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Martin said he doesn’t believe his deputies would make the same decisions now. |
Martin said that sheriff’s deputies can call on interpreters when dealing with people who don’t speak English. |
Kimberlee Tellez and Mia Yamamoto were married in 2015. |
PACOIMA — “Living and Loving Out Loud: Our LGBT Stories” will be presented on Sunday, Aug. 28, at 2 p.m. at the San Fernando Valley Japanese American Community Center,12953 Branford St. in Pacoima. |
• Mia Yamamoto and Kimberlee Tellez, who were married on Sept. 2, 2015. Yamamoto was the first openly transgender attorney in Los Angeles County and is the recipient of numerous awards in the legal and humanitarian fields. Tellez is lead designer and CEO of Pele Design Studios. |
• Jason Takagi, a member of San Luis Obispo United Methodist Church. He came out to his church while a lay leader to personalize the need to be reaffirming of LGBT people. Takagi is the convener of the California-Pacific Reconciling Ministries Network and provisional chair of the California-Pacific Annual Conference LG... |
• Marsha Aizumi (facilitator), an author, national speaker and educational consultant. She serves on the PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) National Board of Directors and is co-founder and president of the PFLAG San Gabriel Valley Asian Pacific Islander, the first and only API of PFLAG. Aizumi and her tr... |
This free panel, sponsored by the SFV JACL, is presented in part to inform the community of Okaeri 2016: A Nikkei LGBTQ Gathering, which will be held on Oct. 14 and 15 at the Japanese American National Museum. |
An earlier version of this story gave an incorrect address for SFVJACC. Our apologies. |
Uber and Airbnb monetize the desperation of people in the post-crisis economy while sounding generous—and evoke a fantasy of community in an atomized population. |
Sharing is a good thing, we learned in kindergarten, but that wisdom was soon called into question by the grown-up world of getting and spending. Now, New Age capitalism has spun out a wonderful invention: the “sharing economy,” which holds out the promise of using technology to connect disparate individuals in mutuall... |
The most prominent examples of the sharing economy are a taxi-hailing service called Uber and a real-estate-subletting service called Airbnb. As with most enterprises emerging from Silicon Valley, they come with a very ambitious vocabulary. Brian Chesky, the co-founder of Airbnb, uses words like “revolution” and “movem... |
The updated version is more about the consumption side; in fact, another name for it is “collaborative consumption.” In a 2010 article in the Harvard Business Review, Rachel Botsman, formerly of the Clinton Foundation, and venture capitalist Roo Rogers applied the term to Zipcar and Netflix, though it seems like a gran... |
Airbnb, which seems universally loved by both hosts and renters, has since become the most appealing example of this profitably collective ethos. I spoke with hosts (who universally crave anonymity) who pick up anywhere from $15,000 to $75,000 a year by renting out parts of their houses. It’s not quite free money; one ... |
But the model isn’t blemish-free: there’s a real, if hard-to-measure, impact on housing availability and affordability in desirable cities. In October, New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman issued a report tracing the rapid growth of Airbnb in New York City. It found many of the rentals illegal, which would... |
That may sound reasonable, but it’s not fully convincing. Yes, 25,000 hosts is tiny next to a 2.2 million rental inventory—but there were only 68,000 vacancies as of the city’s most recent survey. And more subtle displacements go on as well: one graduate student I spoke with took a two-bedroom apartment in a gentrifyin... |
Writing three years after Botsman and Rogers’s “collaborative consumption” article in the Harvard Business Review, and with Airbnb firmly established as a leading “sharing” company, Arun Sundararajan announced in the same journal that collaborative-consumption models had surpassed Zipcar in the ride-sharing sphere. Zip... |
But in ride sharing, there’s really only one victor: Uber, a company with a knack for breaking laws, because the march of disruption can’t be bothered with legalities. Uber is the headline-grabber of the moment because, at a dinner party in New York last November, a company VP suggested to BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith that it ... |
According to legend, Kalanick founded Uber in 2009 one snowy evening in Paris after a brainstorming session with co-founder Garrett Camp. It launched in San Francisco—a city where it’s notoriously difficult to get a cab because of strict limits on their numbers—in 2010. It was far from Kalanick’s first venture. A youth... |
After its San Francisco launch, Uber was immediately slapped with a cease-and-desist order by city authorities for running an unlicensed cab service. Kalanick found this opposition energizing: the company quickly expanded to other cities, sometimes with official blessings and sometimes without. At first, Uber featured ... |
But there’s a lot of discontent among drivers, both those who work for Uber and those who work for what are derisively called “incumbent” companies. Traditional drivers have staged protests against Uber and its rivals in Los Angeles, Washington and across Europe, although none have gone to the same lengths as Parisian ... |
Uber drivers often complain about the low (and declining) pay and miserable conditions. S., a driver in Chicago (who, like everyone I spoke with, wanted to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals), says that full-timers put in sixty hours a week for an hourly rate that comes to $12 or $13 after expenses. He says the com... |
Drivers are rated by their passengers, and if your rating isn’t high enough, the company will “deactivate” you—which is how they say “fire,” since you’re just another node in the app to them. J., another LA driver whose name was passed along to me by an organizer with the California App-Based Drivers Association (a pro... |
You need a newish car to drive for Uber; if your car gets too old, that’s grounds for deactivation. But the company is ready to help: it’s entered into a partnership with Santander, a Spanish bank, to offer car loans to drivers, with the payments conveniently deducted from their paycheck. According to the terms posted ... |
Earlier this year, Uber hired former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe to handle its PR, strategy and lobbying. Kalanick describes a politico like Plouffe as a perfect fit with Uber, because there are daily “primaries going on with folks in the ride-sharing space.” Well-capitalized revolutions need such high-end str... |
For Barbrook and Cameron, the techno-utopia promised in the mid-1990s was very much a product of the baby boom, with roots in a 1970s artisanal hippie/New Leftish capitalism, subsequently leavened with the rising libertarian ideology of the New Right in the 1980s. Individualism and techno-utopianism were merged into a ... |
Of course, “sharing” entrepreneurs aren’t entirely lacking a utopian line, as Chesky’s exuberant language demonstrates. But despite the appeal to a green communitarianism, it just doesn’t have the verve of its dot-com ancestor. That may be because in the 1990s bubble, jobs were easy to come by and real wages were risin... |
Perhaps nothing exemplifies this growing desperation like the smaller, production-oriented side of the sharing economy. Here, the labor of people is shared in an arrangement that looks increasingly feudal. There’s the venerable TaskRabbit, founded in 2008, which was described by Wired as an “eBay for real-world labor.”... |
CrunchBase’s bio for TaskRabbit hits all the right notes: “It was a cold night in Boston in February of 2008 when Leah Busque realized she was out of dog food for her 100-lb yellow lab, Kobe. Leah thought to herself, ‘Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a place online I could go to connect with my neighbors—maybe one who ... |
The sharing economy looks like a classically neoliberal response to neoliberalism: individualized and market-driven, it sees us all as micro-entrepreneurs fending for ourselves in a hostile world. Its publicists seek to transform the instability of the post–Great Recession economy into opportunity. Waiting for your scr... |
As Airbnb’s Chesky said in a McKinsey & Company interview, today’s generation sees ownership as “a burden.” People aren’t proud of their homes or cars; they’re proud of their Instagram feed. As Chesky predicts, “in the future, people will own whatever they want responsibility for. And I think what they’re going to want... |
This Jan. 10, 2018, file photo shows Fiona, a baby Nile Hippopotamus, walk through her enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden in Cincinnati. Fiona was born six weeks prematurely at 29 pounds, well below the common 50-100 pound range, and required nonstop critical care by zookeepers to ensure her survival, b... |
The Cincinnati Zoo is celebrating another milestone for its famous premature baby hippo. |
The zoo said Wednesday that Fiona has hit 1,000 pounds (454 kilograms). |
The zoo acknowledges reaching that weight mark is more of a sentimental milestone since full-grown female hippos weigh about three times that. Senior keeper Jenna Wingate tells WVXU radio that it's "a big deal" because the zoo didn't know whether she would survive at birth. |
Born nearly two months early in January 2017, she was 29 pounds (13 kilograms). That's about a third the size of a typical full-term Nile hippo. She also was unable to stand or nurse. |
A zoo staffer hand-milked her mother Bibi, and Smithsonian's National Zoo helped develop a special formula. Nurses from Cincinnati Children's Hospital put in a hippo IV. |
Following on from the writings of three named poets, the reader might feel a bit at sea in confronting a poem about whose author we know nothing - or do we? The speaker claims to be in prison as he writes, a man whose good name has been sullied (lines 64-70). In spite of the many friends he once had (lines 71-79), he i... |
Still, because readers always have a strong preference for works attached to authors' names, scholars have suggested a variety of names for possible authors of this work: John Lydgate, Thomas Usk, George Ashby, Sir Richard Roos, or William de la Pole, the duke of Suffolk. None of their arguments has been considered con... |
This poem may be divided into several parts. The first portion of the poem (lines 1-28) initiates a dialogue between Fortune and the prisoner, the prisoner complaining against Fortune and her three sisters, the Fates (or Parcae). Fortune answers his complaints in lines 29-42. Although the speaker opens with the address... |
Despite first creating and then abandoning the dialogue, this anonymous poet comes the closest of all those represented in this volume to presenting the proper Boethian attitude toward Fortune, as taught by Lady Philosophy: "Farewele, Fortune, and do right as thee list [whatever you please]!" (line 43), he says, commen... |
Though not a great poem, this is certainly a good one. The poet had a better sense of meter than many of his fellow poets and makes good use of the couplet that closes each stanza of rhyme royal. (It is worth comparing these conclusions to his stanzas to the couplets that close English sonnets in the following century.... |
The "Complaint of a Prisoner against Fortune" (IMEV 860) survives in a number of manuscripts derived from John Shirley, a London scribe of the middle of the fifteenth century who is responsible for preserving unique copies of minor works of Chaucer and his contemporaries and followers. Two of these manuscripts were wri... |
Connolly, Margaret. John Shirley: Book Production and the Noble Household in Fifteenth-Century England. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 1998. Pp. 173-75. |
Green, Richard Firth. "The Authorship of the Lament of a Prisoner against Fortune." Mediaevalia 2 (1976), 101-09. |
Hammond, Eleanor Prescott. "Two British Museum Manuscripts (Harley 2251 and Adds. 34360): A Contribution to the Bibliography of John Lydgate." Anglia 28 (1905), 1-28. |
---. "A Scribe of Chaucer." Modern Philology 27 (1929), 26-33. |
It seems Orange, formerly Wanadoo, is still having problems with its local loop unbundling. The Register has learned that a number of Orange's Broadband customers have at best patchy access to their services, with some being cut off for literally weeks at a time. |
In the most extreme case, one customer who upgraded her system from dial-up to broadband 11 weeks ago has not even had her account activated, despite numerous calls to technical support. She is, we note, still being charged her monthly subscription. |
"I had the 'Anytime' dial-up," she told us. "Then I moved up to the broadband service. Orange closed the 'Anytime' account and started billing me for Broadband, but I've never had the service. I've complained, of course, and spend ages on hold, but they [customer services] won't even call you back." |
Orange is providing her with a free dial up service while it tries to sort out the problem, she says, but that is hardly a long-term solution. |
Kevin Ellis, an Orange customer who started the OrangeProblems.co.uk site when he was cut off from his service during unbundling earlier this year, says this is a common occurrence. He has been without broadband for the last three weeks - the second time his service has vanished this year. |
"What happens is, you ring technical support and they take you through the basic checks. Then they do line tests and you have to ring them back. Inevitably, the line test couldn't be completed, or they can't conclude anything from it. It feels like they are just stalling," Ellis told us. |
His site is jammed with similar tales. |
One punter explains: "I've been having problems with my broadband since May 18. [It} will only display some web pages, can't send any emails out, but CAN receive emails. If I’m downloading or uploading anything, it is faster to do so on my dial-up connection. |
"I’ve contacted tech support countless times, but they have been unable to solve the matter. The landline bill for all the calls since then have mounted to about 22 pounds, 8 hours spent on the line for nothing. The last time I called them was to get a MAC code. And that was 3 weeks ago." |
Another details a similarly long fight with the company, after an unsolicited upgrade to the 8Mb service went wrong. Yet another is even having trouble cancelling the service after being unable to get online since mid-July. |
The problems Orange, then Wanadoo, was having with its broadband migration were first highlighted back in February. At the time, the company said it was working with its suppliers to sort the problems out, but it now seems that they've been unable to do so. |
As we noted at the time, somewhere between two and three million lines will be unbundled this year. Only a very small proportion of those need to fail for there to be a whole lot of stranded websurfers. |
"We apologise for the downtime (Name Witheld) is experiencing with regard to her broadband connection. We take our commitment to customer service extremely seriously and so are working with her to get her line back up and running as quickly as we can. |
"We have already successfully migrated tens of thousands of customers to the new Orange Broadband network and only a very small number of customers have experienced any problems. |
Noble Energy to provide nearly 1.6 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, as energy dependence on Israel from Jordan heightens. |
Israel is to supply Jordan with natural gas from its vast Leviathan offshore gas field over a period of 15 years, US giant Noble Energy announced Wednesday. |
A source close to the deal said it was worth $15 billion (11.4 billion euros) - a significant chunk of some $60 billion which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said will come from Israel's offshore gas exports. |
Noble announced in a statement the "execution of a non-binding letter of intent to supply natural gas from the Leviathan field, offshore Israel, to the National Electric Power Company Ltd (NEPCO) of Jordan." |
"Noble Energy and the Leviathan partners will supply a base gross quantity of 1.6 trillion cubic feet of natural gas from the Leviathan field over a 15-year term," it said. |
Leviathan is majority-owned by three Israeli companies, with 40 percent owned by Noble. |
geopolitically to establish our relationship with Jordan and other Arab countries." |
This is not the first time Israel and Jordan have discussed a natural gas deal. Just six months ago, the Arab Potash Company (APC) signed a similar deal to increase Jordan's reliance on Israeli energy, after Egyptian pipelines became unreliable after countless attacks from terrorists in the Sinai. |
In February, Jordanian officials said the disruptions in gas supplies cost Amman at least $1 million per day. According to the Egyptian Cabinet Information Centre (IDSC), Egypt’s natural gas production shrank in December 2013 to 3.3 million tons - down 11.8 percent from December 2012. |
"We are aware of the situation in Egypt and they [Egyptians] are aware of our situation in Jordan,” Jordan Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour during a meeting with an Egyptian delegation in Amman, according to Al-Ahram. “Egypt is to begin gas mega-projects and Jordan has already commenced implementing a natural gas termina... |
The announcement also surfaces despite heightened tensions between Amman and Jerusalem. Earlier Wednesday, the Jordanian government and royal family reportedly succeeded in cowing Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu into stopping a building project near the Temple Mount due to regional and political pressures. |
Export plans for the eastern Mediterranean have been taking shape over the past five years since Noble discovered the Leviathan field in Israeli waters. |
condensate, and has been hailed as the largest gas deposit found in the world in a decade. |
Several months ago, the Israeli government approved a new plan allowing up to 40% of what it extracts from Leviathan and another field, Tamar, off its Mediterranean coast to be exported. |
Netanyahu has said exports would bring in some $60 billion to state coffers over the next 20 years; Israel's natural gas finds are expected to sharply reduce its dependence on imports. |
Mumbai: Mira Nair’s, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a unanimous choice of the Jury members, was awarded with the first Centenary Award and presented with a Silver Peacock, a certificate and a cash prize of Rs 10 lakh at this year’s International Film Festival of India (IFFI). |
Mira Nair’s, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, was also the closing film that brought down the curtains at the 43rd International Film Festival of India, Goa. |
The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a touching and engaging story of a young man chasing corporate success on Wall Street. Post September 2011 tragedy in America, he finds himself embroiled in a conflict between his American Dream, a hostage crisis, and the enduring call of his family’s homeland. |
It is based on the bestselling novel by Mohsin Hamid. The film was shot in Lahore, Istanbul, New York, Atlanta, Delhi and stars Kate Hudson, Kiefer Sutherland, Liev Schrieber, Riz Ahmed, Shabana Azmi and Om Puri. |
The Reluctant Fundamentalist is slated for an April 2013 release in India. |
Milton Keynes re-opening its art gallery, Simon Amstell's film Benjamin, Northern Ballet's Victoria, Sadie Jones's The Snakes, and Memes and Selfies on BBC Four. |
Simon Amstell directs his first cinema release - Benjamin. The title character is a thinly-disguised version of himself with nervous lack of self esteem who is directing a film about himself. It's all very meta but is it marvellous? |
The bicentenary of Queen Victoria's birth has seen lots of artistic projects to mark the moment. Norther Ballet has commissioned a work by choreographer Cathy Marston which looks at the Queen's life through her relationship with her youngest daughter. |
Sadie Jones won the Costa First Novel award for her book The Outcast and her latest The Snakes is set in contemporary London and Burgundy. |
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4) Texas A&M 52, Duke 48 -- Great game because of A&M's furious comeback and Johnny Manziel ending his career reminding everyone why he's arguably the most exciting and entertaining college football player ever. Duke's early dominance in the Chick-Fil-A Bowl bordered on boring. Except this was Duke hammering an SEC tea... |
3) Ohio State 42, Michigan 41 -- Perhaps the greatest finish ever in one of the greatest rivalries in sports. Michigan coach Brady Hoke's gutsy call to go for two points and the win rather than kick a game-tying PAT and play for overtime. The win preserved the Buckeyes' perfect record. Hours later, they found themselve... |
2) Florida State 34, Auburn 31 -- This would have made the list regardless of the stakes with FSU outscoring Auburn 21-10 in the fourth quarter, with three lead changes in the final 4:31 and the game-winning touchdown coming with 13 seconds left. The fact that it was the national championship game made it even more epi... |
1) Auburn 34, Alabama 28 -- Only the greatest college football game ever. The stage. The participants. The drama. The improbable finish. The shock value. The 2013 Iron Bowl had it all. |
5) A&M-Duke -- Again, a great game. But the lack of national championship ramifications is the separating factor for me. |
4) Ohio State-Michigan -- Although Ohio State was undefeated, nearly losing to a mediocre Michigan team exposed the Buckeyes as merely a pretty good team buoyed by a soft schedule. |
3) Georgia-Auburn -- Finally somewhat healthy again, the Bulldogs showed how good they could have been if not for all of their injuries. But the Tigers proved they had something special going on. |
2) Florida State-Auburn -- This belongs in the conversation for the top 25 games of all time. |
1) Alabama-Auburn -- My regional bias notwithstanding, it was the greatest college football game of all time. |
You probably noticed that four of the five games involved SEC teams. In fact, 10 of the 25 games involved SEC teams: Alabama-Texas A&M, Georgia-LSU, Auburn-Texas A&M, South Carolina-Missouri, Ole Miss-Vanderbilt and Georgia-Tennessee were the others. That didn't include some worthy honorable mentions -- Tennessee's ups... |
Just 65 days before new drama is created. |
The University of Florida is being criticized after an usher manhandled several black students during a graduation ceremony on Saturday. The white usher pushed and grabbed students attempting to stroll—a dance significant to black fraternities—dance, and celebrate while crossing the stage. |
In videos of the ceremony posted to social media, the man can be seen grabbing and yanking at students after they recieve their diploma. |
University of Florida president W. Kent Fuchs apologized for the incident. “I personally apologize, and am reaching out to the students involved,” he tweeted. |
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