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Shallow strong earthquake approx. 50 km out of the coast of Southern Taiwan.
We expect No or minor damage as the earthquakes epicenter (if the epicenter location will be confirmed) is out in the sea.
At approx. the same distance as Taitung are the cities of Dawu, Taimali and the island of Lyudao.
Shallow earthquake in the lake area near Lake Ohau and Lake Pukaku. Close to highway 8 near Quailburn and Glenbrook.
Oh what a lovely moon, so much better than those moon shots I saw on crapy Fox News.
Hemel Hempstead is currently bottom of the pile in the race to be crowned Great British High Street – but there is still time to change all that.
The public vote opened on October 18 and halfway through the voting period, Hemel is in last place behind Banbury in second and Blackburn in first.
With just days left for a final push, there is a call to give the town the boost it needs in order to leapfrog its rivals.
The competition will be determined by two factors. First by the recommendations of a panel of judges who will look at a number of features of the town centres. And the public vote will contribute the other half of the score.
Deborah Owen-Ellis Clark, who is the head judge and works with British Land which is one of the sponsors of the awards, said: “I am looking for a great mix of independents, pop-ups and multiples so there is good retail on offer.
“I’m also looking for food – people want to come to town centres to eat. Shopping is just one of the things they do these days.
The public vote constitutes half of the overall score for each of the finalists. Vote at www.thegreatbritishhighstreet.co.uk/high-street-of-the-year-award before November 18.
In early-20th-century Jaffa and Tel Aviv, pork was a very popular item in local restaurants. So why is it that a century or so later, a growing number of restaurants are refusing to serve it, even if they aren’t kosher?
Whether it’s been a deliberate trend or just a coincidence, over the last couple of years a lot of Tel Aviv restaurants have taken pork off their menu. This has occurred at upscale establishments like Hamizlala and Toto, popular spots like Mifgash Hasteak and Pundak Ayalon, and trendy eateries like Zozobra.
At other places, pork isn’t always listed on the menu, but has become a secret item, or appears only very occasionally in the list of specials. Da Peppe has bid goodbye to non-kosher sausage and now uses only the kosher kind (only to put in on the pizza with cheese). Mel & Michelle, which was known for years for its menu featuring all kinds of pork dishes, has nearly gotten rid of it entirely, and the Bulgarian restaurants in Jaffa haven’t gone kosher, but you won’t find pork there anymore.
“We used to be the biggest pork restaurant in Tel Aviv,” says Nir Weiman, chef and owner of Mel & Michelle. “But over time, more and more diners were telling us that although they enjoyed their meal, they wouldn’t be coming back. When asked why, the answer was always the same: ‘Because there’s pork in the kitchen.’” He says that Jewish tourists from France, Russia and America also call before coming to inquire if the restaurant serves pork.
“They don’t mind if there’s seafood, but they don’t want there to be any pork in the kitchen. I’ve had people tell me: ‘Take away the pork, and we’ll come.’” So at first he reduced the number of pork dishes on the menu from five to three, then last year it was down to two, and on the current menu there is just one. And Weiman says it’s possible that will be gone soon too.
From the first Hebrew city’s beginnings, pork was a regular feature in restaurants and delis, even when it was considered totally off-limits in the rest of the country. Pork was thought to be the ideal accompaniment to a cold beer, a white wine spritzer or a sweet Romanian wine. The secular immigrants who came from Europe didn’t harbor any religious sensitivities toward it. In early-20th-century Jaffa and Tel Aviv, pork was a very popular item in local restaurants. So why is it that a century or so later, a growing number of restaurants are refusing to serve it, even if they aren’t kosher?
Some restaurants figured they’d do better if they turned kosher. Other restaurant owners saw that customers were not ordering pork, so they decided not to spend money on it any longer. Butchers and deli owners who used to sell pork say they took it away because the public didn’t like seeing it there with the other meat. But lately the whole trend seems to have reached a new extreme.
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension is the overall sixth - and supposedly final - installment in the low-budget, found-footage, supernatural horror series than got started 2009. The minds that be behind the Paranormal Activity franchise (including producers Oren Peli and Jason Blum) have said in the past that they've long had a specific conclusion to the property mapped out, and Ghost Dimension will thus (presumably) reveal that end game at last.
The Ghost Dimension follows the Fleeges clan - including, dad Ryan (Chris J. Murray), mom Emily (Brit Shaw), and their daughter Leila (Ivy George) - as they move into a new house, only to find themselves seemingly being haunted by supernatural forces. However, upon discovering a box of old video tapes in the garage (along with a camera that can capture paranormal beings on film), the family starts to realize that it was no accident that they ended up in their new home. But can they prevent the terrible fate that's been laid out for them?
Ghost Dimension, judging by the trailer, must not just provide a satisfying conclusion to the Paranormal Activity series, but also payoff story threads left dangling in previous installments - like, as shown in the trailer, what happened to Katie and Kristi after the events of Paranormal Activity 3, but before they had grown up (as explored in the first two films). The sixth movie will also tie into key events featured in the spinoff, Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, as to better organize and connect the franchise mythos.
That's no small task either, but Ghost Dimension was reportedly scripted by the same duo behind the (surprisingly solid) found-footage time-travel adventure Project Almanac, and features the Paranormal Activity franchise's longtime editor Gregory Plotkin at the helm. This team seems fairly well-equipped to handle the task at hand, though that doesn't guarantee that Ghost Dimension will play out as a well-conceived way to bring this series full-circle (much less, be an entertainingly scary standalone movie).
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension opens in U.S. theaters on October 23rd, 2015.
Architecture firm Gensler has released designs for SFO's Terminal 2, the airport's original international terminal, now better known as the "Ghost Terminal." An increase in air traffic has prompted the airport to revamp the terminal, which was closed back in 2000. "Relaxation" is the conceptual cornerstone of this $383 million overhaul. Picture a hangar-sized apartment straight out of Dwell. Faux-wood paneling and lots of light are part of a scheme designed to calm passengers. A spa for stressed out travelers is also part of the plan, as is a "passenger recomposure" area— ostensibly for belt re-buckling and general restoration of personal dignity. Expect almost 50,000 square feet of retail and food. In a final moment of irony, all efforts will be made to serve "slow food" to frazzled passengers. With air travel as it is, we say kudos to Gensler for, at the very least, making us laugh. ETA: 2010.
Phil Harrison joins a board that includes representation from major gaming companies such as Activision, Electronic Arts, Kojima Productions, Microsoft, Nintendo of America and Rockstar Games.
Furthering Google's push into the gaming space, The Game Awards have revealed that Phil Harrison, vp and GM for Google's game streaming service Stadia, will be joining the awards show's advisory board.
The Game Awards, created by Geoff Keighley and launched in 2014, is the main awards show for the video game industry. The show's advisory board includes gaming veterans and leaders such as Activision president Rob Kostich, Electronic Arts chief studios officer Laura Miele, Chief Studios Officer, Microsoft vp of gaming Phil Spencer, Sony Interactive Entertainment chairman Shawn Layden, game creator Hideo Kojima and many more.
Harrison unveiled Stadia last week at the GDC conference in San Francisco, pulling back the curtain on Google's long-rumored foray into the business of video game streaming services. Harrison leads the entire Stadia team and is responsible for all strategy, revenue and content for the platform that will launch later this year.
Before joining Google, Harrison served as corporate vp at Microsoft where he led the Xbox and interactive entertainment business unit in Europe. Prior to that, he was an exec at Sony where he led PlayStation's Worldwide Studios.
Harrison's new position on the advisory board signals a strong push by Google into gaming. According to the tech company's GDC presentation, Stadia will offer 4k game streaming on any device with a strong Internet connection. Google's official entree into the gaming space was followed closely by fellow tech leader Apple, which this week unveiled its own video game subscription service, Apple Arcade, during a lengthy, wide-ranging presentation from the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, Calif.
GARY NEVILLE thinks Manchester United need just one player to give them the complete squad.
The Red Devils legend turned pundit is confident that Jose Mourinho has managed to build a good unit during his 14 months at Old Trafford.
Plenty of money has been spent, including the £89m world-record purchase of Paul Pogba last summer.
Seven players have arrived under Mourinho’s stewardship and he has admitted he would like and eighth before the window closes on August 31.
He’s in the market for a winger with Ivan Perisic and Gareth Bale linked.
And if the Portuguese can get a wide man in, Neville thinks his old side will have a top squad.
He said: “Is Rashford a wide player – not really?
“That is where United could get one world class winger and it would be a complete squad.
“They have to challenge this year.
Plain Dealer fileBillions of dollars in planned development and new construction in downtown Cleveland is creating an opportunity to rethink the Flats. Public officials, nonprofit groups, businesses, developers and property owners are considering how the Flats could be revived -- and what a renaissance in the Flats might look like.
CLEVELAND -- A longtime industrial corridor and onetime entertainment district, Cleveland's Flats could be repopulated with entrepreneurs, residents, cyclists, gamblers, rowers and aquarium-goers during the next decade.
More than $2 billion in development is planned or under way in downtown Cleveland and near the banks of the Cuyahoga River.
The Wolstein Group and Fairmount Properties are building an office tower on the east bank, at the seam of the Warehouse District and the Flats. Across the river, Jacobs Entertainment plans to break ground Wednesday for an aquarium.
On the Columbus Road Peninsula, an emerging recreation hub could include a rowing facility and a skateboarding park. And as developers plan a casino expected to touch Public Square and the Flats, workers are building Cleveland's new convention center and medical mart less than a mile away.
Amid all the bustle, politicians, nonprofit groups and property owners are mulling the future of the Flats. They hope to capture the momentum and revive the place where Cleveland started, marrying steel mills and ships with new businesses, homes and entertainment venues.
Framed by massive investments including the Flats East Bank project and the new Inner Belt Bridge, the river might have reached a critical juncture - a chance to define what the Flats should be and to tackle infrastructure problems and development opportunities before the large projects are finished.
"We're between the past's greatness and the future's greatness, and this is the means for us to get there," said Cleveland City Councilman Joe Cimperman, who is putting together an advisory group to discuss hurdles and opportunities in the Flats. "There is enough common opportunity, borne of frustration, in an environment of dynamic change ... that if we don't look at a way to do things differently here, we've got a problem."
Cimperman has invited more than 30 representatives from businesses, nonprofit groups and the city of Cleveland to a Monday meeting about the Flats. And he is planning a Feb. 22 meeting to launch a public process, with $20,000 from the Cleveland and Gund foundations.
The goal: Finding a way to support and connect major developments, to balance the often-conflicting interests of stakeholders and to give the Flats a louder voice to attract private investment and public support.
"I think there are phenomenal opportunities in the Flats that we haven't taken advantage of," said Albert Ratner, co-chairman of Forest City Enterprises Inc., a prominent real estate company that owns a large, barren part of Scranton Peninsula. "The Wolstein project kickstarts it again, and the other projects that are taking place will help bring more people downtown.
"We have to work on the connectivity, but if you looked at the various areas of downtown, the area that has the greatest opportunity for mixed-use development that will appeal to the kind of people we need to attract to this city is the Flats. Water is very important, and we haven't taken advantage of it."
Each year, the Cuyahoga River and Lake Erie contribute to $1.8 billion in economic activity, according to a study conducted last year for the city and the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority. Yet land along the waterfront, in the heart of downtown Cleveland, remains undeveloped or inaccessible to the people who live here.
The Flats are rife with aging infrastructure, from cracked streets to collapsing bulkheads to the crumbling hill in the Irishtown Bend area behind West 25th Street - a problem that begs for federal intervention and might cost anywhere from $80 million to $200 million to fix.
But this industrial landscape also appears ripe with possibilities. Construction has started on the long-delayed $275 million first phase of the Flats East Bank, including an office building, a hotel, a gym, a public park and a boardwalk. The project's developers already are planning for their second phase, which could include residences and retail.
Accountants and lawyers who work in the new Ernst & Young tower will have views of a crushed-limestone operation, pleasure boaters on the lake and families wandering into the Greater Cleveland Aquarium on the west bank.
Managing these uses - maritime, industrial, recreational, residential and entertainment - is a formidable task. But that hodgepodge is what lures people to the Flats, creating a potential magnet for residents and businesses even in a region struggling with population loss and a changing economy.
"The combination of folks living down there, eating down there and having outdoor recreation in conjunction with barges going up and down the river and trucks executing their functions, that's all part of the unique fabric that makes this a very special place," said Adam Fishman, a principal with Fairmount Properties.
In 2019, Cleveland will mark the 50th anniversary of a river fire that dogged the city for decades. By then, city officials envision making Cleveland a national model for sustainability, becoming what Cimperman describes as "a green city on a blue lake in a verdant valley."
The Flats are central to that effort. Within the next eight years, the city hopes to shore up Irishtown Bend, fix infrastructure problems and connect people to the water through development along the river and north and east of Browns Stadium.
"It's pretty clear-cut what the infrastructure priorities are," said Chris Warren, the mayor's chief of regional development.
Other possibilities, from building more homes to reviving the water taxi that once ferried people across the river, are less defined. That, developers say, is why property owners in the Flats need to band together and work out a strategy.
After tabling construction in the Flats during the housing-market collapse, the K&D Group once again is toying with building more apartments to complement its rentals and condos at the Stonebridge community. Doug Price, the company's chief executive, is part of Cimperman's Flats advisory group and plans to talk to Jacobs Entertainment about a master plan for the west bank of the Flats.
"We believe that when these big-bang projects happen, there are going to be a lot of people in the city who want to live in the city," Price said. "My goal is to get a plan. We need the Towpath to the lake. We need infrastructure money. And we're going to need help from the city for construction. We need to figure out what development tools we can put together for the Flats."
The Towpath Trail is a 101-mile bike and pedestrian pathway, intended to follow the original Ohio & Erie Canal route from Tuscarawas County to Canal Basin Park, a planned 21-acre park in the Flats. After decades of land assembly and development, much of the trail is complete. Planners hope to reach Canal Basin Park within the next five years - the same proposed timeline for a Lake Link Trail that would connect to the Towpath at Scranton Peninsula and run north to Wendy Park.
The trail has hit difficult terrain in Cuyahoga County, where rail lines, steel mills, truck traffic and contaminated land make for a difficult slog. Flats Oxbow Association, a longtime community development group with many industrial members, has expressed concerns about safety. At times, Flats Oxbow's board members have voiced outright opposition to projects that would bring more cyclists, runners and walkers into the Flats.
"I don't think we can become a city that doesn't have any industry, where we're going to have parks and we're going to have recreation and we aren't going to have any business," said Tom Newman, executive director of Flats Oxbow. "I don't feel that there's a nefarious plot to get rid of industry, but I'm not sure we always respect it and encourage it as much as we ought to."
Jim Catanese, co-owner of Catanese Classic Seafood in the Flats, hopes the planned casino will attract more infrastructure money, attention from public officials and a surge of growth to both riverbanks. A $600 million gaming facility could open along Huron Road in 2013 - when the first part of the Flats East Bank and the medical mart and convention center also are slated for completion. Rock Ohio Caesars LLC is expected to open an early version of the casino in the Higbee Building at the Tower City complex.
There's no assurance that everything on the drawing board will happen. But Cimperman believes that bringing property owners and the public together to chart a path for the Flats will give Cleveland a better shot at creating a thriving, complete neighborhood that reconnects the city to its roots.
David Steele bet on the potential of the Flats when he and a partner bought the century-old Flat Iron Cafe three years ago. Despite a slow economy and bridge closures that are hampering foot traffic, Steele is enthusiastic about the future.
"This place would go from being a desolate ghost town to one of the busiest centers of downtown Cleveland, if all of the things they're talking about come through."
MOSCOW -- Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned against the dangers of foreign influence on Thursday at a campaign rally attended by tens of thousands of people, many of them state workers who were pressured to take part as a show of support for a leader facing his first outburst of public discontent.
With little real competition, Putin is almost certain to win a third term as president in the March 4 election. During 12 years in power, he has sidelined his political opponents and portrayed himself as the defender of a strong and prosperous Russia. His approval ratings are still running at well above 50 percent despite the largest opposition protests the country has seen since the 1991 Soviet collapse.
Putin has tried to discredit the protesters by accusing their leaders of being paid agents of the United States working to weaken Russia. His references on Thursday were slightly more subtle as he called on all Russians who "cherish, care about and believe in" their motherland to unite.
"We ask everyone not to look abroad, not to run to the other side and not to deceive your motherland, but to join us," he said from a makeshift stage in a soccer stadium as a light snow fell on his bare head.
But he also warned the West: "We won't allow anyone to meddle in our affairs or impose their will upon us, because we have a will of our own."
The pro-Putin rally was held on Defenders of the Fatherland, a national holiday that replaced the Soviet-era Red Army Day. As participants marched in columns toward the stadium along the Moscow River, they carried Russian flags and wore armbands in the national colors. Patriotic songs from decades past blared from vans parked along the route.
They carried signs saying "As long as we have Putin we have a strong country."
The rally was a response to the opposition protests, which began in December after a parliamentary election that Putin's party won through what appeared to be widespread fraud.
But while the protests have been embraced by Russia's middle class and young urban professionals, many of those who attended Thursday's rally showed little enthusiasm. They included workers paid by or dependent on the state, including teachers, municipal workers and employees of state companies. Some said they had been promised two days off in return for attending.
Many people at the rally were reluctant to explain why they had come or offered only perfunctory statements in support of Putin. Some were brought by bus or train from other cities around Russia. Thousands bolted for a nearby subway station at the end of the march rather than enter the Luzhniki stadium to hear Putin.
Some march participants, however, offered genuine praise.
"I love Putin and Putin loves me," said Vladimir Gryzlov, a 68-year-old musician who brought his accordion.
With him was 70-year-old Tatyana Goytseva, who said she was too old to live through another change of government.
"We are happy with it, but of course the young people don't think the same," said Goytseva, a social worker who helps the elderly. She said her three grandchildren were not voting for Putin.
Putin has four challengers, including three veteran party leaders who long ago reached an accommodation with the Kremlin and pose little challenge to Putin's authority. The only newcomer is Mikhail Prokhorov, a 46-year-old billionaire businessman who owns the New Jersey Nets basketball team.
Prokhorov's candidacy has been viewed as a Kremlin-approved effort to add legitimacy to the election and channel the discontent of the protesters. Grigory Yavlinsky, the veteran leader of the liberal opposition party Yabloko, was denied the right to run.
In a miraculous coincidence, the couple who got married on the same day as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, have welcomed their first baby boy on the same day as the royal baby.
Liam and Emma Belgrove welcomed new son Oliver just hours before the birth of Prince George, the Daily Star reported.
Emma went into labour on Monday, the same time that the Duchess was admitted to hospital in London.
Oliver was born at 11:54am, weighing 7lb 1oz. The royal baby was born at 4.24pm and weighed 8lb 6oz.
Liam, of Whitnash, Warks, joked that the royals copied their wedding plans and it looks like even their first-born was coordinated.
When the new heir to the British throne was born, three other babies were likely born somewhere in the world in the very same second, statistics show; 254 others within a minute; 360,000 others before the Earth had completed a single turn on its axis. Few, if any, of course, are destined to become a monarch.
The federal government’s response to the H1N1 threat doesn’t inspire confidence in its ability to respond to a biological terrorist attack, at least not to a Missourian who keeps track of such things.
Former Senator Jim Talent is vice chairman of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction, which has concluded that terrorists are more likely to launch a biological attack against the United States than a nuclear one. Talent understands that distributing vaccine to a large number of people after such an attack presents incredible challenges, but.
Still, Talent acknowledges the federal government’s poor response to the H1N1 virus doesn’t inspire confidence.
Such centers include the most populous areas of the United States, including New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. It could also include St. Louis as well as Kansas City during holidays, such as the Independence Day celebrations that gather thousands in outdoor areas.
H1N1, known as the Swine Flu, has spread to 46 states. It has caused 1,000 deaths in the United States. Twenty thousand have been hospitalized because of it. This flu has hit early. Seasonal flu, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, usually peaks in late November to early March. H1N1 has hit young adults and children hard, another difference with normal flu strains, which tend to hit an older population.
Federal officials had counted on 40 million doses of vaccine available by the end of October, but production problems have limited supply to under 30 million doses which have just now be trickling out to communities, both in a nasal form and as a regular shot.
Interim report of Commission on Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism.

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