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Apple ordered a huge amount of original content from the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, J.J. Abrams, and others last year. It is widely expected that we'll hear about at least some of those things on Monday, along with information about what the streaming service is called and how much it will cost.
Video streaming isn't the only thing Apple is supposedly working on. Apple is apparently putting together a subscription news service that could potentially give Apple News users access to content that normally lives behind a paywall on news sites.
Supposedly, there will be an Amazon Prime-like subscription package that includes the news and video services along with Apple Music. Regardless of the specifics, the celebrity-filled event promises to be one of the most interesting Apple events in a while.
The central crime branch of the Tamil Nadu Police on Friday arrested the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Sun TV Network Ltd following a complaint of sexual harassment by a former women employee.
Police sources here said that the COO, Praveen, was held at his residence on Friday morning. The staffer, who was employed in a leading Malayalam channel Surya TV, part of the Sun TV group, had quit her job few months ago due to sexual harassment and issues related to transfer.
The staffer later requested the company to settle her dues but they failed to respond.
This prompted her to lodge a complaint, including against Praveen, at the police commissioner’s office. In her complaint, the woman employee also attached the WhatsApp comments, messages and call records to the police as proof of her claims.
This is the second instance when such charges have been pressed against senior officials of Sun TV.
In 2013, a woman employee had filed a complaint of sexual harassment against news editor Raja.
Sometimes, you walk into a home and you instantly get it. Or it gets you. And the Royal Barry Wills inspired Cape residence at 107 Arnold Road in Newton is just that, enveloping you as soon as you walk through its cheery yellow door. The interior warmth radiates, not just from the magnificent great room with its vaulted ceilings, but also from the lovingly maintained wood paneling, window nooks, and vintage touches.
Built in 1950 in the Old Oak Hill neighborhood, the home sits on nearly 17,000 square feet of lush grounds, with a brick patio and cabana for the elegant in-ground pool area. Despite its proximity to Newton Center and Chestnut Hill shopping and dining, the home is a quiet oasis.
The living room is one truly worthy of being called a great room. Flanked by atrium windows and a breathtaking oversize fireplace, it looks over the verdant grounds. A beamed, soaring cathedral ceiling draws the gaze up. The wood interior is distinctly rustic, but can also be dressed as surprisingly modern.
Thoughtful, functional, and charming details can be found in abundance in the architectural diamond-pane windows, built-in cabinets, and bookshelves.
On the home’s main floor, you’ll find a large kitchen overlooking the yard, with butcher block counters, granite, and vintage blue ceramic coin floors. A large master bedroom that could easily be converted into a family room and a full bath allow for one floor living. On the second floor, you’ll find two additional bedrooms and updated bath, both with generous amounts of storage space. The lower level is finished with a new full bathroom, bedroom or family room space with tall ceilings and garden level windows, an exercise area, and laundry room.
Offered at $1,449,000, the property is a well-loved family home whose design is highly distinctive and timeless. See it yourself at the open house hours this weekend, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. today and tomorrow.
To find out more about the home, contact Rose Barron at Hammond Residential Real Estate, at 617-877-8041.
I want to have empathy, and I want to give support. But I have two dear friends who are black, whose sons are the same age as my son, and I don’t want to know what rips their hearts apart when they see the latest news of another black mother’s son dying in the street.
I don’t want them to know it either.
I also won’t know what it’s like to be a police officer. Believe me, nobody wants me to be what stands between you and your personal safety.
As a reporter, I’ve spent much of my professional life running to the same scenes as the police. And then I stand at a safe distance, apart from the murder or the deadly crash or the hostage situation. I am an observer, not a participant.
I have known amazing police officers over the past 28 years, and because of where I live, I have the great luxury of working with men and women in small departments who have spoken to me with pride and passion about knowing the people they are policing.
One Bellefonte officer started his career in Philipsburg, and he affected change with the kids there, not by showing up when things went wrong, but by being a constant presence even when things went right.
A lot of people talk about the intersection of the black community and the police and the violence and death that has become an all-too-regular occurrence. I’m not the first to write about it. Probably not the first today. Probably not the last today either.
Everyone has theories. No one has answers because until the problem is solved, we don’t know what the answer will be.
But I know one thing.
I might not know what it’s like to be black or what it’s like to be a cop, but I know what it’s like to be me; and this fat, white, Catholic woman wants peace and safety for everyone.
A nonexclusive deal lets Loudeye offer samples of Sony songs and thumbnail pictures of album covers from the major record label's entire catalog.
Loudeye Technologies, an online-music infrastructure company, Wednesday said it has struck a licensing agreement to offer samples of Sony Music Entertainment songs over the Internet.
The nonexclusive deal allows Seattle-based Loudeye to offer samples of Sony songs and thumbnail pictures of album covers from the entire catalog of the major record label. Loudeye will then provide the samples to third-party Web sites for distribution.
The agreement comes amid a restructuring of Loudeye. In April, the company slashed 45 percent of its 300 employees and closed several offices. The company said that the restructuring will save it $12 million in cash annually but that it would incur a charge of $2.5 million in the second quarter.
In March, John Baker replaced David Bullis as the company's chief executive. Bullis resigned to pursue family and personal interests.
Loudeye helps media companies convert their audio and video into digital format for distribution. Its other partners include Bertelsmann's BMG Entertainment, EMI Recorded Music, AOL Time Warner and Vivendi Universal's Universal Music Group.
But like many online music companies, Loudeye found its efforts stalled when free file-sharing service Napster burst onto the scene. Napster has since been reprimanded by a federal court, which has forced it to block all copyrighted song titles provided to them by the record labels.
Since the record companies' series of court victories over Napster, many of the labels are going back to square one with their online-music initiatives. Loudeye executives have said that Napster's legal grounding is a good sign because many labels, such as Sony, have turned to them for technical assistance.
Shares of Loudeye rose 6 cents to $1.16 a share in midmorning trading. That's down from a 52-week high of $23.88.
KATY, Texas (AP) Moses Greenwood had 22 points as Southeastern Louisiana defeated Central Arkansas 79-65 in the Southland Conference Tournament quarterfinals on Thursday night.
Marlain Veal had 15 points for Southeastern Louisiana (17-15). Von Julien added 13 points. Jeremiah Saunders had seven rebounds for Southeastern Louisiana.
Thatch Unruh had 23 points for the Bears (14-19). Hayden Koval added 15 points and 10 rebounds. DeAndre Jones had 11 points.
No HOAs No Covenants Borders over 600 acres of State Land. Beautiful mountain property. The driveway is already in and there are several cleared building sites. One site is by the road and other large areas are at the top of the driveway among the tall ponderosa and spruce trees that provide the seclusion and privacy you've been searching for. A seasonal stream runs along the front of the property. Large storage container on the property stays. All kinds of wild life are known to this area, including, deer, elk, turkey, and an occasional bear. This is a great spot to build a home, or vacation, camp, and hunt. Year round, nicely maintained road. Come walk the property - you will love it!!
Mipso, a quartet influenced by the contradiction of their progressive home and surrounding rural southern landscapes, will play a free show in Avon on Wednesday night which will benefit Speak Up, Reach Out, a local organization dedicated to suicide prevention.
When: Wednesday, August 16, music begins at 5:30 p.m.
Park Lawn Opens: 5 p.m.
Family Happy Hour: 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.
AVON — Wednesday’s Mipso concert at Nottingham Park will double as a benefit for Speak Up, Reach Out, a local organization dedicated to suicide prevention.
The show is free and will also feature a performance from opener Ages & Ages.
The event will be Avon’s first benefit concert to be held on the town’s stage, and for Speak Up, Reach Out. It will be a big opportunity to help spread the organization’s message — that suicide needs to be discussed.
The Rocky Mountain region has earned the nickname “the suicide belt” in recent years due to the higher-than-average number of people taking their own lives in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, New Mexico, Nevada and Idaho. That prompted the town of Avon in 2009 to help start the Speak Up, Reach Out group, with a primary goal of trying to prevent suicide in Eagle County.
Speak Up, Reach Out has since blossomed into a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and is trying to achieve its stated goal through education, outreach and availability of services.
Members of the community also need to be able to recognize the warning signs, which is another goal of Speak Up, Reach Out. If those warning signs are present, “people need to have the courage to approach that conversation,” Daly said.
“Many people feel it’s a personal issue to start talking about somebody’s mental health, but if you care about that person, you really have to,” Daly added.
By talking about suicide in a different atmosphere — a fun and lively concert venue — Daly is hoping the Speak Up, Reach Out message will reach more people.
Mipso may have been the perfect choice to help spread Speak Up, Reach Out message, as their popular 2013 song “When I’m Gone” is itself a phrase that could be a warning sign, especially if prefixed by “They’ll be sorry” or something similar.
Wednesday’s concert is free to the public and will feature a family happy hour offering half-price food between 5 and 6 p.m. Attendees are invited to enter to win one of three pairs of Skull Candy Bluetooth headphones between 5 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. at the merchandise tent. The Kids Zone will be open during the event and features face painting and the much heralded Cave of Confusion, which is a 3D interactive maze. A collection of fresh brews from Coors Light, Coors Banquet, Blue Moon, Leinenkugel Summer Shandy and native craft beers, refreshing spirits and non-alcoholic beverages will be sold.
The gap in pay between chief executives and rank-and-file employees has been growing steadily, and now regulators want companies to tell investors just how wide it is.
The Securities and Exchange Commission, addressing an issue that has captured the public’s attention like few others at the agency, proposed a rule on Wednesday that would require publicly traded companies to disclose the difference between the pay of chief executives and their employees.
Three of the five members of the S.E.C. voted in favor of the proposal, which would require public companies to report the ratio of top executive compensation to the median compensation of their employees. Median pay is the point at which half the employees earn more and half earn less.
Public scrutiny over outsize pay packages at some of the country’s biggest companies has intensified since the financial crisis, and the S.E.C. said it had received more than 20,000 public letters in support of and opposition to its new proposals.
The proposal is part of the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul legislation, which requires the S.E.C. to amend existing rules on pay disclosure. Publicly listed companies are now required to disclose the compensation of their chief executives but not pay for other employees.
The commission has proposed that companies disclose two additional data points in their filings. One is the median of the total compensation for all employees excluding the chief executive, and the other is the ratio between that number and the chief’s annual total compensation.
The median pay package for the country’s top 200 executives was $15.1 million last year, according to Equilar, the executive compensation analysis firm. That was an increase of 16 percent from 2011.
Proponents of the new rules praise the move as progress toward more transparency and increased information for investors, with the added benefit of putting pressure on boards to curb increases in executive pay.
“There are huge problems with pay disparity both within our portfolio and in society,” said Michael Garland, who leads corporate governance in the New York City comptroller’s office, which oversees $139 billion in pension fund money and votes on corporate compensation packages for more than 3,500 companies.
“It’s bad for productivity and for morale,” he said.
Critics of the proposed rules complain that the method for determining median income is too complex, time-consuming and costly. The S.E.C. declined to provide a formula for calculating the ratio between the pay of chief executives and employees, saying companies could choose their own methods.
Many of the letters sent to the S.E.C. tried to tackle the question of how to evaluate pay without burdening large companies.
In another letter, a law and engineering student at Stanford submitted an explanation of how a company could take a random sample and determine median pay without getting a bias.
Addressing these concerns, the S.E.C.’s chairwoman, Mary Jo White, emphasized on Wednesday that the agency would provide companies some flexibility in complying with the rules. This would include allowing them to determine the median pay of their employees by using a statistical sample.
“The S.E.C. has done a terrific job of balancing the need to have better information with the difficulty of producing that information,” said Nell Minow, co-founder of Governance Metrics International.
Ms. Minow predicted that companies would tend to adopt a formula for calculating pay based on their sector. Large multinational companies with large and complex operations would choose a different method from one used by young technology companies, for example. “In general you will find there will be apples-to-apples comparisons within sectors,” she said.
In the wake of scrutiny on executive compensation from shareholders and the general public, companies have included less cash in compensation packages and more in restricted stock. But even with this trend, the compensation of top executives has grown exponentially over the last few decades.
Executive pay is now more than 277 times an average worker’s pay, compared with just 20 times in 1965, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
“Clearly we have a steep uptrend,” said Mr. Aguilar, the S.E.C. commissioner.
Ms. White, Mr. Aguilar and Kara M. Stein all voted for the proposal. Daniel M. Gallagher and Michael S. Piwowar voted against it.
“Today, the commission will vote on proposed rules to implement yet another Dodd-Frank mandate having nothing to do with the S.E.C.’s mission and everything to do with the politics of not letting a serious crisis go to waste,” Mr. Gallagher said.
The agency will collect comments for 60 days and must vote on the proposal again before it goes into effect.
A version of this article appears in print on 09/19/2013, on page B1 of the NewYork edition with the headline: S.E.C. Proposes Greater Disclosure On Pay for C.E.O.’s.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug 10 (Reuters) - A fifth body was found on Friday in the wreckage of an Alaska sightseeing plane that crashed near North America’s tallest peak, leaving no doubt the pilot perished with his four Polish passengers on the steep mountainside, authorities said.
But the site of last Saturday’s crash, which tied the record for the deadliest civilian aviation accident in Denali National Park, was determined to be too treacherous to attempt to recover any of the five bodies, National Park Service officials said.
The plane, a single-engine de Havilland Beaver operated by a local air-taxi company, crashed near the top of Thunder Mountain, about 14 miles (22.5 km) southwest of the summit of Denali, the highest mountain in North America.
The impact left the plane in two pieces, lodged in the crevasse of a hanging glacier nearly 11,000 feet high on a steep, avalanche-prone slope from which unstable ice blocks are protruding, Park Service officials said.
“The tail and fuselage of the aircraft are just hanging on by a piece of metal,” Park Service spokeswoman Katherine Belcher said. Any attempt to move the wreckage or remains would risk further loss of life, she said.
Park rangers first reached the wreckage by helicopter on Monday, suspending one ranger from a safety line from the hovering aircraft while he dug through the snow enough to find the bodies of the four passengers.
The pilot remained missing at that time, and though he was presumed dead, Park Service officials said he apparently had survived long enough to make two distress calls after impact - one giving notification of the crash. The second was unintelligible.
After several weather delays, a second park ranger flown by helicopter to the crash site and lowered in a harness located the pilot’s remains.
The pilot was identified as Craig Layson of Michigan. He worked for K2 Aviation, one of the many companies that ferry tourists and mountaineers from the Alaska town of Talkeetna to the park’s snowy peaks.
The four Polish passengers’ identities were withheld at the request of the Polish government, Belcher said.
Five other people died in Denali in a 1984 tourist flight from Anchorage, but two military crashes in the area in 1944 and 1952 claimed 18 and 19 lives, respectively.
KANSAS CITY, KAN. — Kansas goes farther than any other state in limiting state and local agencies from influencing policy about food nutrition labels and portion sizes, according to a recent study.
A study published this month by New York University researcher Jennifer Pomeranz found that Kansas does more to limit the authority of local governments on food policy than any of the 13 other states with similar legislation, the Kansas News Service reported.
Kansas’ pre-emption law, which went into effect in 2016, prevents local authorities from restricting portion sizes, taxing soda and sugary drinks and banning “incentive items,” such as toys in a McDonald’s Happy Meal. The law applies to counties, school districts, councils and other local government agencies, which are prohibited from enacting restrictive food policies.
Similar bills have cropped up across the country in recent years, but Pomeranz said Kansas’ law goes further than others by limiting the state Legislature’s power.
Kansas health advocates felt the legislation didn’t reflect what they were trying to accomplish in the state, said Missty Lechner of the American Heart Association in Kansas.
“No one was talking about wanting to ban soda sizes,” Lechner said.
Localities were instead looking into policies such as requiring park concession stands to provide health options with other typical snack foods. But some groups have been deterred by the state’s pre-emption law ever since, she said.
Natasha Frost, an attorney at the Public Health Law Center, said the law’s language can be confusing, so it’s unclear what local rules are permitted. The issue has created a “chilling effect,” where local authorities avoid such policies.
“Where we’re concerned is where innovative ideas might be stifled,” Frost said.
The latest wave of new back-to-school laptops and desktops for 2010 is here, and we've been scouring the shelves of big retail stores to find boxed versions of these popular PCs, from entry-level systems starting at $250 to massive $1,200 gaming monsters.
With the back-to-school season upon us, many laptop and desktop shoppers are looking for a new system suitable for dorm room living or high school homework. We've hit the well-stocked store shelves of brick-and-mortar retail stores to find boxed versions of popular PCs, from entry-level systems starting at less than $300, to $1,000-plus high-end multimedia and gaming rigs.
These specific retail models are similar to those you'd be able to configure online from companies such as Dell and HP, but they may have slightly different names and features. Also worth noting, thanks to frequent retail discounts, they can sometimes be a better deal than buying directly from a PC maker.
In addition to browsing the list below, if you pick up a Sunday newspaper sales circular to look for onsale computers, be sure to check here for a review for that specific model number before heading out to the store.

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