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Umesh Revankar, managing director, Shriram Transport, observes that while axle load norms is one of the reasons for the slowdown in demand, major factor is the liquidity crunch that has hit the real estate sector.
With the slowdown of real estate and infrastructure, steel, cement and sand demand has come down too. These are the bulk materials and slowdown in their movement automatically drags down the vehicle utility.
However, Kathuria said that axle load norms has had an impact not on the volumes but on the type of vehicle which people are buying. “Post axle load norms, since the payload has increased, so instead of buying A 14 wheel vehicle, the customer is now preferring to buy 12 wheel vehicle. So there is a segmental shift. But...
Professing his innocence and blaming a vast government conspiracy, self-described “attorney for the damned” Edgar Steele was sentenced Wednesday to 50 years in federal prison for a foiled murder-for-hire plot that targeted his wife and mother-in-law with a car bomb.
In an hour-and-a-half rant before U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill in Coeur d’Alene, Steele called the case a conspiracy by the federal government, anti-hate groups and the Russian mafia to silence him for his political views and legal work.
“I, too, am a victim. My entire family is a victim. In fact, all of American society is a victim in this case,” said Steele, 66, who defended Aryan Nations founder Richard Butler in the 2000 landmark civil case that bankrupted the racist group. He also authored a book, “Defensive Racism,” and wrote essays on a website,...
“I am not delusional. I am a well-educated professional with a long track record of honesty,” Steele said, wearing a gray sweatshirt and orange jail pants. He vowed to continue fighting to prove his innocence.
“If I finally have to fire every lawyer in the country and hire myself, I’ll do it,” Steele said.
In Steele’s case, “a conspiracy can only be found if you ignore the facts and your worldview dictates that there’s a conspiracy everywhere,” Winmill said.
Steele’s wife, Cyndi Steele, stood up when Winmill asked her husband to stand while he was sentenced. Cyndi Steele left the courtroom sobbing after her husband’s sentencing and repeatedly yelled “You’re all wrong!” at media and law enforcement in the courthouse hallway. The Steeles have three children, who were not in ...
A jury in Boise convicted Steele of four felonies May 5 for paying his handyman, Larry Fairfax, in silver to kill Steele’s wife and mother-in-law with a car bomb. Prosecutors said his aim was to spend time with a young Ukrainian woman he met online. Steele called his wife after his arrest and told her to say the voice ...
Steele’s been in jail since his arrest in June 2010. Fairfax is serving 27 months for placing a pipe bomb under Cyndi Steele’s car and not telling authorities. Steele’s law license has been suspended in Washington; he relinquished his license in Idaho to avoid disciplinary proceedings.
Her statement was cut short because she repeatedly told Winmill she wasn’t a victim of her husband, and Winmill said the speaking time was reserved for victims.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Traci Whelan cited Edgar Steele’s “long, long pattern of manipulative behavior” when recommending the 600-month sentence, which Winmill said is the longest he’s seen as a federal judge.
Steele’s lawyer, Wesley Hoyt, asked for him to be sentenced to time served. Steele reiterated that request.
He described errors at trial by his lawyer, Robert McAllister, of Colorado, who has since been disbarred for stealing money in a case unrelated to Steele’s. He blamed law enforcement for taking the word of Fairfax, whom he described as “oafish” and a “self-admitted pipe bomber,” over his own.
He also asked Winmill to sentence him to a thousand years in prison, saying any sentence was a life sentence at his age.
“Put me in the Guinness Book of World Records,” Steele said.
The company's Rhythm House joint venture has seen multiple No. 1 hits by country star Thomas Rhett.
The roster includes new signings Mustard (formerly DJ Mustard), who arrived from SONGS Music Publishing and has just teamed up with Nick Jonas on a new song called “Anywhere”; Cary Barlowe, whose background is in rock, pop and gospel, in addition to country; Steven Lee Olsen (Keith Urban’s “Blue Aint’ Your Color”); and...
Indeed, Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line’s “Meant To Be” is inching towards a record-breaking reign on the country airplay chart, while on pop radio, Zedd and Maren Morris’ “The Middle” peaked at No. 1.
“We have all our Nashville writers working on our pop records and our pop writers are working on country records,” says Conniff.
The Rhythm House staff includes VP of A&R BJ Hill, who also holds a position at Warner/Chappell, and newest addition Stevie Frasure, Jesse Frasure’s wife, herself a 15-year veteran of publishing.
Piles of school lunch plates found dumped in woods. Nobody knows how it happened.
Piles of discarded lunch trays were found in a wooded area outside NR Burger Middle School. City called in to clean it up.
It seems it's not just students who dislike school lunches. Two piles of hundreds of discarded lunch trays and bags of trash were found Thursday in a wooded area outside NR Burger Middle School.
Hattiesburg resident Nicole Dennis discovered the discarded waste when she was walking in the neighborhood near the school.
She sent photos of the trash to the Hattiesburg American and posted them on Facebook. She taped off the area to warn others about the mess.
"Isn't there some thing that can be done?" Dennis asked.
The polystyrene trays appear to have been in plastic garbage bags that were thrown into the woods.
"We are not sure how long this has been going on or who is responsible," Hattiesburg Public School District spokeswoman Samone Wilson said in a prepared statement.
District officials saw the photos on Facebook on Friday. The city was contacted and a work crew was on site Monday morning clearing the area of debris.
"Our public works crews are supporting the school district with cleanup at the site," Hattiesburg spokewoman Samantha McCain said in an email.
"We would like to thank Mayor Barker and the City of Hattiesburg for their willingness to assist us in quickly cleaning the area," Wilson said.
School district officials are working on a solution to prevent the issue from happening again.
"The staff at Burger Middle School takes great pride in keeping their campus clean," Wilson said.
Cafeteria trash is placed in Dumpsters behind the school, she said. The Dumpsters are emptied by a commercial waste removal company daily, five times a week and the contents are removed by truck from the premises.
"The district is taking measures to add a locked gate around the perimeter of the Dumpsters in an effort to decrease the chances of this happening again," Wilson said.
Dennis said she is pleased action was taken so quickly.
"I'm just so thankful that something is going to get done about it," she said.
Are you a concerned citizen? Do you have anything to report? Contact Lici Beveridge at 601-584-3104 or lbeveridge@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter @licibev.
Related: Spirit in Action: Hattiesburg honors 4 for community contributions. Here's who they are.
It's Friday and a new weekend of sneaker releases is here. With coveted drops from Jordan Brand, Nike, Diadora and New Balance, this weekend offers a wide variety of styles and models for everyone.
Releasing between today and tomorrow, XXL's sneaker picks of this weekend include two Air Jordan Retro iterations, a collaboration from Nike SB Dunk High and artist Thomas Campbell, a Ronnie Fieg and New Balance collab as well as the Diadora x Good Will N.9000 collaboration. Ranging between $100 and $400, XXL's five sn...
Leading the way this weekend with the best release of the next two days will be Jordan brand with tomorrow's drop of the premium Air Jordan 5 Retro in Triple Black. Another shoe worth highlighting this weekend, will Nike's latest collaboration with artist Thomas Campbell on the Nike SB Dunk High.
With most of last weekend’s sneaker releases sold out, we highly recommend our readers to get a head start on this weekend’s drops, ASAP. With that said, here’s XXL’s weekly top five sneaker picks of the weekend that’ll be available at select retailers and of course, online. Check out the gallery above.
Tham Luang: Thai rescue workers are poised to begin a dangerous rescue mission to free the Thai boys trapped in a sprawling cave complex, 15 days after their ordeal began.
Fairfax Media has confirmed senior Thai officials are meeting at the Tham Luang cave site on Sunday morning to discuss the finer details of the rescue attempt, which is set to start later today.
Heavy rain fell overnight for at least an hour and lighter rain has continued to fall through the morning, worsening already difficult conditions and potentially forcing the Thai government's hand.
Fairfax Media has been told the rescue divers were due to join a briefing on the possible rescue mission at 8.30am local time (11.30am AEST).
Once the operation gets under way, it’s likely it will take six to eight hours to bring some or all of the boys the 1.7 kilometres, by swimming and diving, from deep inside the cave to the third chamber, from where it is possible to walk.
From the third chamber to the cave exit it is about another 1.5 kilometres. It’s not clear if the rescue attempt will bring all the boys out or if, as previously flagged, only some of the boys - those in the best physical condition, and who have learnt enough rudimentary diving skills - will come out.
Military, divers and rescue officials have poured into the site this morning, ambulances are on standby and media has been asked to leave the rescue site by 9am local time.
It’s understood the ambulances will ferry the boys about a kilometre down the road to waiting helicopters, which will then fly them to the Chiang Rai Prachanukroh Hospital.
A briefing board at the base camp seen by Fairfax Media apparently showed that water levels in the first 600 metres of the cave remained stable overnight, despite the rain.
The rescue "base camp" outside the cave was a hive of activity on Saturday night and on into Sunday morning.
Huge green screens have been placed around the track that leads into the cave complex, further limiting access and blocking a clear view of preparations that are under way.
Some of the ambulances that have been lined up in a field near the evacuation site have been parked close to the cave exit and several army helicopters are parked in a nearby field.
Officials have said a press conference would be held later this morning at the Pong Pha subdistrict administration office.
Outgoing Chiang Rai province Governor Narongsak Osottanakorn, who is still in charge of the rescue operation, arrived recently on site at the base camp. He said on Saturday that the ideal time to make a rescue attempt had not yet arrived as the 12 boys, aged 11 to 15, and their 25-year-old coach trapped in the cave nee...
“I can guarantee that three to four days from now is the most favourable time for the operation and rescue mission using one of the action plans. If we wait too long, we don't know how much rainwater will come," he said.
But he added a significant rider - that if the forecast heavy rains arrived, diving teams would attempt to pull the boys out rapidly.
Any attempt to rescue the boys trapped in the cave will be extremely difficult. Water levels in the cave have been reducing for days because of a huge operation to pump water out of the caverns.
But as recently as two days ago officials said while it was now possible for rescuers to walk about 1.5 kilometres to the third chamber - the main staging point for rescuers - huge volumes of water remained in the cave.
Grocery shopping certainly isn’t one of the easiest things to do for a senior citizen, or person with disabilities. UK supermarket Sainsbury’s recognized this challenge and launched Slow Shopping, a two-hour slow shopping spree for its most vulnerable customers.
Slow Shopping is a part of Sainsbury’s commitment to disability awareness, and a show of the company’s commitment to customer service. In fact, just this past year alone, the supermarket invested more than 50,000 hours training its store clerks to help customers with visible disabilities, as well as non-visible disabil...
Students, staff and faculty now have a new resource available in the quest for quality college cooking, thanks to Nancy Cameros, who donated over 300 cookbooks before her death in September to Cornell’s Nestlé Library.
Cameros and her husband, Alan Cameros ’57, spent a lot of time traveling the world, always making sure to sample the local cuisine, Mr. Cameros said.
“Wherever we went, [Nancy] would stop, and whether the book was in English or another language, if she saw dishes she thought were particularly meaningful, she’d collect cookbooks,” Mr. Cameros said.
Cooking played a huge role in the Cameros’ lives, and they considered themselves somewhat of “food connoisseurs,” Mr. Cameros said.
According to her husband, Mrs. Cameros used a large portion of the books in her collection and enjoyed adapting recipes taken from the books. A black bean recipe was one of her personal favorites, Mr. Cameros said.
Mrs. Cameros often used the books when hosting guests for house parties or cooking for a club or organization in which she was involved. Many of her friends looked to her for advice when doing their own cooking.
“So many of Nancy’s friends and people in Rochester identified her with the enjoyment of cooking and how important and meaningful it was in her life,” Mr. Cameros said.Mrs. Cameros, who died in September, had been battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis — also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease — since 2008.
“[The disease] made it harder for her to cook. So while she loved the cookbooks and [seeing them go] was a hard thing to do, it was time,” Mr. Cameros said.
Don Schnedeker, a librarian at the Nestlé Library, was one of the major driving forces behind the collection’s display and the actual transportation of the books to Cornell. Over the summer, he drove to the Cameros’ home in Rochester and — with Mr. Cameros’ help — loaded the more than 300 cookbooks into his car to driv...
Schnedeker met Mrs. Cameros during his trip to Rochester. She “had trouble speaking but she was in very good spirits. She was happy to get rid of the books,” he said.
The books have mainly been checked out by staff and students for their own personal use, Schnedeker said. Mrs. Cameros intended the books to be available to anyone who had an interest in food and wanted to encounter new recipes and types of cooking they had not seen before.
“Cornell stands first in hospitality and presentation. I’ve had some awful good meals in Ithaca. It seemed like the natural place to put [the books] because of the emphasis on food and hospitality,” said Mr. Cameros, who attended the College of Arts and Sciences and was the sports editor at The Sun.
Schnedeker explained that the School of Hotel Administration has shifted recently to focus more on management. There are now fewer cooking classes available than in the past, so the school is less willing to buy new cookbooks. The shift in focus makes the Cameros collection an even more valuable addition to the library...
Mr. Cameros has seen the collection once since it went on display at the beginning of the school year. He was pleased with the presentation, he said, and is hoping to travel to Cornell once or twice a year and see the cookbooks.
The display will likely be up for a few more months before Mrs. Cameros’ books are integrated with the 4,000-plus cookbooks already in the Nestlé Library, Schnedeker said.
The Mean Girls star is fronting lawyer.com.
US actress Lindsay Lohan has been unveiled as the new spokesperson for Lawyer.com – in a surprise twist given her previous brushes with the law.
The Hollywood star says that when the team first approached she was “confused and a little scared” and even wondered if she was in trouble.
“But when they asked me to be their spokesperson, I was intrigued”, Lohan explains in a video highlighting her new role.
Lohan is signed up to work with the brand for 12 months. As well as being their spokeswoman, she will also act as the marketing and brand adviser.
This involves meeting monthly with management to discuss “new strategies to raise Lawyer.com’s awareness and produce compelling content, connecting to media leaders and launching fun videos and commentaries to her 20 million social followers”.
As part of Lohan’s deal, her compensation also includes a “substantial option ownership position”.
So far, there are four videos showing Lohan with the team.
Apart from the video which attempts to explain the link-up, there’s also a backstage look at filming.
It shows Lindsay fluffing her lines, being interrupted by her phone, and other outtakes.
AI Day Qualcomm has dropped the veil on a trio of new chips today, including two Snapdragon processors for smartphones and one AI accelerator for cloud services.
The chips were confirmed at Qualcomm's AI Day keynote speech in San Francisco. While the new Snapdragons are logical evolutions of the processor line, what's more interesting, perhaps, is its AI accelerator chip, which has been dubbed the Qualcomm Cloud AI 100.
It's the first time the semiconductor biz has ventured to build an AI chip for cloud computing and it claims the chip will max out at more than 350 tera operations per second (TOPS) at peak performance. That said, full performance benchmarks are still under review.
"There's a paradigm and architectural shift in infrastructure. AI training was originally done on CPUs, then FPGAs and GPUs,” said Keith Kressin, senior veep of Qualcomm. But now the market has gotten to the point that power is so important that the industry can build purpose built AI silicon."
Qualcomm was quick to show off the firms using Cloud AI 100 smarts - wheeling out businesses like Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Tencent who've been using it for applications such as self-driving cars, smart cameras, and virtual and augmented reality.
Not much detail was shed about the accelerator's specs, however, except that it's a 7nm architecture. When The Register asked for more information, Keith Kessen, SVP of product management at Qualcomm, told us the announcement was more of a "soft launch".
"There is a lot of noise about accelerators at the moment, but we aren't releasing the details just yet," Kessen said.
He did reveal that the chips would be sampled later this year and should be in production next year.
So, let's turn to the two mobile phone chips: the Snapdragon 665 and Snapdragon 730 are aimed at optimising AI, camera and gaming applications on Android handsets. Each system-on-chip comes packed with eight components: a main CPU core, a GPU, a visual subsystem unit, Wi-Fi connectivity, an audio and security unit, and...

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