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EXCLUSIVE: Sundance Selects has acquired North American rights to Eating Animals, the feature-length documentary from Christopher Quinn based on Jonathan Saf | ran Foer’s book about the perils of factory farming. The author also produced the pic with Natalie Portman, who narrated, and it had its world premiere this month at the Telluride Film Festival.
Sundance Selects plans a 2018 release for the movie, which like Foer’s 2004 book starts out with a simple question: Where do our eggs, dairy and meat come from? Through the narratives of several farmers dedicated to bringing their trade – and the way we eat – back to its roots, the film explores the notion of stepping away from the practices of the past 40 years that have polluted our environment, endangered our health, and caused us all to be complicit in the inhumane treatment of animals.
Twitter founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone also produced along with Geralyn Dreyfous, Regina K. Scully and Wallis Annenberg, in association with Artemis Rising Foundation and The Neuman Family Foundation.
The deal was made by Sundance |
The award one of the most prestigious in worldwide gastronomy, ITQI, and with Michelin guide stars, was delivered at a special | ceremony in the framework of the Brussels Seafood Exposition to Cheryl Roberts, South Atlantic Squid and Igueldo Fisheries Director that supplies Marfrío with Falklands’ squid.
In their second year of entering for these awards Patagonian squid has managed to improve its rating and move from one to two stars.
Pedro Otaegui, Marfrío CEO, was chosen to receive the award for Floured squid, produced by Marfrío from Patagonian squid, and in its first time entering has also achieved the distinction of two stars.
The breaded squid strips (also awarded in 2012), paella and squid ring have been raised to one Superior Taste star.
The International Institute of Taste and Quality of Brussels (ITQI) makes its ratings in blind tasting with 60 restaurateurs of the most prestigious associations in Europe which evaluate criteria such as appearance, smell, texture and taste of the products, in this case the Patagonian squid |
San Francisco is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Modern skyscrapers stand next to Victorian-style buildings, every hill has a | gorgeous vista, there are beautiful beaches. The city also respects its historically significant sites and structures, making sure that places such as Fort Point at the Golden Gate Bridge and Angel Island are preserved for future generations to enjoy. One such site is the Swedenborgian Church of San Francisco, which is both historically and architecturally meaningful.
Designated a National Historic Landmark in 2004, the Swedenborgian Church is regarded as one of California’s first Arts and Crafts buildings. Completed in 1895, the church was born out of the vision of the Reverend Joseph Worcester, its first pastor, who bought the land on which it stands. A theologian and amateur architect and artist, Rev. Worcester collaborated with his friends, many of whom were artists, architects and painters, to realize his visionary idea for the structure of the church.
A. Page Brown, the designer of the San Francisco Ferry building, Bernard Maybeck, an architect of the Arts and Crafts Movement, A. |
Her youngsters began their education at Didion Elementary School.
Realtor Steve Streng provided a print-out showing Didion School’s | 8 (of 10) Great Schools rating. Others rated by Great Schools include Carole Wenzel Elementary, Sam Brannan Middle and John F. Kennedy High.
Both Rosenthal and Maxwell-Jolly enjoy walking in the area.
“For many years several of us in this neighborhood (myself and Julie included) got out and walked together early in the morning before we started our day. When we started doing this, our kids were in elementary school. We were still walking together when most of the kids were no longer living at home,” said Rosenthal, whose daughter was 6 when the family moved from Boston.
Maxwell-Jolly reminisced about being able to walk along the levee at the end of her street.
It’s closed now, but she hopes it will re-open with bike paths added.
Rosenthal likes the proximity of markets including Nugget and Grocery Outlet.
Realtor Streng said that many homeowners can walk |
The Costa Rica Blues Fest will return Saturday to rock the house at Club Cubano in the western San José suburb of Escazú.
Head | lining this third incarnation of the event will be legendary blues guitarist Texas Johnny Brown and the Quality Blues Band, from the U.S. city of Houston. With a career spanning more than 60 years, Brown has won numerous awards and accolades, including Blues Artist of the Year at the Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton Blues Festival in Houston Sept. 22, 2001, which was subsequently declared Texas Johnny Brown Day in that city.
Joining Brown will be Robbie Clark and the Live Wire Blues Band of Austin, Texas, Electric Storm of Uruguay and a host of Costa Rican bands, including Sin Trucos, Calacas Blues, 3 for Blues, Autómata, The Known Associates, Blues Devils and The Blind Pigs Blues Band.
Tickets cost ¢ 13,000 (about $23) in advance or ¢ 16,000 ($29) at the door, and are available at the following locations: Club Cubano (2215-2001) and Chi-Chi |
Senegal’s Ambassador to the United States: Who Is Babacar Diagne?
Babacar Diagne presented his credentials | as Senegal’s ambassador to the United States to President Barack Obama on November 18, 2014. It’s the second ambassadorial posting for Diagne.
Diagne was born April 16, 1951. In 1976, he received an arts degree from the University of Dakar. He then went to France, Senegal’s colonial power, where in 1978 he received an education degree from Paris’ École Normale Supérieure. Diagne then went to school in Lille, where he earned a journalism degree in 1981.
He returned to Africa and worked as a reporter and editor. In 2000, Diagne was named director of Le label de L’Ogooué communication company in Libreville, Gabon. He returned to Senegal in 2002 as communications advisor to then-President Abdoulaye Wade.
In 2006, Diagne was appointed director general of Senegal’s state radio and TV service, RTS. He encountered some opposition |
Six weeks ago, WPP merged its VML and Y&R agencies to form VMLY&R, led by CEO Jon Cook, | who had overseen VML.
Today, the agency announced further details regarding its senior creative team, which as disclosed earlier will be led by global Chief Creative Officer Debbi Vandeven, previously global CCO at VML. She’ll lead more than 2,000 creatives across the global network, reporting to Cook.
VML veterans John Godsey and Jason Xenopoulos have been appointed CCOs of VMLY&R North America and the latter will also serve as CEO VMLY&R New York.
Godsey served as North American CCO at VML since January 2017, having joined the agency in 2010.
Xenopoulos previously served as CCO, EMEA, based out of VML South Africa’s office in Cape Town. In 2010, Xenopoulos cofounded NATIVE, which became part of the VML global network in 2013. He previously served as CEO and CCO of VML South Africa.
The agency has confirmed |
New standards strip all tax liens from credit reports.
For some, scores could rise by as much as 30 points.
Effective immediately, | some consumers may have a higher credit score.
Because of improved standards for utilizing new and existing public records, the three major credit reporting companies are now excluding all tax liens from credit reports. That means some scores will head higher, for some by as much as 30 points.
Credit scores, notably those from FICO, one of the largest credit scoring companies, usually range from 300 to 850. A good score generally is above 700, and those over 760 are considered excellent.
Credit reporting and scores play a key role in most Americans' daily life. The process can determine the interest rate a consumer is going to pay for credit cards, car loans and mortgages — or whether they will get a loan at all.
Last July, credit reporting companies removed nearly 100 percent of civil judgment data and about 50 percent of tax lien data from credit reports. Now they have removed the rest. The latest change took effect last month.
As a result, LexisNexis Risk Solutions |
POSITIVE: Kevin Gleeson has motor neurone disease. He communicates with the help of a tablet but says he’s one of | the lucky ones.
KEVIN Gleeson has had symptoms of incurable motor neurone disease for eight years.
Most sufferers, however, survive only a few years.
The Tweed resident was officially diagnosed with the disease in February 2011.
In May, he'll march alongside family and friends to raise awareness of the condition.
Having experienced symptoms for more than eight years, Mr Gleeson is among a minority of people who survive beyond five years.
The condition affects everything from arm and leg function to speech, swallowing and breathing.
Mr Gleeson's first symptom was slurred speech, but he initially ruled it out as nerve damage after he had a non-malignant tumour on his face.
At the time, his doctor said the procedure could result in nerve damage and Mr Gleeson did not know much about motor neurone disease.
Today, Mr Gleeson communicates with the help of a tablet.
The Tweed man used to manage bakeries |
CORVALLIS — The No. 20 Oregon State gymnastics team had a season-high 197.450 points Saturday, but fell to No | . 3 UCLA, which scored 197.900, in a Pac-12 Conference dual meet at Gill Coliseum.
The Beavers had season-high scores in each event in tying the sixth-best overall score in school history. Oregon State gymnasts had 12 career-best marks against the Bruins, including five on vault.
UCLA's Kyla Ross was the all-around winner with 39.650 points, including a 10 on uneven bars.
Oregon State's Mary Jacobsen and UCLA's Felicia Hano tied for the win on vault at 9.95. Kaitlyn Yanish won floor exercise with a 9.975 with teammates Isis Lowery (9.95) and Madi Dagen (9.95) second and third, respectively.
UCLA's Nia Dennis won balance beam with a 9.975.
Oregon State scored 49.275 points on vault and 49.225 on uneven bars to break the 49-point barrier in both events for the |
New research shows that this RNA segment sends signals that stop the activity of the gene that produces glutamine, an amino acid. Previous research has linked | a shortage of glutamine in the gut with the seepage of toxins and bacteria through the intestinal wall, irritating nerves and creating disease symptoms.
Scientists say that trying to generate glutamine in the disordered bowel by silencing this RNA segment could open up a whole new way of thinking about treating the diarrhea-predominant type of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). In the meantime, they are making plans to conduct a clinical trial to see if glutamine supplements could also reduce common IBS symptoms.
This form of the disorder is characterized by diarrhea and bloating as well as chronic abdominal pain that is difficult to treat. About a third of IBS patients have the diarrhea-predominant type, another third experience consistent constipation, and the rest experience alternating bouts of diarrhea and constipation.
In the Ohio State University study, researchers observed that in human tissue samples, the presence of this small piece of RNA was associated with reduced activity by the gene that produces glutamine. |
Pinterest wants investors to know it's not like Snapchat. Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel, left, and Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann.
Pinterest's | IPO team wants investors to see the company as a visual search engine in line with Google, according to a source familiar with the pitch.
The team has also taken pains to dispel the notion the Pinterest is a social media site or comparable to the photo-sharing app Snapchat, which has sunk in value since it went public in 2017, the person said.
Pinterest is expected to go start trading on Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "PINS."
Pinterest wants investors to know it's not like Snapchat.
During recent meetings with investors ahead of its upcoming IPO, Pinterest's team has gone to pains to position the company as a visual discovery tool. A key part of the sales pitch during Snap's recent IPO roadshow, according to a source familiar with the matter, is that the company has more in common with the early days of Google's search engine business than with the photosharing teen sensation Snapchat.
Establishing that identity is crucial as Pinterest prepares |
According to the numerous books, blogs, and webinars on personal productivity, work/life balance is the magical Zen that is the key to | a satisfying life. Countless productivity experts pound their fists while preaching the virtues of their favorite rules for achieving this bliss: Don’t ever work weekends! Don’t work past 5PM! Always wake up at 6AM!
Yet for all their noise and chatter, they are missing the real point. Work/life balance should be about optimal productivity: How can you work in a way that doesn’t stress you out, leads you to success, and keeps your personal life in check? It’s not happiness vs. productivity; it’s what level of productivity optimizes your happiness. A concept I call work life calibration.
For me it’s working six days per week. Not five, not seven. Six.
Typically I’ll wake up Monday-Friday at 7:30AM, work till 6:30PM, exercise, have dinner with friends and family, and then continue working from 9PM-1AM. Saturdays |
In the era of misinformation and accusations, there is an appetite for reliable news sources. Traditional news sources are getting called out by politicians on both sides | of the aisle. Where do you the real deal scoop on politicians and policy issues that come straight from the source, the actual people who are affected by these regulations? Twitter? Yes but there are drawbacks. "Robo" dialing? Good luck getting a Millennial to pick-up a phone call from an unidentified number. The next twenty years are going to be very interesting and incredibly disruptive if political parties don't get it right now.
Politicians are going to need a new weapon in their arsenal if they want to reach the people. Unsolicited texts carry a hefty fine, and even Facebook is going to clamp down on political messages. Traditional campaigning as we know it is dying. Mailers and going to door to door doesn't make sense when the amount of time online is going up and up. Digital natives are now in their mid-20s and up as a digital presence is essential for political survival, not just to get in office, but to stay there and reach the |
Minister Sommaruga at the conference in Geneva on Tuesday, 26 February.
Switzerland has pledged a total of CHF13. | 5 million ($13.49 million) in humanitarian aid this year for Yemen, whose citizens continue to suffer under fighting and famine.
The contribution was announced by Federal Councillor Simonetta Sommaruga on Tuesday in Geneva, at the opening of a donor event co-hosted by Switzerland and Sweden.
In total, states pledged to donate $2.6 billion, a sizeable amount but far short of the $4.3 billion estimated by the UN to be necessary in 2019.
We don’t have the right to ignore Yemen as it faces up to the “worst humanitarian crisis in the world”, Sommaruga said as she urged countries present “not to forget” the struggling state and to make donations.
A civil war between factions controlled by an exiled government and Houthi rebels has devastated Yemen for four years. Some 10,000 victims are estimated to have lost their lives.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, also |
Before every game, Klay Thompson sits at his locker and reads the newspaper, devouring the sports section, keeping up on current events and sk | imming through the movie reviews and financial reports.
It’s a little-known ritual for someone who is much more inquisitive than his public perception would suggest, and that’s just the way the Warriors’ shooting guard would have preferred it to remain.
“He hides a lot of things, I think,” Warriors head coach Steve Kerr said.
Thompson doesn’t particularly like being in the spotlight, but he’s finding it increasingly difficult to avoid the attention while putting together what has been probably the NBA’s best 2016 postseason.
A two-time All-Star, Thompson, 26, averaged 27.2 points through the first two playoff rounds — just 0.2 of a point shy of postseason leader Kevin Durant — on 47.4 percent shooting and a league-best 4.7 three-pointers per game.
In the Warriors’ clinching game against Portland on Wednesday, Thompson had his fourth 30-point |
With experience in event planning, Kahler felt inspired to pursue an array of creative endeavors to promote the area such as founding the Downtown Phoenix Journal and | serving as president of Artlink, a nonprofit that helps coordinate First Fridays.
She also owns her own marketing company, Urban Affair, which publishes the Downtown Phoenix Journal and is appropriately named after her love for the city.
At Arizona State University in the 90s, Kahler felt apathetic toward her classes, rotating from history to teaching to liberal arts unaware of how she would apply what she learned to a future career.
Above all, she learned how vital the arts were to the growth of the city. “It just became part of that natural thought process that you couldn’t separate the arts and culture from the success of downtown,” Kahler says.
In 2010, she reached out to Artlink to help produce their map for First Friday, a monthly nighttime art walk attracting visitors from around the Valley. She has worked for them since and now serves as president. Albeit not an artist herself, Kahler’s appreciation for the arts is evident. |
Gladwin County Sheriff deputies investigated a traffic crash at North M-18 and Pratt Lake Road late Tuesday. The extent of injuries were not immediately | known.
Many passing by agreed the crash looked bad. One woman said both vehicles were on their sides. Dispatch reported there was a minivan and an SUV involved. Investigators were on scene and unavailable for immediate comment.
There have been other crashes in that same area. Gladwin resident Mari Battjes was in a crash at the location in 2011. She said news of the crash caused memories of the crash to come flooding back.
It was March 5, 2011, the roads were slushy and a van sideswiped Battjes.
“Most of my husband’s door was pushed to the back passenger (part), Battjes said. “My husband was driving. My then 6-year-old had to be pulled out through the little window of the back-passenger door. She was unresponsive at first and had blood all over her face.
“There was an officer behind the person driving the van and an off-duty |
MILTON, GA, March 12, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via NEWMEDIAWIRE -- Attis Industries | Inc. (NASDAQ: ATIS) (the "Company" or "Attis"), a diversified innovation and technology holding company, announced that it will be attending and presenting at the Biorenewable Deployment Consortium ("BDC") today in Jacksonville, FL.
This will be the fourth time that Attis has attended the BDC and the third time as a presenter. Attis is looking forward to providing an update on its various projects and technologies to a very well attended conference that focuses primarily on the valorization of biomass across multiple markets. Attis plans to provide an update on its recently announced planned acquisition of the Sunoco LP corn ethanol plant in Fulton, NY as well as its biorefinery project in Barnesville, GA.
The BDC is the perfect opportunity for Attis to discuss its suite of biomass conversion technologies, specific project updates and end product market development. Year after year, the BDC continues to draw some of the industry's most influential minds |
SYNLAB Nigeria has formally launched its new laboratory facility in Calabar, the Cross River State capital for quality laboratory tests and support for doctors | .
The new facility is meant to provide quality laboratory tests, support doctors with accurate test results and improve the quality of healthcare in Cross River State and its environs.
Speaking during the launch, the Executive Director, Operations, SYNLAB Nigeria, Dr Tolulope Adewole, said SYNLAB will continue to provide quality services to Nigerians.
He said: “As a company, we are committed to making investments that will deliver first-world healthcare service to Nigerians. With more than 5,000 tests on offer, SYNLAB Nigeria has the most comprehensive test offering in Africa.
Located inside the premises of the renowned Calabar Women and Children Hospital, the SYNLAB facility further aims at delivering top quality, state-of-the-art medical diagnostic services for health professionals and residents of Calabar.
The SYNLAB Management has announced that a special package awaits the first five customers, every day for the next one week, at |
The black community in every city is a natural left constituency. If Washington is right that Chicago points to a new black politics, it means the same | for the left.
This “coming into political maturity” of minority groups that, as Washington says, once thought simple street protests were enough took a giant leap forward on April 12 when a sizable majority of Hispanic voters and enough left and liberal whites joined the overwhelming majority of blacks to give Chicago its first black mayor.
This was a victory for the left, both in the sense that the natural left constituencies—blacks, Hispanics and the labor movement—were its basis and in the sense that organizational support for Washington outside the black community came from left groups ranging from unions like AFSCME to the National Organization for Women to the Democratic Socialists of America. And it was a victory over racism in the most highly segregated of American cities, even though the election also demonstrated how deeply divided Chicago's working people are by race.
The growing maturity of which Washington speaks was demonstrated in the high degree of organization in the black community—organization that brought close to 90 percent of the eligible voters |
Former SAA chair Dudu Myeni.
Dudu Myeni could face a summons if she once again fails to appear before the parliamentary | inquiry into state capture next week.
Myeni is to be subpoenaed to appear before the inquiry into the alleged capture of Eskom by the Guptas after she snubbed the hearings on Wednesday.
Myeni was expected to appear before the public enterprises committee that is probing allegations of corruption and mismanagement at Eskom‚ but made a no-show despite being called to testify more than a week ago.
The committee wanted to hear Myeni’s version of events about her alleged influence in Eskom affairs after she was implicated in November last year by former Eskom board chairperson Zola Tsotsi‚ who told the committee that Myeni had dictated at a meeting in Durban in March 2015 which Eskom executives needed to be suspended at the time.
Tsotsi alleged that then-president Jacob Zuma had been present at that meeting. The former president and Myeni are said to be close friends.
Tsotsi said he was given an |
In the collective mindset, the office is a second home.
At the office, colleagues gather to work, talk and collaborate.
Even with | the popularity of telecommuting, the office remains a constant.
It just doesn’t feature cubicles anymore.
That’s because open floorplans — offices with shared desks, work tables and limited doors and private offices — are becoming increasingly popular.
The trend exists despite multiple studies, including a recent Harvard report, that found employees are dissatisfied and less productive with constant face-to-face interaction.
Not designer Joy Cho, who has embraced the much-maligned open office plan at her new Oh Joy! headquarters in Frogtown, a functional but beautiful office composed of shared workspaces and large open areas where her staff of six can work, dine, cook and craft.
Like her whimsical products, spanning washable rugs to Band-Aids, the office has a happy vibe. It is feminine and fun, and it and works, Cho says, because of a consistent structure throughout: glossy white Ikea cabinets as background, soft pastel |
If Modi and the BJP really wish to address the needs of the nation, they need to recognise that inclusion requires more than just naukri | and cellphone.
Now that the BJP has romped home with a stunning majority and will govern Uttar Pradesh, the question that most confronts the liberal worrier is that of the Muslim community. As one foreign friend said, “I wouldn’t like to be a Muslim in UP or in India at present.” Given her liberal soul, she might say the same of her own country, the US, where Muslims could be in even greater peril under President Trump.
At 18.4 per cent, Muslims form a significant proportion of UP’s population. The big elephant in the room during the entire UP election was that the BJP had not given a single ticket to anyone from the community. Amit Shah, the architect of the UP victory, when asked why, consistently responded that the BJP chooses candidates on “winnability”. His reasoning was — they will not vote for us, so why waste a ticket. This might be rational and logical but many question |
Re: "Tougher oversight of police weighed — Botham Jean case fuels calls to strengthen citizen review board," Nov. 21 Metro & State | story.
Proposals for change in the Citizens Police Review Board are, in my opinion, not likely to improve oversight of police activity or complainants' case outcomes. Most complaints do not justify subpoena power. Leave those that do to the justice system.
1. Better appointee vetting. In my experience there are three groups: predisposed to the citizen; generally favoring police; and qualified, impartial members. Prioritize openness over activism.
2. Due process. Complainants are rushed and not given time to fully present evidence. Although there is no published time allotment, either board policy or member disinterest often penalizes complainants.
3. Officer named in complaint present at the hearing. Many cases don't require Internal Affairs scrutiny. Senior officers may have second- or third-hand knowledge, yet they often testify in first-person capacity. A simple Dallas Police Department policy change could rectify this.
Activism and justice do not produce the same results |
SAN FRANCISCO – Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) shares rose more than 4 percent Wednesday as investors reacted to its | report a day earlier that earnings rose 26.5 percent in the fourth quarter, led by record revenue growth across all of the computer giant's business units, particularly in its consumer electronics division.
Shares of the Palo Alto, Calif.-based HP were up 89 cents, or 4.5 percent, to $20.57 Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange (search). Its shares are trading midway betrween their 52-wek range of $16.08 to $26.28.
HP said after the markets closed Tuesday that it earned $1.091 billion, or 37 cents per share, in the quarter ended Oct. 31 compared with $862 million, or 28 cents per share, in the same period last year. Wall Street analysts had been expecting the company to earn 37 cents a share, according to Thomson First Call. Revenue came to $21.39 billion, up 8 percent from $19.85 billion in the fourth quarter of |
Victoria's Minister for Small Business, Innovation and Trade Philip Dalidakis believes bringing international organisations and talent to Australia will spark interest in pursuing a career | in tech.
In little over a year, international businesses such as software firm Zendesk, e-marketplace Etsy, payments player Square, and team communication platform Slack have set up their respective regional headquarters in Melbourne, a trend Victoria's Minister for Small Business, Innovation and Trade Philip Dalidakis said is vital for the success of local talent.
Quoting the 1989 movie starring Kevin Costner, Dalidakis told ZDNet that Victoria is building its own Field of Dreams with the theory that "if you build it, they will come".
"I don't think it's too dissimilar [to Field of Dreams] and what we're trying to do is create opportunities where people want to be here and it's never about stopping Victorian companies from going global -- if that's what they need to do then we want to be here to help them do that. We want to be part of their success story, not the blockers or inhibitors to them reaching their potential or their |
As constant air monitoring is handled in Strathcona County by two local groups, students are set to get more insight into the air they breathe | .
Strathcona County is divided into two airsheds, with the Alberta Capital Airshed (ACA) managing air quality monitoring stations in Ardrossan and Sherwood Park, while the Fort Air Partnership (FAP) has a station in Elk Island, as well as in areas just north of Strathcona County, such as Fort Saskatchewan and Bruderheim.
While constant air monitoring efforts continue, both organizations are now hoping to spread their work to a younger audience.
“We just started a school tours program a year ago, so we’re planning to expand that,” said Nadine Blaney, executive director of FAP.
Additionally, ACA executive director Gary Redmond said the group has already started working with local facilities to raise student awareness — while also potentially bringing certain messages to parents.
The CARS program — Clean Air Responsible Schools — involves a partnership between the ACA and an educational group called Inside Education.
Using handheld air quality |
We are former intelligence officials who have served many years at senior levels of the US intelligence community. As the role of intelligence on Iraq assumed critical importance | over the past several months, we established Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) as a collegial body to monitor the unfolding of events. Our first analytic paper was a same-day commentary on Secretary of State Colin Powell’s performance at the UN Security Council on February 5. Six papers on related subjects have now been issued, three of which have taken the form of Memoranda for the President. We have had no response from the White House.
We turn to you now because it has become inescapably clear that the issue of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq remains a most urgent one. We see no viable alternative to renewed UN involvement if this key issue is to be dealt with effectively. This letter is an appeal to you and Security Council members to pursue that objective with a renewed sense of urgency.
As we applied the rigorous evidentiary standards of professional intelligence analysis over recent months, we were inclined to place reports of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in the “ |
The first trailer for the upcoming documentary The Orange Years has been released online. The film chronicles the origins and success of the cable channel Nickelode | on in the 1990s, featuring interviews with the stars and creators of the content that dominated the childhoods of those coming of age two decades ago. Shows like All That, The Adventures of Pete & Pete, and Clarissa Explains It All served to speak directly to kids without pandering, and they did so while also countering the more younger-skewing programming on Disney Channel. This trailer finds the stars and writers of those shows not only discussing the popularity of Nickelodeon, but how the guiding vision of Geraldine Laybourne allowed these series to traverse more mature content. It was precisely this mix of kid-friendly shows with a smidge of rebellion that made Nickelodeon so popular throughout the 90s.
This trailer makes this film a must-watch for someone like me, who grew up on a steady diet of Nickelodeon programming. Directed by Scott Barber and Adam Sweeney, the film is due to premiere on November 15th at DOC NYC at the SVA Theater |
Since its start in 2010, some of the most powerful unions is the country have contributed millions of dollars to the group American Bridge, an organization dedicated | to attacking Republicans.
The group claims its mission is to hold elected officials accountable for saying one thing but doing another. Despite this, it targets Republicans exclusively. To accomplish this American Bridge has engaged in opposition research and information campaigns.
“[We’re]a progressive research and communications organization committed to holding Republicans accountable for their words and actions and helping you ascertain when Republican candidates are pretending to be something they’re not,” its website states.
Its opposition research and media campaigns are often used by unions to support their own arguments. The AFL-CIO has used American Bridge to go after conservative millionaires the Koch Brothers, the United Steelworkers used its research to attack minimum wage critics, and its attacks on Republican presidential candidate Gov. Scott Walker were used by the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO. Additionally, its main criticism of Walker is his policies which reined in union power.
Already in 2015, the National Education Association (NEA) and the Service Employees |
News Corp. has a fresh critic, and it doesn't involve hacking at this time. The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the largest | U.S. public pension, is blasting the company's shareholder structure, claiming it allows Rupert Murdoch’s family too much control over the company.
The dual-class share structure gives the Murdoch family 40 percent of the voting rights in a company in which it owns 12 percent, which is a "a corruption of the governance system," says Anne Simpson, senior portfolio manager Calpers Global Equity and its corporate governance chief, according to the Financial Times.
"Power should reflect capital at risk. Calpers sees the voting structure in a company as critical. The situation is very serious and we’re considering our options. We don’t intend to be spectators – we’re owners," Simpson says.
"Dual class voting is one way to pervert the alignment of ownership and control."
Calpers owns almost 7 million shares in News Corp, worth about $110 million in a company with a market capitalization of almost $42 billion, the newspaper adds.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Early on, people told Aftab Pureval his uncommon name would be a liability on a ballot, and encouraged | him to consider changing it. But during his successful 2016 campaign for Hamilton County Clerk of Courts, his first time running for office, he managed to turn it into a strength.
First, he had to teach people how to say it. His campaign deployed a campy talking duck puppet in its commercials, alluding to the Aflac insurance mascot.
"It's maybe not dignified, but it's incredibly memorable. And we were successful. It stuck out," Pureval said during an interview this week.
Pureval, a 35-year-old Democrat, is now running for Ohio's 1st Congressional District, challenging Republican Rep. Steve Chabot. He was this week's guest on Ohio Matters, cleveland.com's politics podcast. Each week, reporters Andrew Tobias, Mary Kilpatrick and Seth Richardson sit down for in-depth interviews with politically important people in the Buckeye State.
Pureval said his early plight with his ballot name reflects a common challenge for |
Last week, during a discussion on the Facebook Group 'Boys in Green' regarding the ability, or rather the lack of, of Pakistan's | batsmen in ODIs, a fellow member Aoun Jafarey brought up the ‘rotation rate’ and used it to assess how Pakistan's batsmen are lagging far behind all other ODI batsmen playing the game today. In a similar discussion with another friend, we brought up the ‘boundary rate’ to explain the same issue of why Pakistan's ODI batting is suffering.
Let me first explain what the ‘rotation rate’ and ‘boundary rate’ are.
The rotation rate (RR) is the number of runs a batsman scores off the deliveries that are not hit for a boundary. The RR basically signifies how well a batsman rotates strike, which is an essential component of building a partnership and easing the pressure, particularly in ODIs. Smashing fours and sixes is all well and good, but what batsmen manage on deliveries that are not pummeled to the boundary goes a long |
"Places to hit" included 20 homes in Roseville and other metro cities.
A woman drove up to a mailbox outside a Roseville | residence last Thursday, reached in and retrieved a package. She lowered the red flag, shut the mailbox and drove off.
What she didn’t know was that the package was a decoy left by police conducting an undercover sting operation in hopes of catching thieves who have taken mail from more than 20 homes in the city in recent weeks.
The three suspects, a 32-year-old male, a 31-year-old woman, and a 50-year-old woman, all from St. Paul, admitted to being involved in the thefts and have been linked to several cases in other cities, said Lt. Erika Scheider with the Roseville Police Department.
Officers who made the arrest around 2:15 p.m. found a cup full of chemicals being used to remove ink from a check stolen from another Roseville residence. Additional items used to “wash” checks were found throughout the vehicle, including acetone, Clorox wipes, and various colored |
John Tortorella continues to write Stu Bickel’s name into his lineup game after game. The 25-year-old | rookie defenseman continues to show little progress and ends up isolated at the end of the Rangers’ bench as spectator for the majority of 60 minutes.
What’s the point in persisting with a player who can barely scrape five minutes in total ice time and tends to commit costly turnovers during the limited time he’s actually skating?
There was a moment in Game 2 where Bickel tried to provoke David Clarkson into a fight and Clarkson wasn’t taking the bait. Peter DeBoer advised Clarkson earlier this season to take less fighting majors as his production and physicality is important to the Devils’ success.
Clarkson knew he’d be sacrificing his value to the Devils by leaving the ice for five minutes without taking a star player with him. After all, it wasn’t Ryan Callahan or Brian Boyle who was challenging him to a scrap.
Early into the third period, Bickel shoveled a pass along the boards instead of |
Sanliurfa, Turkey: Syrian rebels who have joined Turkey’s cross-border offensive against a Kurdish enclave say they see the assault | as a way to settle personal scores, and reports are mounting of looting and summary executions carried out by the Syrian fighters.
Backed by Turkish troops and war planes, thousands of Syrian rebels are now tightening their grip on the Kurdish-controlled Afrin enclave in northern Syria as part of an offensive that Turkey has framed as a matter of its national security.
Turkey has been fighting a decades-old war against Kurdish militants at home, who are closely allied with the People’s Protection Units, or YPG, just across the border in Afrin.
But for the Syrian rebels, who are mostly Arabs, participation in the Turkish offensive is personal.
His rhetoric echoes a video circulated online this week, apparently showing rebel fighters discussing plans to loot houses in Afrin. “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,” says a fighter who is apparently in charge.
Like Mahal, most of the Syrians taking part in Turkey’s operation originally took up |
The only participant from India, BITS Pilani, finished fourth at the RoboCup 2013 held in the Netherlands, says Vandana Ramn | ani.
This isn’t the usual World Cup soccer match where teams from one country play another. This one is special because loud applause replaces wide smiles when the bumbling robot trounces his opponent or stumbles even before the ball has reached the net. The match has its tense moments – the only difference perhaps is that it’s the robot who is nervous.
We’re at the RoboCup 2013 at Eindhoven, Netherlands, where thousands of robots from over 40 countries are competing under different categories. They’re health robots to assist the sick and the aged, rescue robots, home robots – you name it and they’re there.
Next year’s tournament will be held in Brazil and the mission of RoboCup is not only to encourage more students to take up science but also to defeat the human World Cup winners by 2050.
A team of five engineering students from BITS Pilani is here with its invention AcY |
Section 1. Findings. (a) Section 3 of Executive Order 13732 of July 1, 2016 (United States Policy on Pre- and | Post Strike Measures To Address Civilian Casualties in U.S. Operations Involving the Use of Force), requires the Director of National Intelligence, or such other official as the President may designate, to release, by May 1 each year, an unclassified summary of the number of strikes undertaken by the United States Government against terrorist targets outside areas of active hostilities, as well as assessments of combatant and non combatant deaths resulting from those strikes, among other information.
(b) Section 1057 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91) similarly requires the Secretary of Defense to submit to the congressional defense committees, by May 1 each year, a report on civilian casualties caused as a result of United States military operations during the preceding year (civilian casualty report). Subsection 1057(d) requires that the civilian casualty report be submitted in unclassified form, but recognizes that the report may include a classified annex.
(c) Section 1062 of |
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to go for a last Cabinet rejig this week before the 2019 General Elections.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is | expected to go for a last Cabinet rejig this week before the 2019 General Elections. Media reports in the last few days have speculated several names who could be inducted in the Modi Cabinet. Most of the reports unanimously say the new-look Modi Cabinet is likely to include faces from new ally JD(U) in Bihar, while some reports also claim that leaders of ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu and NCP may also find place in the Cabinet.
The Cabinet reshuffle was long overdue. While Union environment minister Anil Madhav Dave suddenly died a few months back, then Union Defence Minister Manihar Parrikar moved to Goa to lead the state after the Assembly elections in March this year. Last month Union Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu also resigned to become the vice-president.
On Thursday, a number of Union ministers met at BJP president Amit Shah’s residence in New Delhi amid speculations of the Cabinet reshuffle by the end of this |
LOS ANGELES-New York shop Dweck has prevailed over DDB Needham here and Atlanta’s WestWayne for United Paramount | Network’s creative assignment.
The agency is currently assisting the client with its May 20 upfront presentations, which may lead to the shop handling the network’s entire $20-25 million business.
UPN liked Dweck’s notion of using the network’s underdog status to its advantage. Its rating are dwarfed by those of The WB, ABC, CBS and NBC. The client is hoping to attract a younger male audience.
Agency principal Michael Dweck described UPN and his shop as being “like twins” in their shared vision for changing the face of TV. “There was a mirroring of ideas,” he said. Chemistry between agency and client was so strong that “we didn’t really present anything” to win the business, said Dweck. The agency will open a Los Angeles office to service the business.
The small New York agency-which officially changes its name from D |
The Island President, the new documentary by Jon Shenk on now-deposed President of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed's efforts to politically combat | climate change in the run-up to the 2009 COP15 climate talks has been given the full media blitz in the past few days.
After screening at festivals for several months, its now being released in New York theaters this week. TreeHugger recently reviewed the film, the trailer for which is above.
It's really a compelling piece of filmmaking, especially for anyone who was closely following the climate talks in 2009, and doubly so for anyone who, like this author, covered them live. There's really a good deal of background information on decision-making that, while it could've been inferred at the time, is now made clear.
I won't give all that away. Go see the film. It's definitely worth it. Good stuff, with a Radiohead soundtrack to boot.
However, what I will spoil is that the film ends with a series of title cards. The first saying, "Although portrayed as a failure, Copenhagen marked the first time in history that |
Here at blog HQ the Internet is up and running again, so time to work through some overdue items. First, the choice America will make on | November 6.
It is natural to have deep divisions within the country on how the presidential election should turn out. It's unusual to have such contradictory assumptions about what is going to happen just over 100 hours from now. Long ago, the film critic Pauline Kael was ridiculed for reportedly having said, after Richard Nixon's 49-state win over George McGovern in 1972, "How can that be? No one I know voted for Nixon." Apparently she never said it, but the quote lives on, in a boiled-frog-like twilight zone, as shorthand for people who are grossly out of touch with majority American opinion, and don't realize it.
But the evidence convinces me that, beyond the spin and the lunacy and the media's interest in keeping any race "close," a lot of Republicans really believe that Romney is about to win.
Meanwhile, in the "it's not just FiveThirtyEight" category, you have a large succession of models that combine and |
Allie Mallad, founder of Massage Green Spa, says, "I'd rather have someone with a great attitude than great skill. I | can teach skill; I can't teach attitude."
Allie Mallad knows a few things about starting a business. He should, since he's done it a few hundred times.
Mallad's current enterprise is Massage Green Spa, a Southfield-based therapeutic massage franchising business. Since its launch in 2008, the chain has grown to 50 stores, half of them corporate-owned. He expects the number to double by the end of this year.
The jump to becoming a franchisor followed a big run as a franchisee — Mallad owned 171 stores under seven national franchises at one point in the 1990s. His base was his Little Caesars operation, for which he owned 159 stores at its peak in 1995. Operating out of Southern California at the time, he also owned stores for chains such as Bruegger's Bagels, Applebee's, Baskin-Robbins and Jiffy Lube.
He's been the franchise |
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 23, 2019-- PVH Corp. [NYSE:PVH], one of the | world’s largest apparel companies and owner of iconic brands, including CALVIN KLEIN, TOMMY HILFIGER, Van Heusen, Speedo, Warner’s and IZOD, announces its support of Global Fashion Agenda’s CEO Agenda 2019.
The CEO Agenda 2019, supporting a sustainable fashion industry, is being released today by Global Fashion Agenda at Davos House during the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Switzerland. PVH, one of nine strategic partners of Global Fashion Agenda, is proud to support the updated Agenda, which reflects global developments and focuses on climate change as a core priority. The CEO Agenda 2019 challenges the industry to accelerate sustainable practices and, echoing this goal, PVH is launching the next evolution of its Corporate Responsibility strategy – Forward Fashion –which includes the company’s new vision for the future.
“We believe in holding ourselves accountable to the highest standards, setting ambitious Corporate Responsibility goals that drive fashion forward |
The project is part of an interactive arts program called the High School Sculpture in the City, which brings local high school art students and artists | together to collaborate on a sculpture that becomes a part of the city’s landscape. This year’s project was supported by a $12,500 contribution from Belleville law firm Mathis, Marifian and Richter, whose offices are located on Public Square, adjacent to the annual outdoor art show. The program has included art students from Belleville East, Althoff and Governor French in past years. Kevin Richter, an attorney and shareholder at the Belleville law firm, said this is the firm’s fifth year of sponsoring this project.
Casper also said the two columns that Lee helped the students create will be a welcome addition to the recently renovated park and an opportunity to bring art to local residents.
Lee said she enjoyed working with Casper’s students and is impressed with Belleville’s commitment to art. She has attended the annual Art on the Square before and said the city is built a reputation for encouraging support artists.
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Salinas, California based leafy green supplier River Ranch Fresh Foods has initiated a nationwide recall of pre-made bagged salads after discovering a | Listeria contamination. No illnesses have been reported yet, but if you are one of the many folks too lazy to chop their own carrots, you may want to check the list of affected products which are sold under a variety of labels across the country.
The bagged salads carry a variety of wholesome-sounding names like: River Ranch, Farm Stand, Hy-Vee, Marketside, Shurfresh, The Farmer’s Market, Cross Valley, Fresh n Easy, Promark, and Sysco. (That last one being one of the largest restaurant suppliers in the country.) The recalled salads have either “Best By” code dates between 12MAY2012 - 29MAY2012 or Julian dates between 116 - 125, according to the company's recall announcement.
In healthy folks, Listeria generally causes short-term symptoms like fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea. In young children and the elderly, however, it |
Despite suffering two straight defeats in the Ladbrokes Premiership and still unsure of who their new manager is going to be, Rangers interim boss Graeme | Murty has full confidence in his players to keep their minds focused when St Johnstone come to Ibrox next Wednesday.
Murty watched on as Rangers lost 2-1 away from home for the second consecutive weekend, as a late Billy Mckay overhead kick gave Inverness CT their first victory in the league since late October.
The visitors hauled themselves level midway through the second half after Martyn Waghorn converted from the penalty spot, cancelling out Greg Tansey’s opener in first-half stoppage time.
It was a familiar story for the Light Blues as they failed to take chances to win the match and, instead, suffered defeat when Mckay produced a superb piece of magic only moments after Iain Vigurs had missed a penalty for the hosts.
With no new manager in sight and pressure intensifying on a playing squad low on confidence, Murty says he expects the club to be written off against St Johnstone. But he insists |
The curiosity of children is quite possibly the greatest player in their drive to learn. It is one of the single most compelling aspects of human life in | that it motivates us to go from a baby crawling on the floor, to a toddler toppling over, to a child chasing a firefly through a cool summer night. Curiosity pushes us to communicate with gestures and words in order to ask for the things we want, and it guides us towards the answers to the things we don’t yet understand.
Not only did my brother and I each ask this very same question on a completely different day, but we asked it about two different women my mom happened to be with at the time! I share this to elaborate on the fact that a child’s curiosity can guide them down a dangerous path (like insulting your parent’s friends and the realization of what would happen when you got home), but it can just as easily guide them towards truth and growth. Either way, parents and grandparents are usually the first to receive a child’s barrage of questions and are tasked with the responsibility to not just give them an answer but |
The Migration Policy Institute estimates that 743,000 unauthorized immigrants in Texas will qualify for protection under Obama's executive order on immigration. It will be | the second most impacted state in the country, behind California.
Texas will be the second most affected state under President Barack Obama’s executive order on immigration, which will shield 5 million unauthorized immigrants from deportation, according to a study by the Migration Policy Institute.
In Texas, the president’s actions will make 743,000 people in the country illegally eligible for protection from deportation. That’s second only to California, where 1.5 million people will be eligible for protection under the administration’s new and expanded deferred action programs. So how will Obama’s executive order affect Texas’ undocumented population?
First, let’s go over the ground rules. About half a million (560,000) will be able to apply for temporary relief from deportation under the new deferred action program that qualifies parents of U.S. citizens or permanent residents who have been in the country for more than five years. Another 183,000 unauthorized immigrants in Texas will |
A BAGGAGE handler has been caught on tape carelessly tossing valuable suitcases onto a conveyer belt. The airline wasted no time in | responding.
FEARS of losing luggage on a lengthy plane trip is now not the only concern, as footage has emerged of an airport crew member tossing bags off a Hawaiian Air plane.
Courier-Mail reporter Vanessa Marsh captured a ground crewmember throwing luggage carelessly at Honolulu while loading up a flight to Phoenix and posted the video on Twitter.
“The mystery of all my broken suitcases is solved — this is the ground crew at Honolulu loading up a @HawaiianAir flight to Phoenix,” Ms Marsh tweeted.
The video, has been viewed nearly 2000 times — prompting Hawaiian Airlines to comment.
“Aloha Vanessa, we’re very sorry to see this and appreciate you bringing it to our attention,” they wrote.
A similar incident was reported by news.com.au when a Melbourne woman discovered her bag had been run over by a tug — a vehicle that transports luggage — at Perth airport, destroying all of her valuable items |
Racing embracing change but what about Irish gambling laws?
JACK ANDERSON: Racing embracing change but what about Irish gambling laws?
D | ating back to 1780, the Epsom Derby is the one of the oldest continuous events on the sporting calendar. The latest running is Saturday. The Aidan O’Brien-trained Saxon Warrior will start as favourite. If Saxon Warrior wins, it will give O’Brien a record-equalling seventh Derby.
Last year, O’Brien trained Wings Of Eagles to a shock win at 40-1. Punters were deflated; bookies delighted.
On May 31, 1838, the London Times contained a report on the previous day’s Derby.
The now 150-year-old report recounted another shock winner of the race: Amato striding to victory at racecourse odds of 40/1.
The 1838 Derby was a historic one as it was the first to be raced on a Wednesday, a tradition that continued until 1995. It was held on a Wednesday because that suited the timetables of the innovative transport technology of the |
Olympic bronze medal-winning figure skater Denis Ten has died in Kazakhstan after being stabbed in an incident involving two robbers.
The Kazakh | skater, 25, who won Olympic bronze in 2014, lost three liters of blood in the attack and died in hospital on Thursday, despite resuscitation procedures by doctors, TASS reports.
The tragic incident took place in the city of Almaty, when the skater became involved in an argument with two unknown men who had attempted to steal mirrors from his car.
The verbal row quickly escalated into a serious altercation in which the athlete received knife wounds. Passersby found the unconscious skater on the street and called an ambulance, which took Ten to hospital where he passed away after surgery.
The high-profile athlete was the first Kazakh skater to win an Olympic medal, after he finished third at the 2014 winter games in Sochi, losing only to Japanese skating icon Yuzuru Hanyu and Canadian star Patrick Chan.
“Denis Yurevich Ten spotted two unknown men who tried to steal mirrors from his car. In a brawl which took place at the |
Haye vs Bellew 2 tale of the tape: How do two heavyweights compare ahead of massive rematch at the O2 Arena?
IT | 'S finally here - the long-awaited rematch between David Haye and Tony Bellew.
Bomber took the 11th round stoppage win in March last year amidst huge controversy, with Haye clearly injured for the majority of the fight.
A rematch was slated for December, but another knock forced the Hayemaker to postpone until May.
The pair have been locked in a war of words for almost two years now and it's finally time for them to settle their differences once again in the ring.
THERE's very little to split these two on paper - and it promises to be an absolute cracker at the O2.
Nobody is ever quite sure what to expect from the Hayemaker, despite claims that he is completely back to full fitness.
Both fighters are 6ft3, althrough Haye has a four-inch reach advantage over the Liverpudlian.
Bomber has been in the ring for 78 more rounds, whilst he has |
The House of Wolves add-on also adds a new weekly wrinkle, in the form of Prison of Elder. The multi-round gauntlets | are built for endgame play, with the specific enemy types and modifiers changing from week to week.
Arc Burn - All Arc damage is increased.
Solar Burn - All Solar damage is increased.
Small Arms - Primary weapons do increased damage.
Winter's Run is one of Destiny's shorter Strikes, with very little ground to cover between the spawn point and the first Darkness Zone, and then a similarly short distance separating that first Darkness Zone from the boss encounter. This particular Nightfall is especially appealing because of the great modifier synergy. Elemental "burns" are always a welcome sight, but the idea of pairing Arc/Solar Burn with Small Arms is particularly tantalizing.
Brawler- Guardian melee damage is increased by 300%.
For the second week in a row, you'll need to have one of Destiny's optional add-ons to participate in the Weekly Heroic Strike. This time it's The Dark Below Strike, The Will of Crota. This one's a bit of a |
Katie Couric just took Jimmy Kimmel for his first colonoscopy.
The late-night host shared the experience on Tuesday's episode of | "Jimmy Kimmel Live."
Kimmel turned 50 in November, which is the recommended age for adults to start getting screenings. So when Couric asked Kimmel if she could accompany him for his first, he couldn't refuse.
"It seemed to be an unusual request, but I know that this is something Katie is passionate about and it's an important thing to do," Kimmel said. "So, with that said, we're about to watch a camera go where no camera has ever gone before."
Fighting colon cancer is near to Couric's heart. Her first husband, Jay Monahan, died of colon cancer in 1998. To help encourage others to get colonoscopies, Couric underwent a live screening on Today nearly two decades ago.
Couric guided Kimmel every step of the way. She mixed him a pre-screening "cocktail" to clear out his colon, drove him to the hospital and gave him a pep talk before the procedure.
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What the American designer did with tulle was staggering in a brilliant homage to couture.
Thom Browne designed to his Paris moment. “ | When I thought of doing my first show here, I wanted to celebrate what, in my mind, Paris fashion is all about — the craftsmanship of couture,” he said during a preview.
What this man did with tulle was staggering. In paying homage to couture, he created couture — a collection that would have shown as brilliantly in July as it did on Tuesday at the Hotel de Ville. The mastery of these clothes was beyond, the fabric development remarkable. Imagine a trim madras jacket that looks like real thing, but woven with painstaking precision from strips of tulle. Or a cricket jacket, its half-“exploded,” half-shaved tulle configuration mocking the conservatism of the real thing. Or puffer pieces in which shredded tulle is trapped and quilted in a tulle shell.
More than enough for the makings of a spectacular collection, and Browne delivered on the promise. Yet one risks giving the clothes short |
Pasadena, California (CNN) – Anxious mission directors are counting the hours and holding their breath as the cruise vehicle for the Phoenix Mars | Lander starts to feel the pull of Martian gravity.
The lander is just hours away from ending its 296-day, 422-million-mile journey, and has about a 50-50 chance of touching down successfully on the arctic plains of the red planet’s polar north.
If all goes well, mission control will hear the lander’s “beep” from the surface in the tense minutes after a planned touchdown of 7:53pm Eastern time.
At the final pre-landing briefing, principal scientific investigator Peter Smith said he has “been feeling the pull of Martian gravity for 15 years”, highlighting just how important this mission is for his life’s work.
He said the scariest moment for him would be losing the lander’s signal during descent. Team members are calling it the “seven minutes of terror”, at which time the spacecraft will be dropping like a hot rock through |
The Colorado Republican, one of the most vulnerable House incumbents in 2018, faced an auditorium of angry residents.
AURORA, | Colo. — Nearly every other constituent brought up health care at a town hall here on the outskirts of Denver on Wednesday night, in one of the most competitive House districts in the country.
But not a single one did it to thank Rep. Mike Coffman for backing the House GOP plan to repeal and replace Obamacare. Instead, dozens of local residents — Democrats and Republicans — pummeled the Colorado Republican for supporting legislation they said would harm their community.
Standing before a packed auditorium at a University of Colorado satellite campus in Aurora, one young woman pressed Coffman on how he could commit to a bill she fears would hurt people with pre-existing conditions. Another stood up to say her cousin with epilepsy would die without Medicaid, which would be scaled back significantly by the GOP plan.
"I'm sorry to say I was shocked when you declared your intention to vote for the American Health Care Act," said Steven Haas, a 68-year-old lifelong registered Republican. "That is not |
An off-duty labor and delivery nurse out shopping with her family was forced to jump into action after a Georgia mother suddenly went into labor, 11 | Alive reports.
Tanya St. Preux Picault said she was at the Target at Mall of Georgia in Gwinnett County recently when she started to feel some pain.
Picault said she had visited the doctor the day before and didn't think her baby, Maleek Ari Picault, was about to arrive.
About 20 minutes after entering the store, Picault's water broke and she went into labor.
Caris Lockwood, a nurse at Piedmont Healthcare, had spotted Picault earlier and immediately stepped in to offer some assistance.
"I didn't think she was going to deliver that fast at first, but then she had a really painful contraction and her water broke," Lockwood told 11 Alive. "As a labor and delivery nurse I kind of knew what was about to happen."
Lockwood said her sister grabbed towels and gloves. The nurse then delivered Picault's baby right outside the store, before the ambulance could arrive. Baby Maleek was |
Greg McQuillan has complained to the police and Auckland Transport.
A DISABLED Auckland man thought he was a "goner" | when a bus closed its doors on him and then yanked him from his wheelchair, leaving him bloodied, bruised and with an injured back.
Greg McQuillan, 50, has complained about the driver in Friday's near-miss and Auckland Transport is investigating.
Mr McQuillan, a former driving instructor for the army, tried to catch the bus in Blockhouse Bay at 7pm.
When it pulled in and let two people off, he went to board but "he shut the doors on me. I banged on the door the get his attention, and he just hit the power".
"The next thing you know, I'm getting dragged on to the footpath and on to the road - that's where I ended up, face first on the road, with my wheelchair on top of me, and the bus driver just took off."
Mr McQuillan isn't sure what got caught in the doors and he barely recalls being pulled from his |
WAYNE ROONEY is back in action today declaring he wants to be leader of the gang – for both club and country.
As one of | Manchester United’s senior players, he is thriving on the responsibility of showing Sir Alex Ferguson’s new crop of youngsters the ropes.
Rooney says it is an ambition to follow both Nemanja Vidic and John Terry as captain of United and England eventually.
“I have captained both teams on one-off occasions, but to get those two jobs full-time would be an honour,” he said.
Rooney now has 10 years as a pro and more than 400 games under his belt despite the fact that he will not be 26 until later this month.
He is delighted that United boss Ferguson has acknowledged the maturity in his performances this season, and is not averse to handing out the odd rollicking if he thinks that a team-mate deserves one.
After missing the past three games with a hamstring niggle, Rooney said: “It’s great for the manager to say that.
“We have got a |
Hammerson to sell its offices to Brookfield | City A.M.
HAMMERSON, the Anglo-French property developer, announced | yesterday it is selling the bulk of its London office portfolio to Canada’s Brookfield Office Properties for £518m.
The deal comes after chief executive David Atkins put the offices up for sale in February to focus on retail property in the UK and France.
The FTSE 100 firm’s retail assets account for 90 per cent of its portfolio and include London’s Brent Cross and the Bullring in Birmingham.
Under the deal, Brookfield will pay Hammerson £329m for 99 Bishopsgate, Principal Place and two smaller assets by 30 September.
The sale of 125 Old Broad Street – the former Stock Exchange – and Leadenhall Court will be completed in June next year for £189m.
Hammerson said it will reinvest the proceeds in retail developments and buying up prime regional shopping centres, retail parks and premium designer outlets.
Martin Jepson, Brookfield’s senior vice president for investment, who joined from Hammerson last |
The movie Valentine’s Day was released on Feb. 12. The commercial industry puts an incredible amount of pressure on guys to buy their women | something nice and plan a very romantic day for their ladies. In the same twist it makes women feel pressure to find that “right” guy. Lead by a star studded cast, with such notables as Jessica Alba, Julia Roberts, Ashton Kutcher, Kathy Bates, Taylor Lautner, and many more, Valentine’s Day follows the story lines of several couples during this special holiday.
As the movie plays out the connections the cast of characters have with each other are revealed, one way or another. Some find romance; others are not as lucky as their relationships come to a bitter end. Everyone in this movie is looking for advice on how to keep their true loves.
Upon leaving this movie I could not help but be filled with the Valentine’s Day “spirit” so to speak. I really liked how all of the storylines intertwined, and that generally everyone found someone in the end. It gave testament to the old saying “there |
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration's firing of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara sent shockwaves through New | York, but veterans of the high-profile office expect a longstanding mission of cracking down on political corruption and Wall Street wrongdoing to remain intact.
Staffed with more than one hundred career prosecutors, the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office has a long history of being apolitical and pursuing a wide range of investigations into terrorism, public corruption, securities fraud and cyber crime, former prosecutors said.
Lorin Reisner, former head of the office's criminal division from 2012 to 2014, who is now in private practice at law firm Paul Weiss, said the priorities of the office are unlikely to change, regardless of who replaces Bharara.
"Generations of SDNY prosecutors have been told that their job is to do the right thing, for the right reasons, every day, in every case," he said, using the acronym for the office, the Southern District of New York.
Hanging in the balance are ongoing investigations of potential fraud at Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc and its |
Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” is on the road for the party conventions with a new look. |
Setting up at the Breen Center for the Performing Arts at Saint Ignatius High School in Cleveland and the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, the show has constructed two identical sets for the nightly broadcast.
“Washington is a little broken, and it needs to be worked on, so the whole thing looks like it’s Washington broken apart, and it needs to be put back together. That was my idea. and they really loved it, so that’s what we’re doing,” said Jim Fenhagen of Jack Morton PDG in a BizBash interview.
The design includes a large anchor desk that can accommodate guests and correspondents, fronted by graphics and two monitors.
A rear projection screen is located on either side of the desk, which is also used by correspondents as a green screen during show gags.
Connecting the set pieces is a large cyc of |
Ferdinand Kingsley, the son of Scarborough-born stage and screen star Ben Kingsley, will play both roles in this summer’s | York Mystery Plays.
The 24-year-old, described by artistic directors Damian Cruden and Paul Burbridge as an ‘exciting young talent', will join 500 amateurs taking part in the month-long spectacular in the Museum Gardens in August.
Ferdinand, who has performed in productions for The National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, said he was delighted to accept the roles.
“The production promises to be spectacular, its scale and ambition are hugely exciting and the setting of St Mary's Abbey seems perfect,” he said.
He will start rehearsals in early July and a second professional, who will play the Devil, will be announced in the next few weeks. The plays will be staged throughout August amid the ruins of St Mary’s Abbey.
Mr Cruden and Mr Burbridge said it was always their intention to cast a young actor in the role of God/Jesus. “We were keen that God should be portrayed as a young |
Is IRS Targeting Obama's Enemies?
In 2010, American Thinker posted an interesting defense of a flat tax, noting that it would help | preserve privacy and freedom of speech by eliminating the need for the federal government to know virtually every aspect of a taxpayer’s financial assets. Two years later, some people are seeing truth in the magazine's assessment that the administration may be using the Internal Revenue Service to silence its opposition.
My own Portage County TEA Party has been waiting for over a year just to get a response from the IRS so we can file our 2010 tax return! In the attached PDF I share with you, the “Additional Information Requested” of the Ohio Liberty Council from our June 30th, 2010 application which we just received on January 30, 2012. Yes, they took a year and a half to respond to our application and they are giving us two weeks to respond back. As you will see, this is no simple request.
Besides its 19-month delay in answering the OLC, the IRS is requiring such a large amount of documents and information that a small organization such as the O |
In a case now before the Idaho Public Utilities Commission, the company claims the current rate structure could shift costs to other customers and raise their rates. | It wants to place such “net metering” customers into a separate rate class, which could change how much they pay for power and how much they’re paid when they export it to the grid.
Dozens of solar customers and renewable energy advocates countered in public hearings in Boise and Pocatello that their investment in solar generation actually reduces other customers’ costs, by helping the utility meet its peak load during the heat of the summer.
“Even though June, July and August make up 25 percent of the year, I produced one-third of my solar production during those hottest months of the year, when it’s most expensive for Idaho Power to produce,” said Lisa Hecht, a retired Hewlett-Packard electrical engineer with a rooftop solar system on her Boise home.
The dispute with its 2,000 solar customers is part of a larger challenge for Idaho Power and other utilities, which have a monopoly on selling electricity under a century |
Avril sees things much differently. He wants an actual long-term deal, with a big signing bonus and big base salaries making him a rich | man for a long time. He doesn’t want to sign the tender, which means he’s putting the ball back in the Lions’ court.
Avril indicated that he’s not overly worried about the state of negotiations, or his absence from OTAs.
10.6 Million not enough, give me more. Yet i am not selfish or greedy. Today’s athletes are so spoiled. His stats are only that good cause he plays next to Suh. cut him and watch be a bust some where else.
And what a lot of people dont realize is that Avril plays a lot of one on ones, sometimes with just a TE, and 11 sacks is his final number? Its not a bad stat, but given that scenario, he should have more than that if he wants to be paid like a Julius Peppers. We have good depth at DE, so we better not overpay him. Hes weak against the run anyway. Trust |
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A Trump-supporting student at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Oklahoma, appeared to have his “Make America Great Again” | (MAGA) apparel ripped off.
A Trump supporting student at Edmond Santa Fe High School had his MAGA flag ripped off of him by another student.
These malicious attacks must be dealt with.
The Sun also reports that the alleged victim in this case is underage. Jones has not been charged, and the students are headed toward a mediation process.
“Edmond Public Schools is aware of cell phone video captured and posted to social media showing an incident between two students in a hallway at Edmond Santa Fe High School. The incident took place Monday, February 25th, the start of Santa Fe’s Double Wolf Dare Week, a series of assemblies, night events, sports tournaments and other events organized and staged to raise money toward the annual fund-raising goal.
On the 25th, students were allowed to contribute a dollar to the fundraising cause in exchange for a pass to wear headgear to school, which is typically not allowed in school facilities during the school day |
The event begins at 7 p.m. Admission is free.
The book is based in part on the real life story of a quirky adventurer | and scientist named R.L. Garner who studied gorillas and monkeys and claimed to be able to speak to them. Much of his work is still part of the Smithsonian collection.
Gilmore said he first encountered Garner’s work when he was studying anthropology and doing field work in Africa and the Caribbean. Garner lived from 1948 to 1920, but part of his life held an odd biographical gap for which there was no explanation.
The central conflict in the novel begins when Garner boards a train in Lynchburg, Va. and is soon asked by a young woman for help.
This is Gilmore’s second novel published in a year’s time. He also published a collection of short stories called “Scenes from a Bookshop.” He’s also published several short works through Amazon’s Kindle store.
Friday’s event is at the beginning of what Gilmore hopes will be a lengthy and productive promotional period for the book.
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MANILA, Philippines — Thousands of U.S. and Philippine troops, along with Australian defense forces, began annual drills Monday to prepare to quickly | respond to a range of potential crises, including in the disputed South China Sea.
The exercises have been opposed in recent years by China, which has territorial disputes in the South China Sea with several countries, including the Philippines, and suspects the drills are part of efforts to contain Beijing. Washington and Manila say the drills are not directed against China, and that they also focus on responding to natural disasters and humanitarian crises.
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter will fly to the Philippines to witness some of the 11-day exercises, underscoring the importance Washington puts on the joint combat drills that have been staged 32 times, said U.S. Marine Lt. Gen. John Toolan, who heads the 5,000 American military personnel taking part in the maneuvers.
Carter's presence will "reaffirm that the relationship that we have with the Philippines is rock solid and we're side by side," Toolan, who heads U.S. Marine forces in the Pacific, said at a |
When Americans register to vote, they should be issued a credit card by a special public company-- call it the Patriot card and color it red, | white, and blue. This card will become the basis of campaign finance.
Suppose each voter's card were automatically credited with a $10 balance for the 1996 presidential election. To gain access to this red-white-and blue money, candidates should be obliged to demonstrate significant popular support by gathering an appropriate number of voter signatures. In exchange for these signatures, the PAtriot company would open an account that grated the candidate an initial balance of red-white-and blue money-- say, one million dollars for presidential aspirants. Candidates could then spend their initial stake on a series of advertisements to convince Patriot holders to transfer more red-white-and-blue money to them. Some candidates will, of course, soon see their initial Patriot balance shrink to zero; others will generate tens of millions as the campaign proceeds.
Under this system, only red-white-and-blue money may be used to finance political campaigns. The use of greenbacks would be treated as a |
StarHub's net profit grew to SG$92.8 million, on EBITDA of SG$183.4 million and revenue of SG | $590.9 million, with gains in broadband and enterprise fixed services.
Singaporean telecommunications provider StarHub has announced its financial results for the quarter ending March 31, 2016, reporting net profit of SG$92.8 million, up 25.9 percent from the SG$73.7 million reported for the same period in 2015.
Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) was SG$183.4 million, up 13.2 percent from last year's SG$162.1 million, while revenue sat at SG$590.9 million, down 4.4 percent year on year from the SG$617.9 million announced in the same quarter for FY15.
The company had cash and cash equivalents of SG$270.7 million, up by 20.6 percent from the SG$224.5 million last year, and free cash flow of SG$89.9 million, a reversal from last year's negative |
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- An inventor from Philadelphia, Pa., came up with this | idea for an improved thermal underwear shirt that is designed to provide wearers with added comfort.
The patent pending SHORT SLEEVE THERMAL would contain short sleeves that could ensure wearers were not too hot, especially when it was worn during the spring and fall. Since the wearer was more comfortable, he or she may more fully focus on his job or leisure time pursuit instead of the cold.
Convenient, practical, and easy to launder, it could be produced in sizes, colors, and with various designs for wearing by men, women and children.
The inventor explained the inspiration behind this idea. "I like to keep warm, as I hate to be cold. This led me to wearing long-sleeve thermal shirts, but those were sometimes too warm."
The original design was submitted to the Telemarketing office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 17-HTM |
The present report is submitted pursuant to resolution 19/17 in which the Human Rights Council decided to establish an independent international fact-finding mission to investigate | the implications of the Israeli settlements on the human rights of the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.
1. At its nineteenth session, in resolution 19/17, the Human Rights Council decided to establish an independent international fact-finding mission to investigate the implications of the Israeli settlements on the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem (OPT).
2. On 6 July 2012, the President of the Human Rights Council appointed three high-level experts as members of the fact-finding mission: Christine Chanet as Chair, Asma Jahangir and Unity Dow.
3. The Mission convened for the first time in Geneva in August 2012 and held meetings with concerned representatives of Permanent Missions and other relevant stakeholders. The Mission adopted its terms of reference in light of the mandate conferred by the Human Rights Council and considered that the resolution clearly instructed it to investigate all the human rights implications of the |
Published: Oct 14, 2018 at 4:48 p.m.
SUMMERSIDE – Local Rotarians are working to open up | the world to the youth of Summerside through their exchange program.
The Rotary Youth Exchange is an opportunity to share and embrace other cultures, while gaining a better understanding and appreciation of the world.
“The way that the process works is, for example, if you were to apply right now, you’d be applying for the 2019 exchange year,” explained Angie Arsenault, local committee head of Rotary Youth Exchange.
An information session for students and parents will be held Tuesday, Oct. 16 at 6:30 p.m. in the Inspire Learning Centre of Summerside.
For more than 110 years, Rotary has acted to create change across the globe.
Previous exchange student Lucas Donovan, now 21, exchanged from Three Oaks Senior High School at the age of 16 to experience life and schooling for a year in Brazil.
“What made me decide to go on the exchange, really, was that I felt that I was too |
Campbell Soup Co. will stop using the chemical Bisphenol A in its canned products by the middle of next year to reassure consumers worried | that the substance may harm their health.
The pledge announced Monday is a response to concerns that the commonly used chemical known as BPA raises the risk of cancer, brain damage and hormonal problems.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration maintains that BPA is safe at the current levels used in food.
After more than 40 years of using the chemical, Campbell still believes that BPA is among the world's safest packaging options.
Nevertheless, the Camden, New Jersey company began studying alternatives to BPA in 2012.
After extensive testing, Campbell says all its soups, gravies, Swanson broth and SpaghettiOs pasta are beginning to switch to cans without BPA linings.
About 75 percent of Campbell's soups will be sold in non-BPA cans by the end of this year, according to the company.
"Our priority throughout this transition has been, and will continue to be, food safety," said Mike Mulshine, Campbell's senior program manager |
First was a chaotic election full of curveballs. Then an eerie calm before the storm. Now Toronto City Hall is set to roar back to life | with a much smaller council facing many big issues.
Mayor John Tory and 25 councillors with supersized wards will gather Tuesday for a ceremonial debut. The re-elected mayor will once again bow his head and receive the chain of office, introduce a council that includes four new faces and then lay out his vision for the four years ahead.
A day later they meet again to get down to business, debating how to reorganize the council structure so that 26 politicians can do the same work as 45 in the last term. Council was set to expand to 47 wards until Premier Doug Ford’s government cut council almost in half mid-election.
After setting the new structure, Toronto’s governing body will be tasked in the months ahead with deciding how to deal with a host of major issues facing residents of a city that is booming, but also struggling with inequities in who enjoys the benefits and suffers the costs of that success.
Many of those issues are hangovers from the past, |
CUPERTINO — Apple has opened the door for construction workers with recent felonies on their records to help build its new campus.
The | tech giant has lifted a requirement that people who had been convicted of felonies within the past seven years could not work on the massive Cupertino construction project, Apple spokesman Josh Rosenstock told this newspaper Thursday. After the policy came to light this week, Apple came under fire from union leaders and advocates, who say construction jobs are a key source of work for felons trying to transition back into society.
Apple’s reversal followed several days of public pressure, with politicians such as state Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, speaking out against the ban, and a petition circulating calling for Apple to reverse it. Iron Workers Local Union 377 raised awareness of the policy by sending letters to Apple CEO Tim Cook and state Attorney General Kamala Harris. The San Francisco Chronicle was first to report on Apple’s policy, and this newspaper was first to report on its reversal.
Michael Theriault, president of Iron Workers Local Union 377, said Apple’s change marked |
When Prime Minister Ariel Sharon meets US President George W. Bush in Texas, it seems safe to say that they will not have any trouble finding issues | to talk about.
From Israel’s planned Gaza withdrawal to the Palestinians’ ongoing failure to fight terror to the terrorists’ renewal of mortar attacks in the past few days, the two leaders will have to tackle an intricate and complex agenda.
But there is one matter which they should be able to resolve fairly easily, if only they have the will to do so: the case of Jonathan Pollard.
For the past 20 years, Pollard has been rotting in jail in the United States after being sentenced to life in prison for passing confidential information to Israel.
The facts of his case are well-known, so there is no need to repeat them here. But suffice it to say that the sentence he received violated the plea-bargain agreement he made with the US government, and that spies convicted of working for America’s enemies have received far more lenient terms of imprisonment than Pollard did.
Prime Minister Sharon has demonstrated a decided lack of interest in |
A Delaware court on Wednesday granted CBS and CEO Les Moonves a temporary restraining order against Shari Redstone and her holding company, National Amuse | ments.
The restraining order will prevent Redstone and National Amusements from getting involved in CBS’ board meeting Thursday, during which the company is set to decide what permanent action it wants to take to diminish Redstone’s control over the company.
CBS is deciding whether to issue a stock dividend that would dilute Redstone’s interest to 17 percent from 79 percent. The company has said it’s open to exploring other options as well.
The judge in the case said he plans to issue a final ruling on Thursday after the CBS meeting.
Just before the court hearing on Wednesday, National Amusements and Redstone moved to change the CBS bylaws, requiring a supermajority of to approve the special dividend the board is considering. Basically, the board would need Redstone’s approval to dilute her stake.
The hearing took place on the same day CBS was having its upfront presentation in New York, and is likely the reason Moonves |
Think Indiana State doesn't make an impact in the NFL?
Robert Tonyan Jr. was the recipient of another incredible Aaron Rodgers pass Thursday night | .
Tonyan's first NFL catch was a 54-yard touchdown. He celebrated like he had been there before.
If you didn't know about him before, here's the "bottom line" on his NFL.com draft profile: "Tonyan is a quarterback-turned-receiver who is now transitioning to tight end. He's an impressive athlete with good initial quickness and a second gear to create separation in his routes and the ball skills and strong hands to secure challenging catches. He's not ready to block and he needs to improve his functional strength to prepare for the pounding he will get in his routes by NFL safeties. He projects as a slot tight end who could open eyes as early as this year's training camp."
He wasn't drafted in 2017, and he signed with the Detroit Lions but didn't play. He had been on the field for 10 offensive snaps this season in Green Bay before Thursday night.
I’m getting a tonyan Jersey |
Bethenny Frankel is sticking by her friend, Luann de Lesseps! During Tuesday's appearance on Watch What Happens Live with | Andy Cohen, the Real Housewives of New York City star was asked for gossip about de Lesseps post-arrest and alcohol treatment.
But Frankel, 47, kept things positive, praising the Countess’ progress.
On Christmas Eve, de Lesseps, 52, was arrested in Palm Beach, Florida, for allegations of disorderly intoxication, resisting arrest and battery on a law enforcement officer. Later that month she checked herself into an alcohol treatment facility, sharing the news with her fans on Facebook at the time. In late January, she completed her treatment.
Frankel recently opened up to ET about meeting up with de Lesseps in NYC following her treatment.
"So, we had a lot of good conversations. We were at a spa together. She's back in New York now, which was another sort of emersion, but she's taking it day by day," Frankel told ET late last month. "I would not want to be condescending |
In 1832, the chief economic enterprise in the burgeoning settlement of Chicago was John Jacob Astor’s American Fur Company. Nearly 175 years | later, the Near North Side street named for Astor (who never lived here) sits grandly atop the local real-estate market, with two of the metro area’s three priciest house sales for the past year coming from a single block of that four-block-long Gold Coast avenue.
Half a block away is the year’s number-three sale, a gracious 1922 house designed by David Adler for steel magnate Joseph T. Ryerson. John Regas, the architect who had owned the 13-room home since 1986, listed it in December 2005 for $10.5 million; on Christmas Day, he signed a contract to sell it for $9.2 million to Robert and Donna Lyon (he is the president of Institutional Capital Corporation).
There were two other multimillion-dollar sales on Astor Street during the year. While not in our top five (they went for $3.5 million and $3 million), they are among |
Arguably the most influential media group and certainly the continuously most powerful single figure in British politics for thirty years have been broken politically in the UK | , if not commercially. The government is now saying that we need to ensure that the kind of influence News International exercised "must never happen again". But we cannot default back to the status quo before Murdoch.
What should happen now as the judicial inquiry begins?
Why has the fall of Rupert Murdoch taken place, what does it tell us about the state of Britain and what is the key lesson for the media and government?
We will be adding responses to this thread as they come in - comments can carry on as normal.
Remember the Hutton Inquiry (2003) which awarded a 5-0 score in favour of the Government and against the BBC, to the sceptical astonishment of the public. Perhaps we should not leave everything to the wisdom of a senior judge, and think for ourselves about what should be done about the current press scandal.
It is also worth recalling the failure of past enquiries. Every single major public investigation into its workings of the Press Council - in 1961- |
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Divorce is tough for everyone, whatever the | circumstances. You might have grown up dreaming of growing old with your soul mate or living your best life as a single person. But nobody dreams of the day they’ll walk into a courtroom ready to argue about custody and child support with someone they used to share a bed with. And if you have kids, divorce is even harder — because it’s not all about you and your ex. Your children may be even more affected by your divorce than you are because it isn’t their choice, and they’re too young to understand the complexities of adult relationships. So how do you talk to your kids about divorce? How do you explain to them everything they need to know — without overloading them and while absolutely emphasizing that none of this is their fault?
Telling your kids you’re getting divorced is potentially one of the most difficult conversations of your life. But by sticking to a few basic ground rules, you can make it a little easier.
Be |
In a move to lower the crime associated with theft the Namibia Wildlife Resorts (NWR) has started a campaign aimed at encouraging its domestic | and international clients to start making use of debit/credit cards to make payments.
According to NWR, the campaign was borne after the rise of risks associated with carrying cash around to make payments.
"We do realise that we cannot entirely operate without cash being a means of payment, but we would like to encourage our clients to make use of alternative payment methods as this reduces their transactional costs as well as the risk of theft," said Talita B. Horn, NWR Chief Financial Officer.
The Resorts stressed that with the increase of tourists travelling to its establishments, it has worked tirelessly to ensure that there are sufficient card terminal points to make payments from.
"We hope that with these terminal points being placed at critical areas, our visitors will never have to carry cash to make use of our services or any purchases at our camps/resorts," stressed Martin Kantika, NWR Chief Information Officer.
Caption: NWR's Dolomite Resort is located in a |
Matthew Lickona: When the scandal breaks about author Laura Albert having created the author JT LeRoy, you give us several phone messages from | Laura’s answering machine, urging her to get a huge book deal right away, to mine good publicity out of the bad publicity. But she didn’t take that advice. Instead, she went silent for ten years, and then let you make a film about her.
Jeff Feuerzeig: I can tell you what I know about how I came to make the film. A journalist friend of mine, Paul Cullum, who writes for LA Weekly, knew that there’s nothing I love more than a great “truth is stranger than fiction” story. He said that I ought to check out the JT LeRoy saga, which, when the scandal broke, was being labeled “the biggest literary hoax of all time.” It generated a massive amount of ink. I read it all, and I just had this feeling that there was more to the story, perhaps much more. There was one voice glaringly missing, and that was the |
I had hoped that after Christmas those robo and other pesky calls would disappear. How foolish I was.
I still get a couple a day | and they are very disruptive and aggravating. Does anyone ever consider that there are people like me that cannot easily get to a phone? Getting up from a chair can be difficult and walking can be slow (and every step needs to be taken carefully); when needing to walk steps to get to the phone it is done with caution and slowly.
I have several times had the same phone call more than once in a day. And sometimes a couple times in a week. There is no way I would consider doing business with any of these inconsiderate businesses or solicitors.
You want my business, send me information and I will look at it. We do not have the money to give to every one of you that tries to contact us. If I want something, I will search out to find it. All you do is irritate me. And for gosh sake, stop asking me how I am when you really don’t care and the “voice” does not |
Bangalore: Come June every year and Infosys Technologies Ltd, India’s second biggest software services exporter, turns trainer for the | nearly 30,000 students it recruits from engineering colleges every year.
Goldman Sachs counts the lack of quality education as one of the 10 factors holding India back from rapid economic growth. Analysts say it raises costs, including salaries as firms vie for the best information technology (IT) recruits and reduces firms’ competitive edge.
“Ideally, education should happen in colleges, it should not be happening on company campuses," said Srikantan Moorthy, head of education and research at Infosys, whose Campus Connect programme in 430 colleges is aimed at “industry-ready" recruits. “But a gap does exist and we can’t wait for the government to put in place an education system that addresses our needs."
There are growing cries to revamp India’s education system which focuses on learning by rote. The calls for reforms include opening up primary and secondary education to private investment, easier entry of foreign universities seeking to establish campuses |
She also said that she did not see the press as “the enemy of the people,” the oft-repeated phrase employed by | President Trump to attack members of the media.
Ivanka Trump broke with her father’s administration on Thursday, calling President Donald Trump’s policy of separating families at the U.S.-Mexico border a “low point” during her time in the White House, and saying she "vehemently" opposed the policy.
“That was a low point for me as well. I feel very strongly about that, and I am very vehemently against family separation and the separation of parents and children, so I would agree with that sentiment,” she said when asked about the policy at Axios’s “Conversation on Workforce Development” Forum.
“I think immigration is incredibly complex as a topic," she added. "Illegal immigration is incredibly complicated. I am the daughter of an immigrant. My mother [Ivana Trump] grew up in Communist Czech Republic, but we are a country of law. So, she came |
Keeping an eye on your pension fund means keeping an eye on your company. Its financial status, a sale or takeover or changes in policy can have | a huge impact on your future benefits.
"Individuals really have to be informed consumers... and realize nothing in this life is guaranteed," said Denise Loftus, manager of Work Force Education at the American Association of Retired Persons.
you've already earned may be insured, you still take a big hit. That's because a typical pension plan provides disproportionately larger benefits for the later years of employment. It's often the case that a worker earns half the benefit in the first 30 years and the last half in the last 10 years, said Donald S. Grubbs Jr., a Silver Spring pension actuary and consultant.
"If the plan terminates when you're 55 and you'd been planning to work until 65, you're only going to get about half the benefit you would have gotten," he said.
To make matters worse, the benefit is figured in today's dollars and is fixed even though it won't be paid until years later, when those dollars will be |
Trade talks with the European Union (EU) continue stalled two months after they were postponed due to the political crisis in Honduras.
Although a spokesperson | for the EU said this week there are no immediate plans to resume negotiations, Central America’s foreign trade ministers are pressing forward with the aim of coming to an agreement soon.
Formal negotiations for a trade agreement began in October of 2007 in Costa Rica and were expected to conclude this year, after four rounds of talks. But internal conflicts in Central America and policies within certain countries delayed the process and pushed diplomats into additional rounds.
“When there is a crisis in one country, the whole process of integration gets interrupted, which is what happened with the Honduran (crisis),” said Rafael Sánchez, a London-based analyst and author of “The Politics of Central American Integration.” He added that it “sets back external relations because it damages an international image.” Sánchez was referring to the June 28 Honduran coup in which President Manuel Zelaya was ousted and Roberto Micheletti was installed to head the de facto government |
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Department of Homeland Security will never monitor ideology or political beliefs, the head of the agency said Wednesday, responding to criticism | of a recent report on right-wing extremist groups.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says the U.S. will never monitor ideology or political beliefs.
"Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States," Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said in a written statement.
"We don't have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence."
The report, "Right-wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment," said right-wing extremist groups may be using the recession and the election of the nation's first African-American president to recruit members.
Though the nine-page report said it had "no specific information that domestic right-wing terrorists are currently planning acts of violence," it said real-estate foreclosures, |
Community chess launched in North Street last week, when the Chichester Business Improvement Initiative (BID) came together with sponsor Patisserie Valerie | , and a street magician who came up with the idea.
The free chess games, outside the Butter Market, are available to all, and has proved popular since its launch on Tuesday.
The scheme was piloted for five days previously, and is already a social hub in the city.
City Centre Manager Kim Long was approached by street entertainer and magician, Nick Stein with the idea and together with Patisserie Valerie they have worked to put it into place.
Mr Stein noticed many other countries play board games outdoors, so wanted to bring the idea to Chichester.
He said: “I’ve played chess since I was a child and having seen free chess available in cities throughout the world, I was convinced it would work here.
Anyone can sit down and play a game of chess, and there is an opportunity to play speed chess, where Mr Stein will challenge chess champions to a one-minute game, where the player gets a minute each overall to |
MCX Mentha oil slipped Rs 61.80 to Rs 1,483.90 at around 10.45 am.
Bumper crop harvest | has been discounted in the market and market is moving upwards on rising demand from end users.
Mentha oil prices plunged 4 per cent on Monday morning as there was a rush to take profit.
Prices of the commodity have rallied over 15 per cent in the past month. According to Motilal Oswal, spot markets are witnessing strong consumption demand amid restricted supplies.
“Despite the peak season of harvest in June, prices of mentha oil have risen over 20 per cent since the beginning of June as farmers held back stocks. Farmers are holding back stocks as they are expecting prices to rise to Rs 1,800 a kg in the next 2-3 months. As per preliminary estimates, acreage under mentha crop will rise this year as the farmers are encouraged by higher price in recent past,” Motilal Oswal said.
The commodity mostly makes its way to food and flavourings. In addition to being a popular flavoring agent in food and confection |
Explainer: Did he or didn't he? What might an obstruction case against Trump look like?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A key element | of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s inquiry into Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S. election was whether President Donald Trump unlawfully acted to impede the investigation, a crime known as obstruction of justice.
But Barr, two days after Mueller submitted the confidential report on March 22, told U.S. lawmakers in a four-page letter that he as attorney general concluded that the evidence amassed by the special counsel “is not sufficient” to establish that Trump committed criminal obstruction of justice.
Then-FBI Director James Comey and other U.S. intelligence officials attended a Valentine’s Day counterterrorism briefing at the White House on Feb. 14, 2017. After the briefing, Trump, who had taken office just weeks before on Jan. 20, asked everyone but Comey to leave the room, according to testimony Comey gave to Congress in June 2017.
Normally, the U.S. attorney general would have overseen the Russia inquiry. But Sessions in March 2017 recused himself |
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