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He'll avoid keeping a timer — when he did that before, he said he "saw the thing moving backward."
His wife, Barbara Wynns, will make frequent visits and the pair will renew their vows during an underwater ceremony. A diver and former Weeki Wachee mermaid, she understands the pull of the sea.
Two boats stationed overhead will monitor Sherrod. And a team of divers from across Florida will constantly be at his side, helping with tank changes on a rotating basis. Chuck Baldwin, the dive operations coordinator, said he and about 15 other divers were happy to sign on.
"He's doing something that everybody likes to do, be underwater and stay there," said Baldwin, owner of Pompano Beach's U.S. 1 Scuba. "If you're an avid diver, you get to point where you say, 'Hey, I want to live here.'"
Among the challenges the diver could face is the weather. Sherrod said he is hoping this time won't be a repeat of 2011, when strong currents forced him to cling to an artificial reef for stability and sometimes carried support divers away.
Then there's the chilliness of nights spent undersea. A heated dry suit should offer protection against the cold that made Sherrod shake when the sun went down each night last time.
While talking to a friend about sleep arrangements for the upcoming dive in the Atlantic, Sherrod was unconcerned.
"He says, 'I'm not going to be down there that long,'" recalled Richard Black, of New Smyrna Beach, owner of Florida Dive Connection, an online news and information site, and coordinator of events during the upcoming dive. "Here's a man who's conditioned to think 55 hours is not that long."
Sherrod's stays at the bottom of the ocean netted him a nickname: "The Grouper," because of the way the fish stays in one place for long stretches. He says it's not a bad way to spend his time.
"You can just stay and see the wildlife, watch everything progress through the day, through the night," he said. "It's like watching a movie: Pretty soon you're an hour into the movie and you didn't even know it."
Allen Sherrod plans to start his dive at 5 a.m. Thursday in front of the Windjammer Resort, 4244 El Mar Drive, in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, and surface just after noon Saturday. Events to celebrate the dive, including a mermaid convention, begin Wednesday and continue throughout the dive. For detailed information, visit a...
“Our overall vision is to utilize the extra capacity of vehicles, either passenger or goods vehicles, plying the roads,” said Hassamuddin, who began toying with the idea when he, like Sherazi, was a student struggling to get to college.
Muhammad Arif Goheer, a senior scientist at the Global Change Impact Studies Centre in Islamabad, said more car pooling was a good idea for Pakistan’s crowded cities, though “the challenge is its effective and efficient utilization”.
“Until and unless we have proper data and numbers about the distance traveled daily by the commuters and vehicles, we cannot quantify the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions,” he said.
Against most expectations, turnout is around 50 percent so far, especially in some urban areas, like Bangor. A working assumption is that the higher the turnout the better the prospects for civil rights. I don't know if that's true or not. But if you haven't voted yet in Maine, please help protect the civil equality th...
Reese Witherspoon will continue to "celebrate risk takers" who "fight for change" in 2019 and beyond.
The 'Big Little Lies' star spoke of her pride at what Hollywood has achieved in the last 12 months with the Time's Up movement, which was launched at the start of 2018 to raise awareness of harassment in the industry and wider world.
Alongside a number of photographs from last year's Golden Globes ceremony, she wrote on Instagram: "I will forever remember last year's #GoldenGlobes, when we stood together in solidarity to fight for equality, parity, safety and inclusion. Good luck to all the nominees tonight! And may we continue to celebrate risk ta...
Reese and a number of other Hollywood stars famously wore black on the red carpet at the Golden Globes in 2018.
The 42-year-old actress had previously revealed she was assaulted by a film director at the age of 16 and admits it was hard to talk about it at first but she hopes telling the truth will help her "heal" her wounds.
She said: "I have just spoken to so many actresses and writers, particularly women, who have had similar experiences and many of them have bravely gone public with their stories. That truth is very encouraging to me and everyone out there in the world because you can only heal by telling the truth ..."
"I feel really, really encouraged that there will be a new normal. For the young women in this room, life is going to be different because we're with you, we have your back and it makes me feel better. It makes me so sad to talk about these issues, but I would be remiss not to."
A 58-year-old Uruguayan survived in the Andes for about four months by eating rats after losing his way in the world's longest continental mountain range, local media reported.
A 58-year-old Uruguayan survived in the Andes for about four months by eating rats after losing his way in the world's longest continental mountain range, Sky News reported Monday.
Raul Fernando Gomez Circunegui set off in May to cross the mountains from Chile to Argentina on foot after his motorbike broke down but reportedly lost his way after a snowstorm.
Officials from Argentina's San Juan province found him living in a shelter 2,840 m above sea level when they went there to record snow levels.
Although the man had suffered significant weight loss, he opened the shelter's door and alerted the officials about his presence.
"The truth is that this is a miracle. We still can't believe it," San Juan Governor Jose Luis Gioja told the media.
"We let him talk to his wife, his mother and his daughter. I asked him: 'Are you a believer?' He told me, 'no, but now I am.'"
A doctor treating Gomez said he will be discharged soon.
Ford is set to unveil a new performance car later this month, although in perhaps an unconventional manner.
The manufacturer didn’t delve much into details about the car itself in a recent release, but all will be revealed at Gamescom — Europe’s largest video game convention, taking place on August 21-25 in Cologne, Germany.
What is has confirmed is that this new vehicle will “bring the fun back to on- and off-road driving”, meaning this is sadly unlikely to be a Fiesta RS.
But why? Well, the new performance machine will be appearing in “a forthcoming racing game”. Which one that is hasn’t been officially confirmed, but it’s safe to speculate it will be Microsoft’s Forza Horizon 4, which is set to release on October 2.
Ford has a history of working with Microsoft, with the firm’s cars appearing in every rendition of Forza since the original launched in 2005. It also revealed the current Ford GT alongside the announcement of Forza Motorsport 6 back in 2016, with the supercar taking the cover spot for the game, while its America-only F...
The American manufacturer will have its own stand at Gamescom, where visitors will be able to get behind the wheel of a 4D racing simulator, that “offers the nearest-to-real experience imaginable for driving a performance vehicle”.
NEW YORK: US crude oil futures on Tuesday briefly shot up more than $US5, or 8.2 per cent, in late electronic trading to hit $US68 a barrel, the highest level since early September, amid unsubstantiated rumours Iran had fired on a US naval vessel in the Persian Gulf.
Prices were trading around the day's settlement at $US62.93, then jumped sharply close to 5pm here. Traders were stumped to explain as prices swung dramatically in a matter of minutes. New York Mercantile Exchange personnel confirmed that all prices flashed on trading screens were accurate.
"The market has been on pins and needles with the Iran situation and as soon as the rumour mill got started things took off," said Phil Flynn, analyst at Alaron Trading in Chicago.
Later, the US Navy said it had no information to substantiate the market rumour that Iran had fired at a US ship.
The White House added that it had no information to indicate any incident taking place regarding Iran.
Later, as electronic trading closed for the day on Nymex, crude oil for May delivery last traded up $US1.57, or 2.5 per cent, at $US64.48 a barrel.
That was the highest intra-day price for near-month crude contract since $US68.85 on September 6, 2006.
Before the spike, May crude ended open-outcry trading up just 2c at $US62.93 a barrel, the highest settlement since $US63.72 on December 20.
In London, May Brent crude last traded up $US1.24, or 1.9 per cent, at $US65.65 a barrel, after leaping as high as $US69. Earlier, the contract settled up 19c, or 0.3 per cent, at $US64.60.
Earlier in the day, energy futures retreated on profit-taking after rallying on Monday over the international tension over Iran and its disputes over nuclear power and the holding of British naval personnel.
Iran says it could charge the 15 sailors and marines with illegally entering its waters. Britain insists the two boatloads of sailors were in Iraqi waters in the northern Gulf and has demanded their immediate release.
The sailors' capture on Friday heightened tensions between Iran and the West just a day before the UN Security Council imposed new sanctions on Iran over its disputed nuclear program. Britain's Prime Minister, Tony Blair, warned Tehran on Tuesday of a "different phase" if it did not free the sailors and marines.
"As long as the market is in bullish mode, Iran will be a factor as neither the hostage or the nuclear situations look likely to go away quickly," said an analyst in Houston.
Traders took a closer look at forecasts for Wednesday's US Government inventory data, in which analysts expect further drawdowns in gasoline and distillate supplies.
In France, workers voted on Tuesday to continue a crippling two-week strike at France's Fos-Lavera oil terminal, which has forced some refineries to cut output, a spokesman at France's petroleum industry body UFIP said.
Never shoot from the hip, nor “erupt like a volcano", to use the colourful imagery that comrade Fikile Mbalula is so partial to... In my fourty years as a veteran of the ANC, and many years of media experience, I have learnt not to allow journalists with their own anti- ANC agendas to excite me, and work me up with mis...
This is the comradely advice that I would like to give to my younger brother in the struggle, comrade Fikile Mbalula. I do so respecting him as my leader by virtue of his membership of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the ANC, and acknowledging him as a talented, though somewhat volatile, member of the ANC lea...
For the enlightenment and information of comrade Mbalula, and the journalists who carried his attack on me, they can follow the following link to listen to the full version of the short speech that I made at the Imbizo. They will note that I have not claimed to speak with a mandate on behalf of the ANC or MKMVA.
Nor did I attack/ criticise the ANC's position concerning the Ingonyama Trust. In fact I was at pains to clarify that the ANC has not taken any formal position with regards to the Inkonyama Trust, nor on the recommendations of the High Level Panel on the Assessment of Key Legislation and the Acceleration of Fundamental...
As a loyal and longstanding member of the ANC I felt that these very damaging misconceptions had to be corrected as a matter of urgency. When participants at the Imbizo were invited to make inputs, I took the opportunity of that invitation to address the Imbizo and state unequivocally that the ANC is NOT negatively dis...
This necessary clarification and correction was warmly accepted by his Majesty King Zwelithini and the gathered Amabutho, which I (and I believe the ANC) should highly appreciate and be grateful for. For reasons unbeknown to me the ANC leaders who were present at the Imbizo, including ANC NEC member and Minister of Pol...
I did express my dismay with the very unfortunate remarks of comrade Kgalema Motlante when he had said that traditional leaders behave like "tin pot dictators", and personally apologised. I did so because I believe that these remarks were ill-conceived and poisons the atmosphere in which the ANC, Bayete and his Amakhos...
As an individual member of the ANC I cannot force comrade Motlante, nor comrade Mbalalu or the ANC to apologise for the insulting “tin pot dictators” remarks, but I would like to - once again - plead with them and my beloved organisation to do the right thing, and apologise in order to clean up the entirely unnecessary...
Lastly I would like to urge all of us who are committed to the full implementation of the Resolution of the Expropriation of Land without Compensation that was taken at the 54th National Conference of the ANC, to focus on the main issue that is the return of the 70% plus of the land still owned by whites to its rightfu...
It is a diversion, and very wrong, to concentrate on the small pockets of land (less than 30%) currently owned, and under the control of black South Africans including the Inkonyama Trust, and to waste valuable time, resources and good will for black South Africans to bicker among themselves and loose focus about the c...
Skis whispering through untouched snow, fog drifting in and out, snow falling lightly but persistently, the delighted whoop of a happy skier – that was me, actually. Bogus Basin did something today that granted a holiday wish for lots of area skiers and snowboarders: It opened up the backside of the mountain. The Pine ...
The No. 3 Superior chair isn’t open yet, nor is the Paradise area off Pine Creek, as more snow is awaited, and there are still early-season conditions, especially off-trail. But things are up and running in time for the holidays, and plenty of people are having plenty of fun up there. Take it easy on the often-slick ro...
CLARKSVILLE, IN (WAVE) – A man who died after he was shot by a neighbor in Clarksville has been identified.
Brandon Haycraft, 31, died of a gunshot wound he suffered during a domestic battery situation involving a neighbor around 10 p.m. Tuesday on Harvard Drive, according to Clarksville police.
Police said Haycraft was beating a woman and her young daughter when a neighbor grabbed his gun and attempted to break up the fight.
Police said Haycraft complied for a while but then tried to attack the neighbor and ignored warnings to stop. When he came at the neighbor, police said he shot him.
Police said the mother and daughter were taken to an area hospital for treatment and have since been released.
The most important promises used to justify capitalism are that your children will have a better life than you do, and in President Kennedy’s famous words, “a rising tide lifts all boats,” meaning everyone benefits from the accumulation of capital. These promises ring hollow in a period in which the relative position o...
From an economic standpoint what has happened is that the link between productivity and wages has been broken. No longer does economic growth mean increases in the real earnings for the working class as their productivity rises. This was evident through Clinton’s last term when between 1997 and 2001 the top 10 percent ...
Inequality was growing in most of the rest of the world too; but the United States led among the richer nations; and unlike most others that offset market inequality though government intervention, the United States has not done so. For working people the issues are not simply the stagnation of real wages and growing i...
Because globalization has been such a powerful force restructuring the international political economy there is a tendency to see economic developments as the result of this process rather than in terms of class. If we start with class and labor as the givens—rather than beginning with globalization trends—and then go ...
Despite globalization, manufacturing output is not declining in the United States. It has been expanding, growing faster than the rest of the economy in recent years. It is manufacturing employment that is shrinking.
It is at its lowest level in more than half a century. Between 2001 and the spring of 2006 worker hourly productivity rose by 24 percent so fewer workers are needed to produce more output. But output has not been rising as fast as in the past. This is not only because of greater global competition but also slower globa...
The U.S. economy is always creating and destroying jobs. The question is how much trouble do the unemployed have in finding work? What kind of jobs are available? What do they pay? What is the work like? What are the benefit packages, if any? If they are laid off how much pain do workers endure when they are involuntar...
How long does the period last? What sort of job did they lose, did they get, and again at what pay and with what benefits? Every three months 7 percent of all jobs are destroyed and roughly the same number are created. In a typical year a quarter of all jobs disappear. The Bureau of Labor Statistics tells us that in 19...
The layoffs have been in big companies, which tend to pay better and to offer benefits. It is not of course that things were great in the 1980s. During that decade, 13 percent of Americans between 40 and 50 years of age spent at least one year living in poverty, but by the 1990s, 36 percent did. Mobility has also decli...
The true cost of job loss must be measured not just in money as economists do in their limited calculations. For many people there is a spiral pattern in which layoffs lead to not only financial insecurity but to feelings of powerlessness and hopelessness, depression, sleepless nights, headaches, chronic stomach aches,...
Even after getting work some people have trouble talking to the boss and dealing with job demands. The damage done by job loss, even the threat of job loss, along with the worries about how people will live after they are no longer able to work, or if they have a serious illness how they can pay for the doctor and a ho...
On the whole, life grows ever more insecure for working people. Capital’s share of all corporate income is the highest and the compensation of employees is the lowest that they have been in twenty-five years. Moreover, capital income is more concentrated than it has ever been. As the profit share went up, the CEO’s sha...
These are disturbing developments to many Americans, but have they shaken the powerful hold of individualism on people’s psyches?
Hundreds of national polls confirm that Americans express optimism regarding their own life chances and those of their children. They are reluctant to describe their own circumstances in negative terms even as they tell interviewers that “people like them” are doing poorly. While they say that education and hard work w...
Horatio Alger stories continue to resonate with Americans. Close to two-thirds of Americans in a 2002 Pew poll believe that success depends on forces within their own control—double the percent who respond this way in Italy or Germany and triple those who respond this way in Turkey or India. Another 2002 poll by the ac...
Such individualist optimists typically do not believe in helping those who do not help themselves. A very large part of the working class is alienated from poverty programs which are seen as taking their tax money and giving it to those who lack ambition and a willingness to work hard. One of the lasting legacies of 19...
The great gap is between the top 1 percent or the top .1 percent and the rest of the country. The myth of the United States as a middle-class nation with endless prospects for upward mobility is increasingly contradicted by the evidence. Those at the top are a ruling elite and are concentrating more income and wealth i...
In a May 2006 statement advocating the continuation of his huge tax cut going overwhelmingly to the wealthiest Americans, President Bush asserted that the failure to extend the tax cut would be “disastrous” for “all working Americans.” As experts from mainstream think tanks, the Brookings Institution, the Urban Institu...
Robert McIntyre of the Citizens for Tax Justice calculates however, that the wealthiest 1 percent, who in 2006 had family incomes of over a million and a quarter dollars, received an average tax break of $84,482 per family member, which exceeded their additional tax burden by over $30,000 for each of the four members o...
What by convention the establishment calls “defense” spending is rather the expenses of empire, war, and preparation for and the actuality of killing. It is one of the costs citizens pay for American imperialism. In 2001, Bush said the war in Iraq would cost $50 billion (and fired his senior economic adviser Larry Lind...
Imperialism is the other side of an economy that is not producing adequate civilian jobs that would allow the sort of solid working-class existence to which unionized workers in a previous era could aspire. But even with poor prospects most young people are not interested in the volunteer army. One of the reasons the w...
The liberal establishment is worried that the more sophisticated classbased voting rooted in economic awareness they see growing in Latin America after three decades of a disastrous neoliberalism may be heading north. Robert Rubin, Clinton’s first secretary of the treasury and his successor Larry Summers have spearhead...
Republicans place their hopes in the strong hold ideologies of individualism have on Americans, including working-class and low-income voters. Three-quarters of poor Republicans, who as a group make up some 10 percent of the electorate (a Pew study tells us) believe that people can make it on their own through hard wor...
The penchant for people to see the basic unfairness of the capitalist system and at the same time accept it and to believe that they can do well against the odds is a difficult reality for Marxists and other advocates for radical change. Critics of capitalism are not at all alone in their belief that those who control ...
It would be a mistake to see the salience of social and cultural issues as distinct from economics. Traditional values, as they are called, are less appealing to the better off and better educated who are more likely to live in nuclear families, less likely to be divorced (and more likely to remarry if they are), less ...
Those who point out smugly that red states have more divorce, crime, poverty, single parents, and so on need to ask why this is so. Can it be the case that economically more secure people—like those who live in a high-income state such as Massachusetts, where community life is stronger for the most part and where there...
For many it is the ceaseless realities of a life of pain that leads to aspirational adoption of absolutist moral values and a rejection of the seemingly far-fetched promises of a solidarity based on class and citizen entitlement. It is easy for such people to demonize unions and a government, which are not helping them...
All of this leads to the question: under what conditions does a broadbased progressive movement appear which can change the direction of the country? The Populist era, the New Deal, and the Great Society need to be understood in their material context to explain why they could do as much as they did. When Wall Street a...
From Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” through the disenfranchisement of blacks (most importantly in Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004), the Republicans were able to impose an increasingly rightward turn in American politics. The whipping up of fear was the driver of reaction— fear of blacks, fear of communism, fear of terror...
As a result, their stance shifted regarding the functions of the state and U.S. labor. They now sought the freedom to disinvest at home and reinvest abroad, pressuring governments everywhere to accept neoliberal policies. This combination of the objective interests of big capital in the new stage of capitalist developm...
Under Clinton, and in the economics advanced by Gore and Kerry, it is clear that the Democrats accepted and encouraged corporate globalization and lacked enthusiasm to defend working-class interests. In the post mortems after the 2004 election, Stan Greenberg, the Democratic Party pollster, crunched the numbers and dec...
“They were looking for an election about their lives—not national security—and they didn’t get that choice,” Greenberg reported. If they had gotten what they wanted Kerry would be president. There remains a basic disconnect between what Americans think is important and what politicians in thrall to the well-to-do are w...

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