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City Councilman Wilson Goode Jr. doesn't sugarcoat the message. Just ask Mayor Street.
After Council President Anna Verna announced during the weekly Council session yesterday that at the mayor's request, she was postponing the school district budget hearing on Monday, Goode was irritated.
On the agenda for Monday - aside from school district officials defending their proposed budget and two routine school-tax bills - was Goode's proposal to shift about $19 million in real-estate taxes per year from the city treasury to the fiscally beleaguered school system.
If Street opposes his bill, "so what," said Goode. "He's pretty much a lameduck on this issue."
Moments later in an interview with the media, Goode said Street doesn't want to shift city tax dollars to the school district, adding, "I think that's selfish, it's egotistical. It shows he doesn't really care about the education of our children."
On his way to open three new curfew centers as part of his anti-violence campaign, Street said, "I just don't understand why he's so upset" about the postponed hearing.
The current school budget proposal, Street said, is drowning in red ink and a lack of public support. Having a Council hearing on a bogus budget makes no sense, he said.
Gov. Rendell and his key budget officials are working with city officials to review School Reform Commission finances in order to get a more accurate fiscal picture, Street said. That process should be completed in less than 30 days.
"I've also been very, very clear that I'm for the school district, and I know the city is going to have to put up additional resources," Street said. "But I don't know why we would want to go through a charade when the governor himself has said we don't understand the finances."
When the review is complete, Street said that either he or his education secretary, Jacqueline Barnett, will testify before Council. The district's budget hearing has been rescheduled for May 23.
As for the shot Goode took at him, Street, who has created a network of after-school programs for thousands of city children, said, "I care a lot about children and I think my record speaks for itself."
In other business, Councilman Darrell Clarke introduced a half-dozen gun-control bills that mirror other bills that have been stalled on Council's calendar since 2004.
But the new legislation makes no mention of a requirement that the Legislature change Pennsylvania law so that the city can legislate in an area exclusively controlled by the commonwealth.
Will third-party developers support Nintendo’s Switch?
No Mass Effect Andromeda, but Beyond Good & Evil 2 could be an exclusive.
Enlarge / The highly anticipated Beyond Good & Evil 2 (shown here in concept art) could be a Nintendo Switch timed exclusive, according to a recent report.
As we get closer and closer to Nintendo's January 12 announcement of additional Nintendo Switch details—and an expected March launch for the hybrid portable/home console—we're starting to get more information on what kind of support the system might get from third-party developers.
The most interesting tidbit comes from Laura Kate Dale, who's come through with a number of reliable Nintendo Switch leaks in the recent past. Dale's recent tweets suggest Ubisoft's long-anticipated Beyond Good & Evil 2 will reportedly be "exclusive to Switch for 12 months," and the game will come to Xbox One, PS4, and...
Ubisoft has been one of the biggest proponents of the Switch, with the company's EMEA director, Alain Corre, telling Japanese magazine Famitsu in November that Ubisoft has "big expectations" and was planning "a wide variety of software" for the system. Ubisoft has been a big backer of recent Nintendo systems, too; the ...
That said, a year-long exclusivity deal for a game as anticipated as Beyond Good & Evil 2 would be a major coup for Nintendo's new system. The innovative action adventure Beyond Good & Evil became a cult classic in the years since its low-key 2003 release, and an official sequel has been at a low vaporware boil since 2...
Unfortunately for Nintendo, not every developer is as interested in bringing big-name titles to the Switch. In an interview with Oceanic gaming site Stevivor, Bioware's Michael Gamble said he had no plans to bring the upcoming Mass Effect Andromeda to the Switch at this point. However, Gamble did leave some wiggle room...
The level of high-quality support that the Switch receives from third-party developers could be a make-or-break question for the console. Will the upcoming Nintendo Switch be a Wii U-style abandoned island, with no one but Nintendo to make compatible games? Will it be a Wii-style repository of third-party shovelware th...
Nintendo, for its part, highlighted third-party titles like NBA2K and Skyrim in its Nintendo Switch announcement trailer in October. The company also posted a massive list of third-party partners for the system alongside that announcement. But many of those partners are actually middleware technology makers, and simila...
Several friends who have very good books out are making the publishing rounds this week, and so my schedule has become a sort of miniature book festival—and you are welcome to join in at your computer later this afternoon.
Kati Marton’s new book is “Enemies of the People,” a spare, unsentimental, and deeply affecting memoir about her parents’ complicated experiences in Communist Hungary. Jonathan Yardley reviewed it over the weekend. Kati is coming by the New America Foundation to talk and be interviewed by moi at 5 P.M., and the event w...
My great friend David Finkel’s new book, based on his experiences living with an American battalion dispatched to Baghdad during the surge, is called “The Good Soldiers.” Don’t take my word about this extraordinary document; read Michiko Kakutani’s review in the Times or a second Times review that appeared in the Sunda...
One appealing feature of both of these books, in comparison to my own dense doorstoppers, is that they are of moderate length and very difficult to put down.
In 2009, Obama signed an executive order requiring the administrative branch to embrace the broadest, most liberal approach to the Freedom of Information Act, reversing John Ashcroft's 2001 memo that instructed government agencies to turn over as little information to the public as possible.
John Ashcroft, then Attorney General, issued a directive to government agencies on October 12, 2001 that gutted FOIA. Under the new directive, agencies were advised to deny all FOIA requests, unless there was a "sound legal basis" for complying with them. Prior to this, agencies had defaulted to honoring *all* FOIA req...
So it was a grand and exciting day for activists of all description when, on January 21, 2009, Barack Obama issued a memo *reversing* this policy, directing government agencies to "adopt a presumption in favor of disclosure" -- that is, to change the government's default position on revealing what it doing from "None o...
Make: magazine was founded on the principle that, "if you can't open it, you don't own it," the stirring opening lines to Mr Jalopy's infamous Maker's Manifesto. This is even more true of governments than it is of gadgets. Governments do their business on our behalf, with our money, in our country. There's never a good...
And President Obama went even further than this: the January 21 memo tells agencies that they "should not wait for specific requests from the public. All agencies should use modern technology to inform citizens about what is known and done by their Government. Disclosure should be timely." What's this mean for you? Wel...
Obama's promises turned out to be mostly hollow: after promising "the most transparent administration" in US history, he ended up presiding over one of the most secretive ones, featuring an historic war on whistleblowers that invoked the Espionage Act more than all the US presidential administrations in history, combin...
2. federal agencies should use evidence when they make public policy.
The bill -- which was exemplary in its original form -- was somewhat neutered before it passed, carving out government agencies save those defined by the CFO Act and "data that does not concern monetary policy" (meaning that Treasury is exempted from this presumption of openness).
Despite the carve-outs, this is still a big deal -- and it's hard to say what makes it a bigger deal: the open data or the mandate for evidence-based policy. The administration's expert agencies, like the FCC, are already required to work on the basis of evidence (which is why it's such a big deal that Ajit Pai ignored...
And of course, open data and evidence-based policy go hand-in-hand: open data gives you the factual basis to evaluate the policies.
Congratulations to everyone who has pushed for this outcome for years.
The Fyre Festival was one of those disasters that the world collectively couldn't keep its eyes off of, with the internet gobbling up every detail and horror story that came out of the debacle with feverish abandon.
Well hopefully soon there's going to be some more Fyre Festival content to gobble up — Hulu is in the early stages of developing a docuseries about the self-described luxury music festival with the help of Billboard, Mic, and The Cinemart. It's expected to come out in 2019, The Hollywood Reporter reported Monday.
People paid exorbitant amounts of money (read: $12,000 for the weekend) to attend the Fyre Festival, which was organized by Fyre Media owner Billy McFarland and the rapper Ja Rule. It was supposed to be a luxurious weekend filled with music from bands like Blink-182 and top-tier food, all on an island in the Bahamas.
Except almost everything outside of the fact that it took place on an island turned out to be false. The food was abysmal, Blink-182 pulled out thanks to lack of payment, and the lodgings and amenities might as well have been non-existent.
It was so bad that Fyre Media was investigated by the FBI, and the founder, McFarland, was arrested and charged with wire fraud.
The Hulu docuseries will attempt to get to bottom of exactly where and how everything went wrong with the Fyre Festival with in-depth interviews. According to THR, everyone from local Bahamians, attendees, and employees will be interviewed along with never-before-seen footage and insider information.
Whenever I can, I want to minimize distractions, get right to the task at hand and arrive at the end of the day feeling like I did what I set out to do – maybe even more. If an efficiency expert can help me bring that about, I’ll use their advice with thanks.
But, as much as I strive to be more productive every day, I’ve realized that the #1 productivity killer in my life is something that I’ll never entirely overcome.
The #1 productivity killer is the same for all of us. It’s life.
Because the #1 productivity killer is the same for all of us.
No matter what we do, how well we plan, how much we try to anticipate possible dilemmas, life will always interrupt, throw us for a loop and kill the expected productivity of any given day.
When it comes to life, there are no easy answers.
None of us will ever overcome this productivity killer entirely. And we need to be okay with that.
Sometimes productivity wins, sometimes you need to let your life win, even if productivity loses.
Kids get sick, or they just need a parent to spend time with them.
Spouses need to waste time together, not to be productive, not to work on the relationship, just to be together.
Our relationship with Jesus deserves consistent, productive calendar time for church, prayer and Bible reading – but it also needs us to stop or slow down occasionally, let productivity take a back seat and let the spirit lead. Slowly, ponderously, wastefully and unproductively.
Yes, it can be argued that everything I’ve just described is actually very productive time. And I agree that it is.
It’s just that, when we’re trying to squeeze more out of every minute of every day, none of that feels productive at the time. It feels like an interruption, a problem, and a waste.
We need to be okay with the interruptions, problems and wastefulness of life causing constant intrusions on our well-planned schedules.
In our hurry to be more productive, we worry that the urgency of life will ruin our productivity. For a lot of us, the opposite is true.
We need to be careful not to let the urgency of productivity ruin our life.
, according to the study, published today (July 12) in the journal Chaos.
But the cells don't quite operate on a perfect 24-hour schedule, Girvan told Live Science. Rather, their activity follows a cycle that lasts slightly longer than that, about 24.5 hours, she said. That means that it's easier for a person to extend the length of a day — for example, by flying west across time zones — tha...
The researchers incorporated the activity of these cells into their model of jet lag, Girvan said. They found that jet-lag recovery doesn't quite fit into a neat pattern of the widely touted advice to give yourself "one day of recovery for every time zone crossed."
Rather, the amount of time it takes for a person to adjust to a new time zone depends on not only how many time zones are crossed but also the direction in which the person travels.
The researchers found that for westward travel, a person who crossed three time zones would fully adjust in a little less than four days. For six time zones, recovery would take about six days. For nine time zones, the recovery would take just less than eight days.
However, when a person travels eastward, the recovery times don't match up as neatly. When a person crosses three time zones going east, it takes a little more than four days to recover. For six time zones, the recovery time jumps to more than eight days. And for nine time zones, the recovery period is more than 12 day...
And when a person crosses 12 time zones, going either east or west, the recovery period is the same: around nine days.
Girvan noted that not everyone has a circadian rhythm of exactly 24.5 hours. Rather, it varies from person to person, she said.
The other factor to consider is external cues such as sunlight, Girvan added. How a person reacts to these external cues can also impact how quickly he or she will adjust to a new time zone, she said.
The researchers hope that their new model can be used in the future to figure out the best ways to beat jet lag, they wrote in their study.
But planning ahead can help you adjust. For example, if you will be traveling six time zones eastward, start by setting your clock ahead an hour or two several days before you leave, Girvan said. And when you arrive in a new time zone, make sure that the external cues you are exposed to match the new time zone, she sai...
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Meghan Trainor said 'I do' to Daryl Sabara on Saturday.
The All About That Bass singer and Spy Kids actor tied the knot in an intimate ceremony at their LA homes, surrounded by their 100 closest family and friends.
'It's the beginning of an awesome, whole new life. I got way more than I ever wished for,' Meghan told People.
'I'm the luckiest guy in the world,' Sabara said.
The couple recited hand written vows for the ceremony.
Making things even more special, the wedding took place on Meghan's 25th birthday.
The bride wore a Berta gown, Badgley Mischka heels and Norman Silverman jewels.
Afterwards she switched into a lace suit by Rita Vinieris paired with Aldo sneakers perfectly primed for some dancing.
Guests indulged in select comfort foods and other of the stars' favorite dishes.
The couple first met at a house party in 2014 and then in 2016 reconnected via pal and actress Chloe Grace Moretz.
Sabara proposed to Trainor in December 2017.
Meghan donned Berta gown and the dress' designer, Berta Balilti, told People, that it featured a handmaid veil and a cape covered with hundreds of hand-sewn appliqués, crystals and beads.
'Meghan loved the Berta look and style to begin with, and she had her eyes set on a specific new design from the brand's new Athens collection,' said the Israeli designer.
The couple filed for divorce earlier this week, citing "irreconcilable differences"
Days after filing for divorce from "Pirates of the Caribbean" star Johnny Depp, actress Amber Heard appeared at L.A. County Superior Court to press domestic violence charges against Depp, according to a TMZ report.
"She claims Depp smashed his iPhone on her face," the report says. "Amber claims during the alleged attack, Johnny shattered various objects in the apartment. She says she was on the phone with a friend during the fight, and when Johnny grabbed her phone she screamed to her friend, 'Call the cops!' The friend called 91...
"As for why Depp and his people are calling BS," the report added, "first she never filed a police report, and she posted Instagram pics after the alleged beating and never showed any injury."
The Court told The Hollywood Reporter, "the two were in court, appearing before a judge who grants restraining orders, but paperwork had yet to come through detailing the hearing."
Heard and Depp filed for divorce after 15 months, citing "irreconcilable differences."
Read the full report over at Page Six.
Update: A Superior Court judge in Los Angeles has granted Heard "a temporary restraining order until another hearing is held," according to Variety.
Today I am going to tell you a story. A story about a young and cheerful girl, a story about myself!
Life could not have been more beautiful. Well, it could have been but then who is not a little greedy.
I had returned from US after an onsite stint of one and a half years. I was absolutely elated to be with my family and friends and to take those yummy golgappas in my mouth from one of my favourite roadside vendor. But just when you think life is going exactly as you had planned, God throws in a roadblock and smiles at...