Researchers from the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative have been working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for several years examining the roots of the violence against women that has plagued this war-torn region.
Hamilton Daveed Diggs History is happening in Manhattan for first time Tony nominee Daveed Diggs, and he just happens to be the fastest rapper in the world—all right, on the Great White Way. Hamilton’s Thomas Jefferson and Marquis de Lafayette recently demonstrated his beat-dropping skills on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon; the late night host pointed out that Diggs says 19 words in three seconds in “Guns and Ships.” “In the rap world, that’s medium fast,” he said before giving the audience a sample of his speediest rhyme-spitting. The Broadway.com Audience Choice Award winner went on to discuss why he slept through the Tony nom announcements…Don’t pull a Jefferson and miss out—watch the videos below! Star Files from $149.00 View Comments Related Shows Daveed Diggs read more
By Dialogo January 13, 2011 Thirteen-year-old Jorge Enrique Cac Zacarías, died in Guatemala on the night of 9 January as a result of the injuries he suffered following the attack on a bus on 3 January, hospital sources announced. He was the eighth victim claimed by an event that provoked an emotional reaction across Guatemala. Cac Zacarías, who was a passenger on the bus, together with his mother and two sisters, who also lost their lives. He suffered burns on more than 80% of his body. On 12 January, 55-year-old Lázaro Donis died too, raising the death toll to nine in the same attack. Donis also suffered burns to large parts of his body. Guatemalan security forces arrested two suspects last week and identified two imprisoned gang members as having planned the attack, because they did not receive the money they demanded in a case of extortion. The country’s president, Álvaro Colom, dismissed the possibility of a link between drug-trafficking groups and the attack. “There’s no relationship between drug trafficking and this terrorist attack, but instead they were ‘clicas’ (gang cells) that dedicate themselves to extortion,” Colom affirmed. read more
39SHARESShareShareSharePrintMailGooglePinterestDiggRedditStumbleuponDeliciousBufferTumblr,Holly Buchanan Holly Buchanan is the author of Selling Financial Services to Women – What Men Need to Know and Even Women Will Be Surprised to Learn. She is the co-author of The … Web: www.SellingFinancialServicesToWomen.com Details Have you ever participated in what you knew would be a difficult conversation even though you knew it wasn’t a good time? You may have been distracted, in a bad mood, or tired. You went ahead with the conversation and found yourself instantly annoyed, frustrated or hurt. Afterwards did you think of everything you wish you had said? Did you wish you had honored yourself and your boundaries and set a different time to talk?Timing is everything.Yes, there are times when you can’t control the timing. Your boss calls you into his or her office, or you have an unhappy customer on the phone. But in most situations you may have more control than you think. There may be a more advantageous time or place to have a discussion. The secret is to make sure you are choosing another time or place to engage, and not just avoiding the conversation. Choose another locationA lawyer was the lead on a big case and it wasn’t going well. After a rough day in court, her boss walked into the area where she and several other colleagues were working and proceeded to yell at her. What was her response? She calmly got up and walked into her boss’s office. Surprised, he turned around and followed her into his office. She knew her boss had missed a crucial piece of information about the case. She needed to talk to him about it, but didn’t want to make him look bad in front of his staff. So she took control and walked into his office.NOTE: One of the keys to a successful outcome is to honor the other person’s ego. As the famous saying goes “Never take a person’s dignity. It is worth everything to them and nothing to you.” There are times moving to a more private space can have a positive effect on a difficult conversation.Choose another timeIf someone is really upset they may want to have a confrontation then and there. But there may be cases where you have the option to suggest another time to continue the conversation. “Let’s reschedule at a time when I can give you my full attention.” “I can see this is important to you. Let’s talk later when we have more time to properly discuss it.”The most important thing is that you do schedule a time to talk so the other person knows you’re not just blowing them off.Take a walkIf you feel things getting heated, suggest taking a walk…together. When you walk with someone you are both facing in the same direction. It is very hard to attack someone who is standing by your side. Create a situation where you and your opponent are in motion. That physical activity increases blood flow to the brain. You can always take breaks to stop and face each other. Lead with the positive outcome you want to achieveIf you’re avoiding a conversation, you’re probably predicting a bad outcome. So set the stage for success. Lead with your intent. What’s the positive outcome you want to achieve? “I want to give us a chance to clear up any misunderstandings.” “Completing this project on time is really important to both of our careers. I’d like to talk about some problems and how we can come up with some solutions.” “I know you care about this as much as I do. Can we try find a solution that feels fair to both of us?” Difficult conversations can be a gift. They offer an opportunity for resolutions to ongoing problems. Choosing when and where those conversations take place helps you take control and feel more centered. This can help you change a potential argument into a productive interaction. read more
The developers of the long delayed Champlain Hudson Power Express (CHPE), a 333-mile one-way south, one-billion-watt electricity corridor from Quebec to New York City, are quietly obtaining federal and state permits while changing parts of the route hoping the public doesn’t notice. CHPE cables would be buried and eventually abandoned under Lake Champlain and the Hudson, Harlem and East rivers, and along roads and railroad rights-of-way in parts of Clinton, Warren, Saratoga, Schenectady, Albany and Rockland counties. Despite a minimum construction cost of $2 billion, CHPE would provide only a few hundred temporary construction jobs and a couple of dozen jobs if completed, while the state’s wealth would go to Canada to pay for imported power. CHPE isn’t needed to replace the Indian Point nuclear station electricity when it’s closed in a few years. With CHPE, the installation of in-state employment-intensive renewable electricity, energy efficiency, and conservation, would likely be slowed because there might appear to be less need for it. CHPE electricity is being falsely promoted as clean and renewable.This letter shouldn’t be interpreted as Canada bashing. It’s about protecting rivers from needless destruction.Tom EllisAlbanyMore from The Daily Gazette:EDITORIAL: Thruway tax unfair to working motoristsEDITORIAL: Find a way to get family members into nursing homesEDITORIAL: Urgent: Today is the last day to complete the censusEDITORIAL: Beware of voter intimidationFeds: Albany man sentenced for role in romance scam Categories: Letters to the Editor, OpinionRe Fred Pfieffer’s Jan. 25 letter and recent Gazette editorials calling for improved New York economic development policies, we can do much better than importing additional river-wrecking electricity from Canada. The provincial governments of Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) are literally destroying large rivers to sell electricity to New York and New England. read more
Categories: Letters to the Editor, OpinionIt’s with grateful hearts that my mother and I wish to publicly thank the Glenville first responders who came to her assistance after a sudden fall outside a local business on Feb. 2. We particularly thank the Glenville police officer who was miraculously just feet away from us when mom fell. He rushed to her side and called the medics. His direction to me, his compassion and kindness provided a sense of calm. Thank you, too, to the thoughtful customer who stopped to help me get two grocery carts to my car. By the time I finished getting the groceries into my car, Mom had already been moved indoors. Another customer, “Dusty,” had provided a transport chair for mom to sit in, along with a warm blanket, while Mohawk Ambulance Service personnel capably attended to her injuries. What a special feeling knowing that there were so many caring people that surrounded her in her time of need. Please forgive me for not recalling each of your names. But know that your kindnesses will never be forgotten.Darleen KellyCharltonMore from The Daily Gazette:EDITORIAL: Beware of voter intimidationPolice: Schenectady woman tried to take car in Clifton Park hours after arrest, release in prior the…Foss: Should main downtown branch of the Schenectady County Public Library reopen?EDITORIAL: Find a way to get family members into nursing homesEDITORIAL: Thruway tax unfair to working motorists read more
Read also: Coronavirus savages US economy in first quarter, bigger hit still to come’American miracles, American magic’Berkshire Hathaway, based in Omaha, Nebraska, called its first-quarter setback “temporary” but said it could not reliably predict when its many businesses would return to normal or when consumers would resume their former buying habits.”We’ve faced great problems in the past, haven’t faced this exact problem — in fact we haven’t really faced anything that quite resembles this problem,” Buffett said in a lengthy speech on the country’s economic history.”But we faced tougher problems, and the American miracles, American magic has always prevailed and it will do so again.” “We are now a better country, as well as an incredibly more wealthy country, than we were in 1789… We got a long ways to go but we moved in the right direction,” he said, referencing the abolition of slavery and women’s suffrage.”Never bet against America.”Buffett is considered one of the savviest investors anywhere. His fortune of $72 billion is the fourth-largest in the world, according to Forbes, and in normal years, the company’s annual gathering in Omaha is a high-point of the calendar for investors, a “Woodstock for capitalists.”But the devastating economic impact of the pandemic has hit hard at Berkshire Hathaway’s wide range of investments, and the need for social distancing forced it to hold the annual meeting online.Buffett addressed his shareholders in a livestream flanked only by Gregory Abel, who is in charge of Berkshire’s non-insurance operations. His business partner for six decades, 96-year-old Charlie Munger, did not appear.Read also: Warren Buffett donates $3.6 billion to Gates’ and family charitiesGrowth by one measureBuffett, in a statement, played down his company’s bleak-looking net figure. He said a better measure of the company’s performance was its operating earnings, which exclude investments and are less subject to sharp fluctuations.By that measure, Berkshire Hathaway saw growth to $5.9 billion from $5.55 billion a year earlier. The brutal drop in the net — to a loss of $49.75 billion from a profit last year of $21.7 billion — resulted primarily from the virus-related decline in value of its broad investment portfolio, which ranges from energy to transport to insurance and technology.The annual meeting often has an almost carnival atmosphere, as thousands of fans and investors flock to Nebraska to hear from the celebrated “Oracle of Omaha.” Buffett, famous for his relatively modest lifestyle, turns 90 on August 30.In documents filed Saturday, Berkshire noted that until mid-March many of its companies were posting “comparative revenue and earnings increases” over the same 2019 period.Many of its companies — including in rail transport, energy production and some manufacturing and service businesses — are deemed essential and are able to continue working amid the far-reaching confinement orders.But their turnover slowed considerably in April, the company statement said.Moves taken by those companies such as employee furloughs, salary cuts and reductions, and capital spending reductions are “necessary actions” and “temporary,” it said.Topics : “It turns out I was wrong,” he said of his acquisitions of 10 percent stakes in American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines and United Airlines.Berkshire Hathaway had paid $7 billion to $8 billion, and “we did not take out anything like that,” he said.Between the purchases that took place over months, and the sale, “the airlines business I think changed in a very major way” and could no longer meet Berkshire criteria for profitability, he said.Buffett’s announcement may further hurt airlines already pushed to the brink by coronavirus lockdown measures, now looking to the US government for $25 billion in relief funds. Billionaire investor Warren Buffet said Saturday he’s confident the US economy will bounce back from its pummeling by the coronavirus pandemic because “American magic has always prevailed”.The 89-year-old made the sanguine prediction about the world’s largest economy as his holding company Berkshire Hathaway reported first-quarter net losses of nearly $50 billion.Buffett also announced Saturday that his company had sold all its stakes in four major US airlines last month, as the pandemic clobbered the travel industry. read more
Product tanker owner and operator Hafnia, a member of the BW Group, revealed its plans to launch a pre-listing private placement ahead of the contemplated listing on the Oslo Stock Exchange.Upon completing the placement, the company would list its common shares on Oslo Axess.The pre-listing private placement consists of an offering of new shares with gross proceeds of up to USD 125 million; an offering of shares with gross proceeds of up to USD 175 million; and an offering of existing shares totalling 15% of the primary base offering and secondary base offering which equals gross proceeds of up to USD 45 million.The shares would be offered for sale within a price range of between NOK 26.20 and NOK 30.90 per share, which corresponds to a pre-money equity value of the company of between USD 975 million and USD 1,150 million.Hafnia said that it would raise up to USD 125 million in new equity in the primary base offering, adding that the net proceeds would be used for financing of the equity portion of the acquisition of two MR vessels, repayment of an unsecured RCF facility from BW Maritime, repayment of an unsecured term loan facility, as well as for working capital and general corporate purposes.The secondary base offering consists of existing shares in the company from BW Group, equalling up to USD 25 million, as well as from a consortium of financial investors, equalling up to USD 150 million. read more
The operators of the goalline technology system used in the English Premier League apologised for an embarrassing failure on Wednesday.This was after Sheffield United were denied a clear goal in their match against Aston Villa in the restarted 2019/2020 season. In the Premier League’s first match after a 100-day hiatus due to the COVID-19 crisis, Sheffield United were denied through a clumsy defensive mix-up just before half-time.That was when Aston Villa goalkeeper Orjan Nyland carried the ball back over his own line.“I don’t know whether to laugh or cry,” Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder said after the game, which was played behind closed doors at Villa Park.“The feeling at the time by everybody, both sets of players and staff, was that of a goal.”Off-balance Aston Villa goalkeeper Nyland caught a curling free-kick but was bundled back over the line by teammate Keinan Davis. Referee Michael Oliver, pointing to his watch, looked to indicate that goalline technology had not verified the ball had crossed the line.This was in spite of what appeared to be clear evidence on TV replays.Hawk-Eye, who operate the goalline system, issued a statement after the game saying the seven cameras in the stands around the goal area were obstructed by the goalkeeper, defender and goalpost.“This level of occlusion has never been seen before in over 9,000 matches that the Hawk-Eye Goal Line Technology system has been in operation,” the company said, while fans furiously vented on social media about the technological slip-up.There was also no intervention from the Video Assistant Referee in spite of the fact that TV viewers were able to see the ball had clearly crossed the line. “Under the IFAB protocol, the VAR is able to check goal situations. However, due to the fact that the on-field match officials did not receive a signal, and the unique nature of that, the VAR did not intervene,” PGMO, the body responsible for match officials in English professional football, said in a separate explanation.Wilder asked to speak to Oliver at halftime.“The referee said it had the feel of a goal but he has to rely on Hawk-Eye. We believe it should have been referred and asked for it,” he said.The draw moved Sheffield United up to sixth place, one point behind Manchester United in fifth.RelatedPosts COVID-19: NCAA to revoke erring airlines licence over non-compliance FRSC to Schools: We’ll arrest, prosecute drivers who flout COVID-19 rules Runarsson joins Arsenal on four-year deal Reuters/NAN.Tags: Aston VillaCOVID-19English Premier LeagueHawk-EyeOrjan NylandSheffield United read more
Ferdinand was selected by Roy Hodgson for the first time when the Three Lions boss unveiled his squad for the World Cup double-header with San Marino and Montenegro. Yet the move has just created more rancour as Ferguson is evidently uncertain whether the 34-year-old should be reporting for duty in Burton on Monday evening. “The issue is not the amount of games, the issue is his whole preparation for football,” said Ferguson. “It involves treatment, it involves rest, it involves heavy days followed by some light days followed by some easy days. “Our medical staff and fitness lads have done a great job with him. Because he hasn’t been playing when the international breaks have come along we have detailed all the things he has to do, therefore it is a disruption to his normal preparation.” With Ferdinand’s contract due to expire at the end of the season, there has to be a chance that, if the defender elects to resume an 81-cap international career two years since his last England appearance, Ferguson will choose not to offer him an extension to his present deal. However, the United boss accepts the final decision lies with Ferdinand, who could face Reading in the Premier League at Old Trafford on Saturday evening. “I was quite surprised when Roy Hodgson phoned me to say what he had done and I did say to him that I will talk to Rio,” said Ferguson. “Of course it is a concern and I will need to speak to our doctor because we prepare Rio in certain ways. “We have given him the treatments he needs for the various complaints he has in terms of his back and groin. So far it’s worked very well. Rio has been absolutely magnificent for us. “He has to make sure he’s going to be okay in terms of the number of games he plays because what he is enjoying is how we plan for him. That has allowed him to reach his best performance level for quite a few years.” Sir Alex Ferguson thinks it will be a major disruption to Rio Ferdinand’s training regime if the Manchester United defender does answer England’s call. Press Association read more