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Yesterday the Tories decided to plough ahead with their opposition to a third Heathrow runway, with Mr Cameron confirming the party would cancel the scheme if elected.
Entertainment One’s full-year results for 2017-18 show that revenues for the group’s family division rose by 56% to £139m, boosted by the continued success of the Peppa Pig franchise and that of other family animations such as superhero cartoon PJ Masks.
Group profit before tax doubled to £78m, the company said, while pre-tax profits climbed 11% to £144m. The company said it is on track to double the size of the business over the next five years.
Flagship show Peppa Pig continued to drive growth, especially in China, where more than 40m books have been sold since its launch in the country in April 2016. The company now has 43 licensing agreements for the franchise in the territory and two Peppa Pig-themed attractions are due to open in the market in 2018 and 20...
However, total revenues for the FTSE 250 company slipped 4% to £1.05B, down from £1.08B the previous year, as strong growth in family content and its core TV business were countered by a more meagre performance in film.
Movie revenues slipped considerably, decreasing 32% year-on-year to £402.2m, with EBIDTA profit falling by a third to £35.1m. Theatrical, home entertainment, production and sales all slumped, which eOne blamed on having fewer releases and lower-profile product than in the previous year. 2017-18 movies included Molly’s ...
Shares in eOne have fallen 11% so far this year after climbing 41% in 2017. After a strong start to the year, the group said that closures for high street retailer Toys R Us would likely impact its sales in the short term, and ABC’s termination of show Designated Survivor could have a small effect on earnings for 2018-...
An ongoing restructuring saved £10m in the year, the company said. The firm has combined its film, TV, and digital operations and integrated the The Mark Gordon Co. into operations, which the company hopes will save a further £13m-£15m by eOne’s 2020 financial year. eOne’s library was valued at US$1.7B at 31 March 2017...
Does anyone have the right to tell you HOW to be creative? If so, who?
Is creativity something that is learned through classes or clinics, and instructed by someone else? Who really decides what creativity means, as it is a very vauge term. Or is it something that comes from within, that is posessed ones entire life? Are there 'guidelines' so to speak on being creative? Who gets the right...
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Facebook is, of course, the hardest hit company of late. It may have even surpassed Google in the public’s eye as the company that can almost do no good. Thanks to the increased scrutiny and publicity it has been subjected to, a lot of its questionable activities in the past have come back to haunt it. Although the pre...
It isn’t just about user privacy either. ZTE might be thanking its lucky stars it got off easy. Huawei is now facing, among other things, potential sanctions for breaking trade embargoes, accusations of spying, fraud, and industrial espionage. Qualcomm, who makes the world’s most-used mobile processors, stands accused ...
Apple, often cited as the champion of privacy, has eroded consumer trust in a different way. The way it has handled hardware problems and software bugs show that its commitment to its customers may be limited to how much money it may lose in the process. And while Cupertino has yet to be dragged into a large-scale scan...
So which tech company can you really trust? It might sound cynical, depressing, and pessimistic, but the truth is that there’s almost no tech company you can trust completely. At the end of the day, the smallest startup to multinationals live and die by the revenue they generate. We might not be their product, but our ...
So do we quit cold turkey on these companies? Unless you live like a hermit, that’s sadly impossible to do so. Even if you switch over to open source software and services you can (or someone else) audit, you will eventually encounter any one of these companies and their products. Sometimes they can even get your data ...
This goes beyond simply protecting accounts with strong passwords (which might be a lost cause anyway). This is about not filling up every field in an account, especially those that are not required and those that may reveal too much about you. It’s about being aware that any photo, video, or sentiment you upload may c...
It will take time before companies can regain their pristine image. Trust is, after all, difficult to build but easy to break. It is not something that can happen overnight, in one week, or even in one month. And it’s definitely not something that can happen while companies continue to game the system behind everyone’s...
The owner of the company that operated the limo that crashed in Schoharie also had been an FBI informant in a number of cases, his lawyer confirmed.
ALBANY, N.Y. — The limousine in a deadly crash that killed 20 people Saturday in upstate New York had failed inspection last month, and the driver didn't have the appropriate license to operate the vehicle, Gov. Andrew Cuomo revealed Monday.
Cuomo said the limousine was owned by Prestige Limousine in the Albany area but didn't have the necessary federal certification to operate and failed a state inspection just last month.
"The driver of the vehicle — the quote-unquote limousine — did not have the appropriate driver’s license to be operating that vehicle," Cuomo told reporters in Manhattan.
"Second, that vehicle was inspected by the New York state Department of Transportation last month and failed inspection and was not supposed to be on the road."
Later, State Police confirmed Cuomo's comments, but the National Transportation Safety Board said it was still determining whether the company had the necessary federal approvals.
The revelations come as authorities continue to investigate the deadly crash that killed 17 passengers, the driver and two pedestrians in the rural town of Schoharie, New York.
The owner of the company that operated the 2001 Ford Excursion, Prestige Limousine in Wilton, New York, is Shahed Hussain, 62, whose backstory includes numerous stints as an undercover informant for the FBI.
Cuomo said the 2001 Ford Excursion needed federal certification to be operated as a limousine but didn't have it. It also failed an on-site state inspection.
"The owners of the company had no business putting a failed vehicle on the roadway."
"The owners of the company had no business putting a failed vehicle on the roadway," the governor said.
A federal website indicates the limousine company also does not have the proper insurance, but that could not be independently verified.
In a statement, the company offered its condolences to the deceased and said it was cooperating with the investigation.
"We have voluntarily taken our fleet of vehicles off of the road during the investigation," Prestige said.
"We have already met with State and Federal investigators, and plan to do so again, as it is our goal to provide answers as quickly as possible."
Hussain's companies have three vehicles and employ two drivers, according to online records maintained by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. The three vehicles that he owns have been inspected five times in the past two years, and on four of those occasions the vehicle was ordered out of service as unsafe...
Despite the inspection record, Hussain and his companies maintained an “active” status with the federal motor-carrier agency.
The state has now ordered Prestige to cease operations, Cuomo said.
The passengers appeared to recognize problems with the limousine as they traveled in it.
Valerie Abeling told The Washington Post that her niece, Erin McGowan, 34, and her husband, Shane McGowan, 30, were among the limousine victims, and Erin McGowanhad sent a text message to Abeling's daughter complaining about the condition of the car.
Erin McGowan, in fact, texted a friend, saying, "The motor is making everyone deaf," according to The New York Times.
Abeling said the limousine appeared to replace a bus the group had ordered for their trip to a Cooperstown, New York, brewery.
Cuomo said the driver needed a commercial driver's license but didn't have one.
State Police later clarified: In New York, a limousine with 15 or more seats falls under the definition of a bus and requires the driver to have a "passenger endorsement."
The driver did not have that classification, State Police said.
Cuomo explained the SUV was a "chopped vehicle. ... This was a Ford that was cut and extended."
As a result, it needed federal approval to operate as a limousine.
"This vehicle did not have that certification that it was extended in a way that was compliant with federal law," he said.
Meanwhile, an on-site inspection by the state in September also showed the vehicle was not safe for the road because it failed the inspection, he said. Cuomo said it was too soon to know whether speed was a factor or whether the crash was the result of a mechanical failure.
Cuomo said it was too soon to know whether speed was a factor, or if the crash was the result of a mechanical failure.
State Police said Monday that its troopers were still investigating and gave few new details about what caused the crash.
The state issued a cease-and-desist order to the company to stop operating in New York.
Hussain immigrated from Pakistan in the early 1990s, fleeing a murder charge that he later said was trumped up, according to news reports. He worked as a translator for the New York state Department of Motor Vehicles but was caught helping people cheat DMV exams in return for money.
He later was accused of making fraudulent statements in a personal bankruptcy case. Hussain avoided prosecution by becoming an informant, working in the Muslim community to find people that had radical tendencies.
His work led to the 2006 conviction of two men in Albany who were accused of expressing interest in buying a shoulder-fired missile. However, civil-liberties groups questioned the tactics of the FBI and its informant.
Three years later, Hussain went undercover in Newburgh, New York, helping the FBI win conviction of four men who they accused of planning to shoot down airliners and plant bombs. Critics said Hussain induced the men to plot the crimes by offering cash payments.
Albany-area lawyer Dana Salazar, who represented Hussain in a civil action against Saratoga County, verified Monday that her client had indeed been the celebrated informant.
Cuomo said sometimes the answer isn't always new laws.
"So sometimes you say, 'Well maybe we should inspect more frequently, maybe this, maybe this,' " Cuomo said.
"Sometimes people just don't follow the law. And that may very well be what happened here."
For many, the traditional "American dream" includes buying a home. In Houston, that dream is dissipating, as recent reports show that most local renters don't have the means to make the jump to home ownership.
Zillow released its latest rental analysis and crowned Houston the least qualified city when it comes to renters turning into homebuyers. The median home price here is $172,900, but only 6.8 percent of renters have the income and credit score necessary to afford that.
The news is also bad for Dallas, which comes in as the fourth worst qualified city. Only 8.2 percent of renters can take a stab at securing a median $189,000 home. In both Dallas and Houston, the overall homeowner rate is about 59 percent.
In Houston, the wish is there for 94.5 percent of Zumper users, but only 59.7 percent say they can actually make it a reality. The good news is that the figures are much, much better in Texas than in, say, San Diego, where 91.5 percent want to become homeowners, but only 20 percent think they can.
An estimated 20,000 people have marched in Istanbul to mark five years since the murder of prominent Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, the BBC reported.
Some protesters were angry over verdicts delivered this week in the latest trial of people linked to his killing, according to the newspaper. Three suspects were jailed but allegations were eventually dropped.
Dink's actual killer, Ogun Samast, was jailed earlier for 22 years.
The journalist had angered Turkish nationalists by describing the mass killing of Armenians a century ago as genocide, and was fatally shot outside the Istanbul offices of his Turkish-Armenian newspaper.
On Tuesday, a judge sentenced one man to life imprisonment for incitement to murder Dink, and two others were given 12 years in prison.
However, all three men, along with 16 other defendants, were acquitted of charges that they were members of the criminal organization link to Dink's murder.
The prosecutor said he would appeal the judge's decision, and emphasized there was sufficient evidence to support that murder had premeditated.
Between 1915 and 1923, 1.5 million Armenians died at the hands of the Ottoman Empire. Turkey disputes the genocide label, saying the deaths were caused by civil war and other factors.
Horback is conducting personality tests with several four-week-old female piglets, identifying aggressive and social behaviors, measuring response to human handling and approach, assessing willingness to explore an open field, and studying alarm response to a novel object. Horback has studied animal cognition in severa...
Spunky, aggressive piglets squeal (loudly!) when held firmly by humans for one minute. Passive pigs do not squeal as much when handled, perhaps out of resignation. Sociable sows are the first to sniff their fellow pen-mates, and they interact more easily with humans—snuffling at their boots and such.
Fearful pigs often freeze when they are isolated in a strange environment, which takes us back to the empty kiddie pool where piglet #3 is standing at the UC Davis Swine Facility. Piglet #3 is not overly vigilant—not pacing or frozen in place. Horback is also assessing how pigs respond to a novel object—in this case th...
In addition to measuring personality traits, Horback will soon start testing piglets for “cognitive bias,” or mood, to see if certain personality traits correlate with “positive affected states,” or optimism. In previous research, Horback has seen evidence of a link between aggressive personalities and a positive mood.
According to Election Commission’s 2013 advisory, using photographs of defence personnel as tools for political campaigning is not permissible.
Delhi BJP legislator O P Sharma Thursday removed the two posts which the Election Commission had taken exception to. The EC had issued a notice to Sharma, asking him to remove posts from his Facebook timeline which used photos of Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, who was captured by the Pakistan Army last month, alo...
According to the EC’s 2013 advisory, using photographs of defence personnel as tools for political campaigning is not permissible.
There was the Erskine fire in Kern County, which tore through more than 46,000 acres including a defenseless small town of retirees.
California is a tinderbox. After years of drought, warmer temperatures and a bark beetle infestation, 66 million trees have died in the Sierra Nevada and these wildfires are only the beginning. We’ve had more fires in California so far this year than we had last. A research biologist with the U.S. Forest Service told t...
All the more reason for Congress to act.
That kind of financial flexibility doesn’t exist now because the federal government, for some inexplicable reason, refuses to treat wildfires like natural disasters and thus deserving of emergency funding.
With thousands of acres burning across the state, homes being destroyed and people dying, only you, the voter, can light a fire under Congress.
So every year, the Forest Service sets aside money for wildfires at the 10-year average cost. But when the cost of fighting them tops that, which now happens every year, the agency must use its own budget to pay for fighting them.
That means forest management programs that could actually prevent wildfires – clearing brush from trails, setting controlled burns, removing dead trees – go unfunded and undone.
This year, fully 56 percent of the Forest Service’s budget is being spent on firefighting – up from 16 percent in 1998. If Congress doesn’t act, it will be 67 percent by 2025.
“We must fund wildfire suppression like other natural disasters in the country,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in June.
That sounds like a no-brainer because it is. In addition to authors Oregon Democrat Rep. Kurt Schrader and Idaho Republican Rep. Mike Simpson, 147 members of the House of Representatives have signed on as co-sponsors. Among them are 33 Republicans and Democrats from California, including both Republican Jeff Denham and...
Conspicuously missing is Rep. Tom McClintock, who lives in Elk Grove but represents the mountainous district that was wracked by the Rim fire a few years ago and remains susceptible to ferocious forest fires. McClintock has his own plan, which has gone nowhere.
We can’t afford to continue to actively do nothing; the cost – in money and lives – is too great and growing. With thousands of acres burning across the state, homes being destroyed and people dying, only you, the voter, can light a fire under Congress.
The rivalry between the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California is a deep one, and any one of those schools cheering for the other is an incredibly rare sight. And yet, that's exactly what happens in this exclusive clip from the Quidditch documentary Mudbloods.
Mudbloods, directed by Farzad Sangari and available today on the website and iTunes, follows the UCLA Quiddich team's 2011 season and competition in the International Quidditch Association's World Cup. In the clip above, UCLA's gearing up to play the four-time champion Middlebury team, whom UCLA had lost to in an earli...
The end of the documentary, which takes place entirely at the World Cup, is by far the best part of the whole documentary. UCLA is clearly positioned as the underdog to the constant Middlebury champions, and watching them battle their way through the competition is as thrilling as any other sports drama with "scrappy u...
None of that stopped me from wincing at the hard hits and actually tearing up during the clip above, though. Quidditch is serious business.
Nature's Cove is a beautiful gated community on Paw Paw Lake. Driving through you will notice that there is lots of activity from the pool and cabana to the lake front. Each owner has their own assigned dock space which is a permanent pier. The large swimming pool has plenty of seating areas in the pool and surrounding...
(Tripoli) – Guards in migrant detention centers under Libyan government control have tortured and otherwise abused migrants and asylum seekers, including with severe whippings, beatings, and electric shocks.

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