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Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu had a phone conversation. "It's certainly a good thing that the Secretary and the foreign minister were able to have a phone call yesterday," Nauert said. |
"The kind of progress we want is for Pastor Brunson, our locally employed staff and other American citizens to be brought home. That's the progress we're looking for and we're not there just yet," she added. |
Turkey and the U.S. are currently experiencing rocky relations after the U.S. imposed sanctions on Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu and Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül over the continued detention of Brunson, who faces terrorism charges in Turkey. |
It was earlier reported that Turkey and the U.S. reached a preliminary agreement on some issues after the crisis. According to sources speaking to daily Hürriyet, the agreement covers “certain subjects” and a Turkish delegation is scheduled to visit Washington DC in the coming days to “precede” the talks. |
The U.S. embassy in Ankara on Aug. 7 stressed the friendship with Turkey despite ongoing tensions. “The United States continues to be a firm friend and ally of Turkey despite current tensions. Our countries have a vibrant economic relation,” the embassy said in a tweet on Aug. 7. |
The embassy also refuted claims reported by a number of media outlets in Turkey suggesting that an “American official” predicted that a U.S. dollar would soon be equal to 7 Turkish Liras. |
The U.S. responded to the failure to fully free Brunson by hitting the two Turkish ministers with sanctions, prompting Ankara to announce a similar measure. |
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that Turkey had decided to freeze the assets of the U.S. justice and interior secretaries in Turkey in retaliation, but nothing has been done to this end yet. |
Çavuşoğlu and Pompeo held a meeting in Singapore just two days after the U.S. imposed the sanctions and agreed to work on keeping diplomatic channels open despite deepening tensions. |
Çavuşoğlu said his meeting with Pompeo in Singapore was “constructive,” while adding that the two countries had to sit down and discuss a roadmap to solve the problem. “The U.S. itself needs a positive agenda. |
I believe we can overcome the current situation through compromise, diplomacy, negotiation and good faith, but not by language of threatening. There is an intense process ahead of us,” Çavuşoğlu said. |
After a hiatus of almost three years, Liam Neeson, undoubtedly one of the most remarkable action stars in Hollywood, finally appeared in another solo action movie. The last action thriller he starred in was Run All Night, which was released back in 2015. This year, we once again get to watch Neeson entertain us by doin... |
The movie follows an insurance salesman, Michael MacCauley (Neeson), who lives a simple life with his wife and son, with set routines like taking a commuter train to and from work. The plot of the film starts to develop the day Michael is laid off from his job, leaving him without means to provide for his family. A dev... |
During their conversation, Joanna offers him a hundred-thousand dollars if he is able to find a person on the train, with the only available information being the alias “Prynne”. As his quest furthers and things begin to unravel, Michael cannot get off the train, nor can he alert others around him of any impending dang... |
The movie has an incredibly talented cast, including Vera Farmiga (The Conjuring and Bates Motel), Patrick Wilson (The Conjuring 2 and Fargo), Sam Neill (Jurassic Park and Peaky Blinders) and Jonathan Banks (Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul). The entire cast does a great job, but it is Farmiga who steals the show and ... |
For an action movie, the action sequences were incredibly amazing, with some of the slow motion sequences being the most slick. However, although the movie does develop its characters, you don’t really connect with most of them. It feels like a chessboard, with one Queen (Neeson) surrounded by pawns (the rest of the ca... |
The movie is a thriller, yes, and it is also quite intense, but if you are a fan of the genre, then some of the thrills are predictable, as it seems to be driven by the same formula. A seasoned cinemagoer would easily be able to see right through the mysteries and the conspiracies that this movie has to offer. |
Nonetheless, it sure is a lot fun watching Neeson getting himself through tough situations which seem impossible to get out of. His character doesn’t just fight to survive, he has to make deductions and do a lot of problem solving as well, with the movie playing out like a puzzle he has to solve to survive and get back... |
Neeson, who recently revealed that this would be his last action movie, is definitely the biggest asset for the film. Moreover, the way he’s kicking and punching at the age of 65 makes one wish he wasn’t done with the action genre just yet. |
It is quite evident that this film draws similarities to one of Neeson’s previous hits, Non-Stop (2014), which put him in a similar situation, the only difference being that the mode of transport then was a Boeing 767 instead of a train. Yes, clearly not all of Neeson’s movies have a brilliant or a well-written plot. F... |
It is true that Neeson and Jaume Collet-Serra’s latest collaboration does not break any new ground or bring anything new to the action-thriller genre, but it has just enough to keep you on the edge of your seat. As a huge fan of Neeson, I cannot wait for yet another one of his action thrillers, even if the next one is ... |
They wrote the Inaugural speech and set in fast motion a series of moves to cement Trump as an America-first Nationalist. |
They maneuvered to get more key allies inside the White House and positioned for top agency jobs. |
They wrote many of the executive orders, sometimes with little input from others helping with the transition. |
They egged on Trump to take a combative approach with the media, China, Mexico and critics. |
And Bannon punctuated the week with a full-throated, Trump-pleasing bashing of the media. |
Bannon, in a phone interview with NYT's Mike Grynbaum, who covers media, TV, and politics (story is on A1): "The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while … I want you to quote this … The media here is the opposition party. They don't understand this country. They st... |
Pre-conventional wisdom: A conservative leader told Axios' Jonathan Swan that Reince Priebus' people were feeling like they "won November and December," having filled the White House with so many loyalists. The spin was that Reince was outmaneuvering Bannon and would be the real power source. But now it's dawning on th... |
2003 was a blast for investors. What will 2004 bring? |
We'll take the market’s temperature with Stuwart Varney, Fox Business News contributor; Jeff Hirsch, editor of "Stock Trader's Almanac," and Kari Bayer Pinkernell, chief U.S. investment strategist at Merrill Lynch. |
Has Usama bin Laden lost his mojo? Did many media outlets bury the news of bin Laden's latest audiotape? We'll get a fair and balanced debate from Bob Lichter, president of the Center for Media and Public Affairs, and Peter Brookes, senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation. |
Plus, do the latest immigration security measure go far enough? We’ll ask Mike Boyd, aviation security consultant. |
If Democratic candidates try to score points talking about a stumbling economy, are they wasting their time? We’ll ask Commerce Secretary Don Evans. |
Usama by getting hitched this weekend. But does this latest act signal Britney's career is cooling off? We’ll ask Craig Marks, editor of Blender magazine. |
What kind of jury can Martha Stewart (search) expect? We'll get a read from FOX News legal analysts Peter Johnson and Lis Wiehl. |
Plus, following the success of NASA's latest Mars (search) mission, is it time to send human to the red planet? Former astronaut retired U.S. Navy Capt. Alan Bean, the fourth man to walk on the moon. |
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Interviews are one of the most stressful parts of the hiring process. But, if you come prepared, here's hoping that your nerves won't get the best of you like they do with so many others. |
"On interviewing on candidate when asked 'What do you know about our company?", he replied 'You fabricate concrete pipes'. The answers should have been around 'health/pathology'. Bad research = no job." |
"Several years ago I interviewed a young man for a night shift position. It all went quite well until the end when I asked if he could work weekends, he said he was unable for the next six months because of a conditional weekend prison sentence." |
"My salon is seeking experienced stylists who already have an established clientele. Regardless, new graduates with no clients still apply, but the worst one was the girl who swore she had a clientele on the phone-then, when asked during the interview, said, 'Umm, maybe. What's that?' Not Hired!" |
"During a group interview it was specified in previous rounds that we were all going to have to start on the 1st of September. One candidate put his hand up and says 'I'm on holidays then does that matter?' Four out of the five got jobs!" |
Kat Krull is the Marketing Manager of Resunate, a job application tool that tailors and optimizes your resume for a specific job, and ApplyApp.ly, an innovative job board that finds job seekers their most compatible open positions. You can find Kat, Resunate, and ApplyApp.ly on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. |
Plans to build a $2 billion wind-power project connecting turbines on the Great Plains with the Memphis area are all but dead. |
A $2 billion wind-energy project that would connect the Mid-South's electrical grid with turbines on the Great Plains -- while also bringing a $260 million investment to Shelby County -- faces an uncertain future after the proposal was withdrawn from consideration. |
Houston-based Clean Line Energy Partners withdrew from the queue of applicants seeking to connect with the Tennessee Valley Authority transmission system, company spokeswoman Sarah Bray said. She cited insufficient interest by TVA and "others in the Southeast" for the action. |
"Before moving forward, we need market conditions in the Southeast to improve and need to have more commercial interest in the project...," Bray said in an email. |
"The fact that TVA has not accepted our proposal to deliver very low-cost wind energy does certainly factor in to the reasons..." |
TVA officials, however, said the company failed to meet its own timeline in following through with the two-stage application process. The first stage is a study to ensure the connection meets technical requirements, and the second is establishing an agreement under which TVA would purchase the power. |
"We're willingly listen to any proposal, and we will evaluate it to ensure it's in the best interests of the people we serve," TVA spokesman Jim Hopson said. "Because we never got to the purchase-power agreement, that was an evaluation we were unable to make." |
Clean Line is welcome to "come back and reapply" at any time, Hopson said. |
Clean Line planned to build a 700-mile transmission system that would deliver 3,500 megawatts of wind energy from Oklahoma, across Arkansas to a station near Millington. There, the power would be transferred onto the grid of TVA, the federally owned corporation that sells wholesale power to utilities in Memphis and acr... |
TVA, in turn, would distribute the Clean Line power that it didn't buy to other utilities across the Southeast. |
Using efficient high-voltage direct-current transmission lines, the project would deliver wind power to buyers at a highly competitive 2 cents per kilowatt-hour, Clean Line's founder and president Michael Skelly has said. |
The Economic Development Growth Engine for Memphis and Shelby County approved an 11-year payment-in-lieu-of-taxes plan to secure Clean Line's pledge to build the $259.8 million transfer station. The station would create 16 jobs and generate $37.1 million in local property taxes over the 11 years, according to EDGE. |
The withdrawal of Clean Line's proposal prompted an environmental group to place blame on TVA, which it said has shown little interest in renewable energy. |
The company's action means the project is "effectively dead," said Stephen A. Smith, executive director of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy. |
"I can't emphasize enough that this was a huge opportunity, not just for TVA but the entire Southeast," Smith said. |
With the apparent loss of the transfer station, "it really is a blow to Memphis and greater Shelby County," he added. |
Smith contends TVA never negotiated seriously with Clean Line. "They've just been sort of stringing them along," he said. |
Citing other recent decisions involving wind and solar energy projects, Smith said TVA is "developing very much of a hostile position to renewable power." |
Hopson disputes that, however. He noted that TVA recently sent out requests for proposals from generators would provide 200 megawatts of renewable power to the agency. |
"Renewable power is an important part of TVA's energy portfolio, and it will be an increasingly important part in the future," Hopson said. |
There are limitations to wind and solar energy, he said. During a recent peak demand period caused by bitterly cold temperatures one night and morning earlier this month, there was no solar energy available for TVA because the sun wasn't shining, and there was very little accessible wind power. |
"Renewable power is important, but it's an intermittent source of power," Hopson said. |
April 23, 2019, 6:17 a.m. |
The creators of 5-star Scientific++ present Statistics Calculator++, a calculator that has everything Scientific++ does plus statistical and regression analysis.In designing the statistics functions of this app we had one thing in mind: The user should not need to read a single line of manual to perform the statistical... |
New documents filed by privacy advocates claim the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) Europe and Google knowingly violated General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) privacy laws. |
The evidence focuses on the IAB Tech Lab’s OpenRTB ad system, claiming that it is illegal under GDPR, which is intended to protect personal data and privacy for individuals in the European Union. |
The complaints allege that programmatic advertising using real-time auctions, specifically the IAB Tech Lab’s OpenRTB protocol, are inherently incompatible with EU data protection law. |
They allege that the use of OpenRTB entailed large-scale and uncontrolled release of personal data without the user being aware. It also suggested that IAB Europe’s Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF) facilitates the breaches. |
The documents were filed Tuesday with data protection authorities in the UK and Ireland. |
The post suggests that IAB Europe has consistently tried to outline the arguments and correct information, but that privacy advocates have chosen to ignore the facts, bringing more inaccurate information to support their case. |
“Their errors of omission could therefore be characterized as either misrepresentations or just fabrications,” states IAB Europe. |
It’s not clear whether those who make the claim truly understand the process of sharing data from searches or clicks, as well as data collection and ad serving, or whether the system really does violate the rules. |
One report points to new evidence that IAB Europe CEO Townsend Feehan knew back in 2017 that the RTB system would violate GDPR laws, which went into effect in 2018. |
This special issue of TWC explores the potential of fan fiction as an interpretative model to study ancient religious texts. |
Fan fiction writers are readers of texts who become writers of their own texts. Fans engage with the universe created by the makers of a specific series, film, or book, to which they refer as “canonical” material. For example, they create new storylines, “repair” plots they do not agree with (fix-it fic), write prequel... |
A similar relationship between the reception of existing material and new text production existed in early Judaism and Christianity. Scholars increasingly question the idea that the early Jewish and Christian religious texts constituted an immutable tradition which was handed down as unchanged as possible. Boundaries b... |
We invite essays that apply fan fiction as an interpretative model to study any text(s) in the range of Hebrew Bible, Septuagint, Dead Sea Scrolls, Pseudepigrapha, New Testament, Christian Apocrypha, or Rabbinic literature. |
What conventions govern the use and reuse of motifs, characters, genres and so on in the process of rewriting? And seeing as the rewriting and reception of texts is also a question of power dynamics, who has the “right” to establish and maintain these conventions? |
Which themes need “fixing” (e.g., rabbinic literature concerned with “plot holes” in the biblical canon)? Which scenarios are re-vamped to fit specific new social contexts (e.g., apocalyptic literature)? |
Which characters are explored further (e.g., Enoch, the apocryphal gospels)? Which additional material about a character is taking it “too far” and why? |
How are strategies of constructing or concealing authorship (pseudepigraphy/anonymity) used in ancient derivative works as compared to contemporary fan works? What do scholars assume about authors/creators based on the drift of a canon-related work? |
How do gendered expectations affect practices of writing and interpretation? What are possible effects of the production of additional material on the development of a “canon”? |
How do writers of derivative works perpetuate the authority of the canonical material –or subvert it? |
What is the power of the “fan” community in influencing the development and publication of stories, in ancient and contemporary contexts? |
How does the institutional, political and economic context influence the development of derivative material, in contemporary fan fiction and in ancient rewritings? How might the complex power dynamics of the interplay between fan fiction and canonical material be compared to the processes of reception and rewriting in ... |
Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC, http://ift.tt/zAFnrI) is an international peer-reviewed online Gold Open Access publication of the nonprofit Organization for Transformative Works copyrighted under a Creative Commons License. TWC aims to provide a publishing outlet that welcomes fan-related topics and to promote... |
Theory: Conceptual essays. Peer review, 6,000–8,000 words. |
Praxis: Case study essays. Peer review, 5,000–7,000 words. |
Symposium: Short commentary. Editorial review, 1,500–2,500 words. |
Please visit TWC’s Web site (http://ift.tt/zAFnrI) for complete submission guidelines, or e-mail the TWC Editor (editor AT transformativeworks.org). |
Contact—Contact guest editors Frauke Uhlenbruch (f.uhlenbruch AT gmail.com), Sonja Ammann (sonja.ammann AT unibas.ch) and Mette Bundvad (mettebundvad AT gmail.com). |
Due date—June 1, 2018, for estimated December 15, 2019 publication. |
See more on the Transformative Works and Cultures website. |
Zoe Kravitz has hit back at Lily Allen’s claim that they kissed, insisting the British singer “attacked” her. |
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