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HR Leaders Add Value by Managing Costs
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Human Resources (HR) professionals are now tasked to manage costs related to people, data and technology while adding strategic value to their organizations. The days of HR being considered simply a required expense are gone. Todayâs HR professionals must ensure that every expense adds value to the company, its employees and, ideally, the customers those employees serve.
Maria Black, President of ADP Totalsource, recommends reviewing the following three areas when managing costs while delivering HR value:
Services and Solutions â Every service and solution your company uses comes with a price tag, and they can add up fast for a small or mid-sized business. Black says to consider alternative partners that allow you to aggregate your purchases of services and solutions with those of other businesses to reduce costs while retaining value.
Learn more about projecting your company’s data at ADP/Costs.
Affordable Care Approach â Navigating employee healthcare options and reporting requirements under the Affordable Care Act can become both complicated and costly. Black recommends working with a provider who can guide you through compliance and potentially lower your costs.
Learn more about projecting your company’s data at ADP/Approach.
Holistic Employee Well-being â Instead of focusing on wellness simply as a way to reduce costs, take a more comprehensive view of employee well-being. By working with a vendor that has a wellness framework focusing on health, wealth and work wellness, you are better poised to have healthy and engaged employees.
Learn more about projecting your company’s data at ADP/WellBeing.
HRâs role in terms of finance is no longer simply focused on budgeting and salary. By helping to manage costs, you can continue to add significant value throughout your organization.
1) âIdentity Theft Resource Center Breach Report Hits Record High in 2014,â Identity Theft Resource Center, January 12, 2015 2) âHarnessing Big Data: The Human Capital Management Journey to Achieving Business Growth,â ADP Research Institute, 2015 3) âTop Concerns and Challenges of Midsized Business Leaders in 2013,â ADP Research Institute, 2013 4) âThe Hidden Reality of Payroll & HR Administration Costs,â PwC, January 2011 5) âU.S. Employee Engagement Stable in October,â Gallup, November 4, 2015 6) âThe Recruitment Quotient: Raising Your Talent IQ,â ADP Research Institute, 2014
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Listen to our podcast to learn how HR leaders are effectively managing costs and adding value to the organization.
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Prosecutors Allege Justin Ross Harris Saw Prostitutes : People.com
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02/23/2016 AT 08:00 PM EST
Justin Ross Harris, the man accused of murdering his 22-month-old son, Cooper, by
, was in court again on Monday, and the prosecution dropped several bombshells during the pretrial hearing.
Among the state's jaw-dropping allegations: that the 34-year-old Georgia man, who allegedly
– including one underage girl – on the day his son died, had visited prostitutes in the weeks before Cooper's death.
But Harris' attorney, Maddox Kilgore, downplayed the significance of his client's sexual activity. "It's unrelated, uncharged, completely unconnected," he told the judge.
Prosecutor Chuck Boring disagreed. "Oftentimes," he told the judge, "actions speak a lot louder than words."
It may be Harris's own words that come back to haunt him. Just 10 minutes before locking Cooper in the car, prosecutors say he responded to a woman's online post. "I love my son and all," prosecutors say Harris wrote on the morning of June 18, 2014, "but we both need escapes."
Attorney Kilgore asked the court to rule all evidence of Harris's extramarital affairs as inadmissible.
âIn a nutshell, theyâre arguing that any explicit sexual communications or acts constitutes evidence of murder,â Kilgore told the judge. âFrom what weâve seen, thereâs no evidence of him wanting to commit violence, no history of neglect or indifference.â
The testimony came just 10 days after Harris's wife, Leanna, quietly filed for divorce.
In a filing in Cobb County Superior Court, Leanna Harris said that the couple's saying the coupleâs once strong bond is now âirretrievably broken.â
âIt is a very sad situation for everyone involved,â family friend Julia Apodaca-Lane told
. âThis obviously isnât the place they wanted this to end up, and they have worked very hard to keep it from this.â
The defense did score one small victory in court on Monday: the jury will not hear evidence that Harris had two life insurance policies on Cooper, totally $27,000.
Harris was arrested after he allegedly failed to drop Cooper off at day care and went to his job at Home Depot instead. More than seven hours later, he claimed to have found the toddler still strapped in his car seat, unresponsive. Prosecutors believe he left Cooper in the backseat intentionally, and have charged Harris with eight felony counts, including malice murder, cruelty to children and criminal attempt to commit a felony.
Harris's trial is now scheduled to begin on April 11.
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The 34-year-old Georgia man faces murder charges in the death of his son, Cooper
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Trump's surge makes him betting favourite
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Donald Trump's chance of clinching the US Republican presidential nomination has shot to a record high on global betting websites and the billionaire businessman, long viewed as a political outsider, has won his first endorsement from a member of congress.
Trump easily won the Nevada caucuses on Tuesday, giving him his third win in four early nominating contests and pressuring Republican rivals to come up with a way to stop a candidate who only last year was not seen as a serious contender for the November 8 presidential election.
The real-estate magnate swept Nevada by a margin of 22 percentage points, winning 45.9 per cent of the vote.
It was the high point so far of an unorthodox campaign during which Trump has fought with Pope Francis, called for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the US and promised to build a wall on the US-Mexican border to prevent illegal immigration.
Trump's Nevada win is likely to further frustrate Republican establishment figures who, less than a month ago, were hoping his campaign as a political outsider was stalled after he lost the opening nominating contest in Iowa to Ted Cruz, a US senator from Texas.
In his victory speech in Nevada, the former reality TV show host courted his base of blue-collar workers.
"I love the poorly educated," he said, mentioning several demographic groups among whom he said he was winning.
By Wednesday, that phrase was being widely discussed online, with some finding it funny and others arguing it was a welcome, non-judgmental embrace of a constituency that other politicians might speak of only as a problem to be fixed.
Trump's nearest rivals, Cruz and Marco Rubio, a US senator from Florida, have frequently attacked each other, clearing a path for Trump to the Republican nomination that includes primary elections in a slew of southern states on March 1, known as Super Tuesday.
"These guys have to figure out how to turn their fire on Trump," said Ford O'Connell, a Republican strategist in Washington. Absent that, he said: "Which one is going to get out of this field?"
Rubio said Trump was only backed by a minority of Republicans.
"The vast and overwhelming majority of Republicans do not want Trump to be the nominee," he told NBC, citing the network's recent opinion poll putting him 15 points ahead of Trump in a one-on-one match-up.
"As long as there are four people running dividing up the non-Trump vote sooner, you're going to get results like what you saw last night."
Rubio and Cruz have struggled to match the popularity of Trump, who is more ready than the two senators to deviate from the tenets of the Republican Party's brand of conservatism.
Betting venues in Britain, Ireland and New Zealand show the online wagering community coalescing around Trump, once considered an interloper, attracting long-shot odds of 200/1.
Odds for Trump becoming the Republican candidate for November have tightened all the way to 1/2 in some cases.
"Mr Trump has triumphed yet again, despite political analysts almost unanimously writing him off as a serious presidential contender," said Graham Sharpe from William Hill, adding one customer stood to collect at least $US100,000 if Trump was elected to the White House.
On Wednesday, Chris Collins, a Republican congressman from Trump's home state of New York, became the first national lawmaker to endorse Trump, saying in a statement "it's time to say no to professional politicians and yes to someone who has created jobs and grown a business".
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Donald Trump's rivals are running out of time to stop him winning the Republican nomination for US president, after he stormed to victory in Nevada.
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The Big Bang Theory's Mayim Bialik and Johnny Galecki Makeout on Conan : People.com
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took a sloppy trip down memory lane on Wednesday night.
on Wednesday along with the rest of the
cast ahead of the show's 200th episode. And Bialik and Galecki were confronted with their first on-screen kiss with each other in the 90s on the show
"It might have been my first real-life kiss, also," Bialik, 40, revealed.
then dredged up a throwback photo of the scene, showing a young Bialik and Galecki leaning in for a smooch –
couldn't help but take a jab at Galecki's colorful shirt, "I think
Mayim Bialik (left) and Johnny Galecki
commanded the pair to "do it again;" they refused at first, but later relented.
Soon, the two locked lips in an intense (and lengthy) smooch with the audience cheering.
airs Thursday at 8 p.m. ET on CBS.
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FORTUNE — In July, FOSS Patents‘ Florian Mueller looked at the number of major publicly traded companies that have filed patent infringement suits against devices running on Google’s GOOG Android platform (seven with a total market cap of $1.06 trillion) and the number of Apple AAPL and Microsoft MSFT patents Android devices have been found by a court to infringe (11 as of July 1).
On Wednesday, Mueller updated his list of Apple and Microsoft patent infringements. The total, adjusted for rulings that have gone both for and against Android devices, is now 17. (See list below.)
“Android continues to be an IP infringement lawsuit magnet,” Mueller wrote in July. “As an Android user, I would like to see Google address those problems more effectively. When I look at public statements made by Google officials, it sometimes seems that the company is, at different levels, in a state of denial concerning Android’s intellectual property issues.”
As if on cue, Google chairman Eric Schmidt weighed in from Seoul, where according to the Korea Times he was “rap[ping] Apple for patent trolling” at a Nexus 7 launch event:
“Patent wars prevent choice, prevent innovation and I think that is very bad. We are obviously working through that and trying to make sure we stay on the right side of these issues. So ultimately Google stands for innovation as opposed to patent wars.”
Below the fold: A summary of Mueller’s list.
1. EP2059868 The “photo gallery page-flipping” patent. (Apple )
2. U.S. Patent No. 7,469,381 The “overscroll bounce” or “rubber-banding” patent. (Apple)
3. U.S. Design Patent No. D618,677 An iPhone-related design patent. (Apple)
4. U.S. Patent No. 5,946,647 The “data tapping” patent. (Apple)
5. EP1964022 The first slide-to-unlock patent. (Apple)
6. U.S. Patent No. 6,370,566 Generating meeting requests and group scheduling on a mobile device. (Microsoft)
7. EP1304891 Communicating multi-part messages. (Microsoft)
8. U.S. Design Patent No. D504,889 An iPad-related design patent. (Apple)
9. U.S. Patent No. 8,086,604 Siri-style unified search. (Apple)
10. U.S. Patent No. 8,046,721 The second slide-to-unlock patent. (Apple)
11. U.S. Patent No. 8,074,172 An autocorrect patent. (Apple)
12. EP0618540 A common name space for long and short filenames. (Microsoft)
13. U.S. Design Patent No. D539,087 On an “electronic device.” (Apple)
14. U.S. Patent No. 7,844,915 Pinch-to-zoom. (Apple)
15. U.S. Patent No. 7,864,163 “Tap-to-zoom.” (Apple)
16. U.S. Design Patent No. D604,305 The arrangement of icons. (Apple)
17. EP1040406 Soft input panel. (Microsoft)
You can read Mueller’s descriptions of the court rulings here.
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UN condemns Israeli cluster bomb use
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The UN says it estimates that 350,000 unexploded cluster bomblets remain in southern Lebanon, leaving a deadly legacy for civilians.
A leading Jewish group has also called on the UN's top human rights forum to include Hezbollah rocket attacks in its inquiry into the Lebanon conflict.
The Simon Weisenthal Center called for balance in the UN Human Rights Council probe.
The UN has so far identified 516 cluster bomb strike locations and says 30 to 40 percent of the bomblets they scattered over the south failed to explode at the time.
David Shearer, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator in Lebanon said: "The outrageous fact is that nearly all of these munitions were fired in the last three to four days of the war."
"Outrageous because by that stage the conflict had been largely resolved in the form of (U.N. Security Council) Resolution 1701," he said. The resolution adopted on August 11 halted 34 days of fighting three days later. A truce has largely held since then.
Chris Clark, manager of the UN Mine Action Coordination Centre of South Lebanon, said the cluster bomb threat in the south was "extensive and, in my opinion, unprecedented".
While Israel has provided general information about where it believes unexploded ordnance might be, Clark said tactical maps given to the UN by Israeli forces withdrawing from the south were "absolutely useless" in clearance efforts.
Israel denies using cluster bombs illegally.
Representatives of the Simon Wiesenthal Center said after meeting the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, that they had no objections to investigations in Lebanon, but called for balance in the probe.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the Center's associate dean said: "There is no doubt in our mind whatsoever that Hezbollah is guilty of war crimes."
"It is vital for a UN agency that uses the term human rights to play on a level playing field. We see this as a litmus test for the Human Rights Council," he told journalists.
The 47-member UN Human Rights Council last month voted to set up the probe into "systematic" Israeli attacks on civilians during the recent conflict in Lebanon.
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Mexico president moves celebrations
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Carlos Abascal, the interior minister, said Fox will instead give the highly-charged cry of independence in the central town of Dolores Hidalgo.
The conservative Fox has been targeted by protesters angry at what they say was fraud in July's presidential election which was narrowly won by Felipe Calderon, the ruling party candidate.
The traditional ceremony, known as "el grito" (the shout) takes place on September 15, the eve of independence day in the capital's huge Zocalo square, but leftist protesters who have occupied the plaza for weeks had vowed to demonstrate against Fox there.
Mexico's Senate urged Fox to take the event elsewhere.
Abascal said: "The federal government accepts the Senate's request today to consider a change of venue."
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the leftist candidate, who says he was robbed in the election, plans to hold his own independence ceremony in the Zocalo on Friday night cheered on by tens of thousands of supporters.
The move to Dolores Hidalgo, where national hero Miguel Hidalgo kicked off a struggle in 1810 that led to Mexico's independence from Spain, represented a retreat by Fox.   The president's spokesman had repeatedly insisted Fox would lead the ceremony in the Zocalo, once the centre of the Aztec empire and now the heart of modern Mexico.
Leftist politicians who seized the podium of Congress forced Fox to abandon his state of the nation speech on September 1. He later gave the address on television.
The change of plan for "el grito" reduces the risk of violence in a country divided between left and right only six years after Fox ended decades of one-party rule.
Leftist protesters wound down a huge sit-in protest on Thursday that had crippled the centre of the capital.
Leftists will decide in coming days whether to keep up a campaign of civil resistance against Calderon, who won by 234,000 votes out of 41 million and takes office on December 1.
The six-week sit-in caused traffic chaos in the already congested city and devastated business in Mexico City centre.
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Protests have forced Vicente Fox, the Mexican president, to abandon plans to lead Mexico's main independence day ceremony in the capital.
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Europe pledges to aid gypsies
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In a declaration signed on Wednesday, Bulgaria, Hungary, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia-Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia and the Czech Republic all promised to end the discrimination facing gypsies â the continent's poorest minority.
The joint statement issued after a one-day meeting in Sofia pledged to work "to abolish discrimination and heal the rift that separates the Roma from the rest of the population".
The meeting at Sofia was organized by the World Bank with the help of international financier and philanthropist George Soros.
After five heads of government and three deputy prime ministers signed the declaration, it was handed to a seven-year-old gypsy girl named Bojidara, who plans to keep a diary of the main events in her life until 2015 to gauge whether the promises have been kept.
The meeting, called The Decade of Roma Inclusion was the first cooperative international effort to change the lives of the Roma, many of whom live in devastating poverty in the heart of Europe.
The Roma minorities in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Serbia-Montenegro are four to 10 times poorer than the rest of the population, according to World Bank figures.
World Bank director James Wolfensohn said gypsies faced bias and discrimination besides crippling poverty.
Soros said the meeting in Sofia marked "the first time that the governments are showing real political will to see that Roma are equal citizens in a growing Europe".
The Roma make up roughly 2% of the 450 million people who live in the 25-nation European bloc.
The UN Development Programme has painted a bleak picture of the conditions the gypsies endure. More than five times as many Roma as non-Roma live below the poverty line in Bulgaria and Serbia-Montenegro.
In Romania â which has the largest gypsy population in Europe â 70% do not have access to running water and 80%cannot afford essential prescription drugs.
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Eight central and eastern European countries have pledged to improve the plight of gypsies, or Roma, within the next 10 years.
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Askariya shrine: A focus of pilgrimage
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The shrine is one of the country's most sacred sites for Shia Muslims and has drawn millions of pilgrims from around the world.
The shrine has stood in various forms since 944, when it was built to house the tombs of two ninth century imams, considered successors to the Prophet Muhammad.
Ali al-Hadi, the tenth imam who died in 868 and his son Hassan al-Askari who died in 874, were buried at the end of a turbulent period during which Samarra was built as the new capital of the Abbasid empire, briefly taking over from Baghdad, then the largest city in the world.
But the continued and intense religious importance of the site is connected to the 12th and final imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi.
Known as the "Hidden Imam" Shias believe he went into hiding in 878 under the al-Askariya shrine to prepare for his eventual return among men.
According to Shia tradition, al-Mahdi will reappear one day to punish the sinful and restore justice to humanity.
For many years, a saddled horse and soldiers would be brought to the Samarra shrine every day to be ready for his return.
The shrine was extensively rebuilt as Samarra's influence withered over the centuries and power was restored to Baghdad.
Modern-day Samarra, a tough, Sunni-dominated town in the middle of the Sunni Triangle north of Baghdad, fills just a fraction of the enormous ancient city that once stood along the banks of the Tigris.
The latest remodelling of the shrine took place in the late 19th century, with the golden dome that was destroyed in Wednesday's bombing added in 1905.
Covered in 72,000 gold pieces and surrounded by walls of light blue tiles, the dome was a dominant feature of the Samarra skyline.
Despite being an active base of Sunni insurgents since the US-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the al-Askariya shrine had survived unharmed and largely unthreatened until Wednesday.
It managed to escape any damage when Samarra was retaken in the first major US and Iraqi combined offensive in October 2004, which was aimed at sweeping out the Sunni factions that had taken over the town.
Many other Iraqi archaeological sites have been badly scarred by US efforts to control the insurgency.
No group has taken responsibility for the destruction of the Samarra shrine but the attack was immediately followed by Shia reprisals against Sunni mosques.Â
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<P>The bombing of the Askariya shrine in the Iraqi town of Samarra has sparked a wave of violence that some fear could ignite an all-out civil war in the country.</P>
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Report: Morocco foiled al-Qaeda plot
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Newspapers in Rabat said the nine suspects planned to participate in a larger plot to blow up a church in Bologna and a commuter train station in Milan, the headquarters of French intelligence services in Paris and the US consulate in Rabat.
"The nine suspects, arrested and brought before Rabat appeals court recently, are accused of setting up a criminal gang in view of preparing and carrying out terrorist attacks within the framework of collective plot," MAP said on Monday, quoting an unnamed judiciary source.
MAP did not give more details. Government officials were not immediately available for comment.
Police sources said the nine were arrested early last week and that they were being held after appearing for questioning before an investigating judge at Rabat appeals court.
Pro-government daily Al Alam, one of the dailies that had reported extensively on the case, said a Tunisian, named as Mohamed Benhedi Msahel, travelled from Italy, where he lived, to Algeria and Morocco to recruit bombers for the plots.
Al Alam said al-Qaeda network leader Osama bin Laden endorsed the planned attacks.
Al Alam said the attacks in Italy were modelled on the Madrid train bombings on March 11, 2003, in which 191 people were killed and more than 2,000 injured. The blasts hit the Spanish capital just four days before a general election. The plotters allegedly planned tocarry out bomb attacks in Europe
The plotters allegedly planned tocarry out bomb attacks in Europe
In Algeria, Msahel met a leader of the country's largest outlawed Muslim organisation, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), which is aligned with al-Qaeda, to review details of the planned attacks before returning to Morocco.
He had planned to return to Italy, but was arrested, the newspaper added.
A European Muslim convert was due to join five jihadi bombers recruited in Italy, the daily added but gave no details about who was due to carry out the four attacks in France.
Morocco has been on alert since 2003 when suicide bombers killed 45 people in Casablanca, the country's financial capital.
More than 3,000 people have been arrested since on suspicion of having terrorist connections. Many have been released but hundreds have been jailed after trials, officials said.
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<P>Security forces in Morocco are holding nine suspected al-Qaeda activists who were part of a ring that plotted bomb attacks in France, Italy and Morocco, the state news agency MAP has said quoting local newspapers.</P>
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Vice President Joe Biden introduced Lady Gaga’s original song-nominated performance at the Oscars with an exhortation that people step up and put an end to sexual assault.
Calling himself ‘‘the least qualified man here,’’ Biden encouraged the audience to help change the culture by intervening in situations where consent has not or cannot be given.
The vice president then introduced Lady Gaga, who sang and played piano on"Til It Happens to You,’’ a song she co-wrote for ‘‘The Hunting Ground.’’
Gaga was joined by several victims of sexual assault, who had messages written in black on their bare arms.
The rape survivors featured in Lady Gaga’s performance received a star-studded send-off as they filed out of the Dolby Theatre through the audience.
A jubilant Brie Larson embraced almost every woman and man as they walked past her front-row seat.
Kate Winslet stood up to hug members of the group.
Diane Warren, who co-wrote ‘‘'Til It Happens to You’’ with Gaga, immediately positioned herself at the bottom of the stage’s steps to offer hugs and kisses following the moving performance.
Vice President Joe Biden introduced Lady Gaga.
Gaga and survivors on stage.
Lady Gaga’s song was nominated for an Oscar.
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Domhnall Gleeson Films Racked Up Oscar Nominations : People.com
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Psst. You wanna win an Oscar? Your odds are pretty good, as long as you're in a movie with
. It's not that hard to do, actually, since he's in everything.
And he couldn't have been more charming in this:
But more relevant to your Oscar aspirations, he was in four movies last year that racked up a combined 22 nominations. From the righteous captain in
to the lovesick Irishman in
, to the nasty General Hux in
to the clueless techie who falls for
in Ex Machina, Gleeson killed it onscreen. And the nominations followed for everything from costumes and screenplays to acting and film–just not for Gleeson.
But that still makes him this year's Oscars lucky charm. Here's hoping some of that luck rubs off on him...eventually.
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Yvonne’s supper club in downtown Boston calls it a “kitchen appreciation charge.” Centre Street Cafe in Jamaica Plain says it’s a “hospitality fee.” But no matter what they call it, it will add another 3 percent to customers’ tabs.
Restaurant owners, facing labor shortages and concerns about the plight of low-wage workers, are adding surcharges to customer bills to boost the pay of kitchen workers. It’s a risky strategy in a competitive industry fearful of alienating customers, but it also may be the way of the future.
“Everybody used to say, ‘I’ll never pay for baggage on an airline,’ ” said Bob Luz, president of the Massachusetts Restaurant Association, “and now it’s just part of what we do.”
Restaurants from Los Angeles to New York to Boston are adding surcharges and experimenting with other ways to increase wages for so-called back-of-the-house workers and reduce the inequality of a two-tier wage system that allows waiters and waitresses to earn far more than their behind-the-scenes counterparts.
In New York, restaurateur Danny Meyer, owner of the Gramercy Tavern and Union Square Cafe, has eliminated tipping at some of his restaurants in favor of folding the total cost of dining into one check, much as is done in Europe. The goal is to raise hourly pay for all workers and keep kitchen workers from leaving for better-paying jobs.
Restaurant owners in Boston point out that the hospitality fees are not in lieu of tipping but are a way of addressing the same issue — holding onto workers.
Cooking staff shortages have grown severe enough that some restaurant owners — including at Deuxave in the Back Bay — offer to pay $1,000 a month toward a chef’s culinary school loans. Others help employees find affordable housing (Pastoral in Fort Point).
Chris Jamison, managing partner of Yvonne’s, which opened last year in the former Locke-Ober space, said he unveiled a 3 percent “kitchen appreciation charge” in September because he wanted to reduce employee turnover and bridge the wage gap among servers, bartenders, and bussers, who earn tips, and kitchen workers paid only by the hour.
Kitchen workers receive more than $11-an-hour minimum wage, he said, but their take-home pay is nowhere close to what a server can pull down in tips.
“It probably would have been easier to raise menu prices 3 to 5 percent and pay employees more,” he said. “But I wanted to make it clear this is a priority for us.”
Jamison said he got the idea last year in Los Angeles. He spent time with friends at their Los Angeles restaurant, Bestia, which added the 3 percent surcharge and didn’t see a drop in customers.
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Jason St. Pierre examined his bill that contains a 3 percent hospitality administration fee at Tres Gatos in Jamaica Plain.
Yvonne’s pools the surcharges collected at the end of each night and divides the money evenly into the paychecks of kitchen workers, from chef to dishwashers.
He declined to say how much workers’ pay increased but said he will soon roll out a similar 3 percent surcharge at his Back Bay restaurant, Lolita Cocina & Tequila Bar.
At Tres Gatos and Centre Street Cafe, a 3 percent hospitality fee took effect Dec. 1. On a recent weeknight at Tres Gatos, the fee added $3.69 to Jason St. Pierre and Maya McNamara’s check. St. Pierre, a product manager for Twitter in Boston, said he wasn’t fazed by it, although it might lead him to tip a server slightly less.
“I’ve worked in kitchens before,” he said, “and I feel like these folks work hard.”
At Centre Street Cafe, which, like Tres Gatos, is owned by Keith Harmon, Maricely Perez-Alers, and David Doyle, the owners explain to guests their rationale for the fee in a page-long open letter on the menu.
“We’re tired of feeling like our kitchen staff are second-class citizens,” the owners wrote. “We’re tired of knowing that they would be financially better off busing tables or working at a chain restaurant.”
Doyle said kitchen workers would make about 15 percent more under the surcharge plan, which pools the fee and distributes it monthly among employees based on the number of hours each has worked. That added $2.39 an hour to workers’ paychecks in December and $2.33 to paychecks in January, Doyle said.
Complaints have been very few, he said, and he and his partners will soon open a third restaurant on Centre Street, called Casa Verde, that will include surcharges.
Harmon, who lives with his family above Tres Gatos, said he sees firsthand that kitchen staff are the first to arrive at the restaurant and the last to leave on most shifts. And he said he’s hoping kitchen staff will stay longer; the restaurant has had three head chefs in the last five years.
“There’s this idea that restaurants are sitting on huge piles of cash,” Harmon said. “But we’re putting our life savings into this.”
Bryan Barton, a dishwasher at Centre Street Cafe, said he moved among half a dozen dishwasher jobs on the West Coast in recent years before landing at Centre Street Cafe two weeks before the new fee was announced.
He said the news came as a surprise, a very happy one.
Without wanting to disclose his pay, the 27-year-old said the fee will add thousands to his take home pay annually and help him afford an apartment in a city where rents have soared.
“It was the best feeling I’ve had in Boston,” Barton said. “It made me feel really hopeful, because I’m just getting my feet under me.”
At Centre Street Cafe, line cook Angus Vickers worked in the kitchen.
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Although Sylvia Wishart, who has died aged 72, was one of Scotland's leading contemporary landscape painters, the work of this very private and self-effacing artist is little known outside a small circle of friends, admirers and fellow artists.
Born and raised in the harbour town of Stromness, Orkney, Sylvia grew up in a community where the paintings of Stanley Cursiter and Ian MacInnes hung in many family homes. According to MacInnes, who would later become her art teacher, Sylvia's precocious talent was evident even in her primary school years. In spite of her teacher's encouragement, Sylvia chose a career in the Post Office rather than going to art school, but continued to draw and paint in her free time. It was only later, and with MacInnes' continued support, that she entered Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen as a mature student.
After several years of teaching in Aberdeenshire, Lewis and Orkney, Sylvia returned to Gray's in 1969 as a lecturer in the fine arts department. She made her home in Howe of Tarty, and it was there, in the landscape of the Ythan estuary, that her true voice began to emerge. Her paintings, from this period onwards, become increasingly visionary, as the wildlife that surrounds her begins to enter her compositions and the internal and external landscapes merge. Nature, in its many forms, the flocks of geese in Tarty; gulls against the dark waters of Scapa Flow; a sparrow darting through the cobbled closes of Stromness and once, magically, a gyrfalcon against the barley fields of Outertown, becomes the life source within her landscapes. The presence of man is often merely hinted at, in images such as a tiny ship, dwarfed by the Kame of Hoy; the wheels of a farmer's derelict dump-rake, or occasionally, her own faint reflection on the window glass. In the foreground of later paintings, she would record the toys, ships in bottles, plants and paraphernalia of her daily life.
The paintings of her later years, often made on huge sheets of paper tacked directly to the wall, are increasingly rich in rhythm and texture. She built layer on layer of colour and mixed her media, using oil, gouache, pastel and pencil in the same work. Her preoccupation with weather and light, as she obsessively recorded the world from her window, invites comparison with Turner and Monet. Her sense of awe and reverence before nature suggest the essays and stories of Barry Lopez, a writer whose work she read repeatedly.
That Sylvia's work deserved more attention than it received caused her no grief whatsoever. She had little time for the self-aggrandising myth of the artist as celebrity and was always her own harshest critic. Generous to a fault, she often gave her paintings as gifts to friends. At her home, she surrounded herself with the works of former students and fellow artists.
Wishart was a fundamental influence in the development of Orkney's Pier Arts Centre. As a close friend of Margaret Gardiner, whose private collection formed the basis of the gallery, Sylvia's influence was evident in the choice of site and the growth of the project. She served the gallery for many years as a trustee and it was fitting, therefore, that when the refurbished gallery opened in July 2007, it was with an exhibition of Sylvia Wishart drawings.
Having left the former Hudson Bay warehouse on the tiny pier in Stromness, now the site of the Pier Arts Centre, Sylvia moved to Heatherybraes, Outertown, the stone-built eyrie which looks out on the tidal rip of Hoy Sound and St John's Head, Hoy, one of the highest vertical cliffs in Europe. From there the fields and shores were spread out beneath her like a tapestry, and there she found her constant subject for the last three decades of her life.
Heatherybraes was never a retreat. Sylvia travelled, driving a series of decrepit cars which seemed to be kept functional only by a combination of her own iron will and her patient motor mechanic. She travelled to London to visit the galleries and to admire, yet again, The Rout of San Romano by Paolo Uccello. She travelled to Aberdeen to make etchings with her friends at Peacock Printmakers and to Hoy, once again to draw and paint in the grandeur of Rackwick valley. She travelled throughout Orkney, visiting her many friends and stopping along the way to admire an evening sky, a fleet of ducks on Harray Loch, a short-eared owl perched on a roadside fence post. Back in Heatherybraes, at hogmanay there was standing room only, with clapshot and whisky for everyone. Of an afternoon there was tea, ginger biscuits and Billie Holiday.
Sylvia's fight with cancer was a long one, and she fought it on her own terms. A born raconteur, her sense of humour never deserted her. In September 2008, with the aid of a friend's computer, she planned a trip to London. It would be her last defiant gesture of independence in the face of her increasing frailty. On her return, she regaled neighbours with stories of her trip - "I wis in the National Gallery, an there wis this Japanese family wi a wee boy. He wisna enjoyin his visit, so they set him doon in front o this Cezanne picture an told him tae bide there an they wid come back for him. Well, there he was poor soul, stuck in front o Les Grandes Baigneuses, so I says tae him, 'Yon's an awful thing tae hae tae stare at! Come ower here an look at this,' an I took him tae look at Rousseau's Surprised! Jungle with tiger. He seemed far happier there."
In 2005 Sylvia was voted a full member of the Royal Scottish Academy. Her painting Hoy Sound is in the RSA Diploma Collection in Edinburgh. Her works are also in the collections of the Arts Council of Great Britain, the Contemporary Arts Society, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, the Pier Arts Centre and Orkney Museums and Heritage. Significantly, her works also hang in many homes on Orkney.
• Sylvia Wishart, artist, born 11 February 1936; died 4 December 2008
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Kristen Stewart is not entertained.
The actress offered up advice for those who want equal pay for both genders, advising them to “do something” instead of complaining — and called the entire topic “boring.”
The “Twilight” star shared a rambling message with Variety magazine about fixing gender equality in Hollywood.
“It’s like, you know, instead of sitting around and complaining about that, do something. Go write something, do something,” she told the magazine.
KRISTEN STEWART POSES NUDE IN MARIO TESTINO'S 'TOWEL SERIES'
The actress gave a simple explanation for the visible gap in wages between men and women.
“Guys make more money because their movies make more money,” she said.
“Let’s start making more movies. It makes sense,” she added.
The controversial statements are in opposition to Jennifer Lawrence’s famous article in October, in which she wrote “f--k that” to gender wage gaps.
A slew of celebrities —male and female— came out in support of Lawrence but Stewart said the “subject is just so prevalently everywhere right now, and it’s boring.”
However, she admitted she's in a lucky position.
JENNIFER LAWRENCE SAYS KATNISS INSPIRED PAY GAPS COMMENTS
“It’s hard for me to speak to that because it’s awkward. I’m so f-----g lucky and so stimulated and driven and like, not bored,” she explained.
And, forget team Jacob or Edward, the internet is attacking the 25-year-old for her unfiltered comments.
“Kristen Stewart has the personality and energy of a broken television and she doesn’t think privilege got her career,” one user tweeted.
why would kristen stewart say men make more money on movies bc their movies make more money. im crying what is wrong with her
Kristen Stewart said what?! Lol girl shut up. The only thing you do is sigh heavily and look constipated.
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The use of technology—specifically social media—has opened the door for lesser known firms to compete in the strategy that has propelled Bill Ackman, Carl Icahn and others to prominence. As activism becomes more main stream, management is starting to listen.
“Activism has gone from the pariah of Wall Street to, a lot of management might say, a necessary evil at times,” says Ron Bienvenu, Managing Partner at Spear Point Capital Management, a hedge fund that specializes in campaigns against companies that have a market capitalization of $2 billion or less. “Boards and management teams are more open to a conversation, and a meaningful conversation.”
Last year, Bienvenu, who has been an activist for over a decade but only recently became a “regular,” held a campaign against TheStreet tst , the financial news website that employees CNBC personality host Jim Cramer. He had a “frank discussion [with the company] about why we felt [the CEO] was the wrong person to lead the company.” Yesterday, the CEO resigned.
But while they have been more successful influencing management, it’s not clear if the smaller activist hedge funds, or occasional activist, are doing any larger than their larger peers in terms of investment performance. Despite their popularity, activist funds in general have had a very bad run lately. Activist funds lost 6.1% in January, the latest the data is available for, and are down nearly 3% on average in the past year, according to Hedge Fund Research. Only one hedge fund on Bloomberg’s list of top performing funds from last year was listed as event driven, a category that includes activist investing.
In total, the number of corporate agitators grew a third to 213 investors last year, according to Activist Insight. Of those, 54% are what the group defined as “occasional activists,” or those that infrequently engage management teams, up from 44% in 2014. First-timers took up nearly a quarter of the total.
“Previously passive investors have observed the successes of dedicated activist funds over the past years and now see the strategy as either an opportunity or a plausible last resort to be employed at troubled portfolio companies,” said Josh Black, spokesman for Activist Insight.
Rule changes regarding shareholder communication has emboldened fund managers. In April 2013, the Securities and Exchange Commission updated rules that said companies were allowed to disseminate information via social media. Shortly after, Carl Icahn tweeted that he owned shares of Apple aapl , sending shares up as much as $17 billion.
It ushered in a new era for activists. Two big expenses—postage and public relations—were eliminated. In November study by FTI Consulting, 80% of investors said that shareholder activists will increasingly use social media to target companies, and another 40% said they use social media to obtain information from outside influences, like sell-side analysts and the press. “The communication aspect has been democratized,” Bienvenu says.
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As China looks to wean its economy off a heavy dependence on investment and exports, India is embarking on the very same growth model that could see the South Asian nation assuming the role of the world's factory floor within the next decade.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has articulated in recent speeches and through policy actions that Asia's third largest economy is in need of a growth model which centers on export-oriented manufacturing, heavy infrastructure building and urbanization.
"This suggests a shift from India's current services-driven growth trajectory to an East Asian growth model based on the mass deployment of labor and capital," Sanjeev Sanyal, global strategist at Deustche Bank wrote in a report.
If India succeeds, it has the potential to become the factory of the world, Sanyal said in an interview with CNBC, a role assumed by China in the past decade.
Read MoreIndia goes from fragile to fabulous
"As China gets off the model, it creates space for a country like India, with cheaper labor, to become a manufacturing hub," he said.
The East Asian growth model is a well-trodden path by countries from Japan to China to generate and sustain rapid economic expansion.The paradigm, however, has eluded India, which leaped from an agriculture-focused to a service-dominated economy, by passing a manufacturing-led growth phase.
Manufacturing accounts for 15 percent of India's gross domestic product (GDP), while the services sector contributes about 60 percent.
"It's all good to have the software industry and Bollywood, but it doesn't generate enough jobs. You have this peculiar situation where 60 percent of the economy is generated by services, but it only employs 28 percent of the workforce. Agriculture, which is 14 percent of the economy, accounts for 50 percent of employment," he said.
Read MoreDoes Modiphoria have a sell-by date?
"This has led to the feeling that the services-led economic boom has disproportionately benefited the old 'English-speaking' middle class but not those aspiring to join the middle-class through hard work and education," he added.
India is in urgent need of generating employment due to its expanding working age population. Between 2015 and 2020, the working age population will rise from 804 million to 856 million. This requires 10 million additional jobs per year till the next elections to keep up with demographic expansion.
To be sure, the transition to the East Asian growth model won't be an easy one.
Mobilizing and deploying a large pool of capital will be a key aspect of the new growth model. This will require a rapid expansion of the financial and banking system.
Modi has put in place a target of opening 75 million new bank accounts by January 2015. While the primary purpose of this is to enable direct transfers of subsidy payments to the poor, it could play a big role in mobilizing savings in the long run, Sanyal said.
In addition to the vast amount of capital, the East Asian model requires a mass deployment of labor. This could prove to be challenging given the rigid labor laws and the fact that cities are not prepared to absorb the millions of industrial workers needed to feed the growth machine, Sanyal noted.
Read MoreThe man who would remake India: A 90-day scorecard
But should the model take off, the bank says it would prove to be a "major turning point in the lives of 1.2 billion people and would have very significant ramifications for the world economy."
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We would stop at Johnny D’s regularly, first as the opener and eventually as a headliner — I mean, it was a half a mile away, we ate brunch there anyway. Emblazoned into my brain is a night in 1994, a few months after Uncle Tupelo broke up. As an obsessed Tufts student and WMFO DJ, I cried actual tears lamenting the loss of that band. Until one day a new band named Wilco showed up at Johnny D’s. They didn’t even have a record out, and they played a set of new songs followed by a set of Uncle Tupelo songs, and my life was whole again. Probably the most restorative concert I’ve ever been to, and it was in the right place. After the show, Jeff Tweedy was just sitting at the bar having a beer, and I said hello. Will never forget that night.
Flo Murdock, former Johnny D’s booking agent, 1989-99
My very favorite show we ever had was the Texas Tornados. That was the most exciting show, and it was double exciting, because the whole day before they were trying to cancel. All the dinner reservations were sold out and the phone was ringing off the wall. They were booked in Canada the day before and had a really long haul to get there and didn’t want to do it. But, I tell you what, when they got there and played their first song, the energy level in that place was just unbelievable. The windows were not covered that night, because there were people waiting outside that couldn’t get in, and I remember Freddy Fender looking down and waving out the window at people.
Cousin Kate, WZBC “Sunday Morning Country” host
[Murdock] booked the Texas Tornados and then the following week or month they blew up on the charts, so the place was mobbed. The energy was insane, and all the Latin women were waving the white handkerchiefs, and it wasn’t the New Orleans thing; it was [wails] “Freddy!” It could’ve been underwear for all I know. When he did “Wasted Days and Wasted Nights,” it was literally a core meltdown in here.
Marie Akoury, general manager for the last nine years
I was in New York and I was taking a cab, and the cabbie asked me where I was from, and I told him Somerville and that I worked at Johnny D’s. And he said, “Get out of here! I used to go to Johnny D’s back in the day!” People, no matter where I go, want to talk about Johnny D’s — it’s crazy, it’s such a legacy that not a lot of families have.
One night I went and the place was almost empty, but there was this trio of guitar players called Trio Balkan Strings. It was a father and his two sons and they played the most amazing technical guitar, and I actually called my husband and said “You have to come check this out!” At one point, the father gets up and walks behind the son and starts playing the guitar with the son. And then the other son comes over, and all three are playing the same guitar at the same time, and it’s just this amazing, beautiful music. So that’s what you’d see one night, and the next night there’s Booty Vortex, and the night after they had [rockabilly legend] Sleepy LaBeef.
Mark Alston-Follansbee, executive director, Somerville Homeless Coalition
The beloved Somerville night spot and restaurant, a boon to global artists and needy neighbors alike, closes its doors Sunday.
Carla [DeLellis] and her kitchen crew make scrambled eggs and oatmeal for 1,000 people at our road race every year. Imagine how much oatmeal and scrambled eggs that is! The guests at the shelter, which is right up the street on College Ave., would walk down to the kitchen, and once a week they’d give us dinner. She goes out of her way to be an active, positive member of the community. To me, a lot of what makes Somerville special is wrapped up in people like Carla.
Chandler Travis, Chandler Travis Philharmonic, The Incredible Casuals
So much to remember, especially the Christmas Cavalcades benefits, those outrageous “Ben Hur”-style melees we’ve had there every Christmas for 12 years, usually with as many musicians as customers. Fundamentally impractical, sprawling 5-hour, 20-plus act workouts, big-time labor for all involved, yet every year [booker/sound engineer] Dana [Westover] somehow put up with it, and in fact went out of his way to volunteer to do sound, even in later years when he wasn’t always working there. And Carla, our den mother, not only the consummate hostess but more involved every year, thinking of new ways to make more money for the cause, neither of them ever letting all that craziness get to them, always a ball to work with against all odds!
You could walk in on any given night with a high level of assurance of witnessing incredible talent on stage, oftentimes an act that wouldn’t fit in neatly in other clubs’ programming. They were curators in the purest sense, prioritizing the quality of the product over profits, and thereby introducing local music lovers to scores of bands that were just starting their ascent. But my favorite part of Johnny D’s was having it feel like home every time we played, from club matron Tina DeLellis holding court at the backside of the bar and ribbing musicians like they were her kids, to Carla’s ever-present and disarming smile, to a pre-show meal of savory steak tips with grilled asparagus and garlic mashed. The overall atmosphere was the very definition of culture and community: one to be both missed and celebrated for the ages.
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The price of the virtual currency plunged to below $200 on the exchange Thursday, compared to a figure of around $600 on other major exchanges. Bitcoin had traded above $1,200 at its peak back in November but has since halved in price.
The Mt Gox breakdown has caused anger in the bitcoin community with customers taking to social media to express their dissatisfaction amid rumors that the company could be concealing financial difficulties.
Ezra Galston, a venture capitalist at Chicago Ventures, wrote an editorial on the bitcoin community news website CoinDesk this week, saying he believed that the current situation and recent statements belie transparency and suggest insolvency for Mt Gox.
Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal asked Mt Gox chief executive Mark Karpeles on Monday about the company's solvency or protection for customers' funds. Karpeles replied that the matter is "confidential" adding that company had discussed its business model with Japanese authorities "to ensure that we are operating within the law here."
The Japanese company - which started as an online exchange for Magic The Gathering trading cards - has been described as the "original" bitcoin exchange by fans of the digital currency and once claimed it handled around 80 percent of all global dollar trades for bitcoin.
It is currently the second-biggest bitcoin exchange in the world - representing around 25 percent of total bitcoin trade in the last week, according to Bitcoinity.org.
(Read More: Bitcoin plummets 20% after major exchange halts withdrawals)
A small protest outside the offices of Mt Gox has been ongoing since last Friday. Two Mt Gox customers, including former software developer Kolin Burges, have traveled to Japan in the hope of retrieving their bitcoins and finding out more details of the trading halt.
Burges told CNBC via telephone that there had been implications that the protest had been the reason for Mt Gox's move, with an angry landlord threatening to expel the company. However, Burges said he didn't believe this to be the case and considered that the company may have been the subject of a more formal physical threat from users with large deposits at Mt Gox.
"Nobody is really sure of what is going on," he said. "I have seen a couple of large security guards at the offices all day today."
Mt Gox wasn't immediately available for comment when contacted by CNBC via telephone and email.
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Getting to see Legacy, the new installation by musician and artist Nick Franglen, is an unusually cloak-and-dagger business. Potential appointments come and go until, on the Monday afternoon before the Olympics, Franglen sends me a last-minute text. Can I come to a station in London's Docklands for 11 o'clock at night? I'm advised to wear boots and dark clothing that I don't mind being ripped.
The reason for all this subterfuge is the venue: a derelict, partially demolished factory that serves as a document to Docklands' industrial past. It is dangerous and guarded at the best of times, let alone during the Olympic build-up.
Franglen first came here four years ago with some urban explorers, intrepid types who infiltrate parts of the city that are abandoned and off-limits. The phrase was coined in 1996 and the internet has since enabled a worldwide network of urban explorers to swap stories, photographs and advice. In January, Franglen decided that the building would be the perfect venue for an idea that had germinated two months earlier, when he was asked to design a piece of sound art for the British Business Embassy, a networking initiative, and felt that he had caught a glimpse of "the beast behind the Olympics".
"I've always liked the Olympics," he says, "but when you've got Jeremy Hunt saying we've decided not to have an austerity Olympics, we mustn't hold back, when we're cutting the School Sports Initiative, that's an interesting conundrum. Legacy is a ghastly word. Politicians talk about the legacy of the games to east London and I think what they're concerned about is what their legacy will be. Does east London benefit from all this regeneration or is it negative to have this completely alien infrastructure dropped into it and its heritage stripped out? I was trying to ask a question: what sort of Olympics do we really want? Why does it have to be like this?"
Franglen is a big, garrulous man but clearly has a steely, obsessive streak. Born in north London, he is best-known as half of chill-out duo Lemon Jelly and producer of albums by John Cale and Badly Drawn Boy. In recent years, however, his projects have become more unorthodox. With his band Blacksand, he has played gigs in such unlikely venues as a mine, a submarine and Pyestock, the former Concorde test centre in Hampshire, beloved of urban explorers. He has also played 24-hour solo theremin concerts beneath Manhattan Bridge and London Bridge.
Legacy, however, is his most ambitious and taxing endeavour yet. He had initially hoped to conclude the installation by watching the opening ceremony fireworks from the building's roof but he has heard rumours that snipers will be stationed there during the games. "I don't mind playing cat-and-mouse with security but I don't want to interfere with people doing a serious job," he says. Also, he adds, "I don't want to be shot."
It's a warm, clear night. We rendezvous in the street and make our way through the outer layer of security. He can never be entirely sure he will get in. "When I approach here my stomach's churning," he admits. "I'm white with fear."
Up close, the building's hulk looms vast and ghostly. Watching out for security patrols, we negotiate a series of fences and enter through a concealed opening. Inside, it is a disaster area. Several floors are gone. Those that remain are Swiss-cheesed with holes where machinery has been removed, covered by rotting boards too flimsy to support anybody's weight. A powerful torch might attract attention so we proceed using only the dim light coming through the broken windows. I follow Franglen's whispered advice: keep close to this wall, mind that loose step, watch out for that 20-foot plunge. "This is not a building to fall over in," he says. "It's a shocker. You could fall and kill yourself, of course, but worse than that you could break your leg in the basement where you can't get a phone signal and no one would ever find you. The first time I came here on my own I found that terrifying, but I feel that this is my domain now. I doubt anyone knows this place as well as I do."
To safely enter the section that houses Legacy you have to climb a ladder across a dizzying drop and scoot across a stretch of scrub that's in full view of a mysterious black dirigible that stealthily patrols the waterfront at unpredictable intervals. Finally, there is the so-called "Leap of Faith". Not, as a rule, having much faith in leaping, I'm relieved to find that it's actually another ladder. "It doesn't live up to its name," agrees Franglen as he clambers down onto the concrete floor. "I call it the Pace of Disappointment."
The building has a pungent, mushroomy aroma and a series of metal staircases and ladders that make our ascent feel reminiscent of a game of Donkey Kong. One room has no outside wall, so it is plastered with guano and noisy with the sound of pigeons' wings. Another is carpeted with hundreds of tangled cables. Franglen points to two industrial fans. "They didn't used to be that close together. Sometimes you notice people have moved things." Urban explorers endeavour to leave minimal trace – they are trespassers, not vandals or burglars – but Franglen has been here often enough to notice the small things. Like many old buildings, it makes strange noises, as if turning in its sleep and muttering to itself. When you're not supposed to be there, these noises can sound uncannily like footsteps.
Eventually we reach the seventh floor, which houses Legacy 1. It's a small garden containing rows of lettuce, spinach, spring onions and radishes, watered by the rain seeping through a hole in the roof. Franglen obtained the seeds from a friend who used to have a plot on the Manor Gardens allotments before they were destroyed to make way for the Olympic Park. That was the easy bit. He used to have to enter the site through a hole in the perimeter fence, and heft sacks of compost across several hundred yards of scrubland. One night he had to climb a tree with two sacks and hide there for four hours. "I used to pray for rain because it meant [the security guard] would stay in his car but, remarkably, it's always been a night like this."
In another room we find Legacy 3: a battery-powered television screening a DVD of the opening ceremony of the Athens Olympics. Franglen intended to contrast the triumphal spectacle with the fact that 21 of the 22 venues built for the games now lie empty. "All these buildings in Athens are derelict and guarded and you're in a derelict, guarded building," he explains. He turns on the TV. In the gloom and hush it seems deafeningly loud and bright, so he quickly clicks it off again.
Legacy 2 is a low roof filled with shallow water, which Franglen has transformed into a miniature boating lake. He smuggled in 205 solar-powered toy rowing boats – one for each nation competing in the Olympics – and, after much trial and error, successfully waterproofed them. "Sainsbury's sandwich bags," he says, proudly holding one up.
We climb another ladder on to the upper roof and I'm suddenly aware that the building is an island of darkness amid a sea of electric light. Behind us lies City airport; to our left the gleaming shells of the Thames barrier; ahead of us the hedgehog spikes of the O2 dome; further to the right the winking eye of Canary Wharf; beyond that the violet glow of the Olympic stadium and the flashing red of Anish Kapoor's Orbit tower. "It's just so beautiful up here," says Franglen, exhaling. "And so quiet, and so secret."
Such hard-earned views are a key incentive for urban explorers, but Franglen doesn't consider himself one of them. "I'm not really a group person," he says. We're sitting on the roof, conversing in low murmurs, like David Attenborough trying not to spook a herd of antelope. "I like coming to these places at night, which means you see the sunrise and get a sense of the building waking up. It's about connecting with the space. These spaces talk to you in some way. Once you've done it, the world feels like a different place."
After his first reconnaissance trip in January, he was apprehensive about starting work until, one night, he was on his way back from a gig and spontaneously thought, "Now. Let's do it now." He has been coming regularly ever since. His original plan was to finish it by May and leave it as an installation for urban explorers. "I was thrilled by the thought of someone discovering it and going, what the hell is this? They'd take photographs and discuss it and it would grow, the same way the plants are growing." But the heightened security associated with the Queen's jubilee and the Olympics has slowed him down and kept most visitors away. Now, he says, this article, and a documentary filmed by a friend, will be Legacy's only exposure to the public. "It's been cut off at the knees," he says sadly.
We hear approaching rotor blades, and crouch, unmoving, beside the low wall that borders the roof. "It's interesting what one gets scared of," he continues after the helicopter has passed overhead. "For the past few weeks I've woken up every morning with a nightmare and it's never about being caught. It's about not being able to get in and complete what I've been trying to do."
I wonder about the kind of person who commits to something like this: all those moments of panic and long hours of solitude. The politics and the artistic challenge don't quite explain it. "It's pretty obviously an obsession," Franglen admits. He used to be a committed motorcyclist until a serious accident in 1998; now he's into scuba diving and cave diving. The goal is always the liberation that comes from intense concentration, when everything melts away but the task at hand. Legacy has had the same effect.
"There's been a point to doing it, and the point isn't just about what's going on in Stratford. It's about what's going on in here." He taps his head. "Once I've delivered that to myself I need to get on with my life. I haven't had much of a life for the past few months. It's all I've thought about." He sighs. "I've been mauled by it. It should have been so much easier. But I've still done it."
Three days later, Franglen emails me to say that Legacy is finished, the last boat (dedicated to Team GB) waterproofed. Out of the blue, a friend who lived locally asked for a tour and became Legacy's fourth and final witness. Then Franglen said goodbye to his temporary domain. "It felt like the fitting final celebration," he writes. "It was always meant to be shared in some way."
Up on the roof on Monday night, however, he knows none of this. As we stand enjoying the view before our descent, something wonderful happens. The sky above the stadium suddenly explodes with a succession of pyrotechnic blooms: a rehearsal for the fireworks display that Franglen will miss. His face brightens with pure delight. "Isn't that fantastic?" he says, gazing into the night. "What a gift!"
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IN 1990, Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge, with Børge Ousland, became the first person to reach the North Pole unsupported. Then in 1993, he became the first person to reach the South Pole unsupported. He then climbed Mt. Everest, which meant he became the first person to complete the "Three Poles Challenge." He has sailed across the Atlantic—thus completing most of his feats before turning 30. But his explorations don't stop on mountain peaks.
Since 1996, he has run a publishing house, Kagge Forlag, which prints Norwegian translations of international best-sellers, as well as works by local writers. The 50-year-old Oslo resident is also an avid art collector. And though he lives in Villa Damman—a noted Modernist house built in 1932—aside from one work by Edvard Munch, his collection comes almost entirely from recent decades.
He spoke with us about his collecting philosophy.
If you have a dog, it's your favorite pet. But with art it's like with books—you read one and then it might become the one you like most, then you find another that becomes your favorite.
I only collect contemporary art and focus on artists from Scandinavia, the U.S. and the German-speaking countries. Sergej Jensen I like because he has it all. His lineage includes Sigmar Polke, Kurt Schwitters, Blinky Palermo and Robert Ryman.
I was too late to create a great collection by Franz West. Prices hiked too early and I am not a rich man. But I have kept on collecting artists that have been influenced by his body of work, such as Matias Faldbakken, Gardar Einarsson, Hanneline Røgeberg. Others I bought include Jan Christensen, Wolfgang Tillmans, Kirsten Pieroth, Richard Prince.
"Surfing Nurse" by Prince is the only painting I ever sold. I had bought it for $50,000 in 2004 and after four years I sold it for over $4 million. That's the price it made at auction. But the auction house had given me a guarantee, so I got even a bit more. I mean, I liked the work, but it was too much money for me, so I sold it and bought more works.
Before becoming a publisher, I was a lawyer. I had chosen those studies because they gave me the most freedom. I only had to show up for exams, which meant I could go on many adventurous trips. I sailed over the Atlantic and went to both poles.
I think we are all born explorers. Children love to find out what's happening around the next corner. They climb on trees and do all these things, but eventually they become civilized people and it is all about contributing to GDP, which is OK, but our natural state is being an explorer. That's also why I do these trips and why I collect art and read a lot—it's all about exploring.
There are plenty of pieces in my collection by artists like Trisha Donnelly, who are almost as demanding to understand as climbing an 8,000-meter peak.
I sit on the board of the Astrup Fearnley Museum here in Oslo. While in the U.S. you might have to invest a lot of money to get on the board of an institution, I get paid for this. I would never pay to join a board.
Different to other art collectors, I am living quite far from the market. Here in Oslo, I don't hear that many rumors about who might become the next big shot and so on. That is very good, because it helps you focus.
I just came back from a hiking trip in Kurdistan, and some time ago I went to New York, just to walk underground in the sewers. There are almost no colors, hardly any light or fresh air. There is a lot of art that, though it's not pretty, is beautiful. But down there, there is no beauty.
—Edited from an interview by Clemens Bomsdorf
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Even if enrollment comes up short of the 7 million person goal, White House allies will recruit enough young people to the system to keep the exchanges financially viable for 2015. Obamacare will still have health problems, but it'll get the chance to survive and grow.
(More predictions: Tired of Obamacare? More of the same in 2014)
By the fall, voters will go to the polls for another round of mid-term elections.
Without much faith in either party, they'll start no revolutions this time. Republicans will hold their House majority, Democrats theirs in the Senate.
(More predictions: Get ready—Here comes the REAL economy)
And then the status quo will limp along toward the 2016 election of President Barack Obama's successor.
—By CNBC's John Harwood. Follow him on Twitter @JohnJHarwood.
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But while emerging Europe may be popular, high-yield bonds are beginning to get the cold shoulder from analysts -- although not always for the same reasons.
Read More Five bond market risks to worry about: Pimco
The segment has been popular this year, with around $23.38 billion pouring into high-yield bond funds so far, nearly a quarter of the total $97.67 billion that has flowed into bond funds so far this year, according to data from Jefferies.
Julius Baer recommends shifting out of high-yield corporate bonds and into inflation-linked and hard-currency emerging market bonds.
It expects this week's Federal Reserve meeting could lead to a shift in expectations for the first interest rate hike, which could trigger volatility in the segment.
Read More Go figure: Investors still pump money into bonds
Pimco also advises shifting out of the high-yield segment, but for a different reason: based on its "new neutral" forecast for economic growth, it expects rising default rates.
Its new neutral forecasts lower-than-consensus economic growth, hovering around 2 percent, compared with the "old normal" view of 3 percent.
"Defaults in the low quality space will be higher than expectations given low real growth," the Pimco note said. "Our preference would be in high quality U.S. credit over low quality. In cases where we go into low quality, we plan to focus on shorter maturities to stay ahead of the anticipated pickup in defaults."
—By CNBC.Com's Leslie Shaffer; Follow her on Twitter @LeslieShaffer1
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Failure to reach an agreement could trigger flight-to-safety bids for gold, although markets still believe a deal to keep Greece in the euro zone can be negotiated.
"It looks like Greece has got a bit of a lifeline here although the Germans aren't very happy with it ... and that's not supportive for gold," bullion broker Sharps Pixley CEO Ross Norman said.
Gold had risen after minutes from the Fed's Jan. 27-28 meeting, released on Wednesday, showed officials grappling to square solid U.S. economic growth with weakness in international markets.
The Fed has kept rates near zero since 2008 to stimulate the U.S. economy, benefiting non-interest-bearing assets such as gold. Any rate increase would lift the dollar, hurting demand for bullion.
"Bears were firmly in control until the dovish comments from the (Fed) minutes ... the market was surprised with most expecting the first of many rate (increases) in June -- this now looks to be off the table," Tony Walters, senior analyst at Deutsche Borse's MNI International, said.
Liquidity will remain thin in Asia through the week as several markets are closed for the Lunar New Year holiday.
Gold imports into top consumer India are set to jump in coming months after the central bank eased gold import curbs.
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17-year-old Josephine Georgiou's breast to a packed audience – but the fan isn't offended.
"Only I get to decide if I'm humiliated or not – why would people assume I am humiliated by my own breast, nipple or body?" Georgiou reportedly said in an interview with
. "I didn't realize my boob was such a big deal – it was nothing to me."
The reveal went down at Madonna's
concert in Brisbane, Australia, on Thursday. Georgiou was asked by a mystery woman if she could dance and knew Madonna's song "Unapologetic Bitch." "I said f--- yeah," the teenager told the newspaper. The next thing she knew, Georgiou took the stage and stepped into Madonna's spotlight.
"She's the kind of girl you just want to slap ... on the ass ... and pull," Madonna, 57, said while moving the girl's top, revealing one of her breasts.
"Oh s---, oh sorry, sexual harassment," the pop icon said. "You can do the same to me."
But Georgiou told the publication suggestions she should pursue legal action against Madonna are the "most ridiculous thing," adding, "Seriously, why would I sue Madonna for the best moment of life?" she said. "It was the best night."
Another highlight for the teenage fan: "She was calling me a Victoria's Secret model the whole time I was on stage, which is so flattering," shared Georgiou.
And her mom was also amused, the newspaper reported. "The corset I was wearing was actually my mum's," said Georgiou. "She even posted a Facebook status saying, 'So Madonna just spanked my daughter! So proud.'"
It's just the latest in a string of stories about Madonna's concert tour, which comes in the midst of her
over the custody of their son Rocco, 15.
she was intoxicated on stage, writing on Instagram, "Too bad people don't know the art of acting and playing a character. I could never do any of my shows high or drunk"
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CAMBRIDGE — Underground electronic-music composer Daniel Lopatin and his current tour partner Nate Boyce opened their 70-minute set at the Sinclair on Monday with two simple sounds that defined the dense and varied music that followed. First came a pretty wash of electronic chords, then a noisy digital blast like a jet engine roar, as two narrow screens flashed the initials of Lopatin’s mutable musical project, Oneohtrix Point Never. (Pronounced “One Oh Tricks Point Never,” the name plays on “106.7,” the dial setting of the Boston soft-rock station Lopatin heard as a child in Winthrop.)
These sweet-and-sour contrasts may seem willfully extreme, yet they somehow help make OPN’s celebrated album “Garden of Delete” its most down-to-earth and richly engaging to date. With the help of severe musical disjuncture, the 2015 disc explores an adolescent world of alienation, aggression, and suffering with alleviating touches of tenderness, humor, and grace.
At the nearly sold-out Sinclair, where the packed audience looked like an enraptured graduate-student convention, Lopatin emphasized the teen angst even more heavily than he does on the recording. During most songs, the video screens looped clips of semi-abstract horrors, including a small, sculpted head encased in a glass bubble during “I Bite Through It.” On album, the heavy autotune distortion on Lopatin’s occasional vocals undercuts his disturbing words, but onstage Lopatin ramped up the aggression with bouts of autotuned yelling.
And yet the autotune also added comic effect, as Lopatin used it to greet the audience midway through the show, winning laughs with the distorted boast: “Davis, Inman, Central, Harvard, Jackson — I’m going to take all the [expletive] squares!”
The duo’s musical virtuosity also provided plenty of sheer musical delight, with songs stretching into unexpected improvisations, or Boyce shifting effortlessly from soothing synth chords to distorted thrash metal on his Steinberger guitar. After taking a break for the relative calm of the 2010 track “Returnal,” OPN closed the main set by pumping up “Freaky Eyes” with some extra hip-hop beats and flashing strobe lights. They returned for a single encore: the warmly mournful “Garden of Delete” closing track, “No Good,” which felt like a balm if not a resolution.
Veteran experimental musician Jason Lescalleet explored 50 shades of white noise in his trance-inducing opening set.
With Jason Lescalleet. At The Sinclair, March 14
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Amy Schumer Poses in Bikini With Boyfriend Ben Hanisch : People.com
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knows he's one lucky man.
shared more photos from his
with Schumer, 34, on Sunday,
star posing in a red, string bikini while in the ocean.
Schumer sat perched on a paddle board while Hanisch looked over his shoulder in faux-surprise at his lady love.
in the tropics with a group of friends, including
and his wife Jessica, and comedian Bridget Everett, before traveling to New York City on Saturday to attend a
During the trip, Schumer donned a variety of different swimwear, including a cut-out black one-piece and a
Hanisch shared another photo of the comedian in her red suit over the weekend.
"We've got a floater," he captioned the shot of Schumer smiling on a paddle board.
with their relationship in January, and have been by each other's side ever since.
"Amy is so, so happy," a source previously told PEOPLE of the relationship, adding, "He constantly tells her how pretty, sexy and perfect she is. She feels like she hit the jackpot."
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A French Stand-Up Star Takes On New York
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The other day Gad Elmaleh was overwhelmed. He had just met a superfan who had flown from London to New York to see his stand-up comedy show at Joe’s Pub. The enormity of the gesture had struck a chord with the Moroccan-French comedian. Later that day, he posted a selfie with the fan on his Twitter account, where he has 5.48 million followers, writing: “I am so touched.”
Mr. Elmaleh is very popular in Europe, especially France, where he has sold out big arenas. In recent months, the 44-year-old has moved to Manhattan’s...
The other day Gad Elmaleh was overwhelmed. He had just met a superfan who had flown from London to New York to see his stand-up comedy show at Joe’s Pub. The enormity of the gesture had struck a chord with the Moroccan-French comedian. Later that day, he posted a selfie with the fan on his Twitter account, where he has 5.48 million followers, writing: “I am so touched.”
Mr. Elmaleh is very popular in Europe, especially France, where he has sold out big arenas. In recent months, the 44-year-old has moved to Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood and embraced the anonymity that comes with building a name in a foreign country and a foreign language. He debuted his first all-English show in an initial 10-night run at Joe’s Pub in 2015 and he is now halfway through a six-month residency there. Mr. Elmaleh will embark on his first North American theater tour in late August, hitting Chicago, Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia, among others.
“I love every minute I’m here,” he says about New York. “I have a very normal life and this is really interesting for my work. It brings me back down to earth. I can write. I’m not the center of attention except when I go on stage.”
For the English-language project, called “Oh My Gad,” he wanted to immerse himself in New York and American life. To improve his English skills, he works with a language teacher and a dialect coach.
In his show, Mr. Elmaleh finds humor in the mundane—from ordering an Uber to deciphering the meaning of emojis in text messages. He also revels in sharing his perspective on some American concepts, such as spouses going on a date night (like winning the jackpot when you own the casino, he says) or having friends with benefits (in France, they just call them friends).
His goal is to have a great stand-up show in English: “This is why I’m doing that project—I want to be excited. I want to start over.”
Mr. Elmaleh also speaks Moroccan Arabic and Hebrew, reflecting his Jewish upbringing in Casablanca. He has appeared in numerous French movies (such as “Priceless,” opposite Audrey Tautou ) and a few American ones (including a small part in Woody Allen ’s “Midnight in Paris”). But stand-up comedy comes first: “I get a little bored on a movie set,” he says.
Mr. Elmaleh is often on the road. He has started taking melatonin when he arrives at a destination to help with jet lag. He says he isn’t a big reader, but he always has books with him, such as Steve Martin ’s memoir “Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life” or “Outline of a Theory of Practice,” a sociology book by Pierre Bourdieu, a French intellectual. “I think stand-up comedy is a kind of sociology.”
In his black Dior bag, he brings headphones so he can listen to jazz and National Public Radio. He writes ideas for his shows in notebooks created by French designer Sarah Lavoine : “It’s very chic. This is where I work so I want it to be nice.”
He packs very few clothes, mostly black. He usually wears jeans and a black T-shirt. “I like simple because my brain is constantly working. I don’t want my brain wasting time for clothing.” He carries a baseball cap from San Francisco and several pairs of Persol sunglasses.
The comedian says he is a little superstitious, so he carries good-luck charms from his two sons, ages 15 and 2. One is an amethyst his older son brought him from a school trip when he was 5, and another is a colorful painting from his younger son. Mr. Elmaleh also says a prayer before a performance or a flight to have a successful show and a safe trip.
While growing up in Morocco, Mr. Elmaleh remembers his parents had some difficult times. His father worked as a salesman and an amateur mime. To this day Mr. Elmaleh says he can’t leave his apartment without cash on him.
“I think it’s a little trauma from my childhood, where we didn’t have nothing,” he says. “I got into so many situations when I needed money and I got stuck. $50 is not going to save you from anything, but it’s like a symbol.”
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Warner Bros has altered its plans for tonight's
premiere in London amid heightened security concerns following devastating
that unfolded in Brussels Tuesday.
PEOPLE has confirmed that the press line for the premiere, which is being held at Odeon Leicester Square, has been canceled, and that the cast and filmmakers will not be speaking with reporters in the run-up to the event.
The premiere, however, is expected to push through as scheduled, including a screening of the film, which stars
"Our hearts go out to the victims of recent terrorist attacks, their families and the communities impacted around the world," the studio said in a statement. "Rather than yield to terror, we've decided to join the film's fans and move forward with the London premiere of
The changes come hours after
on a Brussels airport and metro station that has left at least 31 people dead and 187 injured.
– two at Zaventem Airport's Departures Hall and another, an hour later, at the Maalbeek Metro Station near the headquarters of the European Union.
At least 11 were killed at Zaventem Airport, while another 20 were pronounced dead at the metro station.
The attacks come in the wake of the arrest of Paris terror attack suspect
. Brussels had been on a level three terror alert, amid concerns that a large network of terrorists remained at large, and authorities raised the level to its highest â level four â in the wake of the explosions on Tuesday.
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Q. It’s become clear that one of my direct reports is going through a personal crisis, most likely an eating disorder and associated breakdown. My approach has been to leave her alone — because her personal life is not my business — but it’s begun to affect her work. How can I help her to deal with this issue while mitigating the effect it has on our workplace?
A. There are three problems here: your associate is weathering a difficult time; it’s getting in the way of her work; and she has no one to turn to in the office for support. This last issue is the fault of the organisation and her boss: you.
You’ve created a divide between personal and professional lives.
Clearly, your office culture has discouraged people from drawing close to one another and building trust. That’s a problem, because you’ve created a divide between personal and professional lives. What you ought to be doing is drawing a finer distinction between the intimate and the personal, said John Paul Rollert, an adjunct assistant professor of behavioural science at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
The intimate details of people’s lives should be kept out of the workplace, but personal lives — which can range from a colleague’s son’s soccer game all the way to the situation you’re describing — often impact work. “If you have that strict professional-personal divide, it always is awkward to talk about this,” said Rollert, who teaches business ethics.
If you have that strict professional-personal divide, it always is awkward to talk about this.
First, have a confidential conversation with your HR department, to find out what legal and corporate-policy guidelines exist. What you don’t want is to extend a helping hand only to find that your employee is taking your overtures as intrusive, discriminatory or otherwise objectionable.
Budget some time for a one-on-one talk. Take your employee aside privately and say you’d like to help. Listen to anything she wants to tell you about her troubles. Then have a gentle but frank conversation about what she’s going through and its effect on the company and on your team. What you’re going for is what Rollert dubs the 3C’s: care, candor and confidentiality.
You can’t force her to disclose details that she would rather not share, but you have to explain to her that her personal issues are hurting both her own work and that of the team. She likely doesn’t realise that this is happening, or even that anyone at the office has guessed what’s going on with her. That’s common with people in traumatic situations, Rollert said: “They put on blinders to the effect they have on other people.”
Use specific examples and data to illustrate how the team’s work is slipping. Then propose solutions, concentrating on any accommodations you could make to ease the burden on your employee, he said. You could also suggest that the employee makes use of any help offered at your organisation, for example a mental health hotline or in-house counsellor, if available.
You can’t force her to disclose details that she would rather not share.
Ideally you can have this conversation before things get out of hand. If your best option is offering to help your employee get medical care or check into a hospital, “that's a radical management failure,” Rollert said. But don’t let the situation progress to that point. Start now.
Work Ethic is a twice-monthly column on BBC Capital in which we consider the ethical and interpersonal dilemmas that workers face around the world. We welcome knotty questions from readers at work_ethic@bbc.com.
To comment on this story or anything else you have seen on BBC Capital, please head over to our Facebook page or message us on Twitter.
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HAVING had television's equivalent of a nearly two-year Off-Broadway run, "Fox After Breakfast" is ready for the big time. The program, which first launched as "Breakfast Time" on the Fox-owned cable channel fX, debuts Monday on WNYW/Ch. 5 at 9 a.
m. and on Fox stations around the country. "It's a walking, talking, spontaneous, innovative talk show that takes place in an apartment overlooking Madison Square Park," executive producer Peter Faim an said. The show is set in a real apartment, which, of course, is equipped with cameras. At the helm are Laurie Hibberd and Tom Bergeron and an offbeat puppet named Bob. Bob's so-called master is Al Rosenberg, a one-time gag writer for Howard Stern. Outside of the studio, "After Breakfast" will rely on its band of four "road warriors," who serve as roaming reporters for the show. Each day, there will be two live remotes from around the country featuring Jillian Hamilton, Phil Keoghan, Jeff MacGregor and Suzanne Whang. When it was on fX, the program aired in a two-hour, freewheeling format. According to Faiman, it will keep that energy, although it will only be on for an hour. The show also attracted numerous big-name guests, who would often end up dancing or singing with one of the hosts. "I guess it's an hour of the best of the two hours," Faiman explained. "It will be a more compressed version of the two-hour show.
" Along with the network exposure will come a better telecast, assures Faiman, who a decade ago directed the hit film "Crocodile Dundee.
" "We're going to be tighter, sharper, smarter. It's like we're going from the junior league to the senior league. . . . It's not a matter of changing our game, we just want to improve it.
" However, competing in the network-TV business is no walk in the park. Locally, the program will go head to head with the syndicated "Live With Regis and Kathie Lee," which typically dominates its time period. Faiman said that the two shows have similar sensibilities, although at the same time they are very different programs. Aside from the competition, the program is also entering a time slot whose audience is primarily female. As a result, it will be adding and focusing on segments intended to appeal to that group. "We're going to take particular care that we are entertaining and relevant to a largely female audience," Faiman said. "The truth is, we want our show to appeal to as broad an audience as possible.
" Faiman quipped that the show will do less on "trains and planes, and fewer welding segments.
" One segment from the fX program remaining on the new version is one in which a visiting family spends the show in the studio while someone from the show cooks breakfast. "We're doing things because we feel there's room to be different," Faiman said. "I always say, be different or be damned.
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The program, which first launched as "Breakfast Time" on the Fox-owned cable channel fX, debuts Monday on WNYW/Ch. 5 at 9 a.m. and on Fox stations around the country.
"It's a walking, talking, spontaneous, innovative talk show that takes place in an apartment overlooking Madison Square Park," executive producer Peter Faim an said.
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US Representative Richard Neal told biotech executives Friday that they’ll continue to be under a microscope as politicians in Washington carp about rising drug prices in an election year.
“The conversation about drug pricing isn’t going to disappear in the next seven months,” Neal, the dean of the Massachusetts congressional delegation, warned the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council. “And it calls on all of you to explain what you do. And there’s a lot of upfront costs to what you do.”
Neal admitted, “It’s a complicated argument” at a time when critics and some presidential candidates have called for price caps on prescription medicines.
A separate panel of executives and investors at the meeting described the mounting criticism of drug makers as a form of scapegoating that fails to recognize that medicines save and extend lives.
“As an industry, we’re getting bullied,” said Amir Nashat, managing partner at Polaris Partners, a Boston venture capital firm that bankrolls biopharma companies. “We get bullied by insurance companies that demand bigger discounts . . . We get bullied by politicians and public policy people.”
Paris Panayiotopoulos, chief executive of Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc. in Cambridge, said, “We have to as an industry take some accountability for clearly communicating the value we bring to patients.”
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US Representative Richard Neal told biotech executives Friday that they’ll continue to be under a microscope as politicians in Washington carp about rising drug prices in an election year.
“The conversation about drug pricing isn’t going to disappear in the next seven months,” Neal, the dean of the Massachusetts congressional delegation, warned the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council.
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When hundreds of refugees perished at sea in Southeast Asia last year, it seemed as if the region's countries were hamstrung.
About 1800 trafficked men, women and children, many of them Rohingya fleeing persecution in Myanmar, were stranded on boats in the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal in May; hundreds perished at sea while governments dithered over what action to take.
But now Australia, Indonesia and the UN refugee agency UNCHCR hope a new declaration of the Bali Process will help bring countries together faster and initiate prompt action were such an event to happen again.
Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said the events last year showed up the region's weaknesses.
The Bali Process, an international forum of 45 countries tackling people smuggling, trafficking and other transnational crime, had been unable to address the crisis.
"This must not happen again," she said.
Ms Marsudi and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop announced that for the first time, the declaration would put in place a "mechanism" allowing members to come together quickly to respond if another similar situation were to arise.
"This was missing from the processes in 2015 and we were concerned that as the events of the Andaman Sea unfolded, there was no mechanism to bring the members together in a timely fashion. We believe this will give us that opportunity to do so," Ms Bishop told reporters.
During the high-seas crisis last May, Amnesty International had called on regional governments - including Australia - to urgently step up their response in the face of the crisis.
Although Australia gave around $A1 million in aid, it did not assist with search and rescue operations, and would not resettle any of the Rohingya under its policy of not accepting refugees who registered with the UNHCR in Indonesia after July 1, 2014.
UNHCR assistant high commissioner for protection Volker Turk welcomed the declaration on Wednesday, telling AAP that he felt there was an "evolution" at the Bali Process to provide more longer-term strategies.
"We are very comforted by the fact that the (declaration) wording says 'facilitate timely and proactive consultation' to respond to emergency situations. That is quite a clear commitment."
Ms Bishop also announced a new strategy at the conference to tackle migrant smuggling and human trafficking, which she described as a "shocking stain on the modern world".
The International Labour Organisation estimates that as many as 20.9 million people worldwide are subject to forced labour, including sexual and domestic exploitation, with more than half of them in the Asia Pacific region.
The illicit trade generates around $US150 billion ($A197 billion) a year in profits.
Australia's strategy, Ms Bishop said, would fight human trafficking in several ways, including by pushing for greater co-operation with law enforcement in the region to prevent, detect and prosecute such crimes.
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Retired adult film actress Amber Rayne died at home on Saturday at the age of 31, according to a statement on the Los Angeles County coroner's website.
Authorities are still waiting for the results of an autopsy and toxicology report for Rayne, who retired from the porn industry in 2015 after a ten year career.
Stormy Daniels, Rayne's friend and former colleague,
Sunday, "Her mother called me yesterday and told me. I'm helping her family make arrangements for the care of her horse."
Rayne made headlines last year when she joined several other adult film actresses in accusing crossover male porn star James Deen of sexual assault.
Rayne had claimed Deen punched and sexually assaulted her during a porn shoot last December.
Deen responded to the accusation in a 2015 interview with
, saying, "It sounds pretty extreme but I can assure you, as someone who has also been on sets before, this situation was grossly distorted by the press, and as someone who came to my defense stated, this video exists. You can clearly see it not happening the way it is represented in the media."
Rayne's friends and former coworkers have taken to social media to express their condolences:
I hope Amber Rayne rests in peace.
Sad to hear about the passing of amber Rayne :( wow
@Amber_Raynexxx Will be missed. As a performer. As an authentic human being. As a friend. My heart goes to her family and her horse.
Amber Rayne was a complex person. Full of passion. She brought me many joyful days over the decade I knew her. She will be missed.
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Elizabeth Johnson, Mother of 'Baby Gabriel,' Arrested for Probation Violation : People.com
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It was a case that has perplexed authorities for more than 6 years.
In December 2009, Elizabeth Johnson was embroiled in a bitter custody battle with her ex, Logan McQueary. She fled her Tempe, Arizona home with their 8-month-old son, Gabriel. They were spotted at a San Antonio motel on December 26, 2009.
That was the last time Gabriel was seen. When police finally caught up with Johnson in Miami, Baby Gabriel was nowhere to be found.
A jury convicted Johnson of unlawful imprisonment, custodial interference and conspiracy to commit custodial interference. She was sentenced to 5 years in prison, but was released early in July 2014 for good behavior and was ordered to serve four years of probation.
But earlier this week, Johnson was arrested for alleged violations of her probation, including associating with someone who has a criminal record, leaving the state without permission, and failing to report a speeding ticket. She has been returned to Arizona, where she sits in jail without bond. A hearing is set for April 14.
"They're very minor violations," Johnson's attorney, Marc J. Victor, tells PEOPLE. "She was doing really well on probation. She was in school full time, and she was working full time. She owns property now. Her goal is to get back to her life."
A judge will decide next week whether to return Johnson to jail, but the larger question remains unanswered: Where is Baby Gabriel?
Before her 2009 arrest, Johnson sent a disturbing text message to McQueary claiming that she had killed Gabriel. Alarmed, McQueary says he called Johnson for more information.
"She told me that she suffocated him, put him in his diaper bag, and threw him a dumpster," McQueary told PEOPLE in 2010. "I yelled at her that I didn't believe her. I was shaking all over."
Based on these conversations, investigators conducted a massive search of a Texas landfill. At least 20 investigators and several cadaver dogs combed the landfill, digging through as much as 45 feet of garbage in an attempt to find any trace of Gabriel. After a 16-day search, authorities found nothing.
And then, Johnson's story changed.
In the days following her arrest, she told police that she had given Gabriel away to strangers in San Antonio so he could be with "a real, loving family." She never identified the couple – and has stuck to the story ever since. During her trial, prosecutor Angela Andrews claimed in court that her office was willing to set aside its recommendation of imprisonment if Johnson would simply reveal where Gabriel was.
While Johnson never responded to Andrews' offer, she did say that she didn't know Gabriel's whereabouts. "I have to live every day without my son and without knowing where he is," she said at her sentencing hearing in 2012. "That is the worst pain and punishment I could ever have."
Johnson's attorney says that they still don't have any answers. "She doesn't have any information beyond what she told police," says Victor. "Nothing has changed."
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
If Gabriel Johnson is still alive, he's nearing his 7th birthday. Over the years, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has released age-progressed photos to show what he might look like today.
The uncertainty has been excruciating for McQueary. "What Elizabeth has done has not only robbed me, but my friends and family," he said in her sentencing hearing. "Her actions hurt and changed people and their lives forever, and I think she should be held accountable for her actions."
Anyone with information is asked to call the FBI at (210) 225-6741 or the Tempe Police Department at (480) 350-8311.
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Retail pot dispensaries in Colorado plan to sell marijuana to anyone over 21, without a prescription, starting Jan. 1. Washington also legalized recreational marijuana this year, and state officials plan to begin issuing retail licenses in February.
But the industry remains hampered by a lack of capital because banks won't treat dispensaries the way they do traditional businesses.
"The businesses we're looking to invest in don't have access to credit markets," Safir said. "They're basically run on a combination of savings and credit cards."
(Read more: Washington plans to keep the weed for locals)
The fund should fill holes in the industry's financing, he said, as banks won't allow marijuana operations to open commercial accounts because of gaps in certain state and federal laws.
The fund plans to follow a traditional private equity investment schedule and within two years provide an average investment size of $2 million, according to its website.
High Times Senior Editor Danny Danko told CNBC on Thursday that the publication established the fund to help protect the fledgling legitimate pot industry from scams and unscrupulous investors.
"It is a problem," Danko said on "Squawk on the Street." "There are certainly some pump-and-dump type of operations."
(Read more: In 2 states, corner marijuana store nears reality)
Though other private equity funds interested in the business have sprung up in recent months, none of them plan to raise as much as the High Times fund or have its clout in the marijuana community.
Danko said the stature of High Times, which covered the illicit herb as it emerged from its counterculture origins to be an item on ballots around the country, made it a natural partner for the industry.
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However, while Glass has become a familiar sight at technology conferences in Silicon Valley, it is yet to win over the general public amid concerns ranging from personal privacy to social etiquette.
Part of the goal of the slow and steady expansion is to help people become more familiar with Glass ahead of a full rollout, which is expected in mid to late 2014, sources say.
Glass was first unveiled to the public a year ago at the Google I/O developer event, where attendees could order a device costing $1,500. Developers received their first units earlier this year.
A spokesman for Google X, the experimental lab which is developing Glass alongside the self-driving car and other innovations, declined to comment.
In July, Google said in an online posting that it was "starting to test out other ways of expanding the program so that additional Explorers can join". Earlier in the summer, a number of academic researchers were given the opportunity to try the devices. This autumn, Google began a roadshow across American cities, starting in Durham, North Carolina, to let members of the public try the technology.
The expansion of Glass comes as a range of other electronics companies are exploring their own wearable technologies. Samsung, which released a smart watch a few weeks ago, may be working on smart glasses, according to designs revealed in patent filings, while Apple is also working on an iWatch, sources say.
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He came (to Rome), he saw (the inside of the Vatican but not Pope Francis) and he conquered (the few dozen students and expats who turned out to see him).
In the process, Bernie Sanders got very nearly trampled by a Roman media scrum.
And with Pope Francis opting not to spend any time in the company of the Vermont senator, aides must have been wondering if the 8,500-mile roundtrip and two days out of the race to be the Democrat presidential candidate were worth it.
Sanders did have a few relaxed moments in the spring sunshine on Friday, strolling through the Vatican's Perugino gate to greet a group of around 30 American expatriates and students brandishing "Go Bernie" and "Feel the Bern" placards.
The relaxed meet and greet lasted only seconds however before a swarm of international media engulfed the democratic socialist.
Flustered, flushed and looking all of his 74 years, Sanders stumbled at one point and briefly looked as if he might fall to the Roman cobblestones.
"Can we get everyone back behind the barriers," one of the security team frantically shouted, before adding, more forlornly, "Could someone say that in Italian."
Having recovered his balance, Sanders shoved forward and regained his focus. "Are there any American reporters here?" he asked.
The rolling maul of cameras, microphones and sweaty hacks never made it back behind the barricades, so Bernie opted to deliver his explanation of what he was doing here from the middle of it.
He said he had come to Rome out of respect for Francis's positions on the global economy and the environment -- "historic and incredible" positions the pontiff happens to share with a certain Brooklyn native.
What the pope is saying is that we cannot continue to go forward when so few have so much and when greed is such a destructive force, not only in the United States of course but around this world," Sanders said.
And he said Francis's intervention in the climate change debate had been a game changer.
Bernie Sanders mobbed by media outside the Vatican. (AFP)
"So when I received this invitation, and I know it's taking me away from the campaign trail for a day, it was so moving to me that it was simply something I could not refuse to attend."
Sanders had flown to Rome at the invitation of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, a kind of Vatican think-tank on social, economic and environmental issues, for a Friday conference.
Some political commentators have suggested he was looking for a boost to his ratings among US Catholics with a trip that could be spun as an indication of Vatican endorsement.
Although the papal spokesman had made it clear earlier in the week there was no prospect of a personal audience with Francis, the pontiff would normally have turned out to greet all of the attendees at such a high-profile seminar.</p>
On this occasion however he sent a letter of apology, citing his need to prepare for Saturday's trip to Lesbos.
Sanders was unlikely to get a warm greeting from two other attendees of the Vatican-hosted meeting -- Ecuador's President Rafael Correa and Bolivian President Evo Morales -- both known for being hostile to US interference in Latin America.
The 79-year-old pontiff will have an early start with a 7am flight to catch to the Greek island at the centre of Europe's migrant crisis.
Sanders may or may not have been disappointed with the papal no-show but American expatriates Linda Lauretta and Chelsie Nieman were delighted to have seen him in the flesh.
“We have been here since 9.30am this morning. We weren't sure where he was going to be but luckily one of the Swiss guards took pity on us and told us to come here," said Lauretta, an English teacher from New York state.
"I think a lot of Americans living outside of the US back Bernie because they have experienced different types of society and they can see them working."
Nieman, a graphic designer from Atlanta, added: "I've just been really impressed with everything that he stands for."
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It's a lot of meat, but apparently not a lot of calories. "This is a 320-calorie burger," said CEO Andrew Wiederhorn, as he displayed the medium-sized version of the meal, which has cheese but no mayo. That's about 250 calories less than a regular Fatburger. "You get to have a milkshake once in a while," Wiederhorn said.
Yours truly tried one, as the video shows here. Perhaps most surprising about all this is that the all-meat bun isn't nearly as messy as you might expect.
Read More Olive Garden earns business diners' top rating
Fatburger's CEO said the Skinny Burgers are accounting for 10 percent of company sales, but they're being rolled out as beef prices hit record highs. The government reports that ground beef is now selling on average for a staggering $4.10 a pound. Wiederhorn said his franchisees are trying to manage those costs and still maintain margins of between five and 15 percent.
"We've seen a 25 percent increase in beef prices," he said. "It now costs 25 to 50 cents more to have a hamburger than it used to." He said that cost is being passed through to consumers, "No different than if it's the Affordable Care Act or minimum wage increase."
Wiederhorn said despite the price hikes, sales are up, as customers appear willing to pay more for what they consider a quality hamburger. The company has 200 stores in 32 countries, with another 350 in development.
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"Our biggest growth in 2014 has been in Asia—Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia," he said. Not every country will allow Fatburger to use U.S. beef, however.
"In some markets like Indonesia, we have to use French meat," he said, which is more expensive. Also, while U.S. beef is allowed in Macau and Hong Kong, "in mainland China, it's prohibited, and we use Australian beef."
As for whether the burger sector is getting a little crowded, Wiederhorn believes Fatburger will succeed by sticking with a burger recipe that's worked in the past.
"We're going after that customer at McDonald's or Burger King, and dragging them up to our space. We're going after the casual dining customer at a Red Robin, and dragging them down to our space, because of the price point."
A price harder to maintain as demand for beef continues to outstrip supply, keeping the Skinny Burger's margins skinny as well.
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Back when the news was printed on dead trees, fixing mistakes or changing the tone of a story was impossible without stopping the presses and printing a whole new version. That’s no longer the case thanks to the Internet. News stories can now be updated in the blink of an eye.
But as the New York Times has discovered on more than one occasion, that power can be both a blessing and a curse.
In the latest dust-up over its post-publication editing process, the Times has come under fire for changes to the tone of a story that the paper ran about Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Bernie Sanders. As far as some Sanders supporters are concerned, the editing is a sign of how willing the paper is to twist the record to favor his rival, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The original story was fairly complimentary toward Sanders’ record of promoting public-spirited legislation in Congress. It admitted that his record of actually succeeding in getting such bills passed was not great, but the tone of the piece was favorable enough that the Sanders campaign shared it as though it were an endorsement.
The story remained unchanged for nearly 10 hours—before it was edited multiple times over the following few hours into Wednesday morning. As originally reported in a Medium post and described by Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone, passages that previously seemed complimentary were watered down while comments that could be interpreted as favorable were weakened or removed. No editorial notes were added.
Initially, the only response from the Times to questions about its editing was a comment from a spokeswoman that this was a routine story that got routine handling by editors. Then executive editor Dean Baquet responded to Washington Post media blogger Erik Wemple about the changes, saying Times editors made some additions because they thought the story needed more “context.”
We thought the original version of the story didn’t grapple with the question of what his legislative record says about what kind of president he would be. It was a very good story, but it needed some context. That got added. We actually do go in and make changes in stories when we think they need some additional context. It is actually pretty common.
Baquet is right about one thing: The kind of editing the Sanders story got is fairly common—and not just at the New York Times but plenty of other places as well. And why not? It’s so easy now to change a story, to add a comment, or tweak a description. Plenty of media outlets do it. The Times response in almost every case is to say, “This is just the way things are done—move on, nothing to see here.” But is this the right approach?
NYT publishes positive article on Sanders' Congressional record. Then makes numerous revisions to dilute much of it https://t.co/QFmYBUnL0A
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 15, 2016
New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan has written critically about the paper’s post-publication editing of stories in the past, and she has recommended on numerous occasions that the paper should be more transparent about significant changes. But there seems to be little appetite to follow through on those recommendations.
The problem for the Times is that it is so huge and influential that it has a giant target painted on its back, especially when a story is politically sensitive. People already believe all kinds of conspiracy theories about why the paper covers or doesn’t cover certain things, and incidents like the Sanders story just confirm those suspicions.
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It doesn’t help that the Times rarely talks about the changes made to specific stories unless forced to do so and that it provides no easy way to compare with previous versions. Luckily, online sleuths have a tool called NewsDiffs (co-founded by former Times writer Jennifer 8. Lee) that archives multiple iterations of news stories, making the comparison process a fairly straightforward task.
Why don’t newspapers provide these kinds of tools themselves? Presumably, it is because they are uncomfortable with the amount of transparency that would provide into the editing process, which is still oriented towards pretending that mistakes never happen. Only when those mistakes explode into public view—as they did with a poorly-sourced story about the Justice Department investigating Clinton’s handling of email—does it become obvious.
The Times also doesn’t help its case by taking the same “editing after the fact is routine” approach in every situation. Readers might be prepared to accept that tweaking a word or a phrase is no big deal. But when a story is changed to the extent that the meaning changes, it’s a little disingenuous to pretend that this doesn’t matter.
Watch: “We want to make media for the way the world is today.”
In one recent case, the Times ran a story about a fairly significant political and social event—namely, the FBI trying to force Apple to help it unlock a terrorist’s phone. The story included a fascinating series of paragraphs about the potential impact such a decision would have on China’s attitude towards encryption. A few hours later, however, those passages had been completely removed without any explanation whatsoever.
In another case, a story about a somewhat less politically sensitive topic—the turmoil at the online community Reddit—was published as another relatively straightforward news story written by Mike Isaac. Hours later, the original had been completely rewritten by David Streitfield as an opinion piece. Why? Was the original inaccurate? If not, why not run the opinion piece as something separate instead of disappearing the first one? No one knows.
Obviously, adding editor’s notes to every story that has had any changes at all would be unwieldy for the Times or anyone else, and many readers probably don’t care in most cases. But for stories that actually do matter—and those in which wholesale changes have been made—it would be easy enough to provide previous versions with a note, the way Wikipedia does when pages change. Pretending that this doesn’t happen, or that it only involves routine tweaking, isn’t doing the Times any favors in the trust department.
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There’s been a lot of talk lately — and more than a little hand-wringing — about the rise of online ad blocking. In part, that’s because of a recent study that shows what appears to be a dramatic increase in the use of ad-blocking software. It might also have something to do with the news that the next version of Apple’s mobile Safari browser will be able to block ads automatically (except for Apple’s own ads, of course), which threatens to make ad blocking mainstream.
For at least some players in the media industry, this looks like a cross between a Class 5 hurricane and a neutron bomb headed straight for their balance sheets. It’s not enough that they are struggling to make money as print advertising continues its free fall into oblivion — now digital ads, which already provide orders of magnitude less revenue, will be obliterated.
According to the study, which was done by Adobe Systems and Page Fair, the use of ad blocking software has increased 41% in the past year alone, and cost publishers $22 billion in lost revenue. Of course, it’s worth mentioning that Page Fair’s business is helping publishers get around ad blockers, so there is perhaps an incentive to see the problem as larger than it might actually be. In any case, blocking is a big enough phenomenon that dozens of large players pay AdBlock Plus to have their ads whitelisted, a feature the software company cleverly offers.
I’m not quite as sanguine about the long-term impact of ad blocking as Felix Salmon, who wrote at Fusion recently about how the anxiety over it is misplaced, and most publishers will be fine. Plenty of ads get missed for a variety of reasons, he says. All ad blocking really does is automate this kind of shrinkage, which the ad industry more or less takes for granted (as it also does with rampant click-fraud).
That may be true, but I think there’s little question that such issues help keep the price of digital advertising low. And that in turn makes it difficult for anyone but the largest of digital publishers to actually make a living from such ads, since it takes a billion pageviews before you are making anything like a decent return. At the very least, ad blocking doesn’t help.
You can see the stress that this creates, particularly for small publishers, in some of the responses to a recent blog post by Marco Arment, co-founder of Tumblr and Instapaper (a tool for saving web pages that is now owned by Betaworks). In a piece entitled “The ethics of modern ad blocking,” Arment wrote about how he doesn’t feel any qualms about using ad blockers, despite the fact that by doing so he is at least affecting the livelihood of the sites that he reads. In the end, he says, publishers have made their beds and should be forced to lie in them:
“Publishers don’t have an easy job trying to stay in business today, but that simply doesn’t justify the rampant abuse, privacy invasion, sleaziness, and creepiness that many of them are forcing upon their readers, regardless of whether the publishers feel they had much choice in the matter. Modern web ads and trackers are far over the line for many people today, and they’ve finally crossed the line for me, too.”
A number of critics, including Awl publisher Choire Sicha, pointed out that the Instapaper software Arment developed automatically removes advertisements from the web pages it saves (as does Apple’s Reader software, which is built into Safari), implying that he is no friend to publishers to begin with. Sicha suggested that if everyone used ad blockers then many publishers would go out of business, and that not everyone can simply charge their readers to generate revenue.
There’s no question that many publishers both large and small are caught in a Catch-22 kind of situation: They rely on advertising for their financial well-being, but in order to cater to advertisers who want to see large numbers, many feel they have to pump out as much shallow click-bait as they possibly can. That in turn makes their sites even more reliant on advertising, because no one in their right mind would actually pay to subscribe to a site that publishes that kind of content.
Meanwhile, the continuing decline in rates for most forms of digital advertising causes these publishers to make even more Faustian deals with sketchy ad networks, click farms, popup manufacturers and recommendation engines like Taboola and Outbrain. And that in turn causes reader churn, low engagement and poor clickthrough rates, and probably increases the growth of ad blockers.
One tangible result of all this sturm und drang is that it is increasing the demand for “native advertising,” which looks like normal content and thus is theoretically impervious to ad blocking. For those who see native advertising as something evil, this probably isn’t a good thing — but the benefit of good native advertising is that readers don’t see it as advertising, they simply see it as useful or interesting content (if it’s done properly, that is). And therefore they don’t want to block it.
In the end, I can’t help but agree with Arment to some extent. Publishers may argue that they are being forced by advertisers to engage in all of these popup and click-farm tactics, but who made them sign those deals in the first place? In the end, readers likely won’t shed a tear as they turn on their ad-blocking software or click away to some other site that doesn’t treat them so shabbily. And whose fault is that? You have to dance with the one who brought you.
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MILAN—When Gergishu Johannes, an Eritrean who has been living in Germany for the past 30 years, heard about the terrible shipwreck off the coast of Lampedusa last year, she felt sure her cousin was among the 360 victims.
Terrified at the thought, she said, she flew to the small Mediterranean island south of Italy. But after 10 days of being bounced from one office to another without news, she went back home to Bonn.
A year later, she was still trying to confirm her cousin’s death.
Only half the people who died when the crowded migrant boat sank have been identified, leaving family members uncertain of their loved ones’ fates.
It is a situation reflected many times over. More than 3,000 people died this year trying to cross the tumultuous sea, up fourfold compared with all of 2013, according to the International Organization for Migration.
The real number is likely far higher, the organization said. Italy has pleaded for help from its European Union partners in handling the huge flow of migrants fleeing war, political strife and poverty in parts of the Middle East and Africa.
A year after the Lampedusa wreck, Italian authorities are being criticized for inaction. The Interior Ministry named a pool of doctors, psychologists and officials to proceed with identification only last month. And there are still many obstacles to putting names to the 180 unidentified bodies buried in Sicilian cemeteries.
“For a year, people haven’t known where to mourn their loved ones,” said Tareke Brhane, president of Comitato Tre Ottobre (Committee Third October), an association representing survivors that has pushed for faster action. “Meanwhile the dead have been lying in coffins with numbers on them.”
At a commemoration Friday attended by European Parliament President Martin Schulz and Federica Mogherini, the EU’s incoming foreign policy chief, protesters shouted “Shame!,” angry at what they see as Italy’s and the EU’s failure to save lives.
It can be difficult to track down family members to identify those who died unless they come forward on their own. In the case of Lampedusa, most of the victims are believed to be from Eritrea, where the regime considers those who flee to be traitors and relatives fear retaliation.
Adding to that, the faces of victims may not be recognizable and more complicated procedures, such as DNA tests, must be used.
“It was very hard to find relatives of the victims willing to come here,” said Vittorio Piscitelli, the head of the authority for missing people. “Plus it took months to analyze the DNA of the victims and collect all the material, so that we had all in place to start the process.”
Mr. Piscitelli said the authorities in Agrigento, a southern Sicilian town in charge of the Lampedusa area, were understaffed and unprepared to deal with the identification of the bodies. Agrigento officials didn’t reply to a request for comment.
The hope for many families to find their loved ones is to have relatives or friends in Europe who can make the trip to Italy and meet with the newly named identification team. When DNA tests are the only viable way to give an identity, the DNA of the bodies needs to be matched with a parent or child of the victim to have more reliable results.
On Wednesday and Thursday, the team met with 19 relatives of presumed victims, who were brought to Rome by the committee from several northern European countries. They identified four corpses matching body marks, teeth structures, photos and personal belongings, said Cristina Cattaneo, a forensics specialist and anthropologist who leads the team.
Ms. Cattaneo said there could be more matches after a closer look at material collected this week, such as photos brought by relatives.
But Ms. Johannes’ situation helps illustrate some of the difficulties. She said she had a feeling her cousin was on the boat, but couldn’t give any specifics.
When the team showed her photos of the bodies found at the shipwreck, she pointed to one of them as being her cousin. Under Italian law, the identification will need to be validated by an judge.
She now wishes to send the body to her relatives in Eritrea. There she can have a funeral and be honored, according to local traditions, she said.
The Lampedusa wreck brought back painful memories of when her brother died in a similar crossing in 2009, she said. “It was very hard. Really hard.”
Write to Giovanni Legorano at giovanni.legorano@wsj.com
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A year after one of the worst Mediterranean shipwrecks in years, only half the migrants who died when the crowded refugee boat sank have been identified, leaving family members uncertain of their loved ones’ fates.
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Biggest Loser Winner Regained Almost All the Weight : People.com
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to win her season of
made a tough announcement, telling her fans
that she's regained almost all of her weight, putting her back over 200 lbs.
"On April 16th I did one of the hardest things in my life I joined
and weighed in close to the weight I started at on The Biggest Loser," Vincent writes. "I swore I would never be there again, be here again. I couldn't imagine a day again that I would weigh over 200 pounds. I feel ashamed. I feel embarrassed. I feel overwhelmed. I feel like failure."
"I remember wondering before if I was unhappy because I was heavy or heavy because I was unhappy, I realized it didn't matter because both were true and I needed to do something about it."
Vincent went public with her
in the hope that her followers will support her through the process – and they're already helping. Vincent
early Thursday morning, thanking them for getting her through the day on Wednesday when she got some tough news about her ongoing IVF treatments.
"Today we found out that our embryos that we thought, based on our Dr.'s opinion through testing were beautiful and on track with the highest of chances, were not," Vincent writes. "I wanted to disappear, retreat, eat/stuff myself, sleep, not feel, anything but think about the possibility of not ever being able to be a mom."
"I was spinning. After the newsâ¦I looked at my phone and FB and you got me out of bed!"
Vincent was thrilled to find thousands of positive comments, and to her joy and amazement, not a single bad one.
"I had prepared myself after posting that I weighed over 200lbs that there was going to be the haters that I usually experience," she says. "I was ready, I had decided that if I was going to feel proud with no shame then I was going to own it. Surprise to me, I read all the messages, which I usually do, not one HATER!"
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Good news, future college graduates: You don’t have to leave Boston to start your career.
A new report found that of the 100 biggest, wealthiest metropolitan areas in the country, Greater Boston is the sixth best place to enter the job market. The study, by the consumer financial website Bankrate.com, evaluated cities based on five factors important to young people just starting out: quality of life, job prospects, career advancement, pay potential, and social opportunities.
This is also good news for the local economy. Retaining young talent is crucial for the area’s burgeoning innovation sector, especially as the state’s workforce – the 14th-oldest in the nation– continues to age, creating a potential labor shortage as baby boomers retire.
Using data from the US Census, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and other reports, Boston scored highest in pay (No. 3), advancement (No. 6), and social interactions (No. 9). It came in 30th in job prospects, however, based on the unemployment rate for college-educated workers and people in their early 20s.
It’s harder for college graduates to land a job in Boston than say, in the Midwest, because Boston has a highly educated, competitive workforce, said Bankrate.com banking analyst Claes Bell. But there are many professional industries to choose from, and once graduates land a job, they have the opportunity to make a decent wage and move to other firms.
“Just having a degree may not be enough to get that first job right away, but once people do they can stay and build their career,” Bell said. “Boston has a lot of advantages in terms of quality of life and in potential median income that other cities don’t have.”
Boston’s high cost of living was factored into the “qualify of life” variable, but it was balanced out by restaurants, nature, public transportation, and other amenities, Bell said.
New York was named the best city for young people starting out, with Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington D.C., and San Jose rounded out the top five.
The worst place to launch a career? The South. Fayetteville, N.C., came in last, followed by Mobile, Ala.; Beaumont-Port Arthur, Texas; Jackson, Miss.; and Montgomery, Ala.
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crosses a line in latest installment – a line into the paranormal.
tackle an investigation with a supernatural hook.
As usual, Nev reads an email from the potential catfish victim, though this one starts out with an unorthodox claim: "I think someone is using my family to catfish me."
When Kayla was 2 years old, her father killed her mother and then committed suicide.
Years later, a stranger named Courtney wrote Kayla and claimed to be in contact with her father.
"Over the last two years, Courtney and I have become close friends," Kayla writes. "Although Courtney has been giving me messages from my dad, I haven't seen him since I was a kid. The reason being is that my dad passed away almost 14 years ago."
Kayla adds, "Courtney claims she has been channeling his spirit.
Find out what becomes of
' eeriest investigation yet when a special, 90-minute episode airs Wednesday at 10 p.m. ET on MTV.
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04/26/2016 AT 09:35 PM EDT
There's no better way to celebrate sweeping primaries in five states than attending the
100 Gala in New York City.
, dressed in Mugler, attended the star-studded soiree honoring the 2016 crop of the publication's most influential people.
In the issue, Trump, 69, was honored as a "ferocious leader" and "rule breaker" by Congresswoman Renee Ellmers (R-NC). "Frankly, the U.S. is in desperate need of a leader like Trump who isn't afraid to challenge the status quo and ruffle the appropriate feathers in order to get our country back on the right track," Ellmers wrote for
gathering, Trump increased his chances of securing the Republican nomination by winning the most delegates in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. A week following
, this momentum will certainly widen the gap between himself and rivals
As her husband gets closer to the nomination, Mrs. Trump's role as First Lady becomes more and more realistic.
"She's got a great heart, more importantly than anything else," Trump told PEOPLE at the
gala. "She's beautiful, but that's the least of it. But she really does have a great heart, great compassion."
When asked what he will try to do if he makes it all the way to the White House, Trump responded: "What I really want to do in the White House is help the nation. We're going to heal the nation. There is tremendous division. There is tremendous unemployment."
Adding, "And our jobs are being taken, manufacturing is leaving the country in tremendous record numbers. We're going to do a lot of things that a lot of people are going to be very happy about."
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Geoffrey Farmer: The Surgeon and the Photographer; Marcel Dzama: Puppets, Pawns and Prophets - review
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Ever since Pygmalion, sculptors have been trying to bring their creations to some kind of life. This urge has grown strikingly powerful of late. From waxworks, resin effigies and full body casts to Ron Mueck's hyperreal figures and Juan Muñoz's lifesize grey men watching tensely from the corners of our museums, a strange sort of half-life – nearly breathing, nearly animate – is the distinguishing characteristic of a whole generation of contemporary sculpture.
The latest strain goes further yet with figures that have genuine potential for movement, although they don't always use it, and which imply movement even when they are motionless – namely puppets.
These are not traditional marionettes on strings, nor are they glove puppets (though the US artist Susan Hiller found fame with her horrifying Punch and Judy film An Entertainment). These are puppets made out of paper, glue and cloth; they cannot move by themselves and lack a puppeteer. Yet they have their own weird vitality.
An immense procession of figures stretches away into the distance at the Barbican's Curve Gallery. Each puppet – or person, or character: the identity is very fluid – is propped on a pole and spotlit in the sepulchral gloom. Each is busy being its own particular self: gesturing, posing, scowling or grinning, speaking or sulking, raising a placard, standing sentry or turning inwards, dreamily lost in thought.
At first they look timeless, as puppets often do. Their bodies are not much more than cloth tailored to hint at a dancer's frock, a farmer's overalls or the habit of a priest. Then it seems as if time is scrambled. An orator who looks remarkably like Malcolm X carries an owl for an augury. A bumpkin in medieval sackcloth smokes a Lucky Strike. A vestal virgin carrying an amphora has one leg raised to dance the cancan.
Each figure is compelling in a quite different way. This one looks like a sketch come alive, that one like an animated statue. There are heavyweight presences – leaders, intellectuals, warriors – alongside the flimsiest sprites. What they have in common is simply their mutual condition, a sort of parallel life to humanity.
They are puppets unstrung, disassembled, but given the freedom to mass together, to demonstrate and to make their presence felt. Three hundred figures, four hundred, perhaps more: it is the biggest throng I have ever seen in a gallery.
This assembly is the work of the young Canadian artist Geoffrey Farmer, who had a huge success at last year's Documenta with an even bigger work collaged out of cuttings from half a century of Life magazine. That work, paradoxically, took the theme of time; this one is devoted to life.
Collage, with its abrupt jumps of scale and its shattering juxtapositions, is Farmer's great forte; but he gives it an original twist. Each figure here is composed of tiny photographic fragments snipped from books and put together not just in two dimensions but also three: a face, or a single feature, may stand free of a head.
And this is what turns his figures into puppets (or sculptures, if you like) – they have the full in-the-round complexity. Each figure changes as you walk around it, and the separate elements appear in different configurations; and many of these figures cast unexpected shadows that deepen the dimension of character.
From one angle, a dreamy girl is gazing at the giant butterfly that has settled on her arm; from another, she is molested and weeping. A gentleman may be elegant and alert from the front, and exhausted from behind. A hand extended to make a political point, thrown into shadow, now appears to be begging. You keep thinking you have hit on a type – the pedagogue, the shaman, the orator, the shepherd with a crook – but there is always another aspect (literally) to each figure. The crook doubles as a weapon; the shaman must be a novice for he hasn't yet left school. These figures reach across world cultures, period and places, separately and together. One may be carrying a BlackBerry, another a Grecian urn – or both.
The tone darkens through this immense, all-together-now performance until one finally encounters what appear to be the Furies themselves, black-clad figures waiting to punish the sinners who came before. It's a compelling vision: all of life, from here to eternity. And after all this looking, one realises that this crowd just about adds up to a representative portrait of humanity – this many soldiers to that many musicians, and so on – so that the connection with us is implicit.
At Documenta, Farmer had the whole of time on his mind; that work was named Leaves of Grass after the volume of poetry Walt Whitman spent his whole life writing. Here Farmer is contemplating the infinite complexity of human nature, all together and one by one; each of these figures is a multiplicity in itself. Whitman is surely in the air again: "I am large, I contain multitudes."
Farmer's fellow Canadian Marcel Dzama (pronounced zama, like llama) has been producing puppet-like characters for several years, including the papier-mache creatures seen in the video for Bob Dylan's When the Deal Goes Down and the wild chess masks that feature in his own films, including Sister Squares, currently showing at David Zwirner.
This turns on a terrific conceit: what the chess pieces might get up to when the players aren't looking, and even how they might feel. A pawn breaks free of the board, escaping from one court only to fall straight into another where other pieces are fighting for power. This war takes the form of a ballet filmed in black and white (what else) and split on a checkerboard screen.
The look is all silent movie, Ballets Russes and early modernism, especially the films of Dzama's namesake, Marcel Duchamp. Ultimately the pawn is lifted off the board and out of the ballet, where she takes her revenge by assassinating one of the players. Or so it seems; the allegory is properly mysterious.
The chess characters return as giant tin puppets, in other films and in Dzama's trademark ink-and-watercolour drawings. But the strongest works here are the dioramas: tiny theatres peopled with miniature hand-painted puppets playing out the chess metaphors in alarming permutations.
These dioramas are doll's-house-sized, and one looks into them in just the same way, charmed at first, until you notice what the white queen is doing, what the bishop is having done to him. The impact is not reduced by the size of the figures because Dzama's expressive force as an artist is so strong. Apocalyptic, ritualised, balletic, the game of chess is conflated with the disasters of war, and Goya is fittingly invoked in a tiny caption pencilled across one stage: if you think it's just a game, then you're wrong.
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Mississippi offensive lineman Fahn Cooper before a drill at the NFL football scouting combine Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, in Indianapolis.
Mississippi offensive lineman Fahn Cooper before a drill at the NFL football scouting combine Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, in Indianapolis.
Mississippi offensive lineman Fahn Cooper during the 40 yard dash at the NFL football scouting combine Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, in Indianapolis.
Mississippi offensive lineman Fahn Cooper during the 40 yard dash at the NFL football scouting combine Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, in Indianapolis.
Mississippi offensive lineman Fahn Cooper during the 40 yard dash at the NFL football scouting combine Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, in Indianapolis.
Mississippi offensive lineman Fahn Cooper during the 40 yard dash at the NFL football scouting combine Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, in Indianapolis.
Mississippi offensive lineman Fahn Cooper before a drill at the NFL football scouting combine Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, in Indianapolis.
Mississippi offensive lineman Fahn Cooper before a drill at the NFL football scouting combine Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, in Indianapolis.
Mississippi offensive lineman Fahn Cooper during a drill at the NFL football scouting combine Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, in Indianapolis.
Mississippi offensive lineman Fahn Cooper during a drill at the NFL football scouting combine Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, in Indianapolis.
Mississippi offensive lineman Fahn Cooper during a drill at the NFL football scouting combine Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, in Indianapolis.
Mississippi offensive lineman Fahn Cooper during a drill at the NFL football scouting combine Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, in Indianapolis.
Done with Davis? 49ers draft OT Cooper in fifth round
After passing on Laremy Tunsil with the No. 7 pick, the 49ers selected Mississippi’s other offensive tackle four rounds later.
With the last of their picks in the fifth round, the 49ers grabbed Fahn Cooper, who spent his final two college seasons with Tunsil, the No. 13 overall pick.
The 49ers also used a fifth-round pick on Georgia offensive tackle John Theus, who went 29 spots before Cooper. The back-to-back selections made it clear the 49ers don’t intend to have retired right tackle Anthony Davis in 2016.
That, of course, isn’t a surprise. Davis hasn’t applied for reinstatement to the NFL after sitting out last year and he ripped the team’s front office in a Twitter rant Monday. Davis also advised the 49ers to select a right tackle with their No. 7 pick. Shortly after Cooper was selected, Davis returned to social media to deliver this since-deleted message: “Que sera, sera.”
In 2015, Cooper (6-4, 303) started six games at right tackle and he also logged seven at left tackle when Tunsil was suspended. In 2014, he made 11 of his 13 starts at right tackle.
The 49ers did their homework on Cooper. Before he took a pre-draft visit to Santa Clra, he met with the 49ers at the combine and spoke with 49ers offensive line coach Pat Flaherty at his pro day.
Cooper and Theus could compete with Trent Brown, a 2015 seventh-round pick, for the starting spot at right tackle. The 49ers could also consider playing Cooper or Theus at guard.
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The CIA has marked the anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden by live-tweeting the raid by US Special Forces - with a five-year delay.
Using the hashtag #UBLRaid, the CIA blasted out updates of the May 2011 strike as if it was unfolding in real time - in a highly unusual move for the intelligence agency.
"To mark the 5th anniversary of the Usama Bin Ladin operation in Abbottabad we will tweet the raid as if it were happening today. #UBLRaid," @CIA said in announcing its social media blitz.
Tweets included the now famous picture of President Barack Obama and other high-ranking US officials watching matters unfold from the White House's Situation Room.
However there was no mention of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, who was one of the first people in the world to post on social media about the death of Osama Bin Laden with the tweet "Just got word that will shock the world - Land of the free...home of the brave DAMN PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!"
"1:51 pm EDT - Helicopters depart from Afghanistan for compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan #UBLRaid," read one tweet.
"3:30 pm EDT - 2 helicopters descend on compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. 1 crashes, but assault continues without delay or injury #UBLRaid," read another.
That was followed just minutes later by: "3:39 pm EDT - Usama Bin Ladin found on third floor and killed #UBLRaid."
The CIA's Twitter move got quite a bit of attention, with not everyone enthused.
"@CIA Are we tweeting Hiroshima on August 6th too? Or is THAT in bad taste?" tweeted one user, Kris Knight.
Another who identies as Amber V tweeted: "Don't you have better things to do, like catch living and breathing bad guys, or secretly invade our privacy, or something? @CIA#UBLRaid"
"Watching the @CIA relive on Twitter the #UBLRaid today reminds me of how proud I am of the men and women who do what they do. Thank you," tweeted Toby Knapp.
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Fox News Correspondent Ed Henry 'Taking Some Time Off' After Alleged Affair : People.com
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Ed Henry, the chief White House correspondent for Fox News, will be going off air for some time, after a report surfaced, alleging that the journalist cheated on his wife, according to reports.
While neither Henry, 44, nor Fox gave a timeline for the father of two's hiatus, the network did confirm Henry's absence in a statement to
"We recently became aware of Ed's personal issues and he's taking some time off to work things out," the statement read.
News of the alleged affair spread after Natalie Lima – a Las Vegas hostess – spilled details about her alleged relationship with Henry to
, including text messages she said were from him.
Telling the magazine that the pair met at the Wynn hotel in Vegas – the same place that Henry met his wife of almost six years NPR Deputy Washington Editor Shirley Hung – about a year ago and Henry allegedly invited her to his room, where she said "one thing led to another."
According to what Lima said to the magazine, the pair carried on a sexual relationship for 10 months.
"Whenever he was in town, we would pretty much just have sex. He has a really high sex drive," she told
. "We were friends for a few years before we did anything, and [he's] a nice guy ⦠a kinky, nice guy."
While Lima added that their affair never involved Henry buying her anything, she did allege that he covered her rent one month when she was short on money, but clarifies that he would not use the ATM as a he didn't want to raise a "red flag" to his wife.
Sharing alleged text conversations between the two, Lima revealed intimate conversations the pair had to
in which Henry writes "So beautiful. Love that pic of you!! Those eyes. Are you thinking right there abour making love? Cause I am⦠I will make love to you over and over so that we can wear u out and sleep," in a slew of messages to the hostess.
In another conversation, Henry allegedly wrote, "Mmmmm yes bath w you," to which Lima responded with emojis of a bathtub and kissing couple, before Henry alledly wrote back, sending three unpeeled banana emojis accompanied by three lips. When she laughed at his message, texting, "Lol," Henry responded with "yummy woman. Make me so," adding four more unpeeled banana emojis.
Henry – who worked at CNN before joining Fox in 2011 – has not responded to the allegations.
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Can a devastating disease ever be funny?
The fierce backlash recently against a proposed comedy about President Reagan suffering from Alzheimer’s disease while in the White House — which had star Will Ferrell briefly attached — shows how difficult that is to pull off.
But others find comedy alongside the challenges of illness. Jeremie Saunders, a 20-something Canadian podcaster with a show all about illness and humor, speaks from experience when considering the comedic potential of Alzheimer’s.
His grandparents struggle with dementia. On the one hand, when his grandmother forgets her own sister, “there’s nothing funny about that at all. That’s so sad,” he said.
But on the other hand, when his grandfather posts a picture on Facebook showing some bruises on his hip after a fall and accidentally exposes, well, a whole lot more of his anatomy. . .
“If that is an aspect of the dementia, that’s really funny,” Saunders said. “There’s something to be said [for] communally all together appreciat[ing] the humor that comes with that.”
Saunders himself lives with cystic fibrosis, which is, oddly enough, the foundation of his comedy. Along with friends Brian Stever and Taylor MacGillivary, he has launched a podcast dedicated to the concept called “Sickboy.”
“My entire life, I’ve used humor as a form of therapy for my CF, both mentally and physically,” said Saunders. “Laughter is really good for my lungs, it’s really good for helping me clear out the mucus of my small airwaves.”
But it’s also a mental relief, he said, “to find lightness and levity in a situation that otherwise a lot of people would look at as a dark situation.”
Given the subject matter, the conversations can still be quite serious (a recent episode featured somebody with post-traumatic stress disorder), but the trick, according to the trio, is in taking aim at the right target.
“One of the things that we say is illness and disease are not funny,” Stever said, “but there are funny situations and experiences that you can laugh at.”
It started with Saunders telling his own stories, like the time at age 14 that he defecated on a nurse — “the most beautiful woman I’d ever seen” — when she gave him an enema.
“In the moment, when I was 14, that was an extremely awful experience. It was embarrassing, it was painful, it was traumatic,” said Saunders, who added he grew up watching comedians like George Carlin and, yes, Ferrell. “However, I look back on that experience, and it’s also really funny now.”
They’ve started bringing on guests — the first was a friend of theirs, Matt, who has brain cancer — to discuss their illnesses and whatever humor they find in their situation.
Whether “Reagan” will find that sweet spot is hard to know until it hits screens; some reviews of the leaked script have actually been quite positive. But Hollywood has given people plenty of reasons to be skeptical that its comedians will treat the sick with the same sensitivity that Saunders and his collaborators strive for.
When “Saturday Night Live” mocked legally blind former New York Governor David Paterson in 2008, a lot of people didn’t see the joke. When the Seth MacFarlane film “Ted” deployed the insult “From one man to another, I hope you get Lou Gehrig’s disease,” audiences and patient advocates condemned it.
There is some precedent, though, for big-name filmmakers getting it right: 2011’s “50/50,” which starred Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen. Gordon-Levitt’s character is diagnosed with cancer, and his friend (played by Rogen) thinks the possibly terminal illness could be a good way to pick up women.
The synopsis sounds like another disaster-in-waiting. The critics, though, found “50/50” to be “a good-hearted film about a difficult topic” that “maneuvers between jokes and drama with surprising finesse,” as the website Rotten Tomatoes summarized the response.
Even so, the film faced the same problem that threatens to derail “Reagan.” Rogen dismissed some of the Oscar buzz the film was receiving at the time, according to Entertainment Weekly, and the reason he was so bearish is telling.
“I know for a fact that some people are appalled by the movie,” he said. “I think it must be people who have very, very personal connections to the subject matter and just can’t emotionally disconnect from their own experience.”
“I respect that,” he continued. “But what we found for the most part is that people like to laugh at tragedy. It makes them feel better.”
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Kim Kardashian West Shares Her Weight - to the Tenth of a Pound! - on Snapchat
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has been sticking to her post-baby diet plan – and she's getting serious results.
The reality star, 35, shared a Snapchat on Friday of her feet on a scale reading 135.8 lbs. She captioned the Snap "Yaaaassssss!!!! #Atkins."
Kardashian West has been very open about her weight loss journey after giving birth to son
In March she shared on her blog that she had
and had 28 lbs. to go, and in April she told reporters that she had only
"I gained a lot of weight and I have a lot to lose," she said at the time. "This time I think weight has come off quicker than last time because I kind of learned how to eat better. Last time I worked out a little bit harder. This time I'm eating differently."
Kardashian West has been adhering to the
in the hopes of dropping all 70 lbs. of her pregnancy weight. As part of the plan, the mom-of-two consumes a
of proteins, healthy fats and absolutely no sugar.
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Why take plain old video selfies when you can slap some silly filters and other overlays on top?
Facebook FB seems to think the latter is more fun and has a acquired Masquerade, a young startup that has developed facial recognition and 3D effects rendering technology for video. Masquerade’s technology has been available as a software toolkit for other developers to use and integrate into their own apps, a desktop editor for creating and editing filters, and an iOS and Android app for decorating videos with silly filters, like celebrities and cartoons, called MSQRD.
Masquerade’s technology will be integrated into Facebook as part of its efforts to provide users with more editing tools and features for photos and videos, according to Facebook. The MSQRD app will also continue to be available as a standalone.
“Masquerade has built a fantastic app, MSQRD, with world-class imaging technology for video. We’re excited to welcome Masquerade to our team and continue enhancing the Facebook video experience,” a Facebook spokesperson told Fortune.
Integrating Masquerade’s technology and features into its app would put Facebook squarely in competition with ephemeral messaging app Snapchat’s own filters and overlays. Last year, Snapchat introduced “
,” animated overlays for selfies made possible through the acquisition of Looksery, a startup that had developed facial modification technology.
Masquerade’s core employees will join Facebook’s London office, the company said.
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Last year, auction house Sotheby’s sold a rare Jaguar C-type Lightweight for $13.2m, breaking records for the most expensive Jaguar ever sold.
While dropping an eight-figure sum on a car may seem like madness to many, it’s unlikely the buyer will use this rare machine for the school run or to shop for groceries. More likely, it will sit in a warehouse and — the buyer hopes — appreciate in value.
A person buying a rare car and selling it once its value has increased (also known as “passion investing”) is nothing new. But in recent years a new trend has emerged, with the creation of classic car “funds” that allow individual investors to profit from classic cars, without actually buying one or paying for storage and maintenance.
Essentially, investors will put money into an investment fund, which then buys classic cars on their behalf. When the cars are sold for a profit, the investors make a return on their money.
Steve Linden, in New York, is co-manager of one such fund. Watch the video above to see what’s driving this new investing trend.
This story was produced under the BBC's guidelines for financial journalism. A full version of those guidelines can be found at bbc.co.uk/guidelines.
To comment on this story or anything else you have seen on BBC Capital, head over to our Facebook page or message us on Twitter.
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Signing on for Money Monster 'Didn't Take Any Convincing' : People.com
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It's not everyday an actress gets the chance to work with
all at the same time. So when
was offered the part of a steely publicist for a mysterious financial firm in
, she jumped at the opportunity.
"Obviously the opportunity to work with Jodie and George and Julia was just incredible," the actress, 36, tells PEOPLE and
Weekly at Cannes. "So it didn't take any convincing at all," she added.
But the film's all-star cast and director weren't the only motivating factors. In fact, Balfe was initially drawn to the film after reading the script, which reminded her of her favorite socially conscious films from the 70s.
"One of my favorite films is
and it sort of had echoes of that. But it also [reminded me of]
, these kinds of films from the 70s that I love so much."
star explained that she loves those films because "they're provocative, they make you think about where we are in our lives." They also have underlying social themes, like with "
it was nuclear power plants, [and with
] it's the financial section."
Balfe was also eager to learn more about finance. "I've always had an interest in economics, maybe not such a deep understanding, but at least an interest," she said with a laugh.
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Max Kessler is not just a character from
. He's a real person, who just happens to look exactly like Adam Sandler.
Last month, Kessler posted a split image of himself and the actor on
with the caption, "The name of Adam Sandler's character in his new movie,
is Max Kessler. My name is Max Kessler. Oh yeah, and I look just like him."
, Sandler, 49, saw the post and responded with an image of himself holding a sign that read, "But can you do this, Max?" while he made a funny face.
The pair then went back and forth on Reddit until Sandler reportedly responded with an image holding another sign inviting Kessler, 23, to the premiere of the film.
"Ok! You can come party with the better Max Kessler at the
premiere on May 16! Rock 'n Roll!" Sandler's sign read.
Come Monday, the pair was on the red carpet together in Los Angeles.
"It's a younger, sweeter, better version of me," Sandler told
at the premiere. "He's a good kid. He's funny as hell and I was happy to meet him."
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"Silver Point's first-place finish illustrates that for a firm to rate highly with investors, it needs to do more than just perform well," the magazine said.
Also getting "A" grades were Dan Loeb's Third Point; Boston-based Adage Capital Management; Paul Singer's Elliott Management; Citadel; Perry Capital; Davidson Kempner and CQS.
Rounding out the top 10 were Fortress Investment Group and Pine River Capital Management.
At the bottom of the rankings, which included 47 funds that received a "statistically significant" number of responses in the Institutional Investor survey, Bill Ackman's Pershing Square joined Bain and Cerberus.
(Read more: These big hedge funds got crushed in January)
"Perhaps investors are not happy that (Pershing)—which generally runs a very concentrated portfolio—has stuck with its very large high-profile negative bet on Herbalife or maintained its support for retailer J.C. Penney Co. for as long as it did," the magazine said.
Respondents were asked to rank the companies according to eight criteria: alpha generation, risk management, alignment of interests; transparency, infrastructure, independent oversight, liquidity terms and investment relations.
A consistent theme through the survey indeed was that investors seek more than performance: They want a fund that is open about its strategies and activities and has investors' interest at heart.
—By CNBC's Jeff Cox. Follow him on Twitter @JeffCoxCNBCcom.
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Has it really been seven years since the
cast first graced the small screen?
certainly felt the nostalgia on Thursday and took to her
to post a loving throwback photo of herself with fellow cast members in celebration of their seven-year milestone.
She wrote, "#tbt 7 years ago.. It's unbelievable how quickly time can go by. To think we aired 7 years ago today."
Her post continued to say, "Found this photo from our Upfronts trip to NYC just days before the premiere. We were all so excited. We went around the table and each said something we loved about each other."
Michele, 29, concluded her message by saying: "No matter where we all are now.. I will always think back to this night. #glee."
In the black and white photo, Michele, 29, is standing next to her costar Heather Morris, while being surrounded by fellow cast mates
Michele, 29, and Monteith were in a
from 2009 until his death in July 2013. She has since found happiness with her new boyfriend,
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(Read more: Employment slips for MBA grads: Poll)
Financial services firms have been looking to add to payrolls this year, but with a catch. Many of the new positions require specific skills which can help employers cut costs and bring in new client relationships.
So, who's more valuable to Wall Street now: MBAs or CFAs? The answer depends on a few factors.
Paul Sorbera, who runs executive recruiting firm Alliance Consulting, said an MBA from an Ivy League school always has more value. On the other hand, an MBA from an average school versus a CFA is more debatable.
(Read more: Wall Street help wanted ads to increase, but with a catch)
"A CFA doesn't necessarily do a lot for many of the positions on Wall Street the way an MBA does… The MBA is more versatile and applicable to more jobs," Sorbera said. "The CFA is great, but it's very directed. You really have to determine what you want to do in your career. "
After years of stagnant hiring and layoffs, Sorbera is seeing the most job opportunities right now in securities research, sales and trading versus management-type jobs. These are the areas where holding a CFA could make you more marketable whether you're just a few years into your career or in the middle of it.
Cost is another element to consider when deciding between an MBA and a CFA. An MBA often costs more than $100,000 to earn while becoming a CFA is just a few thousand dollars.
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The CFA may be cheaper, but it's a rigorous program. Less than half of the candidates who took the first level of the CFA exam passed last year and only one out of five actually complete the program, according to the CFA Institute.
To become a charterholder, you must have four years of approved work experience and pass three exams. The institute, which owns the CFA and chartered financial analyst trademarks, recommends candidates study for at least six months prior to each exam. The tests focus on ethics, capital market integrity and excellence of practice.
"The chartered financial analyst designation is recognized globally and has been called many times the gold standard of accreditation of finance professionals," CFA Institute President and CEO John Rogers said. "It is more like being able to practice law or medicine or becoming a CPA than having a degree from a graduate school...The skills learned in the program are immediately applicable to the workplace."
Similar to the bar exam, candidates can retake it if they fail. Plus, many employers reimburse them for passing the tests and give them time off to study.
"In the past five years, risk and risk management has been a very big and interesting new growth area in terms of jobs and so understanding the skills which we teach," Rogers said. "That is a very important and growing area of the finance industry."
—By CNBC's Stephanie Landsman. Follow her on Twitter @StephLandsman.
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Another flight, another fight. This time, a Delta flight to West Palm Beach from New York was diverted to Jacksonville over another dispute about reclining seats. The war between the recliners and decliners has broken into the open as airline travel continues to get decidedly more angry. I’ve already pledged my flying allegiance to the decliners — I don’t go back and I don’t think the passenger in front of me ought to, either. And I’m more than a little cranky about it.
But let’s not stop here. There are more passengers than the seat recliners who ought to be tossed off flights — preferably at 10,000 ft. — although that’s a good place to start. The list of uncivil aviation offenses just begins with the people who insist on intruding on my personal space. Here are other things you can do to qualify as the complete airline a-hole:
1) In the lounge, hog all available outlets with your myriad devices — phone, tablet, laptop, and headphones — and then start talking loudly on your mobile. Because you’re so, so important, aren’t you. Ignore the dirty looks for everyone within 25 yards of you. Yes, we’re still staring at you.
2) Try to barge on the plane before your row is called. Just act stupid — it won’t be a reach — and proclaim complete surprise when you reach the agent. All of these people should go to the back of the line — uh-huh, just like grade school — but the gate agents seem to have given up the fight. Can’t say I blame them, but if the carriers are going to go through the trouble of sequential boarding, a little enforcement wouldn’t hurt. Except in France, where this is completely futile.
3) Bring an oversized rolling suitcase, a briefcase, plus a couple of shopping bags on board and get ticked off when you can’t fit it all in the overheads. Extra annoyance points for arriving late. Then, keep opening bins that are already full until stuff cascades onto another passenger. Then act frustrated because you have to pick up the stuff you just knocked over. Yes, this is yet another case where the carriers are the root cause. Since the airlines have added outrageous fees for checked baggage, people naturally want to bring their stuff on board. All of it. So passengers push the envelop with oversized bags and everything from guitars to cases of wine, slowing the boarding process and sowing hostility because there isn’t room for all their stuff.
4) Once seated, take as much room as you can. That’s right, use both armrests for yourself. Spread your feet out until you make contact with the passenger next to you. Of course you are going to recline your seat with saying anything — slam — right into the knees of the guy behind you.
5) Now, when the plane taxies to the gate, push your way back to where you stowed some of your stuff, and then push your way forward to get back to your seat. Then, try to beat the passengers across the row into the aisle, so you can leave the jet 15 seconds faster than them. And be sure to complain about something on your way out.
You’re never going to fly this airline again, you say? Great. Can you start today?
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Millennials are dying their hair silver for a more mature look.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) -- The most detailed look at Pluto's surface to date has revealed an unexpected range of mountains, glacial flows, smooth plains and other landscapes, according to studies released on Thursday.
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The unprecedented window into the so-called dwarf planet, which orbits the sun like other planets but is smaller, comes via high-resolution photographs from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft. The interplanetary space probe made the first-ever visit to Pluto and its five moons last July.
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Frigid Pluto is home to more diverse terrain than expected
This image of haze layers above Pluto’s limb was taken by the Ralph/Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft. About 20 haze layers are seen; the layers have been found to typically extend horizontally over hundreds of kilometers, but are not strictly parallel to the surface. For example, scientists note a haze layer about 3 miles (5 kilometers) above the surface (lower left area of the image), which descends to the surface at the right.
(Photo via NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI/Gladstone et al./Science (2016))
New Horizons’ views of the informally named Sputnik Planum on Pluto (top) and the informally named Vulcan Planum on Charon (bottom). The Sputnik Planum strip measures 228 miles (367 kilometers) long, and the Vulcan Planum strip measures 194 miles (312 kilometers) long. Illumination is from the left. The bright, nitrogen-ice plains are defined by a network of crisscrossing troughs. This observation was obtained by the Ralph/Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) at a resolution of 1,050 feet (320 meters) per pixel. The Vulcan Planum view in the bottom panel includes the “moated mountain” Clarke Mons just above the center of the image. The water ice-rich plains display a range of surface textures, from smooth and grooved at left, to pitted and hummocky at right. This observation was obtained by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) at a resolution of 525 feet (160 meters) per pixel.
This enhanced color view of Pluto's surface diversity was created by merging Ralph/Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) color imagery (650 meters or 2,132 feet per pixel) with Long Range Reconnaissance Imager panchromatic imagery (230 meters or 755 feet per pixel). At lower right, ancient, heavily cratered terrain is coated with dark, reddish tholins. At upper right, volatile ices filling the informally named Sputnik Planum have modified the surface, creating a chaos-like array of blocky mountains. Volatile ice also occupies a few nearby deep craters, and in some areas the volatile ice is pocked with arrays of small sublimation pits. At left, and across the bottom of the scene, gray-white methane ice deposits modify tectonic ridges, the rims of craters, and north-facing slopes. The scene in this image is 260 miles (420 kilometers) wide and 140 miles (225 kilometers) from top to bottom; north is to the upper left.
Far in the western hemisphere, scientists on NASA’s New Horizons mission have discovered what looks like a giant “bite mark” on Pluto’s surface. They suspect it may be caused by a process known as sublimation—the transition of a substance from a solid to a gas. The methane ice-rich surface on Pluto may be sublimating away into the atmosphere, exposing a layer of water-ice underneath.
Far in the western hemisphere, scientists on NASA’s New Horizons mission have discovered what looks like a giant “bite mark” on Pluto’s surface. They suspect it may be caused by a process known as sublimation—the transition of a substance from a solid to a gas. The methane ice-rich surface on Pluto may be sublimating away into the atmosphere, exposing a layer of water-ice underneath.
A close-up of the canyons on Charon, Pluto's big moon, taken by New Horizons during its close approach to the Pluto system last July. Multiple views taken by New Horizons as it passed by Charon allow stereo measurements of topography, shown in the color-coded version of the image. The scale bar indicates relative elevation.
The Mountainous Shoreline of Sputnik Planum: In this highest-resolution image from
, great blocks of Pluto’s water-ice crust appear jammed together in the informally named al-Idrisi mountains. "The mountains bordering Sputnik Planum are absolutely stunning at this resolution," said New Horizons science team member John Spencer of the Southwest Research Institute. "The new details revealed here, particularly the crumpled ridges in the rubbly material surrounding several of the mountains, reinforce our earlier impression that the mountains are huge ice blocks that have been jostled and tumbled and somehow transported to their present locations." (Photo via NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI)
Pluto’s ‘Badlands’: This highest-resolution image from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft shows how erosion and faulting have sculpted this portion of Pluto’s icy crust into rugged badlands topography. (Photo via NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI)
Layered Craters and Icy Plains: This highest-resolution image from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft reveals new details of Pluto’s rugged, icy cratered plains, including layering in the interior walls of many craters. "Impact craters are nature's drill rigs, and the new, highest-resolution pictures of the bigger craters seem to show that Pluto's icy crust, at least in places, is distinctly layered,” said William McKinnon, deputy lead of the New Horizons Geology, Geophysics and Imaging team, from Washington University in St. Louis. "Looking into Pluto’s depths is looking back into geologic time, which will help us piece together Pluto's geological history.” (Photo via NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI)
On approach in July 2015, the cameras on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured Pluto rotating over the course of a full “Pluto day.” The best available images of each side of Pluto taken during approach have been combined to create this view of a full rotation. (Photo via NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI)
New Horizons scientists made this false color image of Pluto using a technique called principal component analysis to highlight the many subtle color differences between Pluto's distinct regions. The image data were collected by the spacecraft’s Ralph/MVIC color camera on July 14 at 11:11 AM UTC, from a range of 22,000 miles (35,000 kilometers). This image was presented by Will Grundy of the New Horizons’ surface composition team on Nov. 9 at the Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in National Harbor, Maryland. (Photo via NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI)
This image released by NASA on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015, shows the blue color of Plutoâs haze layer in this picture taken by the New Horizons spacecraft's Ralph/Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC). The high-altitude haze is thought to be similar in nature to that seen at Saturnâs moon Titan. This image was generated by software that combines information from blue, red and near-infrared images to replicate the color a human eye would perceive as closely as possible. (NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI via AP
This image released by NASA on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015, shows regions with exposed water ice highlighted in blue in this composite image taken with the New Horizons spacecraft's Ralph instrument. The image combines visible imagery from the Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) with infrared spectroscopy from the Linear Etalon Imaging Spectral Array (LEISA). The scene is approximately 280 miles (450 kilometers) across. (NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI via AP)
This image released by NASA on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015, shows Charon, in enhanced color captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft just before closest approach on July 14, 2015. Massive canyons and fractures are clearly visible on Charon, which is more than half of Plutoâs size. (NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI via AP)
In this extended color image of Pluto taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, rounded and bizarrely textured mountains, informally named the Tartarus Dorsa, rise up along Pluto’s day-night terminator and show intricate but puzzling patterns of blue-gray ridges and reddish material in between. This view, roughly 330 miles (530 kilometers) across, combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC) on July 14, 2015, and resolves details and colors on scales as small as 0.8 miles (1.3 kilometers). (Photo via NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI)
High-resolution images of Pluto taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft just before closest approach on July 14, 2015, reveal features as small as 270 yards (250 meters) across, from craters to faulted mountain blocks, to the textured surface of the vast basin informally called Sputnik Planum. Enhanced color has been added from the global color image. This image is about 330 miles (530 kilometers) across. For optimal viewing, zoom in on the image on a larger screen. (Photo via NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI)
High-resolution images of Pluto taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft just before closest approach on July 14, 2015, are the sharpest images to date of Pluto’s varied terrain—revealing details down to scales of 270 meters. In this 75-mile (120-kilometer) section of the taken from the larger, high-resolution mosaic above, the textured surface of the plain surrounds two isolated ice mountains. (Photo via NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI)
Pluto’s Majestic Mountains, Frozen Plains and Foggy Hazes: Just 15 minutes after its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft looked back toward the sun and captured this near-sunset view of the rugged, icy mountains and flat ice plains extending to Pluto’s horizon. The smooth expanse of the informally named icy plain Sputnik Planum (right) is flanked to the west (left) by rugged mountains up to 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) high, including the informally named Norgay Montes in the foreground and Hillary Montes on the skyline. To the right, east of Sputnik, rougher terrain is cut by apparent glaciers. The backlighting highlights over a dozen layers of haze in Pluto’s tenuous but distended atmosphere. The image was taken from a distance of 11,000 miles (18,000 kilometers) to Pluto; the scene is 780 miles (1,250 kilometers) wide. (Photo via NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI)
Majestic Mountains and Frozen Plains: Just 15 minutes after its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft looked back toward the sun and captured this near-sunset view of the rugged, icy mountains and flat ice plains extending to Pluto’s horizon. The smooth expanse of the informally named Sputnik Planum (right) is flanked to the west (left) by rugged mountains up to 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) high, including the informally named Norgay Montes in the foreground and Hillary Montes on the skyline. The backlighting highlights more than a dozen layers of haze in Pluto’s tenuous but distended atmosphere. The image was taken from a distance of 11,000 miles (18,000 kilometers) to Pluto; the scene is 230 miles (380 kilometers) across. (Photo via NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI)
Near-Surface Haze or Fog on Pluto: In this small section of the larger crescent image of Pluto, taken by NASA’s New Horizons just 15 minutes after the spacecraft’s closest approach on July 14, 2015, the setting sun illuminates a fog or near-surface haze, which is cut by the parallel shadows of many local hills and small mountains. The image was taken from a distance of 11,000 miles (18,000 kilometers), and the width of the image is 115 miles (185 kilometers). (Photo via NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI)
This animation combines various observations of Pluto over the course of several decades. The first frame is a digital zoom-in on Pluto as it appeared upon its discovery by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930 (image courtesy Lowell Observatory Archives). The other images show various views of Pluto as seen by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope beginning in the 1990s and NASA's New Horizons spacecraft in 2015. The final sequence zooms in to a close-up frame of Pluto released on July 15, 2015. (Photo via NASA/Clyde Tombaugh, Lowell Observatory)
Pluto’s ‘Heart’: Sputnik Planum is the informal name of the smooth, light-bulb shaped region on the left of this composite of several New Horizons images of Pluto. The brilliantly white upland region to the right may be coated by nitrogen ice that has been transported through the atmosphere from the surface of Sputnik Planum, and deposited on these uplands. The box shows the location of the glacier detail images below. (Photo via NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI)
Valley Glaciers on Pluto: Ice (probably frozen nitrogen) that appears to have accumulated on the uplands on the right side of this 390-mile (630-kilometer) wide image is draining from Pluto’s mountains onto the informally named Sputnik Planum through the 2- to 5-mile (3- to 8- kilometer) wide valleys indicated by the red arrows. The flow front of the ice moving into Sputnik Planum is outlined by the blue arrows. The origin of the ridges and pits on the right side of the image remains uncertain. (Photo via NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI)
Intricate Valley Glaciers on Pluto: This image covers the same region as the image before, but is re-projected from the oblique, backlit view shown in the new crescent image of Pluto. The backlighting highlights the intricate flow lines on the glaciers. The flow front of the ice moving into the informally named Sputnik Planum is outlined by the blue arrows. The origin of the ridges and pits on the right side of the image remains uncertain. This image is 390 miles (630 kilometers) across. (Photo via NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI)
This synthetic perspective view of Pluto, based on the latest high-resolution images to be downlinked from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, shows what you would see if you were approximately 1,100 miles (1,800 kilometers) above Pluto’s equatorial area, looking northeast over the dark, cratered, informally named Cthulhu Regio toward the bright, smooth, expanse of icy plains informally called Sputnik Planum. The entire expanse of terrain seen in this image is 1,100 miles (1,800 kilometers) across. The images were taken as New Horizons flew past Pluto on July 14, 2015, from a distance of 50,000 miles (80,000 kilometers). (Photo via NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute)
Mosaic of high-resolution images of Pluto, sent back from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft from Sept. 5 to 7, 2015. The image is dominated by the informally-named icy plain Sputnik Planum, the smooth, bright region across the center. This image also features a tremendous variety of other landscapes surrounding Sputnik. The smallest visible features are 0.5 miles (0.8 kilometers) in size, and the mosaic covers a region roughly 1,000 miles (1600 kilometers) wide. The image was taken as New Horizons flew past Pluto on July 14, 2015, from a distance of 50,000 miles (80,000 kilometers). (Photo via NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute)
In the center of this 300-mile (470-kilometer) wide image of Pluto from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is a large region of jumbled, broken terrain on the northwestern edge of the vast, icy plain informally called Sputnik Planum, to the right. The smallest visible features are 0.5 miles (0.8 kilometers) in size. This image was taken as New Horizons flew past Pluto on July 14, 2015, from a distance of 50,000 miles (80,000 kilometers). (Photo via NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute)
This 220-mile (350-kilometer) wide view of Pluto from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft illustrates the incredible diversity of surface reflectivities and geological landforms on the dwarf planet. The image includes dark, ancient heavily cratered terrain; bright, smooth geologically young terrain; assembled masses of mountains; and an enigmatic field of dark, aligned ridges that resemble dunes; its origin is under debate. The smallest visible features are 0.5 miles (0.8 kilometers) in size. This image was taken as New Horizons flew past Pluto on July 14, 2015, from a distance of 50,000 miles (80,000 kilometers). (Photo via NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute)
This image of Pluto’s largest moon Charon, taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft 10 hours before its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015 from a distance of 290,000 miles (470,000 kilometers), is a recently downlinked, much higher quality version of a Charon image released on July 15. Charon, which is 750 miles (1,200 kilometers) in diameter, displays a surprisingly complex geological history, including tectonic fracturing; relatively smooth, fractured plains in the lower right; several enigmatic mountains surrounded by sunken terrain features on the right side; and heavily cratered regions in the center and upper left portion of the disk. There are also complex reflectivity patterns on Charon’s surface, including bright and dark crater rays, and the conspicuous dark north polar region at the top of the image. The smallest visible features are 2.9 miles 4.6 kilometers) in size. (Photo via NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute)
Two different versions of an image of Pluto’s haze layers, taken by New Horizons as it looked back at Pluto's dark side nearly 16 hours after close approach, from a distance of 480,000 miles (770,000 kilometers), at a phase angle of 166 degrees. Pluto's north is at the top, and the sun illuminates Pluto from the upper right. These images are much higher quality than the digitally compressed images of Pluto’s haze downlinked and released shortly after the July 14 encounter, and allow many new details to be seen. The left version has had only minor processing, while the right version has been specially processed to reveal a large number of discrete haze layers in the atmosphere. In the left version, faint surface details on the narrow sunlit crescent are seen through the haze in the upper right of Pluto’s disk, and subtle parallel streaks in the haze may be crepuscular rays- shadows cast on the haze by topography such as mountain ranges on Pluto, similar to the rays sometimes seen in the sky after the sun sets behind mountains on Earth. (Photo via NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute)
In this handout provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), backlit by the sun, Pluto's atmosphere rings its silhouette like a luminous halo in this image taken by NASAs New Horizons spacecraft around midnight EDT on July 15, and released July 23, 2015. New Horizons passed by Pluto July 14, closing to a distance of about 7,800 miles (12,500 kilometers). This global portrait of the atmosphere was captured when the spacecraft was about 1.25 million miles (2 million kilometers) from Pluto and shows structures as small as 12 miles across The 1,050-pound piano sized probe was launched January 19, 2006 aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, (Photo by NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI via Getty Images)
Four images from New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) were combined with color data from the Ralph instrument to create this sharper global view of Pluto. (The lower right edge of Pluto in this view currently lacks high-resolution color coverage.) The images, taken when the spacecraft was 280,000 miles (450,000 kilometers) away from Pluto, show features as small as 1.4 miles (2.2 kilometers). That’s twice the resolution of the single-image view captured on July 13 and revealed at the approximate time of New Horizons’ July 14 closest approach. (Photo via NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI)
New Horizons scientists use enhanced color images to detect differences in the composition and texture of Pluto’s surface. When close-up images are combined with color data from the Ralph instrument, it paints a new and surprising portrait of the dwarf planet. The “heart of the heart,” Sputnik Planum, is suggestive of a source region of ices. The two bluish-white “lobes” that extend to the southwest and northeast of the “heart” may represent exotic ices being transported away from Sputnik Planum.
Four images from New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) were combined with color data from the Ralph instrument to create this enhanced color global view. The images, taken when the spacecraft was 280,000 miles (450,000 kilometers) away, show features as small as 1.4 miles (2.2 kilometers). (Photo via NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI)
This Tuesday, July 14, 2015 image provided by NASA on Wednesday shows Pluto's largest moon, Charon, made by the New Horizons spacecraft. (NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI via AP)
This new image taken July 14, 2015 shows an area on Pluto's largest moon Charon that has a captivating feature—a depression with a peak in the middle, shown here in the upper left corner of the inset.
The image shows an area approximately 240 miles (390 kilometers) from top to bottom, including few visible craters. “The most intriguing feature is a large mountain sitting in a moat,” said Jeff Moore with NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, who leads New Horizons’ Geology, Geophysics and Imaging team. “This is a feature that has geologists stunned and stumped.”
This image gives a preview of what the surface of this large moon will look like in future close-ups from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft. This image is heavily compressed; sharper versions are anticipated when the full-fidelity data from New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) are returned to Earth. (Photo via NASA-JHUAPL-SwRI)
One of the final images taken before New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015. (Photo via NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute)
This Tuesday, July 14, 2015 image provided by NASA on Wednesday shows a region near Pluto's equator with a range of mountains captured by the New Horizons spacecraft. (NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI via AP)
This July 14, 2015 photo provided by NASA shows an image taken from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft showing a new close-up image from the heart-shaped feature on the surface of Pluto that reveals a vast, craterless plain. (NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI via AP)
In this handout provided by NASA, a newly discovered mountain range lies near the southwestern margin of Pluto's Tombaugh Regio (Tombaugh Region), situated between bright, icy plains and dark, heavily-cratered terrain. This image was acquired by New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on July 14, 2015 from a distance of 48,000 miles (77,000 kilometers) and sent back to Earth on July 20, 2015. Features as small as a half-mile (1 kilometer) across are visible.. The 1,050-pound piano sized probe was launched January 19, 2006 aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, (Photo by NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI via Getty Images)
This July 13, 2015, image of Pluto and Charon is presented in false colors to make differences in surface material and features easy to see. It was obtained by the Ralph instrument on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, using three filters to obtain color information, which is exaggerated in the image. These are not the actual colors of Pluto and Charon, and the apparent distance between the two bodies has been reduced for this side-by-side view. (Photo via NASA/APL/SwRI)
In this handout provided by NASA, the dwarf planet Pluto (R) and Charon are shown July 11, 2015. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is nearing its July 14 flyby when it will close to a distance of about 7,800 miles (12,500 kilometers). The 1,050-pound piano sized probe, which was launched January 19, 2006 aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, is traveling 30,800 mph as it approaches. (Photo by NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI via Getty Images)
Pluto’s bright, mysterious “heart” is rotating into view, ready for its close-up on close approach, in this image taken by New Horizons on July 12 from a distance of 1.6 million miles (2.5 million kilometers). It is the target of the highest-resolution images that will be taken during the spacecraft’s closest approach to Pluto on July 14. The intriguing “bulls-eye” feature at right is rotating out of view, and will not be seen in greater detail. (Photo via NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI)
In this handout provided by the NASA, the dwarf planet Pluto is shown at distance of about 2.5 million miles July 11, 2015. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is nearing its July 14 flyby when it will close to a distance of about 7,800 miles (12,500 kilometers). The 1,050-pound piano sized probe, which was launched January 19, 2006 aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, is traveling 30,800 mph as it approaches. (Photo by NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI via Getty Images)
This July 8, 2015 image provided by NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute shows Pluto, right, and its moon, Charon, from the New Horizonsâ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) combined with lower-resolution color information from the spacecraft's Ralph instrument. (NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI via AP)
This image received on July 8, 2015 and made available by NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute shows Pluto from the New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) combined with lower-resolution color information from the spacecraft's Ralph instrument. (NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI via AP)
This map of Pluto, made from images taken by the LORRI instrument aboard New Horizons, shows a wide array of bright and dark markings of varying sizes and shapes. The elongated dark area informally known as “the whale,” along the equator on the left side of the map, is one of the darkest regions visible to New Horizons. It measures some 1,860 miles (3,000 kilometers) in length. Continuing to the right, along the equator, we see the four mysterious dark spots that have so intrigued the world, each of which is hundreds of miles across. Meanwhile, the whale’s “tail,” at the left end of the dark feature, cradles a bright donut-shaped feature about 200 miles (350 kilometers) across. (Photo via NASA-JHUAPL-SWRI)
This combination of images made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 2002 and 2003 shows Pluto at different angles. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is nearing the end of its nine-year voyage to Pluto, and has just over 100 million miles to go before getting there in July 2015. Starting Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015, it will begin photographing the mysterious, unexplored, icy world once deemed a planet. (AP Photo/NASA, ESA, M. Buie)
This series of New Horizons images of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, was taken at 13 different times spanning 6.5 days, starting on April 12 and ending on April 18, 2015. During that time, the NASA spacecraft's distance from Pluto decreased from about 69 million miles (111 million kilometers) to 64 million miles (104 million kilometers). (Photo via NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute)
Those images, chemical analyzes and other data show a complex, geologically active world 3 billion miles from Earth, with an underground ocean and volcanoes that appear to spew ice, five research papers published in this week's Science journal said.
"It's a pretty wild place geologically," said planetary scientist William McKinnon of Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
Another scientist described the diversity of landscapes as "astonishing."
How the varied terrain came to be remains a mystery for the distant Pluto, which has an average surface temperature of minus 380 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 229 degrees Celsius).
Scientists suspect several processes at work, including vaporization of volatile ices, such as nitrogen, carbon monoxide and methane, into Pluto's cold and unexpectedly compact atmosphere.
Though smaller than Earth's moon, Pluto likely still has enough internal heat from its formation some 4.5 billion years ago to help maintain its most prominent feature, a smooth, 620-mile (1,000-km) wide, heart-shaped basin known as Sputnik Planum.
Relatively young mountains west of Sputnik Planum and mounds to the south are harder to explain. Scientists suspect both rest on blocks of water ice, though how that came to exist on Pluto is unknown.
"We are puzzled by almost everything," said Alan Stern, the New Horizons mission's lead scientist.
The studies show that Pluto's primary moon, Charon, had an active life but ran out of naturally occurring radioactive heat in its rocks and froze through about 2 billion years ago.
Scientists now believe Charon and Pluto's four other small moons owe their existence to a crash between Pluto and another Pluto-sized body early in the solar system's history.
Similar to Earth's moon, scientists suspect Pluto's natural satellites were formed from the debris that was hurled into space after the crash.
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The sudden death of John Spencer on Friday is sure to alter the plotlines of "The West Wing," the NBC show in which he was a star, but its writers do not expect to begin grappling with the creative implications of his loss until early in the new year, one of its executive producers said yesterday.
The producer, Lawrence O'Donnell, a former adviser in the United States Senate who has been with "The West Wing" since its inception, said the writers and actors were stunned by Mr. Spencer's death from a heart attack and would need to grieve before they could address the fate of his character.
This season, the show's seventh, Mr. Spencer's Leo McGarry has been a critical character. McGarry, former chief of staff to the incumbent president, Josiah Bartlet, is the running mate of the Democratic candidate for president, Matt Santos, played by Jimmy Smits.
So far this season, NBC has broadcast nine new episodes of the show. Mr. O'Donnell said five more episodes had been completed, including the next one - to be shown on Jan. 8 - titled "Running Mates," which centers on Mr. Spencer's character. The episode or episodes in which the election takes place have not yet been filmed, Mr. O'Donnell said, nor have producers said when the fictional election would be broadcast.
Mr. O'Donnell said the show's staff had been on hiatus since last Monday and that questions about whether the next episode would need to be edited - to say nothing of the larger question of how to deal with the loss of a vice-presidential candidate in the midst of a campaign - would not be broached until the next scheduled production meeting, in the first week of January.
"We recognize how important this kind of question is to viewers of the show," Mr. O'Donnell said in a telephone interview. "It is very, very, very important to us. But it is a secondary issue and we are not past the primary issue yet."
Mr. Spencer, 58, played Leo since the show's first season. His character was a crusty politician with a soft touch, one who survived a heart attack last season. He was as beloved a fixture backstage as he was on camera.
"He was my brother; that is the most I can say," said Martin Sheen, who plays the president, when reached at home yesterday. "I just adored him. It's too big a hole."
Mr. O'Donnell said that he, Mr. Sheen and other members of the close-knit cast had gathered informally over the weekend and found some solace in reminiscing with one another.
"Nobody could play tough better than John Spencer," Mr. O'Donnell said. "But that was pure acting. He was the sweetest guy on the set, all the time. No matter how difficult a scene we might have to do or whatever problem we would run into shooting, you always knew where to look on the set for someone with a smile. It was John."
Bradley Whitford, who plays Josh Lyman, a colleague of Leo's, said yesterday he considered Mr. Spencer "this dear, big brother."
"Acting saved his life, I think, a couple of times," Mr. Whitford said. "He came from a tough background, and it liberated him early on. It saved him again when he had his struggles with sobriety." Mr. Spencer openly discussed his battle with alcoholism.
Mr. Spencer created a number of memorable supporting roles throughout his career, including as a detective in the 1990 film "Presumed Innocent" and as Tommy Mullaney, a lawyer on the television show "L.A. Law." He won an Emmy Award for best supporting actor in 2002, for his work on "The West Wing."
A network spokesman said that he expected there to be memorial services for Mr. Spencer on both the West and East Coasts (Mr. Spencer was born in New York City and grew up in New Jersey) but that those plans had not yet been completed.
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A photo campaign by ISIL to demonstrate the terror group’s broad geographic reach has backfired, after social media users began geolocating their anonymous members.
The photos, which feature handwritten notes by alleged members of ISIL and the #ISIS hashtag – both in Arabic – as well as images of their author’s locations, were recently shared via the Telegram secure messaging app to a number of supporters.
The photos were then publically shared by representatives of the international terrorist group, many of which were reposted by Dubai-based journalist Jenan Moussa.
"With these pro-ISIS messages, the group creates the impression they have a worldwide network,” Ms Moussa wrote in a tweet, using an alternative name for the terrorist organisation.
Locations in Europe, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, and Germany are featured in a number of the photos shared by Ms Moussa.
But the campaign was undermined after members of the public retaliated by banding together to geolocate each photo.
The effort, led by the founder of citizen journalism website Bellingcat, Elliot Higgins, sparked a flood of suggestions, information and Google Streetview comparisons.
Twitter users ArtWendeley and hotzn1 have since successfully managed to pinpoint the position of one photo from Germany.
Mr Higgins said in a Tweet that a second ISIL “fanboy” had been geolocated in London, including the @metpoliceuk handle in his message.
“Let's hope for CCTV coverage @metpoliceuk,” he tweeted.
A third has since been reportedly located in Paris and a fourth in Holland.
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's big day is almost here, and she's soaking it all up!
On Friday, the bride-to-be took to Instagram to share several breathtaking photos from Acapulco, Mexico.
(captioned "Early morning yoga!"), the 41-year-old actress is managing an impressive balancing act with a trainer – not to mention showing off her famously fit physique.
A photo posted by Eva Longoria (@evalongoria) on May 20, 2016 at 9:34am PDT
Longoria is also getting in a little relaxation time before she heads down the aisle and says "I do" to fiancé
Another shot shows off the picturesque view from her
A photo posted by Eva Longoria (@evalongoria) on May 20, 2016 at 7:28am PDT
that Longoria's wedding will be held this weekend at
's home in Acapulco, and the guest list will be glittering because the couple is "expecting half of Hollywood to be there."
Eva Longoria and José Antonio Bastón
The actress and her future husband first stepped out as a couple in November 2013, and Bastón, who is president of Latin media brand Televisa,
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As predicted by a Wall Street Journal report earlier this week, Comcast announced on Thursday that its NBCUniversal unit is acquiring DreamWorks Animation for $3.8 billion in cash. In doing so, the cable giant clearly has its sights set on duplicating a Disney-style model: That is, control a library of dependable, long-term content you can monetize in a variety of different ways.
After the acquisition, DreamWorks Animation will become part of NBCUniversal’s Filmed Entertainment Group, which includes its Illumination Entertainment animation business—which produced the popular Despicable Me and Minions movies—as well as the Universal Pictures movie studio.
The purchase price Comcast is shelling out for DreamWorks reinforces just how badly it wants the company. The offer amounts to $41 a share, which is a 50% premium to the $27 that DreamWorks was trading at just before the Journal story came out. The total value of the deal, including debt, is just over $4 billion.
For Comcast CMCSA , the acquisition provides a hedge against its existing cable TV and Internet businesses. While those assets continue to spin off large amounts of cash, and Comcast appears to be winning the war against cord-cutting (at least for now), the cable business is not exactly a growth story, especially when you are already the largest player.
Much like NBCUniversal’s $200-million investment in Vox Media, and a similarly-sized investment in BuzzFeed, the DreamWorks acquisition provides the company with content it can not only shove down the pipe that it owns into people’s homes, but can distribute in other ways as well, especially online and through streaming services.
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NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke made it clear that he sees DreamWorks as much more than just a creator of family-friendly entertainment it can fold into its animation arm. After praising the DreamWorks brand, he said the main goal was the company’s “deep library of intellectual property,” which would help NBCUniversal “grow our film, television, theme parks and consumer products businesses for years to come.”
In other words, the rationale behind the DreamWorks deal is fundamentally the same as it was for Disney’s $4-billion acquisition of Lucasfilm in 2012, or Disney’s earlier purchase of Marvel Entertainment in 2009, which also worked out to about $4 billion.
Both of those deals gave Disney a massive library of existing movie, TV, and other content, which it has been using to fuel not just its movie business but its theme parks and merchandising businesses. And just as important, those deals gave the company a potential pipeline of future movies, TV shows and merchandising opportunities.
So is DreamWorks Animation going to be as valuable to Comcast or NBCUniversal as Lucasfilm or Marvel has been to Disney? That remains to be seen, but Disney has set a fairly high bar: When merchandise sales are included, the first Star Wars movie that Disney produced after the deal has already generated enough revenue to pay for the entire Lucasfilm purchase.
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It seems unlikely that DreamWorks is going to produce that kind of blockbuster return for NBCUniversal, at least initially. The company has done well with several of its movie franchises, such as Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar and Shrek, but it doesn’t have anything that really compares to the Star Wars library or the Marvel franchise (although Shrek has pulled in about $3.5 billion since the original movie in 2001).
Rich Greenfield of BTIG Research, for example, argues in a research note about the acquisition that Comcast is paying much too high a premium for a company whose track record of movies he calls “underwhelming.”
DreamWorks has also been struggling financially. CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg—who co-founded the DreamWorks movie studio with Steven Spielberg and then spun the animation unit off as a separate company in 2004—has tried to sell the company several times. Talks were said to be underway with toy giant Hasbro in 2014 but were unsuccessful, and DreamWorks also reportedly talked to Japanese venture firm Softbank.
From Comcast’s point of view, however, DreamWorks is clearly worth betting on. The cable giant has more than enough cash flow to pay for the deal, and even if it never attains Star Wars or Marvel-style success, the animation business beefs up its TV, movie and theme park businesses and gives it a hedge against the decline of traditional cable.
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Juggling college term papers, research projects, and clubs is enough to make any student sweat — but unfortunately, it leaves little time for actual exercise.
Enter the FitDesk Bike, a stationary bike and ergonomically friendly laptop station that colleges are embracing for health and academic benefits alike.
Clemson University in South Carolina was one of the first to install about 12 of these machines in their library, where all students are invited to use them.
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"You can't fall asleep on them," Sarah Limyansky, 21, of Hillsborough, New Jersey, told NBC News. "It's a good way to stay engaged while reading."
Limyansky is an intern in the Clemson psychology department, which is conducting studies comparing FitDesks with traditional desks.
Clemson University interns, from left, Jessie Cashman, Vanessa Mcpherson and Sarah Limyansky try out FitDesks. Courtesy of the Clemson University psychology team
"I use them myself during my spare time, but I am also doing it for research purposes behind the scenes," she said. "You are not pedaling so hard that you are sweating, but it does break the sedentary behavior."
One study is attempting to see if academic performance on FitDesks is "equal" to conventional ones, said study leader and professor of psychology June Pilcher.
"Our preliminary data shows that pedaling while studying has a positive effect," Pilcher told NBC News. "We are also seeing that the FitDesk users seem to be a little happier — not jump up and down joy, but more positive."
Professor of psychology June Pilcher (working with students in the foreground) is conducting several studies comparing the benefits of FitDesks versus traditional desks. Courtesy of Clemson University psychology team
With increasing concern over Americans' sedentary lifestyles, the FitDesks could have help more than just students. One national study reveals that technology is contributing to the obesity epidemic; and another suggests the mere act of sitting for long periods of time can cause early death.
Related: Campus Therapy Dogs Offer a Helping Paw to Stressed Students
Jessie Cashman, 20, of Haddonfield, New Jersey, has joined Pilcher's research team to do her honors thesis, hoping to find additional benefits. Over an eight-week period, she is measuring the heart rates of students undergoing difficult cognitive tests — one group on the bikes and another at traditional desks.
"I want to see if there is an effect on student depression and stress levels," Cashman, who wants to be a stress counselor, told NBC News.
Vanessa Macpherson, 20, of Richmond, Virginia, another intern with the psychology team, said the FitDesks have become a popular attraction among students at all hours.
"The library in general is always full at night with a lot of people cramming for exams, especially on Sunday before the school week," she said. "We definitely see people going in and starting to pedal all by themselves. They are getting some good use."
Related: Which College Will You Choose to Go to? Here's What to Consider
The FitDesk is the brainchild of Ryan Moore, 36, and Steven Ferrusi, 51, who engineered the machine in their Tennessee garage in 2010.
"My business partner was riding his road bike indoors for training and he had a pillow off the couch on the handle bars," Moore told NBC News. "He was sitting in front the TV playing video games."
Moore said he thought it looked "uncomfortable and awkward" and then a "lightbulb went off." The pair set out to design a riding station that provided arm and back support. Later, they developed an elliptical machine that sits under a desk.
The first academic to test the FitDesk's cognitive benefits was Dr. John Ratey of Harvard University in conjunction with Florida State University.
Now, several universities like Penn State, UCLA and Johns Hopkins have installed them in their libraries. The company also sells to K-12 schools and corporations like Humana, Dell and Nissan.
But, Moore said, Clemson University is leading the way.
"Before, the feedback was all word of mouth," he said. "Dr. Pilcher was really the first one to get real scientific data."
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We all know our fair share of corporate bullies–the managers who abuse power, yell, harass and micromanage their way through life. Usually their office antics breed resentment, sabotage, “mental health days” and costly turnover.
But some executives notorious for their abrasive styles–the Steve Jobs, Harvey Weinsteins and Barry Dillers of the world–are hailed as luminaries, breaths of fresh air for stale industries.
So what separates the sadists from the wunderkinds? In short, the silver-backed gorilla.
Sadists throw their weight around gratuitously, and relish the chance to watch underlings squirm. In contrast, the silver-backed gorilla will beat his chest, break branches, flash his teeth and charge–but all in the interest of protecting his troop. He secures food, mediates conflicts and provides safety, so lesser gorillas put up with his antics. His fictional counterpart is Don Corleone. In corporate America, it may be Martha Stewart.
Of course, Stewart spent five months in prison, and Don Corleone got gunned down in the street. These power players may find an aggressive style helps them claw to the top, but they often can’t sustain their reign.
Bullying leaders rise in part because they are unwilling to compromise. They are committed to–and unremittingly protective of–their vision, and make large companies move with the speed of small ones.
“These are people who are very brusque in fighting for their vision,” says Stanford Business School professor Roderick Kramer. “They push people aside who are too conservative or ‘just don’t get it.’ But they also attract–and are very protective of–their followers.”
As a former Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia employee told Kramer, “[Stewart] was tough to work with, but she had a really strong vision. She drew out the best in you. If you could meet her high standards and withstand her perfectionism, it was very gratifying to be in her inner circle.”
Film producer and studio chairman Harvey Weinstein–whose tantrums are now regularly satirized on HBO’s Entourage–is notorious for intimidating both friend and foe. Once, Weinstein allegedly confronted former Universal Pictures Chairman Stacey Snider at a cocktail party, believing she had spread rumors that he was behind a campaign to discredit Universal’s A Beautiful Mind.
The New Yorker‘s Ken Auletta described their altercation this way: “To the petite Snider, [Weinstein] was a fearsome sight–his eyes dark and glowering, his fleshy face unshaved, his belly jutting forward half a foot or so ahead of his body. He jabbed a finger at Snider’s face and screamed, ‘You’re going to go down for this!’ ”
But by most accounts, Weinstein’s coarse style proved critical to shaking up Hollywood. His antics are often indulged as a necessary function of his all-consuming drive to make independent films succeed in a market that favors blockbusters.
“Until [Weinstein] came along and beat his way down doors, there was no place for indie producers in the Hollywood studio system,” says Kramer. “He singlehandedly pulled the independent film industry out of the doldrums and made Miramax one of the few indie-production brand names that people associate with quality.”
Weinstein’s chest beating helped acclaimed films like The Thin Blue Line and The Crying Game get made and has earned his work more than 200 Academy Award nominations and over 60 awards.
Still, history shows that leaders like Stewart and Weinstein have a tendency to go too far. Stewart endured prison time on charges related to an insider trading scandal. Weinstein was recently accused of harassing Sydney Pollack on his deathbed about a film release. InterActiveCorp CEO Barry Diller is routinely criticized for his bloated compensation package. Even New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, the “populist avenger,” was caught with his pants down. Every week, it seems another “visionary” is caught exerting inappropriate influence.
“At some point, those we consider ‘visionaries’ become puffed-up creations of their own imagination,” says management consultant Gary Namie. “When business executives stop looking beyond quarterly reports and stockholder dividends, they start ignoring internal stakeholders. We’re seeing that unravel now.”
American tolerance for bullying leaders may be waning. “There has been a real sea change in what’s conceptualized as good leadership,” says Kramer. “Americans have become disenchanted with power. Almost daily, they watch as leaders–in government, in business–fail to exercise appropriate restraint.”
According to a recent survey conducted by Harvard’s Kennedy School, 80% of Americans believe we have a leadership crisis. Only 45% of respondents say they have confidence in our business executives. Only Congress and former President Bush fared worse. The highest ranked group in the survey? The military, which has the confidence of 71% of people surveyed.
“The difference is that in boot camp, the military breaks you down and then builds you back up,” says Namie. “These so-called ‘visionary’ narcissistic nut cases wouldn’t dare arm their subordinates. They couldn’t afford to turn their back.”
It may be better for a prince to be feared than loved. But, says Harvard Business School Professor Joseph Nye, “we sometimes forget that the opposite of love is not fear but hatred. And Machiavelli made it clear that hatred is something a prince should carefully avoid.”
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Stop calling California’s ongoing water shortage a drought.
It may seem counterintuitive, but that’s the best way to get regulators and consumers to rethink the value of water, says Will Sarni, director and practice leader of water strategy at Deloitte.
“As long as the public sector continues to refer to this as the drought, public policy is not going to change, because everyone is going to wait for a good rain,” he said at Fortune’s Brainstorm E conference on Tuesday in Carlsbad, Calif. “That’s not going to happen.”
He added that California is over-allocated with respect to water, and that’s not a short-term problem. “How do you move the public sector to think strategically about a resource no one can live without?” he posited.
At the crux of the issue—we don’t value water, or at least there is a disconnect between its price and value. That’s in part why so much water is wasted in the U.S. Only 4% of water in the U.S. is reused, versus between 90% to 100% in Israel. About a third of our drinking water also gets lost through leaky pipes.
“The problem is we have taught everybody that water is free,” said Robin Gilthorpe, CEO of WaterSmart Software. He added that if it were fully valued, people would make more rational choices. By failing to do so, there’s a big cost, and especially an environmental one. He noted that 20% of California’s energy use goes toward water.
Managing water is only going to get more complex, in large part because of the impact of extreme weather. Michael Sullivan, global leader of IBM Smarter Water, noted that part of the problem is the fragmentation of the industry—there are some 55,000 utilities in the U.S.
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's vagina during a steamy dice game back in 1995 ... so says the former MTV star, who claims she was a virgin at the time.
Kennedy -- who was a huge MTV VJ back in the '90s -- details the encounter in her new book "The Kennedy Chronicles" ... explaining how she was having dinner with MJ and Russell Simmons at the Bowery Bar in NYC, when Michael broke out some dice.
Before long, Kennedy says, Jordan decided it was "time to play for something" ... and said, "If I win, you come back to my hotel room with me tonight."
Kennedy says she freaked out because she was a virgin --and imagined MJ's giant penis would "eviscerate me from the inside out" ... so she asked if they could play for Knicks tickets instead.
And that's when Jordan allegedly reminded Kennedy he had a wife -- and offered her Nets tickets as a consolation.
"Sure, he'll filet my vag like a sea bass if he won at dice on a men's room floor," Kennedy writes ... "but as soon as I want basketball tickets he's a Promise Keeper? Whatevs."
Kennedy says she won the dice game anyway -- so her vag was never in any real danger.
We reached out to MJ for comment -- so far, no word back.
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The earliest Peterson will be considered for reinstatement is April 15, 2015.
In a letter to Peterson informing him of the suspension, commissioner Roger Goodell wrote, "The timing of your potential reinstatement will be based on the results of the counseling and treatment program set forth in this decision. Under this two-step approach, the precise length of the suspension will depend on your actions."
He continued, "We are prepared to put in place a program that can help you to succeed, but no program can succeed without your genuine and continuing engagement. You must commit yourself to your counseling and rehabilitative effort, properly care for your children, and have no further violations of law or league policy."
Peterson has three days to file an appeal, but reports say he will do so immediately.
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Fox News host Megyn Kelly went after media critics who said she was too soft on Donald Trump during her interview this week and accused them of bias.
“It earned the scourge of many in the mainstream media because it was not a takedown of Trump,” Kelly said on her show Wednesday. “These critics failed to disclose their own bias against Trump, against Fox News, against the GOP.”
After months of much-hyped feuding between Kelly and the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, Kelly promised there would be “an electric exchange” between the two in the Tuesday prime-time special on Fox Broadcasting. Megyn Kelly Presents was produced by Barbara Walters’ former producer and was widely seen as part of Megyn Kelly’s positioning for Walters-type stardom. She even ended her show with a plug for her soon-to-be-published book.
But the Trump interview was widely panned by critics as soft and devoid of revelations. Megyn Kelly Presents also gave Fox a third-place finish among broadcast networks in its time-slot, according to preliminary ratings.
On her show Wednesday, Kelly read off snippets of the negative reviews from critics at the New Yorker and the Washington Post, along with previous negative remarks those critics have made about Trump. She also said she “did not want to make” the interview about herself.
Howie Kurtz, host of Fox News’ Media Buzz, was invited on to Kelly’s show to give his own assessment of the media’s response to the interview.
His verdict? “It does bother me when critics from the left who despise Trump just aren’t upfront about that and wouldn’t have been happy with any interview that didn’t leave him a bloody and battered mess,” Kurtz said, adding he thought that Kelly had succeeded in getting Trump to “express some regret at times.” That, he added, is “almost like an apology for him.”
As for Trump, after months of blasting Kelly as a “bimbo” and “crazy,” he tweeted his approval.
Well, that is it. Well done Megyn — and they all lived happily ever after! Now let us all see how "THE MOVEMENT" does in Oregon tonight!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 18, 2016
Kelly said she remains neutral about Trump. “As I said from the beginning, I was never going to love him. I was never going to hate him. Those who assumed either one assumed too much.”
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In his 1967 address to Stanford University, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of two Americas. He described them as, “two starkly different American experiences that exist side by side.”
In one America, people experienced “the opportunity of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in all its dimensions.” In the other America, people experienced a “daily ugliness” that dashes hope and leaves only “the fatigue of despair.”
The uneasy coexistence of the two Americas is brought to bear by the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown.
Although I was born into the America that experiences and believes in opportunity, my trips to Ferguson, Detroit, Atlanta, and Chicago have revealed that there is an undercurrent of unease.
Congressman John Lewis, who heroically marched in Selma, still sees two Americas. He writes: “One group of people in this country can expect the institutions of government to bend in their favor, no matter that they are supposedly regulated by impartial law.”
The other group: “[C]hildren, fathers, mothers, uncles, grandfathers . . . are swept up like rubbish by the hard unforgiving hand of the law. They are offered no lenience, even for petty offenses, in a system that seems hell-bent on warehousing them by the millions . . . while others escape the consequences of pervasive malfeasance scot-free.”
We need to notice and be aware of the injustices embedded in our criminal system. However, we shouldn’t be misled to believe that excessive force is the norm, not the exception. I believe that most police are conscientious and want only to provide safety for us.
The blame should be directed to the laws and the politicians who order police into untenable positions, that insist on “taking down” someone for selling a couple of untaxed cigarettes.
Our pursuit of justice should not obscure the fact that on many occasions, good people do step forward to find justice.
This past fall, Helen Johnson was desperate to feed her two daughters and their small children who had gone two days without food. When she got to the store, she discovered that the $1.25 she had was not enough to buy eggs. She was a mere fifty cents short, so she stuffed the eggs in her pocket.
Helen didn’t even make it out of the store before the police were notified.
When Police Officer William Stacy arrived, something special happened. Instead of handcuffing Helen and taking her to jail, he used discretion and compassion to mete out justice. He warned Helen not to steal again and he bought her the eggs himself. Helen saw Officer Stacy again on Thanksgiving Day. He delivered a truckload of groceries to Helen’s home. Her grandchildren were overjoyed and proclaimed that they had never seen so much food in all their lives.
It isn’t hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
I am optimistic, but peace will only come when those of us who have enjoyed the American Dream become more aware of those who are missing out on the Dream.
The future of our country will be secure when we break down the wall that separates us from “the other America.”
Let’s commemorate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King by uniting the two Americas into one: an America that includes justice for one, and justice for all.
Paul is the junior U.S. Senator for Kentucky.
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Ever wonder if people in your city enjoy the same kind of adult material as you? Adult site PornHub’s analytics team has provided a deep dive into major cities’ top 5 search referrals.
Digg points out that “massage” is in the top 5 for 22 of the 24 cities listed, while Lisa Ann appears to be America’s favorite porn star. Click around the interactive below for more insights into America’s most embarrassing guilty pleasure.
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After 12 rounds of chemo treatments, Pitt running back James Conner got great news from his doctors: Tests found no trace of cancer in his body.
Those test results mean Conner could be making his way back to the gridiron in the near future.
God is AMAZING. Just got the call that my body is clean of cancer!!! Been a long road but God had my back. Thanks everyone who said prayers!
— James Conner ️ (@JamesConner_) May 23, 2016
Conner was a national story earlier this year, when his season was ended early due to a diagnosis of Hodgkin's Lymphoma. It was the same diagnosis that hit Kansas City Chiefs star Eric Berry in late 2014.
Berry became an inspiration to Conner, and the two famously met on the set of The Ellen Show earlier this year. Berry encouraged Conner to remain mentally tough, telling him: "It's never about the chemo, it's never about the cancer, it's all about what you're willing to put in to overcome whatever the obstacle is."
Twelve rounds of chemo later, Conner has overcome that giant obstacle.
Let's hope this diagnosis clears the way for Conner's return to the football field this fall.
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A midnight deadline has passed without the announcement of a programming deal between Viacom viab and Dish Network dish .
A spokesperson for Viacom declined to comment Thursday. Postings on social media indicated that a threatened blackout of Viacom’s programming for the satellite TV provider’s 14 million subscribers had not occurred.
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Viacom’s networks are also still listed as options for new customers, according to Dish’s website.
for several months over whether Dish would continue to carry Viacom’s 18 channels and at what price.
A blackout would block Dish subscribers’ access to Viacom shows such as Broad City on Comedy Central and SpongeBob SquarePants on Nickelodeon.
A spokesperson for Dish was not immediately available for comment.
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Beloved crooner Michael Bublé returns to NBC for his fifth fun-filled Christmas special featuring a night of music, comedy and celebration.
Michael Bublé, the multi-Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter brings the holiday spirit to NBC for the fifth consecutive year with "Michael Bublé's Christmas in Hollywood."
Celine Dion, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings and Tori Kelly join Bublé for special performances in celebration of his favorite holiday, Christmas. Gigi Hadid, Kylie Jenner, Jay Leno, Eva Longoria, William Shatner and Blake Shelton also join in the festivities for comedy segments that take Bublé to classic Hollywood locations.
Featured songs include holiday favorites "This Christmas," "Here Comes Santa Claus," "Jingle Bells," "White Christmas," "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" and more. In addition, Bublé will be accompanied by his band for an intimate "unplugged" medley of songs requested by his social media followers. The special will also feature the premiere of Bublé's new Christmas song, "The More You Give (The More You'll Have)," available for sale and streaming Friday, Dec. 4.
"I'm especially excited about this year's show and the wonderful guests who are joining me for the festivities. This is a real celebration and a don't-miss show," said Bublé. Bublé released the album "Christmas" and hosted his first NBC special, "A Michael Bublé Christmas," in 2011. Bublé brought his special to his Canadian hometown of Vancouver, B.C., for "Michael Bublé: Home for the Holidays" in 2012 and "Michael Bublé's 3rd Annual Christmas Special" in 2013. Last year's special, "Michael Bublé's Christmas in New York," originated from Radio City Music Hall.
"Michael Bublé's Christmas in Hollywood" is produced by Brad Lachman Productions and Bruce Allen Talent. Executive producers are Brad Lachman, Bruce Allen and Michael Bublé. Bill Bracken produces. The special is directed by Gregg Gelfand.
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When I was 8½ months pregnant with my second daughter, I found myself heading into a one-on-one meeting with a female colleague. This woman, whom I admired greatly, had two grown children she was very close to. One was finishing up high school and one was in college, and pictures of them, at all ages, adorned her office. Small talk focused around what they were up to, her plans for their next family vacation, the challenges and joys associated with the stage each was in.
This colleague had been a great comfort to me when I was returning to work after having my first child and was worried about my ability to be a good and present mother while working full time. I could see through her example that though she had always worked full time and excelled in her career of choice, she also kept her children at the center of her life and always had.
“How are you feeling?” she asked me as I maneuvered my giant, awkward body into a chair at the table in her office.
“I’m feeling fine — good,” I answered, though the truth was I had been feeling emotional — to be expected — and sentimental as well. Sentimental about spending time with my firstborn, who was only 16 months old. I was excited about the new baby, of course, but also sad that things would be changing, since the first year of my first daughter’s life had provided me with many of my happiest experiences. And so I found myself tearing up when I thought about “our last trip to the park, just the two of us,” or “our last time reading stories, just the two of us,” or any of the other lasts that were on their way. And I felt anxious wondering how I could ever love another baby as much as the one I already had.
Although I didn’t reveal any of this internal turmoil to my colleague — it was a work meeting, after all — she somehow seemed to intuit how I was feeling. Unprompted, she looked at me and gave me the best advice I have ever gotten about having a second child.
“I always felt like I grew a new heart for my second baby,” she said. “Your first child has your whole heart, and it takes time, but your second child gets a whole new heart to themselves, too.”
With tears in my eyes, I told her how much I loved that idea and hoped that that would be the case. I admitted, though, that I couldn’t imagine how it would happen or what it would feel like.
A little over five years later, I think of her words all the time as I raise my 5- and 7-year-old daughters. Despite being the same gender, close in age, and raised by the same two parents, like many siblings, they couldn’t be more different.
My older child is quieter, more serious, thoughtful, confident, and endlessly kind and compassionate. My younger is sweet, funny, silly, curious, and very loving. And yet my heart doesn’t strain to love them both the same. On the contrary, my two hearts love them both the most. Each heart loves, unconditionally, the child to whom it belongs.
I have passed this “two hearts” sentiment along to many friends who have told me, when pregnant with their second child, that everything is fine. But I see the look in their eyes, and unsolicited, I pass on the gift I was given. Like I did years ago, my friends say they hope the idea will come true, often with tears in their eyes. And I assure them it will, and that with every passing year, both hearts will grow fuller.
Laura Shea Souza is a writer and communications professional in Stow. Send comments to connections@globe.com.
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Fifteen years ago, Judd Apatow and Paul Feig created a show about ’80s-era high school burnouts and nerds; the show starred Seth Rogen, James Franco, Jason Segel and Linda Cardellini. Sounds like a can’t-miss hit, right? And yet, to the chagrin of the show’s cult following, Freaks and Geeks was canceled after only one season.
Though the show’s stars and creators went on to successful movie and TV careers, they — like the fans — never quite got over the decision to drop the show. That’s why when Seth Rogen was presented with the opportunity to confront the show’s creator, he did:
Last night I was in a room with the dude who cancelled Freaks and Geeks. And yes, I did totally call him out on it.
Rogen shared the dirty details of the conversation in an interview with HuffPost Live. The actor was visting Saturday Night Live to support his friend Bill Hader when he overheard someone say the name of the executive who canceled Freaks and Geeks. “I know his name, obviously, because we’ve talked about how stupid he is for the last 15 years,” Rogen said. With the help of fellow comedian Paul Rudd, Rogen asked him why he decided to kill the show:
He oddly tried to justify it. He was like, “You know, Judd wouldn’t listen to my notes.” I was like, “The notes probably were stupid.” … He was like, “You know, I kept telling Judd, ‘Give them a victory, give them a victory.’ And I was like, “The whole show was about how in high school you always lose all the time.” He went to a private school and was very rich as a child.
Rogen was careful not to out the former NBC executive, but apparently the executive didn’t mind naming himself. Garth Ancier, a television programmer since the ’70s, took to Facebook to make his case:
I thought we had a very nice chat about “Freaks & Geeks” on Saturday night. As I said, my only note to Judd Apatow over the entire series was that either the Freaks and/or the Geeks should win the occasional victory over the cooler kids — especially since Judd Apatow has taken that note in every hit movie since. I absolutely hated canceling this particular show. It was clear from the very beginning that F&G had great writing from Judd and Paul Feig, and a tremendous cast. This was an awful decision that has haunted me forever…but the show was consistently NBC’s least viewed. For what it is worth, I have watched all of the episodes over and over again on Netflix, and asked myself what I could have done better to save it.
When Rogen dismissed Ancier as a rich kid who wouldn’t understand the trials and tribulations of public high school, he posted yet another response on Facebook:
We may never know how the conversation really went down. (Paul Rudd, care to respond?) But whether Ancier is a villain or not, Freaks and Geeks will forever be remembered — alongside Sports Night, Rome and Happy Endings — as a show that was canceled far too soon.
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In today's data-driven economy, those with excellent math skills don't have to look far to find high-paying, high-growth jobs open for the taking.
To find out which jobs offer the best opportunities for people who love math, we analyzed CareerCast's list of the
and pulled out those jobs that require analytical math skills.
CareerCast, a job search site, measured the stress, physical demands, and both the current and future employment outlook of the 200 occupations.
The overall score for each job
the pay; hiring outlook; stress; emotional factors, including the level of competitiveness and degree of public contact; and physical demands, such as stamina required and work conditions, that normally come with the job. Once the categories are combined, a lower overall score signals that the job is more desirable to employees.
Much of the data used to evaluate the jobs comes from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, other government agencies, trade associations, and private survey firms.
: Studies and analyzes the effects of resources such as land, labor, and raw materials, on costs and their relation to industry and government.
: Facilitates the purchase and sale of stocks, bonds, and other securities for individual and institutional clients.
: Determines tax liability and collects taxes from individuals or businesses.
: Assesses and analyzes the risks inherent in insuring potential policy holders before making recommendations to the insurance companies that employ them.
: Prepares and analyzes financial reports to assist managers in business, industry, and government.
: Uses principles of physics and mathematics to understand the workings of the universe.
: Studies the physical characteristics, motions, and processes of Earth's atmosphere.
: Tabulates, analyzes, and interprets the numeric results of experiments and surveys.
: Related to careers in portfolio management, the financial planner offers a broad range of services aimed at assisting individuals in managing and planning their financial future.
: Interprets statistics to determine probabilities of accidents, sickness, and death, and loss of property from theft and natural disasters.
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Here's a question that no studio executive bothered to answer: Why should audiences return to Wonderland when it wasn't such a wonder the last time they were there? Bloated and boring,
is the sequel no one asked for, and worse, one that can't even justify its own existence.
In the follow-up to 2010's
, Mia Wasikowska returns as Alice, still full of pluck. She's a sea captain now, piloting her father's ship in rough waters only to find that the sailing at home is even more treacherous. Thanks to an unscrupulous businessman, she either has to give up her father's ship or her mother's house. Before she can make a decision, though, she finds herself stepping through an ornate mirror, and back among her friends in Wonderland.
For her old friend, the Mad Hatter (
), things aren't much better. He's deeply despondent, missing his long-dead family and demanding that Alice bring them back. To attempt the impossible, Alice must convince Time (
), himself, to let her travel back through decades and right old wrongs.
It could be a compelling idea, but
never delivers on the story. Instead, the film hurls CGI spectacles on the screen by the millions of dollars, never once coming up with a compelling reason to pay attention to the plot.
(as Red Queen Iracebeth) seem game to keep up the charade, as does Baron Cohen, who's quite compelling as the melancholy Time, once he stops bothering to try to sell the movie's lame jokes. But
(playing White Queen Mirana) just seems wilted. And there's no reason for anyone to continue indulging Depp in his bizarre need to be on the biggest screens in the world, while hiding behind makeup and effects. The Hatter is sad, to be sure, but mostly for the wrong reasons.
Ultimately, the film lacks the magic and danger inherent in Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel of a stranger in the most strange land of all. As the Hatter might say, this mini-franchise has lost its muchness – not that it had much to begin with.
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As if there wasn’t already enough evidence to suggest Apple is working on a car, a newly-awarded patent has thrown more fuel on that flame.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has awarded Apple AAPL a patent on controlling a vehicle using a portable device, such as an iPhone or iPad. The patent, which was earlier discovered by Apple-tracking sites Patently Apple and 9to5 Mac, specifically describes how a device could access the vehicle’s computer and tell it what to do, including unlock its doors, start it up, and much more.
“For example, a vehicle-related operation can be an operation to unlock a vehicle’s doors, unlock a vehicle’s storage compartment, start a vehicle’s engine, activate a vehicle’s audio or audiovisual entertainment system, activate a vehicle’s global positioning system (GPS), activate a vehicle’s dashboard console, turn on a vehicle’s passenger compartment lights, adjust a vehicle’s seats, turn on a vehicle’s headlights, open a vehicle’s sun roof, turn on a vehicle’s windshield wipers, activate a vehicle’s automatic parking system, activate a vehicle’s wireless communication system, and/or the like,” Apple wrote in its lengthy description of its patent.
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The car and app would connect via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or a cellular data network, according to the patent.
Due to how broad the patent is, it might sound like some technologies already available in cars. Several auto companies, for instance, sell vehicles that communicate with apps that can start it up and lock its doors. Tesla TSLA , the electric car maker, also has a connected app providing a wide range of features, including the ability to auto-park the vehicle.
However, Apple’s patent adds an extra component: support for two devices to control the vehicle. The first would be a primary device with full control over the vehicle. Another, called the secondary device, would essentially take orders from the primary device on how it can control the vehicle and access its functions. So, if someone else with the secondary device is allowed access to the car, the primary device would set certain limitations on how the secondary device could interact with the vehicle, including whether the car can be started and how far it can go.
While it’s unclear whether Apple’s technology will ever make its way to vehicles—companies will often times patent all types of technologies that may never make their way to actual products, after all—it lends even more credibility to the idea that the company is working on a car.
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Over the last several months, rumors have been flying fast and furious that Apple is working on a car. Even Apple CEO Tim Cook has stoked the flames, hinting that the company might be up to something in that market. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has called Apple’s plans to launch an electric car the worst-kept secret in Silicon Valley. The company is also reportedly hiring heavily from other car makers to help with its car-building efforts believed to be known internally as Project Titan.
Meanwhile, Apple hasn’t uttered a word about its plans and likely won’t for quite some time. Most estimates peg the company not getting its rumored car on roads until 2020.
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The SWIFT secure messaging service that underpins international banking said on Tuesday it plans to launch a new security program as it fights to rebuild its reputation in the wake of the Bangladesh Bank heist.
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT)’s chief executive, Gottfried Leibbrandt, told a financial services conference in Brussels that SWIFT will launch a five-point plan later this week.
Banks send payment instructions to one another via SWIFT messages. In February, thieves hacked into the SWIFT system of the Bangladesh central bank, sending messages to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York allowing them to steal $81 million.
The attack follows a similar but little-noticed theft from Banco del Austro in Ecuador last year that netted thieves more than $12 million, and a previously undisclosed attack on Vietnam’s Tien Phong Bank that was not successful.
The crimes have dented the banking industry’s faith in SWIFT, a Belgium-based co-operative owned by its users.
The Bangladesh Bank hack was a “watershed event for the banking industry,” Leibbrandt said.
“There will be a before and an after Bangladesh. The Bangladesh fraud is not an isolated incident. . .this is a big deal. And it gets to the heart of banking.”
SWIFT wants banks to “drastically” improve information sharing, to toughen up security procedures around SWIFT and to increase their use of software that could spot fraudulent payments.
In an apparent concession to banks, Leibbrandt said SWIFT was ready to help lenders detect possible frauds. “We can provide tools and best practices for such a detection at the receiving bank,” he told the conference.
SWIFT will also provide tighter guidelines that auditors and regulators can use to assess whether banks’ SWIFT security procedures are good enough.
Leibbrandt again defended SWIFT’s role, saying the hacks happened primarily because of failures at users. “Many of the less protected banks are in countries were skills are really scarce,” he said, pointing the finger at providers of services to banks.
“We will have to create an ecosystem of providers and partners, for example by introducing certification requirements for third-party providers,” he said.
However, some finance industry executives say SWIFT has not been as active as it should be in improving security.
Users frequently do not inform SWIFT of breaches of their SWIFT systems and even now, the co-operative has not proposed any sanctions for clients who fail to pass on information, which SWIFT itself says is key to stopping future attacks.
Some critics say SWIFT should also be more active in auditing clients and be ready to cut off members whose security is not up to scratch.
But the messaging service says other authorities also have a role.
“SWIFT is not all-powerful, we are not a regulator and we are not a policeman,” Leibbrandt said.
Former SWIFT Chief Executive Leonard Schrank said it appeared that SWIFT’s security efforts had not kept pace with the criminals increased sophistication and that the co-operative needed to work hard to restore its reputation.
“They really have to earn that credibility back,” he told Reuters.
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A new military poll of service members finds many already know who they want in the White House. The Military Times survey reveals nearly 27 percent of respondents back GOP front-runner Donald Trump.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders isn't far behind, pulling in about 22 percent.
The poll of 931 service members was conducted this month and included active-duty troops, reservists, and National Guard members.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz followed with about 17 percent of the vote, while former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came in fourth, with just over 11 percent.
Trump has said he would "take care" of veterans during his stump speeches, though he has not fully elaborated on what that means.
But when broken down by service, the Army and Marine Corps had the highest level of support for Trump, while the survey reveals the Navy and Air Force tend to support Sanders.
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New poll shows the military is a bit divided over who should be the next president
Official Portrait of President Ronald Reagan, 1981. Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981-1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967-1975). (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)
Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004) 40th President of the United States (1981-1989) and 33rd Governor of California (1967-1975). Head-and-shoulders portrait with stars-and-stripes in background, circa 1985. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)
President Ronald Reagan, shown during an Oval Office photo session in Washington, Jan. 11, 1989, will make a televised farewell speech to the nation later this evening at 9 p.m. EST. (AP Photo/Barry Thumma)
This is a Jan. 1993 official White House photo of U.S. President Bill Clinton. (AP Photo)
President Bill Clinton poses July 16, 1997 in Washington, DC. Clinton met with America Online chairman Steve Case and other industry leaders and spoke out in favor of software tools to restrict children's access to adult content on the Internet. (Photo by Diana Walker/Liaison)
President Bill Clinton listens to speeches during the World War II Memorial Groundbreaking Ceremony on the National Mall November 11, 2000, in Washington. (Photo by Alex Wong/Newsmakers)
US President George W. Bush poses for a portrait in this undated photo January 31, 2001 at the White House in Washington, DC. (Photo courtesy of the White House/Newsmakers)
U.S. President George W. Bush arrives on the South Lawn of the White House after a three day trip September 25, 2005 in Washington, DC. President Bush spent the weekend in Austin, Texas., Colorado Springs, Colorado and in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, monitoring the effects of Hurricane Rita on the Gulf Coasts of Texas and Louisiana. (Photo by Roger L. Wollenberg-Pool/Getty Images)
U.S. President George W. Bush poses for photographs during a meeting with President of Mali Amadou Toumani Toure in the Oval Office at the Whtie House February 12, 2008 in Washington, DC. According to White House Press Secretary Dana Perino, the two leaders discussed insecurity in northern Mali, the President's Malaria Initiative and the Millennium Challenge Account, among other subjects. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
In this photo provided by the Obama Transition Office, U.S. President-elect Barack Obama poses for an official portrait on January 13, 2009 in Washington, DC. On January 20 Obama will be sworn in as the nation's 44th president. (Photo by Pete Souza/Obama Transition Office via Getty Images)
U.S. President Barack Obama arrives for The Inaugural Ball at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on January 21, 2013 in Washington, United States. (Photo by Michael Kovac/WireImage)
President Barack Obama speaks to reporters about the death of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia at Omni Rancho Las Palmas in Rancho Mirage, CA. Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016. Obama declared Saturday night that he would seek to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the death of Scalia, charging into a heated and likely prolonged election-year fight with Republicans in Congress. Obama said a nomination was "bigger than any one party." (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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San Francisco's New Human-Free Restaurant
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On Wednesday, the line of lunchers waiting in San Francisco to eat at what some customers excitedly, half-jokingly called the “robot restaurant” stretched out of sight. But a sign about 75 people deep from Eatsa’s door promised a mere eight minute wait time.
“We are producing food for customers at an incredible rate,” says co-founder Tim Young, who watched people departing gleefully with bowls full of quinoa. “And we’re creating a new kind of fast food experience. What we’ve designed creates a sense of mystery, creates a sense of intrigue.”
There are no cashiers, waiters or busboys at Eatsa, a new, fast-casual restaurant in the city’s Financial District. But while this largely human-less eatery—where patrons order on iPads and are then summoned to cubbies that open to reveal their food—is definitely intriguing, it’s not an entirely new concept. What Young and his founding team have built is a 21st century version of automats, 20th-century cafeterias where people would survey dishes placed in windowed apartments and pop in a nickel to serve themselves a helping of pie or macaroni and cheese.
The experience is not only sleeker a century after automats started catching on, but also individualized, cashless and meat-less. Customers swipe their credit cards at one of nine iPad kiosks to start customizing a bowl full of quinoa, a protein-rich grain that comes in yuppie-worthy varieties like lemon-toasted herb. Patrons can add options like chimichurri sauce, orange miso sauce, grilled corn, pickled onions, roasted beets or parsnip strips, among heaps of other ingredients. In short, there’s absolutely no pre-made macaroni, though it’s still plenty cheap (starting at around $7 a bowl).
Behind Eatsa’s wall full of windowed apartments—which are transparent touchscreens that direct people to “tap twice” for their food—are about seven people making up the bowls during the lunch rush. The patrons can’t see them, but like the crowd, the people behind those screens are also being directed by software. “Every person that has a role has an iPad that manages their job,” Young says. This, he says, is what allows the workers to keep up with orders that no team of mere humans ever could.
“Quite frankly people can’t manage that kind of queue,” he says of the hundreds of orders that will soon be streaming in via kiosks and people’s mobile phones. “They can’t understand that they have this kind of volume, here’s what the timing will look like.”
Eatsa is marvelously at home in the Bay Area, a place obsessed and enthralled by technology that generally involves staring at a screen rather into another human’s eyes, full of people proudly pursuing efficiency by excusing inefficient humans from the process. The people in line were not misanthropes (though some people may love Eatsa for that) but rather early adopters hungry to test out anything they can get their hands or forks on.
“It’s not that I’m against humans serving food and it’s not that I’m against machines serving food,” says Deepali Agarwal, who works for social network company Skout. “It’s a new concept and being in tech, I’m just interested in how it works.” Agarwal and her colleague, Nikki Castellanos, said with shrugs of obviousness that automation is where society is headed. But Castellanos also pointed out that they were there together. “Pretty much everyone here is with someone else,” she says. “It’s a point of conversation with another human being also.”
For now, there is a human “concierge” roaming around to help any patrons who have questions about how things work, but Young says that they are open to getting rid of all the heat signatures in the future. “In most restaurants you don’t see the kitchen,” he says. “The core functions can be solved by the customers themselves.”
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Pop quiz: What should you do if a foreign prince emails you requesting your SSN and bank routing number so he can transfer you a couple million dollars?
Obviously, you delete the email.
This "Nigerian Prince" scam has been around for so long that almost no one will fall for it anymore.
Unfortunately, scammers are well aware that we have grown wise to their classic ruses, and have stepped up their game accordingly.
According to Internet security experts, scammers are now using a multitude of new tactics to get your personal information, including pretending they're your bank, the government or tech support from companies like Microsoft, Norton and McAfee.
And they're targeting you where you least expect it: Your trusted cellphone. KDVR reports that Colorado native Mike Webb, who was wary of these types of scams, was able to positively identify a scammer who called him claiming to be with the IRS and record the entire conversation.
Webb then shared his recording to spread awareness of how legitimate these calls can sound.
In the conversation, a caller is heard asking "do you have good intentions to resolve this case with the IRS?" The voice went on to say "you need to go to the bank and withdraw the amount of $6,300 in cash."
Webb also noted that the caller kept using the term "rules and regulations," which is something he said future victims should watch out for.
After he eventually called the woman out for having bad intentions, she apparently seemed to show remorse for her actions.
"I do have a heart," the would-be scammer said to Webb in a recorded phone conversation. "I do have a heart."
And Webb's case is certainly not isolated.
"I've seen an increase," Baltimore resident Stephanie King said about fraudulent calls. "Six months ago, I wasn't getting any." Sophisticated cellphone scammers target millions of Americans, and according to one survey, they cashed out with about $7.4 billion in stolen funds last year alone.
To avoid potential scams, you should know that the government won't call you for money, and neither will tech support. Ever. Ultimately, security experts suggest if an unfamiliar number pops up, let it go to voicemail. If it's really that important, the caller will leave a message.
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Taylor Swift wished her younger brother, Austin, a happy birthday by posting an adorable throwback photo on Instagram.
"Happy birthday Austin!!!!!" the "Shake It Off" singer captioned the photo of the siblings. "Thanks for 24 years of LOLs."
The 26-year-old, who recently celebrated her one-year anniversary with DJ boyfriend Calvin Harris, has a strong bond with her little brother.
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The up-and-coming actor has tagged along as her plus-one to several red carpet events, and he regularly appears in family photos with her on social media.
Austin is slated to appear in "I.T.", his first major film role, alongside former James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan.
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Related: Paris climate talks: Bishop hails 'historic' day as nearly 200 countries sign deal
Malcolm Turnbull has lifted the ban imposed by Tony Abbott on wind investment by the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) before it was officially enacted, even though it remains Coalition policy to abolish the green bank.
A spokeswoman for the prime minister said the new CEFC investment mandate – issued by the environment minister, Greg Hunt, and the finance minister, Mathias Cormann – reflected “the Turnbull government’s strong support for renewables and innovation”.
“The mandate puts the CEFC’s focus on new and emerging renewables technologies, rather than supporting well-established technologies that are financially viable without government support,” the spokeswoman said.
In the wake of the new mandate and the Paris agreement, various stakeholders in the renewable sector were optimistic that the CEFC decision could reboot the government’s relationship with the clean energy industry.
The new mandate says: “As part of its investment activities in clean energy technologies, the corporation must include a focus on supporting emerging and innovative renewable technologies and energy efficiency, such as large scale solar, storage associated with large and small scale solar, offshore wind technologies, and energy efficient technologies for cities and the built environment.”
Kane Thornton, chief executive of the Clean Energy Council, welcomed the new mandate.
“We have now got a government in step with the rest of the world and looking to undo some of the things that were done,” Thornton said.
Related: Coalition bans government's clean energy bank from financing wind power
“There was a very clear signal from Paris that the whole world is going renewable as quickly and fast as they can. We saw every one from massive global businesses down to thousands of local council making decisions to favour renewables so the shift is on.
“We had a tough time under Prime Minister Abbott and clearly there has been a shift of sentiment under Turnbull which is very welcome. Australia’s role in Paris was material and it is a signal they are now serious about climate action and renewables.”
But Senate crossbencher, John Madigan – one of the senators who negotiated for the creation of a wind farm commissioner – said he was disappointed that Turnbull had given the “green light” to the wind industry.
“We have just come out of windfarm inquiry and made some recommendations to government,” Madigan said.
“There are still question marks around industry, pertaining to compliance and now he’s given them the green light. There seems to be one set of rules for complying with permits and another set of rules for others.”
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A spokeswoman for the prime minister said the mandate “honours commitments made to crossbenchers during negotiations to secure passage of changes to the renewable energy target”.
The CEFC lends to clean energy projects on commercial terms and has so far lent $1.4bn, which will reduce emissions by 4.2m tonnes annually and also achieve a positive return on the commonwealth’s investments.
Andrew Bray, from the Australian Wind Alliance, called on the government to set stronger renewables policies to restore confidence in the industry.
He said while wind was “definitely a mature technology”, strong policy and financial innovation was needed to attract investors back to the marketplace.
“Renewable energy investment is still recovering from the Abbott government’s attacks on wind power but the CEFC has shown that it can break apart these investment deadlocks,” Bray said.
“If the government is seriously committed to delivering a 23% RET by 2020 it needs the Clean Energy Finance Corporation to be investing in wind power. Wind energy is the cheapest source of large-scale renewable energy but the market needs stronger signals from the Australian government to ensure that investment confidence is restored.”
When the Coalition came to government in 2013, Tony Abbott pledged to abolish the CEFC but his plans were blocked by the Senate.
In July this year, the Coalition issued a ban on government-backed wind investment when then treasurer Joe Hockey and finance minister Mathias Cormann wrote to the CEFC to end investment in new wind projects.
“It is our policy to abolish the Clean Energy Finance Corporation because we think that if the projects stack up economically, there’s no reason why they can’t be supported in the usual way,” Abbott said in July.
“But while the CEFC exists, what we believe it should be doing is investing in new and emerging technologies – certainly not existing windfarms.”
The Hockey-Cormann letter bypassed Hunt and caused consternation within the CEFC as to how such an order could be enacted within the corporation’s guidelines, leading to months of negotiations.
It is understood the CEFC never officially received a formal ministerial directive on wind investment before the leadership change. In October, Turnbull added to the uncertainty by saying the need for the CEFC was an “open question”.
A spokeswoman for the CEFC said the organisation was “looking forward to the new mandate”.
“Our role is to catalyse new investment into the clean energy sector and we think it has enormous benefits to Australia in the transition to a low carbon economy,” the spokeswoman said.
Last week, the CEFC committed $67m to Australia’s third-largest wind farm project in Ararat, which is expected to produce enough power for 120,000 homes.
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Greens senator Larissa Waters welcomed the new mandate by the Turnbull government but said if the government was serious about renewable energy, it would commit not to abolish the CEFC and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (Arena) which provides grants for energy projects.
“Malcolm Turnbull has kept Tony Abbott’s desire to abolish the Clean Energy Finance Corporation and the renewable energy agency and Australia has no credibility when it talks about clean energy, innovation, research and development when it still has those bodies on the chopping block,” Waters said.
“So one very small but significant action that Malcolm Turnbull could take if he wanted to show he wasn’t Tony Abbott was to take those agencies off the chopping block and allow them to invest in and develop the wonderful clean energy potential that Australia has in spades.”
Labor’s environment spokesman, Mark Butler, said Turnbull needed to join the rest of the world and set Australia up to take advantage of future jobs and investment opportunities.
“It’s all well and good for Greg Hunt to write a different letter to the Clean Energy Finance Corporation but there is still legislation in parliament to abolish it entirely,” Butler said.
“Either Greg Hunt and Malcolm Turnbull are going to join with the enormous opportunities in the future, which lie in renewable energy and clean energy or they are going to continue with Tony Abbott’s rightwing reactionary policies to abolish the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, to abolish the renewable energy agency and to withdraw support entirely from renewable energy beyond 2020.”
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Since going public on July 25, the company has seen its shares soar about 140 percent, making it the fourth best IPO of the year.
The key to El Pollo Loco's success is its "unique" Mexican-themed menu—which is centered around its signature grilled chicken—and its positioning between traditional quick-service and fast casual restaurants, Sather said.
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El Pollo Loco's food is "much like the quality of food you'd find at a Chipotle or a Panera—the fast casual at the high-end—but we offer the speed, convenience and value that you'd find at quick service," he noted.
While there are currently 401 El Pollo Loco locations situated in the Southwest, the company is looking to eventually open 2,300 restaurants across the country.
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"We are very excited about our expansion potential," Sather said.
In fact, the company is currently hiring for its Houston store, which is expected to open in October.
—By CNBC's Michelle Fox. CNBC's Stefanie Kratter contributed to this report.
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Bradford N. Swett, a real estate developer active in the vigorous development of the Upper West Side of Manhattan in the 1980's and 90's, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 69.
The cause was glioblastoma, a type of brain cancer, his family said.
Mr. Swett bought and refurbished residential and commercial buildings on the East and West Sides of Manhattan, as well as in some of the city's less gentrified areas, including Harlem, the South Bronx and Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
His attempt to develop the site of Symphony Space and the Thalia movie house at Broadway and 95th Street in the mid-1980's led to a protracted legal battle that was not resolved until a decade later. In 1996, the New York State Court of Appeals ruled that Mr. Swett and his partner, Pergola Properties, could not exercise their option to buy the building. Pergola had planned to replace the building with a multiplex theater.
Bradford Norris Swett was born in Hartford, Conn., on June 10, 1935, and earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1957. A varsity skier at Harvard, Mr. Swett was a former president of the Mad River Glen ski resort in Vermont. In the 1960's, he and a partner developed homes on the slopes there and at the Sugarbush resort in Warren, Vt.
Mr. Swett's first marriage, to Eleanor Chance Burgess, ended in divorce. He is survived by his second wife, Holly McAllister Swett; his mother, Mrs. Olcott D. Smith, of Farmington, Conn.; two brothers: Steven, of Norwich, Conn., and Thomas, of Unionville, Pa.; three children from his first marriage: Bradford Chance Swett of Geneseo, N.Y., Jennifer Chrisman of San Francisco and Hannah Swett of New York; and one grandchild.
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As machine-gun fire sounded in the streets of Cap Haitien, a city of about 500,000, residents greeted the arriving rebels with chants of ''Down with Aristide!'' and ''Long live the army!'' The rebels drove straight into the grassy square next to the city's police headquarters, the chief symbol of central government power at about 10 a.m. and declared the city liberated.
Residents of the city, on edge for weeks as rumors swirled that the rebel forces that control Gonaïves would march here and take control, poured into the streets and set fire to the police headquarters' two buildings.
''Aristide is a dictator,'' said Jean Robert, a 42-year-old unemployed boat captain, as the police station crackled and glowed orange behind him. ''He was in hell, and the Devil put him out because he was so wicked.''
The capture of Cap Haitien was the biggest blow yet to Mr. Aristide as he contended with a nearly three-week-long uprising that has left more than 60 people dead.
Political strife has gripped Haiti since 2000, when flawed legislative elections led opposition groups to boycott the presidential election later that year. The political turmoil increased as a range of Aristide opponents, from peaceful dissidents to those with more militant aims, held rallies and marches this fall, demanding that Mr. Aristide step down. The protests boiled over into violence when a gang once loyal to Mr. Aristide in Gonaïves revolted.
Bolstered by notorious figures from the country's violent past, the rebels claim to have steadily gained strength, although their exact numbers remain unclear.
Jean-Baptiste Joseph, a rebel soldier who said he had been in the army before Mr. Aristide dissolved it in 1994, said the rebels would maintain order in Cap Haitien and not allow vengeance killings.
''We are going to accompany the population so the chimères cannot kill anyone,'' Mr. Joseph said, referring to the armed gangs loyal to the president. ''We don't want any dechoukage,'' he added, using the Creole term for ''uprooting,'' or politically motivated mob violence.
But a few hours after the rebels arrived, Cap Haitien descended into chaos. At least four people were killed, including a 12-year-old girl, according to a doctor at the city's hospital.
The dead also included three men believed to be supporters of the president's party, Lavalas. Petit-Homme Roland, a local resident, brought two men wheeling a coffin atop a wheelbarrow to collect the body of his cousin, Robinson Dorville, a 20-year-old Lavalas militant who Mr. Roland said was gunned down by rebel soldiers.
''The man from the army shot him,'' Mr. Roland said as the undertakers struggled to put the speckled gray coffin back atop the wheelbarrow. ''Now we have to bury him.''
Hundreds of people streamed to the city's port, throwing sacks of stolen rice onto any conveyance they could find -- wheelbarrows, bicycles and baby carriages.
''I don't have work, so I don't have food,'' said a 30-year-old man who gave his name as Mesidor as he leaned against two 50-pound sacks of rice he had taken from the port. ''I saw everybody taking it so I took some. Right now I am not scared of anything because you only die once.''
Residents also stormed the police station, taking anything that was not nailed down -- beds, televisions, radio sets, battered file cabinets.
Rolex Pierre, 22, took a riot shield and helmet.
''Every year I want to remember what happened here,'' Mr. Pierre said, holding his mementos aloft.
Richard Estimable, the head of a pro-Lavalas militant group, fled the city with other top Aristide supporters by hijacking a small plane from the airport, said Jacques Jeannot, manager of Tropical Airways in Cap Haitien.
Seven people, two of them armed with AK-47 assault rifles, stormed into the airport shortly after 10 a.m., Mr. Jeannot said, and hijacked a Dash 8-100 waiting on the tarmac for passengers for a scheduled flight to Port-au-Prince.
''They got in and demanded the pilots take them to Port-au-Prince,'' Mr. Jeannot said.
Later in the day, another rebel leader, Louis-Jodel Chamblain, a former top military official who headed death squads in the late 1980's and was accused of atrocities in the aftermath of the coup in 1991 that removed Mr. Aristide from office, patrolled the streets with about 40 men dressed in camouflage and carrying assault rifles. As he marched down the street in gold-rimmed sunglasses and a chain of bullets studding his chest, he refused to answer questions from reporters.
In a statement later at a local hotel, he said, ''All I can say is I am proud to have liberated Cap Haitien. The plan now is we are going to march to Port-au-Prince to the National Palace to expel Aristide.''
While Mr. Philippe basked in pleasure over the rebel seizure of Cap Haitien, he seemed more sober about its long-term significance.
''This is not a victory,'' he said. ''No one is winning. Haiti is losing. So I am just calling it another step along the way to freeing Haiti.''
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Rebels seize control of Cap Haitien, Haiti's second-largest city, meeting little resistance as hundreds of residents cheer, burn police station, plunder food from warehouses and loot airport, which is quickly closed; police officers and Pres Jean-Bertrand Aristide's armed supporters flee; rebels now hold nearly all of northern Haiti, driving nation deeper into chaos; rebel leaders vow their compatriots will occupy all of Haiti within two weeks; rebel commander Guy Philippe comments, interview; Aristide has no significant military force to rally against uprising; map; photos (M)
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Jack Lemmon discovered his calling early. He was in elementary school in Brookline, Mass., when the lead in the school play came down with whooping cough. Lemmon was drafted as a replacement, though he didn't know the dialogue. "I'd walk over to the wings and the teacher would whisper a couple of lines to me, then I'd walk back to the center, exaggerating them instinctively," Lemmon told The Washington Post in 1986. When the crowd roared with laughter, "I could have been mortified," said Lemmon, "but instead, this little light-bulb went off in my head.... Something in me was saying, 'I think I like this.' "
Over his 46-year movie career, audiences likedâand lovedâhim back. From the giddiest of comedies to the darkest of dramas, Lemmon, who died on June 27 at age 76, could convey the humanity in any slickster, schnook or tortured soul. Offscreen, Lemmon was renowned as one of Hollywood's nicest guys. "People talk about this enormous range he had as an actor. He had very little range as a human being," says writer Larry Gelbart, a longtime friend. "He was just terrific." The eight-time Oscar nomineeâand two-time winner, becoming the first man to take both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor awardsâ"put up a hell of a good fight" against the bladder cancer that took his life, says director Charlie Matthau, 38, son of Lemmon's closest friend, Walter Matthau. At his side when he died at L.A.'s USC/Norris Cancer Center were Lemmon's wife of 39 years, former actress Felicia Farr, 68, his son Chris, 47, his daughter Courtney McCrea, 35, and his stepdaughter Denise Gordon, 51. "There were never any complaints, and he had a pretty tough go of it at the end," says Chris, an actor whose films include 1984's Swing Shift. "I learned enormous lessons from him about dignity and strength in the way he handled his passing that will stay with me for the rest of my life."
Friends including Kirk and Michael Douglas, Shirley MacLaine, Gregory Peck and Billy Wilder joined the family for a private funeral on July 1 at L.A.'s Westwood Memorial Park. Chris delivered a eulogy, then introduced "my father's other three sons"âactors Kevin Spacey and Peter Gallagher, to whom Lemmon was a mentor, and golf pro Peter Jacobsen. Chris says he teased Michael Douglas: "I would've included you, but the rest of us are such rabble-rousers and you're so dignified." Douglas spoke anyway, as did Gelbart and director Blake Edwards. "We're all numb," Chris says of his family. "Pop was not just my father. He was my best friend."
Onscreen and off, Lemmon was easy to warm up to. As a comic actor he created a cavalcade of merriment: covered head-to-toe in soapsuds in 1955's Mister Roberts; doing the fandango with a flower in his teeth in Some Like It Hot (1959); straining spaghetti through a tennis racket in The Apartment (1960); demonstrating perfect comic chemistry with Matthau in hits from 1968's The Odd Couple to 1993's Grumpy Old Men. Like his Everyman characters, Lemmon off-duty never seemed larger than life. One of his passions was golf, and "one of his biggest regrets," says Chris, "was that after 35 years of trying, he never made the cut at the Pebble Beach tournament." He also enjoyed playing piano and quiet dinners at his Beverly Hills home with his wife and friends such as Matthau and Wilder. "He and my dad remind me of when I read an obituary of Joe Louis," says Charlie Matthau. "It said he didn't have to go around telling everybody he was the greatest, because everybody knew it."
John Uhler Lemmon III was born in Brookline in 1925 to decidedly larger-than-life parents. His father, John Jr., a top executive of the Doughnut Corporation of America, was also an avid amateur actor. His mother, Mildred, was a flamboyant socialite once described by her son as "Tallulah Bank-head on a road show." The couple, often quarrelsome, separated when Jack was 18. "I had a happy childhood, but it was tempered with an acute awareness of the pain," he later told The New York Times.
A sickly only child born with jaundiceâ"they called me the yellow Lemmon," he saidâhe endured several mastoid and throat operations before age 10. But at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., he took up cross-country and broke the New England high school record for the two-mile run. Enchanted by a classmate's collection of Gershwin records, he also taught himself to play the piano. "I damn near flunked out every year," he told PEOPLE in 1991, "because I spent so much time not crackin' the books but playing the piano."
Entering Harvard's Navy program in 1943, Lemmon became a leading campus actor and president of the Hasty Pudding Club, famed for its over-the-top theatricals. After a stateside naval stint, he dropped anchor in New York City in 1947 with $300 borrowed from his father. He eventually landed radio and TV roles and made his Broadway debut in a 1953 revival of Room Service. It lasted a dismal 16 performances, but a Columbia Pictures executive saw it and placed an order for its clean-cut star.
Touted in ads as "a guy you're gonna like," Lemmon hit the big screen opposite Judy Holliday in the 1954 comedy It Should Happen to You. The eager neophyte had a lot to learn. "Jack Lemmon was so intense, I had to keep telling him, 'A little less, Jack,' " director George Cukor told The New York Times. "Finally [Jack] said, 'I'm doing it so much less that now I'm down to nothing at all.' I said, 'That's the idea, Jack.' "
Reined in, at least somewhat, Lemmon achieved stardom in short order. He won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his uproarious turn as Ensign Pulver, the endearingly callow junior ship's officer in 1955's Mister Roberts. In 1959 he and Tony Curtis donned dresses as musicians on the lam in an all-girl band in Wilder's critical and commercial smash Some Like It Hot. The biggest drag of drag? "The shoes," Lemmon recalled. "Tony and I were both getting shin splints."
Lemmon gained a pal and a patron in Wilder, who cast him in such classic comedies as The Apartment (1960's Best Picture), 1963's Irma La Douce and 1966's The Fortune Cookie, Lemmon's first pairing with Matthau. "He was the best actor I ever worked with," says Wilder, 95, who once declared that Lemmon created in moviegoers the "greatest rapport with an actor since Chaplin." But as Lemmon's career flourished, his marriage to Cynthia Stoneâan actress he had met in New York and wed in 1950âwilted. "We really had more of a brother-and-sister relationship than a good, solid marriage," he told PEOPLE in 1998. They divorced in 1956, two years after the birth of son Chris.
Lemmon soon found lasting love with Farr, whom he wed in 1962. "Before I met Felish," he later said, "I never got angry. I was all bottled up, constricted emotionally. She opened me up. I could get violently mad...and I could feel an attraction that I never felt for any human being." He was also stretching as an actor. In 1962 he broke from breezy comedy with an Oscar-nominated performance as an alcoholic in Days of Wine and Roses. (In the 1970s Lemmon attended Alcoholics Anonymous meetings to deal with a real-life drinking problem.)
In 1966 Farr, who had a daughter, Denise, from her first marriage, gave birth to Courtney (who now runs Lemmon's charitable foundation, supporting environmental and civil rights causes). That year also marked the start of Lemmon's relationship with Matthau. After The Fortune Cookie and their hilarious war of words in 1968's The Odd Couple, they acted together eight more times. "We were always on the same wavelength, and we never got off it," Lemmon told the New York Daily News in 1996. In his only foray behind the camera, Lemmon also directed Matthau to an Oscar nomination in 1971's Kotch. Matthau's death in July 2000 devastated Lemmon, says Charlie Matthau. "He said he missed him every day."
Lemmon achieved two milestonesâone low, one highâin the '70s. He did his first nude scene, baring his bottom in the 1972 Wilder comedy Avanti! "The first review I read said I looked like a dried prune," he said. "The second one said I looked like a dried peach. After that I stopped reading." His portrait of a frustrated garment manufacturer in 1973's Save the Tiger won better reviewsâand a Best Actor Oscar. Lemmon went on to acclaim in politically charged dramas such as 1979's The China Syndrome and 1982's Missing. "As I grew older," the devoted Democrat told The New York Times, "my thinking changed. I thought less about Lemmon and his damn career and more and more about the world and the society we live in. I became more concerned with films that have something to say." He also served as a mentor to younger costars. "Jack became a godfather to a whole generation of Hollywood actors," says Missing's John Shea. "He thought of us as part of his family."
Becoming one of Hollywood's most successful senior citizens, Lemmon revived the old Lemmon-Matthau magic as 1993's Grumpy Old Men and 1995's Grumpier Old Men hit it big at the box office. And TV movies began filling his mantel with awards, including a 1998 Golden Globe that Ving Rhames, the winner for Don King: Only in America, rebestowed on his surprised fellow nominee (for 12 Angry Men). The next year Lemmon won for Tuesdays with Morrie, his last major role. "In the spirit of Ving Rhames," he announced, "I'd like to give this Golden Globe to Jack Lemmon."
His close relationship with his children and three grandchildren (Chris's kids Sydney, 11, Christopher Jr., 7, and Jonathan, 5) brought even more fulfilling rewards. "We spent an enormous amount of time together, playing golf and fishing," says Chris. Apart from his family, what Lemmon loved most was what he called "magic time"âa phrase he whispered to himself before every take. "That's the way it is when you're acting," he explained last year. "It's magic time if you can pull it off." With Lemmon on the screen, it usually was.
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If another remake of “Mutiny on the Bounty” had ever gone into pre-production, then the jurors from the O.J. trial would have been candidates for the cast.
The eighth episode of FX’s “The People v. O.J. Simpson” gives us a glimpse into how the jurors struggled with the stress of sequestration, battled their own race relations and revolted against the process.
It makes one wonder what would have happened had there been a hung jury, and if the case had to have been be retried with another panel.
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Everything was voted on — even what to watch during their down time.
For example: Jurors had to vote on what to watch on VHS tapes from Blockbuster.
Remember VHS? Remember Blockbuster? That's the company that went $3 billion into debt — and that's not including late fees.
Jurors voted between watching episodes of “Martin” or “Seinfeld.” (Do you even need to watch the episode to get this right?)
They went with “Martin.” Cut to O.J. playing cards and saying, "I love that Kramer character."
Clearly, the jury wasn't one of his peers, but one of his appearances: Of the 12 jurors selected, eight were black, two were Hispanic, one was white, and one identified himself as half white and half American Indian. Eight were women, and four were men. They ranged in age from 22 to 52.
I can only imagine what it was like for the jurors.
KATO KAELIN: THE O.J. CIRCUS IS BACK IN TOWN
I was instructed by the court not to watch any of the trial proceedings on TV until after my testimony.
I complied by not watching TV at all but after a week I was showing signs of insanity. NO TV?! I lasted a month and then watched only sports. Being a juror today would only be harder with Twitter and Facebook in the mix.
The trial also brought us DNA evidence.
A concept difficult to grasp back then, but according to a juror who spoke to “Dateline” DNA was even never brought up during deliberations.
It appears the only DNA some of the jurors thought about was, Dude Needs Alibi.
When I watched the scene in which prosecution witness Dennis Fung explained how the DNA match meant the odds were only 1 in 100,000,070 that the killer wasn't O.J., I could hear Jim Carrey saying, "So you're telling me there's a chance."
Which leads me to how my life completely changed in a week.
I had auditioned for the movie “Dumb and Dumber” and got a callback.
The producer told me I was perfect for the role of Harry Dunn, which later went to Jeff Daniels. I was excited about it, but I never made it for the callback because one week later, Nicole and Ron were murdered, and the world around me stopped.
Stopped and spun and sometimes I feel like it still hasn't slowed down.
Kato Kaelin hosts a show called "Sports Haters" on Dish Network and FILMON.com and developed a clothing line called Slacker. Follow him on Twitter.
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Last December, just in time for Christmas, the amazing Dolly Parton delighted viewers and critics alike with her deeply heartwarming tale drawn straight from her inspiring real life and music. In an all-new holiday sequel, the Partons, a family of humble means living in the mountains of Tennessee, face a devastating event that challenges their will. But when they experience a bewildering Christmas miracle, the Partons are drawn closer together than ever - with deepened faith and love for one another.
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The Gawker cash crunch is hitting home.
The Web site’s founder, Nick Denton, has put his swanky Soho abode on the rental market for $15,000 a month.
Sources say the move is part of a downsizing strategy following a jury’s decision to award Hulk Hogan $140 million — including $10 million from Denton’s personal fortune — as punishment for publishing a sex tape.
When reached by The Post, Denton declined to comment.
The apartment on Crosby Street had been the site of wild media parties back in the day. Page Six once reported that a disgruntled ex-lover of Denton’s now-husband once threw a brick into the apartment’s second-story window.
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If drug addiction is a disease like cancer or Alzheimer's, how do you explain the seemingly amoral behavior — the lying, cheating, and hiding — that's come to be linked with so many addicts?
The answer is far simpler than you might think, at least according to neuroscience journalist and author Maia Szalavitz, whose new book, "Unbroken Brain," throws water on most of the modern assumptions that plague our understanding of drug and alcohol addiction.
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Addiction, she writes, is not a disease like cancer. But it's not a moral failing, either.
Instead she proposes it's a learning disorder, much like ADHD, and needs to be treated as such. This treatment regimen would vary based on the individual, but could include things like cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), a form of psychotherapy in which the therapist and patient work together to swap unhealthy, learned though patterns with more constructive ways of thinking, and potentially medication.
Seem like a radical idea? Turns out, numerous experts — from neuroscientists to economists to psychiatrists (not to mention several peer-reviewed scientific studies) — agree with her. And they have for more than a decade.
Treating addiction as either a disease like cancer or a moral failing based on someone's character defects, then, doesn't work. Instead, addiction is a learned behavior that often results in measurable changes to the brain. And this could revolutionize not only how we see addicts and addiction but also how we treat it.
When most of us think about addiction, we focus on one set of its symptoms — the behavioral changes many addicts display like failing to keep commitments, stealing drugs when they can no longer afford them, doing them in secret, and isolating themselves from family and friends.
But we've ignored the real causes.
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"Scientists think it's nuts to frame [the idea of addiction as a learning disorder] as new but most of the public has no idea and it's been framed to the public as a disease — so when you think disease, you think cancer and Alzheimer's — but then they see how people with addictions behave and they think, 'Well, that doesn't fit,'" said Szalavitz.
"So on the one hand we're calling it a disease," Szalavitz adds, "but then we're treating it as a sin. And that doesn't make sense."
There are several reasons for this, Szalavitz writes in her book. A cult named Synanon, for example, which is now credited with spawning the "tough love" movement, focused on publicly shaming and humiliating its members who were addicted to drugs or alcohol. This focus on defects of character, says Szalavitz, is "not exactly helpful for someone who already has a lot of self-hatred."
Some rehab centers and 12-step programs reinforce this idea, Szalavitz (a former member of Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous) writes, by requiring members to do things like accept the idea of god or a higher power, pray and meditate, and accept their own powerlessness (the first step of Alcoholics Anonymous).
All of these approaches may be helpful to some people, says Szalavitz. And they have undoubtedly changed the lives of many people for the better. Multiple people I spoke with for this story said that if it were not for the program of Alcoholics Anonymous, they would assuredly be dead. The problem with these approaches, argues Szalavitz, is that they're not medical approaches, and addiction is a medical problem — a learning disorder — which needs a medical solution. This would ideally involve doctors and trained psychiatrists and psychologists as well as support groups.
"Self-help should be self-help and treatment should be treatment. Your oncologist is not your breast cancer support group," said Szalavitz.
A 2004 paper in the journal Nature suggested that addiction was a learning disorder, meaning it was a behavior that was learned, perhaps as a coping mechanism, and resulted in fundamental changes to the brain wiring of people who are addicted.
From the paper's abstract [emphasis ours]:
"Drug addiction manifests as a compulsive drive to take a drug despite serious adverse consequences. This aberrant behavior has traditionally been viewed as bad 'choices' that are made voluntarily by the addict. However, recent studies have shown that repeated drug use leads to long-lasting changes in the brain that undermine voluntary control. This, combined with new knowledge of how environmental, genetic and developmental factors contribute to addiction, should bring about changes in our approach to the prevention and treatment of addiction."
That was 12 years ago.
For many addicts, the problem is that their behavior of using eventually stops working its magic. Yet the compulsion to use remains, so they try something stronger. That's what happened to Szalavitz, who battled addiction for years.
The experience of Szalavitz, who used cocaine and heroin for years, describes an insatiable craving for cocaine, for example, even when she knew injecting herself with the drug no longer provided any trace of benefits. She described watching the world around her — her studies at Columbia University, which she'd dreamed of attending since she was a child, two parents that supported and loved her — began to crumble. Yet she kept using.
A 2005 paper in the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior journal sheds light on why this happens.
In it, University of Michigan pharmacologist Gail Winger and her colleagues argue that drug addiction is a behavioral disorder, since it involves what looks like "choosing" a drug over other potential options (though the matter of choice in this matter is also hotly debated), "perhaps because the drug is a more potent reinforcer relative to competing reinforcers in the addict's life."
In other words, contrary to the long-ingrained notion that Szalavitz continued to use because she liked the effects the drugs produced, she, like many addicts, used because she'd learned that using would help her feel OK in the world. She describes being constantly overwhelmed by colors and sounds as a child, for example, and struggling to form friendships or even feel safe and loved despite being surrounded by loving family.
But when she found drugs as an adolescent, they helped to ease all of these difficulties. They helped "lower the volume," Szalavitz said. Here's the problem: Using worked for her — primarily during years when her adolescent brain was literally being remodeled and shaped for adulthood. And for many addicts, by the time the drug stops working, the brain has already decided that it needs to use, despite plenty of evidence (and perhaps even a few interventions) to the contrary.
"Longitudinal investigations of individuals going through the period between childhood and adulthood reveal that there is a remodeling of the brain that starts often just before the teen years begin and continues well into the mid-twenties," Dr. Dan Siegel, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles' School of Medicine, writes in a blog post for Psychology Today.
Essentially, this means that for some people, behaviors that are learned between these two life phases are far more likely to stick, especially when such behaviors had positive outcomes at one point.
One recovering alcoholic I spoke to said this about her drinking habit, which eventually left her in jail with no money and no family to call: "I firmly believe that alcohol saved my life. It just stopped working." For years of her teenage life, she was incredibly uncomfortable in social situations. She was overwhelmed at parties and couldn't seem to hold onto any friends. Then she found alcohol, and her problems seemed to lift. She was finally able to carry on a conversation. Everything was easier. She felt comfortable in her own skin. "I had arrived," she told me.
But eventually the substance — in her case alcohol — stopped working.
This is where seeing drug addiction as a disease or as a moral failing falls dramatically and tragically short. And a new approach is needed.
"In actuality [addiction] is a form of pathologic learning," says Szalavitz. "With addiction overwhelming changes occur in the brain region involving areas that evolved for things like love and sex and feeding. All these things that are fundamental to reproduction," says Szalavitz.
That means that addiction will create what Szalavitz calls "very powerful drives" — strong desires to take the drug repeatedly even if it's not providing any pleasant effects. But it doesn't make addicts totally powerless either.
"We've just been getting this completely backwards, by failing to address the role of learning. If you want to call it a disease, the kind of disease it is is a learning disease."
This has been proven time and time again with things like clean needle exchanges, where providing addicts with access to sterile needles has resulted in dramatically reduced rates of diseases like HIV/AIDS. "The way it's been framed as a disease is people can't control anything about themselves — they wouldn't use clean needles or try to protect their health in any way, but that's been proven false with things like needle exchanges."
Evidence that addicts can learn healthy behavior is crucial, because it highlights the role addiction plays in learning. It's also incredibly hopeful, because it suggests that addicts can change, provided they have access to the right resources.
"The bottom line in terms of this is that we know people with addiction have a skewed decision-making system, but they don't have no free will," said Szalavitz.
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As a move to end the 10-year domestic partnership of
host David Tutera and Ryan Jurica
, Tutera has issued a statement to PEOPLE responding to allegations culled from Jurica's legal papers, accusing the WE tv
of a sexual addiction and the hiring of prostitutes.
"The allegations against me are baseless and untrue and I will fight vigorously to defend my reputation in the court of law as well as the court of public opinion," says Tutera. "I believe them to be fabrications of a desperate individual in order to gain a legal advantage in our separation."
He goes on the say: "I am saddened by these developments; I am angered by the lies; and I am committed to moving beyond this painful moment to focus on my professional commitments and the upcoming birth of my children."
Tutera and Jurica, who wed in Vermont in September 2003, separated on New Year's Day 2013, according to Los Angeles County Superior Court documents filed by Tutera on April 19 and obtained by PEOPLE. The filing, which cites "irreconcilable differences," also states that the two men are expecting the birth of twins via a surrogate in July.
, on April 17 Jurica filed legal documents in Connecticut to end the union.
In the papers, Jurica claims, according to TMZ, "After repeated attempts at marriage counseling and therapy, we have been unable to save our relationship due to [Tutera's] addiction to sex."
In his filing, Tutera seeks full legal and physical custody of the twins, with visitation for Jurica. He also does not wish to pay spousal support and asks that Jurica be responsible for all legal fees related to their split and the division of property.
TMZ reports that in his papers, Jurica, who also is demanding full custody of the unborn children, says Tutera is the breadwinner in the relationship, earning more than $1 million a year.
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Striped hyenas (Hyaena hyaena) are solitary hunters. They forage alone but occasionally come together to munch on a kill. They are far less sociable than their better-known cousins, spotted hyenas.
Both species are known to be highly intolerant of other large carnivores, and even of other members outside their immediate social group. They will also kill large aggressive dogs that get in their way.
That is why Vladimir Dinets of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, US, was surprised to find that a striped hyena had travelled with a pack of grey wolves – another hostile predator usually intolerant of other species.
"It went against everything that was known about wolves and hyenas," Dinets says. He first spotted tracks of both creatures near Eilat, in the Negev desert of Israel in 1994. This included three grey wolves and one striped hyena.
"Remarkably, in many places the hyena tracks were on top of wolf tracks… The tracks of the three wolves also overlapped each other in all possible orders," Dinets and his colleagues write in a new study in the journal Zoology in the Middle East.
This indicates, they say, that these four animals were walking together at the same time.
Although Dinets was confident of his initial observations, he knew the footprints were not enough to convince his colleagues at the time. "Most zoologists today don't get trained in conventional tracking and know little or nothing about the kinds of data you can get from it."
It might be because both groups live in such an inhospitable, arid part of the world
It was only four years later, about 1,300m away, that Dinet's colleague Beniamin Eligulashvili, an Israeli zoologist, had a similar experience.
This time he saw the two species together, first-hand. He observed seven wolves with one hyena.
What was even more surprising was that the hyena was not following the wolves, but moving in the middle of the pack.
While hyenas have been known to scavenge the kills of other large predators, they had never before been known to socialise with other hunters.
No striped hyena has been spotted with a wolf pack since.
Predators are smart, flexible animals
Eligulashvili had hoped to see more instances of this unusual friendship, which is why the team waited so long to publish the results. "But he [Eligulashvili] never saw anything like it again," says Dinets. "He didn't even see another striped hyena. They are very difficult to see in the wild."
The question is, why would the wolves tolerate a hyena among their ranks?
The authors believe it might be because both groups live in such an inhospitable, arid part of the world. There is only 29mm of rain each year in the area.
It is these extreme conditions that may have driven the two species together to form this unlikely alliance, the authors propose.
Wolves are better at tracking down large prey, while hyenas have a superior sense of smell. They can also get into discarded rubbish like tin cans, and are extremely good at scavenging and ripping apart large bones.
It is still unclear how long the hyena spent with the wolves, or how many times similar behaviour has occurred before or since.
What it does show is that "predators are smart, flexible animals", says Dinets. This observation reveals that they certainly do not "stick to roles prescribed to them by biology textbooks".
Hyena expert Kay Holekamp of Michigan State University, US, has never seen or heard of anything of the kind. "Stranger things have happened," she says.
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Hyenas are not usually a friendly bunch, but one has been spotted in the midst of a wild wolf pack for the first time
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On the night of their great escape, Meriam Al-Khalifa got cold feet. Shortly before her planned rendezvous with boyfriend Jason Johnson, Meriam, then 18, told him by phone, "If I'm not there at 11, you'll know I'm not coming." Johnson, 25, fell silent a moment, then said, "It's all up to you, but I'll wait." For 40 agonizing minutes on that night last November, the U.S. Marine waited and wondered. Would his beloved, a princess who is a cousin of Bahrain's ruler, Emir Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa, have the courage to defy her family and flee her homeland to make a less glamorous life with him in America?
Meanwhile, Meriam sat beside her mother, staring at the television and thinking, "I can't do it." As 11 p.m. neared, she went to her bedroom. "I thought, 'What am I doing?' " She'd known for years she didn't want to go on being a princess. "My whole life was planned out for me," she says. "I wanted to know other people." Impetuously, Meriam changed into her American-style getaway clothesâcargo pants, a flannel shirt and a blue New York Yankees capâstuffed three pairs of pants into a backpack, then climbed out her window. Under cover of darkness, she fled across the lawn of her father's home outside Bahrain's capital city of Manama, scaled a fence and ran down the roadâinto the embrace of her future.
Or so it seemed that night. Over the next two hours Meriam and Johnson successfully navigated seven layers of airport security. Johnson had forged a Marine ID for Meriam; he'd also forged orders for her to return to the U.S. "Everything worked really well," says Johnson. Until they landed last Nov. 2 in Chicago. Immigration and Naturalization Service officials, alerted by Bahraini police, were waiting to take Meriam into custody. Since then the two have become unlikely players in an international melodrama involving the U.S. and its Persian Gulf ally, the island nation of Bahrain. Her family wants Meriam back. She wants to stay. Now it's up to a U.S. immigration judge to decide if she can.
Two weeks after their perilous journey, Meriam and Johnson did one thing that might improve her chances: They married, in the Candlelight Chapel in Las Vegas. (A wedding supper followed at Taco Bell.) INS hearings, which began July 17, are expected to stretch over several months, and Meriam's attorney, Jan Bejar, intends to make a case for political asylum. "We know that she would sufferâwho knows what?âif she returns," says Bejar. Adds Meriam, who is Muslim: "I did the worst thing I could do: I have married a white man, an American and a Christian. All are forbidden to me." Until she's 21, Meriam is also a minor under Bahraini law.
Laurel Fletcher of the International Human Rights Law Clinic at the University of California at Berkeley observes, "She has brought shame on her family. There may very well be retribution." Middle East expert Richard Dekmejian of the University of Southern California disagrees. "The greatest priority of the Bahrain ruling family is their relationship with the U.S.," he says. "They will not punish [her]."
The Al-Khalifas' lawyer, Qays H. Zu'bi, says that Meriam's parents are "loving, understanding and forgiving." He says that they have been in touch with Meriamâthe princess denies any contactâand insists that "nothing will happen to her" upon her return. As for Johnson, he says, "I don't think at present he's welcome."
But to Meriam, now 19, it would be sore punishment if she were separated from her Marine. "This is my home and my family," she says of her new no-frills life at Camp Pendleton in Southern California, where she lives in a house that is smaller than her bedroom back in Bahrain. That may soon change. On June 13 Johnson was court-martialed and busted from lance corporal to private for forging military papers. Now he plans to petition for a humanitarian discharge from the Marines before his tour ends in 2002. "I think I should be with my wife and protect her," says Johnson, who aspires to become a child psychologist.
His relationship with Meriam began in November 1998, soon after Johnson, a Mormon, was assigned to a security force in Manama. Cruising the town with Marine pals, he spotted Meriam at the Seef Mall. "She was just like an American, in her jeans and stuff," he recalls. "She sounded like a Spice Girl." Meriam, an A student who had been educated at a private girls' school, says she found Johnson "funny, but [acting] kind of dumb."
Though Meriam did not mention her heritage, Johnson figured it out from her name. "It was kinda cool to him," says a friend, ex-Marine Jason Wells, 20. Wary of the attention they might draw, the couple conducted their courtship in glances and whispers. He would stroll behind her in the mall, pull up to exchange a few words, then fall back again. They talked by phone and even ventured out to a movie.
That proved their undoing. As they sat watching The Faculty the following May, they exchanged what would prove to be their first and last kiss for many months to come. Spotted by undercover police, their meeting was reported to Meriam's mother. "She was really angry and crying; she accused me of not being a virgin," says Meriam. "But she didn't tell my fatherâyet." Instead her mother demanded that Meriam phone Johnson and break it off. "I told him it was over," says Meriam. "I told him then, for the first time, I loved him."
"I went ballistic," says Johnson. "I threw furniture all over the room." Then he began hatching a plan. Over the next six months, as the pair exchanged more than 100 letters, Johnson paid nightly visits to the airport. Noticing that military personnel were rarely stopped, he decided to disguise Meriam as a Marine on leave.
While the couple were aloft, Meriam's father, Sheik Abdullah Al-Khalifa, questioned the absence of the third of his five daughters. Learning from his wife of the illicit romance, he alerted officials. Upon arrival at O'Hare, Meriam was detained, then held at the airport overnight. "[Officials] tried to tell me my boyfriend had left me," says Meriam. "But I knew he never would."
Though a Beverly Hills production company has already offered to put their story on the screen, a happy ending is not assured. For the moment, romance seems to be trumping politics. Their story has received sympathetic coverage in the U.S., and California Sen. Barbara Boxer has written to the INS, urging that they give Meriam a break. Meanwhile, Meriam is learning to drive and do housework. "I've been showing her how to iron," says Frances Johnson, Jason's grandmother. If fate works in their favor, says Meriam, "we'll have a real wedding" next November.
Maureen Harrington in Los Angeles and Liz Corcoran in Bahrain
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Bahrain's Princess Meriam Al-Khalifa Stole Away in the Night to Marry U.S. Marine Jason Johnson. Will Immigration Officials Let Her Stay in the States?
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The Victorians who flew as high as jumbo jets
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The dead pigeons should have been James Glaisher’s warning. On 5 September 1862, the scientist was taking one of his first balloon flights – and alongside the compass, thermometers and bottles of brandy, he had decided to bring along six birds.
“One was thrown out at the height of three miles,” he later wrote. “When it extended its wings it dropped like a piece of paper; the second, at four miles, flew vigorously round and round, apparently taking a dip each time; a third was thrown out between four and five miles, and it fell downwards as a stone.”
No sooner had he noted these observations than he began to feel the “balloon sickness” himself. His arm had been resting on the table, but it failed to respond when he tried to lift it. Alarmed, he tried to call out to his aeronaut, Henry Coxwell, but the words froze in his mouth and his head lolled helplessly to one side.
Glaisher knew the end was nigh. “In an instance darkness overcame me… I believed I would experience nothing more as death would come unless we speedily descended.”
Amazingly, both Coxwell and Glaisher survived thanks to some last-minute luck – but had they not they would have drifted to their deaths at the edge of the Earth’s atmosphere. Their plight is one of the great daredevil stories in the history of aviation – and perhaps even a glimpse into the future of space travel.
Glaisher had first set his sights skyward as he surveyed Ireland, mapping the contours of its highest peaks. “I was often compelled to remain sometimes for long periods, above or enveloped in cloud,” he wrote. “I was thus led to study the colours of the sky, the delicate tints of the clouds, the motion of opaque masses, the forms of the crystals of snow.” His interest only peaked as he moved to the great observatories of Cambridge and Greenwich. “Often when a barrier of cloud has suddenly concealed the stars from view, I have wished to know the cause of their rapid formation and the processes in action around them.”
Ballooning had progressed somewhat since “Les Freres Roberts” tried to guide their balloon flights with oars and umbrellas at the end of the 18th Century, and ballooning was now of increasing interest to scientists like Glaisher. In contrast to today’s hot air balloons, their vehicles were filled with a light gas, like hydrogen, allowing the aeronauts to rise “with the ease of an ascending vapour … carried by the imprisoned gas”, as Glaisher put it.
To rise, they would have thrown sand out of the basket, and to descend they opened a valve to let some of the gas out of the balloon. Once they were close enough to Earth, they would then release an anchor “that would hook into a tree or hedges and stop them being dragged along the ground”, says John Baker, the archivist at the British Balloon Museum and Library. Whereas others had always kept within view of the ground below, however, Glaisher wanted to reach higher, to explore the “aerial ocean”, which offered a “boundless sea of inquiry”.
Persuading the British Association for the Advancement of Science to fund his trips, Glaisher teamed up with the expert balloonist Henry Coxwell to take these voyages into the unknown. Their quest was quintessentially British – to understand the atmospheric forces governing the weather down on Earth. “He spent lots of time manufacturing suitable apparatus,” says Baker.
After some initial hiccups, the pair took their first flight on 17 July 1862, taking off from Wolverhampton at 9:43 in the morning. Within 12 minutes they had passed through the clouds. Under the heat of the sun, the balloon – an enormous construction containing 90,000 cubic feet (2,500 cubic metres) of gas – filled out to assume an almost perfect sphere. The sky, he noted, had turned a “deep Prussian blue”.
With cheap and accessible air travel today, it is easy to forget the romance of travelling thousands of feet above the ground. In 1862, however, Glaisher was among a small handful of people who had seen the world this way, and his lyrical descriptions help us to see those sights with fresh eyes. He describes the “supreme beauty” of the clouds “presenting at times mountain scenes of endless variety and grandeur”. The shadow of the balloon on the clouds below was “surrounded by a kind of corona tinted with prismatic colours”.
The illuminated dials of Westminster clock were like two dull moons
His later flights departed from Crystal Palace in London, offering a unique view of the British capital. “The illuminated dials of Westminster clock were like two dull moons,” he wrote, while Commercial Road “appeared like a line of brilliant fire”. The closest comparison, he thought, was the Milky Way on a clear dark night. “The field of view appeared covered with gold-dust, to be possessed of the power to see those minute spots of light as brilliant stars.”
The feted flight on the 5 September (again from Wolverhampton) began sanguinely enough. “A flood of strong sunlight burst upon us with a beautiful blue sky without a cloud, and beneath us lay a magnificent sea of clouds, its surface varied with endless hills, hillocks, and mountain chains, and with many snow-white tufts rising from it.”
While Coxwell was dangerously clambering among the rigging, Glaisher was slowly losing consciousness
As they rose beyond five miles, however, the temperature dropped below -20C, and he began to notice difficulties with his vision. “I could not see the fine column of the mercury in the wet-bulb thermometer; nor the hands of the watch, nor the fine divisions on any instrument.” Clearly, they needed to descend – yet the balloon’s valve-line had become entangled in the other ropes. Coxwell had to climb out of the basket to release it, but while he was dangerously clambering among the rigging, Glaisher was slowly losing consciousness.
Up on the ring, Coxwell felt that he too was losing control of his limbs. Realising that his life was at risk, he grabbed hold of the valve-line with his teeth and yanked his head several times. To his immense relief, it opened and they began their descent.
Glaisher awoke to hear Coxwell muttering vaguely above him. “I have been insensible,” he said – but wasted no time in returning to his experiments. “I then drew up my legs and took a pencil to begin observations,” he recorded in the book Travels in the Air. Of the pigeons, only one remained with them by the time they had reached the ground. It seemed so traumatised by the experience that it clung to Glaisher’s hand for 15 minutes before taking flight.
The pair estimated that they had risen to 37,000 feet – 7 miles (11km) – the highest altitude that a manned flight had reached at that point.
Neither Glaisher nor Coxwell could have fully understood the cause of their “balloon illness”. The cold, and the lack of oxygen will have certainly contributed, but a recent paper in Neurology journal suggests they may also have been suffering the “bends” that divers experience if they rise too quickly; thanks to falling pressure during the rapid ascent, gases like nitrogen and oxygen are released in the blood, forming bubbles in the neural tissue. The result is nausea, paralysis and loss of consciousness.
Glaisher reported, somewhat stoically, that he had been unscathed by the incident. “No inconvenience followed my insensibility.” He went on to make another 21 flights, recording observations that were crucial for our understanding of weather – discovering, for instance, the way raindrops form and gather moisture as they hurtle towards Earth, and noting that the winds change speed as you rise or fall through the atmosphere. “On one flight they took off with no wind on the surface, but flew 120 miles (190km), which proved that the wind was different at different altitudes,” says Baker.
Today, these kinds of measurements are made in unmanned, meteorological balloons – although some daredevils are still using balloons for equally intrepid journeys. Felix Baumgartner, for instance, rose 24 miles (39km) in a helium balloon for his famous “skydive” from space – and according to some, ballooning may even become the preferred means of space tourism. Advised by Nasa astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria, the Spanish company Zero2Infinity plans to use a massive helium balloon to float into near-space, reaching around 21 miles (34km) above the Earth – a point beyond 99% of the atmosphere.
Although this is nowhere near the altitudes planned by the likes of Virgin Galactic, it should be far enough to view the serene orb of the Earth curving below you, surrounded by blackness – the source of the profoundly moving “overview effect” that so many astronauts have described. The advantage is that a balloon journey should be much more serene than a ride on a rocket-powered spaceplane.
Glaisher (who now has a crater on the Moon named in his honour) would surely approve. “We seem to be citizens of the sky, separated from the Earth by a barrier which seems impassable,” he wrote of his ballooning experiences. “In the upper world, to which we seem now to belong, the silence and quiet are so intense that peace and calm seem to reign alone.”
David Robson is BBC Future’s feature writer. He is @d_a_robson on Twitter.
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