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If you witness dangerous or anti-social driving, you can report it via Operation Crackdown or in an emergency, dial 999.
The LG Optimus Elite from Sprint offers a 3.5” HVGA screen, 5 MP auto-focus camera and camcorder with flash, and measures only .39” thick. The 800 MHz processor runs Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), and the 1,520 mAh battery provides up to 7.3 hours of talk time. The phone provides 1 GB of internal memory and has a microSD™ ...
The Conners are coming back to television minus one major star, as recent news on the show has revealed several actors from the revival will be reprising their roles. The latest big news on that front is that Bruce Helford is talking with Johnny Galecki, and it appears he has plans for the David character to return in ...
The full details of David's return to The Conners are still being worked out, but Johnny Galecki's other TV series The Big Bang Theory has shown a willingness to lend the actor before. In addition for the potential to add David back into the fold, Bruce Helford also indicated to TVLine the show would 100% introduce Dav...
Obviously, this all hinges on Johnny Galecki's schedule and willingness to be a bigger part of The Conners. Galecki's limited appearance in the Roseanne revival was primarily due to his involvement in The Big Bang Theory, which took precedence over his guest-starring role. With his obligation to that coming to a close ...
That's provided The Conners has big plans for Johnny Galecki to begin with, which may not be the case. While David was the most frequent recurring character of Roseanne, this show is meant to focus on the Conner family and presumably not David making up for lost time with his children or bringing in his lover, Blue. Th...
The Conners premieres on ABC Tuesday, October 16 at 8:00 p.m. ET. There's a lot of other great things coming to television as well around that time, so be sure to keep up with all the action in the coming months with our fall premiere guide.
Which credit cards should you take on holiday?
We look at the best deals and the pitfalls you face when using debit and credit cards on holiday.
While you are meticulously planning your summer holiday, don't neglect to think about how you are going to spend your money while you are abroad. Getting the right card for your trip can make a huge difference – a Which? investigation revealed last week that you could end up spending a third more on the same bottle of ...
It makes sense to act now, too, since getting your spending right abroad may involve applying for a credit card or even applying for a new account – not actions that you can leave until the last minute.
You might have excellent credit cards and debit cards for day-to-day spending, but they should be left at home (or kept for emergencies) when you leave the country. Most debit cards charge fees for overseas spending and these can mount up quickly.
Check with your bank whether your card levies "foreign exchange loading fees", which are usually a percentage of any transaction or cash withdrawal, for a start. Most do, and some are higher than others. Halifax, for example, charges a 2.75pc foreign loading fee on transactions, while Lloyds and Barclays charge 2.99pc....
In addition, some companies charge a purchase transaction fee, which applies every time you spend. Halifax charges £1.50 every time you use the card, while Natwest and Santander charge £1.25. However, HSBC, Nationwide and N&P do not levy this charge.
If you think you can avoid this by using a cash machine, think again. Most providers also levy a foreign exchange fee on withdrawals, and also a "withdrawal fee" when you get the money out. These can be hefty, ranging from Nationwide's £1 fee to Natwest and HSBC's £5 maximum charge, at 2pc of the amount withdrawn.
Understanding what your particular card pays might persuade you to keep your debit card firmly in your wallet. Your credit card may not be much help either, since it is likely to charge similar fees. Even if you pay off your credit card bill every month you'll still get interest charges if you withdraw cash from an ATM...
If these charges don't add up to a perfect holiday, be aware that alternative credit cards exist. It's worth using a credit card abroad, too, since Section 75 protection also applies overseas. This means that if you have problems with a product or service you've booked abroad, your credit card provider is "jointly and ...
Top credit cards for overseas spending include the Halifax Clarity credit card. This doesn't charge you a fee for cash withdrawals or a foreign exchange loading fee. However, if you withdraw money you will be charged interest even if you pay it off in full, so it is better to use the card for spending as much as possib...
If you're a Halifax customer you can apply for the Reward Clarity card. This is equally good abroad, but you also get £5 for every month that you spend over £300.
Alternatives include the Nationwide Select card, which is available to Flexaccount customers and has no foreign exchange loading fee, but does charge you 2.5pc plus interest on cash withdrawals. However, it's still good for spending on purchases. Post Office, Saga and the Santander Zero cards are also good bets for spe...
If you don't want to use a credit card, or want to avoid the interest charges on cash withdrawals, Norwich & Peterborough is providing an alternative. The building society offers a Gold or Gold light current account, and if you have this you can benefit from completely free spending abroad. However, unless you want to ...
The Gold Light account is free, but if you make fewer than five transactions in any month (and it is easy to lose track) you will pay a £5 monthly "low usage charge" if your average balance is under £5,000. Gold Classic requires that you pay in at least £500 a month (although you can then take it out again). N&P says b...
If you haven't left enough time to get a new credit card for overseas, or fear you might be declined, there is a quicker option with some benefits. This is a prepaid card, which is a far better bet than a poor credit or debit card, although it does not beat the Halifax and N&P deals.
The two main providers of these cards are Fairfx and Caxton FX. You can get them as euro cards, dollar cards or "anywhere cards" where the money can be spent anywhere in the world. Fairfx charges €1.50 or $2 for every withdrawal, and you will get its own (usually pretty competitive) exchange rate into euros or dollars....
As long as you choose the euro or dollar versions of the card, you pay the rate of exchange on the day you load up the card – so you can use the card to lock in favourable exchange rates before you go on holiday. However, your money is not protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) in the unlikely e...
If, by chance, you are reading this at the airport and you've only got cards on you – do not panic and go over to the nearest bureau de change. These bureaus in airports and the Eurostar terminal take full advantage of their captive audience and hike rates accordingly. If you do want to buy currency in advance of your ...
President Trump is drawing heat for congratulating Russian President Vladimir Putin on his re-election victory. During a phone call with Putin this week Trump reportedly ignored a written directive from his aides that instructed him, quote, do not congratulate. Speaking to MSNBC, Democratic Sen. Mark Warner echoed the ...
MARK WARNER: I think John McCain put out a statement today, and his words were better than mine. He says, the leader of the free world doesn’t call up and congratulate a dictator over a sham election. And clearly that’s what happened today.
AARON MATE: News of the friendly phone call prompted former CIA Director John Brennan to suggest that the Russians could have compromising information on Donald Trump.
REPORTER: Why won’t the president confront Vladimir Putin, why won’t he read the cards and say the things that you say need to be said to Vladimir Putin? Do you believe he is somehow in debt to the president of Russia?
JOHN BRENNAN: I think he’s afraid of the president of Russia.
JOHN BRENNAN: Well, I think one can speculate as to why. That the Russians may have something on him personally that they could always roll out and make his life more difficult.
REPORTER: Do you believe Russia has something on him?
JOHN BRENNAN: I believe that the Russians would would not, they would opt for things to do if they believed that it was in their interests. And the Russians, I think, have had long experience with Mr. Trump and they have things that they could expose.
AARON MATE: In his defense, Trump said on Twitter that President Obama had also congratulated Putin during his last win in 2012. And like Obama, Trump claimed he wants to cooperate with Russia on several issues, including the arms race. This comes weeks after Putin gave a speech unveiling a new nuclear arsenal and blam...
VLADIMIR PUTIN: If you were to speak about arms race, then an arms race began at exactly the time and moment when the U.S. opted out of the Antiballistic Missile Treaty.
AARON MATE: Well, why does Russia blame the U.S. for the arms race? And in this current political moment, can their differences possibly be resolved. Well, to discuss this, I spoke recently to Professor Stephen F. Cohen, professor emeritus of Russian studies at New York University and Princeton. And I began by asking h...
STEPHEN COHEN: Well, let’s begin by saying that there’s hardly been a time when Putin did not call for good relations with the United States, even in the worst of times. And he continues to refer to American political leaders as ‘my partners,’ even in the worst of times. This, by the way, drives harder line, or harder ...
Putin is a guy who came to power with the hope and intention of a real, functional, constructive economic political relationship with the United States. And though he may have given up that hope, he still calls for it. The speech he gave that you’re referring to, the equivalent, I guess, of the state of the Union speec...
The first two thirds of it was essentially his electoral program. It dealt with domestic issues, what he hopes to do for the Russian people. It was very similar to speeches made here during our elections. He talked about education, he talked about infrastructure, he talked about pensions. He talked about health care. N...
[But the latter third. Putin called it historic, and I think it is. And we can explain this simply. Ever since the America and the Soviet Union acquired the capacity to put nuclear warheads on ballistic missiles, cross the seas and strike the other country, we have been in a strategic agreement called mutual assured de...
To prevent that, I think signed in 1972, was a treaty, the antiballistic missile treaty, which meant that the sides were prohibited from deploying antiballistic missile systems in order to preserve this mutual assured destruction so that neither side would be tempted to launch a first strike. Each side, America and the...
Ever since then we’ve been pushing missile defense installations toward Russia. I think there are 30 or 40. They range from, as I understand it, California to Alaska. But there’s one operating in Romania, one to open in Poland. But here’s the thing. we’ve figured out how to deploy them on ships. And so these anti-missi...
So what did Putin say? And it’s really, if if half of what he claimed for these weapons is true, and I’m sure more than half is true, he said, we have developed several weapons that do not lie at the ballistic level. That is, high in the sky and descend. They fly much lower, much faster, and they can allude any any mis...
But again, Aaron, I mean, if it’s true, and I have no reason to think it’s not true, though the stages of development of these weapons is a little unclear, it’s true what Putin said about these four or five new weapons systems. We are now in a completely new era, because since the end of the Soviet Union the United Sta...
By the way, I forget which administration, Bush or Obama, made missile defense a NATO project. It started out as an American project. But it officially gave it to NATO. Why? Because where NATO goes, the missile defense installations go, and NATO has expanded right to Russia’s borders.
So this is an historic turning point, assuming what Putin said is largely true. Though you wouldn’t know it. I guess you had on professor Theodore Postol of MIT. And I mean, Ted is excellent on this stuff but you don’t get any of this in the mainstream media. Putin’s speech was read as an act of threatened aggression a...
AARON MATE: Right. And you know, I think what we often forget, too, is that as this missile system , defensive missile system, whatever it’s called, was developed, especially under Bush number two, George W. Bush, it was billed to Russia for so long as being targeted towards Iran. Which seems like a pretty tough sell t...
STEPHEN COHEN: Look, it’s bogus. It’s fiction. It’s B.S. It’s disinformation. It’s American propaganda. The reality is this: Russia has been protesting about the, once we left, Washington left the Antiballistic Missile Treaty, Russia has been protesting what we’ve been building. We told Russia, why are you worried? It ...
Every attempt Russian made to join in the creation of a missile defense system was rejected by Washington. Everybody, unless, you know, you believe in the Easter Bunny, I guess, that this system as it was expanded, increasingly, and it branched out, was directed at Russia. I mean, maybe it would have worked against Ira...
AARON MATE: No I don’t.
STEPHEN COHEN: One funded in all 50 states. All right. That’s what this missile defense has been. They farmed out manufacturing of it everywhere from Paducah Kentucky to Israel. Everybody gets a piece of the action. Therefore you get no protest in Congress because it’s constituency politics. And that’s true of a lot of...
AARON MATE: OK, so, speaking of Congress. If there is to be any push for Trump to engage with what Putin said seriously and try to restart some sort of arms control talks, including the New START treaty, which Trump has indicated little interest in advancing, you’d think that it would be Trump’s opposition party who wo...
Now, recently there were some Democratic senators to call for a new round of strategic arms talks with Russia. But I want to read to you a quote from the Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, where he is greeting the news of Mike Pompeo now being the secretary of state. And instead of pointing to Pompeo’s open disdai...
So Professor Cohen, as we wrap, that is the top priority from the leader of the opposition party Chuck Schumer, for the new nominee to be secretary of state to be tougher towards Russia.
STEPHEN COHEN: Well, but it’s not just Schumer. And Schumer is not to make this distinction as statesmen. He is a kind of local politician risen way above his pay grade when it comes to foreign affairs. It was outrageous what he said. But a lot of the Democratic leaders are saying this sort of thing.
I mean, let me make the point you made before. One reason this situation is so dangerous, Aaron, so dangerous, is that in the ’70s and ’80s, and I participated at a junior or younger level, the debate over Cold War or detente in the United States, that the pro-detente people, the anti-Cold War people had lots of very s...
There is no one today. Only the Schumers and the Pelosis. And they have become with this Russia gate stuff, claiming that Putin attacked America and it was like Pearl Harbor or 9/11. I mean I never call people names, but this is warmongering. That’s exactly what it is. If you claim Russia attacked America, the assumpti...
AARON MATE: We have to leave it there. Professor Stephen F. Cohen, professor emeritus of Russian studies at New York University and Princeton University. Thank you.
STEPHEN COHEN: Pray a lot, Aaron.
AARON MATE: Will do. And thank you for joining us on the Real News.
October 2, 2018 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences says American Arthur Ashkin has won half the prize, while Gérard Mourou of France and Donna Strickland of Canada, the third female winner ever, share the rest.
October 7, 2014 American Shuji Nakamura, and Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano of Japan, will share the prize for co-developing a blue light-emitting diode that triggered a revolution in lighting technology.
October 8, 2013 Also: Boston school bus drivers go on strike, China warns the U.S. over the debt ceiling, and North Korea steps up its military alert.
October 8, 2013 Britain's Peter Higgs and Belgium's Francois Englert were cited by the Royal Swedish Academy for the "theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles."
October 17, 2012 This year's Nobel Prize in physics celebrates amazing experiments that have the potential to elucidate some of Nature's deepest secrets. They also and have the potential to lead us down the path to a world transformed by revolutionary quantum applications.
October 4, 2011 Their discovery that the universe is expanding at an accelerating pace was "astounding," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences says. It suggests that "dark energy" is pushing the universe apart.
Forget the Democrats, mainstream media and Katie Couric, Sarah Palin's real nemesis is a 20-year-old who first toyed with her daughter's heart and is now making a joke of her old job.
Levi Johnston's latest stunt, bound to leave Palin fuming, is running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, the very job that launched Palin to the Yukon state's governor's mansion and then to national fame. Johnston, a 20-year-old high school dropout with blood ties to the Palin clan, has partnered with a production crew for ...
Johnston, who has talked in the past of becoming an electrician, told Variety he was initially skeptical about the “Loving Levi” pitch to run for chief executive of the Anchorage suburb with a population of just over 10,000.
"But the more I think about it and look into it, I think there's a possibility we can make it happen," Johnston said. "It's something that I want to do."
While Johnston told Variety the political plot was hatched by producers, his extremely devoted manager Tank Jones wasn't quite on the same page.
"People questioned Jesus Christ, so I definitely don't care about these mere mortals questioning Levi Johnston," Jones told radaronline. "People can question whatever they want. I mean, he's going to keep on doing his thing. He was going to do this, even if this wasn't a reality show."
News of the one-time high school hockey hunk's political ambition came weeks after he and Bristol, parents of Sarah Palin's 19-month-old grandson Tripp, called off their second engagement. The pair had announced to Us Weekly magazine last month that they were back together after a frosty breakup that saw Johnston pose ...
"He told me [his trip to L.A.] was to see some hunting show, but come to find out it was that music video mocking my family," Bristol Palin, 19, tearfully said, adding that her ex-beau is "obsessed with the limelight."
On Sunday, Johnston was with the singer of that video, Brittani Senser, who he described as "just a friend. She's a singer."
And now Johnston seems to be moving on with the next phase of a scheme to get under Sarah Palin's skin. The Stone and Co. crew has already begun shooting a pilot for "Loving Levi: The Road to the Mayor's Office," according to Variety.
With the office, currently held by one Verne E. Rupright, is not up for grabs until 2012, Johnston’s rep turned campaign manager, Tank Jones, said Johnston might try to pick up a city council seat in the interim. Jones said Johnston could even use the office as springboard to the governorship of Alaska like a certain f...
Until then, Wasilla's current mayor has some advice for Johnston: "I think it would be wise for him to get a high school diploma and keep his clothes on. The voters like that." Rupright told Entertainment Tonight.
The arrival of an all-new Audi A4 is no small occasion. It's the profit powerhouse, the "center of gravity" for Audi of America, as product manager Filip Brabec puts it.
Cars like the A4 represent the biggest slice of the luxury-car market in the U.S., and the most competitive.
The lineup in the compact to mid-size class practically oozes credibility, aggregating everything from the perennial best-selling BMW 3-Series and Mercedes-Benz C-Class, to the arrivistes, the Cadillac ATS and Infiniti Q50, not to mention the Jaguar XE and Alfa Romeo Giulia waiting in the wings.
To stay in that "perennial" class, and to push higher a run of 12 million A4s sold worldwide, the ninth-generation ("B9") A4 has to stretch in new and more inventive ways. It does so, but not in the obvious directions.
The new A4 is arguably less distinctive to look at than previous models. Its aero-clean shape draws on elements from its recent concept cars and the 2017 Q7 SUV, but the brightest touches have been toned down. There are more sharply creased lines at the grille, which juts out just below its four-ring emblem, for a thre...
Inside the cabin, there's a spare look that has the effect--intended or not--of fondly recalling the pre-A4 era. There's a horizontal theme that suggests the Audi 4000's spartan looks: it brings the cowl lower and opens up the field of vision over the dash. The stitching that runs down the seats is a subtle nod to a cl...
Audi's forte in the past generation of cars has been in interior detailing, and the new A4 is more composed and better-integrated than the prior car. The steering-wheel hub is smaller, but the Audi ringed logo is larger, leaving more room for thumb controls on the dished spokes. A strip of vents divides the dash horizo...
One way the A4 stretches inventively is in the driving controls. The A4 adopts a "virtual cockpit" like the TT coupe and convertible. It's a wide TFT screen that replaces conventional gauges on upper-trim levels, while base cars sport conventional gauges and a 5-inch display screen. When fitted, the virtual cockpit can...
Elsewhere, there's also a new set of toggles for climate controls with their own fluid graphics: flick the switch for the fan speed and its icon grows in size on the LCD panel through the modern magic of capacitive switches. They're no better or worse for legibility that other digital readouts, and the toggles do a fin...
Careful styling changes meet more meaningful changes to the A4's running gear. Two new turbocharged four-cylinders are set to go on sale in the U.S. when the A4 launches early next year, and with them comes a new seven-speed dual-clutch transmission and a choice of front- or all-wheel drive.
On the just-announced S4 sport sedan, there's a turbocharged V-6 coupled to an eight-speed automatic transmission.
The version you'll find in showrooms at launch will be a 2.0-liter, turbocharged, gasoline-powered four-cylinder, offered in either front- or all-wheel drive. It's rated at 249 horsepower (adjusted and rounded up from the 252 hp PS figure quoted in early previews) and 272 pound-feet of torque. It's a new design, and co...
The new turbo four feels like a natural complement to the A4's size and weight--down about a hundred pounds from the prior car. The engine sounds balanced and smooth, and it's a natural note--there's no active noise cancellation in the A4, unlike some rivals, just selective sound deadening applied to wheel housings and...
The A4's steering, suspension, and brakes have been redesigned, but the lighter-weight, five-link front and rear setups are similar to those in the outgoing car. Electric power steering incorporates a new mode that steps up boost at lower speeds and higher steering angles--better for parking and city driving. And Audi'...
Unfortunately our time in the A4 with a U.S.-spec drivetrain was quite limited, and the car we drove came with the adaptive dampers and wore 19-inch Ventis summer tires, while U.S.-spec cars will ride on all-season treads. In general terms, the A4 seems at least as responsive and composed as last year's mid-line cars, ...
The A4 delivers on better interior room and comfort for all passengers. It's moved to a new architecture--Volkswagen's MLB, which will underpin a new family of vehicles from the A4 to the new Q7, to the next generation of A6 and A7.
Audi and its parent company, VW AG, have built this component kit with stronger body sections and more flexible packaging in mind, while trying to keep a check on curb weight. Initial specs show they've succeeded: the new A4 is an inch longer than the last version, with 0.7 inches more between the wheels. It's also a h...
Interior specs are better in most dimensions, and in the real world, the A4 feels more spacious, too. Audi claims gains of an inch in headroom and 2.6 inches in front shoulder room, and says it has the longest cabin in the class. In the vehicles we drove, the impression of space was very good, coupled with better shapi...
It's even better in the back seat, one place where the previous A4 fell down against rivals. The last car had a low, short cushion that helped its headroom figures; the new one has excellent back-seat space, with a higher and longer bottom cushion for better comfort. Six-footers can sit behind six-footers with a touch ...
Storage gains are marked, too. The A4 has big cupholders sitting ahead of its shift lever, and a more usefully shaped center console bin. There's a secret and probably unauthorized bin where the fuse panel should be--down and to the left of the steering wheel, it's big enough to accept a couple of water bottles. The va...
As usual, Audi's precisely designed interiors reflect a lot of attention to seams and panel fits. I'm no fan of display screens that don't tuck into the dash, but the A4's TFT display looks more firmly affixed. Wind noise is low thanks to low drag, and though the A4's cockpit doesn't land the visual knockout of the new...

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