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The duo have created a narrative around their designs – Roman and Williams Guild isn’t just a store, it also houses fashionable restaurant La Mercerie. Like many New York designers, they are involved in creating the culture as well as the look of the city. Over the summer, Apparatus co-hosted artist Nick Cave’s Freedom... |
President Donald Trump and Saudi King Salman want to “rigorously” enforce the Iran nuclear deal, the White House said Sunday, despite the US leader’s long opposition to the agreement. |
The pair, in a phone conversation, also spoke of the need to address Iran’s “destabilizing regional activities,” fight the spread of “radical Islamic terrorism” and establish safe zones in war-ravaged Syria and Yemen, the White House statement read. |
No further details were provided about those plans. |
Trump opposed the nuclear agreement signed by Israel’s arch-foe Iran and world powers, including the United States, in 2015 and has said he wants to undo it. |
Some of his key nominees have adopted an openly anti-Iran stance, including secretary of state candidate Rex Tillerson, who is seeking a complete revision of the accord. |
Israeli President Netanyahu said last month that there were many ways of “undoing” the Iran nuclear deal and that he would discuss that with Trump. |
The deal places curbs on Tehran’s nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of international sanctions. |
Tehran is a major foe of both Washington and Ryad. The Sunni majority Saudi kingdom is engaged in a power struggle with the Shiite country for dominance in the region. |
Trump and King Salman “agreed on the importance of rigorously enforcing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran and of addressing Iran’s destabilizing regional activities,” the White House said. |
Trump also spoke by telephone with the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, committing to “further strengthen cooperation on fighting radical Islamic terrorism,” the White House said. |
Some healthy options for an enjoyable birthing experience in the East Bay. |
People approaching birth can often feel overwhelmed. So it's important for expectant parents to be informed — to know their bodies, their babies, and their many options for a deeply satisfying, honoring, and respectful birth experience. |
• Take a dance class for optimal fetal positioning at Then Comes Baby, (3657 Grand Ave. Oakland, Then-Comes-Baby.com). |
• Check out some of the East Bay's most reputable and reliable birthing centers: Pacifica Family Maternity Center (3101 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley, PacificaMaternity.com) and Bay Area Midwifery Community Wellness and Birth Center, (BayAreaMidwifery.org). |
• Consider a homebirth (like our great grandmothers used to do), and take a step toward having a green, low-carbon footprint, tech-lite birth. |
• Don't miss the annual Birthkeeper Summit, April 30–May 3, at Berkeley City College (BirthkeeperSummit.com) to learn more about safe and sane birth practices. There will be presentations on the synergistic effects of homebirth healthcare, birth justice, and environmental activism. |
• Consider selecting a certified nurse midwife. |
• Be sure to ask about the birthing protocols at the hospital you're considering. Find out how many hours an expectant mother will be "allowed" to labor before her medical chart is noted with a "failure to progress," and then prepped for a C-section. |
That may sound a bit excessive, but the C-section birth rate in some Bay Area hospitals is nearly 40 percent, which is very high considering that our bodies have not changed much in the last several decades. Could all these "unnecessarians" be due to the fact that the revenue for surgical birth is twice that of a vagin... |
In short: Be not obedient. Be not apologetic. Be informed so you can make healthy and humane birth choices. |
This is the first edition of our new weekly parenting column, Kid You Not. Meghan Lewis, who has a doctorate in perinatal psychology, is a queer solo parent by choice, the founder of Integrative Perinatal Psychotherapy, and the founding member of LGBTQ Perinatal Wellness Associates of the Bay Area. If you have a questi... |
Breastfeeding is natural. So why conceal it? |
WALLIS Simpson felt the "world is against her" after being "viciously derided" at the time of Edward VIII's abdication from the throne which sent the British crown into a constitutional crisis, a new biography has claimed. |
In 1936, a constitutional crisis was caused by King Edward VIII’s desire to marry Wallis Simpson, an American who was divorced from her first husband and was pursuing a divorce from her second. In the weeks following King Edward VIII's abdication, Wallis Simpson was simultaneously ostracised by society and hounded by t... |
When the scandal broke in the press, Mrs Simpson was “devastated” according to Ms Pasternak in the book. |
She claims Mrs Simpson noted: "The enormity of the hatred I had aroused and the distorted image of me that seemed to be forming in minds everywhere went far beyond anything I had anticipated. |
“I became obsessed by the notion that in a manner impossible for me to comprehend, a calculated and organised effort to discredit me had been set afoot." |
Ms Pasternak claimed “she [Mrs Simpson] was right”. |
The press reports and fevered gossip in 1936 were “sensational” and Mrs Simpson was labelled abusive terms including “gold digger” and “a sorceress”. |
Many members of the British and European aristocracy were taken aback when they met her for the first time. |
Ms Pasternak notes when Count Rudolf von Schonburg, a member of an old European noble family of princely and sovereign rank recalled: “I was absolutely flabbergasted when I first met the Duchess. |
“She was the complete opposite of everything we had heard about her." |
Count “Rudi” became a close friend of the Windsors after meeting them in the early Sixties in Marbella. |
Andrew Morton’s 2018 book, “Wallis in Love” describes how Herman Rogers, a close friend of Mrs Simpson claimed “she discovered that the Canadians were the most censorious, followed by British expats living in America”. |
Wallis Simpson allegedly complained to Mr Rogers: "The world is against me – and me alone." |
Mr Morton wrote, “He told her: ‘Whether you like it or not, the world is discovering you.'" |
Watch as a few mates fishing near Jurien Bay happen across two whales who come extremely close to their boat. |
PEOPLE pay good money to get close to whales but this is probably too close for comfort. |
Two Perth mates had the experience of a lifetime off Jurien Bay yesterday when two massive whales surfaced metres from their boat. |
Kepler Weber had set his mobile phone on record in the hopes of reeling in a couple of big fish on video. |
What he captured was far more spectacular. |
Moments after Mr Weber and his mate Cameron Marshall commented on the number of whales they had seen, a pair of them made a dramatic entrance off the stern of their boat. |
Mr Weber said the whales, believed to be humpbacks, would have measured about 10m long and weighed at least 10 tonne. |
They were easily big enough to capsize their 5m Webster catamaran. |
“It was a pretty cool moment that’s for sure. I’ve never had them that close,” Mr Weber said. |
“It was close enough that it tangled all of our fishing lines and made the boat wobble. |
Mr Weber, the manager at Rose and Crown and Inn Mahogany Creek, said he would have seen about 100 whales throughout the day. |
Some of them were rolling onto their backs or slapping their fins. |
The fishing mates lowered their speed at times because of the risk of hitting one. |
“We were a bit nervous because we’re in a 5m cat and you’ve got a 10t beast that flips over you in a second,” he said. |
They were not expecting their close encounter in 20m of water. |
He isn’t sure why the whales surfaced so close to their boat, but be thinks it could have been a warning of sorts. |
“I think they were just letting us know they were in the area,” he said. |
Despite all of the whale activity, the fishing mates still managed to bag out before they headed back to shore. |
Jordan Rodgers wasn't hired by ESPN because of The Bachelorette; he was hired despite it. |
Fresh off of winning the ABC dating competition, the 27-year-old former athlete was hired as a college football analyst for the SEC Network. The announcement caused controversy among sports fans -- and fellow contestant Chad Johnson -- who objected that Rodgers was only hired because of his newfound reality fame. But E... |
"He didn't need the show to get our attention. In fact, I had a real concern with how he would be viewed by fans of the show and what it might mean for him down the line," Stephanie Druley revealed to Sports Illustrated. "We waited until the show was a few weeks into its run before we made an offer. He accepted the off... |
"Thankfully, the article didn't live up to the headline, nor did a lot of other ones I read, and I'm certain that I read about 90 percent of what was written, because I was vested in what it'd mean for the work he'd do with us," Druley added. |
Beginning Aug. 23, Rodgers joins ESPN's channel dedicated to coverage of the Southeastern Conference as a college football analyst. Druley explained that it was Rodgers' own college football experience -- he played quarterback at Vanderbilt University -- that qualified him for the gig. |
"We had [also] seen some interviews that he had done, so we reached out to him. At the time, he was unavailable due to filming. I'm not even sure that we knew what show he was doing," she claimed. |
"When he became available, he came to Charlotte. He walked into my office and the first thing I said to him was that his hair might be too high for our network," she joked. "Despite that, it was clear he had a real passion and a deep knowledge of college football. The audition was really good -- rare that someone walks... |
Still, Rodgers' run on The Bachelorette may very well be an asset to ESPN in the end -- though, perhaps not in the way you would imagine. |
"The advantage Jordan had when he sat down in front of our cameras in Charlotte was that he had just spent the past three months in front of a camera or many cameras," Druley recalled. "I think that's the advantage it gave him." |
The Bachelorette also drew plenty of attention to the estrangement between Rodgers and his famous older brother, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers. When ET sat down with Rodgers and his new fiancée, he exclusively opened up about the "sensitive" family matters and how much he was able to share with JoJo. |
Find out what he had to say in the video below. |
How to win an argument about: the Primetime Minister. |
Opinion - In this series, 'How to win an argument about', writers look at both sides of a story you might be debating at the office, or at the pub tonight. This week, By David Cohen looks at Primetime Minister Jacinda Ardern. |
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has added yet another plum appearance to her sprawling media portfolio with a spot on late-night American television with the popular talk show host Stephen Colbert. |
What on earth could anyone say against - or indeed for - that? |
Suddenly, or so it seems, Ms Ardern - and by association the nation she manages - is everywhere in the international media. There hasn't been anything like it since the Te Māori exhibition back in the early 1980s. We see her here, we see her there, we see her everywhere - and, just as importantly, so does everyone else... |
New Zealand's reputation can only be strengthened by the newfound - or should that be "newsfound"? - ubiquity of such an appealing political brand ambassador. If Lord of the Rings has pulled in high-spending tourists from places such as the American heartland, how much more will the appearances of an attractively youth... |
Away from almost uniformly positive global coverage, Ms Ardern's editorial forays closer to home have had a serious point. Take her guest editorship this past week at the New Zealand Herald. The country that first gave women the vote has been notably stingy when it comes to giving any of them the premiership, with only... |
Winning the editorial sweepstakes in the English-speaking world, and beyond, has also meant that by association important international attention to issues that most New Zealanders care about but rarely see covered away from home. Yes, the puff piece by Maureen Dowd in the New York Times may have been a bit much, but w... |
Turning editors heads is all well and good, but at least some of these interludes don't appear to be ending happily. On the week of her guest editorship at the New Zealand Herald, for instance, Ms Ardern also managed to badly mangle some rather critical economic data - definitely a no-no for a premier. Do you recall th... |
The actual value of having media profile tends to be vastly overrated and celebrated largely by those who, by a remarkable coincidence, also happen to work in the news business. |
Tourism returns? Sure, there has been plenty of Hobbit tourism magic over the past decade. But the idea that Hal and Becky from West Virginia are going to spend a portion of their life retirement income on a trip to New Zealand solely because they saw Ms Ardern on a late-night comedy show seems far-fetched - even more ... |
Yeah, nah. Our primetime minister campaigned on reducing child poverty, ending homelessness and improving home affordability, among many other worthy social goals. Alas, according to a less-than-impressed editorial in the latest Listener, rather than fixing things, "precious time and effort are being poured into 'scopi... |
MANILA, Philippines – The Asian Development Bank has cut its 2016 growth projection for developing economies in Asia and the Pacific to 5.6 percent, down from its earlier forecast of 5.7 percent, but says their solid performances will help offset softness from the U.S. economy and near-term market shocks from Britain&a... |
The Manila-based lender's report released Monday says the growth forecast for 2017 of 5.7 percent made in March for developing Asian economies remains unchanged. |
Shang-Jin Wei, ADB's chief economist, says the Brexit vote has affected developing Asia's currency and stock markets but its impact on the real economy in the short term is expected to be small. He urges policy makers to remain vigilant due to tepid growth prospects in the major industrial economies. |
COUNSELOR'S CORNER: "Mama approves this message." |
Do you remember when you first became aware of advertising? |
Ads begin to target us so early in life, we might not remember the specifics. |
I don’t recall the first time a well-designed television commercial convinced me that I just “had to have” the latest Barbie or newest version of Candy Land. |
But I do remember getting some wise advice from my mother. |
Not that I actually owned any dollars in those days, but somehow the lesson made sense anyway. I began to understand that a toy, or a game or any other kind of product, was not a necessity simply because someone on television said so. |
It’s more likely that the manufacturer wanted my dollars. |
There may be no better time than the present to remember that explanation. |
Because between now and almost Thanksgiving, we can count on being bombarded by a tsunami of advertising. |
And it’s not our dollars they want most — although they’re happy to take those too. |
Living wedged in between two back-to-back primary states, we in Georgia are hearing and seeing more political advertising than we can even use. |
Already, we have seen one candidate’s ads bashing another candidate, claiming that all the ills in the country are due to the other guy’s opinions. |
Sometimes they don’t even tell you who to vote for; they just tell you who to vote against. |
One such ad, aired prior to the South Carolina primary, got my attention. Not because I agreed or disagreed with whoever paid to have it aired, but because of the message itself. |
No one “approved this message,” because it wasn’t for anybody. The entire message was about a candidate they didn’t want people to vote for. |
Now, no voter in his or her right mind would believe that one particular candidate could be blamed or credited for the existence of Iraq, or the war in Iraq, or for any other aspect of Iraq that might come to mind. |
But advertising leans heavily on what psychologists can tell us about the workings of the human brain. |
And I wondered what in the world this particular ad agency was trying to do with our brains. |
It’s likely that someone, who was being paid by one candidate to make another candidate look bad, decided that throwing in the word “Iraq” would somehow affect our perceptions in favor of whichever candidate was paying them to put together this paid political advertisement. |
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