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Perhaps the husband-and-wife team would benefit from a visit to the Frost Museum of Science, where they can learn a lot about hammocks.
Potential police officers are screened carefully. We know their history and check their references. They must pass a psychological evaluation.
Yet, we allow anonymous individuals to buy semi-automatic weapons with scant oversight.
If a person wants to own a weapon, he should have that right, but with rights come responsibilities. A potential gun owner should be expected to complete an application similar to those used in hiring police officers.
The application should include the individual’s complete history, and references from his workplace, family, friends, and neighbors. We should employ psychological evaluation techniques to assure the applicant’s stability. Finally, the applicant should demonstrate proficiency in how to operate, maintain, and safely sto...
We would never knowingly hire a police officer who was deemed unstable, and we would never issue a weapon unless the officer had demonstrated both competency and respect for such an awesome responsibility.
It’s foolhardy not to ask at least that much from the random stranger; too many times the results have been catastrophic. Common-sense initiatives are what’s needed to bring more security to our communities as well as preserve our constitutional rights.
The CEO Roundtable Breakfast at Royal Caribbean headquarters the Miami Herald has been promoting for Nov. 16 could be enlightening on many levels. The lessons on outperforming your competition could hardly come from more successful business executives.
Particularly interesting for me would be how to handle workforces. Many years ago, as I departed the offices of a major account I handled, I was stunned by a tearful employee who had just been terminated. I knew he had worked for that company for more than 25 years.
As I left the property, I noticed the CEO behind me in his new black Bentley.
He had previously driven a relatively new Jaguar. I thought, if he had kept the Jag, he could have kept this longtime employee on the payroll. When I returned to my office, I decided I could no longer service that account.
When you prepare the stew, you should handle all the ingredients with care. Perhaps the speakers at the Roundtable are not past learning some additional lessons in employee treatment.
I see no leadership at all from Rubio. He avoids getting involved in questionable GOP and political actions. He refuses to appear at public forums and will not answer to his local voters.
This is one of the very few times I have agreed with President Trump and his assessment of another pol.
Presumably, President Trump doesn’t drink or snort, but his initials (DT) indicate otherwise.
I think this great country has been in the throes of delirium tremens since the national election.
Learn more about key events over the course of Hayes Hall's nearly 150-year history, from the addition of its iconic clock tower in 1928 to student protests during the 1960s.
Renovations convert building to academic use. 1927 1927-1977 Hayes Hall housed Administrative Offices of the University, The School of Business Administration and The College of Arts and Sciences.
Hayes Hall Complex, including Wende, Beck and Townsend Halls, is designated a local landmark by the Buffalo Preservation Board. 1988 FALL 1977- present Hayes Hall houses “School of Architecture and Environmental Design,” now Buffalo School of Architecture + Planning.
CLEARFIELD – The 2010 Auction Committee is collecting donations and sponsorships for the upcoming 15th Annual Anne S. Thacik Charity Auction. This year’s auction will be held on the evening of Oct. 13, at the Knights of Columbus in Clearfield. Sponsored in part by Home Instead Senior Care, this is a wonderful event you...
The evening begins at 6 p.m. with a silent auction and various games of chance. A 50/50 cash raffle will be conducted. Last year’s winner took home over $1,000! Raffle tickets are available now and through auction night at a cost of one ticket for $5, or 3 tickets for $10.
The live auction begins at 7:30 p.m., with Bob E. Day as emcee, and local favorite, Pat Errigo, as auctioneer. Wine and a variety of desserts will be available throughout the evening for your enjoyment. More than 100 items are on the docket to be auctioned, including get-away trips, fine restaurant packages, autographe...
For more information on the auction or the Clearfield County Area Agency on Aging, Inc, please visit www.ccaaa.net or call 814-765-2696. Programs and services of the Agency are funded in part by the Pennsylvania Department of Aging, the Clearfield County Area Agency on Aging Inc, Mature Resources Foundation, and local ...
PSU Probing Question: Does Year-Round Schooling Work?
At the end of the Oklahoma Sooners’ 31-16 victory over Ohio State in Columbus, Baker Mayfield taunted the crowd in one of the coolest possible ways: He planted an Oklahoma flag at midfield.
Mayfield said after the game that his move, while unplanned, was motivated by some lingering feelings from Ohio State’s 45-24 pounding of Oklahoma in Norman last year.
That’s cool! College football is at its best when the two teams playing have a little bit of resentment for each other. After throwing three TDs and netting 386 yards on 27-of-35 passing, Mayfield had earned the right to taunt.
But apparently, the flag planting was disrespectful, because Mayfield apologized today for his actions.
“It was an emotional game, so after the game I did not mean for it to be disrespectful to any Ohio State people at all,” a subdued Mayfield said.
Mayfield’s apology is weird and surprising, because unless you go deep into the Ohio State corners of the internet, it’s hard to find people who are legitimately outraged at him. Was he scared of former Buckeye and current Detroit Lions lineman Taylor Decker, who tweeted that Mayfield “can drink bleach?” (Probably not....
Google’s smartwatch platform – Android Wear – is no more. In its place is the all new Wear OS by Google – or just Wear OS to its friends.
The new naming convention is just that however – this isn’t Android Wear 3.0 with a shiny new name badge. Features and apps remain the same. People with an existing Android Wear smartwatch will see their wearables updated over the coming weeks, bringing the new logo and name to their wrists.
The thinking is, with a third of Wear smartwatch owners actually having their device synced with an iPhone rather than an Android smartphone, that the new name is more inclusive.
"We are changing our name because we want to have a brand that reflects very well on our technology but talks about that diverse set of users that are using these watches," Dennis Troper, head of product for Android Wear, told Wareable.
Although there are no major new features landing with the new OS branding, Google has confirmed that iPhone users will finally be able to see their Google Fit history via a new companion app, which will go live in the next few weeks.
Android Wear is to smartwatches what Android is to smartphones – a dedicated platform whereby manufacturers can tap into a rich ecosystem of apps and features, without having to develop software of their own. It was first announced way back in March 2014 at Google I/O and is now found on more than 50 different devices ...
The worldwide wearable tech market is set to boom in popularity in the next few years, with 149.5 million shipments forecast for 2021, according to industry analyst International Data Corporation (IDC), who states that more vendors – particularly fashion brands – and cellular connectivity built into smartwatches helps ...
That 149.5 million figure would be more than double the estimated 61.5 million shipments for this year and IDC claims that smartwatches will be the form factor powering the boom. However, CCS Insight recently stated that under 5 million Android Wear units were shipped in 2017, compared to 16 million for the Apple Watch...
Takuya Hirano, president of Microsoft Japan, is interviewed by Kaori Iida of NHK on Nikkei businesses and corporate social responsibility.
On April 30, Little Tokyo Service Center (LTSC) held a seminar entitled “Community Building: Nikkei Businesses and Corporate Social Responsibility” at the Toyota Meeting Hall in Torrance.
The event, which drew over 250 attendees, focused on Japanese and Japanese American business perspectives on corporate social responsibility and local community building.
“Corporate social responsibility” describes efforts on the part of companies to drive social change and give back to their communities.
This seminar was part of LTSC’s ongoing efforts to strengthen connections within the diverse Southern California Nikkei community.
“This is the first time ever that Nikkei businesses have gotten together to talk about their role in bridging the community. We were fortunate to have a wide range of speakers from global to local Shin-Issei businesses,” added LTSC South Bay Community Engagement Coordinator Dr. Hiroko Higuchi.
From left: Mitsuyasu Shigeta, founder and owner of the Shin-Sen-Gumi Group; Yoichi Komiyama, CEO and chairman of Lighthouse; and Yayoi Sato, manager, International Partnerships and Client Services, Los Angeles Dodgers, participate in a panel discussion.
The event featured an onstage interview of Takuya Hirano, president of Microsoft Japan, by Kaori Iida, Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK) Los Angeles bureau chief. The interview was followed by a discussion with panelists Hirano; Yayoi Sato, manager, International Partnerships and Client Services, Los Angeles Dodgers; Mitsuyasu ...
During the panel discussion, speakers shared their views related to corporate responsibility and community building. Sato described how she has worked to expand the audience for the Dodgers’ Japan Night promotion from primarily prewar Nikkei immigrants and their families to include newer Nikkei immigrants and people in...
Shigeta said he started the Shin-Sen-Gumi Summer Festival as a way to show appreciation for Nikkei pioneers. Sales from the festival benefit the community. Shigeta stressed the importance of showing “kokoro” (heart) as a way to connect diverse communities. This motivates him to treasure Japanese culture, emphasize pers...
Komiyama spoke about the relationship between prewar and postwar Nikkei immigrants. He encouraged postwar immigrants to learn about prewar Nikkei experiences and hardships, claiming more recent immigrants have benefited from the struggles of the original Issei, Nisei and Sansei. Komiyama supports education opportunitie...
LTSC is a social service and community development organization that has been creating positive change for the people and places in Southern California for more than 38 years. For more information, visit www.ltsc.org.
In the January special election the voters will be asked to support or reject two tax measures (Measure 66 and Measure 67). Over the next couple of months you will hear a lot from both sides about the dire consequences of either a yes or a no vote on these measures. Before I get into the merits of the measures I think ...
In the 2007 legislative session government grew by over 20%. While the revenue forecast did line up with that rate of growth, we warned leadership at the time it was not sustainable and we should back off. Our advice was ignored. We ended up having to make reductions in budgets during the last quarter of the biennium b...
As we entered the 2009 legislative session we had a Governor’s budget that called for an all funds increase of over 4 billion dollars. This was quite simply taking the flawed revenue projection from the last biennium and moving it forward. We knew, as did the Governor, that the money was not there. At the very beginnin...
Legislative leadership exceeded their own expectations by passing bills increasing taxes, fees, permits, etc. at a level that will take an additional 1.5 billion dollars from the private sector. When you are told we had to cut budgets it is a lie and the people telling you that know it. If you were expecting a $2 an ho...
We are in a recession, which everyone knows; it is just that some people in government react to this situation in a different way than I would. In my opinion job one for the Legislature should be to help restore jobs in the private sector, but the majority party has taken an approach that puts protecting government as ...
Now let’s go back to the actions of the Legislative Assembly. After increasing virtually every fee and license charges and passing four significant tax increases, leadership decided to try and fix the game. They brought forward a bill to set a date for the election, which was appropriate (although it would have been mo...
We know these tax increases are not necessary and there are other ways to balance the budget. In a future newsletter I hope to go into more detail, as we are currently compiling the data. Unfortunately this work is going slower than it should be as we are being blocked from receiving the information we need. I think it...
I will, however, give you one little tidbit now to demonstrate the disingenuousness of the information coming out of government. The Governor announced state employees would be taking up to ten unpaid furlough days as a cost saving measure. On the front end I thought this was absurd simply from the perspective we would...
Clearly the only reason to support the tax increases is to continue the already alarming rate of the growth of government. During recessions both Presidents Kennedy and Reagan cut taxes. We should learn from history. Please join me in voting NO on Measures 66 and 67 in January. I have had enough of the government being...
Media Matters Reviewed The Way That Major National Publications Described Anti-LGBT Hate Groups Over The Last Two Years. Media Matters analyzed news coverage of anti-LGBT hate groups from June 1, 2014, to June 30, 2016. In our analysis we searched The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, The Wall Street Jour...
NY Times Failed To Clearly Define SPLC’s Major Anti-LGBT Hate Groups. Over the two-year period, The New York Times mentioned four out of the five profiled anti-LGBT hate groups surveyed (The Family Research Council, Liberty Counsel, the American Family Association, and Westboro Baptist Church) a total of 60 times, and ...
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, added the World Congress of Families to its list in 2014, calling it “one of the key driving forces behind the U.S. religious right’s global export of homophobia and sexism.” But the liberal-leaning center has been criticized for including groups that fall with...
NY Times Frequently Identified SPLC-Designated Hate Groups But Failed To Do So For Anti-LGBT Groups. In the past two years, The New York Times has labeled organizations as hate groups or extremist a total of 35 times, referring to SPLC as an authority 71 percent of the time (25 times out of 35 total mentions). A majori...
Wash. Post Also Utilized SPLC’s Hate Group Designation Frequently For Other Types Of Groups. In the past two years, The Washington Post has labeled organizations as hate groups or extremist 36 times, referencing SPLC as an authority 83 percent of the time (30 times out of 36 total mentions). White nationalist organizat...
Media Matters searched The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Times in Nexis for coverage between June 1, 2014, and June 30, 2016, using the terms "American Family Association" or "Liberty Counsel" or “Liberty Council” or "Family Research Council" or “Traditional Values Coalition” or “W...
The same search was repeated for The Wall Street Journal in Factivia.
Descriptors referring to hate group representatives (e.g. “conservative leader Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council”) were excluded from analysis. When multiple descriptors were used for a hate group (e.g. “the Christian law firm that represented Kim Davis”), the most editorial descriptor was used for...
The publications were selected based on circulation and digital platform traffic. The Wall Street Journal and USA Today were included in the analysis but ultimately excluded from the report due to their infrequent use of the term “hate group” overall. The Los Angeles Times was excluded from the final report as well due...
Bringing in MTD in the same month as Brexit is a bold move. VAT is one of the main sources of revenue for the government. Making this tax difficult to collect (because HMRC want to shut the simple VAT filing gateway) could result in an immediate revenue crisis for the government. I blame the software companies for flee...
If some of the top 10 strategic technology trends going into 2013 look familiar it's because quite a few -- like Coud computing and mobile trends -- have been around for awhile but are now either morphing or changing in ways that will continue to impact IT in the next year.
That was but one of the conclusions emanating from Gartner's annual Top 10 strategic technology trends for 2013 presentation here at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Florida.
"Consumerization is backdrop of the forces of much of these changes," said Gartner's David Cearley.
Actionable analytics: We have reached the point in the improvement of performance and costs that we can afford to perform analytics and simulation for each and every action taken in the business. Not only will data center systems be able to do this, but mobile devices will have access to data and enough capability to p...
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Copenhagen Municipality has announced plans to more than triple the number of special parking spaces for cargo bikes and trailers.
The capital is thus building on the success of its 2015 project, when 10 specially designed parking stands were placed in Østerbro.
Morten Kabell, the deputy mayor for transport and environment, does not rule out the possibility that in some cases parking spaces for cargo bikes will replace parking spaces for cars.
“They [the cargo bikes] help us to meet our climate and environmental goals and reduce congestion,” Kabell told DR.
Initially, the new stands will be put up in the city centre and Østerbro, while the rest of the capital will get them over the course of 2017 and 2018.
The installation of every specially designed parking stand for cargo bikes and trailers costs about 20,000 kroner.
Kabell said their use will continue to be free of charge to encourage more people to use them.
WASHINGTON, United States, Tuesday March 27, 2018 – Before getting into the thrust of the serious and threatening matter that lies at the heart of this commentary, I declare that I was an integral part of the management of the campaign of the Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party (ABLP) for the March 21 General Election, an...
It is well-known now that the ABLP won 15 of the 17 parliamentary seats, losing 1 to the United Progressive Party (UPP) and failing to keep the Barbuda seat from falling into the hands of the Barbuda Peoples’ Movement (BPM).
The victory was the result of confidence in the competence of Prime Minister, Gaston Browne, to continue to grow the economy; implement close to US$3 billion in public sector and private sector investments over the next five years; create thousands of new jobs; and improve the quality of life generally. It was also ach...
I mention the above only by way of providing context. The real purpose of this commentary is to point out and emphasise the interference in the elections in Antigua and Barbuda and in other Caribbean countries by external forces with an interest in achieving their own ends.
The presence of external influences, particularly the now notorious SCL Group and its subsidiary, Cambridge Analytica, became obvious in the last two weeks of the Antigua and Barbuda campaign when deliberately false articles began appearing on internet blog sites, written by persons who had not previously scribbled one...
The false information about Prime Minister Gaston Browne, spread on the eve of the election had the potential for materially affecting the election result had it not been rebutted swiftly and convincingly.
The evidence of an orchestrated campaign was the fact that the articles were promoted on the website of the UPP and on social media at a cost of thousands of US dollars. The final proof was the appearance on the UPP radio station of one of these bloggers, Monte Friesner, to promote the false information he had publishe...
The issue, however, is not about Friesner and other hired guns; it is about the persons and organisations behind them. Facebook has now banned Cambridge Analytica from its pages for abuse of its rules. It was clear in the campaign for the March 21 Antigua and Barbuda general election, groups like SLC and Cambridge Anal...
If Antigua and Barbuda did not have snap elections and a very short campaign, it is likely that external forces might have succeeded in influencing the elections result. There would have been no way in which the ABLP would have been able to counter the expensive tactics of these rich organisations.
SCL is the prime suspect as the organisation hired to carry out the objectives of external agencies. It has operated secretly in the Caribbean for many years.
The news portal, Caribbean News Now, has documented its activities which include: The 2009 election in Dominica where it was hired to manage the opposition United Workers Party (UWP) campaign. Someone other than the UWP paid the US$1.5 million invoice from SCL; in Saint Lucia, in 2011, SCL offered to help run the gover...
SLC was also evident in Trinidad and Tobago, acting for persons in the United National Congress Party, and in the 2013 general elections in Barbados where it claims to have worked for the Democratic Labour Party. Alexander Nix, the now suspended Chief Executive of SLC’s, subsidiary Cambridge Analytica, was known to ope...
According to the British Daily Mail newspaper, the SCL Group reportedly claimed in a case study that they are skilled enough to launch a ‘sophisticated campaign of mass deception’ to hoodwink the population. Nix is also reported to have told covert reporters that ‘we just put information into the bloodstream of the int...
In the case of the recent general elections in Antigua and Barbuda, a great deal of effort and resources had to be devoted to exposing and refuting false information fed to the public on social media and on internet blog sites, such as the one operated by Monte Friesner.
It is clear that external forces, intent on achieving their own objectives, have been operating in the Caribbean for some time using the Internet and social media to condition opinion through the manufacturing and distribution of false information.
However, they could not succeed without the collusion of political parties which, in their own desire to attain power, engage them for such nefarious activity. It is a frightening and worrying development that should be curbed quickly or democracy in the region will be undermined and unsuspecting Caribbean electorates ...
Intel (INTC) filed a motion late Friday asking an administrative judge in Washington, DC, to force the Federal Trade Commission to more clearly define the market it is allegedly monopolizing.
On 8 June, the FTC charged the chipmaker with antitrust violations and said Intel withheld key technical data from three rivals – Intergraph, Compaq Computer, and Digital Equipment (now part of Compaq) – in an abuse of its market power.
Intel said it needs the information to better defend itself. The case is scheduled to be heard in the fall.

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