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The company informed the fund that deputy mayor Meir Turjeman, who heads the signage committee, "will not permit the campaign in public areas." It also wrote that the campaign's "message is unclear and it could be interpreted as incitement."
The fund has engaged the services of attorney Yossi Habilio, who formerly served as the municipality's legal counsel, in a bid to get the decision overturned.
Habilio warned Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat on Thursday that the issue would be taken to court if the campaign was not approved. He argued that the inability to understand the campaign was not a valid reason to reject it and that the campaign cannot be accused of incitement because its message is the opposite and warns o...
The fund said that the municipality's concern only proves its contention that "the inciters are causing fear among the society at large. It makes us even more determined to pursue our public mission – to warn, because we are only a moment away from the next political murder."
The municipality said in response that a city bylaw regarding signage allows it to refuse permission to hang a poster that could infringe on the law or harm public order or the public's feelings.
"In the opinion of the municipality's legal counsel, the description of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin as a 'foreign agent' harms his memory," the municipality said.
It added that the "advertisement defames Im Tirzu in that it implies that the group was responsible for the murder of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin."
“We had no idea what was wrong. We were so frightened and worried,” the children's mother, Liao Shanfang, told The Associated Press.
After the tainted milk scandal broke in mid-September, Liao and her husband Zhang Rongwei took their twins again to their local hospital in Linyi.
This time, Zhang Peng, the boy, was admitted for a five-day stay but he only got worse. He began vomiting and when he could urinate, it came out in a blood-tinged stream. His sister's symptoms weren't as serious; she had sporadic fevers.
From birth, both babies had been given breast milk and formula. The Zhangs first used a cheaper brand that gave the children diarrhea, then switched to one made by Sanlu Group Co., although it cost almost twice as much. Sanlu was the first company implicated in the scandal.
Unable to do more, doctors in Linyi told the Zhangs to seek treatment in Beijing.
The couple hastily arranged for a car ride – at a cost of 300 yuan, about $45, a small fortune – to the Children's Hospital, where they arrived Sept. 23.
Hours later, Zhang Peng was diagnosed with two large kidney stones that needed surgery. His sister had a single stone the size of a grain of rice.
“My heart stopped when I read the test results for Zhang Peng,” Liao said.
With no choice but to split their lives – and their children – the couple brought their daughter home to her paternal grandmother. Then they returned to Beijing where they spent the next three weeks, sleeping at a relative's an hourlong bus ride from the hospital.
While hospital treatment was free, the trip to Beijing was not without high cost. The burden of harvesting the family's corn fell to Zhang's parents.
In a good year, the couple's income is about $1,300. Liao estimated that while they were in Beijing, the family spent about $1,000 and with Zhang unable to work, their losses mounted.
Despite the weeks of heartache, the twins, who turn 1 this month, are on the road to recovery. Zhang Peng was discharged from the hospital Monday; his sister was treated by a traditional Chinese medicine doctor.
The toddlers still drink milk but only brands unaffected by the scandal. They cost nearly five times what Sanlu milk cost.
Us review: Jordan Peele's ambitious new film is a brilliant and unsettling commentary on social inequality \| City A.M.
Jordan Peele’s 2017 debut Get Out redefined what a modern horror movie could be. It was slick and smart and terrifying, its body-horror a twisted allegory for the racism – casual and otherwise – suffered by black people.
Cut forward 20 years and that girl now has a family of her own, with whom she once again sets off for a seaside getaway. With all that foreshadowing, what could possibly go wrong? Loads, it turns out. Heaps. It’s basically the worst holiday ever, getting exponentially more terrible with every creepy shadow hiding in th...
The first inkling that something is amiss is when, at night of course, the family spot four sinister figures standing in their driveway. They don’t seem inclined to budge, even when threatened – albeit halfheartedly – with a baseball bat. But on closer inspection the jump-suited intruders look just like… well, them. On...
At this point Peele seems to be commenting on the disparity between the way black families actually are – in this case well educated and a bit dweeby – and the monstrous, violent vision presented by the media.
The first two thirds of his film is a taut home invasion thriller along the lines of The Strangers, with the “shadow” family attempting to systematically murder Adelaide (a brilliant Lupita Nyong’o), Gabe (an often hilarious Winston Duke) and their two children, plus their obnoxious white neighbours.
It’s darkly beautiful, unsurprising given Peele’s debut was one of the most visually innovative horror movies since Under the Skin. There’s also a nod to classic The Twilight Zone episodes; again hardly surprising given he’s directed a soon-to-be-released season of the show for CBS. But there’s also an overtly surreal ...
Just when you think you’ve got a grip on things, Peele pans back, vastly broadening the scope of his social commentary, framing the film not as just an allegory for racism, but one about money versus poverty, haves versus have nots. Quite how he goes about this I won’t reveal for fear of spoiling a pretty astonishing r...
Anyway, when you’re this good a filmmaker, you can afford to take a few liberties. Us is gripping throughout, frightening as the best horror can be, with a wicked seam of pitch-dark humour and a social commentary Ken Loach would be proud of. It’s another devastatingly brilliant movie from one of the hottest mainstream ...
DIRTY SECRET: Unbeknownst to most customers, distributors sometimes allow used motor oil to be added to heating fuel.
The city government says it protects itself from purchasing and burning heating oil blended with waste oil, but offers no such protections for other buyers from a practice that may be widespread in the city.
The Department of Citywide Administrative Services, or DCAS, stations three full-time staffers at the oil terminals that hold city contracts—Sprague and United Metro Energy Corp.—to test oil to be burned in city buildings.
Crain's previously reported on a lawsuit that alleged oil truckers blended virgin oil with waste oil in their trucks, a practice that inspections at terminals would not necessarily catch because truckers could make a delivery, top off with waste oil and then unload a blend to subsequent customers. City contracts specif...
But while DCAS enforces the city's own contract, no city entity ensures that other buyers do not unwittingly burn home heating oil that has been blended with used motor oil or other contaminated liquids.
The Department of Consumer Affairs inspects fuel trucks to make sure their meters are accurate, but lacks the authority to test the composition of heating oil, an agency spokeswoman said. The Department of Environmental Protection certifies boilers in large buildings and will inspect any boiler that emits dark, heavy s...
Councilman Rafael Salamanca, D-Bronx, who has asthma, said the city needs to re-evaluate regulation of the home heating oil industry.
"Not only do we have small businesses and consumers being ripped off, but it’s imperative that we know what is in the oil we’re burning, especially since too many in the South Bronx and across New York City suffer from respiratory problems," he said.
A City Council bill would empower the city's Business Integrity Commission to oversee the industry, but it has not made great progress toward passage since a hearing in September. A City Hall spokesman said the de Blasio administration strongly supports the bill and would like to see it move forward.
A. Mychal Johnson of environmental-justice group South Bronx Unite said policy makers "have found it safer to fund studies rather than legislate solutions, and the few laws we do have to protect us are not enforced."
"The burning of dirty oil with its toxic cocktail of air contaminants must stop," he said. "It’s infuriating. I have a 1-year old son, and inside of six months of his life he had to use a nebulizer."
The city of Santa Clara did not grant an extension of a 10 p.m. weeknight curfew for a Coldplay concert scheduled at Levi's Stadium next week.
The extension for the Oct. 4 concert was considered once again at a Santa Clara Stadium Authority meeting Tuesday night that went past midnight, according to Santa Clara city spokesperson Jennifer Yamaguma. She said the consensus by the council is to implement a community outreach program proposed by councilmember Tere...
Yamaguma said the incoming city manager, Deanna Santana, who starts next week, will examine O'Neill's proposal and will attend the next stadium authority meeting with suggestions on how the outreach program will be enacted.
In late August, the 49ers sent the city a letter saying they expect the concert to go past the 10 p.m. curfew time. The city council had declined an extension to 11 p.m. in a 4-3 vote at a stadium authority meeting on Aug. 24.
The 49ers didn't comment on the denial of the extension or the proposed community outreach program.
The denial of the curfew extension for the Coldplay concert comes days after Grammy-awarding winning artist Ed Sheeran canceled a 2018 concert tour date, 49ers officials said on Monday.
"We had reached an agreement to host international star and Grammy-award winning artist Ed Sheeran," 49ers team President Al Guido said in a statement Monday.
"His show will no longer come to Levi's Stadium because after being warned that the music ban would cost the stadium future shows, [Santa Clara Mayor Lisa Gillmor] played politics and refused to correct, or even address, the music ban."
The 49ers said the curfew is costing the community money.
"Now the community is paying the price," Guido said Monday. "Four thousand hardworking individuals have lost their right to work, residents have lost out on millions of dollars in revenue, and music lovers have been denied an opportunity to view a world-class concert."
Gillmor claimed Monday to be surprised by the loss of revenue.
"This potential concert loss is news to us," she said in a statement. "We would appreciate the Forty-Niners Stadium Management Company bringing the data and the financial details before the Stadium Authority, particularly since we met just met last week."
49ers Vice President of Communications Bob Lange said Tuesday that Guido's reference to losing millions in revenue was referring to the previously estimated $100 million in concert revenue over the life of the building.
"Concerts have made between $600,000 and $800,000 per concert for the city's general fund since the building opened," Lange said via email Tuesday.
As this evening, Gillmor did not responded to the 49ers' comments regarding the amount made for the city fund per concert.
Two Washington Post columnists are now advocating that the government deport Republicans instead of illegal immigrants.
Max Boot, a national security columnist and CNN analyst, first floated the idea of deporting “contemptible Republican cowards” in a column published Monday about the Trump administration’s policy on illegal immigrant children.
“If only we could keep the hard-working Latin American newcomers and deport the contemptible Republican cowards — that would truly enhance America’s greatness,” Boot wrote to conclude his article.
Jennifer Rubin, who claims to be a “conservative columnist” at WaPo, tweeted out an endorsement of Boot’s idea.
“If only we could keep the hard-working Latin American newcomers and deport the contemptible Republican cowards — that would truly enhance America’s greatness.” yes!
Boot recently announced that he was leaving the Republican Party.
Despite his brand new marriage to Hailey Baldwin, Justin Bieber reportedly still has days when he feels ‘empty and confused,’ as if there’s some vital happiness ‘missing’ from his life.
Justin Bieber, 24, is a world-famous pop star, rich beyond his wildest dreams and married to Hailey Baldwin, 21. So, why is he constantly seen being so unhappy? As it turns out, Justin “has his up and down days like everyone else,” a source close to the Biebs told PEOPLE. “What he struggles with mostly is that he knows...
“He is very much grateful for his amazing life and especially for Hailey,” the insider added. “It’s difficult for him that he can’t just enjoy everything and feel happy. He has been in treatment for this before.” Justin – who has been seen being visibly upset in public multiple times over the past few months – was spot...
Power Conversion Inc. said it had entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Hawker Siddeley Group P.L.C. of Britain for $15 a share, subject to a possible reduction of up to 25 cents a share because of escrow arrangements. The transaction is valued at about $59.7 million.
The company said its president, Bruce Jagid, and its chairman, Martin Rosansky, had agreed to vote their 20 percent interest in favor of the merger and would retain a 6.5 percent interest in the company. Mr. Jagid and Mr. Rosansky will have an option in 1989 to sell their shares.
Broadway's Profit-Turning, Crowd-Pleasing Christmas Story With hordes of tourists descending on New York for the Christmas season, Broadway is looking to turn a profit — by staging limited-run holiday musicals like A Christmas Story and Elf. But with production costs so high, how can these shows make money back? The an...
Jordan Gelber plays Buddy the Elf in Elf on Broadway. The limited-run production may not turn a profit immediately, but producers have a multipronged strategy for making money.
The Christmas season is when retailers make the bulk of their profits, Hollywood blockbusters rake it in, and Broadway theaters are filled to capacity. In recent seasons, Broadway has even staged special limited-run holiday musicals — among them, adaptations of A Christmas Story and Elf — to take advantage of the horde...
Gerald Goehring is lead producer of A Christmas Story, a new musical based on the popular movie, which itself is a version of Jean Shepherd's short stories about growing up in Indiana. This $9.5 million show is only playing for eight weeks on Broadway, and Goehring freely admits there's no way it'll make back its inves...
In A Christmas Story, Johnny Rabe plays Ralphie Parker, a boy who wants only one thing for Christmas: an official Red Ryder Carbine-Action 200-shot Range Model Air Rifle.
"It's costing just as much to do this Broadway show as it does a Broadway show that can run for years and years and years," Goehring says. "A lot of investors are used to, 'Let's put money in a Broadway show and hope it's Book of Mormon! And we recoup fast, and we run forever!' And that's such a rarity in any model, an...
This means Goehring's investors take a different approach. "It is [an approach] of patience; it's one of long-term strategy," he says. "It's an annuity for us and our families for a few generations to come."
A Christmas Story is playing at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre through Dec. 30.
Elf plays at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre through Jan. 6.
The way it usually works on Broadway is this: If a show is successful, it then gets several touring productions and international companies. It eventually gets licensed, so it can get produced at professional theaters, community theaters and schools. For a smash hit, like, say, Cats, profits from all these income strea...
This new breed of holiday musical has both built-in advantages and built-in disadvantages. The advantage is they're based on well-known movie properties, so they all have name recognition; the disadvantage is it only makes sense to produce them for a couple of months around Christmastime.
Even if a Broadway run may be something of a loss leader, it's an important way of branding a show, says Raymond Wu, of Warner Brothers Theatrical. They're producing Elf, based on the Will Ferrell comedy, which is currently playing a nine-week Broadway run.
"We figured with the Broadway branding, it helps with subsequent productions and licensing, tours," says Wu. "People will say, 'Oh, that was on Broadway and it's a great title, a great story, and it did well on Broadway, and we want to see that, too."
Jeremy Gerard, a theater critic and reporter for Bloomberg News, says these shows really can make some of their costs back during a short Broadway run.
"These are shows that appeal to a holiday audience, the tourist trade, families. And producers aren't stupid — they know that there's a lot of money to be made in this brief time, if you watch your numbers, if you keep your production costs down and your ticket costs high."
And top ticket prices for Elf and A Christmas Story are in the vicinity of $160, with premium tickets as much as $350. But according to the producers of holiday shows, the real money to be made is beyond Broadway. Elf, which had a Broadway run a couple of years ago, is already getting new productions across the country...
"This year we have an eight-week, five-city tour of Elf out there that we partnered on," says Wu. "There's gonna be a production this holiday season in Seattle."
Goehring has similar plans for A Christmas Story for next year — a first-class tour and licensed local productions at major regional theaters. But, like Wu, he's looking years ahead — he hopes the show can also go on tours where it plays single nights and short runs in smaller markets. And then there's licensing for am...
"I think, honestly, the only way to make your money back, without taking 20 years, is a combination of all those models put together," Goehring says.
But are these shows any good? Gerard has liked some and not much cared for others. In recent years, Broadway has also seen adaptations of Dr. Seuss' The Grinch Who Stole Christmas and Irving Berlin's White Christmas.
Gerard says what they all share, and what may account for their appeal, is a slightly retro vibe — harking back to a less edgy time.
"I think it's silly to go into these expecting something other than what they want to do, which is to be a crowd-pleaser," Gerard says. "The producers do have an imperative to put together something that's entertaining, but I don't expect going in to see Angels in America or Sweeney Todd. Who would want that at Christm...
They could much more easily and reliably be able to control the windshield wipers with a low-power laser shooting edge-on from the bottom of the glass to the top, or one side to the other; refraction from raindrops on the glass could be detected as modulation of the laser beam and turn the wipers on.
Since when have windscreens been flat ?
Since when have windscreens been bug and debris free?
If you are going to have perimeter mounted lasers then you might as well shoot down the rain drops directly and do without windscreen wipers altogether. Presumably you would need a system to harvest rainwater from some other parts of the vehicle to sustain the sharks.
You mean a basic cheap diffraction sensor like everyone else uses successfully? Or maybe one of the fancy variations on that theme? But where would the disruption be in doing that when you can do something horribly complicated with a camera?
Where the camera system might be handy would be detecting a dirty screen and washing it automatically but that isn't what they've done.
The problem with inventing new solutions to solved problems (like they've also done with Sentry vs a normal alarm) is you often end up with a crap solution.
They are likely trying to keep the BOM down by using the software to replicate the task.
I recall one otherwise happy customer who complained the windshield wipers in his Tesla mistook his garage ceiling for rainfall, and came on every time he entered his garage.
Rain sensing wipers are a solved problem, unfortunately Tesla decided to re-invent the wheel.
There’s your problem right there. They used a wheel to wipe the windscreen.
There's a short lever on the steering column of my car that turns the wipers on and off (and adjusts their speed). When I see rain drops on the windscreen, I flick the lever. But of course that implies I'm actually looking out through the windscreen while driving - not staring at a "smart" phone. On the other hand, if ...

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