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"Sooner rather than later terrorists will have a problem in that killing innocents is not bringing them what they want and what they want is spectacular media coverage," he said. "Terrorism is part theater. When the theater part of it is cut off, then it doesn't make sense to kill or kidnap people."
DVD of Democracy Now! daily show for Thursday, September 24, 2015. For more daily shows, browse our archives. Show DVDs can be purchased from any show page by selecting Media Options > Get DVD.
CMT will air the 2018 AmericanaFest TV special on Dec. 6 at 9 p.m. ET with performances by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, John Prine, k.d. lang, Margo Price, Rosanne Cash and many more artists.
2018 AmericanaFest took over Nashville during the week of Sept. 11–16, with the Honors & Awards ceremony taking place on Sept. 12 at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, In total, more than 250 acts performed more than 500 shows over the five-day festival that took place at 62 different venues.
Check out the promo for CMT’s 2018 AmericanaFest TV special in the link below.
LEADER OF Opposition in the State Assembly Jamuna Devi on Saturday claimed that Governor Dr Balram Jakhar has sought a fresh opinion from Attorney General of India on her petition seeking prosecution of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan for allegedly misleading police during investigation of Prof H S Sabharwal?s death in Ujjain.
LEADER OF Opposition in the State Assembly Jamuna Devi on Saturday claimed that Governor Dr Balram Jakhar has sought a fresh opinion from Attorney General of India on her petition seeking prosecution of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan for allegedly misleading police during investigation of Prof H S Sabharwal’s death in Ujjain.
Dr Jakhar had, earlier, sought opinion of the Principal Secretary, Law, P P Tiwari on the issue. But he had not found the case fit for prosecution of the Chief Minister on the fundamental premise that Jamuna Devi had sought to prosecute Chouhan for his statement in the media that he did not consider Prof Sabharwal’s death a murder but only an accident and a statement carried in newspapers is not an admissible evidence in court of law.
Jamuna Devi during her meeting with the Governor on Friday had expressed her disagreement with the Principal Secretary’s opinion. According to her, it was, then, that the Governor apprised her of his decision to refer the matter to the Attorney General of India for fresh opinion.
Welcoming the Governor’s decision, Jamuna Devi on Saturday sent him a CD showing the Chief Minister making the statement in question and urged him to send the CD to the Attorney General with other documents while seeking his opinion on the issue.
Channing Tatum couldn't keep his hands off Jenna Dewan-Tatum at a party on Tuesday night.
The couple, who tied the knot in 2009 and welcomed their daughter Everly into the world last May, looked more in love than ever as they celebrated the 33-year-old actress' Ocean Drive magazine cover launch in Miami, Florida.
A source told the MailOnline website: "They spent the entire night dancing together. They honestly are just one of those couples that really does look madly in love."
The duo, who met while co-starring in the movie Step Up in 2006, also "kissed a bunch of times throughout the night," but were happy to say hello to any fans that came over to them.
And it seems the brunette beauty had a great time at the event as she wrote on Twitter on Wednesday: "Miami u never let me down! So much fun with @oceandrivemag (sic)"
Jenna recently said the couple plan to wait a while before adding to their family, but she admitted: "There is nothing sexier than seeing the man you love, like, holding your beautiful baby.
"And the way he rocks her and he sings to her--and he's so gentle and sweet and sensitive with her, and it melts you, it really does."
The Ford Foundation is establishing its first presence in Detroit since leaving the Motor City in 1953 as it ramps up a major initiative to invest in affordable housing in the city where it was founded 81 years ago by Edsel Ford.
The New York-based international foundation announced Wednesday it has hired Detroit native Kevin Ryan from the New York Foundation to be its new Detroit-based program officer.
“[Ryan] will be working from Detroit and working with grantee partners there so we don’t have to have staff parachute in and out," Ford Foundation President Darren Walker told Crain's. “I think it’s important because having someone close to the ground, someone working in the city, is a more effective way to do our work."
He starts work in Detroit on June 12, according to the Ford Foundation.
Ryan comes to Ford Foundation after 14 years at the New York Foundation, where he managed a portfolio of grants for New York City community organizations. He will be based in shared office space inside the Kellogg Foundation's downtown Detroit office, according to the Ford Foundation.
The Ford Foundation president plans to detail the foundation's new work in Detroit in a speech Thursday at the Detroit Regional Chamber's Mackinac Policy Conference on Mackinac Island.
Walker's decision to plant an employee in Detroit is the latest effort he's made to rebuild the foundation's ties to the city where its endowment was first generated from the estates of auto baron Henry Ford and his son, Edsel, who chartered the foundation in 1936.
In June 2015, Walker brought the foundation's annual board meeting to Detroit, the first since 1948, following the Ford Foundation's unprecedented $125 million contribution to the "grand bargain" deal that settled Detroit's historic bankruptcy and shielded the city's art collection from creditors.
The Ford Foundation's Detroit program officer will be charged with overseeing the $15 million in grants the foundation is making in Detroit annually, the most of any U.S. city, Walker said.
That total is in addition to its $8.5 million yearly payment to the bankruptcy "grand bargain" fund used to boost Detroit's municipal pension funds and shield assets of the Detroit Institute of Arts from ever being sold.
Walker said the new Detroit program officer will have an office inside shared space with another foundation. The Ford Foundation was planning to announce the hire internally on Tuesday before making a public announcement.
Robert Collier, president and CEO of the Council of Michigan Foundations, said he and others in the state's philanthropic foundation circles have been encouraging Walker to re-establish a physical presence in the city since the "momentous" 2015 board meeting.
"Having someone who is here is certainly strategically very important as opposed to having someone drop in once a month for a couple of days or having an endless stream of consultants," Collier said.
The stationing of a new Ford Foundation staffer in Detroit comes as the foundation is looking to wade into investing in affordable housing in the city's neighborhoods outside of downtown and Midtown.
In April, Ford Foundation's board announced it would take $1 billion out of its $12.5 billion endowment and put it into mission-related investments focused on tackling poverty abroad and affordable housing in the U.S.
Walker told Crain's that Detroit and surrounding suburbs will be a "primary focus" for the foundation's housing development investments.
"What drove it was the realization was that we're going to have to leverage every asset we have to advance revitalization in Detroit," Walker said. "And those tools must go beyond our grant-making."
The Ford Foundation has not set a target dollar amount for affordable-housing investments in Detroit.
But they're open to hearing financing proposals from developers with projects outside of the 7.2-square-miles of greater downtown, Walker said.
"Rather than setting an artificial target, we want to generate as much demand as we can," Walker told Crain's.
The Ford Foundation is using its endowment for targeted investments in housing that it expects will be paid back over time and is in addition to the 5.5 percent of charitable grants it gives away annually.
Collier said the Ford Foundation's new Detroit program officer will be critical to carrying out its neighborhood redevelopment mission.
"Community building is very much relationship-based and very much face to face," he said.
Walker said the foundation is looking to invest in a range of housing projects for households earning between 75 percent and 150 percent of the median household income. In Detroit, that would benefit lower-income families earning between $19,300 and $38,600 annually.
The Ford Foundation plans to hire a director of its $1 billion mission-related investments this summer, Walker said.
"We expect to start making investments in the fall," Walker said.
Leftist billionaire George Soros funneled nearly $1 million to a Democratic district attorney candidate in Texas who went on to defeat an incumbent who opposed sanctuary cities.
Soros-backed Joe Gonzales won the Democratic primary in the Bexar County DA race.
Soros backed Joe Gonzales in the DA election for Bexar County, which includes the city of San Antonio. Gonzales defeated incumbent Nico LaHood in the Democratic primary on March 6.
Through the Texas Justice & Public Safety super PAC, Soros pumped $958,000 into Gonzales’s campaign, according to campaign finance records reviewed by The Daily Caller News Foundation.
In campaign ads, the super PAC accused LaHood of being racist. LaHood, who had made clear his opposition to sanctuary cities, accused Soros of trying to buy the election for Gonzales.
If he wins in the November general election, which he is expected to, Gonzales would run the tally of Soros-backed progressives who have won district attorney’s seats since 2015 to at least 11.
Soros’s “goal is to influence the nation’s criminal justice policies from the ground up by boosting progressive lawyers to victory in DA races around the country. It’s legal and appears to be working,” Peter Hasson noted in a March 6 report for The Daily Caller.
Between 2015 and 2016, Soros helped fund 11 district attorneys’ races to the tune of $7 million, The Washington Times reported. The billionaire’s preferred candidate won in nine of the 11 races.
In 2017, Soros spent almost $2 million on two DA races. His preferred candidate won both times.
The Daily Caller noted that, this past November, Soros spent just under $1.7 million to help Philadelphia attorney Larry Krasner win his city’s DA. Krasner easily won in the general election. In his first few days on the job, Krasner fired 31 prosecutors.
Soros is also funding third-party organizations such as the ACLU which are, in turn, targeting DA races this year.
The ACLU is “planning voter education and outreach campaigns in district attorney races in California, Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Vermont and possibly North Carolina and Missouri,” according to a McClatchy report.
Welcome to our weekly comics column, Near Mint, where media guru Johnnie Martin discusses all the KaPOW that’s fit to print. This Week: We talk to Saga artist Fiona Staples!
Fiona Staples is nominated for some Eisner Awards…again. She’s now been nominated ten times, and so far she’s won six. The Eisner Awards are like the Oscars of comics, which would make her our Meryl Streep. The only difference is that Eisner categories aren’t divided by gender, and for any woman to get to the tippy top in comics is no small feat. According to an April 2017 gender crunching study in Bleeding Cool, not a single major publisher—Marvel, DC, Image, Dark Horse, IDW—has over 20 percent female creators working on their books. Also, Saga, the book she digitally paints for writer Brian K. Vaughan, isn’t based off any pre-existing properties—it’s wholly original. The sometimes raunchy, often gut-wrenching space opera is headlined by a star-crossed alien family from two different planets at war. Each page brings a new outlandish species, and a flourish of Winsor Mckay-esque creativity. Underneath the minimalist neon hum of Staples’ paintings real topics come to the fore: PTSD, homophobia and the trials of being a parent. Jack Kirby is dead. Osamu Tezuka is dead. Is Fiona Staples the greatest living artist in comics? I certainly thought so when I saw her spicy cover for the upcoming Rat Queens offshoot Orc Dave! But more on that later. I spoke with Staples through email to talk about Saga, the creators she wishes got more credit and her favorite comics of the past.
Johnnie Martin: Let’s start out with a hard one. What’s your favorite Final Fantasy?
Fiona Staples: That is a toughie, but my answer has to be Final Fantasy XII. I recognize that the production was plagued with problems and the teen protagonist that was shoehorned in is kind of annoying, but that game has an epic storyline and one of the most beautifully designed worlds I’ve ever seen. Not to mention the music!
One of the things that makes Saga standout each issue—and almost page-to-page—is the inventive character design. From multi-headed skeleton centaurs to seal boys, how do you create a new character or new type of alien and insert it into the story?
The credit goes to Brian for describing a lot of these weird aliens in the script. He’ll usually give me a sentence or two, explaining what animal the creature looks like and maybe what they’re wearing, and then I try to execute that in a way that fits in with our universe and what that character’s role is supposed to be. Sometimes I have complete free rein, like for Ghüs or Dr. Sheriff, and I just do something cute.
OK, Fard the ogre… Whose idea was it to give him huge balls?
Speaking of fantasy giants, I (like many gay men) was very into your cover for the Orc Dave Rat Queens one-shot comic. What were your intentions with that particular artwork?
Thanks, I’m very pleased you liked it! My intentions, which I think were in line with the book’s creators, were to draw a sexually appealing male orc and not treat it strictly as a joke.
The last couple issues of Saga dove into some big real world stuff: abortion and a miscarriage. Does Brian talk to you about some of the subject matter that’s coming up before you get the scripts and is it a discussion?
We don’t tend to have in-depth discussions about the issues we deal with in the series, but it’s been clear since the beginning that we’d be confronting heavy subject matter. I trust Brian, both as an intelligent writer and a decent person, to treat emotionally-charged topics in a thoughtful way.
Has there ever been a time while working on Saga where you and Brian hear some feedback or criticism and think, “Maybe we should’ve done that differently” and then you altered the course a little bit in response?
We generally have enough confidence in our work that we don’t let critics, reviews, or editors influence its direction. That said, there have been plot developments and scenes that we thought were powerful but failed to elicit any reaction from readers, and others that we thought were innocuous but later learned were handled in a harmful way. In either scenario, we have a conversation about it, and while we don’t always agree on the course to take, we at least move forward in a more mindful way.
As you may recall, you’ve won six Eisner Awards for your work on Saga and you’ve been nominated again this year. Is there anyone you wish had been nominated for Eisners (in any category) that hasn’t been? Any creatives in general that you feel like are getting overlooked?
Brian and I have been honored for Saga multiple times, but it wouldn’t be the same book without Steven Finch’s beautiful, clean lettering and design. He definitely deserves recognition.
I think Julian Totino Tedesco painted the best covers this year. James Harren, Sara Pichelli, and Tommy Lee Edwards consistently do award-worthy interiors. And David Harper has done some excellent journalism and podcasting with his projects SKTCHD and Off-Panel.
There was a switch between you being in the multimedia painting category at the Eisners in 2014 to being in the penciler/inker category in 2015. Do you know why that switch happened and what were your thoughts on that?
I don’t know the Eisner committee’s methods for categorizing creators, but I do feel that “painter/multimedia artist” describes what I do more accurately than “penciler/inker.” I think as more digital artists crop up, and more artists do their own colors, the lines between those categories will blur.
You’re the first widely published artist whose work I remember seeing that you could clearly tell worked was made with a digital pen on a tablet… And the art didn’t look awful. It felt kind of new in a subtle way, and I think you working digitally on a successful title has pushed comics forward into the future a little bit. That being said, are there any past eras of comics that you nostalgic for or sort of miss?
I love the fully-painted old Heavy Metal magazines, and I’m grateful that Richard Corben is still working. I also like the weird collage stuff that people were doing in the ’90s, like Dave McKean and Barron Storey. But traditional methods are still completely available to anyone who wants to use them—you could still airbrush a comic if you had the desire. My friends Ray Fawkes and Tyler Jenkins are both illustrating comics right now in watercolor. I’m personally very excited about using digital tools and experimenting in that medium. Artists really have a wealth of options right now!
What are some trends you see popping up often in today’s comics that you don’t like?
I’m not a fan of re-numbering or re-launching a series whenever the story arc ends or the creative team changes—it’s incredibly confusing. And low-selling comics that would do well in the book market being cancelled before they even have enough material for a collection. I know it’s an investment on either the creators’ or the publisher’s part, but I wish more series got the chance to live past issue 6. Doing Saga for the last several years, I’ve really come to appreciate having a long-term relationship with a book, with my collaborators, and with our readers.
How do you think comics are doing right now? Do you think things are better now than in that nostalgic time you sort of miss? Maybe not so much in terms of the industry and sales but rather the quality of what’s getting published?
According to Comichron.com, the market’s been growing steadily for at least the last five or ten years, so it seems the industry is in a pretty healthy place. Creatively, I think it’s better than ever. There are noticeably more female creators, more kids and teen books, and a greater diversity of genres and art styles than there were when I entered the industry about a decade ago. That diversity is what’s causing the market to grow.
This year’s Eisner Awards ceremony will be held at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront on July 21 at 8 p.m. during San Diego Comic-Con 2017.
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General Mills and Flowers Foods both fell last week, but their dividend yields are still impressive.
Investors in Flowers Foods, Inc. saw new options become available today, for the April 2019 expiration.
These charts are looking especially attractive as I just skipped the most important meal of the day.
The most recent short interest data has been released for the 08/31/2017 settlement date, which shows a 1,622,974 share increase in total short interest for Flowers Foods, Inc. , to 13,683,491, an increase of 13.46% since 08/15/2017.
The most recent short interest data has been released for the 07/31/2017 settlement date, which shows a 1,762,118 share increase in total short interest for Flowers Foods, Inc. , to 11,401,842, an increase of 18.28% since 07/14/2017.
In the latest look at stocks ordered by largest market capitalization, Russell 3000 component Flowers Foods, Inc. was identified as having a larger market cap than the smaller end of the S&P 500, for example Ryder System, Inc.
Jim Cramer says stocks are a lot more resilient than most people think.
The law firm of Federman & Sherwood has initiated an investigation into Flowers Foods, Inc.
The most recent short interest data was recently released for the 12/15/2016 settlement date, and Flowers Foods, Inc. is one of the most shorted stocks of the Russell 3000, based on 5.92 "days to cover" versus the median component at 4.36.
The most recent short interest data has been released for the 12/15/2016 settlement date, which shows a 4,768,897 share decrease in total short interest for Flowers Foods, Inc. , to 22,680,303, a decrease of 17.37% since 11/30/2016.
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Here are Thursday's top research calls, including upgrades for MasterCard and Visa, and downgrades for General Mills and Valeant Pharmaceuticals.
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Because some of our regular players are still on holiday we had again not many players this week – and it was also a holiday week.
Willem Lasonder (right) with Paddy Devereux.
After our previous good experience and their very reasonable holiday rate we went again on Tuesday to Treasure Hill. The weather was set fair and the course was also in very good condition. Paddy Devereux (H/cap 22) built on his experience of the previous week and won today with 36 stableford points while Neil Harvey (16) came in second with 32.