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The sheer lack of inventory that was created by high demand over the past 24 months made all of our jobs more difficult and the transaction often more problematic due to the exporting and importing of aircraft to satisfy our clients' and prospects' needs. This will be more of a trickling of new aircraft for resale and ... |
One important thing to consider and was reinforced as I made my calls to colleagues this week was that the strength we experienced over the past 12 months in terms of activity and pricing is not what we went through in the years leading up to 2008. We spent the last year with flat residual values, which I always said w... |
So, the bottom line is drink plenty of water, exercise, and smile. I do believe this hangover will go away quickly and you will not have a lingering flu. I look forward to continuing to celebrate a very solid and confident marketplace. Let’s find ways to talk more often, share market data more often, and be open to a g... |
Jay Mesinger discovered a passion for flying when he was in high school. In college, he learned he had a gift for business. In 1982, he combined his love of flying with his business acumen to create what is now Mesinger Jet Sales. |
David Hajdu is the music critic of The Nation. Hajdu is a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and has written on the arts for numerous publications, including The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, Rolling Stone, ... |
Hajdu is the award-winning author of four books: Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn; Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña and Richard Fariña; The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America; and Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movie... |
A monumental achievement in high musical drama, Wolfe’s new piece Fire in my mouth is already one of the year’s best performances. |
A striking number of this year’s most potent albums give voice to the disorientation, anxiety, and rage that infuse the human experience today. |
Their new album is an impeccably accomplished and deeply satisfying collection created largely through free improvisation. |
This expansive work follows a cast of characters caught up in the massive upheavals happening in Germany between the world wars. |
Use whichever white fish fillets you can get your hands on for this stunning Thai curry made with either yellow or red curry paste. |
Place a large non-stick wok or wide frying pan or over a medium-high heat. Add the oil and stir-fry the sliced shallots for 5-8 minutes, or until golden-brown and crisp. Remove with a slotted spoon and drain on kitchen paper. |
Return the pan to a low heat, add the coconut cream and the curry paste and cook for one minute, stirring constantly. Pour over the coconut milk and stir in 100ml/3½fl oz water. Bring to a gentle simmer. |
Put the lemongrass on a board and cut in half. Bash with a rolling pin to bruise and flatten the stalks – this will allow their flavour to escape more easily into your curry. Add the lemongrass, lime leaves, nam pla and sugar to the pan and cook for 1-2 minutes more, or until the sugar dissolves, stirring. |
Add the pea aubergines and simmer gently for eight minutes, stirring occasionally until almost tender. (If using green beans, cook for three minutes instead.) Stir in the peppers and cook for five minutes more, stirring regularly. The coconut curry sauce needs to be bubbling gently but constantly to cook the vegetables... |
When the aubergines are tender, taste the curry sauce and add more Thai fish sauce if necessary. It needs to have a good balance of hot, salty, sour and sweet. At this point the curry sauce can be removed from the heat and left to stand before the fish is ready to be cooked. |
Cut the fish pieces into 3cm/1¼in chunks and season with ground black pepper. Stir the fish and mangetout into the curry and cook for a further five minutes. Turn the fish in the sauce every now and then at the beginning of the cooking time, but stop as soon as you see it beginning to flake. |
The fish should look opaque rather than translucent when cooked and the curry should be thick and creamy but not so thick that it begins to burn on the bottom of the pan. If it does reduce too far, simply add a little extra water. |
Scatter the crisp shallots, coriander leaves and roughly torn Thai basil on the curry and serve immediately with cooked rice. |
REDLANDS – Hero is a term often heard. Firefighters qualify, especially this year in California where three wildfires caused widespread damage and killed 88 people. |
But does heroism end with firefighters? Could a hero not be a high school teacher/coach who educates our youth and provides for his family? Might a stay-at-home mom also qualify? |
Meet Redlands East Valley High School teacher and basketball coach Bill Berich and his wife Kate Berich. They are the parents of four grown children, including 28-year-old Billy, a severely Autistic young man who lives at home and will continue to do so for as long as his parents are ambulatory. |
The Berich family lives in a sprawling ranch house in Redlands Heights. Several homes on the block fly American flags as befits this All-American existence. |
Inside the home only Billy’s occasional shrieks and cries interrupt the tranquility. It is frustrating not being able to communicate — Billy does not speak — especially when two invaders from the media are snapping photos and asking questions. |
But ever alert is the 6-foot-1 Bill, there to soothe and comfort his son. |
Bill, a former Covina High basketball standout, taught with Kate’s brother Scott Adams at Yucaipa Middle School in the early 1980s. Scott later became the longtime Thunderbirds golf coach. |
Besides Billy the couple have three other grown children — Carly, 29, a United Airlines flight attendant; Blake, 23, a freshman in law school at UCLA; and Adam, 21, who attends Crafton Hills College. |
Billy? He enjoys the trampoline, swimming, going to the park, videos and eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, neatly cut into fourths. |
Kate, who shares the same birthday with Bill – Feb. 24, two years apart – has no regrets. |
Bill is cordial and witty off the court but serious as a tax audit during games. |
“Dribble drive. Patience. It doesn’t have to be the first shot!” he barked during a recent 71-54 victory against Carter, marking the team’s 18th consecutive victory. |
His teams had won 437 games and four league titles in his career heading into Saturday night’s showdown with Cajon. |
The Wildcats have been to the section semifinals twice and the championship game once — in 2015, when they lost to Compton by 15. |
Though Berich has his critics, he’s popular in the coaching fraternity – especially with a tight circle of friends that includes Summit High School’s John Romagnoli, Colony’s Jerry DeFabiis and Great Oak assistant coach Mike Young. |
Memorable was Berich taking the trio out from his Dana Point slip on his 30-foot boat and nearly sending everyone down to Davy Jones’ Locker. |
DeFabiis, like Romagnoli, admires Berich – not only for his coaching acumen but for his giving nature. |
Notable: Berich is a History major with minors in Biology and English Literature … During his college days took a break from the University of La Verne to play basketball for College of St. Paul and St. Mary in England … Had lunch and later visited the home of the late UCLA coaching legend John Wooden through Mike Harm... |
Last July, US President Barack Obama set the spark for his Power Africa programme that will help sub-Saharan African countries build power production and transmission projects and double their electricity access. President Obama announced in Cape Town, South Africa, his plan to mobilize $16 billion for investments that... |
Before accompanying President Obama to tour the Ubongo power plant, near Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Mr. Elumelu had also joined Judith Rodin, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, a US charity, to announce the establishment of the Impact Economy Investment Fund that will provide start-up capital for young entrepreneur... |
At a roundtable discussion last October at the UN headquarters in New York—one of the side events during the UN General Assembly debate—Mr. Elumelu, who is chairman of Heirs Holdings, an investment firm; South Africa’s Precious Moloi-Motsepe, the co-founder of the Motsepe Foundation; the Sudanese mobile communications ... |
A $6.3 million donation last year to flood victims in Nigeria established Mr. Elumelu as one of Africa’s top philanthropists. According to Forbes, a US business magazine, other pacesetters include Africa’s richest man, Nigeria’s Aliko Dangote, whose charitable contributions totaled $35 million last year, Mr. Ibrahim, Z... |
In the manner of billionaire Warren Buffet, who gave away a substantial chunk of his fortune to charity in 2006, South Africa’s Francois van Niekerk transferred 70% of his equity in Mertech Group, a company he founded, to the Mergon Foundation, a charity he now manages. The stake is valued at $170 million. |
Those skeptics who see few practitioners of philanthropy on the continent misunderstand the cultural context, argue Halima Mohamed and Bhekinkosi Moyo in their article in Alliance magazine, a leading publication on philanthropy. The emphasis on formal philanthropic institutions “is far from what philanthropy in Africa ... |
Africans have a culture of giving and mutual support even if only a few formal charitable organizations exist, declared Toyin Saraki, founder and president of Wellbeing Foundation Africa, a charity devoted mainly to children’s and women’s affairs. At the UN event, Ms. Saraki reinforced the point that Africans have a cu... |
With most philanthropic activities neither documented nor promoted in Africa, organizations like African Grantmakers Network have stepped in to facilitate experience sharing among philanthropists and to promote their activities. Along this line, Mr. Dangote recently pledged to enhance the public information aspect of h... |
Mr. Elumelu’s model, which emphasizes investments in sectors that promote development such as the pharmaceutical and startup sectors, is an example of the link between business and charity. Stressing the need for investments in critical development sectors, he highlighted the billions of dollars his company was going t... |
While Ms. Saraki and Mr. Elumelu shared their views on how business can support socioeconomic development at the U.N. Roundtable, at other forums they have termed their approach strategic philanthropy, meaning solving problems at their source. For example, they believe that by providing education to women, philanthropi... |
Africa’s poverty, exacerbated by a decline in official development aid, brings strategic philanthropy into sharper focus. The UK government’s assistance to South Africa, worth about $64 million in 2003 and down to about $30 million this year, will cease by 2015. The US-based Center for International Grantmaking reporte... |
Launched in April this year, the African Philanthropy Forum (APF) has a peer-review component that will likely address those concerns. An affiliate of the Global Philanthropy Forum (GPF), the APF was founded to promote strategic philanthropy in Africa. In announcing the APF’s launch, Jane Wales, president and CEO of th... |
Before the APF’s launch, individuals such as Mr. Ibrahim were already implementing activities that promoted economic growth and responsible political leadership. In 2007 the Mo Ibrahim Foundation began awarding annual prizes to African leaders who, while in power, developed their countries, lifted people out of poverty... |
Uganda’s Ashish Thakkar spent $1 million last year through his Mara Foundation to “make wealth through capacity building, mentoring and peer networking”. The foundation provides financing for start-up businesses or already existing business with high risk but high growth potential, renovate dozens of Ugandan high schoo... |
The APF must now take African philanthropy to a higher level. Capturing the mood at the private sector forum on Africa, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said, “Africa can and will determine its own fate.” With leadership from the current crop of indigenous wealthy financiers, the small but growing number of African phi... |
Gartner analyst Will Cappelli talks about how applications have become central to enterprise IT operations, and how complex architectures have led to significant challenges in monitoring and managing the performance of applications. As enterprise application architectures become more modular, distributed, volatile, and... |
You will also hear from Wayne Greene, Tidal Software’s VP of Product Management, how the latest release of Tidal Intersperse addresses the four dimensions of Application Performance Monitoring for a complete performance management solution. |
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Protestors from MoveOn.org, the Occupy movement, and Long Island Progressive demonstrated on Sunday against a fund-raiser for Mitt Romney at the beachfront home of billionaire David H. Koch (house on right) in Southampton, N.Y. |
President Obama’s reelection campaign continued to blast Mitt Romney on Sunday for offshore financial holdings and renewed its call for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee to release additional tax returns. |
The pressure followed a week of news reports about a Bermuda company Romney owned and transferred to a trust in the name of his wife, Ann, on the day before he became Massachusetts’ governor in 2003. |
The existence of the company, Sankaty High Yield Asset Investors Ltd., and other foreign assets — including investments in the Cayman Islands and a Swiss bank account maintained until 2010 — was not known to the public until Romney released his 2010 tax return and an estimate for 2011 in January. |
“The one thing he could do . . . to clear up whether or not he’s done anything illegal” is to release more tax returns, Robert Gibbs said. |
Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs suggested Sunday that Romney might have broken the law; at a minimum, Democrats say, Romney is guilty of secrecy and of betting against the country he aspires to govern. |
Gibbs’s claim that “every other presidential candidate” has released “a series of years of their tax returns” is not quite accurate. In 2008, GOP nominee John McCain released only two years of returns. |
And the Obama campaign’s demand that Romney release 23 years of tax returns — the number he shared with McCain while being vetted as a potential running mate — is unprecedented. According to a list compiled by PolitiFact, no presidential candidate since 1976 has released more than 12 years of tax returns. |
“Mitt Romney had a successful career in the private sector, pays every dime of taxes he owes, has given generously to charitable organizations, and served numerous causes greater than himself,” Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul said in a statement. |
The significance of Romney’s foreign assets is unclear. Though it has used Romney’s offshore holdings to paint him as an out-of-touch rich man hoarding his wealth abroad, the Obama campaign and its surrogates have struggled to articulate why the investments are relevant to the election. |
In a video posted online Sunday, Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt levied no direct charges against Romney but made his points with innuendo. “What taxes would Romney have paid if his money was invested here in America?” LaBolt asked. |
Moving Sankaty to his wife’s trust would not have allowed Romney to omit the company from his annual statement of financial interests. Presumably, he left Sankaty out because it was worth less than $1,000. If the company was worth more, Romney might have broken the law by not disclosing it, but the Obama campaign has n... |
Despite the vagueness of the Obama campaign’s attack, Romney’s team appears uncomfortable discussing the candidate’s foreign assets. Debating the issue with O’Malley on ABC, Bobby Jindal, the Republican governor of Louisiana and a possible vice presidential pick, repeatedly ducked questions from host Terry Moran. |
Large-Area Picosecond Photo-Detectors (LAPPDTM) are 20×20 cm2 MCP-based photodetectors that are capable of psec-level time resolution and sub-mm position resolution. I will discuss applications of the correlated space-time measurements in particle physics ranging from particle identification by time-of-flight to searches... |
An article in the New York Times suggests that suburbanites and their townships are beginning to notice the disproportional impact they're living is having on the environment and the changes they're making. |
An article in the New York Times suggests that suburbanites and their townships are beginning to notice the disproportional impact they’re living is having on the environment and the changes they’re making. |
The problem with suburbs, many environmentalists say, is not an issue of light bulbs. In the end, the very things that make suburban life attractive — the lush lawns, spacious houses and three-car garages — also disproportionally contribute to global warming. Suburban life, these environmentalists argue, is simply not ... |
She was just on RuPaul's Drag Race last week! |
And the hits keep coming because today it was announced that the "Dirrty" singer is PAPER magazine's April cover star. |
For the full article, head over to PAPER. |
So much potential! Live in the heart of Red Hook in this 2 family home with a mix of homey eateries, quirky bars, edgy art galleries and boutiques which proliferate along Van Brunt Street, the main artery and of course Fairway Market is nearby. The first floor features a walk-in apartment with 1 bedroom, separate livin... |
The former Supreme Court judge's appointment comes five years after the Lokpal Act received the President’s nod on January 1, 2014. |
Justice Pinaki Ghose on Saturday took oath as the first Lokpal of India — the national anti-corruption ombudsman. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu and Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi were present on the occasion. The former Supreme Court judge’s appointment co... |
A high-level selection committee comprising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan and Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi, the panel’s “eminent jurist member”, cleared Justice Ghose’ name at its meeting on Friday. |
Justice Ghose was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court in March 2013 and retired in May 2017. Before being appointed as Lokpal, he was a member of the National Human Rights Commission. |
Former Chief Justices of different high courts — Justices Dilip B Bhosale, Pradip Kumar Mohanty, Abhilasha Kumari — besides sitting Chief Justice of Chhattisgarh High Court Ajay Kumar Tripathi were appointed as judicial members in the Lokpal. |
Former first woman chief of Sashastra Seema Bal Archana Ramasundaram, ex-Maharashtra chief secretary Dinesh Kumar Jain, former IRS officer Mahender Singh and Gujarat cadre ex-IAS officer Indrajeet Prasad Gautam are the Lokpal’s non-judicial members. |
The Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, which envisaged the setting up of a Lokpal at the Centre and Lokayuktas for the states, to inquire into allegations of corruption against public functionaries was enacted in 2013 and received Presidential assent on January 1, 2014. |
*** KENNY BARRON AND MINO CINELU, "Swamp Sally," Verve. Barron's odyssey through the varied territory of jazz (he seems to have played with almost everyone) continues in this duet album with percussionist Cinelu. The combination is magical, with Barron producing some of his most unusual piano playing. |
*** ORNETTE COLEMAN, "Sound Museum Three Women" and "Sound Museum Hidden Men," Verve/Harmolodic. An odd pair of CDs that provide alternate takes of the same tunes. On the plus side, Coleman's pieces and sax playing harken to the energy and innovation of his earliest performances. |
**** MILES DAVIS & GIL EVANS, "The Complete Studio Recordings," Columbia (six CDs, $110). Just about everything anyone could ever want to know about the classic Davis and Evans Columbia studio recordings is included in this comprehensive boxed set. The encounters between Davis' sensual trumpet and Evans' gorgeous orche... |
**** BILL EVANS, "Turn Out the Stars: The Final Village Vanguard Recordings, June 1980," Warner Bros. (six CDs, $90). This set was recorded shortly before Evans' death in September 1980, and he was still at the top of his form. His performances here are filled with the blend of emotional intensity and romantic lyricism... |
*** 1/2 STAN GETZ, "A Life in Jazz: A Musical Autobiography," Verve. An entrancing survey of rich and diverse music produced by the tenor saxophonist over more than three decades. Among the high points: Getz's collaboration with Eddie Sauter in the quasi-classical piece "Focus"; "Corcovado," from the bossa nova years; ... |
*** 1/2 DEXTER GORDON, "The Complete Blue Note Sixties Sessions," Blue Note (six CDs, $90). Gordon was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in "Round Midnight" (1986). But, as these solid performances from the '60s make clear, he also was a tenor saxophonist who played with brusque force, a dark, immediately ide... |
*** 1/2 HERBIE HANCOCK, "The New Standard," Verve. Pianist Hancock is still captivated by the songs of pop, but here he uses them well, starting with songs by Peter Gabriel, Kurt Cobain, Prince and Lennon & McCartney and winding up with some of his most outward-bound, pure jazz improvising. |
**** STAN KENTON, "The Complete Capitol Studio Recordings of Stan Kenton 1943-47," Mosaic ($96; call 327-7111 to order). The Kenton band of the '40s was an enigma: popular yet controversial. And this seven-CD, 10-LP set reveals the ensemble's frothy pop music as well as its compellingly adventurous, if not always succ... |
*** 1/2 ELLIS & BRANFORD MARSALIS, "Loved Ones," Columbia. Originally planned as a solo ballad outing, pianist Ellis Marsalis decided, instead, to add his son's tenor saxophone to the mix. The result is a delightful, continually intriguing musical rendezvous between two generations of jazz's first family. |
*** BRANFORD MARSALIS, "The Dark Keys," Columbia. Marsalis takes a big chance on this one, working on the saxophone with only the accompaniment of bassist Reginald Veal and drummer Jeff "Tain" Watts. But his gift for triggering solos that vary quick, melodic fragments with stretched-out virtuosic displays produces enti... |
*** 1/2 GERRY MULLIGAN, "The Complete Pacific Jazz Recordings of the Gerry Mulligan Quartet With Chet Baker," Pacific Jazz (four CDs, $60). Mulligan's pianoless West Coast group of the '50s is presented in detail. Forty years later, the music is still pleasingly melodic, the playing overflowing with imagination and sur... |
*** 1/2 DON PULLEN, "Sacred Common Ground," Blue Note. Recorded less than two months before Pullen died of cancer in April 1995, this is an extraordinary composite of music, blending the rhythmic flow and the improvisational spontaneity of jazz with the insistent percussion of Native America. The mortar binding it all ... |
*** JOSHUA REDMAN, "Freedom in the Groove," Warner Bros. Yes, the recording has its commercial moments, and there's no denying Redman's desire to reach a wider audience. But there's also a lot of fine blowing here, as well, from a saxophonist who looks to be the most successful jazz artist of the decade. |
**** MARCUS ROBERTS, "Portraits in Blue," Sony Classical. Pianist Roberts' interpretation of Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" is an inventive rethinking of the composition, filled with a jaunty drive and dominated by Roberts' articulate and colorful approach to both the written and the newly improvised passages. |
*** JACKY TERRASSON, "Reach," Blue Note. Terrasson's piano work with drummer Leon Parker has the same kind of interactive fascination offered by Bill Evans' relationships with his various bass players. Despite some eccentric interpretations, Terrasson and Parker constantly bring new perspective to the familiar jazz rep... |
**** MEL TORME, "The Mel Torme Collection, 1944-1985," Rhino ($55). Torme was very good from the beginning, capable of moving easily from jazz-tinged rhythms to string-saturated commercial ballads. Although the program notes can be confusing, this is an otherwise beautifully produced look at the career Torme describes ... |
To the jaded hacks at @work, it often seems there are as many job-search experts as actual people looking for jobs. While some of their counsel is terrific, it’s rare to find an expert whose advice is novel and tangible. So much career counseling tends to be one or the other — or neither. |
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