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There are some books that meet all these criteria and still don't make it on the air. These volumes inhabit what I call "the shelf of constant reproach." It is kind of an editorial purgatory inhabited by worthy titles awaiting just the right news peg.
All in all, it is an imperfect process but it is enormously satisfying when it works.
We are always open to suggestions. Please share if you think there is a better or smarter way of culling potential author interviews.
WATCH: The push is on to send thousands of trucks to Ottawa as part of a pro-pipeline convoy but at least one expert believes it could fall on deaf ears if organizers aren't careful with their message. Heather Yourex-West explains.
As a push to send thousands of trucks to Ottawa as part of a pro-pipeline convoy gathers momentum, some organizers say they fear their message could be lost.
Convoys of big rig trucks have been taking over highways across the prairies in recent weeks as part of a growing movement aimed at showing support for the oil and gas sector while voicing frustration that many pipeline expansion projects have been stalled.
Carritt said the plan is to have a convoy of trucks leave Calgary on Feb. 15 with the aim of arriving on Parliament Hill on Feb. 20. The problem is, Carritt’s group isn’t the only one planning such a convoy.
A second coalition of several groups including Canada Action, OilSands Strong, #thenorthmatters, Oilfield Dads and Rally for Resources is also organizing a convoy due to leave for Ottawa on Feb. 15.
According to Canada Action founder Cody Battersill, there are concerns among his camp that working with the Yellow Vest movement could serve as a distraction.
“We’re all working on this together on the basis that this is a positive, fact-driven and respectful campaign that is non-partisan,” said Battersill.
Those concerns are valid, according to Mount Royal University public relations expert Allison MacKenzie.
MacKenzie said the association between local Yellow Vest movements and the images of Yellow Vest protests in France is also a potential problem from a public relations point of view.
Carritt said he understands the concerns but feels there is value to moving forward under the Yellow Vest banner.
(Francisco Kjolseth \| The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah gun rights advocate Clark Aposhian, one of only a handful of Americans who are legally allowed to keep their bump stock, a shooting accessory that alters semi-automatic rifles to fire in quick bursts like a machine gun, demonstrates how it works on an AKM-47 at a gun range in Murray, UT, on Thursday, April 4, 2019. He is challenging the bump stock ban in court, and an appeals court has allowed him to keep his bump stock until his case is resolved in court.
Clark Aposhian, a resident of Utah, is now the last man in America who can legally own a bump stock.
Last month, a formal bump stock ban went into effect. The ban ordered anyone who lawfully purchased one of these devices to either surrender or destroy it, or else face felony prosecution.
In a surreal bit of doublethink, ATF now insists that every bump stock previously sold was always a machine gun. So, not only are bump stocks now banned, but the agency claims it could always have prosecuted the owners of these devices — even though they were sold with ATF letters of approval attached.
To reach this absurd conclusion, ATF had to promulgate a bump stock rule that changed the statutory definition of “machine gun.” Under the new rule, a semiautomatic weapon is a machine gun if the shooter fires by bumping the trigger instead of “pulling” it. The new rule also defines “automatic” fire to include firing that requires “additional physical manipulation” of the weapon between shots, which used to be considered “manual” fire.
Notably, “the government expressly disclaimed any entitlement to Chevron deference” and “went so far as to indicate that … it would prefer that the Rule be set aside rather than upheld under Chevron.” This concession came because the government knows its reading of a criminal statute is not entitled to any deference.
But the court decided ATF was not allowed to waive Chevron deference and ruled in ATF’s favor on that basis, even though it would result in making half a million law-abiding citizens into criminals. This brazen abdication of judicial independence shows just how unlawful much of modern administrative activity is. Article I, Section 1 of the Constitution vests “all” legislative power in Congress. No part of the Constitution allows a law enforcement agency to rewrite a law it disagrees with, nor does it allow a federal court to sit idly by while that same agency prosecutes citizens for violating the new, made-up law.
Aposhian’s challenge continues. The Denver-based 10th Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily enjoined ATF “from enforcing the Final Rule against Mr. Aposhian” while his case proceeds, leaving him as the only private citizen with a legal bump stock. His case offers the best remaining hope for stopping lawmakers from passing the buck to the executive branch on this difficult issue.
Caleb Kruckenberg is Litigation Counsel at the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which has filed legal challenges to the bump stock ban that are pending in the 10th Circuit and the Western District of Texas.
The Salt Lake Stallions and the AAF have left broken bones and broken lives in their wake. Ex-Ute Gionni Paul and others are picking up the pieces.
This week in Mormon Land: A fourth African temple, the ethics of missionary work, a Utah ‘Brexit'?
The woman's name is not in the accident report. Bob Hargan is hoping to thank her for turning his panic into calm.
Bob Hargan was hit head-on by a drunken driver on a West Allis street. The noise of the crash was horrible, followed by an eerie silence.
Trapped in his crushed car, Bob could feel his broken femur sticking out from his hip. He wiggled his fingers and flexed his neck to make sure they still worked. He touched his teeth to check if any were missing.
Suddenly, he was aware of someone reaching into the car and holding his hand. He heard a woman's soothing voice. He could not see her face.
"She said, 'I want to say a prayer for you.' She proceeded to ask God for help and my healing. I believe we said an Our Father or Hail Mary together," he said.
"I don't know where she came from. And all of a sudden she was gone. I believe she was there for a minute, maybe a minute and a half."
The woman's name does not appear in the police accident report. Bob is hoping to meet her again and thank her for turning his panic into calm that night of Sept. 23.
Nearly three months later, Bob has yet to return to his south side home. He spent weeks at Froedtert Hospital being treated for a dozen broken bones and having his right heel rebuilt. This week, I found him at LindenGrove Communities rehab facility in New Berlin. He spends 99% of his time flat on his back, with his damaged leg and foot elevated and immobilized.
Had he died in the crash, you probably would have heard about it on the news. There are life-ending accidents, his father, Charlie Hargan said, "and there are life-changing accidents, and that's what this is."
Bob, who is 54 and has a fiancee, works on a printing press at Arandell Corp. in Menomonee Falls, though it will be a while before he is able to get back on the job. He worked until after 11 p.m. on Sept. 23 and was heading with two co-workers — one as a passenger in his car and one driving behind him — to visit a West Allis tavern recently opened by two former co-workers.
Bob was driving south on S. 60th St., and had just passed Walker St. Near the Blast! Fitness club, 60th makes a curve. An oncoming Jeep Commander missed the bend and drove head-on into Bob's car.
The report by West Allis police says Agustin Tinoco, the 28-year-old driver of the Jeep, ran away from the scene and was found, intoxicated, hiding behind a garage nine blocks away. The Milwaukee man was taken to Froedtert for his own injuries and set for a review by the district attorney on Sept. 26.
Criminal charges still have not been filed, and the district attorney's office told me the case remains under review. The police report states that Tinoco was given citations for operating while intoxicated, driving without a license, and hit and run, all while causing great bodily harm.
Bob's car wound up partly on the sidewalk. Jaws of Life was used to extract him from the wreckage. His passenger was able to free himself and was treated for broken ribs.
This is the kind of carnage caused every day by drunken and distracted drivers. Bob is told he will walk again, but likely with a limp. He plans to drive in the right lane from now on, hoping this gives him an extra fraction of a second to avoid a vehicle crossing the centerline.
Bob believes in God, and he very much welcomed the prayers of the mysterious angel who emerged from the darkness and disappeared just as quickly. He is certain this really happened. If you are this woman, or know who she is, please contact me.
"I want to thank her," he said. "When she said those prayers, it gave me a little extra power to fight."
The stairs to our company’s fourth-floor loft posed a challenge for the dominatrixes. Many were wearing vertiginous Jimmy Choos and Christian Louboutins, and there was a bit of grumbling by the time they got to the top. I suppose they’re more used to dishing out suffering than enduring it themselves. As they made the trek through our building, they raised hardly an eyebrow from our staffers.
At Sense Worldwide, a branding consultancy specializing in working with extreme consumers, we’re accustomed to individuals who are a million miles away from that “regular customer.” You know, the ones who sit in focus groups and fill out online surveys. For us, one day, it’s dominatrixes; the next, it’s obsessive compulsives, teddy-bear enthusiasts, prescription-drug addicts, or Nigerian hackers.
We listen to dominatrixes, obsessive compulsives, teddy-bear enthusiasts, drug addicts, and Nigerian hackers.
James, Maria, and Jean-Robert do our recruitment. They’re ridiculously sanguine about hunting down rare and extraordinary people. Today, I asked them to find us the top cocktail mixologists in Seoul, Korea. “No particular age or gender?” was all James asked. We seek out these obsessives, maniacs and eccentrics because they can help us get to big, breakthrough ideas. Some of them can show us how mainstream consumers will behave in a few years. Some of them have extreme needs that no product on the market can meet–so they modify them, or make their own. Some of them reject a whole category. You can learn a lot about mobile phones by talking to a power user. You can learn even more by talking to somebody who’s deliberately never bought one.
These extreme users have a willingness to experiment that’s far beyond the capacity of any design agency. And because they’re improving the thing that they love, they’re not going to charge you by the hour. We recently worked with some Brazilian transsexuals on hair-removal products, looking at ways of making the process less painful. I can assure you, we had their full attention. Some are still sending us ideas.
… and they listen differently.
When we get extreme users together in a room, we often sit them down with the top design and R&D wizards from our clients. We ask our clients to bring the ideas they could never sell internally, because radical people appreciate radical ideas.
Every good designer has felt the pang of watching a truly revolutionary concept being pulled apart by the passive-aggressive mouth-breathers who make up most focus groups. “This doesn’t taste like cola,” they said about Red Bull. “Executive chairs are made of leather,” they said about Aerons. “Only secretaries have keyboards on their desks,” they said about PCs. All kinds of great ideas, from the Walkman to nacho chips, died in research with average consumers. That’s because regular people don’t like new things much. You know that, you’ve read Blink.
But what Malcolm Gladwell didn’t tell you is that there are people out there who will buy a great new idea. Perhaps they’ll even have it for you. Clubbers loved Red Bull: It helped them rave all night. A 4’11” lady loved the Aeron chair prototype so much that production was delayed until she was happy she could reach the controls.
Finding eccentric consumers is 50% of the challenge.
Of course, you need to find the right eccentrics. Then you have to convince them to help you. If you’re Harley Davidson or Nike (full disclosure: we work for Nike), then finding extreme consumers is easy. Just visit the Marathon des Sables and pick up some ultra-ultra marathon runners, or ride your prototype to the Sturgis bike rally every year.
Great ideas, from the Walkman to nacho chips, died in research with average consumers.
Believe in the method behind the madness.
At first, it seemed strange for me to take mainstream brands to fringe people. But it works. Kenyan microlenders and global retail bankers can learn a tremendous amount from each other. Health insurers and medical tourists can create services that benefit both of them. Running shoe design has been revolutionized by studying people who have never worn them. Now it seems strange to talk to regular people. What are they going to tell you that you don’t already know?
If you’re going to get ambitious about your next task, don’t go and talk to normal people about it. You’ll only get normal answers. Get out of your comfortable little world and step into a completely alien one. As we say round here, when worlds collide, transformation happens.
Our sons, who live in two of the most expensive real estate markets on the West Coast, are constantly pressuring us to move closer to them.
Hi, Carolyn: My husband and I, 68 and 61, were thrilled to become grandparents two years ago. We are enjoying our first years of carefully planned retirement in our home on the East Coast.
The thing is, I was painfully aware of this consequence the day they both drove away from their home! My husband and I visit them as often as we can (not easy on a fixed income); however, it just never seems to be enough.
Although I am flattered they want us closer, they have traveled all over the country/world, but not once to visit their “beloved grandparents.” Are we being selfish to not want to forgo our retirement, return to work and downsize/relocate to appease our children?
If they really wish you lived closer and miss you terribly, then that’s a beautiful thing, but the pressure is no way to show it (and they ought to stop).
If they are generally fine with things but feel guilty for not seeing you more, or if they think they’re doing you a favor by reminding you often how much you’re missed, then that’s disingenuous or presumptuous, respectively (and they really ought to stop).
If they are comfortable enough with the arrangement that they’re unwilling to make sacrifices of their own to see you more, but hope they can enhance their lives of choice by pressuring you to make sacrifices to see then more, then that is selfish (and they really really ought to stop).
So there could be many different motives behind their pressure tactics – indeed, each son could have a different one - just as you have your reasons for staying put that have nothing to do with your emotional tie to your grandkids.
A simple, “Please stop – moving is not realistic, so your asking us repeatedly is salt in a wound,” is where I suggest you start, because people with boundaries will accept that. “Ought to” is the phrasing of an optimist, though, so you may need to address everyone’s motives to have your best chance of being heard.
Fearing you’re in the wrong can stand in the way of such matter-of-fact reckoning, so be assured: It is not selfish to choose a home you know and can afford over costly and stressful unknowns. It’s not selfish to run your own life.
Ultimately you might have to declare the topic off-limits (and on-limits again, should you ever need your sons’ help) – but that still beats their beating you down.
President David Granger (third from left) along with Minister of State, Joseph Harmon; Minister of Public Health, Dr George Norton; and a team of medical officials, earlier today, set out on ‘fact-finding’ mission at the Diamond and Leonora Diagnostic centres with the aim of assessing the capabilities of both facilities, a release from the Ministry of the Presidency. The President said the visit will now put the Administration in a better position to determine what measures need to be put in place to ensure top quality health care. This photo was taken at the Diamond Hospital.
Embattled Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is facing graft allegations, today attacked his detractors, saying they are "hiding behind Panama Papers accountability" to oust him.
Embattled Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is facing graft allegations, today attacked his detractors, saying they are “hiding behind Panama Papers accountability” to oust him. “Since they know they (opponents) cannot defeat me in elections and cannot send us packing through any legitimate means they are hiding behind Panama Papers accountability to oust us,” Sharif said while inaugurating a power plant in Jhang, some 200 km from Lahore. Sharif accused his critics of “playing a game on the pretext of accountability” in the Panama Papers case. “They are conspiring against me. They are always busy in conspiring against my government, be it sit-in politics, rigging charges or Panama case. But let me tell them that I will face their conspiracies,” the 67-year-old leader said. Sharif recently appeared before a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) probing his and his children’s offshore holdings in the Panama Papers case. His children and brother Shehbaz Sharif have also appeared before the body constituted by the Supreme Court and their statements have been recorded. The JIT will submit its final report to the Supreme Court on Monday.
Sharif also asked Pakistan Tahreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan “not to hide behind the JIT” to conspire against him and challenged the cricketer-turned-politician to compete with him in elections. “You are conspiring against me to oust me. I ask you face me in the open arena of elections,” he said. Imran, meanwhile, said Sharif will be disqualified by the Supreme Court in the Panama case. “Nawaz Sharif cannot escape accountability this time,” he told reporters.
THE enigmatic entrepreneur has an out-there plan - and this time, he wants to change your daily ommute forever.
IF there is one word you can’t use to describe Tesla founder Elon Musk, it’s boring.
Yet that’s the very word behind his latest out-there concept for cutting traffic congestion.
His tunnelling enterprise, the Boring Company, is developing an underground commuter tunnel for automated vehicles and has won approval to test a concept that delivers your car straight from the garage to this subterranean freeway.
A sketch depicts a garage connected to the tunnel via an elevator and a short spur.
The Boring Company has already built a one-mile test section of its underground hyperloop. The test section is located in Hawthorne a suburb in the south west of Los Angeles that is also home to another Musk venture, SpaceX.
The private garage access point concept will work with a car entering the tunnel from an existing access point at the SpaceX campus and then moving to the house and back again along the one mile test track.
The concept envisions cars riding on the same electric ‘skate’ as the driverless pods the hyperloop is designed for.
According to The Mercury News, the company wants to show that it can use an elevator and short tunnel spur for developing as high speed transportation network.
“It’s an important part of the longer-term vision the company is trying to build,” company representative Jane Labanowski told the newspaper.
Earlier this year the Boring Company suggested it could build a hyperloop that would link Dodger Stadium — which holds baseballs games and concerts — to several LA neighbourhoods.
The loop would take only four minutes — a massive reduction in time compared to LA traffic — and would only cost about one dollar. However, the loop can only carry 1400 people for each event, which is 1.5 per cent of the stadium’s capacity.
The autonomous pods would carry 8-16 passengers and can travel up to 240km/h. The pods ride on electric skates — similar to recent hoverboards — which are powered by multiple electric motors.
During the past 60 days our community lost two of the finest people who have ever lived in our community. And they just happened to be married to each other.
Rob Woutat passed away in January and his wonderful wife Marilee Hansen died in March. Rob had been a teacher and a columnist for the Kitsap Sun, Marilee was the former principal of Bremerton High School and loved the Bremerton Rotary Club, where she was an active member.
They were both life long learners and two of the most positive people I have ever met in my life. The lived their life everyday in service to others and loved being involved in our community, there were role models for all of us who want to be better people. They were both simply fine people who you were proud to call your friends. I will miss them.
Cape Town - The deadline for submission of written public comments on the draft National Liquor Amendment Bill has been extended to December 15, the Trade and Industry Department (DTI) said on Sunday.
Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies said the extension was the result of constructive consultative sessions the department had with the parliamentary portfolio committee on trade and industry and the South African Liquor randowners’ Association.
“The department also hosted a national liquor indaba in Gauteng last month where it was apparent affected stakeholders and associations need more time to provide valuable inputs on the bill.
“We are happy the extension will afford all stakeholders and members of the public more time to share their ideas and proposals with us on the bill,” Davies said.
The DTI had been hosting consultative sessions for oral public submissions and comments throughout the country since October as part of the national roadshow.
Next week, this takes in Lephalale, Moletjie, Mokopane, and Musina in Limpopo.
The bill paves the way for raising the legal alcohol drinking age from 18 to 21 and a crackdown on liquor advertising, among other things.
American Rivers named the beleaguered Klamath River, where the largest fish kill in U.S. history took place last fall, as number two on its annual list of the nation’s ten most endangered rivers on April 10.
In its annual report, the national environmental group cited “excessive irrigation diversions and hydropower dams that are causing the ecological collapse of the river and its fisheries” for its prominent placement on the list. The list reports “acute threats” to the listed rivers rather than their chronic problems; it is not a list of the nation’s most polluted rivers. Mississippi’s Big Sunflower River was number one on this year’s list.
The Klamath’s movement from number three spot to number two this year was prompted by the die off of over 33,000 salmon last September after the Bush administration delivered irrigation water to subsidized Klamath Basin farmers at the expense of the river’s fish populations.
The group hopes to prevent another kill from occurring this season by bringing attention to the river’s current crisis - and to the solutions needed to restore the Klamath.
The Klamath Basin water crisis is entering its third year and several important decisions looming in the next 12 months could intensify the conflict or lead to improvements, according to American Rivers. In 2001, angry Klamath Basin farmers, supported by the Pacific Legal Foundation and other “wise use” groups, demanded that Gale Norton and the Bush administration provide farmers with irrigation water in a dry year. The Bush administration caved in and sent the water to the fields, paving the way for the massive fish kill in September 2002.
The White House-appointed Klamath River Basin Federal Working Group is expected to report on solutions for this river basin and Congress will take up legislation that proposes to bring water supply and demand back into balance.

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