [company's document retention] rule has to be suspended to make sure the records continue to exist until the end of the litigation, audit or investigation that extended the rule."
Highly organized and accessible records storage doesn't have to be costly. According to Boston-based Iron Mountain, a company that specializes in paper and electronic records storage and management, a typical customer pays an average of $1,000 per year for paper storage services that include electronic document tracking.
Paper files should be packed in cartons that include an index of what's inside the carton. Companies like Iron Mountain will help manage your document retention program, including alerting you when it's time for records to be destroyed. Iron Mountain offers its customers the option of bar-coding their paper storage cartons.

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