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By Jorge BarreraAPTN National NewsOTTAWA–First Nations leaders will be listening closely to the words Prime Minister Stephen Harper chooses in his speech at the Crown-First Nations gathering Tuesday after he left chiefs feeling underwhelmed by his response to their presentations during a special, two-and-a-half hour meeting with a delegation Monday.Harper told chiefs that they should consider contacting their MPs and that he can’t just focus on Aboriginal issues because he has to run the country, according to three chiefs who were present at the meeting.His comments left chiefs concerned the prime minister was not taking their issues seriously.“To hear the prime minister make reference to the number of issues he is dealing with raises questions in my mind and those questions will need to be answered in his words tomorrow to First Nations,” said Serpent River Chief Isadore Day. “Tomorrow will be a very good indication of where the prime minister is in his resolve, or lack thereof, to deal with First Nations issues.”Grand Chief Ghislain Picard, who heads the Assembly of First Nations Quebec wing, said it was surprising to hear Harper tell chiefs that they should consider contacting their local MPs.“It is kind of funny coming from him that these would be the channels when it’s exactly what we’ve done for the past six years to build some pressure on this government,” said Picard. “Are we going to be back on square one? It’s going to be a waste of time, this week in Ottawa.”The meeting with Harper, which according to chiefs was agreed to at the 11th hour, did alleviate some of the anger and disappointment over the prime minister’s plan to leave Tuesday’s “historic” gathering early.When Harper announced the event in December, he said he hoped it would be “historic.”The Prime Minister’s Office agreed to a meeting with limited number of delegates from each region. The parties met in a boardroom in the Langevin building, across from Parliament Hill, which houses Harper’s main office. The meeting ran from about 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. local time.Grand Chief Stewart Phillip said there were about 45 people in the room, including chiefs, elders, Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan and his Parliamentary Secretary Greg Rickford.Harper opened the meeting saying he was there to listen.“I was extremely proud of some of the profoundly powerful statements made by some of the elders, grand chiefs and regional chiefs that were in the room,” said Phillip. “In the end we waited for the response from the prime minister, which was very, very brief, almost disappointingly brief.”Phillip said the prime minister basically told chiefs that he couldn’t just focus on their issues because he had to run the country.“He did make a point of saying basically that, as the prime minister of Canada, he had many, many other issues. He talked about the great responsibility and many interests on this ‘great ship of state’ as he described the country,” said Phillip. “Quite astonishingly…at the very end he was recommending we go home and talk to our MPs.”Phillip said most of the delegates were consistent in their call for a series of first ministers meeting, or some kind of similar, high-level process, to deal with issues of dire poverty, treaty and land rights once and for all.Now, chiefs will wait to hear what the prime minister says in his speech Tuesday and what gets accomplished during sessions with cabinet ministers to gauge what to do next. They’ll either continue negotiating or take their issues to the streets.“After all of that takes place, there is going to be reflection from the delegates,” said Phillip. “There is an incredibly high level of frustration and anger and resentment that has been expressed by our elders, our traditional leaders, grand chiefs, and chiefs.”jbarrera@aptn.ca
VANCOUVER – Lululemon Athletica Inc. outperformed analyst expectations in its most recent quarter after a strong holiday season.The Vancouver-based company says its net revenue increased 18 per cent to $928.8 million for its fourth quarter ended January 28, while its adjusted diluted earnings per share were $1.33 for the quarter compared to $1 in the same quarter the previous year.Analysts expected the company’s revenue to be $912.44 million and earnings per share to be $1.27, according to Thomson Reuters.In early January the company raised its sales and earnings guidance for the quarter after the holiday season with then-CEO Laurent Potdevin saying the athleisure retailer was “thrilled” with its performance.The company said at the time that it expected its net revenue to fall between $905 million and $915 million.Potdevin resigned in early February after a several instances in which he fell short of the retailer’s standards of conduct, including a relationship between him and a former designer at the company.The company did not provide an update on its search for a new chief executive in a statement about its earnings.
A number of nominations have been sent in as just a name and the category the nominee might be inducted in. This is not enough – the college of voters needs a good explanation of why any person or team is being nominated, the technology for which they are being nominated and the importance this has been to the industry. By all means include Internet links. The better the nomination presentation, the more likely your candidate is to win, and if he, she or they do win, we need good information for the induction presentation. Some of the latest nominations in comminution include Fred Bond for the Bond Work Index, Harlow Hardinge for ball milling, John Starkey inventor of the SAGDesign test and Samuel Calvin McLanahan, one of the founders of McLanahan Corp.Maxie Anderson, Joe House, Don Agers and Ronald Swanson have been nominated for solvent-extraction/electrowinning (SX-EW). Another recent nomination is James White, founder of Modular Mining Systems. Ralph Kress, ‘The Father Of The Off-Highway Truck,’ spent almost fifty years designing and developing mining trucks. His ideas are still evident in the configuration of mine haulage trucks at surface mines throughout the world.“Don MacLean’s (MacLean Engineering) belief in the importance of ore flow conditioning at the drawpoint and his willingness to foster and adapt new technologies enabled a regional manufacturer to make an international impact on the underground mining equipment scene.”Sverker Hartwig, Chris Lybaert and Ludo Van Nederkassel have been nominated for the development of Atlas Copco’s VSD (variable speed drive) compressor technology, which drastically reduces energy consumption.The Anderson Boyes design group responsible for the first coal shearer has been nominated. Anderson Boyes manufactured this shearer coal cutting machine between 1960 and 1985. Anderson Boyes became Anderson Strathclyde (via Anderson Mavor), then Anderson Longwall (after the controversial 1983 takeover by Charter International), Long-Airdox (after its 1995 sale by Charter, with the Motherwell manufacturing plant closed in 1997), DBT Deutsche Bergbau-Technik (2001), Bucyrus International (2007) and Caterpillar.
ELIAN GONZALEZ, WHO at age six sparked an international custody battle that ended in his dramatic return to Cuba, has blamed a US law for his mother’s death in a new interview published today.In November 1999, Gonzalez was plucked from the sea off Florida’s coast after an overcrowded motorboat capsized en route from Cuba, killing his mother and 10 others seeking to enter the United States illegally.His Florida relatives fought to keep him in the United States, but his father demanded he be returned.The event culminated on June 30, 2000, when heavily-armed US agents broke into the Miami home of Gonzalez’s uncle on orders of then-US attorney-general Janet Reno to return the boy to Cuba.“They were very sad moments for me, which marked me for life,” Gonzalez said today in an interview with the local weekly Giron and published on the cubadebate.cu web site.Elian returns to Havana’s Jose Marti International Airport with his father in June 2000 (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan/File) “It never gave me the chance to think of my mother, who died in the sea as a result of the Cuban Adjustment Act” he said, referring to a 1966 US law that says any Cuban who reaches the United States by any means will be allowed to stay and work.Havana has called the law “murderous” and blamed it for encouraging people to board rickety boats to cross the Florida straits in the hopes of reaching the US coast — a process that has left thousands dead.Reflecting on the events after he reached Miami, Gonzalez, who turns 20 in December, said he “suffered the consequences of the Act.”He said his basic rights as a child — “the right to be with my father, the right to maintain my nationality and remain in my cultural context” — were also violated until he was finally returned to his father by court order.Elian wearing his school uniform at a political event in December 2000 in Cuba. (AP Photo/Jorge Rey). But he emphasised “our struggle is not against the American people, it is against their government. He said:From the moment Americans knew of my case, they took to the streets to call for me to be sent back to my country.Elian’s return to Cuba was a huge boon to then-leader Fidel Castro, as illegal emigration is an embarrassing everyday reality in the only one-party communist state in the Americas.- © AFP, 2013Read: Cuba says everything’s fine: Weapons on North Korean ship are ‘obsolete’ > Read: Raul Castro raises possibility of retiring as Cuban president >
Last month anime fans got a nice surprise when Production I.G. announced a new anime for the popular Ghost in the Shell series, called GitS: Arise. Little was revealed at the time, but further details were promised on February 12. Those details have appeared as promised along with the first trailer you can watch above.As expected, and based on the first image that was released on January 15, main character and cyborg Motoko Kusanagi will be seen in a younger form. This isn’t because she has moved to a new body. Instead, Arise is set in an earlier time frame than the series and movies that have gone before.Interestingly, the voice actress who performed the last line of the little girl in the first Ghost in the Shell movie will be the voice of Motoko Kusanagi for this new series.Details of when Arise will appear in the West have not yet been revealed, but in Japan the new series will be launched as four 50-minute parts. The first of those will be available to watch in movie theaters from June 22. The Blu-ray and DVD versions will then see a release on July 26. There’s also a scenario book being bundled with the Blu-ray in Japan. The other three parts will follow at a later date, and hopefully there won’t be huge gap in between releases like we are currently experiencing with the Evangelion reboot.A manga carrying the same name is also being produced to accompany the series. It will start running as in Monthly Young Magazine from April, and will probably end up in graphic novel from for Western audiences (eventually).It’s likely all four parts of Arise will arrive as a single Blu-ray and DVD release outside of Japan once the series is complete. If we’re lucky, it may be streamed sooner than that with subtitles.
Autisme : un lien entre la pollution de l’air et le développement de la maladie ?Une étude américaine a confirmé qu’il existait un lien entre la pollution atmosphérique liée au trafic automobile et le développement de l’autisme. Il faut néanmoins rester prudent, cette étude ne réalisant là qu’une simple association, soulignent ses auteurs.Alors que les causes de l’autisme restent aujourd’hui plutôt mystérieuses, les recherches continuent de se multiplier pour identifier ce qui pourrait favoriser l’apparition de la maladie. Dans une étude publiée lundi dans la revue scientifique Archive of General Psychiatry, des chercheurs américains indiquent ainsi qu’il existerait un lien entre la pollution atmosphérique causée par le trafic automobile et le développement de l’autisme. À lire aussiDengue : symptômes, traitement, prévention, où en est-on ?Pour arriver à cette conclusion, les chercheurs ont comparé 279 enfants atteints d’autisme à 245 enfants ayant un développement normal. Ils ont ainsi constaté que les autistes avaient plus de risque d’avoir été exposés aux niveaux les plus élevés de la pollution atmosphérique automobile (dioxyde d’azote NO2 et particules fines de diamètre inférieur à 2,5 microns) durant la grossesse de leur mère et pendant leur première année de vie que les autres. Néanmoins, ce n’est pas la première fois que les chercheurs mettent en évidence ce lien puisqu’ils avaient déjà publié en 2010 une première étude en ce sens.Celle-ci avait mis en évidence un doublement du risque d’autisme chez des enfants nés de mères vivant à moins de 309 mètres d’une autoroute. Il s’agit cependant d’une simple association mettent en garde Heather Volk, de l’université de Sud Californie, et ses collègues. En effet, pour véritablement démontrer que la pollution atmosphérique est un des facteurs à l’origine de l’autisme, il faudrait davantage d’évaluations épidémiologiques et toxicologiques qui permettraient de comprendre les mécanismes biologiques potentiels sous-jacents. Autant de travaux que les chercheurs incitent aujourd’hui à entamer pour en apprendre plus sur ce lien.Le 28 novembre 2012 à 20:13 • Maxime Lambert
Florentin Pogba has revealed that Barcelona and Real Madrid will be the only options for his brother if he chooses to leave Manchester United.Amid a breakdown in his relationship with manager Jose Mourinho earlier this season, Paul Pogba’s time at United seemed all but over and he had been strongly linked with a return to Juventus.The French World Cup winner failed to produce the performances that were expected of him by Mourinho and things reached a boiling point in September when footage captured the pair in a tense exchange at United’s Aon Training Complex.But it was Mourinho who shown the door at Old Trafford instead following a poor start to the season last month.And Pogba has since emerged as a rejuvenated figure under interim coach Ole Gunnar Solskjaer with five goals and four assists in his last six games.Now Florentin, who is expected to complete a deal to play his football at Spanish second division side Elche next week, has revealed the main reason why his brother is happy again.“Mourinho leaving was the key,” Florentin told AS.
Solskjaer praises Harry Maguire after Man United’s 1-0 win Andrew Smyth – September 14, 2019 Ole Gunnar Solskjaer singled out Harry Maguire for praise after helping Manchester United keep a clean sheet in their 1-0 win over Leicester City.“He wasn’t happy, and it was clear to see. Now, under Solskjaer, everything is much better. My brother knows him from his time in the Manchester United youth set-up.”Despite what speculation over the past few months has suggested though, only a move to La Liga in Barcelona and Real Madrid will be possible for Pogba.“We like tiki-taka. Whenever I can, I watch their [Barcelona] games or go to the Camp Nou,” said Florentin.“When my brother leaves Manchester United, there are only three clubs he can go to improve: [Manchester] City, Real Madrid or Barca. He’s not going to go to City, so he’ll come to Spain: to Barca or Madrid.”It turns out that Pogba could have joined either one of the Spanish giants in 2016, but he chose to complete a return to United instead.“When he was at Juventus, he could have gone to Barcelona, but he was determined to return to Manchester United, where it hadn’t worked out for him the first time around,” added Florentin.“There was also movement [over a transfer to Madrid] when [Zinedine] Zidane was in charge, but he had his heart set on going back to England.”
Hyderabad: An unknown person electrocuted after touching a transformer accidentally at Bandlaguda under Mailardevpally police station limits on Wednesday night. According to police, the person aged about 24 years scaled the company’s boundary wall at Krishna Reddy Nagar. Accidentally he touched the transformer and electrocuted due to which he died on the spot. Police suspects that the deceased might have entered with an intention to steal the property at the company.
Russel Sarker along with his family members at the Supreme Court premises on Wednesday. Photo: Saiful IslamGreen Line Paribahan on Wednesday finally paid Tk 500,000 to Russel Sarker, whose left leg was severed after getting crushed by one of its buses in the capital and got one month time more to pay the remaining 4.5 million fixed by the High Court Division.The authorities of the transport company handed over a cheque for Tk 500,000 to Russel through the High Court Division bench comprising justice FRM Nazmul Ahasan and justice KM Kamrul Kader Wednesday afternoon.Earlier in the day, Russel’s lawyer informed the court that Green LineParibahan did not contact her client, in spite of High Court Division’s order to give him the money by today (Wednesday).Green Line Paribahan owner Hazi Alauddin was present before the court today and his lawyer pleaded for one month more time to comply with court’s order saying his client is sick and facing some more business problems.The High Court then asked the accused party to pay a part of the money fixed by the court within today and again appear before the court at 3pm.After that, the transport company authorities paid Tk 500,000 to Russel.Earlier on 4 April, the High Court Division had extended time till today for GreenLine Paribahan to give Tk 5 million to Russel Sarker, or else not to sell any ticket from 11 April.The court came up with the order as the transport company failed to comply with the High Court Division direction to give the money by that day.Earlier on 31 March, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court upheld a High Court Division order that had asked Green Line Paribahan authorities to give Tk 5 million to Russel Sarker.A four-member Apex Court bench headed by chief justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed the order, scraping an appeal filed by the transport company againstthe High Court Division’s order.The High Court later on that day, ordered the accused party to give the money by 3 April.The same High Court bench on 12 March had passed the initial order asking Green Line Paribahan to pay the money within next two weeks.The court had come up with the order after hearing a petition submitted in this regard and also set 31 March for holding further hearing in the case.“Driver of that bus crushed private car driver Russel intentionally as the two logged in an altercation on Mayor Mohammad Hanif Flyover on 28 April, 2018. Russel’s left leg got severed after coming under the bus,” lawyer Khandaker Shamsul Haque Reza, who moved the petition, told newsmen.After filing of the writ petition, the High Court Division on 14 May 2018, issued a rule and the court on 12 March had passed the order after holding hearing on that rule.“The court ordered Green Line Paribahan to provide all the medical expenses for Russel and arrange fitting a prosthetic limb for him,” lawyer Reza added.
The monkey Tachtouch is pictured in a cage next to its French owner Beatrice Mauger (C) during the return voyage across the fortified border that had to be undertaken with help from the UN`s peacekeeping force UNIFIL (L and R) near Al Qouzah, southern Lebanon on 7 June. Photo: AFPA Lebanese monkey who breached the border with Israel was returned to its owner Friday by United Nations peacekeepers after cavorting for more than a week in enemy territory.Its owner, a French nun who describes herself as a “virgin hermit”, was quick to see the primate’s escapade across one of the world’s most tense borders as a message of peace.Tachtouch escaped late last month, prompting its owner Beatrice Mauger who runs a peace project in southern Lebanon to launch an appeal on Facebook.”Please Tachtouch come back to Ark of Peace!” she wrote on 1 June, with a promise that the village children would hand out bananas as a reward.But Tachtouch was far away, having slipped across the militarised frontier into the Jewish state.The monkey was spotted in multiple locations but evaded capture for more than a week.”We have captured the Lebanese monkey in good health,” the Yodfat Monkey Forest in northern Israel said on Facebook late Thursday.The capture took five days of stalking by three women with “determination, love and faith”, the post said, including a video of the three sitting with the monkey in a cage in the boot of a car.”He took the drama out of the border by ignoring the wall and the barbed wire,” Sister Beatrice told AFP Friday on a phone messaging application after being reunited with Tachtouch.”This vervet is a peace messenger,” she said, referring to the type of monkey Tachtouch is.”Peace to all of Tachtouch’s fans who helped him to cross a sealed border, a prophetic sign of the reopening of the Israeli-Lebanese border,” she added.The return voyage across the fortified border had to be undertaken with help from the UN’s peacekeeping force UNIFIL.An Israeli army spokesman told AFP earlier in the day the monkey was “handed over to United Nations forces to be returned to its owners in Lebanon”.Israel withdrew from southern Lebanon in 2000 but the two states remain technically at war.The UN deployment is supposed to monitor the border area between the two states as well as the ceasefire.
Here’s the original scene: Advertisement The 90’s classic ‘The Sandlot’ turns 25 this year, and and to pay tribute to the classic movie about baseball and growing up in the summer of the1950’s, some of the Milwaukee Brewers used some spring training down time to make a shot-for-shot remake of the scene where Hamilton ‘The Great Hambino’ Porter (Catcher Steven Vogt) blasts a home run to reveal the terrifying ‘Beast.’The biggest compliment to ‘The Sandlot’ is that it’s as relatable and watchable as it was when it was released. Good job by the Brewers showing some love to a classic.
This hands-on workshop will give you the tools to authentically connect with an increasingly skeptical online audience. Free Workshop | August 28: Get Better Engagement and Build Trust With Customers Now Popular cloud-based file hosting service Dropbox announced today that it is renaming its business-focused offering Dropbox for Teams to Dropbox for Business in an effort to better serve its large and small-business customers. Dropbox also announced a new feature that gives IT administrators more security and management options, it says.Dropbox says the rebranding reflects the growing number of new features offered in the service and new customers using it. Dropbox for Teams — which syncs a team’s work across multiple devices and provides tools to manage employees — first launched in late 2011. Earlier this year, Dropbox released a new user interface that offers IT admins more control over individual and group activities and file-sharing capabilities.Dropbox for Business is priced at $795 per year for five users, plus another $125 per year for each additional user.What’s more, Dropbox announced another new feature today called single sign-on. Particularly useful for larger businesses with more employees, single sign-on allows individuals to sign in via a password and identity service such as Microsoft’s Active Directory, which manages people’s identities and passwords, to securely and easily access all their business apps — including Dropbox. Once logged in, users won’t need to sign in to Dropbox separately. For IT managers, single sign-on “gives you complete ownership of the authentication process and works with your company’s existing password policies,” Dropbox says.Which tools do you use for storing and sharing files in the cloud? Leave a comment and let us know.Related: 13 Business Apps for Busy Entrepreneurs (Infographic) 2 min read
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