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RICHMOND, Va - Diane Goldberg and Miriam Davidow, Co-Organizers of The Richmond Jewish Food Festival, stopped by the studio to share a preview of this year’s two-day event. The festival will feature a large selection of homemade traditional Jewish and Israeli foods, including vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free options, as well as live music and other family-friendly entertainment. Proceeds benefit Keneseth Beth Israel on Patterson Avenue. The event is Sunday, January 17th and Monday, January 18th from 11:30am to 7:30pm at the Weinstein Jewish Community Center, located at 5403 Monument Avenue. For more information call 804-288-7953 or visit www.richmondjewishfoodfestival.com.
How are media streaming devices replacing cable TV?
Hollywood, MD - There once was a time when cable was important in our lives and allowed us to watch television in the home with family or alone. However, today, media streaming devices are replacing cable TV. It's worth exploring why media streaming devices became so popular.
The main advantage of satellite and cable television is that you have different choices and systems and that give you the possibility to change different aspects of programming. Through streaming sites, you won’t be able to enjoy new content and programming that is premiered on cable channels because you have to wait a significant amount of time to watch them online on Netflix or Hulu.
Also, most sporting events are in most cases available on television and different pay channels that are more expensive if you want to watch them through media streaming services and other OTT websites. However, there are different ways such as Amazon Prime that allows you to watch streaming sporting shows, but nothing is better than sitting on the sofa with your family and enjoying the game.
The main reasons why people are choosing to distance themselves from traditional satellite and cable television, and pay for premium streaming services are because they are affordable and give you the possibility to enjoy in numerous movies without ads and additional problems. However, if you are using cable television you are bound to watch what program you want to. There is no control over the program and at the end, you cannot pause it whenever you want and continue from that specific place because it is aired in real-time.
People are used to having full control on their viewing aspects, which means that they can stop watching, like on Netflix, and when they decide to start again it will immediately continue from the exact place that you have stopped. As a result, many people are choosing different cost-effective alternatives such as Hulu streaming service. However, you have to understand that there are cable companies that are merging with live streaming websites similar to Hulu streaming service, and therefore you will be able to watch both live programming or TV shows and movies of your choice through different OTT websites.
The main reason why people started using this particular way of watching movies and TV shows, is because the Internet has grown in a way that we can access it easily and it is much more reliable than cable television. However, we have to make an exception with smart TVs that are also popular among users because they contain great features that will provide you perfect a viewing experience. But they are still too much expensive.
You will have the freedom of watching your own program with your demand on any device that you want with the only idea to reach your individual taste without interfering with the real-time program. The other reason is that Internet applications are updated frequently in a quicker pace and that will provide you greater video experience.
Why Video Streaming is Important?
The quality of videos is a letdown when you have in mind video streaming web sites. Of course, everything depends on the quality of your connection, speed and which web site you are using in order to watch online TV shows. There are many different problems with video streaming such as slow video startup, re-buffering, low resolution, and when you watch live streaming sporting events it could happen that the picture freezes and jumps every so often, which is not good for your viewing experience.
However, if you are using a premium streaming web site and you enter into subscription mode, you have to understand that most of these services have a free trial period, where you can try all its features and at the end, you can choose whether you want to continue or not. So if you choose Netflix and pay $11, you will get the possibility to enjoy in HD resolution movies and TV shows without any additional issue.
Why are people still using cable?
There are still people that are using cable because it is how they functioned since long ago and most people that are using it are older people who are not keen in changing and starting to stream through sites such as Netflix and Hulu. Everything is made according to the latest technology, and now we have different smart TVs that have a possibility to connect to the Internet and to watch movies and TV shows through different streaming web sites.
The study has show that 40 percent of households have any type of subscription to a premium video streaming services. There were many different surveys that found out that most of them prefer to watch movies, and some of them still wait for them favorite TV show on television live program. When we compare age groups between 14-25 we can say that more than 90 percent of them are using Netflix or Hulu movie streaming services through their devices such as tablets, smartphones or computers. However, older-age people are still faithful to traditional television and most of them are enjoying this particular way.
We have presented you ways how media streaming devices are replacing cable TV, however, it won’t happen that easily, because there are still people who are not keen on technological advancement and they will always try the different aspect of watching their favorite shows and movies.
Germany has a growing club of global apparel brands making their supplier factory information public. Unfortunately, KiK is dragging its feet on transparency, and has stayed out of the club.
Transparency in the garment industry about the factories brands use to produce their clothes is important. When apparel brands publish names and key information about their supplier factories, it allows workers and labor advocates to swiftly alert them to unsafe working conditions or labor rights violations. This kind of transparency can even help avert deadly disasters.
Many apparel brands understand this. Since October 2016, a coalition of nine global labor rights groups and unions, including Human Rights Watch, have been advocating for a basic minimum level of supply chain transparency (known as the Transparency Pledge) in the apparel sector.
The global coalition wrote to leading brands that were members of the German Partnership for Sustainable Textiles, inviting them to publish their supply chain information, aligning with the Pledge. The Textile Partnership involves various entities concerned about the issue, including the German federal government, apparel and footwear companies, nongovernmental organizations, and trade unions. It enables brand members to develop a roadmap of what they want to achieve annually, and to report progress.
When it comes to supply chain transparency, KiK is the odd one out. All other Textile Partnership brands we wrote to gave us a positive response. ALDI South, ALDI North, Lidl, Hugo Boss, and Tchibo shifted their position and began publishing their supplier factory information for the first time in 2017. Adidas, C&A, Esprit, and H&M—companies that were already publishing the information—made commitments to fully align their disclosure practices with the pledge. Puma too agreed to publish more details about factories than they were already doing. These companies have proven through their action that they suffer no competitive disadvantage from publishing this information.
Brands have complete freedom to adopt good industry practices if they want to, and don’t need to wait for Textile Partnership’s decisions. In fact, the German Textile Partnership’s Guidelines for Creating Roadmap for 2017 clarify to its members that “[g]oals can also freely be formulated … provided they are related to the key question and the indicators.” In fact, other brands that are members of the Partnership published supplier factory information on their websites.
Using the Partnership to justify its poor decisions not only gives KiK a bad name, but also risks tarnishing the reputation of the Textile Partnership. KiK should drop its excuses, and simply go transparent.
In 2012, a fire ripped through one of KiK’s supplier factories in Pakistan, killing 255 workers and injuring 57. Last year, KiK agreed on a compensation package of more than US$5 million for victims. Paying compensation after a disaster is important and it’s commendable that an agreement was reached. But it’s equally important for companies to do everything in their capacity to make sure that any problems in the factories they source from come to light before they lead to disaster. The best way to make that possible is to make sure workers, consumers and the public at large can find out what brands any given factory is producing. Without that knowledge, brands may not get word of workplace abuses, safety issues and other problems until it’s too late.
If an apparel company stands for workers’ rights, there are no two ways about supply chain transparency. KiK should go transparent and join forces with other German Partnership brands that have already done so, and collectively demand that such transparency be made a mandatory part of brand members’ roadmaps.
WASHINGTON DC, UNITED STATES (REUTERS) - US President Donald Trump has directed the full resources of the federal government to help Florida and other states hit by Hurricane Irma and has “great concern” about the storm as it batters the Florida coast, his vice-president said on Sunday (Sept 10).
“Clearly the briefing that we received at Camp David this morning caused the president to have great concern for the impact of this storm moving up the west coast, and the potential through heavy winds and storm surge to compromise cities and compromise lives,” Vice-President Mike Pence told reporters.
Pence made the comments during a visit to the Washington headquarters of the Federal Emergency Management Agency with treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin, Commerce secretary Wilbur Ross, attorney-general Jeff Sessions and Health and Human Services secretary Tom Price.
Trump, who is slated to return to the White House later on Sunday, huddled with his Cabinet on the weekend at Camp David, where he spoke to the governors of Florida, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee by phone as the projected path of the hurricane moved away from the lower Florida Keys westward to the Gulf Coast and states to the north.
Trump also issued a disaster declaration for Puerto Rico on Sunday and expanded federal funds available to the US Virgin Islands in the aftermath of Irma, the White House said.
Josh Duhamel is having a ball with his latest role.
The 44-year-old actor was recently name the first-ever Esurance MLB All-Star Game Ballot Ambassador where he’ll rally fans to vote for their favorite team, leading up to this year’s All-Star Game. But that's the only kind of voting Duhamel feels like discussing. He opened up to Fox News about why's he's stayed away from weighing in on politics.
Fox News: You’ve described having a love/hate relationship with social media.
Duhamel: Social media helps people communicate. That’s just a part of [the] reality we’re living today. That’s how people get their news, that’s how people share news — back in the day you had to actually watch the news on television or read the paper. Now, everything is so instantaneous because of social media. I don’t like to share too much of my private life because to me it just doesn’t feel right. I do sometimes because I may think a moment is funny, cute or harmless. But it’s also an opportunity to do a lot of good. It really is.
You can give exposure to charities or events around the world that may not be getting the attention they need. And for me, social media is great for that. And it’s helped me tremendously to talk about things that I think need attention. I don’t necessary think it’s important to tell people how to vote. That’s one thing I don’t do. I don’t like to get involved politically at all. Nobody cares what I think politically. Anybody in entertainment who thinks people care what they think politically are really misinformed. That’s one thing I stay away from. I stay away from politics because nobody cares what I think.
Fox News: What’s the secret behind your lasting relationship with Fergie?
Duhamel: Our relationship has really evolved over the years. We really, really like each other and like spending time around each other. We’ve been through so much together that it’s just a whole different level from what it was before. I think at the end of the day we just like each other. We obviously love each other, but I think it’s very important that we really like each other too.
Fox News: You’re a huge baseball fan. How this is game ballot different from anything out there?
Josh Duhamel: Well, it’s different in that people can actually go online now and vote. Before there were actual paper ballots that were handed out at the stadiums... You know, it’s very much about including the fans and giving them a voice in this whole thing. To be able to be the first-ever ambassador for Esurance is pretty exciting. I get to go hang out with the fans and for me, that’s fun.
Fox News: What’s a game day like for your family?
Duhamel: The only thing I can really say is when we go to Dodger games it’s pretty fun. The first game we ever took Axel to was pretty exciting. I got to throw the first pitch. Ferg and Ax were both with me. We got to go see Vin Scully in his last year. He gave me advice on how to throw out the first pitch. Axel got to go on the field and say, ‘Let’s play some baseball!’ — he said ‘Time for Dodger baseball' on the mic and I was like, ‘Woah, he did it!’ He’s 3 so he doesn’t have a long attention span.
Fox News: You’ve mentioned how you’re ready to be a sports dad with your son Axel.
Duhamel: I’ve always wanted to be the dad who coached and got to be part of the Little League stuff. But at the same time, now that I am a father and Axel’s 3-and-a-half years old, he’s shown attention to sports and superheroes. I’ll make up little challenges for him like, ‘I bet you can’t throw that ball back across that fence!’ He’ll go, ‘Oh, yeah?’ and try. Without even knowing, he’s learning how to throw a baseball. Or, I’ll have a ball and go, ‘I bet you can’t whack this thing with your sword!’ And he’ll try to hit the ball with his sword. Indirectly, I guess I’m teaching him how to play baseball.
But, I’m not going to be someone who pushes it on him. I think sports are important for kids, I really do. It teaches you how to win, it teaches you how to lose. It teaches you how to work with team — all those things that come with sports I think are valuable in life. People always say, ‘You gotta learn how to win,’ but it’s just as important to learn how to lose. You take a loss, pick yourself up from the ground, and move on. One of the most important things I learned from sports is you gotta keep going.
First up, check out this episode from wayyy back in May 2008: it's the first official appearance of yours truly, Justin Yu, as the OFFICIAL HOST of the show! Before you judge me though, take note that I'm still learning the ropes and exactly what I can, and more importantly, CAN'T say on the show. It's weird to listen to now, because I remember feeling a little awkward and out of my element. How things change, huh? Well, it's a momentous day in the history of The 404, so we invite our good buddy Rana Sobhany to the studio to help us discuss the stories of the day, including the New Kids on the Block reunion, the Digg.com office perks compared to our Flavia machine, and Ellen DeGeneres's epic marriage to Portia de Rossi!
Finally, don't forget that you definitely call and leave a voicemail for Monday's show, just call 1-866-404-CNET and tell us how your weekend is going and how much you looooove the show!
The 0.0006 probability product of a marriage proposal made 15 years ago in the Loveliest Village on the Plains is now the subject of one of TLC's buzziest new shows.
In the Sept. 18 premiere of "Sweet Home Sextuplets," Eric and Courtney Waldrop of Albertville, who last December added Blu, Layke, Rawlings, Rayne, Rivers and Tag to their family of five, revealed that Eric proposed to Courtney on the campus of their alma mater.
The couple, who started dating in junior high, graduated from Auburn in May 2004 and married a month later.
The proud parents of nine signed on to star in a TLC reality show documenting the ups and downs of raising multiple multiples--the Waldrops also have five-year-old twin boys--after learning Courtney was pregnant with one of the less than 25 sets of sextuplets born in America last year.
Only three episodes into the series, the Waldrops have already been profiled by People Magazine, The Today Show, and multiple entertainment blogs.
An InTouch Weekly headline? "We're Obsessed With The 'Sweet Home Sextuplets' Family And Their Super Original Names."
Eric can be seen sporting an Auburn hat in several "Sweet Home Sextuplets" segments, and if a recent family photo shoot is any indication, it won't be the show's last wink at the couple's college colors.
On Sept. 1, as the Auburn Tigers opened the football season with a win over the Washington Huskies, the nearly 100,000 followers of the family's Facebook page were treated to portraits of the Waldrop siblings decked out in orange and blue from head to toe.
"Sweet Home Sextuplets" airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. CST on TLC.
OKLAHOMA CITY - Portland acquired reserve point guard Eric Maynor from the Oklahoma City Thunder at the NBA trade deadline on Thursday.
Maynor, a Westover High School alum, is making $2.3 million this season and becomes a restricted free agent this summer. The Blazers acquired him in exchange for the draft rights to Georgios Printezis.
Maynor, in his fourth NBA season, is averaging 2.8 points, two rebounds and 10.6 minutes in 37 games with the Thunder this season. He missed most of last season with a knee injury and then got bypassed in the rotation by second-year guard Reggie Jackson earlier this season.
The Blazers acquired the draft rights to Printezis last July in a trade that sent Raymond Felton and Kurt Thomas to the New York Knicks. Portland used the trade exception from that deal to acquire Maynor.
"Eric is a player we have valued and pursued for some time," Blazers general manager Neil Olshey said in a statement. "His skill level and character will be excellent additions to our culture on and off the floor."
As a result of the deal for Maynor, the Blazers waived backup guard Ronnie Price, who averaged 2.7 points, 1.1 rebounds, 1.9 assists and 13.1 minutes in 39 games.
Blazers starting point guard Damian Lillard said he will appreciate the experience that Maynor brings.
"He's seen it all; he will be able to teach me a lot," said Lillard, the NBA's three-time reigning rookie of the month.
Many expected the Blazers to move big man J.J. Hickson, who signed a one-year deal worth a reported $4 million prior to this season. Because he has Bird rights, Hickson had approval of any trade. He would have given up those rights if he agreed to any deal, which could impact the salary he could command in free agency.
"I'm just here controlling what I can control, playing the game of basketball. Off the court, things will take care of themselves like they always have in the past," he said as the trade deadline loomed.
Hickson, in his fifth NBA season, is averaging 12.9 points and 10.4 rebounds per game. He has 28 double-doubles, matching his career high. And he's shot 50 percent or better from the floor for the last 17 games, a franchise record.
Meanwhile, the Blazers (25-29) are mired in a six-game losing streak but are still hoping for a playoff spot. They visit the Lakers on Friday night.
Jim Henson is gone, but in the Disney spirit of immortality Jim Henson Productions lives on. Jim's son Brian directed this 1992 musical version of the Dickens story, with Michael Caine as Scrooge and Muppets as practically everybody else, e.g., Kermit the Frog (Steve Whitmire) as Bob Cratchit and Miss Piggy (Frank Oz) as Emily Cratchit. This is the dullest and least successful adaptation of the Christmas chestnut I've ever seen, possibly because the mixture of Muppets and humans creates anomalies of scale and degrees of stylized behavior that the film tries to ignore rather than work with. (Casting a well-known Muppet Gonzo as “Charles Dickens,” who serves as the storyteller, is symptomatic of the problem; all the movie can muster in this area is a vague conceit in search of a concept.) Caine in particular seems defeated by the confusion, and his Scrooge—like the other characters, for that matter—seems all premise. Coproducer Jerry Juhl wrote the script, and the songs are by Paul Williams.
The Muppet Christmas Carol and The Muppet Christmas Carol are not showing in any theaters in the area.
Illumina Inc. ILMN, +0.93% provided Wednesday a fourth-quarter revenue estimate that was above expectations, and provided a mixed outlook for 2019. The stock was still inactive in premarket trade. The genetics analysis company's Chief Executive Francis deSouza said at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference that fourth-quarter revenue rose 11% from a year ago to $865 million, which was above the FactSet consensus of $862 million, while full-year revenue rose 21% to $3.3 billion. For 2019, deSouza said revenue growth is expected to be 13% to 14%, while the current FactSet consensus of $3.81 billion is about 15% above 2018 revenue of $3.3 billion. The company expects 2019 adjusted earnings per share, which excludes non-recurring items, of $6.50 to $6.60, compared with the current FactSet consensus of $6.44. Illumina's stock has lost 9.3% over the past three months, while the SPDR Health Care Select Sector ETF XLV, +1.58% has declined 7.9% and the S&P 500 SPX, +0.88% has shed 10.6%.
J.B. Pritzker wants to use Black female voting power to win the election.
Despite his tarnished reputation on race, an Illinois Democratic candidate for governor shamelessly campaigned on Friday for the support of Black women.
With the Democratic primary less than four weeks away, J.B. Pritzker pledged his support to a group of more than 600 African-American women during a campaign stop in Chicago. Pritzker, a billionaire businessman, was exposed as a closet racist weeks earlier in an FBI secretly recorded conversation.
At the event, the candidate promised to “reverse the systemic disinvestment that has impacted too many communities and lifting up Black women entrepreneurs, the fastest growing group of small business owners in the country,” according to the Chicago Sun Times.
After witnessing the power of the Black female vote in Alabama, it’s no wonder Pritzker is hard at work trying to secure the support of Black women. He chose Rep. Juliana Stratton, who is African American, as his running mate for lieutenant governor. That would appear on the surface as a progressive, inclusive selection. But on closer inspection, it’s more of his strategic use of Black people for political gain.
Pritzker showed his true colors in the FBI wiretapped conversation with former Illinois Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who’s serving a prison sentence for attempting to cash in on filling President Barack Obama’s vacated U.S. Senate seat. In that conversation, Pritzker recommended filling the seat with the “least offensive” Black candidate.
Pritzker is still able to be in the hunt for Black voters, who represent about 30 percent of the state’s Democratic party, for one simple reason. “Everybody sees him as a money ticket with their hands out,” the lone Black candidate in the race, Tio Hardiman, told NewsOne, blasting Black preachers and officials for giving Pritzker a pass.
At the same time, his record of supporting female entrepreneurship isn’t so good either, according to the Chicago Tribune. His investment businesses have done a poor job at achieving diversity. Few women have been promoted to senior positions, and none of them are Black.
Choice Teachers are seeking highly organised, motivated and enthusiastic Cover supervisors to join our agency for day to day assignments within Bolton.
As a Cover supervisor you will supervise whole classes during the short-term absence of secondary class teachers. You will be managing student behaviour in line with the school's policies and procedures, as well as supporting students in undertaking learning activities across the curriculum.
* Comfortable in being at the front of the classroom, managing a classroom and ensuring learners stay on task.
* Able to provide support to learners.
For anyone who is interested but does not have any experience, we do offer a Cover supervisor work shop (Free of charge) just to give you tips and pointers on how to act with certain situations and what to expect. This role would benefit any candidates considering becoming a teacher in the future.
If you think you are the right person for this role don’t delay - apply now!
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Our agency has evolved to become a successful, reliable and professional agency and is firmly established as the first-choice local agency for staff and schools alike.
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“As human beings, we don’t commit violence when we are rooted and clear in who we are,” artist and Colorado State University alumna Jennifer Davey said.
In September 1999, Jennifer Davey learned a dear friend of hers had been murdered, his body dumped in a shallow grave 20-some miles from his Fort Collins home.
Seeking to make sense of the violence, the Colorado State University student set out on foot to trace the path his murderers took. That journey and the loss that launched it shaped Davey's purpose as an artist.
Leaving early one morning, she and her then-husband walked down Mulberry Street, out of town along Colorado Highway 14 and then down U.S. Highway 85 to Pierce, taking photos along the way for a closer look. There were no signs of the tragedy along the road.
They walked to about where they knew their friend, Michael Ray, had been buried. Then some friends picked them up. The ride back was so fast in comparison, she recalled.
Davey, of Fort Collins, describes herself as an abstract painter. Not all her work revolves around violence, she said, but a lot of it does.
She explores questions so many ask when tragedy strikes — how did we get here? Why did this happen? What happened in the course of someone’s life to set them on such a path?
“As human beings, we don’t commit violence when we are rooted and clear in who we are,” Davey said.
One of her recent works, on display at Colorado State University until Nov. 3, was born in the aftermath of the Parkland shooting on Feb. 14.
In another project, she created a series of maps of the United States, with layers of the preamble of the Constitution.
It was slow, intentional work that was "a way to pose the questions, to step back, slow down and look at it from a deeper perspective,” Davey said.
She doesn’t necessarily have all the answers, she said, but she recognizes the need to peel back the layers and take time to process tragedy like the one she experienced in 1999.
Ray, 29, was beaten and stabbed in his apartment on Sept. 10, 1999 — just across the street from where Davey lived.

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