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However, CTV says the purpose of Harper's meeting is not clear.
The visit to the U.S. capital comes amid heightened tensions between Canada and the U.S. with the prospect of a trade war.
U.S. President Donald Trump and other administration officials have also engaged in personal attacks against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on political talk shows and social media.
1. Bishop Allen, Sticky Fingerz, Tues., March 17. The twee pop-rockers return to Little Rock for the first time in a loooong time. It'll be a homecoming for Christian Rudder (that's him in the plaid shirt in the top left). He's a Central High grad. The band's third album, "Grrr...", comes out March 10. You can preview ...
2. 8Ball & MJG, Revolution, Sat., March 21. Al Kapone a few months back, now Ball and MJG. No group carries more weight, at least nostalgically, in the urban scene in Central Arkansas. And they're still doing it. Putting out albums with Bad Boy. Releasing Memphis rap comps. Doing features. They could be terrible live. ...
3. Wilco, Lyric Theater, Oxford, Miss., April 23. The greatest band since sliced bread is coming nearby and I blew it by not telling you until now. Pre-sale tickets sold out this morning. But there'll be plenty available when tickets go onsale to the public on Friday.
4. The Thermals, Revolution, Wed., May 20. The Portland lo-fi punk-pop heroes, now on Kill Rock Stars after three albums with Sub Pop, have a new one coming out April 7.
Cape Town - The government has denied that the decision to table a legislative amendment to the Taxation Laws Amendment Act was a move to appease the ANC's alliance partner, Cosatu.
Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe on Thursday announced the decision to backtrack on the act at a post Cabinet media briefing in Parliament.
The Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) has been outspoken about its unhappiness with the act.
The federation's president Sdumo Dlamini went as far as to say it would be difficult to campaign for the ANC in the upcoming local government elections while the new tax laws were still in place.
However, Radebe, who was deployed to engage with Cosatu on behalf of government, said he was not aware of any "threat" from the federation regarding its support for the ruling party during the elections.
"I'm not aware of a Cosatu threat to withdraw their election support based on this act.
"We don't take decisions based on threats as an ANC government but when concerns are being raised to government we cannot be unmoved. It is for that reason that we want to defer the implementation of this act so that proper and effective consultation can ensue," Radebe told reporters.
The act was meant to commence on March 1, and would see workers who had contributed to provident funds no longer being able to cash in their entire retirement savings on resignation.
The 2015 Taxation Laws Amendment Act and the Tax Administration Laws Amendment Act would allow workers to cash in only a third of their savings. The remaining two-thirds had to be used to buy a retirement annuity and be paid out in monthly instalments.
The new rules would only apply to money saved after March 1, 2016. Provident fund members aged 55 or older on that date would be exempted from the regulations.
Radebe on Thursday announced that the commencement date had now been moved to March 1, 2018 to allow for further consultations.
Asked why President Jacob Zuma had signed the act if there were still concerns, Radebe said Zuma had only became aware of this after he signed it.
Radebe also pointed out that it was not only Cosatu who had concerns.
VIENNA (Reuters) - The Eurofighter group, locked in a legal dispute with Austria over a $2 billion (£1.58 billion) deal for its warplanes, has offered to upgrade the jets for significantly less than 200 million euros (£180.81 million), its chief executive told Austrian daily Die Presse.
Austria last week delayed a decision on whether to scrap or upgrade its Eurofighters over a legal battle with the Eurofighter consortium, which includes Airbus (AIR.PA), Britain’s BAE Systems (BAES.L) and Italy’s Leonardo (LDOF.MI).
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said he wanted to wait until a parliamentary inquiry into the warplanes deal wraps up and there was clarity over the legal dispute, before making a final decision.
Vienna accuses the consortium of fraud and wilful deception over the 2003 order for the warplanes, charges it denies. Eurofighter CEO Volker Paltzo told Die Presse the allegations were “unsustainable”.
Eurofighter’s offer “includes overhaul and logistics, the demanded upgrade and more flying hours”, Volker Paltzo was quoted as saying in an interview published on Thursday.
“We would like to continue the cooperation,” he said.
One option Austria could consider would be to buy used jets from other governments, official say.
The committee endorsed Brownback’s proposals to follow up on aggressive income tax cuts enacted last year by phasing in a second round of reductions in individual income tax rates over four years. The bill also promises that rates will continue to drop in the future if Kansas experiences healthy economic growth.
But Brownback also proposed revenue-raising measures to stabilize the budget over the next few years. The committee backed his proposal to scrap a popular income tax deduction for the interest Kansans pay on their home mortgages. It also agreed to keep the state sales tax where it is, instead of reducing it as schedule...
However, the committee rejected Brownback’s proposal to eliminate a second income tax deduction, for the property taxes that Kansans pay on their homes.
Senate Majority Leader Terry Bruce, a Hutchinson Republican who serves on the tax committee, said many GOP senators didn’t want to end two big tax breaks for homeowners at once.
Work on tax legislation is just beginning. The final version is likely to emerge from negotiations between the House and Senate after each approves its own measure.
Brownback is pitching proposals as a five-year plan to put the state on a “glide path to zero” when it comes to individual income taxes. Revenue Secretary Nick Jordan, who attended the committee meeting, said the governor remains flexible about how to accomplish the goal while stabilizing the budget.
In recent days, Democrats have harshly criticized Brownback’s plan for concentrating on raising new revenues in its first three years and delaying most of the benefits from cuts in individual income tax rates until the fourth and fifth years.
The bill endorsed by the committee nets the state $949 million in additional revenues over the three years starting in July, according to the Legislature’s research staff.
At the Oscar nominees luncheon, brevity matters: Winners will have just 90 seconds to get from seat to stage and wow the audience with a speech.
LOS ANGELES – First-time Academy Awards acting nominees Lady Gaga, Rami Malek, Regina King, Sam Elliott, Richard E. Grant, Yalitza Aparicio and Marina de Tavira learned a big Oscar night lesson at Monday's 38th annual nominees luncheon.
"Show us how eager you are to get up there and make the speech brief – yes, everyone," John Bailey, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, told the nominees from the podium at the Beverly Hilton Hotel grand ballroom, urging future winners to skip thanking people like "your dog walker or Keto diet...
The show's producers, Glenn Weiss and Donna Gigliotti, even unveiled a new guideline. Rather than limiting speeches to the traditional 45 seconds before the orchestra starts, winners will have a total of 90 seconds to get from their seat to the podium and give their speech.
"The faster you get to the stage, the more time you have to speak," said Gigliotti.
The producers played a shining example clip from the 2001 show, when Steven Soderbergh won best director for "Traffic" and beelined to the stage. Soderbergh told that audience he'd thank people in his life later, and went on to raise the roof by dedicating the award to the world's art creators.
"It's short but heartfelt and full of meaning," Gigliotti said of Soderbergh's speech. "At the risk of sounding like a sap, that speech brings tears to my eyes every time. And you notice, he doesn't waste any time getting to the stage. That's what's really great."
"The good news about a three-hour show: You're hitting the parties by 8:15," Weiss added.
Neither Bailey nor the show's producers gave any other inklings about the Oscar show, which is still officially without a host since Kevin Hart dropped out after facing backlash for his past homophobic tweets. The luncheon is an annual tradition for the nominees in 24 categories to celebrate their achievement.
The afternoon culminated with each nominee being called to the podium for a 2019 Oscar class photo, with Laura Dern inviting each up individually. The roll call started with Spike Lee ("BlacKkKlansman"), who wore gold athletic shoes and received rapturous applause for his first best director nomination, lead by "Bohemi...
As the crowd assembled, Gaga chit-chatted with "Black Panther" producer Kevin Feige. It ended with "Vice" director Adam McKay as the last to join the group. After the picture was taken, Elliott gallantly helped his "Star Is Born" co-star Gaga down from the risers.
"Today, in its purest sense, is a celebration of being part of a collective community," Dern said from the podium. "This is our opportunity to recognize your profound input."
Nominees for the 91st Oscars assembled for a class photo. TODD WAWRYCHUK/A.M.P.A.S.
Did Apple Use Her Voice For Hebrew Siri?
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The woman behind the female Hebrew voice of the Waze navigation app is suing Apple for using her voice as the Hebrew Siri.
Israeli radio broadcaster Galit Gura-Eini filed a lawsuit last week for about $66,000 in Tel Aviv District Court, the Israeli business daily Calcalist reported. The lawsuit alleges that Apple has been using her voice recordings without authorization.
Gura-Eini has been the voice of Siri since it launched in Hebrew in 2016, according to the report. Earlier this year she asked Apple to remove her voice from the Siri app, a request which was denied.
The lawsuit also alleges that Apple has turned her voice “into a vehicle for improper and humiliating speech,” and that people have been using her voice to produce sexual, racist and otherwise violent speech through the Siri app, Calcalist reported.
Gura-Eini’s voice was recorded in 2007 by Nuance Communications Inc. Gura-Eini gave Nuance the rights to use the recordings in speech production software, and for “legitimate” purposes only, according to Calcalist.
Her voice was deleted from the Waze app last year.
This story "Did Apple Use Her Voice For Hebrew Siri?" was written by Marcy Oster.
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What’s with all the injuries?
In just the last three NFL preseasons, I’ve had 3 different clients tear their ACL during training camp. One player, AJ Edds, tore both his left and right in two different preseasons. To date, according to the SI.com injury tracker, there have been sixteen impact starters go down so far with different season ending inj...
The players negotiated several safeguards in the recent CBA that were implemented to protect their bodies. As a result, we now have less full contact practices. No more two-a-days. Along with more built in recovery time. So are there more injuries? Or does it just seem like there are more injuries?
Jeremy Maclin is just one of several impact players to suffer a severe injury in the preseason.
One team trainer I spoke to feels like the injuries are about the same as he has seen in previous years including years before the new practice rules were put into effect. However fewer practices should mean fewer injuries, right?.
To shed more light on this subject, I asked orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine expert, Dr. David Chao, a 17 year veteran NFL team doctor, about his thoughts on the current rash of injuries.
Q: Is the current rash of injuries due to the lack of offseason conditioning/practice or due to the lack of acclimation as postulated by some NFL commentators?
Q: So why would there be the same or more injuries? Under the new practice rules of one padded practice per day (as opposed to up to 2 in the past), why aren’t we seeing a decrease in injuries during camp?
Q: Why more ACL tears this preseason?
To combat this particular issue, one AFC trainer told me they have wisely implemented a 35 minute foam roller period after walk through and before meetings to prevent lactic acids from gathering, which causes stiffness and longer recovery times. His team isn’t seeing many injuries.
Last week I watched three quarters of the Bengals first preseason game to see my rookie client OL Tanner Hankinson. At the end of the 3rd quarter I set the DVR and went to grab some food. On my way to the store I get a text from a buddy that reads, “I think your client just blew out a knee”. Of course my reaction was l...
Fortunately, my client got back to me with a message saying that it’s probably a severe ankle sprain and the exit from the field was overly dramatic. I’m sure it was, but I am also sure the trainers/doctors were being conservative and not taking any risk, which I for one am happy to see. With the Commissioners focus on...
The orbit of Kepler-1647b (white dot) around its two suns (red and yellow circles). Kepler-1647b was observed transiting each of its two suns during a single orbit (days 0 and 4.3).
A team of astronomers, including University of Hawaiʻi astronomer Nader Haghighipour, has announced the discovery of an unusual new transiting circumbinary planet (orbiting two suns). This planet, detected using the Kepler spacecraft, is unusual because it is both the largest such planet found to date, and has the wide...
The team is led by Dr. Veselin Kostov, a researcher at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. The work was recently accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. The announcement will be made at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society in San Diego.
Reminiscent of the fictional planet Tatooine in “Star Wars,” circumbinary planets orbit two stars and have two “suns” in their skies. The new planet, Kepler-1647b, is Jupiter-sized in radius, the largest of all currently known circumbinary planets, and has an orbital period of 3.0 years, the longest of any confirmed tr...
Nearly half of all Sun-like stars are members of gravitationally-bound binary star systems. The most important subset of these systems are the eclipsing binary stars (stars that pass in front of each other, as seen from Earth), because they provide precise stellar masses and sizes. NASA’s Kepler Mission has observed ne...
The detection of Kepler-1647b is significant for two reasons. First, its large size and large orbit are very different from those of all other known circumbinary planets. All of the previously identified Kepler circumbinary planets are Saturn-sized or smaller. Also, most of these planets tend to orbit close to their ho...
This apparent lack of large circumbinary planets and their proximity to the critical stability limit have left astronomers puzzled. Theoretical models of the formation and dynamical evolution of these planets, developed by Haghighipour and his colleagues, have suggested that “circumbinary planets form the same way plan...
The second significance of the discovery of Kepler-1647b is that this planet resides in the Habitable Zone of its host binary, a surprisingly common occurrence for circumbinary planets discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope. Although Kepler-1647b’s large size — similar to Jupiter — means the planet itself is not habi...
The Kepler-1647b system is 3700 light years from Earth, and lies in the direction of the constellation Cygnus. It is estimated to be approximately 4.4 billion years old, roughly the same age as Earth.
The discovery comes five years after the first transiting circumbinary planet, Kepler-16b, was detected. The long wait is because transiting circumbinary planets on long-period orbits (far from their binaries) are much more difficult to detect than close-in planets. Prior to Kepler-1647b, no long-period circumbinary pl...
“The detection of Kepler-1647b has been very special to us because, after several years of developing a theoretical framework for the formation and evolution of circumbinary planets, we have finally found the objects predicted by our models,” said Haghighipour.
A player's rating indicates his percentile rank in CAPS. racoveanul is outperforming 72.33% of all CAPS players. A player's score is the total percentage return of all his picks subtracting out the S&P. A player's accuracy is how often that player has made correct predictions.
A success story is a biased case study at most and not a model.
On the afternoon of February 21 1989 in San Diego, California, a man exactly the same age as the century took a revolver and shot himself through the head. "Reluctant as I am to admit it," he had written a month earlier, "I can't go on. I am still weak and if nothing changes I will shortly have to be taken to hospital....
The man was an obscure Hungarian writer called Sándor Márai. He had been living in San Diego for nine years. Before that he had spent 15 years in New York and 13 years in Naples. This was preceded by four years in Switzerland and Italy. That takes us to 1948, the year he left Hungary. The strange, productive, lost care...
Márai's work had appeared in several languages. His face had adorned the covers of magazines. His newspaper columns were collected and sold in vast editions. He had been something of a phenomenon, publishing his first story in a national newspaper when he was 14. In March 1944, when the Germans marched into Hungary, he...
And then, a miracle. Nine years later, in 1998, the Italian writer and publisher Roberto Calasso was flicking through a catalogue of forgotten classics in Paris when he came upon the name of Sándor Márai. There were some works in French translation. Calasso began reading and it dawned on him that he was in the presence...
Who was Márai? He himself wondered. In his vivid and brilliant Memoir Of Hungary 1944-1948 (a book he originally titled Land, Land) he tells how he encountered his first Russian soldier on the second day of Christmas, 1944. "He galloped into the courtyard of the village's parish hall, a submachine gun in his hand. He l...
Márai, who had left Budapest to escape the Germans, answered that he was a writer, but later that night he brewed some coffee and sat alone before the stove, trying to work out who he was, and who, for that matter, the soldier was. Márai was a well-read and contemplative man, but an intense and driven one. He had writt...
Hungarian writers read, Márai said, "inquisitively and covetously as individuals with an urgent mission". They had to do this, because their own language, which he regarded as a beautiful, secluded thing, "not only had to be protected, weeded and cleansed; through reading it had to be replenished."
He was the eldest child of a middle-class family in Kassa, then part of Hungary, but ceded to Slovakia after 1919. His father was a lawyer, and his mother came from a family of military officers, government officials and more lawyers. He was the oldest of four children, one of whom followed his father into law, one of ...
He spent a year at one school, then a year at another, and it was at this time that he began to publish. By the age of 18 he had published his first collection of verse. He was also contributing articles to the daily press. In 1919 he played his part in the short-lived Bolshevik commune as a journalist and was at that ...
He went to Leipzig first, ostensibly as a student, but still engaging in journalism. He was a contributor to the satirical magazine Simplicissimus and to the Frankfurter Zeitung. He was the first to translate Kafka into Hungarian. In the meantime he married a Jewish woman, Lola Matzner, whom he had known in Kassa. They...
In 1923 they moved to Paris, where they spent the next six years, while he earned a meagre living writing for the Budapest papers. He reported on court cases, sports events, holiday resorts. Novels, novellas and short stories appeared. His plays were performed. He published collections of poetry, went to Vienna, and wr...
Then, in 1929, he and Lola moved back to Budapest, where he was by now established as a popular public figure, the "cher maître" in his study, as he remarked ironically years later. In 1939 Lola gave birth to a son, Kristof, who died after a few weeks, following an internal haemorrhage. It was a terrible loss and they ...
For Márai, the progressive liberal bourgeoisie were the torch-bearers of post-enlightenment European humanist civilisation. He worried away at this self-characterisation for years, or rather, he would consider his central values which were so deeply entrenched in European humanism, in the Europe, above all, of Goethe, ...

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