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Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Monday expressed confidence that members from the minority community in the coastal state will vote for the BJP in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. |
The Goa government has extended the retirement age for doctors working in its institutions from 60 to 62, a senior official said today. |
The election authorities in Goa have seized liquor, drugs, cash and other items, collectively worth Rs 3.84 crore, since the model code of conduct for the Lok Sabha elections came into force on March 10. |
The BJP is preparing ground to foist late Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar's "dynasty" upon Goa, the Congress said on Thursday. |
Being a Goan in Goa is more important than being an Indian, the coastal state's deputy Chief Minister Vijai Sardesai said on Monday. |
Utpal Parrikar, the elder son of former Goa chief minister and BJP leader Manohar Parrikar, said today that he has not yet thought about contesting the Panaji by-election and would take a call on it at the "right time". |
The Goa Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) on Thursday asked collectors to probe and send a detailed report into a series of ceremonies held by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to immerse the ashes of late Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar in rivers across the state's 40 constituencies. |
A day after Goa Tourism minister Manohar Ajgaonkar broke away from the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) and joined the BJP, he was on Thursday designated as the Deputy Chief Minister of the state. |
Minister Calls Sudin Dhavalikar, Dropped From Goa Cabinet, "Most Corrupt" |
Goa Art and Culture Minister Govind Gaude dubbed Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) MLA and Deputy Chief Minister Sudin Dhavalikar as one of the "most corrupt" persons in the state. |
Hours after quitting the MGP and joining the BJP in Goa, legislator Deepak Pauskar was formally inducted into the state Cabinet Wednesday night. |
After being rushed to the hospital in an ambulance, Brittany Murphy was taken to Cedars- Sinai hospital in L.A., where TMZ reports that her husband, Simon Monjack, told hospital staff he did not want an autopsy to be executed on his wife. |
According to sources at TMZ, Simon declined performing an autopsy after Brittany was declared dead on Sunday afternoon. |
Although he was against it, the L.A. County Coroner’s Office will go ahead with the procedure according to TMZ. |
Unable to revive her from cardiac arrest, TMZ reports that her mother, who found the starlet in the shower this morning, told paramedics that her daughter had a history of diabetes. |
It has not be confirmed if Brittany’s condition could have contributed to her death in any way as of yet. |
The White House denies President Donald Trump, praised by the NZ gunman. is a white supremacist. |
US President Donald Trump has championed a Fox News personality who made anti-Muslim remarks as his White House rejected any attempt to link the US leader to a shooter who killed 50 people in two New Zealand mosques. |
The violence against Muslims in New Zealand on Friday put a spotlight on Trump's rhetoric about Islam and revived criticism of his handling of white supremacist violence. |
"Bring back (at)JudgeJeanine Pirro," Trump wrote in Twitter posts in which he blamed Democrats for trying to "silence a majority of our Country" and advocated supporters to "stop working soooo hard on being politically correct". |
"The president is not a white supremacist. I'm not sure how many times we have to say that," Mulvaney said on Fox News Sunday. |
On Friday, Trump condemned the "horrible massacre" at the mosques and the White House called the shooting a "vicious act of hate". Asked by a reporter if he saw white nationalism as a rising threat around the world, Trump said: "I don't really. I think it's a small group of people." |
The accused gunman praised Trump in a manifesto as "a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose". |
Mulvaney said the mosque massacres were the work of a disturbed individual and it would not be fair to align the shooter with Trump or any other politician. |
"I disagree that there's a causal link between Donald Trump being president and something like this happening in New Zealand," he told CBS' Face the Nation. |
Trump drew strong criticism in the days after a deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 when he equated white supremacists with counter-protesters and said "both sides" were to blame. |
Pirro, a supporter of the president, was rebuked by Fox News last Sunday over comments she made questioning whether a Muslim congresswoman, Ilhan Omar, was more loyal to Islamic sharia law than the US Constitution. |
Pirro's show, Justice with Judge Jeanine, was removed from its usual time slot on Saturday night. Fox News has not confirmed Pirro was suspended and said it would not comment further on the matter on Sunday. |
"Nice message for the president to send three days after a deadly terrorist attack on Muslims - standing up for a host who was suspended for anti-Muslim bigotry," Matthew Miller, a Justice Department spokesman under Democratic president Barack Obama, said on Twitter. |
Democratic lawmakers on Sunday called on Trump to defend Muslims publicly after the massacres and recognise the threat posed by white supremacists. |
"His rhetoric doesn't help," Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Democratic presidential candidate, said on CNN's State of the Union program. "At the very least, he is dividing people. They are using him as an excuse." |
On the campaign trail in 2016, Trump followed such statements as "I think Islam hates us," with an effort a week into his presidency to ban citizens of several Muslim-majority countries from entering the US. After court challenges, the administration revised the policy. |
US Representative Rashida Tlaib, a Muslim, noted that government data shows a spike in hate crimes in the past decade, citing mass shootings at a synagogue and a black church. |
"He cannot just say it's a small group of people," she said on CNN. "We need to be speaking up against this and it has to start with him. He needs to do better by us and the country. He needs to speak up and condemn this very loud and very clearly." |
Hate crimes in the United States jumped 17 per cent in 2017, according to FBI data. |
SAO PAULO, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Brazilian food processor BRF SA appointed former Petrobras Chief Executive Ivan Monteiro as its new chief financial officer, lifting shares of the world’s largest chicken exporter by more than 4 percent. |
The move reunites Monteiro with Pedro Parente, a turnaround specialist who served as Petroleo Brasileiro SA CEO for two years and who is now BRF’s chief executive and chairman. |
Monteiro worked under Parente as financial and investor relations officer at the state-controlled company, then succeeded Parente when he resigned in June of 2018 amid a contentious truckers’ strike over fuel prices. |
Parente was named to the top job at BRF in the middle of last year after the company’s shareholders demanded a management shakeup following a string of bad financial results and the firm’s involvement in a food sector investigation. |
Monteiro was replaced at Petrobras by newly elected President Jair Bolsonaro, who took office in January. |
BRF shares rose by as much as 4.6 percent to 24.79 reais in mid-morning trading on Monteiro’s appointment, seen as boosting investor confidence the food company can be revived after a probe found evidence that BRF and accredited laboratories were evading food safety checks. |
In a statement on Tuesday, BRF said that Monteiro’s appointment as BRF financial vice-president is conditioned on approval by the president’s public ethics committee, since the executive recently served as an executive at a publicly traded state-run company. |
Unaffected by anti-incumbency BJP-SAD alliance came to power in Punjab. With this historic victory it has become the first coalition government to return to power defying anti-incumbency. The coalition got a thumping victory and won 68 seats (SAD: 49 & BJP: 19) that is 9 more than the majority while congress has to rem... |
The Shiromani Akali Dal led by father-son duo 84-year-old father Prakash Singh Badal and Sukhbir Badal got second consecutive win in the state and raised their number of seat to 56 from the previous 49. Expressing his happiness over the results Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal thanked people of Punjab for their suppo... |
This election has raised suspicion about political future of Captain Amarinder Singh in politics of Punjab. |
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Hubble Space Telescope's premier camera is back in action, after a shutdown of just over a week. |
The Space Telescope Science Institute says the camera resumed observations Thursday. It stopped working Jan. 8. |
The wide field camera shut itself down, sensing a problem with voltage levels. It turns out the levels were normal and the readings were bad. The problem was solved after flight controllers reset the telemetry circuits. The repair effort was unaffected by the partial government shutdown; NASA's satellite operations are... |
Spacewalking shuttle astronauts installed this camera in 2009. It's the third and final version of the instrument, and has captured stunning pictures of some of the earliest galaxies. |
Hubble — which orbits 350 miles (560 kilometers) above Earth — was launched in 1990. |
Pioneer of the electric guitar and "father" of multitrack recording, overdubbing and the electronic reverb. |
"For my whole career, all the things I’d done, nothing impressed me as much as just playing in a little club. " |
“The Wizard of Waukesha” took up his first instrument, a harmonica, at age eight. By 13, he was performing. His incredible trajectory is thoroughly explored in AMERICAN MASTERS Les Paul: Chasing Sound. Here are some highlights from his life and career. |
Lester William Polfuss is born June 9 in Waukesha, Wisconsin, to parents George and Evelyn Polfuss. |
Punches new holes into his mother’s player piano rolls, achieving a crude multi-track effect; learns harmonica from an itinerant ditch-digger; builds a crystal radio set and begins weekend studies of sound electronics with WTMJ radio engineer. |
Receives first guitar – a Sears, Roebuck Troubadour; performs in Waukesha as “Red Hot Red;” meets idols Gene Autry and Pie Plant Pete touring with Chicago’s WLS Barn Dance shows; experiments with amplification and electrified guitar at Beekman’s Bar-B-Q; builds first disc-cutting lathe with Cadillac flywheel and dental... |
Joins Rube Tronson and his Texas Cowboys for a summer gig in Escanaba, Michigan, and befriends his mentor and guitar tutor, “Sunny Joe” Wolverton. |
Drops out of high school and teams up with Wolverton as “Sunny Joe” and “Rhubarb Red,” performing for “hillbilly” radio stations in Springfield and St. Louis, Missouri. |
Rhubarb Red and Sunny Joe move on to Chicago to perform at the World’s Fair and then with WBBM, until Paul decides to pursue jazz – living a dual identity as Rhubarb Red on daytime radio and as Les Paul at night, jamming with the jazz greats. |
Forms the Les Paul Trio with Ernie Newton and Jimmie Atkins; makes Decca blues recordings with Georgia White; and begins the first of many solid-body guitar experiments, paying the Larson Brothers $15 to build a single cutaway half-inch maple top, with no f-holes and two pickups. |
Joins Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians on NBC radio, bringing the sound of the electric guitar to millions of listeners coast to coast. |
Performs in a White House concert for President Franklin D. Roosevelt. |
Working weekends at the Epiphone factory in New York City, builds “The Log” by attaching a standard Epiphone neck, strings and wings to a 4×4 board with a pickup. When M. H. Berlin, president of Gibson Guitar’s parent company, takes little interest in this “solid-body,” Paul braces an Epiphone hollow body with a 3/8-in... |
Moves to Los Angeles with the dream of teaming up with Bing Crosby and replacing the late Eddie Lang, Paul’s guitar idol. |
Drafted into Armed Forces Radio Service, where he creates V-Disc recordings and AFRS radio shows. Tangles with Nat Cole during the first “Jazz at the Philharmonic” concert in Los Angeles, one of history’s most famous jams. |
Provides brilliant accompaniment for Bing Crosby’s post-war record hit “It’s Been a Long, Long Time.” Impressed with Paul’s technical wizardry, Crosby urges him to build a studio. Paul soundproofs his garage in Hollywood, where he records the Andrews Sisters, Art Tatum, Jo Stafford, Andy Williams, Kay Starr, Pee Wee Hu... |
Gene Autry introduces Colleen Summers (Mary Ford) to Paul, who returns to his “Rhubarb Red” persona to perform “hillbilly” radio shows with Ford on NBC. |
Paul’s mother complains that every guitar player on the radio sounds just like him. Paul leaves tour with the Andrews Sisters and returns to his garage studio in Hollywood for two years of research into echo, overdubbing, phasing, and other recording effects. |
Emerges from studio with 22 “New Sound” recordings of multiple overdubbed guitars; Capitol Records releases Paul’s first solo hit single – “Lover” backed by “Brazil.” Paul and Ford inaugurate their musical act in Waukesha; en route back to California, their convertible careens off Route 66 during a winter storm. Paul’s... |
Bing Crosby commissions Ampex Corporation to produce the first tape recorder, based on the wartime German prototype. Bing gives first Ampex model to Paul, who promptly orders an additional recording head and invents the “sound-on-sound” tape machine. Paul marries Mary Ford and hosts a radio show, “The Les Paul Show,” w... |
Gibson Guitar Corp. begins work on a solid-body electric guitar and seeks endorsement of the most prominent guitarist of the day. |
“How High the Moon” and “Walkin’ & Whistlin’ Blues” are chart-busters; Paul and Ford play the London Palladium. |
Moves to Mahwah, New Jersey, to produce “Les Paul & Mary Ford At Home,” a series of 5-minute television shows (170 episodes) sponsored by Listerine. Release of the Gibson “Gold Top,” the first commercial “Les Paul model” solid-body electric guitar. |
Invents the “Les Paulverizer,” a remote-control device he attaches below the tailpiece of his guitar to manipulate the taped accompaniment he and Ford used during their White House concert for President Dwight D. Eisenhower. |
Ampex delivers first operational 8-track recorder to Paul. Capitol Records contract ends as rock and roll pushes Paul and Ford off the charts. They sign with Mitch Miller at Columbia Records. |
Retires from performing, but not from tinkering with pickup designs and other electronics. |
Carnegie Hall concert with Bucky Pizzarelli, George Benson and Laurindo Almeida. |
Mary Ford dies in Los Angeles after lapsing into diabetic coma. |
Quintuple by-pass heart surgery at the Cleveland Clinic. |
Receives prestigious Trustees Award from the Recording Academy. |
Launches a regular Monday night gig with his trio in New York City, first at Fat Tuesdays and then at the Iridium Jazz Club. |
Lauded in a Cinemax tribute, Les Paul: He Changed the Music, with B.B. King, Eddie Van Halen and others. |
Induction into New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame; presented The John Smithson Bicentennial Medal by the Smithsonian Institution. |
Awarded a Technical Grammy by the Recording Academy. |
Celebrates his 90th birthday with a tribute concert at Carnegie Hall; inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame; receives Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame. |
Two 2005 Grammy awards – Best Pop Instrumental Performance (“Caravan”) and Best Rock Instrumental Performance (“69 Freedom Special”) – for Les Paul & Friends (Capitol), his first new album in almost 30 years. Among Paul’s musical partners: Keith Richards, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, and Buddy Guy. |
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Results from the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Taipei’s 2019 Business Climate Survey reveal companies are less confident in Taiwan’s economic outlook over the next 12 months compared to last year. |
The survey polled senior representatives from some of the 500 largest corporations currently operating in Taiwan. The results were presented in a press conference at the commerce chamber building Wednesday morning. |
Businesses revealed that while they remained just as positive as last year about Taiwan’s three-year economic outlook, with 53.6 percent expressing some degree of confidence, only 45.8 percent were confident about Taiwan’s economic prospects for 2019—a 10 percentage point drop from 2018. |
According to AmCham chairman Leo Seewald, corporations highlighted the U.S.-China trade dispute, the U.S.’s “America First” policy, and pressure on Taiwan from China as the three largest causes for concern in the upcoming year. |
Cybersecurity threats and the potential of intellectual property rights infringement also configured into the slightly more negative way enterprises viewed Taiwan’s business climate in 2019. |
The relatively unchanged perception business have on Taiwan’s three-year outlook show they are confident about a trade conflict resolution in the long-term, Seewald commented. They also remain confident in their own potential for growth over the next 12 months. |
Companies view product or service innovation as their main business growth opportunity in 2019, in a large part due to the Executive Yuan’s new “Five plus two” policy adjustments, which 64 percent of survey respondents said will benefit Taiwan’s economic development. |
However, businesses indicated they are relatively dissatisfied with the current level of attention given to their needs by Taiwan’s top policy makers, suggesting further reforms are needed to increase the competitiveness of Taiwan’s economy. |
Despite this, Taiwan is still viewed as an excellent place to live and work. Respondents remained enthusiastic about the country’s living conditions, and gave personal safety, social stability, an excellent healthcare system, and great transport infrastructure as the chief attributes pertaining to quality of life in th... |
The 2019 Business Climate Survey was conducted by the American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei in partnership with PwC Taiwan between Nov. 12 and Dec. 21 2018. |
Harry Anderson, who earned multiple Emmy nominations for playing Judge Harry T. Stone on the NBC comedy Night Court, was found dead today at a home in Asheville, NC. He was 65. No cause of death was reported, but Asheville Police PIO Christina Hallingse confirmed his death to Deadline and said they do not suspect foul ... |
Anderson appeared in three Season 1 episodes of NBC’s Cheers as local flim-flam man/magician Harry “The Hat” Gitties, including a memorable sting episode in which he starred. That role — which he would reprise a few times later on the then-rising sitcom — led to his landing the lead in Night Court. The sitcom also star... |
It debuted in January 1984 as a midseason replacement and the lead-out of Cheers. The show went on to be part of its primetime lineup for the next nine seasons. |
Anderson, also an accomplished magician, would earn three consecutive Emmy nominations for the role from 1985-87, and he stayed with the series through its 193-episode run. Night Court was a top 10 show in all of primetime for its third and fourth seasons as it and Cheers gained in popularity. It would follow the Bosto... |
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