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A large 3D physical visualization made by the Detroit Edison Company showing electricity consumption for the year 1935, with a slice per day and each day split into 30 minute intervals. It was likely used to better anticipate power demands.
A 3D map of East London where elevation represents the rate of violent crimes between 2002 and 2003.
A data sculpture by Luke Jerram that depicts nine minutes of seismographic readings during the 9.0 earthquake.
At barely 1.5 centimeters across, each Cetonia scarab is a marvel of precision engineering. Designed from the ground up for agile flight, their integrated hydrogen chambers and a high-efficiency hover mode permit 15+ minutes of air time between charges. The hueSHIFT carapace is capable of displaying over 22 million pos...
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The internal investigation should be clear-cut, but lawsuits raise complex questions about hearsay.
While many in the media industry are mourning the passing of Fox News titan Roger Ailes, those in the legal industry are assessing how the federal investigation and pending civil lawsuits will move forward without a key witness.
Ailes died Thursday, nearly a year after leaving the company he founded amid allegations of sexual harassment and retaliation. In the months that followed, a barrage of lawsuits were filed against Fox News, an internal investigation was launched by Paul, Weiss and federal prosecutors have been circling the issue of whe...
The potential impact to the Fox News internal investigation is much more clear-cut, attorneys say — especially since the claims involve an alleged company-wide culture and not an individual's isolated actions.
"Fox has an obligation to complete the investigation, with whatever witnesses are available to them, and reach a conclusion as to whether misconduct occurred and take corrective action to ensure that the conduct does not occur," says attorney Ann Fromholz, who specializes in corporate investigations. She says it's uncl...
"If the problem is bigger than one person then the unavailability of one person to be interviewed isn’t going to materially affect the investigation," says Fromholz. "Other witnesses will be able to tell what happened and there will be corrective action that the company needs to take."
As for the probe being handed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York as well as civil lawsuits from Julie Roginsky and Andrea Tantaros (both of whom named Ailes as a co-defendant in their respective complaints), the absence of a central figure like Ailes could be problematic in a couple of w...
This could swing things in different directions. If a judge decides to preclude evidence, that could potentially undercut claims from alleged victims. But what if the judge is lenient? “It might significantly weaken the defense if [Ailes] is not around to give an explanation,” says Fromholz.
Then again, the judge could allow all sorts of statements that Ailes made in his favor outside the court. Normally, these wouldn’t be allowed because there would be no opportunity for cross-examination, but an exception to the hearsay rule could theoretically be made because of his death.
Attorney Douglas Wigdor, who's currently representing more than a dozen people in lawsuits against the company, made noise shortly after Ailes' death by issuing a statement Thursday saying his passing will "make it difficult for Fox News to refute the allegations against him as his testimony was not secured by sworn te...
But the problem there is that Ailes is not a co-defendant in the case, and Curanaj didn't directly work for him. Her lawsuit centers on claims that she was repeatedly denied a full-time time job at New York affiliate Fox 5 because of her age. Fox attorney Linda Goldstein is currently asking the court to strike the comm...
Prosecutors contemplating an indictment now have a decision on their hands about whether to move forward. In the civil lawsuits, plaintiffs and 21st Century Fox are meanwhile likely to re-evaluate the risks of continuing litigation.
SEOUL (Reuters) - Months before the first summit between leaders of two Koreas in 2000, South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Inc invested $730,000 in Pyongyang’s top computer lab. North Korean programmers there would develop online chess games and food recipes for Samsung to sell outside the North.
Samsung quit the business as inter-Korea relations later deteriorated and the lab - Korea Computer Centre - was blacklisted last year for its alleged contribution to the North’s weapons programme.
As companies from South Korea to Russia and China again look to cash in on easing tensions with Pyongyang, Samsung’s now defunct businesses in Pyongyang and hundreds of similar failed joint ventures underline North Korea’s status as one of the world’s highest-risk investment destinations.
Yet days before the historic meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore, a conference in Seoul to explore investment opportunities in North Korea drew about 600 attendees.
Samsung C&T Corp, the construction arm of South Korea’s largest conglomerate, set up a task force in May to review potential projects such as building railroads, a company official told Reuters on the sidelines of the conference.
“We are not clear yet on how to move in there, and want to know now how much risks we can take,” the official said, asking not to be named because he was not authorised to speak to media.
Russian gas giant Gazprom and state-run Korea Gas Corp (KOGAS) have held talks over the past two months to discuss a possible construction of gas pipelines passing through North Korea, a KOGAS spokesman said.
Other South Korean companies including retail giant Lotte and telecom company KT Corp have also launched teams in recent weeks to study the resumption of stalled North Korea projects, officials said.
With vast mineral resources, poor transport networks, infrastructure and power facilities ripe for major upgrades and a population of nearly 26 million, North Korea is a potentially compelling investment opportunity once economic sanctions against it are lifted.
But risks range from political uncertainty to poor infrastructure, as well as the complexity of international sanctions that will continue to limit business even if they are gradually lifted, say several South Korean officials who have done business with North Korea.
In the case of Samsung, it could not expand its business in North Korea, partly due to U.S. sanctions that limit production of “dual use” items that can be used for weapons programmes, said Dong Yong-sueng, who advised the conglomerate on its North Korean business strategy.
“Samsung could not make even microwave ovens there. Why? The technology used in microwaves is the basis of missile guidance systems,” Dong said.
By 2010, Samsung had cut all business ties in North Korea, including computer software, televisions and other consumer electronics and apparel manufacturing, following the sinking of a South Korean warship in waters near the border. Seoul blamed its neighbour for the sinking, a charge the North has denied.
Other setbacks had nothing to do with politics.
Between 1999 and 2004, South Korean TV parts makers built components for Samsung and LG Electronics in Pyongyang to take advantage of cheap labour there.
Park Byung-chan, a businessman who represented the South Korean electronic components makers, said production was suspended after his North Korean partners were sacked over a corruption case.
Even before then, they were grappling with high transportation costs because there was only one shipping route through the peninsula’s west coast.
“There was a multi-faceted dimension of risks we couldn’t control by ourselves,” Park told Reuters.
A U.S. CIA open source document reviewed by Reuters lists more than 350 joint ventures with North Korea between 2004 and 2011, ranging from a piano factory with Austria, to a chicken and beer joint and a clothing factory in Pyongyang with South Korean investment.
Most of those businesses, three-quarters of which had Chinese partners, had been shut down even before last September, when the U.N. Security Council banned all joint ventures following North Korea’s sixth nuclear test earlier that month.
One of the best-known enterprises is Koryolink, the joint venture between Egypt’s Orascom Telecom, now Global Telecom, and North Korea’s Post and Telecommunication Company.
Orascom said it officially “lost control” of its 75 percent stake in Koryolink in 2015. Despite the mobile network’s rapid rise, the Egyptian firm has struggled for years to repatriate its cash from Pyongyang, filings reviewed by Reuters show.
A further 120 South Korean companies used to operate at the Kaesong joint industrial park north of the border before it was closed in 2016 after a long-range North Korean rocket launch.
Often there is a race between large consumer companies to be the first to enter a newly opening economy.
McDonald’s was the first American food chain to enter Russia in 1990 and KFC became the first Western food company in China in 1987.
But Cho Nam-chan, who was the manager of South Korea’s first McDonald’s store in 1988, said poor roads and lack of supply chains would make it difficult for the hamburger giant to open its first outlet in North Korea.
“McDonald’s has to make money there and make sure that it is politically stable, and has stable local supplies, such as patties, freezing systems for ingredients and enough electricity to run the whole thing,” Cho said.
McDonald’s did not respond to Reuters inquiries regarding this story, but referred to recent comments from its chief executive that North Korea was not part of their discussions.
More attractive might be infrastructure projects such as building new railroads, funding for which could come from an international body or a consortium of governments to help underdeveloped countries, advisory firm Samjong KPMG, which co-hosted the Seoul conference told the participants.
Conference attendees were told to consider partnering with Chinese or Russians, North Korea’s allies, to ease political threats while sharing costs and risks.
In April, South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korea’s Kim agreed to modernize railways and roads in North Korea, boosting shares in South Korean construction firms, train and steel manufacturers since.
Expectations of trade with North Korea have also revived property prices in border towns in China and South Korea.
But the speed of economic cooperation won’t be “as fast as we have expected” because of sanctions, Shin Hye-seong, a director at South Korea’s Unification Ministry, told Reuters.
Past cooperation with North Korea has also exposed “several problems” and Seoul will offer “systemic guarantees” to cure those problems, Shin said, without elaborating.
For Rieh Chong-hun, a former chief executive at state-run utility Korea Electric Power Corp (KEPCO) the current discussions sound eerily familiar.
KEPCO was a prime contractor for the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization, which was created in 1995 to help build two nuclear power plants in North Korea in exchange for it eliminating nuclear programmes.
With only a third of construction complete, the $4.6 billion project was suspended in 2006 after North Korea resumed weapons development, leaving South Korea unable to recoup its $1.1 billion contribution.
Reporting by Ju-min Park and Jane Chung; additional reporting by Hyunjoo Jin in SEOUL; James Pearson in HANOI, Alana Wise in NEW YORK; Editing by Soyoung Kim and Lincoln Feast.
The decision came as a response to the arrest of nine HDP lawmakers on November 4, including its co-chairs Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdag, who were imprisoned for alleged links to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a Kurdish nationalist organisation waging guerrilla war against the Turkish state.
The legal grounds of the detentions were prepared last May, when the immunity of more than 130 representatives, largely from opposition parties, was lifted by a parliamentary vote with the support of the social-democratic Republican People’s Party (CHP) and the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).
The political beheading of the HDP came days after the arrest of Gültan Kışanak and Fırat Anlı, the co-mayors of the Kurdish-populated southeastern province of Diyarbakir for alleged links with the PKK, on October 30. Since the last general elections of November 2015, thousands of Kurdish politicians and activists, fro...
This all takes place as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) move towards an authoritarian presidential system by drafting a new constitution. Erdogan and his government have already gained the full support of the fascistic MHP, which incessantly calls for the arrest of HDP...
The latest state of emergency decree on October 29—which dismissed an additional 10,000 civil servants and banned 15 media outlets—has also given Erdogan the power of appointing rectors to universities directly without considering the preferences of academics. Authority to directly appoint rectors was part of an omnibu...
Having largely acquiesced to the government’s authoritarian measures, especially since the failed coup attempt of July 15, the opposition CHP was finally alarmed by the last wave of detentions of Cumhuriyet journalists and HDP lawmakers.
Speaking to supporters in Izmir, on November 4, Kilicdaroglu also criticised the AKP government for its cross-border operations in Syria and Iraq. In fact, Kilicdaroglu has declared his party’s support to the Turkish army’s cross-border operations, so long as they target the PKK in northern Iraq.
Meanwhile, the Turkish military continues to deploy tanks, armoured vehicles, and thousands of troops to Silopi, a Kurdish-populated town near the Iraqi border, challenging the Iraqi government’s decision opposing Turkish participation in the offensive on Mosul. Ankara has insistently demanded that Turkish troops be al...
On Saturday, Erdogan threateningly said that his government would have a “different response” for Shi’ite militias if they “cause terror” in Tal Afar, a city west of Mosul largely populated by Iraqi Turkmen.
The state terror launched by the government at home is tightly coupled with Ankara’s escalating warmongering moves in the Middle East, which would easily spark a conflagration—a regional war in the Middle East, and a broader war between NATO and Russia.
Just a few months ago, the CHP, in the name of fighting the July 15 coup attempt, obeyed the so-called Yenikapı spirit—i.e., national unity behind the AKP government. The HDP complained for its part of its exclusion from the “national consensus” reached by the AKP, CHP and MHP after the attempted coup.
Now, even as they are targeted by the government, these two bourgeois opposition parties and their allied trade union bureaucrats and pseudo-left followers are swearing allegiance to the “rule of law,” calling on workers to respect the rule and order, and relying upon the support of US and European imperialism.
This docility is not accidental; the difference between the AKP government and these opposition parties is not of principle but on tactical differences over how best to serve the vital interests of the imperialist system. Thus, both the CHP and HDP support the predatory, US-led war in the Middle East in the name of “hu...
The CHP—together with the AKP and MHP—supports the Turkish invasion in Syria, while the HDP aims to exclude Ankara from the ongoing imperialist re-division of Iraq and Syria, so long as Ankara does not accept the Kurdish nationalists as its main partner.
The role of the Kurdish nationalist movement, constitutionally represented by the HDP, is no less reactionary. A movement serving as US imperialism’s main proxy force in Syria and Iraq—whose leader, PKK head Abdullah Ocalan, has for years called for a Turkish-Kurdish axis based on the “National Oath” of the Ottoman Par...
Whatever decision the HDP may take, it will not be in the interests of either the working class and the youth or of Kurdish suffering masses in their struggle for social and political liberation. On the contrary, seeking a greater share of profits from the exploitation of Kurdish working class and poor peasants by glob...
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld fired off a memo last week revoking the longstanding title ''CINC,'' or ''commander in chief,'' bestowed on Tommy Franks and the cadre of other four-star military chieftains who plan and fight American wars around the world.
He's been on a rampage for months about top generals and admirals getting to call themselves commander in chief.
Himself, as Rummy is known behind his back at the Pentagon, is not being a total tyrant. He says the ''combatant commanders,'' as he's rechristened the CINC's, can use whatever's left of their stationery with the old titles. The Pentagon may be spending trillions trying to chase off one Mideast megalomaniac, but they'r...
The rambunctious Rummy has also banned the generic phrase ''National Command Authority,'' instructing that people simply refer to him and the president specifically. He likes his authority monogrammed.
Donald Rumsfeld has become redolent of Donald Regan, the forceful and brusque Reagan chief of staff who had trouble remembering who was president.
Mr. Regan built his own colonnaded version of the Rose Garden patio outside his office and kept his own Secret Service detail outside his door, eyeball-to-eyeball with President Reagan's Secret Service detail.
But he went too far when he tried to commandeer Marine One to visit the president in Bethesda Naval Hospital after Mr. Reagan underwent surgery; Nancy Reagan frostily informed him that the helicopter was a presidential form of travel.
The Pentagon chief has plenty of helicopters of his own. And you will never find the elegant and detached Laura Bush slapping back usurpers. So Rummy runs rampant.
Then they set up their own Defense Department within the Defense Department, staging a civilian coup and yanking back power from a military establishment they felt had grown too skittish about risking troops in combat.
And now Rummy and his inner circle have set up their own C.I.A. within the Defense Department. Disgusted that the C.I.A. dismisses their claims of a Saddam-Al Qaeda connection, the Pentagon hawks simply created their own intelligence unit to ferret out information that will justify their foreign policy and military goa...
So we have one group of spies that doesn't get any information, and another group of spies looking for information that doesn't exist so they can twist it.
At least we know the hawks won't set up their own E.P.A. within the Pentagon, since Rummy is fighting in Congress to get the military exempted from a lot of environmental rules.
While the muscular Rummy power grabs pieces of other agencies, Karl Rove and W. obsess over how to emanate muscularity.
Ever since 9/11, when Republican elders worried that the president was being swallowed up by his chair, Mr. Bush has strained to imitate the two-fisted, broad-shouldered style of Ronald Reagan.
The strategy worked brilliantly to put Democrats on the defensive. Even though the Congressional leadership went along with the White House on the Iraq war, the Democrats have still been painted as the wimpy McGovernite party.
And now, with Walter Mondale and Jimmy Carter back at center stage, and with the Democrats beatifying the far-left Paul Wellstone as a way of holding on to the Senate, the ghosts of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.-E.R.A. are supposed to save the party?
The real Reagan made mincemeat of Mr. Carter and Mr. Mondale, casting them as girly-boys who lacked the swagger necessary to lead the world.
The faux Reagan is doing well projecting the image of Protector in Chief. But has he really done the hard work to protect us from anything? Osama bin Laden is still at large. We don't know who sent the anthrax letters. Another Qaeda attack could be coming at any moment. The economy is imploding. The crime rate is risin...
The only really bad guys who have been caught since 9/11 are the snipers, who left a trail of clues leading to their car, where they were asleep.
DETROIT (AP) — Organizers of Aretha Franklin’s funeral insist it will be a service, not a show.
Yet the Queen of Soul’s final send-off on Friday certainly will encompass many elements, emotions and grand entrances that were hallmarks of her more than six decades on sacred and secular stages.
Hundreds of fans lined up near the venue before dawn for an opportunity to get into the funeral.
Franklin’s body arrived more than two hours before the service was scheduled to start. She was dressed in a sparkling full-length gold dress with sequined heels for her final outfit — the fourth outfit Franklin has worn during a week of events leading up to her funeral.
“It is my goal and my aim to ensure that people leave here with some kind of spiritual awakening,” Ellis said. “This is not a concert, this is not a show, this is not an awards production.
Follow Jeff Karoub on Twitter at https://twitter.com/jeffkaroub and find more of his work at https://apnews.com/search/jeff%20karoub.
(Newser) – So endorsing Chris Christie for governor wasn't the best idea after all. "We blew this one," writes Tim Moran, editorial page editor at the New Jersey Star-Ledger. To be fair, the editorial board didn't think Christie's team "was crazy enough to put people’s lives at risk in Fort Lee" or that Christie "would...
Gee, if I make a comment, I hope it doesn't get deleted like it did yesterday. What happened to freedom of speech? Evidently, someone gets a little touchy when you mention the Koch brothers in a bad light and that Republicans should be voted out.
Biased reporting at its worst. While correctly pointing out the flaws in Mr. Christie and the embarrasment over the newspaper's endorsement of him, the article goes to say, "... he'd done GOOD things, like boosting education in struggling cities and REINING IN COSTS WITH PENSON AND HEALTH REFORM." How do we know these ...
Watch for Christie's lawyer to intimidate the 2 mayors in the scandal. Then watch for Christie's lawyer to attack the characters of the 2 mayors. The bullying behind the scenes will backfire and work against the governor.

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