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Facebook has been working on delivering internet to the whole world as part of its Internet.org initiative. This involved flying drones that are solar powered and can stay up in the air for months at a time. These are capable of acting like satellites delivering internet connectivity for all below.
The goal of Internet.org was initially to deliver internet access to areas of the world that don't have it, starting with less economically developed countries. Now it looks like the rest of the world is going to get Zuckerberg's brand of internet too.
The drones are wider than a Boeing 737 in wingspan yet lighter than a car and capable of flying at 60,000 feet. They were developed by Somerset-based company Ascenta which Facebook bought in 2014.
It sounds like Zuckerberg is powering ahead with his drones while little has been heard from Google which is also aiming to offer drone based internet access. It bought drone manufacturer Titan Aerospace which produces planes that can stay in the air for five years at a time.
Elon Musk's SpaceX is also in the race and wants to send up hundreds of tiny satellites to give a blanket of internet connectivity.
The president of the MDC Alliance Advocate Nelson Chamisa has criticised the hugely successful command agriculture programme saying his government will do away with the scheme and adopt new technologies of farming.
Advocate Chamisa was speaking during a rally held at Phelandaba Stadium in Gwanda this Saturday (yesterday).
In his address to party supporters at Phelandaba Stadium in Gwanda, Advocate Chamisa said the command agriculture programme introduced by the government to enhance food security and nutrition as well as uplift the standards of living of the people will be discontinued once he is elected into office.
Advocate Chamisa said his government will instead invest in smart agriculture and adopt a farm mechanisation programme where every village will benefit a tractor.
“We will do away with the command agriculture programme, we want to adopt modern technology for agriculture. We will have one tractor per village so that we move from using draft power to using tractors,” said Advocate Chamisa.
Furthermore, MDC Alliance Spokesperson Professor Welshman Ncube said when we are talking about the wealth of the country, there’s need to look at transformation, opportunities and prosperity.
“In this country we fall among the nations with the most unhappy people but Zimbabwean people must be happy but this can be achieved through fixing the economy,” said Professor Ncube.
Among the promises made to the electorate by Advocate Chamisa is the implementation of a devolved system of governance in line with the country’s constitution saying this will address under-development in the region.
“We are going to change the issue of focusing on Harare for development and decentralise and devolve the leadership of this country. So devolution is our next revolution. After 38 years you are still watching foreign television stations, we have several gold mines but 38 years later there is no refinery in this town, why,” said Advocate Chamisa.
The opposition leader further urged supporters of the Alliance to rally behind his candidature saying contrary to reports that the military will not accept an opposition victory, the security sector will not circumvent the will of the people.
“Our army is patriotic and professional, it will not salute an individual but the will of the people,” he said.
Professor Ncube weighed in saying their followers should vote in their numbers for Advocate Chamisa as he was anointed by the late Morgan Tsvangirai.
The MDC Alliance kicked off its campaign in Maphisa Matobo district before heading to Mawabeni in Umzingwane and Gwanda on Saturday (today).
TJ Maxx and Ulta Beauty will take over the spot on Route 35 in Wall once home to Pathmark and later to Lowe's Express.
WALL - The old Pathmark store on Route 35 in Wall won't be empty much longer.
Workers are dividing the 50,000-square-foot building at Allaire Plaza into three stores. TJ Maxx is taking one store and Ulta Beauty will move in too, Mayor Dominick DiRocco said. A tenant for the third space has not been announced.
No opening dates are set yet.
"I am very happy that that space is being put to productive use," DiRocco said. "We were very sad that Lowe's shuttered its doors. It's good for us to put that back online."
The renovated storefronts will brighten the shopping center, which is anchored by Whole Foods. "The owner of that center has done a nice job over the last couple of years of staying relevant," DiRocco said.
TJ Maxx's parent company, TJX Cos., is expanding at the Jersey Shore. Discounters are one of the bright spots in retail. TJX recently opened Homesense and Sierra Trading Post at the Seaview Square Shopping Center in Ocean. TJ Maxx also opened a store in Middletown earlier this year.
It's not the only work underway on the Route 35 corridor in Wall.
A shopping center called Wall Promenade is under construction. When completed, it will have three buildings. One has been leased to Starbucks, with a drive-in and a MedExpress. Aldi has its eyes set on another building, but an official said it will need Planning Board approval.
It's the site of the old Levitz furniture store, which was vacant since the store closed in 2005 and knocked down earlier this year to make way for Wall Promenade.
The nearly 10-acre property was purchased by Mega Holdings LLC in 2015 for more than $4 million. The Levitz building was constructed in 1989.
The 129th annual parade started Monday in Pasadena with an announcement by grand marshal actor Gary Sinise and a military flyover. Hundreds of thousands of people lined the street to watch 39 floats decked out with countless flowers, along with show horses, marching bands and celebrities. Millions more watched on TV.
But some viewers appear to have mistaken “The 2018 Rose Parade Hosted by Cord & Tish” for the real thing.
“Amazon should be embarrassed to have sponsored this,” wrote one reviewer on the coverage’s Amazon page. “The hostess appeared psychologically certifiable,” wrote another. “Love the parade (what little I got to see and hear of it), but DESPISE the tedious, inane ‘commentators’ who just won’t shut up,” read another review.
Others, however, found the livestream hilarious.
By Monday afternoon, the parade coverage had received more than 2,300 reviews on Amazon, with 48 percent giving it a single star, 44 percent giving it five stars – and very few reviews between those two extremes.
A police car apparently traveling 160km (100 miles) per hour on a highway with a 120 kph (75 mph) speed limit crashed into a dump truck outside Hanoi Saturday, killing three officers inside.
Two other officers were injured in the accident, which took place at around 1:15pm on a section of the Cau Gie-Ninh Binh Expressway in Ha Nam Province.
Colonel Dao Vinh Thang, Hanoi’s traffic police chief, said the official vehicle (a Toyota Rav4) was traveling from Ninh Binh Province to Hanoi when it "lost control and crashed into the truck in front of it."
According to Hanoi traffic police, the police’s car was surveying the Hanoi – Ninh Binh route to prepare for the Buddhist festival of Vesak which was scheduled to be held in Ninh Binh from May 7-11.
Tien Phong newspaper reported that the deceased officers were Captain Nguyen Duy Hung, Senior Lieutenant Nguyen Hieu Ngoc and Lieutenant Nguyen Duc Tai.
Lt. Ha Quang Hung underwent emergency brain surgery, while Lt. Le Anh Tuan was treated for severe leg injuries. Tien Phong quoted an unnamed source as saying that Tuan was driving the car when the accident happened.
According to Tien Phong, the highway traffic cameras showed the police car had travelled 35 kilometers in 13 minutes prior to the accident.
In another accident, three policemen died and two others were injured after their car’s wheel exploded on May 1 on the National Highway 6 in Son La Province, forcing the vehicle to roll over several times.
The officers, of the Ministry of Public Security, were on the way to Dien Bien Province for the 60th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu Victory.
In total, 117 people died in traffic accidents in Vietnam during a five-day holiday to celebrate the reunification of the country 39 years ago.
A magician who wowed the judges of Britain’s Got Talent will be heading to Lincoln in February.
Jamie Raven will be at the New Theatre Royal on February 8 as part of his 17-date tour.
Jamie’s performances not only amazed his captive audiences, but his humble and charming style also captured the hearts of the UK public and others around the world.
From his opening audition to his crowd-wowing finale, the nation took Jamie to their hearts – and his combined BGT performances have been viewed online more than 200 million times, making Jamie one of the most watched magicians in the world today.
Tickets for the Lincoln show start at £18.
To book, call the box office on 01522 519999.
After a rocky start, the White House chief of staff is rushing to fix Trump's early missteps.
Reince Priebus, facing growing criticism and calls for his ouster, is racing to bring order to a White House that looks to be spiraling out of control.
After weeks of West Wing turmoil and critiques from President Donald Trump himself, the chief of staff is scrambling to impose a more traditional approach on a White House that is anything but, according to more than a dozen administration aides and others close to Priebus.
Priebus, who arrives at the White House by 6:30 a.m. and often doesn’t leave until midnight, has launched an early-morning staff meeting aimed at streamlining each day. He spends hours on the phone with Capitol Hill Republicans, who have been left confused and flat-footed by the administration’s stormy opening days. He’s trying to reshape an overwhelmed communications office that has had its share of fumbles. And, along with several others, he guided the search for a replacement for scandal-ridden national security adviser Michael Flynn, whose dismissal an infuriated Priebus helped to engineer.
The maneuvers paint a picture of an embattled aide frantically trying to corral a White House that has been swamped by division and dysfunction. Whether he succeeds could determine his political future — and determine the administration’s path as it moves beyond its tumultuous first month.
Priebus, a 44-year-old lawyer-turned-Republican National Committee chairman new to the federal government, has turned to a group of former chiefs of staff who have briefed him on how previous administrations functioned. They include Rahm Emanuel, the hard-charging Chicago mayor and former top Barack Obama aide, whom he met with this week. He has also leaned on Andy Card and Josh Bolten, who navigated the fires of the George W. Bush years.
It all comes at a time of mounting urgency for Priebus, who has become a favorite target for those unhappy with the rocky start — some of whom are demanding he get the hook. Breitbart, a conservative website deeply influential in Trump world, published an article Tuesday hyping the possibility of a Priebus firing. Over the past week, two longtime Trump friends, Republican strategist Roger Stone and NewsMax chief executive Christopher Ruddy, have called for his removal — though Ruddy changed his position after a pledge from Priebus that he’d improve.
Although many chiefs of staff become subjects of shakeup rumors, the earliness and intensity of those confronting Priebus are unusual.
Trump himself in recent days has burned up his phone line to sound out friends in the business world about how they think his chief of staff is performing, something he has done in the past when he’s not happy with an employee. The president, ever the fan of theater, has stoked speculation about a shakeup, meeting Tuesday for lunch in the White House with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and his wife, Mary Pat. Christie has long been rumored for a top job in the administration.
During Trump’s press conference on Thursday, the president defended his chief of staff and rejected reports of “chaos" inside the White House.
He also praised Priebus for his performance in the 2016 campaign, a topic he returned to throughout the news conference.
In private conversations over the past week, Priebus has expressed confidence in his standing and shrugged off reports that he could be in trouble. In one phone call with an associate, the chief of staff conveyed frustration over internal turf battles, described as a level of franticness that was hard to manage, and hinted at a rising degree of fatigue.
Amid the fury, Priebus has adopted a low-profile approach, quietly embracing his role as the guy whose job it is to keep an unruly White House running and granting few interviews. He did not respond to a request for comment for this story.
For Priebus — a Washington Republican who has long been close to mainstream party figures like Haley Barbour and Karl Rove — the Trump wilderness has at times been hard to navigate. He has been trying to closely manage staffing across Cabinet agencies. Yet he often feels a need to be at Trump’s side throughout the day to make sure the easy-to-distract president stays on track. During meetings, when his boss veers into a tangent, Priebus is often the one trying to get him in line.
"Trump is nothing like Reince has ever dealt with,” said one person who knows Priebus well. “Would you want the job of trying to control him and getting him to focus?"
The president can be nearly impossible to staff. His whims, moods and insatiable appetite for TV can throw off plans. Priebus, along with others, often briefs him extensively before meetings, telling him about the audience's makeup and offering guidance for what he should say. Yet Trump has veered off on tangents, like repeating his unsubstantiated claim during meetings with senators that voter fraud was committed in the election. It has often fallen upon Priebus to change the subject — sometimes with success, sometimes not.
"The staff has to assume that Donald Trump is going to do things in unconventional ways and that he's not going to change," said Rep. Peter King, a New York Republican. "They have to learn to work around that."
In order to be with Trump nearly all of the time, Priebus has largely handed off oversight of White House operations to deputy chief of staff Katie Walsh, one of his top lieutenants.
Priebus has had to confront obstacles beyond Trump. The president, who is fond of creating decentralized leadership structures where power is split among multiple aides with different viewpoints, has empowered not just his chief of staff, but also a handful of top advisers — chief strategist Steve Bannon, senior adviser Jared Kushner and counselor Kellyanne Conway.
Some White House aides say they’ve seen Bannon or Conway in conversation with Trump — and then observed Priebus rushing to insert himself into the discussion.
At times, he has seemed determined to convince others of his influence. After the botched travel ban rollout, Priebus made a round of calls to senior Republicans to relay that the president had made clear that Priebus’ team, and no one else, was in charge of day-to-day operations.
"He's not been set up to be a very strong chief of staff," said one staffer. "I think there's an insecurity there."
Trump’s mercurial nature has only heightened the sense of anxiety. "You're working for a president where no one really knows where they stand," the staffer said.
Priebus has been deeply frustrated by reports he and Bannon do not get along — something both of them adamantly deny. While Priebus has come to view Bannon as the architect of Trump’s nationalist vision, Bannon regards Priebus as the operational vehicle that will carry the president’s agenda. Staffers have grown used to entering the building early in the morning and seeing the two already deep in discussion.
Bannon, who rarely speaks on the record, said in a text message: “Reince is doing a great job."
Priebus has grown particularly close with policy adviser Stephen Miller, a populist flamethrower who is Bannon’s ally. While in New York City during the transition, the two met for in-depth conversations over meals. Last week, Priebus was heavily involved in Miller’s preparation for a series of Sunday show interviews.
Bannon and Miller have insisted they did not have a hand in this week’s anti-Priebus story that appeared in Breitbart; Bannon was formerly an executive of the conservative website, and Miller has been previously linked to it.
Priebus’ job, many staffers are convinced, is safe — at least for now. And some of those who’ve worked for him in the past point to one early move as a primary reason why that’s the case: his decision to line the White House with a number of his loyalists — chief among them Walsh and press secretary Sean Spicer.
A natural disaster has beset Hantsport and environs and seems to serve as a cautionary tale for other Nova Scotia communities, particularly those at risk from rising sea levels.
The provincial government does not have your back. It doesn’t have Hantsport’s back.
Residents of the Hantsport and Mount Denson area in western Hants County feel all but abandoned by Stephen McNeil’s government, and they’re not even a little impressed by the high-priced bureaucrats the province sent down from Halifax to talk about their problem.
Their problem is water. For more than a year, the world’s highest tides have rushed up the Halfway River, spilling its banks, destroying land and threatening homes and other properties, including a cemetery and the local ballfields. Wells that once provided families with clean, fresh water now offer brine.
For all of living memory, a railway crossing almost as old as Canada served as a dam near the river’s mouth. An aboiteau built into the earth wall of the crossing allowed fresh water to flow to the sea while holding back the Bay of Fundy’s tides.
About a decade ago, the aboiteau failed, and slowly but surely the earth dam eroded until, in the fall of 2017, it gave out completely.
Now, with every tide — twice a day — huge volumes of saltwater rush up the river, flooding fields where farmers once cut hay and carving away at land once thought to be a safe distance from the river. The Riverview Cemetery is riverside twice daily, and the tidal surge may soon claim graves.
Before the railway was built in the 19th century, dykes along the river held back the salt water, but the railway dam made the dykes unnecessary, so they were not maintained. When the time came — with the full force of the bay — they provided no defence.
Residents have formed an action committee and today they plan to march to the Halfway River bridge in an effort to draw attention to their community’s plight and try to force some action from the province.
The bridge is a vital link to Windsor, about 10 kilometres away, where the nearest hospital and other critical services are situated. Hantsport residents fear erosion under the bridge abutments threaten the structure.
As for the provincial government, Hantsport’s problem is not its problem. Because the old dam was first and foremost a railway crossing, the province seems to be waiting for the American owner of the long-idle railway to pony up a solution.
The railway company — the Windsor and Hantsport Railway, which shut down with Fundy Gypsum’s mines in 2011 — did apply for a permit to make repairs to the aboiteau. But the aboiteau no longer exists.
The railway’s owner lives in Virginia, which is a better excuse than the province has for being out of touch with the damage, danger and anxiety in Hantsport.
“While the province is not taking ownership of the Windsor Hantsport Railway Company’s aboiteau, we recognize the urgency of this issue and are working co-operatively with all stakeholders, including the federal government, to come up with a resolution,” the province said in a written response to questions.
The people of Hantsport don’t feel like the province has been working co-operatively with them. In fact, some said they felt condescension when senior civil servants, including a deputy minister, came from Halifax to talk to them.
Suggestions from the provincial bureaucrats did seem to run from the absurd — “we’ll raise the roads to keep them above the rising tide water” — to the patronizing. A desperate property owner whose land is being consumed by the tide water asked what he can do, and a provincial civil servant suggested he hire a lawyer, although it was never clear for what purpose.
It’s Hantsport’s problem today, but it could be another coastal community’s tomorrow.
While no one’s suggesting the disaster in Hantsport is the result of global warming, science tells us climate change is here and rising sea levels are always among the first consequences mentioned.
At present, the province’s plan to mitigate the impact of rising seas seems no more advanced than the bureaucratic notion that the roads should be raised, presumably so Nova Scotians are high and dry as they flee their flooded homes.
In this segment Jim Pavia, senior editor at large for CNBC Digital's Financial Advisor Hub, provides insight as to why just about everyone—in every wealth category—can benefit from the assistance of a financial advisor.
"Let's be honest with ourselves. Even if we grade on a very generous curve, a majority of Americans would flunk when it comes to financial literacy and understanding basic money matters," Pavia said. In addition, the inherent—and ever-increasing—complexity of the modern U.S. economy makes it easy for the average wage earner to fall ever more behind.
"Whether taking out a student loan, buying a house or trying to save for retirement, people are being asked to make decisions that are difficult, even if they have graduate training in finance and economics," Pavia noted.

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