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And that wasn’t all. Later at the same event, another picture seemed to catch Bill Clinton checking out Michelle Obama. |
While the picture of Bill Clinton (apparently) checking out Ariana Grande may have gotten viral attention, not everyone on the interent saw it the same way. Others believed that it just looked like the former president was enjoying the performance and the tribute to the Queen of Soul and that there wasn’t anything unto... |
The Jacksonville Icemen play the Norfolk Admirals in ECHL hockey Saturday. |
Who: Jacksonville Icemen vs. Norfolk Admirals. |
The skinny: The Icemen complete a short two-game set against the Admirals, an important series to put distance between themselves and the fifth-place team in the ECHL's South Division. ... With Florida well out in front and both Atlanta and Greenville seemingly out of the running for now, the Icemen and Admirals are am... |
Fans paid tribute to the undisputed “Queen of Soul” with a series of graffitied signs and messages in Tribeca’s Franklin Street subway station. |
In a nod to the Detroit-raised diva’s hottest hits, “R-E-S-P-E-C-T” and “I KNEW YOU WERE WAITING” were also slapped along station walls under Franklin St. tiles late Wednesday night. By Thursday, they had been removed. |
Straphangers were tickled to see the singer celebrated in an only-in-New-York way. |
“I think it’s fantastic. It’s the type of urban tribute you only get in a place like New York City,” said David Schaffer on Thursday. |
The 56-year-old attorney said he got off the train to see if any tributes were left after seeing them on the news. |
“It’s very sad. I saw her duet with Tony Bennett for his 85th birthday celebration at the Met Opera house,” he added. |
Others were mindful that the graffiti was technically vandalism. |
Hudson Leroy said he grew up on Franklin’s tunes and said her music was far-reaching. |
“Her music was across all platforms. It reached many people. It wasn’t black, white, mixed, other — it was just the music. For all people,” the 58-year-old said. |
He added, “I understand both sides of removing the writing — it’s a tribute but writing on stuff … everybody has a job to do.”. |
Construction worker John Johnson, 40, said he noticed the “ARETHA” scribbles on the downtown platform early Thursday morning. They’d been taken down by the afternoon, but the ones along the uptown side remained. |
The underground honors — which were put in place ahead of Franklin’s death on Thursday morning — are similar to tributes that inundated the Prince St. station after Prince died. |
Fans plastered purple stickers of the eclectic icon’s face and signature symbol and “RIP” over a Prince St. mosaic. Others left behind notes on purple Post-its. |
MTA officials said they had no immediate plans to take down the memorials to Franklin. |
Madden was gracious to the guests sitting on either side of him and was not distracted by their questions about football. "But if I'm talking to the guy from Safeway, I'm not asking him how many Prilosec pills he sold," he said. |
An informed guest, his friend and NFL Network analyst Matt Millen, sat beside him for a while. During the San Diego-Dallas game, they spoke in tandem, with the Cowboys trailing, 20-10, with 26 seconds left. |
Madden: "Kick the field goal." |
Millen: "Kick the field goal." |
From the set, CBS's Phil Simms said: "I'd take one shot in the end zone." |
I know that in his last broadcasting years, folks feel like Madden declined. I don't much care about that. Madden, as much as anyone else, is responsible for my love of football. As a kid, coming up in the 80s, listening to him and Pat Summerall was like football clinic. |
Semi-related, from to time I scroll through some old clips of the NFL Today from the 80s. It's amazing how much production has changed. I'm not sure the analysis is any better, though. I get the NFL Network's pregame show on Sundays. Whenever I watch, I feel like a bunch of dudes are yelling at me. |
Palmerston North MP Iain Lees-Galloway, left, took over the euthanasia bill from former Labour MP Maryan Street when she was not re-elected in September. Photo / NZME. |
A bill which would legalise voluntary euthanasia has been dropped by Labour MP Iain Lees-Galloway at the request of his leader Andrew Little. |
Mr Lees-Galloway had been canvassing support for his End of Life Choice Bill before deciding whether to return it to the private members' bill ballot. |
But Mr Little confirmed yesterday that he had told Mr Lees-Galloway not to put it in the ballot because it was not an issue Labour should be focused on when it was rebuilding. |
"It comes down to priorities at the moment," Mr Little said. "We are very much focused on ... jobs and economic security. |
"There are more people affected by weak labour market regulation and weak economic strategy than they are about the right to make explicit choices about how they die." |
The bill would have allowed any adult suffering from a condition likely to cause their death within 12 months to request medical assistance to die. |
Mr Little said Labour was still a socially progressive party under his leadership. |
"It's not about avoiding controversy but it's about choosing the controversies that are best for us at this point in time. That stuff on euthanasia, it isn't the time for us to be talking about that." |
Mr Lees-Galloway did not return calls yesterday, but has previously said euthanasia was an individual matter, not a party matter, and it would not distract from Labour's focus on bigger issues. |
The Palmerston North MP took over the bill from former Labour MP Maryan Street when she was not re-elected in September. Ms Street removed the bill from the ballot in October 2013 out of concern it could become a political football in election year, but had planned to return it immediately after the election. |
Opinion polls have shown strong public support for legalising euthanasia, but any Parliamentary debate is now unlikely to occur until at least the next term unless another MP drafts a bill or Government takes up the issue. |
Prime Minister John Key has previously said he supported speeding up the process of death for a terminally ill patient but he felt the End of Life Choice Bill went too far. |
Green Party health spokesman Kevin Hague said he was disappointed the bill had been dropped but it was unlikely anyone in his party would take it up at this stage. |
Mr Lees-Galloway, who is also the party's labour spokesman, was now working on a bill to ban "zero hour" contracts. |
A heat advisory has been issued for nearly all of NJ, where a muggy air mass has melded with temperatures in the 90s to make it miserable outside. |
For the second day in a row, a heat advisory has been issued for nearly all of New Jersey, where a muggy air mass has melded with temperatures in the 90s to make it miserable outside. |
Unlike on Monday, the National Weather Service declined to declare a heat advisory — indicating that conditions are dangerous, especially to vulnerable populations like the very young or very old — outside of north Jersey until 12:30 today. Watch the video above to see how treacherous hot weather can be. |
"Still more heating to go and heat indices in many areas are nearing 100 degrees already," reads the guidance from the NWS station in Mount Holly accompanying the announcement. |
The advisory is in place until 7 p.m. tonight. South Jersey and areas along the coastline are not included. |
A cold front is expected to approach the region on Wednesday, bringing the possibility of thunderstorms that could be bursting with rain. |
There won't be a sharp cool down, according to the NWS. Air temperatures will remain in the high 80s although the humidity will back off a bit. |
Jerry Woodhurst was apprehended by Iowa DNR agents while harvesting ginseng root on public land. |
A man from Miles, Iowa, has been charged with digging up ginseng after being caught on state-managed property with a bag full of the root in September. |
Jerry Woodhurst, 56, was found on public property in Jackson County by DNR conservation officers near a bag of freshly dug ginseng. An officer confronted Woodhurst, who initially denied having any involvement, according to the DNR. Woodhurst later admitted to digging up the 108 ginseng roots and failing to leave the en... |
Woodhurst has since been charged with five counts of digging ginseng within a state-managed area and five counts of not leaving the tops of the ginseng plants intact, and faces a fine of $1,950. |
In 2016, three central Iowa men were arrested after being caught harvesting 406 ginseng roots from public land. A Central City man was charged with harvesting 134 ginseng plants from a state preserve in 2014. A Lamont man was sentenced to two years probation in 2013 for conspiring to buy and sell illegally harvested gi... |
Ginseng is a slow-growing plant, and its root is used in herbal products, supplements and teas. Most of the ginseng collected in Iowa is exported to countries in Asia, with a small portion going to cities along the West Coast, according to the DNR. |
In Iowa, ginseng can be harvested from Sept. 1 to Oct. 31 on private land. Harvesters must have a valid ginseng harvester permit, which costs $37. It was unclear if Woodhurst was in possession of a valid ginseng harvester permit, though harvesting ginseng on public land is illegal regardless. |
Iowa has been sending farmed and harvested Ginseng to China for more than a century. A copy of the Des Moines Register from 1871, then called the Daily Register, noted that a market for ginseng was a "good opportunity for farmers and others having spare time to make good wages digging ginseng." |
The Iowa Legislature's Natural Resource Commission implemented guidelines in April 2009 regulating the harvesting and sale of ginseng in order to "ensure that American Ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) ... remains a sustainable resource in the state of Iowa." |
Supplies of wild ginseng have been dwindling due to intense foraging and habitat loss. |
The Iowa DNR was assisted by the Iowa State Patrol and the Jackson County Sheriff's Office. |
Nokia is expected to announce ambitious plans for its Club Nokia portal at its Capital Markets Day in New York tomorrow. |
"Nokia has always been a software company," execs told us at the Comdex launch of its open platform a fortnight ago. With that milestone announcement, Nokia has begun to license much of the essential goodness that makes a Nokia phone - the user interface - along with middleware and applications, in source form, to anyo... |
But the Club Nokia parlay isn't just a case of the Finns catching portalitis - the peculiarly late-90s fashion where vendors aggregated as much useless content in one place as they could find, in the hope of capturing traffic. No, instead an expanded Club Nokia will become a marketplace to sell content and services, to... |
In an interesting analysis of what he dubs the 'Clash of Civilisations' between Nokia and Microsoft, a piece which puts the Club Nokia announcements into a broader context, Keith Woolcock of Nomura Research concludes that The Beast will ultimately prevail. |
Woolcock is no Microsoft shill - in the same research note, he describes efforts to sell the phone manufacturers its Stinger, aka the Microsoft Smartphone platform, as having "failed miserably". But he thinks Microsoft will prevail because of the breadth of its existing penetration in the PC business - it's rapidly ama... |
It's an interesting note (and if you nag us enough, we'll nag Nomura to make it public, somehow) but by our reckoning he's taking a highly pessimistic view. Or optimistic, if you're Microsoft.The biggest handicap Microsoft has is that its mobile client platform "lacks traction", as the VCs like to say. Or in other word... |
And the phone business, unlike the microcomputer market in 1981, isn't about to be taken over by a great unifying outsider: the handset manufacturers voted for their own OS platform by creating Symbian, and most of what else matters - like Bluetooth, WAP, or MMS - is decided in time honoured fashion, laundered through ... |
There's another, more bleeding obvious reason why phones now aren't like PCs then. There simply isn't a telcomms vendor now that is as dominant as IBM was in 1981, even though the phone business is making the same tottering fall from being a vertical industry into a horizontal industry, just like the PC. People rightly... |
Yet there's another factor, too, that's usually overlooked. Let's suppose Stinger turns out to be astoundingly good, much better than the competition. Then surely, world+dog will beat a path to the Stinger manufacturers' door, pausing only to throw away its 2G handsets en masse. And today's phone giants respond to the ... |
But it isn't really going to be like that: smartphones will be a luxury item at first, getting progressively more affordable. And in the meantime, the 2G manufacturers will exclusively be providing their own, or industry standard applications. Microsoft has given little thought to how the splashy services for smartphon... |
This we'll call it the ASCII Photo problem, (because it hasn't really been given a name yet). Nokia's new imaging smartphone, the 7650, let's you take snaps and send them as MMS messages to your friends. If your friends don't have an MMS-capable device, they're sent a URL to a web location (Ker-Ching! It's a web servic... |
Now the really smart thing, we suggested to Nokia in Barcelona last week, would be to scan the photo and create a little ASCII art picture, the kind of which you still see in some sig files. That gets sent to the recipients crappy little phone, and surely, joy is unconfined.We were joking but the underlying conundrum i... |
It's a conundrum that all operators and handset manufacturers face, and one we venture, that Microsoft is particularly badly placed to cope with. We might be wrong, but we suspect it hasn't even given it a moment's thought.Multimedia rich smartphones play to all Microsoft's strengths, at least on paper. Redmond astutel... |
Despite the bewildering and frequently abstract talk of web services, this one should be fairly simple to call. It's a battle between consumer vendors over who owns your address book, your buddy list, and the web services that spin-off this simple decision are the rewards for these competing armies. Our Smartphone Roun... |
When we come to Jesus and find our rest in Him, our burdened souls are lifted. I think the real challenge is getting to that point. It's so easy to place our hope in so many other things. We can tell we are abiding in other things when those things fail us. In those moments of personal revelation, we have a choice: wil... |
When our spouse doesn’t love us the way we thought our spouse was going to love us and we are disappointed in the lack of love we find there, what do we do? We leave it to Jesus Christ, we abide and we rest in His love! We find our needs met there, regardless of what our spouse does. When our teenagers start to go off ... |
The list could go on and on. Because it's not just people that fail us, it's money, entertainment, our health, etc. etc. etc. But the pattern remains the same. Anytime we face difficulty we have the choice to either become embittered or to embrace our relationship with Christ and remain in Him and His love to bring pea... |
Jesus, You are the true vine. Give me the wisdom to quickly see when I am trusting in anything other than You. Give me the willingness to readjust my focus quickly away from the things that are doomed to fail me. By faith and the truth of Your Word, draw me into an intimate personal relationship with You so I can find ... |
Russian President Vladimir Putin has meddled in several international conflicts. It's part of a pattern that helps him win support back home. |
Simon Shuster recounts his story of being pulled from a car, pistol whipped, and detained by a shotgun-toting separatist wearing a bandolier of shells. |
The self-declared prime minister of Crime is a wrestler, once sold umbrellas and cigarettes, and is accused of having worked for the mafia. In the last month, he organized a pro-Russian paramilitary force that quickly took charge when Russian forces intervened in Crimea. |
Crimea juts out into the Black Sea and is a key naval port, but it's historic ties to Russia make it the perfect refuge for fugitive president Viktor Yanukovych. |
Is Ukraine's violence overshadowing Putin's Olympics? |
As the Olympics wind down this week, the world's attention focuses on the violence that has erupted in neighboring Ukraine. |
Some of Russian President Vladimir Putin's most avid fans are members of a Slavic motorcycle gang known as the Night Wolves. Anchor Aaron Schachter finds out more from journalist Simon Shuster, who's written about Putin for Time Magazine. |
Choosing to operate in different countries can be good for business, as you are exposed to expanded markets. However, ethical matters are bound to surface when you engage in a multinational business environment. Human resource managers will typically look for manpower in the host country, and the resulting challenges i... |
Culture plays an important role when considering the ethics of leadership in multinational business. A uniform code of ethics might not work for the corporation's parent country and the foreign country where it does business. HR should have strong cross-cultural training and strive to make operations abroad align with ... |
Different countries have different compensation levels even when the job specification and duties are similar; these are based on the foreign country's cost of living and other economic factors. It is likely that multinationals headquartered in the U.S. with branches or franchises in developing countries will have sign... |
Operating your multinational corporation abroad subjects you to complex legal and ethical issues in your business dealings. HR will confront social equity, human rights and environmental problems that can affect your productivity and marketing goals. Some tax and employment-related laws can be complicated, giving advan... |
As multinationals globalize their enterprises, they face a world that's fragmented along cultural and political lines, and they also encounter regulations and standards that aren't found in the U.S. Safety and security are the most difficult challenges for HR in multinational companies. Companies have to prepare for ep... |
International Journal of Business and Social Science: Facilitating Payments versus Bribes -- Are We Sending Conflicting Ethical Signals in Accounting Education? |
Bob Geldof, mastermind of the "global jukebox" Live Aid concert that raised an estimated $55 million for famine relief, called Sunday on governments to follow the music industry's lead and pour in massive aid to help Africa's starving people. |
A total of 52 chart-buster rock stars donated their talents for the transatlantic twin concerts Saturday in London and Philadelphia beamed to an estimated 1.5 billion people in 140 countries by an umbrella of 14 satellites. |
In the biggest single pledge, the ruling Al-Maktoums family of Dubai, a city in the United Arab Emirates, promised 1 million pounds ($1.38 million). |
"Hopefully this was the spark to push governments into doing quite evidently what 2 billion people wish them to do," Geldof said. |
"This was definitely the ultimate day that popular music can give. I just hope it doesn't stop. |
IBM is getting into the mortgage lending software and services business just as Fair Isaac Corp. is leaving. |
IBM this week announced the formation of a new business unit, IBM Lender Business Process Services Inc., which will specialize in mortgage origination services. |
In an unrelated development, Fair Isaac Corp. said it would sell its mortgage software division to ISGN, the Indian-based parent company of MortgageHub Inc., which plans to “significantly expand” its U.S. operations. |
Chennai-based ISGN said it was acquiring Fair Isaac’s mortgage software division staff, technology and an operations center. MortgageHub will integrate Fair Isaac products including the Diamond loan origination solution, the BridgeLink e-Services network, the LSAMS servicing system, the TCL construction lending system,... |
The BridgeLink network gives MortgageHub 150 new customers and 700 vendor partners. ISGN said it would offer jobs to the 61 employees of Fair Isaac’s Norcross, Ga.-based mortgage software division. |
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