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Women told CBS 2’s Schneider that they have heard the stories and are taking precautions.
“I’ve always thought twice. We’re in a crowded city. You always have to keep your eye out and keep a hand on your dress to make sure nothing strange is going to happen,” Tracy Kaufman said.
Some of the picture-taking pervs have even gone as far as posting the images online.
Transit cops have been placed on high alert on and off of subway cars.
“I’m just glad police have been keeping an eye on the situation and taking care of it. We just want to do our business and go about our day without having to think about things like this,” Kaufman said.
NEW MILFORD -- The 15-year-old Roosevelt, N.Y., boy who drowned Sunday in the Housatonic River near the Kent-New Milford line, fell into the water, Capt. Michael Mrazik of the New Milford Police Department said Monday.
An earlier report said Leonardy Adames was swimming in the swollen river when he went underwater.
"The boy's father grabbed his son by the hand and tried to pull him from the river's strong current, but lost his grip," Mrazik said.
Leonardy was picnicking with his family in the restricted area near the Bulls Bridge power plant Sunday when the accident occurred. Police received the 911 call at 11:56 a.m.
Leonardy was found and removed from the river 90 minutes later, police reported. He was transported to New Milford Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Authorities said the river currents have been treacherous following this summer's heavy rains. Attempts to reach First Light Power, the present owner of the power plant property, were unsuccessful.
Former Gaylordsville Fire Chief Lee Hendrix said Sunday that one of the "biggest problems" in responding to the emergency call was "the language barrier."
At first, the 911 dispatchers believed the caller said a 6-year-old boy had fallen into the river. They only learned the victim was 15 when Gaylordsville and Kent fire rescue teams arrived on the scene with divers from the Goshen Fire Company's dive team and New Milford Police divers.
"We make every effort to communicate with emergency callers and people coming into the office, but it can be challenging," Mrazik said Monday. "This is a much different country and town than it was years ago. People live in and visit the area who are not English speaking."
Mrazik said the department uses a "language line" that dispatchers call to get interpreters for non-English speakers.
But with an emergency call, it can be difficult to get the caller to understand that an interpreter must be reached and time is of the essence, he said.
Leonardy's family could not be reached for comment Monday.
An officer must reach an interpreter through the language line when he is at the scene of an emergency and put the person reporting the emergency on the phone with the interpreter. The interpreter does not come to the scene, Mrazik said.
"We do have a few Spanish-speaking residents in the area who can go out with us on a call. But unless the party (calling) is a French or Spanish speaker, it is difficult to tell what language they are speaking," Mrazik said. "We make every effort to communicate."
Dark since the turn of the century, the UC Theatre at the bottom of campus will come alive like never before when it reopens as a live performance venue.
Ground was broken Mar. 18 to rebuild the gutted house. A non-profit called the Berkeley Music Group has formed to remake it, with seating for 900 and as many as 1400. It should be ready by the end of 2015 and an anchor of the new downtown Berkeley Entertainment District that will include the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
The U.C. Theatre at the March 18 groundbreaking.
This action was not enough to sustain the UC and it went dark altogether in 2001.
While "gentle" and "no more tears" are terms we've learned to associate with products like baby shampoo, a recent study by the Environmental Working Group claims that another one might be appropriate for the list: carcinogenic. The study, released on February 8th, found that the compound 1,4-dioxane is present in 22% of personal care products, including baby washes and shampoos. What is 1,4-dioxane? According to a US Environmental Protection Agency "Chemical Fact Sheet,"
1,4-Dioxane (also called dioxane) is a flammable liquid. It may form explosive chemicals, especially when anhydrous (very dry). It is produced in large amounts (between 10 million and 18 million pounds in 1990) by three companies in the United States. ... Companies use dioxane as a solvent for paper, cotton, and textile processiong and for various organic products. It is also used in automotive coolant liquid, and in shampoos and other cosmetics.
Yeah... exactly the kind of stuff you want included in bath time. Dr. Devra Davis, head of the Environmental Oncology Center at the University of Pittsburgh and a professor of epidemiology at their Graduate School of Public Health, tells Public Radio International's Living on Earth that the compound isn't put directly into these products, but rather results from a chemical reaction between ethylene-oxide and Sodium Laureth Sulfate, both fairly common ingredients. Despite the fact that substance has been identified as a probable human carcinogen, the US Food and Drug administration doesn't require its removal because it's considered an "incidental ingredient."
Arguments will certainly ensue (in fact, they already have) about the safety of the levels of 1,4-Dioxane in these products, and we're bound to see a debate parallel to the one over arsenic in drinking water from several years ago. A representative of the Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association takes the standard line that we're surrounded by potential hazards, so in the big picture, this one is relatively minor. Dr. Davis notes, however, that we really don't need to have this argument: "It can be completely removed by what's called vacuum stripping. This is something that is completely avoidable."
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The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is confident that its chairman and current President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will win the presidency in the first round of voting by securing at least 50 percent plus one vote.
“The latest polls indicate that our president’s [Recep Tayyip Erdoğan] vote is 55.6 percent,” AKP spokesperson Mahir Ünal said on April 19 in a press conference following a meeting with Erdoğan and AKP deputies in the capital Ankara.
Erdoğan had convened AKP lawmakers in Ankara to discuss the upcoming period for parliamentary and presidential elections to be held on June 24, over one year ahead of their originally scheduled date.
Following the meeting, AKP officials came together under Erdoğan in a “harmonization commission” to accelerate the legislative harmonization process necessary to hold elections.
The June 24 elections will be the first parliamentary and presidential elections under the amended constitution stipulating a shift from a parliamentary to an executive presidential system in Turkey, and existing legislation needs to be harmonized for this process.
“Initially we need to confirm the process of presenting a candidate with 100,000 votes, even though there is a provision in the [amended] constitution on how the candidates can be determined. There will be a swift regulation on that,” Ünal said.
He said the harmonization of the election and political parties law will be discussed with the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), in line with the alliance that the two parties have formed for the elections.
“We will discuss it in the people’s alliance commission and then we will submit it to parliament,” Ünal added.
“There will be no need for run-off elections. The result of the [presidential] elections is now certain after the reaction of the markets,” Bozdağ told state-run Anadolu Agency in an interview on April 19, adding that the markets had a “positive response” to the announcement of early elections.
“Whoever wins the election on June 24 will have a perspective for five years. There will be no question of whether or not a government can be formed after the polls. The nation’s government will come directly out of the ballot box,” he said.
Bozdağ also predicted that the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) would nominate its leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu as its presidential candidate.
“I think Kılıçdaroğlu will be the CHP’s candidate. But when I look I see that the opposition seems to have been caught in the rain without an umbrella,” he said.
“Its potential ally is clear: The Peoples’ Democratic Party [HDP]. But it will face serious difficulties in explaining to its patriotic grassroots voters if it decides to form an alliance with the HDP,” he said.
CARSON – The emotions are roiling among the skateboarders at the X Games.
It may not have looked like it from the vert ramp and the superpark at Home Depot Center on Saturday in X Games 14, but just off the ramps, athletes and X Games officials appeared to be sparring.
Shaun White, Bucky Lasek and Bob Burnquist dropped out of the park competition at the last minute. All three remained in the vert competition later on Saturday, which was won by Pierre-Luc Gagnon of Carlsbad, who had the best three runs of the final round in the jam-like session.
It apparently all stems from earlier this year when X Games officials sat down with some of the top athletes and decided to incorporate vert, a staple at the X Games since the beginning, into the park course. X Games general manager Chris Stiepock said television ratings for the sport have declined and flattened over the past three years.
So when the athletes saw the final design, they apparently rejected the idea, some even threatening to skip Big Air if vert were eliminated, and the competition was back on at Home Depot on a ramp not nearly as long as previous X Games ramps.
It’s an event that essentially launched Tony Hawk from a minor celebrity into one of the most well-known and highest paid athletes with video games and clothing lines and it put skateboarding back to the forefront of the American conscience. It led to Big Air, 900s and Olympian Shaun White, who finished third on Saturday.
Both Gagnon and Lasek said they envisioned a massive superpark course that incorporated vert designs. Lasek said he didn’t want a course filled with flat space.
Stiepock would not disclose the budget to build the superpark course, but he said it was on par with the cost of an X Games vert ramp.
“They have to understand our reality and we have to understand their preferences, and eventually we have to work it out,” Stiepock said.
Stiepock said that with the proliferation of skate parks throughout the world – a boom that started with nearly every Southern California city building a skate park – the X Games are missing a whole set of skaters.
“We’re trying to introduce part of skateboarding to our viewing public that is outside of street skateboard, and which is the largest disciple in the world,” he said.
NASA’s next mission to Mars aims to answer one question: What happened to the air that once made the surface habitable?
That is the latest piece in the scientific exploration of whether Mars could have been, perhaps four billion years ago, a place friendly for life.
The answer may come from a space probe known as Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or Maven for short, which is ready for the launching pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla., and poised to lift off Monday at 1:28 p.m. After a 10-month journey, the spacecraft is to enter orbit around Mars and spend at least a year observing Mars’s atmosphere.
“It’s clear that major questions about the history of Mars center on the history of its climate and atmosphere, and how that’s influenced the surface, the geology and on the possibility for life,” Bruce M. Jakosky, a professor of geological sciences at the University of Colorado who is Maven’s principal investigator, said at a NASA news conference last month.
Planetary scientists believe that young Mars was blanketed with a thick layer of air — heat-trapping carbon dioxide, in particular — that kept it warmer and wetter. Ancient channels on Mars look as if they were carved by flowing water.
Sometime between then and now, the atmosphere went away, and Mars today is an airless, frigid desert with average surface temperatures of minus 64 degrees Fahrenheit, or minus 53 degrees Celsius.
The once-bountiful air molecules must have either gone up, escaping into space, or down, transformed by chemical reactions into rock. Hydrogen, the lightest of gases, can simply float away from gravity’s grasp. Heavier molecules like oxygen and carbon dioxide might have been knocked out by particles and radiation streaming from the sun.
To figure out the puzzle of the missing atmosphere, Maven will carefully measure the wisps that remain.
The spacecraft — which will widen to the length of a school bus after it fans out its solar arrays — will loop Mars in an elliptical, 4.5-hour orbit, climbing 3,860 miles above the planet then swooping down to within 93 miles of the surface. It will also make some particularly deep dips, to within 77.6 miles of the surface.
Maven’s eight instruments will take stock of what is in Mars’s upper atmosphere as well as catalog the solar wind particles bombarding Mars. That will allow the scientists to determine not only the rate at which the atmosphere is disappearing, but also the particulars of how it is disappearing.
“There are a lot of processes that we think may have played a role, and we don’t have the measurements to understand them today,” Dr. Jakosky said.
James F. Kasting, a professor of geosciences at Pennsylvania State University who is not involved with the Maven mission, said it would be useful to know how quickly Mars was losing its atmosphere today. He was less sure about what it would say about Mars in the ancient past. “Conditions would have been, I think, very different,” he said.
The young sun, for example, was about 30 percent dimmer, but emitted more ultraviolet light.
But Dr. Kasting also said the data could help in understanding whether distant Earth-size planets that are being discovered around other stars would be likely to have significant atmospheres. “That’s interesting for us who are interested in exo-Earths,” he said.
Forecasts on Friday gave a 60 percent chance of favorable weather during Monday’s two-hour launch window, with concerns that a cold weather front would generate clouds, strong winds and thunderstorms. If weather or technical problems keep Maven on the ground, NASA will still have three more weeks to launch it before Mars and Earth move too far out of alignment.
The $671 million mission was almost derailed by the federal government shutdown last month, with work halted when almost all of NASA’s employees and contractors were furloughed. Within a couple of days, however, top NASA officials decided that Maven’s launching fell into the category of “essential,” not because of an urgent need to study the Martian atmosphere but because Maven is also to serve as a communication relay for the Curiosity and Opportunity rovers on Mars.
NASA has two other orbiters circling Mars — Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter — but both are aging. If Maven does not launch this year, the next chance would be in 2016, and a less favorable configuration of orbits means that it would have to expend more fuel to get to Mars, diminishing its worth as a communication relay. At present, NASA does not have any plans for orbiters to follow Maven.
But Maven is back on schedule, Dr. Jakosky said, and once it completes its primary work, it should be able to stay in orbit for almost another decade. “We’re hoping for a very long mission,” he said.
There’s no difference between the base-level $350 Apple Watch Sport and the $10,000 18-karat gold Apple Watch Edition in terms of what they can actually do. But there’s certainly a difference in the what they’re made of, and you may have noticed a difference in price.
Just a slight $9,650 difference in price.
It’s reasonable to assume that $10,000 qualifies as “a lot of money” to most people—maybe not for a car or a house, but certainly for a watch that needs charging every night. (There are, of course, exceptions.) But in the world of high-end goods, $10 grand is not at all unreasonable for a 42mm 18-karat gold watch with sapphire crystal glass. Within that context, it’s actually sort of a bargain. However, there’s a clash between what the Apple Watch is and does, and the fundamental reasons why people spend thousands—or tens of thousands—of dollars on a timepiece.
Let’s talk about gold. 24-karat gold is pure gold, and it costs around $1,200 per ounce. It’s also too soft to use for watches and jewelry. 18-karat gold, which is more common but still costly, is usually 75 percent pure gold mixed with other metals. There are reports that Apple’s special blend of 18-karat gold is different, using ceramic instead of other metals to make the watch harder and less scratch-prone, thanks to an innovative, recently patented manufacturing approach. It may contain less gold by volume than normal 18-karat gold, due to the fact that the ceramic has a lower density than metal.
Depending on what the gold is mixed with, 18-karat gold has a different color. Yellow gold is usually 75 percent gold mixed with some combination of silver, copper, and zinc. Rose gold is usually 75 percent gold mixed with a greater amount of copper and a smaller amount of silver. With the Apple Watch, the rose and yellow coloration likely comes from ceramic rather than alloys. In any event, while the Apple Watch comes in yellow- and rose-gold varieties, both should contain the same amount of gold.
Also important to note: These are true-blue gold watches, not gold-plated watches. A gold-plated watch just has a spray tan; the plated stuff will chip away and may turn your wrist green. Solid gold doesn’t do that. Not all of the Apple Watch Edition’s components are made of gold, of course, but everything that looks gold is the real deal.
Compared to similarly sized (38mm and 42mm diameter) high-end watches made with 18-karat gold, the sky-high price of the Apple Watch Edition is right in line. But while the Apple Watch certainly does more than your average high-end Swiss watch, it’s also a different animal. Those other watches are hand-crafted timepieces from specialists in Switzerland that know a thing or two about tourbillons and rattrapantes. They have hand-crafted complications that jack up the price.
The difference between an 18-karat gold watch that costs a few thousand dollars and one that costs tens of thousands of dollars comes down to the movements inside them: The really expensive ones have handmade movements, while “cheaper” ones have those parts outsourced. So when you pay $20,000 for a watch, much of that is for rarity and skilled labor, not just the materials.
Here’s how the Apple Watch pricing compares to some of those other luxury wristwatches, as well as an 18-karat Tissot watch with an outsourced ETA movement and a gold-plated cheapie.
Within this context of this list, the Apple Watch Edition has a fair price, but it’s still a black sheep. It has big things going for it: It’ll be more versatile than the Piagets and the Vacheron Constantins of the world, thanks to an app ecosystem, a proximity-based payment system, and fitness-tracking features. There’s also the small fact that it’s built to interact with an iPhone, which happens to be the best-selling smartphone in the world.
So in the dream scenario for Apple, the Watch will be the iPhone of its category: A device that transforms the industry it enters, becoming the blueprint for How To Do It. But even in the best-case scenario, don’t expect an iPhone-like cash cow. People buy new iPhones every couple of years, in sync with their carrier contracts. The Apple Watch may be more like an iPad in terms of sales cycles, and it’s less of a necessity than a smartphone. If people buy one, especially the $10,000-and-up Edition, they’ll want to use it for more than a couple years.
And of course, it’s a digital watch. That may be enough to keep serious watch collectors away, despite its extra functionality. It’s an interesting juxtaposition within the watch world: Apple is creating a high-end, mass-market wrist-computer for an audience that values tradition, mechanics, and individuality.
Perhaps most daunting for those considering spending thousands on an 18k Apple Watch? It will certainly be an investment, but not in the same way an artisanal 18-karat gold Swiss watch might be. Technology is ever-evolving and fickle, and the Apple Watch may quickly become obsolete. It needs to be charged every day, and in a few years its battery will stop working altogether. This is not an heirloom.
There’s still a market in the watch-collector crowd—it just means that collectors will buy it for reasons other than being a watch. And they very well might, because they’ll experience less sticker shock than your average person. Imagine this scenario. You have a ton of money, you like high-end watches, and you own an iPhone. The Apple Watch seems interesting to you, either as a collector piece or a new way to interact with your iPhone. So which one do you get? You certainly wouldn’t befoul your wrist with one of the lower-end models. You have the cash, you go for gold.
It’s important also not to forget that Apple has made a big marketing push in China, which is the world’s biggest smartphone market, the world’s second-largest collection of millionaires, a world power that’s expected to double its number of super-wealthy households by 2018, and has an appreciation for gold as status symbol.
Apple is focusing marketing efforts in China, and it’s already experiencing sales momentum there with its other products. The iPhone is gaining serious ground on Xiaomi, China’s market-leading smartphone manufacturer, especially in urban areas. At today’s Apple event, the show started with a montage of shoppers in China’s newest Apple Store. And after it was announced, one of the Apple Watch’s first public appearances was on the cover of Vogue China last November. Of course, the one on the cover was that pricey rose-gold version.
As for the anodized aluminum Apple Watch Sport and stainless-steel Apple Watch? Those are meant to steamroll the Moto 360s, Samsung Gears, and LG G Watches of the world. The Apple Watch Edition may be essentially the same thing, but it’s hoping to conquer an entirely different market.
CHICAGO — Viktor Stalberg scored two goals, Corey Crawford made 37 saves and the Chicago Blackhawks beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 4-1 on Monday night.
Marian Hossa had a goal and an assist, and Patrick Sharp also scored for the Blackhawks, who are 9-1-1 in their last 11 games and lead the NHL with 50 points.