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However, the Tobacco Caucus in Congress has already rejected the possibility of a 75-cent-per-pack increase. ``They are not playing politically realistic games,'' says Walker Merryman, a spokesman for the Tobacco Institute, an industry group.
Senate majority leader George Mitchell (D) of Maine has also ruled out an increase in alcohol taxes. So, other means may be needed to raise money. ``My personal concern is that the hidden agenda is to get the program on the books, get reelected for a second term and then raise taxes to pay for it,'' says Kosloff.
We already knew that you were able to watch Netflix 4K content on the PS4 Pro, and now if you have a Windows 10 PC, then you also have the option to watch in this much better image quality.
However, there is one big issue, and that is the fact that not many Windows 10 PCs will be able to support Netflix 4K. This is because of the processor specification is a bit of a strange one, and so a cause for concern.
Required Windows 10 PC processor specification for Netflix 4K – In order to view in 4K on your Windows 10 computer you will need one with a 7th-gen Intel Kaby Lake processor, and we know that not many devices have them. We know the Lenovo Yoga 910 has it and the HP Spectre, but your options are limited.
There are some concerns here though, and so causing some confusion because many systems are able to handle 4K content just fine, such as a core i3-4170 and a Radeon RX 460. However, it does not have anything to do with power, but rather the fact Kaby Lake supports HDCP 2.2 DRM, which is needed to play 4K protected cont...
Originally Published: November 17, 2018 6:05 p.m.
Beginning at noon on Monday, Nov. 19, a few brave souls will take to the skies for the annual Flying High Turkey Drive to benefit the Yavapai Food Bank.
Individuals at Fry’s Food and Drug locations in Prescott Valley, Prescott, Cottonwood and Flagstaff will be “flying high” with a goal of collecting 2,500 turkeys to benefit local food banks and help the less fortunate have a traditional Thanksgiving dinner.
Participating stores locally include the two Prescott Fry’s at 3198 Willow Creek Road and Sandretto, and 950 Fair Street Fry’s; and the Fry’s at 3100 N. Glassford Hill Road in Prescott Valley.
From 12 to 6 p.m., Marnie Uhl, CEO of the Prescott Valley Chamber of Commerce, will be perched in a Central Arizona Fire and Medical Authority (CAFMA) ladder truck at the Fry’s store on Glassford Hill Road where she will encourage everyone via live radio remotes with KKLD 95.9FM, KVRD 105.7FM, and KQST-FM Q 102 and in ...
For each five turkeys donated, the ladder will rise a foot in the air. By 6 p.m. Uhl hopes to be flying high over the store at 100 feet.
Members of the National Wildlife Turkey Federation Yavapai Yelpers; CAFMA; Prescott Valley Police Department; Pepsi; the Prescott Valley Chamber ambassadors, board and staff; Buckets and the NAZ Suns; the Bradshaw Mountain High School football team; and the official Chamber Turkey, Matt Zurcher.
Volunteers at each location will gratefully accept monetary donations to purchase additional turkeys and all the trimmings.
For more information, call the PV Chamber of Commerce at 928-772-8857. The Prescott Valley Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with Fry’s, Yavapai Broadcasting and the Yavapai Food Bank, sponsors the event.
Prince Edward Ford, 2, sits inside an excavator Tuesday as the city of Houston began demolishing 63 vacant units to make way for an $800,000 community park at the Kelly Village Apartments in the Fifth Ward.
Lacrecha St. Jules spent plenty of sleepless nights worrying about her four children as drug dealers and thugs made themselves at home in vacant buildings at the Kelly Village Apartments in Houston's Fifth Ward.
"It was dark, and there were rapes back there," Jules, 37, said of the empty units at Buck and Bayou streets, a stone's throw away from Interstate 10 East. "It was a bunch of negatives, and I just wanted to turn it into a positive."
Jules, president of the Kelly Village Residents Council, wrote a letter to the Houston Housing Authority requesting more lighting. "And we wanted to plant something good to look at," she said.
On Tuesday, city officials took the first step to create a community park on the property by demolishing 63 vacant units that were unused after being damaged by Hurricane Ike.
Construction of the $800,000 park is expected to begin this fall. When completed, the 3-acre park will include new playground equipment, a jogging and walking trail, exercise stations and a community garden area.
Meanwhile, housing officials are in the process of acquiring land on Lyons Avenue to build 63 replacement apartment units for the ones being demolished to make way for the park.
"There's growth all over the city, and wonderful things are happening, and we want to make sure that there are housing options that are available to low- and moderate-income residents," Mayor Annise Parker said. "And certainly our Housing Authority has the responsibility of making sure that our most vulnerable and our ...
The authority recently renovated the community center, lobby area and grounds at the 333-unit apartment complex.
"We want our residents to be proud to call Kelly Village their home," Tory Gunsolley, authority president and chief executive officer, stated in the release. "With the addition of the park, residents and the wider community will have a nice place to exercise and relax."
OnBeep raised $445,000 last year, but that’s a tiny bit of capital for a hardware startup that’s looking to “directly change the lives of everyone on the planet,” to use the words of Jesse Robbins, an OnBeep cofounder and the chief executive.
As Robbins spoke on the phone with VentureBeat today, he stopped short of describing the wearable’s size, function, price, and other details, although a look on the team’s experience could show what’s possible.
Robbins spent five years at Amazon.com, where he was known as the “master of disaster,” ensuring that all sites bearing the company’s name was highly available. He cofounded Opscode, which became Chef and is now a leading “devops” tool for automating IT infrastructure.
Another cofounder, Roger Wood, led up product design and marketing for the mobile communications company Nextel, which Sprint bought. Cofounder Greg Albrecht was a senior software engineer at hardware- and application-monitoring company Splunk, which went public in 2012. Hardware engineer Neil Girling worked at Ekso Bi...
Such a diverse background indicates that the company has the talent to build hardware, big mobile networks, and scale applications across many servers in a reliable way. The company is looking for iOS and Android developers, so those OSes should work with the wearable.
Given all of that, the company is probably going to go way beyond just a push-to-talk system like the Nextel phones people commonly used in the 1990s. And because the company is pursuing a wearable device separate from the smartphone, it should extend beyond a smartphone’s usual capabilities.
Ask him to talk about OnBeep’s wearable in relation to other wearables that people have seen in real life, such as a FitBit or a Google Glass, and he politely declines. “I think that it’s too soon to do any sorts of comparisons like that,” Robbins said.
That means it’s hard to tell what exactly the company is working on, and how good of a chance OnBeep has of making a big hit in the wearable market. But at least we know the team has the chops to build something impressive.
Microsoft, Intel, and other companies will lay out their hardware road maps for mobile computing, home networking, and more at next week's WinHEC show in Los Angeles.
Microsoft, Intel, and other companies will lay out their hardware road maps for mobile computing, home networking, and digital imaging at next week's WinHEC show in Los Angeles.
The conference, which starts Tuesday, has in the past been used by Intel and Microsoft to lay out platform strategies, such as the PCXX standard--which generally outlines the standard features for next year's computers--as well as other long-term recommendations.
Last year, for example, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates stressed the importance of developing high-speed Internet access options and announced that Windows 98 was to be the last DOS-based operating system, and that all future consumer releases would be based on the NT kernel. This year, no such formal predictions are exp...
In their place, industry groups such as the Mobile Advisory Council are announcing proposals for long-term notebook design recommendations. MAC, which is made up of notebook and peripheral makers like 3Com, Compaq Computer, Dell Computer, Texas Instruments, and others, will announce several administrative milestones, s...
"We're not a standards body per se, but we want to help facilitate standards," she said. "We create a set of recommendations that we give to other standards bodies that govern the industry."
The group's top priorities are hammering down docking station recommendations and completing a white paper on removing older port technology, Krull said. MAC is also working on recommendations to software and hardware vendors on improving battery life.
"Battery life is something that everyone complains about," she said. The group is working closely with Intel and Microsoft to develop recommendations for software applications that use notebook chips more efficiently, prolonging battery life.
MAC and Microsoft are teaming up to hammer out these issues, Krull said. "Microsoft is pleased with the progress of the Mobile Advisory Council in advancing the mobile computing platform," said Carl Stork, general manager of hardware strategy for Microsoft, in a statement. "We look forward to collaborating with council...
Microsoft is also expected to make announcements regarding home networking, including news about its Universal Plug-N-Play technology, sources say. Similar to Sun Microsystems' Jini, Universal Plug-and-Play is designed to network individual devices.
"Home networking fits into the larger theme of advancing the platform," said a Microsoft spokesperson. The company will be pushing its "spontaneous networking" concept, which "encompasses more than just home networking."
Microsoft will be joined by partners like 3Com and Diamond Multimedia, who are expected to support the new initiative which will be accompanied by a new Web site, UPNP.org, sources say.
Many analysts are skeptical about the home network hype.
"Home networking is a technology in search of a market," said Rob Enderle, an analyst with Giga Information Group. "We're talking about people who can't get the 12:00 to stop flashing on their VCRs and we expect them to drop this technology into their houses?"
Additionally, Advanced Micro Devices will also be supporting the Universal Plug-and-Play initiative, demonstrating some of its home phone line networking products. AMD's director of the computation products group Fred Webber will also detail advances in the K-7 chip platform.
3Com will be demonstrating its new co-branded home networking equipment, developed with Microsoft, which includes new phone line and wireless technology.
Security issues are also expected to take center stage at WinHEC: Microsoft president Steve Ballmer will also discuss PC security as it relates to software piracy, a Microsoft pet cause. Ballmer will speak about digital copyright management and entertainment content protection during his keynote speech on Tuesday.
Additionally, Intel vice president Pat Gelsinger will expound on the company's platform road maps during his keynote speech. Gelsinger is also expected to talk about new high-speed connections subsystems, improving server performance, and the importance of PC security.
Finally, Microsoft and its partners are also expected to hype advances in digital imaging-Microsoft's Stork will devote time during his keynote to discussing growing demand for digital imaging technology in the consumer market.
Family and friends are paying final respects to an Army medic from Norwood who died in Afghanistan.
A graveside service for Spc. Keith Benson is scheduled for Friday at the Massachusetts National Veterans Cemetery in Bourne.
Military officials say the 27-year-old Benson died Jan. 18 in Paktika province in southeastern Afghanistan close to the Pakistan border.
The Pentagon did not announce a cause, but said the death is under investigation.
He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, 172nd Infantry Brigade, based in Germany.
He is survived by his parents and a brother.
Ahmed Mohamed, known worldwide as “Clock Boy,” still plans to meet President Barack Obama in Washington, D.C. But before he does so, he may go on a detour to Saudi Arabia.
Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, Ahmed’s father, says that the family is flying to New York to meet with United Nations dignitaries Wednesday. Then, they hope to travel to Saudi Arabia for the Islamic hajj, if the family can get a visa, and finally to return to the U.S. to meet with the president.
All Muslims financially and physically capable of doing so are expected to undertake the hajj at least once in their life.
According to the Dallas Morning News, both of Ahmed’s siblings have been pulled out of the Irving Independent School District, with plans to place the entire family into a new school when they return home. Ahmed had already been withdrawn from his school, MacArthur High School.
“These kids aren’t going to be happy there,” Mohamed told the press.
It’s not clear which international dignitaries are so eager to meet Ahmed, or what countries they represent. It’s also not clear where the Mohameds plan to have their children attend school once the lengthy vacation is over.
Last week, many expressed outrage after Ahmed was arrested at school for bringing a disassembled clock to school that police thought may have been a “hoax bomb.” Obama praised his “cool clock” and invited him to the White House, he received a lavish set of gifts from Microsoft, and he was brought to California by Googl...
Despite the tremendous outpouring of public support for Ahmed from the tech community and many politicians, his father claims the period has been extremely stressful. According to Daily Mail, Mohamed says his son hasn’t been sleeping or eating right.
“It’s torn the family and makes us very confused,” he said.
Excuse me, sir? Can I have a minute of your time? Ma’am? You can trust me; I’m holding a clipboard. Please? It’ll take just a second—well, sixty of them. If you could sign this petition to finally put an end to all on-street petitions, I’d greatly appreciate it. Ugh, lost another one.
How about you? Do you have a minute to talk about being stopped on the sidewalk? Great. Thank you. Have you ever had a total stranger come up to you and ask you to sign a petition or hear a little more about his cause? Perhaps you thought that he genuinely wanted to have a conversation only to find out that you wouldn’...
Yankees cap! Over here. Can I—all right. Good luck this spring.
Mets cap! How are you? Oh. Sorry I asked. With all due respect to your troubles, I’d like to talk about my cause. O.K. Good luck.
Hello there, pants! Anyone who’s wearing them. My friend! Can I have a minute of your time to talk about people who rudely interrupt the days of others to try and change the world? Fantastic! They must be stopped. Don’t get me wrong, I love human rights and hate not knowing where my drinking water comes from, but I sim...
I mean, come on. If I didn’t care about starving children, please explain the knowing nod I always give those clipboard-wielding volunteers as I walk past them. It might look like I’m putting my head down to hide my shame, but it’s a nod! What? It’s the best I can do. I certainly can’t stop and give them my signature. ...
Sorry! I got so worked up I didn’t see you sprinting away. Please sign the petition—I’m begging you. If not for me, sign it for yourself, or for your grandchildren. Imagine a world where they can walk around freely without being reminded that they’ve given nothing back after having taken so, so much. Wow—are you crying...
Excuse me. Yes, you, the gentleman who gave me a dirty look. Keep on fighting the good fight.
Eli Lilly and Co reported lower-than-expected quarterly revenue on Thursday, hurt by disappointing sales of its cancer and diabetes drugs, and its shares fell more than 3 percent.
Indianapolis-based Lilly, which is trying to regain its footing after three years of patent expirations on its biggest prescription drugs, on Tuesday agreed to buy Novartis' animal health unit for $5.4 billion to bolster its own fast-growing Elanco business for farm animals and pets.
Elanco sales rose 6 percent to $527 million in the first quarter, Lilly said on Thursday. That was slightly below Wall Street expectations.
The company's net earnings fell to $728 million, or 68 cents per share, from $1.55 billion, or $1.42 per share, a year earlier due to generic competition for its Cymbalta depression drug.
Excluding special items, Lilly earned 70 cents per share, matching the analysts' average estimate compiled by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Revenue fell 16 percent to $4.68 billion. Wall Street was expecting $4.8 billion.
"Overall, (it) was not a great quarter," ISI Group analyst Mark Schoenebaum said in a research note. But he said investors were far more focused on promising new and experimental drugs that could revive Lilly's fortunes.
BMO Nesbitt Burns analyst Alex Arfaei said lower research spending and a tax benefit had enabled Lilly to meet its first-quarter profit forecast despite disappointing revenue.
"We believe the quarter reflects weakening core franchises," Arfaei said, adding that lower sales of drugs for diabetes, cancer, osteoporosis and other conditions increase the importance of Lilly's experimental drugs.
Lilly's sales and earnings have been badly hurt since late 2011, when its Zyprexa schizophrenia drug lost U.S. patent protection and was slammed by cheaper generics. Cymbalta, which had $5 billion in annual sales at its peak, began facing generics in December. And the company's Evista osteoporosis drug lost U...
First-quarter sales of Cymbalta fell 64 percent to $478 million, while Evista's dropped 38 percent to $150 million.
Lilly is counting on new drug approvals to put its sales and earnings back on track. Among those approvals may be two new diabetes treatments later this year.
U.S. regulators on Monday approved the company's new Cyramza (ramucirumab) treatment for gastric cancer. Analysts expect the product to become a blockbuster brand, especially if it proves effective later against lung cancer.
Lilly is testing other cancer drugs, as well as treatments for Alzheimer's disease, arthritis and psoriasis.
Global sales of lung cancer drug Alimta rose 2 percent to $632 million. Sales of Humalog, a leading insulin brand, rose 3 percent to $650 million, while those of Humulin, another type of insulin, rose 1 percent to $316 million. But combined sales of the three products were about $50 million below expectations.
For all of 2014, Lilly said it still expected earnings of $2.72 to $2.80 per share, excluding items. It forecast full-year revenue of $19.4 billion to $20 billion, slightly above its prior outlook.
Shares of Lilly were down 3.3 percent at $57.59 on the New York Stock Exchange.
Patrick Bryce turned away from the window at the Astros box office, held up his three tickets for section 305 - high up in far left field - and shrugged.
“I hope they don’t price most of the city out,” he said.
Bryce said he and his family used to sit in section 205, still in the outfield but in the club level, much lower and closer to the action, for $30 a seat. This year, those seats cost more than twice as much, and under the Astros’ relatively new pricing model, the tickets Bryce bought on a Thursday were liable to cost m...
Instead of setting prices at the beginning of the season and leaving them in place, the Astros in 2013 joined a majority of Major League Baseball teams that adjust prices day-to-day based on demand, weather, pitching matchups, team performance and scores of other variables.
In 2018, fans such as Bryce are noticing it more because the World Series win sent demand and prices up.
His wages, he noted, did not go up. Last year, the welding inspector from La Porte and his family attended 15 games before June. This year, it’s just one.
When the Astros adopted dynamic pricing, they were in their third-straight season of more than 100 losses, and they would finish in last place in their first year in the American League West Division. The season average ticket price at Minute Maid Park was just $66 on the secondary market, according to TicketIQ. Dynami...
The average ticket price for the 2018 season is now $87. Only six teams are more expensive. If the Astros stay on their first place trajectory or head into a pennant race in the fall, that average could rise. Then again, if they lose big names like Justin Verlander and Jose Altuve to injuries, it could fall.

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