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Ethiopian Jews’ multiple names reflect the richness, wisdom and beauty of their culture — and every name tells a story. In the film, young Ethiopian Israelis share their journeys toward their names: stories of love and connection, survival and loss, anger and pride. The characters’ original names – changed without thei...
Final preps for the final presidential debate are underway today. President Obama and Mitt Romney will meet for the last time to battle foreign policy issues in Boca Raton, Florida.
With Election Day just 15 days away, polls numbers show that the race is extremely tight. CNN Senior Political Analyst and Editorial Director of the National Journal Ron Brownstein reads the poll 'tea leaves on “Early Start” this morning.
While the debate is exclusively focused on foreign policy, Brownstein says the candidates will likely tie in this debate in their broader campaign narrative and their appeal to women voters.
Also, Brownstein says, President Obama “is only at 36% among white voters in the Wall Street Journal poll,” while Brownstein believes his formula for success in this election is to win 40% of white voters.
Ryan Irwin has earned his spot on the competitive team even though he’s new to the game. However, Ryan hasn’t always been able to play. He finally got cleared last year after battling leukemia since 2011.
A refugee robotics team competing in the FIRST Robotics World Championship got a huge surprise when Boeing announced they will be their official sponsor. Boeing also donated $5,000 to help the team build a robot.
At the FIRST Robotics World Championship, engineers of the future are competing among one another.
An act of kindness between two baseball teams is teaching kids life lessons on and off the field.
This year, Good Friday coincides with Passover, which commemorates the Isaelites' liberation from centuries of slavery in Egypt.
Joy had a virus that in its most severe form can cause fatal bleeding in less than five days after it is first discovered.
Joy, a nearly 2-year-old Asian elephant calf at the Houston Zoo, recently completed successful treatment for a deadly virus.
The European Union's competition chief has said negotiations with Google to settle an antitrust probe have "advanced," but talks are not yet concluded.
Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said he could could not anticipate the outcome of ongoing talks and added that they could not go on forever. However he also said that there was no precise deadline for their conclusion.
Google is accused of using its search service to direct users to its own services and reducing the visibility of competing websites and services. In November 2011 the Commission extended the case into a full investigation to determine whether Google search results are unfair to rivals.
French search engine eJustice.fr and the U.K.-based Foundem first lodged complaints in 2010. But 14 other companies have since followed their lead, including Microsoft-owned German price comparison site Ciao, Dutch football website Elfvoetbal, French companies Dealdujour.pro and Twenga, British online mapping company S...
According to reports, Google has proposed a settlement of the antitrust case that involves labeling its own services in search results.
Earlier this month U.S. Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz met with Almunia to discuss the search giant, which is also under investigation by the U.S. agency.
Google controls more than 90 percent of the search market in several European countries.
The development company headed by former Greenpeace directors Jonathan Smales and Michael Manolson submitted an outline planning application to Wycombe District Council this week for up to 1,000 homes in the Gomm Valley.
The environmentalists claim the proposals drawn up for the site have the potential to deliver “the greenest and most elegant new place in England”.
Mr Smales told the Bucks Free Press on Wednesday the development is likely to cost around £300 million if it is built as set out in the submission.
Geographically the valley stretches from the Peregrine Business Park at the top of Gomm Road off the A40 London Road to the fields and paddocks at Ashwells on the northernmost tip.
The Gomm Valley is the last undeveloped chalk valley in Wycombe. It includes areas of Special Scientific Interest.
Until 2014 it was classed in planning terms as a reserved greenfield site, only to be drawn on when all other options had been exhausted.
That came about when five sites on the council’s reserved list had to be released to enable the district to build sufficient homes to match the government’s ever mounting target to address the housing need in the UK.
The outline application follows a lengthy consultation process.
It culminated in an exhibition at Tylers Green Middle School last November when the public were invited to meet the multi-disciplinary professional team involved in the project and comment on the plans drawn up following a 12 month design exercise based on the local development brief for the site.
The submission accompanying the outline application states: “We were urged to create a place that is sufficiently bespoke and distinctive, elegant and accessible, adaptable and resilient to be cherished and stand the test of time.
“It should deliver net environmental gain; and it should enable the growth of a community that is committed to supporting all its members in living well and sustainably, integrating with neighbouring communities the better to take advantage of and complement the many excellent community groups and initiatives already i...
“This plan provides for up to 1,000 new and high-quality dwellings in the Gomm Valley on a relatively modest building footprint, with 20 hectares of newly regenerated, species-rich chalk grassland, more than 4,000 new trees and about 1 kilometre of additional hedgerows.
Elaborating on the company’s commitment to build a development that will change lifestyles in a way that will benefit the environment as well as those who live there, the directors said: “A wide range and choice in housing is proposed: a place to start out in life and a place to stay.
“Every effort has been made to design for a strong identity across the plan to establish a distinctive but refined sense of place, with buildings set into the landscape - contemporary yet respectful of the best of the local vernacular designs and materials - and enveloped by an abundant and productive greenery of trees...
“The streets have been designed for gentle and safe yet efficient movement and to not jar with the sensitivity of the overall plan in its valley setting.
“The principal connection – Ashwells Lane – curves sinuously along the slopes of the western side of the valley. This Lane is designed at a 1:20 gradient which, despite the very hilly situation, offers the option of walking and cycling.
“The provision of local cafes, shops, a school and nursery, and community services and facilities in Little Haldens will give new residents and those from homes in adjacent communities a way of meeting everyday needs in a beautiful and neighbourly public square without having to travel long distances or jump in the car...
CTIA Conference--San Francisco--A spate of cool connectivity products have come out with prepaid, no-contract plans, and now Virgin Mobile is one of the first to offer an Android phone with such a plan.
Virgin Mobile, Sprint's prepaid service subsidiary, began selling the Intercept at Target stores Monday and says it will begin selling it through “other major retailers” throughout October, and at its website toward mid-October.
That second part is pretty much true.
Virgin Mobile will sell the Samsung Intercept itself for $250, along with three prepaid all-in-one (voice, texting, data) plans at $25 per month, $40 per month and $60 per month. All plans include unlimited texting and data. The $25 plan you get 300 voice minutes; the $40 plan gives you 1200 minutes and the $60 plan gi...
But does the Intercept really deliver on the “smartphone luxuries”?
Let's just say it gets the basics right. I got a chance to do some hands-on here at the CTIA show in San Francisco, and came away liking the product Virgin Mobile is offering with such reasonably priced service plans.
The Intercept is nothing fancy. It does not have the video quality and connection speeds of Sprint’s EVO 4G, for example. The video on the Intercept’s 3.2-inch screen does not have the sharp, defined look of video you see on the EVO. Aside from the pixilation caused by less-than-optimal connection speeds, the video had...
The phone also does not support Flash, because it runs on Android 2.1, and a Virgin Mobile representative said no plans are in place to migrate the phone to the Flash-supporting Android 2.2.
The modem in the Intercept is EV-DO Rev 0, not the faster EV-DO Rev A, so connection speeds are not as fast as the Sprint 3G network is capable of delivering. After several speed tests, 300 kilobits per second (kbps) was the fastest download speed I could achieve on the phone. The good news is that the phone contains a...
One nice surprise was the responsiveness of the touch screen. Unlike some other lower-end Android devices I’ve tested, the Intercept was sensitive to my touch. I did not have to press down hard several times to get a button or an icon to respond. Also, the onscreen keyboard, while not quite as sensitive as the one on t...
The keyboard was also a nice surprise. Firstly, the slide out mechanism of the keyboard seemed well-built, and not likely to loosen and become unstable without some serious abuse. The keys on the keyboard are square in shape with a slight bevel on the top. The keys are approximately 1.5 millimeter apart, but I did not ...
Finally, the experience of searching for and buying apps at the app store was easy. I logged in using my Gmail account credentials, and immediately began downloading apps. My only complaint was that due to the rather slow 3G connection, the apps took too long to download, and it was sometimes hard to know if a download...
The Intercept comes with a group of common apps preloaded, including YouTube, Facebook, Google Talk, and the Virgin Mobile Live streaming music app. You’ll also find a handful of Sprint’s sports-related apps, like Sprint NASCAR and Sprint Football Live. For me, these apps do nothing but clutter up my apps screen; other...
The Intercept is one of growing number of Android smartphones that can be produced cheaply enough to be sold at a reasonable price and contract-free. This is a result of an extremely vibrant ecosystem of Android app makers, handset makers and chip makers, all selling enough product to push the price of the end product-...
But keeping that cost down also requires using parts and software that are far from cutting edge. The Intercept might be perfect for users who want a real Android smartphone complete with the ability to download and run apps, but don’t need the bleeding edge in smartphone technology.
I suspect that a large number of current feature phone users might find phones like the prepaid Intercept the perfect way to move into a smartphone after their current contracts expire.
Nothing good can come of bringing an iPhone to a memorial service.
That’s the consensus of etiquette experts who said Wednesday that President Barack Obama’s selfie at Nelson Mandela’s memorial was no time for a picture-perfect moment, but differed over whether it amounted to a serious protocol violation.
“I don’t think this was the best time and place, but I also don’t think it was a horrible error in judgment,” Lizzie Post, co-author of Emily Post’s Etiquette, told POLITICO.
During Tuesday’s service in Johannesburg, a wire service photo of Obama posing alongside British Prime Minister David Cameron and Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt for a selfie photo quickly circulated and touched off criticism from some quarters on the right that it was inappropriate behavior for a presiden...
Post noted that the atmosphere at the huge outdoor funeral service, attended by 90,000 people, was festive at times with singing and dancing.
“I don’t necessarily think it excuses the selfie, but at the same time, I think that it’s much less of an egregious error on his part or something to be truly offended about,” she said, adding that it would have been better to take the selfie at another location, rather than while each leader was seated during the serv...
Other etiquette mavens were less forgiving.
Crystal L. Bailey, director of The Etiquette Institute of Washington, said cellphones and other devices are increasingly being used at funerals and other events - and it’s not a trend she embraces.
“To take us out of that (memorial service) moment with technology I think is unfortunate,” Bailey told POLITICO.
Another expert said the photograph of a smiling Obama taking the selfie could be misleading, and added that’s a good reason not to get into that type of situation.
Yes, after our 22-day cross-country road trip, my beagle and I are back in familiar territory. But there's a sense of motion, a sense of being on the road, that I haven't quite shaken yet, almost a week after returning home to Westport. A sense that I'm supposed to be getting somewhere.
When I walk into a building -- any building -- I fight the urge to say, "Do you offer a Triple-A discount?" I'm also still programmed to ask for a room on the ground floor (easier to get up and walk the dog at 5 a.m., and preferably one with a fridge (for his food and his array of meds).
If he's not at my side, I get a momentary panic attack -- forgetting that he's now safe in his house, and since there are other people besides me to take care of him, that he and I no longer need to be attached at the hip. I find it incredibly luxurious that I can choose my clothes for the day from my closet, and not f...
Yes, Ricky and I certainly covered a lot of ground together -- 7,643 miles, to be precise. We drove through 23 states -- seven of them new for me, 20 of them new for my less-experienced beagle. We saw Honky Tonk Row in Nashville, Route 66 in Oklahoma, and Old Town in Albuquerque. We saw the Grand Canyon (OK, Ricky slep...
We stopped to see my best buddy in Alexandria, Va., and had a Teaneck (NJ) High School reunion dinner in Beverly Hills. We visited good friends in Laguna Beach, San Francisco, and Denver -- as well as one of my son Robby's chums at Grinnell College in Iowa. And, of course, Robby got to spend lots of quality time with h...
Along the way, I unintentionally discovered a fantastic weight loss regimen -- Beagle Man's spectacular new LA/XC Diet¢. My top three priorities on the trip were to keep moving, to look out for Ricky's well-being and to hit a major U.S. attraction every now and then. What often got sacrificed were sleep (averaged four...
And what of the epic battle (I touched on this in my previous column, "Even the best laid plans hit some bumps in the road") my little beagle waged in his never-ending quest to reach his food supply in the back of the car? Well, certainly things improved after it finally occurred to me to use Ricky's crate to actually ...
Would I want to set out on another major road trip with Ricky? Not today. And not tomorrow. But somewhere down the line?
In addition to "The Home Team," which appears every other Friday, you can also keep up with Hank's adventures with his dog, Ricky, on his blog, "Beagle Man," on the Westport News website, at: http://blog.ctnews.com/beagleman.
Suffolk County lawmakers banned the sale of powdered caffeine—a product sold by online vitamin supplement companies and in some Long Island stores—to minors following recent reports of overdoses nationwide.
All eighteen members of the Democratic-controlled county legislature unanimously approved the resolution following little debate at their meeting Tuesday in Riverhead. The county health department backed the measure, which now goes to the county executive, who is anticipated to sign the bill into law.
A federal ban on the product has been proposed in Congress as well. The local measure comes after the Food and Drug Administration issued an advisory this summer warning the public to avoid the product, which it described as potentially lethal.
The agency said in July that it knew of at least one teenager who died using the product.
USA Today reports that poison control officials in states across the country have also been warning the public about the hazards, including users who suffered kidney failure.
The bill would become law upon filing the New York State Office of the Secretary of State. Violators would be subject to a $500 fine for the first offense, a $1,000 fine for each subsequent violation and civil penalties. It would be enforced by the health department.
“It’s largely sold online, but there are retail shops that do sell this,” Gregory said. The legislation was billed as the first of its kind to pass nationwide.
GARY — Two Northwest Indiana men drowned Saturday in Lake Michigan while trying to save another beachgoer near Wells Street Beach in the city’s Miller section.
Three other people were pulled from the water and rescued Saturday during the incident, which occurred during Gary’s Air Show about two miles east of the event site. One victim was from Hobart, the other from Griffith, according to Lake County Coroner Merrilee Frey.
The call came in about 2:30 p.m., said Mark Jones, chief of operations for the Gary Fire Department. Neither Gary Air Show event organizers, nor fire officials, could confirm whether the drowning victims were at Wells Street Beach on Saturday to watch the city’s air show.
A woman was also transported to the hospital, but survived, after attempting to save a child, Frey said. The child was unharmed, she said.
Gary spokeswoman LaLosa Burns said announcers at the Air Show repeatedly warned people not to swim in Lake Michigan waters due to dangerous rip currents.
Burns said there are traditionally private events held in the area of the Air Show each year, but said she didn’t know if the individuals who drowned were at Wells Street Beach to watch the event.
The National Weather Service issued a beach hazard warning Friday, urging people to stay out of the water due to hazardous weather conditions. The Great Lakes Surf Rescue Project forecast high winds could produce dangerous currents and waves as high as 6 feet.
In a news release issued Friday, the GLSRP stated surf conditions forecast for Saturday "are eerily similar to the 2012 Gary Air Show surf forecast when fifteen year old Cory McFry drowned."
McFry was playing in the waters of Lake Michigan with friends when he was swept from a sandbar into water over his head.
* Editor's note: This story was updated from a previous version.
Correction: Because of information provided by the Lake County coroner's office, a story Sunday incorrectly identified a drowning victim. David Halford, 37, of Hobart, drowned after going under the water at Wells Street Beach in Gary, according to a corrected a coroner's release issued Sunday.
MICHIGAN CITY — An Illinois man drowned Monday, a day after a 15-year-old boy was rescued.
Kerry Warkia and Kiel McNaughton, the producers behind 2017's eight-part portmanteau film Waru, deliver a similarly conceived follow-up comprised of eight ten-minute shorts filmed and set in seven Pacific Island countries: Fiji, Tonga, Solomon Islands, Kuki Airani (Cook Islands), Samoa, Niue and Aotearoa (twice).
Each segment was written and directed by a different female Pacific Island film-maker, and each presents a different stage in the life of a character after whom the film is named, a word that means "water" in many Pacific languages.
In the ethereal Solomon Island-set segment (written and directed by Matasila Freshwater), a 16-year-old Vai (Betsy Luitolo) argues with her mum while fishing, in the electric Cook Islands section (written and directed by Miria George), a 30-something Vai (Evotia-Rose Araiti) protests overfishing, for the subdued yet vi...
It's not literally the same character in each short (the Vais all reflect the ethnicity of the Pacific Island on which their segment takes place, and speak that language), but a figurative life story is painted, and beautifully so.
New Zealand looms large in almost all of the stories, and the film benefits from exploring the complexity of our country's relationship to the Pacific Islands.
Although it may lack the intense urgency of Waru, Vai carries an equally strong emotional resonance, and functions as a similarly effective argument for extending cinema's narrative scope beyond the typically narrow range it has long inhabited. The rich storytelling veins being tapped into here suggest a universe of po...
And just in case it has to be mentioned: The Islands all look absolutely stunning.
A compelling collection of authentic narratives from female Pasifika film-makers tell a figurative life story.
Even calling an ambulance is difficult, as there is no network in the village.
VALPOI: In Sattari’s Cotorem panchayat, an hour and a half away from any school, hospital or market, lies the hamlet of Nimnichi Gaal. In this remote village surrounded by forest, there are around 14 houses, and their residents seem to be condemned to a life of seclusion and lack of basic amenities.

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