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"That doesn't mean we’re stenographers. If the president or anyone we're covering says something untrue or does something clearly over the line, we can and should report that," Wallace said. |
"But we shouldn't be drawn into becoming players on the field, trying to match the people we cover in invective. It's not our role. We're not as good at it as they are. And we’re giving up our special place in our democracy. There's enough to report about this president that we don't need to of... |
"The committee will address Goodell's salary and compensation package. The last written counterproposal from Goodell, which was around the first of August, was seeking about $49.5 million per year, as well as the lifetime use of a private jet and lifetime health insurance for his family, according to a source fami... |
"For those under forty, for whom the Vietnam War seems as distant as World War I or II, the film will serve as an education; for those who lived through it, the film will serve as a reminder of its horrors and of the official lies that drove it forward. In many ways it is hard to watch, and its battle scenes will reviv... |
Sportswriters should be barred from listening to one another before making predictions. Or to local sports radio. The boosterish conventional wisdom in Chicago all week was that the truly awful Bears — their offense is only slightly superior to that of the high school, any high school, nearest you — would upend (for th... |
All seven Chicago Tribune sportswriters who made predictions in Sunday's paper said the Bears would win. At the Sun-Times, four of five predicted the Bears. Only columnist Rick Morrissey went with the Packers, 17-14. |
If your mother says she loves you, check it out. I reported on a Chicago appearance by Kevin Young, poetry editor of The New Yorker, who's written a book on bunk, hoaxes and fake news, in part tying the American tradition to pernicious notions of race. In comparing of P.T Barnum and Trump, he said Barnum had run u... |
Thanks to reader Ellen Sandhaus, for correcting us: Barnum was elected mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1875 and had previously served in the state legislature. |
"Remember the Arab Spring? 'Revolution 2.0'? Remember how we imagined, full of triumphal optimism, that social media would become the web that knit the oppressed masses better, would empower them to join together and overthrow their oppressors and stride shoulder-to-shoulder together into a better world?" |
"Yeah, those were the days. But now — 'disillusioned' hardly begins to describe it. I write to you from Tunisia, the Arab Spring’s poster child, now a secular democracy; but even here, in this lovely country full of hospitable people, whose downtown hipsters and students thronging the Carthage Film Festival c... |
"Cents and Sensibility," a book by Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro of Northwestern University (the latter is the president there and an economist), got a nice Sunday review in The Washington Post that economics writers might check out. As the review notes, value investing is an approach, not a prescription, and lo... |
The two men, who outlined their thesis at a Chicago Humanities Festival event Sunday, "do not exactly say that mathematics ruined economics, but they think it," wrote the Post. "They want economists to talk to people in the humanities. They think public policy could he improved by Tolstoy, infused with an ethical sensi... |
As Morson put it Sunday, "You can't mathematicize culture," his point being that data will only get you so far in understanding different societies. You're better off reading great literature, especially to understand the complexities of human motivation that can impact economic policies. They both noted one ... |
"Passing along an addendum from Saturday's pooler Ashley Parker, in response to some questions:" |
"Air Force One took noticeably longer than scheduled to fly between Da Nang and Hanoi. Here's what happened: President Trump arrived at the airport in Da Nang ahead of schedule, meaning he was going to be early for the formal arrival ceremony in Hanoi, for which people had traveled for hours to participate in. The... |
"Also, during the president's gaggle on the flight, even as Trump was making news on Russia, Sarah Huckabee Sanders was outwardly calm and never tried to cut him off/end the gaggle/change the topic." |
The stoicism and patience of Sanders is hereby commended with the deepest gratitude. |
"Liz Smith, the longtime queen of New York’s tabloid gossip columns, who for more than three decades chronicled little triumphs and trespasses in the soap-opera lives of the rich, the famous and the merely beautiful, died on Sunday at her home in Manhattan. She was 94." |
"From hardscrabble nights writing snippets for a Hearst newspaper in the 1950s to golden afternoons at Le Cirque with Sinatra or Hepburn and tête-à-tête dinners with Madonna to gather material for columns that ran six days a week, Ms. Smith captivated millions with her tattletale chitchat and, over time, ascended to fa... |
"A self-effacing, good-natured, vivacious Texan who professed to be awed by celebrities, Ms. Smith was the antithesis of the brutal columnist J.J. Hunsecker in Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman’s screenplay for 'Sweet Smell of Success,' which portrayed sinister power games in a seamy world of press agents and ... |
The latest rumors suggest that Naomi Ackie is playing Lando's daughter in Star Wars: Episode IX - and the tie-in books may well have set that up. Right now, precious little is known about the last film in the Sequel Trilogy. We know that Billy Dee Williams is returning as Lando Calrissian, although the latest reports s... |
Williams' return isn't really a surprise. Lucasfilm will be keen to link this film to the Original Trilogy, which is actually quite a difficult task. Han Solo was killed off in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, while Luke Skywalker died at the end of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Tragically, Carrie Fisher passed away before th... |
Over on Reddit, a user named Temiriblagg1 has claimed that Naomi Ackie will be playing Lando's daughter, Veranada (Vera) Calrissian. They claim to have been an extra on Star Wars: Episode IX during filming at Pinewood Studios, and they say they played a "guerrilla militia in a secret type of bunker on the planet of Bat... |
Last year, Lucasfilm published a tie-in novel called Last Shot written by Daniel José Older. It explored the relationship between Han Solo and Lando Calrissian through the years, with one section set after the events of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. In that time period, Lando had settled down on Bespin and turned it i... |
To Lando's shock, he found himself genuinely attracted to Kasha; the scoundrel who had fooled around with love was beginning to realize what it really meant to have romantic feelings for a woman. Han and Leia were somewhat surprised at this development, not quite knowing what to make of it. "We thought Forever-Player L... |
Last Shot is set three years after the events of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, so it makes sense that by the time of Star Wars: Episode IX Lando's vague dream of having a family would probably have been fulfilled. Going by the canon, then, it's entirely possible that Naomi Ackie could indeed be playing the part of Ver... |
Progressive dairy farmer Sarah Lloyd is the kind of candidate the Democrats need to find and support. |
The 2018 midterm elections are still a full year and a half away but I’m getting anxious about who will run on the Democratic side. |
I’m not talking about the governor’s race. Unlike some other progressives, I’m not super-concerned about the lack of gubernatorial candidates at this time. Rep. Dana Wachs (D-Eau Claire) and Sen. Kathleen Vinehout (D-Alma) are both looking at making a run; frankly, both excite me more than did Tom Barrett or Mary Burke... |
I’m focusing now on the rest of the races — congressional house seats and those in the state Senate and Assembly. Many of these races will get overshadowed by the races for governor and U.S. senator, but these other races are still incredibly important. |
This midterm is the Democrats’ best shot to pick up seats in all three bodies since President Obama’s first election a full decade ago. At the 100-day mark, President Trump is holding onto a 39 percent approval rating. Historically, as much as precedent still holds in the modern era, presidential approval ratings tend ... |
Republican Congressmen Sean Duffy and Mike Gallagher, both big supporters of Trump, enjoy somewhat gerrymandered districts but neither has enough of a firewall to ensure reelection in the shadow of a president with an approval rating at or below 35 percent. |
If Democrats are to take advantage of a midterm wave, however, they are going to need good candidates to run against the Duffys and Gallaghers of the state. Elections are largely based on national sentiment, with results often determined more by the goings-on in Washington, D.C., than the main streets of Wisconsin. But... |
I’ll admit that it is going to be hard to convince good candidates to run on the Democratic side after a string of humbling election losses. Experienced, well-liked Democrats lost in 2016, including Outagamie County Executive Tom Nelson, who ran for Congress, and Winnebago County Executive Mark Harris, who ran for stat... |
The demoralization has gotten so bad that there wasn’t even a liberal or progressive candidate for the most recent Wisconsin Supreme Court election. Now, victory was by no means certain, but it is shocking that no one ran for an office with a 10-year term. |
When there are Democrats who want to run, too often these candidates are relatively new to their districts. Pat Bomhack was a lawyer who had only lived in the district for three years when he mounted a lackluster campaign for state Senate, throwing away one of the only competitive state Senate races in 2014. |
You need candidates who have roots in the district, particularly when the candidate is a lawyer. It makes it way too easy for the opposition to paint the candidate as a carpetbagger coming in from some fancy law school who is going to tell locals how to live their lives. When lawyers decide to run for office, they shou... |
The Legislature already has plenty of lawyers. What Democrats really need are more Sarah Lloyds. |
Sarah Lloyd is a progressive dairy farmer who ran against Rep. Glenn Grothman in the 6th Congressional District in 2016. Lloyd has experience with small-scale agriculture — her family runs a dairy farm — as well as with larger-scale operations through her work with the Wisconsin Food Hub Cooperative and the Wisconsin M... |
But Sarah Lloyd was the right candidate with the right background; she just ran in the wrong election. Lloyd’s experience should serve as a model for other candidates, people whose backgrounds represent their districts and provide a perspective that isn’t currently being heard in the capitol buildings of Madison and D.... |
Democrats should be out recruiting and encouraging folks from across the state, people with deep community ties and unique experience. Find the next Kathleen Vinehout, Dana Wachs and Sarah Lloyd, and Democrats will start building a slate of candidates ready to start turning the tide next November. |
Year-on-year sales dropped by 10.1% for March, according to BDO's High Street Sales Tracker (HSST). |
A blast of summer sun at the end of last month triggered a surge in food and clothing sales after weeks of heavy rainfall, a major trade association said today. |
Retail sales by value were up 1.3% on a like-for-like basis in May, following a sharp 3.3% decline in the previous month, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) said. |
The BRC, which represents 60% of retailers, said miserable weather at the start of May led to pent up demand and then as the weather improved shoppers hit the high streets. |
Assistance arrives from other countries as firefighters struggle to put out blaze that has killed at least 41 people. |
Israel is battling to put out a blaze that is raging out of control in the Carmel Mountains near the northern town of Haifa, that has killed at least 41 people and injured many others, rescue officials said. |
It is the worst fire in the country's history, and officials said on Friday that they are receiving assistance from other countries to battle the blaze. |
Local media reported that 36 of the killed were prison guards from Damon jail, a nearby prison, who were caught on their way to rescue inmates from the jail in the fire zone. |
After raging for over 24 hours, police and firefighters said the blaze is still not under control and was spreading after destroying over 4,000 hectares of land and forcing the evacuation of more than 13,000 people. |
Al Jazeera's Tony Birtley, reporting from Haifa, said that the blaze is spreading in a southeasterly direction, but it was unclear whether the blaze may change direction. |
"It's been fanned by strong winds blowing in every direction, so you can't really assess where the real danger is," he said. |
Turkey was amongst the first countries to offer assistance to Israel, laying aside recent diplomatic strains to dispatch two firefighting aircrafts to Israel to help contain the deadly wildfires. |
The Israeli and Turkish prime ministers held an ice-breaking telephone conversation on Friday, with Tel Aviv thanking Ankara for sending fire-fighting aircraft to help quell the wildfire. |
The chat was the first between Benjamin Netanyahu and Tayyip Erdogan since the Israeli prime minister took office in March 2009. |
"I told Erdogan that we appreciate the major efforts during this time and I am sure that this will be a gateway to improving relations between the two countries", Netanyahu said. |
In Ankara, a statement said Erdogan had expressed condolences for the 41 Israelis killed in the blaze on Thursday. |
"In the face of this disaster it was a humanitarian and Islamic duty for us to help," said Erdogan, adding Turkey would be "ready to make any form of help for the injured". |
Greek and Turkish fire-fighting planes flew side by side in Israel on Friday as they dumped water on the flames engulfing woodland near the Israeli port city of Haifa. |
However, Erdogan told reporters after his conversation with Netanyahu that Turkey would not fully restore relations before Israel met its demands to apologise and compensate flotilla raid victims, according to Turkey's Anatolian news agency. |
"Our demands are clear and these subjects should not be mixed up," Erdogan was quoted as saying. |
"We have already said that as long as these demands have not been met, our relations cannot be as they were before." |
Meanwhile, firefighting aircraft from four other countries also flew into Israel on Friday to help battle the fire, and more than a dozen countries pledged immediate assistance in response to an urgent personal appeal by Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister. |
Five out of seven planes expected to arrive had landed at the Ramat David air base and were preparing to take off to assess the size of the fire and start efforts to distinguish it. |
"First we have to take off to go there and see the size of the fire," Captain Nickolas of the Greek air force, told Reuters news agency. |
"The operation works like we scooping water from the sea and dropping it into the fire." |
Israel, which has a formidable air force, has no firefighting aircraft of its own. |
"Israel has never prepared itself in any form for such a need," Netanyahu said. "It was never taken into account. |
"We have to stop the fire. It can only be done with the aircraft, we don't have any other means ... We need to bring in more planes." |
A plane and a helicopter from Cyprus and two British helicopters have been sent to help fight the enormous blaze from above, while a group of Jordanian firefighters tackled the flames on the ground. |
Bulgaria, Russia Egypt, Azerbaijan, Spain, Croatia and France had also offered contributions, with Israel waking up to the fact that it had few effective means of its own to tackle the inferno. |
"I think this symbolises an unprecedented response to our request for international help," Netanyahu said after chairing an emergency cabinet meeting in Tel Aviv. |
Bulgaria sent 92 firefighters, who were accompanied to the scene by Dimiter Tzantchev, the country's deputy foreign minister. |
"We arrived this morning with the governmental aircraft and we have 92 firefighters, experienced people, professionals. These people participated in the operations to fight fires in Russia last summer," he said. |
"We are fighting the fire, preventing the expansion of the fire to the houses. One of the teams is staying near a gas station, trying to prevent the expansion of the fire." |
Israel has only 1,500 firefighters, a number widely accepted as inadequate for a country of 7.6 million people. |
Major General Nachustan, who is heading co-ordinating international rescue efforts, said he hoped the planes "will be a significant contribution to the fight against the fire". |
"These are airplanes that have the capacity which we don't have in this country and we hope to put them into operation very soon." |
It was not immediately clear what started the huge fire, but police said on Friday that arson was suspected in two smaller fires that were burning nearby. |
Israel has experienced unseasonably hot weather for months and it was the driest November in 60 years. |
February 13 saw 2,072 shares trade on the Bermuda Stock Exchange, valued at $56,510.00 BD. |
1,572 shares were traded by Bank of N.T. Butterfield Ltd, closing up 1.4% at $35.00 per share, while another 500 shares were traded by One Communications Ltd, closing even at $3.00 per share. |
The BSX finished at 2,185.19, up 1.04% on the day. There were 1 advances, 0 decline, and 58 remained unchanged. |
BALTIMORE – Sunday was brutal enough. |
A 17-1 loss to Orioles that was one of the most lopsided in Rays franchise history, a product of poor performances all over the field. |
They didn't hit much, made misplays in the field, and had such bad pitching, beginning with starter Blake Snell, that their most effective moundsman was outfielder Johnny Field. |
And it might not look much better anytime soon. |
Having lost three of four at the front end of a vexing stretch of 40 games in 41 days and taxing — and then shuffling — their bullpen for a second straight day, the Rays are going to be further challenged. |
They head to Kansas City, where they tend to play poorly, and will start rookie Ryan Yarbrough Monday and cobble together another Bullpen Day on Tuesday, likely having to make more callups to cover. |
The Rays dispatched Ryne Stanek after Saturday's doubleheader to call up Austin Pruitt, who worked 3⅓ innings Sunday. Then after Andrew Kittredge's historically bad outing Sunday — the seven batters he faced all reached base, with six scoring — they sent him down. His replacement, potentially Hunter Wood, should come t... |
Sunday's game was bad from all aspects, including the end of a couple of impressive streaks. |
Wilson Ramos went 0-for-4 to end his hitting streak at 18 games, one shy of Jason Bartlett's 2009 team record. |
And Snell, pitching with previously undisclosed right hip issues, saw his streaks of yielding two or fewer runs end at six starts and five or fewer hits at a team-record 12. |
"Just an all-around bad game, every side of the ball,'' third baseman Matt Duffy said. "Obviously we didn't hit a guy who's gotten hit hard all year (Dylan Bundy), we didn't pitch and our defense didn't help out the pitching with moderate difficulty plays we didn't make. |
He's right, but if this was the only Rays game you ever saw, you would probably disagree. |
Snell, who had been their best starter, was not sharp or comfortable from the beginning, allowing three homers in a five-batter span and pulled one out into the fourth, in part to rest the hip. Plus, he was hit by a liner on the left hip during the game. And he was having trouble all afternoon with the mound, unable to... |
"Just fighting myself getting comfortable on the mound,'' Snell said. "Couldn't find it. Really my grip with my left cleat, so that was frustrating. That's why I went to the stretch for an at-bat. … There was such a big hole on the left side where I normally am that I have should have known to go more to the middle and... |
Kittredge was even worse, Pruitt not much better. Chaz Roe tried, too, but Field was the only Rays pitcher to post a zero. |
And the defense was sloppy. Duffy making an error that cost a run, and shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria, second baseman Joey Wendle and centerfielder Mallex Smith all lending a hand. |
"Kind of a bad day,'' Cash said. "Let's go watch the Lightning win.''. |
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