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Air France hasn’t recently fired workers outright, relying on attrition and early retirement packages to reduce the payroll by 9,000 over three years. The last time it sought to dismiss staff, in 1993, weeks of walkouts cost the job of CEO Bernard Attali.
The NBA trade deadline came and passed…and the Los Angeles Lakers weren’t able to acquire New Orleans Pelicans superstar Anthony Davis. On Sunday, Lakers president Magic Johnson said that the Pels didn’t act in good faith when negotiating.
"We knew that basically at the end of the day, what happened, happened," Johnson said prior to LA’s game against the Philadelphia 76ers. "And we knew that when we first started, in terms of what happened. But hey, it is what it is."
While he clearly isn’t happy with how things went down, Johnson also believes that his players who were rumored to be offered are professionals.
"Quit making this about thinking these guys are babies because that's what you're treating them like," Johnson said. "They're professionals. All of them. And this is how this league works. They know it, I know it -- that's how it goes.
"So, we've got to move forward, and we are moving forward. They played outstanding against Boston. Give them credit. And we want to play well today and continue on. This is a part of the league. You've got a good side of the business that we get paid to be professional basketball players, and there's deals like this."
Johnson also added the Lakers still plan on being major players in free agency this summer.
In their renewal pitch to their season ticket holders, the New York Knicks included free-agent-to-be Kevin Durant playing against rookie center Mitchell Robinson in a photo. Some might construe that the team is planting the idea that Durant could be wearing Orange & Blue next season. The team decided to delete the phot...
"Game action photos are used all the time for marketing purposes, but given everything going on, we took the precaution of taking the photo down," the Knicks said in a statement Sunday night. "To be clear, it was one of several rotating photos on the website."
With over $70 million in cap space, the Knicks are expected to be major players in free agency this offseason with KD among their top targets. Many have already speculated that Durant will be a Knick in 2019-20.
In the Philadelphia 76ers 143-120 win over the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday something remarkable happened. Forward Ben Simmons…took a three pointer.
It was just the third three-pointer attempted by Simmons this season.
"I might as well come down and pull it," Simmons said. "I didn't really think about it."
It’s the first time he shot a three that didn’t come with the shot or game clock about to expire.
Afterwards, it’s all everyone could talk about.
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A provincewide survey reveals strong confidence in B.C.'s business community.
The B.C. Chamber of Commerce survey showed 92 per cent of respondents believe their businesses are in good or acceptable shape. And four out of five expect to grow their businesses over the next five years.
Nearly 1,200 businesses of all sizes, representing all sectors and regions participated in the survey.
Respondents expressed that many sectors of B.C.’s economy will become “more important” over the next five to 10 years, with tourism, clean technology, international trade and health services emerging as the top sectors.
Taxes – "B.C. already boasts competitive taxes, however it is clear that our network is looking for continued improvement. The chamber advocates for a made-in-B.C. value-added tax at the provincial level, as well as a more competitive property tax rate at the local level," a chamber report on the survey states.
Regulations – "The best way to make business easy is by cutting red tape. The chamber network remains focused on tackling this issue by finding ways to streamline regulations."
Access to labour – "B.C.’s businesses must have access to the skill and talent they need to grow their businesses. Our network has expressed the need for both the provincial and federal government to continue allocating resources into timely access to labour."
Cost of labour – "The cost of labour is usually a company’s largest expense, particularly for small businesses. While the provincial government works diligently to balance cost pressures with tax relief for business, issues like minimum wage increases continue to create challenges. For BC Chamber members, the answer is...
ORLANDO, Fla. — Air Force Special Operations Command is “months to maybe a year out” from flight testing a directed energy weapon aboard an AC-130 gunship, its leader said March 3.
Feedback from initial tests of the capability at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, have allowed the command move forward with a proof of concept phase, said Lt. Gen. Marshall "Brad" Webb at the Air Force Association’s annual Air Warfare Symposium.
The White Sands tests showed that a low kilowatt laser could be controlled and aimed. Next, "We will take the next step of upping the kilowattage and go from there,” he said.
Special Operation Command's program executive office fixed wing has been working to outfit an AC-130J Ghostrider with a laser. Its stated goal is to equip an aircraft with a directed energy weapon by the end of the decade. SOCOM officials have previously discussed the possibility of outfitting an AH-64 Apache helicopte...
The command continues to perform tests to see where it could place a laser weapon on the gunship, Webb said.
“There are multiple options that we got to play out,” he said. The possibility of placing the weapon in a gunport, or having it support the existing gunships, are options the service is exploring, he added.
“That’s what we want to get to: Where does it make sense? What mix of weapons could you go with or should it go with?” he said.
But the command remains short on funding, Webb said.
“We have funding to do the first steps. Over the course of what we want to do with the program, we’re still short money-wise, but I am confident … we’ll be able to get more funding,” he said, adding that should the command receive more funding in fiscal year 2018, it could possibly go toward directed energy investments...
The continued interest of both government officials and members of industry could help bring more funding to the project, he noted.
“There are a lot of vendors who are really contributing to and continuing to push that technology along, he said, adding that companies have invested their own money into the project, though he did not say which companies.
The Air Force has been conducting a series of studies to determine how directed energy could be used as an offensive and/or defensive capability. AFSOC has been looking at the technology primarily from an offensive standpoint, while other commands have been investigating its defensive potentials, Webb said.
“I still contend an offensive capability, which is what we’re looking at … is contributory to the defense aspects that other commands are looking at,” he said.
The Air Force’s Air Mobility Command is studying where the technology might make sense as a defensive capability for tankers and other aircraft, its leader said March 2.
Gen. Carlton Everhart told reporters he was “all for it.” The command is in the process of working with the Air Force Research Laboratory and conducting studies to determine the feasibility of adding the capability to aging legacy aircraft such as the KC-135 Stratotanker refueling aircraft, so they are able to support ...
But Everhart noted that he did not see the technology fielded in the near future.
Acting Air Force Secretary Lisa Disbrow said in her keynote address that the Air Force is “accelerating investments in directed energy applications.” And Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein told reporters he was interested in how directed energy technology could enable a “silent sabotage” capability for the se...
As the military moves toward a future multi-domain war environment that must defend against attacks on land, at sea, in space, in the air and in cyberspace, the ability to strike an adversary without revealing an airman’s position could be beneficial, he said.
A leading religious figure has been assassinated in the conservative Midan area of the Syrian capital Damascus.
Sheik Mohammad Ahmad Ouf Sadeq was an imam at the mosque Anas bin Malek. When he was returning to the capital on Wednesday, an armed group intercepted his vehicle in Qadam Assali, in the Damascus suburbs. Sadeq, 36, had a Ph.D. in Sharia law, and is survived by four children. Some think the religious leader was killed ...
According to supporters of the imam, those who killed him want more bloodshed in the country.
Members of the opposition also live in the area and tension there has been high.
Last month, a suicide bombing in the area killed 26 people and injured more than 60 others.
Also on Thursday in the south-western city of Daraa, where Syria’s unrest erupted months ago, the opposition claimed heavy clashes were taking place, as Assad’s forces attacked the Free Syrian Army.
RT spoke with the governor of the region, who said there was no Free Syrian Army in the city. He explained that there is no well-coordinated opposition military force, but rather a number of separate armed groups consisting mostly of army defectors and foreign soldiers.
Thursday has also seen a large anti-government protest, held at the funeral of a protester killed in an anti-Assad rally.
The demonstrators chanted anti-Assad’s slogans accusing him of mass killings. “We are afraid for our children and people and brothers and sisters”.
Russ Baker, an award-winning investigative reporter and founder of WhoWhatWhy.com, told RT there significant similarities between current events in Syria and last year's in Libya.
“Western countries clearly want Bashar Assad out just as much as they wanted Gaddafi out, and we are seeing the introduction of tremendous amounts of force – very skilled, sophisticated operations."
In Damascus, Baker noted, militant operatives are bringing the battle directly to Assad – not a sign of a traditional peaceful uprising.
“That is not to say that there aren’t a large number of people in Syria who would like to get rid of Assad, but I think that the sentiment of part of the population is being dramatically helped along by outside forces,” he said.
Baker also pointed out that while the US and its allies demand Assad leave power, they do not say the same thing about other leaders who propagate similar types of violence and human rights violations.
US double standards: Indirectly arming Syrian rebels?
CURB/NASHVILLE artist TIM McGRAW made a surprise appearance at GRASSLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL in FRANKLIN, TN on FRIDAY (10/1). McGRAW came to speak about bullies and to ask the middle schoolers to be kind of each other. He encouraged the students to speak up if they see bullying behavior, walk away from bad situations and no...
McGRAW decided to speak at the school after being invited by his 11-year-old nephew, JACE JEWELL, a sixth-grader at GRASSLAND.
McGRAW told THE TENNESSEAN: "It's not really my forte. But after JACE asked me to come and speak about this, I got some of my talking points together. I think it's important for the students to hear. Anything I can do to stop bullying is what I'll do."
Check out the full article here.
For a site that's so incredibly popular, Facebook sure knows how to aggravate its users. The latest inexplicable change: You no longer "Become a Fan" of, say, Flight of the Conchords or Brendan Benson. Now, you "Like" them.
Even worse, some mumbo-jumbo pop-up I clicked past a couple days ago resulted in all my fan pages getting added to my News Feed--in a way they weren't previously. Now it's even more cluttered than before, with weird and unwanted updates from the likes of Seinfeld and The Simpsons.
The Hide button appears on the right when you mouse over any item in your News Feed. Click it, and then click the Hide [Fan page] confirmation button that appears. Presto: No more updates from that fan page.
Alternately, you may decide you don't want certain fan pages appearing in your profile any longer (which they still will if you merely hide them). But how do you cease and desist your fandom? Where's the aforementioned Unlike option?
It's hiding in plain sight. Click through to any given fan page, then scroll down to the very bottom of the lefthand column. You'll see a tiny, nondescript Unlike link. Click it and you're free.
Finally, I discovered the culprit, and it's a head-scratcher: The slowdowns occur only when I've left open a tab containing an embedded video, like of the YouTube variety. When I close said tab, Firefox quickly returns to its quick-stepping self.
In Firefox, open a blank tab, type about:config in the address bar, and then hit Enter. Accept the warning that appears.
In the main Preferences area, right-click anywhere and choose New, Boolean. Type the following name into the blank field: network.protocol-handler.warn-external.itms.
Click OK, then choose the true setting in the box that appears.
Restart Firefox and you're good to go.
The next time you click a link that leads to an app's Web page, you should also see a dialog box asking if you want to launch iTunes. Click Cancel and go about your business (i.e., viewing the Web page).
If you've got a hassle that needs solving, send it my way. I can't promise a response, but I'll definitely read every e-mail I get--and do my best to address at least some of them in the PCWorld Hassle-Free PC blog . My 411: hasslefree@pcworld.com . You can also s ign up to have the Hassle-Free PC newsletter e-mailed t...
Audrina Patridge strikes a pose at the grand opening of the new Sugar Factory inside the MGM Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
Jennifer Aniston looked at optical frames with her boyfriend Justin Theroux at Silver Lining Opticians in SoHo. The "affectionate" couple tried on vintage sunglasses and prescription eyeglasses while Justin's hand was on her back. Jennifer ultimately bought the 6 frames she liked best.
Ewan McGregor and wife Eve Mavrakis were all smiles and holding hands before and after the Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Premiere on Monday Night at the DGA where guests enjoyed Purity Vodka cocktails at the reception.
The Hunger Games star Leven Rambin and AnnaLynne McCord attended the VnC Cocktails sponsored 5th Annual Hollywood Domino Gala & Tournament at the Sunset Tower Hotel. The non-profit charity benefits Artists for Peace and Justice, which encourages both peace and social justice and addresses issues of poverty around the w...
Bethenny Frankel toted daughter Bryn Hoppy, who turns 2 in May and the Kipling baby bag with changing mat to a girl's lunch in Manhattan. The Bethenny Ever After star's $109 bag is available at Kipling.
Expectant mom, Molly Sims, is getting prepared for her baby and recently received “gorgeous goodies” from her friend Jessica Alba and The Honest Company.
More than 200 years ago, a wealthy Pennsylvania merchant named Jacob DeHaven lent $450,000 to the Continental Congress to rescue the troops at Valley Forge. That loan was apparently never repaid.
So Mr. DeHaven's descendants are taking the United States Government to court to collect what they believe they are owed. The total: $141.6 billion in today's dollars if the interest is compounded daily at 6 percent, the going rate at the time. If compounded yearly, the bill is only $98.3 billion.
The thousands of family members scattered around the country say they are not being greedy. ''It's not the money - it's the principle of the thing,'' said Carolyn Cokerham, a DeHaven on her father's side, who lives in San Antonio.
The Federal Government, on the other hand, says the money is very much the issue.
Spokesmen for the Departments of Justice and the Treasury said they could not comment on the case because it was in litigation. In January, a United States Claims Court judge in Washington ruled that the statute of limitations on the suit expired at least a century ago. This week an appeal was filed on behalf of the fa...
Legal experts said they could not remember a similar case.
The descendants say that they are willing to be flexible about the amount of a settlement and that they might even accept a heartfelt thank you or perhaps a DeHaven statue. But they also note that interest is accumulating at $190 a second.
What Mr. DeHaven did was respond to a desperate plea in 1777 from George Washington, the commander in chief of the Continental Army, when it looked as if the Revolutionary War was about to be lost. One of nine children in a wealthy family of merchants and landowners, Mr. DeHaven was living in Pennsylvania on farmland a...
Mr. DeHaven was among those who responded. He lent the Government $50,000 in gold and what his descendants estimate to be another $400,000 in supplies. The Continental Army survived the winter at Valley Forge, and when the war was over, Mr. DeHaven apparently tried several times to collect what was owed to him.
Mr. DeHaven died penniless in 1812 and is believed to be buried in Swedeland, Pa., in a family cemetery. He had no children; had he possessed anything tangible to bequeath, his siblings and their children would have been his legal heirs.
He did leave behind his story, and it was handed from one generation to the next. Every decade or two there was an attempt by someone in the growing clan to collect the debt.
Ms. Kloecker said there is evidence that descendants tried to recover the loan from the Treasury shortly before and immediately after the Civil War, and again in 1886 and 1894.
Many of these efforts were carried out independently, with one branch of the family not knowing that another branch had tried and failed a decade earlier and in another part of the country.
In 1910, a branch of the family in Huntsville, Ala., hired lawyers to investigate the claim. Though the lawyers concluded that enough evidence existed to substantiate that the money was still owed, no suit was brought.
In the 1920's, President Calvin Coolidge told Congress that he thought the loan, then calculated at $4 million, should be repaid. In 1966, Representative Tom Pelly of Washington State introduced a resolution to repay $50,000 in settlement to the family, but the bill died in committee.
The latest attempt is thought to be the first time that the case has been brought to a court, rather than to Congress or Federal agencies. The suit began in January 1988 when Thelma Weasenforth Luunas of Stafford, Tex., a DeHaven on her father's side, approached Ms. Kloecker. Mrs. Luunas had promised her father shortly...
Ms. Kloecker consulted the Texas Commerce Bank in Houston to determine what the amount owed would be. The Continental Congress offered 6 percent interest on loans at that time; thus, the total, compounded daily, was calculated to be $141.6 billion in March 1989 when the suit was filed.
Fresh out of law school, Ms. Kloecker accepted the case for less than the customary 30 percent contingency. She is being helped by Peter W. Murphy, a professor at the South Texas College of Law in Houston, Ms. Kloecker began by searching for other descendants and for any documents they might have through advertisements...
Charles DeHaven, a pastor in New Braunfels, Tex., said his father first told him about the loan while he was studying the American Revolution in the fifth grade. ''He told me, 'Someday, someday, the DeHaven family will be known for what it really did,' '' he said.
More than just a lawsuit has resulted from what Mrs. Luunas started. There is now a DeHaven Family Club, resurrected from one that existed in the 1880's, that has more than 180 members and a $10 registration fee. There are also plans for a DeHaven family reunion in San Antonio next summer.
It is unclear how many descendants there are altogether. Ms. Kloecker estimates that based on 10 generations with four children in each generation, there could be as many as half a million. In court papers requesting that the family be certified as a class for the purposes of filing a class action suit, she listed the ...

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