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Los Angeles is the haven for the rich and famous, a city that’s practically dripping with luxury everywhere that’s west of the 110 freeway.
It’s a natural fit for automakers to unveil the latest in their luxury wares once a year at the Los Angeles auto show, but this year, things seem even more luxurious than usual.
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There are the usual luxury players, like Porsche, which is using the L.A. show to unveil its Targa and Cayman GT4 Clubsport models, which may not carry a six-figure pricetag, but expand each model’s respective lineup to niche buyers. Alfa Romeo has a new model. Aston Martin is riding the high of showing its DB10 James Bond show car. Hyundai is planning tolaunch its Genesis brandin December, just after the auto show concludes. (Interestingly, Cadillac and Audi are rather quiet this year.)
Ultra-luxury comes in many forms at the L.A. auto show. Start with the exterior design of the Bentley Bentayga, which uses visual tricks like oversized headlights and scaled-up emblems and emblazonments to mask its king-size presence—but looks perfect in a garden setting in West Hollywood. Sang Yup Lee, a native of Los Angeles, led the Bentayga’s design, and noted that it was important from the vehicle’s inception that it fit in, in L.A. “We don’t make small cars,” Lee said, explaining how the Bentayga differentiates itself in a segment crowded with high-dollar SUVs. Lee points to the Bentayga’s bespoke design elements, like inset headlights and the multi-tier, oversized mesh grille, as well as its overall fit and finish, as proof points that Bentley is primed to introduce an SUV and succeed with it. Lee smiled when we asked him if the Bentayga had to be Bentley’s only SUV. With a Maybach version of the Mercedes-Benz GLS rumored, as well as Rolls-Royce’s “Project Cullinen” upcoming, it’s an interesting time to launch in an entirely new category for the brand.
Best luxury feature:An optional “event seat” that folds out of the rear tailgate, as a way to show off at opulent picnics.
Speaking of Rolls-Royce, the British automaker’s news in Los Angeles was the first North American showing of the Dawn, its Wraith-based droptop. With the Dawn, Rolls-Royce adds a second convertible to its portfolio, behind the behemoth of a Phantom Drophead Coupe, adding an option for the entrepreneurial set that the brand is courting. Our first glimpse of the Dawn revealed a bit of a Halloween theme in its black-over-orange motif, although an elegant one. Like all Rolls-Royce models, each Dawn will be customizable to its owner’s heart’s content, from the body color to the surround for the tonneau cover. Optional pinstripes give tasteful visual length to the Dawn. We’ll have ours in a more traditional yachting combination of blue, white, and teak.
Best luxury feature:The soft-top can be retracted while the Dawn is in motion at suburban-friendly speeds. The door-mounted umbrellas remain, just in case.
No less important than Rolls-Royce and Bentley continuing to offer higher-than-high-end products to an exclusive subset of customers, Lamborghini used L.A. to show its Huracan LP 580-2. The “580” refers to the Huracan variant’s horsepower—translated roughly to 572 hp—and the “2” stands for two-wheel, or rear-wheel drive. We can’t complain. The LP 580-2, based on the Huracanthat we quite like,is essentially a Lamborghini geared toward tail-happy, track driving. No word yet if the manual transmission will return.
Lamborghini Huracan LP 580-2 Fast Facts
Best luxury feature:The fact that Lamborghini is catering to its core audience is a luxury in and of itself.
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AN EXCLUSIVE WHITE HOUSE INTERVIEW
The morning after a holiday party, Barack and
were still chuckling about a 5-year-old boy who had told them a joke on the receiving line. They meet a lot of people but recalled this little boy especially fondly. During the interview with PEOPLE Managing Editor Larry Hackett and D.C. correspondent Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, the laughs came freely, and the President delighted in discussing his own kids; his voice became somber only when noting that Sasha and Malia's childhoods were flying by. Then, eight days after that Dec. 6 chat, tragedy struck. "Our hearts are broken," Obama said after the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting. The week before was dominated by economic talk, but now a new agenda emerged: "Are we really prepared to say that we're powerless in the face of such carnage, that the politics are too hard? ... Surely we can do better."
shows a man revered for his principles yet willing to do the dirty work of cutting deals for the greater good. A reader, Daphne from New York, asks if you took any lesson from the movie about how to approach your second term.
THE PRESIDENT: As a rule, if you're President of the United States, you should not compare yourself to Lincoln-[Laughs]-in any way. But it's a reminder that getting things done in this town requires a balance between idealism and principle with a willingness to get your hands dirty. That engagement with Congress-that's how I got health care passed. The notion that we haven't been deep in the thick of things to get some of the things we have gotten accomplished done is probably one of the biggest misinterpretations of the first four years.
So do you think the recent criticism about your personal persuasion [in negotiations with Congress] is unfair? Or do you think there's room for improvement?
THE PRESIDENT: The dynamic in Washington over the last four years has been driven less by personal relationships or the lack of personal relationships and more by a very fierce ideological rigidity, I would obviously argue, on the other side. They might argue it was on our side. I think John Boehner oftentimes has wanted to work with me on certain issues but could not because the Tea Party or Rush Limbaugh or Fox News would not allow it. So part of my goal is to continue to reach out-there's always things that I can do better. But the most important influence on getting things done in Washington is the American people. Lincoln was famous for saying that with public opinion there's nothing you can't do, and without it there's nothing you can do.
Mrs. Obama, do you expect you'll take more of a role in sustaining that public opinion out on the road?
MRS. OBAMA: I'm not one for lip service, so I become very practical about what I can do because I have limited powers. I will continue to work on the issues of childhood obesity because the goals we set were generational and we're not done yet. The same thing is true with military spouses and families because we're now going to see those challenges up close and personal as these wars are drawn down. So I'm very happy we have another four years. I work for the President, so we'll see what you do.
THE PRESIDENT: Let's just be clear, when she says she works for me, that's in the public policy arena. [Laughs]
MRS. OBAMA: Absolutely. Not at home.
THE PRESIDENT: The roles are quite reversed.
What was the moment on Election Night like when you and your girls realized you'd won?
MRS. OBAMA: Really, election nights are so fraught with everything-you've got friends, family, you're getting ready. There are a lot of logistics. You look up and it's like, "Okay, did Dad win? All right, cool. That's good."
THE PRESIDENT: It's like a wedding: You're hoping everybody is having fun at the reception, that Aunt Mabel is getting a ride home, the crazy cousin didn't drink too much.
Another reader, Angelina Perez, asks what your girls dream of becoming.
MRS. OBAMA: Malia has expressed some interest in filmmaking. Just like her father, she is an avid reader, and she enjoys movies. But she's a freshman, so she also knows she has years in college to explore her interest. Sasha, what she likes today will change in an hour. So she doesn't even try and lay it out yet. I want them to be as open to possibilities as possible.
Do you have a list of things you want to do as a family before Malia is off to college in three years?
THE PRESIDENT: We would love to travel more with them. There's some unique opportunities as President, when I'm on a foreign trip, to make sure they're going with us. They're great travelers too. They're just fun to be with. They're curious, and they're engaged, and they're easy.
MRS. OBAMA: They're great ambassadors. And there's just a breadth of possibilities right in this country. So my hope is that we continue to hit every national park, because it's not just a great experience as a family, but it's a way to highlight to the rest of the country that we have some phenomenal resources here.
You've made jokes about the Secret Service keeping boys away from Malia. Has she asked for a moratorium on those?
THE PRESIDENT: She actually doesn't pay any attention to what I say. [Laughs] The great thing about the girls is they've got a wonderful role model in their mom. They've seen how Michelle and I interact-not only the love but also respect that I show to their mom. So I think they have pretty high expectations about how relationships should be, and that gives me some confidence about the future. I joke about this stuff sometimes, but the truth is they are smart, steady young women.
MRS. OBAMA: And that's the best protection.
THE PRESIDENT: What you want is somebody who's confident and strong and expects to be treated with respect. That's already in them. So I think they're going to be in a good spot when that comes.
Will you be in a good spot when that comes?
THE PRESIDENT: There's something about your daughters that just breaks your heart. And that's not really even an issue of dating. It's just watching them grow up. When I think about the fact that Malia will be out of my house in four years, it chokes me up. The finite amount of time you have with your children, and the joy they bring on a minute-to-minute, day-by-day basis-the idea that that's not there all the time is something that can hit me hard sometimes. So all the other stuff about their dating, their going out on weekends with their friends and all that stuff is to me just a manifestation of that sense that time is precious, because it's going to go by really fast.
Now that we've depressed you, let's do the fun stuff. What song is stuck in your head these days?
THE PRESIDENT: "Charlie Brown Christmas."
MRS. OBAMA: Oh, yes, we've been singing that a lot.
THE PRESIDENT & MRS. OBAMA [Singing]: Christmas time is here ...
THE PRESIDENT: And then we make our mouths like the Charlie Brown characters.
MRS. OBAMA: That's my favorite part! Malia's trying to learn that song [on the piano], so she's been playing it every day.
A movie you loved so much the past year you'd see it again?
was spectacular. We saw it with friends and my nieces, one of whom is only 4 years old, and it captivated all of them.
was good-because we had read that book together.
Anything the girls are into that you are embarrassed to say you like too?
THE PRESIDENT: No. They're cooler than I am. There are things I like that they think are cheesy, like "Gangnam Style." I love that.
Have you done the dance?
MRS. OBAMA: That's a little embarrassing.
THE PRESIDENT: Of course I have, but I'm not going to be doing it in front of you.
Do you gallop around just to embarrass them?
What did you go to bed reading last night?
MRS. OBAMA: I haven't been able to read in nine months. So I'm going to get a collection of books for, hopefully, what will be a nice vacation. If I sit for a second, I'm out.
THE PRESIDENT: It's hard to read during campaigns because you actually are moving nonstop, and then when you're done you're just tired. You just go to bed-or I watch SportsCenter and that's it. Last night I read a bunch of briefing books. One of the things about being elected this time was you have this parallel job that didn't stop.
MRS. OBAMA: It was kind of sad the day after the election. We came back Wednesday night. We're all wiped out. The girls had to go to school. I got up, worked out, and there he is at the table, breakfast, suit on, briefing books. I was like, "Wow, that's it?" It was just like nothing had happened; he's just going over his stuff. It was like Groundhog Day.
THE PRESIDENT: But I am reading the new Toni Morrison book,
MRS. OBAMA: How is it?
THE PRESIDENT: Beautiful. I love it.
MRS. OBAMA: I'll get that from you.
Are you making room on the shelf for her Grammy?
MRS. OBAMA: Oh, did you hear?
THE PRESIDENT: Were you nominated for something?
MRS. OBAMA: The garden book
-the audio version of it.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, when you win two, like me, then let me know.
Finally, this time next year, what will have changed for the country?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, I continue to be optimistic. We have an opportunity in which Republicans and Democrats come together and say, "We don't want to impose too high a tax burden, but there are things that we think are important in this society." We're going to invest in education; improve our roads, bridges and airports; take care of folks who are vulnerable. America is on the cusp of locking in its leadership around the world for another century. What's been stopping us is, in part, dysfunction here in Washington. If we can break through some of that, I think the field is wide-open for us. And who knows, if we can get a good fiscal package done, then you might see the shift in tone that people long for. Although I don't want to over-romanticize it. You asked what lessons did I learn from Lincoln? It's useful to be reminded: Democracy is hard. But it's the best system there is to make sure that everybody is able to pursue their dreams.
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He’s dangled from a helicopter over the Statue of Liberty, walked above Lincoln Center on a high wire — and even played guest guitar with Cheap Trick. But the scariest thing Bello Nock says he’s done was having three children.
“Talk about walking a high wire!” the Sarasota, Fla., native tells The Post. “[Fatherhood] takes the most focus of all!” The former star of both the Ringling Brothers and Big Apple circuses — the guy with the stand-up fountain of red hair — has been hailed as the No. 1 clown in America. And the 48-year-old is proud of it: “Only in America is being called a clown an insult,” he says. “Everywhere else it’s an art form.”
Nock’s currently starring in the New Victory Theater’s “Bello Mania” through May 1. Here’s what’s in this clown’s library.
I was probably 7 or 8 when I saw the [Sylvester Stallone] film, and it was so inspirational to me when I was learning to be who I am. If I said it was the first book I ever read, I wouldn’t be lying. I’m an ADD kid — it took me a few years to finish it. I’ve seen all the “Rocky” movies, and I’ve probably read this 10 or 11 times.
A powerful story! I saw the movie first, then read the book. To me, it’s about true love and its struggles, and how, no matter how many things get in the way, you’ll find that perfect soul mate. I met my wife in the third grade and dated her all through high school — our 29th anniversary is this month. She likes “The Notebook,” too. Probably not as much as I do!
This is also about true love — from every viewpoint: between a man and a woman, a father and son, and a grandfather and son. I spoke to Cary Elwes, who played the prince, when I was sitting on a chair on a high wire in Times Square for eight hours doing interviews without stopping — no bathroom breaks, nothing. And then Cary Elwes called in. Talk about distractions!
He’s one of my favorites, and though we’re in completely different parts of the show-business universe, I can relate to much of what he experienced. He didn’t pursue money, fame or fortune — he followed his passion. And so did I.
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She's happy to be on the inside.
Lara Spencer is shooting down rumors that she was angry Nancy O'Dell – and not Spencer – is
"That couldn't be further from the truth,"
host tells PEOPLE. "There's no feud. I have a great job. I host a show that I love and that I helped launch."
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Spencer, who relocated to Los Angeles several years ago with her husband and two children, debunks the rumors that she was blindsided by the O'Dell news.
"I understand the speculation, but I am right where I want to be," Spencer says. "I have been very much in the loop and on board and really happy right where I am."
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TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD HELPED PUT country on the map. As he expressed in such hits as 1955's "Sixteen Tons," as well as dozens of gospel albums, altogether selling tens of millions of copies around the world, Ford had a natural feel for the lives of simple, God-fearing folks who didn't drive late-model cars or vacation at the shore. With a bass-baritone voice the consistency of summer molasses, he took the heartfelt hopes and pentecostal sentiments of the rural South and poured them into the mainstream of American culture. Fair to say that "the ol' pea picker," as Ernie Ford liked to call himself, cleared the road from Nashville to New York City for the likes of Kenny Rogers and Willie Nelson.
Inducted last year into the Country Music Hall of Fame, Ford, 72, was enjoying his twilight years with his second wife, Beverly (his first wife, Betty, died in 1989 after 47 years of marriage) on their ranch in Portola Valley, Calif. Then, on Sept. 28, after attending a state dinner at the White House, Ford fell ill at Washington, D.C.'s Dulles International Airport and was rushed to the H.C.A. Reston Hospital Center in nearby Virginia. He never recovered and died there Oct. 17 of complications from a longstanding liver ailment. His best friend and former manager, Cliffie Stone, summed up the Ford charm: "Ernie was just an ordinary person, not an actor. So many people try to be somebody else, and they're just not really good at it. He was totally unique."
Born Ernest Jennings Ford in 1919 and raised in the small farming community of Bristol, Tenn., on the Virginia border, Ernie grew up singing in the local Methodist church. He attended Virginia Intermount College, then went to work back in Bristol as a $10-a-week disc jockey to subsidize his voice studies at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. His nascent singing career was interrupted by World War II, in which he served as a bomber-navigator and rose to the rank of lieutenant.
After the war he began singing on Cliffie Stone's Hometown Jamboree radio show out of Pasadena, Calif. Stone persuaded Capitol records to sign Ford in 1948, and Ernie rewarded their confidence with a string of country hits ("Mule Train," "The Cry of the Wild Goose," "Shotgun Boogie") that crossed over to the popular music charts.
At the time, country types weren't considered suitable for television. But Ford, with his lanky 6' frame, easygoing manner and a look of down-home trustworthiness, caught the notice of TV producers. Starting in the early '50s he made frequent guest appearances, notably as a lovable rube on I Love Lucy. Said Ford: "Lucy was a fantastic inspiration. But she could be a piece of cold steel if things weren't going right."
In 1953 Ford became the first country singer to appear at the Palladium in London. But it was the smash success of "Sixteen Tons" that established him as a bona fide recording star. Written and recorded by his friend Merle Travis in 1947, Ernie's bluesy rendition, which eventually sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, propelled him to his own TV variety show, The Ford Hour. There he boasted a pretty fair staff of writersâDanny Arnold (who later cocreated Barney Miller) as well as young Norman Learâbut he frequently rewrote their scripts, inserting such homespun homilies as "Feels like I been rode hard and put away wet" and "Nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rockin' chairs" into his patter. His signature sign-off to his adoring fans, "Bless your pea-pickin' hearts," was pure Tennessee Ernie and hokey as all get out, but it worked; the top-rated show ran for five seasons.
Ford frequently halted his public and TV appearances to spend time in California with his family, which included sons Buck and Brion. But sooner or later he'd reappear, as popular as ever. Genuinely religious, Ernie invariably ended his shows with hymns, which he called "the finest love songs of all." And with those songs he brought the promise of hope and redemption to millions of Americans. As he once reflected, "When I'd work the big rooms in Reno and Vegas, the first question guests would ask is, 'You are going to sing gospel, aren't you?' So many entertainers are afraid to sing that kind of music and sing it like it ought to be done." Ford wasn't. "And listen," he said, "if the audience gets a little twinge from itâfine."
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'Wolf of Wall Street' -- Benihana Scene Is BS, But Great for Biz ... Says Steve Aoki
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(whose father founded the restaurant) ... but he doesn't care, 'cause it's GREAT for business!
Aoki -- one of the highest paid DJs on the planet -- was bouncing out of Hooray Henry's when he told us the Scorsese flick fudged the facts to make the story sound better -- claiming his dad
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But Steve says he isn't tripping over facts (or lack thereof) -- he's just PUMPED that his dad and the restaurant got a shout out in an Oscar nominated flick!!
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With Windows 10, Microsoft is finally moving toward putting Internet Explorer out of its misery. But can Microsoft’s new web browser finally knock rivals Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox off their stride?
Edge, the default browser in Microsoft’s Windows 10, certainly delivers on the basics. Early speed tests suggest it can render graphics at top speed, for instance. Throw in a clean layout and the belated addition of a “reading” mode, and Microsoft Edge is at least on an equal footing with Chrome, Firefox and Apple’s Safari — and certainly a vast improvement over its wheezy predecessor.
But the true test of user loyalty will boil down to two new features that no other browser currently provides. The first is a search engine that tucks results into surprisingly convenient places. The second is a digital “inking” feature that makes doodling across the web a sheer joy.
Microsoft’s Siri-like assistant, Cortana, fetches intelligent search results as you type in the address bar. Type the word “weather,” for instance, and the forecast automatically appears in a dynamic pop up menu. Replace it with a basic math equation, and there’s your solution. Ditto for quick problems like metric unit conversions.
Cortana also has a limited ability to curate search results as you’re browsing. Visit a restaurant’s webpage and Cortana’s logo may appear in the address bar, offering to show “hours, directions and more.” Hit it, and a panel slides out from the right-hand side showing a street map along with the establishment’s business hours, phone number and Yelp reviews.
While the functionality is limited only to some restaurants at the moment, the Microsoft Edge team says it’s racing to add more content. “You can just think of the most common activities on the web,” says group program manager Drew DeBruyne. “Shopping, booking travel, reading. Those are the classes of scenarios that we think are very interesting for Cortana to assist.”
And where Cortana can’t proactively suggest answers, users can highlight words and fetch search results, again, in an non-obstructive side menu. Compared to Google Chrome’s option to simply flop a new tab over the one you’re reading, it’s a huge improvement.
But perhaps the single most intriguing new feature in Microsoft Edge is the ability to snap a picture of a webpage and start editing it. The “ink” feature, which appears as a notepad icon in the upper right hand corner, takes a little getting used to. Hitting it snaps an image of the page and opens a toolkit of pens, highlighters, an eraser and text boxes, which appear in the menu bar. Users will have to decide how they want to use them.
“It’s not something people expect to be able to do in a browser,” says DeBruyne. “Even before there is a learning curve, there’s a ‘what is this for’ curve.” DeBruyne himself is curious to see how Windows 10 users might take the feature in unexpected directions. “Of course, we see some people using it basically for mustaches,” he adds. Here are a few other possibilities:
Combined, these features could transform the way we engage with the web — or amount to little more than a bunch of silly browser tricks. Which way Edge goes will depend on the willingness of users to reach out and touch the web, a habit that may not come easily after two decades of more passive browsing. That word “browser” alone shows what Microsoft is up against. But given Internet Explorer’s fall from grace in recent years — falling below 15% of the global browser market, according to usage statistics gathered by StatCounter — Microsoft has good reason to take some creative risks with the web, in the hope that users might follow.
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Apple versus the FBI isn’t just about one phone.
A court filing unsealed Tuesday revealed that the U.S. Justice Department has sought court orders to force Apple to help investigators extract data from iOS devices in more than a dozen cases—ones similar to the present quarrel over unlocking an encrypted iPhone owned by one of the San Bernardino mass shooters.
Apple lawyer Marc Zwillinger last week submitted the letter to a federal judge in New York. The document catalogues a number of cases dating back as far as October in which federal investigators have requested Apple’s help in cracking devices.
According to the filing, the federal government has sought access to data on hardware including an iPhone 3, an iPhone 6 Plus, and even a relatively elderly iPad 2 that used software ranging from iOS 4.2.1 to iOS 9.1. The prosecutors in these cases have all based their authority on the All Writs Act, a law first enacted in 1789, on which the San Bernardino case also rests.
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Apple objected to assisting the FBI in all the cases, except two outstanding ones in which the company said it is awaiting a new warrant and a copy of a ruling. Four of the cases arose in Illinois, three in New York, two in Ohio, two in California, and one in Massachusetts. (Some involve multiple devices.)
For more on Apple versus FBI, watch:
Unlike the high profile San Bernardino case, the other investigations are apparently not terrorism-related, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing unnamed sources.
In a post on the national security blog Lawfare, FBI director James Comey insisted that the San Bernardino case “isn’t about trying to set a precedent or send any kind of message.” Apple CEO Tim Cook, however, has disagreed, writing in a letter to customers that the outcome of this particular case will have “implications far beyond the legal case at hand.”
If compelled to help undermine the security features on the phone in the San Bernardino case, Apple appl fears it may lose legal ground in resisting to do so in other investigations.
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can be a daunting prospect. Even if you've saved diligently, converting that
ING Financial Services to help us analyze what it takes to produce $1,000 a month in steady income to augment a pension and/or Social Security, for a minimum of 20 years from retirement at 65. We picked 20 years because Social Security's
Thanks to Lynne Ford, CEO of ING Individual Retirement, here are our recipes for turning a 401(k) or other retirement savings into a regular income.
If a 65-year-old man spends $172,000 on a lifetime annuity, he'll receive $1,000 a month--$12,000 a year--for the rest of his life, whether he lives 20 years or 40 years. If you need to also provide for a spouse or a partner, you'll want to buy a joint and survivor annuity and that takes more money. How much depends on the age of the partner. You can noodle around with these numbers without registering or fearing that a salesperson will bother you if you don't want to be contacted by going to
The downside of an annuity is that the insurance company wins and keeps your money if you die young. If you're concerned about leaving money to your heirs, you can create a similar predictable income by buying a carefully selected collection of certificates of deposit (CDs), U.S. Treasuries, municipal and corporate bonds. You'lll need to invest $600,000 at current interest rates--today's average CD is paying 1.59 percent, according to
--in order to earn an average of $12,000 a year in interest and dividends.
If you are willing to take a little bit more risk and can be flexible about the amount of money you withdraw every month, putting your money in a balanced or index mutual fund might be the answer for you. Using the traditional
of thumb for withdrawals from these kinds of investments during retirement, you'd need to invest $300,000 and aim for a return greater than 4 percent to pull out $1,000 every month. "This should be nonessential money," Ford warns. "If we had a repeat of what happened in 2008, you'd have to pull back and say, 'For the next year or two, I'm going to pull out zero,'" she said.
If your mortgage is paid off--or nearly so--and your home is still worth several hundred thousand, taking out a reverse mortgage--where the mortgage company pays you as long as you live in the house--is a viable way to create a predictable income stream.
to help you determine how much a reverse mortgage might pay you. According to AARP, you'd need a fully paid-off $450,000 home to generate $1,000 a month in income. But be aware that if you must move--to a nursing home, for instance--you'll trigger a sale. The bank will take what it is owed. If there is anything left, you'll get it, but generally, these are structured so that after a few years, the owner doesn't have much if any equity left--at least on paper.
This isn't exactly a savings plan and many people can't continue to work as long as they live. But if you've been a lousy saver, working part time may be your best option for earning retirement income. If you take a job that pays the
-- $7.25 an hour -- you'll have to work 32 hours a week, 52 weeks a year to gross that much. We hope you like saying, "Welcome to Walmart."
, a 60-year-old earning $50,000 a year will get $1,158 a month if he takes Social Security at 62. If he waits until age 70 to claim it and continues to pay into the system and gets regular increases in wages, by the time he hangs up his work boots, he'll earn $2,602 a month. That's a $1,444-a-month raise just for hanging in there. Sure there are drawbacks. If you die young, you forfeit all those years of benefits, but the odds are 50/50 that you'll beat Uncle Sam at his own game.
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When you ask parents what they want for their kids, what’s usually the most common reply? They want their children to be happy.
Via Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents:
…the well-being of children is more important to adults than just about anything else–health care, the well-being of seniors, the cost of living, terrorism, and the war in Iraq. More than two-thirds of adults say they are “extremely concerned” about the well-being of children, and this concern cuts across gender, income, ethnicity, age, and political affiliation.
Now there’s tons of info on raising smart kids and successful kids, but how do you raise happy kids?
Sometimes it’s hard to balance what’s best for children with what makes them happy — but the two don’t have to be mutually exclusive.
Happier kids are more likely to turn into successful, accomplished adults.
Via Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents:
…happiness is a tremendous advantage in a world that emphasizes performance. On average, happy people are more successful than unhappy people at both work and love. They get better performance reviews, have more prestigious jobs, and earn higher salaries. They are more likely to get married, and once married, they are more satisfied with their marriage.
So looking at the science, what really works when it comes to raising happy kids?
The first step to happier kids is, ironically, a little bit selfish.
How happy you are affects how happy and successful your kids are — dramatically.
Via Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents:
Extensive research has established a substantial link between mothers who feel depressed and “negative outcomes” in their children, such as acting out and other behavior problems. Parental depression actually seems to cause behavioral problems in kids; it also makes our parenting less effective.
And this is not merely due to genetics.
Via Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents:
…although the study did find that happy parents are statistically more likely to have happy children, it couldn’t find any genetic component.
So what’s the first step to being a happier you? Take some time each week to have fun with friends.
Via Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents:
Because laughter is contagious, hang out with friends or family members who are likely to be laughing themselves. Their laughter will get you laughing too, although it doesn’t even need to in order to lighten your mood. Neuroscientists believe that hearing another person laugh triggers mirror neurons in a region of the brain that makes listeners feel as though they are actually laughing themselves.
More scientific methods for increasing your happiness here.
Nobody denies learning about relationships is important — but how many parents actually spend the time to teach kids how to relate to others?
(Just saying “Hey, knock it off” when kids don’t get along really doesn’t go far in building essential people skills.)
It doesn’t take a lot. It can start with encouraging kids to perform small acts of kindness to build empathy.
This not only builds essential skills and makes your kids better people, research shows over the long haul it makes them happier.
Via Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents:
Multiple sclerosis (MS) patients who were trained to provide compassionate, unconditional positive regard for other MS sufferers through monthly fifteen-minute telephone calls “showed pronounced improvement in self-confidence, self-esteem, depression, and role functioning” over two years. These helpers were especially protected against depression and anxiety.
More on creating good relationships here.
Note to perfectionist helicopter parents and Tiger Moms: cool it.
Relentlessly banging the achievement drum messes kids up.
Via Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents:
Parents who overemphasize achievement are more likely to have kids with high levels of depression, anxiety, and substance abuse compared to other kids.
The research is very consistent: Praise effort, not natural ability.
Via Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents:
The majority of the kids praised for their intelligence wanted the easier puzzle; they weren’t going to risk making a mistake and losing their status as “smart.” On the other hand, more than 90 percent of growth mind-set-encouraged kids chose a harder puzzle.
Why? Dweck explains: “When we praise children for the effort and hard work that leads to achievement, they want to keep engaging in that process. They are not diverted from the task of learning by a concern with how smart they might — or might not — look.”
More on praising correctly here.
Want to avoid dealing with a surly teenager? Then teach those pre-teens to look on the bright side.
Via Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents:
Ten-year-olds who are taught how to think and interpret the world optimistically are half as prone to depression when they later go through puberty.
Author Christine Carter puts it simply: “Optimism is so closely related to happiness that the two can practically be equated.”
She compares optimists to pessimists and finds optimists:
More on how to encourage optimism here.
Emotional intelligence is a skill, not an inborn trait.
Thinking kids will just “naturally” come to understand their own emotions (let alone those of others) doesn’t set them up for success.
A simple first step here is to “Empathize, Label and Validate” when they’re struggling with anger or frustration.
Via Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents:
Molly: “I am SO SO SO MAD AT YOU.”
Me: “You are mad at me, very mad at me. Tell me about that. Are you also feeling disappointed because I won’t let you have a playdate right now?”
Molly: “YES!! I want to have a playdate right NOW.”
Me: “You seem sad.” (Crawling into my lap, Molly whimpers a little and rests her head on my shoulder.)
Relate to the child, help them identify what they are feeling and let them know that those feelings are okay (even though bad behavior might not be).
More on active listening and labeling (and how hostage negotiators use this) here.
We’re on step 6 and it might seem like this is already a lot to remember for you — let alone for a child. We can overcome that with good habits.
Thinking through these methods is taxing but acting habitually is easy, once habits have been established.
How do you help kids build lasting happiness habits? Carter explains a few powerful methods backed by research:
More on developing good habits here.
Self-discipline in kids is more predictive of future success than intelligence — or most anything else, for that matter.
Yes, it’s that famous marshmallow test all over again. Kids who better resisted temptation went on to much better lives years later and were happier.
Via Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents:
…preschoolers’ ability to delay gratification–to wait for that second marshmallow–predicts intelligence, school success, and social skills in adolescence. This is at least in part because self-discipline facilitates learning and information processing. In addition, self-disciplined kids cope better with frustration and stress and tend to have a greater sense of social responsibility. In other words, self-discipline leads not just to school success and sitting nicely at the dinner table but to greater happiness, more friends and increased community engagement.
What’s a good way to start teaching self-discipline? Help kids learn to distract themselves from temptation.
Via Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents:
One way to do it is to obscure the temptation–to physically cover up the tempting marshmallow. When a reward is covered up, 75 percent of kids in one study were able to wait a full fifteen minutes for the second marshmallow; none of the kids was able to wait this long when the reward was visible.
More on increasing self-discipline here.
We read a lot about mindfulness and meditation these days — and both are quite powerful.
Getting kids to do them regularly however can be quite a challenge. What works almost as well?
Via Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents:
Most kids already practice mindfulness — fully enjoying the present moment — when they play. but kids today spend less time playing both indoors and out… All told, over the last two decades, children have lost eight hours per week of free, unstructured, and spontaneous play…
Playtime isn’t just goofing off. It’s essential to helping kids grow and learn.
Via Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents:
Researchers believe that this dramatic drop in unstructured playtime is in part responsible for slowing kids cognitive and emotional development… In addition to helping kids learn to self-regulate, child-led, unstructured play (with or without adults) promoted intellectual, physical, social, and emotional well-being. Unstructured play helps children learn how to work in groups, to share, negotiate, resolve conflicts, regulate their emotions and behavior, and speak up for themselves.
No strict instructions are necessary here: Budget more time for your kids to just get outside and simply play.
More on the power of playing (for kids and adults) here.
We don’t like to admit it, but we’re all very much influenced by our environment – often more than we realize.
Your efforts will be constrained by time and effort, while context affects us (and children) constantly.
What’s a simple way to better control a child’s surroundings and let your deliberate happiness efforts have maximum effect?
Via Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents:
…research demonstrates a strong link between happiness and not watching television. Sociologists show that happier people tend to watch considerably less television than unhappy people. We don’t know whether TV makes people unhappy, or if already unhappy people watch more TV. But we do know that there are a lot of activities that will help our kids develop into happy, well-adjusted individuals. If our kids are watching TV, they aren’t doing those things that could be making them happier in the long run.
More non-television happiness activities are here.
Sometimes all science does is validate those things our grandparents knew all along. Yes, family dinner matters.
This simple tradition helps mold better kids and makes them happier too.
Via Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents:
Studies show that kids who eat dinner with their families on a regular basis are more emotionally stable and less likely to abuse drugs and alcohol. They got better grades. they have fewer depressive symptoms, particularly among adolescent girls. And they are less likely to become obese or have an eating disorder. Family dinners even trump reading to your kids in terms of preparing them for school. And these associations hold even after researchers control for family connectedness…
More on the power of family dinners here.
Here are the ten steps:
We’re often more open to new methods when it comes to work and careers, but ignoring tips when it comes to family is a mistake.
The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes.
I hope this post helps your family be happier.
This piece originally appeared on Barking Up the Wrong Tree.
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James Merrill, the American partner in bankrupt TelexFree Inc., an alleged $3 billion global Ponzi scheme, is asking a federal court to suppress evidence gathered through a search of the company’s Marlborough office two years ago.
In a court filing last week, Merrill’s lawyer argued that a document seizure by US officials on April 15, 2014, was “unconstitutionally overbroad” and invalid.
Homeland Security agents raided the offices of TelexFree the same week it filed for federal bankruptcy protection. Securities regulators filed fraud charges against the Internet phone service seller and its principals, accusing them of running a scheme that ensnared investors around the world.
The agents stopped a financial executive from leaving with a laptop and a bag stuffed with $38 million in cashiers’ checks, according to court records. The agents also seized numerous computers, servers, records, and storage devices, according to a document included in the court filing.
Merrill’s lawyer, Robert Goldstein, in the filing said his client “respectfully submits that all evidence seized pursuant to the warrant must be suppressed.”
A web-based claims system is set to open April 1, but any payment in the alleged $3 billion Ponzi scheme will take much longer.
Merrill and his co-owner, Carlos Wanzeler, are facing criminal charges in the TelexFree case. Merrill was arrested shortly after the Homeland Security raid and was held for more than a month before being released on $900,000 bail. He is wearing a GPS tracking device and had to give up his passport.
Wanzeler, a Brazilian native who lived with his family in Northborough for a period, fled to Brazil, where TelexFree started, and is considered a fugitive. US authorities have been negotiating to bring him back for trial because there is no extradition treaty with Brazil.
Goldstein in the latest filing again wrote of Merrill as a respected member of his community. He said that Merrill, “a devoted and hard-working father of three and husband of 25 years, has never before been in trouble. Indeed, for his entire life, Jim has embodied the antithesis of a federally charged criminal defendant.”
The trustee in the TelexFree bankruptcy case has said the company pulled in nearly 2 million participants, from every country in the world. Those people will only be eligible to submit claims for the money they put in — not the estimated $3 billion they may believe they had in their accounts.
So far there is only $150 million to go around. Trustee Stephen Darr also is pursuing “net winners,” or people who reaped false profits from TelexFree that was really money brought in by other investors.
Darr is suing 15,000 US residents and 78,000 people abroad who reaped profits improperly in TelexFree.
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The Fortune 500 Insider Network is our newest online community where top executives from the Fortune 500 share ideas and offer leadership advice with Fortune’s global audience. Gretchen Zech, senior vice president of global human resources at Arrow Electronics, has answered the question: How do you make criticism constructive?
Constructive criticism is rooted in good intention and clarity of purpose. It elevates. It does not diminish. While there will always be prevailing viewpoints, no one person has the ultimate corner on right, but rather a corner on his or her own perspective. How that perspective is shared with and received by another is what makes for effective or ineffective leadership and followership.
In my experience, I’ve found that the most influential persons are those who are grounded in their own security and bring humanity into the workplace through constructive interactions with others. Criticism is constructive when it propels us forward in mindset and result. Whether we get stuck in a moment of fleeting success or failure depends on our willingness to self-innovate. And, whether giving or receiving feedback, there are three concepts about self-innovation that I believe provide a roadmap for professional growth and business results:
Meta observation and check yourself Elevate your self-awareness by being willing to observe your own behavior patterns — both good and bad — and results. Do the same with others and with organizational cultures. The key here is to do it all without ego, judgment or defense, but instead with a curious mind.
Discernment and make room for change Take the complexity of all of those observations and simplify it in order to positively affect your performance and to change for the future.
Authenticity and embrace differences It’s important to know what makes each of us unique and sets us apart, and to appreciate that uniqueness in others.
These three concepts are really about broadening the spectrum of self-awareness and behavior by raising personal consciousness and expanding our capability.
Read all answers to the Fortune 500 Insider question: How do you make criticism constructive?
Here’s how not to piss off employees after critiquing their ideas by Val DiFebo, CEO of Deutsch New York.
3 easy ways to make criticism sting a little less by Ralph de la Vega, president and CEO of AT&T Mobile & Business Solutions.
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Want an indication of how critical South Carolina could be in sorting out the muddled Republican nominating contest? With more than a week to go until the Feb. 20 election, the candidates and allied outside groups have already poured about $24 million into political ads in the Palmetto State—roughly three times the final spending tally there four years ago.
Jeb Bush’s super PAC is doing the lion’s share of the spending, according to data supplied by Kantar Media’s CMAG. But it’s Texas Sen. Ted Cruz who is at the center of the circular firing squad.
The onslaught of attacks is a sign that rivals perceive Cruz as a threat in the critical contest. In politics, a target on your back is often a sign that you’re leading the pack. But it’s Donald Trump, not Cruz, who’s the one lapping the field. And Cruz, who sits second in the South Carolina polls, is absorbing an array of attacks from rivals who believe (as Cruz does) that the way to win the GOP nomination is to wind up in a head-to-head contest with Trump.
If there’s an overarching theme to the anti-Cruz ads, it’s to sow doubts about the senator’s claims to ideological purity and religious piety.
One 30-second TV ad released by Donald Trump’s campaign hits Cruz for “talking out of both sides of his mouth” on immigration policy, failing to properly disclose a $1 million bank loan and perpetrating “dirty tricks” against Ben Carson, whom Cruz allies suggested was dropping out on caucus night in Iowa. “Ted Cruz: the worst kind of Washington insider, who just can’t be trusted,” the ad declares, playing off Cruz’s branding campaign (“TrusTed”).
The American Future Fund, a 501(c)(4) organization that attacked Cruz over ethanol policy in Iowa, is back in South Carolina. Their new ad is tailored to the Palmetto State’s veteran population. The $1.5 million ad blitz assails Cruz as “weak” on national security and misleading about his immigration record.
The Carson episode continues to dog Cruz on the trail, with rivals using it to attack the Texan’s character. “How can Ted Cruz be an Evangelical Christian when he lies so much and is so dishonest?” Trump tweeted. Mike Huckabee, who hugged Trump in Iowa to exact revenge on Cruz for snagging Huckabee’s old cohort of values voters, is out of the race now. But he found time this week to blast the Cruz camp’s Carson smear as “the kind of low-life, sleazy politics people truly get sick of.”
As for Carson, the pediatric neurosurgeon signaled plans to remain in the race for the long haul, despite having no evident path to the GOP nomination. Instead he could play spoiler by complicating Cruz’s efforts to consolidate the social-conservative vote. During an appearance on MSNBC Friday morning, Carson called the caucus episode “despicable” and “a question of character.”
Cruz is punching back. He’s on the air hitting Trump in a 60-second spot that pillories Trump for using eminent domain to bully an elderly widow in Atlantic City—part of what the ad calls “a pattern of sleaze.” He’s tweaking Hillary Clinton’s server problems in a spot that spoofs a famous scene from the cult hitOffice Space. And his campaign tried to undercut Rubio’s conservative bona fides with an ad imagining a support group for disillusioned Rubio backers.
But even the broadside against Rubio has boomeranged on Cruz. His campaign was forced to pull the spot on Thursday night after BuzzFeed reported that one of its actors had starred in pornographic movies.
Being at the front of the pack isn’t always easy, it seems.
This article was originally published on Time.com.
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Fashion Designer Tory Burch's new stores are on a roll. Her London flagship, opening at 149 New Bond Street this month, is the 46th Tory Burch boutique. More are on the way—a new lease has just been inked for a New York store at 68th and Madison—and all this from a business that's only six years old.
In a somewhat untraditional progression of things, where a successful business is usually followed by a nice house, Ms. Burch worked out her style precepts in a personal context and then applied them to the launch of a business. Well before she'd founded her retail empire, while married to venture capitalist Christopher Burch, Ms. Burch worked with architect Daniel Romualdez to create one of the most stylish apartments in New York at the Pierre Hotel. The end of that project was actually a beginning.
Her brand is widely known for colorful caftans and logoed accessories, but if you let your eye wander from the merchandise to its environment, you'll begin to realize how largely interior design figures into Tory Burch's vision. "From the beginning, it was a big part of our retail concept," Ms. Burch says. "An element of home has inspired all of my collections. And after all, I was working on the apartment when I did the first one—so the feeling of being comfortable in that environment kept coming back to me as something I very much wanted to share with the women who visited our stores. You know…Bring your children, let them roll on the sofa. You may be shopping, but why shouldn't you feel as comfortable as you feel at home?"
Though Tory Burch stores all share a design philosophy, each one of them is unique. They are site-specific and regionally conceived, which shows more thought about architecture and decoration than most fashion designers are willing to invest. The first one, which opened on Elizabeth Street in Manhattan—designed, as are the others, by Mr. Romualdez—was electrifying in its use of colors like orange and moss green. "I try to imagine how Tory would live in a given location, and because we have worked together for so long the conversations about that move fairly quickly," says Mr. Romualdez. It's a very efficiently run business, and cost comes up, of course. But the funny thing is I don't think it is more expensive to do this than doing a standard store. Maybe a little more work, but Tory and I actually enjoy that." The stores' job is to showcase clothing, but strong interior design is just as much a part of the experience as the clothes.
Most fashion designers don't want anything to distract from their product, but Ms. Burch's stores look like rich people's houses in a Blake Edwards movie: fun, with a capital "F." Decoration like this always puts one in a good mood, and people in a good mood like to shop. One might compare the strategy to that deployed by Kenneth in his legendary New York hair salon, designed by Billy Baldwin in the 1960s.
He made clients feel so at home they just…stayed, sometimes all day. And it was what the place looked like that was distinctly a source of its success. Indeed, the new Tory Burch boutique in Seoul, South Korea, has an upstairs "apartment" above the selling floor with no shopping at all. This area is called the Salon, and includes a library, living room and walk-in closet inspired by the design of Tory's New York digs. Filled with Moroccan rugs, batik-upholstered walls and suede footstools, the upstairs invites you to make yourself right at home. Same feeling goes for the East Hampton, N.Y., store, which looks like the living room you wish you had at a beach house you're still waiting for.
Just as Ralph Lauren took the role of an elegant signature environment in so strong a direction that it became impossible to disentangle his products from the world they stood for, so it goes at Tory Burch. Because remember, it's not just about fashion anymore—real marketing genius in fashion nowadays means you can put a name on any product in the world, and people will know what it means. If anything can do that for a business, it's a great looking retail store. Or 50.
While she's busy expanding her business, Ms. Burch's personal interest in interior design shows no sign of abating. Earlier this year, the designer bought Westerly, the fabled Wanamaker house on Ox Pasture Road in Southampton, N.Y. A fabulous 1920s Georgian pile whose brick façade—unusual for a shingled summer town—recalls the residential architecture of Ms. Burch's native Philadelphia, this house also comes complete with a little social history: It was the site of the notorious 1963 debut of David Niven's future daughter-in-law, Fernanda Wanamaker Wetherill. This all-night debauch came to embody the twilight of American preppy decadence. Those were good times for caftans and gold cuffs.
—Mr. Netto is a Los Angeles-based writer, designer and creative director of the Maclaren Nursery furniture line.
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Much of ''Spider-Man,'' the blockbuster action movie, was filmed on location in Queens, the comic book domain of the web-slinging superhero. As it happens, the realism of the Spider-Man comic transcends the mere film.
In the comics, Peter Parker, the mild-mannered photojournalist who is Spider-Man's alter ego, grew up at 20 Ingram Street, a modest, two-story boarding house run by his Aunt May in the heart of Forest Hills Gardens. The address actually exists and is home to a family named Parker: Andrew and Suzanne Parker, who moved there in 1974, and their two daughters.
In 1989, the family began receiving junk mail addressed to Peter Parker. ''We got tons of it,'' Mrs. Parker said yesterday. ''Star Trek magazines, a Discover Card in his name, and notices from them over the years calling him a good customer.'' There were also prank phone calls, all of which she attributed to a ''teenager who found it funny that we had the same last name as Spider-Man.''
The Parkers had no idea they were living in a comic book landmark, she said.
Then, last summer, a reporter from The Queens Tribune, a weekly newspaper, called Mrs. Parker and told her that the family's life was imitating Pop Art. He also told her that Spider-Man's greatest enemy, the Green Goblin, goes by the alias Norman Osborn, which is almost the same surname as Mrs. Parker's neighbor, Terri Osborne. Mrs. Osborne has lived across the street, at 19 Ingram, since 1979.
The address of the borough's most famous arachnid, 20 Ingram Street, was listed in the June 1989 and July 1989, issues of ''The Amazing Spider-Man,'' published by Marvel Enterprises. A supervillain named Venom finds a change-of-address form left in Peter Parker's jacket, which lists the address and even its real-life ZIP and area codes.
Time Out New York published an article about the address. Then yesterday, Mrs. Parker and Mrs. Osborne (they are longtime friends, not archenemies) were whisked by limousine into Manhattan to appear on CBS's Early Show.
Mrs. Parker has not been bitten by a radioactive spider -- the event that transformed Peter Parker into a superhero -- but she does seem to have been transformed by her connection to the film, which set a record with its $115 million opening last weekend on 7,500 screens, which is a lot of screens for an opening. Mrs. Parker has seen the movie and recently bought the ''address'' issues of the comic book from a collector.
''We've created two new celebrities,'' said Stan Lee, who created Spider-Man 40 years ago with Steve Ditko. Reached by phone at his Los Angeles office yesterday, Mr. Lee, 79, said that when Spider-Man was created in 1962, he made Peter Parker a Forest Hills resident, but, ''I never pinpointed his address.''
Mr. Lee was no longer writing the comic book in 1989, ''So someone else must have created that address,'' he said, adding, ''Spidey would have gotten a kick out of the coincidence, but Peter Parker, he would have loathed all this publicity revealing where he lives.''
The issues of June and July 1989 list David Michelinie as the books' writer.
Mrs. Parker is an artist, and Mr. Parker is a professor of public affairs at Baruch College in Manhattan. Their home is hardly as plain as Aunt May's in the comic book, nor as modest as the two-story home shown in the film. It is a stone Edwardian-style house built in 1916 in the English garden style. Ivy is the only thing climbing these walls.
The quiet, leafy block is lined with fine Tudor houses that have slate roofs steep enough to challenge even Spider-Man.
Yesterday, Edgar Barbosa, 32, a freelance photographer who has lived down the block from the Parkers all his life, said that he was a Spider-Man fan and worked in a comic book store, but he never knew he had a superhero as a neighbor.
''I knew he was local,'' he said, ''but not this local.''
Jennifer Burch, 30, a medical secretary who grew up in the neighborhood, called the whole thing old news. ''We all knew that was his house, but we never gave it a second thought,'' she said.
Photos: Suzanne Parker, her husband and daughters live at 20 Ingram Street in Forest Hills, which is also Spider-Man's address. (Ting-Li Wang/The New York Times); ''The Amazing Spider-Man,'' June 1989; Todd McFarlane, artist, and David Michelinie, writer. The villain is Venom. (Marvel Enterprises)
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“I’m sending only brief captions,” a LIFE magazine correspondent wrote to his editors in February 1949, in notes accompanying photographs of a little-known actress with a few small roles in mediocre films under her belt. “For one thing, time is of the essence in getting the pictures to a plane. For another, the processes shot are not terribly complicated, showing as they do how Marilyn trains herself for hoped-for movie stardom by consulting specialists in singing, dancing and drama and how she is worked on by them in the effort to produce a wrapped-up package of talent to back up her photogenic sex appeal.”
How Marilyn trains herself for hoped-for movie stardom. That casual mention of Marilyn Monroe, made in the context of a struggling young actress, is hard to reconcile with the image most movie fans harbor of arguably the single most famous film star of the 20th century. In fact, more than six decades after the pictures in this LIFE.com gallery were made, it’s surprisingly tough to imagine a time before Marilyn was . . . well, Marilyn. Like other indisputable Hollywood icons—Bette Davis, Clark Gable, Liz Taylor, James Cagney—Marilyn’s face, her voice, her singular onscreen presence seem to have always been with us.
Surely, we tell ourselves, she was always a star. The legend was inevitable, a done deal from the start.
Actually, no. Not so much. In fact, by the time she caught the eye of LIFE photographer J. R. Eyerman in early 1949, Marilyn Monroe had appeared (largely uncredited) in half-a-dozen utterly forgettable movies, and there was absolutely no guarantee that the 22-year-old’s “hoped-for movie stardom” would pan out any time soon.
And yet, Eyerman clearly saw enough of something, a special glimmer, in the fresh-faced beauty to chronicle the training that, as a practitioner of a craft, she evidently knew she needed. The Eyerman pictures in this gallery are among the very first that any LIFE photographer ever took of Monroe, although—for reasons that have been lost in time—the magazine chose not to publish them.
In fact, Marilyn wouldn’t show up in LIFE’s pages until October 1949, when she appeared along with seven other Hollywood “girls”—most all of them now long-forgotten—in “an experiment” by the great photographer Philippe Halsman “to see if movie starlets’ acting is as good as their looks.”
[Buy the LIFE book, Remembering Marilyn]
Here, LIFE.com remembers the young Marilyn with a selection of Eyerman’s early photos: pictures of her studying with bandleader Phil Moore (singing); dance instructor, and the ex-husband of the great Cyd Charisse, Nico Charisse (ballet); and a one-time European stage star, Natasha Lytess, who would serve as Monroe’s acting coach until the mid-1950s. (Lytess was an acting coach at Columbia Studios when Monroe was briefly under contract there; after Columbia dropped Marilyn—not seeing much promise in the young actress—Lytess and Marilyn maintained their working relationship, independent of the studio.)
While it’s hardly evident in these warm and carefree photos, the next few months in Marilyn’s career would be marked by struggle. Later in 1949, desperate for money, she posed naked for a pinup calendar, a gig that paid her just $50 and later came back to haunt her. (The pictures wound up in the debut issue of Playboy).
But the beautiful and, as importantly, the tenacious Marilyn pushed on. She watched, practiced and learned, and as she honed her talent her opportunities grew. A slew of small roles—a memorable walk-on in the Marx Brothers’ Love Happy; a dramatic turn in John Huston’s great noir heist flick, The Asphalt Jungle; a luminous breakthrough in All About Eve—inspired Fox, the studio that dropped her back in 1947, to sign her to a new seven-year contract. By 1953, Marilyn Monroe’s “hoped-for movie stardom” was no longer an ingenue’s dream, as she was lighting up the screen in movies (including Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to Marry a Millionaire) that allowed her to sing, dance and act—all the tools of the trade that she so studiously honed under Eyerman’s sympathetic gaze just a few years before.
Liz Ronk, who edited this gallery, is the Photo Editor for LIFE.com. Follow her on Twitter @lizabethronk.
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Ulfat Idilbi, who has died in Paris at the age of 94, was one of Syria's best loved writers of fiction, and a feminist for half a century. Although she came from a privileged family, her sympathies were far from being elitist, and her strongly articulated messages were in harmony with the Arab nationalist secular regime that has governed Syria for the last 40 years.
Idilbi was born in Ottoman Damascus, the daughter of Najiba and Abu'l-Khair Umar Pasha. She was profoundly affected as a teenager by the Syrian revolt against the French Mandate rule in the 1920s, which led to France's bombing of Damascus. She became a nationalist and educated herself by reading widely the books in the library of her author uncle, Kazem Daghestani.
At 17, she married a German-trained physiologist, Dr Hamdi al-Idilbi. Normally married women retained their family names, but Ulfat rejected what she saw as a patriarchal custom and insisted on being known as Mrs Idilbi. She started writing and publishing stories in magazines in her teens. In 1948 she won a prize for a short story, awarded by the BBC Arabic service, and the first of several volumes of her stories was published in 1954, introduced by the master of the modern short story, the Egyptian Mahmud Taymur.
She is best known for her novel, Dimashq ya Basmat al-Huzn, published in 1980 when Ulfat was approaching 70. It was translated into English as Sabriya: Damascus Bitter-Sweet, and published in 1995. This tells the story of a young girl who grows up in the 1920s and develops national and female consciousness. The former is suppressed by the French, the latter by her family. The girl hangs herself in the beautiful courtyard of the family house, leaving a diary that forms the bulk of the novel. "My countrymen demand freedom," Sabriya, the central character says, "but cannot even give it to one another. Half the nation remains bound by chains imposed by you men." The story has been serialised on Syrian television.
A second novel that has been translated as Grandfather's Tale (1998) recreates the world of 19th-century Damascus. Many of her short stories deal with women who suffer, operate and survive by manipulating within a limited private world.
Idilbi was also a lecturer and essayist, on social, educational and literary issues. She was physically minute, and a chain smoker - another gesture of emancipation.
Her old age was saddened by the death in 1995 of her son, the banker Ziad Idilbi, and she divided her later years between Damascus and Paris, where she lived with her daughter. She is survived by that daughter and by a son.
· Ulfat Idilbi, writer, born November 1912; died March 21 2007
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The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America's largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April.
The order, a copy of which has been obtained by the Guardian, requires Verizon on an "ongoing, daily basis" to give the NSA information on all telephone calls in its systems, both within the US and between the US and other countries.
The document shows for the first time that under the Obama administration the communication records of millions of US citizens are being collected indiscriminately and in bulk – regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing.
The secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (Fisa) granted the order to the FBI on April 25, giving the government unlimited authority to obtain the data for a specified three-month period ending on July 19.
Under the terms of the blanket order, the numbers of both parties on a call are handed over, as is location data, call duration, unique identifiers, and the time and duration of all calls. The contents of the conversation itself are not covered.
The disclosure is likely to reignite longstanding debates in the US over the proper extent of the government's domestic spying powers.
Under the Bush administration, officials in security agencies had disclosed to reporters the large-scale collection of call records data by the NSA, but this is the first time significant and top-secret documents have revealed the continuation of the practice on a massive scale under President Obama.
The unlimited nature of the records being handed over to the NSA is extremely unusual. Fisa court orders typically direct the production of records pertaining to a specific named target who is suspected of being an agent of a terrorist group or foreign state, or a finite set of individually named targets.
The Guardian approached the National Security Agency, the White House and the Department of Justice for comment in advance of publication on Wednesday. All declined. The agencies were also offered the opportunity to raise specific security concerns regarding the publication of the court order.
The court order expressly bars Verizon from disclosing to the public either the existence of the FBI's request for its customers' records, or the court order itself.
"We decline comment," said Ed McFadden, a Washington-based Verizon spokesman.
The order, signed by Judge Roger Vinson, compels Verizon to produce to the NSA electronic copies of "all call detail records or 'telephony metadata' created by Verizon for communications between the United States and abroad" or "wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls".
The order directs Verizon to "continue production on an ongoing daily basis thereafter for the duration of this order". It specifies that the records to be produced include "session identifying information", such as "originating and terminating number", the duration of each call, telephone calling card numbers, trunk identifiers, International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) number, and "comprehensive communication routing information".
The information is classed as "metadata", or transactional information, rather than communications, and so does not require individual warrants to access. The document also specifies that such "metadata" is not limited to the aforementioned items. A 2005 court ruling judged that cell site location data – the nearest cell tower a phone was connected to – was also transactional data, and so could potentially fall under the scope of the order.
While the order itself does not include either the contents of messages or the personal information of the subscriber of any particular cell number, its collection would allow the NSA to build easily a comprehensive picture of who any individual contacted, how and when, and possibly from where, retrospectively.
It is not known whether Verizon is the only cell-phone provider to be targeted with such an order, although previous reporting has suggested the NSA has collected cell records from all major mobile networks. It is also unclear from the leaked document whether the three-month order was a one-off, or the latest in a series of similar orders.
The court order appears to explain the numerous cryptic public warnings by two US senators, Ron Wyden and Mark Udall, about the scope of the Obama administration's surveillance activities.
For roughly two years, the two Democrats have been stridently advising the public that the US government is relying on "secret legal interpretations" to claim surveillance powers so broad that the American public would be "stunned" to learn of the kind of domestic spying being conducted.
Because those activities are classified, the senators, both members of the Senate intelligence committee, have been prevented from specifying which domestic surveillance programs they find so alarming. But the information they have been able to disclose in their public warnings perfectly tracks both the specific law cited by the April 25 court order as well as the vast scope of record-gathering it authorized.
Julian Sanchez, a surveillance expert with the Cato Institute, explained: "We've certainly seen the government increasingly strain the bounds of 'relevance' to collect large numbers of records at once — everyone at one or two degrees of separation from a target — but vacuuming all metadata up indiscriminately would be an extraordinary repudiation of any pretence of constraint or particularized suspicion." The April order requested by the FBI and NSA does precisely that.
The law on which the order explicitly relies is the so-called "business records" provision of the Patriot Act, 50 USC section 1861. That is the provision which Wyden and Udall have repeatedly cited when warning the public of what they believe is the Obama administration's extreme interpretation of the law to engage in excessive domestic surveillance.
In a letter to attorney general Eric Holder last year, they argued that "there is now a significant gap between what most Americans think the law allows and what the government secretly claims the law allows."
"We believe," they wrote, "that most Americans would be stunned to learn the details of how these secret court opinions have interpreted" the "business records" provision of the Patriot Act.
Privacy advocates have long warned that allowing the government to collect and store unlimited "metadata" is a highly invasive form of surveillance of citizens' communications activities. Those records enable the government to know the identity of every person with whom an individual communicates electronically, how long they spoke, and their location at the time of the communication.
Such metadata is what the US government has long attempted to obtain in order to discover an individual's network of associations and communication patterns. The request for the bulk collection of all Verizon domestic telephone records indicates that the agency is continuing some version of the data-mining program begun by the Bush administration in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attack.
The NSA, as part of a program secretly authorized by President Bush on 4 October 2001, implemented a bulk collection program of domestic telephone, internet and email records. A furore erupted in 2006 when USA Today reported that the NSA had "been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth" and was "using the data to analyze calling patterns in an effort to detect terrorist activity." Until now, there has been no indication that the Obama administration implemented a similar program.
These recent events reflect how profoundly the NSA's mission has transformed from an agency exclusively devoted to foreign intelligence gathering, into one that focuses increasingly on domestic communications. A 30-year employee of the NSA, William Binney, resigned from the agency shortly after 9/11 in protest at the agency's focus on domestic activities.
In the mid-1970s, Congress, for the first time, investigated the surveillance activities of the US government. Back then, the mandate of the NSA was that it would never direct its surveillance apparatus domestically.
At the conclusion of that investigation, Frank Church, the Democratic senator from Idaho who chaired the investigative committee, warned: "The NSA's capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn't matter."
Additional reporting by Ewen MacAskill and Spencer Ackerman
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Plane. Thomas Cook (flythomascook.com), Monarch (www.monarch.co.uk) and Thomson (flights.thomson.co.uk) operate charter flights to the island from Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Gatwick, Luton, Manchester, Newcastle and Stansted.
In the affluent villages of the Livatho peninsula, south of the capital Argostoli, and within reach of the sandy beaches on the south coast. SunIsle Holidays (0844 4820202; www.sunisle.co.uk) has availability throughout September and October at several private villas in the region, including the Villa Abas in Spartia (from £1,161 per week; sleeps eight) and the Villa Battus in Trepazaki (from £1,205 per week; sleeps eight). Both properties sit in quiet, rural surrounding and have sea views, swimming pools and modern kitchens. Prices do not include flights.
The three-star Panas Hotel (from £471 per person per week, including flights), on the south coast, is a good budget option. Rooms are basic (sporadic hot water and spartan décor) but they offer the essentials (air conditioning, balconies, sea views) and the location is superb: beneath the charming village of Spartia, close to several good tavernas, and a stone's throw from a quiet beach backed by dramatic limestone cliffs. Book through SunIsle.
The Kephalonia Palace Hotel (0030 26710 93190; www.kefaloniapalacehotel.gr), next to Xi Beach, on the south coast of the Lixouri peninsula, is ideal for unabashed luxury.
At Myrtos Beach. Backed by almost sheer cliffs and lapped by unfathomably turquoise waters, it is one of the world's most photographed stretches of sand. It fills up with boisterous Italians from around noon, so arrive early to claim a sun lounger (7.50 euros for a pair).
Geologists will be keen to visit the Melissani and Dhrogarati caves (7 euros each), near Sami, on the east coast of the island, but they are overpriced, and a little underwhelming.
At the Castle Café, found beneath the ruins of the 16th-century hilltop Castle of St George, near the small town of Peratata. Offering sandwiches and traditional snacks, it is set within a gorgeous, shaded garden and commands stunning views across the south of the island. It is run by an amiable Greek gent – whose mother tends the flowers – and his English wife, who is rather secretive about her recipe for spicy baked feta. Burn off your meal by inspecting the aforementioned Venetian fortress (Tue-Fri 8.30-7pm, Sat-Sun 8.30am-3pm; free).
At the monastery of Ayios Gerasimos (8am-1pm, 3pm-8pm; free). Nestled in a verdant valley a few kilometres to the north east of the castle, the monastery is modern, having been rebuilt in a Byzantine style following the devastating earthquake of 1953 that levelled the original 16th-century structure. The interior is adorned with colourful biblical scenes, and behind the building lies a small chapel, where svelte visitors can squeeze through a hole in the ground and inspect the caves where St Gerasimos is thought to have spent endless hours meditating.
Two annual feasts celebrate the saint's life, on August 15 and October 20, during which the monastery is overrun with worshippers.
A trip to the nearby Robola winery (the tipple of choice for the drunken Father Arsenios in de Bernières' novel) is worthwhile – not least for the free tasting.
A taverna. With their plastic chairs, paper tablecloths, lukewarm dishes (Greeks believe hot food is bad for the stomach) and feline visitors, these traditional Greek restaurants can feel like much of a muchness, but a few stand out. The Waterway bar and grill, on the beach below Spartia, has a lively atmosphere and sea views, and Tassia (www.tassia.gr), in Fiskardo, is good for lobster and Kefallonian meat pie.
Exploring the Lixouri peninsula. Kefalonia's second city, and the surrounding villages, bore the brunt of the 1953 earthquake, and it still bears the scars. Goats, chickens – and the odd eccentric-looking local – potter around the farming region, where ruined homes and subsided fields still dot the landscape.
Make for the rust-red sands of family-friendly Xi Beach, on the south coast, which offers watersports and a couple of smart tavernas, or wild Petani Beach, on the west coast, which rivals Myrtos for its spectacular location.
Finish the day at the Monastery of Kipoureon, which occupies a dramatic cliff top location on the west coast of the peninsula, and where each evening a score of tourist join the Orthodox priests to watch the sun set.
Leaving the airport without a vehicle. Owing to its mountainous terrain and meagre public transport, this is an island best tackled by car. A portable satnav also comes in handy – the Garmin Nuvi 1690 comes with preloaded Greek maps (www.garmin.com)
Visit www.gnto.co.uk/geninfo/ionia.html, or read The Rough Guide to the Ionian Islands (£10.99, www.roughguides.com)
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China’s central bank set the daily yuan-fixing at its weakest level against the dollar in more than five years on Monday, after hawkish comments from Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen boosted the strength of the U.S. currency.
The People’s Bank of China set its daily reference rate for the yuan at 6.5784, the weakest level since February 2011 and 0.45% lower than Friday’s fixing point. Onshore, the yuan is allowed to trade 2%...
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'Captain America' boasts a hero-sized $4 million budget.
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of $4 million - a lot of money, even for a superhero fighting for the American dream, the flag and the woman he loves.
The superhero will not, in fact, be particularly super when the curtain goes up. The book by Mel Mandel and Norman Sachs (who are also responsible for music and lyrics) has Captain A. going through a mid-life crisis. Fortunately, the action speeds up - his girlfriend, a candidate for President, is captured by terrorists and held hostage at the Lincoln Memorial. That's enough of the plot - when you invest millions, as are Shari Upbin, James Galton and Marvel Comics and some as yet untapped sources, you're entitled to a few secrets.
The plan is to take the production, which will be directed by Philip Rose, out of town this fall and to Broadway toward year's end. John Cullum, Ken Howard, Richard Kiley and Hal Linden are the names being mentioned for our hero, and Linda Lavin and Cloris Leachman are being talked about to play the woman who is obviously going to be rescued from those baddies.
Another bit of nice news - and a possible successor to ''Fiddler on the Roof.'' M-Square Entertainment with William S. Hack have obtained the rights to Chaim Potok's ''Chosen,'' and Mr. Potok has agreed to write the book for the musical. The budget, some $4.5 million, is apparently assured and the producers are thinking in terms of Hal Linden (a popular man this week), Topol, Robby Benson or Barry Miller. Broadway by June 1986 is the aim.
How about Jeanne Moreau in Tennessee Williams's ''Night of the Iguana''? The thought occurred to the producers Fred Walker and Michael Lonergan and that's why the play, with the French star, is scheduled to open on Broadway this fall. Arthur Sherman, who received a Tony nomination for ''The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial,'' will direct.
Another familiar name will be with us next month. Glynis Johns will co-star with Milo O'Shea in ''The Return of Herbert Bracewell,'' by Andrew Johns. The production, to be directed by Geraldine Fitzgerald, opens May 14 at the Chelsea Playhouse, 519 West 23d Street (243-0992).
One of the things Jim Dale likes best about the theater is its immediacy and what might be called its ephemeral quality.
''We only exist in people's memories,'' said Mr. Dale, who is currently co-starring in ''A Day in the Death of Joe Egg,'' which opened on Broadway last week after a successful Off Broadway run earlier this year. ''We don't exist on film or tape and we can't be played back. What happens tonight will never happen again.''
Actors are ''on the line - naked'' when they appear on stage, he said, and although this can be daunting, ''that's what it is - we love it or we wouldn't do it.''
''You rehearse and listen to the director but finally, in the end, you're out there on your own,'' the 49-year-old actor said. ''Your performance isn't being edited or added to by soundtracks, as in films.''
Mr. Dale is, he said, ''a great believer'' in Off Broadway theater.
''There are plays written which only a certain number of people will appreciate but they should be allowed to go on,'' he said. ''I think every actor should go Off Broadway. One needs to have somewhere to go to learn, and if necessary, to make mistakes. You learn from mistakes and failures, not from success.''
Mr. Dale said that he had long since accepted the fact that an actor's life was made up of temporary jobs and that he had come to the conclusion that it wasn't at all bad.
''You can only accept another job if you're out of work, or will be,'' he said.
George Bernard Shaw, John Malkovich, Kevin Kline and Raul Julia - not a trifling combination, or at least such is the belief of Circle in the Square. Shaw is responsible for ''Arms and the Man,'' Mr. Malkovich will direct it, and Mr. Kline and Mr. Julia are to star in the production, which will begin May 9. The comedy - which will also feature Glenne Headly, Mr. Malkovich's wife - is set in 19th-century Bulgaria and will replace ''Orpheus Descending,'' which has been postponed.
A young woman walks away from an unhappy marriage, returns to what she expects will be the comfort of her family and discovers that her mother is also unhappy and moving out on her own, That doesn't sound like a comedy, but in the hands of the playwright Sallie Bingham, we're assured that it is. It can be checked out starting Thursday when the Women's Project presents ''Paducah'' at the American Place Theater, 111 West 46th Street. Tammy Grimes and Carrie Nye are starring, and Joan Vail Thorne directing.
Can it be possible that there will be marquees around the city reading ''Sit Down and Eat Before Our Love Gets Cold,'' ''Bruce Lee Is Dead and I'm Not Feeling Too Good Either'' and ''Tinned Lettuce''? Believe it. ''Tinned Lettuce,'' a musical parody written and designed by Edward Gorey, will be at the New York University Main Stage Two, 725 Broadway near Waverly Place (598-2091), April 17-27. Matt Williams's ''Bruce Lee'' opens April 23 at the Riverwest Theater, 155 Bank Street (243-0259). ''Sit Down,'' written by Barbara Schottenfeld, who also has the lead role, will begin previews April 18 at the American Kaleidoscope Theater, 5 West 63d Street (279-4200).
G.I.'s in World War II referred to the mined areas in the African desert as ''Rommel's Garden,'' and that's the name of the play by Harvey Gabor that will open at the Harold Clurman Theater May 8. Lonny Price will play a wiseguy private and Jack Garfein will direct. The theater is at 412 West 42d Street.
Start saving up for it now. Mike Nichols, Elaine May and Joan Rivers are among the personalities who will appear in ''Comic Relief,'' an entertainment to be presented May 19 by Lorne Michaels at the Shubert Theater to benefit the AIDS Medical Foundation. Co-chairmen are Joseph Papp, Bernard B. Jacobs and Gerald Schoenfeld. Tickets start at $100, and for $250 or $500, a party in Shubert Alley will be thrown in. Information: 949-7410.
A revue-style entertainment, celebrating the story-songs of Harry Chapin, who was killed in an automobile accident in 1981, begins previews next Friday at the Village Gate (Downstairs), 160 Bleecker Street. ''Lies and Legends, the Musical Stories of Harry Chapin'' is budgeted at $400,000, directed by Sam Weisman and has a cast that includes Martin Vidnovic, Terri Klausner and Ron Orbach. Preview seats are $10.
Caricature of Jim Dale in ''A Day in the Death of Joe Egg''
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'Captain America' boasts a hero-sized $4 million budget. IT'S going to be a big one, if everything works out as befits a musical named ''Captain America.'' Big, in this case, means a budget of $4 million - a lot of money, even for a superhero fighting for the American dream, the flag and the woman he loves. The superhero will not, in fact, be particularly super when the curtain goes up. The book by Mel Mandel and Norman Sachs (who are also responsible for music and lyrics) has Captain A. going through a mid-life crisis. Fortunately, the action speeds up - his girlfriend, a candidate for President, is captured by terrorists and held hostage at the Lincoln Memorial. That's enough of the plot - when you invest millions, as are Shari Upbin, James Galton and Marvel Comics and some as yet untapped sources, you're entitled to a few secrets.
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Apple still hasn’t confirmed whether or not it’s working on a secret smart car. But a new patent granted to the US-based tech behemoth on 24 May suggests otherwise — and brings up questions about how susceptible to hackers the cars of the near future could be.
The patent is titled “Accessing Vehicles Using Portable Devices.” It seems to be a digital key that lives on your iPhone and unlocks or starts your car wirelessly via Bluetooth. The twist? You could also temporarily assign these powers to a secondary mobile device. For example, you could share access if you wanted to allow a family member to use the car for an afternoon.
But is all this safe?
Any data that lives on the cloud faces a security risk. But we’re not just talking about family vacation photos here. A smartphone car key like Apple’s could help carjacking hackers swipe your vehicle — or worse. As connected cars become more connected, hackers could open your garage from afar. They could even deactivate the open your front door, turn on the lights, adjust the thermostat and brew a pot of coffee.
To its credit, Apple has a history of ostensibly keeping the safety of customers’ data in mind: Earlier this year, the company denied the US Federal Bureau of Investigation’s request to provide a “skeleton key” that would bypass an iPhone's security mechanisms and unlock private data. The FBI wanted such a key in order to investigate an iPhone 5C used by the gunman who, with his wife, killed 14 people and wounded more than 20 last December in a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California. Apple publicly refused to cooperate, on the grounds that such a “skeleton key” falling into the wrong hands would prove disastrous. (The FBI later managed to unlock the phone on its own.)
All this comes amidst a new era of car ownership. While this recent patent backs up possible plans of a rumoured iCar, Apple’s not the only company looking to connect cars to the cloud. Volvo began testing smartphone-based car keys of its own in February, and Toyota and Ford are working with Microsoft and Amazon respectively to increase interconnectivity between your auto and your home.
But whatever comes of Apple’s new patent (or its car), one thing is for sure: Cars will continue to become more technologically tied to every aspect of our lives. Tech companies need to stay viligant with each new development.
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Question: My husband and I recently had our first child and we want to be able to Skype with my mom and dad. We (my husband and I) both have iPhones and iPads, so we looked in to FaceTime, but an iPad or iPhone for my parents seemed too expensive. They have a computer, but they don’t like using it all that much, although that could be an option in a pinch. Is there a good, inexpensive tablet we could get them, though? We’d like to keep it around $100 or less if possible.
Short answer: Get Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD 6 for $99 or use their existing computer for free.
Long answer: FaceTime is great if everyone has Apple produ–I’m so sorry: Congratulations on your new baby! I just launched right into the answer like a nerdy robot. Rude. I have a child, too. He’s about to turn one. We actually have a similar problem in my family, too, with everyone on different mobile platforms.
Anyway, enough with the small talk. To get Mom and Dad on the FaceTime train, your cheapest option would be to get them an iPod Touch, which is like a phone-less iPhone. Those start at $200; iPads and iPhones go up from there.
Now, if they have a relatively new-ish Mac computer, they’re already able to FaceTime with you guys. They can downloaded FaceTime from the Mac App Store here if they don’t already have it. It’s free. And if they have just about any type of computer with a webcam, they can use Skype for free — download it here.
An easy, cheap, portable option that doesn’t tie Mom and Dad to the computer, though, would be Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD 6 tablet. It’s got a powerful enough processor to handle Skype video chats, sports both front- and rear-facing cameras — which is an area where cheap tablets tend to skimp by only including one camera — and has an easy-to-use interface.
The screen measures six inches diagonally, which is small for a tablet. That makes it easy to hold in one hand, but if your parents have poor eyesight or they just want to watch Junior waddle around on as big a screen as possible, this option is almost like giving them an oversized smartphone. The screen itself is sharp, though.
You didn’t mention which kinds of iPhones you and your husband have, but here’s the Amazon tablet sandwiched in between a Kindle Paperwhite e-reader on the left and an iPhone 5S on the right:
The tablet is sized like a thicker, heavier e-reader. Your parents can read books on it, too, along with doing a bunch of other stuff, so that might be a bonus. If they want to use it only for Skype, that’s perfectly fine.
Once they get the tablet, here’s a quick step-by-step for installing Skype. You can either send them to this article and have them watch this quick video or tell them what to do by stepping them through the directions after the video:
Basically, they’ll want to tap “Apps” at the top of the tablet’s main screen, then “Store” in the upper-right corner (there’s a shopping-cart icon), then “Search” in the upper-right corner, then type “Skype” and hit the magnifying glass in the lower-right corner of the keyboard.
Careful: That magnifying glass is right above another magnifying glass that searches the entire tablet. And there are two Skype apps that pop up in the search results. They’ll want to tap the second one. The first one is called “Skype WiFi” and searches for Wi-Fi hotspots. They want the second one: plain old “Skype” with the “S” logo.
They’ll need to create a Skype account, of course. They can create one here or from directly within the app when it first launches.
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Don DeLillo's deep freeze: 'Zero K' takes on death, futurists and cryonics
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In Don DeLillo's new novel, "Zero K," words have come unattached from the things they mean. The title indicates the temperature zero Kelvin, best known as absolute zero. But in the story, Zero K is an elite level of cryogenics, and even the scientists who work there admit it's not actually part of the process.
That's only the beginning. Our thirtysomething protagonist Jeff doesn't meet people so much as observe and define them. "I named them the Stenmark twins. They were the Stenmark twins," he decides about a pair of artist-futurists, never learning their actual names. But even then his designation is unsettled; they are, he concludes, "Jan and Lars, or Nils and Sven." When young, Jeff would challenge himself to define a word, chasing it down through the dictionary: Fishwife to shrew to shrewmouse to insectivorous to vorous. He hasn't given this up, and his attempts to find definitions lead to words and more words, while the real object remains far from reach.
This gap between the word and the thing, the signifier and the signified, is appropriate for DeLillo, one of the masters of postmodern literature. "White Noise," which won the 1985 National Book Award, is a darkly humorous classic of alienation, doublespeak and suburban life.
DeLillo has a signature prose style, language intelligent and abrupt, choppy, atomizing philosophies and ideas. It sets his work apart from much of American fiction, where you're likely to find tactile descriptions and articulated emotions. In leaving interpretive spaces between the words he's written — in "Zero K," sometimes the only way to understand what a character is feeling is to read about him observing his own reaction in a mirror — DeLillo has baked postmodernism into his work.
With this powerful alienation animating his novels, he has chopped away at slices of society: Rock 'n' roll and fame in "Great Jones Street" (1973); conspiracy and paranoia in 1988's bestselling "Libra," a reimagining of the John F. Kennedy assassination via Lee Harvey Oswald; scientists and science fiction in "Ratner's Star" (1976); linguistics and expatriates in "The Names" (1978); football in 1972's "End Zone." In 1997 he published "Underworld," a behemoth of a novel that wrapped nearly all his ideas into a single great book.
From time to time, almost presciently, he has contemplated terrorism and its effects on Americans: A shooting on the floor of the stock exchange in "Players" (1977) in which a character works at the World Trade Center, "White Noise's" accidental Airborne Toxic Event and its attendant chaos, and terrorist hostage-takers in 1991's "Mao II." This was the unthinkable stuff of fiction, of course, until the 9/11 attacks.
"History is turned on its end," he wrote in a Harper's essay in December 2001. The year marked a significant split in his work. His creative output slowed; his books got smaller; their scope shrank. "The Body Artist," released earlier in 2001, is a stretched-out novella in which a mourning woman walks around her house. "Cosmopolis" (2003) takes place in a single day, during which a billionaire is chauffeured across Manhattan for a haircut. "Falling Man" (2007) was a straightforward 9/11 novel, one of the best to date but with a realism that was, for DeLillo, flat. And in "Point Omega" (2011) a military adviser retreats to a remote Southwest desert to contemplate his deeds and eternity and discuss these ideas with a prospective documentarian.
Which brings us to "Zero K." Again the desert landscape, this time near Kyrgyzstan. Again a billionaire — our protagonist Jeff's father, Ross Lockhart. There is his stripped-down language, his grappling with ideas. But does the book have the animated edge, the worrying of a cultural pebble of his most vital work? This time, does DeLillo's intellectual knife have something to cut into?
I think so. He is, after all, taking on death.
Ross Lockhart brings Jeff to an isolated desert compound where big money and techno-futurists have developed a secret cryonics facility. They call what they have planned the Convergence — it's like the buzzy "singularity," in which human mind and computer technologies merge, but with the bonus of animating life beyond death. And freezing corpses or, quite possibly, the not-quite-entirely dead.
Jeff can't figure out if the people in charge are philosophers or scientists or cult leaders, conceptual artists or hucksters. Often we hear, or overhear, them expound on the future the techno-utopianly preserved will awake to after the coming environmental and social collapse. This future is available for only the super-rich and, of course, for those who believe. It could be the work of true visionaries, but it might be the Egyptian-pyramids-meet-Silicon Valley, well-preserved dead awaiting an afterlife that never arrives.
What is clear is why Jeff is there: His father wants him alongside as his fatally ill stepmother, Artis, passes over — something skeptical Jeff sees as simply dying.
But Artis believes. "I will become a clinical specimen," she tells him. "Advances will be made through the years. Part of the body replaced or rebuilt. . . . Note the documentary tone. I've talked to people here. A reassembling, atom by atom. I have every belief that I will reawaken to a new perception of the world."
These are the preoccupations of the novel: What death means, the hopes or dissimulations of futurists, their analysis of our contemporary, verging-on-catastrophe moment, contemplations of faith and the afterlife. The devotees of the Convergence are promised not just life after death but also human (albeit nanobot-enhanced) life eternal. "Forevermore," Artis says, with reverence.
If Jeff doesn't buy it, that doesn't mean he lacks empathy for her. "This was transcendence, the promise of a lyric intensity outside the measure of normal experience," he thinks. And who would not want a dying loved one to believe transcendent immortality awaits them?
This is not the only time Jeff has had to witness a parent's death; first was his mother. He returned from college to sit at her bedside in a painful, melancholy scene. Her illness and death meant nothing to Jeff's father, who had abandoned the family years before and subsequently become a multi-billionaire.
DeLillo puts the two scenarios in contrast: Lockhart sinking millions, maybe billions, into the Convergence to save his young wife's life versus his forgetting, or pretending that he's forgotten, Jeff's mother's name. Jeff holds nothing against Artis — in fact, his scenes with her contain some of the book's most lighthearted, human exchanges — but the resentment lies between son and father, unspoken.
Jeff's disbelief in the cryonics project should drive the plot, but the creators' haphazard, arrogant philosophies remain unconvincing; it's too easy to be on Jeff's side. Instead, it's the pas-de-deux between father and son — about the cryonics project on the surface, but actually much more — that seesaws the novel forward. Like his wife, Artis, Ross believes, and Jeff can't quite grant him his faith. "My father had grown a beard. This surprised me," he observes. "Was this the beard a man grows who is eager to enter a new dimension of belief?"
Artis' final day does not arrive on schedule, so Jeff explores the complex, wandering its halls, stumbling across a garden, following along and observing the meeting where he assigns names to the twins. A few times, in the otherwise unpeopled cafeteria, he encounters a secular monk who talks about death and devotion, and who serves as a kind of Charon to those preparing for their cryogenic crossing.
The facility, mostly underground, is minimalist to the point of being a satire of minimalism, or that is how Jeff seems to take it. He passes down its halls and comes to think that the closed doors contain nothing, that the halls themselves are conceptual artworks. As if triggered by his presence, screens lower from the ceiling to display videos of scenes that begin sylvan and pleasing but, as his time there progresses, grow increasingly apocalyptic.
Described in detail, the scenes are grotesquely extreme, but they could also be seen any day on CNN. Floods. Fires. Bombings. Panic. Environmental devastation. War. Refugees. Man's cruelty to man. Jeff cannot tell if they are documentary footage of the world outside or video art.
DeLillo's last novel, "Point Omega," began with a man observing a video installation in a gallery, fascinated. Although the book doesn't name the piece, it's "24 Hour Psycho" by Douglas Gordon, as Delillo explained to the Wall Street Journal. And "Zero K" also namelessly incorporates visual art, but here it's not in a gallery but embedded into the book's architecture.
Some of the videos Jeff sees closely resemble Dutch artist Aernout Mik's, which include staged military scenes and newsreel footage of the same. There seems to be reference to the work of conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth. Later, when he returns to New York — and he must — Jeff finds a woman who stands at the center of a crowded New York street impossibly compelling, positioning himself in front of where she is "frozen in place…. She had pledged herself into a mental depth." Although her eyes are closed, in her presence and silence she's a fair approximation of performance artist Marina Abramovic.
Those versed in contemporary art will recognize the referents. There are also nods to literary figures, such as Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal. But for the most part, this intertextuality is a layering — not of meaning, as you might expect, but of distance from it.
Cultural references go unnamed throughout: Rather than simply say "Busby Berkeley musical," DeLillo describes "lavishly choreographed dance routines from Hollywood musicals of many decades past, dancers synchronized in the manner of a marching army." This is the specific decontextualized, made foreign, as if seen by a man who has just fallen to Earth.
Which brings us back to alienation. If words are at a disjuncture from what they mean, what does that mean for a project, like a novel, that relies on words for its building blocks? This has been the challenge for a certain set of novelists since the deconstructionists' ideas made their way to America. When DeLillo tackled it in "The Names," his efforts to use language to explore language felt like a surgeon trying to operate on his own hand. Now, he's got a lighter grip, tackling the ideas with wry humor.
And maybe losing the signified for the signifier gives the novel its own totemic power. It will be able to be read by not just space aliens, but people who are unfettered by our cultural clutter, many decades hence. Maybe that's DeLillo's plan: to be read a century from now by the techno-futurists of the Convergence or just plain human descendants. And is that not the kind of belief we would wish for our favorite novelists?
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Every new business owner needs to know the fundamentals. Forbes.com is breaking down those building blocks by answering eight core questions related to a given industry. Taken together, the information will give budding entrepreneurs a head start on making those first critical steps.
What corporate structure should I choose?
You have five basic choices: a sole proprietorship, a partnership, a limited liability company or a corporation–either an S corporation or a C corporation. Assisted living facilities–and most small businesses, for that matter–should choose an LLC structure.
Setting up an LLC protects you from personal liability. (If one of the residents slips on an icy walkway or chokes on the key lime pie, the lawyers can’t go after your house.) Unlike with sole proprietorships and partnerships, only the amount of money you put into an LLC is at risk. If you plan to open more than one facility, set up a separate LLC for each location, says Joel Goldman, a partner at the San Francisco-based law firm, Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos & Rudy.
Corporations limit your personal liability too, but LLCs have additional merits. For starters, they are simpler and more flexible. Unlike both types of corporations, LLCs don’t require a board of directors, shareholder meetings and other managerial formalities.
Better yet, LLCs allow entrepreneurs to divvy up profits any way they choose, as opposed to shareholders in corporations, who have to carve them up in proportion to their percentage ownership in the company. With an LLC structure, assisted living entrepreneurs can entice investors with perhaps a larger slice of the profits than their initial investment would warrant. Such flexibility could help raise the millions in start-up costs to open one of these homes.
Another advantage with LLCs: tax-treatment flexibility. An LLC’s profits can be taxed as a corporate entity (a C corporation) or as a “pass through” entity (an S corporation), meaning that the company avoids paying taxes on both corporate profits and the owners’ personal income. Most LLCs choose the pass-through option. However, in some cases, LLCs can choose a C corporation tax structure and save money by funneling profits back into the business tax-free.
One minor downside to LLCs (and S corporations): You can’t take them public. Even if you plan to launch the next Sunrise Senior Living, it’s much simpler to set it up as an LLC and switch to a C corporation when you get closer to ringing the bell at the New York Stock Exchange.
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Things are appearing pretty bad for Donald Trump ahead of the key Wisconsin presidential primary next Tuesday.
So much so, that Trump, the GOP frontrunner, on Thursday thanked Wisconsinites for a poll that he was losing.
The poll, from Public Policy Polling, had Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas ahead of the real-estate magnate by a 38% to 37% total.
SEE ALSO: HILLARY CLINTON RIPS TRUMP: His ideas are not only offensive 'but dangerous and sometimes even illegal'
"Sure he didn't read it, but our analysis of this poll is about how he'll prob lose by more," the pollster remarked after Trump's social-media post.
Check out photos from an anti-Trump rally in Wisconsin:
Donald Trump is poised to have another rough week
Protesters demonstrate outside a campaign rally for Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump in Janesville, Wisconsin, March 29, 2016. REUTERS/Kamil Krzaczynski
Protesters demonstrate outside a campaign rally for Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump in Janesville, Wisconsin, March 29, 2016. REUTERS/Kamil Krzaczynski
UNITED STATES - MARCH 29: Anti-Trump protesters gather in the free speech zone outside of the Janesville Conference Center in Janesville, Wis., in advance of the Donald Trump for President rally in Speaker of the House Paul Ryan's home town on Tuesday, March 29, 2016. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Anti-Trump protesters demonstrate outside a campaign event for Donald Trump, president and chief executive of Trump Organization Inc. and 2016 Republican presidential candidate, not pictured, in Janesville, Wisconsin, U.S., on Tuesday, March 29, 2016. Trump began his closing bid to capture Wisconsin's winner-take-all Republican primary by trying to address one of the biggest vulnerabilities of his campaign for the presidency: the female vote. Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images
UNITED STATES - MARCH 29: A Trump supporter debates with anti-Trump protesters in the free speech zone outside of the Janesville Conference Center in Janesville, Wis., in advance of the Donald Trump for President rally in Speaker of the House Paul Ryan's home town on Tuesday, March 29, 2016. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Anti-Trump protesters demonstrate outside a campaign event for Donald Trump, president and chief executive of Trump Organization Inc. and 2016 Republican presidential candidate, not pictured, in Janesville, Wisconsin, U.S., on Tuesday, March 29, 2016. Trump began his closing bid to capture Wisconsin's winner-take-all Republican primary by trying to address one of the biggest vulnerabilities of his campaign for the presidency: the female vote. Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images
JANESVILLE, WI - MARCH 29: Demonstrators protest outside a campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at the Holiday Inn Express hotel on March 29, 2016 in Janesville, Wisconsin. Wisconsin voters go to the polls for the state's primary on April 5. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
JANESVILLE, WI - MARCH 29: Demonstrators protest outside a campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at the Holiday Inn Express hotel on March 29, 2016 in Janesville, Wisconsin. Wisconsin voters go to the polls for the state's primary on April 5. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
JANESVILLE, WI - MARCH 29: Demonstrators protest outside a campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at the Holiday Inn Express hotel on March 29, 2016 in Janesville, Wisconsin. Wisconsin voters go to the polls for the state's primary on April 5. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
JANESVILLE, WI - MARCH 29: Demonstrators and supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wait for the start of a campaign rally at the Holiday Inn Express hotel on March 29, 2016 in Janesville, Wisconsin. Wisconsin voters go to the polls for the state's primary on April 5. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
JANESVILLE, WI - MARCH 29: Demonstrators protest outside a campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at the Holiday Inn Express hotel on March 29, 2016 in Janesville, Wisconsin. Wisconsin voters go to the polls for the state's primary on April 5. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
JANESVILLE, WI - MARCH 29: Demonstrators protest outside a campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at the Holiday Inn Express hotel on March 29, 2016 in Janesville, Wisconsin. Wisconsin voters go to the polls for the state's primary on April 5. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Demonstrators gather outside the Holiday Inn Express in Janesville, Wis., Tuesday, March 29, 2016, to protest a scheduled appearance by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at the adjoining conference center , (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Donald Trump protesters argue with a supporter outside the Holiday Inn Express in Janesville, Wis., Tuesday, March 29, 2016, prior to a scheduled appearance by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Demonstrators gather outside the Holiday Inn Express in Janesville, Wis., Tuesday, March 29, 2016, to protest the scheduled appearance of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at the adjoining conference center . (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Demonstrators gather outside the Holiday Inn Express in Janesville, Wis., Tuesday, March 29, 2016, to protest a scheduled appearance by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at the adjoining conference center , (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Protesters demonstrate outside a campaign rally for Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump in Janesville, Wisconsin, March 29, 2016. REUTERS/Kamil Krzaczynski
Donald Trump protesters hold a sign outside the Holiday Inn Express in Janesville, Wis., Tuesday, March 29, 2016, to protest Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's scheduled appearance. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Other recent polls haven't been kind to Trump either — far worse, in fact.
A poll released this week from Marquette Law School — widely respected among political observers — had Trump trailing Cruz by 10 points. In February, the same poll had him up on Cruz by 11 points. Another poll released this week, from Fox Business, had Trump trailing Cruz by the same 10-point margin.
Overall, it's been a fairly disastrous week for Trump in the state.
It began with a Monday interview with conservative Wisconsin radio host Charlie Sykes, a self-professed "Never Trump" Republican.
Among others things, Sykes grilled Trump over his treatment of Cruz's wife. Trump had tweeted out an intentionally unflattering photo of Heidi Cruz and previously threatened to "spill the beans" on her.
Trump insisted that his barbs were retaliation after a super PAC unaffiliated with the Cruz campaign ran some ads with a racy photo of Trump's own wife.
But Sykes didn't buy Trump's argument:
Is this your standard? That if a supporter of another candidate — not the candidate himself — does something despicable, that it's OK for you, personally, a candidate for president of the United States, to behave in that same way? I mean, I expect that from a 12-year-old bully on the playground, not somebody who wants the office held by Abraham Lincoln.
The following day, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker endorsed Cruz on Sykes' radio show.
Trump then started to furiously attack Walker's record. That's a questionable strategy, because Walker has an 80% approval rating in the state from likely Republican primary voters, although that number is much lower when all voters are factored in.
"He certainly can't endorse me after what I did to him in the race, right?" Trump said of Walker at a Tuesday event, bringing attention to various attacks he levied against Walker before the governor dropped out of the 2016 race.
"Your governor has convinced you [Wisconsin] doesn't have problems," Trump later said.
On Wednesday, Trump walked into yet another firestorm after botching a question from MSNBC's Chris Matthews on abortion policy. Trump initially said he supported punishing women who receive abortions if they were made illegal, but soon backtracked after he was fiercely criticized by both the left and the right on the issue.
Trump is making a big push to win the state despite the recent headwinds.
He has filled his schedule with Wisconsin events ahead of the primary. He even added an event late to his schedule and is now holding a total of six rallies there between Saturday and Monday. On Friday, he also launched a new radio-ad campaign in the state.
Trump is still attracting large crowds at his Wisconsin rallies and, as Trip Gabriel wrote in The New York Times, the mogul has the advantage of a "large number of white working-class voters" and "a passionate base of supporters for whom he can do no wrong."
But the state has been viewed for some time as the last stand of the "Never Trump" movement.
In mid-March, the conservative group Club for Growth sent out a three-page memo to donors promising the group would spend as much as $2 million in Wisconsin to assist Cruz, who worked to get a head start on Trump in the state, according to The Times.
Trump is also struggling in the Milwaukee suburbs, which are reportedly among the most Republican counties in the state. Those suburban voters were key to Walker's gubernatorial victories.
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U.S. Senator Bob Corker, a Republican from Tennessee with his own business background, recently met with Trump.
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich could provide Trump with exactly what he is looking for in a running mate — an experienced lawmaker who pushed legislation through Congress for years.
Though he has been actively aboard the Kasich bandwagon in recent days, Gingrich has come to Trump's defense regarding both the establishment backlash to his candidacy and the controversy the frontrunner found himself in after initially failing in a CNN interview to disavow support from former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
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Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama is the only sitting senator to endorse Trump — and he has already been tapped to lead Trump's national-security advisory committee.
"A movement is afoot that must not fade away," Sessions said during the Alabama rally where he announced his support last month.
Sessions is one of the staunchest supporters of Trump's hard-line plan to crack down on illegal immigration. The senator could also give Trump credibility in the South.
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Former Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts was the first current or former senator to endorse Trump. He was known in the Senate as a moderate, and he could help pick up votes with some in the less conservative wing of the Republican Party.
He has supported abortion rights and is in favor of banning assault weapons, but he carries a blue-collar, populist persona. Brown memorably drove a pickup truck to campaign events during his 2010 Senate run in Massachusetts, which was to fill a vacant seat.
Trump acknowledged that Brown may very well be his pick.
During a January event in New Hampshire, Trump said Brown was cut out of "central casting" and could be his vice president. Brown said at the time that Trump was "the next president of the United States."
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"I was Donald Trump before Donald Trump became popular," Gov. Paul LePage of Maine said while announcing his support for the GOP frontrunner last month on "The Howie Carr Show."
The governor is comparable to Trump when it comes to provocative remarks. In January, LePage found himself at the center of a national firestorm after he made some racially tinged comments about out-of-state drug dealers who come into Maine and "impregnate a young white girl" before leaving.
"Now I get to defend all the good stuff he says," LePage has said of Trump.
LePage also entered politics after a successful business career, but he was reportedly staunchly opposed to Trump's candidacy before suddenly coming on board.
(Photo by Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey is the only 2016 GOP presidential candidate who has endorsed Trump since leaving the race.
Christie could help Trump with more moderate GOP voters, and he certainly has the bombastic personality that would serve as a useful surrogate for Trump, though the two also fiercely criticized each other when they were both candidates in the race.
Back in November, Trump said Christie could have a "place" on his ticket.
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Former Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, who was once in the 2016 GOP presidential race, has been defending Trump in recent weeks. Plus, his daughter is now working as a part of Trump's campaign.
Last week, BuzzFeed reported that advisers close to Huckabee thought the vice-president nod was in the cards for their guy.
Of all the former 2016 White House contenders, Huckabee may be closest to Trump ideologically. Huckabee struck a populist tone on cultural issues and, like Trump, vowed to protect Social Security and Medicare if elected.
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Aside from a few brushups in the fall, Gov. John Kasich of Ohio has barely touched Trump along the trail. The same can be said for Trump, whose most brutal attack against Kasich is that he "got lucky" because of the natural-gas reserves in his state.
It has been rumored that Trump would be interested in Kasich as his running mate, though Trump has also recently started criticizing Kasich on the campaign trail.
Kasich has the political experience that Trump says he's seeking. Kasich also hails from the Midwest, one of the most competitive regions in the past few presidential races.
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It has been an ongoing rumor that Gov. Rick Scott of Florida will endorse Trump after Scott wrote a gushing op-ed article in USA Today in January.
Like Trump, Scott rose to power from the business world. But Scott also has clout in the largest general-election swing state. In addition, he has six years of government experience behind him after being elected to office in 2010.
Of note: The hospital company where Scott served as CEO had to pay a $1.7 billion Medicare fraud penalty in 2000.
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John McCain's running mate in 2008, Sarah Palin was a big get for Trump when she endorsed the frontrunner over Ted Cruz, whom she had vigorously campaigned for during his Senate run in 2012.
If Trump is interested in a sharp break with the Republican establishment, picking Palin would certainly send that signal.
It's an open question, however, as to whether she boosted or hindered McCain's run during the 2008 race.
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"The Republican base still loves Scott Walker," Tom Schreibel, a former chief of staff for Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, told The Times. "The further you get from major metropolitan areas, Trump gets stronger."
Trump's regional struggles within the state will have in impact in the final delegate allocation. Wisconsin awards 18 delegates to the statewide winner — which is likely to be Cruz — and then the remaining 24 delegates are divided up evenly among the eight congressional districts.
Four of the eight are, at least partially, within the Milwaukee metro area.
Should Trump lose in Wisconsin by the margins he's currently at in the earlier polls, he'd go from needing roughly 53% of the remaining delegates to clinch the nomination to about 60%, according to Politico. The story of a Trump failure would also last two weeks until the next GOP primary: the April 19 New York contest.
A recent delegate projection from the data-news site FiveThirtyEight had Trump finishing just short — at 1,208 — of the 1,237 needed to secure the nomination outright. And that was a slightly outdated projection that had 25 of the 42 delegates in Wisconsin projected to go Trump's way.
"I see an opportunity for us to have Trump walk out of there with no delegates," Ed Goeas, a pollster who works for an anti-Trump super PAC, told The Times. "The narrative that comes out of Wisconsin has a huge impact."
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Justin Bieber sent Beliebers around the world into a tizzy when he shared a photo of himself kissing model Hailey Baldwin.
Though rumors had been swirling for quite some time that the two stars were romantically linked, the snap, shared Sunday, seemed to all but confirm that the they're indeed an item.
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Baldwin has been all over Bieber's Instagram feed as of late, being featured in more than a handful of the photos from his Caribbean vacation. Other than the caption-less make-out photo he shared yesterday, the pair has been seen cuddling, holding hands, posing and hanging out with kids over the past week in a variety of pictures and videos shared to Bieber's 52 million followers.
The photos came after weeks of speculation that Bieber had also been hooking up with 36-year-old reality star Kourtney Kardashian, though their relationship had never been confirmed by either party.
These snaps certainly made fans of Jelena angry, but Selena Gomez seems to have also moved on from her relationship with Justin Bieber, having been spotted multiple times recently with One Direction star Niall Horan.
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The new, nontraditional Holberton School for the software engineers of tomorrow has two more industry heavyweights aboard as mentors.
Jerry Cuomo, chief technology officer for IBM, and Fabien Potencier, founder of Symfony, are joining a roster that already includes Docker co-founder Solomon Hykes; Yahoo YHOO co-founder Jerry Yang; as well as tech experts from Facebook FB , Google GOOG , LinkedIn LNKD , Microsoft MSFT , Uber and other powerhouses.
Cuomo, who joined IBM IBM in 1987, guides a big chunk of that company’s software strategy and is an IBM Fellow, a coveted position. Potencier is often called the father of the Symfony PHP framework, software that underlies many of today’s websites. He is now chief executive officer of SensioLabs and Blackfire.
Holberton co-founder Julien Barbier, a Docker alum, is thrilled to have Cuomo and Potencier aboard for the San Francisco school.
“Fabien is the leader behind Symfony and has proven his technical ability as an architect and as an open source community leader. His experience with open source will help Holberton students navigate and understand the open source world, its specificities, and its various cultures,” he told Fortune. “Jerry simply has a vision and an experience that no one else has. He understands more than anyone the impact of computers and software on the world and how they change our lives.”
Holberton was announced last month as a project-based school that aims to teach the software-engineers-of-the-future how to attack problems and how to think using a project-based format, rather than traditional degree work. The school was named after Frances Elizabeth “Betty” Holberton, one of the six programmers of ENIAC, the world’s first programmable, all-electronic computer and fittingly, another goal is to train more women in software programming and engineering.
Currently the two-year program has received more than 1,100 applications for the 32 slots in its inaugural class. The goal is that 40% of the first class will be women. Steven Garcia, who now attends Santa Rosa Junior College is the first student to be accepted. What appeals to him most about Holberton is the networking opportunity it will afford him, Garcia told Fortune.
The usual academic process, Barbier noted, often requires students to spend years in the classroom before they actually get to program, a contention that Garcia backed up.
“In my first computer science class, I sat at a desk and wrote code on a piece of paper—for the whole semester,” Garcia told Fortune.
Barbier also faulted the newer generation of MOOCs, or massive open online classroom programs, for their dropout rates, estimated by some to be as high as 85% to 95%.
Holberton will not be an online program when it officially starts up next year—”you will have to come to class,” Barbier said.
As for the role of mentors, that’s up to the mentors themselves. “Some want to give a speech, some want to come and have lunch with a few people. Others want to give tours of their workplaces,” he noted.
Given that loosey-goosey structure, it’s unclear how much value the mentors will actually provide, but hey. The first class of 32 people will get their Holberton certificate (it is not yet a degree program) for free, but that may not be the case going forward. The important thing for Holberton students is to learn how to find answers with not a ton of hand-holding.
One goal is for the Holberton label to carry the same weight as credentials from top engineering schools. Basically if you, as a programmer, spent time at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Stanford, or Harvey Mudd College, you’re viewed as a top candidate even if you didn’t stick around for the diploma.
Interestingly, Barbier and his co-founders are casting a wide net for mentors—it’s not all about the latest fads inside the San Francisco-San Jose tech bubble.
“In Silicon Valley, we tend to think the whole world is like us, but it is not. The idea here is that everyone is on a Mac, but most of the world is using Windows. It may not be cool but it is the way it is,” he said.
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Valeant's New CEO Joseph Papa Could Pull in $500 Million
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It’s always good to take over at the bottom. At least that seems to be the lesson of the employment contract of Valeant Pharmaceuticals’ new CEO, Joseph Papa.
Valeant vrx said on Monday that Papa, the former head of generic drugmaker Perrigo, would replace Michael Pearson as its CEO. The company had said in March that Pearson was leaving the company, just three weeks after returning from a two-month medical leave.
Valeant is in the doghouse with Congress and drowning in billions in debt, so it’s little surprise that the company had to pay Papa handsomely to entice the former Perrigo CEO to help right its ship.
In an 8K filed with the SEC on Wednesday, Valeant said Papa will receive a base salary of $1.5 million, which could be increased by a target bonus of 150% of his salary, or $2.25 million. He’ll also receive a cash payment of $8 million to make up for the equity-based compensation he gave up by terminating his employment with Perrigo.
By comparison, Pearson’s base salary for full-year 2014 was $2 million and his total compensation amounted to $10.3 million, according to a regulatory filing.
But it’s the equity-based compensation that could make Papa really, really rich. He’ll receive about $10 million worth of stock options plus a grant of 933,416 performance-based restricted shares. Those vest as Valeant shares pass certain price thresholds.
And if the shares ever reach $270, which is around where they were in July 2015?
Papa will take home a cool $500 million.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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Datadog—the New York startup that monitors how well (or not so well) its customers’ applications run in the cloud—now has $94.5 million in new funding, bringing its total to a healthy $147.9 million.
The company will use the money to flesh out its product line and beef up global operations in Europe, Asia and the Americas.
One big goal will be to add more data sources—there are about 120 now—and come up with new ways to monitor applications. The rationale is to help businesses wring the most out of both their legacy and newer cloud applications, Olivier Pomel, Datadog chief executive said in a statement.
MORE: Proof that we live in a multi-cloud world.
Datadog competes with New Relic newr , AppDynamics as well as offerings from older companies like BMC. The company’s new funds come one year after a $31 million C round, and was led by Iconiq Capital with contributions from existing backers Index Ventures, OpenView Ventures, Amplify Partners, and Contour Ventures.
WATCH: More on cloud computing.
There’s been a bit of a groundswell in funding for startups focused on keeping cloud applications humming of late. Scalr just announced a $7.35 million in funding. In December, Cloudyn closed on an $11 million round in in December, and Server Density, which has been boot-strapped to date, announced $1.5 million in seed funding. Google goog bought Stackdriver, another player in performance monitoring in 2014, for an undisclosed amount.
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Datadog claims some big-name customers including Airbnb, Netflix nflx , Spotify, Warner Brothers Games.
The idea behind is to give businesses, many of which now rely on a variety of outside “Software-as-a-Service” applications and infrastructure from Amazon amzn Web Services, Microsoft msft , Salesforce.com crm , Github, and dozens of other providers.
Server Density andStackdriver (which was purchased by Google last year).
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The Leadership Insider network is an online community where the most thoughtful and influential people in business contribute answers to timely questions about careers and leadership. Today’s answer to the question: How do you encourage creative thinking within your organization? is written by Kirsten Helvey, COO for Cornerstone OnDemand.
Creativity can be a difficult concept to pin down, but it is a key component of any successful company. Though not everyone may have the artist’s eye for creativity, I believe that creativity as applied to business is something that every person has the potential to develop. In business, I see creativity as being able to view the same problem from many lenses and make connections between seemingly unconnected things. It’s about cultivating new experiences to develop perspective. As a business leader, it is your responsibility to create an environment that encourages and fosters creativity. I believe this can be achieved by embracing these three elements:
Promote positive work-life balance Give your employees the time and space it takes to tap into their imaginations and be creative. I know for myself and for many of my colleagues, that our best ideas come to us when we least expect them, and often when we are far away from the office. If employees are being burned out at work, there is little room for them to be thinking about the next big breakthrough idea. This is why we hold our annual manager’s meeting far away from the office in places like Aspen. We are all avid skiers, and mixing outdoor activities with brainstorming sessions has taken us down paths that we would have never reached if we were sitting in a boardroom or conference room.
See also: What Every Business Can Do to Be More Innovative
Invest in continuous learning Fostering a culture of learning goes hand-in-hand with encouraging creativity in an organization. At Cornerstone, we have implemented “Development Days” for our employees. Every quarter, in each of our offices around the world, we take one day away from our desks to invest in our commitment to lifelong learning and to learn from one another. The topics can range from agile project management and understanding quality assurance to salsa dancing, crafting, mixology, wine tasting and more. Through this, employees are encouraged to share their passions, interact with colleagues they may not work with on a day-to-day basis, and form those unseen connections that are vital to a creative organization.
Accept and reward failure With any creative idea, there is always an element of risk attached to it. If you are charting unknown territory, there’s going to be a chance you may miss the mark and sink the ship. Our organization has worked hard to develop a culture where if you aren’t occasionally failing, then you aren’t succeeding. We believe in constant experimentation and iteration. From our internal Hackathons where employees get to dream big and build fast, to our Innovation Fund and Accelerator programs where we work directly with entrepreneurs to help them develop their startups in ways that they would never have thought possible, we are constantly challenging our employees to get over the fear of failure and stretch themselves past the realm of comfort and into the realm of bold and creative.
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Young Americans don't care much for political parties. According to the Pew Research Center, 48 percent of millennials (ages 18-33) identify as independents. That's almost as many as identify as Democrats (28 percent) and Republicans (18 percent) put together.
Political scientists are often skeptical about the independent option in surveys. Most individuals who choose to call themselves "independents" still vote consistently with one party or the other. They are partisans except in name.
Even if that's true, the lack of loyalty or concern for parties still has consequences. For instance, presidential primary campaigns were established to allow a party's members to choose its candidate. But the research team at Tufts University's Tisch College, where I study civic engagement, estimates that young Americans (18-30) have so far cast more votes for Sen. Bernie Sanders than for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump combined.
Sanders is a party outsider. He ran all his previous campaigns as a socialist, defeating Democrats on the way to statewide office. His career outside the Democratic Party doesn't faze young Democratic primary voters – and I suspect it even increases his appeal with youth.
Does the fact that young people ignore or dislike parties tell us something about youth and their culture, or is this more about the parties and how they have changed?
Today's young voters have grown up in an age of social media. Millennials both expect and prefer loose networks that allow individuals to personalize their views and form and shift relationships freely. That's bad news for political parties – hierarchical organizations with officers, rules, official platforms and membership criteria.
Religion offers a parallel case. The pollster Anna Greenberg finds that young Americans are still spiritual – indeed, they continue to believe in many traditional tenets of religion – but they are not drawn to traditional religious institutions. She argues that young people expect to be able to choose exactly the religious content they prefer and to express their individual preferences in much the same way as they choose music and consumer goods.
It is hard for a political party to offer such personalization, because it must promote a platform. In contrast, loosely organized social movements like Black Lives Matter or Spain's Los Indignados (anti-austerity protesters) allow participants to express their personal views and to connect to the peers they most like within the movement.
I acknowledge that this cultural shift is part of the story, but I don't think it alone explains the decline of parties. For one thing, social media is just as important in Europe as it is in North America, but according to the European Social Survey (ESS), young Europeans' trust in parties has risen and surpasses that of older Europeans.
Los Indignados began as a decentralized online social movement but has morphed into a political party, Podemos, that holds the third-largest number of seats in the Spanish parliament. I wouldn't say that European youth love parties, but they support the parties that reflect their views.
The theory that young Americans are deserting parties because of shifts in culture and values overlooks the fact that American political parties are changing, and mostly for the worse.
Parties used to raise a lot of money and spend it to employ grassroots workers, recruit volunteers, choose and constrain candidates, generate consistent messages, drive policy agendas, and control patronage jobs. That system involved corruption, which was a good reason to reform it. But after the campaign finance reforms of the 1970s had restricted the parties' ability to raise and spend money, the Supreme Court allowed candidates and outside entities to spend as much as they want.
As a result, the parties now do very little. They are best described as brand names for loosely connected networks of entrepreneurial candidates, donors, and advocacy organizations. Ironically, they have become more like social networks, albeit lubricated by money. The Koch brothers' political network, for instance, employs 3.5 times as many people as the Republican National Committee does.
This means that parties don't hire, contact or educate many young people or offer them paths to leadership. Candidates and campaigns affiliated with parties may do those things, but young people still lack any contact with the party itself.
In 2004, political scientist Dan Shea surveyed local party leaders. "Only a handful" ran any "programs that require[d] a significant amount of time or resources." He also asked county leaders an open-ended question: "Are there demographic groups of voters that are currently important to the long term success of your local party?" Just eight percent named young voters.
Parties were already weak then. Youth turnout reached its nadir in 1996-2000. Since then, candidates like Obama in 2008 and Sanders in 2016 have engaged a lot of young people. Youth turnout rose, as did the proportion of young Americans who said they had been contacted by candidates. But the parties weren't doing this outreach. According to the General Social Survey, fewer than one in 10 young adults actively participated in a party in 2004, and that proportion fell to one in 40 by 2014.
We can debate whether it would be desirable, constitutional or even possible to restore the parties' importance, but as long as they don't do much for young people, young people will naturally learn to ignore them.
This article was written by Peter Levine, associate dean for research and Lincoln Filene Professor of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Tufts University, for The Conversation. It has been republished here with permission.
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Jurors have recommended the death penalty for a Los Angeles garbage collector convicted of the "Grim Sleeper" killings that terrorized southern Los Angeles for more than two decades.
Lonnie David Franklin had been convicted of 10 counts of first-degree murder for the killings of nine women and a 15-year-old girl between 1985 and 2007.
The same jury at Los Angeles Superior Court deliberated for five hours over two days before recommending the death penalty, with sentencing set for August 10.
"He's a prolific serial killer and he's evil," Deputy District Attorney Beth Silverman had told the court, adding that there was a "long line of victims behind him."
The prosecution presented evidence that it said linked him to the killings of a further four other women between 1984 and 2005, although authorities suspect Franklin is behind dozens more murders.
"You can either give mercy to him -- the serial killer -- or you can impose justice. Death is the only just punishment for this defendant... (for) the 14 lives he stole," the prosecutor said.
The court heard Franklin had committed crimes dating back to the 1974 kidnapping and gang rape of a 17-year-old girl in Germany while he was in the US military.
The 63-year-old was a "sexual predator" and "career criminal" whom DNA evidence showed had acted alone, Silverman said.
Franklin stalked the streets of South Los Angeles at a time when an epidemic of crack cocaine plagued the neighborhood, the authorities say.
Several of his victims were prostitutes and drug addicts whom he shot or strangled, dumping their bodies in alleyways or trash bins. He raped some before killing them.
Prosecutors said Franklin took advantage of some of his victims' addiction to crack to lure them to his backyard camper with money and drugs before killing them.
Investigators searching his home found nearly 200 pictures and videos of women, many of whom have not been identified.
Defense attorney Dale Atherton had urged the seven-woman, five-man panel to recommend life without parole, arguing that a death sentence would delay the healing process for the victims' families.
Franklin was given the moniker "Grim Sleeper" because of a 13-year gap in the murders.
Although Franklin was arrested in July 2010 after his DNA was connected to some of the victims, appeals and judicial wrangling repeatedly delayed efforts to bring him to trial.
The killing spree was the subject of a 2014 HBO documentary by British filmmaker Nick Broomfield, who claims the Los Angeles police failed to properly investigate the murders because the victims were mainly drug addicts and prostitutes.
It has been a decade since the last execution in California. Clarence Ray Allen was given a lethal injection on January 17, 2006 after being convicted of paying a fellow inmate to commit three murders.
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-- the famed L.A. chopper pilot who just completed gender reassignment surgery -- wants to make 2 more changes to make it all legal.
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-- just filed court docs to legally change her gender ... and her name.
Tur included in the docs a letter from the surgeon in Bangkok, Thailand ... he's the doctor who
According to the doctor ... the surgery consisted of a penectomy, a penile skin inversion to create a vagina, a bilateral orchiectomy to remove his testicles and a clitoral hood reconstruction.
The surgeon says Tur -- who famously shot the O.J. Simpson slow speed chase and Reginald Denny beating during the 1991 L.A. Riots -- will need to take female sex hormones for the rest of her life.
Tur is also changing her name to Hanna Zoey Tur.
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Leonardo DiCaprio seems to be a true model boyfriend.
The Oscar winner has been quietly seeing British bombshell Roxy Horner, jetting across the Pond regularly to woo her, London's The Sun newspaper is reporting.
DiCaprio, 41, had been photographed on Tuesday at the London hotpots the Tape and the Chiltern Firehouse, with sources telling the tabloid that he was there to party with his new paramour.
"Leo didn't leave Roxy's side," a witness told the Sun. "They're smitten and enjoy spending time together."
Leonardo DiCaprio and mystery blond go for a Big Apple bike ride
The pair have been linked romantically on and off since February, but Horner dismissed the gossip in a series of tweets at the time.
People previously reported that DiCaprio and Horner had dined together at a swanky restaurant in New York City in April.
"She was very attached to Leo," an insider told People at the time. "She was definitely with him, she was holding on to his arm. They were affectionate."
Horner, 24, has previously dated musician Taio Cruz and British reality star Joey Essex.
She may not want to get too attached to DiCaprio, who has a penchant for dating models.
The longtime bachelor's romantic resume includes Kelly Rorbarch, Bar Rafaeli, Gisele Bündchen, Toni Garrn, and Erin Heatherton. He also had been linked to pop megastar Rihanna, most recently having been spotted with her at the Coachella Festival.
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With a June Federal Reserve interest rate hike likely off the table following Friday’s dismal jobs data, U.S. equity investors may shift their focus again to whether the economy is losing too much steam to allow stocks to advance.
Investors will comb economic data over the next few weeks to see if the weak payrolls report reflected a wider trend in the U.S. economy or was an outlier. A first hint of the central bank’s view of that could come Monday with a speech on the economic outlook by Fed Chair Janet Yellen.
The fresh economic worries could help keep the market mired below record highs reached in May 2015, even though the Standard & Poor’s 500 index notched a third straight months of gains this May and most sectors are up since the start of the year.
“The broader question is whether the economy is gaining the kind of momentum and traction that we need for a market that has been looking toward new highs,” said Quincy Krosby, market strategist at Prudential Financial in Newark, New Jersey.
“No one is out to suggest the economy is doing a major turnaround because of this number, but we now need to see a clutch of data that suggests that this is a one-off,” she said.
Fed Chair Yellen Says She Won’t Rule Out Negative Interest Rates
It may take a few weeks to get a better picture of the economic outlook, with the economic and earnings calendars light for next week. The Fed meets the following week, which will also bring data on retail sales and producer prices.
Wall Street’s top banks now unanimously expect the Fed to leave interest rates unchanged this month, a Reuters poll showed on Friday.
While investors and company executives have worried that higher rates will dampen spending, now a weak economy is considered a bigger risk for the market.
S&P 500 earnings, which fell 5% in the first quarter from a year ago in their third straight quarterly decline, are still expected to pick up in the second half of the year.
“I’m starting to get worried that the third- and fourth-quarter numbers are not going to come to fruition, said Daniel Morgan, senior portfolio manager at Synovus Trust Company in Atlanta. “How to do you substantiate the market where it is, based on current multiples?”
For more on the U.S. economy, watch:
The S&P 500 is trading at 17.1 times forward earnings, according to Thomson Reuters data.
Speculation over the outcome of Britain’s pending vote on remaining in the European Union could also rattle the resolve of stock investors.
The British electorate’s vote on the change, which many investors say would be a negative for global markets, comes a week after the Fed’s June policy meeting and adds to the likelihood the U.S. central bank will leave rates unchanged in June.
While signs of slower growth are a negative overall for the market, defensive sectors, along with dividend-paying stocks, could continue to benefit from increased investor caution. Utilities and telecommunications both have double-digits gains for the year so far.
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Are you ready to see the scariest first pitch of all-time? Seriously.
American moviegoers may not know The Ring and The Grudge are actually remakes of Japanese films. Sadako Yamamura and Kayako Saeki, the two ghosts in the films, are coming together in a new Japanese horror movie called Sadako vs. Kayako. The film releases June 18, so the pair chose to promote the movie before a Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Pacific League game.
In the makeshift scene, cheerleaders are scared off the field by the ghosts. Kayako then rips a pitch from Sadako down the third base line while Toshio (from The Grudge, or Ju-on in Japan), watches.
This is not a normal occurrence at MLB games, but there could be potential here. How about instead of horror movies, we use comedies? Imagine Andy Samberg and The Lonely Island promoting Pop Star by choreographing a first pitch. It could happen.
If you're wanting to see Sadako vs. Kayako, this is what you will get yourself into:
More Baseball: -- Military Dad Dresses As Ump, Surprises Kids -- Minor League Baseball Team Hosting 'Keep Brady Suspended' Night -- Miguel Cabrera Gives Pitcher Jeremy Hellickson Thumbs Up
Baseball, Film, First Pitch, Horror, Horror Movie, Japan, MLB, Pacific League, Sadako vs. Kayako, The Grudge, The Ring
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Bella S. Abzug, New Yorker, feminist, antiwar activist, politician and lawyer, died yesterday at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan. She was 77.
She died of complications following heart surgery, said Harold Holzer, who was her spokesman when she served in Congress. She had been hospitalized for weeks, and had been in poor health for several years, he said.
Ms. Abzug represented the West Side of Manhattan for three Congressional terms in the 1970's. She brought with her a belligerent, exuberant politics that made her a national character. Often called just Bella, she was recognizable everywhere by her big hats and a voice that Norman Mailer said ''could boil the fat off a taxicab driver's neck.''
She opposed the Vietnam War, championed what was then called women's liberation and was one of the first to call for the impeachment of President Richard M. Nixon. Long after it ceased to be fashionable, she called her politics radical. During her last campaign, for Congress in 1986, she told The New York Times, ''I am not a centrist.''
Bella Abzug was a founding feminist, and an enduring one. In the movement's giddy, sloganeering early days, Ms. Abzug was, like Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem, an icon, the hat bobbing before the cameras at marches and rallies.
After leaving the House in January 1977, she worked for women's rights for two more decades. She founded an international women's group that worked on environmental issues. And she was a leader of a conference of nongovernmental organizations that paralleled the United Nations' fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995.
Even then, she continued to rankle. Former President George Bush, on a private visit to China that coincided with the Beijing conference, said to a meeting of food production executives: ''I feel somewhat sorry for the Chinese, having Bella Abzug running around. Bella Abzug is one who has always represented the extremes of the women's movement.''
When told of Mr. Bush's remark, Ms. Abzug, 75 and in a wheelchair, retorted: ''He was addressing a fertilizer group? That's appropriate.''
Her forceful personality and direct manner made her a lightning rod for criticism from those who opposed the idea of holding a women's conference. After Bob Dole, then the Senate majority leader, said he could not imagine why anyone ''would want to attend a conference co-chaired by Bella Abzug,'' she responded that she was not running the meeting but simply participating with more than 30,000 other women over how best to achieve equal rights.
But much of what Ms. Abzug agitated for -- abortion rights, day care, laws against employment discrimination -- was by that time mainstream political fare.
In Congress, ''she was first on almost everything, on everything that ever mattered,'' said Esther Newberg, Ms. Abzug's first administrative assistant and one of many staff members who quit but remained devoted. ''She was first to call for Richard Nixon's impeachment, first to call for an end to the war.''
Ms. Abzug made enemies easily -- ''Sometimes the hat and the mouth took over,'' Ms. Newberg said -- but Ms. Abzug saw that as a consequence of a refusal to compromise, as well as a matter of sport. Of her time in the House, Ms. Abzug wrote in a journal that was published in 1972 as ''Bella,'' ''I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.''
She worked relentlessly at organizing and coalition-building. A founder of Women Strike for Peace and the National Women's Political Caucus, she spent a lifetime prodding for change, with a lawyer's enthusiasm for political channels, through organizations from the P.T.A. to the United Nations.
She made friends easily, too. ''She's fierce and intense and funny,'' said her longtime friend Gloria Steinem. ''She takes everyone seriously. When she argues with you fiercely, it's because she takes you seriously. And she's willing to change her mind. That's so rare.''
Her First Speech, In a Subway Station
Bella Savitzky Abzug was born on July 24, 1920 in the Bronx, the second daughter of Jewish immigrants from Russia. Her father, Emanuel Savitzky, whom Ms. Abzug later described as ''this humanist butcher,'' ran (and named) the Live and Let Live Meat Market on Ninth Avenue in Manhattan.
She said she knew from the age of 11 that she wanted to be a lawyer, and not long afterward gave her first public speech, in a subway station, while collecting for a Zionist youth organization. She went from Hunter College, where she was student body president, to Columbia University Law School, where she was an editor of The Law Review, to a practice representing union workers.
Ms. Abzug traced the wearing of her trademark wide-brimmed hats to those days. She once recalled: ''When I was a young lawyer, I would go to people's offices and they would always say: 'Sit here. We'll wait for the lawyer.' Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
''After a while, I started liking them. When I got to Congress, they made a big thing of it. So I was watching. Did they want me to wear it or not? They didn't want me to wear it, so I did.''
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In the 1970s, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had a problem. The priesthood—which, as TIME later explained, ” is not a clergy rank but a status achieved by nearly all male members”—was denied to black Mormons. The Church’s rules, which had been codified in the years before the Civil War, seemed increasingly out of step with the rest of America.
Despite increasingly loud calls to change the practice, the Church dug in for most of the decade. Shortly after athletes began to protest games with Brigham Young University, “Mormon elders reaffirmed their belief that blacks cannot be admitted to the priesthood,” TIME reported in 1970. The article went on to explain why that belief was so strongly held:
Mormon belief depends largely on the writings of Prophet Joseph Smith, the church’s 19th century founder. Though Smith’s first book of revelations, the Book of Mormon, clearly states that “the Lord denieth none that come unto him, black and white,” in The Pearl of Great Price, Smith’s later translation of revelations supposedly made to Moses and Abraham, he took a dimmer view. Smith there concluded that Negroes are the descendants of both Cain, the Bible’s first murderer, and Ham, the disrespectful son of Noah; the reason for their exclusion from the priesthood is “the mark of Cain.” Though racist 19th century Christian preachers once advanced similar arguments, the Mormons go farther, maintaining that in a spiritual “preexistence” blacks were neutral bystanders when other spirits chose sides during a fight between God and Lucifer. For that failure of courage, they were condemned to become the accursed descendants of Cain.
Amending that policy would take specific instruction from God, not exactly the easiest thing to come by—but it happened. On this day, June 9, in 1978, the Deseret News carried the breaking news that “every faithful, worthy man in the Church may receive the holy priesthood.”
“The church leaders said they had spent many hours in the Upper Room of the Salt Lake City Temple,” TIME reported the following week. “Eventually God ‘confirmed that the long-promised day has come.'”
Relatively few people were directly affected by the ruling—TIME estimated that about .025% of Mormons at the time were black—but it was still a milestone for the religion. Women, however, are still not eligible for the priesthood—no matter their race.
Read the full story from 1978, here in the TIME Vault: Revelation
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Mark Burnett is a smart guy who knows all about a bird in the hand, which is why he's coyly telling our photog Arnold Schwarzenegger is the man for 'Celebrity Apprentice,' even if Donald Trump loses the election.
Mark was leaving Craig's in WeHo Wednesday, and without fully closing the door, he made it clear he's satisfied with Arnold. Word on the street is that Schwarzenegger's a great host, and the show's super entertaining.
He clearly harbors no ill will toward Trump, but was strangely silent about endorsing him.
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Dr. Halstead (Nick Gehlfuss) puts both his career and the hospital in jeopardy after he revives a patient with a do-not-resuscitate order. His actions also cause an immediate rift in his relationship with Dr. Manning (Torrey DeVitto), who was strongly against his decision. Goodwin (S. Epatha Merkerson) informs Dr. Halstead that his actions were unacceptable - and that his future at Med may be on the line.
Dr. Choi (Brian Tee) treats a patient with bipolar disorder, and later comes to a disagreement with Dr. Charles (Oliver Platt) over the patient's long-term care. The case hits close to home for Dr. Choi, and he opens up to Dr. Charles about an incident that haunts him from his days in Afghanistan.
Dr. Rhodes (Colin Donnell) is taken under the wing of a famous surgeon-in-residence at the hospital. Though he initially declines the surgeon's offer to learn at his side, Dr. Rhodes changes his mind after learning that the surgeon has a terminal illness.
Sarah (Rachel DiPillo) and April (Yaya DaCosta) bond when they tend to the plight of a homeless man. Later, Sarah is shaken when the homeless man dies peacefully in his sleep.
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Emily Ratajkowski, who rings in her 25th birthday today, is known for her revealing – and equally empowering – Instagram photos. In honor of the model's milestone birthday, we're taking a look at her most naked looks.
Just because you're almost naked doesn't mean styling goes out the window.
Not so much a belfie (butt selfie), but that's what makes the model-turned-actress such an innovator.
Hands are the next best option.
Ratajkowski stood behind Kardashian West when the reality star was hit with backlash over posting a naked selfie on social media.
During bath time (accompanied by a glass of wine), of course.
Turns out sunlight beats the Nashville filter on Instagram.
To wear a fur coat or not to wear one? Ratajkowski votes yes and complements her full-length coat with thigh-high boots ⦠and nothing else.
Someone seems to keep stealing them.
With adorable taste in earrings, may we add.
Ratajkowski is the queen of impromptu photoshoots.
And honestly looked so comfortable.
Just bathing outside a greenhouse, NBD.
And gave us extra motivation to hit the gym.
Literal beer goggles elevate any ensemble.
And couldn't help but raise her hands up in the air in excitement.
Washing dishes naked is oddly relaxing, according to the
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He was Cassius Marcellus Clay then, of course — an Olympic gold medalist, undefeated challenger for the world heavyweight crown and the most charismatic (and, for some, the most controversial) athlete of the era. It was February 1964, and the 22-year-old Clay, whose professional record was an impressive 19-0, was slated to fight Sonny Liston for the heavyweight title in Miami Beach. Hardly anyone in the boxing world — and certainly very, very few in the close-knit and deeply conservative boxing media — gave the supremely self-confident Kentuckian the slightest chance of beating the hard-punching “Big Bear.”
And while no one gave him much of a chance, nor could anyone possibly ignore a fighter who recited his own comical, self-aggrandizing poetry to anyone who would listen. (One pre-fight gem: “The crowd did not dream when they put up the money / that they would see a total eclipse of the Sonny.”)
But on the night of Feb. 25, 1964, Clay took the crown from Liston with a 7th-round technical knockout in a performance that marked the arrival of an unmistakably formidable boxing talent. Clay — soon to be renamed Muhammad Ali — possessed an unprecedented set of skills, including balletic footwork, lightning hand speed and bone-crushing punching power. When the referee counted Liston out in that ring in Miami Beach, it was clear that the world of boxing, and the universe of sports in general, would never be the same.
As the great New York Times sportswriter Robert Lipsyte wrote on the night the fight:
Incredibly, the loud-mouthed bragging, insulting youngster had been telling the truth all along. Cassius Clay won the world heavyweight title tonight when a bleeding Sonny Liston, his left shoulder injured, was unable to answer the bell for the seventh round.
Immediately after he had been announced as the new heavyweight champion of the world, Clay yelled to the newsmen covering the fight: “Eat your words.” Only three of 46 sports writers covering the fight had picked him to win.
But the kid hadn’t lied. All those interminable refrains of “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee,” had been more than foolish songs. The kid was floating. He leaned back from Liston’s jabs and hooks, backed into the ropes, then spun out and away. He moved clockwise around Liston, taunting that terrible left hook, his hands still low.
And then the crowd was cheering and booing, which is something like laughing and crying because it was the wildest thing they had ever seen. It didn’t make sense. For weeks, Clay had played the fool and been tagged at will by unworthy sparring partners. This morning, at the weigh-in, he had acted bizarre and disturbed.
Until the knockout, the officials had had the fight a draw. . . . But points didn’t really matter after all. Poetry and youth and joy had triumphed over the 8-1 odds. And until it had happened (and perhaps until they can look it up) people laughed at the thought that a night like this could happen.
[MORE: See photos from the second Ali-Liston fight in May 1965 — the legendary “Phantom Punch” bout in Lewiston, Maine]
Liz Ronk, who edited this gallery, is the Photo Editor for LIFE.com. Follow her on Twitter at @LizabethRonk.
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The morning of Dec. 5, 12-year-old William Porter left his crowded railroad apartment on 132d Street in Harlem, walked down the dirty stairs, past the rotting sofa filled with garbage in the front of his building, and started off to school.
Somewhere along the four-block walk to Public School 92, William was kidnapped, the police said, and for 48 hours his abductors tried to extort as much as $500,000 from William's oldest brother, Richard, a 25-year-old flashy dresser whom the police described as a middle-level crack dealer.
During the second day of the ordeal, the kidnappers cut off the boy's right index finger and left it with a minute-long tape of the child pleading for the family to pay the ransom in the bathroom of a McDonald's restaurant at 125th Street and Broadway, a police official said.
Now Richard Porter has been slain and his brother is still missing, apparently another young and innocent casualty of the drug trade.
Body Found in the Bronx
On Thursday morning, a month after the kidnapping, Mr. Porter was found shot to death in a remote part of the Bronx in what investigators said might be a final twist in the kidnapping.
''One of the main theories is that William was victimized because of his brother's drug dealing,'' said the police official, adding that the investigation was focusing on rival drug dealers and others who extort drug dealers. The official said that because the Porters' telephone number is unlisted, investigators believe the kidnappers knew the family.
At the request of the police, The New York Times and other newspapers agreed not to publish an account of the kidnapping until it was resolved because the kidnappers had warned that if the family went to the police the boy would be killed.
The Daily News published an article about the kidnapping yesterday that quoted unidentified investigators who said the police believe the boy is dead. But police officials said yesterday that there was no evidence that the child is dead and refused to comment on the investigation.
''It's our policy not to discuss or confirm the existence of an active kidnapping investigation where the safety of the victim may be at stake,'' Capt. Stephen Davis, a police spokesman, said.
William's mother, Velma, became worried about her son at 4 P.M. on Dec. 5 when he did not return home, and retraced his steps to the school, at 222 West 134th Street, William's sister, Patricia Porter, said yesterday. The mother was told that William had not shown up for classes.
At 5 P.M. Velma Porter, 44, received the first of seven telephone calls, Ms. Porter said. William was on the line, crying, and said, ''Mommy, they have me. I don't know what they want.'' Then someone hung up the telephone. A few hours later, a male caller told the family not to phone the police, Ms. Porter, 22, said. At 1 A.M., the man called again and demanded $500,000. He called back about two hours later, and Velma Porter told him that they could not afford the ransom.
At 3 P.M. that day, the kidnapper called again and demanded to speak to Richard Porter, Ms. Porter said. The man told Mr. Porter he would return William for $350,000, and then told him to go to the McDonald's and look under a sink in the bathroom, the police said. A family friend found nothing at the restaurant.
At 4 P.M., the kidnapper told Mr. Porter to return to the McDonald's, the police official said. This time, the family friend found a bloody, two-inch piece of an index finger wrapped in tissue paper, two rings that belonged to William and a cassette tape.
According to the police official, William said in a shaking voice on the tape: ''They cutted my finger off. Please help me. They said if you don't do as they say they are going to cut my hand off. Please help. Get the money. I love you, Mommy. Tell Pat I love her.''
The boy's sobs filled the rest of the tape.
At 9 P.M., the kidnapper repeated his demand for $350,000, but Mr. Porter said he could offer no more than $200,000. The caller said, ''I'll call you back in 10 minutes.'' He never did.
At 10 P.M., the family called the police. On the afternoon of Dec. 10, a note was delivered by a child to the Porters' apartment. The child, whom the police have not identified, had been given the note by a woman he did not know in Harlem.
The police official said the note read, ''We still want the money the child is in pain and he needs medical attention.''
Richard Porter's body was found by a passer-by near Orchard Beach Park at 12:50 A.M. Thursday, the police said. He had been shot several times in the head and chest. There was $2,239 in his pockets.
On 132d Street, neighbors said, Mr. Porter was known to carry large amounts of money, drive an expensive sports car with a mobile telephone, and employ several people to sell crack on the street.
Several neighbors said Mr. Porter was generous, always quick to lend them cash, and had given a block party last summer with free food and drinks.
Mary Wells, 25, a friend and neighbor of Mr. Porter, said he had been close to his little brother and that after the kidnapping Mr. Porter was devastated.
''He took it hard,'' she said. ''He lost a lot of weight.''
Detectives said Mr. Porter sold approximately $50,000 a week in crack. His only convictions were in 1984, and he served a one-year sentence for possession of a deadly weapon and possession of a controlled substance, the police said.
Yesterday, at the Porters' apartment at 155 West 132d Street, neighbors and friends came to console the family. Some cried. Others said they were terrified that the kidnappers might kill the boy, if he is still alive, now that the story has become public. His family described William as a friendly child who worked hard at school and looked up to his brother.
''He was a perfect little boy,'' Ms. Porter said. ''Our lives aren't worth two pennies because we don't know who these people are.''
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LEAD: The morning of Dec. 5, 12-year-old William Porter left his crowded railroad apartment on 132d Street in Harlem, walked down the dirty stairs, past the rotting sofa filled with garbage in the front of his building, and started off to school.
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They are pretty poisons. Sweet, pretty with their yellow-green glow and all around us, as common as cars, in homes and garages everywhere.
Each year, at least 6,000 Americans, by design or accident, fall victim to poisonings with ethylene glycol, a main ingredient in automotive antifreeze and other products. Unless immediately treated, consumption of this chemical can lead to permanent disability or death.
Most ethylene glycol poisonings in adults result from suicide attempts, experts say, while other cases arise from alcoholics' drinking antifreeze to get high or from accidental ingestions. But because antifreeze is sweet to the taste, and colored with bright fluorescent dyes to help mechanics spot leaks, it is also attractive to children.
Experts say the complicated and sometimes tricky treatment of poisonings with ethylene glycol could be radically changed with the recent introduction of a new antidote drug that appears to be highly effective, but is too expensive for some hospitals.
''This is the first new antidote to a human toxin to be produced in years, and we are glad to have it,'' said Dr. Jeffrey Brent, a physician-researcher who led a major human trial with the drug. ''The only downside to the drug is cost.''
The drug is fomepizole, also known as 4-methylpyrazole, sold under the brand name Antizol by Orphan Medical Inc., of Minnetonka, Minn. Antizol, which is diluted and given intravenously, costs $1,000 per dose and is sold in four-dose units, enough for the typical treatment of one patient.
John H. Bullion, the head of Orphan Medical, said Antizol was the first income-producing drug for his small, five-year-old company, which develops limited-use medicines for rare conditions that are not profitable enough for large pharmaceutical companies to work on. Such medicines are referred to as ''orphan drugs,'' which the Federal Government encourages companies to develop by sponsoring some initial research and granting special patent privileges.
''We know that price is an issue, but there was a lot of expense and risk in developing this drug,'' Mr. Bullion said. ''The price we chose was one to provide an attractive return to shareholders.''
Mr. Bullion said Antizol was being investigated for wider use including the treatment of poisonings with another type of alcohol, methanol. Developing more uses for the drug is a factor that could lead the company to re-evaluate its pricing, he said.
Dr. Zane Horwitz, medical director for the Oregon Poison Center in Portland, said a survey of 75 hospitals in the area served by his regional center, which includes Oregon and half of Nevada, showed that only 10 percent stocked fomepizole.
''They want the drug but it is primarily a cost issue,'' Dr. Horwitz said. ''Every hospital in America would buy it if it were priced more reasonably. The company could make money on volume.''
Kathy Jacobitz, the managing director of the Poison Center at Children's Hospital in Omaha, the regional poison base for Nebraska and Wyoming, said many smaller hospitals, particularly in rural areas and remote towns, had not bought the drug, even though the center recommended stocking it. ''It's fairly expensive and we are not aware of many who have ordered it,'' she said. ''Most are still relying on the traditional treatments, even though they are not as good and have their drawbacks.''
In December 1997, the Food and Drug Administration approved fomepizole for treating ethylene glycol poisoning, based in large part on a multicenter clinical trial coordinated by Dr. Brent and colleagues with Toxicology Associates, a private treatment and research group in Denver. Results of the study were published last week in The New England Journal of Medicine.
It is not uncommon for emergency rooms to see cases of people who drink toxic alcohols, mainly ethylene glycol and methanol, commonly found in windshield washing solutions and some solvents.
According to the American Association of Poison Control Centers, there were 6,174 ethylene glycol poisoning exposures in 1997, the latest year data were reported from 66 of its 73 member centers nationwide. Of these exposures, 988 were in children under 6. During this period, 2,488 cases of methanol poisoning were also reported, 652 of them in children under 6.
These toxic alcohols become poisonous to the body when they are metabolized, or broken down into other chemicals, by an enzyme called alcohol dehydrogenase that is produced by the liver and stomach. The toxic metabolites cause acidosis, a rise in the acidity of body fluids. They also produce crystals that damage organs and other tissue, attack the nervous system and cause kidney failure. Left untreated, a lethal dose of these toxic alcohols can cause death by multiorgan failure within 24 to 36 hours, experts say.
Although not officially approved, for years the standard treatment for this kind of poisoning has included intravenous or oral administration of another alcohol, ethanol, the kind found in vodka, whisky and other liquor. Ethanol binds with alcohol dehydrogenase more readily than other alcohols and in large, intoxicating doses, the ethanol uses up the enzyme to keep it from breaking down the ethylene glycol into its many poisons. This treatment is often accompanied by intravenous sodium bicarbonate to lower acidity levels in the body and kidney dialysis to remove both the toxic alcohol and its poison metabolites.
The study by Dr. Brent and his colleagues found that in 19 cases of ethylene glycol poisoning, Antizol inhibited the alcohol dehydrogenase enzyme with none of the disadvantages of ethanol, including intoxication, depression of the central nervous system, low blood sugar and difficulty maintaining effective ethanol levels in the blood. Although the design of the study called for all patients with high ethylene glycol levels to undergo dialysis, the researchers said similar patients who did not have acidosis probably would not require dialysis.
''There may be a cost savings with the drug that helps offset its price,'' Dr. Brent said. ''If patients aren't too sick, you may save hospital costs by not having to put them in intensive care, as you do now with ethanol treatment, and you may be able to avoid dialysis with a lot of them.''
Chart: ''Deadly Antifreeze: Handle With Care'' If handled carelessly, antifreeze can present a threat to children and pets. Here are ways to prevent antifreeze-related accidents: AVOID SPILLS Watch carefully for antifreeze accidents. When a spill does occur, wash it away promptly to avoid ingestion by pets. STORE PROPERLY Make sure that the child-resistant lid to the antifreeze container is securely fastened after use. Do not store in unmarked or open containers. DISPOSE OF PROPERLY Because of the harm done to the environment, antifreeze should never be poured into a storm drain, a river or stream or directly onto the ground. (Source: Chemical Specialties Manufacturers Assn.)
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Don't Want to Leave the Hotel? Buy the Room
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IMAGINE loving a hotel room so much that you buy it, mortgage and all.
That is what Tony Garcia and an investment partner will do this month when they close on the sale of Room 309 at the Hotel Telluride in Telluride, Colo. The price is $279,000, complete with maid, concierge and room service.
The definition of a second home continues to stretch, as buyers increasingly invest in rooms in what are called condo hotels. Unlike traditional time shares, which give owners access to properties for defined periods, condo hotel units are fully owned and deeded properties that are rented by a hotel when the owner isn't using them.
At Hotel Telluride, Room 309 looks like any other upscale hotel room, with a king-sized bed with leather headboard and a bathroom with granite countertops. The room has also been renovated to include a kitchenette with microwave, sink and mini-refrigerator.
As part of the purchase, Mr. Garcia, a photographer in Los Angeles, or the investment partner, Justin Page, an architect in Phoenix, can use the room at any time - up to a total of 60 days a year. During the remainder of the year, the hotel management can rent it out to guests for up to $395 a night. Mr. Garcia and Mr. Page get 40 percent of the revenue from room rentals; the hotel gets 60 percent.
Mr. Garcia acknowledges that he is paying a hefty price for one small room, but he says it's worth it.
"I love the town of Telluride, and there's nothing left really for that price, not a lot of new construction," said Mr. Garcia, 49. "And I think people will enjoy coming for the amenities of the hotel. It's a popular hotel."
The condo hotel concept has been around for more than a decade, but chains like Marriott, Remington, Westin and W Hotels are promoting them more than ever as a way to raise cash for expansion without going to investors or banks. For hotels, construction costs have climbed and financing can be hard to get, primarily because the industry has yet to return to the kind of operating profits it registered before Sept. 11, 2001.
"Condo hotels are an explosive part of the lodging industry," said James R. Butler Jr., who leads the global hospitality group at the law firm Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro in Los Angeles. "Baby boomers are looking for second homes. A lot of money has come out of the stock market and into condo hotels."
Up to 105 condo hotel projects are planned or under construction nationwide, and will eventually produce 29,042 hotel rooms for sale in vacation spots like Las Vegas and Miami and Orlando, Fla., according to Lodging Econometrics in Portsmouth, N.H., which tracks real estate deals in the hotel industry. Those units range from small, traditional hotel rooms like Mr. Garcia's to three-bedroom quarters that can be separated and rented out as separate rooms.
But are hotel rooms really a good buy? It's difficult to say.
The payoff can depend on factors like occupancy rates and the split of rental income. So a buyer must consider the location's popularity and growth potential as well as the hotel's general quality and reputation - and have enough cash to cover expenses that could arise if the room is too often vacant.
Owners typically get 30 percent to 60 percent of proceeds from room rentals. At Hotel Telluride, a $279,000 unit might cost an owner $16,570 in annual mortgage payments if he or she put down 20 percent on a 30-year loan at 6.3 percent interest. But that owner could realize $24,000 in rental income if he or she received a 40 percent share on a room that rents for $300 a night 200 days a year. That income must be reported for tax purposes. Any day an owner stays, there is one less day that rental income can be collected.
What owners may gain in convenience in a condo hotel, however, they can give up in control. Individuals own the room, but the hotels typically wield most of the power. While some developers sell all the units to individuals, who as a group can then hire and fire management, a number of hotels do not give owners much say in operations, whether the concerns are poor food, shoddy service or ugly drapes. Nor do they always provide access to the resort's finances and overall occupancy rates.
"That would stop me," said Jim Miller, an investment adviser in Columbiana, Ohio. "That's like buying a stock where you're not allowed to see a chart of the last five years."
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He was one of the highest-paid teen actor in the world just six weeks ago, but here is the shocking sight of disheveled Angus T. Jones today.
“Two and a Half Men” star Jones, who earned an estimated $6 million a year, is a shadow of himself in this exclusive Confidenti@l picture.
The actor, who was officially cut as a lead from the hit CBS sitcom in June, is seen sporting a scruffy beard and messy hair as he runs errands in Los Angeles.
And the 19-year-old, who rose to fame as Jake Harper during his 10-year tenure on the show, has close friends and family worried about his well-being.
One friend even claimed that Jones “seems to be suffering some kind of breakdown. He appears in denial about the whole saga. And he just doesn’t want to look like Jake anymore.”
Sources claim that Jones, who is planning on going to college in the fall, is reconsidering his involvement with the Seventh-day Adventist Church after his parents, Kelly and Carey Jones, voiced their concerns. “He seems to be a shadow of himself and desperate to get away from the looks that made him a a global star and very wealthy,” said the friend.
“We are concerned about his health, too. Angus has lost a lot of weight over the summer and looks very skinny compared to how he looked on the show."
Last year Jones’ status in the racy series was at an all-time high, but in November 2012 he appeared in a YouTube video alongside Christopher Hudson, a Seventh-day Adventist firebrand, telling viewers to stop watching “Two and a Half Men,” which reportedly paid him $300,000 per episode.
“Please stop watching it. Please stop filling your head with filth,” Jones pleaded.
Later, he released a groveling statement apologizing to series creator Chuck Lorre and Warner Bros. Television Group President Peter Roth.
Lorre was understood to be “livid” at the betrayal.
Despite CBS saying he will return to the series in some capacity, there has been no confirmation of how or when.
A rep for Jones didn’t get back to us.
Anthony Weiner, whose Twitter pal Sydney Leathers will be appearing at a Manhattan strip club on Tuesday.
LEATHERS MAY TAKE POLE POSITION
Sydney Leathers is going from Twitter star to jiggle joint. Anthony Weiner’s Twitter mistress will appear in the flesh Tuesday at the HeadQuarters gentleman’s club in Hell’s Kitchen, where venue rep Lainie Speiser says anything is possible.
“I thought it would be fun if everyone brought their cell phones and tweeted,” Speiser told Confidenti@l.
“We are hoping she gets on the pole,” says Speiser. She also hopes Speiser tries doing a Weiner and going down in the poles: “She seems to be a free spirit who might do it.”
Not only is the club encouraging Weiner look-alikes to stop in for photos — it’s hoping mayoral candidate and social-media enthusiast Weiner will add the place to his campaign schedule and host a party of his own. “He’d make at least $15,000, depending on what he’d do,” says Speiser. Leathers will net around $10,000 for her efforts.
Larry David, whose daughter, Cazzie, has gotten off to a rough start as a Vanity Fair intern
ENTHUSIASM CURBED FOR FILM REVIEW
Funnyman Larry David’s (l.) daughter, Cazzie, is spending her summer interning at Vanity Fair, and her first film review, of “Lovelace,” which has been published online, is being “mocked” in the corridors of the famed mag, according to our Condé Nast snitch. “It is one of the worst pieces of writing we have published,” says our insider. Cazzie herself concludes her review: “It seems I failed miserably in my first outing as a film critic. I apologize to Vanity Fair and to you, the reader.”
Karlie Kloss on the runway at a Fashion Week show in Sao Paulo, Brazil
A BOLT FROM THE BLUE
Good news! Denim is in for fall ... again. Model of the moment Karlie Kloss, who just celebrated her 21st birthday with a big bash at the Paramount Hotel, shows off skinny jeans and high-waisted styles in the September issue of Elle. The Victoria's Secret model, who’s dating Ivanka Trump's brother-in-law Josh Kushner, stands more than 6 feet tall but could pass for a tomboy in the fashion editorial.
THE INKING MAN’S WINE LABEL
Brooklyn tattoo artist Scott Campbell and his wife, actress Lake Bell, launched Saved Wines at the Jane Hotel Thursday night. Scott, who is well known for inking Marc Jacobs, Kanye West, Johnny Depp and Jennifer Aniston, developed a red and a rosé that will hit the market Sept. 1. “I spent so much time drawing and redrawing the designs for the Saved Wine labels, it felt really good to finally see it in people’s hands,” Scott told Confidenti@l.
A family dinner for Poppy Montgomery and her beau, Microsoft executive Shawn Sanford, didn’t go exactly as planned at the Old Homestead Steakhouse. According to our spywitness, the couple’s infant, Violet Grace, got a little fussy and fidgety in the middle of dinner. Montgomery, looking “absolutely gorgeous” sans makeup in a very sexy black summer dress, and Sanford were the perfect parents. When they couldn’t calm her, Montgomery packed up the stroller and left with Violet, while Sanford stayed behind at the meatery to finish dinner.
Scarlett Johansson cozying up to beau Romain Dauriac as they enjoyed dinner with friends at Sotto Sopra in Amagansett ... Jake Gyllenhaal, Julie Andrews, Al Roker, Susan Sarandon and Laurence Fishburne in the audience at Broadway’s “Pippin” … Howard Stern with his wife, model/actress Beth, at Bobby Van’s ... Rosario Dawson with her mom at the Yellow Fever presentation by Jamison Earnest at the Hotel on Rivington’s Penthouse, where guests sipped Belvedere Vodka cocktails.
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“Two and a Half Men” star Jones, who earned an estimated $6 million a year, is a shadow of himself in this exclusive Confidenti@l picture.
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Carl Icahn Reaffirms His Support for Donald Trump
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Activist investor Carl Icahn reiterated his support for Donald Trump last night, saying in an interview with Fox Business’ Neil Cavuto that “Donald is what this country needs at this time, and what Washington needs at this time.”
Icahn has supported Trump throughout the campaign, and there have been rumors that a President Trump would name him to some cabinet post. Icahn said to Cavuto that while he “would be happy to talk to Donald and discuss different problems with him,” he would have no interest in joining the government.
Icahn’s comments came at the tail end of Super Tuesday, where Trump won 7 states and kept himself in the drivers seat for the Republican nomination. He’s also hoping he’ll be getting the endorsement of Florida Gov. Rick Scott in the next few days. The Florida primary is on March 15 and is a key contest. Getting the support of the sitting governor despite the presence of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio in the race could help Trump hold on to the Sunshine State.
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Angie’s List Just Announced a Huge Change
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By Brad Tuttle, MONEY – People don’t like to pay for stuff on the Internet. They especially don’t like to pay for content that’s generated by everyday—and potentially clueless and ill-informed—users like themselves. Just think about how you’d react if you had to actually pay out of pocket to access content created by random people at YouTube or Facebook. Or, more appropriately in this case, how would you feel about paying to read and submit your own user reviews at sites like Yelp yelp , TripAdvisor, and Amazon amzn ?
Most people would laugh off the idea of paying good money for such content. And yet, this has essentially been the business plan of Angie’s List, the members-only service that charges subscription fees in exchange for access to reviews made by average Joes of plumbers, contractors, and other local businesses in markets around the country.
Angie’s List was created in 1995—almost a decade before Yelp—and the subscription model it uses predates Internet services operating on a free or “freemium” basis by many years. Unsurprisingly, the company has struggled mightily in recent years, even as it’s expanded, as upstart competitors have promised to deliver to consumers all of the benefits of Angie’s List reviews with none of the costs.
Angie’s List angi brought in a new CEO last fall to right the ship, and as the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, the company announced a monumental change for 2016. Starting later this year, Angie’s List will be “removing the ratings and reviews paywall and enabling consumers to access this service for free,” a company press release explained.
Whereas in the past only paying subscribers could check out Angie’s List reviews or submit their own, soon anyone will be able to browse them, just like at Yelp. That means typical Angie’s Lists subscribers won’t have to pay their $10 or so annually for membership. However, there will be other “premium” services offered by Angie’s List that users still must pay for. “Services and products under the Company’s new tiered offering will range from Angie’s List’s traditional search, ratings and reviews, which will be available to all consumers for free, to premium services such as emergency service hotlines and services that guarantee a pre-qualified handyman in your home within hours of a call,” the press release stated.
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The company expects that, quite obviously, the changes will hurt subscription revenues. Yet overall, Angie’s List maintains that the move will drastically increase user and pay off in the long run. “We get over 100 million visitors each month, but 90% of them have been bouncing because of the reviews paywall,” CEO Scott Durchslag told TechCrunch. “We expect to see traffic explode with the change.”
(This article was originally published at Money.com)
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Ed Sheeran Faces $20 Million Copyright Lawsuit over "Photograph" : People.com
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for more than $20 million, claiming that the British singer's hit song "Photograph" bears a "striking similarity" to a song they penned for a onetime winner of
Martin Harrington and Tom Leonard
in Los Angeles on Wednesday, alleging Sheeran's hit sounds suspiciously similar to a 2012 song released by British singer Matt Cardle, who won the seventh season of
. They're seeking a jury trial and damages in excess of $20 million, as well as royalties from the song.
According to Harrington and Leonard, the chorus of Sheeran's "Photograph" and Cardle's "Amazing" share 39 identical notes. They also claim the two songs utilize similar overall structures, melodic rhythms and harmonies. Included in the court documents is a side-by-side comparison of the written composition of the songs.
"Photograph" was a top 10 hit in the U.S, for Sheeran, and the official music video has been viewed more than 200 million times on YouTube.
Co-defendants in the suit include "Photograph" co-writer and Snow Patrol pianist and guitarist
, as well as several music publishers and the record label, Warner Music Group.
The songwriters are represented by Nashville attorney Richard Busch, who memorably helped
over Robin Thicke's 2013 hit single "Blurred Lines."
"My clients are professional songwriters," Busch said in a statement, per
. "Their work is their life, and I am honored that they have trusted me with this very important case."
A rep for Sheeran had no comment when reached by PEOPLE.
This month has so far seen several copyright infringement lawsuits making headlines.
was accused of stealing the trailer for her album
from a short film titled
won an ongoing case against her 1990 song "Vogue" claiming it sampled a "horn hit" from the song "Love Break" without permission. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Pasadena, California ruled that the 0.23-second snippet used in "Vogue" was de minimis, or small enough to be trivial.
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Chicago may have missed out on the chance to lure General Electric's corporate headquarters from New England, but it scored a consolation prize on Monday when GE announced that the city will get 100 tech jobs this year.
GE — which employs around 2,000 workers in the Chicago area — said it will base GE Transportation's new Digital Solutions business at 500 W. Monroe St., where its main transportation business is already headquartered. It will also create 60 jobs in its digital health care business in northwest suburban Barrington.
Newly hired software engineers, developers, data scientists, product analysts and project managers will develop systems to help railways run more efficiently and to improve clinical health care services, among other projects, the firm said.
In addition to the recent announcement that GE Healthcare would move its headquarters and a handful of top executives from London to the Loop, Monday's news offers a measure of comfort after Boston in January beat out Chicago and around 40 other competitors to snag the 800 jobs that come with the conglomerate's corporate headquarters.
Sources at the time told the Tribune that the condition of Chicago's public schools and the state's pension crisis counted against it in the battle for GE's main headquarters.
But Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Monday dismissed those accounts and said GE would not be bringing any jobs to Chicago if those were legitimate concerns.
He welcomed the decision to bring the digital jobs to Chicago as "a vote of confidence" for the city's growing draw as a tech hub. Despite that GE's main transportation business has been based in Chicago since 2012, the decision was not a "gimme" and represents "a significant step forward for Chicago," he said, adding that Chicago is becoming a hub for transportation technology, in particular.
"GE was really impressed with the city's burgeoning tech scene," Emanuel said. "It didn't have to be here."
But Jamie Miller, CEO of GE Transportation, said GE did not look at any other cities this time.
"Chicago was a very logical selection for us," said Miller, citing the city's skilled workforce and GE's existing business here. There could be "more jobs over time," she added.
The move is part of GE's efforts to focus on providing large, complicated equipment and systems for industrial businesses while it pares down elsewhere.
GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt said when he launched GE Digital in September that the company hopes the digital division will become a top 10 software company by 2020.
The company said it will hold a job fair next month to help recruit for the positions.
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Following are excerpts from the executive summary of the final report of the Independent Panel to Review Department of Defense Detention Operations, which was released Tuesday. The full text is online at nytimes.com/international.
The events of October through December 2003 on the night shift of Tier 1 at Abu Ghraib prison were acts of brutality and purposeless sadism. We now know these abuses occurred at the hands of both military police and military intelligence personnel. The pictured abuses, unacceptable even in wartime, were not part of authorized interrogations nor were they even directed at intelligence targets. They represent deviant behavior and a failure of military leadership and discipline. However, we do know that some of the egregious abuses at Abu Ghraib which were not photographed did occur during interrogation sessions and that abuses during interrogation sessions occurred elsewhere.
In light of what happened at Abu Ghraib, a series of comprehensive investigations has been conducted by various components of the Department of Defense. Since the beginning of hostilities in Afghanistan and Iraq, U.S. military and security operations have apprehended about 50,000 individuals. From this number, about 300 allegations of abuse in Afghanistan, Iraq or Guantánamo have arisen. As of mid-August 2004, 155 investigations into the allegations have been completed, resulting in 66 substantiated cases. Approximately one-third of these cases occurred at the point of capture or tactical collection point, frequently under uncertain, dangerous and violent circumstances.
Abuses of varying severity occurred at differing locations under differing circumstances and context. They were widespread and, though inflicted on only a small percentage of those detained, they were serious both in number and in effect. No approved procedures called for or allowed the kinds of abuse that in fact occurred. There is no evidence of a policy of abuse promulgated by senior officials or military authorities. Still, the abuses were not just the failure of some individuals to follow known standards, and they are more than the failure of a few leaders to enforce proper discipline. There is both institutional and personal responsibility at higher levels. . . .
. . . In Iraq, there was not only a failure to plan for a major insurgency, but also to quickly and adequately adapt to the insurgency that followed after major combat operations. The October 2002 Centcom war plan presupposed that relatively benign stability and security operations would precede a handover to Iraq's authorities. . . .
Although the removal of Saddam Hussein was initially welcomed by the bulk of the population, the occupation became increasingly resented. Detention facilities soon held Iraqi and foreign terrorists as well as a mix of enemy prisoners of war, other security detainees, criminals and undoubtedly some accused as a result of factional rivalries.
Of the 17 detention facilities in Iraq, the largest, Abu Ghraib, housed up to 7,000 detainees in October 2003, with a guard force of only about 90 personnel from the 800th Military Police Brigade. Abu Ghraib was seriously overcrowded, under-resourced, and under continual attack. Five U.S. soldiers died as a result of mortar attacks on Abu Ghraib. In July 2003, Abu Ghraib was mortared 25 times. . . .
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On Tuesday, a woman infected with the Zika virus gave birth to a girl with microcephaly, a malformed head, in New Jersey. Federal officials say there are more than 300 pregnant women possibly infected with Zika around the country. Yet every time an emergency like this happens, public health officials must go begging bowl in hand to Congress for the funds to deal with it. And as the current squabble between Republicans and President Obama over money for the Zika virus shows, there’s no guarantee of significant or even timely relief.
The obvious answer is to establish a permanent pool of money that federal health authorities can tap into quickly, much like the disaster relief fund that enables the Federal Emergency Management Agency to respond quickly to hurricanes and other natural disasters.
Such a fund would allow agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to mobilize their resources to contain emerging threats like Zika and Ebola before they become large-scale problems. The money would be used for research, for vaccine development and to prevent the spread of the disease in the United States and overseas.
Zika is just such a threat. It is primarily transmitted by mosquitoes, can cause birth defects and has been linked to neurological disorders in adults. A study published in The New England Journal of Medicine last week estimated that the risk of microcephaly in newborns ranged from 1 percent to 13 percent for women infected with Zika in the first trimester.
A bill introduced by Representative Rosa DeLauro, a Connecticut Democrat, would put $5 billion into an existing public health emergency fund that was created in 1983 but has been largely dormant. The fund currently has a balance of just $57,000. In the Senate, Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican and a doctor, has said he plans to introduce a bill that would provide emergency funds, though he has offered few details.
Some Republicans are likely to oppose setting aside the money. Many in the House have been reluctant to spend money on Zika; last month they passed a bill to provide $622 million to fight the disease, which is a lot less than the $1.1 billion the Senate approved and the $1.9 billion Mr. Obama has asked for.
Despite the concerns of fiscal conservatives, the health emergency fund could save lives and money. Consider Ebola. Had the American government moved quickly to help Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone fight that virus early in 2014, the disease might not have killed more than 11,000 people or caused a global panic. But the United States was slow to react, approving $5.4 billion for the disease in December 2014, months after it had caused or was suspected to have caused nearly 7,000 deaths and after Ebola cases had been confirmed in the United States.
That money was used to send doctors and nurses to West Africa, to help strengthen health systems in the affected countries, and for research. Some Ebola projects are still active, including vaccine development and testing. In public health, “the sooner you can get there the more effective you can be,” said Dr. Thomas Frieden, the C.D.C. director. “You can change the trajectory of an epidemic in a way that is very, very important.”
Giving public health officials a blank check would be unwise. But creating a system that is at once generous and disciplined by strong internal controls should be possible. Money in the present health emergency fund, for instance, can be used only when the secretary of health and human services declares an emergency. The secretary has to notify Congress of that decision and report how the money was spent within 90 days of the end of the fiscal year.
Without a less restricted fund, health officials fighting Zika have had to move money and scientists away from programs focused on other diseases, like Ebola, malaria and dengue. Robbing existing programs is sure to hurt public health the longer it goes on.
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Sadie Robertson has been a fixture on her family's reality show, Duck Dynasty, for years, but the fashion designer and reality star makes her feature film debut in the new faith-based drama, God's Not Dead 2.
"It was so cool," Sadie, 18, gushed to ET at the film's premiere last week. "I've been kind of easing my way into movies and this was the perfect way to do it, with something that means something to me."
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The Robertsons have always been outspoken about their strong Christian beliefs, and Sadie's mother Korie told ET that faith is what gets the family through "the good times and the bad times."
"It's not something that likes, 'Oh it's there on Sunday then it's not there,'" Korie explained. "I think it permeates every part of our life."
EXCLUSIVE: Sadie Robertson reveals why her feature film debut was the 'perfect' part, dishes on sister's upcoming wedding
LOS ANGELES, CA - MARCH 29: (L-R) TV personalities Lil Will Robertson, Korie Robertson, Bella Robertson, Willie Robertson, Sadie Robertson and John Luke Robertson from Duck Dynasty attend Nickelodeon's 27th Annual Kids' Choice Awards at USC Galen Center on March 29, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by David Livingston/Getty Images)
DANCING WITH THE STARS - 'Episode 1903' - Eleven remaining couples competed during 'Movie Night,' as they danced to songs from their favorite movies, on 'Dancing with the Stars,' MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, on the ABC Television Network. Kevin Hart, from 'Ride Along,' 'Think Like a Man' and the upcoming movie 'The Wedding Ringer,' guest judged alongside Carrie Ann Inaba, Julianne Hough and Bruno Tonioli. Monday's show kicked-off with a spectacular opening number featuring the entire cast. (Photo by Adam Taylor/ABC via Getty Images) MARK BALLAS, SADIE ROBERTSON
DANCING WITH THE STARS - 'Episode 1903' - Eleven remaining couples competed during 'Movie Night,' as they danced to songs from their favorite movies, on 'Dancing with the Stars,' MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, on the ABC Television Network. Kevin Hart, from 'Ride Along,' 'Think Like a Man' and the upcoming movie 'The Wedding Ringer,' guest judged alongside Carrie Ann Inaba, Julianne Hough and Bruno Tonioli. Monday's show kicked-off with a spectacular opening number featuring the entire cast. (Photo by Adam Taylor/ABC via Getty Images) MARK BALLAS, SADIE ROBERTSON
DANCING WITH THE STARS - 'Episode 1903' - Eleven remaining couples competed during 'Movie Night,' as they danced to songs from their favorite movies, on 'Dancing with the Stars,' MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, on the ABC Television Network. Kevin Hart, from 'Ride Along,' 'Think Like a Man' and the upcoming movie 'The Wedding Ringer,' guest judged alongside Carrie Ann Inaba, Julianne Hough and Bruno Tonioli. Monday's show kicked-off with a spectacular opening number featuring the entire cast. (Photo by Adam Taylor/ABC via Getty Images) SADIE ROBERTSON, MARK BALLAS
DANCING WITH THE STARS - 'Episode 1903' - Eleven remaining couples competed during 'Movie Night,' as they danced to songs from their favorite movies, on 'Dancing with the Stars,' MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, on the ABC Television Network. Kevin Hart, from 'Ride Along,' 'Think Like a Man' and the upcoming movie 'The Wedding Ringer,' guest judged alongside Carrie Ann Inaba, Julianne Hough and Bruno Tonioli. Monday's show kicked-off with a spectacular opening number featuring the entire cast. (Photo by Adam Taylor/ABC via Getty Images) SADIE ROBERTSON, MARK BALLAS
DANCING WITH THE STARS - 'Episode 1903' - Eleven remaining couples competed during 'Movie Night,' as they danced to songs from their favorite movies, on 'Dancing with the Stars,' MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, on the ABC Television Network. Kevin Hart, from 'Ride Along,' 'Think Like a Man' and the upcoming movie 'The Wedding Ringer,' guest judged alongside Carrie Ann Inaba, Julianne Hough and Bruno Tonioli. Monday's show kicked-off with a spectacular opening number featuring the entire cast. (Photo by Adam Taylor/ABC via Getty Images) CHERYL BURKE, ANTONIO SABATO JR., LEA THOMPSON, ARTEM CHIGVINTSEV, EMMA SLATER, MICHAEL WALTRIP, SADIE ROBERTSON, MARK BALLAS
DANCING WITH THE STARS - 'Episode 1902' - It was #myjammonday this week on 'Dancing with the Stars.' The 12 remaining celebrities danced to their favorite songs on MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 (8:00-10:01 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network. Monday's show kicks-off with a spectacular opening number featuring the full cast and judges dancing to a medley of the judges' favorite songs. Each couple then performed a variety of dances, including the Cha Cha, Foxtrot, Jive and Rumba, to their favorite jam. (Photo by Adam Taylor/ABC via Getty Images) SADIE ROBERTSON, MARK BALLAS
DANCING WITH THE STARS - 'Episode 1902' - It was #myjammonday this week on 'Dancing with the Stars.' The 12 remaining celebrities danced to their favorite songs on MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 (8:00-10:01 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network. Monday's show kicks-off with a spectacular opening number featuring the full cast and judges dancing to a medley of the judges' favorite songs. Each couple then performed a variety of dances, including the Cha Cha, Foxtrot, Jive and Rumba, to their favorite jam. (Photo by Adam Taylor/ABC via Getty Images) SADIE ROBERTSON, MARK BALLAS
DANCING WITH THE STARS - 'Episode 1902' - It was #myjammonday this week on 'Dancing with the Stars.' The 12 remaining celebrities danced to their favorite songs on MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 (8:00-10:01 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network. Monday's show kicks-off with a spectacular opening number featuring the full cast and judges dancing to a medley of the judges' favorite songs. Each couple then performed a variety of dances, including the Cha Cha, Foxtrot, Jive and Rumba, to their favorite jam. (Photo by Adam Taylor/ABC via Getty Images) SADIE ROBERTSON, MARK BALLAS
DANCING WITH THE STARS - 'Episode 1902' - It was #myjammonday this week on 'Dancing with the Stars.' The 12 remaining celebrities danced to their favorite songs on MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 (8:00-10:01 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network. Monday's show kicks-off with a spectacular opening number featuring the full cast and judges dancing to a medley of the judges' favorite songs. Each couple then performed a variety of dances, including the Cha Cha, Foxtrot, Jive and Rumba, to their favorite jam. (Photo by Adam Taylor/ABC via Getty Images) FOREGROUND: TOM BERGERON, SADIE ROBERTSON, MARK BALLAS
DANCING WITH THE STARS - 'Episode 1902' - It was #myjammonday this week on 'Dancing with the Stars.' The 12 remaining celebrities danced to their favorite songs on MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 (8:00-10:01 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network. Monday's show kicks-off with a spectacular opening number featuring the full cast and judges dancing to a medley of the judges' favorite songs. Each couple then performed a variety of dances, including the Cha Cha, Foxtrot, Jive and Rumba, to their favorite jam. (Photo by Adam Taylor/ABC via Getty Images) MARK BALLAS, SADIE ROBERTSON
DANCING WITH THE STARS - 'Episode 1902' - It was #myjammonday this week on 'Dancing with the Stars.' The 12 remaining celebrities danced to their favorite songs on MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 (8:00-10:01 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network. Monday's show kicks-off with a spectacular opening number featuring the full cast and judges dancing to a medley of the judges' favorite songs. Each couple then performed a variety of dances, including the Cha Cha, Foxtrot, Jive and Rumba, to their favorite jam. (Photo by Adam Taylor/ABC via Getty Images) SADIE ROBERTSON, MARK BALLAS
DANCING WITH THE STARS - 'Episode 1902' - It was #myjammonday this week on 'Dancing with the Stars.' The 12 remaining celebrities danced to their favorite songs on MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 (8:00-10:01 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network. Monday's show kicks-off with a spectacular opening number featuring the full cast and judges dancing to a medley of the judges' favorite songs. Each couple then performed a variety of dances, including the Cha Cha, Foxtrot, Jive and Rumba, to their favorite jam. (Photo by Adam Taylor/ABC via Getty Images) SADIE ROBERTSON, MARK BALLAS
NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 09: The Robertson family of 'Duck Dynasty' watch Sadie Robertson walk in the Evening By Sherri Hill fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Spring 2014 at Trump Tower on September 9, 2013 in New York City.Ã (Photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 09: The Robertson family of 'Duck Dynasty' watch Sadie Robertson walk in the Evening By Sherri Hill fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Spring 2014 at Trump Tower on September 9, 2013 in New York City.Ã (Photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 28: (L-R) TV personalities Willie Robertson, Korie Robertson and Sadie Robertson of Duck Dynasty attends the 87th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade on November 28, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Stewart/WireImage)
Duck Dynasty's Sadie Robertson, left, holds her hand to her heart as her aunt Missy Robertson sings the national anthem before the start of a rain delayed NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas, Sunday, April 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Mike Stone)
This image released by Starpix shows TV personality Sadie Robertson from the A&E series "Duck Dynasty," backstage at the Sherri Hill Fashion Show, Monday, Sept. 9, 2013, in New York. Robertson modeled several designs as her family looked on from the front row. (AP Photo/Starpix, Marion Curtis)
For Sadie, her faith helped her through an impressive run on Dancing With the Stars' 19th season, in which the reality star finished as the runner-up behind Alfonso Ribeiro.
"Without that faith during that show, I definitely couldn't have made it through," she admitted. "It was just a crazy experience and God just really took me the whole way."
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The model and actress is also leaning on her faith and family as she deals with a recent split from longtime boyfriend Blake Coward. According to her mom, however, Sadie is keeping focused on her career.
"She's gonna focus on this movie, and on what we're doing with Duck Dynasty, and all the amazing opportunities she's got going on right now," Korie told ET.
Next up for the whole Robertson family: a wedding! Sadie's older sister Rebecca is set to tie the knot later this year, though the clan is staying tight-lipped about details.
"She's going to do a destination wedding. We can't tell where but it will be this year," Korie revealed. "The whole family is really excited about it."
EXCLUSIVE: 'God's Not Dead 2' Star Hayley Orrantia on Over-Sexed Hollywood: 'You Don't Have to Flaunt Your Body'
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Uber is changing things up on the customer support front.
Tim Collins, who joined in early 2015 to lead the ride-hailing company’s global customer support efforts, is no longer with the company, according to a report from tech news site Recode and confirmed to Fortune by Uber. Collins is headed back to Amazon, where he spent 17 years prior to his time at Uber.
Austin Geidt, Uber’s fourth employee and until now its head of global expansion, will take over Collins’ responsibilities in the interim, the company confirmed.
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It’s unclear why Collins has decided to leave (and whether it was his decision), but the move comes only months after a pair of scathing reports from BuzzFeed about some of the company’s customer support practices.
For one, BuzzFeed published screenshots of Uber’s internal customer service software displaying more than 6,000 results when searching for the subject line “sexual assault” among customer inquiries, and 5,827 with the subject line “rape.” At the time, Uber responded that its software’s search functionality returns many additional results because of names and words that begin with with the letters R, A, P, E consecutively. It also said that it has received only five claims of rape and “fewer than” 170 claims of sexual assault between December 2012 and August 2015.
BuzzFeed also reported that Uber had recently reorganized its customer support teams and moved part of its operations to other countries like the Philippines and India, leading to a drop in quality, according to the report. At the time, Uber countered by saying that it had always planned to expand its customer support operations to other countries and that it was not “offshoring” them.
More recently, Uber’s customer support practices also came under fire after a shooter in Kalamazoo, Mich. killed several people on an evening he also worked for Uber. At least one victim was killed during his driving shift. One of the shooter’s passengers reported him to both the police and Uber because he was driving erratically four hours before the first victim was killed, though Uber didn’t immediately suspend his account because the complaint didn’t explicitly mention violence—only his driving.
“We thank Tim for his leadership in building out our global support teams and infrastructure,” an Uber spokesman told Fortune.
The story has been updated to clarify that Austin Geidt’s role leading the customer support team will be temporary.
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This video is probably as real as the existence of unicorns -- but the clip, claiming to show
out of the back of a Coroner's van after his "death," is making the rounds on the Internet today.
According to the LiveLeak post: "I checked the license plate number and it looks like the King of Pop is jumping out of the same van, his dead body has been in. I got the original video tape from a trustworthy source. I know him for years. And I am sure it´s real and Michael is alive."
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Understand the benefits of a home equity line of credit: If you have equity in a home, it may be inexpensive to apply for and open a home equity line of credit (HELOC).
A HELOC may be useful to have in case of emergencies. The mistake in waiting to apply is that if you become unemployed, have high debt or are otherwise less attractive to a bank, you may not qualify for the line at exactly the time you need it. Contrary to what many think, you only pay interest on the money you use. If there is no balance outstanding, there is nothing due.
Carrying credit card debt and paying it off with your tax refund: If you are getting a tax refund, you are likely withholding more than you need to during the course of the year.
Many investors do not realize that the purpose of filling out a W-4 form and choosing withholdings is to have the proper amount of taxes taken out, so that you end up near even at the end of the year. It is a tool the government gives us to adjust taxes, because everyone's situation is different.
(Read more: Year-end tax planning tips)
So, if you run up debt and pay interest all year, and then pay it off with a refund, the winners are the credit card companies and the government, which has had custody of your money all year. A better idea is to adjust your withholdings, get more cash on a monthly basis and pay off credit cards as they come due.
The key to remember with these and other common financial mistakes is that they're usually avoidable. A comprehensive financial plan suited to your unique goals, risk tolerance and time horizon can help you stay on the right track and steer clear of pitfalls.
Geri Pell, a certified financial planner, is president of Pell Wealth Partners in Rye Brook, N.Y. She is a wealth advisor specializing in fee-based financial planning and asset management strategies, and has been in practice for 27 years.
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Step aside, Nicki Minaj, Meek Mill, or whoever had the most recent rap feud—Hyperloop startups are trying their hand at beef.
Last weekend’s Hyperloop pod design contest attracted heavy hitters to what amounted to a coming-out party for the technology. During the event, Fortune sat down with the leadership of L.A.-based Hyperloop Tech and they had some tough talk for the very similarly named Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (or HTT).
“It feels like there’s some confusion between the company that’s building something, and the company that has people talking about building something,” said Rob Lloyd, Hyperloop Tech’s CEO.
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SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk released the original Hyperloop white paper in 2013, describing a system that would efficiently shoot hovering pods full of cargo or passengers through a depressurized tube at up to 700 mph. Musk made it clear he wouldn’t be building the system himself—he’s got a lot on his plate, after all. Instead, he challenged others in the tech community to develop the idea. Hyperloop Tech and HTT both launched soon after with the goal of getting pods into tubes.
The Hyperloop concept is attracting more and more support from investors, governments, business partners, and the public—hundreds of Texans poured into the public portion of last weekend’s event, some driving hours. The accelerating energy seems to have prodded Hyperloop Tech to get more aggressive about distinguishing itself from its main competitor, critiquing HTT’s business model, progress, and credentials.
Hyperloop Tech is a conventional startup that should soon close nearly $80 million in funding and currently has 109 full-time employees. HTT, led by CEO Dirk Ahlborn, organizes part-time volunteers through his JumpStartFund platform. Lloyd, who until last June was co-president of Cisco Systems, says that model simply can’t work for such a hands-on project.
“This is a physical thing we’re doing,” Lloyd said. “To move this along, you need capital, you need approvals, and you need people. And you can’t do that in a virtual community.”
“This isn’t Linux,” Lloyd emphasized, referencing the open-source operating system originally created by part-time volunteers. “We love the power of the crowd, but the crowd can’t weld.”
Lloyd is just one in a true murderer’s row of entrepreneurial and engineering talent that Hyperloop Tech has assembled. Also sitting in on the interview were CTO Brogan BamBrogan, formerly an engineer with SpaceX, Northrop Grumman, and Chrysler; and Shervin Pishevar, co-founder of both Hyperloop Tech and Sherpa Ventures. Sherpa’s broad portfolio includes pieces of Uber, OpenDoor, Meerkat, and Munchery.
Lloyd and BamBrogan also took issue with recent media reports saying that HTT was “breaking ground” on a test track in the planned Quay Valley development in California. Lloyd pointed out that HTT is actually still in the permitting process for that project. “(It’s) naïve to expect you can apply for permits in a municipality that doesn’t exist yet,” he said.
Hyperloop Tech, by contrast, has a site in Nevada, a state the team described as more cooperative on permitting than California. And it’s well-underway on actual construction of its test track.
“That’s what breaking ground looks like,” BamBrogan said as he shared photos of the Nevada site, complete with earthmovers and actual Hyperloop tube segments.
How will the Hyperloop work? Watch:
For all the bluster from Hyperloop Tech, HTT isn’t exactly a slouch. As The Wall Street Journal reported last year, HTT’s open model hasn’t kept it from earning partnerships with the likes of engineering software firm ANSYS anss and UCLA’s Suprastudio architecture program. In the same article, Ahlborn expressed his own frustration that Hyperloop Tech, founded after HTT, had selected such a similar company name.
Hyperloop Tech’s rhetoric may even show, albeit in a backhanded way, that it takes HTT seriously as a long-term competitor. And ultimately, BamBrogan was sure to emphasize that the rising tide of Hyperloop activity legitimizes the broader project. “Generally we love competition,” he said, “and we love the greater Hyperloop system building up.”
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Searching for a creative outlet? Some people are turning to sunburn art, the hottest bad idea for your health.
A few photos—but perhaps not enough to qualify as a trend—tagged #sunburnart have popped up on social media, showing people intricately burned by the sun with the help of a strategically placed pattern.
Popularity of the practice is suspect, but it’s warranted enough media attention that Deborah S. Sarnoff, MD, the Skin Cancer Foundation’s senior vice president, released the organization’s official position on sunburn art today:
The Skin Cancer Foundation strongly advises the public to avoid sunburns at all costs. A sunburn is not only painful – it’s dangerous, and comes with consequences. Sunburns cause DNA damage to the skin, accelerate skin aging, and increase your lifetime skin cancer risk. In fact, sustaining five or more sunburns in youth increases lifetime melanoma risk by 80 percent. On average, a person’s risk for melanoma doubles if he or she has had more than five sunburns.
The Skin Cancer Foundation recommends adopting a complete sun protection regimen that includes seeking shade, covering up with clothing, including a broad-brimmed hat and UV blocking sunglasses, in addition to daily sunscreen use.
Neither dermatologist we talked to had seen sunburn art in the flesh—although people who intentionally burn themselves are probably not the most likely to book skincare appointments.
“I’ve definitely seen it advertised online, where they have little tracings and they just mark it out, the part that’s covered,” says Dr. Aurora Badia, a dermatologist at Florida Skin Center, who first learned about sunburn art years ago. “It definitely is not a good idea. Any time you get a sunburn, you’re at more risk for melanoma, but there’s no inherent difference between sunburn art and regular sunburn.”
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Dr. Melissa Piliang, a dermatologist at Cleveland Clinic, says she, too, has yet to see a patient with intentional sunburn art—but art, of course, is open for interpretation. “Certainly we see people who have what’s loosely termed a ‘farmer’s tan’, or when people apply their sunscreen and miss a spot,” she says. Other accidental sunburn artists include children who’ve forgotten to remove a sticker, a watch or a bracelet while playing in the sun, she says.
Sunburn art is treated the same way a normal sunburn is, both doctors agree, and it’s every bit as dangerous; sunburns, artistic or not, raise your risk for skin cancer.
“I’d encourage people to wear their sunscreen,” says Dr. Piliang. “Cover up, seek the shade, and really be safe in the sun over the Fourth of July weekend.”
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The U.S. is home to 5% of the world’s population, but has had 31% of the public mass shootings worldwide between 1966 and 2012, according to a new study presented at the American Sociological Association meeting. “That is not a coincidence,” says study author Adam Lankford, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Alabama, who believes his new study on the topic is the first to confirm that there’s something strongly American about public mass shootings. A lot of that, he’s found, has to do with gun ownership.
Lankford quantitatively analyzed various reports, from the New York Police Department’s 2012 active shooter report, the FBI’s 2014 active shooter report, and international sources including the United Nations and the World Health Organization. He focused on public mass shootings, defined as those that took place in a confined, populated space and resulted in the deaths of at least four people.
MORE: Homicides Are Spiking This Year After Falling For Decades
Lankford found a strong correlation between gun ownership in America and violence. The U.S. ranks first in gun ownership in the world, with surveys suggesting the rate to be 88.8 firearms for every 100 people in America, or 270 million total firearms within borders. (At a distant second is Yemen, with 54.8 firearms per 100 people; the numbers tumble after that.) There have been 292 public mass shooters who have killed a minimum of four people between 1966 and 2012. And when you narrow shootings down to just those that occur at school and work, American incidences account for 62% of global cases.
Lankford wanted to understand why Americans were so much more likely to be public mass shooters. His findings suggest a theory that points to two quintessentially American factors: gun culture and exceptionalism.
Being American, for a large swath of people, can be traced to the Second Amendment’s guarantee of a right to bear arms; 65% of Americans believe it is their right to own firearms.
But an even more significant contributor may be the very reason some experts think the U.S. has been so successful: its strong sense of exceptionalism and individualistic culture, something that American kids are taught from an early age.
MORE: Read The Transcript of Amy Schumer’s Emotional Speech On Gun Control
“There is this notion that in general, America is exceptional in a variety of ways in terms of our history: the degree to which we fought for independence, being the first and most successful country of our kind,” Lankford says. “If you teach your kids, ‘You can accomplish anything you want if you put your mind to it,’ it might be setting them up to fail.”
Achieving a sense of fame and success isn’t always a good thing. The idea of fame is a repeating motif in public shooters’ confessions and manifestos, Lankford says. “The media gives these attackers what they want, and they want fame.”
Globalization, too, has a role to play. Consider the dominance of Hollywood and entertainment in the lives of young people worldwide, which is largely American and often violent. “We’re exporting mass shootings as well, and attackers around the world are copying what’s happening here,” he says.
Lankford acknowledges there’s still a lot we don’t know about gun violence. The analysis he ran excluded other gun crimes, like homicides involving three or fewer people, and suicides. Domestic violence and gang violence often fuel these shootings and they remain largely misunderstood, though most experts agree firearm ownership is a big contributor to these crimes.
There’s a silver lining, however. Because the U.S. has a preponderance of public mass shootings, the country is more prepared than any other to deal with them, Lankford says. He points to Columbine and Sandy Hook as events that shaped enforcement procedure. “When Columbine happened, it took three hours to respond, in part because we didn’t know how to respond,” he says. “Do you prioritize helping people flee? Do you secure the perimeter? Do you go in and disable the active shooter? We now know you have to make sure the active shooter no longer is active,” he says. “At least we know how to deal with this.”
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In the midst of a racist N-bomb scandal -- former 80s sitcom star "
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In case you missed it, a shocking outtake reel from the show -- roughly 20 years old -- recently surfaced online, featuring the puppet (voiced by creator
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-- associate producer on ALF for three years -- who tells us, "You're talking about 20 years ago when the world was not so ridiculously PC. Anyone that's offended needs to lighten up already."
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There’s no doubt that supply chain and logistics issues are critical to any company’s success. But dramatic improvements don’t always involve large-scale strategic overhauls or process changes that require months to implement.
Here are 10 smaller, less daunting ways to improve logistics processes from Rayford Collins, a supply chain optimization expert with UPS Customer Solutions.
1. Rethink transportation modes and routes. “Small parcel carriers can often provide a cost savings on multipiece shipments that don’t involve a full pallet or multiple pallets,” Collins says. “Look at small parcel versus LTL carrier or LTL versus truckloads to understand the price differentials for various weight and zone break points. Changing the routing or mode of shipments can pay off, especially for mid-market shippers.”
2. Put fast movers close to the shipping station. Make sure your A and B movers are properly located to allow for minimum processing time and distance to the outbound shipping lanes. “Place those fast movers carefully. If they are all in the same aisle or location, you can create a bottleneck as employees run into each other while doing the pick.”
3. Position inventory strategically. Companies shipping from more than one location would want A and B movers in each, but D movers in just one, to keep inventory carrying costs down. “If you decide you need to have 100 D movers, put them where the warehouse space and labor costs are lowest,” Collins says. “That can reduce your inbound shipping cost, too.”
4. Keep boxes and packing material close at hand. “Anything you can do to reduce steps in the warehouse is important,” Collins says. For example, keeping boxes, tape, and packing materials at the shipping workstation helps your employees avoid walking five or 10 feet to pull a box or go somewhere else for the bubble wrap.
5. Pick into the actual shipping box. When possible, have employees pick into a pre-labeled shipping box to save time processing orders, Collins says. This option works best when most orders will fit in standard-size boxes.
Anything you can do to reduce steps in the warehouse is important. â Rayford Collins, supply chain optimization expert with UPS Customer Solutions
6. Add wireless mobile printers. Many companies outfit warehouse staff with wearable label printers that combine two steps into one, Collins says. “When an employee picks items that are pre-packaged and ready to ship, the system is programmed to print a shipping label as soon as the item is scanned.”
7. Hold pre-work communication meetings (PCMs). Two or three minutes before the shift starts, have a brief meeting with your shipping/warehouse employees and outline specific goals for that day. The meetings can be especially effective if you have a heavy day ahead, reminding workers to stay focused and motivated. Also, always end with a safety reminder.
8. Drop-ship from suppliers. A major trend in controlling transportation cost and saving time is shipping direct from your manufacturer or supplier to the customer, using third-party billing. “When a supplier ships direct using your UPS account number, you get the benefit of managing your transportation decisions of carrier selection, leveraging your transportation spend, while reducing your inbound and outbound transportation costs.”
9. Consider on-demand packaging. Rightsizing packaging is more critical than ever now that dimensional weight is an industry standard. “With on-demand packaging, a machine die cuts the right size box for each order from rolls of corrugated board,” Collins says. The payoffs: Reduced packaging and transportation costs, as well as enhanced sustainability â an increasingly important consideration for customers.
10. Improve end-to-end visibility. Relatively inexpensive, cloud-based technology now allows you to have near real-time awareness of when inbound shipments will arrive, so you can gear up as needed or respond quickly to delays that put off customers. Similarly, technology can let you track when an order has been processed, picked, packed, and shipped, and send a tracking number to your customer. “The end result is a better customer experience, especially when they can manage their own delivery,” Collins says.
As the saying goes, “results may vary.” But Collins says that companies can save in transportation costs with a review by the UPS Customer Solutions group.
“If we are doing a full-scale supply chain analysis, including facility optimization and throughput, we tend to see 10 to 15 percent savings in the overall supply chain budget,” he says.
Learn how one UPS customer streamlined their supply chain processes with help from the UPS Customer Solutions group.
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Regardless of your income, there are money-saving tax loopholes available to you. Some loopholes apply to everyone but vary in helpfulness depending on your annual salary. Here's a list of tax loopholes by income level that can help you out.
Read: 10 Commonly Missed Tax Deductions
"Most tax loopholes come in a form of tax credits which are geared toward the low-income earners," said Argel Sabillo, co-founder of Levee, a mobile tax app. "Credits were created to help taxpayers ease the burden of tax, especially for those who have dependents." Two types of credits exist: Refundable credits allow taxpayers to receive refunds even when they have zero tax liability. Non-refundable credits allow taxpayers to reduce their tax amount due, but cannot increase a taxpayer's refund. Low-income earners are eligible for both types, including the following three credits.
The American Opportunity Tax Credit is an educational tax benefit; it is the replacement and expansion of the existing Hope Credit and can be claimed through tax year 2017. It applies to the first four years of college educational expenses, including tuition, books and other supplies. The credit is worth up to $2,500, but its most attractive feature for low-income families is the fact that up to $1,000 is refundable if you don't owe any taxes whatsoever.
The saver's tax credit — formally known as the retirement savings contributions credit — was designed to help lower-income families contribute to retirement plans. The first $2,000 of contributions to an individual retirement account or 401k can be written off with this credit. Whether you can claim the credit depends on your income and filing status.
The rules for claiming the saver's credit are:
The maximum joint credit is $1,000 — $2,000 if married filing jointly — but other credits and deductions can greatly reduce the actual impact that this tax credit might have.
The earned income tax credit is designed specifically with low-income families in mind. The amount of the credit is limited based on income and the number of children in your household. The income limit ranges from $14,820 if you're single and have no children up to $53,267 if you're married filing jointly with three or more children.
For 2015, the maximum amount of earned income tax credit is:
Read: 6 Biggest Tax Law Changes of 2016
In general, phase-out rules make medium-income earners ineligible for a number of credits and deductions. "The upper-middle income earners get the shortest end of the stick when it comes to tax loopholes," Sabillo said. There are some credits and deductions available to medium-income earners, however.
Filers should itemize mortgage interest if they will have more deductions than the standard deduction amount. "This group doesn't have a lot of deductions available to them," said Sabillo. "The most common — and the largest dollar amount — tax loophole available for this group comes when they purchase a home and claim the mortgage interest deductions, which allows them to deduct the interest portion of their mortgage by itemizing their returns," he said.
For 2015 taxes, the standard deduction amounts are as follows:
This educational tax credit is limited to just $2,000 over the lifetime of the claimant but comes with relatively high income caps — $130,000 if filing jointly and $65,000 if filing single. The tax credit is available regardless of age or use as long as it qualifies as an educational expense.
The child tax credit is worth up to $1,000 per child in your household under the age of 17. The child must be claimed as a dependent on your taxes, be a U.S. citizen, and be living with you. The credit is phased-out depending on your filing status and adjusted gross income.
You might qualify for this credit if your AGI is less than the following amounts:
The tax benefits found in retirement plans are huge. The most common are the pre-tax contributions made to 401k accounts and IRAs, which reduce the total taxable amount claimed. Other benefits include tax-deferred growth that allows middle-class families to save for retirement more efficiently. In the case of a Roth IRA, contributions are taxed as they are made, but withdrawals are not taxed.
Even high-income earners can take advantage of tax loopholes. Two in particular are useful: one to help grow savings faster, and one to increase tax deductions.
Although the capital gains tax loophole is available for all income levels, it benefits high-income earners — filers in the 25-percent-or-higher tax bracket — the most. This loophole is among the most common — and the most controversial — for high-income earners, Sabillo said.
The capital gains tax loophole is so beneficial to high-income earners because the tax on long-term capital gains and dividend income is only 15 to 20 percent, depending on their income level — as opposed to the tax rate of at least 28 percent on ordinary income. This means that investment income is taxed at a much lower rate than earned income, which has a tax rate of at least 28 percent. Thus, the capital gains tax rate allows wealthy families to grow their investment savings at a much faster pace.
Read: 30 Tax Mistakes the Rich Never Make
The same deduction that is a loophole for middle-income earners can also be a boost for high-income earners when it's time to file taxes. If a filer will have more deductions than the standard amount for his filing status, he can itemize his mortgage interest and have it counted as deductible on his tax return. A taxpayer who owns a multi-million-dollar home and who pays interest on a large mortgage will be able to deduct more for their mortgage interest than a taxpayer who pays interest on a $350,000 mortgage.
This article originally appeared on GOBankingRates.com: These 7 Tax Loopholes Could Save You Thousands
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These 7 tax loopholes could save you thousands
"It's only January, I have plenty of time!" You're relaxed, you're casual, what even are taxes anyway? You don't care! It's so far away that filing taxes isn't even remotely on your radar, to be honest.
"The imminent act of filing is upon me and I literally have nothing ready..." Tax season is now approaching and that creeping anxiety about getting everything done on time is starting to set in. It's essentially biting at your heels and you know you have to get moving.
No words. Just emotional paralysis. You're screwed. You need to start doing your paperwork but you physically do not know where to even begin. It's time. It's happening.
"I HAVE A MILLION THINGS I NEED TO DO, WHY ARE THERE SO MANY PAPERS AND QUESTIONS, SOMEBODY HELP ME!" That anxiety you felt creeping in earlier? Now it's full-fledged onset. This stage is often accompanied by screaming out loud, pulling hair, crying, etc.
"Wait, did I get all of my papers in? Did I check that one box correctly? Does it look like I'm trying to evade some of these taxes? What if I go to jail? Can I go to jail for that? WHO WILL FEED MY DOG WHEN I AM IN JAIL?!" It's like handing in an exam in school and wishing you could grab it back and double check your answers one more time.
Who was that celebrity you heard about that went to jail for tax evasion? Because now you're convinced that's totally going to be you.
Spoiler alert: as long as you did everything to the best of your knowledge and ability, you probably won't go to jail. And even if you do, you'll find someone to walk your dog.
"I got this, I'm almost done, a few more papers and I'm in the clear. I just have to pound through the rest of it. Go me!" "Go you" is right! Now you're on cruise control and you're on track to get everything done well and on time. You're unstoppable in the delight of the world that is tax filing.
"Thank god that's over with, now I can relax! What to do with all this stress-free free time!" Finally, relief. Your papers are filed and sent out into the universe. It's off your back at last. Now on to more important things, like Netflix.
"When is my return coming? Is this going to be my life for the rest of my life? Yep, it is. So about that return..." Now, you wait. You want that money. And the inevitable truth that your life will now be a neverending cycle of filing taxes and waiting for your return.
"SCORE my return was so much better than I expected! I'm buying a new dress. Or five. Probably five, why not?" You're on a total life-high now. The possibilities of what you can spend your return on seem endless and even if you don't, having a nice bonus hunk of cash in your pocket feels pretty good. It made all of that stress completely worth it.
"Honestly filing wasn't even that bad this year. And now I don't have to think about it anymore. Well at least not for another year. But no use in worrying about that now!" Alas, acceptance. You know you'll fall victim to the vicious cycle again when next year rolls around. But truthfully, you wouldn't have it any other way. Okay, you obviously would. But you'll never change your procrastinating ways!
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For her latest role as
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"In the beginning it's quite daunting," Patton tells PEOPLE of her training. "The [filmmakers] wanted Garona to have more muscle, for me to eat more protein and such, so it started with two and a half hours of physical training, six days a week. You do it one day at a time, you grow to love it and then we added at least two hours of training with knives and sword. I also got to learn how to ride a horse which I never had before, that is what I love about acting, the gift of it that you get to learn these things in a fast, furious way, with experts."
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Patton's commitment to her training resulted in tight, toned muscles from head to toe, including her rear end.
"You know what's funny? You don't really look at it yourself that often but my butt, it got bigger but in a good way," she says of the most unexpected benefit of her hard work. "You don't really look over your shoulder that often and my friends were like, 'Girl, have you seen your butt lately?'" she recalls with a laugh. "So I think if it was anything it was that, my butt got bigger and it changed, so that was fun. It was the thing I certainly didn't need to have in the movie but I kind of liked it. You're not thinking about it. Once we got past the training and the endurance and it became stunts, you're not really thinking about it at that point, so it was a bit of a surprise."
Patton says she was initially nervous about bringing Garona – a half-human, half-Orc based on the popular game
"How I was going to do that?" Patton recalls. "Being able to physically do some of the things that Garona did, it whipped me into a warrior in my mind, thinking that I could be a warrior, that I could be that fierce. It was the most challenging, but one of the greatest gifts of the movie that I'm so thankful for."
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The 31-year-old humanitarian helped a fallen competitor during the trials for the Paralympic-style 2016 Invictus Games, after a gust of wind caused her to lose control of her wheelchair.
SEE MORE: Prince Harry Gets Emotional After Receiving a Dog Tag From Injured U.S. Marine
"I was just putting my gloves back on and sat back in my chair when the wind took me over," 33-year-old competitor Anna Pollock told reporters. "Harry said to me, 'What did you do that for?!'"
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Prince Harry poses for a photograph with wheelchair athlete Anna Pollock as he attends the UK team trials for the Invictus Games Orlando 2016 at the University of Bath on January 29, 2016 in Bath, England. (Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)
Prince Harry assists wheelchair athlete Anna Pollock after a gust of wind blew over her wheelchair as he attends the UK team trials for the Invictus Games Orlando 2016 at the University of Bath on January 29, 2016 in Bath, England. (Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)
Prince Harry talks with wheelchair athlete Anna Pollock as he attends the UK team trials for the Invictus Games Orlando 2016 at the University of Bath on January 29, 2016 in Bath, England. (Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)
Prince Harry poses for a photograph with wheelchair athlete Anna Pollock as he attends the UK team trials for the Invictus Games Orlando 2016 at the University of Bath on January 29, 2016 in Bath, England. (Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)
Prince Harry watches a competitor as he attends the UK team trials for the Invictus Games Orlando 2016 at the University of Bath Sports Training Village on January 29, 2016 in Bath, England. (Photo by Anwar Hussein/WireImage)
Prince Harry attends the UK team trials for the Invictus Games Orlando 2016 at the University of Bath Sports Training Village on January 29, 2016 in Bath, England. (Photo by Anwar Hussein/WireImage)
Prince Harry (C) talks to The Head of Sports Recovery at Help For Heroes Martin Colclough (3L) as he attends the Invictus Games Orlando British team trials at the University of Bath on January 29, 2016 in Bath, England. (Photo by Andrew Matthews - WPA Pool/Getty Images)
Prince Harry meets competitors as he attends the Invictus Games Orlando British team trials at the University of Bath on January 29, 2016 in Bath, England. (Photo by Andrew Matthews - WPA Pool/Getty Images)
Prince Harry speaks at the Invictus Games Orlando British team trials at the University of Bath on January 29, 2016 in Bath, England. (Photo by Andrew Matthews - WPA Pool/Getty Images)
Prince Harry (R) helps a competitor into her chair during the UK team trials for the Invictus Games Orlando 2016 at University of Bath on January 29, 2016 in Bath, England. (Photo by Danny Martindale/WireImage)
Prince Harry attends UK team trials for the Invictus Games Orlando 2016 at University of Bath on January 29, 2016 in Bath, England. (Photo by Mark Cuthbert/UK Press via Getty Images)
The Royal Air Force Medic, who is partially paraplegic due to a past spinal bleed, admitted she was a little starstruck when Harry came over.
"I saw him and thought I've got to take the opportunity to ask for a picture," she said.
"He was so lovely to help me and he gives so much," Pollock added. He makes all the lads and the lasses feel important."
SEE MORE: Prince Harry Not Ready to Settle Down: 'There Are a Lot of Things to Get Done'
Kensington Palace posted a photo of Harry talking to competitors from the trials, writing, "The trials, which are being run over the next three days at the University of Bath, will see wounded, injured and sick military personnel and veterans compete across 10 sports for one of 100 places available on the UK team."
READ MORE: Prince Harry and Prince William Get Royally Dirty During Intense Christmas Eve Soccer Match
While addressing the competitors, Harry said, "The excitement is building not just here but also across the pond. You will be unbelievably amazed by the amount of support there is out there for you."
"You are now or will be ambassadors for the Invictus shirt, and the Invictus spirit," the royal added. "Wherever you go and whatever you do, spread the word."
SEE MORE: Prince Harry Shares Heartbreaking Photos From Africa Wildlife Conservation Trip
The 2016 Invictus Games will take place in Orlando, Florida, from May 8-12.Harry has been involved in the games since their inception in 2014, after witnessing the Warrior Games in Colorado, and seeking to bring international attention to their cause of honoring injured service members, veterans, and military personnel worldwide.
RELATED: More great Prince Harry moments caught on camera:
Prince Harry helps a Paralympic competitor who fell out of her wheelchair
Britain's Prince Harry (C) hands out cupcakes during a visit to the University of Canterbury's Student Volunteer Army in Christchurch on May 12, 2015. Prince Harry arrived in New Zealand on May 9 for a week-long visit. (Photo by Martin Hunter, AFP/Getty Images)
Britain's Prince Harry poses for photos and speaks with members of the public after arriving at the Opera House in Sydney, Australia, Thursday, May 7, 2015. Prince Harry, or Captain Harry Wales, as he is known in the British Army, spent four weeks embedded with a number of Australian army units and regiments in Darwin, Perth and Sydney. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)
Prince Harry sits with pupils at Halfmoon Bay School in Oban as he leaves on May 11, 2015 in Stewart Island, New Zealand. Prince Harry is in New Zealand from May 9 through to May 16 attending events in Wellington, Invercargill, Stewart Island, Christchurch, Linton, Whanganui and Auckland. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)
Prince Harry gets kissed by Royal Fan Victoria McRae during a walkabout outside the Sydney Opera House on May 7, 2015 in Sydney, Australia. Prince Harry is visiting Sydney following a month-long deployment with the Australian Army. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)
In this Undated handout grab from video issued by Boultbee Flight Academy on Sunday April 5, 2015, Prince Harry flys in the back of a Spitfire on a sortie from Goodwood, West Sussex, via the Isle of Wight. The flight was to promote his Spitfire scholarship which offers training for wounded servicemen and women, flight training for the scholarship is delivered by Boultbee Flight Academy and supported by The Royal Foundation's Endeavour Fund. Prince Harry launched the scholarship selection in February 2014, the scholarship draws inspiration from the pilot Douglas Bader who flew throughout the Second World War with 20 individual aerial victories despite losing both his legs in 1931. (Photo by Andy R Annable/Boultbee Flight Academy/Getty Images) (NOTE TO EDITORS: The photographs shall be strictly for editorial use only. No charge should be made for the supply, release or publication of the photographs. There shall be no commercial use whatsoever of the photographs (including any use in merchandising, advertising or any other non-editorial use).
Prince Harry greets members of the public outside the Australian War Memorial on April 6, 2015 in Canberra, Australia. Prince Harry, or Captain Wales as he is known in the British Army, will end his military career with a month long secondment to the Australian Defence Force in barracks in Sydney, Perth and Darwin. (Photo by Lukas Coch - Pool/Getty Images)
Prince Harry listens to wildlife photographer Will Nicholls (not pictured) who uses the medium of wildlife photography to promote the conservation of red squirrels at Northumberland Wildlife Trust's Red Squirrel Northern England (RSNE) Project, where staff are working with the local community to safeguard the red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) population, with the main focus on a grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) control programme at Frankham Woods on February 25, 2015 near Fourstones, United Kingdom. (Photo by Jason Friend /WPA Pool / Getty Images)
Prince Harry attends The Annual ICAP Charity Day at ICAP on December 3, 2014 in London, England. (Photo by Heathcliff O'Malley - WPA Pool /Getty Images)
Prince Harry cycles between venues on his Brompton Bike at Queen Elizabeth park on September 13, 2014 in London, England. The International sports event for 'wounded warriors', presented by Jaguar Land Rover was an idea developed by Prince Harry after he visited the Warrior Games in Colorado USA. The four day event has brought together thirteen teams from around the world to compete in nine events such as wheelchair basketball and sitting volleyball. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)
Prince Harry is given a blow-up kangaroo by the Australian swimming team at the Aquatics Centre during the Invictus Games at Queen Elizabeth park on September 14, 2014 in London, England. The International sports event for 'wounded warriors', presented by Jaguar Land Rover was an idea developed by Prince Harry after he visited the Warrior Games in Colorado USA. The four day event has brought together thirteen teams from around the world to compete in nine events such as wheelchair basketball and sitting volleyball. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)
Britain's Prince Harry (L) celebrates with Great Britain's David Henson after the latter won the 200m men ambulant IT2 race during the athletics event of the Invictus Games at Queen Elizabeth II Park in London on September 11, 2014. More than 400 wounded troops from 13 countries -- both serving and veter -- will go for gold across nine sports at Prince Harry's Invictus Games in London Between 10-14 September. AFP PHOTO/ADRIAN DENNIS (Photo credit should read ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP/Getty Images)
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - JULY 29: Prince Harry plays a game during a visit to the Commonwealth Games Village on July 29, 2014 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Danny Lawson - WPA Pool / Getty Images)
SANTIAGO, CHILE - JUNE 27: Prince Harry blows a raspberry at a child as he visits kindergarten of indigenous children a on June 27, 2014 in Santiago, Chile. Prince Harry is on a three day tour of Chile after visiting Brazil. (Photo by Dan Charity - Pool/Getty Images)
Britain's Prince Harry (C, back), poses for pictures with residents of 'Cracolandia', one of Sao Paulo's poorest neighbourhoods where crack is omnipresent, during his visit to Brazil, on June 26, 2014. After Brazil, the prince will move on to the Chilean capital Santiago and the city of Valparaiso. AFP PHOTO / Miguel SCHINCARIOL (Photo credit should read Miguel Schincariol/AFP/Getty Images)
LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 14: Prince Harry, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge stand on the balcony during during Trooping the Colour - Queen Elizabeth II's Birthday Parade, at The Royal Horseguards on June 14, 2014 in London, England. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)
ANTAEAYA, CHILE - JUNE 29: Prince Harry holds an albino African pygmy hedgehog during a visit to an outdoor centre on June 29, 2014 in Antaeaya, Chile. Prince Harry is on the final day of a three day tour of Chile after visiting Brazil. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)
LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 04: HRH Prince Harry explores a new playground with a group of children from Gainsborough Primary school in Newham during an official visit to Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park with the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson on April 4, 2014 in London, England The park will open to the public on Saturday 5th April. (Photo by Chris Harris - WPA Pool /Getty Images)
KINGSTON, JAMAICA - MARCH 06: Prince Harry poses at the Usain Bolt Track at the University of the West Indies on March 6, 2012 in Kingston, Jamaica. Prince Harry is in Jamaica as part of a Diamond Jubilee Tour, representing Queen Elizabeth II, taking in Belize, the Bahamas, Jamaica and Brazil. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)
Sandhurst, UNITED KINGDOM: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II (L) smiles with her grandson Prince Harry (4th R) during the Sovereign's Parade at the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst, southern England, April 12, 2006. Officer Cadet H Wales as Prince Harry is known, will train to become a troop commander, in charge of 11 enlisted men and four light tanks -- a job that could soon see him on front-line duty in Iraq or Afghanistan. His grandmother Queen Elizabeth II, who turns 80 on April 21, and father Prince Charles both turned out for the passing-out ceremony where Harry and 218 other officer cadets in crisp blue uniforms, each carrying thin silver swords, received their commissions after 44 weeks of gruelling training.AFP PHOTO/Dylan Martinez/ Pool/REUTERS (Photo credit should read DYLAN MARTINEZ/AFP/Getty Images)
Britain's Prince Harry sits in the drivers seat of a Jaguar F-Type at the Goodwood Motor Circuit in Chichester, West Sussex, where he was attending a track day for the Royal Foundation Endeavour Fund. Harry met injured services personnel and joined them in driving classic cars before visiting the Boultbee Flight Academy. AFP PHOTO / POOL / STEFAN ROUSSEAU (Photo credit should read STEFAN ROUSSEAU/AFP/Getty Images)
Prince Harry takes part in a trade on the BGC Partners trading floor, during the BGC Charity Day 2013, in Canary Wharf, London, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013. Prince William and Prince Harry have turned temporary stock traders, participating in a charity event in memory of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks. Assisted by professional traders, the royals took to the phones for an hour to broker deals, including one valued at 25 billion euros ($33 billion). They also found time to joke around, with Harry accusing his elder brother, father of 2-month-old Prince George, of indulging in "baby chat" rather than sealing the deal. (AP Photo/Chris Jackson , Pool)
Britain's Prince Harry reacts after hitting a baseball during a visit to the Harlem RBI youth sports and school program in New York, Tuesday, May 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 15: Prince Harry, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge stand on the balcony at Buckingham Palace during the annual Trooping the Colour Ceremony on June 15, 2013 in London, England. Today's ceremony which marks the Queens official birthday will not be attended by Prince Philip the Duke of Edinburgh as he recuperates from abdominal surgery and will also be The Duchess of Cambridge's last public engagement before her baby is due to be born next month. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)
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Many families across the country are stuck in an unhealthy rut that they would love to change. In today's society, with the pressures of work, school, family and juggling everyday life, a person's health becomes last on their "checklist," leading them down a path of unhealthy living. In this new life-changing alternative series, Jillian Michaels, star of "The Biggest Loser," will provide a wake-up call for eight families across America and help them transform their lives inside and out.
Each week, Michaels, one of the leading health and wellness experts in the country, will use her characteristic brand of tough love and move in with one family for a week, giving them the necessary tools to reboot their lives and bring them back to a healthier lifestyle emotionally and physically. Michaels will get to the root of the issues each family member faces that affect their health and happiness. Over the course of one week, the family will be pushed outside of their comfort zones and introduced to new exercise and eating habits as they are tested through difficult challenges and dramatic confrontations. At the end of the week Michaels will give a customized plan and a set of goals, leaving the family on their own to put to practice what they have learned.
One final challenge remains, which will be a testament to their determination and cement their commitment to live happier, healthier lives. In an emotional and exciting reunion, Michaels returns a few months later to see how far they've come, and the families will reveal their new looks and share their accomplishments in front of their family and friends.
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Authorities in Orlando are working to notify the loved ones of victims in the
early Sunday that took the lives of at least 50 people, making it the deadliest shooting in American history.
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer tweeted that although the Pulse nightclub is still an active crime scene, "law enforcement is working the scene as efficiently and diligently as possible while being respectful to the remains of the deceased."
is being set up to identify victims after their families have been notified. So far the list includes 24 names:
Edward Sotomayor Jr., 34
Stanley Almodovar III, 23
Luis Omar Ocasio-Capo, 20
Juan Ramon Guerrero, 22
Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera, 36
Peter O. Gonzalez-Cruz, 22
Luis S. Vielma, 22
Eddie Jamoldroy Justice, 30
Darryl Roman Burt II, 29
Deonka Deidra Drayton, 32
Alejandro Barrios Martinez, 21
Anthony Luis Laureanodisla, 25
Jean Carlos Mendez Perez, 35
Franky Jimmy Dejesus Velazquez, 50
Martin Benitez Torres, 33
Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon, 37
Mercedez Marisol Flores, 26
Xavier Emmanuel Serrano Rosado, 35
Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez, 25
Simon Adrian Carrillo Fernandez, 31
Oscar A Aracena-Montero, 26
Enrique L. Rios, Jr., 25
The list online is being updated as authorities make contact with the victims' families.
Near the hospital in Orlando, family members and friends streamed onto the sidewalk, screaming and crying after learning their loved ones were killed in the attack. Family members and friends crumbled over themselves as they stepped outside and a grief counselor was seen comforting people. Hundreds of people had gathered to find out the status of their missing loved ones.
A mother screamed, "My baby. Oh god. Oh god. Why, why did he do this to you," as her husband rocked her.
According to families at the scene, they were given a list of everyone who was brought to the hospital and is safe. But many are still waiting word. One man says he was told he would not revive word on his cousins's status until tomorrow.Â
The families and loved ones tell PEOPLE they are upset with the way the notification process is being handled.
"They were the most un-empathetic people ever. They said if your family members not on the list then maybe hey they didn't make it. That is not the way to say that someone is dead. We can only think he might be dead we just don't know," Sarah Lopez tells PEOPLE as she waits for news on her brother Jimmy DeJesus, 51, a former professional dancer for Gibaro de Puerto Rico.
"What can we do? We pray. We hope. And we pray and we hope," she adds.
We are setting up a website. https://t.co/ITWG4Mihvq will be updated with the names of the deceased after the next of kin is notified. 7/11
Mayor Dyer also asked that anyone who may know a possible victim call a hotline at 407-246-4357.
A Facebook account apparently belonging to Almodovar was flooded with RIP messages from friends following the attack and his page was turned int a memorial. Sotomayor worked at ALand CHUCK.travel, a gay travel agency. (ALandCHUCK.travel did not immediately respond to a request for comment.)
Source: Stanley Manolo Almodovar III / Facebook
Source: Edward Sotomayor / Facebook
In a series of tweets, Mayor Dyer addressed the aftermath of the tragedy.
"Our community will be grieving together for the next days, weeks and months," he wrote. "We need to support each other, love each other and this will not define us but will bring us together."
Florida Governor Rick Scott asked the nation to pause for a moment of silence at 6 p.m. ET to remember victims.
I ask the nation to pause in a moment of silence at 6:00 PM this evening in honor of the victims of this horrific tragedy.
According to police, a single gunman opened fire just after 2 a.m. local time at Pulse, a popular gay club south of downtown Orlando. An officer working at the club initially responded to the shooter, "engaging in the gun battle with the suspect" before the suspect went back into the club, Orlando Police Chief John Mina said at a Sunday morning news conference.
The shooter held 30 people hostage for several hours. At 5 a.m., police moved in to rescue the hostages. More gunshots followed, and police also used explosives in an attempt to distract the suspect. Eventually, the gunman was shot and killed by police.
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(Originally published by the Daily News on Sept. 3, 1982. This story was written by Ernest Leogrande.)
What “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” has is an attractive, personable cast, a bunch of young actors who are very easy to like. What it doesn’t have is a clear point of view, something that would make it of more interest than leafing through a high school yearbook. Its final sequence, for instance, could just as easily come in the middle of the movie for all the relation it bears to what goes on before.
Writer Cameron Crowe went back to high school two years ago at age 22 to do research on what a new generation was doing and thinking. He enrolled as a senior and passed the age test. He did a novelization of his findings and then a screenplay from his book. The movie made from it has been directed by Amy Heckerling in her feature film directorial debut. Heckerling is Crowe’s senior but young enough to have her own clear memories of high school.
From the beginning, when the movie enters the world of a suburban shopping mall as its focal point, concentrating on the artifacts of teenage life, such as pizza, designer jeans and video games, it becomes apparent that this is a different film view of high school from today’s pattern. Drugs are so inconspicuous as to be almost invisible. More important, this is a student body with a work ethic.
Stacy (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and her best friend Linda (Phoebe Cates), work in a pizzeria. Stacy’s brother, Brad (Judge Reinhold), is a top employe in a fast-food franchise. Mark (Brian Backer) takes tickets at a movie theater and even Mike (Robert Romanus), the class sharpie, works as hard at his business of scalping concert tickets as the others do at their jobs.
The one idler, Spicoli (Sean Penn), a guy with a goofy grin who fantasizes about being a champion surfer with two bikinied girls, seems to have an understanding with the rest of the students that it’s his job to keep them entertained. Spicoli is depicted as a rebel, but he’s so easily cowed and influenced by the stiff-necked history teacher (Ray Walston) that it’s obvious he’s as dangerous as a Little Rascal.
Some untoward things do go on with the kids at Ridgemont High. There are pregnancy and an abortion clinic. Illusions are shattered and humiliations must be borne. Yet through all this, life is sweet and decent at its core. The times may be fast, in relative terms, but breakneck they’re not.
“You want romance in Ridgemont?” one of the cast comments. “We can’t even get cable TV here.” It’s a funny, cynical line, but the movie’s edges are mostly rounded, not cutting. It seems to waver indecisively between farce and documentary.
The sound track draws on a bright array of pop-rock music star, which gives the movie an extra spark, but the “American Graffiti”-style notes at the end on what happened to everyone afterward fall flat. Isn’t it time for a moratorium on these postscripts?
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Time Management Tips: 5 Simple Ways to Add 2 Hours to Your Day
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Of course, you cannot actually add more time to the 24-hour day or 168-hour week. But talk to productivity experts and highly productive sorts and you’ll find that a few techniques dwarf all others in terms of helping people spend more time on what matters and less on what doesn’t. If you free up two hours to spend on the good stuff, that’s the next best thing to manufacturing time. Here’s how to escape the ceaseless ticking.
Chris Bailey, author of The Productivity Project, spent a year test-driving productivity techniques on his blog, A Life of Productivity. He says that the best tactic he’s found for working intentionally is what he calls the Rule of 3. “At the start of the day, before you start working, you simply step back from your work and ask yourself: by the time the day is done, what three main things will I want to have accomplished?” Figuring out what’s most important keeps you from losing hours as you blindly respond to whatever comes in. It also encourages investing time in high-yield activities such as mentoring new employees.
By thinking through your days, you can also match the right kind of activity to the right time. Deep focused work is best done when you have a lot of energy. “People who are high achievers are ruthless schedulers,” says Wendy Murphy, an assistant professor at Babson College who teaches organizational behavior and management. “When are you most able to focus? Schedule the type of work you need to do during the times you have the most energy to do it.”
Between social media alerts, emails, and drive-by visits, people can be distracted dozens or more times per day. Since one study found that people take 25 minutes to resume interrupted tasks (after dabbling, on average, in more than 2 other “work spheres” in the meantime), pushing distractions to predictable times can easily save hours. “Schedule time in your calendar for email/social media or when you will have interruptions,” suggests Murphy. “For example, professors have ‘office hours’ when they expect to be regularly interrupted by students. Is there a time of day when you are regularly interrupted? Plan for it.”
You might also consider more radical solutions. One study found that people spend 47% of their time on the internet procrastinating (indeed, you may be procrastinating now!) That’s why Bailey says that “Whenever I hunker down to work on something important, I almost always disconnect from the internet.”
3. Don’t do what others can do (or that doesn’t need to be done).
If you’re in upper management, you can easily spend 50% of your day in meetings, which comes out to 4 (or more) hours a day. If 25% of those meetings didn’t need to happen—a conservative figure based on surveys, and how much people despise meetings generally—killing them would buy you an hour per day right there.
The problem is that it’s hard to rescue the time once a meeting starts, and many people are so busy going from meeting to meeting that they don’t triage their schedules ahead of time. The solution is getting in the habit, on Friday afternoons, of looking at your calendar for the next week and asking what can be skipped or killed. Five minutes can buy back hours.
You can also figure out what others can do, at work, and at home. If you spend a lot of time cleaning your house, hiring help or lowering your standards can easily save an hour a day. Indeed, you can outsource almost any personal task. Paula Rizzo, author of Listful Thinking, and a producer at Fox News Channel fox , uses Fancy Hands, a virtual assistant service, to free up time. “They make reservations for me, book cars to the airport, send gifts, do research on restaurants. I used them a lot when I planned a trip to Italy. I had them find me the best hotels and restaurants using TripAdvisor trip . That way having a narrowed down list was much easier to choose from—instead of ‘all the restaurants in Rome,’ I had a list of the top 5. I also use them for customer service stuff. When an order goes wrong or I need a refund they handle it for me. They can basically do any virtual task,” she says.
Chances are, the reason you want more hours in your day is that you’re too busy with work and family obligations to tackle your personal priorities. But most people, even busy professionals, have leisure time. The problem is that much of it occurs late at night when people are too tired to do anything but watch TV. The solution? Go to bed earlier, and wake up earlier. Most people feel more productive in the morning, so turning the TV off earlier turns unproductive evening hours into productive morning hours. Rather than spend an additional 90 minutes puttering around the house or watching Netflix at night, you wake up at 5:00 a.m. instead of 6:30 a.m. and have 30 minutes to exercise and an hour to work on your novel. Wake up early on weekends and you’ll add even more productive time to your days.
Of course, even without shifting your schedule, limiting TV (or streaming) time will add space to your life. The average American with a full-time job still manages to watch 1.79 hours of TV each weekday and 2.79 hours on Saturday and Sunday. Nix that and the time can be used for other things. One option: “Schedule time at least twice a week for contemplative reflection,” suggests Luke Anear, CEO of SafetyCulture, an app focused on workplace efficiency and safety. “This resets focus and provides space for intuition to rise to the surface. With a clear mind you can accomplish your work faster!”
To be sure, even in most information jobs, working from home daily won’t fly. But once or twice a week buys back massive time on those days. It’s not just the 50 minutes of average daily commuting telecommuters save on the days they work from home. Much of the time people clock getting ready in the morning is about getting out the door; about half of the 45 minutes the average person spends daily on personal care could be saved. Settling in at work takes time, as does going to a coffee shop on the way in or to a cafeteria or restaurant for lunch. Many people make stops on the drive home that may not be necessary. Chop the 45 minutes the average person spends daily on “purchasing goods and services” in half and you’re close to the 2-hour mark already, to say nothing of reduced interruptions.
Laura Vanderkam is the author of I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make The Most Of Their Time (Portfolio), a book based on time diaries of 1001 days in the lives of professional women and their families.
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Facebook is out with its annual roundup of the year’s top Facebook games, with one game taking the ultimate crown.
Cookie Jam, a matching game launched by SGN last May, “swept all others” to become Facebook’s Game of the Year, the company announced Tuesday on its blog. While only one game could claim the biggest title, Facebook also identified some stand-outs from the year, including a new Candy Crush game and Kim Kardashian: Hollywood.
These are Facebook’s best new games of 2014:
These are the Facebook staff’s favorite games of 2014:
Check out the rest of Facebook’s top games on their blog.
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Move over, HBO. Netflix claims that it hosts the most-watched show not on network television, beating out top-ranked cable series Game of Thrones.
The streaming service has been notoriously secretive about its viewership numbers, and chief creative officer Ted Sarandos continued coyly avoid the subject Monday during the UBS Global Media Conference, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Though shows like Orange Is the New Black, House of Cards, Master of None and Jessica Jones have earned critical raves and Internet buzz, Netflix has never confirmed exactly how many people are actually watching these shows.
But when the moderator at a conference panel asked Sarandos if he was happy with the fact that a recent survey showed Netflix would have the second-biggest show on cable if its viewers were traditionally measured—right behind Thrones—Sarandos evasively asserted that internal research suggests a Netflix show would actually take that number one slot.
MORE: Jessica Jones Is Marvel’s Most Nuanced Heroine Yet
“We’re pleased to take the number two spot, but think it’s number one because they don’t measure all the devices,” he said. He went on to provide anecdotal evidence of Netflix’s popularity. He said that Aziz Ansari, star and co-writer of Netflix comedy Master of None, hasn’t been able to walk down the streets of New York City since the show premiered, even though he was able to do so anonymously for six years while starring on network comedy Parks and Recreation.
It’s anyone’s guess as to whether Netflix shows like Narcos and Daredevil lure more viewers than the most popular cable shows. But Netflix is doubling down on whatever success it has had with 31 new television projects scheduled to drop next year, almost double the number the company produced in 2015. Some of the most buzzed-about shows include Marvel’s Luke Cage, Full House reboot Fuller House, an adaptation of Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events and a Judd Apatow-produced dramedy Love.
Netflix is also churning out more documentaries, comedy specials and films. Following the October release of its first original movie Beasts of No Nation—which has generated Oscar buzz for star Idris Elba and director Cary Fukunaga—Netflix is working on 10 different films for 2016. Among them are a Brad Pitt vehicle and an hour-long series about the birth of hip-hop from Baz Luhrman.
MORE: Cary Fukunaga on the Extreme Violence in Beasts of No Nation
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On Tuesday night, during a dinner conversation about the growth of Facebook and the potential of Twitter, I tossed out a phrase that I can”t get out of my head these past three days at Fortune Brainstorm Tech in California. The conversation was with a dozen or so Silicon Valley execs, from companies like Google and eBay and Palm , and they were noting that Twitter hasn’t invested much in talent–given its global prominence as a communications platform and its need to become a sustainable profit-making company.
So what, it doesn’t matter, said one smart executive at the dinner, contending that “virality” will propel Twitter’s success, at least for a while. “Virality is virility,” I replied.
These last three days have fortified the truth of that statement. Facebook is worth billions of dollars–to private investors–not because of its revenues, which are far from Fortune 500-sized, but because it just surpassed 250 million active users. That’s right, 250 million people use Facebook every month. The social network has gathered 50 million mobile users–particularly valuable because, as a Facebook exec told me yesterday, dual users (who use Facebook on both computer and mobile device) spend twice as much time on the site as single-platform users.
Virality is virility. Yesterday, I wrote about Gina Bianchini, the CEO of Ning, a two-year-old company that helps people build their own social networks–mini-Facebooks, if you will. Word-of-mouth promotion has enabled Ning to collect 29.3 million users and a $750 million valuation. With virality, by the way, comes a need for flexibility–to rapidly respond to customer needs. Ning is launching a gifting service this fall because users told her, “We want this,” Bianchini says. “It’s a co-creation process.”
As for Twitter, we’ll see how its virality pays off long term. Yesterday at Brainstorm, we heard from co-founder Biz Stone, who said that they’ve chosen to stay small–55 employees currently–until they figure out who they want to be. He and co-founder Evan Williams, Twitter’s CEO, don’t even have a sales team. “What are we going to do–stop working on keeping the site up for these three guys to start selling ads?” Stone said. Even without anyone out there selling ads, he said, “the plan is to show some signs of life” this year. Signs of life? That means revenues.
Until those revenues arrive, along with a foreseeable path to profitability, Twitter’s virility–its power and fame and ability to attract capital–will be about virality. Speaking of that, before Brainstorm Tech ended today, my boss, Fortune managing editor Andy Serwer, interviewed Ashton Kutcher, the king of Tweeters, on stage. The hunky actor, who has 2.9 million followers, said, “I shut down a website everyday because I send too much traffic from my Twitter feed.”
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Porn star James Deen pushed back hard Thursday against accusations that he had put his performers at risk.
The embattled adult film actor, whose company James Deen Productions was fined $77,875 by California regulators for allegedly violating condom and safety laws, “vigorously denies” that he failed to provide workers with condoms and proper vaccinations.
“I gave the performers the option to perform with condoms however, they desired not to use condoms and I honored their requests,” Deen said in a statement obtained by the Daily News.
The 30-year-old hammered home that most of the fines leveraged against him were for “potential exposure, not actual injuries.”
“At no point was any adult performer exposed to any disease while working for James Deen Productions,” he said. “At no time did any performer contract any illness or suffer any injury while working for James Deen Productions.”
PORN STAR JAMES DEEN REFUTES SEX ASSAULT ACCUSATIONS
Deen also seemed to imply he’d been unfairly targeted, citing a San Diego workplace explosion that injured four employees and incurred only a $58,000 citation.
“The fines presented against my company are significantly higher and not one person was exposed to or contracted any illness on my sets,” he said.
Cal/OSHA investigators nailed Deen’s company with nine violations, four of which were deemed “serious,” the California Department of Industrial Relations announced Wednesday.
After a complaint aroused officials' suspicion, they allegedly found during a Jan. 12 film shoot visit that producers had failed to protect actors with condom use, as well as vaccination and follow-up exams for those who might be exposed to hepatitis B.
Los Angeles County requires adult film actors to wear a condom at work.
Deen, hoping for a happy ending, has 15 working days to file an appeal, reports The Wrap.
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The killing of 10 people at a small community college campus in Oregon on Thursday delivered a painful reminder across the U.S. of the unnerving prevalence of gun violence in educational settings.
Since the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut, where a gunman killed 20 children and six staff members, there have been 142 school shootings in the U.S. That’s equal to a rate of one per week. Of those incidents, 62 took place on college campuses, including Thursday’s shooting at Umpqua Community College in southwest Oregon.
While details are still developing about how the gunman at Umpqua—who was one of the 10 killed—planned and executed his assault, one that’s emerged is that when he entered the college campus armed with six guns, it was within his legal rights to do so.
Oregon law allows the carrying of concealed weapons on public college campuses. That law is the result of a court decision in 2011 that kept public colleges from banning firearms on campus. Public schools can bar guns from specific settings—classrooms, dormitories, and sports stadiums—but not from the campus outright.
Oregon’s leniency toward guns on campus is relatively unique in the U.S. All but nine states either ban carrying a concealed weapon on a college campus or leave the decision to bar or allow on-campus firearms to the college or university, according to data collected by The Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus, a group that aims to disarm schools.
Oregon—along with Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Mississippi, Oregon, Utah, Texas, and Wisconsin—have provisions that allow the carrying of concealed weapons on public campuses. And this year, lawmakers in several states launched multiple efforts to follow suit.
In 2015, legislators in 15 states introduced 22 bills that called for a loosening of gun restrictions on college campuses, according to The Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus. By comparison, there was just one bill introduced that would make it tougher to carry a firearm on a college campus. The measure, introduced in California, would prohibit any concealed carry permit holder from bringing a weapon on a public or private college campus without permission from campus officials. It passed both houses of the state legislature and was submitted to Governor Jerry Brown for signature in early September.
The pro-gun bills that state legislatures considered this year are indicative of a push by the gun lobby to open up another market of potential gun owners—college students. That’s very appealing to the industry’s biggest lobbying group, the National Rifle Association, and gun manufacturers, says Lindsay Nichols, a senior attorney at the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
The NRA did not return Fortune‘s request for comment.
Despite the push for looser on-campus gun laws, all but one of the 22 pro-gun measures met defeat. Nichols says that’s attributable to “common sense that college campuses are not good places for guns” due to their “enclosed spaces” and populations of young people who are prone to using drugs and alcohol.
The one victory pro-gun advocates had was a sizable one. Texas became one of the nine states to allow firearms on college campuses in June when Governor Greg Abbott signed a “campus carry” law, which allows gun license holders to carry concealed handguns on public college campuses. Top universities in the state came out against the law, and opponents were able to secure some caveats. University presidents will be able to designate “gun-free zones,” but they can’t ban handguns on entire campuses.
Oregon’s law allowing firearms on campuses has faced its own challenges. A proposal to prohibit guns on school campuses was introduced in 2012, but it failed to pass the state Senate. (The following day, the state’s board of higher education adopted a policy that bans guns from some areas of campus—classrooms, dormitories, sporting arenas—at the state’s seven universities—but the measure doesn’t keep someone with a concealed weapon permit from walking across a state university campus with a gun.)
When the effort to ban firearms on Oregon campuses failed in 2012, State Senator Jeff Kruse, a Republican from Roseburg, where Umpqua Community College is located, acknowledged that violence in schools is an issue but said that the measure was “purely” political. He characterized the bill as a “solution in search of a problem.”
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They named her Amazing Grace for good reason. In the aquamarine waters of Laguna San Ignacio off Mexico's west coast, this bold grey whale sidled up to the research vessel and began pushing the boat along like a rubber duck.
The female behemoth, with a distinctive long scar on her nose, "was the first friendly whale we ever experienced", says researcher Steven Swartz.
For obvious reaons, whales had learned to fear humans
It was 1977, and Swartz had arrived in Baja Mexico months earlier to study the lives of these wintering grey whales. "It bumped and raised our boat, pushing us from side to side." Gracie even allowed the researchers to pet her.
At that time, a whale getting friendly with humans "was a very rare event", Swartz explains. For obvious reasons, whales had learned to fear humans – whaling boats had been common for decades. Gracie was the exception to the rule.
But by 1982, friendly whale encounters had become more common and they remain so today. Now, Swartz estimates that at any one time, about 80-90% of the whales he studies are not in the least bothered by boats – and a few are comfortable enough to come up and explore or even follow boats around. "Sometimes they don't come close," he says, "but they'll just be right behind you all the time."
As whalers have largely given way to whale-watching tourists, the fear some whales once associated with humans seems to have been replaced by curiosity. But as we learn more about whales and dolphins, some researchers have begun asking a new question: is whale-watching really as benign as it seems?
The Amazing Grace experience may have been the first "friendly" whale encounter in Laguna San Ignacio documented by a scientist, but the locals had experienced similar interactions before. Known locally as "the chosen one", fisherman Don Pachico Mayoral had his own story of a friendly whale encounter.
Reaching out, the fisherman nervously touched it with his hand
In the winter of 1972, Pachico and a partner had been fishing from their 18-foot (5.5m) wooden panga when a grey whale twice the size of their boat approached. Fearing for their lives, the two fishermen tried to get away.
Pachico had good reason to be concerned. Over centuries of whaling, grey whales had earned the nickname of "devilfish" for their habit of fighting back against the whalers. Sometimes the whalers were the ones that got killed.
Each time Pachico changed the boat's direction, the whale would follow: the two men prepared for the worst. But then something surprising happened. Rubbing itself gently against the panga, the grey beast raised its head out of the water right beside Pachico.
Reaching out, the fisherman nervously touched it with his hand. To his surprise, the whale didn't back away. It moved even closer, as if to encourage the intimacy. It was an experience that was to change local attitudes towards whales forever.
"Unfortunately we lost Pachico a few years ago but his family is still there, running an ecotourism business," says Swartz. Theirs is one of many whale-watching businesses in the region. Now the wintering grey whales are hunted by cameras, not harpoons.
Grey whales had earned the nickname of "devilfish" for their habit of fighting back against the whalers
In the 80 years since the first moves to protect whales from commercial whaling, these devilfish are losing their bad reputation.
But it is up for debate whether the whales would agree that humans, too, have lost their bad reputation.
For instance, when whale watching first began in Baja Mexico in the 1970s, "there were no guidelines", explains Swartz. That meant whales were sometimes chased and harassed by high-speed boats packed with tourists.
Today, whale watching in Laguna San Ignacio is closely regulated. This whale habitat is part of a United Nations World Heritage Site and Mexico's El Vizcaino Biosphere Reserve.
A whale sheriff carefully monitors traffic in the lagoon, making sure there are not too many boats present at any one time. They must also stay within specific zones, observe 90-minute time limits, and not purposely approach the whales. The region is an example of well-regulated whale tourism.
However, there are still plenty of places around the world where marine mammal watching is regulated poorly – or not at all.
The impacts of marine wildlife tourism on the creatures being watched has long intrigued David Lusseau. As a teenager learning to dive on the French coast of the Mediterranean, Lusseau was intrigued by one lone dolphin that would spend time with the divers.
Boats seem to be perceived in the same way across many species: as a risk
"That individual seemed to change his behaviour a lot depending on how people behaved around it." When the dolphin came into the bay, people would rush to the water to try to touch it and jump on it. "It just seemed wrong," he says, "because the animal would become quite distressed, and tried to get away."
In many cases it had to fight its way out.
Yet around divers further out to sea, the same dolphin was calm and curious. "He would actually follow you underwater," Lusseau recalls. That observation, he says, "tickled my interest".
Lusseau's fascination with dolphin behaviour stuck with him. His doctoral work involved studying the effects of tourism on the critically endangered population of bottlenose dolphins in Fiordland, New Zealand. Continuing his work at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, he has recently looked at how a range of marine mammals, including both whales and dolphins, behave in the presence of wildlife-watching boats.
He and colleagues have found that boats seem to be perceived in the same way across many species: as a risk.
There is plenty of evidence that whales and dolphins respond to boats as they would to a predator.
Many cetaceans – whales, dolphins and porpoises – spend more time underwater in the presence of boats. Lusseau's work on bottlenose dolphins in Doubtful Sound, New Zealand, revealed that these animals sometimes react to boats even before they can see them.
They abandon the fjord where tourism exposure occurs
In places where the number of whale-watching boats is small, and whales range over large distances, the effects of whale watching can be small.
Lusseau and colleagues studied this in minke whales in Faxafloi Bay, Iceland, where whale exposure to whale watching is relatively low. Here at least, whale watching appears to have insignificant effects on their feeding and other activities, which is good news for the long-term survival of the whale population.
But for the dolphins of Fiordland, New Zealand, the same cannot be said.
Once the level of tourism is high, "they abandon the fjord where tourism exposure occurs", says Lusseau.
Swimming alongside boats can save them energy – like slipstreaming
His work suggests that where these animals cannot avoid high levels of tourism, it takes a toll on their babies. Lusseau has found that as tourism volume increases, dolphin feeding efficiency declines, reducing their energy intake.
"The energy they would divert into making milk seems to be reabsorbed into maintaining survival probability for the female," he explains. In these high-tourism conditions, "we see the survival probability over the first year of life of a calf drop from around 86% to around 38%, which is a huge impact", he says.
These animals are long-lived, slow-reproducing species, says Lusseau, which means that theoretically at least, it is cheaper over their lifespan to avoid risk when possible. But some individuals clearly do take risks. Why do certain individuals approach boats?
We do not know for sure why Amazing Grace and her friends do so. But as far as smaller animals like dolphins and porpoises are concerned, swimming alongside boats can save them energy – like slipstreaming.
Even the skipper on the top deck of the 50-passenger boat could feel the vibration
Hitching a ride is a means to reduce the cost of transport on long voyages, Lusseau explains. "What we see a lot is teenagers doing what teenagers do in all long-lived species: they take risks," he says. It is often the youngsters that bow-ride and zigzag in front of boats, he has discovered.
Rarely, dolphins even ram boats. That is something Lusseau has observed only once, 13 years ago.
The day after a New Zealand tour boat ran over and killed an adult male dolphin with its propellers, two of the dead male's associates "swam as fast as I've ever seen an animal swim in the water without porpoising, and just rammed the boat".
Even the skipper on the top deck of the 50-passenger boat could feel the vibration, while Lusseau observed the whole thing from his own research vessel.
Putu Mustika, an adjunct researcher at James Cook University in Australia, and co-founder of the non-profit Cetacean Sirenia Indonesia, has also been exploring how dolphins react to being closely watched by humans in boats. It is a research area she was alerted to by journalists concerned by the practice of boats chasing dolphins.
Often these speedy tour boats herd and divide up social groups of dolphins, like marine sheepdogs
For the spinner dolphins she studies in Lovina, North Bali, there is, as yet, no formal protocol for marine mammal watching. As a result, it is not uncommon for there to be more dolphin-watching boats than dolphins.
"In peak season, there might be 80 boats around the dolphin, and other times, 30 to 40," she says.
So while those on boats watched the dolphins, Mustika watched the boats, recording human behaviour as well as the response of the dolphins. She also surveyed the attitudes of the boat operators, who claimed, anecdotally, that the number of dolphins in the region has declined since dolphin tourism began.
Often these speedy tour boats herd and divide up social groups of dolphins, like marine sheepdogs. Yet tourist satisfaction, she found in her surveys, was highly influenced by boat speed.
Peak resting time is 10:00 to 14:00, making it "peak human time" too
"Of course they want to see a lot of dolphins, but what is more important is that they see them without them being harassed," says Mustika, explaining that many of these tourists are highly educated Westerners, who find wildlife harassment repugnant.
As yet, her research has not translated into guidelines, though many of the tour boat operators have agreed to keep their distance and reduce their speed. There is an emerging understanding that without respect for the dolphins, "you won't be able to see them anymore", she explains.
Most of the tourism operators are fishers by trade, but 40% of their income comes from this sideline business. That means that if the dolphins disappear, so too does this source of income.
Tourism experience versus dolphin well-being is also a problem off the beautiful beaches of Hawaii, where Heather Heenehan is studying the tricky conflict between humans and spinner dolphins for her doctoral research at Duke University.
The Hawaiian spinner dolphin, so named because of its unusual aerial acrobatics, feeds offshore at night, hunting for fish, shrimp, and squid. Working together in groups to corral their prey, they hunt about 11 hours each night "to get enough energy to do what spinner dolphins need to do", she says.
It is difficult to know whether the decline in whaling has emboldened whales to be more curious about us
During the day, spinner dolphins come into shallow, sandy bays to rest. Peak resting time is 10:00 to 14:00, says Heenahan, making it "peak human time" too.
Resting dolphins do not look like resting humans. They do not lie in bed or shut the bedroom door. During rest, they are still swimming around, making it easy for swimming, snorkelling, and paddle-boarding tourists to mistake dolphin naptime for playtime.
There is also "a large industry dedicated to interacting with and swimming with these dolphins at a critical time", says Heenehan. That, she says, makes it a bit like "a party in their bedroom every night".
For that reason, she is part of a research collaboration studying spinner dolphin activity and acoustic communication patterns, in the hopes of uncovering solutions that work for both dolphins and humans.
There's really no data on whale behaviour before whaling
Whether this daily disturbance is having a long-term impact on this Hawaiian spinner dolphin population remains to be determined. But it is one of the many examples leading wildlife tourism researchers, including Lusseau, to conclude that we need a more precautionary approach to watching marine life like whales and dolphins.
Beyond the unusual friendly encounters at Laguna San Ignacio, it is difficult to know whether the decline in whaling has emboldened whales to be more curious about us.
How whales behaved around humans before we began whaling is a bit of a mystery, explains Christine Gabriele, a humpback whale researcher with Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska. Aside from tales like that of the devilfish, "there's really no data on whale behaviour before whaling".
We just do not know whether they approached vessels or not, she explains. "On an evolutionary time scale, whales had no experience and no opportunity to adapt to something as big and fast as a modern ship."
In many parts of the world, our relationship with cetaceans has changed dramatically since the days when our main goal was to kill them. As our knowledge grows about how prying human eyes impact their lives, we still have much to learn about the art of benign and respectful observation.
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Pasquale Chimento of 21 Ridge Road, Tenafly, N. J., president of the P. Chimento Company and a prominent figure in terminal development here, died Tuesday at Lenox Hill Hospital of a heart attack. He was 47 years old.
Mr. Chimento, who was known as Pat Chimento, was widely known as an expert on cartage in this area. He had served as cartage agent here for Kramer‐Consolidated Freight Line Lines, Inc., of Detroit; John Motor Lines, Inc., of Charlotte, N. C, and the Middle Atlantic Transportation Company, Inc., of New Britain, Conn. He also operated local truck fleets for J. J. Newberry Company and the II. S. Hoffman Can Corporation.
Survivors include his widow, Carolyn; three sons, John, Robert and Pasquale Jr., all of Tenafly; a brother, John, of Norwood, N. J.; a sister, Miss Louise Chimento, and his mother, Mrs. John Chimento, both of Brooklyn.
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Günter Seeger is an unusual chef. His first restaurant job wasn’t in the kitchen but behind the bar. He rose to fame not in New York but in Atlanta, where his restaurant, Seeger’s, was one of the most acclaimed for many years.
And Mr. Seeger is as passionate about wine as he is about food—he has probably nurtured the careers of just as many sommeliers as he has chefs. But perhaps most striking of all is that the 66-year-old Mr. Seeger just opened his first Manhattan restaurant, Günter Seeger NY, a few weeks ago.
Why did the famed chef finally take a flier on Gotham? I asked.
“New York is the great food city of the U.S.,” replied Mr. Seeger. “It’s where the great restaurants are located.”
I had arranged to sit down with Mr. Seeger and the restaurant’s sommelier, Sabra Lewis, to discuss the wine list—a joint project between the two—and how the wine list matched his eight-to-10 course $185 prix fixe tasting menu.
Although the 36-year-old Ms. Lewis runs the wine program and works the floor of the West Village restaurant, Mr. Seeger had a good bit of input on the wine list as well. For example, the chef wanted wines from regions all over his native Germany. He had an ideal list length as well: one page. Indeed, all of the 115 or so bottles are on the two sides of a parchment-colored piece of paper, noted Ms. Lewis, as she held a copy aloft. There are, however, wines that are in the cellar but not on the list.
“In the past, we had a 100-page wine list. It just doesn’t fit into the new business model,” said Mr. Seeger, adding he thought if the list was longer than a page it would be “overwhelming.” The list features an extensive offering of German Rieslings, mostly from recent vintages, although there are quite a few less-usual German wines, too, including Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Gris and Pinot Noir. “I want to really represent Germany wine—to tell the story of German wine as a whole,” explained Mr. Seeger.
But as Ms. Lewis was quick to point out, the list includes wines from other parts of the world—especially France—and a smattering of American wines. But she did like to take the opportunity to introduce diners to German wines—not only because they were likely to be less familiar with German wines but because they matched the chef’s food so well.
The list prices are rather high, I remarked, but Mr. Seeger explained they include the tip—a practice he believes will be adopted by more and more restaurants in the city. In fact, Mr. Seeger said this “hospitality-included” pricing will become the norm of upscale restaurants like his. (Not a fan of the practice, I told him that I hoped it wouldn’t.)
Guests can choose from the list or opt for the wine pairing ($150), which includes from six to nine wines. But Ms. Lewis and Mr. Seeger would like to cultivate repeat customers. “We’d like to get to the point where you don’t even have to order,” he said.
In fact, the dining room—a compact arrangement of 34 comfortable chairs—is designed to resemble someone’s rather-upscale home. The exception may be the large bench in the back, a communal dining experience for customers who want an up-close view of the kitchen and don’t mind sitting unsupported for several hours.
Was Mr. Seeger nervous about his odds of success in such a competitive environment?
If he was, he certainly wasn’t letting on. “Expectations are high,” Mr. Seeger conceded. And he has a young team—in the kitchen as well as on the floor—that needs some experience or as he called it “field training.” And then, sounding every bit like a native New Yorker, Mr. Seeger added, “The game is on—let’s go!”
Write to Lettie Teague at lettie.teague@wsj.com
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The SVU team sits in surveillance vans, staking out a downtown brothel, while Carisi poses as a john inside. He's been waiting for his date for a while, but one of the madams, Martha, assures him a delivery of young girls is on the way. Just then a minivan arrives and scantily clad girls climb out, led by a woman SVU knows well: Selena Cruz, the trafficker Benson reunited with her son in the Season 16 premiere. Looks like she's back to her old tricks...
SVU busts the brothel, including Selena, Carisi and Martha, taking everyone into the station. Martha pulls Benson aside and tells her she's undercover - she's not with any agency, but the ring has her daughter Ariel, who was kidnapped three years ago. Benson is skeptical, so Martha takes her to her apartment, where the walls are covered in a compilation of photos, newspaper clippings, maps and scrawls detailing Martha's hunt for her missing daughter. Ariel was supposed to be in the delivery of girls that night, but Ariel's pimp, Timmer, held back two girls for disciplining. Despite Martha's story, Barba still wants to prosecute her. Martha pleads with Barba that she's not a criminal. She's personally bought and sent home half a dozen girls saving them from the sex trade. She was going to buy Ariel that night. Benson and Barba promise they'll do their best to find Ariel, but they're going to need Martha's cooperation.
The detectives try to get the other prostitutes to give them info on Ariel, but nobody will talk, including Selena - not even when Amaro informs her Child Services took her son. Later, Selena has a change of heart and wants to see her son again. She gives SVU the address of a party house in Queens, which Martha recognizes. She knows the madam, Tracy. SVU stakes out the place and sees Timmer bringing in three girls, but no Ariel. When Timmer leaves, the detectives spot a beer delivery truck and bust the driver, Tommy, for illegal distribution of alcohol to a residence.
Super Bowl Sunday is the next day, and there's sure to be a big party at the Queens house. Tommy informs them it's a high-class event featuring the best girls and the richest clients. The detectives decide to take advantage of this, putting surveillance on the house while Amaro takes Tommy's truck and poses as the beer delivery guy. As soon as he's inside, the rest of the team bursts in and takes over the house. Benson explains to Tracy that she needs to go along with the party as planned, and when SVU makes the bust, she'll have to pretend she's busted, too - and she better make it look good. Benson then shows Tracy Ariel's photo and demands she make a special request for her. Looks like the detectives are going undercover...
The next day, the party goes on as scheduled, with Benson decked out in her finest madam-wear, posing as Tracy's sister-in-law, Carisi playing a rich john and Fin as a pimp. From the surveillance van outside, Martha is starting to worry - she doesn't see Ariel anywhere. Inside, Carisi starts to get agitated - where's his sexy ice bunny?! Just then, a car pulls up and a mystery pimp steps out. Tracy says it's The Bishop, but he's alone - Timmer must have called him looking for Ariel. This can't be good.
The Bishop storms in, yelling for Timmer to explain who Benson and Fin are. When Benson turns around to answer, she's shocked to see The Bishop is none other than Declan Murphy, SVU's former chief, now deep undercover. When Carisi, who doesn't know who Murphy is, starts mouthing off, The Bishop pistol-whips him in the head, knocking him down. Suddenly, Benson pulls out her gun, points it at Murphy and tells him to drop the gun. After a short standoff, the rest of the SVU squad bursts in the door and busts the whole party, including Benson, Fin and Carisi.
Back at the station, Murphy blows up at Benson and Fin for ruining his undercover mission. Benson explains to him they're looking for Ariel, but he has bigger priorities, specifically taking down a major trafficker, Johnny D. He does admit he knows Ariel, but she's damaged goods since Timmer beat her up before selling her to Johnny D. He doesn't know where Johnny D. keeps his girls and refuses to jeopardize his cover by asking to buy Ariel from him. It's too late for Ariel - she's too broken.
Rollins tries talking to one of the girls, Nina, whom Martha says knows Ariel. Nina is terrified but admits Martha was supposed to buy her and Ariel until Timmer walked in on Ariel on the phone with her and beat her till she blacked out. Nina won't say anything else - she doesn't want to end up like Ariel. Martha watches the interrogation, devastated that she almost got her daughter killed.
Rollins and Fin then tackle Timmer, bluffing that they've been onto him for a year, embedding Selena and Martha just to get to him. But they're going to release him and The Bishop because they didn't have a search warrant. That doesn’t mean Timmer's in the clear, though, because both The Bishop and Johnny D. think Timmer set them up and they'll surely be out for blood. Timmer's a dead man... unless he helps SVU find Ariel...
SVU and ESU storm a shady converted space, finding a number of half-naked battered women chained to the walls, surrounded by syringes and drugs. After pushing through various rooms, they find Johnny D. using Ariel as a shield, a piece of glass held to her neck. Benson takes him down and rescues Ariel, who is finally reunited with her mother. Back at the station, Murphy congratulates the team for nabbing Johnny D., but warns them not to turn their backs on him. He's trafficked girls for 20 years and has never been arrested. Rollins asks if, now that Johnny is facing life in prison, Murphy can return to normal life, but it's not that easy. Johnny D. was the kingpin, and The Bishop is heir apparent.
That night, Benson is home reading to Noah when the doorbell rings. It's M.E. Melinda Warner with some big news - off-the-book news. She ran Johnny D.'s DNA when it went through the system and found a familial match in an unrelated case. He never needs to know, but Benson does. Johnny D. is Noah's father.
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In the wake of last night’s mass shooting in Orlando, tech leaders have begun to weigh in with both expressions of sympathy, and political reactions.
Twitter TWTR has become a hub for dialogue about the shootings, but CEO Jack Dorsey has not yet personally commented—instead retweeting messages, including this one from a group of Twitter’s LGBTQ employees.
Our hearts are with Orlando and everyone impacted. Continue sharing love, even when darkness tries to put out our light. #LoveIsLove
— TwitterOpen (@TwitterOpen) June 12, 2016
Some, like Apple’s Tim Cook, limited their comments to expressions of condolence.
Our hearts go out to the victims of the unspeakable tragedy in #Orlando, their families and all who grieve with them.
— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) June 12, 2016
Facebook leaders Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg both shared in the nation’s shock, while more directly expressing support for the gay community.
Sandberg’s Lean In organization likewise tweeted support for the LGBTQ community.
So did legendary VC Marc Andreessen.
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T-Mobile’s John Legere shared his heartache—and cancelled his fairly odd Sunday cooking ritual.
What occurred last night in Orlando is horrific & saddening. The victims & their families/friends deserve all our thoughts & prayers today.
— John Legere (@JohnLegere) June 12, 2016
Canceling #SlowCookerSunday for today. I can't do it on a day like today. It's a day to pray & be w/ your families, friends and communities.
— John Legere (@JohnLegere) June 12, 2016
Perhaps most dramatically, venture capitalist and Twitter frenemy Chris Sacca has issued a stream of tweets and retweets in favor of more gun control.
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WASHINGTON — Bernie Sanders will meet with Hillary Clinton Tuesday and intends to press the presumptive Democratic nominee to adopt a progressive platform of free college tuition, universal health care, tackling climate change and new taxes on Wall Street and billionaires, the Vermont senator said Sunday.
Sanders signaled in two interviews that he’s winding down his Democratic presidential bid, but will be urging Clinton to adopt many of his signature issues.
“I simply want to get a sense of what kind of platform she will be supporting,” he told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “And after we have that kind of discussion and after we can determine whether or not we are going to have a strong and progressive platform, I will be able to make other decisions.”
Clinton has already clinched the number of delegates needed to win the nomination. The primary season will end Tuesday, when the District of Columbia holds the final ballot.
Green Party candidate Jill Stein is recruiting Sanders’ backers — including many young voters and independents. And Sanders on Sunday doubted whether Clinton can carry on his legacy.
“I don’t think Hillary Clinton can lead a political revolution, but I think if Hillary Clinton is smart — and she certainly is smart — she will understand that good public policy, taking on the big-money interests . . . is, in fact, good politics,” he told ABC’s “This Week.”
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Microsoft has a new video game console that it hopes will win the hearts of gamers.
The new Xbox One S is essentially a smaller version of Microsoft’s Xbox One Console, Microsoft said on Monday in Los Angeles during the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3.
The device, which costs $300, will be available in August. Microsoft msft said it is 40% smaller than the Xbox One console and will support high resolution technologies like 4K video and high-dynamic-range imaging.
The Xbox One S will also have a new controller, Bluetooth support, and have a greater wireless range than current Xbox controllers.
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Additionally, Microsoft said that it has a new feature called Xbox Play Anywhere that will let gamers play a limited number of video games on both Microsoft video game consoles and the Windows 10 operating system.
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Rod Fergusson, Studio head of Coalition Studio, a Microsoft owned video game development company, told the audience that video gamers can use Xbox Play Anywhere to buy video games online and have the option of either playing it on one’s Microsoft gaming console of a personal computer with Windows 10 installed.
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We got the NFL star's mom, Beverly, and his brother, Branton, out in L.A. -- where his mother is trying to launch her acting career ... and they couldn't have been nicer.
Turns out, they're really big fans of NBA star Nate Robinson -- a Seattle native -- and hope his tryout with the Seahawks went well.
As we previously reported, Nate -- who played college football at the Univ. of Washington -- worked out with the team and is hoping to land a spot as a defensive back.
"He'll be a good addition to the L.O.B." Branton said.
They also raved about Russell Wilson and Ciara -- and while they haven't been invited to the wedding, they LOVE the couple and wish them nothing but the best.
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The must-have piece every home should have
There's a whole lot of pretty in this shot, but these masterfully detailed linen poufs definitely steal the show. The effect of the cream-colored rope trim paired with dyed tibetan lamb's wool tassels is anything but humdrum, and the poufs are just as engaging as the conversation you'll be having over those cocktails with future guests.
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A living room quickly transforms into a welcoming bohemian haven with floor poufs and cushions in varying textures and colors. Allow for storage that's easy on the eye by placing them under a coffee table with clean lines
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Incredibly versatile, garden stools are the furniture accents that will never break the bank. Choose from an array of styles (think high gloss ceramic, weathered porcelain or mixed metals) to compliment your space, and utilize having a bit more surface area for any additional decor and your glass of vino.
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Glowing brass craftsmanship and bold upholstery make these x benches the perfect statement in the living room. They beg to be used as seats, occasional tables or footrests.
A tufted ottoman is temptingly tactile, and serves as a more intimate and inviting piece than a coffee table. Consider a contrasting color to avoid a matchy-matchy room.
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Fur stools are just as interesting as they are soft. Put the pair under an acrylic or lucite coffee table and voila; you have a stylish and practical set of seats waiting to be put to use.
Here, a natural rattan ottoman plays perfectly alongside a cool marble coffee table. The counterpoint of textures masterfully enhances the room's overall aesthetic. And with a stack of books and a small vignette, the ottoman is just as functional as it is stylish.
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Ottomans, poufs and garden stools are quite the rage among design influencers, and for good reason. It can be agreed that these small-scale decor accents effortlessly build visual interest in any room, and with obtainable price tags, they're nestling into warm, inviting living spaces everywhere. The possibilities are truly endless in a myriad of colors, shapes, sizes and textures as they offer added surface area for styled vignettes and additional, unexpected seating. But maybe the greatest part about it all? You can transition the piece to another room when you're craving an easy refresh. And since we're always looking for pieces that are just as stylish as they are functional, decorative ottomans, floor poufs and stools quickly earn a spot at the top of all of our home decor wish lists. These small-scale design accents aren't necessarily new to our scene. As you may remember, the two Cecil poufs spotted in MKR's One Room Challenge 2015 final reveal (pictured above) really stole the show, and proved that floor poufs pack a punch that's anything but small. Once considered mostly a bohemian decor accent, floor poufs and the like can now be found in many contemporary rooms with smart details and styles that are anything but beatnik. What do you think about incorporating these imaginative pieces in your home? Quite the perfect way to feather your nest, don't you think? Click through the slideshow above to find design and styling inspiration, along with our favorite finds! Cheers, Kat
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Porsche has been making 911s since 1963. So a new one is no big deal.
And outwardly the 2017 is just last year's model with a new paint job.
But inwardly this is a dramatically different machine. The 911 has gone turbo.
For this 911 Carrera 4S, the German car company has replaced the traditional naturally-aspirated flat six engine with a twin-turbo flat six.
That's an upgrade. The new 3.0-liter turbo makes more horsepower and more torque than the old 3.4-liter engine – 420 horses and 368 pound feet of torque, up several percentage points over its predecessor. It also gets 12% better fuel economy, Porsche claims.
The car performs better, too. The new engine comes on strong, from quite low in the power band, and keeps coming on all the way to redline. It does that with none of the "lag" from which some early turbo engines suffered – and which turned a lot of traditionalists away from the newer, power-boosting technology. And it does it without requiring much driver input to find or maintain the sweet spot. It's all sweet spot.
In the canyons around Angeles National Forest, the new Carrera carved and cornered splendidly, proving far more car than I am driver. Paired with Porsche's justifiably celebrated PDK transmission, and wearing stock Pirelli P-Zero tires, the new 911 stuck to every swerve in Big Tujunga Canyon Road.
The new car also features chassis and suspension updates. The 2017 sits 10 millimeters lower than its newest ancestor – 20 millimeters lower with the optional Sport Suspension package – and it features optional rear-wheel steering. The turning circumference is very tight, and the steering and handling feel surgically precise, even with an amateur like me behind the wheel.
Porsche has added a driving mode. The four choices are now Normal, Sport, Sport + and Individual, which allows the operator to choose specific levels of power distribution and suspension settings. Even Normal is sporty, and Sport seemed super-sporty. Sport + appears to unleash 100% of the Porsche's power, all at once, in a 20-second burst that adds acceleration and a certain drama to lane changing and passing.
It's not quite as freaky-fast as the "Insane" button on the Tesla Model S, but it's very exciting.
And the car certainly is quick. Porsche says the 911 Carrera 4S coupe with the PDK transmission and Sport Chrono Package will go from zero to 60 miles per hour in 3.6 seconds – faster than the oh-so-slow 3.9 seconds it took last year's comparable model.
In all the driving modes I had some difficulty staying within the speed limit. This car, CHP bait, just wants to go.
Inside the cockpit, the new model springs some more surprises. In addition to the automatic and paddleshift modes, the new transmission offers a manual stick shift feature. There is also an upgrade to the keyless ignition. Just swipe the door handle upon exit or approach, and the doors automatically lock or unlock.
As suits a car that insists upon keeping the driver connected to the driving, the farkles and creature comforts are kept to a minumum. The improved information and entertainment screen is barely 21st century. Though not sophisticated for a luxury car, the Connect Plus system does include Apple Car Play, Google Street View, WiFi and real-time traffic information.
A parking assistance program, and a back-up camera, are standard. So are cupholders, which are hidden behind a panel in the dashboard and when activated don't work terribly well. This may be Porsche's way of reminding you to put down the latte and pay attention to the road.
The controls are kept close at hand – almost too close at hand. The steering column sprouts six branches – three on each side – where levers operate almost all the 911's key controls.
This took a little getting used to. The first few times I reached for the turn signal I set the cruise control. When I hit the windshield wipers I got a read-out on how many G's I was generating in the turns.
I could easily imagine this 911 as someone's perfect daily driver. The kid-glove responsiveness, the ease of operation, the highly adjustable seats (which are heated and cooled) all make for a very soothing driving experinece – between bursts of that Sport + feature.
But it's still a sports car. The 911 suffers from a bit of road noise, and a bit of tire noise, which takes a little fun out of the otherwise fine Bose sound system. Since some of the noise is the intoxicating Porsche exhaust pipe gurgle, I didn't really mind, but on a longer road trip that much ambient sound could get a little old.
And although it has a back seat and an under-the-hood storage area, the former isn't really suitable for adults and the latter won't carry enough luggage to take a long road trip anyway. If you prize these things, though, maybe you're already driving a Cayenne or a Panamera.
This new 911 has a starting MSRP of $111,350, including the mandatory destination charges. That's up from the 2016 version of the same car, where the entrance fee was $106,680.
Porsche is quick to note this isn't the same car. The new engine, improved all-wheel-drive system, and upgraded suspension and braking add up a certain kind of automotive value pack.
Also new is the Graphite Blue Metallic paint color. This is the first time it's been used on a Porsche, and enthusiasts know that. I got stopped multiple times by Porschofiles who did a double-take and said, "Whoa! That's the new one!" based only on the strange gray-blue paint. (The color is available on all 2017 911 models and will also be available on the 718 Boxster when that car arrives later this year.)
The $138,560 it would cost to acquire the model I drove, which included $710 for that new color, isn't chicken feed. But it buys a sublime motoring experience that's hard to match anywhere else for that price.
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Why Michael Jordan went to China for Nike
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Eric Gao has been waiting around in a milling crowd for hours, hoping to catch a glimpse of the man responsible for his favorite shoes. The 18-year-old student is standing outside a Romanesque building in old Shanghai; inside, Michael Jordan is privately touring a space that has been refashioned into a retrospective celebrating the 30th anniversary of his shoe brand. The exhibit, called House of Flight, comes complete with first edition Air Jordans, an old box of Wheaties, and a Hong Kong artist’s collage of Jordan symbols (the jersey number 23, the phrase “I’m back,” the six championship rings).
Gao can’t get into the exhibit, but he’s desperate to see Jordan, not because the Chicago Bulls legend is his favorite player—that would be LeBron James—but because he’s the one adorning his feet.
Gao is what fashionistas in the U.S. might call a sneaker-head. Jordans in mainland China start at around $100 and quickly shoot past $500 for classic styles, if you can find them. Gao’s got 10 pairs. “I like the first edition, and the second, third, and fourth,” he says, “and the eleventh and twelfth. I love Jordan.” And in a way, consumers like Gao are the reason the House of Flight exists. It’s part of a sustained marketing push by Nike, the company that makes the iconic brand, to make sure it can keep selling the shoes at a premium—by reminding Chinese consumers that the shoes are made for performance and not just for fashion.
A veteran sports industry observer, NPD analyst Matt Powell, once described Air Jordans as “the top-end, conspicuous-consumption brand,” so it was only a matter of time before the shoes tapped into China’s still insatiable demand for luxury goods. On the streets of Shanghai and Beijing, Jordans have morphed into the fashion statements they are in the Bronx or the Beverly Center. “People are wearing Jordans all over the place,” Blake Griffin of the Los Angeles Clippers marveled during his October trip to China for an NBA preseason game.
In China’s mega cities, Jordan high-tops are a favorite among girls in short-skirts, guys wearing tight jeans, couples shopping at the city’s upscale malls, and moneyed mothers pushing strollers. Even though the sneakers first appeared in China in 1996, only recently have they become ubiquitous on streets—more prevalent, in some areas, than they are anywhere in the U.S.
One of the half-dozen small shops selling Jordan shoes near Beijing’s old city center.Scott Cendrowski
In a neighborhood near Beijing’s old city center, five shops within a couple blocks of each other each have cellophane-wrapped pairs selling for 4,500 yuan ($715). A shopkeeper at one Beijing store that opened two years ago said sales have been brisk, despite prices that run considerably higher than in the U.S. because of tariffs and limited supply. Fake versions abound too, though in a country adept at copying, the only distinguishing detail might be slightly lower prices.
China is not just the world’s largest market for basketball; it’s a place where fashion trends sweep across cities of 20 million-plus people like wildfire. Though Nike doesn’t break out Jordan Brand financials, China recorded the highest footwear growth of any Nike market in the company’s latest fiscal year—up 26%, to $2 billion. In the latest quarter, Nike sales rose 30% in what the company calls “greater China”—including Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. The region is quickly becoming a crucial market for the $100-billion-market-cap company as Western Europe and the U.S. cool off. Jordan Brand sales hit about $2.2 billion a year worldwide, Nike said recently, and the company expects them to rise to $4.5 billion by the end of 2020, in big part because Jordans are becoming a bona fide hit on the other side of the world.
The shoes are becoming so popular, in fact, that they pose a potential problem for Nike: They risk turning into a fad. The sneakerhead Gao, for instance, buys most shoes to wear casually, rather than for playing sports. Success with such customers can be a mixed blessing: if street sales of Jordans are too hot, the brand loses it connection to basketball, which gives it credibility in the first place. “We don’t want the brand as a lifestyle brand,” says Jeanne Huang, a Nike spokeswoman in China.
In the athletic-wear world, lifestyle brands tend to flame out, while performance brands are more likely to endure. Fila shoes, for example, spiked in popularity in the ‘90s, but the brand never attached itself to more than a couple professional basketball players in the U.S. and sales quickly sputtered. Adidas, Nike, and perhaps the Jordan Brand most of all owe their decades of popularity to marketing themselves as brands for athletes. “To have longevity as a basketball brand it has to be performance first,” says David Weiner, a Deutsche Bank analyst following Nike.
Nike’s problem is an example of how difficult it can be for even successful brands to control their image in China. On the one hand, no one will complain about hot sales growth; on the other hand, overheated sales in megacities create the danger of a future letdown. That’s where Nike’s new Jordan-centric marketing effort fits in: It’s part of Nike’s vigilance against Jordans becoming the trend du jour.
Compared with other well-known Western brands, Nike doesn’t have a long history in China. (Coca-Cola, for example, was around before the Communists took over in 1949.) Nike’s China sales reached the $1 billion threshold in 2008, but more recently, the country was a blemish on the company’s global record.
In 2013, Nike suffered from massive inventory oversupply in the country because of rosy sales expectations. “Their retail partners kept buying more product,” says Susan Anderson, an analyst at FBR Capital Markets, who notes that other brands suffered similar problems. “All of a sudden they hit a wall.” As stale styles lingered on shelves, they hurt Nike’s image as a high-quality foreign product with high prices to lust after. Sales fell 2.5% from 2012 to 2013, dropping for three consecutive quarters during one stretch in what Nike had hoped would be its hottest growth market.
Nike eventually turned things around following a strategy that had worked in the U.S.: stocking better-tailored apparel with higher quality fabrics that met the elusive “premium” designation, and justified higher prices that could be raised 4% to 5% a year. The Jordan Brand grew quickly in China during that resurgence. It starting discussing sponsoring top basketball players in China, just as small shoe-centric stores started popping up around big cities. But while some Chinese consumers bought the latest Jordan shoes to play basketball in, the majority of sales were from people buying to wear on the street, says Eric Tian, a former marketing manager for the Jordan Brand in China who’s now a partner for a social photo app company. He says the split in Jordan shoe sales in China is about 65% lifestyle to 35% performance. (Nike’s spokeswoman declined to confirm that figure, but did not contest it.)
Whenever Tian would talk with the brand’s ideal target customers, usually basketball-obsessed male twenty-somethings who played on professional or college teams, they could recall Michael Jordan career highlights. His shot against the Utah Jazz to win the 1998 NBA Finals, or his wins against the Knicks. But most of China’s consumers are too young to remember those moments, and they don’t have SportsCenter replaying them every few weeks. “They never really watched Jordan games,” Tian says. So Nike focused its marketing strategy on telling Chinese consumers that the shoes were technical wonders, designed first and foremost for playing basketball.
Still, the brand is susceptible to being seen as a celebrity’s fashion label. That’s a big reason why Nike released its first-ever Jordan-centric commercial for the Chinese audience, on television and across Chinese social media, earlier this month–a 120-second ode to the crucible of determination, narrated by Jordan himself. It’s also why Jordan himself traveled to China in October for the first time since 2004, stopping in Shenzhen and Shanghai for two NBA preseason games and lots of self-promotion.
Jordan generated head-of-state type coverage in China’s state-run press. Xinhua, the top state news service, boasted an exclusive interview and ran multiple follow-up stories. Nike saw the trip as a way to anchor the shoes more closely to one G.O.A.T. (greatest of all time) athlete, in Jordan, and two very good ones in L.A. Clippers Chris Paul and Blake Griffin, both of whom endorse the brand. Nike is “trying to keep the balance of retro and performance,” says spokeswoman Huang. “His coming over here, along with brand athletes, reinforces the positioning of performance.” (Nike declined to make executives available for interviews for this story.)
The Jordan Brand logo silhouetted against Shanghai’s skyline.Scott Cendrowski
On his trip, the Chinese got a taste of the real Jordan, intense and sometimes irascible. At an elaborately staged session in Shanghai in mid-October that was live-streamed on Chinese Internet, former broadcaster Ahmad Rashad and Nike’s top Jordan designer, Tinker Hatfield, joked about the time Rashad unveiled the newest Jordan sneaker in the 1990s on the air on NBC, three or four months before it was scheduled to debut. “Of course Michael was wearing it on the court after you,” Hatfield told Rashad. Jordan walked onto the stage immediately afterward and, whether he was in on the joke or not, it didn’t seem to sit well with him. “You were the first one to wear ‘em, huh?” he muttered.
The tension was lost on the assembled crowd of 80 Chinese journalists and photographers, almost all of whom were draped in Jordan shoes, shirts, and jackets as they listened to a simultaneous translation on-stage. The conversation changed subjects, to the new Chinese commercial created by Wieden + Kennedy, which premiered four days earlier exclusively for the Chinese market. The ad itself attests to the new importance of the Chinese market, where blockbuster commercials now originate and air. “Hopefully we’ll be able to see it back in the States,” Jordan said wistfully. “It’s a great commercial.”
One thing that’s undeniable about China is its passionate love for basketball. Mao Zedong loved the sport so much that it was the only Western sport not banned during the tumultuous Cultural Revolution. Today, Wall Street analysts predict that basketball will grow rapidly in the country as China’s ruling State Council focuses on building recreational sports. There could be 300 million players in China by 2025, says Weiner, the Deutsche Bank analyst. In the U.S., he estimates half of Jordan sales are to customers buying shoes for the court. The share may never get that high in China, but the new focus on performance lowers the odds of a fashion fad downfall for Nike, Weiner says: “That’s where you get authority. That’s what people pay for.”
In the meantime, the company is dealing with other headaches that come with operating in China. A Chinese competitor, Qiaodan Sports, trademarked Jordan’s Chinese name, Qiaodan, in 2000 and has since produced shoes strikingly similar to Air Jordans under Chinese trademark law that rewards first applicants instead of the first users of a trademark. Michael Jordan lost his personal suit against the manufacturer in Chinese court this year, but said he has plans to appeal to China’s supreme court. (Qiaodan Sports’ defense is that it uses a Chinese translation of a common foreign family name.)
Cellophane-wrapped Jordan shoes on sale in Beijing. The most popular model, the patent-leather 11th edition, sells for $700.Scott Cendrowski
Back at the entrance to House of Flight, Gao is giving up. It’s late in the evening; Jordan is still inside and won’t be coming out for an autograph line.
“I feel upset because I could not see Jordan clearly. The security is too strict,” he says. “I spent all day to find Jordan.”
Gao sends me a text the next day. The Michael Jordan-majority-owned Charlotte Hornets are playing a game in Shanghai. “Hey I feel excited tonight,” he wrote, “because I spent 2200 rmb to see nba China game.”
Spending $350 for a ticket to watch preseason basketball might be about as close as a sneakerhead gets to paying for performance.
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By TVLine Jennifer Lopez already has a big-money Las Vegas concert residency, a recent Season 2 renewal for her NBC drama Shades of Blue, an A+ Dubsmash game and a badonkadonk worthy of being sculpted in marble and displayed at the Louvre.
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Now, however, she's sneaking into your living room with a masked Keith Urban and a maniacally cackling Harry Connick, Jr. and stealing your right to vote in the American Idol Season 15 semifinals (beginning tonight at 8/7c on Fox). And I, for one, am mad as hell. RELATED: Where are former "Idol" contestants now?
'American Idol' is taking away your voting power -- and it's infuriating
LAS VEGAS, NV - NOVEMBER 22: Recording artist Taylor Hicks arrives at Tony La Russa's 3rd annual Leaders & Legends Gala benefitting the Animal Rescue Foundation at the MGM Grand Hotel/Casino on November 22, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by David Becker/Getty Images for Animal Rescue Foundation)
Finalist Clay Aiken, of Raleigh, N.C., performs during the final competition of American Idol Tuesday, May 20, 2003, in Universal City, Calif. Television viewers have already decided which of the 24-year-old Southern singers will claim the title of "American Idol."
Clay Aiken attends the Broadway opening of "After Midnight" on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2013 in New York.
American Idol's Constantine Maroulis poses for photographers as he arrives for the New York City benefit premiere of "Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith" at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York, Thursday, May 12, 2005. Proceeds from the premiere will benefit The Children's Heath Fund, a not-for-profit organization committed to providing medical care to the nation's homeless and disadvantaged children. (AP Photo)
Justin Guarini, 23, of Doylestown, Pa., sings during the final episode of Fox's television competition "American Idol," in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2002. The winner earns a recording contract, and will release a CD single later this month and a full album in November. (AP Photo)
Justin Guarini attends the Broadway opening of "After Midnight" on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2013 in New York. (AP Photo)
American Idol finalist Fantasia Barrino is emotional after finishing her last performance during the finale of the music competition show Tuesday, May 25, 2004, at the Kodak Theatre in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. (AP Photo)
Fantasia Barrino attends the after party for the opening night performance of Broadway's "After Midnight" on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2013 in New York. (AP Photo)
Constantine Maroulis attends the Songwriters Hall of Fame 44th annual induction and awards gala on Thursday, June 13, 2013 in New York. (AP Photo)
American Idol finalist Diana DeGarmo performs during the finale of the music competition show, Tuesday, May 25, 2004, at the Kodak Theatre in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. (AP Photo)
Diana DeGarmo arrives at the 2013 AFI FEST premiere of "Lone Survivor" at the TCL Chinese Theatre on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo)
Frenchie Davis attends the 45th Annual Grammy Awards at Madison Square Garden on February 23, 2003 in New York City. (Getty Images)
Frenchie Davis attends For the Love of R&B - A Tribute to Whitney Houston at Tru Hollywood on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, in Los Angeles.
Finalist Ruben Studdard, from Birmingham, Ala., performs his first song Burt Bacharach's "A House is Not a Home" during the final competition of American Idol Tuesday, May 20, 2003, in Universal City, Calif.
Ruben Studdard, left, and Candice Glover perform onstage at the 2013 Soul Train Awards at the Orleans Arena on Friday, Nov. 8, 2013 in Las Vegas.
Contestant Sanjaya Malakar attends an American Idol celebration of this seasons' top 12 contestants held at Astra West Thursday March 8, 2007 in West Hollywood, Calif. (AP Photo)
Singer Sanjaya Malakar attends The 2nd Annual ASPCA Rock n' Roll LA Benefit at The Olympic Collection on October 6, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. (Getty Images)
Bo Bice performs "Long, Long Road" during the "American Idol" live finale in Los Angeles on Wednesday, May 25, 2005. (AP Photo)
Bo Bice arrives at the "American Idol" finale at the Nokia Theatre at L.A. Live on Thursday, May 16, 2013, in Los Angeles.
Jordin Sparks perform "I Saw Her Standing There" during the opening act of the season finale of American Idol on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo)
Jordin Sparks arrives at the American Music Awards at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on Sunday, Nov. 24, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo)
Contestant Blake Lewis attends an American Idol celebration of this seasons' top 12 finalists held at Astra West Thursday March 8, 2007 in West Hollywood, Calif. (AP Photo)
Blake Lewis arrives at the "American Idol" finale at the Nokia Theatre at L.A. Live on Thursday, May 16, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo)
American Idol Season 7's Top 24 contestant David Archuleta poses at a party in their honor, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo)
David Archuleta performs during the 2011 "Make A Difference" benefit concert at the Ronald McDonald House on November 8, 2011 in New York City.
Crystal Bowersox poses backstage after the "American Idol" finale on Wednesday, May 26, 2010, in Los Angeles.
Musician Crystal Bowersox at the Mastercard Priceless Premieres Presents Justin Timberlake event, on Sunday, May 5, 2013 at Roseland Ballroom in New York City, New York.
Kimberley Locke, Rickey Smith and Vanessa Olivarez. (Getty Images)
Kimberley Locke arrives at the "American Idol" finale at the Nokia Theatre at L.A. Live on Thursday, May 16, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo)
Contestant Melinda Doolittle attends an American Idol celebration of this seasons' top 12 finalists held at Astra West Thursday March 8, 2007 in West Hollywood, Calif. (AP Photo)
Singer Melinda Doolittle attends the Red Tie Gala Hosted by Blood:Water Mission and sponsored by Noodle & Boo at Hutton Hotel on November 21, 2013 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Getty Images)
Danny Gokey of Milwaukee, Wis., a finalist on "American Idol," mugs for photographers at the American Idol Top 13 Party in Los Angeles, Thursday, March 5, 2009. (AP Photo)
Danny Gokey arrives at the "American Idol" finale at the Nokia Theatre at L.A. Live on Thursday, May 16, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo)
Indeed, it's traditionally been the Idoloonie Nation's job to start voting right after the "Green Mile" Top 24 (or Top 36) announcement and choose a Top 10 — with the judges adding a few Wild Card picks to the mix once the results are tallied.
In Idol's abbreviated farewell season, however, it'll be the judges narrowing the Top 24 down to the Top 14 — a process that flies directly in the face of what has made Idol so successful for so many years: The belief that average citizens — not soulless record execs or manipulative TV producers — get one chance per year to pluck a talented kid from relative obscurity and give him or her a major-label record deal.
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Oh, sure, the Scott Borchettas and Simon Cowells and Nigel Lythgoes of the world have always had a million and one ways to influence our votes — through crafty editing, not-so-random performance order, song-choice restrictions and deeply biased feedback — but at the end of the day, Idol fans had the final say... with no one to blame but ourselves for choosing (flashback alert!) Karen Rodriguez over Kendra Chantelle or Ben Briley over Malcolm Allen.
How does it benefit the show to essentially fire its loyal fans from a job they love and cherish, and outsource it to a trio of industry vets who often gravitate toward wide-eyed youth over emotional maturity, and telegenic personality over vocal prowess? (Remember J.Lo's declaration of just loving "fifteen-ness" or her comment that female contestants past their teenage years have a defeated look in their eyes? Oy!)
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To clarify, here's how the semifinals — one round of 12 has already been taped — will play out:
On Feb. 10 and 17, we'll see pre-taped performances from 12 contestants apiece, with the judges eliminating five singers on the Feb. 11 and 18 results-shows (that will also include contestant duets with Idol All-Stars), resulting in a Top 14. That group will be whittled down — again, mainly by the judges — during the Feb. 24 and 25 episodes, with viewers saving some Wild Cards to complete a Top 10.
After that, the competition airs only one night a week starting March 3 until the April 5-7 series finale week, with the Idoloonie Nation finally regaining control of the voting process.
In other words, your Farewell Season voting window is going to last about six weeks. Cast your ballots promptly, passionately, and most of all, responsibly!
What do you think of Idol's voting changes for Season 15? Do they leave you dismayed, enraged, disinterested or not all that worked up? Share your thoughts in the comments!
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According to the generally accepted account of the sequence of events, the Apple Watch was not just the first new Apple product since the iPad, but the first new product created—from beginning to end—under Tim Cook’s watch.
“[Apple design chief Jony] Ive began dreaming about an Apple watch just after CEO Steve Jobs’ death in October 2011,” according to Wired’s in-depth Secret History of the Apple Watch. “This was to be the next step in a dynasty—the first without the guidance of Steve Jobs.”
Not so, says Creative Strategies’ Tim Bajarin, whose on-and-off relationship with Jobs dates back nearly 35 years.
“Steve was aware of the Watch,” Bajarin told an audience of analysts, developers, and venture capitalists Thursday at Glance, an Apple Watch conference in San Francisco. “He didn’t nix it as a product.”
MORE: Who’s Got Time for an Apple Watch?
Bajarin’s version of events doesn’t directly contradict Apple’s, but it does run counter to the impression left with the media and with Wall Street—one that Apple, as far as I know, never bothered to correct.
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Designer Ralph Lauren gets a kiss from Career Achievement Award presenter Wilkes Bashford during Cutty Sark Fashion Awards ceremonies in Philadelphia, June 21, 1983. Lauren received the award for "continuing leadership and outstanding contributions to men’s fashions." Bashford was last year's recipient of a Cutty Sark award for creative retailing. The winners are selected by a panel of U.S. fashion writers. (AP Photo/George Widman)
Designer Ralph Lauren gets a kiss from Career Achievement Award presenter Wilkes Bashford during Cutty Sark Fashion Awards ceremonies in Philadelphia, June 21, 1983. Lauren received the award for "continuing
A Jimmy Choo shoe sits in a birdcage, in a creative display the Wilkes Bashford store, in San Francisco, California on Sunday, January 17, 2016. The luxury clothing store owner Wilkes Bashford died Jan. 16, 2016 after a brief bout with cancer.
A Jimmy Choo shoe sits in a birdcage, in a creative display the Wilkes Bashford store, in San Francisco, California on Sunday, January 17, 2016. The luxury clothing store owner Wilkes Bashford died Jan. 16,
Crowds of people walk briskly past the Wilkes Bashford store, at 375 Sutter Street, in San Francisco, California on Sunday, January 17, 2016. The luxury clothing store owner Wilkes Bashford died Jan. 16, 2016 after a bout with cancer.
Crowds of people walk briskly past the Wilkes Bashford store, at 375 Sutter Street, in San Francisco, California on Sunday, January 17, 2016. The luxury clothing store owner Wilkes Bashford died Jan. 16, 2016
A couple walks down Sutter Street under the awning of the Wilkes Bashford store, in San Francisco, California on Sunday, January 17, 2016. The luxury clothing store owner died Jan. 16, 2016.
A couple walks down Sutter Street under the awning of the Wilkes Bashford store, in San Francisco, California on Sunday, January 17, 2016. The luxury clothing store owner died Jan. 16, 2016.
Wilkes Bashford and his dog, Duchess, are seen at Wilkes Bashford on Monday, Oct. 5, 2015 in San Francisco, Calif. Christian and Dan, both, in Pratesi pajamas, $390. Photographer: Russell Yip Styling: Tony Bravo Model: Dan / Look Model Agency Model: Christian / Look Model Agency Hair/Makeup: Erika Taniguchi / BeautyByErika.com Photo Assistants: Stan Pechner, Danielle Mitchell Special thanks to Lorrin Mullins, Tiare Osborn, and the Wilkes Bashford staff
Wilkes Bashford and his dog, Duchess, are seen at Wilkes Bashford on Monday, Oct. 5, 2015 in San Francisco, Calif. Christian and Dan, both, in Pratesi pajamas, $390. Photographer: Russell Yip Styling:
Dan (left): Bruno Cucinelli navy tuxedo, $4,495; Kiton tuxedo shirt, $1,075; John Lobb shoe, $1,855; Bruno Cucinelli bow tie, $275; Kwiat cuff links in 18k white gold with 1.22k diamonds, $7,000. Christian (right): Ermenegildo Zegna tuxedo, $3,095; Brioni tuxedo shirt, $695; Gravati shoe, $625; Brioni bow tie, $225.
Dan (left): Bruno Cucinelli navy tuxedo, $4,495; Kiton tuxedo shirt, $1,075; John Lobb shoe, $1,855; Bruno Cucinelli bow tie, $275; Kwiat cuff links in 18k white gold with 1.22k diamonds, $7,000. Christian
Wilkes Bashford is seen at age 4 in 1937 in Hudson, NY in a framed photo at Wilkes Bashford on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015 in San Francisco, Calif.
Wilkes Bashford is seen at age 4 in 1937 in Hudson, NY in a framed photo at Wilkes Bashford on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015 in San Francisco, Calif.
Wilkes Bashford and his dog, Duchess, are seen in the elevator near the Herb Caen Wall at Wilkes Bashford on Monday, Oct. 5, 2015 in San Francisco, Calif. Christian (left): Brioni suit, $6495; Kiton shirt, $895; Kiton knit tie, $450; tie bar, $125, Isaia pocket square, $125. Dan (right): Isaia suit $3995; Kiton shirt, $1195; Kiton tie, $450; Bruno Cucinelli pocket square $185. Photographer: Russell Yip Styling: Tony Bravo Model: Dan / Look Model Agency Model: Christian / Look Model Agency Hair/Makeup: Erika Taniguchi / BeautyByErika.com Photo Assistants: Stan Pechner, Danielle Mitchell Special thanks to Lorrin Mullins, Tiare Osborn, and the Wilkes Bashford staff
Wilkes Bashford and his dog, Duchess, are seen in the elevator near the Herb Caen Wall at Wilkes Bashford on Monday, Oct. 5, 2015 in San Francisco, Calif. Christian (left): Brioni suit, $6495; Kiton shirt,
Wilkes Bashford and former San Francisco mayor, Willie Brown, play boss dice at their table at Le Central on Monday, Oct. 5, 2015 in San Francisco, Calif. Christian (middle left): Bruno Cucinelli sweater, $2385. Dan (middle right): Bruno Cucinelli turtleneck $2115. Photographer: Russell Yip Styling: Tony Bravo Model: Dan / Look Model Agency Model: Christian / Look Model Agency Hair/Makeup: Erika Taniguchi / BeautyByErika.com Photo Assistants: Stan Pechner, Danielle Mitchell Special thanks to Lorrin Mullins, Tiare Osborn, and the Wilkes Bashford staff, Paul Tanphanich and the Le Central staff, and the Honorable Willie L. Brown Jr.
Wilkes Bashford and former San Francisco mayor, Willie Brown, play boss dice at their table at Le Central on Monday, Oct. 5, 2015 in San Francisco, Calif. Christian (middle left): Bruno Cucinelli sweater,
Matthew Kelly, ever nattily dressed, and Wilkes Bashford, at the 75th birthday party for Wilkes Bashford at O.J. and Gary Shansby's Sonoma home on May 17th, 2008 Photo Courtesy of O.J. Shansby
Matthew Kelly, ever nattily dressed, and Wilkes Bashford, at the 75th birthday party for Wilkes Bashford at O.J. and Gary Shansby's Sonoma home on May 17th, 2008 Photo Courtesy of O.J. Shansby
O.J. Shansby and Wilkes Bashford during the San Francisco Ballet 2015 Opening Night Gala in San Francisco, Calif. on Thursday, January 22, 2015. O.J. Shansby wore a Marchesa brocade gown and Wilkes Bashford wore a Brioni tuxedo.
O.J. Shansby and Wilkes Bashford during the San Francisco Ballet 2015 Opening Night Gala in San Francisco, Calif. on Thursday, January 22, 2015. O.J. Shansby wore a Marchesa brocade gown and Wilkes Bashford
Wilkes Bashford, Shelby Strudwick and OJ Shansby (left to right) survey the scene during the cocktail hour at the San Francisco Ballet 2015 Opening Night Gala at City Hall in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, January 22, 2015.
Wilkes Bashford, Shelby Strudwick and OJ Shansby (left to right) survey the scene during the cocktail hour at the San Francisco Ballet 2015 Opening Night Gala at City Hall in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday,
Mary Poland and Wilkes Bashford. Carmen Marc Valvo's spring 2015 line hit the runway at the Bay Area Arthritis Auxiliary's fashion show fundraiser Oct. 1, 2014 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco.
Mary Poland and Wilkes Bashford. Carmen Marc Valvo's spring 2015 line hit the runway at the Bay Area Arthritis Auxiliary's fashion show fundraiser Oct. 1, 2014 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco.
MoAD Executive Director Linda Harrison (left) with Wilkes Bashford and Deborah Santana.
MoAD Executive Director Linda Harrison (left) with Wilkes Bashford and Deborah Santana.
Social columnist Jeanne Lawrence, clothier Wilkes Bashford, and haute couture collector and author Christine Suppes.
Social columnist Jeanne Lawrence, clothier Wilkes Bashford, and haute couture collector and author Christine Suppes.
Man-about-town Wilkes Bashford (left) is also a frequent patron, here at a party with Sally Debenham, Gail Glasser and Oscar de la Renta’ s Boaz Mazor.
Man-about-town Wilkes Bashford (left) is also a frequent patron, here at a party with Sally Debenham, Gail Glasser and Oscar de la Renta’ s Boaz Mazor.
Christine Suppes and Wilkes Bashford at Nicky Hilton's '365 Style' book party hosted by Alan Malouf at the penthouse of Isha and Asim Abdullah, owners of Emanuel Ungaro.
Christine Suppes and Wilkes Bashford at Nicky Hilton's '365 Style' book party hosted by Alan Malouf at the penthouse of Isha and Asim Abdullah, owners of Emanuel Ungaro.
Clothier Wilkes Bashford enjoyed sips and snacks at the book signing with his dog, Duchie, a black and tan dachshund, in his lap.
Clothier Wilkes Bashford enjoyed sips and snacks at the book signing with his dog, Duchie, a black and tan dachshund, in his lap.
The San Francisco Chronicle celebrated the relaunch of the Style section at Tout Sweet in Macy's on April 17, 2014. From left are Ricardo Benavides, Wilkes Bashford and Andrew Mitchell-Namdar.
The San Francisco Chronicle celebrated the relaunch of the Style section at Tout Sweet in Macy's on April 17, 2014. From left are Ricardo Benavides, Wilkes Bashford and Andrew Mitchell-Namdar.
Wilkes Bashford (left) with host Sally Debenham, Gail Glasser and Oscar de la Renta exec Boaz Mazor at her John's Grill dinner. May 2014. By Catherine Bigelow
Wilkes Bashford (left) with host Sally Debenham, Gail Glasser and Oscar de la Renta exec Boaz Mazor at her John's Grill dinner. May 2014. By Catherine Bigelow
Cissie Swig and Wilkes Bashford.
Cissie Swig and Wilkes Bashford.
Wilkes Bashford and Nina Kirilova at Sonya Molodetskaya's birthday celebration on April 1, 2014.
Wilkes Bashford and Nina Kirilova at Sonya Molodetskaya's birthday celebration on April 1, 2014.
S.F. Protocol Director Matthew Goudeau (left) and Wilkes Bashford at the Cal Shakes Gala.
S.F. Protocol Director Matthew Goudeau (left) and Wilkes Bashford at the Cal Shakes Gala.
Marc Corsi, Melissa Corsi and Wilkes Bashford at Smuin Ballet's "XXTRAVAGANZA" Gala on March 7, 2014.
Marc Corsi, Melissa Corsi and Wilkes Bashford at Smuin Ballet's "XXTRAVAGANZA" Gala on March 7, 2014.
Luxury clothier Wilkes Bashford dies after battle with cancer
Clothier Wilkes Bashford, who helped to change the world of high fashion in San Francisco when he opened his eponymous luxury store in 1966, died on Saturday after a brief battle with prostate cancer. He was 82.
Late Saturday, former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown confirmed the death of his longtime friend and favorite store owner.
Mr. Bashford’s store, where the city’s society set shops for clothes for work, weekends and opening-night galas, was one of the few of its kind in the nation when it opened and remains so today. Originally a men’s store, Wilkes Bashford opened under the Sutter-Stockton garage and was the first in San Francisco to promote an aesthetic he called “bold conservative,” carrying Brioni, Giorgio Armani, Ralph Lauren, Versace and other designer brands, a contrast to the counterculture, hippie clothing of the day. He added womenswear in 1978 and later moved nearby to 375 Sutter St.
Brown, a Chronicle columnist and a famously natty dresser, told The Chronicle in October: “This town was devoid of any attention to quality of fabric or style until Wilkes came along. The first time I walked into the store, I was frankly blown away.”
But more than solely dressing people up, Mr. Bashford wrapped himself in the social fabric of the city.
He staged glitzy fashion shows in the 1970s and ’80s, and also engaged in philanthropic work for Partners Ending Domestic Abuse and PAWS (Pets Are Wonderful Support), among other causes. He was an ardent fan of dachshunds, which he kept as pets. His latest, Duchie, was a constant companion at work, sitting in his office every day.
“He was part of the heart of the city,” said Brown, reached by phone in Los Angeles on Saturday. “Every day there was something Wilkes would talk about or insist that we do for the city.”
Mr. Bashford was a presence at fundraising functions all over the city, as well as an almost daily presence for lunch at Le Central restaurant, where he ate and gossiped with friends and customers at a table near the window. Every Friday for decades, his lunch crew in the front window included the late Chronicle columnist Herb Caen, man- about-town Harry de Wildt and Brown. The group also at times included the late Matthew Kelly and architect Sandy Walker.
After the downturn in the economy in 2008, he filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2009. His company was acquired by the Mitchells/Richards/Marshs group, a family-owned luxury clothier in Westport, Conn., which invested millions in a remodel of the seven-story store. This allowed Mr. Bashford to continue working, and until recently, he was still there six days a week, waiting on customers.
“How you look and how you feel when you go to present yourself affects your energy, your psyche, your outlook, your happiness, every day of your life,” he told The Chronicle in October. “Once people realize how their image is changed and how people react to them, it brings them a happiness. It’s a positive thing.”
Mr. Bashford was a native of Manhattan, and after studying in Cincinnati, moved to San Francisco, he said, to “be near the ocean.”
He was engaged once, but never married. His philanthropic work allowed him to create a family of sorts that tied him to the community. In recent years, he devoted efforts to the War Memorial Complex in San Francisco to create a veterans monument, a 30-foot-long granite octagon between the War Memorial Opera House and Veterans Building. He co-chaired the monument committee with J. Michael Myatt, a retired Marine Corps major general.
The monument, built with $2.5 million in privately raised funds, is known as “Passage of Remembrance,” and the driveway that circles Memorial Court was named the Charlotte and George Shultz Horseshoe Drive.
At the time of his death, Mr. Bashford was listed as the president of the War Memorial & Performing Arts Center Board of Trustees. Of all his philanthropic work, “I think he was most proud,” Brown said, “of his presidency of the board, which had the stalwarts of the cultural philanthropy of the city. I appointed Wilkes to that body and he became the president of that body and in the process, did incredible things.”
But his store was his life, and he treated his products with the same care — requiring that sweaters be pristinely folded and suits and dresses be displayed on hangers to their best advantage. In social situations, he sported a smile, kept any negative thoughts to himself, and was old school when it came to manners, opening doors for others and always picking up the check at lunch.
Boaz Mazor, a longtime Oscar de la Renta executive who worked closely with Mr. Bashford on local fashion shows over the years, said the city has suffered a significant loss.
“He was a real gentleman — an icon of elegance, and his name and his store gave San Francisco the authority of style,” Mazor said. “He was an impeccable person and an impeccable professional. I was honored to work with him and be his friend. He is irreplaceable.”
Carolyne Zinko is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: czinko@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @carolynezinko
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Clothier Wilkes Bashford, who helped to change the world of high fashion in San Francisco when he opened his eponymous luxury store in 1966, died on Saturday after a brief battle with prostate cancer. Late Saturday, former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown confirmed the death of his longtime friend and favorite store owner. Originally a men’s store, Wilkes Bashford opened under the Sutter-Stockton garage and was the first in San Francisco to promote an aesthetic he called “bold conservative,” carrying Brioni, Giorgio Armani, Ralph Lauren, Versace and other designer brands, a contrast to the counterculture, hippie clothing of the day. Brown, a Chronicle columnist and a famously natty dresser, told The Chronicle in October: This town was devoid of any attention to quality of fabric or style until Wilkes came along. Mr. Bashford was a presence at fundraising functions all over the city, as well as an almost daily presence for lunch at Le Central restaurant, where he ate and gossiped with friends and customers at a table near the window. In recent years, he devoted efforts to the War Memorial Complex in San Francisco to create a veterans monument, a 30-foot-long granite octagon between the War Memorial Opera House and Veterans Building. The monument, built with $2.5 million in privately raised funds, is known as “Passage of Remembrance,” and the driveway that circles Memorial Court was named the Charlotte and George Shultz Horseshoe Drive. [...] of his death, Mr. Bashford was listed as the president of the War Memorial & Performing Arts Center Board of Trustees. [...] his store was his life, and he treated his products with the same care — requiring that sweaters be pristinely folded and suits and dresses be displayed on hangers to their best advantage. In social situations, he sported a smile, kept any negative thoughts to himself, and was old school when it came to manners, opening doors for others and always picking up the check at lunch.
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A few episodes back Melisandre confirmed that, despite her previous Stannis fixation, she now believes that Jon Snow is the long-prophesised hero Azor Ahai. She's already brought our hero back from the dead, and many fans are now wondering whether her character's journey is naturally coming to an end. Will the centuries-old priestess decide to sacrifice all for Jon during Sunday's battle?
We're probably wrong - this is Game of Thrones, after all. But we reckon Jon Snow, Arya Stark, Bran Stark, Daenerys Targaryen and Tyrion Lannister are all on the " definitely safe" list, at least for now.
We're slightly less confident about Littelfinger, Jaime, Bronn, Varys, Brienne, Pod, Sansa, Missandei, Davos, Grey Worm and Sam and Gilly... but we don't think we'll be saying goodbye to any of these characters in the next two episodes. At least we hope not.
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Weaker demand also hit the Greyhound bus operations in the US where both revenue and profits declined.
Management are confident that the company will bring in more cash in the year ahead, and this should lower the debt burden over time. The net debt levels remained flat at £1.4bn, against £1.6bn in shareholders equity at the end of March.
FirstGroup shareholders are painfully aware of how debt levels can destroy equity value. Eight years ago, it paid £1.9bn for US bus business Laidlaw, whose operations include Greyhound and yellow school buses.
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It was a small, often raucous and thoroughly interconnected world on Saturday night at the third Globalfest, the Public Theater's annual showcase of international music, which was repeated yesterday. Held during the convention of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Globalfest let bookers size up 13 acts in six hours, wielding instruments from oud to button accordion, tuba to laptop.
Visions of world music as a realm of newly visible traditions and pure local styles have given way, at Globalfest, to a more realistic, less romantically exotic perspective. Musicians have always made choices about what to preserve and what to change from their heritage; now, they can sample countless possibilities. The program tilted toward Paris and New York; the French Embassy was a sponsor.
A freewheeling, mix-and-match tone was established in the opening set from Frank London's Klezmer Brass All Stars, who stoke klezmer songs with the rowdy oompah of Balkan brass bands. They were joined by Maracatú New York, a Brazilian-style percussion group that overlaid swinging samba atop the oompah -- not quite a mesh, but a cheerful collision -- and by the eight-woman Hasidic-style vocal group Kol Isha.
Balkan Beat Box, formed by Israelis in New York City, used samplers and drum machines, looping old recordings with its own instruments. It had gimmicky moments -- a belly-dancer lip-synching to an old recording -- but when its two saxophonists latched onto a dance tune, klezmer and D.J. style found common ground. Auktyon, from St. Petersburg, Russia, was even more rambunctious in its bruising rock songs. Its frontman moved like a floppy-armed version of Zippy the Pinhead; its songs held hints of Slavic tradition driven by a burly low register: bass, baritone saxophone and tuba.
Daara J, a Senegalese hip-hop group whose name means "school of life," was purposely and joyfully polyglot, from its wardrobe to songs in at least four languages (English, French, Spanish, Wolof) and grooves from across the African diaspora. Like most major hip-hop acts from outside the United States, Daara J is a group of overachievers. Its members slipped consciousness-raising ideas between punchy choruses, danced and leaped across the stage, sang with rich harmonies and let loose speed-tongued, triple-time rhymes, all determined to dazzle.
There were gentler but equally ambitious hybrids.
Las Ondas Marteles is a French group that performs Cuban songs. Missing its guitarist, it performed skeletal versions -- for Nicolas Martel on voice and hand-held percussion and Sarah Murcia on bass -- of boleros (in Spanish) by Miguel Ángel Ruiz. Mr. Martel, who has a dancer's grace, sang in a supple, liquid tenor, adding some French nonchalance to the achingly lovelorn songs. Keren Ann, a star in France who is now a part-time New Yorker, sang her gorgeously anachronistic songs -- touching on torchy cabaret, blues and folk-pop -- with a leisurely tenderness and a sly undertone.
Niyaz, from Los Angeles, is led by an Iranian vocalist, Azam Ali, who grew up in India. She sang poems by the Persian Sufi sage Rumi and folk songs from Iran and India. She was backed by Middle Eastern lutes, Indian tabla drums and a laptop providing a deep, ambient throb that only made the music seem more mystical.
Roxane Butterfly's Worldbeats strained to mingle earnest spoken words (about "womanity"), music that bridged modal jazz and Moroccan riffs, and tap dancing with some flamenco postures. The singer Daby Touré, from Mauritania, hinted at tradition in tunes that jumped in and out of falsetto, but his songs showed just as much influence from Sting.
Fusions that stayed closer to local roots provided some of the night's best music. Lura, who was born in Portugal to parents from the Cape Verde Islands off Africa, drew on some of the islands' more upbeat styles. She danced with sensual grace and sang in a richly poised alto that held memories of Africa. Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, from south Louisiana, sang in Cajun French and played old and new songs claiming a bayou heritage that stretches from Celtic music to hints of the blues. Juan Carmona, a virtuosic French Gypsy guitarist, mixed traditional flamenco with French fusion touches. The tension and release of flamenco tradition made for the most striking parts of his set; he didn't need the wind chimes.
And DJ Dolores, from Brazil (his real name is Helder Aragão), ended the night at the turntables with a set that touched down in Brazil but embraced klezmer and hip-hop, too -- a global finale for a club dance floor.
WORLD MUSIC REVIEW Correction: January 27, 2006, Friday A world music review on Monday about Globalfest at the Public Theater misidentified the music played by Maracatú New York. It was maracatú and frevo, not samba.
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“The Good Wife” may have found new life.
Days after the CBS show wrapped seven years on air, a new show starring actress Christine Baranski — who played Diane Lockhart — is reportedly in the works, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The network is allegedly close to inking a deal for the spin-off, centering on Baranksi and actress Cush Jumbo, who was a latecomer to the series as Lucca Quinn.
Showrunners Robert and Michelle King are also in final talks to write the first episode. They are not, however, expected to run the show.
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More surprisingly, the new series — if approved — would be made available on the network’s digital subscription service.
That would make the program the second show in production for CBS All Access. A new version of “Star Trek” was announced last November, and is scheduled to premiere January 2017.
Speculation of a spin-off has been rampant among fans since the show ended on Sunday.
Jumbo previously told E! News that she would “jump” at the chance to reprise her role.
‘The Good Wife’ Alicia Florrick reduced to chasing her man
"I knock on their door every day. I'm like, ‘What's going on? What's going on with the Lucca Quinn spin-off?'” she said.
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No good for Palestinians will come of the current Middle East talks. Worse, harm seems likely. These negotiations threaten to undo years of work by Palestinian civil society and solidarity partners around the world who have been working tirelessly for a just peace, principally through global nonviolent resistance campaigns such as the Boycott Divestment & Sanctions campaign (BDS), the Russell Tribunal, and mounting popular local and international protests, among other tactics.
What we are hearing is that US Secretary of State John Kerry has presented both parties with an interim agreement to "serve as a framework for continued negotiations towards a permanent agreement". The "final status agreement" would be "based on the 1967 borders". Concrete concessions with profound implications are being demanded of the Palestinians, but
No good for Palestinians will come of the current Middle East talks. Worse, harm seems likely. These negotiations threaten to undo years of work by Palestinian civil society and solidarity partners around the world who have been working tirelessly for a just peace. Their work has been done -principally- through global nonviolent resistance campaigns such as the Boycott Divestment & Sanctions campaign (BDS), the Russell Tribunal, and mounting popular local and international protests, among other tactics.
What we are hearing is that US Secretary of State John Kerry has presented both parties with an interim agreement to "serve as a framework for continued negotiations towards a permanent agreement". The "final status agreement" would be "based on the 1967 borders". Concrete concessions with profound implications are being demanded of the Palestinians, but not so for Israel, which is "negotiating" on territory, rights, and resources that already belong to Palestinians.
Much of this rhetoric is familiar, as it is recycled from the failed Oslo Accords, in which an agreement was reached exacting permanent Palestinian concessions in exchange for promises of Israeli reciprocity that never materialised. Thus, Palestinians are now being sold the same lie they bought 20 years ago. This time, the concessions demanded of Palestinians amount to a complete relinquishment of our rights as a native people, in exchange for the same empty promises and pocket change from the EU and US to sustain the status quo a little longer, enough time to permanently alter the landscape and complete the economic, political and social engineering of the Palestinian population towards the goal of permanent impotence, in which profound divisions, corruption, and dependence preclude the emergence of organised impactful resistance.
The details of the agreement, we are told, "are being worked out between the parties". But here are some certainties:Â Palestinian self-determination will not be realised from this agreement. A viable Palestinian state with a contiguous land mass will remain impossible given the physical alterations of the landscape Israel has made through rapacious land theft, colonisation, and "Judaisation" of Jerusalem and large parts of the West Bank. Israel will not cease illegal settlement construction, even if it does so temporarily. Palestinians will not have control over their airspace, natural resources (eg water, newly-discovered oil), borders or economy. Segregated roads, housing, and buses will still be a reality.
Demolition of Palestinian homes will continue. The siege of Gaza will remain and perhaps tightened further. The separation wall will still be there with guard towers and snipers. Israel will still bomb our world when they please. They will still conduct night raids. They will continue to terrorise our children. Administrative Detention will remain a cost of living for Palestinian youth. Our Jerusalem, a few kilometres away, will still be as far as the moon for the majority of Palestinians. Israel will continue to import foreign Jews from all over the world and settle them on stolen Palestinian land, where they take up arms against the native Palestinian population.
The incentives being offered to Palestinians in the current talks are so insignificant, suggesting that the Palestinian Authority (PA) will accept funding over freedom. There is talk of an "unprecedented economic package", and other "concessions", all of which amount to temporary anaesthetics. On the other hand, Israel will likely walk away with Palestinian blessing for their theft of the Jordan Valley, the most fertile land in the West Bank, and continued control of Palestinian lives and resources.
There is also talk that they might achieve a boost to their racist demographic goals - touted by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Henry Kissinger, a WINEP adviser - by transferring large proportions of their undesirable non-Jewish citizenry to Palestinian control. But that's gravy. Their immediate aims are two-fold: To deal a heavy blow to the growing Palestinian solidarity and boycott of Israel; and to finally gain legitimacy as a racist state.
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, launched in 2005 by Palestinian civil society as a nonviolent means of national and human liberation from Israeli colonisation and apartheid, has spread into mainstream culture, promising global action on the scale that helped end the similar system of apartheid in South Africa. I believe that the popular BDS movement (including related solidarity actions) is the principal factor motivating Israel to try to come to some interim agreement with Palestinians at this point.Â
Israel is panicking, and rightfully so, because its power lies only in the realm of government and corporate elites. Israel has no defences against mass mobilisation calling for justice and basic human rights. This was precisely the case in the late 1980s, when the first intifada captured the popular imagination of the world. Even before mass communication and instant information, the images of Palestinian children with rocks facing heavily armed soldiers and tanks began to sear into international consciousness, threatening Israel's image as the victim despite their best public relations and hasbara campaigns. Â
Thus, Israel, in concert with the US, orchestrated the Madrid Conference, followed by the Oslo Accords. Although Palestinians made the painful sacrifice of relinquishing claim to 78 percent of Historic Palestine, agreeing to establish a state on a mere 22 percent of our homeland, Israel continued to act in bad faith, escalating the colonial and ethnic cleansing projects to create "fact on the ground" that currently preclude any meaningful realisation of a Palestinian state as envisioned by the Oslo Accords.
Not only did the Oslo "diplomacy" consolidate the land Israel took through terror and war in 1948 and create a new baseline from which to expand Israel's settlement endeavours, it also effectively siphoned the only real power we had - popular mobilisation - and broke our collective back by giving us false hope that liberation was around the corner. In return, we got an illusion of self-rule - a contingency of elected-for-life "leaders" who helped turn our proud people into a nation of beggars, dependent on international aid for sustenance. We saw further colonisation of our lands, which are now Jewish-only domains. And we got a well-trained Palestinian police force that, far from protecting Palestinians, collaborates with Israel to suppress legitimate resistance against tyranny.
We are now in a similar place to where we were in the late 1980s. After years of struggle, organising and activism, Palestinian resistance has once again captured popular imaginations and civil society around the world - academics, activists, clergy, intellectuals, artists, trade unions, universities, municipalities, churches, and other individuals and institutions of conscience - are mobilising in solidarity with Palestinian aspirations for basic human rights and to hold Israel accountable for its unrelenting systematic crimes against the indigenous Palestinian population.
Intergovernmental diplomacy is not a pathway to a just peace, but rather a sinkhole for Palestinian rights.
As Israel has no legitimate argument against demands for Palestinian basic rights, they are looking to stamp out BDS as they did the first intifada, both popular nonviolent resistance movements, by recycling the charade of negotiations. While the Palestinian people cannot be fooled again, such interim agreements do risk fooling our solidarity partners.
And so, the stakes now are far greater. Curtailing the expansion of BDS might actually end up being a sweet aside. The real prize for the supremacist and imperialist ideology of Zionism is Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish State. Many ask why is this such an important goal for Israel. The answer is simple. When the true heirs of the land, those who are native in every sense - historically, culturally, legally, genetically - recognise Israel as a Jewish state, they are effectively giving away their claims to their own homeland. Like a home owner who officially relinquishes her home to a squatter, Palestinians would give Israel the only real legitimacy it can ever hope to have. Making such a declaration is tantamount not only to renouncing our Right of Return to a land we just sanctified as belonging to world Jewry, but it would also mean abandonment of our Palestinian brothers and sisters who hold Israeli citizenship to permanent second-class status and institutional racist inequality.
Continued bilateral negotiations in the current gross imbalance of power will destroy us. In the words of Richard Falk, "Intergovernmental diplomacy is not a pathway to a just peace, but rather a sinkhole for Palestinian rights." Â One can forgive the PLO for being hoodwinked by Oslo the first time (despite warnings from luminaries like Edward Said). But to lead us into the same trap with the same language and empty promises is unconscionable. At this point, any interim agreement that does not fully end Israeli occupation, end Israeli apartheid (including full equality for Palestinians with Israeli citizenship), and repatriate Palestinian refugees should be viewed as an act of high treason against the Palestinian people.Â
Susan Abulhawa is a Palestinian writer and the author of the international bestselling novel, Mornings in Jenin (Bloomsbury 2010). She is also the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine, an NGO for children.
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Turkish artist Garip Ay has used an ancient art known as paper marbling to recreate Vincent Van Gogh’s famed impressionist painting The Starry Night, to spectacular effect.
The recreation was captured in a video and posted to his YouTube account last weekend. It has since been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.
The video shows Mr Ay adding layers of ink to a bowl of water in the paper marbling or “ebru” style, before swirling the colours with a paint brush to replicate the eddies of the classic oil painting.
The video also features him recreating a more vivid version of one of Van Gogh’s self-portraits, impressing the painting onto an applied piece of paper before withdrawing it to reveal the results.
YouTube users have lavished praised on Mr Ay’s work.
“Beautiful. Just beautiful,” user Jay Thompson wrote.
“Why is there no +1000 [like] button?” Phil Tune added.
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2015 Lexus NX 200t F Sport: REVIEW and TEST DRIVE
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Call it bold; call it ugly; call it an “acquired taste.” Whatever you call it, there’s one thing Lexus’s new design language is not: boring.
Lexus gave us the 2015 NX 200t F Sport for a week-long test period, and we did the only thing suitable to get a good handle on the car’s capabilities: took it on a hiking trip to the mountains of New Hampshire.
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The NX is an all-new model for Lexus, entering the stronger-than-ever small luxury SUV market that has been dominated by the likes of the BMW X3, Audi Q5, Cadillac SRX and Acura RDX. Many of those aforementioned competitors are best-selling models for their respective automakers, so it’s clear just how important this particular crossover is to the Lexus bottom line.
Speaking of lines, this little ‘ute has lots of them… almost too many! Call me crazy, but I actually like the way it looks. It’s angular, futuristic, and cannot possibly be mistaken for anything else on the road – something that is unusual for today’s cookie-cutter crossover population.
The NX isn’t just notable for its styling, however, as it features an all-new 2.0-liter turbocharged four cylinder that produces 235-horsepower and 258 lb.-ft. of torque. This may not sound like groundbreaking stuff in 2015, but believe it or not, this is Lexus’s first-ever turbocharged gasoline engine in the U.S. market, and that makes it extremely important.
Fitted to an almost identical chassis to the ubiquitous Toyota RAV4, the NX200t drives exactly how you’d expect it to: like a RAV4 with more pep and panache.
READ MORE ABOUT THE 2015 LEXUS NX 200T IN OUR BUYER'S GUIDE HERE.
The turbocharged 4-banger completely changes the nature of the beast, giving it ample pick up and passing power on the highway. It finally feels in line with the likes of BMW and Audi’s turbo fours, and elevates the NX above “also-ran” status in the segment. Steering is definitely more luxury-oriented than sporty, but we weren’t complaining at all on the many miles up to the White Mountains and back.
Lexus has also succeeded in making a surprisingly roomy “compact” crossover, with plenty of room for my four-member family and all of our hiking gear for the trek.
Fuel economy leaves a bit to be desired, as the NX 200t will manage 22-mpg in the city and 27 on the highway, with a combined rating of 24-mpg. That’s certainly not an eye-popping number, and it leaves us wondering just how much the angry angular styling helps with aerodynamics.
But for those who prioritize economy over all else, Lexus also offers the NX 300h, which according to the EPA is the most fuel-efficient SUV in America. For a few thousand more, we think it’s certainly worth taking a look at.
Our NX 200t tester was fitted with the F Sport package and torque-vectoring all-wheel-drive, likely a popular combination for its aggressive design features and that all-important four-wheel control.
At a total sticker price of $45,253 (including $925 destination charge), the NX 200t F Sport is loaded with features, but the price is similar to what you’d expect from its German rivals.
Equipped with eight airbags, automatic collision notification, emergency phone assist, and braking assist, the NX 200t is one of the safest crossovers on the road, but you’d expect as much from an upscale Toyota product. An additional $660 will get you blind spot monitoring and rear cross traffic alert, which can be handy as this Lexus has a decent-sized rear blind spot.
In terms of goodies, the F Sport trim adds perforated leather seats, metallic trim, that oh-so-prominent “spindle” grille, and unique 18-inch wheels over the base 200t, while ticking the box for the $2,045 Premium F Sport package gives you heated front seats, a moonroof, power tilt and telescopic steering, and 10-way power front seats.
READ ABOUT OTHER LEXUS MODELS HERE.
Another $2,140 gets you the Navigation Package, which adds GPS, Lexus’s “Enform” destination assist, an App Suite, and the 10-speaker premium audio system. We’d recommend eschewing this particular package and sticking to your handy-dandy phone’s navigation system, as Lexus’s touch-pad operated interface can be a real hair-pulling affair. The toggle switch in other Lexus products is a bit better, but using your finger as a cursor for the screen takes your attention off the road for much too long, an oversight that seems out of character for such a safe SUV.
In all, the NX 200t is a very competitive offering, and a smart choice for the safety and reliability-oriented buyer. The name won’t carry quite as much weight as its German counterparts, but we reckon you’ll definitely turn more heads… and visit the dealer much less.
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Wannan alaka tana baiwa BBC damar gabatar da zababbun shirye-shiryenta ga jama'a masu tarin yawa.
A yanzu haka za a iya samun shirye-shiryen sashen na World Service ta hanyar kafofin da ke tafe: Radio Gotel - 917kHz AM (Yola, Jihar Adamawa)
BRTV - 94.5FM (Maiduguri, Jihar Borno)
Freedom Radio - 99.5FM (Jihar Kano)
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The latest competitor to Dominique Ansel’s cronut has arrived.
London artisan bakery Foxcroft & Ginger will start selling on Friday the “cruffin,” a hybrid croissant-donut pastry, Business Insider reported Wednesday. The cruffins are hand-folded in-house with French butter and a “secret sourdough mix,” and then baked into a muffin shape with fillings such as chocolate ganache, custard and jam.
Foxcroft & Ginger isn’t the first to unveil the cruffin, though. Mr. Holmes Bakehouse in San Francisco, for example, already has its own cruffin, and it’s so popular the bakery says someone may have stolen their recipe. Other outlets have tried to cash in on the hybrid pastry craze, with chains like Dunkin’ Donuts offering a croissant-donut pastry.
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Our annual 40 Under 40 list is about power, influence, drive, ambition—not fame.
But over the seven years we’ve run the list, inevitably, some familiar faces have made it on. We don’t include celebrities just for the sake of their celebrity, but famous folks like Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Seth MacFarlane, Will.i.am, and Ryan Seacrest truly earned their spots. (For an influential fashion line; for building an animated sitcom into a comedy empire; for consulting with blue-chip tech companies as a futurist; and for bringing reality television mainstream, respectively.) This year, Jessica Alba and Taylor Swift are on the list. One founded a consumer company valued at more than $1 billion and the other singlehandedly took on Spotify and Apple Music.
We’ve also had two athletes make the cut, years ago: Tiger Woods and LeBron James, who both grabbed a spot thanks to their branding capabilities. These sports stars made themselves into global icons, going beyond typical athlete endorsement deals to find interesting opportunities like golf course design and European soccer team ownership.
UFC fighter Ronda Rousey, No. 40 on this year’s list, is both athlete and celebrity. So, why does Rousey belong on this business list?
For starters, she is thought to be the most dominant female athlete ever. She is undefeated in the ring, and this year won her two bouts in a combined 48 seconds. Her utter dominance has been a boon to the sport, which has seen popularity rise. The Washington Post predicts her next fight, against Holly Holm in Australia in November, could be bigger than Floyd Mayweather’s fight earlier this month against Andre Berto. The easy time she’s had with all of her opponents has also led to questions of whether she ought to fight men, and Rousey cleverly replied that she believes most people don’t want to see a man hitting a woman on television. She is unquestionably bringing more eyeballs and dollars to UFC. A recent ESPNW reader poll named her, perhaps surprisingly, the Best Female Athlete Ever; she beat Serena Williams.
But her sports achievements alone wouldn’t necessarily land her on our list of influential young people in business.
Then there is her ascendance to ubiquitous fame. After grabbing a small role in The Expendables 3 last year, she was in both Furious 7 and the Entourage movie this year. Her next big role: the lead in a remake of Roadhouse—not the female lead, but the lead role, the part originally played by Patrick Swayze. She pals around with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. In December she will attend the U.S. Marine Corp Ball with a gutsy Marine who asked her to be his date in a video that quickly went viral. She appeared in this year’s Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, three years after she caused a sensation when she appeared nude in ESPN The Magazine‘s Body Issue.
But the most notable and significant thing about Rousey in 2015 has been the influence that her words have had, far beyond sports. She is inspiring not only women in sports, and not only women, but people everywhere. When she speaks, we listen.
She criticized Floyd Mayweather for his history of domestic abuse. When fellow UFC fighter Nick Diaz was suspended for marijuana use, she got very vocal in his defense, and in her opposition to marijuana testing for athletes. Even Floyd Mayweather, with whom she has exchanged strong barbs, agreed with her.
A mini-rant she made in a casual, 42-second video clip, has been viewed 3.1 million times on YouTube. (See below.) Beyoncé played the speech onstage at the Made In America music festival before walking onstage for her set. The controversial catchphrase, about not being a “do-nothing bitch,” caught on so quickly that Rousey wisely trademarked the term and the acronym, DNB, foreseeing the merchandise that would soon come. Then she went ahead and sold the merchandise—t-shirts saying “Don’t be a D.N.B.”—and sold more than 50,000 of them in a matter of days, She gave all the proceeds to Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services, which last year honored her with its Erasing The Stigma Award. This year she put out a memoir in which she speaks frankly about her struggles with substance abuse as a teen. Health Magazine called her, “exactly the type of role model we need.”
She told Fortune why body image is such an important cause to her: “When I was growing up, body image issues were something really serious that I dealt with, that I thought I was alone in, and I know now that’s really not the case. It’s a cause I think gets ignored way too much because body issues leads to eating disorders and depression and suicide and many things, and I think that’s how it starts, and I’d like to do whatever I can to address it early.”
She’s addressing it already, and she’s addressing other issues, too, and she’ll continue to speak out strongly on whatever she feels like. And people will pay attention.
For more, see: Ronda Rousey answers 11 questions for Fortune
To see the full list of the Fortune 40 Under 40, visit fortune.com/40-under-40.
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Barbara W. Tuchman wanted to talk about excellence.
The historian, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, has just been elected president of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the first woman ever to hold the post in the 80 years of existence of this prestigious honor society for creative people. There are 250 members of the institute; the academy, which is a part of it, includes only 5Q persons, singled out for special distinction.
“I want to call this Be Kind to the Elite Week,” she said. “I think it's a scary idea that to be elite is something wicked.” She snatched a book out of the wood‐paneled study of her Park Avenue apartment and began to quote Montesquieu, that the “dangerous fallacy of egalitarianism” would lead only to incompetence and “eventual mob despotism.”
“I couldn't agree with that more,” said the granddaughter of Henry Morgenthau Sr. and the daughter of Maurice Wertheim, an international banker, publisher, philanthropist and sportsman.
“Some people are of more value to society than others, Mozart, for example,” she said. “If you insist on the theory that everyone is equal, then you are doomed to a lowering of performance, of achievement.
“Certainly in my field, people have now gotten to the point where every fact is equal to every other fact. Then we get these enormous, thick, dull books in which everything is presented in an equal monotone. The author has done no selection and exercised no judgment.”
Mrs. Tuchman described herself as “a late developer.” She was 50 years old before the publication of “The Guns of August” put her on a great tidal wave of fame and popularity that has continued to swell with her other books, including “The Proud Tower,” “Stil well and the American Experience in China,” and, most recently, “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century.”
Her family, including her husband, Dr. Lestpr Tuchman, a physician, “never took me seriously until I was famous,” she said, and “it is my greatest sorrow that my parents died before I became important.”
Saying this, she exudes authority and self‐confidence. She looks younger than her 67 years, with sparkling hazel eyes, an imperious nose and a high forehead from which springs a shock of gray hair. Soon she is quoting another favor ite, Clemenceau: “Only the artists are on the right track; it may be they can give the world some beauty: to give it reason is impossible.”
She spoke with pride of how the members of the academy‐institute are “all active creative artists and the best of their kind.”
“Perhaps their taste and their recommendations could be of use to the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities in Washington,” she added.
The group she heads is, she said, “not as old‐fogyish as it, used tabe,” distributing $200,000 worth of awards each year in choices she described as “open and eclectic and sometimes avantgarde.”
The author said she believed that America lags behind the older countries of Europe “in its full recognition of the role of the arts.”
“Every French town has an Avenue Victor Hugo,” she continued. “We never have Mark Twain Street. Our culture is important — it's something the academy can help nurture.,I think it's important to have a mutual association of people in the arts who encourage one another simply by being there.”
Mrs. Tuchman, however, is a bit of a loner in the discipline of history, which she feels has been monopolized by the academics.
“I don't belong to the academic world at all. I never took a Ph.D.,” said this graduate of Radcliffe. “It's what saved me, I think. If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity. I don't belong to a writers’ clique, either The New York Review of Books types. People ask'me, ‘Do you teach?’ I'm a writer. Why should I teach? It's not my thing. I don't want to teach. I couldn't teach if I tried.”
Yet she does on a wide scale, through her books. She noted with satisfaction and some astonishment that her latest best seller, “A Distant Mirror,” has sold more than half a million copies sinrt: September. “And the letters! They thank me for giving them pleas. ure, from having learned something from my book. It's really so touching.”
She said she recognized that being a woman kept her back for a long time. “My obligation was primarily toward my three children, my daughters, Lucy, Jessica and Alma. When the children came home from school or had the measles, I had to drop everything,” she said. “If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, ‘This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.’ For a woman, it's very difficult to work behind a closed door.”
She writes out her first draft in longhand, with “everything messed up and x'd out and inserted.” There are then several typewritten drafts, triplespaced, and these in turn are cut up and moved around and Scotch‐taped together.
“The third draft gets pretty mucked up,” she said. “My set speech this year is how I wrote the book. People sit there with their mouths open as I tell them how I write the book, the process of creating, and how I travel to do the research.”
It took her seven years to complete “A Distant Mirror,” and it will be a while yet, perhaps a year or more, before she intends to undertake another project. “The last two chapters of my latest book - I thought I would never, never manage it. I was so tired of it, so tired of the 14th century. I felt I've done my best.”
When she is working, she said, even marketing spoils the continuity of writing, “and I buy the wrong things.”
Now she wants “a year of freedom, of walking out. I want to go to a museum, even a movie in the afternoon. I'm too compulsive while I'm working.” She sighed. “I just want to feel unpushed.”
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