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4. A black bear was found outside a market in the San Leandro hills, but it likely didn’t come from the area, the Chron reports. Authorities believe the bear was shot elsewhere and then dumped in the East Bay. Bear hunting season just started, but there are no bears living in the East Bay hills. The Chron also has a gr... |
5. New US Census data shows the depth of the recession in the East Bay, as household incomes plummeted by $3,000 annually and unemployment shot up, the CoCo Times reports. And although fewer kids were born in the East Bay in the past two years, households became larger as more children moved back in with their parents. |
6. And the death toll from PG&E’s pipeline explosion in San Bruno grew to eight on Monday when a 58-year-old man died from injuries suffered in the blast, the Chron reports. |
A opera firm based in Market Harborough will be performing at Leicester Cathedral. |
It is part of a new partnership between the venue and the Nevill Holt Opera (NHO)as part of its growing programme of musical activity in the county. |
The concert will consist of Handel’s Messiah. |
Rosenna East, general manager of NHO, said: “We are dedicated to nurturing and promoting new talent in the operatic world. The festival supports the professional development of young singers by offering invaluable opportunities and professional experience as young singers embark on their professional careers. |
The performance will feature a host of young opera singers, conducted by Nicholas Chalmers. |
Soloists for the night are Rhian Lois, Clare Presland, Anthony Gregory and Alexander Robin Baker. |
The NHO Chorus will also be joined by members of Leicester Cathedral choir and choristers, who will sing alongside the opera chorus. |
Nurturing the finest operatic talent and supporting emerging artists in the UK, NHO produced its first season in June 2013, staging a brand new production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. |
Further success followed in 2014 with a critically acclaimed and popular new production of Puccini’s La Bohème, as well as a revival production of Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, which subsequently toured to Moscow. |
Regular visitors to the NHO have been advised to keep an eye on the organisation in January as they will be announcing their new season and putting tickets on sale. |
The show starts at 7pm and tickets cost between £16.24 and £52.99. |
For further information about the organisation visit www.nevillholtopera.co.uk where people can also book tickets in advance for the Leicester Cathedral event. |
Delta's unit revenue trajectory took a turn for the worse last quarter, but results should improve in the next quarter or two. |
Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) is hoping to get unit revenue growing again in 2016, but it didn't happen in Q1. Last week, the company estimated that passenger revenue per available seat mile (PRASM) declined 4.5% during the first quarter. |
Nevertheless, Delta is on pace to post strong profit growth for the first quarter (and the full year). Furthermore, its unit revenue trend should improve significantly in the next couple of quarters. |
Back in October, Delta projected that PRASM would decline 2.5%-4.5% for the fourth quarter of 2015, dragged down by the strong dollar, falling fuel surcharges, and growing pricing pressure in the U.S. However, the company raised its Q4 revenue guidance three times in the ensuing three months. Ultimately, PRASM declined... |
Delta began the first quarter with similar guidance for a 2.5%-4.5% PRASM decline. This time, it wasn't able to beat its own expectations. |
PRASM slumped 4.5% at Delta Air Lines last quarter. |
At an investor conference last month, Delta President (and incoming CEO) Ed Bastian stated that there was "choppiness" in domestic demand, particularly for last-minute business fares. Bastian said that the company's 5.5% PRASM decline in February was disappointing and he indicated that Delta's Q1 financial metrics woul... |
Sure enough, PRASM declined by about 4.5% for the quarter, falling to the very bottom of the guidance range. Fuel prices also ended up a little higher than expected. Nevertheless, Delta expects to report an 18%-19% adjusted operating margin for Q1. That compares to just 8.8% in Q1 2015, when Delta was hit with massive ... |
While Delta Air Lines had a small unit revenue setback last quarter, it should benefit from some tailwinds as the year progresses. |
First, it will have much easier unit revenue comparisons. In Q1 2015, Delta's PRASM declined about 1.7% year over year, whereas PRASM fell 4.6% in Q2 and 4.9% in Q3. This should make it a lot easier for Delta to post smaller PRASM declines (or perhaps even gains) going forward. |
Delta still faced a 2 percentage point impact from the strong dollar in Q1. This foreign currency headwind should be much smaller for the rest of the year, based on today's exchange rates. |
Third, with each passing quarter, Delta has more time to adapt to changing demand patterns. For example, it announced last week that it would suspend its Atlanta-Brussels route until March 2017 due to reduced demand following the Brussels terrorist attacks. Delta and other airlines also recently closed a loophole that ... |
Delta has stated that forward bookings are above last year's levels and demand remains strong, despite some weakness in ticket prices. This suggests that Delta's unit revenue results could improve soon. |
Analysts expect Delta's earnings per share to nearly triple during the first quarter, despite its relatively weak PRASM performance. Delta won't benefit from the same level of fuel cost savings after Q1, but if its unit revenue trend starts to improve as expected, that won't be a problem. |
The average full-year analyst EPS estimate is $6.72, which would represent 46% year-over-year growth. Delta Air Lines stock currently trades for just seven times that earnings estimate. This gives Delta shareholders a big margin of safety in case of an unexpected jump in fuel prices or another demand slump. |
One short weekend, so much to do - an invitation to go swimming at night by moonlight, the Iran protest march downtown with our mouths taped shut, a dance at the Eagles Club with a hot horn band playing '70s funk that propels people onto the dance floor as if shot from guns - but here I am stuck with houseguests who ar... |
E.g. "I vish to be alone." |
Is this a terrible thing to vish for? I think not. One loves company and then one loves uncompany, just as one enjoys sunshine/darkness, summer/winter, funk/folk, b&w/color, all sorts of dichotomies. Solitude is recognized by most world religions. Hairy-legged hermits sit in prayerful contemplation in their mountain ca... |
There is nothing odd about wanting to be alone. It doesn't mean that I am spray-painting Nazi slogans on the walls and fantasizing about getting even with them what done me wrong. It doesn't indicate male menopause. It only means that I am experiencing Personal Male Secrecy Syndrome (PMSS), the urge common to all men t... |
When my daughter was small, we discovered that she loved to be alone in her room with her hundreds of stuffed creatures around her. We could hear her in there, nattering at them, networking with Piglet and Raggedy Ann, creating family groups, constructing elaborate narratives - which is what I may be doing someday in t... |
It is crucial in any loving relationship that the partners know when to leave each other alone without having to fill out a privacy application (Reasons for Needing Solitude, Goals of Solo Period, Estimated Time of Reunion). Don't ask, don't tell. Just go in the room and close the door. So long, see you later. |
On Sunday, Dec. 2, The Fifth Estate's GIllian Findlay investigates a permanent birth control device called Essure, which has been pulled off the market by the manufacturer. It was implanted in 10,000 women in Canada, and now some are experiencing medical complications that have led to hysterectomies. Should regulatory ... |
President Donald J. Trump attacked San Juan, Puerto Rico Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz via Twitter early Saturday morning after she lambasted the President for the lack of federal Hurricane Maria relief efforts on Friday. |
His tweets come less than 24 hours after the San Juan Mayor criticized President Trump on CNN, saying "We're dying here. We truly are dying here. I keep saying it: SOS. If anyone can hear us; if Mr. Trump can hear us, let's just get it over with and get the ball rolling." |
President Trump continued Saturday morning, praising first responders and trashing the "fake news" media for falsely portraying his handling of hurricane relief efforts as insufficient. |
Conservatives and liberals alike were quick to strongly condemn the President for attacking the mayor of a city struggling in the devastating wake of a hurricane. |
Puerto Rico was, for all intent and purposes, totally destroyed by category 5 Hurricane Maria. There are currently a myriad of causes and charities helping the beleaguered island, but some residents say they do not need money, but manpower and physical support. |
Admittedly, the President's comments are a bit unseemly during this emergency. One has to question the judgment of the President of the United States after he personally attacked a fellow public servant, when so many citizens have lost everything in a natural disaster and are searching for hope. |
As former Red Sox great and conservative activist Curt Schilling noted, "These are Americans." |
This is what happens when the woman who inspired the character Miranda Priestly is forced to munch on the greasiest junk-food imaginable. |
On Wednesday night James Corden challenged famous Vogue editor Anna Wintour to a game of "Spill Your Guts or Fill Your Guts," which is essentially truth or dare but the dare is always ghastly food. Delicacies include chili smoothies, burgers with donuts for buns, and actual june bugs. |
The pair each asked other sensitive questions and both nommed on a fair few disgusting dishes. Wintour, however, did manage to avoid eating pickled pig's feet by admitting she'd never invite Donald Trump back to the Met Gala. |
If only there'd been a scene like this in Devil Wears Prada. |
New Delhi: Lord Mayor of London Alderman John Stuttard urged India Monday to open up its financial services sector to take advantage of the "transparency, benign regulatory environment and financial skills base" available in London. |
Stuttard, who took charge of London on November 2006, was in Delhi to attend a conference on 'Relevance of London's Global Financial Experience for India'. |
"India and the UK are natural partners. While India is strong in information, communication and technology (ICT) and manufacturing sector, our country is a leader in the area of international financial services," Stuttard said in the conference organised by industry lobby, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and ... |
"We need to work together and synergize our expertise to achieve best result," he said, adding that an open economy will help Mumbai becoming an international financial centre. |
Stuttard said India currently has 15,000 qualified accountants and the number is too little. "This is too few for an economy of your size and growth. The skills deficit needs to be addressed by opening up the financial service sector to professionals such as accountants and lawyers." |
He also urged India to take advantage of the skill base in London in terms of accountants, fund managers, shipbrokers and a host of such professionals. "Emphasis should be given on education in the area of financial services." |
Former FICCI president and managing director of Apollo Tyres, Onkar Singh Kanwar urged the visiting industry experts to invest more in India. "We hope to see British companies expand their wings in our country." |
With their own building unsafe and the neighboring field where they slept the night of the earthquake getting more crowded, the children of Angel House spent five nights sleeping on the concrete under a tin roof at the nearby Quisqueya Christian School. |
When the earthquake struck Haiti on Jan. 12, Abbey McArthur, 26, was half-way through her year-long commitment to teach kids at the Angel House orphanage in Port-au-Prince. "It felt like God had picked up the earth and was just shaking it back and forth," the Indiana native said. She was less than a mile away, exercisi... |
But that was just what was about to happen in North Carolina where Rick Hendrick lives. Hendrick's NASCAR team has won the last four Sprint Cup titles and nine overall. So he's used to doing things fast. On the morning after the earthquake, Hendrick, the owner of one of the largest car dealerships in the country, decid... |
Back in Haiti, the evening before, McArthur was clambering over the rubble of a large building that had collapsed into the street at the corner of 91 Delmas, where she had to turn to get to the orphanage. She wondered about the family that lived on the first floor and the vendors who were always there at that time of t... |
And so she was relieved when she finally got to Angel House. The main building, where the children had been during the quake had survived. Francois Jean Louis, a translator for the orphanage told her the kids, who ranged six months to eight years old, were all safe and had been relocated to a neighbor's field. She was ... |
All the kids from Angel House were at one point or another of the long process of being adopted by parents in the U.S. and Canada. But paperwork and seemingly endless bureaucracy had kept them in Haiti. Among those waiting for to adopt were Cara Boone and her husband Kevin of Titusville, Florida. The couple were almost... |
Meanwhile, Cara's husband Kevin, who is a pastor at the First Christian Church in Titusville, had been in touch with folks he knew at MFI which had at its disposal the planes of Rick Hendrick. The first Hendrick Motorsports plane had landed in Ft. Pierce on Friday, January 16 and ferried a load of doctors and medical... |
At 7:30 p.m., Monday Jan. 19, the plane with all on board, touched down in Florida. The 26 kids of Angel House represent the first orphanage in Haiti to get out in its entirety after the earthquake. "I am so joyful for the families that are reunited with their kids," says Reitz, who has two photos of the kids from Thre... |
Anyone who was in Japan on March 11, 2011, when the 9 pt. Richter Scale Earthquake struck, has a story to tell. As for myself, I was in a downtown travel agency, ironically making arrangements to leave Japan on a short trip when I was badly shaken. Making my way to the railroad station to find a way home, I saw one of ... |
I thought to myself: "If it is this bad here, Sendai must be devastated!" |
In fact, Sendai survived the earthquake and tsunami with relatively little damage. The same could not be said of the numerous much smaller cities and villages hugging the Pacific Coast that were demolished by the quake, and more importantly the 13 meter-high wall of water that came crashing through shortly after. |
Nearly two years after what the Japanese call the "triple disaster" of earthquake tsunami and the multiple nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, some of the stories are now being told in books, of which perhaps the best in English is Strong in the Rain by two veteran Japan correspondents, Lu... |
No definitive count has yet been made, or perhaps can ever be made, of the number of people who died that day, many presumably swept away in the deluge. The general figure of about 20,000 is used. The tsunami was particularly hard on the elderly, who formed a large part of the population in this rather depressed part o... |
One intriguing figure in the book amid those large numbers is 575, which is the number of elderly, infirm and ill people whose condition was too delicate to withstand the trauma of evacuation from hospitals or nursing homes that were located within the 20 km mandatory evacuation zone surrounding the nuclear plant. It i... |
The authors’ approach is anecdotal. They tell the story through individuals, such as Katsunobu Sakurai, the mayor of the town of Minomisoma, or David Chumreonlert, a Thai-American who was teaching English, or Kai Watanabe, an ordinary worker at the Fukushima nuclear plant, even Marine Cpl. Kevin Miller, a US Marine who... |
The confused and chaotic response in the early days of the disaster is surprising considering how vulnerable Japan is to earthquakes and other natural disasters. The country has an extensive earthquake monitoring and prediction system, but nothing similar to the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The nuclea... |
The most useful service was probably provided by the Self Defense Forces (Japan’s military). Early on Prime Minister Naoto Kan mobilized about 100,000 troops, nearly half of the total armed forces, for duty in the stricken area, where they did the gruesome but necessary work of recovering the bodies as well as providin... |
The US pitched in, providing some 24,000 service men drawn from the bases around Japan in what was billed as Operation Tomodachi (friend in Japanese), and may have been the country’s largest disaster response. It was largely unheralded in the US but not forgotten by the Japanese, whose respect for both the Japanese and... |
This part of Japan has a history of devastating tsunamis stretching back as far as the 8th Century. Yet the planning was haphazard at best. A few small towns were prescient enough to build breakwaters and sea walls that were tall and strong enough to withstand the force of the tsunami. Many others were simply bowled ov... |
The authors recount the often wrenching decisions that many foreigners living in Japan had to make in response to the crisis. Many embassies, though not the American ome, moved out of Tokyo or advised their citizens to leave the capital or Japan entirely. In all, about 30 foreign missions left Tokyo in the first two we... |
Those who left Japan earned the local sobriquet "flygin", a play on gaijin, the word for foreigner, sometimes leaving their Japanese business associates or fellow teachers in the lurch. In their defense, many were hearing heartfelt pleas from families and relatives abroad, frightened by often sensational accounts of ra... |
Strong in the Rain is a relatively thin volume, more in the line of a first draft of history rather than a definitive account of what’s been called the worst disaster in Japan’s post-war period. And it is fairly comprehensive, covering the tsunami, the nuclear disaster, reactions in the rest of Japan and abroad, even f... |
Many mysteries are still buried in the ruble of the devastated coastline or deep in the bowels of the nuclear reactors, where technicians are still don’t know the exact condition and precise location of the melted cores. The authors have done a good job of collecting stories. There are many more to be told. |
Who’s Bluffing Whom in the South China Sea? |
When Anne Russell had her children more than thirty years ago, drinking moderate amounts of alcohol during pregnancy was considered acceptable. |
As a teenager, her son Seth was diagnosed with having Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD), and it's affected every aspect of his life. Yet diagnosis and treatment for both children and adults can still be elusive. |
We hear from Anne Russell, founder of awareness and support group RFFADA, and Dr Doug Shelton a paediatrician who specialises in FASD at Gold Coast Health, about what more needs to be done to prevent, diagnose and treat these disorders, which are estimated to occur in at least five per cent of the population. |
Civil servants and teachers are entitled to paid time off to deal with legal issues involving marital breakdown, Government departments have confirmed to RTÉ News. |
However, the entitlement does not apply to public servants in local authorities, the Health Service Executive or gardaí. |
At the Forsa trade union civil service conference next week, delegates will debate a motion seeking to have the entitlement of 1.5 days paid leave increased to three. |
The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform confirmed that, under an agreement between management and unions, each affected civil servant would be entitled to a day and a half of paid leave for attendance at court proceedings, consultations with solicitors or appointments with the family mediation service. |
Asked how many civil servants would have availed of this entitlement, or the potential cost of it, the department said the arrangements are applied at a local level, so it does not collect data. |
The department also confirmed that civil servants are allowed up to five days paid special leave at the time of marriage subject to an overall total - between annual leave and marriage leave - of 27 days in the leave year in which the marriage takes place. |
Accordingly, any civil servant with annual leave in excess of 27 days is not entitled to any marriage leave. |
A spokesperson for Forsa said that the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform had confirmed to the union that there was no formal entitlement to leave for court or meetings with legal representations during divorce proceedings. |
He said that what exists is a facility that gives management discretion to allow or refuse leave. |
The Department of Education and Skills confirmed that a teacher may be granted one day of paid leave in respect of legal separation proceedings where the proceedings take place when the school is open, although the entitlement is subject to approval from the board of management. |
However, the paid leave entitlement is "not generally available" to non-teaching staff in Education and Training Boards, with the exception of some former SOLAS staff who have transferred to ETBs.. |
A spokesperson noted the matter has been raised with the department by unions representing staff in ETBs. |
She said any queries in relation to the position in the higher education sector should be referred to the institutions themselves. |
The HSE confirmed that marital breakdown leave does not apply to its employees, as did An Garda Síochána. |
The Local Government Management Agency also said that local authority employees did not have such an entitlement. |
The Chief Executive of business lobby group ISME has described the marital breakdown leave entitlement as part of an extraordinarily generous package, which looked like "gold-plating." |
Neil McDonnell said it was unclear whether benefits like marital breakdown leave were taken into account when the Public Service Pay Commission was calculating the value of the overall remuneration package in the public service. |
PHILADELPHIA >> Donkeys will be dispatched around Philadelphia this summer ahead of the Democratic National Convention. |
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