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There was much to celebrate at this year’s silver jubilee Goodwood Festival of Speed.
I arrived on the Friday to be | greeted by the wail of the Jaguar XJR-9.
The sound of its 7.0 litre V12 engine at high revs is hugely evocative.
I remember watching Martin Brundle, Andy Wallace and John Neilsen win the 1988 1000km at Brands Hatch in one.
I’ve never forgotten the sound and the flames coming from the exhaust as they changed gear as the car raced through the woods of Dingle Dell.
Andy Wallace would go on to win Le Mans that same year in the Tony Southgate designed XJR-9 with fellow drivers, Johnny Dumfries and Jan Lammer.
The scale of Jaguar’s achievement becomes apparent when you consider that between 1981 and 1987 Porsche had won seven consecutive Le Mans.
Porsche first competed at Le Mans in 1951 and has won at the famous Circuit de la Sarthe on 19 occasions with 17 outright victories; more than any other manufacturer.
Porsche celebrated 70 years of |
All three occupants of a car died in a 'horrific' crash when a vehicle driving the wrong way down a slip road smashed head on | in to them.
One man was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs after the Peterborough collision.
Police were called to the slip road to Stanground off Fletton Parkway at midnight yesterday.
The driver arrested is now in critical condition in hospital.
The chairwoman of the Cambridgeshire Police Federation, Liz Groom, said it was'such sad news'.
'Thoughts with the families of those who have died,' she tweeted.
In a statement Cambridge Constabulary said: 'One vehicle had driven down the slip road the wrong way and collided head-on with another vehicle, killing all three of its occupants.
'Police were called to a collision involving two vehicles at the slip road to Stanground on the westbound carriageway.
'The driver of the offending vehicle has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and driving while under the influence of drink and/ |
SOUTH PASADENA — Things figure to be different for the upcoming season concerning the Hoover High and La Cañada girls' basketball | teams.
At Hoover, the Tornadoes have a new coach in Stan Watson.
La Cañada lost nine seniors to graduation and will likely view next season as a rebuilding one.
Nevertheless, Hoover and La Cañada found a way for some late dramatics during a South Pasadena Summer League contest Wednesday afternoon.
Hoover scored the last five points of the game to secure a 32-31 victory against La Cañada at South Pasadena High.
Amatia Golbodaghi made one of two free throws with 9.9 seconds left to lead Hoover to its third win in a row at South Pasadena. Golbodaghi earlier made a free throw with 58.9 seconds to knot the game at 31.
The Tornadoes received a team-best 14 points from sophomore center Allison Zalin.
Zalin made a pair of big shots from the floor to keep Hoover within striking distance. She scored on a layup to pull Hoover to within 31 |
Tens of thousands of workers walked off their jobs today and staged polite protests against layoffs and the increasing use of temporary workers.
A similar scene | was repeated at Myongdong Cathedral, the Roman Catholic church in central Seoul that has long been a haven for labor protesters fleeing the tear gas and cudgels of the riot police.
Workers expressed anger at the conglomerates, or chaebol, whose owners seem to be escaping the hardships suffered by average Koreans, and at the Government, which passed a law in February making it easier to lay off workers as part of an effort to prod the conglomerates to restructure.
Sentiment is also running against the International Monetary Fund, which made increased ''labor flexibility'' -- a euphemism for layoffs -- a condition of its $58 billion bailout.
Although labor protests are not widely popular here at the moment, economic conditions are getting more severe as companies that have muddled along hoping for a quick turnaround are being forced to take drastic measures.
Adding a new demand to its list, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, which represents more than 500,000 members of |
The US Supreme Court has granted a stay requested by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and Governor Rick Perry along with other state officials. The stay blocks Texas | from using the maps drawn by the lower Federal Court in San Antonio, TX. This Federal Court re-drew the maps for Texas in response to race based lawsuits from Liberal Democrat groups who cannot get the people to vote for them so they try to get into office via Activist Judges.
This Stay is GREAT news for Texas. The Constitution of the United States should just be thrown in the trash if 2 judges in San Antonio are able to draw the voting maps for the entire State of Texas. The United States Constitution says that the ELECTED Representatives in the State Legislature of Texas are the people who are supposed to draw the new voting maps. The court drawn maps represented the greatest attack against Texas and The Constitution since, well, since I can ever remember. Two unelected judges should not and cannot draw the maps for Texas. That is NOT their job nor do they have the authority to do it. The Supreme Court has taken the extraordinary step of granting a Stay to stop the court drawn maps. |
NEW YORK (Forex News Now) – The Canadian dollar pared gains versus its U.S. counterpart on Thursday, following mixed U. | S. data on producer price inflation and unemployment claims and upbeat data on Canada’s trade deficit.
In European late morning currency market trading, USD/CAD hit 1.0023, down 0.12 percent on the day, after rising slightly from a fresh 5-month low of 0.9979.
Official data showed earlier that U.S. initial jobless claims rose more than forecast last week and the U.S. trade deficit widened more than expected in September.
However, the reports were offset somewhat by upbeat data on U.S. producer price inflation, which rose unexpectedly in September.
According to intraday analysis, USD/CAD was likely to touch support around the low of April 21, 0.993, and encounter immediate resistance around Wednesday’s high, 1.0105.
Also Thursday, Canada’s statistics agency said the country’s trade deficit dropped to CAD -1.4 billion, down from a |
The Hackenthorpe Slimming World group celebrated Susan Spence and Peter Spence’s achievements as part of Slimming World’ | s Couple of the Year 2018 competition.
Susan, aged 57, and Peter, aged 59, believe supporting one another on their weight-loss journeys has been key to their success.
Susan, who has now lost 2st 7.5lbs, says: “We enjoy spending time in the kitchen together. When we first joined Slimming World we couldn’t believe how much food we could eat and still lose weight. Making small changes to the way we cooked our meals meant we could still enjoy all of our favourites like steak and chips, chilli con carne,spaghetti bolognaise and Sunday dinners.
“We love sharing our new recipes with family and friends, too – they taste so great and people are always surprised to learn they’re good for them. As we’ve lost weight we’ve enjoyed being more active as well, which means we do more together like getting out and about and enjoying long walks and bike rides |
NEWPORT County AFC will be targeting a win and another potential financial boost when they host League One Oxford United in the Carabao Cup second round | tomorrow night.
Striker Padraig Amond knows from experience how important success in the cup competitions can be for clubs like County.
The Irishman was brought to Rodney Parade 12 months with the money the Exiles earned from their Carabao Cup tie at Leeds United.
And he knows that a win over Oxford, coupled with a good draw for the next round, could enable manager Michael Flynn to bring in another loan signing before Friday’s deadline.
Amond told iFollow Exiles: "We’ll be going in as underdogs. They are a league above us, and their win [against Burton Albion on Saturday] will give them a bit of confidence.
“But we have a lot of confidence in this team and we want to get a win and a good draw in the next round if we can.
“The Leeds game last season basically allowed my signing to happen and I was really grateful for that.
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The national average wedding cost is more than $30,000.
The average cost of a wedding in America is $33,391, according | to The Knot.
More than half of couples go into debt to pay for their wedding— so how much are couples actually spending on their wedding?
We talked to seven former brides to see how much they spent on their wedding, and the majority spent less than the national average.
Modern-day weddings have a notorious reputation for being pricey. On average, Americans spend roughly $33,391 on their weddings, according to The Knot's 2017 Real Weddings Study.
But that doesn't mean they can afford it. More than 74% of couples will go into debt for wedding costs, reports Student Loan Hero.
But, of course, how much you spend on your wedding depends on several factors, such as where you live, what season you're getting married in, what type of wedding you have (big or small), and what details are important to you.
So, Business Insider talked to seven former brides who shared their wedding budget details. They shared their original |
Haryana state minister Om Prakash Dhankar criticised over remarks made in wake of a number of recent suicides in India.
An | Indian state minister from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party has been criticised for saying that farmers who commit suicide are "cowards".
Om Prakash Dhankar, the agriculture minister of Haryana state, said on Tuesday that: "According to Indian law, suicide is a crime. A person who commits suicide runs away from his responsibilities".
"Such people are cowards and the government cannot stand by such cowards, such criminals," Dhankar said, according to NDTV.
The comments came in the wake of large numbers of suicides committed by farmers in recent months.
It also follows the high-profile death of Gajendra Singh, from the western state of Rajasthan, who purportedly left a suicide note saying he had recently suffered crop losses, before hanging himself from a tree at a popular protest spot near India's parliament last week.
In parliament on Wednesday, the opposition Congress Party leader Rahul Gandhi crticised the government over Dhankar's remarks |
The Brzyckis lived in Rifle from 1972-79. This letter is about David, who went to elementary school in Rifle.
On | June 1, David and his father, Lenny, were hunting in Southwestern Montana. His father, who was a short distance away from David, heard a rifle shot and found David being mauled by a bear. He was able to shoot the bear from 25 yards away. David walked on his own to the ATV, before collapsing on his father’s shoulder. Lenny drove the ATV 12 miles out of the woods to his truck, then drove 25 miles before getting cell service and calling 911. David is in Harbor View Medical Center in Seattle, Wash.
David lost an eye and injuries to his head and face were extensive, both hands and wrists as well as an arm were broken. The surgeons determined that David’s hand and wrist were crushed by the jaw of the bear. David fought hard, covering his head with his hands so the bear couldn’t get to his head. He lost a lot of tissue and blood where the bear bit his arm |
The continuing boom in big data will lead to 25 per cent of large organisations appointing chief data officers (CDOs) within the next year, according | to the research firm Gartner.
Debra Logan, research vice president at Gartner, claims that the number of CDOs serving in large organisations has doubled since 2012 and will continue to rise as the need to understand data increases.
Research by the firm suggests that there are CDOs operating in over a dozen countries now, most commonly in heavily regulated industries, media and government.
Logan believes that CDOs should integrate with existing chief information officers (CIOs) within firms, taking on the ever-expanding role of managing data in order to allow CIOs to focus on "the more-than-full time job" that they already have.
"CIOs should view the CDO as a peer and partner who can manage data and who has the knowledge, background and skills to do so," Logan said.
The emergence of this new role has so far attracted double the proportion of women compared to that of CIO, with the majority of positions |
HBO Documentary Films has acquired worldwide TV and streaming rights to Participant Media and Emerson Collective’s documentary feature film FOSTER. Producer | Deborah Oppenheimer and writer-director Mark Jonathan Harris (HBO’s Oscar®-winning “Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport”) reunite to upend some of the most enduring myths about foster care, going beyond the sensational headlines and stereotypes. The Sabine Films production, which recently had its world premiere at AFI DOCS Film Festival in Washington, D.C., will debut on HBO in 2019.
There are currently more than 400,000 children in foster care in the U.S., a number that continues to grow each year. Drawing on unprecedented access, FOSTER traces a complex path through the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services, interweaving first-hand stories of those navigating the system with insights from social workers, advocates and others working in the justice system. The film offers a realistic but hopeful perspective on a community that needs society’s support.
Committed to ensuring that |
A risk-reduction request for proposals (RfP) for the US Navy’s MQ-25 unmanned air vehicle acquisition is | expected to be released “this summer”, which will help set out the timeline in which the service can realistically expect the tanker system to be deployed on-board its carrier fleet.
Speaking to Flightglobal at the AUVSI Xponential show in New Orleans, Louisiana on 3 May, RADM Mark Darrah, PEO Unmanned Aviation and Strike Weapons for the navy, said that the move from a stealth intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) strike aircraft to the tanker variant now being proposed has left questions over the availability of the technology and timeframe for its development.
The goal is to release a risk-reduction RfP this summer, which will be followed by an engineering, manufacturing and design RfP in early FY2017, he says.
The intent it still to speak to the same four bidders that were selected for the previous iteration of the programme – the unmanned carrier-launched airborne surveillance and strike, or UCLASS – and |
(AP) — China said Friday it is poised to impose retaliatory tariffs on $60 billion worth of U.S. imports, including coffee | , honey and industrial chemicals, if Washington goes ahead with its latest trade threat.
China’s Finance Ministry accused the Trump administration of damaging the global economy after the U.S. proposed increasing duties on $200 billion of Chinese goods in the second round of a dispute over technology.
Washington imposed 25 percent duties on $34 billion of Chinese goods on July 6 in response to complaints Beijing steals or pressures companies to hand over technology.
Beijing retaliated by imposing similar charges on the same amount of U.S. products.
A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman had earlier called on Washington to “come to its senses” and settle the dispute.
There’s no end in sight, and the dispute could chill global trade and economic growth.
China’s new threat targeting a smaller amount of U.S. goods reflects the fact that Beijing is running out of products for retaliation due to its lopsided trade balance with the United States.
China’ |
So what better solutions do we have to this epidemic desire for the processed and carb-loaded? Here enters GoNanas, the brainchild of | School of Information senior Annie Slabotsky and LSA senior Morgan Lerner. GoNanas produces a variety of banana breads, all gluten-free (many vegan friendly as well) that replace all the negative ingredients associated with baked desserts with the kind of stuff that packs a much more nutritious punch, all detailed by Slabotsky in an interview with The Daily.
But GoNanas hasn’t always been supplying places like Fred’s, Replenish and Literati with their delicious breads. Like all small businesses, Slabotsky and Lerner started out as freshman with a simple goal in mind: “We’re really driven by our mission in this idea that we can bring healthy, accessible food to busy college kids that are on the go and want to have a dessert but don’t want to grab a donut or a refined sugar-filled muffin. So we want to give this treat — especially to those people who are vegan |
Living as illegal immigrants in Phoenix, Gerardo and Lupita have spent the past 11 years suppressing a certain amount of fear that they would be discovered | and deported; however, until Arizona’s new immigration law was signed in April, they didn’t worry much about sending their two children to school.
But they’re scared now – of being singled out and arrested for sending their children to public school. So are their children, Daniela, 13, and Diego, 7.
Daniela is an undocumented high school student; Diego is the only official U.S. citizen in the family. Their mother, Lupita, said she’s scared for both of them.
Daniela’s high school – like many public schools in Arizona – has a police officer working full-time on campus. These school resource officers (SROs) work under contract with school districts to keep schools safe and to react to emergencies when necessary.
Part of an SRO’s mission is to become a role model to the students and foster a sense of trust between children and police. But that role may change |
The Cocoon Studio costs $225,000 to $275,00 and can be delivered in less than 16 weeks. The 480-square- | foot home includes several environmental features, such as LED lighting and nontoxic materials.
With his venture Cocoon9, Christopher Burch — the man behind the now-shuttered clothing brand C. Wonder and the former husband of the fashion designer Tory Burch — hopes to prove that small, prefabricated spaces can be luxurious and perfect for the Hamptons.
Such a space is the company’s Cocoon Studio, a 480-square-foot prototype of a prefabricated house that is now on view at the Southampton location of Mecox Gardens, the home furnishings store.
The rectangular building, which ranges in price from $225,000 to $275,000, features a wall of sliding floor-to-ceiling windows and white lacquered cabinetry that conceals shelving, kitchen appliances and a Murphy bed.
Mr. Burch founded Cocoon9 with a childhood friend, Edwin Mahoney, several years ago, with the |
Thursday night's The X Factor elimination show was the first that relied entirely on viewer votes without taking judges' opinions into account. If you don't | want to know who America chose as The X Factor's three finalists, read no further.
The X Factor fielded 30 million votes for their results show, but Marcus Canty's name wasn't on enough of the ballots as he was sent home one week before the season finale.
The soulful crooner held his head high, vowing that the decision would not hinder his career.
"This is not the last time you will see Marcus Canty!" he declared.
It had been a long road for Canty to remain on the show as long as he did. The vocalist had to sing for his survival on numerous occasions, winding up towards the bottom in audience and judges' votes.
Canty's mentor, L.A. Reid, seemed more affected by the news, saying, "I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little sad, right? I'm really connected to Marcus -- he's amazing. I'm not happy to see you go. |
Hamilton County, Ohio Prosecutor Joe Deters announced Tuesday that he will retry the case of police officer Ray Tensing, who is accused of the | shooting death of Sam Dubose following a July 2015 traffic stop.
Earlier this month, a jury could not reach a unanimous verdict on the murder and voluntary manslaughter charges against the former University of Cincinnati police officer, leading Judge Megan Shanahan to declare a hung jury and a mistrial.
Tensing was working as a University of Cincinnati police officers on July 19, 2016 when he stopped Dubose for a failure to display a license plate. The traffic stop was caught on Tensing's body camera and resulted in a single shot to Dubose's head, causing his death.
"I've never had a hung jury in my life. Ever," Deters said Tuesday. "Can't remember the last time I had a not guilty verdict. Maybe 30 years ago."
Before the start of the trial, Tensing's attorney Stew Mathews requested a change of venue; the request was denied.
Deters said he plans to request a change of venue for the trial, saying it would be very |
LIAM Payne and Naomi Campbell have had their first bust-up — she wanted to avoid him at tonight’s Bafta awards and | he wasn't happy about it.
Liam, 25, also recently missed a New York party amid claims Naomi, 48, does not want to be seen in public with the One Direction star.
We can reveal Liam’s ex Cheryl Tweedy is devastated over their relationship — and is stunned he is seeing someone like Naomi.
Sources said the supermodel wants to avoid the “drama” of being seen out with Liam. One said: “Naomi and Liam argued about the Baftas and she bluntly told him they were not going together.
Liam — who split from The Greatest Dancer judge Cheryl, 35, last summer — was spotted at home in London this week while Naomi was in New York.
But she jetted back into Heathrow on Friday — with Liam and Naomi both expected at tonight’s Baftas at the Royal Albert Hall.
But their romance has caused concern among Liam’s friends and family, including |
Thirty thousand Syrians who have been granted Turkish citizenship will vote in Sunday's presidential and parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim was | quoted as saying on Tuesday by broadcaster NTV.
“They have the right to vote but I do not know how many of them will use that right. They are our guests and they will return to their country,” the prime minister said.
He said that Syrians who have received Turkish citizenship "must obey the Turkish law", according to Turkish daily Hurriyet.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government has granted citizenship to thousands of refugees who have fled the conflict in neighbouring Syria. Turkey is hosting around 3.5 million Syrian refugees.
The Hurriyet newspaper and other media said Mr Yildirim made the comments Tuesday in the city of Izmir.
Turkey announced in 2016 that it would begin granting citizenship to Syrians. Many of the Syrian refugees who reside in the country mainly live in the southeast and Istanbul, Turkey's largest city. Critics of Turkey's refugee policy say that it lacks a strategy to deal with their long-term presence.
Mr Erdogan, whose |
If Google and Apple can have their mobile payment services, so can Samsung. They are the world’s largest phone maker, after all. | And they want to increase their ARPU, no matter what.
Samsung is just trying too hard and they will eventually succeed. Honestly, I’m not sure why their apps are seldom, if ever, used. Some of them look great, while others — like Samsung (Galaxy) Apps — are only used when you need to download something for free.
Anyway, the Samsung Pay service has been unveiled on the heels of the company’s acquisition of mobile payments firm LoopPay. The service will utilize both NFC and MST (Magnetic Secure Transmission) to allow users to forget their wallets at home, and use nothing but their smartphone to pay for goods.
The Korean giant has managed to corner all of the big boys on its side, which — when you think about it — don’t have a thing to lose – only to gain new clients. These include financial giants such as MasterCard, Visa and American Express, Bank of America, Citi, JPMorgan |
PRESTONSBURG — Will Kinzer was a "quiet, happy, good baby," said his mother, Moriah Kinzer. | He started talking on schedule, eventually saying words like mama, dada, cookie.
Kinzer said she thought it was cute at first when her son rocked himself side-to-side, looking at nothing in particular.
Those are classic autism symptoms.
When a barrage of tests at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital confirmed autism, Kinzer said, it still shocked her. "You feel like you've lost your child. You lose your hopes and dreams for that child," she said.
With ABA, speech therapy and specialized tools like a letter board to spell words, Mitch asks questions and communicates what he wants.
The Kinzers and the Wilsons were not willing to accept that such treatment was not available to their community.
Public school officials say that, as awareness has grown in the last decade, they have come a long way in teaching children with autism. In Kentucky schools, some special education programs incorporate ABA methods. But no method is a "magic bullet |
A Saudi Arabian woman who was reportedly seeking asylum in Australia but was off-loaded from her flight at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NA | IA) was repatriated Monday night.
On the request of officials from the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Manila, Dina Ali Lasloom was off-loaded from her Australian-bound flight at the NAIA Tterminal 2 and put on a 10:30 p.m. Saudi Airlines flight to Jeddah at the NAIATterminal 1.
Lasloom was a passenger of a Philippine Airlines flight PR 669 from Kuwait to Manila, which arrived at 3:30 am Monday, and was supposed to take an 11 a.m. connecting flight to Sydney, Australia the same day.
According to personnel at the NAIA Terminal 2 the group from the Saudi Arabian Embassy were the persons with Lasloom in the video, which the group calling itself the Saudi Arabian Female Empowerment (SAFE) Movement posted on Twitter.
The video was taken inside the NAIA Terminal 2 transfer lounge.
One of the NAIA personnel, who spoke on condition of anonymity |
He was fortunate to escape with par, not to mention his health, on the final hole when his 3-iron off the tee ran out 290 | yards and just into the hazard short of the bridge. He had to clip the ball to avoid smacking the bridge and damaging his wrist, and the wedge came out perfectly.
Scott Stallings, who won last week in Mississippi, birdied his last two holes for a 63 and was four shots behind, along with Chris Kirk (63) and Bo Van Pelt (67). Stallings ended a streak of nine consecutive PGA Tour events in which the 54-hole leader failed to win. The ninth was Ernie Els coming from six shots behind at the British Open. Stalling won later that day.
Peter Fowler was 5 under after a 65, and John Cook, Barry Lane and second-round Gary Hallberg followed at 5 under. John Cook and Barry Lane shot 66, and Hallberg had a 73.
Natalie Gulbis, the 2007 winner for her lone LPGA Tour title, was a stroke back along with Karrie Webb and 17-year-old |
Part of the reason were sky-high expectations after Obama's celebrated speech to the Muslim world in 2009 in Cairo.
Arabs believed Obama two | years ago when he said he'd change Washington and the world, Zogby told a roundtable at the New America Foundation, a Washington-based think tank. Now, a stunning majority — as high as 99 percent of those surveyed in Lebanon and 94 percent in Jordan — said Obama hasn't met expectations.
Even actions that could be construed as constructive, like establishing a no-fly zone over Libya or killing Osama bin Laden, didn't win points. In the poll, the killing of bin Laden actually worsened attitudes. Zogby said it was because those actions reinforced America's image as the bully on the block.
"I use the example of the next-door neighbor (who screws) around with your wife for a couple of years, and then one day trims your bushes and takes your garbage out. You don't say, 'Gosh what a great guy,'" Zogby said.
Of course, U.S. approval ratings in the region have been low for |
Facebook is prepared to pay as much as $250,000 per episode for its planned original video initiative, Reuters reported Wednesday, citing sources familiar with | the project. The company also plans to license shorter-form content for $10,000 to $35,000 an episode, and has signed on Vox Media, BuzzFeed, ATTN, and Group Nine Media to produce videos.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg first started publicly talking about spending money on what he called “anchor content” for Facebook’s video tab during the company’s most recent earnings call earlier this month. During that same call, Facebook CFO David Wehner said that the company was looking at “kickstarting an ecosystem for longer-form content on Facebook” with upfront investments.
Soon after, Business Insider reported that Facebook had signed up Conde Nast to produce some of its originals. Titles in production reportedly included a VR dating show and other shows involving A-list celebrities. Facebook was looking to unveil a first slate of content at the Cannes Lions advertising festival in June, according to Business Insider.
Wednesday’s report confirmed |
In hindsight, it’s amazing that no one saw it coming. After all, Angela Ahrendts, the soon-to-be | -former chief executive of Burberry, the woman who has more than tripled the brand’s share price in her eight years at the helm, dropped enough hints.
In a video entitled Burberry’s social story, for example, the UK’s highest-paid CEO in 2012 holds up her iPhone and announces, “This is the entry into the brand.” The recent Burberry spring/summer 2014 collection was photographed, videoed and streamed on the iPhone 5s. And Ahrendts (along with chief creative officer and next CEO Christopher Bailey) transformed the quintessential British heritage brand into the perennial top scorer in think-tank L2’s “Digital Luxury Index”.
Yet, last October, when Ahrendts announced she was leaving Burberry to become senior vice-president, retail and online stores, at Apple, the luxury and technology worlds dropped their collective jaws.
The surprise is understandable: no such high- |
ISLAMABAD - In order to attract new investment and to facilitate existing industry, government on Thursday constituted council of business leaders.
According | to the notification, the council will have 22 members including the chairperson, prime minister. Advisor to the prime minister on commerce will be the president of the newly formed body.
Its members include Muhammad Ali Tabba, Bashir Ali Muhammad, Shahid Soorty, Musadaq Zulqarnain, Seema Aziz, Azam Farooq, Shahid Abdullah, Khawar Anwar Raja, Baber Badat, Miss Naz Khan, Abrar Hasan, Saqib Shirazi, Shahid Hussain, Usman Khalid Waheed, Samina Rizwan, Almas Haider, Afaq A. Tiwana, Asif peer, Zarak Khan, and Abul Rauf.
Muhammad Ali Tabba is from Lucky Cement, Bashir Ali Muhammad from Gul Ahmed Textiles, Shahid Soorty from Soorty Enterprises, Musadaq Zulqarnain from Interloop Holding, Seema Aziz |
Good Tuesday afternoon. WE HEAR … -- TWITTER will up its character limit to 280 characters for everyone in the very near future. D | .C. is beginning to buzz about it, as political operatives have caught wind of the change.
PRESIDENT TRUMP said he wants a tax bill through the House by Thanksgiving and signed by Christmas in a pool spray.
-- He will also not visit the DMZ while he is on his Asia trip, per a background call with reporters.
BUZZ … Multiple tech companies and larger multinational companies are considering opposing the House Republican tax bill if the foreign minimum tax is more than 10 percent. Lobbyists began raising concerns Tuesday with GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill over the issue.
YOU DON’T SAY -- @kristinapet: “Scott Garrett will reverse his opposition to the Ex-Im Bank in his Wed. confirmation hearing to lead the bank, per his prepared testimony”.
HURRICANE UPDATE -- “People On The U.S. Virgin Islands Can’t Get Food Aid Because There’s Still No Electricity,” by BuzzFeed |
Russian military advisers are manning some of Syria's more sophisticated air defences – something that would complicate any future US-led intervention, the Guardian has | learned.
The advisers have been deployed with new surface-to-air systems and upgrades of old systems, which Moscow has supplied to the Assad regime since the Syrian revolution broke out 21 months ago.
The depth and complexity of Syria's anti-aircraft defences mean that any direct western campaign, in support of a no-fly zone or in the form of punitive air strikes against the leadership, would be costly, protracted and risky. The possibility of Russian military casualties in such a campaign could have unpredictable geopolitical consequences.
Meanwhile, near-daily atrocities have kept western governments under pressure to act. A Syrian government air strike on a town near the central city of Hama on Sunday killed dozens of civilians queueing for bread, according to human rights activists.
Amateur footage from Halfaya showed mangled human remains strewn along a street where people had been blown off scooters and out of cars. One video showed a boy with his feet blown off. Piles of corpses could be seen |
COMMON People brought more than just music stars to Southampton - the festival boosted the city’s economy by more than £1m, the | Daily Echo can reveal.
It comes as the organisers of Common People confirmed the dates for the third festival on The Common next year.
The festival generated £1.1m for the city over the Whitsun Bank Holiday weekend, with 28.5 per cent of the crowd coming from outside the city.
And organiser Rob Da Bank, who grew up in Warsash before becoming a Radio 1 DJ and brought the festival to Southampton following the success of his Bestival brand, is already looking forward to next year’s event.
The third Common People will take place on May 27 and 28 next year, and tickets will go on sale at 10am today.
Rob told the Daily Echo: “Wow Southampton. I didn’t think you would be able to top 2015 but I was very wrong.
“The sunshine, the crowd, the music, the food, the world’s biggest bouncy castle, Craig David’s homecoming |
CLEVELAND (AP) Johnny Manziel threw a touchdown pass and maybe closed the gap on Browns presumed starting quarterback Josh McCown in Cleveland&ap | os;s 11-10 loss to the Buffalo Bills on Thursday night.
Buffalo's EJ Manuel, attempting to beat out Matt Cassel and Tyrod Taylor for the starting job, threw a 14-yard TD pass to Andre Davis with 1:31 left. He then connected with rookie Bronson Hill for the 2-point conversion to complete a late rally by the Bills (1-1).
Manziel had one last chance, but he couldn't pull off any magic as the Browns (0-2) dropped their second straight exhibition at home.
Manziel connected with rookie Shane Wynn on a 21-yard TD pass in the fourth quarter. Playing against Buffalo's backups, Manziel finished 10 of 18 for 118 yards and made one of those Johnny Football plays that made him an electrifying college star.
Both teams were at less than full strength because of injuries. The Browns sat 20 players with injuries |
Springtime is about new beginnings in the kitchen. It's the time for baby roots, wispy leaves and tender stalks to tentatively | emerge from the earth. Fresh, crisp and delicate, these greens are a sight for winter eyes and a delicacy to eat, a simple cleanse following a season of hardy winter fare. But spring can be fickle. Its promise of budding flowers and new growth can be erased in a single day with a stubborn blast of cold weather, altering a sunny vignette to a blustery stew-craving day.
Here is a salad that will help you ride this changeable time. It celebrates springtime's early asparagus shoots and baby greens, tossing them into a nourishing bowl of black lentils, which grounds the salad, providing heft and substance in response to any lingering winter weather.
Black lentils are tiny, and their pellet-like resemblance to caviar has earned them the nickname "beluga lentils." Like brown or green lentils, black lentils are a fortifying source of iron, fiber, protein, folate and magnesium |
"The collection represents a selection of objects from a larger collection formed by Maurice Tempelsman, a diamond merchant resident in New York, over the | past twenty-five years. The individual pieces come from a variety of sources, although the largest number were provided directly by, or were bought legally through, Robin Symes of London. All have been legally imported into the U.S. The collection is currently in the Museum." -- Acquisition Notes of Getty Museum antiquities curator Arthur Houghton cited in The Medici Conspiracy.
Among the high profile clients of British antiquities dealer Robin Symes was Maurice Tempelsman -- one of the pillars of the Eastern Establishment (Council on Foreign Relations, Africa-America Institute, long-time beau of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and "friend" of former Clinton Secretary of State Madeleine Albright); Leon Levy & Shelby White and the Metropolitan Museum of Art were customers too. Symes bought his pieces primarily from now-convicted antiquities smuggler Giacomo Medici, the man who sold the Euphronios Sarpedon vases to Bob Hecht.
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Taylor Leier just scored the winning goal to clinch the Stanley Cup for the Philadelphia Flyers and went into full celebration mode. Er, Leier just | netted the Calder Cup-clinching goal for the Lehigh Valley Phantoms and immediately punctuated it with a joyous celebration.
Of course, neither one of those things happened Friday night at Allentown’s PPL Center, but Leier did score a goal, and his celebration was just as emphatic as if it had been a Cup-winning goal for either the Flyers or Phantoms.
“If you watched the video, you know I had a lot of emotion after that first goal. It felt really good,” the 24-year-old Leier said on Friday night after scoring his first AHL goal since April 15, 2017.
Leier, the MVP of the 2017 AHL All-Star Classic, had been on the Flyers’ roster the past 1½ seasons but got little playing time over his 49 games, accumulating two goals and five assists. Getting sent down to Lehigh Valley to start the season wasn’t the greatest feeling |
The names read like a who’s who of diet tycoons.
There was David Burwick, the president of Weight Watchers | North America; Dana Fiser, the chief executive of the weight-loss program Jenny Craig; Dr. Arthur Agatston, the inventor of the South Beach Diet; Dr. Howard Shapiro, the founder of Picture Perfect Weight Loss; Dr. Pierre Dukan, the creator of the protein-based Dukan Diet that has taken France by storm; and Bob Greene, the founder of the Best Life diet regimen, who is best known for being Oprah Winfrey’s personal trainer.
Like movie stars lining up to endorse the next big celebrity workout, the weight-loss specialists have all thrown their support behind Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s proposal to limit sales of big sugary drinks.
Announced a little more than a week before the New York City Board of Health is to vote on the restriction, the endorsements are the latest sally in the mayor’s public relations offensive on behalf of the proposal, which has reignited a national debate over obesity and drawn |
...it would make perfect sense to consider Mr Whitehead (constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute | ) whose seminal book “Battlefield America: The War On The American People” is an extraordinary treatise, in-depth study, and detailed analysis of just what went wrong with the hasty enactment of the DHS after the suspicious circumstances of September 11, 2001.
VIDEO: John W. Whitehead and Ron Paul Discuss "Will the Deep State Win the Election?"
John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute, joins Ron Paul on the Ron Paul Liberty Report to discuss the "shadow government," an unelected permanent government that continues to push towards dictatorship.
Mike Sienda already felt aggrieved when his boss at the National Ground Intelligence Center’s Rivanna Station told him in early September to not show up on grounds with his giant Trump-Pence signs on the side of his box truck. When he was told he couldn’t park on the federal property with a smaller Trump 2016: Make America Great Again sign in the back window of his Jeep, |
Members of the Ventura County community are using art and music to raise money and bring fun to those affected by the Thomas Fire.
Members of the | community are using art and music to raise money and bring fun to those affected by the Thomas Fire.
On Saturday, the Thomas Arts Festival will raise money for artists affected by the fire. Maybe they lost art supplies or instruments, or art pieces planned for future sale were destroyed in the flames. Whatever the situation, the artists might be eligible to receive money, organizers said.
The goal is to “assist those who might not qualify for traditional assistance,” said Ariel Palmieri, a volunteer helping organize the event.
Then on Feb. 25, the Ventura Music Festival will offer a free Concert for Ventura at Mission Park.
Organizers said the hope for the 90-minute concert is to provide unity through music.
Greg Gillis-Smith was inspired to launch the Thomas Arts Festival after hearing about the losses of those who work in the creative economy.
“Through donated art being auctioned, and through local sponsors, we are raising funds for those who are struggling |
Nashville Predators center Nick Bonino (13) celebrates his goal with defenseman Roman Josi (59) while Colorado Avalanche defenseman Tyson Barrie | (4) reacts during the second period of game 6 in the first round NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at Pepsi Center, Sunday, April 22, 2018, in Denver, Colo.
The Nashville Predators open the first round of the 2018 Stanley Cup Playoffs hosting the Colorado Avalanche.
The Predators won Game 1 of the series 5-2 on a strong performance from Filip Forsberg.
They followed that up with a penalty-filled 5-4 win in Game 2 to push their lead in the series to 2-0.
The Predators were on their heels from the outset of Game 3, quickly falling behind to the Avalanche and never recovering in a 5-3 loss.
The Predators came out firing in Game 4, building a 3-0 and surviving a comeback attempt from the Avalanche for a 3-2 win.
The Avalanche shocked the Predators and their vocal fans in Game 5, scoring two goals in late in the third period to win 2-1 and force Game 6 Sunday.
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We’ve been messing with the cardboard contraptions of Nintendo Labo for over a week now. And honestly, our opinions haven’ | t changed that much since our first big hands-on with the Nintendo Switch DIY toys a few months ago. That’s said, we do have some new observations worth sharing now that you can pick up Labo for yourself.
After folding countless boxes, I can never look at a normal pizza box the same way again. All of that folding also gave me so much more respect for the designers at Nintendo. The cardboard itself is more durable than I first feared. I gradually grew more comfortable folding more aggressively and shoving the piano in my bookbag. But really it’s the designs of creations themselves that “kid-proof” them. Along with the ingenious spring mechanisms and reflective IR tape, just the way the designs are constructed involves so many interlocking pieces and walls reinforcing other walls to help maintain the shape. It’s so much sturdier than it has any right to be.
The minigames have the amount of depth I expected, which |
Evette Davis hugs her daughter Heaven, 5, and son Julian, 9, after a shooting at Ross Elementary school Tuesday, April 19, 2011 | , in Houston.
She was right; it was a gun. A loaded pistol had dropped from a six-year-old male student’s pants pocket and discharged. The student carrying the gun and two others were slightly injured by what was thought to be a single bullet.
While investigators try to determine how the boy obtained the weapon, news of the incident has raised alarm today as the U.S. marks the 12th anniversary of the mass school shooting at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999.
A forthcoming poll to be released this summer by PAX/The Center to Prevent Youth Violence shows schools may have not come as far as they should have in the last 12 years toward preventing gun violence. Of the 817 students ages 13-to-18 surveyed in the group’s online poll, 45% said they knew someone who had brought a weapon to school. Of those, eight percent said they knew someone who had brought a gun.
For their part, |
In the closest vote of the D Sports Awards yet, Yejadai Dunn ’16 emerged victorious with 50.9 percent of the votes. | Close behind was Kaitlin Whitehorn ’16, garnering 36.4 percent. Jaclyn Leto ’16 took home 9.1 percent while both Katie McEachern ’16 and Laura Stacey ’16 each received 1.8 percent of the votes. Dunn’s victory marks the third victory coming for women’s rugby in three votes for best moment, best rookie and best female athlete. Dunn will go on this summer to compete among national talent and potentially secure a spot on the USA Eagles.
Brian McLaughlin ’18 turned in a fantastic season for the men’s Alpine ski team that earned him All-American First Team honors in the slalom after a third place finish in the NCAA Championships. McLaughlin finished both of the day’s runs in a total time of1 minute 24.68 seconds.
Consistently ranked in the top 15 in giant slalom and slalom rankings for the East |
Sir Peter Bonfield, chief executive of BT, is rumoured to be planning to leave his post six months earlier than planned.
According to | Friday's Financial Times, Bonfield is thought likely to stand down next summer. His contract runs until the end of 2002, but it seems likely that the restructuring strategy that he is co-ordinating will be completed earlier than planned. The FT attributes its story to un-attributed comments made by "a number of people involved" in this process, and tips Pierre Danon -- head of BT retail -- as a likely successor.
BT officials are refusing to shed any light on the rumours. "The story is just speculation about speculation," said a BT spokesman. "Sir Peter Bonfield has made no public statement on the matter".
BT said earlier this week that it was no longer planning to split its retail business from its network operations. This move was at the heart of the restructuring strategy that Bonfield was heading, and its cancellation means the process is unlikely to last until the end of 2002, as previously thought. According to rumours, BT will conclude the break-up of Concert, |
In February 2008, Raymond Smith, the 77-year-old husband of the writer Joyce Carol Oates, died from complications of pneumonia at a | hospital in Princeton, N.J. They had been married for nearly 50 years.
"A Widow's Story" is a chronicle of that marriage, and a tribute to the steadfast man whom Oates recalls as "the gardener of our household." Above all, this book is a rumination on widowhood, and the struggle to reclaim identity in the aftermath of profound loss. Having been abruptly wrenched from her role as Smith's wife, Oates writes, "What a strange lucidity this seems to bring, like disinfectant slapped on an open wound."
She writes of widowhood as a terrible state, yet one that is also filled with moments of absurdity and black humor. The devastation that Oates feels is almost comical in its vastness, and the pills she is prescribed for her anxiety only seem to worsen her condition. She finds herself unable to complete even the simplest task, and seeks consolation in her familiar role as a teacher. (Oates is a longtime professor |
It's full-year results time for Vodafone, Marks & Spencer, and Burberry.
LONDON -- Next week will be | another busy one for full-year results from FTSE 100 companies with years ending on March 31. And we'll have more company news in the weeks to come as well, as March also marks the first quarter for all those with December year-end dates. Here are three companies from the top-tier index that are set to report annual results next week.
Vodafone will release full-year results on May 21. Recent forecasts suggest earnings of about 15 pence per share, which would be pretty much flat compared with last year's adjusted figure of 14.91 pence. But we should be seeing a rise in the dividend of about 9% to take it to a yield of about 5.3% on today's share price of 197 pence.
But the main item on the Vodafone agenda at the moment is its relationship with Verizon Communications over its 45% share of Verizon Wireless. Will the two telecoms giants merge? Will Vodafone sell |
Home healthcare services provider Portea Medical said on Thursday it has acquired home medical equipment provider Health Mantra India Pvt Ltd for an undisclosed amount in | cash and stock.
The acquisition will help Portea expand into large home healthcare areas such as sleep medicine, respiratory care, geriatric care and orthopaedics, the company said in a statement.
Health Mantra’s founding team and employees will join Portea, operated by Health Vista India Pvt Ltd, as part of the deal.
This is Portea’s third deal in five months and indicates that the company, which thus far operated on an asset-light model, is adding assets related to its core business. The company had picked up a majority stake in healthcare discovery firm PSTakeCare in January this year and acquired specialty drug distributor Medybiz Pharma Pvt Ltd in November last year.
The acquisitions have come after Portea raised $37.5 million in September from Accel Partners and other investors for expansion.
Founded in 2009 by Ashish Bhutada and Anoop Kodoli, Bangalore-based Health Mantra provides home healthcare equipment |
LONDON: British street artist Banksy has stunned the art world with arguably his most audacious prank yet, self-destructing one of his | best-known works moments after it fetched more than a million pounds at auction in London.
"Girl with Balloon" had just sold at Sotheby's Friday for £1,042,000 (US$1.4 million) - a joint record for the maverick artist - when it unexpectedly passed through a shredder hidden in the frame, according to the auction house.
"It appears we just got Banksy-ed," said Alex Branczik, Sotheby's head of contemporary art for Europe, in a press release accompanied by a photo of the bizarre episode.
"The unexpected incident became instant art world folklore and certainly marks the first time in auction history that a work of art automatically shredded itself after coming under the hammer," the auctioneers added in the statement.
Banksy posted his own photo from midway through the shredding on his Instagram page early on Saturday, showing onlookers aghast at the stunt.
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Greenport Union Free School District has reduced the total cost of its proposed Capital Improvement Plan by $2.8 million. District officials presented a revision | on the proposed plan last Tuesday and listed potential options that would reduce the cost even further by scaling back athletic upgrades.
The plan, first introduced at a Feb. 5 Board of Education meeting, would transform the current school building, improve security and accessibility and upgrade athletic facilities, among other changes.
The district presented an updated version of the plan at a special board meeting last Tuesday. The project would now cost $27.1 million if approved in its entirety. Architectural firm Tetra Tech Engineers will continue to work with the district.
As previously reported by The Suffolk Times, the Feb. 5 presentation said $775,000 would be appropriated from the Capital Reserve Fund and $29.1 million would be raised through a bond issue.
Funding sources for the revised plan will remain the same: The majority of the money will still be generated by bond sales and an additional $25,000 will be appropriated from the Capital Reserve Fund.
Greenport Superintendent David Gamberg said there are |
Chipotle is still giving away free burritos to convince people its food is safe and combat the eeriness of empty stores.
NEW | YORK (AP) — Chipotle is still giving away free burritos to convince people its food is safe and combat the eeriness of empty stores.
The Denver-based chain made its first big push with freebies on Feb. 8 when it closed stores nationwide for a few hours so employees could participate in a food safety meeting after an E. Coli outbreak and other incidents sent sales plunging.
"It was kind of eerie — and we'd hear this from customers. They would walk by a restaurant and see, god that was always busy, and now there's no line whatsoever," said Jack Hartung, Chipotle's chief financial officer, speaking Wednesday at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Consumer and Retail Tech Conference.
Although traffic is still down, he said restaurants are looking fuller now and that the free offers are convincing people to become paying customers again.
He said it was important to let the chain's 2,000 restaurants "look like Chipotle again."
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COLOMBO - Kusal Perera's blazing half-century trumped Shikhar Dhawan's as Sri Lanka defeated India in the opening | T20I of the Nidahas Trophy tri-series by five wickets at R Premadasa Stadium on Tuesday. Riding on Perera's 37-ball 66, the hosts chased down 175 in 18.3 overs.
Perera was in some mood tonight as he smashed Indian bowlers all around over the park with pacer Shardul Thakur bearing the brunt of his assault, leaking 27 runs in his first over of the night. He struck him for three straight fours followed by a six over mid-off. Stunned by the hiding, Shardul ended up bowling a waist-high no-ball and ended up being hit for two more fours. Sri Lanka sprinted to their fifty in 3.4 overs and by the time Powerplay was over, had scored 75/2.
Perera reached his half-century off 22 deliveries – his eighth in the format. By the time he was stumped, Sri Lanka needed just 48 runs from seven |
Avengers: Endgame's Empire cover gets an updated version with the heroes' new costumes. As the release date for the culminating MCU | movie nears, Marvel Studios marketing is starting to heat up with the surprise release of the film's second trailer and ensemble poster. An early look at Empire's covers for the blockbuster have also been released, including a one that features the founding heroes of the franchise. But one fan took it upon himself to update that image with their latest suits, making it more apt for the Phase 3 capper.
With no reassembly in Avengers: Infinity War, one of the most-anticipated moments in Endgame is the reunion of the original six Avengers. The heroes have gone on different paths after their last mission in 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron. Tony Stark/Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) and Steve Rogers/Captain America (Chris Evans) couldn't resolve their differences in Captain America: Civil War putting Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) and Hawkeye/Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) at the center of their conflict, and resulting in the team |
Students at Carlton Viveiros Elementary School are connecting with their favorite Marine from thousands of miles away.
Back in December, Lance Cpl. | Mark DeMello visited Viveiros students in grades three to five and shared with them what life is like as a Marine. He had students performing pushups and excitedly asking questions. Shortly after his visit, DeMello was deployed to Afghanistan for his first tour in the Middle East. He is scheduled to return home to Fall River this summer.
DeMello enlisted in the Marines on his 18th birthday in January 2009 and went to boot camp that August. The B.M.C. Durfee High graduate was home on leave when Viveiros Assistant Principal Janet Belanger connected with DeMello’s mother Denise. Belanger asked if DeMello would be willing to come speak to the students about his experiences as a Marine.
"It teaches the kids what war really is," said Denise DeMello. "Some of them think it’s like ‘Call of Duty.’ Speaking to Mark makes it more real, it brings it home |
Former police officer Amber Guyger had a new look in court Tuesday in Dallas — and that was no accident, legal experts say.
Guyger | , 30, struck a softer appearance than she did earlier this month for her second courthouse visit since being indicted on a murder charge in the death of Botham Jean.
A change in body language and clothes is common for defendants trying to win over a judge and jury, legal experts say.
"Every time she is appearing at the courthouse, the public and, ultimately, her jury is looking at her," said George Milner III, a local defense attorney. "A defense attorney would make every effort to have their client present to the media a look that is consistent with innocence."
The result of Tuesday's meeting at the Frank Crowley Courts Building was unclear because a gag order prevents anyone associated with the case from speaking publicly.
Guyger was off-duty but in uniform Sept. 6 when she killed Jean in his Cedars apartment, a block away from Dallas police headquarters. She told law enforcement she mistook his fourth-floor apartment for her own and thought the 26-year-old |
Fueled by a surging stock market and huge gifts from billionaires, charitable giving in the United States in 2017 topped the $400 billion mark for the | first time, according to the latest comprehensive report on Americans’ giving patterns.
The Giving USA report, released Tuesday, said giving from individuals, estates, foundations and corporations reached an estimated $410 billion in 2017 – more than the gross domestic product of countries such as Israel and Ireland. The total was up 5.2 percent in current dollars (3 percent adjusted for inflation) from the estimate of $389.64 billion for 2016.
“Americans’ record-breaking charitable giving in 2017 demonstrates that even in divisive times our commitment to philanthropy is solid,” said Aggie Sweeney, chairman of Giving USA Foundation, which publishes the annual report. It is researched and written by the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.
Giving increased to eight of the nine sectors identified by Giving USA. The only decline was for areas related to international affairs.
The biggest increase was in giving to foundations – up 15.5 percent. That surge was driven by large gifts from |
What does the Oregon federal building standoff really indicate?
The Oregon federal building standoff reveals an institutionally perpetuated process of exploitation that sustains a | system of wealth, power, and privilege in our society. This system maintains that European immigrants are superior, are entitled to all material resources and should dominate and rule society. The standoff at the secluded federal building near Burns, Oregon is the latest example of how domestic terrorism is fueled by white supremacy.
On January 2, 2016, dozens of armed white militants occupied the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in protest of the conviction of two ranchers charged with arson. The Oregon federal building standoff militants demand the release of two ranchers and that the surrounding federal lands cede local control. The ranchers were sentenced twice for their arson crimes under the provision of a law called the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996. The militants claim that these ranchers have been oppressed by the federal government and hope to draw attention to their cause.
The charges in question stem from a pair or fires on federal land near their ranch. According to Rolling Stone Magazine, the first fire was reportedly set in |
The news marks its continued collaboration with Boys & Girls Clubs of America, which has spanned more than five decades.
Radio Disney has set its | second Back to School Drive.
Benefiting the Boys & Girls Clubs of America's "Tools for Back to School" campaign, Radio Disney stations across the U.S. will hold events inviting kids and families to donate school supplies to support their local BOys & Girls Clubs.
The drive falls under Radio Disney's Project Family initiative, which calls on families to take action and make a difference.
Underwriters Laboratories (UL), a worldwide safety organization, will spotlight online safety messages at 20 local events.
Radio Disney's Project Family school supply drive is a collaboration with Disney Friends for Change, which inspires kids and their families to make a positive change by helping people, their communities and the planet.
Disney has partnered with the Boys & Girls Clubs for more than five decades.
Events in Richmond, Va.; Orlando, Fl.; Delmar, N.Y.; Chicago, Ill.; Tampa, Fl.; Denver, Colo.; Atlanta, Ga.; Guilderland, N.Y.; East |
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has raised the stakes in its ongoing cloud battle with Microsoft and Gmail by confirming the general release of its managed email | offering, WorkMail, in Europe.
The managed email and calendar service – pitched as a challenger to Microsoft Office 365 and Gmail – runs in the AWS cloud and was first announced as a preview release in January 2015.
To reinforce WorkMail’s position as an Office 365 challenger, AWS is rolling out tools and advisory documents with the release to make it easier for enterprises to migrate their inboxes from Microsoft Exchange to Amazon WorkMail.
The service is priced at $4 per user per month for a 50GB mailbox, and AWS is also giving enterprises the opportunity to trial it with up to 25 users for 30 days.
In a blog post outlining the details of the release, Jeff Barr, chief evangelist for AWS, said the company has been working hard during the preview phase to add new features and functionality to Amazon WorkMail.
These are in addition to the location control, data encryption, virus scanning and mobile device access tools that were included in the first version.
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Commemorating the centenary of the Armistice together has “strengthened the bond” between Britain and Australia, | the country’s minister for veterans has said.
Some 331,000 Australians served overseas during the First World War, the vast majority of whom fought on the Western Front alongside British soldiers and their allies.
However, of the more than 60,000 Australians who perished, only one returned home as an identified casualty.
Speaking to the Press Association, Australian minister Darren Chester said the First World War had marked a “coming of age for a young nation” and the centenary commemorations have “served to increase Australians’ understanding of the major contribution we made”.
As part of events marking 100 years since the end of the conflict, a British unknown soldier has been laid to rest with two Australian comrades at Tyne Cot Cemetery near Ypres.
“In many ways, the centenary commemoration activities have brought our nations nations even closer together, as we work together on commemorative events on the Western Front, and it’s strengthened the bond |
While open code repositories can increase efficiency in R&D, they also raise issues of security vulnerabilities. Today’s developers are under pressure to | deliver new software at an increasingly rapid pace, leading to the more frequent use of open source code, with the growing trend of developers using open code repositories to reduce cost and time in order to co-develop applications.
But, according to CyberInt’s research, code repositories such as GitHub, launched in 2008 and recently acquired by Microsoft, have potential security issues. Developers posting work on these sites routinely put private files into their repositories, which are then being copied into public repositories and made searchable.
Attackers are well aware how commonly open source code is used. They monitor repositories to see who contributes code and which have been identified as problematic.
Many organizations have also failed to monitor their developers’ open-source activities correctly. Often there are few records concerning which versions of open source software have been used, leaving corporate security officers in the dark when trying to discover vulnerabilities in their in-house apps. Innocent inclusion of personal information details in the code can also introduce new vulnerabilities. |
Bitter skirmishes are raging between motorists and councils all over the country. But could automation, big data and disruptive technology provide a solution?
| Samantha Moore may seem jolly, perched among the jars of fudge and flying saucers at her sweet shop on Fore Street in Brixham, the picturesque Devon fishing town. But there’s one subject sure to sour her mood: parking. Moore and her family live above the shop and pay Torbay district council £50 a year for an off-peak permit, which allows them to leave their Peugeot hatchback in the nearby town-centre car park between 3pm and 10am.
Along the coast in Totnes, the tourists have noticed, too. The Totnes Times recently devoted its front page to a letter from Mark Lee of Bradford on Avon, who professed himself “shocked and disappointed” by the lack of free on-road parking anywhere in the outwardly charming market town. “Totnes well and truly takes the biscuit as the most visitor-unfriendly town or city we have probably ever visited |
Today, on Mobile Threat Monday: The developers of a flashlight app have been smacked with an fine from the FTC, and a look at how | ad networks can reveal your personal information.
When we talk about ad networks, it's important to remember that they are not inherently evil. Without them, free and $0.99 apps might not exist at all, and there would be decidedly less excitement about developing for mobile platforms. After all, everyone needs to make money.
The trouble is that users don't always have control over how much of their information is sent to ad networks, or whether those networks use proper security techniques to keep their information secure. We'll look at both of those problems today.
Flashlight apps are the ones people used to point to when making tired arguments about how mobile devices were just a passing fad. It turns out the real sin of flashlight apps wasn't that they were useless (they are), but that they sucked your information out of your phone.
But consent was at the center of the FTC's case against the developers of Brightest Flashlight Free. While the app gave users the ability to |
If a defense attorney, a prosecutor and a judge were to walk into a music hall what would be the first thing they�d do?
| �Spend a half-hour arguing legal motions,� veteran Los Angeles lawyer David Waller says one of his colleagues told him when he learned Waller would be toting his cello to a rehearsal of the fledgling Los Angeles Lawyers Philharmonic Orchestra.
The orchestra had just two hours to run through Johannes Brahms� �Hungarian Dance No. 5,� Edvard Grieg�s �Triumphal March� and a rousing John Philip Sousa number, followed by a couple more classical and pops pieces.
In just a few days the group�s 60-plus members would be decked out in black tie, playing their biggest gig to date � the grand opening of the Los Angeles County Bar Association�s new downtown office. Not that anyone in the ensemble of brass, woodwind, string and percussion sections seemed to be showing any nervousness.
�We�re not just a bunch of lawyers playing music. We�re actually a good orchestra, |
If you enjoy aerobic exercise but find the impact of jogging uncomfortable, consider inline skating. This low-impact exercise provides numerous health benefits and burns | calories. The pace you'll adopt while inline skating is considerably faster than jogging, so travelling a mile won't take long.
The length of time it will take you to travel a mile while inline skating depends on the speed you're able to maintain. If you travel at 8 mph, it will take you 7.5 minutes to travel a mile. If your average a speed of 10 mph, you'll reach the end of your mile-long skate in just 6 minutes. Skaters able to sustain a pace of 12 mph will take 5 minutes to travel a mile.
Although the speed you average during your inline skate plays a key role in the length it takes you to travel a mile, several factors can influence your speed. You might travel faster than your normal pace if much of the route is downhill, for example. On the other hand, it will take you longer to travel a mile if the route is uphill or contains such obstacles as traffic lights.
If you've set a |
OTTAWA—Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau laid out an ambitious plan Tuesday to shake up the way Canadians vote while accusing Prime Minister Stephen Harper of throwing | a cloak of secrecy over the federal government and undermining the integrity of Canada’s democracy.
“Mr. Harper has broken Ottawa and we need a real plan to fix it,” he declared in a speech with nearly 200 Liberal MPs and election candidates lined up behind him.
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau says if elected, his government would get rid of the first-past-the-post electoral system. NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair says proportional representation has always been important to his party.
Trumpeting the slogan “real change,” the Liberal leader unveiled a package of initiatives that touched on everything from open government, to revamping federal institutions, to mail delivery.
But the most ambitious pledge was overhauling federal elections. If Liberals take power after the Oct. 19 vote, Trudeau vowed it would be the last federal election held under the first-past-the-post electoral system.
This winner-take-all system is blamed by many for supposedly distorting the result |
China's largest search engine Baidu posted strong earnings for the second quarter, driven by growing traffic and increased spending by advertising customers.
Net | profits for the quarter ended June 30 were US$252.6 million, an increase of 95 percent from the same quarter last year.
Revenues were $528.4 million, up from 78.4 percent from the same period last year. The company previously forecast revenues reaching $493 million to $504 million.
It expects revenues in the current quarter to range between $611.1 million to $626.6 million, a year-on-year increase of up to 79.5 percent.
Baidu, a Chinese company founded in 2000, has a 76 percent share of Internet search engine revenues in China, according to Beijing-based research firm Analysys International. Google, which closed its China-based search engine last year after years of disputes with the country's Internet censors, is a distant second with a 19 percent share, according to the estimates.
Baidu's online marketing, which drives the company's revenues, saw a boost in the |
In 2005, Yeshiva University established a Center for the Jewish Future, a think tank and outreach organization seen by some as a more flexible counter | weight to the university’s affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary.
This year, the center launched a new program that offers a glimpse into how the new unit is attempting to establish itself as a complement to rabbinical study as traditionally defined at Y.U. In January, the center sponsored a two-day retreat devoted to the subject of spirituality, a topic often overlooked in the Riets curriculum.
Penner, who in addition to his position at Y.U. is a pulpit rabbi at the Young Israel of Holliswood, in Queens, described a sort of spiritual malaise in Modern Orthodoxy today. “Everyone feels that in our synagogues, there’s a lack of spirituality. There’s less singing. There’s a lot of rote behavior,” he said.
What, exactly, is Y.U. talking about when it speaks of spirituality?
The retreat, which was held at |
What happens when two struggling industries collide?
Here's just what banks don't need after the housing crunch: a stake in struggling media companies. |
But it may work out that way, thanks to bankruptcies. When media companies can no longer pay their debts, as is often the case these days, it's their lenders -- often big Wall Street banks -- that end up holding the bag.
This raises a basic question: If restructuring efforts fail, will Uncle Sam step in to save newspaper companies much like lifelines tossed to General Motors, Chrysler, and American International Group (AIG)?
The idea of government-owned media companies is abhorrent because it would gut the watchdog role long claimed by newspapers and TV stations, but it's not difficult to imagine Congress taking action to "save" jobs.
Banks certainly don't want to be in the media business -- especially newspapers, as their circulation and advertising continue to decline. But through Chapter 11 bankruptcy, JPMorgan Chase (JPM) has taken over the Journal Register Co., the publisher of about 20 newspapers in six states, including New York, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.
It |
Every day we interact with people with a variety of personality issues. Sometimes we recognize these issues and put names to them; co-dependent, en | meshed, addicted, loner, passive-aggressive. These behavior patterns are ones that we mostly know about and even how to deal with.
These new friends don’t know the people pleaser and thus can’t judge them. It’s easier to be nicer to the people who don’t know you well. The People Pleaser (PP) works hard to let these new friends know that they are important.
Invite them to events, make them the center of attention. The new people feel really wanted. The down side is the moment other new people appear on the scene, the PP moves on.
Because the PP has difficulty in how they view themselves and how others view them, validation from others become all important. If someone challenges them they will avoid this person at all costs or eliminate them from their circle of friends.
Appearances are of utmost importance to the people pleaser. They need to make sure that they are doing the "cool |
The first half all-area team, including the outstanding offensive and defensive players, top athlete and top coach.
With the first half of the | season in the books, here’s a look at the top players from the first half of the season.
Celidonio lead the Treasure Coast with 13 touchdown passes, has thrown only two interceptions and helped the Fighting Indians knock off two perennial powers (Venice and Pahokee) on the road. Celidonio arguably could be the area’s most improved player this fall as he has made major strides in his second season under coach Lenny Jankowski. If he stays healthy, Celidonio will break the area’s all-time career passing yards record in the second half of the season.
Grace (No. 11 on the TCPalm Super 11) has been everything the Eagles thought he would be this season. He’s been a ball hawk and lead the team with five interceptions (not including the one he had in the Kickoff Classic). He’s been solid against the run. The Eagles have allowed only two touchdowns |
Zanzibar. CUF secretary general Seif Shariff Hamad yesterday refuted claims that he was planning to join another opposition political party- | ACT-Wazalendo.
He said the matter was not at all in the agenda of the meeting that brought together six opposition parties in Zanzibar recently and that the only resolutions that came out were the ones briefed to the media.
Earlier yesterday, Lipumba-allied CUF secretary for Security and Defence committee, Mr Khalifa Suleiman Khalifa, told a press conference in Unguja that Mr Hamad’s plan to join ACT Wazalendo was among issues discussed during the meeting held few days ago.
“Principally, ACT Wazalendo and Mr Hamad have agreed on the deal on conditions that while Mr Hamad will control the party on the Zanzibar side, ACT Wazalendo’s party leader Zitto Kabwe will command the party on Mainland Tanzania,” he told a press conference.
But, Mr Hamad told The Citizen during an exclusive interview that since CU |
In Mohanlal’s highly-stylised political thriller and melodrama ‘Lucifer’, there’ | s a sea of men wearing crisp white shirts and white mundu (Kerala’s traditional garb), but their warped actions are in direct contrast to their pristine wardrobe choice.
The key players in this star-driven vehicle are morally ambiguous and merrily Machiavellian.
Actor Prithviraj Sukumaran’s directorial debut drives home the perception that politics can be a dirty game in a snazzy but long-winded way. With a run time of more than 160 minutes, ‘Lucifer’ is compelling and cathartic in parts, but deeply flawed too.
In Prithviraj’s world, the characters kill, maim and double-cross in their pursuit of power and they do it in a slow-motion, dramatic crescendo. The director, who is an A-list actor, seems to have channelled his inner Amal Neerad, another Malayalam director known for |
It sounds boring, but one of the most important frontiers in technology right now is how mobile can make paying for stuff easier. And while this | year's Mobile World Congress might have been a little lacking in four-star hardware, there were some serious steps taken towards replacing your wallet with your smartphone.
MasterCard's MasterPass lets retailers make their own apps to let you pay for stuff in different ways—sort of like Apple's checkouts. You can use NFC, QR codes (please don't!), mobile credit card readers, or MasterCard's own MasterPass wallet.
For web and mobile use, it simplifies the way you can buy things. It rounds up your payment and authentication data in its cloud service, and lets you plug that into places online. Think of it this way: anywhere you're used to seeing a PayPal option, you might see MasterPass too. Instead of typing out your name, address, card number, etc, you'd just enter your MasterPass password.
Visa announced a new partnership with ROAM, which is a point of sale company. Basically, ROAM makes checkout terminals that you |
Singapore: Qimat Rai Gupta became a billionaire as shares of Havells India Ltd., the nation’s largest electrical parts maker | by market value, surged to a record.
Gupta, 77, and his family control almost 62% of the company, according to exchange filings, a stake valued at $1.4 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Anil Sharma, a spokesman for Havells, confirmed the family stake in the company based in Noida, near New Delhi.
The maker of lighting products, cables and fans has benefited from rising incomes in the world’s second-most populous nation as consumers shift to branded products, Firstcall Research said in a report on Tuesday. Havells owns Sylvania, a European maker of Lumiance lighting products.
They have shown steady and quality performance in terms of growth and earnings, said Gautam Chhaochharia, head of research at UBS Securities India Pvt. in Mumbai, who has a buy recommendation on the Havells. That’s given investors confidence in the stock.
The stock rose |
ORANGE -- Authorities on Saturday said a 16-year-old boy was charged with murder in the slaying of a livery cab driver, who | was found shot to death after his car crashed on a city street.
The teen, whose name was not released because of his age, is also accused of felony murder and weapons offenses in the killing Wednesday night of Jonas Larose, 55, Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray and Orange Police Director Todd Warren announced in a joint statement.
Authorities also charged the teen with a robbery that occurred about 24 hours before the shooting, according to prosecutor's office Chief of Detectives Quovella Spruill.
Police found Larose, of East Orange, unresponsive in his wrecked livery cab around 11 p.m. on the 200 block of Snyder Street, according to the prosecutor's office. Officers were initially called for a vehicle crash and discovered the driver had been shot.
1-year-old boy, 21-year-old man shot to death last month, according to authorities.
The livery cab apparently crashed into a parked car, hit a tree and a fence |
This story was co-published with the Albany Times-Union and WNYC.
New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s | administration — which the governor pledged would be the most transparent in state history — has quietly adopted policies that allow it to purge the emails of tens of thousands of state employees, cutting off a key avenue for understanding and investigating state government.
Last year, the state started deleting any emails more than 90 days old that users hadn't specifically saved — a much more aggressive stance than many other states. The policy shift was first reported by the Albany Times Union.
A previously unpublished memo outlining the policy raises new questions about the state's stated rationale for its deletions policy. What's more, the rules on which emails must be retained are bewilderingly complex – they fill 118 pages – leading to further concern that emails may not be saved at all.
Employees specifically save individual emails in a special folder. They can also "save" them by printing them out or pasting them into Microsoft Word documents.
The state’s rules for which emails have to be saved run to 118 pages and |
R. Kelly may have a serious shot at beating this case! Peep the circle.
(AllHipHop Rumors) Oh. | My. God. It is really looking like R. Kelly is going to beat this new case. It looks like the lawyer named Michael Avenatti might have helped botched the whole thing. But, even moreover, it seems to be NO NEW CASE. After listening to this white guy aka R. Kelly’s lawyer, I tend to believe that this is a wrap. Here are some of the bullet points for you all. It seems like Michael Avenatti represents witnesses in each of the cases against R. Kelly, which dudes says its crazy. Avenatti is also practicing law in Illinois without a license to practice in that state,it is “improper.” Apparently, they allege that M.A. also pressured Kim Foxx to file charges against R. Kelly, but that does not seem to make sense to me. Foxx is the State's Attorney for Cook County, but why would she bow to pressure from a thirst dude like Avenatti? Not sure. Anyway, |
For Wall Street, bigger seems to be better.
The possible merger of two pharmaceutical companies, which would be the largest corporate coupling ever, caused | a late rally in stocks yesterday.
Word of the merger talks, between SmithKline Beecham and American Home Products, lifted the stocks of many drug companies as investors took the discussions as a sign that the industry might consolidate further.
The American Stock Exchange's 15-company pharmaceutical index rose 5.1 percent yesterday. The index is up 8.8 percent this year, making it one of the year's best-performing stock indexes.
The news also fueled a larger rally, which pushed the Dow Jones industrial average up almost 120 points as broader market indexes also gained more than 1 percent.
If SmithKline Beecham was to buy American Home Products, the deal would surpass the largest corporate combination to date, Worldcom's planned $37 billion purchase of MCI Communications, and would create one of the world's largest health care companies.
''It underscores that there's still financial deals to be done,'' said Andrew Brooks, a vice president in charge of equity trading at |
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC | ) has announced its 2018 roster of newly elected and incumbent Chapter Board Officers.
Each NAMIC chapter contains a board of directors that is responsible for understanding and implementing NAMIC's strategy in their communities. These boards effectively execute valuable networking and professional development events and programs and, most importantly, they are responsible for effectively engaging members in their markets.
"I'm excited to be working with this talented group of professionals who represent a broad cross section of the communications industry," said Eglon E. Simons, president and CEO of NAMIC. "We appreciate their leadership and commitment to the NAMIC mission and to the advancement of diversity and inclusion in our industry."
President – Sandra Garcia-Lowery, Manager, Marketing Solutions, Clear Channel Outdoor; Vice President – Rahdiah Barnes, Account Manager; Treasurer – Kiana Sinclair, Senior Account Manager, WebMD; Secretary – Morgan Johnson, Content Distribution Coordinator, Revolt TV & Media; Past President – Nicole Granston |
In drawing up a balance sheet of why Chavez’s constitutional reform proposal — that aimed to create a framework for the transition towards socialism — was | narrowly defeated in a national referendum on December 2, one factor stands out. The Bolivarian revolution’s Achilles heel is the lack of a political instrument capable of confronting the challenges faced in the struggle to construct a new, socially just, Venezuela.
It is in this context that the 1676 delegates elected to the PSUV’s founding congress are meeting to debate the program, principles and statutes of this new political instrument.
The draft statement of principles of the PSUV presented to the congress argued that this political instrument “is born as an expression of the revolutionary will of the people and their political leadership”.
According to the draft program, in order for this instrument to be an anti-capitalist tool, it “requires the full and democratic participation of workers, peasants, youth, intellectuals, artists, housewives, small producers and petty traders from the countryside and the city, in the formation and running of all its component organs, in discussion and decision making in |
Two Republican primaries in the Deep South expose potentially serious cracks in the party's religious-right foundation.
It’s way too early for | liberal secularists to start breaking out the bubbly. But two recent Republican primaries–in Deep South states, of all places–have exposed some potentially serious cracks in the party’s religious-right foundation. In Alabama and Georgia, national icons of Christian conservatism made high-profile runs for state office against old-school, Chamber of Commerce Republicans. In both cases the religious-right candidates began the race with high popularity ratings. In the end they both got clobbered.
The louder jolt rumbled out of the Peach State on July 18, when former Christian Coalition boy genius Ralph Reed lost the Republican primary for lieutenant governor–a race seen by his admirers as a first step toward the White House–to obscure State Senator Casey Cagle by an emphatic 56-to-44 margin. Reed’s once-invincible campaign was continually thrown off track by widening revelations about Reed’s lucrative consulting work on behalf of Jack Abramoff’s Indian casino clients |
Without taking anything away from the role of the President of Estonia and her team, the annual list of recipients of the highest awards Estonia can bestow | , tends to resemble those who are giving out the award; however, this means we can all have an influence on future lists, writes ERR's Toomas Sildam.
As per tradition, the president picked a selection of people to decorate whose commitment to their profession or to the community has made Estonia a better place. This is why those awarded numbered just 112.
However, she also gave another important criterion in her choices, linked with her sovereign decision as head of state. This criterion is summed up by loyalty to the principles on which modern Estonia is based – openness and democracy, knowledge and enterprise, caring and awareness.
In view of the president's activities over the past year, many people from Ida-Viru County, and especially Narva, are of course on the list [President Kaljulaid has put a particular focus on this region of Estonia, even basing herself in Narva and working out of that border city, for a total of four weeks |
An Illinois man was completely unaware that he accidentally shot a 3.5 inch nail into the center of his brain, and carried on as normal for | almost two days before going to the hospital.
Dante Autullo, from Orland Park, Ill., shot himself in the head with a nail gun Tuesday morning but as he only suffered a small cut, he assumed the nail had missed and went out to plow some snow, the Naperville Sun reported.
But after work Wednesday, the 32 year old felt nauseous after a nap and went to the Palos Community Hospital, Orland Park, for a checkup.
An X-ray revealed the nail had lodged itself sideways in the center of his brain, just millimeters away from the section of the brain that controls motor functions.
Autullo's mom, Jerri said doctors were shocked because he was "walking and talking" despite having the nail in his brain for 36 hours.
The X-ray image was so shocking that most of the family's friends thought it was a hoax when Dante Autullo posted it |
Rutgers Professor Paul G. Falkowski.
Newswise — Burning coal for electricity is in decline, while the use of natural gas | , solar and wind power are on the rise. But how close are we to creating a clean energy economy to help protect our planet from the impacts of climate change? Rutgers Today asked Paul G. Falkowski, Bennett Smith Professor in Business and Natural Resources in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and director of the Rutgers Energy Institute, about energy use, the presidential candidates’ positions and the outlook for cleaner energy.
How significant a factor is our energy use when it comes to the health of our planet?
Falkowski: It’s extremely important. It’s actually probably one of the most existential threats to us over the coming decades. The issue isn’t just political. Climate change has been called out as a potential strategic threat to national security by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Climate change cannot be mitigated without a change in energy use.
How would you describe the presidential candidates’ positions on energy?
Falkowski: I think the Republican position |
Last time we paid a visit to the architectural salvage yard — a place where, if you’re diligent, you can find quality building materials | that are cheaper and greener to boot. Today we continue the shopping list with more potential bargains, though they may require some careful vetting.
Structural items: Many salvage yards stock a plethora of materials such as brick, wood and steel beams, sheet metal, structural hardware, and the like. If you happen to find exactly what you’re looking for (or, more likely, something that’s close enough), you can save a lot of money — often 50 to 75 percent over lumberyard prices. Occasionally, you may have to massage your plans a little to make use of a real bargain, but that’s the nature of buying anything recycled.
Lighting fixtures: In general, older lighting fixtures are of much higher quality than modern ones, with heavier parts and more durable finishes. However, you should expect to rewire all vintage lighting fixtures, since their old-style cloth insulation becomes brittle with age and can cause short circuits. Professional rewiring can |
In the first installment of this new series, food writer Mark Bittman opens up about his decision to join a startup.
I did know | I was ready for a change. After 20 years of weekly deadlines, including the last five as a New York Times Opinion columnist, I was tired. I felt I was repeating myself (“industrial agriculture is poisoning our health and the planet,” written ad infinitum in myriad ways). I was frustrated by my inability to convince people to act, and eager to accomplish some new things myself. It was time to work on changing the food system from within.
But there were complications, chief among them that I’m essentially anti-capitalist. In 1970, I described myself as a revolutionary. (I was 20 and, given the era, this was perhaps understandable.) In my heart, I don’t believe making money is an honorable goal, even if it’s ostensibly linked to doing good things. I write cookbooks in addition to my journalism and my career, I’d contend, was primarily focused on doing good things: convincing people to change the |
What an awfully Canadian approach the Trudeau government is taking to the problem of potential foreign meddling in our elections.
A committee of senior bureaucrats, operating | under the weighty acronym of the SITE (Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections) task force, will be standing by to alert voters if any outside entity tries to interfere with next fall’s federal election.
Whew! That’s a relief. The idea is it shouldn’t be left up to politicians to decide whether to blow the whistle, and it’s a good thought as far as it goes. The trouble is, it doesn’t go very far.
Of course we need to be on guard against foreign interference. Everyone wants to avoid a repeat of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, which the Russian government tried to influence through hacking and covert online means.
But we don’t want to make the mistake of fighting the last war. The growth of so-called fake news and disinformation of all sorts is inextricably linked to the rise of social media, which presents enormous opportunities to manipulate voters in ways they |
Postcards are being sent to a random and scientific sample of 3,000 households until Feb. 13.
The City of Franklin is doing its | second citizen survey to gauge what residents want and need from their government.
Franklin leaders said the National Citizen Survey is designed to provide a baseline of how the city government is serving residents and make comparisons with other cities. This year the city will work with the National Research Center.
In the first survey in 2016, residents rated the quality of life in Franklin as excellent or good with 97 percent.
“Franklin is a great community as the 2016 results show us," Franklin Mayor Ken Moore said. "It is important to once again take the survey to help us chart our community’s future. Understanding the perceptions and experiences of our citizens will help the City of Franklin better serve the community."
The survey centers on community livability and includes questions about the quality of life in the community, local policies, demographics, rating of local government services and residential use of services.
Postcards are being sent to a random and scientific sample of 3,000 households until Feb. 13. |
Samsung is going all out once again to take another bite out of Apple with its new handset, but the competition is getting harder.
Samsung has | chosen the United States for the official launch of the Galaxy S4, in its quest to secure its lead in the crucial American market. Apple outsold Samsung in the U.S. for the first time in the quarter ending in December, even after Samsung spent US$400 million on advertisements in the U.S. last year.
In the last two years, both Apple and Samsung have gone to head to head for dominance in the high-end smartphone market. During that same time, Samsung edged out Nokia with enough inexpensive low-end phones.
Samsung has sold 100 million Galaxy S phones worldwide since they first came out in 2010. While that is still well below and less than half of number Apple iPhones sold in the same period--268 million--Samsung's sales are also increasing.
The South Korean firm increases the screen size of each release in contrast to its predecessor, as every successive generation of the Galaxy line has larger than the one before. The Galaxy S3 has a 4. |
After years of positive signs, deforestation in BrazilâEUR(TM)s Amazon is on the rise, with a sharp increase in 2016. |
TAKE ACTION NOW! Sign the Petition to END Amazon Crude!
The oil spill was reported Wednesday morning in the northern Peruvian Amazon. It is the fourth spill reported this year from an aging pipeline owned by the state-run company Petroperú.
For decades, the indigenous tribes of the Amazon rainforest have been struggling to protect their ancestral lands from logging.
Environmental activists are killed in increasing numbers globally. Please support these brave leaders today and call for Ecuador and China to stop their dangerous plans!
Sapara leaders have been speaking out against the Ecuadorian government's plans for oil drilling on their territory in the Amazon, and now they have received threats over their efforts to defend their lives, land, and culture.
Dam construction in remote parts of the Amazon is historically proceeded by increased lawlessness as illegal loggers and squatters flock to the project site to cut timber and make land grabs from longtime farmers and other settlers.
Some estimates say that we are losing |
SPRINGFIELD – Gov. John R. Kasich reappointed three members of the Clark State Community College Board of Trustees on Nov. 27 | . Mike McDorman and Peggy Noonan of Springfield and Kyle Hall of Urbana will continue their service to Clark State through Nov. 30, 2024.
Clark State’s Board of Trustees oversees the operations of the college. Trustees are appointed by the governor for six-year terms. Board work sessions and regular meetings are generally held on the third Tuesday of each month.
Hall, president of the Hall Company in Urbana, has been on the board since September of 2016 after being appointed to fill a partial term. He is a member of the board’s Government/Community Relations Committee.
McDorman, president and CEO of the Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce, has been on the board since March of 2014. He chairs the board’s Government/Community Relations Committee.
Noonan has been on the board since August of 2010. She was the board’s vice chair in 2014 and chair in 2015 and 2016. She chairs the board |
The Straits Times is introducing the ST Singaporean of the Year award to recognise newsmakers who go above and beyond in serving the community or beating | the odds.
Examples include a couple who took in wayward children after their own son was killed, and bedsheet promoter Noriza A. Mansor, who helped an elderly stranger who was standing in a supermarket covered in his own faeces.
Mr Francis Ng, 54, and his wife, Madam Joyce Tan, 52, once blamed a group of troubled youths for leading their son Darren astray. Darren was hacked to death in a vicious gang attack when he was 19.
After their son's death, the couple let go of their bitterness and opened their home to around 30 troubled youths so they could hang out in a safe space.
A Singaporean who also touched readers' hearts is Ms Noriza, 49.
While others walked past Mr Tan Soy Yong who had soiled his pants while shopping with his wheelchair-bound wife, she stepped forward to help.
Besides buying him a new pair of shorts, Ms Noriza, armed with tissues and a pail |
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - The FBI first focused on 21-year-old Sean Duncan when family members reported that | he had converted to Islam and may have radicalized.
The bureau's interest deepened after his name showed up on a 10-page list of people who had contacted a suspected recruiter for the Islamic State.
Those suspicions boiled over to an arrest when the bureau executed a search warrant Friday at Duncan's northern Virginia home. According to an FBI affidavit, agents knocked on Duncan's door to execute the warrant but no one answered.
Instead, Duncan ran out the back door, barefoot. Agents ordered Duncan to stop, but before he did, he tossed a clear plastic bag over the agents' heads. Inside the bag, according to an affidavit, was "a thumb drive that had been snapped into pieces, and placed in a liquid substance that produced frothy white bubbles."
Now Duncan is charged with obstruction of justice for the alleged destruction of evidence in a terrorism investigation, carrying a potential 20-year prison sentence.
Duncan made a brief initial appearance Tuesday in U.S. |
Donald Trump was in the cross-hairs of the Obama administration’s top intelligence chiefs long before he took the oath of office. From | candidate to president-elect and then president, Trump was targeted in an unprecedented smear campaign by openly partisan former Obama intelligence officials who have continued to wield out-sized influence in the Trump administration, a report said.
National security officials under Obama have “shown themselves to be intense adversaries” of President Trump “in public and behind the scenes,” Rowan Scarborough wrote in a Dec. 5 report for The Washington Times.
Then-FBI Director James Comey, who succeeded his mentor Robert Mueller, began a criminal investigation of the Trump campaign, in whole or part, based on a discredited dossier financed by the Democratic Party with an aim to destroy the Republican candidate. The dossier’s salacious and sometimes far-fetched scenarios of Russia-Trump collusion on the Russian hack of Democratic Party computers have not been confirmed publicly.
To date, there has been no public confirmation of Trump-Russia election collusion charges.
“Conservatives suspect all this has happened as Obama administration hold |
Joey Porter has been racking up the frequent flyer miles over the last week covering an array of Pro Days. Now add Wisconsin to that list | . Porter was spotted at the Badgers’ Pro Day this afternoon, per this photo from Owen Riese.
He’s on hand to watch outside linebackers TJ Watt and Vince Biegel. Watt is the more tantalizing prospect and someone to keep in mind for the 30th overall pick, even though we haven’t mentioned him much on this site.
Watt crushed the Combine, running a 4.69 at 252 pounds, jumping 37 inches in the vert, and a wild 6.79 in the three cone. He has just one year of production but it was a good one, adding up 15.5 TFL and 11.5 sacks for Wisconsin last season.
Biegel, on the other hand. wasn’t an impactful pass rusher at Wisconsin, never recording more than 5.5 sacks in a season and during his senior year, just four of them. At the Combine, he ran a 4.68, jumped 33.5 inches |
Week in Review: Election Nears; Kerry Remarks Highlights of the week's news include the possibility of a political realignment after the outcome of | the midterm elections; Sen. John Kerry's "botched joke" and dismantled U.S. checkpoints in Iraq.
Highlights of the week's news include the possibility of a political realignment after the outcome of the midterm elections; Sen. John Kerry's "botched joke" and dismantled U.S. checkpoints in Iraq.
Democrats and Republicans are fighting for control of Congress. U.S. troops pull back from checkpoints in Baghdad, giving in to demands from the Iraqi prime minister. And the upcoming Nicaraguan presidential election may return former Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega to power.
NPR senior news analyst Dan Schorr is with us to talk about these stories.
Hello, Dan. So good to be with you.
NEARY: Well, President Bush this week, Dan, is traveling around the country, campaigning for Republican candidates. He's been concentrating his efforts on red states, where Republicans usually are expected to win. Why is the president spending so much |
During a ceremony Tuesday in Heredia, north of San José, AMCHAM unveiled the winners of this year’s Contribution to | the Community Awards, an initiative started by the chamber 10 years ago to encourage businesses to carry out educational, social and environmental programs.
The grand winner in the large business category was the Compañía Bananera Atlántica, a branch of Chiquita Brands International, for its “Nature and Community” program, which protects more than 100 hectares of forest and educates citizens about environmental responsibility.
Ecodesarrollo Papagayo S.A. won the grand prize in the medium business category for its program “PapagayoPeninsula,” which promotes responsible development in the PapagayoGulf, off the northern Pacific coast.
Wal-MartCosta Rica was honored in the social responsibility category for its program “FertileLand,” while the beverage company Florida Ice and Farm won in the environmental category for its recycling and dengue prevention program. In the education category, Microsoft Costa Rica took |
HSBC Insurance's Mr Martin says that more than most other nationalities, Singaporeans worry about poor health in later life.
Prudential | 's Ms Hunter says there is ''a disconnect'' between perceived needs and what is actually required.
Two recent surveys have highlighted the fact that Singaporeans are not financially prepared for the future, in part because there is a general lack of understanding on how to go about the task.
An HSBC Bank poll found that Singaporeans are most concerned about their health (67 per cent) and long-term financial security (56 per cent). It also found that nearly 80 per cent are worried about the costs of healthcare treatment, medication and rehabilitation - far higher than the global average of 57 per cent.
Long-term care and quality of life as we age is another key issue, with 65 per cent citing it as a major concern. Mr Ian Martin, HSBC Insurance Singapore's chief executive, told The Sunday Times: "More than most other nationalities, Singaporeans are worried that poor health in later life is going to stop them from being able to properly look after themselves or their family."
The |
HOLYOKE - The City Council Tuesday night approved a $390,000 appropriation for schematic design and project management costs for the proposed two | new middle schools.
The Peck School site will receive a bulk of the outlay, around $370,000, with the remainder for the second project at Cabot and Chestnut Streets.
The School Building Committee oversees the projects, which fall under the purview of the Massachusetts School Building Authority. Members of the committee attended Tuesday's session.
School Committee member Dennis W. Birks Jr. asked the council to approve the expenditure. Over a year ago, the council set aside $800,000 for schematic designs.
Councilor Joseph M. McGiverin said the $390,000 allows the projects to move forward. The MSBA will reimburse the city 80 percent of the $390,000.
He said two middle schools "make sense" for Holyoke, with savings realized through two future school closings.
McGiverin said interest on 20- and 30-year bonds remains at historical lows. But he was not pleased with the MSBA's current reimbursement |
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