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Vettel, who led Hamilton by one point going into the 10th of 21 races, now leads by eight. |
Published: July 8, 2018, 7:51 p.m. Updated: July 8, 2018, 7:51 p.m. |
MAKERS of electronic goods hope to turn the recession into a selling point. They are trying to convince consumers that discretionary income might best be spent on gadgets and gizmos that will increase their productivity or enhance at-home entertainment as a cheaper alternative to going out. That was a major theme at th... |
Some much-discussed items included digital compact cassettes (DCC), desktop multimedia videomakers (so-called ``video toasters''), instant video ``fax,'' and educational adaptations for video games (see box). |
Besides thousands of evolutionary refinements and operating simplifications in televisions, microwave appliances, calculators, and computers - to answer complaints that such items need to become more user-friendly - there were four areas of major growth: home theater, home office, cellular products, and mobile electron... |
In a keynote address, Richard Kraft, president of Matsushita Electric Corporation of America, told attendees not to despair over the present economic downturn that has left sales flat in many sectors. |
He reminded them that the industry burst out of the 1981-82 recession to register an average annual growth of 12 percent in the decade, while the national economy grew at an average rate of 7 percent. |
Frank Myers, chairman of the Electronics Industry Association (EIA), projected total 1990 sales at $280 billion, a 4.2 percent improvement over 1989 and an all-time record. The association predicts only a 3.2 percent growth for the coming year, far below the huge gains of the late 1970s, and down from headier predictio... |
The fastest growing product sector in 1990 was also the industry's smallest, home security, which registered a 15 percent rise to $1.2 billion. |
Home office equipment is expected to lead growth in the coming year but the rate of increase is slipping sharply. After increasing sales by 18.3 percent to just under $7.1 billion in 1989, the growth rate fell in 1990 to 9.2 percent, with sales of $7.75 billion. |
Among the products and technologies that will be driving the industry through the 1990s, Kraft and Mr. Myers listed high-definition TV, multimedia systems (mixing TV and computer technology), automotive electronics, computers, facsimile machines, word processors, and digitalization of products like video cameras and vi... |
Batman has the best rogue's galleries in comic book history, which makes creating new villains a challenge for writers. How can you create a new adversary for Batman when you already have a whole crop that challenge and reflect the character perfectly? |
second issue marked a bold beginning with the introduction of the Talon. With a bold design by Greg Capullo that blended the motif of an executioner's hood with the animalistic trappings of an owl, a mysterious origin and great exit, The Talon was the first clue that Snyder would spend his run putting Batman up against... |
NFL commish Roger Goodell may not have much to smile about these days, but his league remains popular on TV. |
Despite a massive domestic violence and credibility scandal, despite mounting concern over the dangerous effects of a violent game, despite calls for its commissioner's resignation, Americans still love to watch themselves some NFL football. |
Since the NFL season kicked off on Sept. 4, its games account for 28 of the 30 most-watched TV shows this autumn, according to stats released by the league on Thursday. The only outliers? Game 7 of the World Series and an episode of NCIS. |
Here are the 30 most-viewed TV programs since Sept. 4, according to what the NFL released on Thursday. |
Of course, that chart reminds us of the classic moment on Monday Night Football in September, when ESPN's Chris Berman tried to have some Very Serious Real Talk mid-broadcast, only to be distracted by — shall we say — more important matters. |
So, for the short term, the NFL remains popular. Where it ranks among American sports fans a couple decades from now, however, bears watching. |
At the Zagreb Burger Festival this year, it is possible to try out more than 70 different burgers produced by even 18 burger masters from Zagreb, Pula and Split. The festival ends on Sunday, 23.9. so you still have enough time to go to Strossmayer Square and we recommend that you do not go for it yourself because you p... |
From experience, it is best that you have four: each burger can split into equal parts, try them more, and stand in the ranks is more comfortable in the company (or scatter in front of multiple chambers). You can use this year too FestApp a mobile application for the order, but sometimes the network is so burdened that... |
BBQ Special - Hot & Spicy, best rated burger food blogger crew jury, although seasoned with a BBQ sauce of even 26, most of the humorous ingredients, liked the majority female part of a terrible court. Team iz The Burger Bar for himself loves to say they work unpretentious, value for money burgers that are preparing in... |
"In our opinion, today's burgers are a marginal case. If we look at most places where burgers / hamburgers can be eaten as a form in Croatia, then that is definitely still street food. But some of us slowly try to turn Burger into something like fine dining, though it is still a meal that is fast and almost consumed ev... |
"Burger today can be all - food for the poor, street food, fine dining, or something quite special and different. This is what I do with Butter burger which I prepare exclusively in front of the guest with special segments of meat that enjoys the small bites in the following I like to call boutique burger. " |
For this year's Festival Zidar has prepared it as a novelty Smokey Dolac, which is on the same minimalistic line: precisely, the finely ground junetina in the smoke is soaked by itself, and with the pancetta mayonnaise it simply breaks into the mouth. The smoked cheese cake from Dolac (the mason likes to buy groceries ... |
"Our restaurants, both on the food and on the interior, staff and communication, would rank in casual dining, a kind of restaurant that serves modern food in a relaxed atmosphere. " |
50 A Burger & Champagne Bar proudly points out her chicken and vege variants with a crunchy knife, and at the Festival and in the appraisal they presented themselves - Lamburgerom. The combination of lamb and hazelnuts is very daring in the areas where beans (without kajmak) are still the main choice of street food but... |
"There are two main burgers that determine whether it is street food or delicious food, and it depends on how to prepare and care to prepare. The most commonly encountered is a thinly sliced apple sauce on a ribbon board that we connect with a quick snack while walking the city, unlike a much smaller, thicker gourmet... |
"As we work with the Craft House and we work at the festivals, we realize that both options have their own audience and that a large number of people are increasingly deciding on high street burger offer. Fine dining is there all year long because you can come to the hamburger whenever you want, and the festivals are s... |
Under the Wall, a vibrant bistro & wine bar that has been eating well for a long time, but drinks as well as having a respectable wine map with the best labels from Croatia and the region, the Festival decided to present with a chef Mate Janković he created a 4 burger mascot with Istrian, Dalmatian and continental (rea... |
"Burgers, especially at a festival of this type, can be characterized as a kind of upscale street food offer, and the best indicator of how many people have touched the taste of visitors can be seen in the evening. It is impossible to satisfy everybody, but what is good is that everyone can find something for themselve... |
"Burger - always the primary street food, yet it's timeless junk. Gastro (R) evolution permits passionate artists to present such food and fine dining maps - of course with the " - Nikola was counted and caught a couple of minutes of free time while he was in the Strossmayer Square in Zagreb. |
And just like the brilliant Mate Jankovic said, every year every year more and more burgers are (this year the biggest positive shift occurred with biscuits) all the better and more interesting. In addition to the above, in the end, here's a brief introduction to what's waiting for you at this year's Zagreb Burger Fest... |
The bull flirty with Latin flavors - we love their guacamole, RougeMarin, besides having burgers in double and a triple variant every day a strange surprise burger (Alija Sirotanović, the burek-burger caused all sorts of reactions on the first day, but marketing was a hit) BarBaQ and their BarbaQ Burger Buddy Smoker is... |
maredo has remained faithful to traditional flavors, Good Food one burger can feed a four-member family, Kascha is proud of a burger with smoked bass mozzarella, Burger Factory, Kitchen & Grill Plac i Spiro attract red, green and black biscuits, and masters from the sea from Split Toto's Burger Bara They are proud of d... |
Populations without valid passports (refugees, stateless, undocumented) are traditionally considered among the most powerless and precarious of actors, particularly regarding their potential to influence state behavior. Yet precarious populations are active in efforts to reform the countries from which they come, engag... |
Susan Banki’s research interests lie in the political, institutional, and legal contexts that explain the roots of and solutions to international human rights violations. In particular, she is interested in the ways that questions of sovereignty, citizenship/membership and humanitarian principles have shaped our unders... |
This talk will draw on my research on the Palestine solidarity movement in the Bay Area and, in particular, political activism among Palestinian, Arab and Muslim American youth in Silicon Valley. A central element of Palestinian rights advocacy is the right of return of Palestinian refugees, symbolized by the “key” to ... |
Sunaina Maira is Professor of Asian American Studies and Co-Director of the Mellon Research Initiative in Comparative Border Studies at UC Davis. She is the author of several books including Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire After 9/11and recently, The 9/11 Generation: Youth, Rights, and Solidarity in the War on ... |
Border crossings can be as fluid as a holiday sea cruise or as perilous as a patera journey in the night. Border crossings can occur while sipping a cocktail with the seatback reclined or sitting upright while handcuffed in a seat. This presentation asserts that the quality of the experience – whether welcoming or unwe... |
Elisa Joy White is an Associate Professor of African American and African Studies at University of California at Davis. She holds a PhD in African Diaspora Studies from the University of California at Berkeley. Her interdisciplinary research primarily considers the African Diaspora in Europe, particularly focusing on t... |
Considering my interviews with people living along the Mexico-US boundary, I argue that the quotidian experiences of people who cross the border on a regular basis allow us a unique view the workings of an increasingly militarized and privatized Border Industrial Complex. Specifically, the narratives of border subjects... |
Cristina Jo Pérez is a Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor in Comparative Border Studies at the University of California, Davis. Cristina’s current book project, Bodies on the Line: Violence in the Time of the Border Industrial Complex explores the constructions of identity, space, and time within an increasingly priva... |
Airport officials say there’s a good chance Terminal F will not be shaped like the other terminals, which feature a half-circle or half-moon design (although in Terminal D’s case it’s more of a squared off moon). |
That’s just an example of how the next airport terminal might be built with the out-of-town traveler in mind who is just here to change planes, and not necessarily the local flyer. |
“Sixty percent of our customers at this airport are here to connect, and the half-moon is not a terrific design for connecting customers,” said Sean Donohue, DFW Airport chief executive officer. |
Instead, Terminal F could be built with design standards that allow more airplanes to park in a smaller space. For example, at the brand new airport in Istanbul, Turkey, the terminals stick out like fingers, making it possible for planes to park on both sides of each terminal pier. |
That’s a contrast to the layout at DFW, where planes can only park on one side of each terminal. |
Also, although the talks about construction of DFW’s Terminal F are still preliminary, it’s possible the new terminal could be built without a parking garage, officials said. |
“If we can add gates without a lot of the things you typically need for a terminal, that might be really helpful,” said Tim Skipworth, American Airlines vice president of airport affairs and facilities. |
No financial estimates are available, but Donohue said it’s possible the new Terminal F could be the largest part of an airport capital improvement project that could cost roughly $3 billion to $4 billion through 2025. Some short-term improvements to Terminal C — the airport’s busiest terminal and also the only one tha... |
Those funds likely would come from airport revenue bonds issued by the airport’s owner cities, Dallas and Fort Worth. The money would be repaid from fees paid by airlines who use DFW — mainly American, which considers DFW its main global hub and operates about 80 to 85 percent of all flights there. |
The idea of building a new passenger terminal without a parking garage might be strange to some travelers. However, nearly one of every four vehicles on airport property is operated by an Uber or Lyft driver, airport officials said. That’s a striking figure, considering that ride-sharing services weren’t even legal at ... |
In the not-too-distant future, it may be that DFW and other airports need far fewer parking spots, officials said. |
Donohue said the new Terminal F also could include some international gates. But, he said, rather than building a new U.S. Customs area to process travelers arriving from other countries, there may be a way to connect the Terminal F international gates to the Customs processing center that’s already in Terminal D. |
American Airlines also wants to make its baggage handling system more efficient, Skipworth said. |
Today, it’s not uncommon for airline workers to deliver bags by hand from one terminal to another, to accommodate travelers who step off a flight at one end of the airport and connect to another flight on the other end. |
Skipworth also cautioned that it’s premature to say the airline is close to a deal with the airport to launch another multibillion-dollar capital improvement plan, which would be DFW’s third major construction initiative in the past 20 years. |
Any deal must be approved by the airport board as well as the American Airlines board of directors. |
DFW and American Airlines also are poised to negotiate another 10-year use agreement to spell out the landlord-tenant relationship between the two entities. The current use agreement expires in 2020. |
Negotiations for Terminal F could take place simultaneously with the talks for a new Airport Use Agreement. |
In all, Donohue estimates the new Terminal F would need 30 to 35 gates. American Airlines plans to add 100 flights per day over the next two years, and most of that new traffic will be at DFW, he said. |
Pentagon has been waging secret cyberwar against North Korea missiles for years. |
This undated picture released from North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on June 23, 2016 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspecting a test of the surface-to-surface medium long-range strategic ballistic missile Hwasong-10 at an undisclosed location in North Korea. |
Former president Barack Obama was frustrated by the country’s traditional antimissile systems so three years ago he sent an order to the Pentagon: ramp up the cyber warfare campaign against North Korea’s nuclear and missile program. The goal? Sabotage any test launches within seconds, reports the New York Times. And su... |
The New York Times talked to officials and reviewed documents to come to the conclusion that the United States can’t effectively push back against North Korea’s nuclear and missile program. Little wonder then that Obama told incoming President Trump that North Korea would likely be his most urgent program. |
He could order the escalation of the Pentagon’s cyber and electronic warfare effort, but that carries no guarantees. He could open negotiations with the North to freeze its nuclear and missile programs, but that would leave a looming threat in place. He could prepare for direct missile strikes on the launch sites, whic... |
Earlier in the week, the Wall Street Journal reported that an internal White House review on North Korea included “the possibility of military force or regime change to blunt the country’s nuclear-weapons threat.” He has also been calling on Beijing to step up. “You gotta work on North Korea,” Trump allegedly told a Ch... |
During the transition we had already gotten hints that the Obama administration had warned their successors about North Korea. In November, the Wall Street Journal reported that the outgoing administration had warned Trump’s transition team that it considered North Korea to be a top priority in terms of national securi... |
The Times story was published shortly after a U.N. report noted that North Korea continues to evade U.N. sanctions in Africa with few, if any, repercussions. |
In retrospect, the only public hint of the assault to come -- the only moment when President Clinton's intense, parallel preparations for his political survival and for a strike against terrorists might have crossed -- came on Monday night. |
That was it. The President did not mention his meeting that afternoon in the White House solarium to discuss Thursday's counter-terrorist missile strikes, even as prosecutors were arriving downstairs to grill him under oath about Ms. Lewinsky. |
He did not mention that before he went to face the prosecutors, he ordered Samuel R. Berger, his national security adviser, to convene the Government's top security officials on Tuesday for one more run-through of the mission. That meeting came just before the President left on what the world and even most of his aides... |
In fact, at his borrowed estate on Martha's Vineyard. Mr. Clinton's telephone conversations to outside political advisers to discuss the dismal reaction to his speech about his relationship with Ms. Lewinsky were interspersed with calls to his security aides about the mission. |
On Wednesday night, the President and his family went out to celebrate his 52d birthday. He returned at 11:30 P.M. to more telephone calls to advisers including Vice President Al Gore, to chew over a last troubling question about the targets. |
He made up his mind, then gave his final go-ahead in a talk with Mr. Berger at 3 A.M. Thursday. |
Never has Mr. Clinton's ability to compartmentalize his life been more starkly demonstrated than in the last two weeks. As the one man in the world who held all the information, he walled off meetings with his lawyers to prepare for his testimony from meetings with his security advisers to plan one of the largest milit... |
Indeed, the last two weeks -- from the embassy bombings in East Africa until the President's Oval Office address on Thursday -- look in retrospect like a trick mirror version, compressed and exaggerated, of the split Presidency of the last five years: fierce damage control and political strategizing on the one hand, st... |
Anticipating accusations of political manipulation, the national security team took pains to avoid any appearance of political meddling. Mr. Berger, who headed meetings to plan the mission, kept the operation a secret until the middle of this week from all but two of the President's top political advisers, Erskine B. B... |
White House advisers scoffed at suggestions that politics played a role in the assault. Several said the recommendation for the attack was based on very strong intelligence and was unanimous. They said Pentagon and intelligence officials with no record of partisanship joined strongly in the recommendation. |
Talk of a possible mission began on Friday, Aug. 7, after powerful bombs exploded outside American embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Twelve Americans and nearly 300 Africans were killed. The senior officials who would ultimately plan the strike held their first meeting. Sketchy intelligence repo... |
On Monday morning, Mr. Clinton departed on a political fund-raising trip to California, with White House officials insisting that he was going about business as usual. But the President cut short his trip to fly back to the White House on Tuesday night, arriving after dawn. Some commentators surmised that Mr. Clinton w... |
The meeting lasted an hour in the Situation Room in the White House basement, a briefing on the investigation into the bombings. Then top White House, Pentagon, State Department and Central Intelligence Agency officials moved up to the Oval Office with the President for a 45-minute talk about retaliation. |
Further intelligence had confirmed links between Mr. bin Laden and the bombings, officials said, and suggested that high-level terrorists would gatheron Aug. 20 at a compound in Afghanistan. |
Gen. Henry H. Shelton, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had already prepared a set of flip charts for a proposed missile assault. |
The President started firing off questions. His security advisers described him as clear-headed and focused at every meeting. He never referred to his political or legal troubles, they said. |
On Wednesday, according to a senior official who was present, Mr. Clinton wanted to know more about damage to civilians, possible terrorist retaliation and the expected response of other nations. |
Mr. Clinton focused on one of the targets, a factory in the Sudanese city of Khartoum that intelligence showed was used to manufacture the building blocks of deadly VX gas -- elements in themselves not dangerous. But what if, the President asked, the factory also stored a great deal of the completed gas itself? |
The next day, Thursday, Mr. Clinton wept silently at Andrews Air Force Base as 10 coffins arrived from Nairobi. Meanwhile, some of his closest advisers told reporters from The New York Times that, contrary to his previous denials, he was considering admitting that he had had an intimate relationship with Ms. Lewinsky. |
On Friday, at a meeting in the Oval Office, Mr. Clinton got the answers he had requested. General Shelton described a ''plume analysis,'' which showed that because of the location of the factory, the casualties would not be high. Mr. Clinton gave the green light for the mission, and General Shelton informed him that he... |
As David E. Kendall, the President's private lawyer, practically moved into the White House, Mr. Clinton delivered his Saturday morning radio address, about receiving the bodies at Andrews. ''Our Administration will remain committed to the fight against terror,'' he said, with no elaboration. |
On Monday morning, he worked out in the White House gymnasium, then spent two hours with his lawyers. He followed that with the briefing in the solarium from Mr. Berger, who covered not just the pending operation but also the tumble of the Russian ruble and other matters. |
Then the President walked downstairs to the Map Room and shook hands politely with the prosecutors whom his advisers say he had come to loathe. At 10 P.M. he addressed the nation for four minutes, again from the Map Room. Instant reviews panned the speech: too much anger, too little sorrow. |
As chatter filled the air waves the next morning, he met again with his national security team. |
His team had by then given considerable thought to how to announce the attack. They recommended that Mr. Clinton go on his vacation , then briefly announce the mission on Thursday afternoon before returning to Washington for an Oval Office address. |
On Tuesday, the Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, was given a detailed briefing on the intelligence on Mr. bin Laden, followed on Wednesday by a description of the planned attack. |
Minutes before the President appeared in a Martha's Vineyard school gymnasium, the White House warned television networks of a major announcement on national security. At least one correspondent telephoned a White House official to ask if Mr. Clinton was about to resign. |
On the flight back to Washington, he reworked his Oval Office speech. |
This year's Teva Mountain Games will feature the first World Cup climbing event on U.S. soil in 20 years. |
May 29, 2008 — The water is running, the climbers are arriving, and even the local dogs seem to have an extra glint in their eye as Vail gears up for the Teva Mountain Games, coming to town June 5-8. |
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