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Nothing else was taken, the student said. |
The student who filed the complaint completed a Written Statement and a Loss/Damage Form. The officer explained a Victim Information Form and answered any questions the student had. The victim then left the police department. |
Taylor Reisdorf is a fourth-year English critical studies student. This is her fourth semester with The Spectator. She enjoys traveling, writing, books and foods of all kinds, margaritas and her amazing friends. |
Dozens of Cambridge residents spoke out in favor of a moratorium on cutting down trees at a City Council meeting Monday, prompting an hours-long debate. |
Protesters at the 2019 Boston Women's March wield colorful signs as they march from Boston Common. |
Thousands of protestors donning bright pink hats and scarves braved sub-freezing temperatures to converge on Boston Commons Saturday for the Boston Women’s March – turning out alongside hundreds of other “sister” marches across the country. |
Attendees at the Boston Women's March gather in Boston Common to hear speeches from leaders of various local advocacy groups including the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts and the Boston branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. |
Attendees hold signs aloft as they listen to speakers at the Boston Women's March. Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley delivered the keynote speech. |
Amid a sea of closings, Harvard Square bid adieu to its nearest Au Bon Pain last week. The restaurant announced its departure in a Jan. 4 email, joining Crema Cafe, Chipotle, Tealuxe, Urban Outfitters, and Sweet Bakery in departing from long-held locations in the Square since the start of December. |
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith awarded four professors prestigious Arts and Sciences Professorships earlier this month. |
The Hutchins Center for African and African American Research held a symposium Friday to reflect on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, 50 years after his assassination. |
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The world lost a great artist when Argentinian folksinger Mercedes Sosa passed away at 74 on Oct. 4. She was known the world over as “the voice of the voiceless,” an artist of the people. Her nickname, La Negra, referred to her long jet-black hair. She was beloved the world over and owned the stage when she performed, ... |
Haydée Mercedes Sosa was born in the northern region of Argentina to a working class family of French and Native Indian ancestry. She first performed at the age of 15 and recorded soon after. She was a vital component of the 1960s surge of interest in folk music, initiating the Nuevo Cancion movement in Argentina, simi... |
It has given the course of my tired feet. |
and the house of yours, your street and your yard. |
Her beautiful rich voice expressed the passion and struggle of her people and her audience identified not only with her songs but her real and sensitive performances. |
In the ’90s she became a UNESCO goodwill ambassador. Her travels and recordings often included other performers of the likes of Joan Baez, Silvio Rodriguez, Pablo Milanes and Brazilian Milton Nascimento. |
Probably the greatest tribute you can give to this great people’s artist is to seek out her music, listen to it if you haven’t yet, and spread the word and keep her music and message alive. |
But audiences might appreciate being able to skip the pricey flights, tickets and hotels, and avoid the freezing temperatures. |
PARK CITY, Utah--You don't have to fly thousands of miles, fight for tickets and accommodations, or be forced to endure freezing temperatures just to be a part of the legendary Sundance Film Festival. |
Some of the very same short films that led people here to wait in long lines--and sometimes be turned away due to lack of seating--can be viewed online in the warm comfort of the living room. |
The annual independent film festival put on by Robert Redford's Sundance Institute continues to expand its Web offerings. This year, 50 of the 73 filmmakers chosen to compete with short films have agreed let their creations stream on the festival's site. |
Those viewing strictly online, however, would miss the Park City camaraderie, feature-length films and live star sightings. Still, the shorts premiere online at the same time as they show in festival theaters, they are free to watch, don't require any registration and are available for six months. |
While the majority of filmmakers this year are willing to put their projects up on the Web and are appreciative of the exposure to a worldwide crowd, some worry about copyright issues or that they will be limited from entering their work into further competitions. |
On the other hand, Tom Putnam, who last year put his film, "Broadcast 23," on Sundance Online, said he went against the advice of most people who suggested waiting until the film had gone through the festival run. Based in part on the enthusiasm of festival staff, he decided it was worth possibly excluding other festiv... |
"Online film festivals and distribution are all about opening up your film to a wider audience," he said, adding that it's great to hear reactions from a live audience, but the online feedback is more prolific. "For short filmmakers, it's the best way to reach the widest possible audience." |
"" is a smart, funny 18-minute short directed by Webby Awards founder Tiffany Shlain. The film is described by Sundance as "an unorthodox, unauthorized history of the Jewish people." It points out the irony that the Barbie doll, the Aryan-looking symbol of the ideal American woman, was created by a Jewish woman. |
"" is a comedic 12-minute film directed by Bob Odenkirk (of "Ben Stiller Show" fame) about a guy who recalls his mistake of taking a first date to the Holocaust Museum. |
"," is a 16-minute film, rich in poetic images of urban America, about an preacher in New York who opposes materialism. The charismatic Rev. Billy Talen and his Church of Stop Shopping parishioners travel around the country holding impromptu church services at malls and shopping centers. |
Typically, when you think about moving a car from one place to the next, you simply get in and drive it. But if you need to transport your car a long distance, or even overseas, you will probably want to consider other options. The choices for car transportation run the gamut from professional auto transportation servi... |
The most popular way to transport a car cross-country is using a consumer-oriented car shipper. Most commercial car shippers put cars on an open-air trailer similar to the ones used for new cars. You can use online auto transporter directories to request bids from brokers and auto shippers in the U.S. and Canada. Typic... |
When you talk to the shippers, make sure to ask them detailed questions about how your car will be transported. Most shippers will move cars between certain city hubs, unloading and loading the vehicles onto other trucks in order to make the routes more efficient. The cost can also vary if you want door-to-door transpo... |
If you are concerned about the effect of weather on your vehicle, you might want to consider using an enclosed truck. Although the cost is typically about 60 percent higher, it might be worth it if you're transporting in the middle of winter or it is a new high-end vehicle. An enclosed truck will also give you a bit mo... |
If you don't mind adding the extra miles on your vehicle, consider using a driver provided by a professional service. This can be a great option for shorter distances and corporate vehicles as well as for students. These companies even allows you to transport your personal belongings, including cats or dogs, in your ve... |
If you need your vehicle transported and you just don't have that much money, consider hiring a trustworthy student or someone you might know personally. This is an especially good option during school breaks when students need the extra cash. This is obviously a riskier method, so make sure your insurance covers any a... |
If you need to ship your vehicle overseas, the only real option is via a cargo container. Shipping containers are generally between 20 and 40 feet in length, but different sizes are used. You'll need to find a company that offers international auto transportation. They can easily be found with a simple web search. It i... |
Schumacher Cargo: How to Ship a Car Overseas: Complete Guide with Tips! |
A-1 Auto Transport: How Much Does It Cost? |
Writer, Contributing. "The Best Ways to Transport a Car." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/ways-transport-car-21693.html. 11 October 2017. |
In California, homeowners are pulling the plug on their utilities by storing solar electricity in Tesla batteries. |
At first glance, there’s nothing particularly Jetsons-like about Marco Krapels’ 1940s-era home in a prosperous suburb that lies in the shadow of Mount Tamalpais in Marin County, California. Open the garage door, though, and it’s Tomorrowland. |
Attached to the wall is a charging station for Krapels’ Tesla Motors Model S electric sports sedan. And next to the charger are two metal boxes that effectively render Pacific Gas & Electric, the 108-year-old utility that serves Northern California, irrelevant. One box channels electricity generated by the SolarCity ph... |
In other words, during the sunniest part of the day, when no one is at home and power demand is low, the Tesla battery pack can store the excess electricity for use in the late afternoon and evening when power prices spike. No dirty and expensive utility electrons needed. “I should technically be able to function with ... |
And the cost? Thanks to California incentives that subsidize 60 percent of the cost of energy storage, Krapels is paying less than $40 a month for the battery pack as part of a lease deal with SolarCity, the Silicon Valley company that installed the solar battery system. |
But that day has not quite arrived. The Tesla energy storage unit – it’s is a smaller version of the battery pack that powers the Model S – has sat unused since it was installed in Krapels’ garage last spring. PG&E, like other big California utilities, has refused to connect residential solar-battery storage systems to... |
That fee fight is a fig leaf for a much bigger struggle that is unfolding over who will control the production and distribution of energy in the US – old-line monopoly utilities or a new generation of green tech companies like SolarCity and Tesla that put that power in the hands of their customers. |
The trend in so-called distributed generation is being driven by the plummeting price of solar panels, the growing production of advanced batteries for electric cars and government regulators who have imposed mandates on utilities to buy an increasingly percentage of the electricity they distribute from renewable sourc... |
That’s spawning innovation in an industry that has long seemed stuck in a technological time warp. Stem, a Silicon Valley startup, for instance, is installing $100,000 54-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery systems in hotels and other businesses to allow the storage of electricity when prices are low to avoid high rates ... |
SolarCity spent three years developing the software that controls the interaction between a photovoltaic array, the Tesla battery and the grid. Rive says the company has offerered the solar storage system to select customers – more than 300 so far – who either want backup power in the event of an electricity outage, or... |
PG&E, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric – California three big utilities – however, have argued to regulators that such subsidized storage systems would saddle other customers with the cost of maintaining the power grid and thus they should be charged connection fees. In California, homeowners alr... |
The California Public Utilities Commission is debating those issues now and in a preliminary ruling in October, it said utilities should allow homeowners to connect energy storage systems to solar arrays at no extra cost for the time being. But in a nod to the utilities’ concerns that some homeowners would arbitrage th... |
Amazon just landed a contract with News Corp.’s (Nasdaq: NWS) 20th Century Fox, which boosts its instant video service by 22%. |
And Dreamworks Animation (Nasdaq: DWA) announced this week that it’s selling the rights to stream its current and upcoming movies to Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX). This represents “the first time a major Hollywood studio has chosen an internet streaming player over a traditional cable channel,” according to Reuters. |
That’s great news for consumers trying to save money by cutting the cord on cable. |
But not so great for cable companies like Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), who just lost a combined 1.2 million subscribers. Ouch! |
Based on recent news, it looks like some cable providers are finally buckling under the pressure. Because word has it that a number of companies are preparing to make an industry-altering (albeit deceptive) change to their pricing model. |
A La Carte Prices on the Way? |
News broke this week that cable providers are planning to offer a new pricing structure for subscribers: a la carte. |
Essentially, this would allow consumers to choose the stations they want to watch and ditch the ones they don’t. In theory, the move would slash your cable bill considerably. |
So does this mean victory for cable subscribers everywhere? Not quite. |
Cable providers aren’t just making the switch because their customers are rushing out the door. |
They’re doing it to cut their own costs. |
Programming costs for cable companies have jumped between 6% and 10% annually for the past 10 years. |
Consider: For a cable operator to broadcast Disney’s (NYSE: DIS) ESPN alone, it needs to shell out over $4 a month per subscriber, according to SNL Kagan. |
Not to mention that cable and satellite providers now need to pay for “free” networks like ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox. |
So giving consumers the ability to opt out of these channels allows them to keep costs down. |
Of course, no matter the motives, the idea of saving money each month is likely to inspire some potential deserters to stick around. Heck, if they offered true a la carte pricing, I might even consider plugging back in. |
In other words, customers could simply end up with lower priced bundles instead of true pick-your-own-channel pricing. |
I’m sorry, but when you’re promising an a la carte product, a discount isn’t going to cut it. |
Maybe I’m not a big enough football fan, but dinner wins in my book. |
Bottom line: I’m convinced that this announcement is simply a way for cable providers to keep their subscriber base from falling off a cliff in the short term. But if they don’t deliver on the promise, and consumers realize they won’t be saving as much as they hoped, losing 1.2 million subscribers will be just the begi... |
Katie Taylor won her fifth consecutive world title on a unanimous verdict at the AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships in Jeju, South Korea. |
The 28-year-old from Ireland secured gold by beating Yana Allekseevana of Azerbaijan in the lightweight final. |
The Bray woman's achievement brings her level with Indian boxer Mary Kom on five world titles. |
The 2012 Olympic champion has also won six European and five EU titles for a total of 17 major titles. |
Taylor was aggressive from the opening bell but her taller, southpaw opponent countered well in the first round. |
Two of the three judges had Taylor ahead 10-9 with the other giving it 10-9 to her rival. |
The Irish woman cranked up the pressure in the second round, landing a nice right hook on Allekseevna and winning the round on all three cards. |
It's an absolute privilege to equal Mary Kom's record, she's a hero of the sport. |
Allekseevna showed more in the third but Taylor landed a series of combinations to get the verdict from two of the judges once more and take a 30-27, 29-28, 29-28 lead heading into the final round. |
The Azerbaijani looked tired but was forced to go on the offensive in search of a stoppage. |
She wasn't able to hurt her opponent however, and Taylor counter-attacked ruthlessly to seal an assured overall victory by scores of 40-36, 39-37 and 39-37. |
Taylor reached the final after the trainer of her Chinese opponent Jinhua Yin threw in the towel at the start of the last round. |
Prior to that, she had been handed a quarter-final walkover after Russia's Sofya Ochigava was unable to fight. |
Ochigava, who Taylor narrowly defeated in the Olympic final in London, withdrew from Friday's bout because of a knee injury. |
"I'm absolutely delighted," said Taylor afterwards. "It was such a tight contest. Every round was very close and very tricky. |
"The tactics from my Dad and Zaur (Antia) were spot-on and I had to execute the game plan so well. |
"It was very tight but it's an absolute privilege to equal Mary Kom's record, she's a hero of the sport." |
T.B. Joshua reveals the 'two Christs' in the church!!! |
Prophet T.B. Joshua has issued a stinging rebuke to the Church in an impassioned sermon, which has attracted over 70,000 views on YouTube in under one week. |
"There has been a great mix-up in the Church," Joshua stated in the message he preached on Sunday 30th September 2018. "It is the erroneous assumption that spiritual truths can be intellectual perceived,"he continued, stressing that being brought up in a Church background does not equate to ‘knowing Jesus'. |
"Many people know about Christ but they don't know Christ," he added. "You can read your New Testament and still never find Jesus in it. You can be convinced that Jesus is the Son of God and still never find Jesus. You can be a publisher of the Bible. You can know about Christ dying for you. You can head this or that r... |
According to the cleric, there are "two Christs"in the Church – "the Christ of story and of history and song - the baby Jesus"and "Christ which the Holy Spirit reveals". |
He went further to emphatically emphasise that "if you are reasoned into Christianity, some wise fellow can reason you out of it - unless you know the Holy Spirit… It is either the Holy Spirit or darkness." |
Joshua called congregants to a period of sober reflection about whether they were really Christians or merely "religious people". "If today is your last day, where are you going,"he sombrely asked. |
"If you are serving God without the Holy Spirit, you are serving a god you do not know," he concluded, adding that this was the "greatest problem"faced by the Church today. |
The message, which was titled ‘Knowing Jesus, Knowing The Holy Spirit,' sparked reactions online from viewers of Joshua's YouTube channel Emmanuel TV, which is nearing a whopping 1,000,000 subscribers. |
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