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In either case, the US economy, which has been suffering for months, will not recover by itself. The government – through fiscal policy – as well as the Fed -with QE3 – will have a major role to play in the coming weeks. It’s also no coincidence that Bernanke announced that the Fed’s next meeting would take longer than expected: two days in September (20th and 21st) instead of one.
Yahoo has appointed three board members to a special committee that will investigate the hiring of CEO Scott Thompson in the wake of revelations that his resume's listing of computer science as a second undergraduate major was false, Yahoo said on Tuesday.
The panel, chaired by Alfred Amoroso, an independent director who joined the Yahoo board in February, will review Thompson's academic credentials and the circumstances around how they were disclosed and reviewed when he was hired as CEO, Yahoo said in a statement.
Patti Hart, the board member who spearheaded the hiring process, stepped down Tuesday, according to a report in All Things D. Yahoo didn't mention Hart in its statement and a spokesman didn't immediately reply to a request for comment.
Thompson's biography on the Yahoo website and in papers filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, said that he had majored in accounting and computer science at Stonehill College. Thompson majored only in accounting, Yahoo has acknowledged.
Activist shareholder Daniel Loeb, who leads the Third Point investment fund, disclosed the discrepancy in a public letter on May 3. The company acknowledged the mistake but expressed support for Thompson's leadership. Later that day, it released a second statement, saying the board would look into the matter.
Loeb also revealed inaccuracies in Hart's resume. The document stated that she held a bachelor's degree in marketing and economics from Illinois State University. Yahoo later acknowledged that Hart's degree was a B.S. in "business administration with specialties in marketing and economics."
The committee's other members are John Hayes and Thomas McInerney, independent directors who joined the Yahoo board in April. Yahoo also hired a former federal prosecutor to act as the board's independent counsel. He is Terry Bird of the law firm Bird, Marella, Boxer, Wolpert, Nessim, Drooks and Licenberg.
The formation of the committee was reported earlier Tuesday by The Wall Street Journal.
Alex Rodriguez, trying to make the comeback of the century, has gotten a few tips from the best hitter since Ted Williams.
Barry Bonds, who spent time tutoring Giants hitters last season — Michael Morse credited Bonds after his majestic pinch homer in the pennant clincher — has broadened his teachings to other players. One of his students, Dexter Fowler, was traded Monday from the Astros to the Cubs.
Turns out the photos were taken in San Rafael at the Future Prospects facility owned and run by Charles Scott, Bonds’ friend and Arizona State teammate who played nine seasons in the minors and scouted for nine more with the Rays, Diamondbacks and Nationals. There, Bonds has worked with A-Rod as he did with Morse, Pablo Sandoval, Brandon Crawford and other Giants during his week-long stint in Scottsdale last spring.
A couple of sources — actually buddies whose kids train at the facility — tipped me off to the Bonds-Rodriguez sessions, which obviously made quite a few up-and-comers do a double take. The kids looked, listened and admired the all-time home run leader working with the onetime heir apparent, proprietors of a combined 1,416 homers talking ball.
Ex-Giants infielder Kevin Frandsen also was spotted at the facility, which has become a cool hangout for pros to train while youngsters hone their skills nearby. I’m told A-Rod, coming off his yearlong drug suspension, looked good after a couple of weeks at the facility, but it’s uncertain how much, if at all, he’ll play next season.
It can’t hurt to be a Bonds client. For A-Rod, it’s obviously about the present and getting the best tutoring available, his and Bonds’ association with the steroid era notwithstanding, and about acing a comeback, which could include an assist from the home run king.
LITTLETON, Colo., March 27, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Ur-Energy Inc. URG, -0.72% (URE) announces that its Chairman, Jeffrey Klenda, will present at the Spring Investor Summit (formerly, The MicroCap Conference) to be held April 1-2, 2019 at the Essex House in New York City.
Mr. Klenda, Chairman and CEO, will present at the conference, providing an overview and update of Ur‘Energy's business, including Lost Creek operations, and on the pending Section 232 trade action regarding the impact of uranium imports on national security. Mr. Klenda also will be available to participate in one-on-one meetings.
Ur-Energy's presentation will begin at 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, April 2, 2019 at the Essex House.
The presentation will be webcast and can be accessed live or in archive following the presentation at https://www.webcaster4.com/Webcast/Page/2038/29948.
To schedule a one-on-one meeting with Mr. Klenda, please request a meeting after registering for the conference or contact Jeff.Klenda@Ur-Energy.com.
The Spring Investor Summit is an exclusive event dedicated to connecting small and micro cap companies with high-level, institutional and retail investors. The upcoming conference will feature 200 presenting companies, 1200 institutional and retail investors, 2000 one-on-one meetings, expert speakers, and industry panels. To request free registration to the conference, please go to www.springinvestorsummit.com, and click the "Registration" button. For more information about the conference contact Ashley Allard at ashley@microcapconf.com.
About Ur-EnergyUr-Energy is a uranium mining company operating the Lost Creek in-situ recovery uranium facility in south-central Wyoming. We have produced, packaged and shipped approximately 2.5 million pounds U3O8 from Lost Creek since the commencement of operations. Applications are under review by various agencies to incorporate our LC East project area into the Lost Creek permits and to operate at our Shirley Basin Project. Ur-Energy is engaged in uranium mining, recovery and processing activities, including the acquisition, exploration, development and operation of uranium mineral properties in the United States. Shares of Ur‘Energy trade on the NYSE American under the symbol "URG" and on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "URE." Ur-Energy's corporate office is in Littleton, Colorado; its registered office is in Ottawa, Ontario. Ur-Energy's website is www.ur-energy.com.
Sgt. Willard T. Partridge, 35, of Ferriday, La., died on August 20 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. Partridge was assigned to the 170th Military Police Company, 504th Military Police Battalion, 42nd Military Police Brigade, Fort Lewis, Wash.
If states are forced to reduce their pupil transportation funding, districts will have to pick up the slack. But they may be no more able to cover the difference, as local revenues are drying as well.
According to the American Association of School Administrators’ nationwide survey of 836 superintendents released this past fall, 67 percent said their districts were inadequately funded. Of these, 91 percent reported an increase in home foreclosures and 72 reported an increase in homelessness.
Daniel Domenech, the association’s executive director, said school funding reductions tend to put those low-income communities that are most reliant on federal and state support and least able to meet needs by raising taxes at the greatest peril.
Some states have already implemented the efficiencies like those discussed in Florida. Others are looking at cutting busing service entirely.
States and districts that do make cuts may be placed in double jeopardy. In California, Green said districts that choose to weather the current storm by temporarily discontinuing their transportation services may not be able to continue receiving state funding when the storm passes, due to the way the funding formula is written. In Alabama, Lightsey noted that a temporary freeze or deeper reduction in the state’s bus replacement funding may upend purchase cycles for years because districts rely on these to finance buses over 10 years. If they can’t be confident that funding will be there every year, they may not buy into the program at all. Hawaii’s transportation director, Aaron Kimura, had yet to declare specific cuts in a transportation budget that was expected to be $12.9 million short in 2009. Like many, he said he was looking at means to become more efficient. But, ultimately, he noted busing could be pared. The 100 percent state-funded service is a privilege, not a right for most regular route students.
In the long run, the industry may look to the federal government to survive. Hood notes that the major industry associations are banking on a coordinated effort to gain federal support as a form of mass transit.
“It’s going to take a lot of planning to ensure that the yellow school bus remains a viable form of transportation,” he added.
Reprinted from the 2009 Buyer’s Guide issue of School Transportation News magazine. All rights reserved.
Mortgages may no longer be in the top spot for consumer complaints but that doesn’t mean they are anywhere close to out of the mix.
According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s latest monthly complaint report, the CFPB has handled approximately 223,100 mortgage complaints since July 21, 2011, making mortgage the second most-complained-about product after debt collection, representing 26% of total complaints.
The CFPB’s Monthly Complaint Report uses a three-month rolling average, comparing the current average to the same period in the prior year where appropriate, to account for monthly and seasonal fluctuations.
This month’s report spotlights mortgages and includes various charts that break down the numbers.
These first two charts show mortgage complaint types.
This next chart shows the most-complained-about companies for mortgage. The top 25 most-complained-about companies received about 80% of all mortgage complaints sent to companies for response in November 2015 - January 2016.
While the chart above lists only the top 20 companies, the two charts below are based on the top 25 companies.
This chart shows the companies with the largest percent increase in mortgage complaints.
This chart shows the companies with the largest percent decrease in mortgage complaints.
Engaged: Actor Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger, after a whirlwind (in other words, that was fast!) romance.
The message accompanied a photo of the couple embracing, a large engagement ring on her finger.
Photos first turned up in tabloids last summer of “Jurassic World” star Pratt, 39, and Schwarzenegger, 29, who is the daughter of former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and journalist Maria Shriver. A sweet courtship was chronicled on social media and through paparazzi pics: church dates, ice cream runs and meet-the-fam dinners.
It will be the first marriage for Schwarzenegger, an author, and the second for Pratt, who split from actress Anna Faris in 2017. The former couple has a 6-year-old son.
With winds of war, don't you feel a draft?
The iconic recruiting poster of Uncle Sam, drawn by James Montgomery Flagg in 1916 and captioned "I Want You for the U.S. Army," has had no greater vitality than in today's terror-besieged world.
American forces are stretched thin around the world. The United States has almost 700,000 soldiers and marines on active duty in South Korea, Afghanistan, the Balkans, Iraq, and elsewhere. Few think that is enough, especially when it comes to replenishing the ranks as tours of duty end.
In Iraq, US forces number about 138,000. The ratio of soldiers to civilians in Iraq, 1 to 180, is far below the 1-to-30 ratio that experience has shown is optimum for occupation. In addition, 20,000 of those serving in Iraq have been there for more than a year. Forty percent are reservists or members of state National Guard units, called up out of civilian jobs. The law limits their tours of duty to two years.
Congress wants to add 30,000 soldiers to the volunteer Army, and Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry would like that figure to be 40,000.
The Bush administration has instituted a "stop-loss" program, called by one senior official a finger in the dike, which prevents soldiers from leaving the service for 90 days before or after their unit is deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, even if their commitment is scheduled to end. And last week, the Army announced it would begin this month recalling to active duty 5,600 "ready reservists" who had recently finished their tours.
There has even begun to be talk of a military draft. In this election year, both President Bush and Senator Kerry are declaring that they would not reinstate the draft, but there are two bills in Congress that would start forced conscription next June.
It's interesting to note that the machinery for a draft, the Selective Service System, remains in place, used primarily to register 18-year-olds in case of an emergency call-up. Congress recently added $28 million to the Selective Service implementation budget, presumably to reestablish draft boards throughout the country.
Rep. Charles Rangel (D) of New York, sponsor of one of the draft bills, believes in conscription for reasons that go beyond adding bodies to the ranks. He thinks a draft could remedy what he sees as a disproportionate number of working-class and minority soldiers in the volunteer military. The war on terror, he claims, is like the Civil War: a rich man's war and a poor man's fight.
Still, it's a tough sell.
Memories of Vietnam haven't dimmed - burned draft cards, young men fleeing to Canada, thousands protesting in the streets. In the 1960s, the draft didn't solve the rich man/poor man problem: Of the Vietnam War casualties, 14.1 percent were blacks, although blacks accounted for only 11 percent of the young male population at the time.
But the draft did spur volunteers: Of the 58,226 American casualties in Vietnam, almost 65 percent had enlisted. Many of the volunteers who came forward, and who were therefore allowed to choose their branch of service and their specialty, would never have enlisted but for the draft.
A new draft wouldn't be the same as the old draft. The proposed measures try to take some of the sting out of conscription by requiring all Americans, male and female, between 18 and 26 to serve for two years in either the armed services or "in a civilian capacity that ... promotes the national defense."
No young American wants to be forced to kill or be killed, but the agony of the situation is that there may be no alternative to conscription.
What other mechanism would be as fast and as effective if we are to find the troops necessary to discharge our global responsibilities as the world's only superpower? Suppose the situation in North Korea heats up? Or in five years, China, or even Latin America?
Out of choice or necessity we may need to proceed unilaterally in our national interest without the United Nations or our traditional allies.
As the presidential campaign intensifies, the draft bills languish in committee.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says a draft adds "no value, no advantage" to the war effort, and Kerry derides the Pentagon's "stop-loss" program as a "backdoor draft."
But campaigners on both sides of the aisle may be delivering the old bait-and-switch. Come January, things could change: "I Want You" may mean you have to go.
Women in combat: Will they have to register for the draft?
(Washington Examiner) Chelsea Clinton said that it would be “un-Christian” to roll back abortion protections granted by the U.S. Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade.
“When I think about all of the statistics, that are painful, of what women are confronting today in our country, and what even more women confronted pre- Roe, and how many women died, and how many more women were maimed because of unsafe abortion practices, we just can’t go back to that,” Clinton said during a SiriusXM Progress Town Hall clip uploaded Thursday.
“That’s unconscionable to me. And also, I’m sure that this will unleash another wave of hate in my direction, but as a deeply religious person, it’s also un-Christian to me,” Clinton said.
Clinton’s comments at the progressive event were in response to a question about how she stays motivated to continue advocating for pro-abortion policies, given those who support anti-abortion measures are just as passionate.
MILAN — Italy will not ratify the European Union's free trade agreement with Canada, its new agriculture minister said on Thursday, ratcheting up an international trade spat and potentially scuppering the EU's biggest accord in years.
The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) is the first major trade deal the European Union has signed since it began implementing its South Korea agreement in 2011. All 28 EU member states must approve the agreement for it to take full effect.
In an interview with daily La Stampa, Minister Gian Marco Centinaio said the Italian government would ask the parliament not to ratify the treaty since it does not ensure sufficient protection for the country's specialty foods.
"We will not ratify the free-trade treaty with Canada because it protects only a small part of our PDO (Protected Designation of Origin) and PGI (Protected Geographical Indication) products," Centinaio told the newspaper. "Doubts over this agreement are shared by many of my European colleagues."
Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland told reporters in Washington: "I'm confident we will have full ratification in the end, and the important thing is this agreement has entered into force as an economic matter."
Coldiretti, the influential association of Italian agricultural companies, backed Centinaio's intention, saying in a statement CETA was "wrong and risky" for Italy.
The treaty entered into force on a provisional basis in September 2017, sweeping away tariffs on a large number of goods and widening access to Canadian beef in Europe and EU cheese and drink in Canada.
Its supporters say it would increase trade between the partners by 20 percent and boost the EU economy by 12 billion euros ($14 billion) a year and Canada's by C$12 billion ($9 billion).
The minister was not immediately available to comment on the interview and it was not possible to get a reaction from the office of the prime minister on the issue. The government program that forms the basis of the League-5-Star coalition mentioned CETA, saying the executive would oppose "the aspects (of the treaty) that imply an excessive weakening of the protection of citizens' rights".
The government's program also pledged to "protect the highest-quality products of Made in Italy".
Italy's challenge to CETA comes after US President Donald Trump backed out of a joint communiqué agreed by Group of Seven leaders in Canada at the weekend that mentioned the need for "free, fair and mutually beneficial" trade and the importance of fighting protectionism.
Virtual world Second Life was forced to shut up shop for around 15 minutes on Sunday to clean up after a computer worm attack brought servers run by parent company Linden Labs to a virtual standstill.
The worm resulted in spinning gold rings, of a type that appeared in the popular Sonic the Hedgehog games of the late 1980s, appearing all over the virtual world. Attempts by users of the virtual environment to interact with these rings ran scripts that created more of the artifacts. This eventually put an extra load on the Linden Labs servers that proved to be unsustainable.
After user complaints about server response times reached a crescendo, Lindon Labs suspended the service to all but its own clean up operators who rid the virtual environment of its infestation of so-called "grey goo".
Skype for Windows sports a simple, soft blue interface that puts the focus on contacts and ways to interact.
The robot icon opens a selection of bots with which you can chat.
Skype can do live spoken translation, something not available in any other messaging system.
You no longer need to install Skype software on a computer. Just fire up the Web browser and head to web.skype.com.
This bot helps you arrange your schedule.
The Blackjack bot is fun to play, but the house seems to have all the luck.
When you first message a bot, you'll get a reply message telling you how to use it.
Don't forget, you can still use Skype to dial out to regular mobiles and landlines.
Here's a futuristic feature in Skype.
Skype now lets anyone, even free account holders, conduct group video chats with up to ten participants.
This intuitive panel is where you get all your hardware set up for video and voice calling.
During a call, you can send a file, take a picture, share a contact, add callers, or share your screen.
If you have a multiple monitor setup, no problem: Skype lets you choose which to share.
In text chats, you can drop in a photo or video, as well as a smiley.
If you minimize Skype's main window during a call, you can still mute yourself or hang up from this widget.
When a contact comes online or you get a text message or call, you'll see a notification at the bottom of the screen like this.
Some of the state of Michigan's top underclassmen and a couple of key seniors will be at Saturday's Michigan State football game in East Lansing.
Michigan State football commit Tate Hallock is attending Saturday’s game against Michigan and he’ll be recruiting.

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