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It’s “more than a trade deal,” said Miller, because it comes amid the Obama administration’s pivot to Asia, a promise to remain engaged in order to prevent China from forging complete hegemony in its back yard. It imposes U.S. business standards and norms on signatories, in hopes that it will raise China’s standards too.
Under the terms of the authority given to Obama over the summer, Congress has 90 days to oppose the trade deal after he submits it. If there is no vote to reject it, he signs it into law in 90 days. The entire text of the deal must be available for public review for 60 days.
Obama can hold off on submitting the deal, even leaving it to his successor to pass it through Congress if he so chooses.
The deal faces opposition from many Democrats, and some Republicans. Dairy state lawmakers want greater access for U.S. products. Auto state lawmakers worry Japan may not have yielded enough in concessions.
“While the details are still emerging, unfortunately I am afraid this deal appears to fall woefully short,” said Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.
Trade is a hot-button issue in the current presidential campaign. Democratic candidates have expressed concern and even Republicans, who’ve been ardent supporters of free-trade deals, are showing pause. GOP frontrunner Donald Trump has blasted free-trade deals negotiated by Republican administrations as putting American companies at a competitive disadvantage to Mexico and China.
The 12 signatory countries have agreed to work more closely on economic issues, including the sensitive topic of exchange rates. Critics contend that China and other Asian nations have kept their currencies unfairly low against the U.S. dollar to gain a competitive advantage over U.S. goods and services.
“I’m pleased to hear reports that the deal reached today includes, for the first time, an agreement to curb currency manipulation and new and enforceable obligations on countries like Vietnam and Malaysia to uphold labor rights,” said Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee.
Multinational corporations applauded word of the agreement.
The U.S. Conference of Mayors also expressed support.
“Increased exports have driven nearly one-third of our economic recovery and will continue to be instrumental to our future economic growth,” said Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake.
Critics complain the deal offers too many concessions on automobiles, dairy and sugar while pushing for intellectual property protection that benefits the pharmaceutical industry and the entertainment industry.
“Ambassador (Michael) Froman struck an ugly deal in Atlanta and is going to have a hard time selling this to Congress and the American people,” Erich Pica, president of Friends of the Earth, said in a statement.
Orleans, MA – Cape Cod 5 has been named one of the Best Banks to Work For in 2018 by American Banker. The program, initiated in 2013 by American Banker Magazine and Best Companies Group, identifies, recognizes and honors U.S. banks with exceptional employee satisfaction. Banks considered for the award must exhibit a strong investment in employee fulfillment, career development and personal growth.
Consideration for the Best Banks to Work For ranking included a two-step process. First, the Bank was evaluated for its workplace policies, demographics and practices. Second, employee surveys were conducted to extract direct, individualized feedback on workplace attitudes and satisfaction levels. The combined scores for both steps comprised the best banks list and final rankings.
Best Companies Group managed the overall registration and survey process, analyzed the data and used their expertise to determine the final ranking.
The program is open to commercial banks, thrifts, savings banks and other chartered retail financial institutions with at least 50 employees in the United States. Full results of this year’s program are available at American Banker and in the September issue of American Banker Magazine.
What Do You Live By?
George Washington lived by some SERIOUS principles. (You can check out some of them at this CNN.com article.) They all make sense, though I'm not sure how much fun he'd be at a party. And who'd heard that it's bad etiquette to warm your feet by a fire if there's meat cooking over it?
Anyway, it got me wondering what kind of rules you live by. Are there any pieces of advice you have for our viewers? Stuff like, "Always check your sources," "Don't squat with your spurs on," "Never take a cat surfing..." What principles, factual or funny, guide your life?
There are many priciples to live by. My favorite though, is.... When you look in the sky and you see blinding light... don't worry you aren't dead, you just need sunglasses.
"When you assume you are always wrong!!"
If you wouldn't do it in front of your grandmother, don't do it. That of course depends on the grandmother you have!
Don't take more than you can eat.
Clean your room and your teeth.
Stay out of other peoples conversations.
Don't talk when your not spoken to or if they are on the phone.
Raise your hand in school.
Everyone has different priciples that they stick with or go by, some are more strict then others. It all just depends on the type of person you are and what you think is best to live by for you.
Our 6th grade class in Oak Point school last year raised over 2400 dollars for Pennies For Patients. We got the most in all of Minnesota, South Dakota, and North Dakota. This year so far we raised over 2200 dollars we are hoping to beat last years amount. We also raised about 800 dollars on superman icecream day. Go Oak Point!!!
In our school we are doing Pennies for Patients at Oak Point in Minnesota. Last year we raised over $24,000 for leukemia patients. This year we have raised well over $21,000. Some kids in our class got the money from shoveling and doing chores.
My Favorite rule to live by is "What do you do with your life when no ones watching?" Which means if you were walking in a store would you steal something if no ones looking or just kep walkiing.
Keep pushing forward, no matter what anyone says, but don't forget to look back at where you have been.
Live life to the fullest. You never know when it could end.
A Mad Dash To Decorate 'Mad Men' For Amy Wells, set decorator for AMC's Emmy-winning show — set in a 1960s advertising agency — life is one big scavenger hunt. She goes to great lengths to get the era's details just right — right now she's hunting for vintage Halloween decorations.
Amy Wells scours the thrift shops of Los Angeles for vintage accessories and appliances like these in Don and Betty Draper's kitchen on the Mad Men set.
For Mad Men set decorator Amy Wells, life is one big scavenger hunt.
The Emmy-winning AMC show is set at an advertising agency in 1960s Manhattan. Each episode takes seven days to shoot, and from the moment she gets the script at the week's first meeting, Wells is off and running, looking for period pieces that will lend authenticity to the scenes.
"During that meeting, my blood pressure goes up really high, and I'm writing really fast and going, oh my god oh my god," she tells Melissa Block. "And sometimes I'm texting other people to start looking for things right away."
Right now, Wells is scouring the thrift shops and garage sales of Los Angeles for Halloween decorations from the early 1960s. And she's just finished work on a vintage airplane interior that involved renting seats from a prop company and re-upholstering them in period-correct fabric.
Mad Men creator Matt Weiner wanted wads of old gum stuck under the desks in the show's Sterling Cooper office for that extra touch of realism.
Wells says show creator Matthew Weiner is not just particular — he's also obsessive and fanatic about getting every detail of the era just right. "But he describes himself and what he wants so clearly and with so much joy that you just embrace it," she adds. "Like last week, he asked for gum under the desks. He said, 'I don't want this place to look, you know, clean. I want it to be real — real.' He wants to show decay."
Wells says that decay is actually a feature of Mad Men's third season, which kicks off this weekend.
"We'll see if the audience notices it," she says, "but the carpets are dirtier — we weren't allowed to have them cleaned. The desks are more worn out. Everything has actually gotten the wear and tear of the last three seasons, and Matt loves it."
It's not just the look that has to be absolutely right. It's also the sound. From the heavy metallic click of an old lighter to the buzz of an oven timer in someone's kitchen, Wells has to make sure the props sound as good as they look. The oven timer was a particular problem: Wells says that when the one on set didn't work, she had to hunt down an identical oven with a functioning timer so that the correct buzz would sound in that episode's soundtrack.
Wells, oddly enough, is one of the few people on the Mad Men staff old enough to remember the era the show depicts. But she doesn't just rely on her memories when she's decorating a kitchen or a swanky office; she's got a vast library of vintage catalogs and decorating books.
"One of the best references — we just used it this morning for the size of a baby blanket — is the Sears catalogs and the Montgomery Ward catalog," she says. "They're so specific, and they have all these items. And then I have every decorating book from the late '40s through the mid-'60s. So Better Homes & Gardens — you know, all those decorating books that came out every year — I have all of those."
And if you've got any vintage junk stashed in the basement — Grandma's old Danish Modern side table, or a big chrome toaster — Wells wants to know about it. "I've used all the stuff that the prop houses already have," she says. "I'm always looking for new stuff."
Hoffman Estates trustees Monday approved a one-season contract for the Chicago Mustangs soccer team to play its 10 home games from Nov. 8 through the late winter at the village-owned Sears Centre Arena.
The team previously played its home games at the much smaller Grand Sports facility in Hoffman Estates, where it drew about 1,100 fans per game, said Guilherme Veiga, vice president of soccer operations for the Mustangs.
Since winning the national championship in its league, the Mustangs believe they're ready for a larger venue and can draw 3,500 to 5,000 people per game to the Sears Centre this season, Veiga said.
The team is increasing its marketing staff to meet the higher goal, he added.
Terms of the agreement were not released.
The Black Eyed Peas were atop the Billboard Hot 100, and Paranormal Activity and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs had just been released in theaters—that was October 2009, the last time Boston College football hosted ESPN’s College GameDay. On Saturday, the iconic three-hour show is coming back to Chestnut Hill for the Eagles’ biggest game of the decade: a primetime matchup against No. 2 Clemson.
Over the course of the past two months, BC ended its decade-long drought without an appearance in the AP Poll, cracked the College Football Playoff rankings, and rattled off back-to-back wins over Coastal Division powerhouses Miami and Virginia Tech. There’s excitement building around the Eagles heading into the weekend, whereas the last time BC had GameDay, the program was firmly established as one of the most competitive in the ACC.
The Eagles were coming off their second-straight conference championship appearance, looking to post their ninth-consecutive eight-plus win season. Just like this fall, BC opened the 2009 season with a Bay State blowout, only then it came against Northeastern, not Massachusetts. The Eagles cruised to a 2-0 start with a non-conference victory over Kent State before dropping their first game of the year—a 25-7 defeat to Clemson.
BC reentered the win column the following week, however, with an overtime victory against Wake Forest. The Demon Deacons scored 14 points in the fourth quarter to extend the game past regulation. After failing to find the end zone, Steve Aponavicius drilled a 23-yard field goal to give BC the lead. The Eagles needed a stop on the other side of the field—they got that and more. After a miscommunication in the backfield, Demon Deacons quarterback Riley Skinner coughed up the rock, and BC safety Wes Davis recovered the fumble, securing a three-point win, effectively locking up an ABC-broadcasted matchup against Florida State.
The Atlantic Division showdown marked the second time in four years that the Eagles would be playing a College GameDay-featured game against head coach Bobby Bowden’s team. FSU limped into the high-profile affair after suffering a 10-point upset loss to South Florida the week before, sliding out of the AP Poll in the process. It was Bowden’s 34th and final season with the Seminoles, but BC linebacker Mark Herzlich was undoubtedly the storyline over the weekend.
After playing in every game as an underclassman, the Wayne, Pa. native rose to the national scene as a junior, racking up 110 tackles, six interceptions, eight pass break-ups, two forced fumbles, two fumble recoveries, and 13 tackles for a loss, en route to ACC Defensive Player of the Year honors. He was a projected top-15 pick, but instead of leaving for the NFL Draft, he decided to return for his senior season—one that was in question for more than a year.
In May 2009, Herzlich was diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer. With a 70 percent chance of survival, the linebacker fought his way through 50 rounds of radiation, doing everything he could to get back on the field. Five months after his diagnosis, Herzlich joined Rece Davis, Lee Corso, and Kirk Herbstreit on the set of College GameDay to the joy of SuperFans coating the outskirts of a muddy Stokes Lawn. He publicly announced that he was cancer free, setting the stage for what ended up being one of the most memorable days in BC Athletics history.
Prior to the start of the game, Herzlich—donning a maroon jumpsuit—got the crowd going, walking up and down the field with a microphone, spewing words of encouragement. BC clearly fed off the energy, as the Eagles jumped out to a 21-6 first-half lead.
Montel Harris kickstarted the scoring spurt with a three-yard touchdown run. Then, on the goal line, Rich Gunnell—now, BC’s wide receivers coach—hauled in a short Dave Shinskie pass on an out route. The program’s all-time leading receiver got both feet in bounds before shuffling outside the paint. Jeff Smith, unrelated to current the Eagles wideout, capped the half with a 38-yard touchdown reception down the left sideline.
Quarterbacked by Christian Ponder, FSU stitched together an 18-point comeback in the latter portion of play. The junior—who came into the game as the ACC’s leading passer—completed 29 of his 42 pass attempts for 340 yards and orchestrated a pair of 84-plus yard touchdown drives, the second of which ended in a successful two-point conversion.
With the game tied at 21, Harris took matters in his own hands in the fourth quarter. The sophomore back found a hole through the middle of the trenches, cut to the right, and made a beeline for the end zone, ultimately diving past the pylon for the game-winning score.
The 28-21 victory pushed the Eagles’ record to 4-1 on the year. When all was said and done, BC finished 8-5 that season, losing to Southern California in the Emerald Bowl. The postseason loss marked the beginning of the program’s downward spiral. Since then, the Eagles have yet to log eight or more wins in a season. BC is 51-59 during that span, including just 26-43 in ACC play.
After a nine-year hiatus, College GameDay is back on campus, highlighting another comeback. This time, the story’s not about a particular player, but rather the entire program. And while a school’s return to football prominence is in no way comparable to Herzlich’s moving journey, both came against all odds.
Just like back in 2009, BC has a star running back sporting the No. 2 jersey and a speedster on the outside named Jeff Smith. Time will tell if the Eagles’ Saturday night game against Clemson will follow a similarly improbable, yet inspiring, narrative.
Nickelodeon has tapped Shauna Phelan as the new head of its live-action scripted department, the network announced on Monday.
As senior vice president, Phelan will oversee the development and production of all Nickelodeon scripted live-action content, as well as all live-action TV movies and specials. Based in Los Angeles, Phelan will report to Nickelodeon president Brian Robbins.
The pair also previously worked together at Varsity Pictures, where she served as director of development.
Fired FBI director James Comey ripped into the GOP-penned memo alleging bias at the bureau on Friday, calling it "dishonest and misleading."
"That's it?" Comey tweeted shortly after the controversial document was released by the House intelligence committee.
"Dishonest and misleading memo wrecked the House intel committee, destroyed trust with Intelligence Community, damaged relationship with FISA court, and inexcusably exposed classified investigation of an American citizen. For what? DOJ & FBI must keep doing their jobs," he added.
The four-page memo alleges that Comey and other high-level members of the FBI were biased against Trump and abused the agency's surveillance tactics.
Department of Justice officials and the FBI pushed back against the release of the memo, petitioning President Trump to keep it under wraps.
Trump fired Comey last May, later admitting that the dismissal was related to the federal investigation into whether any Trump associates colluded with Russia during the 2016 election.
Special counsel Robert Mueller has been scrutinizing Comey's firing as part of that investigation and is looking at the possibility that Trump obstructed justice.
Founded in 1958 and based in Brussels, The Brewers of Europe is the voice of the European brewing sector to the European institutions and international organisations.
Current members are the national brewers’ associations from EU Member States, plus Norway, Switzerland and Turkey. To view the complete list of member associations click on Members.
The Brewers of Europe encourages an open dialogue between its members in relation to all issues falling in the remit of the association.
By promoting its interests and advising the EU institutions on all aspects of policy and legislation affecting the brewing sector, The Brewers of Europe is thus able to inform the institutions of its special needs and to ensure that legislative initiatives take their requirements into consideration.
April 15, 1947, dawned cold and gloomy in Brooklyn.
And the day never got much brighter for the Dodger who stood at the center of so much attention.
Rookie first baseman Jackie Robinson went hitless in four at-bats against Boston Braves offspeed specialist Johnny Sain. "I did a miserable job," his biographer, Arnold Rampersad, quoted Robinson as writing in a letter. "There was an overflow crowd at Ebbets Field. If they expected any miracles out of Robinson, they were sadly disappointed."
It doesn't sound like an afternoon that baseball lovers would be celebrating 60 years later. But Robinson triumphed that day simply by taking the field as the first black man to play in the major leagues in the 20th century.
His on-field brilliance would shine through soon enough.
Baltimore and 14 other major league cities will celebrate Robinson's legacy today. Every Dodger and at least one member of each of the other 29 teams will don his No. 42. His widow, Rachel, will appear with commissioner Bud Selig at a pre-game ceremony in Los Angeles.
Robinson's pioneering didn't begin with that April 15 game. He had agreed to break the barrier for Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey almost two years before. He had endured a minor league season in Montreal (where he debuted more spectacularly with four hits, including a three-run homer) and a three-game exhibition series against the New York Yankees at Ebbets Field.
He had played brilliantly in the face of threats (some of the worst showered on him by International League fans in Baltimore).
But his first big league game made Rickey's grand experiment real in a way that the bigots and doubters could never wipe away. Robinson showed immense resolve throughout that season, shaking off the jibes thrown at him by racist bench jockeys as he earned Rookie of the Year honors for his play.
Today we celebrate this great man and player. The Sun asked sports figures -- some who knew him and some who only know his legacy -- to reflect on Robinson.
Bad weather and tornadoes caused severe damage and disrupted travel in Saxony and Brandenburg on Monday. A six-year-old girl was killed when a tree fell on the car in which she was sitting.
Tornadoes in the south of the state of the eastern German state of Brandenburg and the north of the state of Saxony claimed one life and severely damaged buildings on Monday. In the town of Grossenhain, Saxony, a six-year-old girl was killed as a result of the storm. The child suffered severe injuries when a tree fell on the car in which she was sitting and she died several hours later in hospital.
Tornadoes caused extensive damage in Grossenhain and its surroundings. According to police, the storm left a row of houses without roofs, caused a hall to collapse and badly damaged an apartment building. On Tuesday a police spokesperson told the German news agency DDP that around 38 people were injured in the storms, which also caused power outages. Schools and kindergartens in the area were still closed Tuesday morning.
In the town of Walda-Kleinthiemig, which has a population of around 650, almost 80 percent of houses lost their roofs and fallen trees caused damage and delay. The district authority there established a disaster management task force.
Police also report that a tornado that raced through the town of Mühlberg, Brandenburg, tore the roofs off around 20 houses and that further damage was caused by falling trees. Eyewitnesses reported that almost every house in the town suffered damage of some sort and in one area, around 300 meters wide, almost every tree was knocked over by the high winds. The Mühlberg church also suffered "substantial damage," a police spokesperson said. At one stage, 350 emergency services personnel were in action dealing with the consequences of the weather. Additionally the entire town was temporarily without power.
In Berlin the fire service had to be called 38 times between 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Monday, in regard to incidents related to the bad weather.
Travel in the region was also affected, with long-distance trains traveling between Dresden and Berlin having to be diverted. On the roads, fallen trees, branches and mud hindered vehicles traveling on the A13 and A4 motorways in Saxony. In the affected towns, roofing tiles which had blown off houses added to the traffic problems.
The bridge at Mühlberg, which links the states of Brandenburg and Saxony, had to be closed when the barriers on the side were severely damaged. It was open again by Monday evening. Emergency services could not reach the damaged bridge for some time due to blocked roads.
As yet, nobody has been able to assess the cost of the damage. "First we need to get an overview and establish who needs help most urgently," Diana Schulze, a spokesperson for the Grossenhain town administration, told DDP. "It has been deeply shocking."