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Still, when Americans are asked to name the country's most important problem, without being offered a list of choices, the economy and jobs is the top answer, far ahead of the environment.
Americans who say global warming is primarily caused by human activity are especially likely to see it as a serious threat and to say protecting the environment should be a priority over economic growth.
This poll was conducted by telephone September 10-14, 2014 among 1,000 adults nationwide. Data collection was conducted on behalf of CBS News and The New York Times by SSRS of Media, Pennsylvania. Phone numbers were dialed from samples of both standard land-line and cell phones. The error due to sampling for results ba...
The stretch of the Housatonic River between the Derby Dam to confluence with the Naugatuck River has been temporarily closed to fishing and boating by the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).
US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and private contractors have been on the scene ever since.
William Hyatt , Director of DEP's Inland Fisheries Division . "Closing the river for a while to fishing will hopefully minimize the effect this spill is having on the fish population. We will make every effort to limit the time the river is closed,"
DEP Environmental Conservation Police will continue to patrol the area to ensure boaters and fishers are aware of the actions being taken.
The stretch of the river in question is very popular among early season anglers after striped bass, and is one of the few areas that provides good shoreline access to the river.
O' Sullivan 's Island in Derby.
In an unrelated release, the DEP also announced this week that the prohibition on the taking of alewives and blueback herring from inland and marine waters in Connecticut has been extended for another year. The coming year will mark five years of the alewife ban in Connecticut. At least a couple of our neighbor states ...
"The (Connecticut) DEP initially took this action because river herring populations declined to historically low levels," said Commissioner McCarthy. "Continued monitoring by Department biologists shows that the decline has stopped, but that stocks have not recovered."
River herring is a term used to collectively refer to alewife and the blueback herring. Both species are anadromous, which means they hatch in freshwater, migrate to the ocean to grow, then return to freshwater to spawn. Historically, river herring runs into Connecticut rivers and streams have numbered into the million...
"River herring are important to our freshwater, marine and estuarine ecosystems because adult herring and their young provide food for a variety of predators including freshwater gamefish, marine gamefish, osprey, bald eagle, harbor seals, porpoise, egrets, kingfishers, and river otter," said Edward Parker , Chief of D...
Landlocked alewife populations exist in many lakes in Connecticut, notably including Candlewood and Squantz, as well as Ball Pond and Lake Warramaug. Alewives in these lakes may still be taken by angling and scoop net as established in state statute and regulation, and the sale of landlocked alewives trapped in other s...
Remember that today is the last day for fishing on Candlewood until 6 a.m. on the April 15. Those who managed to get out on the big lake in the few weeks since ice left it have reported that fishing - particularly for smallmouth bass - has been surprisingly good for this early in the season.
Readers or Club officers with information for the outdoor column should send it directly to columnist Rich Zaleski, either via Email ( rich@richz.com) or regular mail to News-Times Outdoors Column, C/O Rich Zaleski, Box 3, Stevenson, CT 06491. Meeting and event announcements must be received at least two weeks prior to...
Tonight: A few clouds. Wind northwest 20 km/h becoming light this evening. Low plus 3 with risk of frost.
THE ELECTION Commission (EC) yesterday announced the names of 2,810 party-list candidates who are qualified to contest the March 24 election – including representatives of the Thai Raksa Chart Party.
Thai Raksa Chart Party’s executive members on Friday suspended their campaigns to prepare their defence against party dissolution.
The Constitutional Court on Thursday agreed to hear the Election Commission’s petition to disband Thai Raksa Chart Party.
The Constitutional Court is scheduled to meet on Thursday afternoon to decide whether it will accept a petition for the dissolution of the Thai Raksa Chart party for alleged hostility to the constitutional monarchy.
Soon Donovan finds himself enmeshed in world events beyond the courtroom drama involving his client. Spielberg begins weaving in the story of Francis Gary Powers (a somewhat bland Austin Stowell), the U-2 spy pilot shot down by the Soviets and held for interrogation. Would Donovan be willing as a private citizen – esse...
So it isn’t exactly going out on a limb for Spielberg and Hanks to celebrate a non-diplomat diplomat. Donovan’s amateur approach once he’s started his mission allows both for moments of bureaucratic levity and almost cheesy principled stands that seem out of place in a cutthroat spy world.
The remarkable thing, however, is that the earnest Spielberg, and especially Hanks, are able to elevate a storyline in which the audience is asked to “feel” for a Soviet spy. (Rylance’s wonderful performance, subdued and mournful and yet with a slight bounce to his step, helps in this regard.) What’s more, loftier idea...
Hanks works his average-guy magic, and the fact that his character spends a good chunk of the movie with a nasty head cold only adds to the charm.
Granted, there’s a certain Spielberg big-Hollywood gloss to the proceedings. (The most disturbing image is likely Hanks’ runny nose.) Donovan faces hardship in terms of being ostracized, but it’s nothing that a stiff upper lip doesn’t cure. A storyline involving an American graduate student captured by the East Germans...
But there’s also simmering tension and a tremendous Spielberg payoff, with beautiful visuals – lots of diffused light glowing through frosted windows and impressively recreated sections of Cold War Berlin – adding to the heft of the project.
Watching the film, you marvel a little at the crackling atmosphere the U.S. found itself in at the time – and feel relief that “duck and cover” is part of the nostalgic past. But then you think of today’s headlines and wonder. Our spies and their spies are still hard at work. Who knows what happens next?
I was honored to be a guest recently on William Campbell's Challenging Opinions podcast. You can check out the lively conversation about Greg Gutfeld’s endorsement of torture and more after the jump.
Click here to listen to the podcast. Let me know what you think!
Anonymous, Although I am a stickler for facts and accuracy (I can see Priscilla and Brian nodding now), we are unabashedly liberal and write for liberals. But you’re right, truths and facts are non-partisan. That was a big point I was trying to make in the interview, especially about Greg Gutfeld’s torture BS.
It was invigorating to hear your passion. I think you were a bit too often placed in a “on one hand, on the other hand” box. While perhaps a little of what you do represents the liberal side against conservatives, the main thrust of Newhounds is the vital task of unmasking the source of the degradation of our political...
Feeding off the improving economy, Cisco Systems Inc.'s quarterly profit jumped 76% as sales grew by the largest amount in two years.
The biggest maker of computer networking equipment said Wednesday that fiscal first-quarter net income increased to $1.09 billion, or 15 cents a share, from $618 million, or 8 cents, in the same period a year ago. Last year's results were depressed by a loss on investments; the latest results were helped by Cisco's del...
Sales rose well above forecasts, climbing more than 5% from last year's first quarter, and more than 8% from the fourth quarter, to $5.1 billion. That figure, combined with Cisco's positive outlook for the rest of the year, sent the company's stock up more than 5% in after-hours trading to $23.02. It had gained 22 cent...
The after-hours price was the highest point for Cisco stock since May 2001 -- around the last time that the company reported a $5-billion quarter.
"The results were solid across the board," said analyst Brantley Thompson with Goldman Sachs & Co., which does banking business for Cisco. "Government spending was particularly strong."
Cisco Chief Executive John Chambers said he felt more confident about the economy now than he had going into the quarter, and he said that sentiment was shared by the CEOs of about half of Cisco's customers.
"The recovery appears to be slowly gaining momentum but is still fragile in the minds of our customers," Chambers said in a conference call with analysts and investors. "As our customers' business improves, so will ours."
Cisco's results followed good numbers from other large manufacturers in recent weeks. They also came on the heels of the best quarterly growth in gross domestic product in 19 years. Chambers has said his company's performance should be measured against GDP.
"If you get some more quarters like this on the GDP front, Cisco should be able to keep it going," said analyst Ryan Molloy of SoundView Technology Group.
Cisco executives said revenue in the second quarter should show an additional 10% gain compared with last year as the recovery gains steam.
Some of Cisco's new revenue may come easily, analysts said: As spending loosens up at big companies, they will turn to Cisco to complete long-delayed improvements to their infrastructure.
The trickier part will come when that surge of easy money is over, Molloy said. Then Cisco will have to show real progress in its advanced technology efforts, including sales of wireless and security products.
In the latest quarter, which ended Oct. 25, Cisco said federal government spending accounted for about 20% of its product orders from big customers. Purchases by service providers, including telecommunications customers, increased 20% from the previous year.
Cisco also was helped by its acquisition of consumer-gear maker Linksys Group Inc., which contributed $119 million in revenue.
The service-provider spending was especially welcome news for Cisco, which has bet heavily that the convergence of voice and data networks would translate into higher sales for its most advanced products.
In the hours before he was about to deliver the keynote speech at the annual Henderson County Memorial Day service, retired Marine Corps Master Sgt. Mike Murdock said he was struck by the number of newspaper, radio and television ads touting holiday sales — a direct contrast to the day's true significance.
“Today isn't about having a long weekend or opening the pool, and it isn't even about our veterans,” Murdock told a few hundred people gathered at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
Murdock, who grew up in Henderson County and attended West Henderson High, served two tours of duty in Vietnam and retired in 1993 after 26 years of active service. He, along with all the other veterans gathered Monday, inspired East Henderson High junior Gabriel Cannon, who earlier performed the ceremonial folding of ...
It also meant a lot to retired Marine Sgt. Maj. Bill Parks to see so many children and teens attending the service.
“It's good to see the young people come out and pay respects,” he said.
Parks, 89, a World War II and Korean War veteran, said he attends each year to honor his fellow Marines and other members of the armed forces.
London DJ and producer duo Eli and Fur star in the turn-of-year UK advertising campaign from metasearch giant Kayak.
Making its debut on Boxing Day, the TV advert shows the pair travelling in Japan, in search of inspiration from the sounds of a geisha playing a shamisen, jamming with taiko drummers, and the slurp of ramen.
Based on the sounds they encounter, the pair create music which becomes the soundtrack to the advert.
Locations featured in the advert include the Fushimi Inari-taisha shrine in Kyoto, the Shibuya District of Tokyo, and onsens in Niigata.
The campaign starts in the UK on December 26, and will then feature in other key markets across Europe including Poland, Spain and France.
It is the fourth in Kayak’s “Travel Pros” campaign which has also included professional snowboarder Jeremy Jones, National Geographic wildlife photographer Mattias Klum, and chef Lauren Johns.
Stefan Petzinger, Kayak’s EMEA senior marketing vice-president, said: “Kayak helps its users make confident travel decisions so they can feel great when exploring all corners of the globe.
“For creatives like Eli and Fur, travelling to new destinations is crucial for inspiring their creative process.
Yarmulkes and hijabs bobbed together in a diverse crowd that marched recently from Clayborn Temple to the National Civil Rights Museum to protest President Donald Trump's executive order that bans travel from seven majority-Muslim countries.
The thousands in that march, dubbed Memphis We Belong Here, were part of a tangible, if not yet quantifiable, recent rise in activism among Memphians.
The march was one of three protests Memphis has seen in the last eight months, with crowd numbers surpassing 1,000 and peaking at 9,000. Black Lives Matter, the Women's March, and February's We Belong Here protests have seemingly drawn scores of Memphians out of political inactivity into the streets.
Experienced community organizers who have been marching with considerably smaller crowds are noticing the shift, especially in the wake of Trump's inauguration.
"There has been a noticeable increase. There is no question there," said Tamam Qura'n, an organizer with the growing activist group OurRevolution 901.
Memphians are eager to politically organize, Qura'n said. They want to dismantle local and national policies seen as oppressive and unseat the elected officials that sign off on them, she said.
At the last meeting of OurRevolution 901, participants discussed organizing workshops that would help citizens with no prior political experience learn how to run for local positions in the Memphis City Council or the Shelby County Commission. Other participants repeatedly stressed the importance of registering Memphia...
OurRevolution 901's first meeting had 55 participants. The second meeting had 180 participants, according to organizers.
"What has more specifically pushed people is their own specific disagreements with Trump," explains Qura'n. "Whether it's women's rights, the Muslim ban, or the wall, people have finally started to react in an action-based method."
Groups like OurRevolution 901 are not new to Memphis, but the increasing interest in them is.
There's even an online calendar, Memphis Activism Calendar at www.memphisactivismcalendar.weebly.com, to keep track of the various meetings and actions of local grassroots organizations.
"I think since the election especially, there's been a surge of new people being awakened to the fact that so many groups of people are marginalized, since so many communities are being targeted under this administration," said Allison Glass, an organizer with SURJ, a group that focuses on educating white people on how...
Glass also reports that their meetings are growing in size.
"The fact that we have a known white supremacist in one of the closest positions to our president is alarming to many people," said Glass. "People want to know how to use their white privilege to combat the racist policies we are seeing come out of the White House."
Beverly Hills, CA – July 29, 2011 – AMC announced today from the Television Critics Association Summer 2011 Press Tour that the network is launching AMC Digital Studios, an online destination to incubate and to develop web series from up-and-coming talent to be showcased at amctv.com. The division serves as both a labo...
“The Trivial Pursuits of Arthur Banks” tells the story of Arthur Banks (Adam Goldberg) as a successful theater director that stages an elaborate play that mirrors his dysfunctional love life. Aided by his therapist (Jeffrey Tambor), and the actors within his meta-life, Arthur attempts to unsort the complex issues that ...
Peter Glanz serves as creator, co-writer, director and executive producer. His 2008 short film “A Relationship in Four Days” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and subsequently was featured at Cannes’ Critics’ Week. It has been adapted into a feature film, which is being filmed in October. His short film, “The Din...
The American Telephone and Telegraph Company and Quotron System Inc. said yesterday that they would end their agreement to jointly develop products for the financial services market.
Mark Siegel, an A.T.&T. spokesman, said the companies ended their agreement because Quotron had been acquired in June by Citicorp, the nation's largest bank holding company.
''As a provider of financial information, Quotron will be viewed differently by the financial services community now that it is associated with a financial service company,'' Mr. Siegel said. The two companies had agreed in June 1985 to provide financial information and data-processing abilities to stockbrokers and oth...
Quotron, for its part, maintains that the relationship with Citicorp will not be an impediment to its services, according to John Foley, a spokesman. And A.T.&T. said it would continue to work with Quotron on an independent basis, depending on the needs of its customers.
HBO is sticking with two of its veteran comedies for another year.
Announced this morning by the network, both “Ballers” and “Insecure” have been renewed for their respective fifth and fourth seasons. The news of which comes just as both series have reached about the halfway point of their current seasons.
Without a summer “Game of Thrones” lead-in around to boost their weekly numbers like they had last year, both shows have been slightly down from their previous overall season averages, but have still been performing fairly well for themselves. “Ballers” has been averaging a 0.4 live + same day rating so far this year, ...
Created by Stephen Levinson and starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, “Ballers” currently ranks as HBO’s highest-rated comedy. The series – which takes place in the ruthless and constantly evolving world of professional football – also stars John David Washington, Rob Corddry, Troy Garity, Omar Benson Miller, Donovan W. ...
Created by and starring Issa Rae, “Insecure” follows the awkward experiences and racy tribulations of a modern-day African-American woman. The series just recently broke into the Emmy awards race earlier this year, and as such, makes this renewal hardly surprising.
“Ballers” and “Insecure” air every Sunday night on HBO.
The increased international payment pressure led to depletion of Pakistan's foreign currency reserves to almost five-year low at USD 6.63 billion as on January 18, 2019.
China on Monday pumped-in USD 2.2 billion to cash-strapped Pakistan to shore up its close ally's foreign currency reserves and help avert a possible default on external debt payments.
With the generous Chinese assistance, Pakistan has so far received a total of USD 9.1 billion in financial assistance packages from friendly countries during the current fiscal year, The Express Tribune reported.
While China has pumped-in USD 4.1 billion from China, Pakistan has got USD 3 billion from Saudi Arabia and USD 2 billion from United Arab Emirates (UAE), it said.
"The State Bank of Pakistan has received RMB 15 billion value equivalent to USD 2.2 billion as proceeds of the loan obtained by the government of Pakistan from China," the central bank tweeted.
The SBP's reserves stood at USD 8.84 billion as on March 15, 2019, according to the central bank's latest weekly report. The latest deposits came from Beijing are expected to boost the SBP'S reserves into double digit after a gap of almost one year, the report said.
Apart from the financial help, Riyadh has also enabled a USD 3 billion petroleum oil supply line on deferred payment for Pakistan as well.
Finance Minister Asad Umar has estimated a financing gap of around USD 12 billion for the ongoing fiscal year 2019 and another USD 7-8 billion for the fiscal year 2020, the report said.
Earlier, the UAE had announced a USD 6 billion package for Pakistan in December 2018 including USD 3 billion in cash deposit and a credit line of another USD 3 billion for the supply of petroleum on deferred payment.
However, Pakistan has not been able to secure the USD 3.2 billion oil on deferred payments facility from the UAE.
"The deposits are coming at a very critical time as Islamabad is set to make a large external debt payment next month – April, while its reserves remain under pressure,” Arif Habib Limited Head of Research Samiullah Tariq said recently.
"Pakistan is scheduled to pay off USD 1 billion for a maturing Eurobond in April.. this will be in addition to other external debt payments during the month," he said.

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