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In Asian markets, Japan’s Nikkei Stock Average fell 0.80 percent, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index fell 0.01 percent, China’s Shanghai Composite Index gained 0.40 percent and India’s BSE Sensex climbed 0.38 percent.
Analysts at B. Riley FBR initiated coverage on Zogenix, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZGNX) with a Buy rating and a $116 price target.
Zogenix shares rose 1.42 percent to $46.30 in pre-market trading.
Shiloh Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: SHLO) reported stronger-than-expected earnings for its third quarter.
Genesco Inc (NYSE: GCO) reporting upbeat results for its second quarter.
Five Below Inc (NASDAQ: FIVE) reported stronger-than-expected earnings for its second quarter.
Broadcom Inc (NASDAQ: AVGO) reported upbeat earnings for its third quarter on Thursday.
Create a wonderful nautical look by wearing of pair of deck shoes from Telegraph Shop. These traditional men's summer shoes feature non-slip razor cut soles, chunky laces and all of the detailing you would expect from a Samuel Windsor shoe. When a casual, laid back look is called for, these are just the ticket. Wear wi...
As the holidays rush toward us, Westporters look beyond family and friends for ways to give. We write checks to charities, nonprofits and funds, hoping to give them a year-end boost (and ourselves, perhaps, a tax deduction). All are worthy. Choosing among them is tough.
I can’t single any one out, and ask you to help. But I can sure shine a spotlight on an extra special one.
The Susan Fund was established 36 years ago. As a senior at Staples High School, Susan Davis Lloyd was diagnosed with osteogenic sarcoma. Looking forward to Colgate University, she chose to have her leg amputated and undergo chemotherapy.
Throughout treatment Susan worked two jobs, participated in extracurricular activities and earned excellent grades.
She never made it to college. But after she died, her family and friends honored her legacy of courage and determination. For nearly four decades the Susan Fund has provided scholarships to Fairfield County students diagnosed with cancer. Nearly 270 recipients have received $1,621,600. The fund awarded $62,500 to 22 re...
The Susan Fund’s most recent newsletter highlighted some amazing stories. Recipients come from every town and city in the county. I’ll focus on a few from Westport.
Ryan Caulfield is attending the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Nursing Honors College. His goal is to become a nurse anesthetist. Ryan is a classical pianist who, prior to his diagnosis and treatment for cancer, organized and performed a benefit concert to raise money for post-9/11 critically injured service memb...
Camryn Prince is studying psychology at Sarah Lawrence College. She hopes to work as a researcher or therapist. Her volunteer experiences include an initiative to identify risk factors for low birth weight and premature births, and the Yonkers Revitalization Project for welfare and public housing.
Emma Rhoads received her fourth Susan Fund scholarship. At Parsons, she is working toward a career in print and textile design. She has volunteered with Fashion Week, and last summer interned at Michael Kors. Emma says that art in all forms is a therapeutic outlet for coping with cancer. Drawing, painting, sewing and o...
The Susan Fund offers scholarships to a wide variety of students. They come from Fairfield County suburbs and cities. Some are undergraduates. Others are grad students — including some who have returned to school late in life.
But there’s a heavy Westport influence. Five of the 12 board members are from Westport. Among them: Ann and Will Lloyd, Susan’s mother and brother.
Her other brother David — an ESPN sportscaster — is also deeply involved in the fund. He remembers Susan’s “annoying habit of outpacing me in most affairs requiring courage.” She was off the diving board before he could even climb it, and sailed past him on a two-wheeler while he still rode a bike with training wheels.
“That grit served her as she fought cancer,” David recalls. “Nearly four decades later, I remain in awe of how Susan handled the assault of the disease. While dealing with the loss of her leg and her hair and her health, she was steadfast in her optimism, and had the strength to prop up her family’s resolve as well, de...
The ceremony, and the reception that follows, is a joyous affair. Past recipients return. They tell stories of their successes - due in great part to their scholarships - and bring spouses. Now they’re bringing their children.
All are excited about the future. It’s a future some of them might not have imagined once. Cancer upended their lives — emotionally, as well as financially. Modern medicine gave them hope. But the Susan Fund gave them the chance to move on with their lives.
To learn more, or contribute, click on TheSusanFund.org, email SusanFund@gmail.com, or write The Susan Fund, 8 Hilly Field Lane, Westport, CT 06880.
The government will come out with the first ever Rs 20 coin which will be shaped like a 12-edged polygon with the design of grains to denote farm dominance in the country.
Besides, new series of one, two, five and ten rupees coins too would be minted, which will be circular in design and have denominations written in Hindi script.
The exact date of issuance of these new series coins is yet to be announced.
The Rs 20 coin will weigh 8.54 gm and its outside diameter will be 27mm with the outer ring made of nickel silver and the centre piece of Nickel brass, a finance ministry notification said.
The face of the new Rs 20 coin shall bear the 'Lion Capitol of Ashoka Pillar' with 'Satyameva Jayate' inscribed below. The left periphery will have the word 'Bharat' in Hindi and the right periphery will have the word 'India' in English.
The reverse side of the coin would have the denominational value '20' in the international numerals along with the Rupee symbol.
"The design of grains depicting the agricultural dominance of the country is flanked on the left periphery of the coin," the notification said.
The year of minting in international numerals shall be shown on the centre of left periphery of the coin, it added.
According to the notification, the new Rs 10 coin will have an outside diameter of 27 mm and weigh 7.74 gm, while the Rs 5 coin will have a diameter of 25 mm and weight of 6.74 gms.
The new series one rupee and two rupees coin will weigh 3.09 gm and 4.07 gm, while the diameter would be 20 mm and 23 mm respectively.
The face of all these coins shall bear the Lion Capitol of Ashoka Pillar with the 'Satyameva Jayate' inscribed below, flanked on the left periphery with the word 'Bharat' in Hindi and on the right periphery with the word 'India" in English.
As per Coinage Act, 1906, the Government of India has the sole right to mint coins and the responsibility for coinage vests with the Government. The designing and minting of coins in various denominations is also the responsibility of the Government.
Coins are minted at the four India Government Mints at Mumbai, Alipore (Kolkata), Saifabad (Hyderabad), Cherlapally (Hyderabad) and Noida (UP).
The coins are issued for circulation only through the Reserve Bank in terms of the RBI Act.
San Francisco: Two leading fact-checking agencies have ended their partnerships with Facebook, striking a significant blow to the network's efforts to fight fake news, media reports said.
The social network had paid the Associated Press and Snopes to combat its misinformation crisis. But both confirmed they stopped checking articles at the end of 2018, and will not renew their contracts, the BBC reported.
The Associated Press confirmed to TechCrunch that it was "not currently doing fact-checking work for Facebook".
An AP spokesperson told the BBC: "AP constantly evaluates how to best deploy its fact-checking resources, and that includes ongoing conversations with Facebook about opportunities to do important fact-checking work on its platform."
The AP representative contacted TechCrunch to say that although it was not doing fact-checking work for the programme, it was not leaving it altogether.
Snopes, the popular myth-busting website, has said it was ending its partnership with Facebook as part of a "difficult, but necessary change".
A Snopes statement on Friday said it was "evaluating the ramifications and costs of providing third-party fact-checking services" and wants the efforts to be "a net positive for our online community, publication, and staff", the Guardian reported.
Late last year, the Guardian had published a report that suggested fact-checking firms were frustrated by Facebook's lack of transparency.
Facebook had disputed the report, saying it had "several inaccuracies".
Speaking about the pull out by the key fact checkers, Binkowski said she felt Facebook was too controlling over the fact-checking companies.
"Facebook can't handle any kind of pushback, any kind of public criticism," she told the BBC, adding that she felt the fact-checking programme at Facebook had been "mishandled".
Facebook has worked with two other fact-checking agencies in the US. One, Politifact, told the BBC it intended to continue working with Facebook in 2019. The other, Factcheck,org, did not respond to requests for comment at the time of publication.
Snopes said it needed to "determine with certainty that our efforts to aid any particular platform are a net positive for our online community, publication and staff".
The site's founder David Mikkelson, and head of operations Vinny Green, said in a blog post that the firm did not rule out working with Facebook in future.
"We hope to keep an open dialogue going with Facebook to discuss approaches to combating misinformation that are beneficial to platforms, fact-checking organisations and the user community alike," the company said.
The blog post acknowledged that choosing not to renew its work with Facebook would have financial repercussions for the company.
In 2017, Facebook paid Snopes $100,000 for its work. Snopes has not yet released its financial disclosures for 2018.
"Forgoing an economic opportunity is not a decision that we or any other journalistic enterprise can take lightly in the current publishing landscape," the company said.
Facebook said it was committed to fighting fake news and said it would expand its efforts in 2019.
"We are committed to fighting this through many tactics, and the work that third-party fact-checkers do is a valued and important piece of this effort.
"We have strong relationships with 34 fact-checking partners around the world who fact-check content in 16 languages, and we plan to expand the programme this year by adding new partners and languages."
Facebook's fact checking collaboration began after the 2016 US presidential poll led to significant concerns about propaganda and false news polluting the site.
It has since experimented with different tools to stop the spread of misinformation, including limiting the reach of articles debunked by journalist partners.
Studies and analyses of the initiative have repeatedly raised questions about whether the partnership was making a difference, and Facebook has refused to release meaningful data, the Guardian said.
Large-scale assessment of students’ proficiency in the arts could help ensure that children are offered standards-based instruction in music, visual art, theater, and dance, a new report contends, even though effectively carrying out such assessment is hard to do.
“One-time, on-demand assessments may capture only a small part of what is taught and learned in the arts,” states the report by SRI International, a research institute based in Menlo Park, Calif.
Still, the report cites research showing that subjects that are tested tend to receive greater emphasis in the curriculum. The report was sponsored by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and is one in an ongoing series of reports on arts education.
The report describes arts assessment in five states—Kentucky, Minnesota, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Washington state—and the strengths and weaknesses of those programs. It also discusses the benefits and drawbacks of testing students in the arts.
On the southernmost tip of Croatia is a region of particular natural beauty known as the ‘Konavle Valley'.
Almost half of the entire Konavle region is formed of flourishing wildlife; there are cypress and pine trees in abundance with vineyards almost everywhere you turn.
The scent of the sea intermingled with the aroma of lush Mediterranean vegetation is thick in the air in Konavle Valley. Life goes by slowly in this part of the world, making it the perfect spot for some honest-to-goodness R'n'R.
Often compared to Tuscany, Konavle Valley is a must-visit destination for lovers of nature and foodies. It offers peaceful surroundings, breathtaking scenery, and excellent restaurants serving extraordinary local wines.
The restaurants and konobas (the local word for ‘tavern', you might want to memorise it!) in the region are based on Mediterranean gastronomic heritage: fish, vegetables, and olive oil. At night, you can dine under a blanket of stars away from the light pollution common in much of Europe.
If you prefer active holidays, the region is excellent for cycling, hiking, horseback riding, and practically anything else to do with nature.
The picturesque town of Cavtat is possibly the most famous place in Konavle and is situated on the region's north coast. It's Croatia's little jewel; its best-kept secret is the old harbour that hides many lovely restaurants. The stunning waterfront is lined with palm trees and has been compared to France's glamorous S...
A caveat about Cavtat: it's not for you if you're looking for nightclubs and wild nights. It's a place to relax and recharge your batteries while enjoying wonderful scenery, food and wine.
However, if you are in search of a more upbeat nightlife, nearby UNESCO world heritage site Dubrovnik would be a better choice. Luckily, it's easily reachable by bus or water taxi from Cavtat, so if Cavtat is your base you can have the best of both worlds. In short, Cavtat is busy enough to keep you entertained but qui...
This part of the world is a wonderful and charming place to explore and be active. There are excellent walking trails (which can be done with or without a guide), horse riding across olive groves, a coastal ride offering great views, as well as biking routes. You can enjoy wine tasting tours at most vineyards, includin...
Whether you're looking for a quiet escape or an action-packed trip, you can find everything in Konavle. This is just a glimpse of many possibilities; there's something to suit every taste and an experience for all kind of travellers. You can bathe at some of the most beautiful beaches or stroll around untouched natural...
Or perhaps you'll opt for something more active and go scuba diving, rowing, trekking, or climbing?
Whatever you choose, this is a destination that won't disappoint.
The Dubrovnik Airport is in Čilipi, just 5km from Cavtat. You can get to Cavtat by ferry through the Dubrovnik port, which is also connected by ferry lines coming from other Croatian ports. Other transport information can be found here.
Just some of the places well worth visiting while in the Konavle Region include Dubrovnik, Korčula, Mljet, the River Neretva Delta, the Elafiti Islands, the Pelješac Wine Road, Trsteno, Ston Međugorje, Mostar, Kotor, and many more!
Hiking, cycling, climbing, and diving!
Even the most experienced of travellers will find something new and exciting to do on their trip to Konavle Valley. The beautiful scenery, rich cultural and historic heritage combined with a wide range of services, makes the whole region a very attractive destination on the Adriatic coast.
This article was produced by The Local Creative Studio and sponsored by the Cavtat-Konavle tourist board and Croatian National Tourist Board.
Litterbugs beware – the city will soon be going through your trash.
The City Council passed a package of bills Thursday to crack down on illegal dumping – allowing the Department of Sanitation to rifle through piles of dumped trash to find clues that identify the culprit and slap them with a fine.
Another bill will jack up the fines for illegal commercial dumping, which will range from $4,000 to $18,000. Fines currently start at $1,500 for a first offense and go up to $10,000.
Council Minority Leader Steve Matteo said piles of debris dumped by contractors on the side of the road have become a big mess in his Staten Island district. Locals have pitched in to do cleanups, only to find the area covered in trash again days later.
The trash searches will target mainly large piles of dumped trash – as opposed to stray plastic bags or soda cans – for which pols said the usual culprits are businesses.
The Department of Sanitation will be able to use identifying information found in the garbage, such as a contractor’s logo, to identify the person responsible for the dumping, and they will be assumed responsible unless they present evidence rebutting the claim.
For your average litterbug, the legislation will also double the fine for throwing trash out a car window, to $200 for a first offense. For a second violation within a year, the fine will rise from $250 to $350, and for a third, to $450.
Another bill will require Sanitation to come up with a plan to step up enforcement against littering from vehicles in hotspots where it’s known to be a problem.
“You can go to any intersection in my district – you’ll see someone throwing garbage out of their windows from their cars,” Matteo said.
For regular littering on the street, the fine for a second violation will increase from $250 to $300, but the fine for a first offense will stay at $75.
Councilman Daneek Miller (D-Queens) said his neighborhood in southeast Queens also has a big problem with illegal dumping – and the rats it attracts.
Though cyberspace outlaws may look over their shoulder one extra time before launching a computer virus or worm, they won't be deterred by the $5m bounty fund established by Microsoft to help capture and convict them, two virus writers said.
Applying Wild West-type bounties to modern internet crimes, Microsoft has put two $250,000 rewards on the heads of the individuals responsible for unleashing the Blaster and Sobig worms that wreaked havoc in August. A further $4.5m was set aside for future bounties.
Microsoft hopes the money will make ill-intended code slingers think twice, but two virus writers dismissed the bounty fund as a marketing stunt and said it will have no deterrent effect.
"This new initiative from Microsoft does not change anything. Virus writers who spread their viruses know very well that what they are doing is illegal," said Benny, a Czech member of virus writing group 29A.
Although it "won't really scare" virus writers, they may become more careful about who they trust, said a member of virus writing group International Knowledge Exchange (IKX), who asked to remain anonymous.

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