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To paraphrase Wisconsin Public Radio's John Munson, Republicans better hope that another bridge doesn't collapse.
RUTH CONNIFF IS THE POLITICAL EDITOR OF THE PROGRESSIVE MAGAZINE.
With the most recent CNN/TIME/ORC poll showing Florida a tight contest between Republican frontrunners Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, tonight's final Florida debate (8 p.m. ET on CNN) could be decisive. As OutFront contributor John Avlon writes, "the fact that there is a risk involved in debates just reflects the real stakes of the race for the most powerful job on earth. Tuesday night's debate will be the last one for almost a month."
Debate moderator Wolf Blitzer says this year's series of debates may be some of the most important in memory. "Tonight’s debate will be the 19th. Millions of people are watching and learning and making final voting decisions. And that’s the way it should be."
Published: Jan 14 at 6:31 p.m.
Updated: Jan 15 at 7:38 a.m.
CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. - A P.E.I. man who wouldn’t accept an offer of a taxi ride when he was refused service at the Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at Charlottetown Driving Park was recently fined $1,000 after he tried to drive while drunk.
Samuel Enoch McCann, 63, appeared before Judge John Douglas in provincial court in Charlottetown where he pleaded guilty to having care and control of a vehicle while drunk.
The court heard that on Oct. 12 at around 2 a.m., the police were called to a complaint about a possible impaired driver at the race track.
Staff refused to serve McCann because he was intoxicated, and an employee repeatedly asked him if he wanted to take a taxi, which he declined.
When McCann went to his vehicle, he got in and started it, but the employee took his keys out before McCann was able to drive away.
McCann later provided breathalyzer samples that were almost twice the legal limit.
Along with the fine, McCann is banned from driving for one year.
A new study has found that people who are overweight cut their life expectancy by two months for every extra kilogram (or about two pounds) of weight they carry.
The study, from researchers at the University of Edinburgh, also found that education leads to a longer life, with almost a year added for each year spent studying beyond school.
Other findings from the study show that people who give up smoking and are open to new experiences might expect to live longer.
For the study, scientists at the University of Edinburgh analyzed genetic information from more than 600,000 people alongside records of their parents’ lifespan.
Because people share half of their genetic information with each of their parents, the researchers say they were able to calculate the impact of various genes on life expectancy.
Lifestyle choices are influenced to a certain extent by our DNA — genes, for example, have been linked to increased alcohol consumption and addiction.
The researchers said they were, therefore, able to work out which have the greatest influence on lifespan.
The method was designed to rule out the chances that any observed associations could be caused by a separate, linked factor. This enabled them to pinpoint exactly which lifestyle factors cause people to live longer, or shorter, lives.
They found that cigarette smoking and traits associated with lung cancer had the greatest impact on shortening lifespan.
For example, smoking a pack of cigarettes a day over a lifetime knocks an average of seven years off life expectancy, they calculated. But smokers who give up can eventually expect to live as long as somebody who has never smoked, they discovered.
Body fat and other factors linked to diabetes also have a negative influence on life expectancy.
The study also identified two new DNA differences that affect lifespan. The first — in a gene that affects blood cholesterol levels — reduces lifespan by around eight months. The second — in a gene linked to the immune system — adds around half a year to life expectancy.
Data for the study, published in Nature Communications, was drawn from 25 separate population studies from Europe, Australia, and North America, including the UK Biobank, a major study into the role of genetics and lifestyle in health and disease.
“The power of big data and genetics allow us to compare the effect of different behaviors and diseases in terms of months and years of life lost or gained, and to distinguish between mere association and causal effect,” said Professor Jim Wilson of the University of Edinburgh’s Usher Institute.
Japan said on Friday it had refused entry to a German anti-globalization activist, as the nation steps up security ahead of the Group of Eight summit in July.
A government official said on Friday the rejection was a routine decision as the German man said he was in the country for sightseeing but did not have sufficient documentation or plans.
"A 37-year-old man was refused entry because there were significant questions regarding his purpose for entry," the official said, without elaborating further.
Local media named the man as Martin Kraemer, who arrived in the northern island of Hokkaido on Monday aboard a freighter from Russia. He was scheduled to attend an anti-G8 summit rally on Saturday in Hokkaido's largest city of Sapporo, Kyodo News reported.
He failed to show a return ticket to immigration authorities and is still staying on the docked cargo ship, according to the Yomiuri Shimbun.
"I will go anywhere where there is a need to protest against the summit," Kraemer told local reporters, according to the Yomiuri's evening edition. "The purpose of my visit was sightseeing. I want to engage in talks in order to create a better labour environment and better society."
the actions of the Japanese authorities.
"The embassy in Tokyo has been providing consular services to the man in question since March 10," Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Jaeger told a regular government news conference.
"The man himself refused to leave for a third country and that is why he will be put on a ship in Japan, probably today, to take him back to Russia. We must respect the fact that every country ... has the right according to its own laws to allow entry or not. I assume that the Japanese authorities acted in compliance with the law."
Japan plans to hold the Group of Eight summit from July 7-9 in the northern mountain resort of Toyako, which was chosen partly because of its remote location and is considered ideal for security. It is set to be United States President George W. Bush's last summit of the G8, which also includes Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Russia.
Japan last week also refused entry to a South Korean activist who hoped to take part in a pre-summit forum on farmers' rights. The immigration department gave no reason for turning her away but she was allowed in after flying back to South Korea and then returning.
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PEORIA, Il. – Maxime Guyon scored twice, Jacob Caffrey made 41 saves and the Roanoke Rail Yard Dawgs jumped out to a 4-0 lead and withstood a furious rally to defeat the Peoria Rivermen, 4-3, in game two of the Challenge Round series. The Dawgs swept the best-of-three series, 2-0, and advanced to the semifinals of the President’s Cup Playoffs.
Roanoke got on the board first in the opening period while working shorthanded. Jordan Carvalho carried the puck down the right wing and sent a pass toward Jeff Jones streaking to the back post. It caromed off a Peoria defenseman and into the net, giving the Dawgs a 1-0 lead.
They added to that lead a few minutes later after Rivermen goaltender Storm Phaneuf played the puck behind his net and had his clearing attempt intercepted by Guyon at the blue line. Guyon quickly fired a slap shot that beat Phaneuf to the net and it was 2-0 Dawgs.
In the second, Jones took a pass from Alex Adams and sprinted in to the attacking zone. He fired a shot that Phaneuf blocked but Cody Dion gathered the rebound and slung it in. That would be it for Phaneuf who was pulled after allowing three goals on ten shots. Stephen Klein entered in the Rivermen net with his team trailing, 3-0.
The Dawgs added to that lead on the first shot that Klein would face. Guyon forced another turnover and unleashed a snap shot that beat Klein low, giving the Dawgs a 4-0 advantage.
Peoria began to chip away at the Roanoke lead in the final minutes of the second. After a pair of minor penalties on Caffrey sent the Dawgs to a two-man disadvantage, Justin Greenberg buried a shot on the back door to put the Rivermen on the board.
With under nine minutes to play in the third, Pijus Rulevicius took the puck in the right wing and fired a shot on net that Caffrey got a piece of but not quite enough. It trickled over the goal line and Peoria was within two.
The Rivermen were granted a power play with less than four minutes to play and eventually pulled Klein for an extra attacker to skate six-on-four. Ralfs Grinbergs carried the puck toward the net on the left wing and put a shot on net that was blocked by Caffrey but he was able to sneak the rebound past the Dawgs goaltender to make the score, 4-3.
Peoria kept coming in the final two-plus minutes, swarming Caffrey’s net with chance after chance. With an extra attacker on again in the final seconds, bodies crashed around the crease and sticks swatted at the puck but Caffrey kept it out and the final horn sounded, cementing the Dawgs victory. Roanoke took the best-of-three series, 2-0, and became the first team to advance to the semifinals.
Caffrey finished with 41 saves and Guyon had two goals to pace the offense. The Rail Yard Dawgs won a playoff series for the first time in franchise history.
The remainder of the Challenge Round Series have only played one game so Roanoke’s second round opponent is not yet known. The schedule of the semifinal series will be announced after the opponent is determined.
Marlon Brando, the screen star, made an impromptu appearance at the congregational seder of Temple Israel of Hollywood and gave an impromptu rendition of the Kiddush, in English, to begin the festival meal. Bob Dylan, the folk singer of the youth rebellion, began the Grace After Meals by singing his “Blowin’ In The Wind,” with the congregation joining in.
Brando and Dylan were accompanied by friends from the entertainment world, including Helaina Kallianiotes. Sarah Dylan, wife of the folk singer, and Kenneth Banks, a leader of the American Indian Freedom movement. The appearance of the theater personalities was a surprise both to Rabbi Haskell Bernat, the senior rabbi of the congregation, and the congregants. Rabbi Bernat said the visitors joined spontaneously in the worship and festivities. The artists made reservations anonymously, through a friend, Brando, asked why he and his friends had come to the Reform synagogue, said “It was the rabbi’s ability to create warmth, social activism and worship innovation which had contracted them.
Brando told Rabbi Bernat that one of his first theater roles was with the into Paul Muni in which they toured in a theater presentation to raise money for the Irgun, the underground army during the British Mandate in Palestine, He commented with admiration on Dov Gruner, who was hung by the British for his participation as an Irgun member in attacks on the British. Brando said Gruner’s “martyrdom” had been a continuous Inspiration.
The actor said he was delighted that Rabbi Bernat was able “to use one of the world’s most ancient religious ceremonies to highlight freedom movements today, including those of Soviet Jews. American Indians and women, Brando, while professing no formal religious affiliation, said his commitment was a combination of the awe and reverence for nature found in the American Indian religion and the “humanitarianism” of Reform Judaism.
Rabbi Bernat served previously as director of the Chicago Federation of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, and director of the Commission of Worship of Reform Judaism.
We are unfortunately all too familiar with hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
After Hurricane Irma, tax reform will help small business recovery. We are unfortunately all too familiar with hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
Florida and Texas have recently experienced complete devastation in some areas due to severe hurricane damage and flooding.
We are unfortunately all too familiar with hurricanes Harvey and Irma. It is fair to say both southern regions continue to rightfully express concern about safety, rebuilding and economic recovery efforts in order to get back on their feet.
Thankfully, our federal and state governments have stepped up to provide recovery dollars in the short term. This includes all types of infrastructure, like rebuilding roads, buildings, utilities, etc. Florida’s economic cost is estimated to surpass $100 billion and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) initially allocated $21 million in mid-September.
The Florida State Hispanic Chamber of Commerce is helping our member companies recover in multiple ways and hoping to see some relief in the foreseeable future. We facilitated recovery efforts through a designated dispatch line thanks to our member, The Berman Companies Inc. It is a 12-year-old Florida company with experience in mitigating disasters. We are proud of the work its staff does and continue to applaud their efforts to help Florida companies recover.
As we overcome this natural disaster, Florida must continue to stand on solid ground and be able to foresee a bright future. One bright opportunity has been presented to our Florida congressional delegation and that includes passing meaningful tax reform this year. Granted, it will take some time for Florida to see the relief from tax reform filings, however, if done properly, it will put money back into our member companies and back into our families’ homes.
It is estimated that with meaningful tax reform, Floridians will see a return of more than $4,200 annually. This would certainly spur additional economic growth and further enhance recovery efforts that may take years. As we have heard time and again, Florida’s small businesses make up 98.8 percent of our business economy and employ nearly half of all working Floridians. We need to keep our incentives high and push for smart reform to keep afloat now and in the future.
Our businesses nationwide currently experience a very complex tax code with rates as high as 44.6 percent in Florida. It is estimated that collectively we spend 240 million hours and $19 billion annually to comply with our 30-year-old tax code.
Fortunately, we have seen many Florida congressional members take a stance in supporting tax reform, as well as the White House. We recently visited Washington, D.C., and were excited to hear the positive feedback from elected officials to pass tax reform this year.
We urge our members of Congress to quickly pass a balanced national budget to the best of their ability, so we can then focus on federal tax reform – one of the most outdated and desperately needed reform policies we will have seen in decades.
Our chamber and member companies wish a swift recovery from Harvey and Irma and look forward to a brighter tomorrow. We encourage Floridians to call, write or email their elected officials and request their support in storm recovery as well as meaningful tax reform this year.
The Florida State Hispanic Chamber of Commerce actively promotes the economic growth and development of Hispanic entrepreneurs. It represents the interests of more than 604,000 Hispanic-owned businesses across the state.
Technology is becoming ever more important in the digital workplace of the 21st century.
Using data from the Department of Labor, we found 30 high-paying, fast-growing jobs that rely on skills and knowledge from the STEM disciplines.
The 21st century workplace is increasingly dominated by technology, and jobs that rely on a mastery of those machines are likely to become more important — and lucrative.
We assembled a list of fast-growing, high-paying jobs that are set to dominate the emerging digital workplace through 2026.
The Department of Labor's O*NET Online occupational database includes survey-based measures of several work characteristics for the nearly 1,000 occupations tracked by the database.
To get a sense of what jobs will thrive in the emerging digital workplace, we looked at nine skills, knowledge areas, and work-style characteristics that reflect the growing importance of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM): mathematics, science, engineering and technology, computers and electronics, programming, innovation, analytical thinking, general design, and technology design. If you have an interest or talent in any of the above, then congratulations, your work future is looking bright.
The O*NET database assigns importance scores to each job between 0 and 100 for each of these characteristics, with 0 indicating that the job doesn't have that characteristic at all, and 100 suggesting that the characteristic is a major part of the job.
We averaged together the importance scores of the above skills to get an overall STEM score for each occupation. Because we are interested in high-paying, fast-growing jobs, we ranked those occupations with above-average annual salaries and growth prospects.
Specifically, we looked at occupations with an average salary in 2018 above the overall average of $51,960, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment Statistics program, and a projected employment growth rate between 2016 and 2026 above the projected total employment growth rate of 7.4%, according to the Bureau's most recent employment projections data.
Re-live the latest eventful East Anglian derby and Timm Klose’s late leveller at Carrow Road by watching the highlights of Sunday’s 1-1 draw between Norwich City and Ipswich Town.
Press play on the video above to watch the games key moments and hear the commentary of BBC Radio Norfolk’s Chris Goreham as Klose’e header in the fifth minute of injury-time earned the Canaries a draw.
City had started the game nervously and Angus Gunn was tested three times in a disappointing first half but it was then the turn of Bartosz Bilakowski to deny the hosts with three fine saves after the break.
Town skipper Luke Chambers then thought he had completed a smash-and-grab victory with a header in the 89th minute which would have brought an end to a run of nine derby fixtures without defeat for Norwich.
However, Klose rose to head home in front of the Barclay after determined play from Grant Hanley to create one final chance, leaving the visitors crestfallen.
Auto industry symposium on autonomy, electrification and connectivity seeing presentations from deep pocketed names like Google's Waymo and Intel.
The Los Angeles Auto Show begins this week and market focus will be back on the car industry, for a short time anyway. It is important to remember that there are three major auto shows: Detroit, the European show that rotates between Frankfurt and Paris and the Tokyo Motor Show. The importance of a show is defined by number of new product introductions, and the high-volume, most-important vehicles are launched at the big three auto shows, not regional ones such as LA.
That said, this week's LA Auto Show will feature introductions of more niche, yet intriguing vehicles like the Subaru Ascent, Jaguar XF Sportbrake and the 2019 Corvette ZR1, which sports a 755-horsepower V8 with a top speed of 212 mph and capacity to produce 715 foot-pounds of torque. The ZR1 Is also available in a convertible version, but I should stop the fanboy stuff there as my remit is more focused on convertible bonds than convertible cars. Google it, though, and you will not be disappointed.
Brian Krzanich; CEO, Intel (INTC) .
When I followed the auto sector as a sell-side analyst--from 1992-2002 -- those of us in the analyst community would not have paid much attention had Intel's then-CEO (Andy Grove) showed up at an auto show. Now, the Krzanich presentation is arguably the most important one of the week, and listening to him is certainly more important than enjoying the Alcantara leather in the ZR1.
Auto companies are now being judged on their perceived placement in the race for autonomous driving, electrified powertrains, and the connectivity of the car as much as they are for units, price and cost. In the past the OEMs garnered the lion's share of the headlines, but now that the industry is searching for "killer apps" a company like Autoliv (my favorite company to follow when I was based in London) is just as likely to be viewed as a tech play as GM (GM) or BMW.
That's the point: it is impossible to tell who has the leading technology since there are no commercially-produced and sold autonomous vehicles on the road today. I've seen a couple of the Google self-driving cars with the flying saucers on the roof on my trips to Silicon Valley, but, remember, those cars are beta versions, not sold units.
So, in a world where 0% of the vehicles sold in the world are autonomous, fewer than 1% are propelled by purely electric batteries and (according to the International Energy Administration) 98.9% of cars sold in the global market still have no electric power propulsion of any kind, it is just too early to separate the winners from the losers.
That's why Tesla's (TSLA) absence from the AutoMobility speaking slots is so telling. It is just a complete waste of my time trying to explain to committed Teslaphiles that their beloved company is facing a mountain of competition from established OEMs. Tesla's cash "hoard" of $3.5 billion at the end of September (which has surely shrunk in the past two months) is not enough to compete against a global auto industry that easily has 50x that amount on their combined balance sheets.
We just don't know who the winners will be in the mobility sweepstakes, and for one company to valued as if it has already won just makes no sense. So, I'll download the presentations from AutoMobility LA and concentrate -- as any analyst has to -- on the companies that are making management available to discuss new technologies rather than those that are not.
It's a brave new world for carmakers, and for car stock investors more information is certainly favorable than less.
At the time of publication, Collins had no positions in any stocks mentioned.
At the time of publication, Action Alerts PLUS, which Jim Cramer co-manages as a charitable trust, was long GOOGL.
The upcoming radio catch-up service UK Radioplayer, dubbed the 'iPlayer for radio', will be launching on March 31st.
The service will allow Britons to access past radio shows, broadcasted by 200 BBC and commercial radio channels, as well as enable listening to current content.
"Initially, Radioplayer is designed to be used on computers with Flash installed. Once we’ve launched that first phase, we’ll look at mobile devices like iPhones, tablets, and Android handsets," a statement on the official Radioplayer info site read.
The radio service, which has been two years in the making, will mark the first time that BBC and commercial radio stations have been available to Britons on a single platform. An alpha version of the platform was unveiled during the Radio Festival in Manchester in October last year.
It is expected that the UK Radio Player will also be offered across a wide range of web enabled devices and services including the long-delayed YouView IPTV service backed by the BBC and its partners. The platform will also be integrated with social networking platform Facebook.